teach before the people concerning the Kingdome of Heaven in Similitudes or * Mark 4.13 33.34 Mysterium Magnum ch 46. ver 31. Parables 115. Question Why hath not Christ himself described his Gospel with Letters in writing But only Taught and left it afterwards to his Apostles to write it down 116. Question Why must it be the very * Mark 10.33 Math. 27.1 41. High Priests and Scribes or Scripture learned who taught the People that must speak against or contradict Christ and would readily mock him and condemn him continually to death Why must not the worldly Magistracy doe it or the Common people What doth that signifie 117. Question Why must there be such a way and processe observed toward Christ †Mat. 26.67 ch 27.26 to the 34. with Mockings reproaching derision or scorn and scourging before his Passion Why did God suffer that to be so done 118. Question Why must the very Teachers of the Law bring Christ to the judgement and yet must be put to Death by the * Math. 27.2 Heathenish Magistracy What doth that signifie 119. Question Why must Christ suffer and †Mat. 27.50 dye Was God to doe it for such a Revenge sake that he might attone and reconcile or appease himself could he not otherwise forgive Sinnes 120. Question What is the Figure of the Two Murtherers Luke 23.33 which were hanged on a Crosse on Each side of Christ And why must Christ dye on a wooden Crosse and Not otherwise 121. Question How †Heb. 2.14 Phil. 2.8 did Christ slay Death on the Crosse with his dying How came that to passe 122. Question Why must Christ * Ioh. 19.31 34 and 20.25 Col. 2.14 be nailed to the Crosse And why Must his Side be opened with a Spear out of which Bloud and Water ran How doe these signifie in the Figure 123. Question Why must Christ †Math. 27. from 39. to the 50. be reproached on the Crosse 124. Question Whether also was the divine Power * Ioh. 19.34 in the Bloud which Christ shed or poured unto the Earth 125. Question Why did †Math. 27.51 Three Principles ch 25. ver 44 45. the Earth Tremble when Christ hung on the Crosse 126. Question What did †Luke 23.46 See the 37. Question of the forty Questions of the Soul the Darknesse signifie which at that time came over all Nature 127. Question Wherefore did Christ in his Death * Luke 23.44 Mysterium Magnum ch 23. ver 3. commend his Soul into his Fathers Hand What is that Hand of God 128. Question Why did some * Luke 23.48 Convert and turn again when they saw what was done at the dying of Christ and the High Priests not Why must they be blind and hardened to this work 129. Question What was †Acts 2.27 31 Heb. 2.14 Christs going to Hell where he overcame Death and the Devil 130. Question How did 〈◊〉 * 1 Pet. 3.19.20 preach to the Spirits which in the Tiâ—â—â—oah believed not 131. Question 〈…〉 â—hrists Rest in the †Math. 27.63 64. ch 28.1 Luke 24.1.7 Grave signifie 〈…〉 lye forty houres in the Grave 132. Question 〈◊〉 must * Mâ—th 27.64 65 66. Christs Grave be guarded with W â—â—â—rs What doth that signifie that the Hiâ—h Priests would resist or oppose Gods Power and Might and would keep Christ in the Grave 133. Question Why did the Evangelist say that * Math. 28.2 to the 9. the Angell removed the Great Stone from the door or Mouth of the Grave Could not Christ have risen else out of the Grave 134. Question What is the Power of Christs Resurrection through the Death How * Col. 2.14 15. did he make a triumphant shew of Death on his Body What was it then that he did with it 135. Question What manner of †Rev. 3 8. Door hath Christ through Death in our humanity opened in the Anger and Righteousness of God whereby we may enter into God How is that done 136. Question What doth the Pilgrimage * Luke 24. from the 13. to the 31. vers Journey of the two Disciples from Jerusalem to Emaus signifie where they complained in anxiety for their Master and yet Christ walked among them and enquired of them and taught them And yet they knew him not 137. Question Why did Christ after his Resurrection first appear to †Mark 16.9 10 11. John 20.14 to the 19. a Woman and not to the Disciples 138. Question Why did Christ * Luke 24.42 Joh. 20.19 26. after his Resurrection eat of the †broyled Fish with his Disciples And Entered into them through a shut door and taught them 139. Question Why did not Christ after his Resurrection shew himself to Every one But to some only 140. Question Why did Christ * Act. 1.2 3. Three Principles ch 25. from the 75. ver to the 98. after his Resurrection Converse forty dayes upon Earth before he went or was taken up to Heaven What doth that signifie 141. Question What is †Math. 24.51 Mark 16.19 Act. 1.9 Three Principles ch 25. from 98. verse to the end Christs going or Ascention to Heaven That he did visibly ascend Whither is he arrived and where is he now at present 142. Question What signifie * Acts 1.11 the Two Men in shining Garments who said ye Men of Galilee why look ye up after him this JESUS who is taken from you to Heaven will come again as ye have seen him Ascend or goe to Heaven Acts 1.11 143. Question †Three Principles ch 26. verse 1 2. thence to the 13. Why must * Acts 2.1 His Ascention was forty Dayes after his Resurrection or the Passeover or Easter And ten Dayes after his Ascention to the Day of Pentecost which was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quinquagessuna dies the fiftieth day or seven weeks day or the Morrow after the seventh Sabbath which was called the Feast of Weeks or First-fruits Math. 26.2 Mark 14.1 2. â—uke 22.1 John 13.1 the Passover was the fourteenth day of the first Month. Exod. 12 1â— Levit. 23.5 Numb 28.16 in the Month Abib Exod. 13.4.23.15 and 34.18 the Feast of the first Fruits of thy Labours thou hast sown in the field Exod. 23.16 the feast of weeks Exod. 34.22 And from the Morrow after the Sabbath of the Passover you shall count Seven Sabbaths that is seven times seven which is forty nine and the Morrow after maketh fifty dayes Levit. 23.15 16. Numb 28.26 The Feast of Weeks Deut. 16.9 the Disciples of Christ yet wait ten Dayes from his Ascention for the sending of the Holy Ghost Why was not that done Instantly 144. Question What is this that the Disciples must †Luk. 24.49 Ioh. 15.26 Acts 1.4 wait and Continue together till the Holy Ghost came 145. Question What is the Feast of Acts 2.1 to the 4. Pentecost How was the shedding or pouring forth
for ITS Food And where then remaineth my Lust and Pleasure of Earthly things which I exercise here in the World If all will become a reproach to me why doe I lift up my self in Temporall LUST seeing it cannot release me from the Reproach Wherefore doth my Soul vex it self and is in anguish and panteth after ITS Enemy which leadeth it to the Dark night 157. O GOD teach me I pray thee to apprehend this that I may turn my Heart from the Toylsomeness of the Works of this World to THEE and not hold Death to be my Life so that I may Live in Continuall Repentance and that my Mind may throw or demerse it self to or into THEE and may work with Thee so that also my right Flesh created in Adam may be Sanctified and out of the Dust may be brought to the MIND again 158. Release me I pray thee from the Grosse Husk of the Earthly Flesh whereinto the Devill hath brought his Poyson which is of no profit in thy Kingdome John 6. and generate in me again the heavenly Spirituall Body wherein is the Immortality and wherein no evill or false or wicked LUST may exist any more and let me in CHRIST JESU Rest in thee till the Glorious Coming again and Revelation or Manifestation of thy Glory AMEN A Prayer when Man in the Evening ceaseth from his Work and would goe to Sleep 159. O GOD thou Father of ALL GOOD I thank thee through JESUS CHRIST thy Dear Sonne our LORD and Saviour For all thy Benefits that thou hast graciously protected me this day from all evill and hurt and now I commend to thee my Work into thy disposing and fly with my Mind to thee and give my self up wholly and altogether into thy Holy working 160. Work thou I pray thee now this Night and alwaies with thy Grace-power in me and break in me the vain desire of false or evill working wherein thy Curse and fierce Wrath in my Flesh desireth to co-work as also the Devils introduced Lust which stirreth up my whole Mind to Lust of vanity Destroy THESE O Dear God! with thy Power and kindle up in me the Fire of thy pure Love and overthrow the false wicked LUST of Impurity and Vncleanness 161. Withstand thou all evill Influences of the Constellations or Astrum and the Kindled Elements and let me rest in thy Power that my Mind may NOT be introduced into false or wicked Desires and Inclinations 162. O GREAT Holy God into thy Grace and Mercifulness I plunge my self wholly and altogether I pray thee let thy Good Angel be with me that he may keep off the fierie Streames or Darts of wickednesse that I may rest securely in thy Power through JESUS CHRIST our LORD Amen A Prayer when we undresse and lie down to Rest 163. O MERCIFULL GOD I pray thee doe thou in me draw or pull off the false or wicked Garment of the Serpent which my Father Adam and my Mother Eve have drawn on to me through their false Lust Wherein my poor Soul is cloathed with thy Anger and standeth in shame before thy holy Angels 164. I pray thee strip thou my Mind and Soul Naked that my Mind may become undressed from such a Garment and may stand clearly before thy Countenance but I pray thee yet cloath thou it with thy Power and with the Garment of the humanity of JESUS CHRIST that it may converse again with the Holy Angels before THEE 165. O Dear Lord JESUS CHRIST I give up my Soul and Mind altogether barely and Nakedly to Thee draw thou off from me the impure Garment Wherein I stand in Great Shame before Gods Holiness But I pray thee cloath thou me with thy Victory and set me before thy Father again as a New born Child which thou hast washed in thy Bloud and whose evill Will THOU hast put to death in thy Death and in thy Resurrection hast new regenerated 166. And kindle in this New Birth thy Light that I may walk in the Light and be and Continue a Branch in thee AMEN A Thanksgiving of the Repentant Soul for the bitter Passion and Dying of JESUS CHRIST 167. O Most deep LOVE of God in CHRIST JESU I give thee Praise and Thanks that thou hast delivered me out of the Fire Source or Quality of Torment or painfulness and hast given thy self with thy Love and Grace into my Fire-Source or Quality and changeâ— me into a Love-fire and divine Light 168. Thou hast put thy Power and Might into my Essence in Body and Soul and given thy self to me for my own Yea thou hast purchased my self with thy Grace through the Treasure of thy most pretious Bloud for thy own for which I thank thee in Eternity 169. And I pray thee thou Eternall shed-forth LOVE In the Most Holy Name JESUS bring me I pray thee when I shall have dyed away here from the Temporall Death again into My first Native Country in which my Father Adam in his Innocency dwelt even in to PARADISE and bury my Body and Soul in the divine Rest 170. In the mean while Grant that I may daily enter into Repentance and into the going out from my Earthly Will and also continue so stedfastly the whole time of my Life THEREIN and that I may bear much Good fruit in THAT Condition Till thou introducest me into the Rest in my right Native Country in the true Land of Promise wherein the Milk and Honey of the divine Power floweth AMEN Here End the Authours Meditations and Prayers for Munday Ten Commandements for TUESDAY A Prayer Concerning Gods Righteousness also his strong or Severe Commandement and Law what God requires of us and how the same may become fulfilled Deduced from and Through the Ten Commandements And Creed or Faith and set forth Confession and Prayer-wise An Earnest Looking-Glasse well to be Considered The First Commandement God said upon Mount Sinai to Israel I am the Lord thy God c. thou shalt have no other Gods besides me Exod. 1.2 Deut. 5.6 7. Also Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God from thy whole Heart from thy whole Soul and from thy whole Mind Deut. 6.5 Math. 22.37 The Confession 171. O Great HOLY GOD thou hast Made Man out of the Limus or Extract of the Earth wherein Paradise sprung forth viz thy Holy Power a Glorious powerfull and fair bright Body without distemper and without fragility a Likeness or Equality of the Elements 172. And hast in-breathed into him out of thy Power the Inward Psychicall or Soulish and outward Elementary Life from the power of thy inward divine Working and Knowledge or Skill viz the Great Name of * Germanice GOTTES GOD and hast given him a Will of his own that he may be an Image according to thy Wonder-deed Might and Glory and rule over all thy Creatures of this World also thou hast given him the outward Life of all Operation or Working with the Inward Soulish Life through which thou rulest the
of God 41. For of what Essence the Souls Spirit is into such an Essence it receiveth also the divine Substance in the Covenant One in the power of Light in the Love the other in the Power of the fierce Wrath in the Darkness 42. The Covenant together with the Baptisme standeth firm Every Childe iâ— Baptised in the Covenant the Spirit of God Baptiseth every one if a Man keep the Solemnity yet according to the Childes Property 43. Often is the Father and Mother as also the Baptiser wicked and are only Evill Beasts also there is no earnest Sincerity all lyeth with them in the outward Pomp Money and Riches they do but despise the Mysterie and the Child also is only of the Anger 's * Or Property Essence who shall then Baptise None else but Gods Anger in his Covenant And therefore because Men do but despise it 44. Thus the Anger-Source or Quality receiveth the New Spirit and worketh powerfully in it And bringeth forth Fruit into Perdition As Saint Paul saith of the Supper and other Testament That †1 Cor. 11.29 the wicked receive it unto Judgement because he distinguisheth not the Lords Body that is that he distinguisheth not the heavenly part of his Essence in him From the Earthly and so putteth his willing thereinto and Offereth it up to God but esteemeth all common as an Oxe devoureth the Stover 45. Therefore the Anger of God floweth up in him so that he breaketh not off his willing from the Earthly and entereth not into Repentance from his Evill or Wickedness And therefore cannot his heavenly part become partaker of Gods Body while he cannot make the Essence of the heavenly Part stirring 46. Moreover he hath also no Mouth to receive the Body of God for the Mouth lyeth shut up in Death in like manner also the Earthly part receiveth Christs Body but according to the Anger 's property according to the Dark-worlds property for the Testament must stand firm 47. In like manner also in the Baptisme as the Souls Essence is in Substance so also it enjoyeth Gods Covenant better a totall wicked Childe should not be baptised and that a wicked Man in his Sinnes without conversion should not touch Gods Testament for it bringeth them BOTH only power to Perdition 48. For Gods Covenant becometh stirred and that goeth never away without Fruit God worketh in his Covenant according to his Word As the Soul is which stirreth the Covenant so is also the Medicine or Physick in the Covenant and in such a Power the Spirit of God worketh in Love and Anger 49. For it is the Spirit of Every Life and likeneth or appropriateth it self to Every Life it is in Every Thing like as the Things will and property is for one Property receiveth the other what the Soul willeth that willeth also the same into which the Soul turneth it self It is all Magicall whatsoever the Will of a Thing willeth that it receiveth 50. A Toad taketh only Poyson to it self when perhaps it sitteth in the best Apothecaries * Or sweetest Balsom Medicine The like also doth a Serpent every Thing taketh its own property into it self 51. And though it eat the Substance of a good Property yet it Maketh all in it self to its own Property If a Toad eat Sugar yet the same becometh Poyson in it Even as the Devill was an Angell but when he willed nothing that was Good then his heavenly Substance be came to him hellish Poyson and his Evill Will continued Evill at one time as at the other 52. Thus is our Life highly to be considered what we would doe or what we purpose we have Good and Evill in us into which we frame our willing the Essence thereof becometh stirring in us and such a Property we draw also from without into us 53. We have both Mysteries the Divine and the Devillish in us from both the Eternall Worlds and also from the outward World what we make out of our selves that we are what we awaken in us that is stirring in us if we lead our selves to the Good then Gods Spirit helpeth us 54. But if we lead our selves to Evill then Gods fierce Wrath and Anger helpeth us What we will of that Property we get a Leader and thereinto we lead our selves And yet it is not the Deities Will that we perish but his Anger 's and Our Will. 55. And thus we understand the Fift Point How a Life perisheth and how out of Good an Evill Cometh to be and out of Evill a Good when the Will converteth or turneth it self about The Sixt Point The Ninth Chapter Of the Life of the Darkness wherein the Devils dwell what kind of Birth or Geniture and Source or Quality it hath 1. THe Life of the Darkness is against all and Every Life of the Light For the Darkness giveth fierce wrathfull and Enimicitious Essence and the Life of the Light giveth Love-Essence 2. In the Darkness there is in the Essence only a continuall stinging and breaking where every Form of the Essence is at enmity with the other an Opposite or Contraâ—ous Substance every of the Formes deny themselves to be evill and every one of them say to the other that it is Evill and contrary to them it is a cause of their unquietness and fierce wrathfulness 3. Every one of them think in themselves if the other Form were not then they should have rest and yet Every one is Evill and false whence it cometh to passe that all whatsoever becometh generated or born out of the dark fierce wrathfull Property is lying and continually lyeth against the other Formes saying that they are Evill and yet it is the cause thereof It maketh them Evill with its poysonous Infection 4. Thus are they all and lying is their TrUth * John 8.44 When they speak lyes then speak they from their own Formes and Properties and thus also are their Creatures Therefore saith Christ The Devill is a Lyar and Murtherer from the Beginning for Every Form desireth to Murther the other and yet there is no Murthering but the greater the Strife is the greater their Murtherous Life cometh to be 5. Therefore it is called an Eternall Death and Enmity where meer vain contrariety or opposition Existeth for there is nothing that can cease the Strife there is nothing can compell one only Form the more it is resisted or stopped the greater the fierce wrathfulnesse becometh like a Fire that a Man bloweth up or compresseth whereby it burneth but the more 6. So the fierce wrathfull Kingdome can be quenched by Nothing but barely by Gods Light or Love whence it becometh totally soft meek or sweet lovely and richly Joyfull 7. * Note And that also can not be for if the Dark Kingdome should be kindled with the Light the Light would have no root to its Nature and Property there could be no Fire Generated there would also be no Light also no Omnipotency but All a Nothing
Vertuous in my behaviour but its heart is the Covetousness that is the Wolfe and devoureth the Labour and Sweat of the Miserable 32. It lifteth it self up above all it * Or studieth searcheth and diveth daily into the Wonders of God contriving how is might †Seem Wise Vnderstanding and Holy flatter and play the Hypocrite It sheweth it self Friendly Courteous and Modest as if it were a Virgin full of Modesty and Chastity and yet is a perfidious Whore and hateth in the heart all * Honesty Modesty Vertue Chastity and Righteousnesse 33. It is a continuall Enemy of Love and Humility whatsoever is simple and plain it disesteemeth or despiseth that and yet compelleth the Simple under its yoak It saith to the upright honest Man thou art My Dog I will hunt thee whither I list 34. Thou art Silly and Foolish I am Wise Prudent and Politick and is it self the Greatest Fool of all it fools and jests away God and the Kingdome of Heaven for a little whiles Lust of the Eye It plungeth it self into Darkness and putteth on the Mantle of †Cumbering cares and irksomenesse Anguish 35. The Second Power or Vertue of this King Falshood is Covetousnesse that draweth all into it self and darkeneth Prides Glistering Garment it forceth Evill and Good one among another to it and conâ—tantly filleth Pride or State full 36. And when it hath filled that then it taketh its Sonne Envy and vexeth and tormenteth Pride therewith so that it hath no rest or quietness in its Glance or Lustre Envy Stingeth in the desirous Covetousness as if it were Mad and Senseless It tormenteth and plagueth the Pride Day and Night that it is never at Rest 37. The Covetousness is the right filthy durty swinish Beast it desireth more then it may or Can devoure its Jawes stand open day and night it suffereth not Man to Rest and plagueth him alwayes in its sordid basenesse so that man hunteth after Earth and after those things which the Earth affordeth without any Mans Covetousnesse there belongeth only Labour to it and no Covetousnesse 38. Covetousnesse Plagueth it self and is its own Enemy for it filleth it Self with woe and disquietnesse and darkeneth and obscureth Mans understanding that he cannot apprehend that All cometh from the Divine hand it maketh Mans Light of Life dark it consumeth the Body and bereaveth it of divine Sense Perception and Glory 39. It casteth it into the Grave of Death and bringeth it into the Temporall and Eternall Death it attracteth dark Substance or Matter into Mans Noble Image and Maketh of an Angell a fierce wrathfull Devill It Createth or awaketh the Turba over Soul and Body and is the abominablest and ugliest Beast in the Abysse of Hell for it is the Cause of the Source or Quality and Pain or Torment without it might no Source or Torment Exist 40. It maketh Warre and Strife for it never letteth it self have enough or never is satisfied If it had the whole World yet it would fain also have the Abysse for there is no place * Born Prepared or Created generated for its Rest 41. It buildeth Countries and Kingdomes and breaketh them also againe and driveth Man into meere wearinesse toyle and unquietnesse it is exactly the Devils Heart and Will for Pride is the fine brave Spirit which sprouteth out from Covetousnesse 42. It is the fair brave Childe that there should possesse Heaven but Covetousness hath made it a Bastard and hath introduced it into †Rev. 17.5 Babell into the Mother of the great Whoredome upon Earth There Pride alwayes playeth the Whore with Covetousnesse and is but a Bastard in the presence of God 43. It cannot possesse the Kingdome of Heaven it maketh or hath its Kingdome of Heaven upon Earth it lyeth in Whoredome with the King Falshood which taketh all its Labour and giveth it to the Four Elements of the Devill in the Dark-world and thither must also Pride together with Covetousnesse follow after when the Anguish breaketh the Covetous Sack 44. It is indeed so very Religious Pious and Sincere and yet taketh its Covetousness with it into the Abysse that yet the Pride may have its Joy therein 45. As a Fool in his Fools Coat which toyleth and vexeth himself that he might bring forth Folly and please his Spectators in that he is so senslesse a Fool In like manner also Pride and Covetousnesse is Gods Foole and the Devills Jugler who hath his Joy therein that he can make of Gods Image a Fooles Image 46. The Third Power or Vertue is Envy in the Four Elements of the Devill in the Kingdome of Falshood that is a Sting it rageth and raveth as an Evill Poyson it Can remain no where and hath no place of its Rest 47. It s Mother the Covetousnesse letteth it have no Rest it must continually rage and rave it must enter into that in which it was not generated it is the Mouth of Covetousnesse a constant Lyar and Defamer and Disgracer of others it stingeth into its Neighbours Heart and woundeth it 48. It devoureth it self for very poysonous hunger and yet never hath enough it maketh disquietnesse without limit or Measure it is the greatest Poyson and the Eye of Hell the Devill seeth Man therewith into Soul and Body Nothing is like to it 49. It is no Fire but the sting of the Fire it is the Author of all Evill or mischief and yet findeth no Rest the more it driveth on the more senslesse and mad it is it is a tainted Poyson it needeth no Substance yet it rageth in the Substance 50. It maketh Man more then senslesly mad so that he desireth to rage and rave against God It is Hells and the Anger 's Essence it maketh of Love the greatest Enmity it affordeth Nothing to any and yet is it self a famished Nothing 51. This is the Devils Will-Spirit that Man which taketh it into his Lodging he taketh in the Devill together with Gods Anger for it bringeth the hellish Torment and Woe it is the Eternall Enimicitious Plague and disquietnesse and destroyeth the Noble Image of God for it is Gods and All Creatures Enemy 52. The Fourth Power or Vertue in the Four Elements in the Kingdome of Falshood of the Devils is the Anger the Malice or Wickedness that is the right hellish Fire the Anger becometh generated between the Covetousness and the Envy 53. It is the Envies Fire and Life That which the Envy cannot bring to passe that the Anger bringeth to passe The Anger taketh Body and Soul together and runneth as a raging Devill will murther and break or destroy all 54. It runneth against Walls and Forts And though perhaps it bursteth it self yet it is so raging like a Mad Dog who bites worries and killeth all it is so poysonous venomous and spitefull in its anger that what it cannot overpower yet it poysoneth venometh or spiteth 55. This is the Right * Podâ—gra Gout of the World when
Scales or Ballance Beam of a Balance I. The First Principle What God and the Eternity is and can doe II. And what kind of Sprout or Vegetation each of them giveth out of it self out of its property III. And how a Man shall search out the Ground of Nature And thus the First Head or Part or Point is finished The Second Point The Third Chapter Concerning the Mixed Tree of Evill and Good or concerning the Life of the Three Principles one in another how that uniteth it self and accordeth 1. * Note IN Gods Kingdome viz in the Light World there is no More but one Principle rightly known For the light hath the Dominion and the other sources or qualities and properties are all secret as a Mysterie for they must all serve the Light and give their willing up into the Light and therefore the fierce wrathfull Essence in the Light becometh changed into a Desire of Light and of Love in Meeknesse 2. Though indeed the properties viz harsh bitter Anguish and the bitter woe in the Fire continue Eternally even in the Light World yet none of them is manifest in its property but they are all of them together only thus a Cause of the Life of the Mobility and Joy 3. That which in the Dark World is a woe that is in the Light World a well-doing Munificence and that which in the Dark is a stinging and hating enmity that is in the Light a rising leaping Joy And that which in the Dark is a Fear Terrour and Trembling that is in the Light an Exulting and Triumphing of Joy a ringing forth and singing And that could not be if in the Originall there were not such an Earnest Eager severe source or quality 4. Therefore is the Dark World the Light Worlds ground and originall and the anxious Evill must be an Originall of the Good and is all Gods yet the * Note Light World is only called God 5. And the Principle between the Light World and the Dark World is called Gods anger and fierce wrath And if that be awakened as by the Devill and all evill or wicked men it is they then become forsaken of the Light and fall into the Dark World 6. The Dark World is called Death Hell the Abysse and a Sting of Death Despair Self-enmity and Lamentation a life of Malice Wickedness and Falshood in which the Truth and the Light is denied and not apprehended or discerned wherein the Devils dwell and the Damned Souls also the hellish Wormes which the Deaths Fiat in the moving of the All-substantial Lord hath figured 7. For Hell hath in the Darknesse the Greatest Constellation of the Most Severe eager Power in that all is Loud sounding as a Great Noise that which ringeth in the Light that knocketh rumbleth or Thumpeth in the dark as is to be apprehended in those things that Men use to strike upon that they give a ringing sound for the ringing is not the Substance as a Bell which men ring-out that is it self no Sound but only a hardness and a cause of the ringing sound 8. The Bell conceiveth or receiveth the stroke viz the knocking and from the hard knocking the ringing sound goeth forth the cause is this that there is in the Matter of the Bell a Substance that together in the Creation in the Moving of the All-being or All-substantiall God became shut up in the hardness as is to be perceived by us in the Metalline Tincture if men would not be so mad and blind 9. Thus we apprehend that in Hell in the Abysse there are many and sundry sorts of Spirits not Devils only but many Hellish Wormes according to their Constellation and property not * Or having with understanding As in this World there are unreasonable Beasts Toads and Serpents c. 10. For all would be Creaturely and is gone into a Substance so that thus the Anger-Looking-Glass also sheweth its Wonders and manifesteth it self 11. Indeed there is no perception of woe in the Hellish Wormes for they are of the same Essence and property it is their Life and is a Substance which standeth hidden to the outward World only the Spirit of God which in all the Three Principles is it self the source or quality according to the property of each of them he knoweth it and manisesteth it to whom he will 12. Now then if we will say how the Principles unite in one another then we must set the fire viz the highest strength in the Middle that giveth to each Principle a well-pleasing Life and a Spirit which it desireth 13. Therefore there is no strife in the Principles for the fire is the Life of all Principles that is the cause of the Life not the Life it Self 14. To the Abysse it giveth its woe viz the sting so that Death findeth it self in a Life else the Abyss were a still vacuum It giveth its fierce wrath to it so that out of the Abysses Life mobility ariseth else it were a still void Eternity and a Nothing 15. And to the Light World the Fire giveth also its Essence else there would be no perception or Light therein and all were but ONE yet without the fire a Nothing viz an * A Vge Eye of Wonders which apprehended n◠it self wherein there were no understanding but an Eternall Arcanum or hiddenness where no seeking or production could be 16. To the Third Principle viz to the Kingdome of this World the fire giveth also its Essence and source or quality whence all and every Life and Substance becometh stirring all perception or sensibility or Cogitability and whatsoever shall come to be Somewhat must have Fire there springeth nothing out of the Earth without the fires Essence It is a cause of all the Three Principles and all whatsoever can be named 17. Thus the fire maketh an union of all the Three Principles and is in Each of them the cause of the Substance no Principle striveth against the other but the Essence of each desireth only its own and is alwayes in strife if that were not all would be a still void Nothing Each Principle giveth to the other its power and form or condition and there is a Continuall League or Peace between them 18. The Dark World hath the Great pain and Anguish which the fire causeth so that the Will panteth or longeth after the Liberty and the Liberty panteth after the †Note Manifestation viz after the Essences and giveth it self into the fierce wrath that it might manifest it self and so bringeth it self into Fire so that out of the fierce wrath and the Liberty a fire ariseth and so giveth it self to the fierce wrath to be devoured viz into Death but goeth out of the Death with the assumed Essences forth into its own viz into a World and source or quality of its own and dwelleth in it self unapprehended by Death and the Dark World and is a Light in it self 19. Thus is Death and the fierce wrath
and Beasts what a biting Enmity striking proud stately Will the own self-will is where every Will would dominere over the other and worry and devour the other and only lift up it self also tread under all with cunning subtilty fierce wrathfull Malice Malignity and Falshood and make it self Lord thus also hath the Dark-world such a property 31. What all evill wicked malicious Men in this World doe in their malice wickedness and falshood that also the Devils doe in the Dark-world and what the poysonous evill Wormes and Beasts in their Malignity doe that doe also the other Creatures in the Dark-world 32. Though indeed they are without such Bodies yet they have such a Property in their Spirituall Body and though indeed they have Bodies yet it is after a spirituall manner as the Devils have 33. The Dark-worlds Birth or Geniture Substance Essence and Dominion standeth principally only in the first four Formes of Nature viz in the anxious Source or Quality in a very exceeding strong and mighty potent Dominion where all in the Essence is loud-sounding 34. For the Meekness is the Enmity of the fierce wrathfull Might or Power and indeed the one is against the other Else if they should be ONE there would also be but one only Source or Quality 35. If also there were but one Will there could not the Eternall Wonders become Manifest but the Manifold various Source or Quality maketh the Eternall Wonders revealed or Manifest 36. For the Eternity could not otherwise be manifested nor come to substance but with the kindling viz in the harsh hard strong or stern Attraction wherein the Dark world standeth and wherein the Fire-world ariseth originally and the Light-world 37. It is all but One only Substance but it parteth it self into three Properties of Sources or Qualities there is no Property rent asunder from the other but every one giveth or affordeth the other as is to be seen in Fire and Light as also in the Matter out of which the Fire burneth 38. And it is not necessary for Man to search further for he is himself the Substance of all Substances only thus farre it is necessary for him to search therefore because he hath in his Creation turned himself away out of his in-standing Order or stated Ordinance and introduced and awakened another source or quality in himself to find how he may again enter into his Eternal Order or Ordinance and source or quality and Regenerate himself again 39. And then how he may again quench the fierce wrathfull Source or Quality which is Stirring in him seeing ALL is stirring in him and that Evill and Good draweth him therefore he should learn how he may withstand the fierce Wrath and may walk and converse in Meekness in the Source or Quality of the Light and of the Love 40. Else Man had had no Law if he had not kindled himself in the Dark-worlds Property and walked or conversed according to the Property thereof Else all is free to him * NOTE Whatsoever he doth in the Meeknesse and Love that is FREE to him and is his owne Substance 41. It lyeth in No mans Name or Opinion all whatsoever is sprouted or grown out of one only Root that is and belongeth to one only Tree it is one only Fruit unlesse it destroyeth it self so that it changeth the very Essence it self 42. So long as a thing continueth in the Essence out of which it is existed so long it hath no Law but when it departeth out from thence into another Source or Quality then the first Source or Quality cleaveth to it and lyeth with the other in strife and now the Law pursueth it that it should enter again into that which it was in the originall and be one not two for one onely thing should drive on one only Dominion not two 43. Man was created in the Dominion of the Love and Meeknesse viz in Gods Substance therein he was to continue But seeing he hath awakened to himself yet another Dominion viz the fierce Wrath now he is in strife and hath Law upon him that he mortifie and forsake the fierce Wrath and be in One dominion again 44. If then both Dominions are become mighty in him and that the fierce wrathfull Dominion hath overpowered or vanquished the Love then he must totally dissolve in the Substance and become new born or generated again out of the first Root and therefore he hath in this Twofold Substance Law upon him how he shall behave himself and generate or bring forth a Will-Spirit to the Eternall Dominion 45. All this now standeth in his Might and Power he may generate or bring forth the fierce wrathfull Spirit or the Love-Spirit and according to that he becometh separated thither into which World he belongeth for he separateth himself but the Law over him continueth so long as he stand in this Field or Soyle 46. And then when the †Or Hearb Weed separateth from this Field of the Body Then it is in one Dominion again And there it shall continue Eternally for hereafter there is nothing more that can give it Law for it is totally One only in its willing either to doe Evill or Good 47. But in this outward Life Man standeth in Strife and there Two Dominions sway in him of a twofold Source or Quality and Law The one the divine to Love and Righteousness Secondly the other the fierce wrathfull one in the rising up of Pride and State in the Fires Might in the stern harsh hellish Covetousness Envy Anger and Malice or Wickednesse 48. To which then the Spirit inclineth uniteth or appropriateth it self of that Dominion it is The other cleaveth to it and reproacheth it to its Face as a perjured Apostate yet draweth it and would have it thus the Life sticketh between both in the Presse and is ever at odds with it self 49. But when it departeth away and totally giveth it self home to the fierce Wrath then the fierce Wrath destroyeth the first Image according to God but if it cannot totally because the divine Power hindereth it yet will the fierce wrath thrust the whole Man headlong and will cast Many headlong into Despaire in that anguish so that he kills himself or putteth himself to Death 50. And thus the Soul falleth with the Image home to the fierce wrathfull Dark-world and the Image is brought into a hellish Figure into a Form or Condition of its Property which it had here 51. For thus it is also come to passe with the Devils who have lost their first Image Every Devill hath now his Image according to his Property according to the fierce Wraths Figure according to its Source or Quality like as there are horrible Wormes or Evill Beasts and such a thing the lost Soul also hath to expect 52. Outward Reason supposeth that Hell is farre off from us but it is near us every one carrieth it in himselfe unlesse he kill the hellish Poyson * Note how
his Enemies viz * Hebr. 2.14 Over Sinne over Death the Devil and over Hell as the Scripture saith †1 Cor. 15.25 26 54 55 56 57. till these his Enemies which all of them are Enemies of the Kingly and Princeâ—y Throne of MICHAEL because they are become thrust out of it be laid under his feet for a footstool and this Dominion and Imaging in this Throne cease 19. Hereby to those that are OURS and have their Thoughts or Senses and Apprehensions enlightened from God enough is shewen and we intend this in Love It is the highest Gate which God openeth or unlocketh to us for the very Last For those that can understand it but for the Scorners so long as they are such we have not written and we seal it with the Eternall Will so that this shall be understood by no Sâ—orner Amen 20. But how man may understand this depth of the Deity and search all things as St. Paul saith of it that * 1 Cor. 2.10 the Spirit searcheth all things even the Depth of the Deity and that the Rationall Naturall Man in own-self ability apprehendeth Nothing viz the own Will and yet that this is apprehensible in Man understand it as followeth 21. Man ia an Image of the Substance of all Substances a right expresse Image of God according to Love and Anger viz First the Soul is the Eternall Centrall Fire of the own willing for out of that * Note must all Creatures come but not out of the clear purâ— God 22. And Secondly The Spirit of the Sâ—ul is the Centrall Fire of the Light out of the Eternall IDEA broke forth or Sprung from the Power of God and it is Supernaturall whereupon it is also †1 Cor. 6.19 The Temple of the Holy Spirit in which Christ dwelleth and feedeth the Soul with his Flesh and Bloud viz with divine and humane * viz Christus or the Anointing Bâ—lsam in which the Death and the Anger of God is become broken Whereupon then such divine Balsam continueth in the Spirit of the Soul substantially as Christ saith †Joh. 6.56 Whosoever eateth my Flâ—sh and drinketh my Bloud he continueth in me and I in him 23. But Thirdly The outward Body is out of the outward World out of the four Elements and out of the Astrum or Consâ—eâ—â—â—â—â—ons Which outward Dominion ruleth the outward Life after which outward Dominion the Adamicall Soul hath Longed or Lustâ—â— and for the sake thereof is broken off from the Unity of God an◠〈…〉 into the Dominion of this World where the Will in it self â—ecame capâ—â—ve by the DRAGON of Gods Anger and turned into a Monster where the true Spirit disappeared when the Light of God Extinguâ—shed to it and the IDEA became Dumb or Inanimate and Uâ—operative or worklesse 24. Which Spirit the IDEA JESUS viz an Efflux from the divine Unity came to help relieve or assist and introduced the Light of the Love into the poor Soul 25. Now when this Name JESUS which is called Christ when he assumed the Humanity â—ndrew into the poor turned away or apostate Soul and pressed througâ—â—nd through it with the Beames of Gods Unity then became the Eternall IDEA viz the right Spirit in such Balsam of the Love moveable again thus the Light shineth again in the Darkness of the Soul and the NEIN or No becometh united with the IAH where Michael in the Strife standeth against or resisteth the Dragon viz the Name oâ— the Anger in Christ JESU 26. In this Light the Soul seeth again into its â—athers or Native Country which it had at first viz into its originall out of which it is Sprouted fâ—r the Name of GOD is in it and worketh in the Spirit Where it standeth in the viewing or Vision of God and may throughly search out all things yet n t in own-self Motion and willing But when the Name of God in the Moving entereth into it self then it looketh upon the forming of the Wonder-doing NAME it seeth and heareth what God speaketh in it 27. * NOTE No Image like Speaking or discourse but operative in the Understanding as the Prophets have spoken and yet this is incomprehensible to the outward Reason of which Saint Paul saith †Phil. 3.20 Our Conversation is in Heaven and yet saith also That a Thorne or Sting was given him in the Flesh that Sathans Angel or Messenger viz a Source Quality or Torment from the Spirit of Seduction of Lust should buffet him or strike him with fists 28. Understand this rightly thus that a Man seeth such hidden secret Mysteries in the Spirit of * Col. 2.2 3. CHRIST wherein all Treasures of Wisdome Lyo as the Scripture testifieth throughout And thus Men are to unsterstand rightly what the Eternall Councill of God is And then also how Man May come to such Vision or viewing and we have here only shewen the Possibility but the Way or Processe how he may attain thereto we have largely or copiously enough described in the other Books The Thirteenth Question How is the Thrusting out of the Dragon and of the Legions of Lucifer effected Whither is he thrust that he can be without God Seeing God filleth all things Or what is the Foundation of Hell where he dwelleth Answer 1. THe †Rev. 12.9 Thrusting out of the DRAGON was the false Apostate off-turned Image-like Will of the own receptibility in which off-turned Will LUCIFER together with his Angels hath Imaged Figured or Formed himself 2. The Dragon is the hellish Foundation and the rejected or reprobate Spirits are the Naturall Imaged Properties of the Hellish Foundation For when they brake off themselves from the holy Name of God from the Being or Substance of the Unity of God and totally Imaged themselves in the NEIN or No that is in the LYE then they became such 3. The Thrusting out is Effected by or Through the Name of the holy Power of * Lucifers his Throne which he hath had he is with his Legions become thrust out of his Throne that is out of his dwelling or Habitation and became instantly shut or lockt up by the Darknesse and apprehended or captivated by the fierce Wrath of the hellish Foundation 4. Thus he is severed off from Gods Holiness and dwelleth under the Firmament and upon the Earth between Time and Eternity as a Prince of Darkness in the fierce Wrath of God 5. His Princely Dominion is in the highest in severall distinctness as also in the Elements in all Quarters and Places after the Manner and Kind of the Four Elements according to †Of the Spirits their Properties for their Properties are Manifold and they have in all the four Elements Habitations every Generation or Tribe among them in their likenesse 6. Yet Men must rightly understand it thus they have not the Elements in possession according to the Good property of them No but only the out flown fierce Wrath out of the Eternall
viz as to one part to the Commandement with their Will directed into Gods Will as the first Patriarchs and all the honest good People of Israell 96. The other acted with their Hands the Works of the Law and clave with their Will to their poysonous Magia viz to Covetousness and sought nothing Else but the Numbers of the Multiplicity 97. Their Mouth was a Jew and the Heart a Babylonish Whore an Hypocrite and Antichrist with good words and a false covetous Heart 98. And thus in Christendome and with all People and Nations is the Babylonish Whore together with Antichrist sitting and there in one only People two Kingdomes dwell at once and they let themselves not mix in the inward Spirit so that they become one * Dan. 2.43 as Lime and Iron mingle not 99. They doe indeed mingle themselves according to the outward Body But their Spirits are of two sorts of Tribes or Generations as the Prophet Daniel saith Daniel 2. from 40. to the 45. verse 100. Therefore whosoever will know the Antichrist let them seek him only thus they will find him in every House but the worst of all is the Crowned Whore and her God-mothers who elevate her out of the Baptisme of Whoredome that they also may live in Number of the Multiplicity viz the Cryers who lead from the one Will of God into Many Wills that they alone may inherit the Number of the Multiplicity and may stuffe of fatten Earthly Bellies 101. And the other part belonging to the Free-Will of God goeth forth with the Magick Will hereof out of it self into the Liberty viz into the one only incomprehensible Will of God and it standeth * In the Philosophick Globe in the 40. Questions of the Soul turned Backward in the Magick Figure 102. The Life thereof seeketh Bread and goeth forward and its Will is not in the Bread but goeth out of it self out of the seeking into God into one only Number these are the right Children of the Eternall Mâ—gia 103. For Gods Spirit dwelleth in their Will and openeth to them the Eternall Wonders of God and their Lifes Spirit openeth the Wonders of this World and they are free from Babell and the Antichrist though indeed they should sit in the Bosome thereof for the right true Image of God standeth in the Spirit of the willing which becometh generated out of the Spirit of the Soul The Ninth Text. 104. WHereas then there are thus two Magia's in one another so there are also two Magi which manage and drive them viz two Spirits the one is Gods Spirit and the other the Spirit of Reason into which the Devill insinuates himself and in the Spirit of God the Love of the Unity stirreth it self 105. †Note And Man cannot better try and prove himself then by taking serious Consideration To what his Desire and Lust or Longing driveth him The same he hath for a Conductor and its Child he is 106. Neverthelesse he hath Now Might and Strength that he can break and alter that Will for he is Magicall and hath the Might or Ability Yet it must be Sincere or Earnest for he must Tame or subdue the Starry Spirit which ruleth in him Note Note 107. To this belongeth a Temperate sober and quiet Life with continuall giving up into the Will of God for the taming or subduing of the Source or Quality of the Starres there is no Wisdome nor Art needfull but Sobriety or Temperance of Life with continuall going out from the Influxes or * Instigations of Evill in Lusts and Passions Instigations the Elements continually dart into him the seeking of the Starres into the Will 108. Therefore it is not so easie a thing to become a Child of God to that belongeth great Labour and Toyle 109. And yet the Antichrist dares call himself a Child of God but Christ saith * Math. 7.21 22 23. They shall not all come into the Kingdome of Heaven that say LORD LORD and have not we Cast out Devils in thy Name and done great works but he faith to them away from me ye stinking Goats I know you not you have done this out of the false or wicked Magia and are not become known in my Spirit and Will 110. Ye are in your Spirituall Figure Goats Tyrants Covetous Proud Stately Voluptuous ye have brought my Name on to your Tongue but have sacrificed your Heart to the Pleasures and Voluptuousnesse of the Flesh and are generated in the Turba ye must be tryed through the Fire and so Each Kingdome getteth home its Fruit. 111. Therefore ye brave World behold your self in these Writings which have set before you the Eternall Ground and Consider further and deeper concerning it else you will become captivated in your Turba and there you shall with your Substance goe through the Fire of God and whatsoever is †1 Cor. 3.13 14 15. a work without the Will of God that shall remain in the Fire but whatsoever is generated in the Will of God that shall stand to Gods Glory and deeds of Wonder and to the Eternall Joy of the Image of Man 112. Now Consider what thou doest For Babell standeth already in the Flames and beginneth to Burn there is no Quenching or Extinguishing More nor no Remedy or Medicine she is become known to be Evill her Kingdome goeth to the End Hal-le-lu-jah The 8 of May. 1620. The Translation into the Nether-dutch was the second time made 1642. in July out of Three written High-dutch Copies Out of which Nether-dutch this was translated into English Saturday 6. of February 1657 8. Old Stile And compared with a High-dutch Copie The Holy Week Or A PRAYER-BOOK In which is mentioned the true Ground of Right Praying Set forth upon the entreaties and desires of his loving and good Friends for the daily Exercise of True Christianity in their Hearts and Little Church of their Families In the Year 1624. left unfinished By Jacob Behme Teutonicus Philosophus Englished by JOHN SPARROW London Printed by M. S. for Lodowick Lloyd and are to be sold at the Castle in Cornhill 1661. The brief Contents of this Prayer-Book for Every Day in the Week HOw Man should continually consider and call to mind his Employment Office or Duty his State Condition and Conversation wherein God hath set and ordained him and how he should Commit and Commend his Beginning Middle and End of all his Doings to God and Continually work all his Works with and IN God just as the Stock of the Tree generateth its Branches with and IN the power of the Root and bringeth forth its Fruit upon them And how in all his Beginnings he should draw Power and Vertue to his Works out of Gods Fountain or Well-spring and thank his Creatour for all Benefits Together with a hearty Consideration of the Suffering Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ shewing how Man should continually bring his Soules hunger and desire through Christs Death in his Resurrection into
Earnest Praying if we would obtain any thing from God a right true Repentance and in-turned Humility For right Praying is a receiving of that which the Soul desireth concerning which Christ saith From henceforth the Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force to themselves Math. 11.12 43. For which cause I will set down a brief Form of a Confession or Preparation how a Man should prepare himselfe when he will bring his short Prayer and Requests before God 44. For he may as well be heard in a short Prayer as with many words if his heart stand right in the presence of God It needeth not long Prayers or many words but only a Beleiving or faithfull repentant Soul which with totall Earnestnesse giveth it self up into the Mercy of God into Gods Compassion For one onely sigh worketh with God if the Will standeth nakedly or purely before God and hath cast away from it the Earthly Garment viz the false or wicked Lust This for an Intimation to the Reader and for a quickening stirring to him 45. For there needeth not to be used just such a Form of Confession but the Holy Spirit will well enough make a Form for him in the heart when the Will in true earnest Sincerity turneth it self to God 46. Only for an Introduction to every one who doth not yet know how a true Prayer should be fitted I will set down this Confession to direct his Soul therewith and I will commit the work of Confession together with the Praying to the Holy Spirit in every Soul which is truly and rightly Earnest He will well enough make for him a Confession and Prayer if any doe but earnestly sincerely and rightly come to the Gate where GOD the LORD in Man Speaketh operatively Then he will find it so A Confession and Right Acting or Working of Repentance before Gods Countenance 47. O Deepest of all Greatest Unsearchable Holy God! Thou who out of meer Grace and Mercy after the terrible apostacy of our first Parents with thy great Love and Mercy in thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST hast manifested thy self in our Humanity and in him hast made an open Gate of Grace again for us poor Men to thy Countenance and abolished Sinne and Death in his Bloud and callest us now to such Grace as a Mercifull God we poor Sinners now should only Convert again and come to thee and thou wilt quicken or refresh us Math. 11.28 48. I poor unworthy sinfull Man come upon the invitation of thy Word and acknowledge to thee that I am not worthy of such Grace which thou offerest us For I Stick in the Slime of Vanity and am Laden with vain Lusts of the Flesh and own-self Will my Sinnes have captivated and obscured me so that I neither tast nor see thy Grace in me also I have no Right Trust or Confidence nor Faith towards thee and have totally given my self up into the vanity of the World and of the Flesh and am compassed about therewith 49. I have defiled my fair bright Garment which thou hast put on to me in the Baptisme with the Lust of the Flesh and lye in the Devils Net captive in thy fierce Wrath. Hell setteth its Jaws wide open against me and my Conscience gnaweth me thy Judgement standeth alwayes before me and the Bands of Death wait upon me 50. I lye in the slime and mire of Sinnes and Vanity so that also I neither know my Sinnes nor can bewail them For they have hidden me from thy Countenance and I have only yet a little sparkle of the living breath in me through thy drawing which desireth thy Grace 51. And I come now before thee with the Lost Sonne and the Publican in the Temple and fly to thy Mercy and pray thee in my weak power through the Bitter Suffering and Dying of my Redeemer JESUS CHRIST whom thou hast Set before thee for a Grace-Throne and offerest us thy Grace through his Satisfaction that thou wouldst receive me yet again for thy Child and Heir in thy Sonne and wouldst awaken for me a right Earnest Repentance also Sorrow and Grief for my former committed Sinnes in my Heart that I may goe out from the wicked way or Conversation and turn my heart totally and altogether to THEE 52. O Great God strengthen I beseech thee my weak Faith in Me rouse my heart I pray thee that it may acknowledge and bewaile my manifold Sinnes Touch thou my poor Soul with thy Power that it may acknowledge it self that it standeth deviated and turned away from thee 53. O thou Breath of the Mercifulnesse of God doe thou draw me to thee through my Redeemer Jesus Christs Death and Resurrection and abolish my Sinnes in his Bloud and Death and make my poor Soul living in his Bloud and wash it clean from its Sinnes that its desire may presse into thee O thou Holy God! and fetch Power out of thy Spring or Fountain of Grace 54. Awake thou I pray thee in me a right hunger and thirst after true Repentance and Sorrow for my former committed Sinnes that I may hate or be at Enmity and angry against them and turn my self to Thee 55. O thou great deep of Mercy I am afar off from thee and cannot reach thee in my weak Power turn thee to me I beseech thee and comprehend my desire into thee and kindle it O Lord that I may tast thy Grace 56. Forgive I pray thee my Trespasses and Sinnes and heal my weaknesse bruise I pray thee my Heart and Soul that I may acknowledge and humble my self before thee Be thou I pray thee my beginning to Conversion and lead me upon the right path that I may walk with thee 57. Give me I pray thee thy holy Spirit in my Soul and Spirit and Sanctifie me in thy Grace As thy beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath engaged to me saying My Father will give the holy Spirit to them that pray unto him for it Luke 11.13 Also Knock and so it will be opened unto you Math. 7.7 Luke 11.9 58. Now come I poor Sinner upon the Invitation of thy Word and take to me thy Saying in my Soul and Heart and will not leave off from thee unless thou blesse me with JACOB 59. And though indeed my Sinnes are many yet thou art God and the Eternall Truth which cannot Lye where thou hast Spoken in the Prophet Isaiah If we Convert and Repent then we shall be snow-white as wool Isai 1.18 60. Upon thy Saying I trust and give my self totally and altogether up to thee and pray thee receive me into Grace and bring me to thy Children who walk in the way of the Living and let me walk with them and enter into thy Commandement give me a true humble and obedient Heart that may alwayes fear before thy Anger and Sinne no more 61. O thou Well-Spring or Fountain of all Grace what shall I say before thee Or why should I flatter my self and comfort my evill Will
and Desire I desire no Comfort from thee in my earthly evill Will but pray thee out of all my power which yet is in me mortifiâ— my Earthly Evill Will and let it no more live before thee For it desireth only hypocrisie dissembling or flattery and own self Love and is never sincerely upright before thee It giveth thee good words and pretendeth Truth and yet is a Constant Lyar before thee 62. Give me only thy Will that I may will nothing without thee Doe thou with thy Will tread down my self evill Will to the ground and let me in thy Power co-will and act with thee 63. O LORD what shall I in my vanity pray for from thee I pray for Nothing from thee but for the dying of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST That thou wouldst put me to Death in his Death and make me living again in his Resurrection in him that I may no more walk or converse according to my Spirits Will in me but in him That I may be his Temple and Dwelling-house that he may lead and conduct me so that without him I may be able to will or doe nothing 64. Unite thou and bind me with him so that I may be a fruitfull Branch on his Vine and bear good Fruit in his Power into thy Promise I sink my self down totally and altogether Be it done unto me according to thy Word and Will Amen A Thanksgiving and Prayer When a Man after such Acting Repentance findeth the divine Power in himself 65. O GOD thou Well-Spring or Fountain of Love and Mercy I glorifie and praise thee in thy Truth and Thank thee in my Heart that thou presentest to me thy Countenance again and lookest upon me unworthy and Miserable Wretch with the Eyes of thy Mercy and givest me a Ray or Beam of Comfort so that my Soul CAN hope on Thee 66. O thou Infinite Love of JESUS CHRIST thou who hast Broken Death in our Humanity and changed Gods Anger into Love to thee I give up my self totally and altogether My Soul Laudeth and honoureth thee It rejoyceth it self in thy Power and Love that thou art so Good and Gracious My Spirit sporteth in thy Power and joyeth it self in thy Truth All thy doing is right and Truth Thou rulest over Sinne and breakest the Power of Death Thou holdest the Might and Power of Hell captive and shewest us the Way of Life 67. None is like thee O LORD Who releasest the Captives out of the Pits and Graves of Death and refreshest the Miserable Thou givest them drink in their Thirst and givest them Water of Eternall Life Thou directest their Feet in right Paths and guidest them with thy Staffe The dry parched Places of the Heart and of the Soul thoâ— fattenest and bedewest with thy Rainy Showers and givest them Water of Mercy 68. Thou makest them living in the Midst of Death and settest them up before thee so that they live before thee Thou thinkest on the Mercy and Covenant which thou hast made with us through thy Bloud and Death and forgivest us our Sinnes 69. Thou pourest into us of thy Power so that we acknowledge thee and givest us Food of the Eternall Life whereby we become quickened and continually hunger and thirst after thee This now my Soul acknowledgeth therefore it praiseth thee and exalteth thee in thy great Might and Glory 70. O thou Well-Spring or Fountain of Divine Sweetnesse comprehend or receive my Soul into thee and fill my Spirit with thy Love and bind me to thy Band that I never more depart from thee Strengthen I pray thee my weak Faith and give me an assured Hope and Confidence 71. Cleanse I pray thee my Heart and Soul and give me Chastity Modesty and Purity in my Conscience that I may be ashamed of Sinne before thy Countenance and depart from it Mortifie I pray thee all Evill Lusts in me that I may cleave unto thee with clean and pure desire and walk in thy Will 72. Keep and Maintain me I pray thee in thy Power and acknowledgement and give me an humble Heart towards thee and my Neighbour so that I may alwayes acknowledge and love thee Help also that I may Love my Neighbour as my self through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. AMEN A Prayer to the Great Fire-burning Love of God shewing how rightly to Pray for it O Thou Holy GOD thou that dwellest in a Light that None can câ—â—â— unto but only the Love of thy Sonne Jesus Christ which thou hast out of meer Grace poured into our Humanity in JESUS Christ Wherewith thou hast loved us poor Men before the foundation of the World And hast through this Love redeemed us from thy fierce Wrath and from the power of Death and of Hell and offerest us now this Love through thy Sonne Jesus Christ in thy Fire-flaming Spirit that we should pray unto thee for it and thou wilt give it unto us 74. I poor unworthy Man acknowledge my self in◠〈…〉 worthy of it But seeing thou hast manifested or revealed 〈…〉 in our assumed Humanity and callest therewith the poor * Luke 19.10 1 Joh. 4.2 3. 2 John 7. lost Sinners And art* Come in the Flesh so that thou wilt seek them in their Sinnes and Miseries and thereby deliver them from Sinne and save them as thy Word teacheth us this Therefore come I upon the invitation of thy Word and receive thy Word and truth in my Heart and Soul and Comprehend it in me as thy Free-Gift and pray thee O thou Fire-flaming Love of God in the Covenant of JESUS CHRIST freely given to us poor thirsty Soules kindle also my poor Soul with this Love that it may attain a New Life and Will and become delivered out of its Prison and Captivity of thy Anger and out of the Jawes of Death 75. O thou fiery Love of God thou who hast in our Humanity broken Death and destroyed Hell and brought forth our Souls victory in Christ through Death Thou who hast at †Acts 2. the holy Pentecost moved in the Apostles Mouths and Hearts in fiery flames and kindled all thy Saints and done thy Miracles or Works of Wonder by them Thou that lovest and preservest the whole World and all thy Creatures To THEE I come and give my self wholly into thee 76. O thou great Fountain of God Open thy self also in the Spirit of my Inwardnesse and kindle also in me the Fire of thy Love so that my Spirit may burn in thy Love and acknowledge and praise thee therein 77. O thou great Holinesse through the Merits of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST through his Bloud and Death I presse in me to thee and give my self up into thy Flame Through his Resurrection and Ascention or going to Heaven I bring my Will into thee and give it up to thee totally and altogether Doe thou with it how thou wilt Doe but deliver it from false or wicked Lust and break its power that it may only look upon thee 78. O thou holy Power
rightly intimate to me and informe me how thou didst pour in thy Holy Name into my Soul and Mind yea it is sprouted forth out of thy Name and thou hast given me authority and power with thy Name to rule over all things That it should flow forth out of my Mouth through thy power and Vertue and rule All Yea I should with my Mouth and Speaking-forth or Expression re-Image and form holy Figures and Images again 192. Even as thou Eternall God hast Imaged and formed All through thy breathing or Speaking forth So thou hast also given thy WORD with thy holy Name into my Soul and Mind that I as a Form and Image of thy Will should also so speak forth viz thy Wonder-deeds 193. That which thou O Great God hast Corporeally and Creaturely Imaged through thy Word I should Image that in thy praise and form it in thy Wisdome and Image or frame no strange Image in my Mouth against thy Creation and Ordinance But continue in thy working and rule over all things with thy Word in my Mouth and Heart as the Scripture testifieth The Word is neer thee viz in thy Mouth and in thy Heart Deut. 30.14 Rom. 10.8 Also the Kingdome of God is inwardly within you Luke 17.22 194. This thy Holy Word wherewith thou hast made Heaven and Earth hast thou given into our Mouth that thou mightest through our Mouth Create or Image thy Praise 195. But after Man had Introduced himself into own-self Lust and had turned his Will away from Thee then he began with his Mouth to Image in thy Word Earthly and Hellish Figures in thy Wrath viz Cursing Swearing Lying Formes false wicked evill serpentine formes to form Wolves Beares Lyons Dogs Cats Adders and Serpents and all manner of poysonous venomous Beasts and to Image or form the Name of God thereinto under the appearance of divine forming and Truth also into false wicked Sorcery Witchcraft and deceit and therewith to cast up or produce and honour strange Images for Gods and introduce and Image thy Name into Images of Idoll Gods 196. All this thou settest before us in this Commandement and requirest of us thy strong or severe righteousness to Image thy Name in Holiness to thy Praise and in thy Praise in Clearness Sincerity and Truth and without thy Will and Co-working to make no form of Our words but willest that we should Co-speak Will and Image with thee upon pain of Eternall Punishment as thy Command clearly soundeth forth Cursed be He that Keepeth not all the Words of this Law Deut. 27.26 197. O Great God! What shall I now here say before thee How innumerable many times doe we bring thy Word and Power in Our Mouths into false or wicked Imaging when we swâ—ar by thy Name and Curse and bring false or wicked Lust thereinto and make a Fair Flattering Hypocriticall Image upon our Lips and sell it to one another for Truth perswading one another to believe it to be so and yet there is inwardly nothing but a Serpent full of Lies and Poyson and so we Image thy Word under a right appearance into a Serpent and Devils Image Also we Curse by it and so generate a living Figure of the Devill and of Hell 198. Also we use thy Holy Name to scornfull reproach and Image our false or wicked Beasts therein all whatsoever we love in the World be it as false or wicked as it will thereinto we Image thy Name and Power with our Mouth Also in swearing wherein we bring thy Might and Power on to the Tongue also into Sorcery or Witchcraft Plagues or Torment and Sicknesses or Diseases Yea we Image it into Hellish Figures with our Mouth Yea Men further bring thy Manifested or Revealed Word and Will for the sake of their Belly and temporall Pleasure and Pride into a strange Image which themselves know NOT Only that the Truth may Continue obscure and that in this strange Image they themselves may be honoured for Gods they make Laws and Commandements for their own Honour Pleasure and Voluptuousness and bind them with the Oath of his Name and yet none keepeth the same in his Heart 199. O God! How much poysonous Anger and Malice of self-revenge doe we bring into thy Name When we reproach and tread upon or oppresse one another in our Proud Stately Mind with thy Name and bring it into Tyrannicall Power and Authority and doe no other with thy Name but as the Apostate Lucifer doth 200. All this thou settest before us in thy Commandement For thou sayest We should not misuse thy Name and this is called misusing when we introduce it into false Expression or speaking forth and * Forming or Figuring Imaging 201. O Great God! What shall I poor miserable sinfull Man say here before thee Thou requirest thy Name from and IN ME in Holiness in thy praise Where shall I bestow all these Devils Images which we poor Men Image in our †This Body of the Outward Flesh and Bloud Sinne-house before thy Countenance They are indeed meer abominations before thee for the sake of which thy Law Curseth me and sentenceth me to Eternall Death 202. O Holy God! I have nothing wherewith I may come before thee but only thy Great †Barmhertzigkeit Mercifulness that thy Holy Word according to thy Most inward Love is become Man and is come to help us viz thy first given Word which hath formed it self in Our Life that it may renew us again and kill all these Devils Images and release and deliver the poor Soul and Mind from such Images of the Serpent 203. For which I thank thee in Eternity and pray thee thou Eternall Shed-abroad Love in the Most Holy Name JESUS Come I beseech thee to help me and bring thy Word that became Man into my Soul and Mind and continue in Me that I may continue in thee 204. Awaken I pray thee in me thy Fire of thy Great Love kindle it O Lord that my Soul and Mind may SEE these Evill Beasts and kill them in thy Power through right and true Repentance That I may Constantly bring and use thy Holy Name JESUS in Me to thy Praise and Thanksgiving and no more generate in thy Word Evill Beasts which belong to thy Judgement 205. O thou living BREATH of God! I give my self wholly and altogether to be thy own work thou in me what thou wilt AMEN The * The 3. according to Luthers Catechisme otherwise the 4. Commandement Third Commandement Consider or Remember the Sabbath Day to Sanctifie it For in Six Dayes the Lord Made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all that in them is and Rested the Seventh Day 206. O DEAR GOD This Commandement Intimateth to me my inward right divine Rest in thy Love and Power that my Will should rest in thee from its own receptibility of its own willing and thou Eternall God wouldest with thy Power work in my Will 207. Thou art the right