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
the humanity of Christ where the true Mahalaleel and angelicall Image which did disappeare in Adam was againe manifest in the humanity of Christ 39. The Sixt Time begins with Jared that is the spirituall Priesthood under the outward when as Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel were in their Times in their outward Orders viz. the Ministry of Enos concerning God and his Beeing and Will so likewise the Preaching of Abraham concerning the Covenant and Circumcision also Moses with the Booke of the Law under all these the inward Priest Jared went along hiddenly Inwardly this spirituall Priesthood is Christ in the New Man and outwardly in the selfe-elected Priests it is Babel 40. This Sixt Time began in the Kingdome of Christ after the death of the Apostles when as men chose themselves Teachers out of Favour and outward respects that is it did even then first open it selfe out of the hiddennesse of the shadow and put it selfe forth in the Churches of stone where the Church stood in stead of the holy Temple of Christ then indeed internally the holy Jared viz. Christs voice ruled in the children of Christ but outwardly the Cherubim with the sword for the outward authority which these Elected Priests manage is the sword of the Cherubim which in the Name Jared forceth it selfe along in the Word in the Nature-speech 41. This Sixt Time in its figure is hidden and manifest it is knowne and also not knowne for Christ said My Kingdome is not of this world Thus this time must passe away secretly under Antichrist where inwardly in the children of God Christs Kingdome hath been manifest but in the Rest who have lived under this Time and also have been termed Christians onely Babel and the Antichrist hath been manifest both in the Priests and their hearers for they which were borne of God they heard the true Jared in them viz. the voice of Christ but the other heard onely the outward voice in Babel viz. to dispute and contend about Christs Kingdome 42. For all warre which the Christians manage is the sword of the Cherubim from Babel Right Christians wage no warre for they have broken the sword of the Cherubim in the death of Christ and are dead with Christ and risen againe in him and they live no longer to the externall Might and Dominion for their Kingdome is manifest in Christ and is not of this world 43. This Sixt Kingdome beginneth after the death of the Apostles and continueth with its Outward Government even to Mount Zâ—on till translated Enoch doth againe appeare in spirit and power for Enoch is the Propheticall Roote and holdeth in his Dominion Noah Moses and the sword of Elias at the end of the first a Or sixt Seale about which time we lâ—ve time the outward b The outward Priâ—sthood in Babel Jared falleth and with him that same outward Building viz. the Citie Babel 45. The Seventh time begins with * Reade the 35 Quest of the 40 Quest Concerning the Enochian life Enoch viz. with the Propheticall Mouth who declareth and layeth open under all the six times the secret Wonders of God what should be done and goeth along under Noahs Abrahams and Moses his vaile even into the Kingdome of Christ where this same propheticall Spirit is translated in the Spirit of Christ till the end of the Sixt time then he manifests himselfe in the Number of the Triple Crosse when the threefold Crosse manifests it selfe then stands the right Triple Crowne upon the Crosse even then the Enochiaâ—â— Prophets mouth doth expresse the great Wonders of the Triple Crosse that is he speaketh no more Magically in types and parables but sheweth the holy Trinity in the Figure viz. the Formed Word of God in all visible things and revealeth all Mysteries within and without 46. And even then is the Time when Enoch and the children under his voice lead a divine life of which the first life of Enoch was a Type and even then there is a blessed and golden yeare till Enochs last translation comes and then the Turba is borne which when as it shall enkindle its fire shall purge the Floare for it is the End of all time 47. Enoch begat Methusalah who was the man of the longest age and was translated three hundred yeares after this sheweth that the Spirit which in Enoch did put forth a twigg viz. Methusalah who attained the highest Age shall rule in the last and highest Age of the world and in the meane while hide it selfe before that time and remaine as it were translated as Enoch was translated and was no more seene 48. His translation was not a dying or a putting off of Nature and creature but he went into the Mystery betwixt the spirituall and outward Word viz. into Paradise and is the Propheticall Roote springing from the Stem of Adam in the line of the Covenant from which Spirit afterward the Propheticall mouth spake 49. This Spirit was translated in the Living voice of Christ when it spake in the flesh and must be silent till the voice of Jared is finished then he proceedeth forth againe from his first roote through all voices viz. through the voice of Noah which denounceth the Deluge of Anger to come upon Babel and through the Stem of Noah and the whole propagation of his Tree through all the Lines viz. through the heathenish Japheticall and Sems Line and through Abrahams and Nimrods children in Babel through Moses and the Prophets and lastly through the voice of the manifested Word in the Spirit of Christ and revealeth the whole Mystery of the Tree of knowledge of good and evill 50. For through his Voice all the fore-mentioned voices of the lines of the Wonders whence the Kingdomes of this world have had their rise shall be changed into one voice and knowledge and transplanted into one Kingdome viz. into the first Tree of Adam which is no longer called Adam but Christ in Adam All Nâ—tions Tongues and Languages heare this voice for it is the first word whence the life of Man proceeded for all the Wonders doe againe in the Word come together into one Body and this same Body is the formed divine Word which at first with Adam did introduce it selfe into one onely Stem and through him into one Tree of manifold boughes branches and fruits to the Contemplation of the divine Wisdome in the Wonders of the Powers Colours and â—ertues according to good and evill 51. This high Tree doth disclose and clearely open it selfe what it hath been in time and what it shall be eternally and in its disclosure Moses puts away his vaile and Christ his Parables in his Doctrine and then the Propheticall Mouth of this Tree of Wonders doth expresse in Divine Power all the voices of the powers of the Tree whereby Babel taketh her End and this is a Wonder and in this same Wonder all Numbers and Names are manifest and this no man can hinder 52. For that which is lost in
the Spirit of the Letters shall be againe found and the Spirits of the Letters shall be againe found and knowne in the formed Word of the Creation and in the Creation shall be sound and knowne the Beeing of all Beeings and in the Beeing of all Beeings the Eternall understanding of the holy Trinity even then the contentions about the knowledge of God and his Beeing and Will doe cease when the branches shall know that they are or stand in the Tree they will never say that they are peculiar and singular Trees but they will rejoyce in their Stem and they will see that that they are altogether boughes and branches of One Tree and that they doe all receive power and life from one onely Stem 53. And there Moses shall keep Sheep and each sheep eateth his own Pasture therefore mark it when this hapneth to be fullfilled Noah denounceth the Deluge and Elias brings the Flaming Sword upon the false Israel and the Turba in the fire of the Wrath devoures the wild Tree with its fruits and branches Let this be told thee Babel 54. For as concerning Enochs divine time our speech is taken from us seeing Babel is not worthy of it also shall not see it so also to disclose the Times of the Ancient whose Number shall be manifest in the Rose of the Lilly Mysterium Magnum Chap. 31. 19. ANd God said it repented him c. This is to be understood according to the Creation of the Formed Word not according to the Eternall Speaking Word which is unchangeable but according to the good Property in the Creation that it must be laden with Evill against its will c. 26. The Spirit doth especially in Noah complaine here against man for the Sodomiticall beastiall concupiscence and lust of the flesh viz. against unchastity and uncleane lascivious wantonnesse and also against the High Oppressours and Tyrants who put forth themselves in their own lust and domineered and would not suffer the Spirit of God to rule in them that they had intruded themselves without Command all this was an abomination before God and it grieved the Spirit in the Formed Word that he had produced such evill Beasts and would endure them no longer 27. Even this same Propheticall Spirit whose roote opened it selfe in Enoch which also by Enoch dâ—d propagate its line in its branches which by Noah did grieve at the wickedness of man and drowned them with the Deluge even this is he that now also doth grieve at the great sinnes and vanity of men for his mouth is at present opened he hath been translated in the Spirit of Christ Now this Word that became man doth repent at the vanity and wickednesse of men that his children of the new Covenant will not suffer the Spirit of Christ to draw them therefore this propheticall mouth doth now come forth for it is the time of its Manifestation and proclaimeth the great Deluge of Gods Anger and the Flaming Sword of Elias who also was translated or taken into the mystery for he shall bring his Sword in the Turba 28. Let this be told thee Babel he complaineth mightily against thy Beastiall Wantonnesse and Tyranny against thy own usurped force and violence wherewith thou art proud and wanton and thereby hath set up thy selfe in Gods government he will drowne thee with thy tyranny and beastiall unchastity with the fire of anger seeing that thou wilt not repent of thy vanity therefore he repenteth through thee with the Turba and will drowne thy Turba so that his repentance may be manifest in his children and also his Comfort of Refreshment may be manifest by his Repentance c. 40. By Adam the Word Repented and gave it selfe with a Covenant into the life to helpe and comfort the life and by Noah the Word repented and moved all the fountaines of the deep in Nature and drowned the Wrath and opened the Covenant of grace 41. And when the Time of Enos was at the End in the dayes of the children of Nimrod the Word grieved at the vanity of man that they would not know God and drowned the understanding of the one onely tongue and divided it and gave by its repentance the certaine understanding in the Covenant with Abraham 42. And when the Time of Cainan was at the end that the children of Abrahams Covenant were compelled into the vanity of Servitude the Word grieved at the vanity and destroyed Pharoah and afterward all the men of the children of Israel in the Wildernesse save Josua and Caleb and gave by repentance the Law of his Covenant a true type of Christ who should drowne the Abomination in his bloud 43. Thus also when Mahalaleels time came to the end the Word grieved in the deepest Repentance and brought the life of God in Christ Jesus into the formed creaturely Word in the humane Ens and drowned the Turba in the humane Ens with Gods love and mercy and gave them the Spirit of Comfort and the Gospel 44. Note Thus even now when the time of Jared is at the end which hath been covered with Babel Even now the Word doth repent and grieve at our great vanity and will destroy the Abomination with the devouring jawes of Wrath with Sword Hunger Fire and Death And giveth by its sorrow and repentance a Lilly out of Enochs mouth in Gods sweetnesse 45. And when Enochs time shall be at the end that the vanity doth againe grow in the Turba then cometh the greatest griefe and sorrow of all upon the Nature of the Wonders that it is at the end and there is no more any remedy even then cometh the last Motion with the Turba in the first Principle of the Eternall Nature and devoureth or swalloweth up the outward Nature in the fire and then shall the Formed Word be wholly freed from vanity and giveth by its last Repentance the Holy Spirituall World Amen Mysterium Magnum Chap. 32. 10. THere is a very great Mystery in the Ark of Noah which the Lord commanded him to build after that manner and shewed him how high how long and how broad it should be and directed also that it should have three severall Stories also concerning the creatures that he should bring into it which is such a Mystery that the malicious wicked man is not worthy to know and we also shall not mention it in the ground or depth of its meaning for it hath its time wherein it shall be opened that is in the Lilly time when Babel hath its End but yet to set downe somewhat for a furtherance to our fellow branches who shall breake forth and grow out of our Ens of this Lilly in its time which also shall be a Rose in the Lilly-time we will set it downe in an hidden exposition 11. The Mystery of the Holy Trinity also the Three Principles also the Three Sonnes of Noah also the Three Men that appeared to Abraham in the Plaine of Mamre also the Vision of the great Temple