most-perfect Cleernes / b Ephe. 3. d. 2. Pet. 1. b. in the Inwardnes of your Hearts / To th end that ye may â through thesame Cleernes see knowe and vnderstand / to what a Noblenes and Kingdom of God of concordable Louelynes / God hath c Gen 1. c. Sap. 2. c. Eccli 17. a created the Man· and chosen and loued thesame Generation like-as our Wrytings â set-foorth by vs / vnder the Obedience of the Loue do sufficiently â with full Instruction shewe the Cleernes of thatt Matter / were it rightly vnderstoode 2. Although â ye Beloued that ye haue often hearde of this Matter by vs or readd therof in our Wrytings and do also partly see-into and knowe thesame / yet am I forced notwithstanding / out of the Heart of Loue â that standeth affected towards all your Hearts / to an Vnitee in the Loue to wryte a little-more vnto you / of the vpright Beeing / wherin the Man was created wher-from he is d Gen. 3. â— Sap. 2. c. falne and wher-vnto he is called agayne / by Christ / to th end to stirr-vp the desyre of your Spirit the-more and to procure all your Will the-more towards the vpright Beeing of the true Light and to the Incorporating e Iohn 15. â— 17. b. to one concordable Man of God / in whom / God with his Christ and with all his Saintes Spirits Prophets and Angels / dwelleth liueeth and tryumpheth with Glory and all Delytfulnes / as a f Rom 14. b. peaceable and g Heb. 12 b. vndisturbable Kingdom To him thesame God / h Ephe 1. b. to the Laude and Prayse of his Glory and to him thesame godded Man / to his perfect Ioye Amen 3. BEholde and consider / ye Beloued In the Begining / i Gen 1. c when God had made al-things well / then was the Lorde / a Lorde of his Kingdom and a God of his Workes Ther was not also in his Kingdom nor-yet in all his Workes / any-more then one God and one Man and they were One and had in all respects / one Kynde Beeing and Nature And so â at thatt tyme God was all what the Man was and the Man all what God was 4. And when God looked vpon the Man / k Gen 1. c. Sap 2 c. Eccli 17. a. whom He had created according to the like Being of his Godhead and with whom He was manned / then looked He vpon himself as thesame Cleernes of his liueing Godhead / vniforme with the Manhod 5. Beholde thus vniforme with the true Beeing of God / was the Man in the Begining and this was all one Beeing / the Man and God And so God behealde l Gen. 1 d. his Worke which He had made / that it was Good 6. And when the Man likewyse behealde his God / with whom he was godded / then sawe he â in thesame Cleernes of his God the noble and pure Cleernes of his Manhod / vniforme with the Godhead and perfect in all Vertues and Beawty â–ª namely according to all the Frome and Beeing of thesame Godhead Lo this was likewyse all One / m Iohn 17 c. Ephe 2 b God and the Man 7. Seing now that These â God and the Man were One / so was-ther likewyse nomore but one Kingdom / in Heauen nor vppon Earth and thatt was the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and the euerlasting Lyfe / which had his perfect Beawty and Cleernes both vppon the Earth and in Heauen / with the Man and in the Man And ther-was nowheare any n Sap. 1. c. Kingdom of Hell nor Death nor-yet any Vnrighteousnes / neither in Heauen nor vppon Earth For God had made all Things good and well / which He had made and also created him nomore but one Man who was as God himself And God blessed this Man and hath sayde vnto him / that he shoulde growe or increase him replenish o Gen. 1. c. the Earth and bring it vnder him 8. Also God gaue no other Customs Rytes Lawes nor Commaundements vnto the Man / in the Begining / but to liue with Ioye and an p Gen. 2. b vncouered Heart / in the naked or vncouered Cleernes of his God and likewyse to walke alwayes naked or vncouered / before Him and that he shoulde euenso beholde all the Workes of God / for good / and not for euell· knowe nothing but Good / and not any Euell· and taste or feele nothing-els but Lyfe / and not any Death· Saluation / and not any Condemnacion The II. Chap. BEholde Thatt woulde God and that thesame shoulde continue in that maner and euerlastingly with the Man / to th end that his Kingdom namely the Man / with the Godhead shoulde â as one only peaceable Kingdom / in all Louelynes beare a â—en â— c. d the Dominion ouer the vniuersall Earth / to the Welfare of all Creatures 2. But as-soone as the Man turned-away the Sight of his Eyes / from his God and looked vppon himself and so turned-vnto and loued himself / theÌ„ perceaued he that he was not altogether the highest Godhead himself· but with the Godhead / a Man also b Gen 3 a. and became tempted to the Knowledg of Good and Euell for to bee ther-through in euery-respect / as God himself 3. When the Man had geeuen-ouer himself ther-vnto· and taken-on such a Fruit / of the Knowledg of Good and Euell / then came Blyndnes ouer him c Gen. 3. a. and he estrainged or seperated himself from the louely Cleernes of his God By meanes wherof / he coulde not endure the Woord or the Voyce of his God· nor appeere before Him / with his naked Manhod but was d Gen. 3. b. ashamed before God / of his naked Manhod 4. He coulde not also beholde nor conceaue any other Light or Cleernes / but thatt which he framed to himself / out of the Knowledg of Good and Euell or euen-as thesame Knowledg imagined it in him The which was all Ignorance and Darknes and was alwayes to a more Leading-awaye or Estrainging of the Man from his God who is the c Iohn 1. a 8. b. 9. â— 12. â— euerlasting Light and the true Wisdom 5. He fealt likewyse no other Lyfe of Righteousnes nor Peace or Rest in his Conscience / but thatt which he himself forged and tooke-on out of the Knowledg of Good and Euell The which was all wrong and nothing but Sinne Death and Vnrestfulnes 6. He knew not also any other God Kingdom of Heauens nor Saluacion / but such as he prefigured vnto himself / through thesame forenamed Knowledg / which the Man himself had taken-on The which was nothing-els / but the Deuill himself· the Kingdom of Hell· and the euerlasting Condemnacion f Sap. 1. â— whom / God woulde not that they shoulde bee vppon the Earth 7. And euenthus did the Darknes and the Deuill Ø› g Iohn â— c. the Father of Lyes as also
his Father and maketh his p Iohn 14 c â–ª Apo. â—1 a. Dwelling in vs. 12. Euenthus veryly with Patience doth Christ com before the Man â for his q Rom. â— a. 2. Cor. 12. â— Heb 5. â— Ignorance and Weaknes cause in the Ministration of the gracious Woord of God his Father and in thesame Patience / Hee â through his Seruice of Loue draweth the Man away from all that is vngodly and vnreasonable and wherunto he is bounde or wherwith he is bewitched / according to his earthly and manly Mynde 13. Beholde in this sort doth Christ â in the Obeying of the Requyring of the Seruice of his Loue r Oze 13. b. Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 15. f. Timo. 1. b. Heb. 2. b. 1 Iohn 3. b. breake all the Bandes of the Deuill and of the Self-myndednes of the Flesh and bringeth the beleeueing and obedient Man / to his spirituall and heauenly Mynde of the vpright Righteousnes according to the Mynde of God his Father and euenso â as the s 1. Tim. 2. a. Heb. 9. b. true Mediatour / to our Reconcilment with God the Father He putteth-away the t Esa. 59. a. Ephe. 2. b. Middle-wall betwixt God and Vs and procureth the Man / that he vniteth him with a good Will / with the Godhead u Iohn 17. c. and God / to an Vniting with the Manhod 14. BEholde and haue a good regard heerunto / my Beloued for euenthus as is rehearsed is x Rom. 5. a. the Peace and Reconciliation with God the Father / prepared for vs through Christ and so He maketh of Two / y Ephe. 2. b. that they be One. Namely the Godhead and the Manhod 15. But in the meane tyme that we do suffer with a Rom. 8. b. 2 Cor. 4. b. Phil. 3. b. 2. Timo. 2 b Christ / for the Sinnes cause and do dayly take our b Math. 16. c. Luk. 14. c. Crosse vppon vs / with Him / So do-ther yet dayly nodout / many Temptations meet with vs / through the Vnbeleefe of the earthly Man and we do stumble or fall and do sinne also yet somtymes / by reason of our Ignorance and Weaknes Which Sinne we do not then committ in the Father / but c Math. 12. d. in the Sonne But if we be good of Will and continue stedfast therin / then is the Sinne d Act. 10. â—â— forgeeuen vs / through his Name 16. For inasmuch as He himself beareth in vs our Sinnes / therfore hath He e Heb. 5. a. Compassion with our Weaknes and suffereth likewyse with vs / in the Beleefe till that all the Contrary-beeing that is agaynst the vpright Beeing of God the Father / be ouercom through the Beleefe / in the Like-suffering with Christ / f Rom. 6. a. Phil 2. a. of the Death of the Crosse and that Christ with his Father / haue gotten g 1 Cor. 15. c. the Dominion against the Sinne. Which Crosse or Suffering of Christ / is the Alter of the Offering of Christ / h Heb. 9. b. c. 10. a. b. in the Holy wheron our Sinnes be offered-vpp / through the Offering of Christ / as a Sinne-offering Death-offering and Debt-offering Through which Offering of Christ â wherin we do obediently follow-after i 1. Pet. 2. Him / till vnto the second Birth from the Death we be k 2. Cor. 3. b. Ephe 1. a. 2. b Col. b. Heb. 9. b. â— sprinckled with his Blood of the true Testament to the Forgiuenes of Sinnes and to an euerlasting Reconcilment with God the Father / through Fayth and thatsame is the Fulfilling of the true God-seruice in the Holy 17. Through which Fulfilling of the foregoing Seruice in the Holy / the godly Vnderstanding l 1. Cor. 13. b. Ephe. 4. b. of the true Age of the manly Beeing of Iesu Christ / is inherited by vs· m 2. Cor. 3. b the Vayle before the Mostholy / put-away from vs· and the n Esa. 16. c. Heb. 1. b. 5. a. Mercie-seate / vncouered and declared vnto vs and likewyse all the costly o Col 2. a. Ritches of the vpright spirituall and heauenly Goodes / in the verytrue Mostholy 18. When-as we now are thus renewed p Rom. 12. a. Ephe. 1. b. in Iesu Christ / through Fayth· also com to thesame q Ephe. 4. b. Age of the Man Christ· and becom one Body with Iesu Christ / so is God the Father then likewyse / r EPhe. 2. b one-substance or manned with vs / through Christ and s 1. Cor. 15. c. is all in all and we haue the t 2. Cor. 1. c. Paune of his Inheritance namely the holy Gost / wherwith we be grounded sealed and established u Ephe. 3. d. in God / through Iesus Christ. And all thatt godly Beeing â euenas we haue witnessed before of God the Father doth then liue substancially in vs and so we haue our x 1. Iohn 1. â— Fellowshipp with God the Father and with his Sonne Ø›the Lorde Iesu Christ in the euerlasting Lyfe wherin our Ioye is perfect 19. BEholde Thatt is the true Ioyfulnes with Christ / which we do inherit in the Kingdom of God his Father and do knowe nomore of the Sinne. For in that we are deadd / y Rom. 6. b. that are we deadd vnto the Sinne. and in that we liue / that liue we vnto God / in Iesu Christ and so haue a good and quyet Conscience / through Iesus Christ / in his Dominion ouer the Sinne and Death 20. Which Dominion of Christ and z Luk. 16 c. Kingdom of God / is as-then com inwardly into vs and it is with vs in all poyntes / one God / in one Beeing namely / the Father the Sonne the holy Gost / with the Manhod / in all Loue. And thatt is the Lyfe and Peace and the * Gen. 21. a Rom. 4. b. Gal. 3. b. c. Seede of Promyse to the Bleessing of all Generations of the Earth The VI. Chap. MY Beloued Thissame euenas I haue heere witnessed vnto thee is the right Mediation of Iesu Christ / inwardly in vs to our Safe-making and Reconciliation a Rom. 3. c. 2. Cor. 5. c. Col. 1. c. 1. Iohn 2. b. with God the Father wherthrough also Christ is an b Heb. 1. a. Heyre of all Things and God / all c 1. Cor. 15. c in all It is verytrue 2. And with this Instruction out of the heauenly Trueth / do I hartely salute thee in the Lorde d Ephe. 4. a. to an Vnitee of Heart in y e Loue and looke thou with spirituall Eyes of a pure Heart / into the Grounde of thatt wherof I wryte vnto thee / To th end that thou mayst comprehende the secret Vnderstanding of the spirituall and holy Knowledg / wherof I wryte vnto thee and let thyne Vnderstanding awake / to the Loue and to her Seruice 5. I
Death / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 9. And wee which be in-that-sort planted into Christ / with the like Death / do wayte for Him to com p Rom. 8. b Tit. 2. a with a Gloryousnes of Lyfe / ouer the Death / wherby to make vs â which suffer with Him alyue q Rom. 6.8 2. Tim. 2. b. with Him likewyse namely in the Appeering of his Coming / to the Renewing of our Lyfe / For to inherite euenso in the Resurrection r Iohn 3. a. Rom. 6. a 1. Cor. 15. e. f Phil 3. b Col. 2. b. out of the seconde Birth from the Death / a sure Confession of the Resurrection of Christ / to our Iustifycation and to raigne with Him for euer in the heauenly Beeing namely / ouer Sinne Death and Hell / and ouer all the Enemyes of the Lyfe And thatt is the Gospel of the Kingdom s Math. 28. c Mar. 16. b Rom. 10. b. Apo. 14. which is published in all the Worlde / now in the last tyme according to the Promyses The V. Chap. FArdermore â my Beloued thou wrytest vnto me / that the Hell in processe of tyme / vanisheth-away in thee but the Hauen cometh not agayne in the Plâ—ace of the Hell In which state as thou wrytest thou canst not well somtymes stand submitted and yet of-right-it ought to be so like-as thou perswadest thyself or rememberest / that thou shouldest haue learned and vnderstood it so of mee 2. For which Cause sake / thou makest an hearty Request vnto me â by Wryting to informe thee therof and demaundest of me therwith and deâ—yerest an Answer ther-vpon / how I haue behaued myself in the Passing-ouer or Wading-thorow thesame for that thou moughtest likewyse follow-after mee 3. Veryly I cannot answere thee according to thy Request / how I haue alwayes behaued myself / in the Making-vp of the euell Conscience and erring Ignorance in the Darknesses But to shew-forth a Heb. 10. c Iam. 5. Patience / in our Affliction thatt is profitable and good for vs all and to haue a firme Hope vpon God / in our Tryall or Temptation 4. For veryly / the Tyme cometh and is com / that the Iudgments of the euell Conscience / shall all be seene and knowen / for Darknesses and not for Light· for Lyes / and not for Trueth In like-maner / it shall also be seene and knowen / that the Hell b Sap. 1 b. and Condemnation â which ryseth out of the vnmeasurable lying Beeing or maketh-vp itself ther-out are all Lyes and corruptible For none of all these euell Things / wherwith the Man is c Sap. 11. b punished in Darknes â for his Sinnes cause hath God d Sap. 1 b. made Therfore it is all / Death and Lyes / whatsoeuer is not Hee himself neither-yet that Hee hath made For all what God hath made / e Gen. 1 a. Sap. 1 b Eccli 40. a is good and is euerywhitt / Lyfe and Trueth to the Blessing and Ioye of the Man 5. But if-â—o-be now that thou doest not knowe or see all these euell Things â which do tempt or besett the Man to be Lyes and Darknesses / then art thou yet much-to-weake / for one to talke anything with thee of the Trueth and as-yet to-ignorant of the Trueth / for to vnderstand anything therof or to comprehende anything of the Light of Lyfe 6. But seing that these euell Things â which are all Lyes and Darknes do captiue vs and bewitch our Hearts and that we haue accounted of them to be somwhat / therfore haue they brought vs to Suffering and Greefe and do likewyse seeme vnto vs to be somwhat / so long as we do beleeue the Lyes and Darknesses But in this Tribulation and Heauynes â in the tyme of our Temptation let vs shewforth f Eccli 2. â— Iam. 5. a Patience / in the Hope of Deliuerance And thatt is it wherof I haue comoned with thee But not so playnly as I do now wryte thesame vnto thee 7. Now for to be altogether deliuered g Iohn â— Rom. 7.8 b or made-free from these euell Thinges / which are risen-vp in thee and haue captiued thee / for that thy Soule may escape the Perills / into the which she is brought / through thy defyled Conscience / So is-ther nothing more profitable or furdersom for thee to the Lyfe / then that thou shouldest forsake the dark Obiect / vnder whom thyne Vnderstanding hath stoode captiue the which thou hast beleeued / to the Wounding of thy Soule and so â giueing thyne Vnderstanding wholly and altogether h 2. Cor. 10. â— captiue vnder the Obedience of the Loue shouldest only heare beleeue and be obedient to the true vndeceaueable Light and i Pro. 4. a. 5 â–ª aâ— to the Counsaile and Seruice of the holy Spirit of Loue and so shouldest in thy Spirit / k 2. Pet. 1. c. take-heede to the Light of Grace euenas thesame is now in the last tyme / reuealed vnto vs / in the Woord of Lyfe â vnder the Obedience of the Loue out of the heauenly Trueth / To th end that thou mayest be renewed in thyne Vnderstanding / to a good Knowledg and so mayest with a good Conscience / cleaâ—e only to the Seruice of Loue hearing nomore nor beleeueing anything / wher-with thou wart before-tyme bewitched in the Knowledg 8. When thou hast forsaken l Math 10.16 c Luk. 9.14 c all thissame / according to this maner wherby to giue eare and credite â wich an humble Heart to the vncorrupt Loue in her Seruice and to be obedient therunto / so haue then a good regarde vnto the m Math. 24. c 1. Cor. 15. f. 1. Tess. 4. c Noyse or Sounde of thesame Trump namely vnto the Seruice of Loue and vnto the first Entraunce into his Doctrine and Requyring To th end that thou mayest euenso vnderstande in thissame Daye of Loue / the Distinction of this last Trump and what is requyred therby 9 For this Daye or Light of Loue / is the Daye which God hath appoynted or ordayned on the n Act. 17. d. which He wil iudg the Circuite of the Earth / with Righteousnes / because that in thesame mostholy Daye of Loue / it may o Act. 3. c. all be restored agayne / what God hath spoken by the Mouth of all his Prophets / from the Begining of the Worlde 10. In which mostholy Daye of Loue / all Soules â which in the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue / do p Math. 5 a hunger and thirst after the vpright and pure Beeing of the Loue shall obtayne their Saluation and Health and all Vnderstandings â which giue themselues captiue â–ª q 2. Cor. 10. â— ther-vnder and which do not harken nor aske after anything-els shal be healed and made-sounde / touching the r Gen. 3 Sap. 16 b But of the destroying Knowledg of Adam and be brought to the Vnderstanding of
the holy and godly Knowledg / and so shall feele and s 1. Pet. 2. a taste liueingly in the Spirit / the mostholy Beeing of the supreame God The VI. Chap. MOrouer â my Beloued Forasmuch as thou doest now desyre to knowe som larger Instruction at our hands / then thatt which we haue alredy spoken vnto thee / to th end thou mayest com to the simple Trueth and so to be partaker of the a 2. Pet â–ª 1. a. godly Beeing / Therfore do not I desyre also to withholde thesame from thee but to figure it foorth vnto thee in Wryting / according to the Gift of the Grace of God / which is chaunced vnto Mee out of his Light of Lyfe and which is profitable vnto thee to Edification For-that-cause beholde and consider and giue eare b Pro. 4. to the holy Vnderstanding 2. First-of-al / submitt thyself to the outflowed gracious Woord of the Lorde wherby to enter obediently into the Requyring of his Seruice of Loue and so in thy Obeying of the Requyring of thesame Woord and Seruice / take-heede to the Wisdom of the Woord / c Iam. 1. c in the Meeknes of the Loue / in thy Spirit and Mynde For thesame Wisdom / in the Meeknes of the Loue / is much humbler / then all Knowledg of the Good and Euell / much better / d Psal. 19 b Pro. 3. b â— b Sap. 7. a then all Golde and Siluer / and much-more of value / then all precious Stones Whosoeuer fyndeth her / he hath a costly Treasure For the Wisdom in the Meeknes of the Loue / is the principall and euerlasting Good and excelleth it all 3. This Wisdom â seing it is of God e Sap. 7· c Iam. 3. b. is also 〈◊〉 â–ª courteous and freendly For it is the true Christ of God the liueing Woord of the Father and the euerlasting Lyfe 4. Beholde this is the Lyfe that was with God the Father / from the Begining f Gen 1 a. Psal 33. a Pro 8. c Sap. 1. b Iohn 1. a. thorough the which / God hath made all Things and without thesame / God hath made nothing / that is any-what 5. This Lyfe g Iohn 1. d. is for a Light of Men / to th end that the Man shoulde liue the Lyfe / that proceedeth h Rom. 6. a 1 Pet 4. a out of God And this Lyfe is in Vs i Iohn 1. a and we are made through thesame and grounded or sett ther-vppon / as vppon a liueing Woord k Esa. 40. b 1. Pet. 1. c that continueth for euer And to thesame Woord in his Seruice / we be all called and bidden / because that we shoulde euenso through his Seruice / beleeue theron 6. Thissame was in the Worlde also l Iohn 1. b Heb. 1. a and the Worlde was made by thesame but the Worlde knew it not 7. Thissame Woord or Lyfe / doth likewyse beare euery-thing / m Heb 1. a with the Beeing of his Power and maketh the n Ephe. 1. a. Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Himself 8. Beholde by thatsame hath o Gen. 1. â— God made all Things well / in the Begining and ther was nothing made in the Begining / of all that God had made / but it was all good And God did also beholde it all for good 9. And so from the Begining / ther was no euell nor dâ—mnable Thing / with the Lyfe that is of God and this Lyfe was vniforme â as one like Beeing p Gen 1. c Sap. 2. c Eccli 17. a with the Godhead And in Beholding it / ther was no Difference For it was in euery-poynt / godded with God and so in the Begining / ther was nothing-els but one God one Light and one Lyfe 10. Out of this Lyfe / did God bring-foorth the Memory or Vnderstanding q Gen. 1. b â— to be an Help to the Lyfe / to th end that euery-thing shoulde be handled and gouerned well and orderly / by the Memory or Vnderstanding· and by the Lyfe / wher-out God had brought the Memory Therfore did likewyse the Lyfe / inclyne to the Vnderstanding and cleaue vnto her for she was a Light / of his Light and a Lyfe / of his Lyfe Therfore was she also the Most-beawtyfull and the Most-delytfulone to the louely Lyfe 11. Thewhiles that this Vnderstanding / turned-not-out or fel-not-away from the Life but did alwayes stand-firme in the Lyfe / for r Gen. â— b â— an Help to the Lyfe / so was-ther Ioye and Peace with God and the Man and ther was no Diuision or Middle-wall / betwixt God and the Man neither had the Vnderstanding any other Knowledg / but that she liued to the Lyfe and stood obedient / to the Seruice and Welfare of the Lyfe and to the Rest and Peace of all Generations of the Earth 12. Beholde this was the former Kingdom of God / full of all pure Beawty / wherin God â before the Man fel-away from Him was knowen / as a s Iohn 1. b Lorde in his Glory and the t Math. 24. a Act. 1. a Setting-vp of thesame Kingdom agayne / those are the Promyses of God the Father namely to establish thesame / through his Loue and her Seruice / in the last tyme. 13. But when the Memory or Vnderstanding turned-away from the Lyfe taking-vpon-her to knowe somthing / that was not the Lyfe itself nor that stood grounded in the Lyfe neither-yet was for an Help vnto the Lyfe / Then did the Vnderstanding mingle herself with thatt which was nothing or which God had not made and thatt was the Euell / against the Good the Lye / agaynst the Trueth and the Death / against the Lyfe And thus did the Vnderstanding committ Adultry and she was inflamed with the knowing of somthing without the Lyfe And she became subiect to the Vanitee or Thatt which was nothing and then was the Transgression brought-to-pas and the Sinne was in-that-sort brought-forth / v Iohn 6. â— 17 2. Tess. 2. a as a lost Childe of the Deuill and of the Condemnation 14. Beholde euenthus was the Man captiued in his Memory or Vnderstanding / x Rom. 1. c. 2. Cor. 4 a. Ephe. 4. c. with a blynde Knowledg or with an Vnderstanding of the Darknesses which Darknesses are y Iohn 3. â— beloued of the Man· and taken-on for Couerings z Esa 25. a. 2. Cor. â— b. or Aperus to a Couering of the a Gen. 3. a. naked Cleernes of the manly Foorme / which God had created to be b Gen. 1.2 his Image and so â in the Taking-on of the Couerings God was nomore for a Light of Lyfe vnto the Man nor for a Delyte in his Paradise but for a Dryueing-out c Gen 3. from his Face 15. And now when the Man was estrainged from the Beholding of his God / then was the Lyfe also / nomore for a Light to the
Sinne and Death / through his Death of the Crosse / and hath made himself manifest vnto his Freendes / that loued Him and were his Disciples and renewing them in the Woord of his Doctrine / He q Luk. 24 c shewed them â through his Suffering and Death of the Crosse the Victory r 1 Cor. 15 g. against the Sinne Death Deuill and Hell 5. Now when-as these his Disciples were renewed and established in the Woord of his Doctrine· and armed s 1 Pet 4 a with thesame Mynde of the Suffering of Iesu Christ / t Mar 16. b Luk 24 f Act 1. a then was He taken-vp from them to the Right-hande of God his Father / in the heauenly Beeing From thence hath He comforted his Disciples and comprysed his Shape in them / out of the heauenly Beeing powring-foorth v Act. 1 â— 2 â— his holy Spirit into them as a newe and true x Apo. 21 a Ierusalem which is not prepared by Men / but by God like a garnished Bryde for her Husbande And euenthus became God the Father / thorough his only-borne Sonne Ø› Christ of one-substance agayne y Act â— with the manly Creatures And to that ende also because that all manly Creatures / shoulde â through Christ be z Iohn 17 c one-substance with God the Father / is Christ preached And in such a State doth God requyre to haue his People or the Congregation of Iesu Christ. 6. BEholde These Disciples of Iesu Christ â who through Christ / were sealed with the holy a Act. 2. a Rom 8 b 2 Cor 5 a Spirit of Christ / from the Right-hande of God· b Math. 13. f taught to the Kingdom of the God of Heauens· and established in God the Father and in the Lorde Iesu Christ were the right Christians / not out of the Letter or Flesh / c Math. 26. c. Luk. 22 c Iohn 6. f. 1 Cor. 11. c wherwith they had bin serued till vnto the Coming of thesame Clernes of Christ but out of the Power of God / d Luk 24. c Act 1. a. 2. a 1 Cor. 2 a b in the Spirit and did beare euenthus e 2. Cor. 4. a a costly Treasure / in earthen Vessels namely the very-like Beeing of God the Almighty 7. Which Beeing of God / f 2. Cor. 4. a. Phil. 2. a. Col. 1. b. Heb 1. a is the true Christ himself / according to the Spirit with whom they had their Fellowship And through Him â seing He was One with God their g 1. Iohn 1. a. Fellowship was also with God the Father Wherby they vsed that Woord God our Father and the LordeØ›his Sonne Iesu Christ. The which also Many nodout / do speake or witnes in-that-maner / out of the Letter and out of the Imagination of the good-thinking Knowledg but they are wyde of it / according to the Trueth But These â who h Act 2.3 1 Cor 2 a b 1 Iohn 1. a. witnessed that Woord / out of the Spirit and Trueth haue witnessed the Grace from God the Father and from the Lorde Iesu Christ / in the Trueth of God And yet notwithstanding / haue confessed nomore but one God but haue witnessed the Wonderful-acts of God / shewed on them through Iesus Christ. And i Ioel 2. d. Act. 2 â–ª b. it shall com-to-pas â sayeth God in the last Dayes 8. THis Grace of Saluation / that was k Luk. 1. f. g 2. a b. c Act. 2.3.4 c. apeered to the Iewes â which Many of them in that tyme refused is published to the Heathen / l Math. 3. a. Luk. 2. d Act. 13. c to a Repentance for their Sinnes / to th end that they shoulde m Iohn 1. c. beleeue on the like Beeing of God the Almighty / that was appeered vnto them· and so becom partakers likewyse of the Gifts of the holy Gost â through Iesus Christ out of the fatherly Grace and that their Fellowship mought be one n 1. Iohn 1. a. with God the Father and his Sonne Iesu Christ / in one-maner of Fayth 9. And to that ende was the Seruice of Christ ministred o 2 Cor. 10. a vnder y e Obedience of Fayth â by the Apostles of Christ to the vnbeleeueing Heathen namely in the Woord of the Preaching of the Disciples and Apostles of Christ / To the intent that thesame Lyfe of Righteousnes â that was refused p Act. 3. c. by the Iewes shoulde be set-vpp among y e Heathen / through Fayth and so they sought to confirme y e Lawe among y e Heathen / through Fayth and to bring forth the Righteousnes ther-by / q Rom. 3. c. Gal. 2 b. 3 b Phil. 3. b. that is requyred by y e Lawe The V. Chap. BEholde euenthus / for a a Luk. 2. â— Light and Saluation of the Heathen / is thissame â only out of Grace / vndeserued published vnto the Heathen / for a Gospel / to a Mortifying of their vayne Vnderstanding b Rom 1.6.8 1 Cor 5.6 Gal. 5 6. and of the corrupt vngodly Beeing and to an Incorporating to the newe Man whom the Apostles of Christ did publish namely ChristØ›the Like-beeing of God c Luk. 1. g. Ephe. 4. c. in vpright Righteousnes and Holynes In whom â and in none Other standeth d Act. 4.10 c the Forgiuenes of Sinnes 2. These Publishers of the holy Woord or Gospel of the Kingdom of God seing now that Iesus Christ had a Shape in them / as a verytrue Light and Lyfe of God and that Gods Shape / was in Christ wher-thorough they lykewyse were in Christ â–ª and God in them haue published that Woord Ø› Grace and Peace from â—od our Father and y e Lorde Iesu Christ in the Trueth 3. But although the Apostles did publih this after-this-maner / yet haue they notwithstanding / spoken no otherwyse then of One God / who had shewed his Procreation or Generation in them / as a e Iohn 1. c Glory of the only-borne Sonne of y e Father / full of Grace and Trueth namely that God the Father had begotten and declared in them / his like f Iohn 1. a 1. Iohn 1. a Lyfe of God / out of his Lyfe and his like Light / out of his Light 4. Seing then that they did beare this like Beeing of the Godhead / in them / therfore haue they â through thesame knowen the liueing God / who was their Saluation namely through the Lyfe of God / Iesu Christ being appeered vnto them g Ephe. 3. â— in the Spirit Wherthrough they also published the Lyfe that is euerlasting and so witnessed likewyse that Those which had h â— Iohn 5. b. not the Sonne of God / coulde not also haue the Father / and that they were without i Ephe. 2 b. God / in this Worlde For the like Lyfe of God / k Iohn 1. a 1 Iohn 1. a 5
Ø›his very-like Beeingâ— in the Man And so hath God made and ordayned euery-thing k Eccli 39. â— â–ª well / through his godly Beeing And l Iohn 1. a. without thatsame Beeing / God hath made nothing that is any what nor ordayned anything / without thesame and thatsame lyke Beeing of his Godhead / m Iohn 1.6 g is his only borne Sonne / Iesus Christ and is the n 1. Cor. 15. c. Col. 1. c. Firstling or the First-borne of all Creatures / whom God hath foreseene therto / o Pro. 8. c. er-euer the Foundation of the Worlde was layde p Heb. 1. a. and to be an Heire of all his Workes 14. Hee is promysed q Iohn 3. b. Rom 8. d. and geuen vnto vs by God the Father â as a Christ of God for a Lyfe and for a Saluation and is likewyse so r Psal. 19. a. Act. 2.3 c. preached and published to the Worlde But the Worlde hath not beleeued in Him and therfore also s Ihon. 8.9 â— remayneth her Sinne and Death 15. For in noman els but in thatsame only Christ t Iohn 1. is the Lyfe Which Lyfe / is a Light of Men and that Light shyneth in the Darknesses and the Darknesses haue not comprehended it 16. Thatsame is a verytrue Light u Iohn 8. b. which lighteth all Men / through his Coming into this Worlde and He was in the Worlde and the Worlde was made through Him but the Worlde knew Him not 17. He came into his Owne and his Owne receaued Him not But so many as receaued Him / to them gaue He the Power to be Children of God namely Those that beleeued on his Name / which are not borne of Blood nor of the Will of the Flesh nor-yet of the Will of Man / but of God The IIII. Chap. OF this selfsame only-borne SoÌ„ne of God the Father / the Prophet Esay doth also witnes a Esa. 9. a A Childe sayth hee is borne vnto vs a Sonne is geeuen vnto vs whose Dominion / is vppon his Shoulders and He is called / Wonderfull Counsayle Power Gyant euerlasting Father a peaceable Prince / Because that his Dominion may be great and no Ende of the Peace / vppon the Seate of Dauid and his Kingdom 2. Him hath likewyse the Prophet Dauid seene in the Spirit and witnessed of Him / that God hath b Psal. 110. a. Heb. 5. b. 7 b sworne â and it shall not repent Him that Hee is a Preest for euer / after the Order of Melchisedech and He continueth also an High-preest c Heb. 3.10 c ouer the Howse of God / for euer / as d Heb. 8.9 b. a Minister of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes Which Ministration cometh-to-pas in the Spirit / and not in the Letter euen as is written of Him 3. But seing now that the Man is falne-away e Gen. 3. a. Ephe. 4. c. Col 1. â— or estrainged from this vpright Beeing of his God / Therfore hath this ChristØ›the true Lambe of God suffered f Phil. 2 a. the Death of the Crosse in the Man Which Lambe of God / was killed g Apo. 5.13 b from the Begining of the Worlde / for the Sinnes cause But seing He is not of the Death but of the liueing Father / the God for euer / therfore is He also rysen h Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24. c. Act. 2. c. 10 c 1. Cor. 15. â— Col. 1. b. agayne and as the i Math. 2â— a. Firstling / rysen-vp from the Death k Act. 1. a. 2. c. 10. c. 13. d. 1. Cor. 15. a. Psal. 110. a. and hath shewed himself alyue vnto his Disciples and Beleeuers and set himself at the l 1. Cor. 15. c. Right-hande of God his Father / in the heauenly Beeing bearing the Dominion / till that all his Enemyes be layde vnder his Feete to a Conquering of Sinne and Death / through Fayth 4. THis is that Iesus Christ / which â like as He was preached before and m Act. 1. 1. Tess. 5. c. 2. Tess. 1. a. shoulde be seene in his Coming is n 2. Cor. 4. a. 2. Timo. 1. b. appeered and com vnto vs / in y e Obedience of the Loue / according to the Scripture Who must possesse the Heauen / o Act. 3. c. till vnto this tyme / wherin all becometh restored agayne / that God hath spoken by the Mouth of all his Prophets / from the Begining of the Worlde 5. Thissame was in tymes-past published in the Worlde / p Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24. f. Act. 1.2 c. for a Gospel or ioyfull Message / to th end y t all those which were burdened with Sinne and captiued with Darknesses / shoulde be baptised or washed q Rom. 6 a. Col. 2. b. in his Death of the Crosse / according to the inwarde Man· and planted into Him r 2 Cor. 4. b â–ª Phi. 3. b. with his like Death / for that all those which beleeued in Him / shoulde be borne-agayne out of thesame Death· and so becom partakers of the s Rom. 6. a. 2. Cor. 4. b. Phil. 3. b. Resurrection of ChristØ›the very-like Beeing of God / the Righteousone and that they mought euenso then â in the Spirit haue their fellowshipp with Christ / t Ephe. 2. a. in the heauenly Beeing / in the Kingdom of God his Father· and so reioyce them in his Coming / in the euerlasting Lyfe 6. Beholde thatt is the vpright v Luk. 1. Ephe. 4. c. Righteousnes and Holynes / which cometh to the Man in the Spirit / through Christ to an euerlasting Reconciling of the Man with God or to an x Iohn 17. c. Ephe. 2. b. Vnitee / betwixt God and the Man / to th end that God may in that sort / be y 1. Cor. 15. c. all in all / according to the Promyses The V. Chap. BVt seing now that thy Questyon is how or in what maner / thesame shall com-to-pas in vs / so can I not omitt / to giue the a full Instruction therof 2. Therfore beholde and consider in thyne Vnderstanding / my Beloued how that now in the last tyme / thesame liueing God â out of Grace / vndeserued is a 2. Cor. 4. a. 2 Timo 1. b. appeered vnto vs / out of his holy Heauen / and dwelleth b 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. liueth and walketh among Vs Ø›the Family of his Loueâ— And how that Hee and his vpright Righteousnes / is â by his gracious Woord administred in the Family of Loue and how that likewyse in thesame Administration / c 2. Cor. 10. a. 1. Petr. b. c. the Beleefe and the Obedience to the Requyring of thesame God / is requyred of all Men d Ephe. 4. â— to an Vnitee of Heart with Vs / in all Loue. 3. So consider then whearsoeuer thesame liueing God of Heauen and his Goodnes â as an vpright Beeing
thyself altogether vnto his Will 3. Choose not also any perticuler thing in Gods Workes But looke that thou stand d 2. Cor. 12. b. contented in all the Workes of God For e Deut. 10. b Act. 10. c. Rom. 2. c. God respecteth not anyman but He worketh all things f Psal. 114.135 according to his owne Pleasure 4. If-so-be now that thou holde thyself quyet in the Workes of God and therto / indeuourest thy self to g 4. Esd. 7. a. Math. 7. b. passe-thorow the strayt h 1. Cor. 4. b. 2. Cor. 4. b. 6. a. 11. c. d Waye with all the Saincts of Christ / in Shame Blaspheamy and Contempt / and therin â following after Christ dayly takest-vp thy i Math 16. c. Luk. 14. c. Crosse â in the Obedience to the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue till vnto the second Birth k Rom. 6. a. Ephe. 2. a. Col. 1. c. 2. b from the Death / So shalt thou then likewyse wel knowe and vnderstande / l 2. Cor. 3.4 a that the Power for to accomplish the Righteousnes of God / is not the Mans· but â so much as it remayneth with vs only the Lordes 5. For / for his owne sake and for the Prayse of his holy Name / He wil not m 2. Pet. 3. a. forslowe himself to performe his Worke / to our Saluation / to th end that He may establish his Promyses in vs / if we stand plyable vnto Him with submitted Hearts 6. But not for our Workes cause â–ª for that no Flesh n 1. Cor. 1. c. Ephe. â— a. shoulde bost itself but for his owne cause and for his holy Names sake / because that Hee Ø›the great and almighty God and his o Math. 6. b. holy Name / shoulde be hallowed and praysed in his Workes 7. Wherfore Because now that no Flesh of Adam or of the earthly Man / p Psal 14.53 a. Rom. 3. b. hath any Vnderstanding of the Works of God / I can therfore talke very little of thosesame / with the Children of Men but must stretch-out my Heart vnto my God and speake before Him 8. O God of deepe and vnsearchable Wysdom Who hath euer bin q Esa. 40. b. Sap. 9. b. Rom. 11. b. thy Counsayler or geeuen thee to knowe before / r Esa. 45. Rom. 9. c. worke this thus or so 9. Art not thou thesame which thou art the God of Abraham and his Seede / which was from eternitee and remayneth a liueing and true God for euermore Who also worketh euery Thing without Respect of Persons or Counsayle of anyman For thy Will goeth-forth / according to thy Pleasure and thy Worke s Sap. 11. d. Rom. 9. c. can noman withstande 10. Therfore must I laude thee / O my God For thou hast brought my Soule t Psal. 30. a. 50. b 86. b 116. a. out of the Deapth of Hell and kept me / when I was in the Extremitee u Psal. 18.116 of Death 11. O my God seing thou hast hetherto / kept me from the Destruction / so let not thy Grace now likewyse depart from me although I be a Loathsomnes and x Psal. 31. b. 44. b. 79. a. 88. a. 1. Cor. 4 b. Reproach before many Men but holde me alwayes by y Psal. 10â— a. thy Right-hande hande and z Psal. 119. d. teache me through thy Lawe / for that myne Enemyes â which make-vp themselues against me / for to destroy me may depart from me and make knowen vnto them / that thou hast chosen Mee to be an Instrument for thy Worke. 12. When-as now â O my God myne Enemyes do perceaue that thou dost teache and gouerne me And that it is thy Worke / which thou â to th end to performe it hast begonne with me / Then shall they wel vnderstand / that thou â O Lorde art my God â–ª and I / the a Ephe. 2. b Worke and Instrument of thy Hande which thou hast accepted vnto thee / for to accomplish thy Will 13. Now â O Lorde leade me on-forward into b Psal. 5. a. thy Righteousnes / that I â through thy Grace shewed on me may prayse thy holy Name· and highly laude and thanke thee / in thy Righteousnes 14. For truly / the Vngodly c Psal. 14. a. 53. a. Rom. 3. b. knowe thee not the Dispisers and Blaspheamers / fynde not thy Dwelling the Sencles and Self-wyseones / aske not after Thee O God in the d Psal. 6. a. â—8 b. 115. b. Esa. 32 b. Death / men do not remember thee thy Song-of-prayse / is not soung in the Hell the Hipocrites or fayned Holyones nor-yet the false Hearts and Scripture-learnedones â which blaspheame and contemne thy holy e Heb. 10. c. Spirit and Seruice of Loue or murmur ther-against seeke not thy Grace neither do any of all those likewyse / which iustifye or account themselues faythfull / â—om to be a Foote-bench vnder thy Feete 15. Seing then that all these are Straingers vnto thy Righteousnes and Holynes / therfore art thou also â O my God only holy only righteous and only true 16. Therfore â O my God giue thy Spirit into my Inwardnes f Psal. 51. b. create in mee / an vpright Heart / that is louely before thee and that walketh vnfalsly and giue likewyse thy Woord alwayes into my Mouth / so may I then prayse thee / before all those that loue thy Trueth also declare thy Righteousnes and magnifye thy Name For otherwyse â O God it is all nothing before thee The III. Chap. BEholde â thou Beloued / Shewing-forth Patience / in this my Distresse Wofulnes and Sorrow and in Prayer and Supplication vnto my God in a Rom. 6 a â— Cor 4. b. 2. Cor. 4. b. 6. a. 11. c. Dying-from and Forbearing all sinfull Beeing in Death Suffering Shame Blaspheamy and in all Contempt with manâ— false Bruits and in many Conflicts or Stryueings against all the Temptation of the Sinne / I do dayly follow-after the crucifyed Christ / my Lorde and Sauiour / who is gon before mee and all his Saincts / in thesame contemptible b Sap. 2. b. Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse / y â— which is reiected by the Worlde and by all her Wyse and Scripture-learnedones c Esa. 53. â— Sap. 2. c. and dispised as a Foolishnes 2. In which Death of Christ / we must all be baptised or washed and euenso â drinking the d Math. 20. c. Cupp with Christ becom e Rom. 6. â— a Gal. 3. c. incorporated vnto Christ / if we shall ryse with Christ / in the Godlynes or be f Iohn 6. d. raysed-vp and made-alyue by Him in the last Daye / as g Rom 12. â— Ephe. 5. d. a Fellow-member of his Body For in Hym that sheweth Patience therin ther shall be seene / that Christ is h Ephe. 5. c. his Bodyes Sauiour
2. b. Math. 27. mocked contemned and killed by the Children of the wicked Worlde and by her Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones woulde God â according to his Promyses and the Affirmation of his Prophets that the Man shoulde carry r 1. Cor. 15. c or beare / to his owne Blessing and to the Honour of God and to the Prayse of his holy Name And not the Sinne / s Sap. 2. c. Iohn 3. â— that very-like Beeing of the Diuell 12. With which vngodly or lyke Beeing of the Diuell and also with Offenciuenes and wicked Imaginations / many Men do runne-on and so do suppose â through their corrupt Vnderstanding and vngodly Beeing to be saued for-al-that â–ª they do likewyse comfort t Ier 8 â— themselues with Lyes and saye / Christ hath performed it all and so they continue going-on in v Ier. 4. â— â— a. their Sinnes and Abhominations or wicked Imaginations 13. AH beloued Consider I pray thee / of such a great Misunderstanding / that is flatt against all the Preaching of the holy Gospel of Christ. For the Scripture of the holy Gospel mentioneth and witnesseth cleerly vnto vs / that Christ is obediently gon-before u Phil. 2. a. 1. Pet. 2.4 â— vs / in the Death of the Crosse / to th end that wee likewyse shoulde follow-after Christ therin / to y e Mortifying x Col. 2. or to a Consumeing of our Sinnes and of all vngodly Beeing the which is the true Burnt-offering as also shoulde be incorporated vnto Him / with his lyke y Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Death and euenso to the Establishing of the gloryous Name of God â according to his Promyses shoulde becom saued Theron likewyse do all Gods Prophets witnes 14. And if thou doest consider rightly from the Begining of the Promyses of God / till vnto their Ende or Fulfilling in the Saluation / Then shalt thou perceaue / that we be informed and taught with the Promyses of God and with the Figures z Rom. 3.4 Gal. 3.4 Heb 7.8.9.10 and Seruices of the Lawe / to the Fayth of Iesu Christ and the Seruice therof and to the Requyring of the Preaching of the holy Gospel And so foorth from the Seruice of the Fayth of Christ and of the holy Gospel / till vnto the a Iohan. 13. d. 14. c. 15. b Loue and her Seruice And thesame is the Perfection b Rom. 13. b. 1. Cor. 13. a. Gal. 5. b. Col. 3. b. 1. Timo. 1. a and the Establishing or Fulfilling of the Promyses of God and Christ. 15. Therfore is the Seruice of Loue / the Very-last and Most-holy / wherin c Math. 22. d. it is all fulfilled / whatsoeuer is written of the Righteousnes of the Lawe and of Christ and his Beleeuers For in the Loue and in her Children / God d Apo. 21. is all in all and the Kingdom of the God of Heauens with his Glory 16. BEholde This true Beeing of God the Father like as is sayde therof is the Stone that is layde in Sion / e Esa. 28. b Act. 4. b. 1. Pet. 2. a. for to trust vpon it wherof ther is also written f Esa. 59 c. Rom. 11. â— He shall com out of Sion / which shall put-awaye the vngodly Beeing from Iacob 17. And thatt is the seconde Testament â the which is the gracious Woord g Ier. 31. d. Rom. 11. e. Heb. 8.10 b that is promysed to the Howse of Israel and to the Howse of Iuda / in the last tyme For then shall the Punishment for their Sinnes / be ended and their Sinnes shall God nomore remember For in thatt Daye â h Iohn 12. d. wherin the Sonne of Man is exalted shall y e Sonne of Man drawe it all vnto Him seing that the Inheritance doutles appertayneth vnto Him 18. In this-self-same â which is the very-likie and true Beeing of God the Father standeth the Blotting-out i Act. 4. b 10 c Heb. 1. a and Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Fayth euen as is written of Him 19. To be incorporated vnto Him with the Spirit / is veryly the right Satisfaction of the Sonne of Promyse / the right k Heb. 5. â— Heyre of all godly Goodes 20. Of Him hath likewyse Esaias witnessed / whear he sayth l Esa 9. c. A Childe or an Heyre is borne vnto vs a Sonne is geeuen vnto vs whose Dominion is vppon his Shoulders / and He is called / Wonderfull Counsayle Power Gyant euerlasting Father a peaceable Prince for that his Dominion may be great and no â—nde of the Peace / vppon the Seate of Dauid and his Kingdom 21. Him hath God sett to be an Heyre ouer all Things Through Whom / He hath also made the Worlde and He maketh the Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Himself and euenthus standeth his Satisfaction according to the Promyses like-as is written of Him and not according to Mans Good-thinking or Imagination The VII Chap. THou wrytest likewyse vnto mee / that it is wel knowen vnto mee / that God hath created all Things / each-one according to his Kynde in â—uch-sort that all Creatures haue their Nature or Kynde / wherin they liue / and cannot transgresse / and that thou doest also half cal-to-mynde / that thou hast heard it so of mee 2. It is true / that all Creatures are created a Gen. â— according to their Kynde and that each-one hath his Ordinance / according to his Kynde which â of Natures-part it cannot transgresse 3. Whatsoeuer now is incorporated vnto his owne Nature and is not turned ther-out nor estrainged ther-from but bydeth ther-in / thatt liueth then in his vpright â— Nature Beeing and Kynde / wherin it is created and wherto it is ordayned or foreseene of God 4. COnsider â thou Beloued God hath created all earthly Creatures and ioyned each-one to his lyke / according to his Nature and Kynde 5. After thesame maner also / the Creature of the Manhod but the inward Man / hath God created to Himself and ordayned him to be a b Leui. 26. b Ier. 31. â— Iohn 14. c. Apo. 21. â— Dwelling for his Glory 6. And God woulde not that this inward Man / shoulde be subiect to the outward created or to the vayne Things nor cleaue vnto them to a Bondage / to th end that the great Name of the almighty God / shoulde alwayes and euerlastingly byde sealed and stand-fast in the inward Man 7. God hath likewyse foormed the c Gen 1. c. Sap. 2 c very-like Beeing of his inuisible and liueing Godhead / in the inward Man / because that the Man shoulde liue according to the Requyring of his vpright Beeing to the Laude and Prayse of his godly Maiestee 8. Beholde and vnderstande Thissame Beeing of God and Christ / is the Mans Nature and Kynde / according to the inward Man / wherunto he is created by God· and chosen through Iesus Christ as also ordayned
I vnderstood the Lamenting and Wayling / then was I not mooued to Compassion ouer y e lamenting Flesh of Sinne / as to fauour or defende thesame / in his sinfull Lusts and vnchast Desyres For it was mynded against God / in all his Lamenting and Wayling but my Heart was compassionably-bent with the Godhead For looking-vpon the Falshod and Deceipt of the sinfull Flesh / I hoped to reioyce me in Gods Glory and so myne Affection stood-bent with the God of Lyfe / to th end that his Glory mought breake-thorow / ouer the Darknesses of Men. And I coulde not bemoue the Generation of the euel-willing Men / in their Howling and Weeping because they did not repent For all their Howling and Weeping was / because they mought nomore vse their Vnrighteousnes and their Pleasure of Whordom and Theeuery / according to their owne Will And to leaue thesame / was their Payne and Greef which they suffered 4. Beholde thatt is the Reward of the Vngodly / wherin they now at the last / be punished according to the Woord of our Lord and God For all Vngodlyons shal be punished c Sap. 11.12 â— Apo. 18. â— in their owne Wickednes / wherin they haue liued / according to their owne Lusts. 5. Do ye Vnderstand this well / O ye Lamenters and Defenders of the Sinful-flesh Ye do lament the Flesh greatly / in his Wayling because it fayleth him in his Will or Lusts but ye do not aboue-al / lament the Goodnes of God which hath bin forced to suffer from the begining d Apo. 15. a of the Worlde / for the Resistances cause of the sinfull Flesh. 6. O Ye foolish Lamenters yee which saye to the Flesh and to those which â according to y e Flesh seeke nothing e Phil 2. â— but their Selfnes Oh how are ye burdened against your owne Myndes and Vnderstandings / and what a matter haue ye to beare to endure or to suffer Oh ye cannot do it and it goeth altogether euell with you doutles / because ye may not vse your Sensualitee and your Lusts / in Freedom Ah cast from you all Burdenings / that com vppon you against the Flesh / as also the Seruice of Loue / which is against you in all your Myndes of the Flesh and take not thosame Burdenings on you but take-heede to the f Sap. 2. â— Lusts of your Flesh and leade your Lyfe according to the maner of the Worlde / for your Peaces cause and so liue in Freedom / concordablely 7. Beholde such things do the Enemyes g Phil. 3. b. of the true Crosse of Christ speake wherwith they shewe how well they are contented that the Man shoulde liue in a false Freedom and in a false Concord and that ChristØ›the Goodnes of God the Father shoulde still suffer h Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. 1 Pet. 2. c 4 a and be crucifyed and killed but / to suffer with Him and to be planted into i Rom. 6. a Him / with his lyke Death / for the vpright Lyfes sake wherby to inherite the euerlasting Lyfe with Christ / in the sâ—conde k Iohn 3. a Rom. 6. a Col. â— b Tit. â— a. Birth from the Death â–ª they wil none of thatt but desyre to liue in the Sinne / l Psal 81. b. Ier 7. c. according to their owne Will or Desyres of the Flesh and to go-on according to their owe Good-thinking 8. Yet do these Lamenters of the Flesh notwithstanding / talke likewyse somtymes / of the Suffering or Crosse of Christ / euenas the Knowledg prefigureth thesame vnto them but to follow-after Christ obediently therin and to be partakers m Rom. 6. a Phil. 3. b. of his Resurrection in themselues / to a new Lyfe of their Mynde / thatt do they forsake / because they seeke their Delyte of Lyfe / n Rom. 16. â— Phil. 3. c. in the Flesh and not in God who is the o Iohn 4. b 2 Cor. 3. b Spirit of Lyfe himself 9. But vnto those that sett all their Consolation of Lyfe vppon God and which p Math. 19. b. â for the Kingdoms sake of the God of Heauens do circumâ—ise themselues in the Obeying of the Loue and her Seruice / cometh Saluation Peace and Ioye For the Kingdom of the God of Heauens / cometh vnto them q Apo. 2â— â— with Beawty and Glory and it shall with his Heate / cause â–ª all the Beawty of the r Esa. 40. â— â–ª Flowers of the Flesh to wither and so shall make-manifest the liueing Soules of Righteousnes / with their Garnishing / to an euerlasting Tryumph of the Glory of God to his Honour to the Ioye and Peace of his Saincts and to y e s Esa. 65 b. 2. Pet. 3. b Apo. 21. â— Renewing of the Earth with Righteousnes whose growing Beawty / withereth not / vnder the Loue but it remayneth-ouer in the euerlasting Lyfe 10. Beholde my beloued Freendes in the Loue This wryte I vnto you all / for a Warning from the Destruction / to th end that ye may knowe the t Gen. 3.8 Subtiltee of the sinfull Flesh and the Perills of thesame / which are hidden in the Delytes of the Flesh and for that it inought alwayes go-well with you / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and that ye mought not be deceaued by any Straingers v Pro. 6. c. 7. a or Declyners from the Seruice of Loue. The VI. Chap. WHerfore / O ye little and young Children / yee which are borne out of the Loue and be yet Esa. 66. â—â—Pet 2. a suckled with the Milke of her Brests for a Foode of Lyfe / in all Sweetnes / Take-heede â I aduyse you of the Straingers and of the Declyners from the Seruice of Loue Let not the Milke of their Brests b Pro. 5. c. 7. b delyte you that ye suck not the strainge Brests of the adulterous Whoores who are growne with childe in Whordom / through their Vnfaythfulnes Fall and Adultry / wherunto they haue suffered themselues to be prouoked by their crafty Eyes and wicked Thoughts and so do bring-foorth the strainge or c 4. Esd. 6 c. vngodly Seede vppon the Earth / out of the Lust to their owne d Deut. 12. a. Goodthinking 2. Forasmuch then as they do bring-foorth the vnfaythfull and adulterous Seede / out of their adulterous Fruitfulnes / Therfore do they also giue-forth nothing out of their Brests / but Poyson / in steade of Milke 3. Heer of beware â ye Deerly-beloued that ye do not in-any-wyse suck such Whoores-brests nor receaue any of their Milke / that-ther be no Poyson sucked into your Soules for the which / ye shoulde be constrayned to wade-thorow or suffer many Paynes of Death / er-euer ye coulde be sounde agayne But with submitted Hearts / vnder the Obedience of the Loue / holde yourselues e Math. 10. â— 24. b Heb. 12. a constantly to the single and
her Victory shewing that Hee only is the Lorde and hath the Power ouer the Death and Hell 8. Beholde thatt is the Iudgment of the Righteousnes of God and the Coming of the Lorde Iesu Christ / to our Preseruation and to the Saluation of vs / which hope vpon God and Christ / for that the Death and the Hell / shoulde nomore haue any Dominion ouer vs but that the Lorde only / mought â as our God and King raigne ouer vs· and wee â as his People to serue Him o Luk. 1. g in Righteousnes and Holynes / to his Prayse and Glory and to our Ioye 9. Whersoeuer then / God doth â through his Light and Seruice of Loue execute the Iudgment namely as a Death to the Death / p Oze 13. b â— Cor. 15. f and as a Sting to the Hell / to a Conquering both of the Death and of the Hell euen-theare is put-on the Incorruption / the Lyfe of the euerlasting Immortalitee / to th end that the Scripture shoulde be fulfilled in the Woord of Lyfe / which God hath spoken in tymes-past by Ozeas / his holy Prophet O q Oze· 13. b 1. Cor 15. f Death I was thy Death O Hell I was thy Sting 10. Heerin haue we to prayse our God for that Hee â through his Light and Seruice of Loue prepareth vs the Victory against the Death and Hell For those are r 1. Cor. 15 a the last Enemyes of the Lyfe / from the which / God wil cleanse vs / according to his Promyses 11. For the Daye or Light of the Lorde / in his Seruice of Loue and righteous IudgmeÌ„t / is like vnto the Gold-smithes Furnace and like the Sope of a Laundresse Beholde the Furnace of the Gold-smith / s Mal. 3. a purifyeth the Golde in the Fyre The Sope of a Laundresse / cleanseth the Clothes in the Water Euenso is the Man cleansed also in the t Pro. 17.27 â— Sap. 3. a Eccli 2. â— Furnace of Humiliation / in the Daye or Light of the Lorde 12. NOw this passed-ouer I reioyce me for thy Thankes for y t thou â as thou wrytest art not a-little taught and informed / by the little Booke that we haue sent vnto thee Of the which thou wrytest-ouer vnto mee / that thou vnderstandest som of the Sentences which thou hast read therin 13. But â my Beloued learne to haue a consideration / betwixt a godded and an vngodded Man and iudg thou accordingly For in that Plâ—ace whear a godded Man standeth in such a State of thesame Beeing / â—an no vngodded Man holde himself nor-yet be so And though that he woulde so or if that anyone shoulde mooue him thertoo hee did vnwysely For an vngodded Man hath no Substance / wherwith he can stand submitted vnto God He hath v Rom. 7. b. the Will I graunt but ther-is neither the Power nor â—he Accomplishment / with him The IIII. Chap. THerfore ought not the Man to take-on any-thing / neither Submission nor Vnsubmission If he be estrainged in the Absent-beeing from God and that he knoweth his Estrainging / yet doth not the Knowledg bring with-it any Submission vnto him / in the Beeing of the Estrainging from his God 2. Yea how submitted soeuer he wil seeme to behaue himself / yet is it doutles no Submission but an Vnsubmission For the Longing resteth not / a Psa 42· a. for to com to the Beholding of God and thesame Vnsubmission is vpright and good And now when the Man is com to the Beeing of his God / by the Obedience to the Seruice of Loue and knoweth that same in his Beholding / as a Light of Lyfe / Then doth that Beeing / bring-forth the Submission itself For God is with him and b Psal. 16. b is alwayes in his Beholding 3. If he be in the Kingdom of Heauen / then is God thear also with him If he be in the Hell / then is he thear well and safe For God is c Psa. 139. a thear likewyse with him If he go-about to-and-fro with the Creatures / then is God thear in like-maner with him And in such an Estate / the Man is euerywhear and in all poynts / submitted vnto his God 4. For God is alwayes with him d Psal. 16. b at his Right-hand and his euer-liueing Beeing / is also a Light still / in his Beholding Therfore he feareth not And euenso in the true Beeing / the Submission is vpright and good And whosoeuer taketh-on another Submission or if that anyman shoulde think to content himself with another Submission / without the true Beeing and so hunteth-after the Submission / he shall not fynde the right Submission 5. Wherfore because that we shoulde not comfort ourselues with the Vanitee nor with any foolish Submission / the Scripture teacheth vs thus e Esa. 55· a. Seeke the Lorde / whylst He is to be founde Call to Him / whyles He is neer-by I wil be founde sayth the Lorde / by the Prophet Ieremy when ye f Ier. 29. b seeke me with all your Hearts 6. To thesame doth Peter also exhort the Bretheren of Fayth g 2. Pet. 1. b. We haue sayth he a sure propheticall Woord and ye do well that ye haue regarde ther-vnto / as vnto a Light / which shyneth in a darke Corner / till the Daye breake and the Morning-light ryse-vp in your Hearts 7. BEholde These Doctrines and more such like / do all teache the Vnsubmission / thewhyles one is yet in the Absent-beeing from God / because that the Longing towards our God â in Longsufferance shoulde not ceasse Therfore noman hath the right Submission neither is also the Submission promysed to anyman / in the Estrainging from his God but only in Gods Beeing / the Light of Lyfe 8. But thewhyles we do yet walke vppon the Earth in the Absent-beeing from God / like Geasts h 1. Par 29 d Psal. 39 c. 1. Pet. 2. b. Heb. 11. c. and Pilgrimes / so haue we our Comfort â i Rom. 15. a in a firme Hope vpon the Promyses of God / through his gracious Woord and do credite God / that He is true in his Woord and Promyses and do k Rom. 8. c Tit. 2. waight euenso with Patience / vpon the Coming of the Lorde Iesu Christ. Whose Coming / cometh with Light and Cleernes and with the Fulnes of Lyfe And so in an assured Hope on the Appeering of Christ â who is coming vnto vs in the Spirit we haue our Consolation l 1. Tess. 4. b. Heb. 10. â— with each-other / thewhyles the deadly Things haue yet captiued vs and so we m 1. Cor. 11. c. confesse the Suffering and Death of Christ / for our Sinnes cause And euenthus through Fayth / we becom armed likewyse with thesame n 1. Pet. 4. a Mynde of the Suffering and Death of Christ for to be planted into o Rom. 6. a Him with the like
Tabernacle and to cleanse and sainctify c Heb. 9. a. b. it all with his Blood the which is the newe or true TestameÌ„t / d Math. 26. c. Mar. 14 c. Luk. 22. b. to y â— Forgiuenes of Sinnes namely vnto all those which do follow-after Christ / e Heb. 10. c in the Holy and be planted in to him / f Rom. 6. a Phil. 3. b. with his like Death The which is the true Offering for the Sinne â through Christ which is acceptable vnto God the Father / as a sweete g Rom 12. a Phil. 4. b. 1 Pet. 2 a. Sauour wher-through all the Beleeuers of Iesu Christ / do inherite â in the seconde h Iohn 3. a. Tit 3. a. Birth from the Death the heauenly Ritches of God and Christ / in the Mostholy 4. But these spirituall Ritches of the heauenly Goodes and of the Mostholy of the true Tabernacle of God / were not hetherto / made knowen vnto the worlde i Rom. 16. c. Ephe 3 a Col. 2. c. like-as God doth now in thissame Daye of his Loue / disclose make-knowen and bring thâ—same aboundantly vnto Vs Ø›his elected Holyones Yea for Vs wee which â vnder the Obedience of the Loue be planted into Christ / with a lyke k Rom. 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Death of Christ and â through the l 2 Tim. 1 b. Appeering of his Coming begotten out of thesame Death / m Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 2. a. Col. 2 b. to be Children of God hath God kept and left thosame spirituall Ritches of the heauenly Goodes / for an heritable Kingdom / n Heb. 4. b. to th end He woulde euen so â through his Loue bring Vs to his Rest and establish Vs therin 5. Which vnspeakable o Apo. 21. a. Kingdom â full of all Louelynes and Lyfe ' and full of all gorgyous Beawty was prepared p Math 25. d. 1. Cor. 2. b. from the Begining / for an euerlasting Rest and Peace / for all those that loue God / for to herit them â as Gods beloued q Rom. 8 b. Children and Heires of his Kingdom in thesame / now in the last tyme according to the Promyses 6. And with thosame Holyones and Elect of God / God r Act. 17. d. Iude. 1. b. wil now in thissame Daye / execut his righteous Iudgment / against all Vngodlyones of the wicked worlde / which haue not s Math 22. a. 23. c Luk 14.19 b lyked of Him and against all those which wil shewe no t Rom. 2. a. Repentance for their Sinnes / accordding to the Requyring of his gracious Woord / for that they may be rooted-out· and condemned in y e hellish Fyre / v Math. 25. d. which is prepared for the Deuill and all his Seruants For the Condemnation in the hellish Fyre / x Apo. 21. a. is the Heritage of all Vngodlyones and vnhappy Men which contemne God and his Seruice of Loue and refuse the y Pro. 1. c. proffered Grace of the Lorde and the Requyring of his gracious Woord The II. Chap. FOrasmuch then â ye Beloued as that wee â through Gods Mercy / out of his bountifull Grace are delyuered from the horrible and a Apo. 18.20 tirrible Condemnation of the Vngodly / in our Obeying of the Requyring of the gracious Woord of the Lorde and his Seruice of Loue and haue attayned to thissame precious b 2. Cor. 6. a. Tyme of godly Grace towards all Deuout-people / which loue Gods Righteousnes and that the c Heb 12. c. Apo â–ª 12 21 a Kingdom of God the heauenly Father and the true Beeing of his loue / hath shyned about Vs / as a Power of God / Therfore haue not wee also bin negligent nor slothfull in thissame Daye of the Grace of our Illumination / for to further the Good but haue indeuoured ourselues with great Dilligence / for to serue eueryone with our godly Illumination and to reache them the Hande toward the peaceable and godly Lyfe and toward the holy d Heb 4. a. Rest of all the Children of God namely all those whom God mooueth into our Waye and which desyre Assistance at our hands / to thesame Rest of the godly Lyfe· and to the Cleernes of the Mostholy of the true Tabâ—rnacle of God 2. Beholde From this Mostholy Ø›the true Perfection of the Righteousnes of God the e Esa 25. b 2. Cor 3. b. Vayle the which is the f Heb. 10. c Flesh of Christ is now in thissame Daye / put-away among vs / through the Death and Suffering of Christ / g Heb. 10. c. in the Holy wherin we are followed-after Christ / with the lyke Death h Rom. 6. a. Phil. 3. d. and Suffering and all his Holynesses and Garnishings / nakedly disclosed vnto vs / out of thesame / to th end that wee â which are dead with Christ i Rom. 6.8 b. Phil. â— b. Col. 2. b. 3. a and risen agayne with Him from the Death in heauenly Ioye shoulde likewyse walke with Christ / in thesame k Iohn â—2 c. Light of the Mostholy â with naked Hearts before God â or in the Presence of the vncouered Face of our God and heauenly Father in l Ephe. â— a. b. all Loue. 3. Haue a good regard heerunto / O ye beloued and good-willing Hearts For to such a godly Ende and to be m Iohn 15. a. Ephe. 3. b incorporated â with Spirit and Mynde to the God of Lyfe and his Christ / therto stretcheth our mostholy Seruice vnder the Obedience of y e Loue or therto hath it his Ministration among the Children of Men / To th end that they mought all now â vnder the Obedience of the Loue be incorporated to n Iohn 15.17 Christ and so o Act. 3. d. restored agayne to thatt wherunto they are chosen of God and called by Christ. 4. To thesame God which hath prepared all this for vs / through his Loue· and chosen vs to such a gloryous Maiestee / p 1. Timo. â— c be Laâ—de Honour and Thanks / for euermore Amen 5. HEer-with-al I giue you to vnderstand â ye Beloued that I haue read-ouer the Letter / written by you vnto our Fellow-brother wherout I do note many Woords of godly Matters Through the which / I do also greatly reioyce me and do giue God Thanks q Ephe 1. c. Phil 1. a Col 1 a. 1. Tess 1. a. â— Tess. 1. a. for his Grace extended towards you and for your Dilligence which ye bestowe one-towards-another / in thatt wherin we are seruiceable vnto you and wherunto we exhort you Wher-through we do likewyse perceaue / that our Seruice and Labour shewed on you / is not bestowed in vayne 6. We do also exhort all the Commers-on to the Famyly of Loue and all those that deale or conuersate themselues with you in the Woord / y t they likewyse wil loue the
/ in our Seruice of Loue but do / out of the Cleernes of God â g 2. Cor. 4. a. which hath shyned about vs shewe vnto eueryone sufficiently / in Plentiful-store of Instructions were it rightly vnderstoode the h 4 Esa. â— a. Mat 7. b Luk. 13. c. Waye or Course that leadeth to the Lâ—fe wherof thou wilâ— seeme to saye much with Misunderstanding / as being vnexpert in the Matter 7. But if now it be vnknowen or to-darke before anyman as that our Gospel â which we publish vnder the Obedience of the Loue / out of the highest Cleernes of God / i 2. Cor. 3. b. from the vncouered Face of Christ be to-couered or to-secret for him / k 2 Cor. 4. a Then veryly is it hidden to those / which with the vnbeleeueing Mynde of this Worlde / do not beleeue nor vnderstande the Trueth of God also before all those / which perswade l Pro. 3 b. Esa. â— c. themselues that they 〈◊〉 wyse and for-that-cause / are not subiect to the sincere Doctrine of the Loue. The III. Chap. FOrasmuch now then / as that the Seruice of Gods Loue / is â by Gods Grace com vnto Mee and comitted a Gal. 1. d. 1. Timo 1. b vnto me to minister / wherby to declare vnto the Man / with good Instruction â through thesame Seruice the true Tabernacle or Temple of the Lorde â b Leuit 26 b Eze 37.43 a. Apo. 21 a wherin God wil dwell liue and walke and the true God-seruice in thesame namely for to distinct the Forefrunt of the true Tabernacle of God â wherin the vpright Circumcision cometh-to-pas / which is c Ier. 4. a. Rom 2. c. Phil. 3. a. Col. 2. b. according to the Requyring of the Obedience of the Lawe of the Lorde from the Heaâ—thenshipp or Vncircumcision the Holy â wherein the vpright Baptisme cometh-to-pas / which is d Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. according to the Requyring of the Obedience of the Fayth of Iesu Christ from the Forefrunt and the Mostholy â wherin the vpright Fulfilling e Heb. 9.10 b. and Establishing of the Promyses cometh-to-pas / which is according to the Requyring of the Obedience of the Loue of the holy Gost from the Holy as also eachones Seruice Office and Order / So am I likewyse obediently inclyned therto / to th end to shewe euenso vnto the Man / the true God-seruice in the Spirit / which he oweth vnto God and which is profitable to his Saluation 2. But first-of-al / the Man ought to take-heede what the gracious Seruice of Loue and of the holy and gracious Woord requyreth of him / in his Heathenshipp or Vncircumcision / to his Saluacion For by thesame Seruice of the gracious Woord in the Vncircumcision / God calleth or requyreth the Man â with his true Promyses of Saluacion and assured Graunt of eternall Lyfe out of the f Gen. 22. a. Heathenshipp or Vncircumcision / to the Good-willingnes to the Entrance into his Sainctuary and so then the Man if he becom good-willing to the Obeying of the Calling of y e Lorde and hath a regarde vnto y e gracious g 2 Pet. 1. c. Woord is drawen or leadd out of the Heathenshipp / into the Forefrunt of the true Sainctuary or Tabernacle of God and to the Departure out of the Sinne and to the Entrance into the godly Lyfe And thesame Departure out of the Heathenshipp and Entrance into the Sainctuary / is the Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woorde / in the Heathenshipp or Vncircumcision 3. But the Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woord / in the Forefrunt or Entrance into the godly Lyfe is the h Rom. 2. c. Phil. 3. a. Col. 2. b. Circumcision of the Heart / in the Feare of God namely i Col. 2. b. the Laying-away of the Sinne in the Flesh. Which Forefrunts Entrance â and to shewe Obedience therin / according to the Lawe of the Lorde is the right k Math. 7. b. Luk. 13. c. Waye and the first Stepp / that leadeth the Man â out of the Heathenshipp to the Entrance into the Sainctuary of God and into the godly Lyfe of Christ. And so out of the Forefrunt of the Tabernacle of God and the Seruice of thesame / the Man is leadd into the true Holy of the Tabernacle of God or vpright Beleefe of Iesu Christ. 4. The Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woord in the Holy or Beleefe of Iesu Christ / is the Putting-on or l Iohn 6. f. Receaueing of the Body of Iesu Chrst and so to dye vnto the Sinne / m 1 Pet. 2. c. 4. a. in the Following of Christ in his Death of the Crosse and n Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. euenso to be baptised in thesame Death of Christ and to drinke his Blood / out of thesame o Luk. 22. Cupp / to the Forgiueing and Burying of the Sinne and to shewe Obedience and to continue p Math. 10. c. 24. b. stedfast therin â according to the Woord of Iesu Christ till vnto the q Iohn 3. a. Rom. 6. a. seconde Birth from the Death And thatt is the right r Math. 19. d. 26 c Passe-ouer with Christ / vnto his Resurrection and it is the right Fulfilling of the dayly Offering and God-seruice in the Holy / to an euerlasting s Heb. 10. b. Forgiuenes and Burying of the Sinne and to an euerlasting t Rom. 5. a. Heb. 9. b. Reconcilment with God the Father 5. Which vpright Offering and his Fulfilling in the Following of Christ in the holy and so to lay-away and to buâ—y the Sinne / through the Death of the Crosse of Christ as to be planted into Christ / with the like Death in the Holy or to be baptised v Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. in-that-maner / in his Death the Man oweth vnto God the Father For thatt is the right x Rom. 3. c. Ephe 1. â— Heb. 9.6 Forgiuenes of Sinnes the true Conquering of the Death the godly Iustifycation y Rom. 8. a Heb. 9.10 b. and the Satisfaction of Christ with the Manhod / through his Suffering and Death of the Crosse wherthrough the Vayle z Math. 27. betwixt the Holy and y e Mostholy / is put-away from the Man And so he is leadd out of the Holy of the Tabernacle of God and his Seruice of the true Offering / into the Mostholy of the Tabernacle of God or into y e vpright a 1. Cor. 13. b Col. 3. b. Loue of God the Father namely into the Perfection or Accomplishment of all the Workes of God and into the Fulnes of all y e spirituall and heauenly Goodes 6. But the Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woord in the Mostholy namely in the Loue of God the Father or Perfection of all the Workes of God is / to declare the true Resurrection with Christ and to
Ephe. 1.4 b Renewing of our Lyfe and Mynde and to an euerlasting x 2. Pet. 3. b. Righteousnes vppon Earth euen-as is written of Him The II. Chap. FOrasmuch now â O ye beloued Heartes as this pure and spirituall· and this heauenly and true louely Beeing / is a Eph. 3 a. 2. Timo. 1. b appeered vnto vs Poore and Littleones / among so many Thowsandes in this Worlde and is â out of Gods Mercy and his Loue administred and presented vnto vs / by ChristØ›the true Minister b Heb. 8.9 b. of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes in his Coming / Therfore let vs take-heede with all our Heartes / to the Seruice of thesame Grace / to our Amendment and to the c Rom. 12. a. Ephe. 4. b. Renewing of our Hearts and Myndes and euenso therthrough / lay-away d 2. Cor. 7. a. Ephe. 4. c. Col. 3. a. 1. Pet 2.4 a. Heb. 12. a. all earthly and fleshly Pollution and all vncleane Thoughts / which in tymes-past â when we walked yet in Ignorance haue drawen and leadd our Hearts to the Flesh and Blood of Sinne and to many-maner of Errours and also to many-sorts of Bewitching with visible and corruptible Things 2. From all these and from all what is not agreeable to the Woord of Trueth and his Requyring / let our Hearts be e Eâ—e 36. c. cleansed / thorough the Seruices Doctrines or f Iohn 4.7 b Waters of Lyfe / which do now flowe from the Body of Christ and his holy Spirit of Loue / To th end that we may with pure Hearts / cleaue to the Loue and her louely Beeing· becom incorporated therunto· and so may be heauenly and spiritually mynded / with all our Myndes and Thoughts 3. THerfore submitt yourselues eueryone / g 1. Pet. 5 b. Iam. 4. a. vnder the mighty Hande of God and indeuour you moreouer / for h Heb. 3. b. to heare â with meeke Hearts now in this present Daye / the Voyce of the holy Spirit of Loue which doth now giue-foorth her Sounde and speaketh vnto you / out of Heauen / with a spirituall Tongue and which likewyse despereth to drawe you all with your inward Man / to the spirituall heauenly and true Being / for that yee mought in like-maner / haue your fellowshipp with our Comunialtee For our Comunialtee is vniforme i 1. Iohn 1. a. with the spirituall Comunialtee of the Saints of God namely with the louely heauenly Company / which walke with vs in all Loue and so wee do all one-with another / eate the true k Iohn 6. e. heauenly Breade with Christ Ø›our Headd and King in the l Luk 22. d. Kingdom of God our Father and so drinking with Ioye / of the new Fruit of the true Vyne / we are ioyfull in the euerlasting Lyfe To which louely Beeing â for to liue all therin / with one Heart Mynd and Delyte we are eueryone created· and called therunto â out of Grace by m Rom. 10. b 1. Pet. 1. b. the Preaching of the holy Gospel of Christ. 4. If yee now â O ye Beloued do see into thissame / according to the Trueth and that ye do consider / to what an excellent Maiestee ye be called and bidden now in thissame last Daye / through the Seruice of Loue wherby to n 1. Esd. â—0 3. Esd. 9 renew you eueryone / through the Woord of Lyfe and to confirme you in your Calling wherunto ye are chosen by Iesu Christ / So consider then likewyse / how o 2. Pet 3. b. pure or cleane your Heartes ought to bee from all earthly and corruptible Things / wherin p Leuit. 26. b. Apo. 21. a. the liueing God of Heauen will dwell liue and walke / with such a Glory of God and heauenly Kingdom of Christ euen-as is witnessed vnto you by the Seruice of Loue and as is now heald-foorth before you / with this loueing Exhortacion 5. When-as we now do consider and perceaue thissame / how pure and cleere our Heart or inward Mynde ought to bee and that we contrary therunto / do fynde ourselues still defyled and that we likewyse for-that-cause / do not yet for the present tyme / fynde thesame Cleernes· nor the vpright Being of the louely Beawty of God / perfectly in vs but that the vncleane Being and the q 2. Tess. 2. a Contrary-nature vnto God / doth yet generally dwell in vs and doth yet dayly r Rom. 7. c. Gal. 5. b. mooue our Myndes and Thoughts / with euell Inclynacions / So let vs then â to y e Purifying of our Hearts and mynds submitt ourselues with all our Hearts / before s Eze. 43. a Heb. 5. a. the Seate of the Maiestee of God and before the Tabernacle t Apo. 21. a of his holy Dwelling / out of the which / He doth now let his Woord of Trueth and his holy Will / be hearde vppon the Earth and so in Humilite â with the t Math. 1â— â— Luâ— 14. c Forsaking of all our Selfnes and Self-wisdom let vs take-heede â with Beleefe and firme Confidence to the Seruice of y e holy Spirit of Loue and his Requyring / proceeding out of thesame and giue-eaxe and with whole Heart v 1. Pet. 1. e. be obedient to the Woord of Trueth / that is administred ther-out x Act. â— c 1 Cor. 9. breake destribut and feed-vpon thesame Woord â the which is y Iohn 6 c the heauenly Breade among eachother / for a Foode of our Soules and as often as we doo this / let vs publish the Death z 1 Cor. 11. c of Christ namely of thissame holy Beeing of God or Woord of the heauenly Father / that ought to liue and to raigne or gouerne in our Inwardnes and yet notwithstaÌ„ding / is as deadd or killed with the Death of the Crosse / For our Sinnes cause and a Math. 3 a. Luk 3. c. confesse our Sinnes till that our sinfull Members together with ther euell Lusts and Desyres / be b Rom. 6. a Gal 6. a Phil. 3. b Col. 3. a. crucifyed and killed with thesame or the lyke Death of the Crosse of Christ and that we be in that sort / planted into Christ / with the lyke Death c Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. and buryed with Him passe-ouer and suffer-out thesame Passe-ouer of his Crosse Death and Buryall / in that maner with Him / till that the heauenly Beeing of God or Christ according to the Spirit / do com vnto vs â liueingly and mightely to the d Rom. 16. c. Treading-downe and Rooting-out of all vngodly Beeing and that we do euen so through the second Birth from the Death / e Rom. 6. â— 1. Cor. 15. c f. Col. 3. â— ryse with Him in a new Lyfe / out of our Buryall â–ª to be an holy f Iohn 14. â— Apo. 21. â— Dwelling of God and Christ the which is
the Saluacion the Ioye and the Rest of our Soules with all Gods Saintes / in the euerlasting Lyfe The III. Chap. BEholde and consider â ye Beloued This is now Gods righteous Iudgment / in thissame Daye of his Loue which is the Newe Daye of the 24. Esd. 6. b. Worlde to-com Yea a Daye / which God himself hath ordayned or appoynted / to the SaluacioÌ„ of his Saintes and to the Condemnacion of all Vngodlyones / in the which likewyse / all Saints and Righteousones do reioyce them For vpon thesame / b Act 17. d. the Circuit of the Earth is iudged with Righteousnes according to the Promyses of our God and Father It is verytrue 2. O ye beloued Hearts â which do with vs / loue the vpright Beeing of Christ haue a good regarde heerunto exercise c 1 Timo 4. b yourselues dayly in the Woord of Trueth / vnder the Obedience of the Loue exhort d 1. Tess. 5 b Heq. 3.10 c. one-another also / to the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and strengthen yourselues among eachother / to continue stedfast e Act. 11. c. 13. c. 14. c. in Fayth till vnto the Ende of the Suffering and Stryueing agaynst the sinfull and corrupt Nature For f Math. 10. â— 14. b. Mark 13. b. whosoeuer continueth stedfast till vnto the Ende as is written hee shal be saued 3. With thissame â for a Recreacion vnto your Hearts coÌ„fort and cherrish yourselues among eachother I hope ouer a little whyle / to com vnto you and to talke with you by Mouth / of all what is â by Gods Grace g 1. Timo. 1. b committed vnto Mee and is profitable vnto you to Edifycacion For that is doutles the Delyte and all the Desyre of my Heart 4. Heerwith â ye Beloued with Laude and Thankes-giueing vnto God / for your Zeale and Dilligent-care that ye haue to the Righteousnes of the Loue / I do salute you all very hartely namely euen the whole Howsholde of you as my beloued Bretheren and Sisters in the Loue with a Salutacion and Kisse of Loue. 5. I do also giue Thankes vnto the Lorde / for the Benefites Gifts and Beneuolence / that ye haue sent vnto mee / to an Helpfulnes and Furtherance of the Seruice of Loue. 6. The Lorde giue Strength vnto you all h Ephe. 3. b. Coâ— 1. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. and strengthen your Spirit / in his Trueth The Loue and the Goodnes of our God and Father / establish you in his louely and true Beeing Amen 7. Salute me hartely likewyse â with a Salutacion of the Loue vnto all our Freendes and Louers of the Trueth / which are adioyned to the Famyly of Loue and with whom ye haue dayly your Fellowshipp / in the Seruice of Loue. 8. Thatt God / who is the Loue and the euerlasting Lyfe / bring his godly Beeing plentifully vnto you all namely his i Ephe. 1. b. holy Spirit which is the Pawne of our Inheritance And his Loue take the Victory in all your Heaets Amen The Ende of the Eightenth Epistle Our Heart / is the Minde of God most-hie Our Beeing amiable / as the sweete Lillie Our Faithfulnes / Loue / and Trueth vpright / Is Gods Light / Life / and Cleernes bright The Nyntenth Epistle An harty Exhortacion vnto the most-zealous good-willing Hearts to the Righteousnes and vnto the Elders and Ministers of the Woord / in the Comunialtee of the Loue For a Warning vnto them all / of all Deceit that may chaunce vnto them by the new Commers-on to the mostholy Seruice of Loue. Open not your Heart vnto euery Man lest any Falshod be don vnto you by the Strainger Eccli 8.12 If a Freende ioyne vnto thee / prooue him first and beleeue him not ouersoone For ther are many false Freendes which continue not â as Freendes in the Dayes of Tribulacion but they turne them a-bout to Enimitee for to stryue against thee And if thâ—n they knowe or remember any shamefull thing by thee / thatt do they vpbrayde thee with-al Ier. 9. Mich. 7. Eccli 6.8.12 Math. 10.24 1 Iohn 4. To the Kingly Seede of the holy Comunialtee vnder the Obedience of the Loue / be Health and Saluacion The First Chapter MY BELOUed Bretheren in the Loue which are groweing-vp vnder the Obedience of the Loue â in the holy Woord of the euerlasting Trueth to the a Ephe. 4 b. Age of the manly Vnderstanding of Iesus Christ and with whom I haue had my Conuersation in speaking of the Woord b Iohn â— 6 g. 1 Iohn 1. a of Lyfe / which is com and reuealed vnto vs / by Gods Grace wherwith God hath shewed Mercy on vs / according to his Promyses 2. My Exhortacion is hartely vnto you all that ye wil also in my Absence from you / be alwayes c Iohn 15. c. myndfull of the Speeche touching the Godlynes / euen as I haue vsed thesame with you and breake d Act. 2 e. distribute and feede-vpon thesame e Iohn 6. e. Bread of Lyfe â among eachother that is geeuen vnto vs from Heauen â by God the heauenly Father and brought vnto you / for a Foode vnto all your Soules And so becom you all feedd with thesame Bread / to an vpright and louely Lyfe in the Loue. 3. Drincke all now f Math. 26. â— Luk. 22. b. 2. Cor. 11. c. out of thissame Cupp of the Loue / full of y e pure Blood of Iesus Christ out of the which / the holy Blood or Lyfe of Christ / is now â in the Passe-ouer with Christ in his Suffering and Death / till vnto the seconde g Math. 19. â— Rom. 6. a. Birth from the Death geeuen vnto vs to drincke / for a true Testament and euerlasting Forgiuenes of Sinnes and becom now all washed and cleansed â in your Inwardnes h 1. Pet. 1. a. Heb. 9.10 b c. 12. c. Apo. 7. b. with thesame pure Blood of the Loue of Iesu Christ / the true Testament which shall continue for euer Which Testament / God himself / hath â as an eternal-continuing Beeing sealed with himself / in the Seruice of his Loue. 4. O my beloued Hearts and Bretheren in the Loue of our Lorde Iesu Christ take-heede in any-wyse i Eccli 4. c. 27. b. Gal. 6. b. to this gracious Tyme and haue a good regarde vnto my Sayings of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ And in euery-poynt / according as I in tymes-past haue talked with you by mouth / of this Passe-ouer with Christ / k Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Col. 2. b. in his Suffering and Death / till vnto the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and of all the Perfection l Apo. 21.2 and Garnishing of thesame Kingdoms Beawty / eueÌ„ so is likewyse his Foorme / whear it is manifest in all Loue. And according to thesame Foorme or Beeing / see that you all
holy Vnderstanding is the first or fore-going Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine / in the Famyly of Loue / wherin / all good-willing Hearts to the Righteousnes and all vpright Beleeuers of the holy and gracious Woord / do shewe by the Deede / that they do i Math 22. c Iohn 24. loue the Lorde Iesus Christ with all their Hearts / and haue a good Will Lust or Desyre / to k Math 16. c Luâ— 9.14 â— follow-after Him with faythfull Hearts and for-that-cause / haue a Lust â with good-willing Hearts to fulfill or to accomplish y e Requyring of the Obedience of the first or fore-going Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine in the Seruice and Famyly of Loue / wherby to l Ephe. 4. c growe-vp out of the nethermost Place â or out of the Turning-about to be like obedient m Math 18 a 19. b. Mar. 9.10 Children to becom right Elders in the godly Vnderstanding 12. BEholde â ye Deerly-beloued if now ye wil n Math 16 c follow-after the Lorde Iesu Christ duly and rightly / with perfect whole Hearts and o Col. 1 a 1 Pet 2. a. growe-vp in the godly Vnderstanding / according to the Trueth / then submitt yourselues obediently vnder the holy Woord of Grace and so then p Math. 16. â— Mat. 8. d. Luk. 9 14. c follow-after Iesus Christ / according to the Counsayle and Doctrine of his holy Spirit of Loue. 13. And if ye woulde gladly be delyuered q Math. 6. b. Luk. 12. g. from the Euell· incorporated to the Lorde Iesu Christ or one-substance r 2. Pet. 1. a. with Him· and so partakers with Christ â in the Kingdom of the God of Heauens of the spirituall Vnderstanding s Eâ—a 45. a. Matth. 11 d and heauenly Goodes â for to minister them rightly / and inherit y e euerlasting Lyfe / Then take this my good Doctrine t Pro. 1.2 3. Math. 19. â— Maâ— 10 c. Luk. 8. c. and godly Counsayle of the Wisdom / to heart and apply yourselues at the first therunto / in all Obedience and Faythfulnes The V. Chap. NOw when ye haue applyed yourselues heerunto· geeuen all a 1 Pâ—r. 29. c Psal 24.88 a thatt ouer â in the Seruice of Loue vnto the Lorde and his holy Woord Ø› Iesu Christ which belongeth vnto Him â to a Preseruacion in Righteousnes or sett it submitted ther-vnder and vowed and promysed your Fayth and Loue / vnto Iesu Christ / b 2. Cor. 11. a your right Lorde or Husbande / So think then also vpon nothing-els / but c Deut 6.10 a with all your Hearts / to loue your Lorde or Husbande to whom ye haue geuen-ouer your Fayth and whole Heart / for to loue Him only and bounde or marryed yourselues vnto Him / in all Faythfulnes and to shewe all Faythfulnes and d 1. Reg. 15. c. Obedience towards Him in such-sort / that it may be a e Psal. 40 a. Rom. 12. a. 1. Pâ—t 2. Delyte vnto you with all your Hearts / to doo all his Will and to follow-after Him in his Wayes 2. But first-of-al / in the f Ier. â—â— Circumcision of your Hearts â through the g Eccli 1. â— â— 19 â— Feare of God to the h â—eâ— â—2 â— Laying-away of the Sinne in the Flesh â–ª or of all i 1 Pet â— 2 vngodly Beeing and of the heathenâ—â— Misâ—urtour 3. Secondly â through y e Fayth of Iesu Christ â–ª in his Death of the Crosse or Suffering / to the Killing k Rom 〈…〉 b. Col 2. b. and Burying of the Sinne or of all vngodly Beeing 4. Thirdly â through the Loue of the holy Spirit of Iesu Christ in the second l Iohn â—â— Rom. â—â— b T it b Birth from the Death or the Resurrection of Iesu Christ / m Rom â—â—â— to the Righteousnes of Lyfe and n Rom â—â— 1 Ephâ— â— c. Renewing of your Spirits and Myndes 5. And so foorth-on vnto o Act â— a. â— the heauenly Beeing / at the Right-hande of God his heauenly Father from whence He doth now â in this Daye of his righteous Iudgment ouer p Math 1â—â— 2 â— g â—â— d. Act. 1â— f Iude â—â— Quick and Deadd appeere q â— Tess 4 d. and com vnto vs / in Power and Glory / with the many Thowsandes of his Saincts and with the aboundant Treasures r Col 2 a. or Ritches of his spirituall and heauenly Goodes / for to s Matth. 24 â— 25. d. assemble vs â–ª as Fellow-members of his Body vnto Him and his Saints / in the euerlasting Lyfe to the Inheriting of his holy t Heb. 4. c Rest and of all his spirituall and heauenly Goodes 6. FOr-that-cause â my beloued Heartes follow-after v Math 16. c 1. Pet. 2. c our Lorde Iesus Christ in such-a-maner euen like as I do heere figure-foorth thesame before you and apply you euenso at the first / to the first Schoole-rule or x Heb. 5. c. Begining of the christian Doctrine and of the godly Lyfe / in the Famyly of Loue. 7. Exercise yourselues first-of-al / thorowly and faythfully therin And so in the Following of Iesu Christ â in the Takeing-vp y Math. 16. c Mar 8. d. Luk 9. d. or Beareing of your Crosse / against all the Enemyes of the vpright Lyfe of Christ z 2 Pet. 2 c. Heb. 10. c. and Blaspheamers of the holy Spirit of Loue growe you vpp out of thesame / to the perfect a Ephe. 4. c. Age of the manly Beeing of Iesu Christ / and of his holy spirituall and heauenly Vnderstanding That is till that Iesus ChristØ›the true High-preeste / b psal 110. Heb 5 b. after the order of Melchisedech com vnto you from the c Heb. 1. b. Right-hande of God his Father and hath â with his holy Spirit of Loue and heauenly Goodes gotten d 2. Cor. 4. b. Gal. 2. d. 4. c. a liueing Shape in you· and herited you in his spirituall and heauenly e Col 2. a. Goodes and that likewyse thosame heauenly Goodes / do flowe agayne from your Bodyes / like f Iohn â— 7 d Floods of liueing Waters to the Refreshing of all thirsty Soules after the Righteousnes And so becom vpright Elders in the holy and godly Vnderstanding and Ministers of the holy Woord The VI. Chap. TAke it effectually to heart / which I wryte vnto you and thatt wherunto a Pro 1.2.4 â— I do exhorte you For it is the Lordes Woord and his Will / to your Preseruacion in the Godlynes 2. Also refuse not to assemble you with vs to the Famyly of Loue wher-vnto ye be called / by Gods Grace / to your Preseruacion in the Godlynes· and requyred on the Lordes-behalf / for to fulfill b Math. 5. c all Righteousnes 3. For I saye vnto you veryly / that all those which refuse c Math. 22. â— thesame·
the very-like Beeing of God and the Image of his Glory / as a fellow-partaker-of or being-lyke-vnto the godly Nature and Kynde Through which like Beeing of God / God would be knowen euerlastingly in the Man / as a true God 3. Heer-through was God in the Begining â as a Light of Lyfe of one-substance with the manly Creatures And out of his like Beeing in the manly Creatures / God c Gen. 2. c. brought-forth the Memory for a good and holy Vnderstanding / Because that his lyke Beeing shoulde not be alone in the manly Creatures but that the Memory shoulde â in all good and holy Vnderstanding be an Helpe d Glas. 1â— â–ª or Ayde to the like Beeing of the Godhead in the manly Creatures / to all Peace and Concord and to all Loue and Welfare vppon Earth 4. BEholde according to all Lyke-resemblance / euen-as God is a very-true c Iohn 1. a. 1. Iohn 1. â— Light and euerlasting Lyfe / so is also his like Beeing / a true Light and euerlasting Lyfe / in the manly Creatures â that are comprehended in the vpright Estate of their manly Beeing and in Christ in such like-maner also in them / the Memory / that God hath brought-forth out of his like Beeing Which Memory / in thosame manly Creatures namely being in their right Estate is likewyse a Light / of the true Light and a Lyfe / of the true Lyfe and that altogether / to Peace and Righteousnes vppon Earth 5. This / in the foremer Kingdom / was Gods Glory in his manly Creatures / whom He had chosen to himself / to th end that they shoulde f 1. Pet. 3. b. inhabite the Earth with Righteousnes and that euenso ther-through / the Highest God â as a liueing and true God and his holy Beeing and vertuous Nature / shoulde â as-well vppon Earth / as in Heauen be knowen for euermore / in the Spirit of the manly Creatures and haue his Shape in them and so liue in them 6. BEholde Thatsame true and like Beeing of God which is flowed or borne out of the eternall and liueing Godhead / is the First-borne g 1. Cor. 15. c. Gol. 1. b. of all Creatures and is the true and liueing Christ of God which cannot be h Psal 16. b. Act 2. d. 13. d corrupted but He continueth alwayes i Psal 9. a. and euerlastingly For He is y e k Iohn 3. b. Rom. 1. a. only-borne Sonne of God and a very-true l Iohn 1.14 â— Light and eternall Lyfe for euermore / like vnto his Father 7. Heer-from hath the Man turned him and seene and tasted the Corruption But so hath not the Christ of God For Gods very-like Beeing Ø›the true Christ of God m Ephe. 4. Col. 3. is the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes / which is euerlasting and n Sap. â— b. immortall / also vndestroyable vnchaingable and vncorruptible But the Vnrighteousnes / is the Obteyning of Death and of the Corruption Which Corruption or deadly Mortalitee / o Gen 3. a. Rom. 5. b. 1 Cor. 15. c. the Man hath taken-on and ther-through / hath horne the Contrary-beeing to God Ø› p Sap. 2. c. Iohn 8. c. that Antichrist / the like Beeing of the Deuill and so is dreeuen from the Beholding of God / q Gen. 3. c. without the Ritches of the godly Goodes and hath lost the Mercy-seate of his Saluation 8. Which Saluation of the Mercy-seate / is r Gen. 12.22 â— Act. 3. c. Gal 3. a. couenanted and promysed agayne â by the God of Lyfe vnto Abraham and his Seede And through thatsame / the Blessing of all Generations of the Earth After which Saluation / many s Math. 13. b Luk. 10. c. 1. Pet. 1. b. Kings and Prophets haue sought and inquyred / which they saw-into a farr-of / as coming but they coulde not attayne vnto it â–ª but haue witnessed and prophecied therof / that thesame shoulde be inherited in all Loue â–ª Peace and vpright Righteousnes / in the last tyme. The IIII. Chap. THis Grace of Saluation and this like Beeing of God / which became vnknowen through Adam did in tymes-past appeere in Israel / out a Math. 1. c. Luk. 1. g. 2. a. of the Howse of Dauid of the Trybe of Iuda like as God had promysed b Psal. 58. g. Esa. 9. a Ier. 23.30 â— Dan. 9. c. through the Lawe and the Mouth of all his Prophets and He is published c Act. 2. d. 3. b c. 13. d. to the whole Generation of Israel / to be their King Sauiour and Messias and that God had shewed the Mercy d Luk. 1. f. g. on them for to help-vpp Isarel his Seruant And so at thesame tyme / God was merci-full vnto his chosen People and hath not for gotten his Couenant / euen-as He had promysed to Abraham and his Seede 2. Euenthus veryly was this like Beeing of God / the true Christ and only-borne Sonne of God from eternitee / borne of the e Luk. 2. a. Rom. 1. a. Seede of Dauid according to the Flesh / to be a Sauiour to the Generation of Israel / for to set-vpp Israel in his Righteousnes But certen of the Wyse and Scriptur-lernedones after y e Lawe / f Math. 12. c 15. a. 21. c. d. 27. c. Act. 2. c. 3. d. haue neither beleeued nor receaued thesame Iesus Christ according to the Flesh but haue withstood Him and refused both Him and his Requyring g Math. 23. d. and not alowed of Him but haue delyuered Him ouer vnto the Heathen / h Math. 27. to the Death of the Crosse. 3. Yea / so farr is the vnregenerated man differing from the Mynde of God â although he be wyse prudent or vnderstanding in the Knowledg and Scriptur-learnednes that he â for his owne Wisdoms cause doth vnderstand i Math. 11 c. 1. Cor. 2. c. nothing-at-al of the Mynde of God nor of the Seting-vpp of Israel â–ª neither-yet can he attayne therunto / with his owne Wisdom like as it hath also com-to-pas with the Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones of the Lawe And this Christ of God k Luk. 24. c. Act. 3. b. 17. a hath bin forced to suffer Yea / from the l Apo. 13. a. Begining of the Worlde forth for the Wisdom of the Flesh and the Sinnes cause And it went with Him / m Math. 26. c Luk. 22. as was written therof and He was killed on the Earth / with the contemnable n Sap. 2. c. Math. 27. Death of the Crosse and buryed in the Heart of the Earth 4. SEing now that it was vnpossible / that the Death coulde holde Him or that He shoulde see the o Psal 16 a Act. 2 13 d Corruption / to a Consumation â–ª therfore is He rysen agayne p Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24 c Act 2. c 10 â— 1 Cor. 15 a from the Death / for a perpetuall Conquering of the