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A28529	Mysterium magnum, or An exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Concerning the manifestation or revelation of the divine word through the three principles of the divine essence; also of the originall of the world and the creation. Wherein the kingdome of nature, & the kingdome of grace are expounded. For the better understanding of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are. Also, how man should consider and may know himselfe in the light of nature, where he is, and where his temporall and eternall life, consist; also, where his eternall blessednesse, and damnation, consist. And is an exposition of the essence of all essences for the further consideration of the lovers, in the divine gift. Comprised in three parts: written anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To which is added, The life of the author. And his Foure tables of divine revelation.; Mysterium magnum. English.	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?; H. B. (Henry Blunden)	1656 (1656)	Wing B3411A; ESTC R212985	753,539	662

line their Age which the Spirit setteth down denoteth the * * * Note Times how long each Dominion and government both the worldly and Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall Kingdome should stand in its forme and Structure that is to say how long each * * * Beginning growing arising prevailing Monarchy of the Secular and wordly power and domination should continue and so likewise of the Spirituall Monarchy 33. And these * * * Or Monarchs Monarchies of the wonders are forthwith represented out of the first Twiggs springing from the beginning of the humane tree that is they are set forth in each line in Seven numbers from Adam through Cain even unto Lamech and in the other line from Adam unto Jared by which Numbers and Names the Spirit pointeth in each line especially at Seven of the forth-proceeding properties of the Tree and powers of the wonders intimating how the powers of the wonders should afterwards bring themselves into Goverments and how one figure should arise out of the other and how one should destroy and break down the other and set forth out of the destruction another forme as it hath been brought to passe in the * * * Ecclesiasticall and Temporall Spirituall and worldly Goverments for alwayes the worldly Government is to be understood with the Spirituall for the outward formed Word in the dominion and Regiment of nature doth evermore set forth its forme by with and in the Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall forme or manner of Discipline therefore observe and marke here with precise Exactnesse 34. There are Seaven 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 continued untill the fall from this pure life there springs forth a twigg in the inward Kingdome this same was Abel but being the fall hung on him externally this same pure life was carried through Death into the holy world this signifieth and pointeth at the Kingdome of Christ who should bring us through Death into the pure Life 35. The Second time begins with Seth for Moses saith that Adam was an hundred and thirty yeares old and begat a Son in his own likenesse and called him Seth understand he was such an Image as Adam w●s 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 Kingdomes goe together Seths time continueth till the Deluge and beareth the Supremacy even to the Deluge or Noahs floud 36. The Third time begins with Enos under Seths time and carrieth forth it selfe all along as a Spirituall Ministry or Knowledge of God under Seths time as an hidden Kingdome and continued till Abraham to whom the Covenant of Christ was established in the flesh 37. The Fourth time begins with Cainan which is the Spirituall forme in prayers and Spirituall offrings wherein the word formed it selfe in the wisdome and carried it selfe forth all along under Seths and Enos his time and manifested it selfe with Moses like as Enos his time was first truely manifested with Abraham with the promise in the Covenant this time of Cainan continued in its manifestation and dominion under Moses till Christ in the flesh 38. The fift time begins with Mahalaleel and t is the Reception or formation 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 Cainan in the word of the promise through all the Three times and did manifest it selfe with the fulfilling of the Covenant in the humanity of Christ where the true Mahalaleel and Angelicall Image which did disappeare in Adam was again manifest in the humanity of Christ. 39. The Sixt time begins with Jared which is the spirituall Priesthood under the externall where outwardly Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel were in their Times in their Orders or outward formes as the ministry and preaching of Enos concerning God and his beeing and will so likewise the preaching of Abraham concerning the Covenant and Circumcision Also Moses with the Book of the Law under all these the inward Priest Jared went along hiddenly Inwardly this Spirituall Priesthood is Christ in the new man and outwardly in the selfe-elected Priests it is Babel 40. This Sixt time began in the Kingdome of Christ after the Death of the Apostles when as men chose themselves Teachers out of favour and outward respects that is it did even then first open it selfe out of the * * * Or vaile hiddennesse of the shaddow and put it selfe forth in the Churches of Stone where the Church stood in stead of the holy Temple of Christ then indeed the holy Jared viz. Christs voice ruled in Christs children internally but externally the Cherub with the Sword did onely bear rule for the outward authority which these selfe-elected Priests doe manage is the Sword of the Cherub which is signified in the Name Jared * * * That is in the word JARED the Language of Nature doth emphatically expresse that the Sword of the Cherub should Domineere the whole Time of the Sixt Seale among the Priests who should have taught the Love of Jesus but by this Sword they fall AMEN which powerfully forceth it selfe forth all along in the word in the language of Nature 41. This sixt time is hidden and manifest it is known and also not known for Christ said my Kingdome is not of this world So that this time hath been faine to passe away as it were in a Mystery under Antichrist where inwardly in the children of God Christs Kingdome hath been manifest but in the Rest who have also lived under this time and have been called Christians Babel and the Antichrist hath onely been manifest both in the Priests and their Hearers for they which have been borne of God have heard the true Jared viz. Christs voice in them but the other have heard onely the Outward voice in Babel viz. disputation and Contention about Christs Kingdome 42. For all warre which the Christians manage is onely the Sword of the Cherub proceeding from Babel true Christians wage no war for they have broken the Sword of the Cherub in the death of Christ and are dead with Christ and risen againe in him and they live no longer to the externall Might and Dominion for their Kingdome is manifest in Christ and is not of this world 43. This Sixt * * * Or sixt Seal Kingdome beginneth after the death of the Apostles and continueth with its outward Government even to Mount Zion till translated Enoch doth again appear in Spirit and power for Enoch is the propheticall Root and holdeth in his * * * Or Regiment Dominion Noah Moses and the Sword of Elias at the End of this

God would provide himselfe a Lamb for the right burnt-offering and hereby he secretly points at the heavenly humanity which God would introduce into Christs humanity viz. into our humanity which should be the Patient Lamb that God would provide for himselfe which Abraham had already apprehended in faith and hints at 18. And that the Spirit of Moses saith They went both of them together understand unto the offering betokens our Adamicall humanity and Christs heavenly supernaturall humanity of divine essentiality that both these should go together to the offering of God as Christ offered on the Cross his heavenly humanity in our humanity to the Father and with the heavenly reconciled ours captivated in the Anger of God and preserved it in the fire of Gods Anger as the Gold is preserved of the Tincture in the fire 19. And when they came to the place of which God had told him Gen 22.9 10. Abraham built there an Altar and layd the wood in order upon it and bound Isaac his Son and layd him on the Altar upon the wood and Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his Son This is now the right Earnestness viz. the figure how God would binde his Son by Adams children viz. by Abrahams children the Jewes that is he would binde our Sin and lay it upon the wood that is hang it on the Cross viz. on the figure of the holy Trinity which was become in man an woodden earthly Cross whereas before the life's cross viz. the figure of the Deity was spirituall and holy in Adam but in the earthly lust it had made it selfe earthly and as t' were woodden thus also the death viz. the dying of the holy Cross in man must be again offered up to God upon a woodden earthly Cross and be again changed out of the earthly death into the holy spirituall figure 20. Christ should not be slain but hung up on the Cross pierced through in his hands and feet for the Anger of God was awakened in the conversation and workes of our hands and feete and therefore also Isaac in the figure of Christ must not be slain and also burnt for he was not the right one but the figure onely in our humanity for he could not accomplish this offring in its powers and it denotes that we are indeed bound with Christ and laid upon the wood and also must dye for Christs sake but with our death we cannot attain this offering as Isaac also could not effect that but the Ens of faith in Abraham and Isaac out of which Christ arose the same did effect it and can yet now in these dayes effect it in the Christians in Christ in his humanity in us 21. And as Isaac was represented in Christs figure as if he were to be the Sacrifice even so Every true Christian must with Isaac enter into Christs figure he must willingly resigne himselfe into Christs death and binde his Sin with the will in the Spirit of Christ and offer it upon the Altar of Christ and with a full and free will dye wholly to Sin then cometh the voice of God as it came to Abraham and to Hagar in the wilderness of Beer-sheba and saith Do not any thing to nature viz. thy Son now I know thou beleevest God 22. But it must come so far with the penitent Sinner as here it did with Abraham and Isaac where Isaac was layd ready bound upon the wood and Abraham took the knife to slay him There must be a very reall sincere earnestness in this matter the sinfull man must binde the Sin with all his thoughts and minde and give himselfe wholly into the process that he will now dye unto Sin and offer it up in faith and confidence to God in Christs death he must take the knife with Abraham into the hand that is he must wholly take and fasten into his minde to Do the work of earnest Repentance in dying to Sin It must come to the reall and effectuall practice and not onely come before the Altar and say I am a Sinner God hath offered Christ for mee and yet keep the sinfull will but he must binde sin in Christs death and lay himselfe wholly with all power and strength on the burnt-offerings Altar upon the wood 23. The evill earthly will must be bound and resigned up with Earnestness and cast upon Gods Altar in Christs death and be also offered up in Christs dying and not onely comfort the sinfull man and flatter it with Christs death saying God takes away sin from us in Christs satisfaction and merit wee need onely comfort our selves therewith and apply it from without to our selves no no but wee also our selves must dye to sin in Christs death and put on Christs offering in his death and as an obedient Isaac wee must cast our selves on Gods mercy in the spirit and will of Christ and arise in Christ in and with him that God may justifie us from the Altar of sin-offering with Isaac in Christ which is the true offering in the figure of Isaac 24. Not as Babel teacheth There must be an entire and sincere earnestness and not onely a comforting and applying promises of consolation but we must with Abraham obey God and then we put on Christs suffering and death and Christs death avails onely in us and here 't is truly said Yee are saved by grace in Christs merit The will of Selfe attains it not but that which entereth into Christs death and dyeth it must come to the death and mortification of the own selfe-will the Soules will must be an utter destroying enemy to Sin in the flesh viz. to the lust of the flesh there must be an opposite enmity between them else Christs death is * * * Note To whom Christs death is not profitable Gen. 22.11 not at all profitable to any 25. And Moses saith The Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham that is when man resigneth up his will wholly and willingly desireth to obey the voice of the Lord having given himselfe into Christs suffering death and reproach that he now will in the cross and suffering hold still and stedfast to God under Christs Red * * * Ensigne Banner then God calleth man with a * * * Twofold double voice as here he did Abraham where God said unto him Abraham Abraham that is he calleth to him in his own Voice in his word and also in the voice of the humane Essence that is he openeth to him the divine hearing in himselfe so that he heareth God from without in his word of his Servants and also from within in his own life's word viz. in the SensVAll Voice which was divided in Babel by the children of Nimrod and formed into the spirits of letters where the mentall Tongue was then compacted Here it ariseth again in the uncompacted SensVAll Tongue so that man heareth what the Lord speaketh in him of

Opinions of Gods being and Essence and therein consists the Confusion viz. the Mystery of the great Babylon concerning which the Spirit of God did prophecie and declare out of the propheticall root both out of the Line of Christ how Christ should come to restore and remedy the poore captive soule and regenerate its right true life and also out of the Turba magna how this Beast together with the whore should be cast from the face of God into the fiery furnace 30. With this whore of Selfe all the false Spirituall * * * Clergicall and Ecclesiasticall ones or priesthood have cloathed themselves who set up themselves to be Teachers of the mystery of Gods Kingdome without Gods Spirit they have externally covered themselves with the propheticall and Apostolicall word and pleaded the Testimony of the Bible but they have introduced their own sense out of the Whores Ens thereinto and have hung in their heart to the babilonicall fleshly whore and have not understood the Propheticall and Apostolicall Tongue in its Sence 31. They have spoken from the sence of their owne beastiall selfe-hood through the propheticall and Apostolicall word and have brought and used Christs words to their own selvish babilonicall Harlottry and committed whoredome and likewise have Adorned and trimmed up their Bastard under Christs purpur-mantle with Silver Gold and pretious stones and also with worldly dignities Honours favour and riches 32. After these men have run and have even adored and esteemed them as Gods falling deeply in love with their Bastard although their hearts have never agreed or stood upon the onely true ground but have been at variance with each other and this is that of which the Prophet Daniel speaketh saying * * * Daniel 11. they shall honour a God whom their fathers knew not with Gold Silver and pretious stones and unto those that help them to strengthen their strange God * * * God of forces Maozim they will divide the Land for inheritance this whole chapter doth belong hereunto 33. Now when we consider aright what this babilonicall Towre is at present in Christs Kingdome upon the Earth and what it was under Moses and among the Gentiles then we finde very clearly that among all Three it is of one property and so also among the Turks and present Jewes every Nation builds it out of its own materialls for in the Right universall Sensuall tongue if it be manifest in one we are altogether but one onely people and Nation even from Adam 34. But the very cause that we are divided and brought into Opinions is by reason of our Master-builders and founders viz. of the high schooles Priests Popes Bishops Doctors also the Rabbies and Masters of all nations who are set as work-men to the building of the Towre all these have judged from their owne Language and naturall understanding viz. from their conceived and formed sensuall tongue from the outward letter and have indeed neither known God or the Light of nature but have been blinde and dumb as to both both the Jewes and Gentiles and also the Selfe-made Teachers of the Christians 35. Whosoever have run devoid of Gods spirit without divine understanding either among Jewes and Gentiles Christians and Turkes they have built onely this Towre in their own essence and the same is even a Towre of the great wonders of God of divine Contemplation both according to light and darknesse life and death joy and sorrow 36. Not that we are to understand that this Towre is not at all profitable before God it is even the great Mystery of Gods manifestation according to Love and Anger as God hath created out of the great mystery all manner kindes and sorts of Beasts Birds Wormes Trees and Hearbs evill and Good and that all to the manifestation of the Great wonders thus likewise the humane Tree hath brought forth such wonders out of its Sensuall tongue out of the multiplicity of the properties and introduced them into a Substance for its Growth and glory viz to the great Harvest of God where each property of Love and Anger Light and darknesse shall reap in it s own fruit and every thing shall possesse its heaven in it Selfe in its own formed and conceived Ens out of the onely word of God which hath given forth it selfe to every life even unto every life and Being according to its own proper quality and vertue according to and out of its Principle as an universall word to the glorious manifestation of Eternity 37. Now when we further consider of this Beast with the Whore what it is in it selfe within and without then we finde that it is the formed compacted word of the spirits of the Letters for men are all of one onely property as to their life all are begotten out of one flesh and Soul and have all but one onely kinde of life as a Tree in many boughes and branches where the boughes and twiggs doe not perfectly and wholly seeme alike or the same in forme but all have one onely Sapp and vertue so likewise the creature of mankinde among Jewes Christians Turks and Heathens 38. And the onely difference is this the spirits of the Letters in the formed word do sever us in the understanding else we live all alike in the four Elements and eat of the fruits of one Mother and remaine in her when we dye to this outward life 39. The compacted Sensuall tongue which is divided in the spirits of the Letters doth confound us and make us to erre so that we doe suppose we are strange one to another and yet we are all but one onely Tree which the Devill hath poysoned with his desire in Adam so that the equall Temperature or Accord was brought into distemper and discord whereupon the spirits of the Letters were variously made manifest so that we speak from many speeches that is we have introduced the powerfull word of God into the multiplicity of the divided properties and have made in each tongues property a Selfehood or a Self-ish desire to arrogation self-apprehension and assumption 40. Hence arise the contrarieties differences and * * * Text Images Opinions in that we have introduced the unformed word into the forme of our owne selfe-made Image now we contend and strive about these Images and conceits and every one supposeth his own to be best and when we bring all these Images and severall Semblances again into one Language and Speech and mortifie them then the Onely Quickning Word of God which giveth power and life to all things is again manifest and strife ceaseth and God is all in all 41. Therefore we say as we have found it in the Grace of the One that all mens Imaginations opinions and Knowings of God his being and will without the divine light or * * * The undoubted Unction of the holy Ghost illumination of the Spirit are this same whores Beast which is flown forth and arisen from the

its Sword by them to destroy the heathen and the Generation of Ham Gen XIIII Verse 14. for Abraham went out with his whole house and people against the Heathen who had carried away Lot his brothers Son captive and he smote the heathen and delivered his brother This was done in the zeale of God which thus delivered his children through the might of his Anger for what conduceth to the wicked for destruction the same conduceth to the holy men for life and deliverance 15. But that those who will be called Christians who ought in and with Christ to be dead to the Anger and wrath of God in Christs death doe wage war they doe it not as Christians but as heathens No Christian warreth for if he be a Christian then he is dead in and with Christs death to the foure Elements of Gods Anger in Selfe and born a new man in Christs spirit of Love who liveth in Righteousnesse in Love and patience and liveth not to himselfe but to God in Christ. 16. For a true Christian leadeth his conversation and will in heaven in the life and Spirit of Christ as S t Paul saith our conversation is in heaven but when the Christians doe wage war they doe it from the heathenish property and not from Christs property for a Christian is not of this world his Kingdome is in heaven and he is dead in Christ to the world according to the new spirituall man in him the Heathen-man viz. the halfe-devillish man who hath his Kingdome in this world who never hath roome enough upon the Earth but liveth in the foure Elements of Gods Anger viz. in Pride Coveteousnesse Envy and Wrath the same desireth in the Christians to warre fight and slay 17. Saint Paul saith give your members to be weapons of Righteousnesse for why doe men fight for the Kingdome of this world Rom. 6.13 and yet as Christ said his Kingdome was not of this world James 4.1 so also his childrens Kingdome in him is not of this world Joh. 18.36 now then if we give up our body and Soule for weapons of Gods Anger and seek onely thereby Selfe interests liberties and priviledges of Mammon and slay one another for the Kingdome of this world I thinke we are herein Christians indeed in the mouth but the heart and Soul is an heathen and not born out of Christs Spirit 18. When Abraham had smote the heathen he desired nothing of the goods which he tooke but restored to the King of Sodom what the Heathen had taken from him and was onely zealous in the Lord he did not fight for Countrey and Kingdome but to deliver his brother Loth this was a true zeale which the Lord drove in him he did not stand up and fight for Countrey or City and albeit he obtained it he desired it not but went again unto his own place 19. And here the Spirit in Moses speaketh very wonderfully and saith that when Abraham returned from the Slaughter that the King of Sodome met him and Melchisedech King of Salem brought forth bread and wine who was a Priest of the most High God possessour of Heaven and of Earth and blessed Abraham and Abraham gave him Tithes And though we finde almost nothing elsewhere in the holy Scripture of this Priesthood yet the same was really in the figure of Christ for the Spirit saith in another place of Christ that he was an High Priest in the order of Melchisedech 20. Thus the Spirit of God doth very secretly and mystically represent the Figure of Christ by Abraham and calleth him a King of Salem and a Priest of the most High God viz. a Priest of Salvation and the holy Vnction as it intimates in the SenSAll Tongue that is Christ hath blessed Abraham and brought him forth bread and wine viz. his flesh and bloud and is the high Priest before God that makes Atonement for Abraham and his children 21. For Abraham had managed the Sword of Gods Anger against the Heathen now came Melchisedech and blessed Abraham againe least the Sword of the Turba should lay hold on him and he gave him forth bread and wine that is the heavenly Ens which he would introduce into Abrahams Seed and change it into flesh and bloud and here he appeased the Fathers Anger in the Covenant as in the Type 22. For this Priest with Abraham is really to be understood in a spirituall manner for although Abraham might have externally a Priest after the same manner with him under the figure of Christ yet Moses saith he was a Priest of God and said to Abraham blessed art thou Abraham unto the most High who possesseth heaven and earth who hath shut up thine Enemies into thy hands here is none other to be understood but Christ who very often appeared to Abraham in the figure and blessed him alwayes for the Spirit in Moses calleth him also a King of Salem which is nothing else but a King of Salvation 23. And Abraham gave him Tithes indeed he might have such a Priestly Order with him to whom he gave Tithes but this King and Priest was he of whom he preached to whom Abraham gave tithes viz. the Tenth Property of the humane properties of the fiery tongue of the Soule and the Priest gave his bread and wine and his blessing thereinto viz. the Love-fire the Tincture of the light together with the heavenly Substantiality that so Abraham might receive the lights Tincture into the Soules fiery Tincture and become again a compleat Image of God which was separated in Adam with the woman therefore Christ viz. the womans Tincture gave him againe the lights Ens that so the male and female property might become one Image or person this the Spirit doth here signifie in Moses under the Royall Priest of Salem 24. For Esdra when he dictated the lost Bible in the knowledge of the Spirit of God to his Scribes saw this very well Note Esdra dictated the Bible that was Lost. 2 Esdra 14. and therefore the holy Spirit doth so set it down and we see very exactly how Esdras wrote the hystories of Abraham in the vision of the Spirit for the whole hystory of Abraham is delineated under Christs Person and is an Image or Type of Christ. 25. Abraham saw in the Spirit this Priest of Salem and when Abraham offered Sacrifice then this Priest was in the offering and offered to God for he was to make reconciliation for the world with an offering therefore he was a Priest of God 26. He brought Abrahams will-offering viz. his prayer and desire in faith into the holy Ens of God and in the same Ens viz. in the divine Essentiality heavenly bread and wine was brought to Abrahams Soul that it might eat at Gods Table till this Priest became Abraham that is did manifest himselfe in Abraham with the heavenly Corporeity viz. with the Soules food in the Right bread and wine CHAP. XXXIX How God appeared to

† † † Matth. 27.5 Judas must first in his falshood and Treachery in the old Adam with sorrow for his committed sinne hang himselfe and as to his owne ability despaire and dye and then will Benjamin viz. the new Creature in Christ first be borne and * * * Acts 1.26 Mathias viz. the first Created Adam be Elected an Apostle 25. For Mathias was indeed borne before the Passion of Christ and was with Christ but he was then first an Apostle when Christ in him was dead from sinne and Judas had hanged himselfe thus also the Adamicall Man which shall be an Apostle or Christian is indeed borne aforehand before Christ suffereth in him but Christ must first arise from the Dead in him and Judas viz. the Serpents will must hang himselfe and dye to his owne evill will in the Death of Christ and then first is the ‖ ‖ ‖ Adams Man a Christ. Adamicall Man a Christian It is not the Historicall Man by an imputed Grace wherein Judas still liveth under the Purple Mantle of Christ that is a Christian as Babell playeth finely under the vayle concerning the virginity of her Daughter Dinah that the faire dainty Damsell may play the whore and finely sleepe with her Pandor Judas and lye with her Lovers in the Bed of Fornication 26. Great things are prefigured in this Text for the Text sayth † † † Gen 35.17 18. When shee was in sore Labour in the Birth of Benjamin the Midwife sayd to her Feare not for thou shalt have this sonne also But her soule being ready to depart that shee must die shee called him Benoni that is shee looked upon the inward ground upon the New Birth what he would be in Christ and regarded not the Name of the outward Creature 27. For Benoni is altogether a Spirituall Name after an Angelicall kinde and manner for shee sayd in Spirit when the Midwife comforted her concerning it that shee should have this sonne also I have him no more in the world the outward passeth away and it pointeth at the Angelicall New Name * * * Gen. 35.18 but his Father called him Benjamin as with the Name of this world that he should represent how a Christian must be borne under the Crosse of Christ in smart paine at which also his Mother looked as if shee should say through smart paine and sorrow wee come to Life as this sonne of my smart and sorrow 28. Then sayth the Spirit † † † Gen. 35.19 20. Thus Rachel dyed and was buried in the way towards Ephrath which is now called Bethlehem And Jacob set up a Pillar upon her Grave and that is the Pillar of Rachels Grave unto this Day This is a secret mysticall Figure that Rachel dyed and is buried at the Citie Bethlehem and it signifieth that shee shall there rise againe through the Birth of Christ for Christ should there be borne 29. And it is signified that when wee shall flie to Bethlehem to the Birth of Christ then shall Benjamin viz. the New spirituall Man be borne of Rachell viz. of the Mother of the Old Adamicall Man in the Spirit of Christ and then presently will the Mother yeeld up her birth-right to the Spirit of Christ and die to her right of Nature and then will the Spirituall Eternall Birth begin and Eve passe away for there Jacob setteth up the Grave-stone or Pillar and the Spirit sayth it is her Grave-stone unto this Day to signifie that it poynteth at the future and that this Grave-stone should continue and Christ be borne there where Rachel died 30. In this Historie of the Acts of Jacob wee see cleerly that the Spirit hath in this description a figure under which it signifieth For Rachel was big with Benjamin when Jacob departed from Laban when * * * Gen. 31·34 35. shee sat upon the Idol-Gods when her Father sought for them and shee sayd it is with mee after the manner of Women so that I cannot rise up before thee But now the Text relateth how Jacob first pitched his Tents before Sichem and dwelt there and afterwards went first to Bethel and then Rachel brought forth so that it appeareth that the Spirit speaketh wholly in the figure for the Acts doe all follow very Orderly one after another in the figure of Christ as it hath come to passe with Christ which ought well to be Observed 31. The Spirit of Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 35.20 21 22. And Israel went forth and spread his Tents on the otherside of the Tower of Edar And it came to passe when Israell dwelt in that Land that Reuben went and slept with Bilha his Fathers Concubine and it came before Israel What manner of figure is this which is very deeply hidden but the Circumstances make it as cleare as the Sun 32. Israel went on the other side of the Great Babylonicall Towre and dwelt there with the Children of that People which may well be a pretty way from Ephrath Bethlehem but the Spirit hath heere its figure under which it signifieth that is when Jacob had taken away the strange Gods from his people and also their Ear-rings and buried them and built the Altar of the Lord Converting to God and were sitting in Rest and Ease then the naturall fleshly Man turned againe to the Lust of the children of Babel even as the Text sayth 33. Jacob went and dwelt there and then Reuben lay with his fathers Concubine viz. with Bilha Rachels handmayd the Mother of Dan and Naphthali and committed * * * Blutschande Incest which was worse then that of Sichem with Dinah but the Spirit hath thus with this action presented a figure pointing at the future how it would come to passe how Israel would turne away from the Divine Ordinance from the Altar of their God and mixe their fathers Worship and service of God with Naturall whoredome viz. with heathenish Sacrificing to Idolls as is to be seene by Jeroboam and the Spirit signifieth thereby that the first Adamicall Man would have onely fleshly desires and Lusts. 34. For Reuben was the first sonne of Jacob by Lea viz. by her of whom also sprang the Line of Christ to signifie that every one that would be called Jewes or Christians and are Generated out of those stocks would forsake God and lye with their fathers Concubines viz. commit fornication with the Idolatry humane Inventions and bablings of the Pharisees and Scribes and with their Lawes and Cannons and forget the Truth of God and of his Commandements in their Hearts and † † † Einbilden make to themselves Images of these imprint those whoredomes in their Hearts Lusts. 35. For Reuben was indeed Jacobs first sonne as Adam also was the first Man but the Line of Christ was not manifested in Reuben as also not in Adam but it was manifested in Abel and in Judah and as Adam in Spiritu Mundi in the spirit of the

with their writings and teach the Lay people their unchastity and scorne so that one Christian learneth to scorne another out of the holy Scripture and trim their scorne with the writings of the * * * Holy Men Saints Of this it is rightly sayd Reuben thou art my first strength but thou hast climed up upon my Bed and defiled it with unchastity thou hast used my Concubine viz. my formed Word to thy whoredome and hast made of the Churches of my Children a whore-house and hast defiled my Marriage-Bed which I have in the Churches where I beget my children 43. This the Spirit of God signifieth cleerely by the declaration of the Patriarch Jacob Gen. 49. where he sayth thus concerning these Churches and their sacrifices * * * Gen. 49.3 4. Ruben thou art my first sonne thou art my first power and my first might the chiefe in the Offring and the chiefe in the kingdome he was unstable therein as water thou shalt not be the chiefe for thou hast climed up upen thy fathers bed and there hast thou defiled my bed by thy climing up 44. The Spirit speaketh cleerly in this Text for Ruben signifieth the Ordnance of the first Churches viz. the power out of which it was built that is the first power of the Christian Church or Congregation and is Gods Concubine by which he dwelleth but their Ministers are climed up into Gods Marriage-Bed and have gotten the Concubine to themselves and taken her into their power and have gotten her with childe with humane fictions fleshly honour and voluptuousnesse and it sayth cleerly Thou art the chiefe in the Offering and in the kingdom for so it must needs be when the whoredome is committed but seeing Reuben exerciseth whoredome with the Churches it sayth thus Thou shalt not be the chiefe for he was unstable therein as water and signifieth thereby that he would give himselfe to fleshly Lust and selfe-Love and that in unstability and in that regard is rejected of God 45. Thus the Spirit signifieth under this figure how this Concubine viz. the Church would be reproached with its first power viz. of its owne children so that it will be said by the Churches it is a spirituall whore-house which a Man must distinguish from the Temple of JESUS CHRIST for the Spirit sayth thou shalt not be the chiefe neither in the offring nor in the kingdome and thus shee hath lost the true * * * Jus Divinum Divine power by the whoredome of her Ministers and standeth at present rightly as a deflowred one that is made a whore which is dispised of Israel for her unchastity which is practised by her which is cryed out upon by almost every one each party crying out against the Church of the other for a whore-house as is enough manifest and all Libraries are full of such a Cry and Men at present are ready to storme and fall in upon the whore-house 46. But let this be said to the children of God that the Churches hurt no man and they were instituted out of a Good meaning by the first Christian power and were very good and profitable and they need not be thrown downe and demolished if Ruben would but leave his whoredome whereby he reproacheth them that her Ministers might be renewed and not give forth that they are the Ministers of this Concubine of God without the Vnction of the Holy Ghost as is now done onely for temporary honour and pleasure sake which are as profitable to the Church as a fift wheele is to a Wagon unlesse they goe with five wheeles to their Wagon where the fift moveth in the Aire and entreth with their Contention into the Abysse of Hell 47. The Stone-houses of the Churches have no greater holinesse in them then other houses for they are built of Stone and such Materialls as other houses are and God is no more powerfull in them then in other houses but the Church or Congregation that entereth thereinto and there meeteth together and there binde themselves with their prayer into one body in Christ whose Type and Resemblance the Church is that hath the holy Temple of JESUS Christ in it 48. Their Songs of praise and thanksgiving are the Cradle of the childe JESUS CHRIST in which the childe Jesus is rocked with unanimus consent in the Hearts of Men and not within the bounds of the Church which is a dumb and dead Thing 49. Its Ministers are no more then all other Men but the power and vertue that is powred forth in the Vnction of the Holy Ghost hath the power in the offering and is the Key 50. Whosoever will worthily enter into the Church must bring with him the Temple of Jesus Christ within him or at least he must fully take such a resolution and purpose that he will bring it out with him in his Heart otherwise his going in and coming out is but a committing of Spirituall seeming holy but indeed Hypocriticall whoredome and is no whit the holier when he cometh out and had as good have been standing in the Market shewing his pride in his fine cloathes for the people to see him and then perhaps he had not caused many honest hearts to Erre 51. This wee had a purpose to signifie by the knowing of this Figure that a Christian should not looke upon the shew of Churches but consider that the Church is but a † † † F●●bild Type Resemblance of Christ and that he is not a Christian that entereth into the resemblance and approveth of that but he is a Christian that wholly giveth himselfe up into Christs Incarnation Suffering and Death and dyeth to his hypocrisie in the Death of Christ and riseth from the Death of Christ in a New Will and Obedience and who according to his inward ground is and liveth in Christ who himselfe becometh the Temple of Christ wherein Christ worketh with his power and vertue and thereby killeth sinne in the flesh such a one is a Christian in Christ and may rightly enter into the * * * Or Type Resemblance of Christ and exercise his Christianity therein such a one will heare Gods Word and keepe and ponder it in his heart 52. And though a Cowes Lowing in its sound should declare the Name of God yet Christ preacheth in himselfe but none that is dead can awaken another that is dead nor † † † Mat. ●5 14 Luk 6.39 one that is blinde shew the way to another but both will fall into the Pit saith Christ. 53. Further the Spirit of Moses sets downe in its figure the Death of the Patriarch Isaac and sayth * * * Gen. 35.27 28 29. And Jacob came to his Father Isaac to the Head Citie in Mamre called Hebron where Abraham and Isaac were strangers and Isaac was an hundred and eighty yeares old and gave up the Ghost and dyed and was gathered unto his people This is a figure shewing that the children of

he was a prosperous Man and was in his Masters the Aegyptians house and his Master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand so that he found Grace and favour in the sight of his Master and was his Servant which he set over his house and all that he had he put under his hand and from the time that he set him over his house and over all his Goods the Lord blessed the Aegyptians house for Josephs sake and the blessing of the Lord was every way upon all that he had in the house and in the field therefore he left all that he had under the hands of Joseph and he medled with nothing while he had him but what he did eate and drinke and Joseph was a goodly person and faire of feature 2. The History prefigureth to us a true Christian Man what he is and how he is in this world and what his Office is that is when Christ is manifested in him he is no more his owne to doe what he will also in this world he hath nothing for his owne of which he can in truth say this is mine or I I am he that hath it I possesse it it is mine own I may doe therewith what my flesh and my owne will listeth I may use it for my honour and pleasure that I may thereby be * * * Or high aloft in the world No a true Christian hath none of that in his power 3. He indeed ruleth of right over that which he hath and possesseth with truth and righteousnesse but yet as a servant of his Lord Christ. For a Christian is a Christian in Christ and is bought to a Christian Life and to the obedience of Faith by the bloud of Christ with Christs † † † Thirty pieces of silver thirty pieces of silver whereof his Lord Christ hath committed to him Josephs * * * Twenty pieces of silver twenty pieces of silver and set him as a Steward over it that he may trade therewith and employ it till he make it come to thirty pieces of silver which he should weare in him and about him as a Mark or Badg of his Lord Christ as a Treasure of his Christianity 4. But seing his Lord Christ was sold and betrayed to Death for thirty pieces of silver and Joseph was sold by his Brethren to be a † † † Over whom the Master hath power of Life and all he hath Bondslave for twenty pieces of silver in both these numbers standeth the figure of a Christian viz. Christ when he is manifested in a Man sheweth him the thirty pieces of silver for which he was sold to Suffering and Death and this his suffering and Death he putteth upon him in which is founded the figure of the thirty pieces of silver viz. that he was sold and betrayed and therein man becomes such a Christian as is founded implanted † † † Eingeatzed Etching of plates with Aqua fortis ingraven upon and into Christs sufferings and Death and therein a Man becometh a Christian in Christs sufferings and Death and standeth in the figure of Christ and looseth the right of his naturall selfe-will as also the kingdome of this world 5. For in Christs Death as to his inward spirituall Man he dieth from this world and according to that inward Man is no more in this world but in Christ in God viz. in the Kingdome of God as it is written * * * Luk. 17.21 The Kingdome of God is inwardly within you Also † † † Gal. 4.19 Examine your selves whether Christ have gotten a forme in you Also ‖ ‖ ‖ 1 Cor. 3.16 Ye are the Temple of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in you Also * * * Col. 4.12 Ye are the servants of Christ and † † † Joh. 6 53. should eate the flesh of the Son of Man and so * * * Joh. 15.7 he abideth in you and you in him and † † † Joh. 6.53 without him ye have no Life as an hearb or grasse and all earthly things without the power and vertue of the Sunne have no life growth or vegetation and operation in them so Man without the Divine Sunne which through Christ hath manifested it selfe in his Christians hath no life or happinesse or salvation without Christ in him 6. And as Christ was sold for thirty pieces of silver to suffering and death which thirty pieces of silver signifie the † † † Luk 3.23 thirty yeares of Christ before his Baptisme ere he entred into his Office and divine Government according to the humanity when he gave up his humane Will to God and the Creaturely selfe-will ceased in him so also must a Christian when he is in truth in his owne naturall will sold for twenty pieces of the thirty pieces of silver to be a servant of God in Christ to be a Minister or Officer and Obedient to his Lord who liveth in him then his by past yeares of the Adamicall Naturall time of this world are sold in and with Christ for twenty pieces of silver and so the Adamicall time of his naturall will in this being sold ceaseth in Christs suffering Death and he is by his Lord who is arisen from Death in him and ruleth and raigneth over Death set to be an Officer over Christs Goods to dispose of them through the Spirit of Christ viz. in the power and vertue of his Lord who is in him in this world * * * As to the Dominiō of Christ. according to the Kingdome of Christ. 7. As Joseph was taken away from his Fathers house and was first cast into the Pit wherein he should have perished and was afterwards sold by his brethren for twenty pieces of silver to serve as a Bondslave so also a Christian is first taken away from his Fathers house viz. from the Adamicall Nature and is cast into the Pit viz. into Christs suffering and Death and then looseth the Adamicall inheritance of the Kingdome of this world and is with his Will and Minde brought away from it then he must yeeld up his Fathers house viz. all his selfehood together with his naturall Life to his brethren in his fathers house that is to the power of God in the Government of this world and suffer himselfe to be cast into the Pit of the Death of his Naturall will and therein give up himselfe to the Death of Christ and willingly die to the will of this world viz. to his owne Adamicall house and willingly suffer all whatsoever his brethren of this world doe to him 8. And then if he thus lye in the Pit or Grave of Christ and hath given himselfe up to the Death of Christ that he willingly would forsake all for Christs sake and dye the death of his owne will then Christ his Lord putteth on him his resurrection from the Dead and maketh