come and I will speak with him of the Mystery else let him leave my apprehension unreproved 36. If he be a Christian let him Live in Love towards a Christian and rejoyce in the Gifts which God giveth us one among another why doth he brag and reproach so much that sheweth him to be a Proud Man let him deal Meekly and I will meet him meekly if he understand any thing according to his Gifts let him praise God and not contemne that which God giveth to another if he can not endure to read it let him leave it for those whom God hath called thereunto to whom HE will reveale or manifest it 37. Is not that a wonderfull thing that he will reprove the Three Principles and understandeth not out of what Center and understanding the Spirit speaketh he will begin the first Principle with the Fire where then remaineth the Center out of which the Fire originateth 38. Let him tell me how the Eternall Nothing introduceth it selfe from Eternity in Eternity into an Eternall Center and how the Eternall Nature from Eternity continually generateth it self whereby the Eternall Will which is called God manifesteth or revealeth it self from Eternity 39. With this his half-mute Description he will not bring me into it but in My Book of the Six Points he will well find it let him read that it is like he will become seeing if he but seek and begin aright 40. When I write of Three Principles then I understand Three Worlds as First the Center to Nature the Dark World in which the Fire or the sharpnesse of the sterne Might originateth from Eternity the Form to the Fire-Life in which property Gods fierce Wrath and Anger also the hellish Fire is understood from whence the Nature-Life Originateth which is not called God and though indeed it is Gods yet it attaineth not the Name and Divine source or quality in its own Essence as Saint John Witnesseth Chap. 1. Vers 5. Where he saith The Light shineth in the Darknesse and the Darknesse hath not comprehended it and this sheweth it self also in the Outward World how the Light shineth or giveth Light in the Darknesse 41. Now if the Fire be the First Principle as he saith then let him tell me whether the Darknesse cometh out of the Fire or whether the Fire maketh Darknesse Also what that is which Maketh Darknesse and how all this thus generateth it selfe from Eternity in Eternity 42. I suppose here my Pamphlet Maker will remain Mute he will indeed be silent concerning it unlesse he goe with Me into the School but he should first put off the Click of Pride else this Schoolmaster will not receive him he will have Children at School which look and trust upon him Not Lords 43. When I write of three Principles then I write of Three Worlds of Three Eternall Beginnings how they generate themselves 44. I understand with or by the Principles Not the Chaos the Eye of the Aether which dwelleth without Ground or Place in it self but I understand How the Eye of the Aether Manifesteth or Revealeth it self through and with the Principles and introduceth it self into Power Might Shining Glance and Glory viz with Desire and Lust or Longing Delight where in the Desire the first shutting in is effected which is a Darknesse where the Desire is the first Center to Nature which introduceth it self into the source or quality into the perceptibility and perception even into the Fire viz into the fourth Form as is sufficiently Described in our Books viz of the Three Principles also of the Threefold Life also in the Second Booke of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ concerning Christs Suffering and Dying and yet higher in the Six Poynts to which Books I refer the Reader and so in this Part which the blind Man opposeth it is not here expressed at Large 45. Now if Gods Fire which generateth the Glance or Lustre of the Majesty be the first Principle and yet in the Darknesse the source quality or Torment and Pain and moreover the sterne Life is generated and also the Fire it self Originateth out of the Darknesse viz out of the sharpnesse with the aspect or appearance of the Liberty in the Lust or Longing out of the Chaos then tell me now my Opponent whether the Dark World be a Principle or whether He or I be blind in the Mystery 46. I know also very well that the Fire is a source or quality of Every Life but I say that the Root of the Fire is Dark and that the Dark world is not called God for it is an Enimicitious quality in it self a Cause of Nature 47. Indeed it is Gods and God who manifesteth himself through the Dark World with the Fire in the Light of the Majesty is its Lord for it becometh generated in the Desire of the Chaos out of the Abysse in the Nothing and in the Desire introduced into Darknesse but the Lust or Longing Delight of the Chaos to the Revelation taketh only thus its Sharpnesse and Fires Might to it self and yet bringeth it self againe through the Dying in the Fire wherein the Darknesse dyeth understand the Darknesses substantrality forth through the Fire into the Light and maketh another or Second Principle of another source or quality viz Joy Meeknesse and Love-Desire 48. Thus the Dark-source or quality-Spirit remaineth to be in it self an anguish and Paine and is called Gods Anger and fierce wrath and the kindled Fire in the Fourth Form at the Center is called a Consuming Fire whence God calleth himself an angry Zealous or Jealous fierce wrathfull God 49. And here understand Death and Dying as also Gods Holy Kingdome also his Anger or Kingdome of Hell viz the Darknesse is the Eternall Hell or Hole wherein Lucifer Batheth himself and into which the wicked Soul goeth and the fierce wrath to the Fire-Life is the right hellish Fire-life therein and yet there is no farre distance from God but a Principle only severeth them 50. As we see a Similitude of this in Fire and Light where the Dark Matter in the Fire Dyeth and the Light shineth out of that which dyeth and dwelleth in the Fire and the Fire comprehendeth it NOT. 51. Also the Light is not of the Fires Essence quality source or Torment for the Light giveth Meeknesse and an amiable thing or Substance viz out of that which before was a Dead Dark Substance a Water and herein lyeth Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery My Dear Pamphlet-Maker seek and you will find knock and it will be opened unto you 52. Your Conceit is a Dead understanding as to the Mystery if you be taught of God then goe with me to the Center and then I will shew it you in all the things of this World yes in your very SELF I will have nothing excepted wherein I will not shew you the Similitude of the Three Principles Forbear your reproaching and become a Child then it will be shewen you but I
in the Essence in the Seed in the Mothers Body or Womb in the Wrestling and Abel Gods Love viz the Second Principle And now Cain was of an Evill kinde or Condition and Abel honest or vertuous 129. Now see Deare Brethren when Cain and Abel Sacrificed then God that is Gods Love and Meeknesse viz the Second Principle savoured Abels sacrifice but Cain's God would not accept then Cain was in fierce wrath against his brother Abel there ye see the Strife between the two Eternall Principles between Love and Anger in both the Brothers in Man how the dark fierce wrathfull Kingdome is become also manifested or revealed in Man then said God to Cain Why art thou in fierce Wrath Is it not so that when thou art honest or vertuous thou art accepted but if not then Sinne resteth before the Doore but rule thou over it and let it not have the authority or preheminency 130. Here observe God said Rule over sinne let it not have the preheminency or power Had there not been in Cain wherewith he could rule over the Evill then God had not bid him doe it though likely the Anger in him was mightier or stronger than in Abel yet he was not therefore altogether begotten out of the Anger 's Essence but out of the THREE into ONE Christ is come to seek and to save that which is Lost as himselfe saith and not for the sake of the righteous 131. Now who are those that are lost Cain Ishmael and all poore Sinners comprehended in the Anger of God who were lost from their Mothers Body or Womb for their sakes is he become a Man or Incarnate and calleth them all to him they should come whosoever will they should seek pray and knock and he will give them the Holy Spirit and if they come there is more joy at one alone lost Man comprehended in the Anger of God among the Angells of God in Heaven than at Ninety and Nine Abels or Jacobs which need no repentance which became comprehended in the Love in the wrestling-wheele in the Center of the Three Principles 132. God loved Jacob understand he was comprehended in the Mothers Body or Womb in Gods Love which co-worketh therein and Esau was hated for the Anger had comprehended him But now the hate is not so to be understood as if God would not have the lost Sinner No but for the sake of the Sinner is God become Man and Come to call the poor Sinner to Repentance and to the New Regeneration out of the Anger in the Soul 133. And Christ said thou wouldest Not O Jerusalem Jerusalem how oft would I have gathered thy Children together as a Hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and thou wouldst not Also How faine would I eate of the Best Grapes but I am as a Vine-gatherer that Gleaneth What the hardening is And how the Love of God warneth the Sinner Also how the Love of God is as well Omnipotent to preservation as his Anger is to Destruction 134. Question NOw saith Reason What is THAT Now which Willeth not Seeing God calleth the Lost Sinner and willeth in Christ to have them and new Generate them is that the Fathers Hardening Answer Yes indeed it is his Anger 's hardening and the Devills Will understand it is the Dark Worlds Will which hardeneth Man but it cannot doe that TO Death but as a Dark Night 135. But what doth Gods Love viz the Second Principle to that Man It complaineth very often IN the Heart when Man desireth Sinne and saith commit it not or doe it not Gods Anger will burne in thee feare Gods judgement and it warneth Man of his wicked wayes now if he followeth the Free-Will and Converteth then it is rightly said To the Honest or vertuous that is so long as he is honest or vertuous the Light must arise or spring up to him out of Darknesse and then the Light beginneth to shine in the midst in the Darknesse 136. But if thou sayest He cannot convert it is impossible then thou speakest in the Might or Strength of God and against all that which Christ saith he came for the sake of lost Man because he would seek and save him should then Gods Anger be greater than his Love Christ hath undeniably broken the hard Death and fierce Anger of God in pieces which held us captive in the Center of the Soul to the bands of the Dark World viz of the First Principle and made a shew in Triumph of Death in the Soul on the Crosse so that the Scripture in the Spirit of Christ saith Death where is thy Sting Hell where is thy Victory the Snare is broken and we are delivered thus singeth the Church of Christ 137. Dear Brethren I will ask you what Profit is there in all Teaching and Preaching if GOD doe harden Mans heart as my Opponent saith that he can not understand and receive it in What need Men Preach to the Righteous who run their Course without it But Christ saith he came for the sake of the poor lost Sinner and not for the sake of the Righteous which need not Repentance Doe you not see that Christ Drave the Devill out of those that were cleerly already possessed of the Devill and received them for Children Also Out of Mary Magdalen the great Whore 138. Though now indeed the Scripture saith He hardeneth whom he will that is meant of the Stubborne arrogant Sinner who sinneth against Grace and doth but â—â—arn God under a flattering hypocriticall shew he flattereth him with the Mouth and his Spirit entendeth only falshood and wickednesse from those he withdraweth himself at the Last and letteth him goe on in his flattery and hypocrisie who will help him who taketh his own Will in for a helper Would he be helped then must he goe out from his own Will and be resigned up into God 139. Then thou sayst God is Omnipotent and may he not doe with Mans Will what he will It is he which is Potent in all things Who will Contend with him as the Scripture saith and my Opponent urgeth that mightily 140. Hearken my Opponent you are much too young for that matter Learn first what God is What his Will in Evill and Good is thus there is a Chain fixed in Reason but know also that Heaven is against Hell and Hell against Heaven the Anger against the Love the Darknesse against the Light What doe you here mean concerning God if I should speak after your manner that God is Mighty to do all in all things as indeed it is true then must I say that God is ALL He is God He is Heaven and Hell and is also the Outward World for from him and in him all things Originate But what doe I effect by such Discourse which is no Religion such a Religion the Devill receiveth into himself and would be Manifested or Revealed in all things and be Mighty Potent in all 141.
Then thou sayst Thus God is at Odds with himself being he is Evill and Good O thou Dear Reason learn the Center here or stay at Home with thy Teaching and Writing Behold I tell thee this If there were no Anguish there would be no Fire if there were no Fire there would be no Light if there were no Light there would be neither Nature nor Substance and God would not be Manifested to himself What now would there be then A Nothing when thou wilt come on to the Center then thou wilt see it Concerning this very high Article I referre the Reader to the Book of the Six Poynts concerning the Three Worlds there he will see what God is and what his Will and Omnipotence is and what is called God 142. For if his Anger be Omnipotent to destroy then is his Love also Omnipotent to preserve if this Contrariety were not there would be no Life and there would be no Good also no Evill For if there were No fierce Wrath there would be no Moving thus the Substance of all Substances is a continuall Working Desiring and Fulfilling the Fire Desireth the Light that it may get Meeknesse and Substance for its burning or Life and the Light desireth the Fire else there would be no Light and it would have neither Power nor Life and they both Desire the Dark Anguish else the Fire and Light would have NO Root and all would be a Nothing 143. Therefore I say unto you now 〈…〉 God 's Love is as Great as his Anger his Fire is as great as his Light and his Darknesse as great as either of the other it is all alike-Eternall without beginning and it beginneth it self from Eternity with or by the Darknesse and bringeth it self from Eternity to the Darknesse into the source or quality even into the Fire and in the rising up of the Fire is the Eternall Death where the Darknesse and the Light seperate themselves each into a Principle in it self and the Light also it self possesseth it self One dwelleth in the Other unapprehended by the Other there is in Eternity no parting asunder those that dwell in the Darknesse see not the Light and those that dwell in the Light see no Darknesse What God is and how without the Darknesse all would be Nothing and in what Manner Man hath Ability or Strength to goe out of Evill into Good and out of Good into Evill 144. THen saith Reason what is God then Or who is God when it is said God hardeneth Mans Mind Behold he is All but the Light alone is called God for in the Light is Power or Vertue Love and Meeknesse or soft gentle Substance and in the Fire horrour Might and Life 145. Then thou sayst thus the Darknesse is a Cause of the Deity NO but God would not be Manifested or Revealed and there would be no Nature nor Creature without the Darknesse neither thick nor thin or Dense nor Rare neither Colour nor Vertue 146. God is indeed without besides or beyond Nature but without Revelation or Manifestation of any Forme through the Eternall Nature he Manifesteth or Revealeth himselfe in Trimity and with the Wisdome in Wonders and with the outward Nature Manifesteth or Revealeth the spirituall Worlds viz with the Time the Eternity but whatsoever hath its beginning out of Time passeth away with Time and its Shadow remaineth in Figure according to the property of BOTH the Eternall Worlds as it wasbefore the Times of the World 147. Therefore Observe now Gods Anger maketh the Dark Mind full and Gods Love maketh the Light Mind full For whosoever hath to them it will be given 148. But now all standeth in strife the Light against the Darknesse and the Life against the Death and the Death against the Life 149. But Man is out of the great Substance of all Substances and in him is the Strife now if he be Captivated in the Evill or Malice then he cannot avoyd the Great Evill unlesse he fall into Death that is into the Nothing then he is free from the Turba or Wrath and falleth into Gods Mercy for his Will goeth again into that out of which it is Existed in the Creation at First viz into the fore-seeing or Predestination in CHRIST JESU before the Foundation of the World was laid there it is at the Limit and fallen again into the Fiat and so Christ conceiveth or receiveth it 150. For the Men were Thine said Christ and thou O Father hast given them unto Me and I give them the Eternall Life Father I will that they be where I am 151. But whosoever remaineth in that which is his own as he is Born or generated to this World he remaineth in that as he is apprehended in the Wrestling-Wheele in the Center of the Lifes Springing up Now therefore it stands FREE for him to goe out of the Good into the Evill and out of the Evill into the Good 152. NOT that he hath the Power to make himself a Child and Heir that is done out of Grace but the Maker standeth ready for him and waiteth for him Every Hour to Evill and to Good Hell desireth him and Heaven desireth him both Desires stand ready for him and open in him ALL the Time of his Life he hath Hell and Heaven in himself if he goe with his Will out of God into Reason in Flesh and Bloud then is he IN or upon the Ground or Foundation of Hell which will when the Light of the SUN extinguisheth be manifested on him but if he demerse himself out from fleshly Reason in Resignation into God then he is IN Heaven All lyeth in the Will Whithersoever the Will entereth thither Body and Life or Substance must after it and THAT in Man is FREE 153. Hath Man Might or ability with his Will to demerse himself into Gods Anger as my Opponent acknowledgeth wherefore also not into Gods Love but he cannot Make himself a Child he goeth only with the Will into the Matrix and then the Divine Fiat apprehendeth him and Maketh him One Indeed he can not make himself a Devill the Hellish Fiat according to the Dark Worlds Property Maketh him One when he doth but give his Will up thereinto How Balthasar Tylcken is the Devils Advocate How the Devill doth assault none More with Despaire then the Children of God also Concerning firme Confidence of the Faithfull 154. MY Opponent saith The Soul is proceeded out of the Mouth of God and it is true but if it be proceeded out of the Mouth of God then it is proceeded out of the Divine Omnipotence why then doth he take away the Free Will from it It hath Free-Will in Evill and Good he speaketh so much as if I should say I can think nothing that is Good I can never frame any good Will in me to doe any Good 155. But the Scripture reproveth him and saith thus Say not in thy Heart if I Sinne God hath done
my self the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ if My Will willeth yet I cannot doe it but Gods Will in Mine 172. My Will and Gods Will must be One for my Saviour hath told Me he will give the Holy Spirit into my Will if I but ask him for it And should not that be true then would my Opponent deny me also to Ask I can Ask THAT none On deny 173. Now Christ hath promised to hear and though I find it not instantly in the power or vertue yet if I ask THEN I beleeve that God hath given me his Spirit and though my heart and all the World should say cleerly No yet I will let the Words of Christ be more certaine to me then all Bablings and Fictions 174. Am I indeed the day Staffe or Rod of Aarow in me lyeth the Drying or withering through Adam but if Christ hath introduced his Sap into my withered Flesh and into my Dark Soul again shall I not take or receive it to my self shall I first expect the Drawing 175. I know that I can have no Good Thought in me unlesse it be from God Now if I would faine be saved then I know that very Will is Gods Drawing why should I long then expect other drawing if the Lord calleth in me and biddeth me turne to him is not that Drawing but what Man can say he is not SO drawne Even none at all God draweth every one 176. The evill Man will not follow he goeth on in a disputable Way and seeketh Subterfuges or Excuses and saith he is Holy and his Heart is a Theef and Covetous a Murtherour and moreover a Proud Devill he flattereth himself only under Christs Purple Mantle and tickleth himself with Christs Suffering and Death but will not enter thereinto and with Christ dye to Sinne and become an Enemy to it he will only walk upon Roses in sat and Jolly Dayes and devour the sweat of the Miserable in Pride for saith he God draweth me not yes thou wilt not therefore he hardeneth thee and his Anger draweth thee also the Devill whom thou servest 177. Should God draw thee then cast the false or wicked wayes from thee set thy self as if thou wert to meet an Enemy where it concerns Body and Life If the Anger draweth thee and holdeth thee doe but Defend thy self and thou wilt soon get One that will help thee 178. Doth the Anger in the Conscience Say thou art mine thou canst not be saved then say in opposition I take only CHRISTS Death with me and doe with me how thou wilt take that and wrap thy self therein let Gods Anger and all Devills roar over thee and say and complain against thee what they will out of these Swadling Cloathes shall no Election pluck THEE whether it be of God or the Devill or Man 179. But the Wanton Licentious way which men now walk wherein Men only tickle and comfort the Old Evill wicked One the Murtherer the proud stately Covetous Babylonish Antichrist with Christs sufferings and Death he should only be quiet and fatten himself well Christ hath satisfied if he be marked or noted under Christs Bloud Banner and Elected then he cannot be damned this way is totally false or wicked Murtherous and unrighteous 180. If thou wilt be a Christian then thou must be and become conformable to Christs Image and walke in his Footsteps and with him suffer persecution disgrace and scorne love the way of Truth and Righteousnesse doe that which Christ hath taught thee not with hypocrisie to take double or four-fold and give a little piece of it to another No it must be earnest thou shouldst not Esteeme any thing thou hast as if it were thy own only but consider that thou art only a servant therein and servest thy Lord in Heaven therein thou shouldst dispose of it according to HIS pleasure 181. Not to suck up the Miserable and give a little piece thereof to a Beggar and say I minister indeed to the poore First 〈◊〉 them their Sweat else thou wilt be accursed in all thy Service of God and be kept back from God 182. Serve him with Minde and Heart walke in the Light let the scorne of the World be the Prints of Christs wounds to thee labour watch and pray and stand alwayes in care and circumspection against the Devil Arme and fortifie thy selfe continually against him and consider thou art here a Pilgrim and in the Vineyard of Christ labour faithfully in the Kingdome of God all thy Labour followeth after thee for Christ said My Father worketh and I work also so must thou also as a Branch on the Vine work and beare fruit 183. For a Christian is a Branch on the Tree of JESUS CHRIST if it will not work and beare fruit then it shall be cut off that it hinder not other Branches that is it must quite wither and he hardened as to the Life of Christ these will God harden Here it is said I harden whom I will viz a Branch that will not bring forth fruit to such a one God will not give the Sap of Christ It is not said God will not be mine but thou wilt not be his and so you are parted 184. Doest thou say God can make of me what he will he is Omnipotent he maketh of thee what thou wilt his Love is Omnipotent and also his Anger THAT which getteth thee holdeth thee The wicked is to God a good savour to Death and the Saint or holy is so to the Eternall Holy Life as thou growest so thou art such Sap as thou drawest into thy selfe such Fruit thou bearest 185. Why doest thou blame God God so farre as he is called God CANNOT will Evill for he is Good there is no Evill Will in Him but according to his Anger he desireth Wood or Fewel in his Fire which is conformable to or fit for the Fire 186. Therefore rightly saith the Apostle To whom you give your selves for servants in Obedience his servants you are whether of Gods Love or Anger Here the Apostle speaketh of Mans Election that Man CAN give up himselfe and be given up and though indeed of himselfe he cannot take or receive yet God giveth him the taking or receiving for he hath promised it him The abominable Doctrine of Balthasar Tylcken Admonition not to doubt of Election Admonition and Warning to Balthasar Tylcken 187. THe Doctrine of My Opponent is throughout no other then this If God make a Good Tree then it is so that is if he make one a Christian then he is so as if Man need doe nothing in it he need not work and labour for it that he may become a Good Tree 188. Alas God 〈◊〉 us why hath God given us the LAW and Teaching and said thou shalt not doe this or that If he will have Evill How very shamefully goeth this Man astray how very carelesse and negligent doth he cause Men to be Deare Brother Minde and
beginning but there is an Eternall beginning where the beginning and the End is all ONE the First is continually the Last and the Last is the First whatsoever God hath begun from Eternity to foresee that he beginneth now also at this Day alwayes every Moment to foresee 205. I CAN say with good Ground thus that if I were in my Mothers body or womb comprehended in his Anger then God had from Eternity seene me and apprehended me in his Anger and I were from Eternity Elected in his Anger 206. But if I convert in Repentance so that Gods Love apprehend me then I am also from Eternity foreseene out of the Anger into the Love for in God ALL is Eternall whatsoever at this day beginneth to alter in the Eternall that is from Eternity to Eternity equally in the Eternity 207. The Spirit in the Scripture hath another kinde of speaking than the World hath Know you not how it stands written in the Scripture where the Lord saith Suddenly I speak against a Nation or people which are Evill that I will destroy it but if they convert then it repenteth me of the Evill which I thought to doe unto them 108. Look upon Nineveh there you shall see whether God doth not alter his Will for Mans sake and the Apostle saith that even the Spirit of God is subject to Man viz to Holy Men. 209. His Election and beginning is alwayes every moment his Eternall Birth or Geniture is also every moment in him and before him is all both New and Old for the same God who hath Elected us in Christ before the foundation of the World he also every moment Electeth his Children that come to him the Matter consists only in the Conversion of the Will 210. And though it standeth written that it lyeth not in Mans willing that is only concerning those that Desire God and yet will not goe forth out of their sinfull Will they keep their sinne and yet will be saved therefore it lyeth not in HIS Willing but in this that Man goe out from sinne into Gods Grace and then it lyeth in the Mercy and that God doth readily for he hath promised it 211. It lyeth not in Man to make himselfe blessed or saved but in the Grace which God in his Sonne hath promised and bestowed for God willeth that All Men should be helped or saved as the Scripture saith his Election and out going is from Eternity and his Mercy is also from Eternity in Eternity ALL is in him ETERNALL 212. Therefore Men should better consider the Scripture as to such Termes or Expressions for it often speaketh out of the Eternall Mouth which beginneth every Moment 213. For when the Scripture faith He hardeneth their Hearts that they beleeve not and so come not to be saved then it speaketh of those who would be saved by their own ability in their Evill Will and Life those he suffereth to goe on in their purpose or predestination for they will doe it 214. As also Adam did he would not be resigned into God as a Childe but be his own and apprehend and know Good and Evill and Live in all the Three Principles for he went out from Gods will into his own of set purpose therefore God left him and then he fell downe and slept 215. And when he did eate of the forbidden fruit then Gods Anger Elected him to the Damnation of Death and Gods Love spake against it saying The Seed of the Woman shall Bruise or Crush the Serpents head and that was also an Eternall Election and yet it was also a beginning Temporary Election for how can an Election passe upon a thing when as yet it hath no Roote 216. Gods Anger hath from Eternity continually and still at this very day Elected IT SELFE to be a Darknesse that Gods Love and Light might in the Anger become Manifested or revealed 217. Now that which is out of the Eternall as the Soul of Man that hath also Free-will to manifest it selfe in the Light or in the Darknesse NOT that it hath the Light and Darknesse in ITS power but it hath ability to work in Good or Evill that is in the power of the Light or of the Darknesse and in which soever it worketh that manifesteth it selfe in it 218. The Might or power is Gods and the Soule is his Childe a Branch in the Tree proceeded out of Gods Mouth out of Love and Anger all THAT lyeth in it and is its own propriety 219. Who will then take away the Free-Will from it being it is a Branch in the Eternall Tree and hath Love and Anger in it selfe Or is it not true My Opponent speaketh Even so that the Anger lay hidden in Adam before the Fall and hath manifested it selfe with the Fall 220. But he maketh me Wonderfull beginnings in the Seed of Adam One with God another with the Serpent and that is a grosse Errour there are not TWO sorts of Seeds but ONE only but two sorts of Dominions lye in the Seed viz Gods Love and Anger and is but one only Seed 221. But as to one part from the Divine Substantiality from the Holy and pure Element in which the Paradise and Heaven â—â—eth as also the Tincture of Fire and Light that very Seed disappeared in Adam when he fell whereof God said The day that thou eatest of this Tree thou shall dye 222. And the other Seed understand Spirit is the Center of the Eternall Nature viz of the Dark World according to which God calleth himselfe an Angry God but that was not stirring and manifest while the Light shone in the divine heavenly Paradisicall Substantiality but in the Fall it became manifested or revealed 223. But now Adam was also shut up in the Dominion and in the Spirit of the Outward World but that must in his Innocency goe also behinde and come after for Gods Kingdome ruled in him but when he fell then it became also manifested and powerfull in him and instantly heate and Cold fell upon him so that he must cloath himselfe and he fell by the Outward Worlds Might into the Corruptibility of his Body 224. Now what kinde of Seed should become generated in Adam out of which Cain and Abel could be conceived even such a one as Adam was after the Fall viz according to the Outword World Evill and Good and according to the Anger-World totally Evill 225. But now the Kingdome of God viz the Heavenly Substantiality was faded or disappeared in him for the Darknesse had received in the Light in him as you have an Image thereof in the dry withered Staffe of Aaron which Sprouted againe So also did the faded or disappeared Substantiality in the Spirit of Christ when God became Man in that very faded Substantiality 226. Now my Opponent with your Election come hither to Schoole now shew me the Grace-Election I will also shew it you in the Divine knowledge to
me is given to see as sharply and accutely as any one can search Mark this which followeth 227. NOw when the Image was faded or disappeared what did God with it did he let it fall quite away and remaine in Death No. Then instantly the Doore of his Mercy set it selfe Open and said The Womans Seed shall Crush the Serpents head 228. Then the Deare Name JESUS incorporated it selfe in the faded disappeared Image and the Mark or Limit in this faded disappeared Image became strengthened which with the Revelation or Manifestation stood in the Body or Womb and Seed of the Virgin Mary as a propagated Seed for if that had not been so then had all those before Christs Birth been Lost 229. For the high Noble Virgin of the Wisdome of God with which Adam in his heavenly in breathed Spirit was Espoused or Married that is Immortall that presented it self in the Light of Life to Man viz to Adam and Eve and warneth them of the ungodly wayes and continually sheweth through the Propheticall Spirit the Limit or Mark of the Covenant where it will with the Deare Name JESUS with the Word and power of the true Deity open it selfe againe in Mans Soul The Second Part. Of the Becoming Man or Incarnation and Person of Christ How Christ is become Man or Incarnate out of No Strange Seed but out of Mary and yet indeed not in Eves Earthly Essence the Holy Ghost was the Man or Masculine therein 230. MY Opponent tell me here what the Womans Seed is upon which you found your Election you say the Children of God must become generated out of the Womans Seed as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse and reject Adam's and Eves Seed and make a Strange Seed and yet God said Through the Womans Seed shall the Head of the Serpent be Crushed Who is the Woman is it Eve No that you will not admit Why Because otherwise you cannot Cloake your Election or Predestination 231. Well now if you be Learned as indeed you goe about mightily to Colour your Cause with Texts of Scripture then shew in the Holy Scripture that God entended a Strange Woman you say that Mary is not from us Men but is a Virgin from Eternity that you must and shall prove or else it shall have neither place nor beliefe 232. But I will demonstrate with strong Arguments that the Word of Promise goeth upon the Womans Seed viz upon Eve and Adam that is upon the Matter or Matrix which was taken from Adam out of which the Woman was framed out of and in which Adam should have impregnated himselfe if he had stood and had not suffered himselfe to be over-powred 233. For the Woman Eve should have been the propagated Childe but it could not be and therefore she was taken out of Adam's Essence and Bone and was Made a help for him so that the propagation must be performed through TWO 234. Now if Mary Christs Mother be not from us Men then is Christ not the Son of Man as he so very often calleth himself and where then would my poor Soul remaine which lyeth Captive in a darke Dungeon whereas if God would Regenerate it againe as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse could he not well doe it without becoming Man 235 Besides if Mary were not Man or Humane from us what then would the strange CHRIST be profitable to Me and then it would not be true that the Word is become Flesh Or how could I enter into CHRISTS Suffering Dying and Death if it were not done in Me. 236. But I can with Truth say as the Apostle saith that I beleeve I am Crucified and dead with Christ and rise up in and with him and bear his Image on me 237. Thus saith my Opponent then Christ were conceived in a sinfust Seed if Eve had been the Woman in the Promise No I say not that 238. Christ viz the Living Word was not generated from Mans Seed but in the shut up Seed of the Heavenly part which in Eve faded or disappeared as the dry or withered Rod of Aaron signifieth he became againe the dead parts Sap and Life for the Sinne fell not upon the heavenly part but that dyed understand Substance and not Gods Spirit which rested in the Covenant till at the Limit of the Covenant in Mary 239. The Anger of God Manifested or revealed it self in the Earthly Part as a Life and the heavenly disappeared or faded as God said the day thou eatest thou dyest 240. He meant not solely the Earthly Death for Adam lived Nine hundred and Thirty Yeares e're he dyed and God said the day thou eatest thou dyest that is to the Kingdome of Heaven and livest to the Earthly World as it came to passe 241. I say not that God became Man in Eves Earthly Essence else he must have had a Father but thus himself is the Father 242. Understand this aright The Angel said to Mary The holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee in that sticketh the Mark or Key the Angel said he will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee Do you not understand this The Holy Spirit would open the shut Center in the Covenant in the Dead Seed and the Word of God would give it self in with living heavenly Substantiality into that which was shut up in Death and become a Flesh the Holy Spirit was instead of a Man or Husband he brought the Heavenly Tincture of the Fathers Fires Glance and of the Eternall Sonnes Lights Glance He was in the Tincture the Life and the Moving What Manner of Essence the Word received or assumed wherein God and Man became One Person Also how Christ is a Creature and how he is No Creature 243. NOw understand me according to its high worth I speak in the Vision or Sight and not in the Opinion or Conceit In Adam when God inbreathed the Soul into him then was the Soul surrounded or endued from the Glance of the Fathers Fire together with the Center to the Fire and also from the Glance of the Light with Divine Substantiality Moving in Gods Wisdome or Substantiality 244. But now in the Fall the Light extinguished and only the Fire with the Center to the Fire remained that was now the Dryed or withered and dead Soul as the Dry Rod of Aaron signified and Old shut up Barren Sarah Abraham's Wife and Old Elizabeth dead in the Womb or Matrix the Mother of John the Baptist 245. This Soul was from Adam thus dry or withered propagated except some Holy or Saints in the Covenant where the Holy Spirit in the Covenant Moved as is to be seen by Old Elizabeth that the Child in the Covenant in the Mothers Body or Womb when the Spirit moved the Childs Spirit when Mary came to her that it leaped for joy in the Spirit of the Messiah when it