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
in Christs death and put on HIS Resurrection out of the GRAVE That the Man which dyeth according to Flesh in the Limit which God hath set or appointed viz at the Last DAY should ARISE out of Christs Death 79. He hath given us his Death and Buriall for a REST where the OUTWARD Body resteth from the working of vanity as in a meek soft Sleep 80. But what this Authour sets down concerning the opposition of the totall fleshly Man that the Earthly Man which he calleth the Serpents Seed despiseth contemneth derideth and persecuteth Christ in his Members and continually crucifieth and putteth them to death together with Christ that is so and cannot otherwise be 81. For when Christ is become born then the Man of Sinne in his self-hood MUST dye the Faithfull Man becometh himself an Enemy of his own Sinnes in the Flesh the Faithfull Man according to the Heavenly Substance is indeed yea undeniably the Bride of CHRIST in whom Christ dwelleth that I contradict not 82. But that this Authour sets it down that Christ was born a poor despised Infant in the highest Lowlinesse out of MARY and yet was equall in the Height of the Triune God and LORD there he should better explain it and shew wherein he is the Triune God and LORD 83. Not according to the Creature viz according to our Flesh and Soul which is Eternally under or beneath God but according to his Divine and according to the Heavenly Substantiality and Corporeity wherewith he came from Heaven and took our Substance upon him 84. The divine Substance is unmeasurable BOTH according to Spirit and Corporeall Substance but our humane Substance is measurable to our humane Substance the Power or Authority is given but to the divine nothing CAN be given 85. God will judge the humanity through the voyce of the humanity of Christ so that the humanity of Christ according to our humanity is the Instrument to do it with Not that our humanity in Christs Person and Creature hath the power or authority out of it self 86. It is a given power or authority from the Father As Christ himselfe saith ALL Power or Authority in Heaven and upon Earth is given me of my Father Matth 28. Not to the self-hood of the Creature that the Creature is as Omnipotent and self powerfull as GOD but that the CREATURE is the Instrument whereby the Spirit of God will Judge and separate ALL things 87. The Spirit of the Holy Trinity IN the Creature is the will and the Creature is the Instrument of performance as through a cleer visible open Image and Substance seeing God hath manifested himself through the Creature therefore through the Creature also he produceth a Manifested or revealed authority or power and Dominion 18. As an Artist fitteth an Instrument of Musick and himself strikes or playes upon it that it may sound and give melody to him SUCH as he would sain HEAR Thus also in like manner the Creature is Gods Instrument upon which God striketh or playeth and hath introduced his own sound out of the divine voyce into this Creaturely Lute which soundeth and Melodizeth to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will 89. This Lute doth not play upon it self for CHRIST saith also All whatsoever the Sonne seeth the Father do that the Sonne doth also And the word which I speak to you is not mine but the Fathers who dwelleth in me Also I and the Father are One but the Father is greater than I. 90. The Father is the Eternall Beginning and the Sonne is the Eternall Begun viz the Manifestation of that Spirit which is called Father and the Holy Spirit is that which the Father through the Sonne Manifesteth with the Eternall outspoken wisdome out of the sound which the Father with the Sonne Generateth 91. The Sonne is the Fathers sound or word and the Creature is the cleer or Loud manifested word through which the Father in the Eternall Generating of his holy word soundeth or speaketh 〈◊〉 hear the Creature viz the voyce of the Person CHRIST then I hear what the Father in his holy sound in the exit of his Holy Spirit manifesteth and expresseth in and with the Creature 92. Here it is not called beloved Woman or Wife with or as to the Creature but Gods Image Gods Manifestation Gods manifest Dominion Gods own Doing or self-acting viz the invisible and incomprehensible acting through a visible comprehensible image and Substance of his own propriety 93. For without God there is Nothing HE alone is ALL but all whatsoever is perceptible or comprehensible that is only an Image of the Invisible Divine Substance wherewith the Invisible hath Manifested or revealed it self 94. Therefore the Creature should NOT say of it self that it self is any thing but introduce its ability into THAT out of which it is originated that it may be the Omniscient Gods work and play or Melody in his Love that it may do what he will and SO God be ALL in ALL. 95. And if God will do any thing through his Creature and manifest his will then speaketh not the Creature from or of it self but saith Thus saith the LORD thus hath the Lord spoken this is the Command of the Lord and not esteem it self at all to be the speaking Word or divine Sound also not say with this outward Body that the outward Body is espoused with Gods Holinesse as this Authour sets it down 96. The inward Man is indeed together with or in Gods Harmony through which God soundeth and Singeth and is a Wedding-Place or City of God but all whatsoever is Creaturely is tinder or beneath that which hath made the Creature The Creature is Gods Artifice or workmanship which he hath made through his wisdome for it is the Nature it standeth in the Principle viz in a Beginning but God standeth in NONE God is without all Beginning his desire maketh Beginning 97. But what this Authour saith concerning the woman of Faithfull Flesh and Bloud is not spoken plain enough to be understood For Flesh and Bloud beleeveth not but the Spirit Flesh and Bloud is a House of the Spirit 98. And what he also setteth down concerning the Man CHRIST who is in the Marriage with the Woman cannot at all be spoken of the outward Flesh and Bloud of this Life time for Christ is himself the Woman and the Man God and Man 99. Of the Inward Man it may WELL be spoken that is in the Marriage with Christ but the Outward is in the Marriage with the Outward World and with the vanity and Sinne as also with Death and Corruptibility weaknesse sicknesse and Misery THAT is called Eve and not the Marriage City of God in Gods holinesse as this Authour saith it is 100. But a waste Tabernacle wherein the Spirit is perished understand the Outward Spirit which dwelleth in Flesh and Bloud not that we would or should DESPISE the Spirit viz the Soul of the Great
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
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
He mentioneth that MARY was totally sanctified and Perfect before CHRIST was conceived Now if the Faith could have attained and have discovered the Perfection and Totally have new Generated Man that he had been united with and in God in Body and Soul in Totall perfect holinesse then Christ had come in vain 7. And his suffering and Death had not been profitable to us if the FAITH could have broken the Anger of God also Death and Hell and have appeased the Angry Father and have quite taken away the abomination in the vanity of the Flesh 8. Also if CHRIST viz the Word of God had totally inwardly and outwardly taken to himself a holy and perfect Body and Soul upon Earth wherein had he broken Death And in WHAT Body had he taken on himselfe the SINNES of All Men And in what Body then hath he dyed to Sinne WHAT Body became a Curse on the Crosse 9. If it had been only the holy Perfect Body then would Gods holinesse have made it selfe a Curse and our Restitution had been only a Sacrifice which might well have been done in the Faith or through the Judaicall Sacrifice O it must needs be an Evill God who will not suffer himself to be appeased unlesse he revenge himself upon his Perfect holy Substance 10. Else why should he lay all SINNE upon one holy perfect Man and cause his fierce wrath to be shewn upon him and so Revenge himself such an understanding this giveth if we say Mary was in the Faith in flesh and bloud in body and soul totally perfect and totally united with the Holy Divine Substance 11. But seeing the Omniscient Authour here spoiles his breath therefore we will here in part a little blow up our sparkle and unfold the Mystery better 12. King David said In Sin was I born and in Sin did my Mother conceive me and this David it is out of whom MARY was born viz out of the Seed of David of the Seed of Joachim her father and Anna her Mother 13. Now if MARY had attained in the Faith the highest Perfection why not also David and the Patriarchs in whom was the Holy Ghost as well as in MARY 14. And though this Authour indeed determines that they were totally Holy and Perfect yet their Sinne and Mortallity moreover their Infirme life in Sicknesse Care perplexity and necessity will not permit that in which they all lived in the Curse and abomination in the vanity of the Earthly Flesh which abomination in their dying was first broken and ceased as to them 15. In the Abomination of the vanity there is not by far any totall perfection but Sinne and Death as David witnesseth of himselfe as also all the Patriarchs 16. But concerning MARY and CHRIST this is the true understanding MARY was the Limit of the Covenant of God in Paradise instituted after the Fall That Covenant stood in the true Image which faded or disappeared in Adam when he manifested or revealed the vanity in his outward Flesh 17. Concerning which God said The day that thou shalt eat of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill viz of the vanity thou shalt dye the Death which also instantly came to passe he dyed to the divine world and awakened to the Earthly world in the vanity 18. For the Soul viz the true Life of the heavenly substantiality entered with its Desire into the Abomination then the Divine Light departed from the Image of the heavenly Substantiality and now it stood in Death as a Nothing and this true Image it is which God from Eternity hath beheld with his holy Spirit in the wisdome but without Substance which he created into Substance that is brought Substance into this Image from the Three Principles 19. But when the Spirit of the Three Principles viz the true Soul went from its Eternall Image of the purity into the Abomination of vanity viz into the Earthly Substance and awakened the same in the Forms of Nature and manifested it in the Flesh then the fair Image disappeared and stood again in the hiddennesse at its Eternall Limit without knowledge and perception of the Earthly Adam in Abomination 20. But seeing Gods purpose was that this fair Similitude of God should stand Eternally before him in Substance as a beloved Scene of his Joy and a Similitude of the Eternall Substance and Spirit therefore he promised to move himselfe yet once and with his highest Love and Humility viz in the Center of the sweet Love in the word of his Sound to manifest the Image in Substance again 21. Now in MARY lay the disappeared Substance in the Covenant this was the dry Rod of Aaron which grew again in One Night and bare Almonds as is to be read in Moses 22. Now when the Angel came to MARY and brought her the Message that she should be impregnate with Child and generate or bear the Saviour of the World though indeed she wondered how it should come to passe yet she said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord let it be done as thou hast sayd that is she gave up her will and desire into Gods will he should doe what he would 23. And in this Point hath the Center of the voyce of God according to the deepest Love of the hiddenness of God in the Image of the disappeared substance with the Introduction of the divine heavenly substance of the Paradise and Element and all whatsoever the Deity in the Holiness containeth manifested it selfe in the Natural seede of MARY 24. Understand in the seede of MARY of her spirit and Flesh wherein lay the soules and bodyes Essence viz in Venus'es Matrix in the womans seede as it was promised in Paradise also to Abraham and to David 25. Now understand us aright what the cleere Deity hath received to it selfe not Marys sinfull Seede in which death became broken on the Crosse indeede it had received it to it selfe but in another Principle 26. The pure Holy Deity was alwayes from Eternity in Eternity surrounded with the substance of the Heaven in the inward viz. with the Holy substance that very holy substance hath the voyce of the holy Deity with the Moving of the Word introduced into Marys disappeared Substance understand into the Seede of Mary and united it selfe with Maryes substance in the Covenant of God 27. For John the 3. he sayth None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man who is come from Heaven also I am gone forth and Come out from God into this world Now the cleere Deity needes no coming for it is in all places before hand it needeth only to Manifest it selfe to or in the â—â—ace and all whatsoever cometh that is substance but God in his Trinity is a spirit without substance as to what he is solely in the Deity 28. Therefore when God would move and Manifest himself in his Covenant in Maryes heavenly disappeared substance then came he with the substance and manifested himself
in the united substance he united his coming substance with the Humane substance understand with the heavenly humane substance 29. For when God Created his Image Adam wherein he dwell and manifest or reveale himselfe then could his holiness be manifested in NO other substance THEN in the Heavenly holy in the pure Element and Paradise 30. This he received againe in Marys Seede into his holy living substance and in that substance was Christ in the Faith of Mary become conceived by the Holy spirit for the Faith which demerseth it selfe into Gods will that demerseth also the seede in the Covenant into the holy Living substance 31. Here againe was the living holy conjunction with or betweene the Substance of Mary and of God and in this united substance Sprouted the Rod of Aaron forth that was the deepest Love of God in the Center of the Holy Trinity whose Name is called JESUS 32. Now observe further in this Seed of Mary which disappeared in it selfe and was not manifested to the Soul lay in in the soulish property but according to the feminine property in Venus'es Matrix according to the first Principle according to the Fathers property Manifested viz a living Essence in the seede of Mary 33. Which Essence otherwise in the Masculine Conjunction with the Springing up of the life in the Exit of the Fourth Month affordeth a living Creaturely Soul This soulish seede hath also received to its selfe the Divine Word but in its owne in the soulish seedes Principle 34. For the soulish seede hath alwayes the First Principle according to the Fathers property according to the Fire-world and the Second Principle hath the Sonnes property according to the Light-world 35. Yet now the Father is another Person then the Sonne And so it is here also to be known or acknowledged the soulish property hath its originall from Adam out of the Eternall Nature out of the First Principle it hath the Center to the inward and outward Nature and it is it selfe that in it selfe in its lifes Formes for a Fire and Light 36. This soulish property hath the Name JESUS receiv'd to it selfe after a Creaturely kinde and manner as an Eternall Espousall but NOT so to understand that the holy power JESU and the soules Naturall substance and ONE in the Essence 37. As little as fire and light are one though indeed they stand in One Birth yet they have a twofold source or quality Thus truly in JESU the source or quality is totally Holy and God himselfe but in the soules property lay the Worme of the Kindled Anger of God which God with this his holy Love out of JESU would quench and put to death 38. And in this soulish property was the Abomination existed whereinto the Devills Imagination had woven it selfe This soulish property was tempted in the wilderness to try whether it would totally give it selfe up into JESUS viz. into Gods love and eate of Gods Holiness 39. And in this Abomination of the soule in which the lifes forms were Elevated and gone forth out of the equall agreement every Forme into its proper owne out of which the Enmity and opposite will existed hath CHRIST shed his holy Blood of the Image of the holy heavenly substantiality and introduced it thereinto with the sweete love JESUS whence the fierce wrath in 〈◊〉 lifes Formes of the soule in the Angry Fathers property became drowned 40. For when the altogether sweete Love in the Holy Blood gave it self up into the fierce wrathfull anger of the soule then the fierce wrath trembled or shook before this great Holiness Sweetness and Love so that its owne right brake in the Trembling Crack to peeces and became transmuted into the Kingdome of Joy 41. So that the Anger became transmuted into another Will and all properties of the self-hood of the Eternall Nature in the self-hood became all ONE in this sweete Love for the Love fulfilled or satisfied them all 42. And then the abomination and the Enmity against Gods holiness Ceased for the abomination had dyed in the Crack or terror of Death which rose up into the Joyfulness and now the soules Will was called LORD GOD Thee will we praise 43. Now understand us Further With the receiving of the soulish property JESUS also hath received or assumed the outward humane Fleshly substance in the seede of Mary viz. the outward Humanity the Third Principle 44. But not into the Image or into the seede of the holiness in JESU but after the Manner as God is in the World and yet the World is not God but they hang in ONE substance one to another and yet they sever themselves in themselves in TWO Principles 45. The soule hangeth to the outward World to the Flesh the neerest for the Soule hath 〈◊〉 THREE Principles if it be Holy if not then it hath only â—WO manifest to it and the Holy is hidden to it 46. And in the outward fleshly seede lay the Death and the abomination before Gods holiness THAT became as a Curse banged to the Crosse and the death of Sinne in this abomination became drowned with the holy Blood and the Outward Mystery of the outward Body and Life Redeemed from the abomination and Curse and totally Sanctified and changed into Gods unblemished Image 47. In this outward Flesh lay the Evill childe which Adam generated when he dyed as to God here the evill childe became taken in againe into Gods Love for Isaiah sayth Hee tooke ALL Our sinnes UPON himselfe not into himselfe not into the JESUS or CHRIST whâ— was manifested in the holy Image but UPON himself in the perished or corrupt Adam 48. The accursed Adam HUNG to the Crosse as a Curse and THAT Jesus Christ REDEEMED with his Innocent suffering and with the shedding of his Blood Adams Body dyed on the Crosse and CHRIST borne out of IESU in the Womans sanctified seede Tinctured it and sprinkled it with his precious Love bloud 49. At which the Curse in the EARTH trembled or quaked because this Judgement came upon it And the SUN did hide or withdraw its shining at or for this Judgement of this Holiness at or before this NEW shining Sun From the Sixt Houre to the Ninth which is and signifieth Adams sleepe when he slept in the Sixt Houre and in the Ninth Houre that is on the THIRD Day of the outward World awakened or arose with his now prepared WIFE or woman 50. Now in the Ninth Houre the outward SUN with its shining Sprung forth or arose againe and in the Death of Christ the Paradisicall SUN arose or sprung forth which Adam in Christs Resurrection discovered or beheld againe 51. Now observe us Further concerning Marys BLESSING For the Angell sayd to her Thou blessed among all Women the LORD is with thee 52. In this Mary stood the highly blessed limit of the Covenant of God through which all the Holy Patriarchs and Prophets have spoken viz. through Gods voyce which causeth
that offereth the Sacrifice of Righteousnesse which availeth before God but he that offereth offereth to him whom he would attone or Reconcile but if he himself be the Creator he cannot also be the Attonement or Reconciliation but he is The Mediatour between God and Man for God hath set him up to be a Throne of Grace but he that is set up is not the Throne it self but he bringeth his Gift viz the Prize or Spoil which he had gotten in the Battle of Gods Anger to the Throne 179. There say I Man was not at first Created in Christ as this Author will have it but the second time he is become generated in Christ The Name Christ was IN the Name JESUS in which Man was Created whose out-going was from Eternity 180. They are indeed one but the Authour bringeth forth strange matters under it a Man cannot admit that he should fold up all Creatures in the Name of CHRIST and will have the Redemption of ALL Creatures in the Name of Christ 181. It looks very strangely and yet a Man may well see what he meaneth thereby viz that HE would be the very ONE only Christ that men are to Hear as the Word of God whereas yet when he is at best he is scarce a little Twigg or Branch on that Tree not the Mother it selfe which hath generated and will generate I put not my trust in him but in the First Christ who in JESUS became a CHRIST whose Twig or Branch I desire to be 182. CHRIST was hidden in JESU and all powers of the wisdom lay in the hidden Christ which no Angels Tongue can expresse that revealed it self first of all when JEHOVA that is JESUS moved in the humanity there was CHRIST first Manifested In the first Adam was JEHOVA Manifested and in the second Adam CHRIST viz The Treasure of the Wisdome of God 183. The first Adam was created Perfect in JEHOVA and to Eternall Life viz in the Eternall Natural but being the Eternall Naturall would not stand then JEHOVA manifested Christ in the Naturall Life that Christ might generate and bring again the Natural into Perfection thus Christ hath with his Birth or Geniture opened the Treasures of wisdom that were in JEHOVA 184. Yet CHRIST was hidden in the Treasure of wisdom but the wisdom was in JEHOVA in the first Adam manifest but not after that manner as the Life breaketh the Anger in peeces for it was not necessary if Adam had remained standing but when he fell it was necessary that this Form should become Manifest 185. Even this Form is called CHRIST and dwelleth in the JEHOVA for out of the JEHOVA it is become Manifested Therefore being JEHOVA was manifest in Adam therefore was God manifested in him else it would follow that JEHOVA had Created Adam to Sinne that he might manifest the Treasures of wisdome in him which is Not so for God so farre as he is called God can NOT Will Evill 186. But if Adam in his Creation be wholly manifested in Christ as this Authour sets it down then with his entring into the humanity nothing New was performed the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent was first manifested in the Body or Womb of Mary Adam needed him not before the Fall but after the Fall he needed that 187. This Crusher or Bruiser of the serpent was CHRIST and no other he was generated out of IEHOVA that is out of IESU out from Eternity but in the Humanity after the Fall from Eternity he was in Gods Word viz in Gods voyce and in no Image manifested as this * Author writeth but after the Fall he became manifested in the Flesh then he was called CHRIST as viz a breaker through of death 188. For from Eternity was no Death but only a Fire-dying in which out of the dying the holy Life originateth but with Sinne it entered into the world into the Flesh with the Curse Death began in the world with Christ the Eternall Life came again for he brake death in peeces and therefore he is called Christ and not in the Creation 189. In Christ there is Nothing Created but in his power in the speaking Word all is Created in which his Name is called IEHOVA 190. In Christ man is New born or Regenerated but not Created into the Image therefore this Author erreth where he speaketh of the Mother Love of God 191. IEHOVA is the Generator of the Love and IESUS is IEHOVA who generateth the Love and CHRIST is become generated out of the Love in the Humanity for he was no CHRIST from Eternity but only the Love in IEHOVA in IESU 192. Sinne caused IEHOVA that he gave us the CHRIST out of the Love for in the Eternity will be no CHRIST but IEHOVA all in all the whole Humane Tree in IEHOVA 193. Not that the Person of Christ will Cease to be only the Killing or Mortifying of Sinne in which IEHOVA is called CHRIST is then Ceased The Creature remaineth but CHRIST is then the Eternall High-Priest in ALL and the Creature of CHRIST a King of Men. 194. NOw may the Reader Ask what is the strife or controversie in this place It is THIS The Author saith 12. CHRIST was the Image of God and was generated out of the Woman or Wife of God viz out of the Divine Voyce and Mother of the Love from Eternity to Gods expresse Image And that God hath visibly made and Created Adam and all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures in this Christ 13. That God hath been manifested only in Christ and not in Adam that Adam was Created and Manifested IN Christ And that in Christ was only manifested the Treasure of wisdome and accordingly he hath not at all manifested himself to Adam in the first Creation That Adam had no divine knowledge but should have been obedient IN Christ which he was not but let the Serpent betray or deceive him and so he followed the Devill and perished in Sinne with Soul and Body 14. That then Christ after this Fall manifested himself in him and became a Man and new generated the Humanity in ALL whatsoever it was inwardly and outwardly and made it Wholly to be Christ and God so that this Man Christ was in all things or substances like God the Holy Trinity in power and substance 15. And that all Men who beleeve on this Christ do become all like this one only CHRIST That they instantly dye away as to Nature and they become in Soul and Body this one onely CHRIST who is indeed God and Man in ONE onely Person 16. And like the Holy Trinity in Will knowledge power or vertue and substance and in all Divine Properties Eternal Unchangeable Immortal Perfect without any ONE Sinful thought as we are to be and must be Eternally 17. And in that regard that he in Christ is wholly Perfect and immortall and is changed from Death to the Eternall Life in Christ in and to all that whatsoever Man inwardly
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
union in right holy love and purity in the divine powerful blessing the divine Word and holy discourse incorporated in the Faith bring forth fruit of the pure Chast love through and out of them and generate Children 10. Which the LORD by Paul 1 Corinthians 7. in regard of the faithful married people and honest Christians through and in whom he with his most holy in the Love is powerfully and actively calleth holy generatings and holy Children 11. Which holy wedlock Divine Love in and among honest Christian Children is an Eternall never ceasing band of Divine Unity which never more in and to them is rent quenched or caused to cease 12. Just in such a manner it is with CHRIST the Triune highly praised God the Triune holy Man or Husband which in and with his divine voyce of his holy fully perfect Love according to the Testimony of St. John 3. hath so loved the world whole Mankinde yes when they were yet Enemies and presented his Love to all Men under the Masculine and Feminine Sex 23. Whereby and wherein the Children of Men which through the Fall of Adam and Eve were Enemies of God the Eternall Good and of all Divine Matters he himself would new prepare them in their hearts with his own divine Voyce and holy Love with his own power and substantiall working and bring them again out of the Kingdome and Dominion of the reproachfull in and to the Domineering of Death the Devill Sinne and the outward Naked fleshly World and Lust of the Eye and new Create and Regenerate them in and with this his holy Divine Love 14. As indeed through this Triune in-working Divine holy Love CHRIST JESUS in the Elect the stony Adamicall sinfull cold unchast malicious heart with all evill Lusts and Enimicitious Desires against God the Triune Eternall Good is wholly done away and through this holy Divine working in the Love is prepared anew 15. Which appeareth totally richly amiable and a perfect Love-heart of God which burneth towards the Triune highest Good in and with full Love in the full Love it self and through the most high Triune God Christ Jesus himself 's own in-working Power in the Love towards her Man or Husband of the high Divine Majesty CHRIST JESUS becometh so fiery and burning 16. So that also the Divine new Love-heart appeareth so great surpassing in the Love that it presseth into all inward and outward Members of the Body in full Power and changeth all the Members and to the Triune highest praise of God Christ Jesus her Man or Husband totally reneweth them 17. So that in and to these men new prepared in the Love through CHRIST nothing but all good holy divine things in Love in words life works and deeds are traced and manifest and visibly knowne and seen by faithfull Eyes 18. In and to which holy totall new Divine Person prepared in the Love the Word of the LORD becometh richly and Gloriously filled Hos 2. I will call them my beloved People which were not my Beloved 19. As now through this holy Divine working in the Love of the Triune highly praised God CHRIST JESUS the expresse Image and self-subsisting Substance of the Triune Deity it self hath prepared new made and set here upon earth from the beginning of the World to himself truly Faithfull Holy Patriarchs Prophets and all the faithful of the old Testament out of or from all generations as also all Evangelists Apostles Prophets and honest Christians under Masculine and Feminine Sex of the New Testament in such a Manner as is mentioned before to his holy Service or Ministry Praise Glory of his holy Name yes to his own Love IN the Love Now followeth my answer upon this Second Poynt together with an Explanation thereof 1. THAT which this Authour sets down concerning Christian Married People that it IS so ought well to be wished that it WERE so but it is not so perfectly in any there is a Good Spring wanting to them for this Great holinesse is squandered away in Adam 2. Indeed Christ saith Wheresoever two or Three are gathered together in my Name there am I in the midst amongst them Christ is indeed with Holy Married people that fear God if they begin all their Matters in his Name he governeth and blesseth them if in earnest sincerity they abide with him that I speak not against at all also all their works in the true marryed state are acceptable to him for Christ is come that he may destroy the works of the Devill 3. But the Authour must not here in the work of humane propagation put or ascribe so great Perfect holinesse and though indeed it may be called holy yet it must be better distinguished what therein is holy and what unholy else would all mens Burning bruitish and beastiall Lust of the Flesh be accounted for Holinesse 4. As when they vehemently with the Imagination and Desire towards Man and Wife tickle themselve as if there stuck therein great perfect holinesse and that it were done only and solely out of Gods driving on in Christs Power and instigation 5. And here the Authour distinguisheth NOT what is Divine and what is naturall he jumbles the whole work in one and calleth ALL Divine as if the work of such conjunction and inclination of the Desire in one towards the other were all done in the Driving of the Spirit of Christ 6. As he draweth also totally to this purpose the coming together of two Married People which as to honest vertuous Children who pray to God in earnest sincerity for it beforehand and put their Will into his it is so indeed that often two persons come together through Gods sending 7. Which I also praise when it is SO done whereby also more blessing and Salvation or happinesse may be then in THOSE whom the Lust of the Eye meerly bringeth together and nature coupleth And I would not in this oppose the Authour but willingly receive and allow it for right IF the Thorne and Poyson did not stick in it and under it concerning the totall Holy perfection wherewith he supposeth he begetteth children void of Originall inherited sinne 8. For this ONE Articles sake I will unfold this Point that Men may but see what is divine and what is Naturall what is Holy and what Beastiall and that the flattering hypocrisie and seeming holinesse under which Men will cover the Originall inherited Sinne might be known 9. And that honest marryed people should not be secure or carelesse but know that they also are Sinners and learn to be afraid of Gods Anger and be humble before God and diligently learn with great circumspection to Pray one with another that the Devill may not sift the native impurity and throw them into the beastiall property 10. Which indeed co-hangeth to this marriage work for the holy work is performed with a Beastiall work and this originateth in respect of the Fall of Adam and Eve and that
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