consuming fire if his wrath be stirred up according to this same property he desireth to consume and devoure all that moveth and enkindleth it selfe therein And from this property God bad Israel fight and smite the Heathens for his Anger was set on fire in them and was as wood cast into the fire which the fire desireth to consume 10. Therefore the wrath of God bad one Nation slay another that it might out of his wrath be taken away otherwise the fire of his Anger would have enkindled it selfe as hapned to the five Kingdomes of Sodom and Gomorra Thus the Wrath of God did satiate it selfe in the life of the wicked which it devoured into it selfe in that they slew one another 11. As it yet now adayes so comes to passe that oftentimes men cry unto God for to give them successe and victory against their enemies that they might murther them but God giveth them not victory therein but the sword of his Anger which they awaken with their prayers and will were they true Men and children of God they would need no warre for the holy Spirit wageth not warre but he onely loveth and giveth peace but according to the property of Anger he consumeth all ungodlinesse and is yet thereby onely blowne or stirred up c. 14. Thus we must understand how the children of the Saints have waged warre against the crew of wicked men and drove them out viz. in the Anger 's Property which managed its sword by them to blot out the Heathen and Generation of Haâ— for Abraham went out with his whole house and People against the Heathen who had carried away Loth his brothers Sonne captive and he smote the Heathen and delivered his brother This was done in the zeale of God which thus delivered his children through the might of his Anger for what conduceth to the wicked for destruction that conduceth to holy men for life and deliverance 15. But that those who will be called Christians who ought in and with Christ to be dead to the Anger and Wrath of God in Christs death doe wage warre they doe it not as Christians but as Heathens no Christian warreth for if he be a Christian then he is dead in and with Christs death to the foure Elements of Gods Anger in Selfe and borne a new man in Christs Spirit of Love who liveth in righteousnesse in love and patience and not to himselfe but to God in Christ 16. For a true Christian leadeth his conversation and will in Heaven in the life and spirit of Christ as St Paul saith Our conversation is in Heaven but when the Christians doe wage warre they doe it from the Heathenish property and not from Christs property for a Christian is not of this world his Kingdome is in heaven and he is dead in Christ to the world according to the new spirituall man in him the Heathen viz. the halfe devillish man who hath his Kingdome in this world who never hath room enough upon the Earth who liveth in the foure Elements of Gods Anger viz. in pride covetousnesse envy and wrath desireth in the Christians to warre fight and kill 17. St. Paul saith Give your members to be weapons of Righteousnesse for why doe men fight for the Kingdome of this world and yet Christ said his Kingdome was not of this world so also his childrens Kingdome in him is not of this world Now then if we give our body and soule for weapons of Gods Anger and seek onely thereby Selfe interests liberties and priviledges of Mammon and slay one another for the Kingdome of this world I thinke we are herein Christians indeed with the mouth but the heart and soule is an heathen and not borne out of Christs Spirit 18. When Abraham had smote the Heathen he desired nothing of the goods which he took but restored to the King of Sodom what the Heathen had taken from him and was onely zealous in the Lord he did not fight for Countrey and Kingdome but to deliver his brother This was a true zeale which the Lord drove in him he did not stand up and fight for Countrey or Citie and albeit he obtained it he desired it not but went againe unto his own place Mysterium Magnum Chap. 51. 44. OUr knowledge must be filled and abound with the Love of Christ that we love one another else knowledge is not at all available if I bring not my knowledge with the Desire into the Love of God wherewith he hath Loved us in Christ and Love my Neighbour in the Love of God in Christ with that Love wherewith God generally Loveth us and Loved us when we were his Enemies then I have not as yet the Love of God dwelling in me 45. But how will he Love his Brother who contemneth him for his knowledge sake whereas yet God Loved us when we knew nothing of his Love If a man hath not this Love of God in him wherewith God Loved us when we knew him not why doth he boast then of Gods Adoption If he be the childe of God then he hath the free Love of God wherewith God Loveth all things if he hath it not he is not then yet capable of the adoption Now then if any one contemneth and condemneth his brother which hath not as yet his knowledge how can he boast of the Love of God wherewith God Loved his Enemies in Christ wherewith Christ prayed for his Enemies Mysterium Magnum Chap. 44. 6. WHen God will punish a Land he first sends them Messengers and exhorts them to repentance and declares unto them his Grace soon after he sends them the Angel of Righteousnesse who tryeth them whether they be capable of the grace that is tendred to them and representeth unto them judgement with threats of their ruine also with denouncing of great warre and plagues that he will blot and root them out if they doe not Returne and Repent and sheweth them by his Messengers the light and way of Righteousnesse and suffers them to run on in the light that is tendred to them till they be weary and glutted and hold it onely for a common thing and an history and againe become a Sodom 7. And then he sends them both Angells together to wit the Angel of Righteousnesse and the Angel of truth and first threatneth them and exhorts them and setteth the judgement before them but when they are wholly a Sodom he leaveth off from the outward Figure and lets them fill up their measure and then it seems as if the Sunne was risen upon their Sodom and now it should be good but even then saith the Angel of truth in his children hasten and goe out the punishment and ruine is at hand 8. Thus wee declare unto thee Babel that God hath already long since sent thee Messengers and with the declaration of the Gospel hath tendred thee his grace and therewith also hath mightily threatned thee with the punishment of thy ruine but thou hast made a
unchristian fury and bloud-thirsty minde whereby shee destroys not her opposites onely but her own selfe and even that which shee thinks to better and maintaine Thing whereby men may now see how her whoredome hath been manifold and how the Devill had beset us with manifold Nets and how one whoredome runs in the opposition to another and are malicious bite and slay one another 24. For the Great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the Great Iniquitie wherewith shee is fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her wofull smart and shee speaketh of the childe which she shall bring forth viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny shee uncovereth her faire feature as she is in the Heart Now he that will not know her for him there is no remedy 25. The Revelation saith Goe out from her my people that you may not be partakers of her plagues for shee hath filled her cup full with the Abominations of her whoredome in the Anger of God them shee shall drinke out and thereby be forced to burst her selfe 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her own mouth doth strangle her her own Turba destroyeth her shee cryeth for vengeance and murther upon heresie and yet shee doth it not for God but for her Adulterous Bratt otherwise if shee did it for God shee would enter into his Command and Will of Love where Christ saith Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples 27. The Kingdome of God stands not in any warre or revilings or in an outward shew in delicious dayes herein the children of God are not to be found but in love in patience and hope in faith under the Crosse of Christ there groweth the Church of God to the holy Ternary i. e. a new angelicall man hidden in the old and this is my certain knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zion I say according to my knowledge as the Spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an Ending of the Deceit and Zion shall be found yet onely of the children of faith not in generall as if no wicked man should remaine 29. For the Oppressour shall be a Cause that Zion is borne when men shall see how Babel is an whore then shall many children be found in Zion and seek the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them at the heels and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and exercise their faith and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his Room 30. But the generall Zion appeareth first in greatest misery when Babel breaketh it shall stand desolate and miserable and then the children of Zion shall say How hath the Lord forsaken us come we beseech you let us seeke his face ah let us depart from strife war and contention have we not alas made our Countrey desolate is not all provision spent are we not brethren wherefore do we fight we will enter into one Love and seek the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Strangers and Pilgrims and seek our native Countrey 31. In this Time verily a Zion shall be found and the Heaven shall give its dew and the earth its fatnesse but not in that manner as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Son of Man shall come that there will be faith upon the earth And although the children of Zion shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the times of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end For as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the coming of the Son of Man be as it is written 32. But that the Holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zion I acknowledge and know it for Zion shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne he that would seek it let him seek himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and he shall finde whether Jesus be borne in him 33. If he finds it not let him enter into himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him those he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be manifest in him and he shall be borne with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda f Under the Crosse in disrespect and disesteeme of the world in the dark Stable not in g Not in the outward pleasures of the flesh Jerusalem as Reason faine would have that Christ should be borne in the old Asse the old Asse must be a servant and serve the New Man in Zion c. This wonderfull Prophesie following was written in a Postscript to a Letter dated the 20th of February 1623. 23. THe Tribulation and Destruction of Babel approacheth with exceeding vehement haste The Storme ariseth upon all Coasts There shall be an exceeding Tempest vaine hope deceiveth for the Destruction of the Tree draweth neere which is knowne in the Wonders 24. The a Domestick intestine homebred Fire hurteth its own native Countrey Righteousnesse and Truth are beaten downe Great Sorrow and perplexing Sadnesse doe b Scrue up themselves force themselves up 25. Men shall mourne for an empty ruinous old Cottage which is of no importance to Salvation and they shall be enraged for that Nest wherein Satan hath hatcht his c Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all fâ—lshood under an holy shew of Religion young 26. The Tower of Babel is found to be without foundation men suppose to hold it up with props but a winde from the Lord overthrows it 27. The hearts and thoughts of men shall be discovered for there cometh a Tryall from the Lord whereby the d Tâ—tular verball hypocrite the Cain-like Christian who perswades himselfe from a blind faith that none is accepted with God but himselfe and such as he is the demure and devout Pharisee but his false bottome will come to light maugre his many words and swords mouth-Christian shall be laid open in his false heart and soule as a reed that is shaken by the winde seeing his heart is wavering now here now there because his false ground is revealed 28. Many shall betray themselves and through hypocrisie ruine both body and goods Hypocrites and mouth-Christians shall quaile for feare when their false foundation shall be discovered 29. The Orientall e The Turk shall turne a true Christian Beast getteth an humane heart and face and ere this cometh to passe it helpeth to teare downe the Tower of Babel with its claws
the humanity of Christ where the true Mahalaleel and angelicall Image which did disappeare in Adam was againe manifest in the humanity of Christ 39. The Sixt Time begins with Jared that is the spirituall Priesthood under the outward when as Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel were in their Times in their outward Orders viz. the Ministry of Enos concerning God and his Beeing and Will so likewise the Preaching of Abraham concerning the Covenant and Circumcision also Moses with the Booke of the Law under all these the inward Priest Jared went along hiddenly Inwardly this spirituall Priesthood is Christ in the New Man and outwardly in the selfe-elected Priests it is Babel 40. This Sixt Time began in the Kingdome of Christ after the death of the Apostles when as men chose themselves Teachers out of Favour and outward respects that is it did even then first open it selfe out of the hiddennesse of the shadow and put it selfe forth in the Churches of stone where the Church stood in stead of the holy Temple of Christ then indeed internally the holy Jared viz. Christs voice ruled in the children of Christ but outwardly the Cherubim with the sword for the outward authority which these Elected Priests manage is the sword of the Cherubim which in the Name Jared forceth it selfe along in the Word in the Nature-speech 41. This Sixt Time in its figure is hidden and manifest it is knowne and also not knowne for Christ said My Kingdome is not of this world Thus this time must passe away secretly under Antichrist where inwardly in the children of God Christs Kingdome hath been manifest but in the Rest who have lived under this Time and also have been termed Christians onely Babel and the Antichrist hath been manifest both in the Priests and their hearers for they which were borne of God they heard the true Jared in them viz. the voice of Christ but the other heard onely the outward voice in Babel viz. to dispute and contend about Christs Kingdome 42. For all warre which the Christians manage is the sword of the Cherubim from Babel Right Christians wage no warre for they have broken the sword of the Cherubim in the death of Christ and are dead with Christ and risen againe in him and they live no longer to the externall Might and Dominion for their Kingdome is manifest in Christ and is not of this world 43. This Sixt Kingdome beginneth after the death of the Apostles and continueth with its Outward Government even to Mount Zâ—on till translated Enoch doth againe appeare in spirit and power for Enoch is the Propheticall Roote and holdeth in his Dominion Noah Moses and the sword of Elias at the end of the first a Or sixt Seale about which time we lâ—ve time the outward b The outward Priâ—sthood in Babel Jared falleth and with him that same outward Building viz. the Citie Babel 45. The Seventh time begins with * Reade the 35 Quest of the 40 Quest Concerning the Enochian life Enoch viz. with the Propheticall Mouth who declareth and layeth open under all the six times the secret Wonders of God what should be done and goeth along under Noahs Abrahams and Moses his vaile even into the Kingdome of Christ where this same propheticall Spirit is translated in the Spirit of Christ till the end of the Sixt time then he manifests himselfe in the Number of the Triple Crosse when the threefold Crosse manifests it selfe then stands the right Triple Crowne upon the Crosse even then the Enochiaâ—â— Prophets mouth doth expresse the great Wonders of the Triple Crosse that is he speaketh no more Magically in types and parables but sheweth the holy Trinity in the Figure viz. the Formed Word of God in all visible things and revealeth all Mysteries within and without 46. And even then is the Time when Enoch and the children under his voice lead a divine life of which the first life of Enoch was a Type and even then there is a blessed and golden yeare till Enochs last translation comes and then the Turba is borne which when as it shall enkindle its fire shall purge the Floare for it is the End of all time 47. Enoch begat Methusalah who was the man of the longest age and was translated three hundred yeares after this sheweth that the Spirit which in Enoch did put forth a twigg viz. Methusalah who attained the highest Age shall rule in the last and highest Age of the world and in the meane while hide it selfe before that time and remaine as it were translated as Enoch was translated and was no more seene 48. His translation was not a dying or a putting off of Nature and creature but he went into the Mystery betwixt the spirituall and outward Word viz. into Paradise and is the Propheticall Roote springing from the Stem of Adam in the line of the Covenant from which Spirit afterward the Propheticall mouth spake 49. This Spirit was translated in the Living voice of Christ when it spake in the flesh and must be silent till the voice of Jared is finished then he proceedeth forth againe from his first roote through all voices viz. through the voice of Noah which denounceth the Deluge of Anger to come upon Babel and through the Stem of Noah and the whole propagation of his Tree through all the Lines viz. through the heathenish Japheticall and Sems Line and through Abrahams and Nimrods children in Babel through Moses and the Prophets and lastly through the voice of the manifested Word in the Spirit of Christ and revealeth the whole Mystery of the Tree of knowledge of good and evill 50. For through his Voice all the fore-mentioned voices of the lines of the Wonders whence the Kingdomes of this world have had their rise shall be changed into one voice and knowledge and transplanted into one Kingdome viz. into the first Tree of Adam which is no longer called Adam but Christ in Adam All Nâ—tions Tongues and Languages heare this voice for it is the first word whence the life of Man proceeded for all the Wonders doe againe in the Word come together into one Body and this same Body is the formed divine Word which at first with Adam did introduce it selfe into one onely Stem and through him into one Tree of manifold boughes branches and fruits to the Contemplation of the divine Wisdome in the Wonders of the Powers Colours and â—ertues according to good and evill 51. This high Tree doth disclose and clearely open it selfe what it hath been in time and what it shall be eternally and in its disclosure Moses puts away his vaile and Christ his Parables in his Doctrine and then the Propheticall Mouth of this Tree of Wonders doth expresse in Divine Power all the voices of the powers of the Tree whereby Babel taketh her End and this is a Wonder and in this same Wonder all Numbers and Names are manifest and this no man can hinder 52. For that which is lost in