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Mercurius Teutonicus, or, A Christian information concerning the last times being divers propheticall passages of the fall of Babel and the new building in Zion / gathered out of the mysticall writings of that famous Germane author, Jacob Behmen, alias, Teutonicus Phylosophus.; Selections. English
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Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
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Wing B3409
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unchristian fury and bloud-thirsty minde whereby shee destroys not her opposites onely but her own selfe and even that which shee thinks to better and maintaine Thing whereby men may now see how her whoredome hath been manifold and how the Devill had beset us with manifold Nets and how one whoredome runs in the opposition to another and are malicious bite and slay one another 24. For the Great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the Great Iniquitie wherewith shee is fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her wofull smart and shee speaketh of the childe which she shall bring forth viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny shee uncovereth her faire feature as she is in the Heart Now he that will not know her for him there is no remedy 25. The Revelation saith Goe out from her my people that you may not be partakers of her plagues for shee hath filled her cup full with the Abominations of her whoredome in the Anger of God them shee shall drinke out and thereby be forced to burst her selfe 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her own mouth doth strangle her her own Turba destroyeth her shee cryeth for vengeance and murther upon heresie and yet shee doth it not for God but for her Adulterous Bratt otherwise if shee did it for God shee would enter into his Command and Will of Love where Christ saith Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples 27. The Kingdome of God stands not in any warre or revilings or in an outward shew in delicious dayes herein the children of God are not to be found but in love in patience and hope in faith under the Crosse of Christ there groweth the Church of God to the holy Ternary i. e. a new angelicall man hidden in the old and this is my certain knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zion I say according to my knowledge as the Spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an Ending of the Deceit and Zion shall be found yet onely of the children of faith not in generall as if no wicked man should remaine 29. For the Oppressour shall be a Cause that Zion is borne when men shall see how Babel is an whore then shall many children be found in Zion and seek the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them at the heels and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and exercise their faith and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his Room 30. But the generall Zion appeareth first in greatest misery when Babel breaketh it shall stand desolate and miserable and then the children of Zion shall say How hath the Lord forsaken us come we beseech you let us seeke his face ah let us depart from strife war and contention have we not alas made our Countrey desolate is not all provision spent are we not brethren wherefore do we fight we will enter into one Love and seek the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Strangers and Pilgrims and seek our native Countrey 31. In this Time verily a Zion shall be found and the Heaven shall give its dew and the earth its fatnesse but not in that manner as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Son of Man shall come that there will be faith upon the earth And although the children of Zion 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 times 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 coming 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 Zion I acknowledge and know it for Zion shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne he that would seek it let him seek himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and he shall finde whether Jesus be borne in him 33. If he finds it not let him enter into himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him those he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be manifest in him and he shall be borne with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda f Under the Crosse in disrespect and disesteeme of the world in the dark Stable not in g Not in the outward pleasures of the flesh Jerusalem as Reason faine would have that Christ should be borne in the old Asse the old Asse must be a servant and serve the New Man in Zion c. This wonderfull Prophesie following was written in a Postscript to a Letter dated the 20th of February 1623. 23. THe Tribulation and Destruction of Babel approacheth with exceeding vehement haste The Storme ariseth upon all Coasts There shall be an exceeding Tempest vaine hope deceiveth for the Destruction of the Tree draweth neere which is knowne in the Wonders 24. The a Domestick intestine homebred Fire hurteth its own native Countrey Righteousnesse and Truth are beaten downe Great Sorrow and perplexing Sadnesse doe b Scrue up themselves force themselves up 25. Men shall mourne for an empty ruinous old Cottage which is of no importance to Salvation and they shall be enraged for that Nest wherein Satan hath hatcht his c Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all fâ—lshood under an holy shew of Religion young 26. The Tower of Babel is found to be without foundation men suppose to hold it up with props but a winde from the Lord overthrows it 27. The hearts and thoughts of men shall be discovered for there cometh a Tryall from the Lord whereby the d Tâ—tular verball hypocrite the Cain-like Christian who perswades himselfe from a blind faith that none is accepted with God but himselfe and such as he is the demure and devout Pharisee but his false bottome will come to light maugre his many words and swords mouth-Christian shall be laid open in his false heart and soule as a reed that is shaken by the winde seeing his heart is wavering now here now there because his false ground is revealed 28. Many shall betray themselves and through hypocrisie ruine both body and goods Hypocrites and mouth-Christians shall quaile for feare when their false foundation shall be discovered 29. The Orientall e The Turk shall turne a true Christian Beast getteth an humane heart and face and ere this cometh to passe it helpeth to teare downe the Tower of Babel with its claws