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A28531	The second apologie to Balthazar Tylcken treating of the eternall predestination and election of God, and of the incarnation, or becoming man and person, of Christ, and concerning the Virgin Mary / written in the yeare 1621, finished the 3. of July by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.; Zweyte Schutz-Schrift wieder Balthasar Tilken. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3416; ESTC R14771	54,352	66

me is given to see as sharply and accutely as any one can search Mark this which followeth 227. NOw when the Image was faded or disappeared what did God with it did he let it fall quite away and remaine in Death No. Then instantly the Doore of his Mercy set it selfe Open and said The Womans Seed shall Crush the Serpents head 228. Then the Deare Name JESUS incorporated it selfe in the faded disappeared Image and the Mark or Limit in this faded disappeared Image became strengthened which with the Revelation or Manifestation stood in the Body or Womb and Seed of the Virgin Mary as a propagated Seed for if that had not been so then had all those before Christs Birth been Lost 229. For the high Noble Virgin of the Wisdome of God with which Adam in his heavenly in breathed Spirit was Espoused or Married that is Immortall that presented it self in the Light of Life to Man viz to Adam and Eve and warneth them of the ungodly wayes and continually sheweth through the Propheticall Spirit the Limit or Mark of the Covenant where it will with the Deare Name JESUS with the Word and power of the true Deity open it selfe againe in Mans Soul The Second Part. Of the Becoming Man or Incarnation and Person of Christ How Christ is become Man or Incarnate out of No Strange Seed but out of Mary and yet indeed not in Eves Earthly Essence the Holy Ghost was the Man or Masculine therein 230. MY Opponent tell me here what the Womans Seed is upon which you found your Election you say the Children of God must become generated out of the Womans Seed as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse and reject Adam's and Eves Seed and make a Strange Seed and yet God said Through the Womans Seed shall the Head of the Serpent be Crushed Who is the Woman is it Eve No that you will not admit Why Because otherwise you cannot Cloake your Election or Predestination 231. Well now if you be Learned as indeed you goe about mightily to Colour your Cause with Texts of Scripture then shew in the Holy Scripture that God entended a Strange Woman you say that Mary is not from us Men but is a Virgin from Eternity that you must and shall prove or else it shall have neither place nor beliefe 232. But I will demonstrate with strong Arguments that the Word of Promise goeth upon the Womans Seed viz upon Eve and Adam that is upon the Matter or Matrix which was taken from Adam out of which the Woman was framed out of and in which Adam should have impregnated himselfe if he had stood and had not suffered himselfe to be over-powred 233. For the Woman Eve should have been the propagated Childe but it could not be and therefore she was taken out of Adam's Essence and Bone and was Made a help for him so that the propagation must be performed through TWO 234. Now if Mary Christs Mother be not from us Men then is Christ not the Son of Man as he so very often calleth himself and where then would my poor Soul remaine which lyeth Captive in a darke Dungeon whereas if God would Regenerate it againe as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse could he not well doe it without becoming Man 235 Besides if Mary were not Man or Humane from us what then would the strange CHRIST be profitable to Me and then it would not be true that the Word is become Flesh Or how could I enter into CHRISTS Suffering Dying and Death if it were not done in Me. 236. But I can with Truth say as the Apostle saith that I beleeve I am Crucified and dead with Christ and rise up in and with him and bear his Image on me 237. Thus saith my Opponent then Christ were conceived in a sinfust Seed if Eve had been the Woman in the Promise No I say not that 238. Christ viz the Living Word was not generated from Mans Seed but in the shut up Seed of the Heavenly part which in Eve faded or disappeared as the dry or withered Rod of Aaron signifieth he became againe the dead parts Sap and Life for the Sinne fell not upon the heavenly part but that dyed understand Substance and not Gods Spirit which rested in the Covenant till at the Limit of the Covenant in Mary 239. The Anger of God Manifested or revealed it self in the Earthly Part as a Life and the heavenly disappeared or faded as God said the day thou eatest thou dyest 240. He meant not solely the Earthly Death for Adam lived Nine hundred and Thirty Yeares e're he dyed and God said the day thou eatest thou dyest that is to the Kingdome of Heaven and livest to the Earthly World as it came to passe 241. I say not that God became Man in Eves Earthly Essence else he must have had a Father but thus himself is the Father 242. Understand this aright The Angel said to Mary The holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee in that sticketh the Mark or Key the Angel said he will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee Do you not understand this The Holy Spirit would open the shut Center in the Covenant in the Dead Seed and the Word of God would give it self in with living heavenly Substantiality into that which was shut up in Death and become a Flesh the Holy Spirit was instead of a Man or Husband he brought the Heavenly Tincture of the Fathers Fires Glance and of the Eternall Sonnes Lights Glance He was in the Tincture the Life and the Moving What Manner of Essence the Word received or assumed wherein God and Man became One Person Also how Christ is a Creature and how he is No Creature 243. NOw understand me according to its high worth I speak in the Vision or Sight and not in the Opinion or Conceit In Adam when God inbreathed the Soul into him then was the Soul surrounded or endued from the Glance of the Fathers Fire together with the Center to the Fire and also from the Glance of the Light with Divine Substantiality Moving in Gods Wisdome or Substantiality 244. But now in the Fall the Light extinguished and only the Fire with the Center to the Fire remained that was now the Dryed or withered and dead Soul as the Dry Rod of Aaron signified and Old shut up Barren Sarah Abraham's Wife and Old Elizabeth dead in the Womb or Matrix the Mother of John the Baptist 245. This Soul was from Adam thus dry or withered propagated except some Holy or Saints in the Covenant where the Holy Spirit in the Covenant Moved as is to be seen by Old Elizabeth that the Child in the Covenant in the Mothers Body or Womb when the Spirit moved the Childs Spirit when Mary came to her that it leaped for joy in the Spirit of the Messiah when it

Then thou sayst Thus God is at Odds with himself being he is Evill and Good O thou Dear Reason learn the Center here or stay at Home with thy Teaching and Writing Behold I tell thee this If there were no Anguish there would be no Fire if there were no Fire there would be no Light if there were no Light there would be neither Nature nor Substance and God would not be Manifested to himself What now would there be then A Nothing when thou wilt come on to the Center then thou wilt see it Concerning this very high Article I referre the Reader to the Book of the Six Poynts concerning the Three Worlds there he will see what God is and what his Will and Omnipotence is and what is called God 142. For if his Anger be Omnipotent to destroy then is his Love also Omnipotent to preserve if this Contrariety were not there would be no Life and there would be no Good also no Evill For if there were No fierce Wrath there would be no Moving thus the Substance of all Substances is a continuall Working Desiring and Fulfilling the Fire Desireth the Light that it may get Meeknesse and Substance for its burning or Life and the Light desireth the Fire else there would be no Light and it would have neither Power nor Life and they both Desire the Dark Anguish else the Fire and Light would have NO Root and all would be a Nothing 143. Therefore I say unto you now 〈…〉 God 's Love is as Great as his Anger his Fire is as great as his Light and his Darknesse as great as either of the other it is all alike-Eternall without beginning and it beginneth it self from Eternity with or by the Darknesse and bringeth it self from Eternity to the Darknesse into the source or quality even into the Fire and in the rising up of the Fire is the Eternall Death where the Darknesse and the Light seperate themselves each into a Principle in it self and the Light also it self possesseth it self One dwelleth in the Other unapprehended by the Other there is in Eternity no parting asunder those that dwell in the Darknesse see not the Light and those that dwell in the Light see no Darknesse What God is and how without the Darknesse all would be Nothing and in what Manner Man hath Ability or Strength to goe out of Evill into Good and out of Good into Evill 144. THen saith Reason what is God then Or who is God when it is said God hardeneth Mans Mind Behold he is All but the Light alone is called God for in the Light is Power or Vertue Love and Meeknesse or soft gentle Substance and in the Fire horrour Might and Life 145. Then thou sayst thus the Darknesse is a Cause of the Deity NO but God would not be Manifested or Revealed and there would be no Nature nor Creature without the Darknesse neither thick nor thin or Dense nor Rare neither Colour nor Vertue 146. God is indeed without besides or beyond Nature but without Revelation or Manifestation of any Forme through the Eternall Nature he Manifesteth or Revealeth himselfe in Trimity and with the Wisdome in Wonders and with the outward Nature Manifesteth or Revealeth the spirituall Worlds viz with the Time the Eternity but whatsoever hath its beginning out of Time passeth away with Time and its Shadow remaineth in Figure according to the property of BOTH the Eternall Worlds as it wasbefore the Times of the World 147. Therefore Observe now Gods Anger maketh the Dark Mind full and Gods Love maketh the Light Mind full For whosoever hath to them it will be given 148. But now all standeth in strife the Light against the Darknesse and the Life against the Death and the Death against the Life 149. But Man is out of the great Substance of all Substances and in him is the Strife now if he be Captivated in the Evill or Malice then he cannot avoyd the Great Evill unlesse he fall into Death that is into the Nothing then he is free from the Turba or Wrath and falleth into Gods Mercy for his Will goeth again into that out of which it is Existed in the Creation at First viz into the fore-seeing or Predestination in CHRIST JESU before the Foundation of the World was laid there it is at the Limit and fallen again into the Fiat and so Christ conceiveth or receiveth it 150. For the Men were Thine said Christ and thou O Father hast given them unto Me and I give them the Eternall Life Father I will that they be where I am 151. But whosoever remaineth in that which is his own as he is Born or generated to this World he remaineth in that as he is apprehended in the Wrestling-Wheele in the Center of the Lifes Springing up Now therefore it stands FREE for him to goe out of the Good into the Evill and out of the Evill into the Good 152. NOT that he hath the Power to make himself a Child and Heir that is done out of Grace but the Maker standeth ready for him and waiteth for him Every Hour to Evill and to Good Hell desireth him and Heaven desireth him both Desires stand ready for him and open in him ALL the Time of his Life he hath Hell and Heaven in himself if he goe with his Will out of God into Reason in Flesh and Bloud then is he IN or upon the Ground or Foundation of Hell which will when the Light of the SUN extinguisheth be manifested on him but if he demerse himself out from fleshly Reason in Resignation into God then he is IN Heaven All lyeth in the Will Whithersoever the Will entereth thither Body and Life or Substance must after it and THAT in Man is FREE 153. Hath Man Might or ability with his Will to demerse himself into Gods Anger as my Opponent acknowledgeth wherefore also not into Gods Love but he cannot Make himself a Child he goeth only with the Will into the Matrix and then the Divine Fiat apprehendeth him and Maketh him One Indeed he can not make himself a Devill the Hellish Fiat according to the Dark Worlds Property Maketh him One when he doth but give his Will up thereinto How Balthasar Tylcken is the Devils Advocate How the Devill doth assault none More with Despaire then the Children of God also Concerning firme Confidence of the Faithfull 154. MY Opponent saith The Soul is proceeded out of the Mouth of God and it is true but if it be proceeded out of the Mouth of God then it is proceeded out of the Divine Omnipotence why then doth he take away the Free Will from it It hath Free-Will in Evill and Good he speaketh so much as if I should say I can think nothing that is Good I can never frame any good Will in me to doe any Good 155. But the Scripture reproveth him and saith thus Say not in thy Heart if I Sinne God hath done

it for the Fift Psalme 5. Thou art not a God who art pleased with wicked Matters And in Ezek. 33. As true as I Live I will not the Death of a Sinner but that he Convert and Live 156. But he saith God hardeneth him out of his Predestinate purpose so that he cannot Convert who now shall be righteous the Prophet or my Opponent The Scripture answereth thus It is much more so that God is true and every Man a Lyar. 157. My Opponent sets it down evidently and giveth it forth to be so understood that God willed the Fall of Adam if the Magicall Paradisicall Birth had not pleased God else would Gods Majesty not have become manifested or revealed if that were true then God were unrighteous in that he did forbid Adam to Fat of Evill and Good why then will God Judge me for it and account or impute that for Sinne if I doe what he willeth to have 158. But I say the Devill willed to have it so that Man should Sinne and that the Earthly became Manifested or Revealed in Him of which he is ashamed and my Opponent thereby affordeth the Devill a right Advocate which I verily Lament that this Man speaketh even the Devils Words and Will and so casteth a Snare of Despaireing on to Mans Neck he giveth so much to be understood that Man cannot be saved though he would never so fain unlesse he be Elected to it that is assuredly the Devils Doctrine and Word 159. Where will the Tempted remaine when the Devill assaulteth him and saith Despaire thou art Not Elected of God he should by that Doctrine Despaire and say I can doe no more if God will not have me then thou mayest take me away 160. And yet he is so Holy and tickleth also some dissembling Hypocrites and saith in the Pasquill or Pamphlet It is a great Comfort to the Children of God viz To the Elect when they find by themselves that they are Elect Children of God O how many dissembling Hypocrites would not lye under this Mantle if Sinne Sleep 161. O alas Miserable Doctrine O man open thy Eyes wide and beware the Church of Christ singeth Wo er ist am besten mit da will er's nicht entdecken Where he is most pleas'd with Man he will not alwayes show it 162. Whom doth the Devill assault with Despair but even the Children of God that they might not be manifested or revealed and God often hideth himself that they might cry aloud anxiously to God for so the Noble Pearl-Tree groweth 163. He often sheweth himself strange to his Children so that they can oftentimes fetch no Comfort as the Canaanitish Woman when he likened her to a Dog only that the Faith and earnestnesse might become greater in the Storme he letteth the heart even Quake or Tremble that the Earnest may become great 164. Now if doubting thus seizeth upon a Man then with this Man he must Despaire It standeth written God willeth that all Men should be saved Which now is true your Cripled Election or Christs Promise 165. The Apostle saith It is a precious worthy Word that JESUS CHRIST is come into the World to save all poor Sinners Who hath now the Right I will remaine by the Words of my Saviour and will beleeve that Nothing whether it be High or Low whether Power or Principality whether Hunger Nakednesse vengeance Perils also No Creature can tear or seperate me from the Love of God which is in Christ JESV 166. And if all men did say thou art dainned and if my Heart also did say it yet I will not beleeve it but demerse my self into Christs Sufferings and Death and let the Death of Christ make of me what it will if I must be in Death then will I be in his Death and in no other but seeing his Death is become an Eternall Life therefore I shall well remaine in him let who so will Elect me there I Bled or choose my Saviour Christ my Will shall remaine in him though the World in Gods Anger make of the Outward Body what it will when I have him then I ask not after Pope Turk Emporour Devill Hell nor Heaven he is my Heaven I will be Dead and a Nothing that he may live in Me and I in him and if Body and Soul should break in peeces yes I will not depart from him what now will the Mo●●ion or Proclamation doe to ME 167. I have Elected to my self my Saviour and he hath Elected me even before I was I beleeve NO otherwise let any Teach or Write what they will he that will venture and try it with me shall find it by 〈◊〉 I am sure it is the right way therefore I speak and write thereof for it is my Passime and I rejoyce that I shall come to this that I shall be delivered from the Opponent of the Anger of God 168. Therefore I say to my Brethren what the Lord hath said in Me whosoever will goe along lee him come he that will not but will look upon many Elections and expect till the Spirit of God fall upon him and draw him let him stay there till that bosome if he will not labour and Work with God in his Vineyard then he hath also no Wages to expect I know not how to get any thing our of his Description that they refresh me but only Sadnesse and Sorrow of heart Doubting and Despaire How Nothing is impossible to Faith What Gods Drawing is Why the Wicked Becometh Not Drawn What a right Christian is and who becometh hardened by God 169. MY Opponent in Scorne saith Could God Create nothing stedfast He likeneth us Men as to God to be as the Potter and Clay or Lump is One to the Other Hearken my Opponent why then doct thou say that the Soul is proceeded out of Gods Mouth how doth that accord with the Clay and the Potter What Man would become a Pot for a Pots sake Or if that were possibles Is God become Man for a handfull of Earths sake O No it is an other Manner of Pot wherein God became Man It was also another Pot which brake in Paradise look upon the dry Rod of Aaron which Sprouted and hare Almonds ask it what it signifieth it will tell thee 170. My Dear Scornes thou understandest nothing thereby where in God is become Man much lesse concerning Gods Creation of the Possibility and Impossibility thou sayest only God God and knowest not what God in also thou wilt not know it only thou sayest A Man can take or receive to himself Nothing in God unlesse it be given him 171. I know also well that I can doe Nothing in my own Might or strength The Faith can doe it that can receive where there is Nothing If I cast my Will into Gods Will then GOD beleeveth in My Will and then I can receive for nothing is Impossible to Faith I can receive to

perceived THAT and both the Mothers Prophesied 246. That stryed or withered Essence of the Soul understand the Womans Part not the Mans although the Mans Part also lyeth in the Seed of the Woman but too weakly in respect of the Fire the Word took or assumed to himself with the dead Substantiality into the Living now opened and introduced with or by the Holy Spirit and God and Man became ONE Person 247. But now understand me aright my Opponent will not permit that I should say CHRIST is aCreature and yet it is true so far as concernes the Soul and th● Outward Kingdome viz the Third Principle he is a Creature for the outward hangeth to the Inward else Christ had not been in this World if he had not had the outward Kingdome on him but without impurity in the Similitude of the Deity 248. He was a Creature and he IS one Eternally understand as to the Soul and as to the Substantiality which dyed in Adam which he with the introducing of the living Divine Substantiality and with the Word and Spirit of God made living againe and as to the Third Principle with that he is a Creature and a King and High-Priest of Men. 249. But as to what concernes the Eternall Word together with the Divine Substantiality which now became introduced into the in death inclosed Substantiality Christ is NO Creature but the first Born of the Father in Eternity 250. Understand in the Creature is the new introduced Substantiality viz Christs heavenly Flesh Creaturely but without besides or beyond the Creature it is uncreaturely for that very Substantiality is the right true Divine Principle it is as great as Gods Majesty in all places filling all in the Second Principle and THAT in the Body or Creature and THAT without the Creature is totally entirely ONE undevided totally one power or vertue might and Glory Paradise and pure Element wherein Gods Eternall Wisdome dwelleth 251. As the SUN shineth or enlighteneth in the whole World and so now if there were not in the deep such a Substance as the Sun then it would not receive the Glance or Lustre of the Sun Thus the Gorporeity of Christ is the fulnesse of the Heaven in the Person Creaturely and without the Creature Living in ONE Spirit and Power or vertue Not TWO Of the Virgin Mary How Mary was no strange Virgin but the Daughter of Joachim and Anna Whence the Author hath his Knowledge And what is called Christs Descending into Hell 252. MY Dear Opponent you will needs have a strange Virgin and you despise my very high knowledg given me of God was Mary Whose Generation or discent is sufficiently to be found in the Bible a strange heavenly Virgin And moreover standing in Gods Wisdome And from Eternity Elected or Predestinated thereto How then came it That when the Angel came to her and brought the Message That she should be impregnate or with Child And bear or Generate a Sonne She said How shall that come to passe Seeing I know of no Man Did not the Eternall Wisdome then know it how it should come to passe 253. I Suppose therefore my Dear Opponent you must permit Her to be the Daughter of Joachim and Anna as the Holy Scripture sets it downe else our Salvation will stand in suspence and be in doubt 254. I ask you in earnest if you be Gods Child then tell me How or where hath Christ Broken Death And whither went he into Hell as the Church teacheth tell me If he hath NOT received or assumed our Soul 255. Your Conceited work of a Sacrifice alone doth not satisfie me I would know from you HOW Death in the Soul is become broken neither Covenant nor promise availeth as to that if Sacrifices could have done it then it had been done among the Jewes it must be done with right Heavenly Mans Bloud 256. Now I would know whether it be done in my Soul Whether my Will-Spirit have attained an Open Gate to God with or by Christs Death that I may say Abba my Dear Father or No Tell me this or leave my Writings uncensured 257. I have my knowledge from God and not from your Fiction Schools or Vniversities where you contend about words as a Dog about a Bone goe with me into the Center be taught of God I will shew it you in the whole World in all Substances living Creatures and Created things I will set it lively before your Eyes how the greatest secret hidden Mystery is in Death 258. Now if my Soul were not together in the Death of Christ seeing it was in the Father from Eternity in the Divine Essence then have I no part in Christs Death 259. I know that JESUS CHRISTS precious heavenly Bloud which out of the Divine Substantiality became Bloud in the dryed or withered Images Seed through the Might or strength of the Heavenly Tincture hath kindled the Fire which was dark in the Soulish Essence so that the same Souls Fire in that very hour began to burne in a white cleere bright Majestick Power Light and Glance or Lustre 260. And there Gods Anger in the Soulish Essence was quenched and made to be Love THIS is Called * CHRISTS Descention into Hell when Gods Love in the Vertue or Power of the Living Word in the Heavenly Substantiality with Christs Bloud brought it self into the Center of the Soul viz into the Fathers Anger and overcame and quenched the Same with Meeknesse 261. That was the Smoak-Hole white the Devill and the Serpents Seed Ruled and Now that very Hell became destroyed and the Devills Kingdome in the Soul taken away 262. And here it is rightly said that as Sinne came from One upon all and penetrated from One upon all so also came the Grace and Eternall Life from One upon all and penetrated upon all Now whosoever will not himself receive it but expects another peculiar Election let him remaine as he is he may come or not come It is said We have Piped to you and you have not Danced we have called you and you have not come to us Question How is the New Birth performed in Vs Also WHAT of Vs shall Arise 263. MY Deare Brother Tell me if you be borne of God and enlightned as you suppose how is the New Birth performed in US is it entering in or exgenerating is it not performed in us in our Souls Indeed Christ must become manifested in us after the Manner as in Miry 264. What meane you by the New Creature Also doe you understand a New Soul Or the Old which you have inherited from Father and Mother or what do you hold concerning the Resurrection of the Dead WHAT of us must arise For the Soul dyeth not also Christ in us dyeth not for he is once dead to Sinne for and in Vs What is it that ariseth The EARTHLY Body viz the Evill Flesh that is infected by the Devill and full of Sinne and Abomination THAT is NOT

or from my precious Talent that you goe out from Contention and Reade the Brotherly A. B. C. IN you for it is all Nothing and unprofitable before God that you contend about the Letter it standeth indeed in ALL Men the Plowman is as Learned and neere to the Kingdome of God as the Doctor if he Reade the Brotherly A. B. C. IN himselfe 301. No skill or knowledge maketh you blessed but that you enter into the knowledge and be and become the doer or practicer of the skill or knowledge Not a proud surly selfe-honouring Stubborne wilde withered Branch but Living in he Tree of God wherein one Branch affordeth Sap and Life to the other 302. O how the Mother complaineth over some of you that you are dry withered Branches It is told you that the dry withered Branches shall be cut off for the Tree shall renew it selfe and present its first Forme of Youth againe for the End belongeth into the Beginning 303. If you shall all despise this which is at present told you and not turne into your selves and learne to Reade your own Book then will an Ano from the Rising or East and Midnight or North Cut you off that you shall never more say I reade in strange or forreigne Books and feed my selfe in strange Pasture 304. God hath sent his Heart together with his Life INTO Vs wherein all standeth written he that readeth that Book in himselfe is Learned Enough the Other is Babel and a Fable that a Man will needs be learned in the Letter without him before he can reade his owne Book Let him first reade his own and so he will in his own finde ALL what ever the Children of God have written י חי וחי חוחי חושחי Not one JOT 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Tittle of the LAW shall passe away JOD י Jod signifies a Substantive JAH Existence JEHV He who is Existent JEHOVAH Being of Beings Or Substance of ALL Substances JHSVH 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 JESVS 306. But you are drunken and erre and goe astray and seek the Key to the Book and Contend or dispute about the Key every one saith I have the Key and yet none will unlock his own Lifes Book every one hath the Key to God in himselfe let him but seek it in the right place but you would rather contend or dispute then seek the Key in your selves Therefore you are all of you blinde that contend or dispute you doe but goe Seeking as before a Looking Glasse why doe you not goe into the Center for with other seeking you will not finde the Key be as Learned as you will it will not availe 307. It lyeth not in Art and Reason but in an Earnest purposed resolved Will to goe out from selfe and forsake all own selfe skill and knowledge and with Repentant humble desires to cast your selfe into Gods knowing and desire only Gods knowing yet with or in this manner that he in you may know what he will thus you will put on Divine skill or knowledge and FINDE the Key about which you contend or dispute A Conclusions Also how the present so called Christians Turks Jewes and Heathens are alike And how one people shall devoure the other The Harvest is neere 308. MY deare Brother hate me not for my knowledge sake for I so farre as I am I knew not before-hand that which I have written to you I supposed I wrote it only for my selfe and it is without my knowledge so come about I tell it you in true faithfulnesse if you have not the Gift to understand it then leave it to me for I understand that well which I have written 309. If any can understand it and hath a Minde to it I willingly and readily afford it him but if not and that he doth not desire it in that he doth not understand it let him not rise up with scorning and blasphemy against God else there will follow an Earnest severity which you neither can nor will know any thing of in such a Course but afford me leave to Labour in that wherein I am set 310. But my Opponent faith without God we can think nothing that is Good also know nothing of God without him I say so too that I know nothing of God without God my knowing is in him and standeth in his might or power 311. Why then is HE my Enemy for that which God knoweth in ME that I should manifest or reveale to you the way to him I am indeed Nothing and he is Ail he that can understand it let him understand it but he that cannot should let it stand with such objecting you will not fathom nor understand my Writings 312. I see your Spirit much better then you understand what manner of Objections you make but I cannot finde that my Opponent understandeth any thing fundamentally in my apprehension or sence but it is all of a wilde surly envious property very scornfull so that I more lament his misery that he is for blinde therein then that I desire to answer him 313. I exhort you all that reade and heare this slop not your hearts look upon the time and consider it see in what time we and our fathers have lived viz in vaine Contention and Strife what is the World viz Man become the honester or better by the Strife Nothing but more hellish wicked voluptuous reproaching and more scornfull 314. He is by the Manifestation of the Gospel in his Life become the worse all the while they have contended one brother hath contemned another and persecuted and hated him what manner of fruit have you of the Gospel at present as there should be 315. Must not the Deare and precious Name of God at present be the Cover to Mans wickednesse Are not the present Christians so called as also Turkes Jewes and Heathens all alike to one another in Life What doth the Name of Christ availe you If you live but heathenishly Doe you suppose it is enough that you know that Christ dyed for Sinne That you need only to tickle and Comfort your selves with Christs Death and retaine the false or wicked Man who is only proud or stately and a Contender 316. Can you not perceive what will suddenly follow upon it viz that seeing they are all alike in Life and Will they should be accounted alike before God and so if Men seek nothing but strife and meere Contention it must come to such a mixt Confusion in the Strife that one people will devoure the other 317. For God withdraweth his hand from People while they will not suffer his Spirit to reprove them therefore hath the Wrath taken up its sword and desire and driveth on mightily in the Minds of Men so that one people destroyeth and devoureth the other What our Fathers have layd in with reproach and scorn that will their children Eate up with sword and slaughter 318. And that God