nature beginneth and then the Hell in man is destroyed and the Serpent is troden under foot whence great unquietnesse persecution and reproach from the Devill and the corrupt World doth arise against the outward sinfull man and even then the outward sinfull man must suffer it selfe to be condemned and judged to damnation by the children of Anger and by Gods severe justice in the anger seeing that another man liveth in him which is not like and conformable to the outward mortall man and so Gods Justice executeth its judgement in the anger upon the house of sinne and also all the Ministers of Gods wrath doe helpe the execution thereof 27. And even then Christ helpeth to beare the yoak and man is Sacrificed in Christs processe contempt and scorne in his suffering and death to the justice of God in the anger and becomes conformable to Christs Image 28. The holy Scripture witnesseth in all places that we are justified from sinnes by Faith in Christ and not by the workes of our merit but by the blood and death of Christ which indeed is so taught by many but rightly understood of few that teach us so 29. We are taught indeed an imputed grace but what faith is and how it is begotten and what it is in its Essence reall Being and Substance and how it layeth hold on the merit of Christ with the grace herein the greatest part are dumbe and blinde and depend on an Historicall Faith James 2. which is onely a bare knowledge or literall conjecture and therewith the man of sinne doth tickle and comfort himselfe and through an imagination and blind perswasion doth flatter and sooth up himselfe and calls himselfe a Christian though he is not yet become either capable or worthy of this so high a title but is onely a titular Nominall Christian externally cloathed with Christs Purpur-Mantle of whom the Prophet speaketh saying They draw neere to mee with their lips but their heart is farre from me And Christ sayd Not all that say Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but they that doe the will of my Father in Heaven 30. Now Christ alone is the will of the Father in whom the acceptation oâ— grace and adoption confisteth and none can doe the love will of the Father save alone that onely throne of grace Christ himselfe as the holy Scripture declareth no man can call God Lord without the holy spirit in him 31. For we know not what and how to pray before God as wee ought but he even the holy spirit in Christ maketh intercession for us with unutterable sighes before God in our selves as it pleaseth God we cannot attaine any thing by our willing and knowing he is too deeply hidden from us for it lyeth not in any mans knowing willing running and searching but in Gods Mercy 32. Now there is no mercy but onely in Christ and if I shall reach that mercy then I must reach Christ in me are my sinnes to be destroyed in me Then must Christ doe it in me with his blood and death with his victory over Hell Am I to beleeve then must the spirit desire and will of Christ beleeve in my desire and will for I cannot beleeve 33. But he receiveth my will being resigned to him and comprehends it in his owne will and bringeth it through his victory into God and there he intercedeth for the will of my soule in his owne will before God and so I am received as a child of grace in his will of love 34. For the Father hath manifested his love in Christ and Christ manifesteth that same love in my will being resigned to him Christ draweth my will into himselfe and cloatheth it with his blood and death and tinctureth it with the highest tincture of the Divine power and so it is changed into an Angelicall Image and getteth a Divine life 35. And forthwith that same life beginneth to hunger after its body which body is the degenerated fiery soule into which the will in Christ is entered so that the new life in Christ doth now also tincture the soule whereby the soule in the spirit and property of this new will obtaineth a right Divine hunger and is made to long after and desire the Divine grace and begins to behold and consider in the spirit of his Divine will in Christ what shee is and how shee in her propertyes inclinations and dispositions is departed from God and lyeth captivate in the wrath of God and then shee acknowledgeth her abominations and also her deformity in the presence of Gods Angels and findeth that she hath nothing wherewith shee is able to protect her selfe for shee sees that shee standeth in the jawes of death and hell encompassed with evill spirits which continually shoot the strong influence of their evill desires into her to destroy and corrupt her 36. And then she diveth into that same new-borne spirit of the will and wholy immerseth her selfe into very humility it selfe and so the spirit of Christ taketh hold of her and bringeth her into the spirit of this new will so that the soule essentially and experimentally feeleth and findeth him whereupon the Divine glymps and beame of joy ariseth in the soule being a new eye in which the dark fiery soule conceiveth the Ens and Essence of the Divine light in her selfe and thereupon hungreth and thirsteth after the grace of God and entreth into an effectuall repentance and sorrow and bewaileth the evill which it hath committed 37. And in this hunger and thirst it receiveth Christs flesh and blood for the spirit of the New will which in the beginning entered into the grace of Christ and which Christ received into himselfe becommeth now substantiall and essentiall by the magnetick impressure hunger and desire of the soule 38. And this essentiality is called Sophia being the essentiall wisedome or the body of Christ and in this the faith in the holy Ghost doth consist Here Christ and the Soule beleeve in one Ground 39. For true Faith doth not consist in thoughts or in meere assenting to the History Viz. That a man impresseth or imagineth in his minde to himselfe that Christ is dead for his sinnes and by an Historicall apprehension or blind perswasion of a particular Election clingeth to his merits and righteousnesse without the innate righteousnesse of Christ and life of God essentially working in him and begetting him to a new creature for Faith is a receiving of the promised grace in Christ it receiveth Christ into it selfe it doth impresse him into its hunger with his heavenly flesh and blood with the grace which God offereth in Christ 40. Christ feedeth the soule with the Essence of Sophia Viz. with his owne flesh and blood according to his saying whosoever eateth not of the flesh of the Sonne of Man he hath no life in him but whosoever eateth the same he abideth in him 41. And herein the Testaments of Christ and also the right Christian Faith
to it selfe out of the Incarnation of Christ the Divine disclosed Essence and so it feedeth on Gods Being and taketh it into it selfe and from this spirituall and essentiall eating consuming or digesting it giveth forth a body of light which is both like unto and capable of the Deity thus the poore soule becomes cloathed with a body of light as the fire in the Candle and in this body of light it findeth rest but in the darknesse of this World in its earthly carkasse and cloathing of clay wherein the Curse of God and all evill inclinations and false desires do stick it hath anguish and trouble 26 But now seeing it is so that it hath with Adam put upon it selfe the earthly Image it must therefore beare the same as the fire of the Candle must take its burning light from the darke lumpe of fat if it had with Adam abode in Gods being and had not put on the earthly Image it needed not to have borne the same but now it is bound to beare it 27. For Saint Paul saith To whom you give your selves as Servants in obedience his servants you are be it to sinne unto death or to the obedience of God unto righteousnesse Now seeing the soule hath put on the earthly Image which worketh nothing but fruit to death and hath yeelded and devoted it selfe a servant to Sin it is therefore now become the sinfull servant of death 28. Wherefore is it fallen in love with a strange Master that domineereth over it Had it but remained a childe and had not lusted after the Tree of knowledge of good and evill it needed not then to have beene in subjection to both Governments but being it would be as God in love and anger according to both the Principles of Eternity thereupon it must now beare the Image and undergoe the force and sway of both and so endure the fire-burning the curse and anger of God enkindled in the divided properties of Nature till the day of Separation 29. Therefore it s called a bearing of the Crosse for when the Magicall fire ariseth it maketh a Crosse-like-birth and the one forme of nature doth presse and quite pierce through the other that is the one is contrary to the other as sweet against soure sharp against bitter and the fire against them all 30. And if the soule had let the body of light be onely Lord and Master and had not imagined on the externall Kingdome of this World that is on the spirit of the great World in the Starres and Elements nor lusted after the earthly fruit then the wrath or the working power of darknesse in the Curse of God which is the departure of his love from a Being had been as it were swallowed up in it and would not have beene manifest or apparent there would not have been any sense perceivance or feeling of the same but seeing it is departed from the meeknesse of the light and gone out of the love of God therefore it seeleth now the wrath or burning anger of the eternall Nature 31. And therefore it must worke labour and endeavour to obtaine the light againe whence it is that the life of man standeth in such anguish in painefull seeking in continuall abstinence and repentance it earnestly desireth the Divine Rest and yet is held back by the wrath of Nature 32. The more the life desireth to fly from the wrath or fiercenesse of Nature the more strong and vehement the strife groweth in the life besides that which the Devill by his poysonfull Incantations Magicall imaginations representations and insinuations doth stirre up and bring into his Nest being the Centre of the soule he continually representeth before the soule the Magicall Image of the poysonfull Serpent that the soule might still imagine upon it and kindle or inflame it selfe in the poyson of the same which daily commeth to passe and thus the fire of the soule becommeth an evill poysonfull burning brimstony-fire 33. Yet if the soule departeth from the Serpent-like Image of the Devill and rejecteth the evill earthly Tree whereon the Serpent hath cunningly twin'd himselfe which Tree is Pride Coveteousnesse Envy Anger and Falshood and longeth not after it but maketh it selfe as it were dead in this Figure as if it knew nothing of it and casteth away the very concupiscence and imagination it selfe and desireth onely the love of God submitting it selfe wholly to Gods will and working that he may be onely its willing working and doing then the Divine light beginneth to shine in it and it obtaineth an eye of the right seeing so that it is able to behold its owne naturall forme and feature whereby it steppeth into plaine downright and meek humility 34. It willeth nothing it also desireth nothing but resigneth and casteth it selfe into the bosome of its Mother like a Childe that desireth nothing but its Mother inclining it selfe to her and longing onely after her it doth not much esteeme any Art subtill Reason or much knowledge and though it knoweth much yet it is not puft up or elevated in its owne conceit by its knowledge but leaveth and resigneth the knowing willing and working wholly to its Mothers spirit that it might be both the will and worke in it 35. I speak according to my knowledg that the Devill in the power of Gods anger doth continually shoot against and oppose this pretious sprout of the soule or noble twig of Divine light and love springing forth from the Tree of life Christ within us and doth cast vaine infinuations false desires and earthly imaginations after the root of nature that is after the formes of the fire-life in the first principle to enkindle them in their owne naturall working properties which are selfe-pride covetousnesse envy anger falshood hypocrisie lust c. and would continually by all meanes quite destroy the pretious sprout or noble twig of grace He continually shooteth his evill poysonfull rayes into the soules Magicall fire with evill lusts concupiscence and thoughts and ministreth strange matter or fuell to the soules fire to burne or feed upon so that it might by no meanes attain to a shining light he quencheth suppresseth and hindreth it that his Kingdome might not be knowne 36. But on the other side the noble twig defendeth it selfe and will none of the fierce darke and wrathfull source it ariseth and springeth forth like a plant out of the wild earth yet the Devill stâ—iveth contnually against it 37. Therefore my dearly beloved freind there is such strife and contention in man and hence he seeth the Divine light as in a mirror and sometimes he getteth a perfect glimps thereof for as long as the twig of the soule can defend it selfe against the poyson of the Devill so long it hath the shining light 38. For when the Magicall fire of the soule receiveth the Divine essence that is the divine body Christs flesh then the holy spirit doth apparently arise and glance forth in the
regeneration of a new life and will and there it may attaine the sweet blood of Jesus Christ which in Christ did disclose or break open the gate of death and changed the anger of God in our humanity in himselfe into love wherein the poore captive soule drinketh out of Gods fountaine and doth allay and sweeten its fire-breath whence the new Paradisicall budd springeth forth and there the hunger and desire of the soule is made substantiall and essentiall in the blood of Christ after an Heavenly manner 15. Now as the disclosing of death must be done in the person of Christ himselfe in our soule and humanity so that the eternity in Christ wherewith he was come from heaven and was also in heaven John 3. overcame the time Viz. the life and will of the time and did change time with its will into the eternall will of the Deity and all this must be brought to passe in our received humanity So likewise the desire of our soule must receive into it selfe that same eternall will in Christ wherein time and eternity stand in equall agreement and harmony and through the power of the same immerse or cast it selfe into the adoption of free grace in Christ that the same inward Paradisicall ground which dyed in Adam might again spring forth in the will of the obedience of Christ through his heavenly and from us assumed humane blood 16. The atonement and expiation must be made manifest and experimentall in our selves through that atonement which Christ once made indeed the atonement and reconciliation was once fully finished and brought to passe in Christs blood and death but that which was once wrought in Christ must also worke in me it must even Now also through Christs shedding of his blood be brought to passe in me Christ also doth powre forth his heavenly blood into the desire of Faitâ— in my poore soule and tinctureth the anger of God which is therein that the first Adamicall Image of God may againe appeare and become seeing hearing feeling tasting and smelling 17. For that same Image which dyed in Adam from the heavenly Worlds Essence being the true Paradisicall Image dwelleth not in the foure Elements its essence and life standeth not in this world but in Heaven which is manifest in Christ in us Viz. in that one pure holy Element whence the foure Elements sprung forth in the beginning of time and this same inward new spirituall man eateth Christs flesh and blood for he is and liveth in Christ Christ is his stock and he is a branch on the stock 18. For every spirit eateth of that whereof it taketh its Originall the Animall sensuall mortall soule eateth of the spirit of this World of the Stars and Elements of the Kingdome of the World but the true eternall soule which was inspired out of the Eternall Word into man being Divine life eateth also of its Mother Viz. of the holyessentiall Word of God 19. But seeing it was impossible for her after her owne departure and separation from God in her excluded condition property and spirit to eate of the Divine Word and live in the holy Element of love and humility therefore this same Word of life being its true Mother came forth to the abandoned soule into the vaâ—e of misery and into the prison of Hell and infused his heavenly Essence into our humane to be as a body for the soule and therewith did imbrace and cloath our poore soule being captive and did open againe her heavenly mouth afore dead in the anger of God with the tincture of love so that the poore soule can now againe eate heavenly Manna the eating whereof was tryed in Christs person with the humanity which he received from us in the temptation of Christ in the Wildernesse where Adam in Christ did againe eate Manna from Paradise fourty dayes 20. Therefore I say that by a shew and select forme of grace appropriated and imputed from without none commeth to be a true Christian for if he be so his sinnes are not forgiven him by once speaking of a word or appropriating a forme or promise of absolution to himselfe from without as a Lord or Prince in this World doth freely give a Malefactor his life by an externall imputed favour no this availeth nothing before God 21. There is no grace or favour wherby we come to the adoption save onely in the blood and death of Christ him alone God hath fore ordained and appointed to be unto him a throne of grace or propiciation in his owne love which he hath in the Sweet Name Jesu out of Jehovah infused into him He is that onely Sacrifice that God accepteth of to reconcile hiâ—â—nger 22. Now if this Sacrifice or free offering of grace shall doe me good then it must be wrought and brought to passe in me the Father must beget or impresse his Sonne in the desire of my Faith so that the hunger of my Faith may lay hold and comprehend him and if the hunger of my soules Faith doth comprehend him in his promised Word then I put him on in his whole processe of justification in my inward ground and forthwith the mortification and killing of the anger Devill Death and Hell beginneth and goeth forward from the power of Christs death in me 23. For I can do nothing I am dead to my selfe but Christ doth it in me when he ariseth in me then I am dead to my selfe in respect of the true man he is my life and in that I live I live to him not to my selfehood for grace mortifieth my own will and setteth it self up for a Lord in the place of my selfenesse that so I may be an instrument of God who doth therewith what he pleaseth 24. And then I live in two Kingdomes Viz. with my newborne spirit of life or spirituall man in Paradise in the Kingdome of Heaven in the inward spirituall World and with the outward mortall man in the vanity of time in the Kingdome of this World in the dominion of the Starres and Elements in the contrariety and malignant discord of the properties wherein the yoake of sinne yet liveth this Christ taketh upon himselfe in the inward Kingdome of the Divine World and helpeth my soule to beare it 25. For the yoak of this World is Christs burthen which he must beare untill he shall againe deliver up the Kingdome to his Father which he hath given him for he sayd All power in Heaven and Earth is given to me of my Father so also this burthen or charge is layd upon him that he should beare Gods Anger Hell death and all Evill in us as Isaiah saith Hee tooke on him our diseases and carryed our sorrows but we esteemed him stricken smitten of God and afflicted 26. And hence it is that a Christian must be a bearer of the crosse for so soone as Christ is borne in him the assaulting of Hell and the anger of God in the eternall
and Pastours of Jesus Christ they runne and yet are not sent much lesse doth God owne them and what they doe they doe for their honour and Belleys sake and they would not runne neither if they did not obtaine it in their Course of spirituall whoredome and hypocrisie 18. They have turned the right and exceeding precious Mystery of God to a Mystery of their Whoredome and pleasure and therefore the spirit calleth it Babel a Confusion where men doe practice an hypocriticall Service and worship of God acknowledging him with the tongue but denying him in the power where men doe dissemble and flatter God with the lipps but in the heart they embrace and love the Dragon in the Revelation 19. Such as these we must not be if we would obtaine the Divine Mystery and be capable of the light but wholly approve our way to God and resigne our selves up to him that Gods light may shine in us that he may be our intelligence knowing willing and also doing we must become his Children if we will speake of his Being and walke or labour in the same for he commits not his work unto a Stranger who hath not learnt his Worke or the Mystery of his Wonders in Nature and Grace 20. I have read over your Bookes and therein have found your great diligence with very much labour in that you have gathered together the Texts of the holy Scripture in great abundance I understand likewise that you are in good earnest about it and that you would faine clearely prove and set forth thereby the darke termes and places of the Scripture concerning the last Times also concerning the first Resurrection of the dead and also concerning the thousand yeares Sabbath likewise you would manifest and set forth the ruine of Babel and the new building in Zyon of which the Scripture speaketh in many places 21 First what concerneth Babel how it hath growne up and how it shall againe be destroyed is sufficiently manifest the Destroyer is already on foot and is now about the worke he hath long since made a beginning however the World will not see or take any notice of it 22. Men cry Mordio murder confusion and destruction to there adversaries and yet there is no strange Enemy but it is the Turba onely which hath growne up in the middest of Babel in her wickednesses and unrighteousnesses that hath found the limit and destroyeth onely that which for a long time hath been naught uselesse and selvish the which should at all times have beene rejected for where God should have been honoured and loved and our neighbour also as a man loveth himselfe there men have set up in Gods stead the abominable and bestiall coveteousnesse deceit falsehood and wicked craft under an hypocriticall shew and pretence of holinesse and have minded and loved falshood in the place of God and so have made of the Mystery an abominable vicious Babel full of reproachings revilings and contentions where they have with sweet speeches and enticing words of mans wisedome with feigned glosses and expositions of Scripture blindfolding our eyes and binding our consciences have led us captive in a very deceitfull way to the glory and Magnificence of the great Whore so that she hath fatted her adulterous Brat and domineered over our body and soule goods and estate 23. This Bastard is now at odds with himselfe about the great prey and spoyle and doth it selfe discover its owne wickednesse and great shame so that we may see what good ever was in her for the great wickednesse which shee hath committed doth plague her and no strange thing whereby it may be seene that her whoredome hath been manifold and that the Devill had beset and caught us in manifold Nets and that one whoredome or Mystery of hipocricy and iniquity runnes in opposition to another and are malicious biting devouring destroying and slaying each other in an hostile manner 24. For the great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the great iniquity wherewith shee in become fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her travell and woe which is fallen upon her and shee speaketh of the child which shee shall bring forth Viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny she uncovereth her faire feature and sheweth what shee is in the heart now he that will not know her there is no remedy for him 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 the same Shee shall drinke off and bee forced to burst Her selfe thereby 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a Whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and be destroyed and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her owne mouth doth strangle her her owne Turba destroyeth her Shee cryeth for vengeance and murder upon Heresie and yet shee doth it not for Gods sake but for her Adulterous Bratt and Belley-God For otherwise if it were 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 doth not consist in Warre and revilings or in an externall shew in delicious dayes herein the Children of God are not to be found but in Love in patience in hope in faith under the Crosse of Jesus Christ thereby groweth the Church of God unto the Sacred Ternary to an heavenly Paradiâ—icall Essence and the new Angelicall man hidden in the old springeth forth in God and this is my certaine knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my Writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zyon I speake and declare according to my knowledge even as the spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an ending and removall of the Deceit or Mystery of iniquity wherewith men are blinded and Zyon shall be found onely of the Children of Faith not in generall as if there should be no wicked man 29. For the Oppressour shall be a cause that Zyon is borne when men shall see how Babel is an Whore then many Children shall be found in Zyon and seeke the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his roome 30. But the Generall Zyon appeareth first in greatest Misery when Babel commeth to ruine then it shall stand desolate and miserable and the Children of Zyon shall then say How hath the Lord forsaken us Come we beseech you let us seek his face let us cease from strife and Warre Have we not alas made our Country desolate Is not all store and Provision wasted and spent Are we not Brethren Wherefore doe wee fight We will now enter into Love and
Unity and seeke the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Pilgrims and Strangers and seek our native Countrey 31. In this time a Zyon verily shall be found and the Heaven shall drop downe its dew and the Earth yeeld her fatnesse yet not so as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Sonne of man shall come that there will be Faith upon the Earth And though the Children of Zyon 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 time 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 comming 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 Zyon I acknowledge I know it for Zyon shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne hee that would seeke it let him but seeke himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and hee shall finde whether Jesus bee borne in him 33. If he findes it not let him enter into himselfe and seriously consider himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him these he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be revealed in him and he shall be born with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda in the darke Stable not in Jerusalem as reason faine would have it that Christ should be born in the old Asse the old Asse must become servant and serve the new man in Zion 34. But that in Foure hundred yeares there shall be a meer golden Age I know nothing of it it is not revealed to mee also the limit of the Worlds End is not revealed to me I cannot speake of any four hundred Yeares for the Lord hath not commanded me to teach it I commend it to Gods might and leave it for those to whome God would vouchsafe the knowledg of it seeing therefore I have not as yet apprehended it I rest satisfyed in his gifts yet I despise no man if he had a knowledge and command so to teach 35. For the fourth Book of Esdras is not sufficient as I understand to give a positive assurance to it yet I wait for my Saviour Jesus Christ and rejoyce that I may finde my Lord when I have him then I hope after the death of my old Adam fully to recreate my selfe in the Still rest of Zion and to wait in my God expecting what he will doe with me in his and my Zion for if I have but him then I am in and with him in the Eternall Sabbath where no strife or contention of the ungodly can any more reach me in my New man at this I doe in the meane time rejoyce in this miserable Vale of Tabernacles 36. The first resurrection of the dead to the thousand yeares Sabbath of which there is mention in the Revelation is not sufficiently made knowne to me how the same may be meant seeing the Scripture doth not mention it elsewhere and Christ also and his Apostles give not an hint of it in other places save only John in his Revelation but whether they shall be a thousand Solar yeares or how it may be referred seeing I have not full assurance I leave it to my God and to those to whom God shall vouchsafe the right understanding of it till God is pleased to open my eyes concerning these Mysteries 37. For they be Secrets and it belongeth not to man to make conclusions about them without the command and light of God but if any had knowledge and illumination of the same from God I should be ready and willing to learne If I could see the ground thereof in the light of nature 38. But seeing it behooveth me not to hide my knowledge of it so farre as I apprehend it in the light of Nature I will therefore set downe some Suppositions or considerable Opinions which are in my minde not positively to affirme but give it to consideration for good and wholesome instructions may be drawne forth thereby and t is also profitable for man so to search I will doe it in all syncere uprightnesse to see if we might attaine somewhat neerer the matter and perhaps there may be some to whom God shall bestow such a gift stirred up thereby to write more clearely 39. As first whether or no it be certaine that the World must continue Seven thousand yeares and one thousand of them should be a meere Sabbath Seeing that God created all in six dayes and began the rest on the sixt day towards evening whence the Jewes begin their Sabbath on Friday evening and Elias also saith that the World should stand but Six thousand yeares and Christ likewise declareth that the dayes of tribulation shall be shortned for the Elects sake else no man should be saved which you apply to the fall of Babel and to the time of Zyon but it seemes as if Christ spâ—ke of the fall of the Jewes and the end of the World and foresheweth an evill End 40. Also Christ saith that it shall be at the time of his comming to judgement as it was in the dayes of Noah where men did Marry and were given in Marriage now we know very well as the Scripture testifieth what manner of wicked World was in the days of Noah that the Deluge must come and destroy them This would intimate and denote a very meane Sabbath 41. And though a man should otherwise expound the words of Christ concerning his comming yet that would not be sufficient to prove it being also that the Disciples of Christ doe alwayes represent the End to be nigh and Paul saith That the end should come after that Antichrist is revealed 42. But that the Resurrection of the dead and the last Judgement should be understood of both namely that the righteous shall arise to the thousand yeares Sabbath and among them some ungodly and that Gog and Magog at the End of the thousand yeares should fight against the Saints it seemes to run quite contrary to the light of Nature 43. For first I cannot apprehend how the first Resurrection must come to passe seeing the Saints shall have their workes follow them according to the words of the spirit besides wee know very well that all our workes are sowne into the great Mystery that they are first brought forth into the foure Elements and so passe into the Mystery and are reserved to the judgement of God where all things shall be tryed by fire and that which is false shall consume in the fire and the figures shall fall unto the Centre of Nature Viz. the darke Eternity 44. But if mens workes shall follow them in the first
the Earth where every Hearb hath its owne Separator in it selfe which doth so make and severize it into forme 67. Now if Man beings Gods Image in whom the Divine speaking according to the Divine Science is manifest will search the Creatures and get reall understanding and knowledge in them be it either in Animals vegitables or Mettals he must then againe obtaine grace from God that the Divine light may shine in his science whereby hee may bee able to goe through the Naturall light and then all things will be opened and revealed in his understanding 68. Otherwise he runs on in his seeking as a blind Man that speaketh of Colours and doth neither see nor know any Colour this all States and Orders of the World are to consider that they all run blindfolded without the Divine Light onely in an Astrall Sydereall imaginary fansie according as the Constellations of the Stars doe forme and frame in and upon Reason 69. For Reason is nothing else but an humane Constellation which is a darke draught or resemblance of all the Principles it standeth onely in an imaginary figure and not in the Divine Science 70. But if the Divine light be manifest and shineth therein then the Divine Word beginneth to speake or worke therein out of the Eternall knowledge Science or Wisedome and then Reason is a true mansion or receptacle of Divine Knowledge and Revelation and even then it may be rightly and truely used but being voyd of this it is no more then an Astrum of the visible World 71. It is therefore declared to all lovers of Arts whose Separator is an Artist of Great Subtility in them that they first seek Gods Love and Grace and resigne up their selves selves to and become wholly one with that else all their Seeking is but a delusion or the Courting of a shadow and to no purpose and nothing is found of any fundamentall worth unlesse one doth entrust another with Somewhat 72. The which is forbidden to the Children of God in whom the grace is revealed that they cast not Pearl before Swine upon paine of Eternall Punishment 73. Onely it is freely granted them to declare the light and to shew the way of attaining the Pearl 74. But to give the Divine Separator into the bestiall hand is prohibited unlesse a man knoweth the way and will of that man that desires it 75. Thus my beloved brethren upon such consideration and instruction I will through the permission of divine grace and the Cooperation of this present time a little decipher and represent unto you the Divine Mystery how God through his word hath made himselfe Visible Sensible Perceivable moreover Creaturall and formall be pleased to consider further of it yet let it be done as is above mentioned otherwise I shall be as one dumbe unto you and the blame thereof is not to be imputed to me 76. God what he is in himselfe is neither nature nor creature neither this nor that neither high nor deep he is the Abysse and the Bysse of all Beings an eternall One where there is no ground or place he is to the Creature in its strength or capacity a Nothing and yet is through all things 77. Nature is his Something wherewith hee makes himselfe visible sensible and perceivable both according to Eternity and time 78. All things are arisen through the Divine Imagination and do yet stand in such a birth station or Government 79. The foure Elements likewise have such a ground birth or Originall from the Imagination of the Eternall One concerning which I will here set downe a Table how the one doth unfold and spirate or breath it selfe forth out of another 80. In which annexed Table the ground of all the Mysteries of the Divine Manifestation is pourtrayed for a further consideration of the same the understanding and capacity whereof is not in Natures owne ability without the light of God but it is easily to be understood of those who are in the Light and it is childlike simple plaine 81. Like as my Writings doe sufficiently and largely shew and here onely is represented briefly in a Figure or Scheme 82. And so Sirs I commend and commit you to the salutation of the Love of Jesus Christ who by his aspect and salutation is the very Key to understand this Table Dated 11. November 1623. J. B. THE SEVENTH EPISTLE TO One of the NOBILITIE IN SILESIA Our Salvation is in tâ—e life of Jesus Christ in us 1. NOBLE and right Honourable Sir The Divine light and the internal Divine contemplation of the Soule in it selfe and all bodily wellfare with syncere wishes and cooperating desires of fellowship and Member-like society in Our IMMANVEL premised 2. Seeing I have observed that you are a lover of Divine Wisedome and also a growing branch in the Life-Tree of God in Christ in whom all the Children of God are as Members and moreover perceived how the drawing of the Father hath brought you into an hungry desire after the true Sap and Divine Power and likewise in some measure hath enriched you with the knowledge of the same Tree of Life thereupon I have taken occasion in a Christian and Member-like property and desire after the same Life-Tree of Christ once more to salute you and mutually to exhort one another as Labourers set in the Vineyard of Christ and called to this Worke. 3. Especially that we looke well to our selves in this valley of darknesse and lift up our eyes and heads in that we see the darknesse and the very workings thereof before our eyes and put our selves in minde that Christ hath taught us that Our Redemption draweth neere and indeed Goe out from Babel which hath a long time held us captive and imprisoned 4. And not regard the loud cry and pratings where they promise to us golden-Mantles of grace and put them about us and comfort â—ickle and flatter us with a strange pretence or shew of holinesse as if we were received to be Children of grace from without by a sundry particular Election also that we looke not upon or regard Our owne Merits or abilities 5. All which availe nothing before God but a new Creature in Christ borne of God availeth before God for Christ is onely the Grace which availes with God 6. Now whosoever is borne of Christ and liveth and walketh in him and puts him on according to his inner man in his Suffering Death and Resurrection he is a Member on his body from him onely flow the streames of living Water through the powerfull Word of Christ which as to the internall ground is become Man in him and doth speake forth it selfe out of him through the Creature in the Cosmick Spirit of the externall Man 7. For as God hath manifested the grand Mystery wherein the whole Creation hath lyen in an Essentiall manner without formings out of the power of his Word and through the grand Mystery hath expressed the word of powers into the
working for without this none is a Christian 11. Christ must wholly receive and take possession of the internall ground of the soule that the severe justice of God which holdeth us captive in the Anger might be satisfied with Christs fulnesse and effectuall merit that Christ may fulfill the anger of God in us with love and mortifie the will of the Devill and also the nature in the wrath of God and wholly annihilate it's will that so he may dye in the love of Christ and bring forth a new will in the Lâ—ve-spirit of Christ through the nature of the soule which liveth and walketh in God as St. Paul saith Our conversation is in the Lord. 12 Lip-labour and the Pratings of the mouth avail nothing the same make no Christian a Christian must alwaies be borne or regenerated of Christ else he is no Christian no outward imputed righteousnesse or grace helpeth at all 13. All the comforting flattering soothing and dissembling is but in vaine where the purple-mantle of Christ is put upon the man of iniquity and malice or the Cain-like hypocrite who from without will be an adopted Child of grace 14. For no Whore or one that is impregnated can be a Virgin albeit she puts on a maides Garland yea no Prince or Potentate can grace her with any Virginitie 15. Thus the flattering hypocrisie and comforting with Christs Merits and promises is to be understood unlesse we be converted and become like Children which hang on the breasts of their Mother and receive and conceive in us the Ens or essentiall Power of Christ which destroyeth the Harlot that a new spirit may be borne in us out of Christ which hath in it Christs sufferings and death that we be borne out of his Resurrection and resigne up our selves into the whole processe of Christ which is the imputed grace in Christ 16. A Christian must be begotten and regenerated of the same grace that he be a christian in and of Christ namely a true branch in the tree which is Christ that the Engrafted word of life may spring forth and become essentiall living and working in the soule and then the merit of Christ and the imputed grace doth avail when he is growing on the tree as to the internall ground 17. Beloved friend Mr. Frederick your questions require a large declaration in the Treatise or Commentary upon Genesis they be all determined at large and if you obtain the eyes and fight of Christ then there need not any such questions at all in such smal things which indeed are too high for Reason but in Christ they are nothing but a Childlike play but however I will answer you breifly thus The First Poynt Of the Serpent which after the Curse must eate Earth and Creep upon the Belly 18. First concerning the Article of the Serpent which after the curse must feed upon Earth and creep upon the Belly I answer that her Shape and Forme was such but her Body and Spirit was not so evill in the fiery Science of the ground of nature as after the Curse 19. For both Tinctures of good and evill of the originall of the first and second principle were manifest in her and therefore she was so exceeding Cunning that the nature was able to see in her Centre in the Tinctures the ground of the whole creation 20. She was in her ground before the Creaturall originall whence she in the Grand Mystery was put into the Severation to a creature a faire and excellent Ens of great power and vertue 21. But the Devills Imaginations when he sate like an Enthroned Prince in the ground of nature in very high power and dominion poysoned this Ens which in the Severation formed it selfe into a Serpent and therefore he made use of her for his Instrument by the same cunning and by the same poyson in which lay the mightiest power to make Eve monstrous 22. Yee Physitians It behoveth you doubtlesse well to know and understand the Mystery of the Serpent and whaâ— lyeth hid under her poyson if you take out the same and proceed aright in the processe thereof then you may get a Tincture against poyson the like whereof is not to be had 23. Shee was in the Ens of the Grand Mystery before shee was a Creature a Virgin but after the Curse shee became an Whore Magically or Parabolically to be understood 24. She saw in her the ground of the inward and outward World and therefore one must come out of the inward World and kill her monster which she hath putt upon Eve and an whole Booke might be written of what the desire of the Devill hath wrought by and through her 25. But when she did helpe to deceive the Image of God then God accursed the same that she became blind as to the internall ground and was also altogether Manifest in the four Elements and so she fell into the Earth whence the body was taken and moreover she fell onely to the wrath or bad part of the Earth she can no more obtain or reach the good part or quality of the Earth as other Beasts doe and therefore shee must eate Earth namely the property of the curse in the Earth 26. Shee was a flying Worme else nature would have provided her legges as other Wormes have on Earth but her nimblenesse wily subtlety and cunning made Eve to long after the forbidden fruit The Second Point Of Paradise and the Garden Eden 27. Paradise was the temperature in Man when hee knew not what good and evill was where the Divine light did shine through Nature and Tinctured and tempered all things for Paradise is revealed in us againe in Christ as to the internall ground 28. But when God saw and knew that he would fall then Paradise sprung not forth with fruit any more through the Earth in the whole World albeit it was every where manifest but onely in the Garden of Eden where Adam was tempted for that is the place but Paradise is the quality to wit the life of God in the similitude or Harmony of the universall Being The Third Point Whether the Beasts being they were in Paradise and more-over wholly earthly did also feed upon Paradisicall fruit 29. Beloved Friend Mr. Frederick every Spirit eateth of its Mother out of what the Eeasts were of that likewise they did eate namely of the fifth Essence of the Earth in the Cosmick spirit for the deepest ground of the Beasts is not by many degrees like unto Man thus did they feed upon their Mother namely the spirit of them feeds upon the Cosmick spirit and the body upon the foure Elements 30. God knew very well that man would not stand but fall what use or profit then should the Paradificall food be to the Beasts in the Quintessence there lyeth indeed a Paradificall property upon that they feed even to this day for in every Beast there is a power which is incorruptible which the Cosmick spirit draweth
into it selfe to the Separation of the last Judgement The Fourth Point Whether the Beasts were so wilde and rough before the Curse as they now are 31. Beloved Mr. Frederick the Garment which Adam had before the Curse when he was yet naked was exceeding faire and became him very well so likewise was the hide of the Beasts rough and hairy unto them but in the Curse all things both in the Beasts and in the Plants of the Earth were deformed and changed into a monstrous strange forme they had indeed such a cloathing but far more glorious in Colours Feature and Ornament of the pure Tincture 32. And I entreat you about these Queries to looke into the Grand Mystery with the eyes of Christ in whom all the Treasures of Wisedome doe lye and then you shall see them better in the understanding then I can in hast briefly set downe in writing and I commit you to the Love of Jesus Christ THE NINTH EPISTLE The open Fountaine of God in the heart of Jesus Christ bee our refreshment and constant Light 1. WORTHY much respected and very Learned Sir I heartily wish unto you even that which my very soule desireth of God namely the reall true Divine Knowledge in the love of Christ that God would vouchsafe to open the Centre of the Soule whereby the Paradificall Lilly-twig in Christs Rose-garden might spring forth grow blossome and beare fruit and the streames out of Christs Fountaine might flow from you and you might be taught of God that his holy spirit might drive and rule you As it is written Those who are driven and moved by the Spirit of God they are the Children of God 2. I have received your Letter and thereby understand that you have read my Writings and that you doe delight in them and I wish from my very heart that the sense and right meaning of the same may be apprehended and understood and then there would be no need of any further asking and searching 3 For the Booke in which all Mysteries lye is Man himselfe he himselfe is the Booke of the Being of all Beings seeing he is the likenesse or similitude of God the great Arcanum lyeth in him the revealing of it belongeth onely unto Gods spirit 4. But if the Lilly in the humanity of Christ springeth forâ—h in the new birth out of the soule then out of the same Lilly the spirit of God proceedeth as out of his owne originall and ground and the same spirit seeketh and findeth all Mysteries in the Divine Wisedome 5. For the Lilly-branch which springeth forth in the new birth ouâ— of Christs humanity understand the new borne spirit out of the soules â—ssence out of Christs power is the true reall branch sprâ—nging from and remaining in Gods Tree 6. As a Mother beareth a childe even so is the new man borne in and out of God and no otherwise at all is he Gods childe and heire a child of Heaven and of Paradise 7. No imputed righteousnesse availeth a stranger cannot inherite Gods Kingdome but an innate righteousnesse out of Gods Essentiality out of the water and spirit of God as Christ told us that We must become like unto Children and be conceived in Gods Essence and like new children in God we must spring forth and be borne anew as a faire flower springeth out of the wilde Earth or as precious Gold groweth in a rough stone or drossy Oare otherwise we cannot see nor inherite the Kingdome of God 8. For whatsoever will possesse the internall spirituall World must be borne out of the same the earthly flesh from the foure Elements cannot inherite the Kingdome of God 9. But the Quint-essence which is the one Element namely Paradise whence the foure Elements have their rise birth and proceeding that same must be predominant and rule over the foure Elements in like manner as the light containeth the darknesse as it were swallowed up and yet the same is really in it even so it must be with Man 10. Onely it cannot be so with the outward man in this time of the earthly life for the outward World ruleth oveâ— the outward Man seeing it was made manifest in Man which is his fall 11. And therefore the externall man must perish as the externall World perisheth and passeth away and therefore Man in this time cannot attaine perfection but the true man must continue in combate and strife against the earthly corrupt life which is its owne enemy where eternity and time strive one against another 12. For through strife or the mutuall combate in Nature the great Arcanum is opened and the eternall wonders in Gods wisedome are made manifest out of the soules Essence 13 As the eternall God hath manifested himselfe through the time and bringeth his eternall Wonders through the time into combate and contest that through the combate or strife that which is hidden and lyeth in the Mysterious Nothing might open it selfe and be brought to light even so in strife and combate the great Mystery must be revealed in Man where Gods anger and love as fire and light are in combate and strife 14. For in the soule which ariseth out of the Eternall fire out of the Fathers property that is out of the Eternall un-inchoative Nature out of the darknesse that light which did extinguish and disappeare in Adam must be renued and borne againe in the incomming of Christ and then the Kingdome of Christ and of God is freely given him out of grace 15. For none can take the same unto himselfe unlesse the love of God doth againe presse out of grace into the Centre of the soule and bringeth the divine will out of the fire of the soul as a new sproâ—t or new Image into the heavenly essentâ—ality as the light shineth out of the fire 16. Therefore all whatsoever Babel teacheth of the externall imputed righteousnesse and the externall assumed Adoption and particular Election and Rejection from eternity is without foundation and footing Christ said You must be borne againe else you cannot see the Kingdome of God 17. The seeming holy flattering comfort with Christs death avalleth nothing but to enter into Christs death and to spring up a new in him and to arise in him and with him and become Christ or an annointed child of God in the new man 18. Like as Christ hath mortifyed extinguished and overcome the World and also the anger of his father being the centre of the Eternall Nature in the soules property with his love that is with the new love fire introduced into the soules essence into which the Devill before had brought in and placed his Desire even so must we in and with Christs spirit quell and quash the earthly Adam in Gods anger and mortify it through Gods love that the new man may spring forth else there is no forgivenesse of fin nor any Adoption or â—liation nor any righteousnesse 19. The Kingdome of God must be inwardly innate and borne
onely of whom I have received my Talent 15. Next Sunday there is a Conference appointed here at my Landlords which the Superintendent himselfe desireth to have with me and I am invited to Supper where some of the Prince Electors Counsellors of State will be present what shall passe there I shall let you know with the first opportunity 16. For he loveth my Treatise of Repentance onely he would faine aske and himselfe heare of â—â— concerning some points which are too high for him from what Ground they flow which I am well pleased with and shall observe the liâ—â— 17. So I expect likewise the Resolution of Privy Counsellour Losz to whom I shall repaire with the soonest and what shâ—â— paâ—â—e there I will let you know with the first opportunity I hope aâ—l will goe well as God will so I will who knoweth what God will have done or what he will doe with me I very much marvell my selfe how I am lead so wonderfully without any intent and purpose of mine 18. By this Bearer I send two Rixdollers to my Wife for her occasions if shee want any thing shee knoweth well where shee may have it the Key of the Drawer lyeth in the Parlour by the Warming Pan upon the Shelfe Your Treatise lyeth in the Drawer you may aske for it your Letter which you sent to Zitta is not yet come to my hands if any thing happen let me know it and if there be no sure Messenger at hand send but to Mr. Melcher Berntten at Zitta he hath opportunity hither every week and let him know that he may send it away as we have agreed 19. Salute my Wife and two Sonnes from me and exhort them to Christian Patience and Prayer and to purpose no selfe revenge that the Enemy may have no advantage 20. The businesse with Mr. Furstenaus his Family is indeed not good neverthelesse it will prove no great matter for it is the High Priests owne reproach and it would even turne to his great disgrace if it were well replyed to I would his Prince did but rightly know of it he would Protect him with a witnesse they are the good fruits of the High Priest 21. I hope to visit you very speedily though I should returne hither againe it will not cost me my Neck it is but â—â—ad clamour for there is nothing in it but the Priests Bell-Clapper which sounds so sweetly it is easie to judge whether it be Christs voyce or the Devils you need not be so deadly affraid of this Quarrell it is not a businesse you need be ashamed of it is nothing but Babels Bell which is rung to give warning or to sound the Alarum 22. Doe but stand to it stoutly in the Spirit of Christ and then Christs * Bell will also be rung God give them and us all a good minde 23. Pray salute Mr. Frederick Renischen I could doe nothing for him here yet for things goe here very much by Favour and here are many attendants when there is any thing to be had I would very readily serve him in Love if I were but able I cannot yet counsell my selfe till God helpe me my Sonne Jacob shall stay still at Gerlitz that his Mother may have some comfort there till I can dispose it otherwise it should be already if I were not to stay here let her have but Patience And so I commend you into the Love of Jesus Christ Translated into the Nether-Dutch out of Jacob Behmens owne hand-writing And out of the Nether-Dutch into English ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ * Or Ground ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ * Or Letter of Divine Wisedome ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Wiâ—k of a Candle oâ— smoaking 〈◊〉 * That which lyeth â—id and yet is in 〈◊〉 as well as in Potentia ☞ * Which is buâ— lip-labour ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Which loveth all our brethren through ouâ— enemies * Or Every thing ☞ * Or Consider with our selves ☞ ☞ * Imprint and settle it in his resâ—lution * The Ground or Originall â—oundation ☞ †And that which is without ground or bottomlesse and fathomlesse * Geneâ—â—ix or fruitful bearing womb of eternity †Or Breeding of it ☞ * By Gregory Richter Lord Primate of Gerlitz ☜ †Or According to ☞ Note what man can finde in himselfe * Bettering or benefit ☜ ☞ * Highly priseth ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ * Note this carefully ☞ ☞ * Noâ—◠☞ ☞ * To Revoke or Recall themselves ☞ * Hans Weyrauck ☞ * Swenckfelt ☞ ☞ ☜ * Weigelius ☜ ☞ ☞ * 〈…〉 * Ezekiel Meth. ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * The three Principles and the three fold Life ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * The Booke of the three Principles ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ * The Forty Questions ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ * Their Livings ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ Note ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ * Magi. Note ☞ ☞ Note ☞ ☞ * How he hath revealed himselfe in his Word ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ * O Thing ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Or Bring forth ☞ ☞ * Instructions or admonitions ☞ * Or Take ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Or Wicked Note ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Externally ☞ In Spiritu Mundi ☞ In Spiritu Mundi * Or Breeding or Hatching ☜ * Punishment or severe Execution Note ☞ ☞ ☞ * One that is gotten with Childe ☞ ☞ ☞ * Quint-essence in Spiritu Mundi * Or the Book called the Mysterium Magnum An Exposition upon Genesis ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ Note ☞ * Tbe Prosolites or Disciples of Isaias Steefel and Ezekiel Metts that held perfection in this outward flesh ☞ ☞ * Or His seamlesse Câ—ate ☜ * Or Employment ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ * Shepheards Crooke ☜ * Or Marke ☜ ☞ * Or Following ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ * Or Things ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Or Truely spiritually poore ☞ * Or Way of life ☞ * Or Things ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Sin iniquity ☞ * That is By his writing to him to employ his Talent for he intended to write no more after his first Bâ—ok was by force taken fâ—â—m him Nâ—te ☞ †Out of â—â— pâ—â—â—eeding fâ—om Gâ—d ☞ * Or withereth ☞ * Palsgrave Frederick †Confused Christendome * Bethlem Gaâ—â— * The Astrall Spirit or apprehension of reason ☞ †The Aurora Being then in the hands of the Common Counsell * The Worldly †The Spirituall * The confused Christendome * Text. Fons Sapientiae * Text. Pulleth it about by the haire puls it by the eares ☞ * The Pearle of Sophia The Divine illumination ☞ ☞ * Or Vnderstanding * Or The Phylosophers Stone ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ * Or Strength ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ Note ☜ ☞ ☞ Note What is contained in the Booke of Election ☜ * Spiritus Mundi * Or Sensible or perceptible ☜ * Domestick intestine †Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all falshood under an holy shew of Religion * Or Proofe †The Turck shall turne a true Christian ☞ * The Emperor of Germany ☞ ☜ ☞ * Spiritus Mundi ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ * Aliter God ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Text In Arcanis ☞ ☞ * Or Make the Iron red hot ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Enter into the New birth ☞ †Four shillings * A Book entituled Wasser Steinder Weisen ☞ ☜ * Or resolve it †Or Statue of Stone framed by a Stone-cutter or an Image set up for a Monument ☜ * Microcosmus ex Macrocosmo ☞ ☜ †Or Set its minde upon ☞ * Or Shed Teares ☞ * De signaturâ— Rerum * Carel von Endern ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ â—â— * Doctor Baltasar Walter Forty Questions * Aurora †Or Vse all care and diligence ☜ * Carel von Endern ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Authority or leave ☜ ☜ ☜ * Carel von Endern ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ * Carol von Endern ☞ * Or Draw upon the kind heart * Carol van Endern †Or Texts ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ * Or Tree of Pearle ☞ ☞ ☞ * Presumed ☜ ☜ * In a better understanding †In the imitation of Christ ☞ * Note ☞ * Or Living Sparke ☞ †Or Constellation * Mysterium Magnum ☞ ☞ †From or by * That is The Book entituled The way to Christ containing a Treatise of Repentance Resignation or Selfe-denyall and Regeneration ☞ * Or Out of ☞ †Or Sounded ☞ * That is wholly uncloathed of this corrupt flesh which cannot inherit the Kingdome of God Note ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Tryall or proofe ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * Text Images or mentall Idolls ☞ Note †Curious contrived opinions * Or Perfidious Whore ☞ ☜ * The confused entanglements of Sects and opinions †The New Man * Text Borne ☞ ☞ Note This followed in the seventh yeare after the Authors Death * Gregory Rickter the Primate of Garlitz ☞ The temporall Sword or make War * Or Reproaches ☞ * Or Evill report concerning the City †The day of Pentecost ☜ * The Prince Elector of Saxony †Doctor Aegius Strauch ☞ * Belonging to a Table ☜ * Or Peale