the Holy Trinity hath been hidden to all Creatures and yet is through the second moving of the Deity as a holy sweet Love-Sun become manifested 15. I must not say that in the Person CHRIST viz in the Man according to his humanity according to that part which he hath on him from us Men from our Body and Soul that is on to the Deity on to the Divine Substantiality or Heavenly Corporeity taken on to him That the Creature is ceased and taken up or that the Creature Soul and Body from us Men is unmeasurable 16. No for such a One is not our Eternall High Priest which I could never more see in the Form of Man for the Men when he went to Heaven said Ye shall SEE this JESUS come again as he is Ascended 17. Only the Deity in him and the Christ understand the divine property together with the Heavenly divine substantiality wherewith he saith John 3. 13. He was come from Heaven THIS is uncreaturely and yet IN every Man as an own Sun yet only in one point which shineth forth out of the fountain of this Sun indeed from no place or space but the place of this holy revelation or Manifestation is in ALL Men the Center of the Originall 18. This SUN is in all Men but this Sun is not revealed or manifested in all Men but only in the Desire to the Point which is CHRIST which point is JESUS out of JEHOVA 19. But concerning the Holy woman or wife which this Authour mentioneth which is holy and PERFECT wherein the Man CHRIST becometh generated needeth also a farre other Explanation 20. And though he sets down the Holy Christianity to be the woman or wife which I blame not yet a Man must not speak that concerning the outward Earthly Man for the Earthly Man is not Christs Spouse or Wife but the inward Spiritual which faded or disappeared in Adam the Heavenly which Christ as viz the Holy SUN vivifieth 21. But this Authours writing is altogether Contradictory and runnes counter against it selfe for here in this Point he writeth of this Spouse or Woman and Body thus which he NOT outwardly prepareth createth and maketh new but in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the world instantly after the Fall in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith espouseth betrotheth and uniteth to himself and prepareth it for his Eternall Rest In like manner also this holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which was slain from the beginning of the world IN all Faithfull and Saints according to the Testimony of the Scripture 22. Before this Authour hath set down in another place that if CHRIST became manifest or revealed in Man then Nature falleth Totally away Now he sets it down that CHRIST in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart hath from the beginning of the world espoused and united himself with the Saints in the Faith which indeed were true if he did not speak it concerning the Man CHRIST but concerning the Promised CHRIST in the Covenant which first in Time fulfilled the Covenant 23. For Not CHRIST the Man who in the Time in the Limit of the Covenant manifested or revealed himselfe was slain in the Holy Patriarchs but the Children of Faith in whom the Covenant became manifested 24. CHRIST hath once given and offered up his holy Life in the sweet Love to his Father into his Anger which was manifested in the Humane Property and with the Love broken the Anger to pieces He hath not dyed in ALL the Saints from Adam to this time and suffered himself to be slain and put to death Only the Children of the Faith of the Covenant have suffered themselves to be put to death according to the MAN of SINNE that the word of Life in the Covenant in them might put on the new promised Life which would manifest it self in the Covenant with the future Sun of the New Life in the Spirit of the Covenant 25. So that when Christ would manifest himself in the Covenant in the Flesh he also in that Covenant which had manifested it selfe in them would be manifested in them with the divine Substantiality viz with Christs heavenly Flesh 26. For even after the Resurrection of Christ when he had assumed the Humanity and slain death it was not CHRIST that dyed any more in his Members in the Christians or was slain but Adam in Christs Death that Christs Spirit in the Soul and the holy Man might Live When Christ becometh born then should the Man of Sinne continually Dye till at last when the Outward body departeth it WHOLLY ceaseth 27. But if Christ the Lamb of God were become slain in the Old Patriarchs then the reconciliation was performed IN them and then it cometh not solely and onely from the Sonne of MARY 28. Abel was NOT the Lamb of God which was slain for Sinne Christ dyed not in Abel but in the BODY which he received from MARY 29. Abel and all the Martyrs dyed as to their own Bodies for the sake of the Covenant which opened it self in them they were slain and dyed as to their sinfull Adamicall Body and not as to the Holy Body which was shut up in the Covenant which Christ when he would manifest himself in the Covenant would manifest it to be an Eternall Life and holy Flesh in which he would dwell and be the power and Life thereof 30. When the Holy Scripture saith CHRIST was slain in the Saints then it understandeth then Members of the Body of CHRIST according to Christs humanity which HE the Christ assumed It understandeth not the Triune God that should suffer it selfe to be slain from the beginning of the world for doubtlesse God cannot dye That which dyeth is only the Body of Christs Members according to the humane Creature and not according to the Spirit of Christ 31. The Spirit of Christ hath therefore manifested it self in the Humanity and slain Death in his assumed Body that the Gates of Life in us should be opened for if I be murthered for the sake of Christs Name and the Testimony thereof then doth not Christ dye in me but Adam dyeth in Christs death and Christ in my dying becometh first rightly manifested 32. My dying is Christs Resurrection in ME for I dye away to the sinfull self-hood or Nothingnesse and live to the Resignation in the Spirit of Christ 33. Therefore this is a voyd and groundlesse thing that this Authour writeth that the Man Christ the Innocent Lamb of God God himself which from the beginning of the world according to the Testimony of the Scripture was slain in all the Saints and faithfull c. 34. The Triune God is not from the beginning of the world slain in his Saints the Scripture saith not so but the Faithfull Men were slain for Christs sake and NOT the Triune Christ IN them
be totally without blemish We desire to see a sign or token thereof let him Set that before us that we may acknowledge it and see it on him and THEN we will beleeve him 126. And let him leave others whom God hath gifted in Part undisgraced else we will say of him that he hath neither Part nor Perfection but only a bare Imagination and Vain spiritual pride which is instigated by the driving of Satan who fain would erect such a flattering seeming Holinesse 127. Seeing he perceiveth that the Man of Sinne shall be revealed or manifested therefore he will set such a Glistering Chappell neer it That Sinne might no more be known or acknowledged and that he might still under such a Glistering Cloak have his hypocrisie and Church totally Blind in Sinne. 128. For that is the Devills manner when he seeth that Sinne in Man becometh manifested or discovered then he casteth over Sinne 〈◊〉 a fine Glistering Trimmed or adorned Cloak and giveth it into 〈◊〉 perswasion that he is Holy Perfect and Righteous 129. Thus he layeth the Man of Sinne in a Fine soft Bed and covereth him with Christs Purple Mantle to try whether he might under such a cover sift and betray him Thus will he also do at this Time for he observeth that the Man of Sinne shall be manifested and that Babel shall be discovered 130. Therefore he cometh very finely and Lovely Covered with a shining Luster or appearance and would cover the Adamicall evill child totally that it should no more be called sinfull it shall deny its sinfull Name in the vanity and call it self totally Christ and holy and saith it is a Lye if the Earthly beastiall Man calleth it self after its own self Beastiall Property 131. O beloved Brethren and fellow Members of Christ all that read this be faithfully warned and admonished cover NOT the Man of Sinne with Christs Purple Mantle and lay him not at all in his Bed of Best but uncover him continually before GOD and cast him dayly and hourly into the GRAVE into Christs Death CRUCIFIE him without ceasing all the while ye live in this vanity of this Flesh 132. Let him have no REST hold him for your Enemy who hath devoured your Noble Pearly Jewel viz the PARADISE presse generate or pierce him with Christs Death that you may attain your Pearl again out of Christs Death in his Resurrection out of this Tabernacle where it lyeth shut up in Death acknowledge your selves only for poor SINNERS before GOD and go continually with the Prodigall lost and yet returning Son to the Father and pray to him for Grace 133. Our whole life should be a continuall RESISTANCE 〈…〉 even a continuall SINNING and though indeed the 〈…〉 Branch new generated or Born IN Christs Spirit 〈…〉 yet the Earthly Man IN Soul and Body sinneth and which continually to break or destroy the Noble †Rose-Bud again and altogether obscure it 134. The more Divine OYL is introduced into the 〈◊〉 Rose-Bud out of the Wounds and Death of CHRIST the fresher and fairer it groweth and the fairer it Blossomed 135. Here is the Field where the fruit groweth let man be perswaded to such sluggishnesse and to lye on such a soft Bed as to think he IS fairly grown and quite or full BLOSSOMED O No no by no means 135. But continually without ceasing draw divine 〈…〉 selfe in the Greatest Humility from and out of Gods Love 〈…〉 Honey out of the fair Blossomes or Flowers for as soon as 〈…〉 cure or carelesse and thinketh he is HOLY Honey then the 〈◊〉 bringeth to him Poyson in the vanity which the own-self 〈…〉 own self Lust or Longing sucketh into it self 137. The Man that would fain grow and bear fruit in Gods Kingdome can not do better then to suck all his power and vertue which he will use for the growing or Springing of his Life through CHRISTS Bloud and Death and continually cast his vanity to the Ground before the Truth and Clarity of God and continually be as if he were a DYING where he mightily presseth on to the Death of SINNE 138. * No City or place of REST belongeth to Sinne and vanity for so soon as Sinne Resteth THEN groweth the desire to vain Lust or pleasure But while the Death and destroyer or Breaker in pieces is UPON it then it dyeth without ceasing away from vain Lust or Pleasure and the fair Rose-bud groweth out of this dying which becometh carryed in GODS Hand to a Joy and rejoycing of the DEITY 139. Dear Brethren I have made this explanation out of a 〈◊〉 mind not at all with intent to scorn or disgrace the †Authour for I know his miserable confusednesse more then he doth himself and wish him from my Heart that he will yet be humble and know himself that he yet standeth in the Field or Soil where the fruit groweth and not boast himself before the time of fruit 140. For most certainly and truly there will be A SION as I then my self Hope that the Man of Sinne will be manifested or revealed and seek himself in GODS MERCY then must follow a constant continuall Repenting Life wherein Man knoweth and acknowledgeth himself to be in the 〈◊〉 and continually presseth from vanity out from vain Lust and pleasing into Gods Mercy 141. The poor sinfull Man must only with the poor Lazarus Lay himself at Gods feet under his Table and at his Dore and desire the Crummes from Gods Table and continually cloath himself in the Ganaanitish Woman with Heart and totall Mind 142. NO Flattery or Hypocrisie attaineth the Pearly Jewell for it lyeth buried in NO place but in the Death of the Earthly MAN THAT must be gone and then it is manifested the Adamicall Death must be changed into Christs Death if any would find the Pearl of Christ 143. CHRIST prayed to his Father so that he sweat a Bloudy Sweat when he would brake or destroy Death in the Flesh Now if we will bee and his Children and be generated or born out of HIS Death then 〈◊〉 we also dye with him in his Death and continually introduce our 〈…〉 great desire into HIS Bloudy Sweat and drown the awakened vain Lust and Pleasure IN his Bloudy Sweat 144. It must be sincere and earnest and not comforting and flattering Hypocrisie NOT to say to the Old Adam Thou art Christs Flesh No NO only Say †In me lyeth Sinne and vanity O God have Mercy upon Me in CHRIST thy dear Sonne and break and destroy my SINNE and VANITY in thy Death and bring me in HIS victory and Resurrection forth out of Death 145. Make thou Sinne and Death Nothing and grow THOU in CHRIST forth out of ME bring my Soul forth out of the Jawes of Death and vanity in CHRIST that I may 〈◊〉 to THEE and NOT to my selfe 146. Man in self-hood should ascribe no Divine Substance or Thing to himself but in all things give the honour to God and account himselfe
then I may better comply with him therein 157. Seaventhly But that he saith God was not manifested or revealed in the First Adam He First manifested himself in CHRIST with the Deity in the Humane property and so casts away wholly the first Created Man in his Nature and bringeth a totall new and other Man forth out of Christ which is not at all the First which is wholly wrong and erroneous and he should demonstrate it by the Holy Scripture or else we will not grant it to this New Bride 158. For although the first Man fell wholly into Sinne as to Body and Soul yet we should Consider what Sinne Is viz this is Sinne that he departed or went out from the Order or Ordinance wherein God Created him 159. He went out of the Free Resignation in which the Name JESUS in the Divine Light was Manifested in him and manifested in the Flesh the Anger of God so that it began to qualifie or operate and took in wholly the Life in the Flesh of the three Principles For the Souls Will went forth from the Resignation from the JEHOVA or JESUS and so the Substance also disappeared wherein JEHOVA was 160. Thus the Outward Earthly body became accursed that is the through-pressing power JEHOVA which before made Paradise in the Flesh that departed from the Flesh into it self and so came the Death and dying into the Flesh 161. For the Eternall Life stood in JEHOVA viz in the Name JESU wherein man was foreseen before the time of the world that it would manifest it self again in the Humane Soul and make the disappeared Image of the Divine Substantiality living again and receive that into it self and would be the CHRIST therein Else it must follow that the sinfull Soul were become wholly rejected or cast away 162. If the Originall of the Regenerate Man were wholly strange what would become of Job's word where he saith I shall see God in this my Flesh and my Eyes and not a stranger shall see HIM 163. No strange Man it is that shall arise from the Dead but only that which God Created in Adam in his Image in which God himself took mercy and compassion on him again and for that purpose moved the Name JESUS in the humane property which assumed the Womans Seed on him and therein quenched the Anger of God in the Soul in the Fathers Property with Heavenly Bloud and became a Pestilence to the Devils Poyson in the Soulish Property and a sting of Death to Death so that Death must dye in his Death 164. For JESUS with the CHRIST brought the Life out of Death and Anger it is written He is made unto us Righteousnesse and Redemption understand the CHRIST but he which hath been from Eternity in Eternall full or Equall Omnipotency and the Creation of all things he cannot be made to be Righteousnesse for he is himself the Creator but this CHRIST is out of JESU or JEHOVA whose out-going is from Eternity become in our Flesh made to be Righteousnesse and Redemption from the Anger of God 165. Now that which is made beginneth it self in the Making indeed out of the Eternall for the Soul hath introduced it self into Time viz into self-hood but CHRIST who out of the Eternity out of the JESU became born in the Humane Property he brought it again into himselfe into the Eternity out of the Time viz forth out of the corrupt or perished Source or Quality of the Mercury 166. CHRIST was not in the Person from Eternity but in the Power in the Name JESU he was from Eternity in the same co-equall Substance with God and this strange Bride shall not perswade us that God was not manifested in Adam Indeed not in CHRIST but in JESU whose Exit was from Eternity 167. The Soul went forth out of JESU into own selfe-will but God took mercy and compassion on it and promised yet once to move himselfe in Man with the Name JESU and in Man to generate the CHRIST out of Gods and Mans Substance 168. NOT out of Sinfull Flesh from the Outward world but out of the Divine Flesh which in Adam when he entred into the outward Earthly disappeared and dyed so that the outward only hung to him 169. For in the Outward Flesh was the Death in THAT should Christ break death in Peeces and New Generate in him the Whole Man as God Created him not introduce a strange one but to heal the broken Reed 170. As a Grain of Seed is sown into the Earth out of which a fair Stalk groweth with many fruits where the Essence of the Grain giveth forth that Stalk and the Shell or Husk only dyeth so also in Man the husk of Sinne only dyeth the humane Essence in the Name JESUS in the CHRIST which became manifested in Man becometh that very CHRIST not the King or the Stock but a little Twig or Branch out of that very Stock 171. Therefore this Man cannot perswade us except he demonstrate it to us that CHRIST the Expresse Image of God out of the Stock of the Love his Mother was generated from Eternity and was an Expresse Image of God 172. But in this he was the Expresse Image of God from Eternity viz in the Figure of Man in which Figure God Created Man with beginning and Creature there the Image of the similitude became known in God and even in the Name JESU which in this Looking-Glasse of the Expresse Image in the power of JESUS would become a CHRIST 173. The Life of Christ began it self with the second Moving when God moved himself according to his Heart in the Humane Property in the Eternall seen similitude of God in the JESUS and gat the Name of CHRIST as a Saviour or healer of the Sore and not from Eternity 174. For the similitude of God which was Seen in Gods wisdome from Eternity and known in the JEHOVA wherein God created Man that was before the Times of the world without Life and Substance and was only a Looking-Glasse of the Image wherein God saw himself how he might be in an Image 175. But when JEHOVA moved himself in this Image and Similitude then God manifested his Life in this Looking-Glasse in humane Property then was CHRIST conceived and generated or born for according to the Humanity he is called CHRIST not according to the Deity before all Creatures 176. According to the Deity he is called the Eternall Word of the Father for it is written The Word became Flesh Not Christ became Flesh Christ is that simple Servant of which God saith in Esaiah Who is so simple as my servant He became the Servant of God by whom God brake death in Peeces and destroyed Hell 177. This Christ is ascended up to Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God as a Prince of God and beareth the Eternall Name of God which is there called JESUS or JEHOVA 178. He is the High Priest
35. Man in his self-hood and I-hood is not Christ himself but Christ dwelleth in him he is the shining Lustre of his holy Life as himself saith John 8. 12. I am the Light of the World This he speaketh according to the Name CHRIST out of JESUS and not according to our Humanity which Dyed on the Crosse concerning which Isaiah calleth him a simple Servant in that he saith who is so simple as my servant 36. This Servant of God is not the Holy Trinity but the revelation or Manifestation and habitation of the holy Trinity the servant is become slain as a Lamb and not the holy Trinity Men should alwayes make a difference between God and the Humanity else if God were dead in his Trinity then were Death stronger than God who must thus have given himself up to Death 37. Christ is indeed God and Man in ONE Person but the Deity viz the Divine Property is not the Person the Man but the Homo or humanity is the Man and the Lamb of God which was slain and is called Christ from the Anointing so that God hath anointed this humanity of CHRIST with his Spirit without measure for the JESUS is the Anointing viz the Deep Love in the Deity 38. Therefore now the Lamb of God according to the humanity viz IN the Members thereof wherein the promised Covenant was out of which Covenant the Anointing would manifest or reveal it self was slain not Christ the Anointed of God which in the Covenant was hidden in them 39. Abel was not anointed with Christ but indeed with the promised word in the Covenant in which the Christ manifested himself and when Christ manifested himself in the Covenant in the Humane property THEN Abel put on Christ in the Flesh before Christs humanity Abel had put on the Covenant in the promised Word and WHEN Christ arose from the Dead then Abel also arose in Christs anointing in Christs humanity out of Christs Death and lived in the Anointing of Christ 40. The Man Christ is the First that arose from the Dead in the Anointing and is also the First who in the Anointing dyed to the Humane I-hood He is only and alone the Lamb of God in whom God brake his wrath to pieces Abel and all Martyrs are his Members upon whom the breaking death in pieces pressed or penetrated out of this Lamb Christ 41. Abel received an imputed Righteousnesse not a self wrought one of his own Abel before the humanity of Christ was not the Lamb of God but he was a Member in the Lamb of God Christ hath in all things the preheminence and none of them hath been able to call himself a Christian much lesse the Lamb of God that is hath been Slain for or instead of Christ 42. They have all of them only been put to death in the spirit of Faith upon Christs future coming they have put on Christ in the Covenant of Promise in the Spirit of Faith Not as a Lamb or Man but in Power not in the Flesh but in the Spirit so that Christ is the First who in the Flesh should be called The Lamb of God 43. This Authour mentioneth in this Manner But also this holy divine Substantial womans seed hath in and to the Saints appeared and been manifest in many kinds and wayes as in Adam and Eve after the Fall If this be so that the divine substantiall womans Seed was manifest in Adam and Eve then they have put on Christ viz the true womans Seed in Substance 44. And then they need not expect further about any other womans seed why did Eve then say when she bare Cain I have the Man the LORD if she had before the substantiall womans seed manifested in her why did she then hope for another 45. And God said also to Abraham In thy seed shall all Nations be blessed this was spoken concerning the future womans seed which would manifest himself in Abrahams seed Substantially with divine Heavenly Substantiality 46. If it were spoken as to the present then God had not commanded him the Circumcasion and after that the Sacrifice The Substantiall womans seed was not in the Sacrifice but the word of Promise in the Covenant 47. The substantiall seed of which God said therein all Nations should become blessed that lay shut up in Abraham unlesse the opening of the Name JESUS should open it the Promise to Abraham went on as to the Limit 48. That very substantiality wherein God would become Man was saded or disappeared in Adam when he dyed to the Kingdome of Heaven and Paradise This saded or disappeared Seed become in its Principle co-propagated 49. And in this Seed stood the limit of the Covenant out of which the Spirit of God in the Saints manifested it self and not through the faded or disappeared substance but with Christs becoming Man or Incarnation the Substantiall revelation or Manifestation proceeded where God dwelleth within in the substance viz as a Life of the Substance 50. Also this Authour writeth further And after that through Christ the Triune highly praised God himselfe the promise of the Perfect womans seed of the Messiah was pronounced and promised to them The strong Hope Faith and Confidence in this womans Seed caused it self openly to sound forth from them 51. Now if Christ dwelt substantially in Adam and Eve what need he then promise another substance to them I verily think Christ would not be manifested or revealed in Adam much lesse hath Christ promised Adam to become Man in his seed but God promised the Christ to Adam viz to awaken the Anointed of God in his seed viz in the womans seed and not in the Mans seed As in the Fourth Point shall be expressed at large 52. Christ stood in Adam and Eve in the Limit of the Covenant in the Name JESU in JEHOVAH in divine hiddennesse or secresie in the seed of Adam and Eve without humane substance and unmoveably in the promised seed till the End of the Limit there he moved himself in the womans seed 53. This High hitherto much repeated Speech concerning the Triune Womans Seed before Christs Humanity is much more a Confusion than an Explanation the CHRIST in the womans seed was manifested in No Saint before Christs Birth but only in the Spirit of the Deity in a Prophetick manner and not in a Humane Manner 54. By the womans Seed is alwayes understood the Paradise which faded or disappeared in Adam viz the Heavenly corporeity from the pure Element and NOT the FOUR Elements this was manifest neither in Adam nor Abel till the Saviour CHRIST became manifest in this Seed 55. This Authour so wonderfully blends one in another that it hath no sufficient understanding one while he speaks of Faith that the Saints have had the womans seed manifested in the Faith then suddenly he speaks of the substance whereas in the Substance there was no manifestation or revelation in THEM but only in
world which giveth Life to all Creatures but in the Curse of the vanity viz in SINNE lyeth the Evill Child which Adam awakened and manifested 101. But what kinde of Whimseyes this Authour hath that He will not allow the Divine Tincturing and Transmutation to consist with the New Birth and contemneth and rejecteth ALL that it cannot be enough discerned why he giveth forth so altogether Blind and absurd Matters 102. He telleth us of a totall New strange Creature which is generated in CHRIST if that were so then we could not at all say that Christ had taken on himself our Flesh and Bloud Much lesse the Soul then also he might not at all be called The Womans Seed How should we then be partakers of him 103. Hath not Christ taken on him my Creature how then hath he in my Flesh slain Death and quenched the Anger of God but if he hath taken on him my Creature what kind of strange New Creature should enter into me 104. I know of no strange one It were directly contrary to the Article of the Resurrection of the Dead I must not speak of another Man of another Creature but of a TRANSMUTATION of the Course stone into Gold the unholy into pure holinesse 105. If that must be done then must the right Artist in ME Come viz the Holy Spirit with the divine Tincture which is Christs Bloud wherewith he brake in peeces the vanity of our Humanity and brought our right Life forth through Death 106. I must be Tinctured or else I cannot be Transmuted If Christ do not Tincture me with his Bloud then my HOLY Paradise-LIFE remaineth faded or disappeared in Death but if he doth Tincture ME then the Holy Spirit in me becometh stirring who CAN in Christs Flesh and Bloud Transmute ME according to the Inward Paradise-Man 107. God had not to do about a strange Creature in that he became Man but about that which in Adam he created in Paradise Job saith In this MY Flesh shall I see GOD and my Eyes shall see him and NOT anothers 108. My Own Essence of the INWARD Man is in this Life time tinctured and Transmuted and my OUTWARD Mortall Man is Tinctured with Christs Death to DYE and the MYSTERY of the outward Man viz the Fift Essence or QUINTESSENCE understand the Outward Spirit WITHOUT the Abomination wherein the Four Elements stand in Equall agreement in One Will and Substance is Tinctured for the Last release and Resurrection of the Dead which transmutation will be effected at the Last DAY 109. This Man Imageth or frameth a Phantasie in himself and Thinketh he is no more what he was his Nature is totally gone from him he is totally a New Creature inwardly and outwardly and that is totally false and groundlesse 110. His earthly Man is not Christs Bride in Gods holinesse but he is Christs Bride in Christs Death so farre as he is capable or partaker of that 111. But while he will needs be Perfect and cursorily passe over Christs Death and be already risen again in Christs Death he truly in the Self-hood goeth back with Christs Death into the 〈◊〉 112. I wish him from my Heart that his Body visibly were capable or partaker of Christs Death for in that I live in my self-hood I do not rejoyce but I rejoyce in this that I in my self-hood stand in CHRISTS Death and continually DYE 113. And I wish that I yet might totally dye to self-hood that my self-hood might be totally resigned up into God and I be only an Instrument or Tool of God and knew nothing more of my Self-hood 114. But that this Authour mentioneth that he is altogether dead to self-hood and is the Glorious Type of Christs Bride which God would manifest upon Earth in this Last Time totally inwardly and outwardly holy PERFECT without vanity blemish or Sinne we would readily allow him to be so if he would sufficiently assure us of it 115. But upon his supposititions insufficient groundlesse literall demonstration whereas yet he doth not understand How the Scripture speaketh we shall not be able to beleeve him unlesse we see the Paradise upon him and see that he is dead from the outward world and do use it no more 116. For no conceit availeth but Feeling by Experience and so 〈◊〉 all the while he liveth in the vanity and perplexeth himself in the vanity and is affected with strife we beleeve him NOT neither can we beleeve him in regard of Christs word which warneth us that we should beware of those that give forth themselves to be CHRIST 117. And if one did go about in doing Miracles and did live still in the vanity in Evill and Good yet then we must say that he is a Mortall Man even though he were inwardly holy and New-born in CHRIST 118. The Golden Mountain which he promiseth in this Tabernacle the old Adam might or would readily allow and put on if it were possible and that God would do so with us 119. Also we would very heartily esteem him for the Type and the first born of the Adamicall Bodyes if it were he that could manifest or perform so great a promise upon OUR Mortall Bodies or if he could but manifest it on HIS own 120. But that he saith we can not see it on him we should beleeve it none can assure us of it I cannot beleeve him unlesse he assure me of it that I may conceive it is true else I take it to be an Imagination 121. What the Spirit of GOD signifieth concerning the Last Sion hath another A. B. C. we understand it NOT to be with clarified Transfigured or Glorified Bodies wherein the vanity shall be totally Dead but concerning the Fall of Babel and that the end belongeth to the Beginning NOT the Two Tinctures turned into One according to the OUTWARD Man but we understand Eve in the REPENTANCE and in the simplicity for the evill Lust or Longing which SHE had 122. His marriage State or City which he supposeth to be is only an Eve his SION is a Vale of Misery in Care Toyle Labour and Necessity For Winter and Summer Day and Night Seed time and Harvest shall not cease as was said to Noah till the Great and Terrible DAY of the Lord shall COME 123. Also thus the Mountain of God viz SION is in the whole world where there be honest vertuous people that fear and Love God HE himself is IN the Honest Men the marriage City of GOD must be in MAN as also the Temple of CHRIST where the HOLY SPIRIT teacheth 124. We need no conceit nor running up and down the City of Gods Habitation IS every where where honest Men are together as Christ saith Where TWO or THREE are met together in My Name there am I in the midst amongst them 125. But seeing he speaketh of a visible holy Seed and woman of Christ and will have that to
in JEHOVA but with the Will of JEHOVA viz with the Voyce of the Word in the Impression of Nature which in the Eternity is only a Spirit but with the Moving of God in the beginning of the Creation of this World is in the Spirit become a Substance viz an own self Principle 215. Man is not become Created and Manifested in CHRIST without the Divine Manifestation in him CHRIST was yet in JEHOVA viz hidden in JESU in the out-speaking Word as a Power of the Deity 216. JEHOVA that is God hath moved himself in the JESU viz in the Lust or Longing of the eternall Desire viz with Gods Heart and generated and Manifested CHRIST in the Humanity as a Treasure of Divine Power and Wisdome 217. For Mary said to the Angel Gabriel to the Prince of Gods Wonders when he brought her the Message that she should be impregnate or conceive with Child How should that come to passe for I have known no Man The Angel said the Holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will overshadow thee thou shalt be impregnate with Child and generate or beare a Sonne whose Name thou shalt call JESVS he will be great and be called the Sonne of the Most High whose out-going hath been from Eternity 218. This was the Originall of CHRIST in the eternall Word in the Power of the Most High of all which hath moved it self and out of and in the JESU viz in the desire of the Divine Love generated the CHRIST viz the Champion in the Battle between Gods Love and Anger Not so as that the power of CHRIST was not from eternity in the Word It was indeed but not manifested in such a property as a Breaker of Death in pieces 219. God generated to himself the breaker of Death in peeces out of the Fountain of HIS Self hood For in the Creation there was no Death so there was also no breaker of Death in peeces With Sinne came Death into the World and through the Breaker in pieces of Death it came out of the World again 220. In Adam was JEHOVA the great All being All-substantiall God manifested but not in the Forme of the breaker of Death but in the Power of his Spirit according to Love and Anger according to the property of the Fiat viz through the glimps of the Tincture of the Fire and Light as an expresse Image of God 221. Adam was not God himself he was not Created in the Trinity in JEHOVA as a Self-subsisting God as this without writeth he was made an expresse Image of God in CHRIST visible and Manifest but without Divine Knowledge and that God first Manifested the Treasure of this Wisdome in Adam when Christ became Man 222. No! God Created Adam to the Eternall Life in Paradise with Paradisicall source or quality and Perfection he forbade him to eate of the source or quality Evill and Good he Created a Perfect expresse Image in the Looking-Glasse of the Eternall seen Image without Substance The Power JEHOVA viz Gods the Fathers Love throughly enlightened him as the Sun through-enlighteneth the whole World 223. The Divine Sun shone through and through Adam in his heavenly substantiality viz in the pure Element and outwardly the Outward Sun enlightened him neither Heat nor Cold touched him for he stood in equall Harmony or accord in them the Pure Element held the Four Elements swallowed up and Captive in it self as the Day the Night and this Man shall not perswade me that God was not manifested in Adam he is indeed manifested in all things but according to every things Property 224. In the Property as Adam was Created God was manifested in him but when he Manifested the Center of the Anger in him then God put enmity against the Evill and manifested the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Man which before without Sinne was hidden in Gods Power and was in the Divine Vnity in the Love of God in JESU Thus this Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent became set as a Mark or Limit to Man into which he should turn in his Desire 225. Not that Man should become the JESUS or a God but that we should carry our Faith into him and in our Desire receive into us the CHRIST who hath broken Death in pieces that he may make our Soul and the faded Image in Adam living the Divine Life in himself 226. For in JESU the Eternall Sun shineth forth through the CHRIST JESUS is JEHOVA that is God and Christ is the Mediatour between Gods Love and Anger 227. To CHRIST is all Power given from JEHOVA or JESUS JESUS hath given the divine power to CHRIST not that CHRIST should bear the Power or Authority to or for himself but GOD who is a Spirit he useth the Christ for an Instrument whereby he takes away the Power and Authority from the Anger JESUS is the Power or vertue of CHRIST which giveth the CHRIST the power or authority For in own self authority CHRIST did Nothing upon Earth for he said at the Crosse when the Jewes Hung him upon it Father forgive them for they know not what they do 228. And when he raised Lazarus up he said Father hear me yet I know that thou hearest me alwayes And David said in Spirit He hath set the Lord before him therefore shall Irest secure there he meaneth CHRIST that he had set before him the JESUS or JEHOVA wherein CHRIST resteth 229. Now Christ is a Regeneratour or Restorer of that which is Lost he is not come for the sake of the Earthly Man that he should keep THAT in its Dominion but that he might regenerate that in Adam which when he awakened to sinne disappeared and dyed concerning which God saith That Day thou wilt eate of the Tree of Good and Evill thou shalt dye the Death he dyed to the Divine World and awakened to the Outward-World viz to the Sinne-House full of Misery and Ever dying source or quality 230. He would not generate the Sinne-Life anew for he dyed away in his Body of OUR Sinnes-Life which in the Regiment or Dominion of the Four Elements was existed with the Sinne in Adam and brought our true Life of the pure Element aloft again his death was our Life The Four Elements held us Captive in the Anger but he brought our Life of the Four Elements through Death forth in the Element again and made for us in the humane Life a path or Way to heaven again 231. Now we must follow after him and also dye away from the Life of the Four Elements aforehand yet first of all receive Christ in us who introduceth us through the Death of our Dying into his Way or Path through Death into the pure Element 232. This outward Visible Body cannot inherite the Element of God unlesse he break that in pieces aforehand but if we have put on CHRIST in the Faiths Desire he introduceth our Lifes Essence into
for they need none and the Devils have NONE much lesse hath Christ redeemed all heavenly and earthly Creatures as this Authour conceiteth For the heavenly need no Redemption and the earthly are NOT created in the Eternall Life for indeed the earthly Creatures are NOW just as EVILL as before the Suffering and Death of Christ and so is the earth also yet or still in the Curse 60. In that regard this Omniscient Word is very Erroneous in this place And although indeed there is mention made in the holy Scriptures concerning the Redemption of the Creatures That all Creatures groane together with us to be delivered from vanity and that CHRIST shall Redeeme them 61. But it hath NOT this understanding to meane Oxen Calves Wolves Bares and other Beasts and Living Creatures BUT the Creation wherein the Vanity of the Curse of God which holdeth Captive in it self the Fair Paradise viz the GOOD part of the pure Element in this Worlds Substance THAT shall the Judge CHRIST in the Harvest Seperate and give the Chaffe to all Devills and Wicked Men to possesse 62. The Creatures are not yet redeemed they yet groane all this while to enter into the Mystery out of which they are gone forth it is but an erroneous Conceit which runneth contrary to any visible or apparent ground like a mad senslesse or raging Drunkennesse 63. Also the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent as this Authour sets it down in Paradise after the Fall was not promised to the BEASTS and earthly Creatures he can not shew that though he so much appeale to the SCRIPTURE 64. It is false and standeth not in the Scripture with such a meaning and men should not think while he speaketh falsly that he speaketh only and solely out or from God he that beleeveth him will be deceived 65. The Authour Esaiah Stiefel sets these words down concerning the Regeneration of Christ viz With which this Triune God loved the WHOLE World with all its Births or Genitures and not only promised it to Man and the abovesaid heavenly and earthly Creatures first for a Redeemer through this Triune Deity but also Regenerated and presented IT livingly substantially operatively and actively in the precious Birth and assumption of humane Flesh and Bloud in the Womb of the Virgin MARY God Man in one Person visibly palpably and Substantially here upon Earth 66. But Jacob Behme inserts that Christ hath Regenerated NO earthly Creatures but MAN 67. And while this Author Esaiah Stiefel with or by these words includeth ALL Creatures be they what they will in Heaven and Earth in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of CHRIST and in his Redemption and saith cleerly it is so palpably and substantially now here upon Earth a Man may thereby well know what Spirits Child this Author Esaiah Stiefel is 68. Viz That he is stark drunk with or from the Stars and likely also from that evill Enemy the Devill which I offer the Reader to ponder of and doe pray God that he will give this Authour Esaiah Stiefel a better Mind and Thoughts to leave off such an Errour that Christs Children be not deluded 69. He saith also God hath in CHRIST even while we are here upon Earth if we doe but beleeve redeemed and delivered us from ALL Sinne and Lust of the Flesh yes from the Devill Death and ALL unrighteousnesse And I understand it so too but according to or as to that Will which entereth into Christ but he who liveth in self-hood in the flesh he is NOT yet free from Sinne he Sinneth Dayly in himself till death cut off Sinne and the source or quality of sinne from the Faith and good Will 70. At this place he should distinguish the Earthly Evill and the Heavenly good Will and Spirit asunder which he compriseth all together in Christs Redemption that he might be able to say HE hath no sinne and that he is GOD in CHRIST but the Earthly Hide or Husk is not Christ but belongeth to the Earth and to Death till it dyeth and giveth up the Sinne Life or Life of Sinne. 71. But that he saith the truly Faithfull is ONE Substance with Christ That I say also but according to the Inward Man and Soul the house of sinne is so long severed from Christ whiles it sinneth but when it dyeth to sinne then it standeth in the Rest to or for the Resurrection and Restoration 72. But for what vertues he ascribeth to the Faithfull man those all only and solely the * Inward Man hath the outward doth nothing that is good freely and willingly unlesse the Inward Compel him to it that is proved in the Authour himself he should cleerly distinguish that else no credit will be given to him against all Reason Sense and Experience 73. I am perswaded that there are more that be Christians then he yet they must all acknowledge themselves to be sinners For it is written All the Saints will call on thee for the forgivenesse of sinnes therefore these men ought to consider with themselves 74. But that he saith Christ in the Faithfull is ALL the Will and the Performance or Deed Mind or senses and Thoughts working speaking living and all in all substantially visibly palpably inwardly and outwardly This is agreeable to no Truth If Man doth any thing that is good from an inward driving that indeed is from God but he doth also much Evill from the Lusts of the Flesh and the Devils instigation and that Christ doth not but the outward sinfull Man whether it be by Words Deed or Thoughts 75. He telleth me much of such truly Faithfull as cannot sinne at all I beleeve not that such a ONE liveth in the World he is himself a great sinner and a scornfull proud surly Man I beleeve he is altogether Drunk in Sinne so that he knoweth not himself 76. I know also well that CHRIST in Man if he once dwelleth in him SINNETH not but the FLESHLY Man sinneth dayly he cannot rule from one Sea to another Christ can doe it well but Man cannot he is only an Instrument this high painting for Man ought not to be the Tenth part so much Man is as to the Outward but a STINKING Sack of Wormes full of filth and Evill Lusts one as well as another The Fourth Text. Now followeth the Text. 1 Corinthians 11. 12. As the Woman is from the Man so also the Man cometh by the Woman but all from God Now followeth the Answer of the Explainer upon this Text in Four Points I. IN this is especially required First what the Divine good Wife or Woman is which cometh from Christ her only Lord Husband or Man and God and taketh her Originall according to a Divine humane Manner II. Secondly How and in what Manner and kind She proceedeth from her God and Husband or Man III. Thirdly How also the Husband or Man God Christ is proceeded and Manifested through the divine
the Fiat viz in the hunger of the desire Material and originateth out of the power of the Flesh and of the Spirit both of the Man and of the Woman 93. In the Man the Spirit is fiery that soweth the Fiery Tincture in the Woman the Spirit is watery according to the Light that soweth the Spirits Tincture in the Inward Kingdome the Image of the faded Substantiality and in the outward the Aires property out of the abomination of the Earthlinesse 94. Her seed is in the outward totally Cagastrish or drossy but if She be Holy then it is in the Inward according to the saded Image Iliastrish that is halfe Paradisicall for it beareth the Rose-Garden wherein God became Man it beareth according to the second Principle the house of PARADISE but in the Outward Principle it beareth the Childe of the existed abomination out of Adams Lust and in the Third Principle viz in the Earthlinesse it beareth the Dying viz the Death and Earthlinesse 95. The Man beareth in his Seed in the first Principle the Fire-world viz the Fathers Property out of which the Father manifesteth his Sonne viz his Love viz Venus'es Matrix that is the second Principles Property in him but in his Seed not manifested but only as a Glimmering Tinder or Mother so far as he is holy and in the Third Principle he beareth in the Sulphur and Mercury in his Seed the awakened Anger of God in which the abomination against God existed and became Manifested in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Womans Property 96. These Properties become with the Seeds of Man and Woman in the Conjunction brought into ONE there the TWO Tinctures receive one another in great Joyfulnesse as it is found by experience when the Seed goeth forth How the Tincture lifteth up it self in Joy whence mans Life is moved as a Joyfull aspect enough understood by those that are OURS 97. And the Two Tinctures espouse themselves thus instantly in the Sulphur of the Seed into One and awaken the Mercury viz the Work-master of the Life so that he laboureth in the Seed and awakeneth the Lifes forms in the Sulphur 98. And if the Mercury be not potent enough then it draweth the Mothers Menstruum to it self and bringeth it into the Seed of the Conjunction then it maketh the Seed in Menstruo to be FLESH in which yet there is a materiall poyson and the great abomination against the holynesse and purity as is sufficiently understood by all Lovers of Mysteries what kind of poyson lyeth in the Menstruum which desttoyeth and poysoneth any tender plant of the Earth as is undenyable 99. Now in this Menstruum and poyson is the Seed come to be Flesh and both the Tinctures are therein and have their nourishment from their Substance and the true Life in Soul and Spirit existeth out of THAT 100. Where now in this is the totall holinesse without blemish according to this Authour Let him shew it me here and then I will esteem him for the Bride of Christ as he will needs be so in his outward Flesh 101. The Scripture saith Man is sown in dishonour but riseth up in power Here is understood the second Principle in which the Word of Life standeth together in that Espousall but not in the Evill sinfull Flesh which is full of kindled affections and false or wicked desires 102. But if the Seed be of wicked Parents then is the Mother Tinder in the second Principle not stirring but if the Parents be Holy then is the Seed manifested in the Threefold Life viz in the Threefold Essence but if not then is the Divine Mother or Tinder not Manifested according to the Love-power but onely according to the Anger and according to the outward world 103. And though it be so that honest marryed people beget children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath NOT this meaning or understanding That the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christs Spirit driveth on the Imagination as this Author supposeth Indeed the Noble Soul is ashamed of it 104. The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which kindle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz a vehement desire the tenderer the Complexion is the Nobler also is the Tincture in its sweet desire 105. But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus'es desire then is the Life kindled so that it is as it were more than halfe Mad with Love Thoughts and yet knoweth not what is happened to it 106. Must all this now be holy then would the Secret WHOREDOMES where oftentimes one vehemently and fierily loveth anothers Wife and in like manner one Woman anothers husband and so is shot with this Dart be also Holy also when two young persons look upon one another whence instantly Venus shooteth with her fiery Dart then must that also be Holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust 107. And though it be at the best yet it is a thing that is in all Beasts it is Naturall Men find some Beasts that are even ashamed of it wherein it appeareth that Nature it self is ashamed of it and when men will give it the best and rightest name then it is called an abomination before Gods holinesse being a thing existed out of Sinne through Adams-Fall which indeed is boarn with all under divine patience seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take many Examples in the Holy Scripture 108. Look upon the people Israel when God would give them the Law at Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his voyce then he commanded the Young People which were loaden with such burning Lust to abstain from their WIVES and that pointed not only at the Marriage work but also at the * Imagination 109. When David came to Nob to the Priest Abimelech and there was no Bread but the Holy Bread the Priest said to David if the young Men had abstained from Women then would he give to them and David said the Women were left these Three dayes 110. Herein Men have a very cleer example that even the People of David ought not to eat of the holy Bread if they had touched Women then were they unclean and David had shut up the Women therefore from the Young Men that they should not be Made unclean with the Women through burning and Lust for they were in the warres that they should not be an abomination before God and so God suffer them to fall in Battell 111. And Saint Paul saith 1 Corinth 7. 5. concerning Marryed persons That they should not depart one from another unlesse it be with both their consent that they may apply themselves unto Prayer Saint Paul meaneth that Men should FORBEAR the Marriage work when they will Repent viz enter into true sorrow with Prayer before God It is just