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A69596 An apology or defence for the requisite refuting of the shamefull, disgracefull writings and horrible libell against the book of true repentance and of true resignation which Gregory Rickter, Primate of Goerlits, hath spread abroad against it in open print answered in the year of Christ 1624, 10 Aprill / by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.; Schutz-Rede wieder Gregorium Richter. English Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665? 1661 (1661) Wing B3415; ESTC R14771 30,310 42

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in that regard I wish him Gods Mercy and Compassion that he might yet partake thereof seeing God hath used him for my instrument in my work 184. I would deal much humblyer towards him if he would convert then he hath done towards me He need not think I shun coming before his Face I have a good Conscience and wish him one too 185. In no Judgement to sentence one unheard doth availe I submit not my self in such a way to his Judgement for my heart is not convinced with such a sentence I am innocent of all that is laid to my charge All that he hath spoken against me in the Pulpit is quite contrary to my sence and meaning and not one true word of it he hath wrested and perverted all my words with a strange understanding 186. Therefore seeing I can now have no other Richter or Judge who himself will understand my Gift I appeal from his Judicium Censure or Judgement before the Judgement of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST till I be orderly heard then I will give an Account of My cause Libell 187. Thou hast hitherto Imitated or followed after Cerinthus in that thou hast feigned and Cooked wondrous Matters and proclaimest horrible things when this Cerinthus was in the Bath he despised the LORD CHRIST and raged in his railing babling vehemently against GOD but the House fell down and Slew him thus was the Teacher together with the Scholars or Disciples brought to destruction Answer 188. Was Cerinthus against CHRIST that I leave as it is in its own place I am with Christ and acknowledge JESUS CHRIST for my LORD and GOD and have submitted and given up my self in Obedience to him to live according to his Will and Commandement but that the Primate saith that I have done Like Cerinthus that needs well to be demonstrated else it will not be true 189. But that he speaks of my Wondrous Things To that I say with truth I have written of No Wondrous things I have only written what NATURE and MAN is but seeing this seemeth to be wondrous to the Primate the fault thereof is only this that He doth NOT understand it 190. What can I help that that he is blind concerning it I have not written it for him but only for those to whom God gives to understand it Let him remain a High-Priest and not be a Philosopher or knower of Nature and so we are parted he ought not to thrust the old Sects upon me I have seen none of those writings it is onely his Malice Libell 191. Thy filth O Shoemaker hath exceedingly defiled OUR City Answer 192. You have so bespattered it with Dung of Reproaching Blasphemy in regard of the Shoemaker that Many stink with reproachings that is the Filth which hurteth them in their souls you are the cause thereof that it hurteth them in that they beleeve the reproachings and take them into their heart and so reproach Gods Gift Libell 193. O that all those who read thy writings might away along with thee into Perdition Answer 194. What a Christian wish is this of the High-Priest Man could scarce Nay not at all find such a one in Caiphas also it might not well stand any where in the BIBLE It will soon come to that that his Christian wish will be true that the Sheep will be severed from the Goates and be parted one from another that the Goats may have scope and room in Hell seeing on Earth they could endure none other to be among them Libell 195. Yes thou hast kindled or inflamed all Silesia it self with thy Doctrine where thou wilt be received by Many whom I very well know who as they are in respect of their Nobility much more of Note then others so they have a greater influence upon others with their Novelties but you his Companions beware and take heed least these notorious writings of this notorious Man and you perish together Answer 196. Men find indeed at present in Silesia many excellent Learned Men fearing God which see further then the Lord Primate doth whose Christianity is in right sincere Earnest who walk in the Imitation or following of CHRIST they read many good Books which lead to the right ground or foundation Stone they have not first learned of me the Imitation or following of CHRIST but they had it before and now do but rejoyce themselves in this that God also powres out such knowledge into simple People which is indeed A wonder of God 197. But you ascribe it to the Devill as the High Priests did to Christ some of the Nobility also follow after you yet some of the highest of the Nobility in Silesia observe the Time and see that God hath some great Thing in hand but you are blind concerning it and hardned as the Pharisees were also in the Time of Christ Therefore the Day of your punishment from God cometh on apace and is neer know that Libell 198. O now then be gone and come no more that thou mayest miserably perish and rather take a Shoe into thy hand then a PEN The 27. March 2624. Answer 199. CHRIST said if they Curse you then blesse them and then are you the Children of the Most high Matth 5. 44. Seeing therefore the Primate wisheth me a Miserable Death his wish must needs be from the Devill for it runs quite contrary to Gods Will and Commandement as also contrary to all honourable reason and honesty here Men shall know the Tree by its fruit and every one may well conceive out of what Spirit and Mind he persecutes me and that he doth it to please SATAN and is No Minister of Servant of Christ 200. But seeing he curseth me therefore I blesse him through the Bloud and Death of our Lord JESUS CHRIST in the Name of God the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Spirit Amen and wish unto him that this Blessing may take effect and light upon him and generate him to be a Childe and Heir of Eternall Life that he may become and Eternally remain to be my brother in the Life of our Lord JESUS CHRIST Amen Amen Amen and I conclude it with my whole heart will and desire Dated at Goerlitz the 10. Aprill Anno. 1624. Jacob Behme The APPENDIX to the Libell NO Errour is so Grosse or abominable which hath not those that give Countenance to it and Maintain or stand by it Answer A Good Man Maintaineth or standeth by the GOOD and an Evill by the EVILL viz by reproaching and blasphemy But to those that love God all things must serve to the Best for them Rom 8. 28. And if they stuck in the Midst of all Errours yet they are then in Gods Hands and preserved from Thee reproaching Blasphemer for it is a horrour to them and they do not willingly hear People despise and reproach others Libell THE Errour is first Small and at length Great Answer CHRIST saith The Kingdome of God is first Small as a grain of Mustard Seed afterwards it groweth as great as a Tree Matth 13. 31. Mark 4. 51. Libell In the World there is alwayes one kind of Comedy or Scene Acted only with alteration of Time Place and Persons Answer GOD hath wrought from Eternity and worketh in Eternity and yet remaineth solely the same ONE Only Eternall GOD. This Translation into English finished this 26. of September 1659. * I. B. * John 15. 5. † John 6. 53. * 1 Cor 15. 31. * Lay-Man or Ideot * Rom. 12. 20. † 1 Cor. 3. 18. * E●dachte * NOTE * Orient Rednesse * Mogenlander Eastern-Countryes Morgenrothe Eastern-rednesse or Orient-rednesse † Or Peacefull * Rev 2. 5. * NOTE † Matth. 24. 23 c. Mark 13. 21. Luke 17. 23. * Titus 2. 1. 8. † Ezek 3. 18. 20. Chap 33. 6. 8. Chap 34. 10. * Luke 6. 44. † John 16. 2. * Col 1. 12. * John 1. 14. Chap 6. 53. † John 10. 28. * Rom 8. 35. 38. † Rom 8. 6. * Rom 8. 14. † Gal 1. 12. * Matth 11. 28. * Heb 1. 9. * Versuckung † Heb 1. 9. * Enthusiastris † John 10. from 8. to the 14. * Rom 13. 13 14. Eph 2. 3. † John 3. 27. * as Acts 8. 23. † Verzuckung * Husk * Note Note See the first Apologie against Baltazar Tylcken verse 5. 40. † Matth 11. 28. † Rom 2. 1. 3. Marcolpbus 〈◊〉 feigned in Germany to have been ●olomons Je●●r who ●hen he was condemned to be hanged desired of the King he might chose the Tree upon which he must be executed which being granted him he looked a while and being asked which he chose answered he could not find any that he could choose and so escaped for that time these and many other stories are in a Book of him in the German Tongue * Or Art † Math 11. 10. Luke 7. 34. * Note Note † Matth 2. 1 2. * Phil 3. 20. † Rev 18. 2. * John 2. 1. to the 10. * Sa●k * 1 Cor 10. 12. * Acts 5. 15 16. * Note J. B. did forbear writing of his Works for six years * Luke 6. 44. † Note
AN APOLOGIE or DEFENCE For the requisite Refuting of the shamefull disgracefull Writings and horrible Libell against the Book Of TRUE REPENTANCE And Of TRUE RESIGNATION Which Gregory Rickter Primate Of GOERLITS Hath spread abroad against it in Open Print Answered In the Year of Christ 1624. 10. Aprill By Jacob Behme Also called Teutonicus Philosophus Englished by JOHN SPARROW LONDON Printed by M. S. for Giles Calvert at the Sign of the Black Spread Eagle at the West End of St. Pauls 1661. Christ saith Matth 5. 11 12. Blessed are you when Men despise you and persecute you and speak all manner of Evill of you for my Names Sake if they do it falsely rejoyce and be Glad you shall be well rewarded in the Kingdome of Heaven for so have they persecuted the Prophets that were before you Also Matth 11. 25 26. I thank thee O Father and Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wife and prudent and hast revealed thou to Babes Yes Father for so it pleased thee The PREFACE To the Reader who loveth God 1. CHrist saith to Pilate My Kingdome is not of this world else would my servants fight for it John 18. 36. And to his Disciples he saith Behold I send you as Sheep amongst Wolves Mat 10. 16. To signifie that where Christ shall become manifest in a Man that Man MUST in this world be surrounded only with Enemies who without ceasing would root out and kill Christ 2. Which is the way of all true Christians for they must walk in this world among the Devills Thorns as now it is with the Name of the Author of that despised Book as also with his Person that Satan raiseth his stormy winds against the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and will not endure Christ in his Members as in this enimicitious Libell is to be seen how enraged Satan is and how abominably he slanders and reproacheth the Authour and how he sets himselfe as a Richter or Judge over Gods work and would suppresse and not it out 3. Dear Reader and Brother in Christ who lovest God though I am an Enemy from my heart to such accursed unworthy reproachfull contentious writings of controversie not accounting those divulged reproachfull writings contrary to Christian Love and Truth worthy any answer at all Yet for the Command sake and Love of my Lord Jesus Christ I would make an answer for their sakes who do not understand the Matter and have not read my little Book of True Repentance and Refignation as the way to Christ nor know my person and who only regard the respect and favour of the Primate and suppose he reproacheth me out of Christian zeal and doth it for the sake of God in respect of his Office or Ministry 4. As the most Part of them are thus lead astray to give him applause and think he doth right and that it is all true which he cryeth out on in the Pulpit seeing he makes use of Gods Name in it and thereby so cloaketh the Matter that Men can not see his fierce wrathfull Heart and appeals to his Office and Ministry then the simple people which know nothing of his dealing how maliciously he persecuteth me and dealeth quite contrary to his Office and never will examine me about it but condemneth what himself understandeth NOT therefore have I made an answer to try whether any will become seeing and go forth from reproaching the gift of God 5. And do here with testifie in the presence of God that I have answered out of no other intention then barely for the Love-sake of our Neighbour 6. And do admonish the Primate to consider better of me for he hath no Lyon to deal with but a Lamb of JESUS CHRIST or else he will find into whom he hath Pierced least the Sheep in the Spirit of Christ become a Lyon and the Sheep judge the Wolfe And this I 〈◊〉 heartily and faithfully Jacob Behme Here followeth the Title of the Libell Judicium GREGORII RICHTERI Ministri Ecclesiae Patriae Primarij Goerlicij De FANATICIS SUTORIS ENTHUSIASTICI Libris quorum Tituli sunt 1. Morgenröthe im Auffgang 2. Der weg Zu Christo. 3. Von Wahrer Busse Ad Avertendas finistras de Ministerio Goerlicensi Suspiciones Here followeth The Title of the Libell The Censure of GREGORY RICKTER Minister of The Church of GOERLITS And Primate Of that Countrey concerning the ENTHUSIASTICK SHOEMAKERS FANATICK Books The Titles whereof are 1. The Aurora 2. The Way to CHRIST 3. Of True Repentance For The Removing of the scandalous Suspitions touching the Ministry Of Goerlitz The Libell begins and sayes I. NEW manner of Speaking bringeth commonly New Errours along with it Answer 2. The Scripture saith Try all things hold that which is good 1 Thess 5. 21. Libell 3. So many Lines as there are so many Blasphemies against God are to be found in the Shoemakers Book which stinks abominably of Shoemakers Pitch and Blacking fy fy let this stink be far from us Answer 4. That little Book teacheth the way to Christ very earnestly and sincerely And that FIRST how a man should go forth from the wicked wayes of this world and enter into true Repentance and put on Christ in Faith and be new born in Christs Spirit and how he must be renewed in Mind and Thoughts and follow or imitate Christ 5. SECONDLY it teacheth of True Resignation how a Penitent Man must give up himself to God wholly and altogether and begin and finish all his works in divine Trust and Confidence and it signifieth moreover how the Devill layes Snares continually for the children of Christ that Man cannot otherwise go quite through those Snares then with prayer and true humility and how Christ himself brings them through with HIS power and preserveth them and how a Christian Man must be a Branch on the Vine Christ also eat his flesh and drink his bloud if he would be a Christian 6. And THIRDLY It teacheth very earnest penitent Prayers how the poor Soul must in Great Earnestnesse enter into Christs Merits Suffering Death and Resurrection and dayle dye away in Christs Death from the Evill Earthly will And how it must go to the Father through Christs wounds and bloud-shedding 7. And then FOURTHLY in the Dialogue or Conference between the Master and the Scholar concerning the Supersensuall Life is signified what our Eternall Fathers or Native Country is and how the Entrance into it is effected This Doctrine is the true Ground of the New Testament as Christ and the Apostles have taught us 8. But seeing the Libeller saith there are as many blasphemies against God in it as there are Lines in that Book it is manifest that he blasphemeth and reproacheth the Holy Spiri in that he calleth Repentance Prayer a blasphemy against God for the book treateth only of Repentance and of the New Birth 9. Dear Herr Richtender Kichter Sir thou Judging Judge where will you go out or
whom he is Libell 81. Moreover the Libell calls me a perjured Shoemaker and in the Pulpit he hath called me a Rascally knave Answer 82. This reproachfull defamation is in all Statutes and Laws of the Empire forbidden upon pain of severe punishment that none should disgrace anothers good Name and honour or should make any defamatory Libell or disgracefull writings He should be the Man to forbid others and doth it himself 83. O Primate I ask you if I had caused such a Libell to be printed against you and had So abominably vilified and disgraced you to what place would you have sent it and condemned it surely to the Gallows and the Authour with it but what shall I say to you even God forgive it you 84. I have sworn an Oath to the Emperour also to the Prince Elector my Gracious Lord as also to the honourable Councill and the City Goerlitz to be true and faithfull in their defence and that I have firmly kept to this very houre and you call me a perjured or forsworn Fellow Rascally Knave I have brought my honour reputation to Goerlitz and you would bereave me of it for a perjured Man is not good enough to be in any bodies company 85. Well now you should and ought to demonstrate that I am such a one and flee with earnest complaint for it to the Magistrate and implore Justice and protection but seeing you oppresse me therefore in the mean time these deaming reproaches shall rest upon your selfe so long till you set before my Eyes my perjury 86. You have studied upon it this Fasting Time how you might bespatter Christs Children in the whole Church or Congregation with Serpents filth so that they are become Reproachers and disgrace me and have not stopped there but moreover caused such defaming Poyson to be printed that they may read it at home and tickle themselves therewith that the Devill indeed may be proudly Courted and Banqueted in state 87. I ask also your selfe is not that a sign of the Antichrist was not this your Office and Ministry that you should this Fasting Time have considered CHRISTS Bitter Passion Dying and Bloud-shedding and represent it well to your Parish Children that they might also have laid it to Heart but you on the Contrary have this Fasting time contrived two Libells and been angry at miserable People so that you have been fain to leave Christs Passion Wounds and Death lying on the Sick-bed and you lay your self by it as an awakened Poyson 88. Thus unworthy have you been before the Eyes of God consider your self a little seriously if men would lay it rightly to heart it might well make ones Haire stand upright for fear and amazement that you possesse the place of God and stand in the stead of the Holy Spirit and yet poure out such poyson upon the poor innocent People and not only here at Goerlitz but you also send your disgracefull writings into strange places and Countreys and poyson them so that they help you to reproach and blaspheme 89. All this is a certain sign of the Antichrist which the Libell would thrust upon me I pray and he curseth me Now judge upon it those that understand with which of US Antichrist dwells Libell 90. O Christ the Holy Spirit hath anointed thee with Oyle more then thy fellowes and hath made thee a Priest But thou Shoemaker the Devill hath desiled thee with Dirt and Dung and made thee a Heretick Answer 91. The Holy Spirit hath anointed Christ and his Children with Gods Oyle of Gladness● and hath introduced that anointing into our Soul so that we beleeve in him and that I take or receive to my Self as a Branch of Christ and have tasted his Anointing powerfully in me which I rejoyce my selfe IN under the Crosse of CHRIST in my bodily Misery 92. But that the Primate saith the Devill hath defiled mewith Dirt and Dung that is true after his manner for that very Dung wherewith the Devill hath defiled me is his reproaching in the Pulpit against me and this Evill dirty Libell wherewith the Antichristian Devill hath defiled me and made me as a Fool before the whole Congregation so that the Ignorant People which have a Mind to it cast such Dirt at me But the Primate thinks it were better to throw Stones at me for then would the Book of Repentance have a riddance out of the way But the remembrance of Steven is still taught at this very day though the High-Priests did Stone him Acts. 7. 57. what God builds no Devill CAN destroy 93. But that he also saith and made thee a Heretick that is also a Ray of Antichrists colours for when Men would persecute the right true Christians and worry burn and kill them then hath Antichrist cryed out they are Hereticks none other Cause Men had to bring against them yet thereupon execution proceeded 94. O how will these Hereticks at the last Judgement day be set before your Eyes when they shall be set in the divine Power with Christ in the Judgement and judge the Antichrist who hath persecuted and killed them what will you then answer to CHRIST and to me when your Libell will burn forth IN your Soul who hath given you authority so to Judge demonstrate it out of the Apostles doctrine There is yet time to ropent before I must through Gods driving summon you before the severe Judgement of Jesus Christ Observe what I say to you I am a Christian in Christ you call Christ in his Member a Heretick and his power Dirt or Dung. 95. The Mercifullnesse of Christ calleth you herewith yet once more to try whether you will repent if Not I will be blamelesse concerning you if you be set in the Judgement you have a great Mountain before you through which you must climb up then if Christ leave you you may well remain Eternally in this Cliffe 96. Observe what is said to you it is well known Hypocrisie availeth nothing it must be earnest sincerity to sinne upon Grace makes a Man uncapable of Grace the hour is neer be perswaded you will have no Such Protector or assistance there as you draw to your self here upon which you relye you must stand before My eyes and give an account for your Malice and reproaching Blasphemy 97. Christ in me and in all the Members of Christ citoth you before the Judgement of Christ what shall I then say to you for all your scandalous blemishes you have put upon me here on Earth I pray you as a fellow Member of my Soul convert yet while the Door of Grace standeth open before the Great Cliffe or Gulfe between me and you be shut Luke 16. 26. 98. It becometh A High-Priest indeed very ill who should bring into his mouth the Divine word of the Love of Christ that instead thereof taketh filth into his mouth and polluteth Christs word which he should teach with filth and spit such filth into the Heart of the
Doctor and a New Prophet Answer 152. Thomas said to CHRIST My LORD and my GOD Joh. 20. 28. and Christ did not speak against it now there is no higher Name then GOD therefore it is likely the Primate seldom readeth the BIBLE seeing he doth not know that Christ took a higher Title then Master and before Pilate he said I am indeed a King Luke 23. John 18. 33. 153. It is a Wonder to me that seeing he hath studied so much he is not yet come to that place where CHRISTS Titles stand IN the SCRIPTURE 154. But that he saith the Shoemaker will be called Doctor and a New Prophet that is only his Fiction as Men use in such Libells to seign after the Manner of Poets The People need not beleeve it all for a good Man may now and then Erre especially when a Man is Drunk an puts on a Vizard a Man can not know him and though he were High-Priest if men see him go so from one house to another then People say there comes a Fool and many may well say it were the Devill But it is not all true the People give them only such a Title when they assume such Images shapes or Gestures afterwards they become Men again when they put off the Vizard many a one goeth so only that he may come to his Paramour or where then he makes some foolish Occasion but men should not in such matters beleeve the Title when the People say one with a Vizard is such a Beast it is Death or the Devill No he is but a captive of the Devill 155. Thus also men Should not beleeve when the Primate puts Titles upon the Shoemaker and calleth him A Heretick A Sectary Fool Phantastick or Fanatick Enthusiastick A Rascally Knave A forsworn or perjured Shoemaker and more like that they are such stretched strained Names like a Vizard which the Devill puts upon him because he is in strife and at odds with him It is not good to beleeve though the High-Priest himself say it men may be deceived for great people may be mistaken for the Pharisees were mistaken in CHRISTS Titles how then will the Primate not be mistaken in the Shoemakers Titles seeing he knows that he is but a Laick and he knoweth not the Name of CHRIST-in him 156. The good LORD sure was once with some Shoemaker who had touched the Blacking which made him stink whence is so very much angered offended and enraged that he supposeth that THIS Shoemaker alwayes smells of that colouring and therefore he is so fiercely enraged against the Shoemakers Titles likely some Shoemakers Pitch remains sticking to his Hands that is dryed to them and in that regard he giveth the Shoemaker such abominable Names that he is still angry at it He can not endure the Shoemaker yet and is afraid the Shoemaker may defile his own Pen and therefore forbids him to use it O Primate the Shoemaker hath his Titles IN himselfe you can not defile them he will Eternally keep THEM well nough Libell 157. CHRIST gave the Thirsty water of Eternal Life to drink But the Shoemaker runs every Morning to the Brande-wine or Strong-water or the Water of Death Answer 158. Christ at this very day bestoweth on his Children Water of Life and giveth them His bloud of Love to drink that very water he giveth to my thirsty Soul to drink for which I thank him Eternally that he hath through this Water made me living and Seeing that very water I drink and that is a water for or against Death though the Primate speaketh thereof in a perverted way 159. But that he saith I run every Morning to the Brande-wine or Strong-Water that is not true I may not nor cannot drink any Brande-wine and have a long time had a dislike against it it is contrery to me so that I do not willingly smell to it It is a wonder to me that he being a High-Priest should be so very much mistaken he would look upon it very ill if a mean Man should doe so then a Man would say he were a Lyar I know not at all what answer I should give to such untruth I beleeve verily that the Satanicall spirit of Errour hath feigned this untruth 160. I counsell you that you hunt that away from you it defileth you with such untruth very much but if you will have it right then set before me an honest honourable Man of credit whether he be in the City or out of the City whoever he be that can with truth say he seeth me every Morning at the Brande-wine I appeal to the whole City and a Noble Councellours Cellar Keeper whether there be any Man that can say so of me 161. It is a great shame that you cause such untruth to be printed to the reproach of another with you men may well find great Cups and Glasses of Brande-wine but as you are mistaken and do erre in this so you are mistaken also in all other Articles of the Libell there is not one of them true in the sense you represent them Libell 162. CHRIST scarce drank any wine but the Shoemaker guzzles freely Outlandish wine and Brande-wine Answer 163. Christ made Water to be good Wine John 2. and is himself the Good Wine for the thirsty Soul which my Soul freely loves to drink of but that the Primate saith I love to guzzle Outlandish Wine and Brande-wine that he takes from his own Example and thinketh another doth as himselfe doth O no we poor men have not to pay for it we must be content with a draught of Beer or small Drink as we can buy it but men must give the Primate Outlandish wine indeed though other Guests at the same time must be content with smaller 164. Spanish wine causeth that Men sometime want or loose the Primate for a while also men may see by the red Wine-pimples in his Face that he drinketh strong Wine much more then I for I have no such signs of it as he he drinks more forraign wine in a week then I in a whole year 165. But I understand very well where the matter pincheth He knoweth that I through divine appointment have often been requested to go to Great Lords and Noble-men then thinks he when we come to meet we sit together and quaff our Fill as he useth to do with his Companions But No! the Nobility and Potentates in Authority which are served with full draughts do not cause me to be sent for to them but only honest Lords fearing God who earnestly seek after Salvaiton 166. But there is in the Primate a Mistrust and grutching he thinketh somewhat is going away from him but he need not fear it Those People which desire to have ME they desire not to have HIM at all there is a great difference between Hypocrisie or Flattery and telling the Truth to ones Face whether the Primate will beleeve it or no it is not my Custome to slatter the Rich for gifts