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A28527	Mercurius Teutonicus, or, A Christian information concerning the last times being divers propheticall passages of the fall of Babel and the new building in Zion / gathered out of the mysticall writings of that famous Germane author, Jacob Behmen, alias, Teutonicus Phylosophus.; Selections. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3409	51,513	57

power thou sayst wee are nigh unto the Kingdome of God and yet wert never farther off this thy end will testifie and declare to be true 57. What doth thy knowledge availe thee the Devill knows likewise that which thou knowest but he doth it not and so doest thou and therfore the Kingdome of God remaineth hidden to both of you Thy knowledge is thy snare which captivates thee wert thou plaine and single-hearted thou wouldst not be so proud what doth the simple know of false suttlety and deceit if he learnt it not from the wit of the Turba Thou saist Wee beare forth Gods will and teach it art thou not Cain who daily killeth Abel Behold thy selfe aright thou art even he Abel lyeth at thy feet and lamenteth but thou art that wicked Beast that trampleth upon * Upon the sincere Love and humilitie of Christ and all those that would practice it Abel and oppressest the low and miserable and thou esteemest the simple as dust and yet thou devourest his sweat and fillest thy selfe with deceit without ground how canst thou then say Here is the Church of Christ O thou art Babel a Citie of whoredome and falshood 58. Thou knowest Gods will and yet doest onely thine omn will and also saist We are gone out from Babel we have the true Doctrine among us yea but hadst thou the Spirit of righteousnesse and truth and wouldst live contented with a little thy Mother would alwayes give thee enough that thou shouldst have no lack but thy pomp pride and arrogancy have no trust in God therefore thou reliest onely upon covetousnesse and thou doest onely devoure the fat of the Earth thou takest it away by force and not with right The Law and justice which thou doest arrogate to thy selfe thy false covetous heart hath invented Thou livest onely in deceit thou flatterest and deceivest thy selfe to thine own hurt wert thou truly wise thou wouldst have an eye to thy End and to that which followeth thereafter But thou blindest thy selfe with pride and yet sayest here is a golden time Many would faine have seene that we see and heare that which we heare but have neither seene nor heard it yea but hearken it shall be a witnesse against thee and make thy judgement so much the more heavy for thou art not growne better thereby but worse Therefore know what is declared thee the same was thy own Prophet which hath called thee back from thy pride unto the Mother of humility but thou art made onely worse thou hast quasht the sword of the Spirit that thou mightest live as thou listest but he hath forsaken thee and given thee over to the Turba which shall devoure thee as it hapned in times past to Israel No Consultation availeth thy Covenants are to no purpose seeing thou dependest upon the arme of flesh hence God also is quite departed from thee and sufferest thee to doe that which maketh for thy own destruction 59. Or why doest thou take the Covenant of God into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed and onely seekest Covetousnesse supposest thou that God is such a false hypocrite and lyar as thou art leave off from thy lip-labour mouth hypocrisie thou art not accepted of God unlesse thou doest returne and goe out from falsehood 60. It is with thee now as the Turba desireth whose sport and recreation it is to fulfill the Anger of God that it may devoure whatsoever is growne up in his Kingdome and thou art blinde therein and seest nothing To what end art thou so having and covetous depart from it doest thou not see how the Noble Tincture doth arise it will very shortly put forth its blossome and then thou shalt have Silver and Gold enough 61. But what shall we need say more thou hast whored thy selfe asleep thou choosest rather to goe quick into the Abysse then to forsake the Whore Therefore that shall be executed upon thee which thy own Prophet sheweth thee who hath long enough called thee with his Trumpet thou expectest Deliverance onely from the fiery devouring sword that shall also cut thee through 62. Or doest thou thinke that we are madd that we speake thus yea rather we are borne of thee wee see and understand the complaints of our Mother that rebuketh her children for shee declareth the wrath in the Turba which is growne even to the wrathfull Anger of God 63. We speake what is given us what we know in the zeale of the Lord what have we to doe with Babel we speake among our selves with the members of our body and with those who dwell in the Courts of God with those who now mourne with us whose sorrow shall be turned into joy Divers remarkable Places taken out of the Commentary of Teutonicus upon Gene●●s Chap. 30. o Or Verse Paragraph the 34. 34. THere are Seven Times appointed to proceed from the Tree of Life in the Word of Power The first proceedeth from the Pure Life of Adam for before the Creature the Life was in the Word whence it was brought pure into the Image This continueth till the Fall from this Pure Life springs forth a twigg in the inward Kingdome this was Abel but being the Fall hung on him in the outward world this same pure life was carried through death into the holy World It pointeth at the Kingdome of Christ who should bring us againe through death into the Pure Life 35. The Second Time begins with Seth for Moses saith that Adam was an hundred and thirtie yeares old and begat a sonne in his own likenesse and called him Seth Understand he was such an Image as Adam was after the Fall and was set in the spirituall Line of the Wonders and Cain also with him in a worldly Naturall Line of the Wonders for both * Secular and Ecclesiasticall Naturall and Spirituall Kingdomes goe together Seths time continueth till the Deluge and beareth the Supremacy even to the Deluge 36. The third time begins with E●os under Seths time and is carried along as a spirituall Ministry or knowledge of God under Seths time being as an hidden Kingdome and continues till Abraham to whom the Covenant of Christ was established in the flesh 37. The Fourth Time begins with Kenan which is the spirituall Forme in prayers and spirituall offrings wherein the Word formeth it selfe in the Wisdome and did bring it selfe along under Seths and Enos his Time and manifested it selfe with Moses like as Enos Time was first truely manifested with Abraham with the Promise in the Covenant This time of Kenan continues in its Manifestation and Dominion under Moses till Christ in the flesh 38. The Fift Time begins with Mahalaleel and 't is the Reception of the Angelicall forme viz. of the new regeneration out of the Covenant and goeth secretly all along under the Ministry of Enos under Seth and Kenan in the word of the Promise through all the three Times and was manifested with the fullfilling of the Covenant in

unchristian fury and bloud-thirsty minde whereby shee destroys not her opposites onely but her own selfe and even that which shee thinks to better and maintaine Thing whereby men may now see how her whoredome hath been manifold and how the Devill had beset us with manifold Nets and how one whoredome runs in the opposition to another and are malicious bite and slay one another 24. For the Great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the Great Iniquitie wherewith shee is fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her wofull smart and shee speaketh of the childe which she shall bring forth viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny shee uncovereth her faire feature as she is in the Heart Now he that will not know her for him there is no remedy 25. The Revelation saith Goe out from her my people that you may not be partakers of her plagues for shee hath filled her cup full with the Abominations of her whoredome in the Anger of God them shee shall drinke out and thereby be forced to burst her selfe 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her own mouth doth strangle her her own Turba destroyeth her shee cryeth for vengeance and murther upon heresie and yet shee doth it not for God but for her Adulterous Bratt otherwise if shee did it for God shee would enter into his Command and Will of Love where Christ saith Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples 27. The Kingdome of God stands not in any warre or revilings or in an outward shew in delicious dayes herein the children of God are not to be found but in love in patience and hope in faith under the Crosse of Christ there groweth the Church of God to the holy Ternary i. e. a new angelicall man hidden in the old and this is my certain knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zion I say according to my knowledge as the Spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an Ending of the Deceit and Zion shall be found yet onely of the children of faith not in generall as if no wicked man should remaine 29. For the Oppressour shall be a Cause that Zion is borne when men shall see how Babel is an whore then shall many children be found in Zion and seek the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them at the heels and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and exercise their faith and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his Room 30. But the generall Zion appeareth first in greatest misery when Babel breaketh it shall stand desolate and miserable and then the children of Zion shall say How hath the Lord forsaken us come we beseech you let us seeke his face ah let us depart from strife war and contention have we not alas made our Countrey desolate is not all provision spent are we not brethren wherefore do we fight we will enter into one Love and seek the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Strangers and Pilgrims and seek our native Countrey 31. In this Time verily a Zion shall be found and the Heaven shall give its dew and the earth its fatnesse but not in that manner as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Son of Man shall come that there will be faith upon the earth And although the children of Zion shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the times of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end For as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the coming of the Son of Man be as it is written 32. But that the Holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zion I acknowledge and know it for Zion shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne he that would seek it let him seek himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and he shall finde whether Jesus be borne in him 33. If he finds it not let him enter into himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him those he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be manifest in him and he shall be borne with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda f Under the Crosse in disrespect and disesteeme of the world in the dark Stable not in g Not in the outward pleasures of the flesh Jerusalem as Reason faine would have that Christ should be borne in the old Asse the old Asse must be a servant and serve the New Man in Zion c. This wonderfull Prophesie following was written in a Postscript to a Letter dated the 20th of February 1623. 23. THe Tribulation and Destruction of Babel approacheth with exceeding vehement haste The Storme ariseth upon all Coasts There shall be an exceeding Tempest vaine hope deceiveth for the Destruction of the Tree draweth neere which is knowne in the Wonders 24. The a Domestick intestine homebred Fire hurteth its own native Countrey Righteousnesse and Truth are beaten downe Great Sorrow and perplexing Sadnesse doe b Scrue up themselves force themselves up 25. Men shall mourne for an empty ruinous old Cottage which is of no importance to Salvation and they shall be enraged for that Nest wherein Satan hath hatcht his c Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all f●lshood under an holy shew of Religion young 26. The Tower of Babel is found to be without foundation men suppose to hold it up with props but a winde from the Lord overthrows it 27. The hearts and thoughts of men shall be discovered for there cometh a Tryall from the Lord whereby the d T●tular verball hypocrite the Cain-like Christian who perswades himselfe from a blind faith that none is accepted with God but himselfe and such as he is the demure and devout Pharisee but his false bottome will come to light maugre his many words and swords mouth-Christian shall be laid open in his false heart and soule as a reed that is shaken by the winde seeing his heart is wavering now here now there because his false ground is revealed 28. Many shall betray themselves and through hypocrisie ruine both body and goods Hypocrites and mouth-Christians shall quaile for feare when their false foundation shall be discovered 29. The Orientall e The Turk shall turne a true Christian Beast getteth an humane heart and face and ere this cometh to passe it helpeth to teare downe the Tower of Babel with its claws