be totally without blemish We desire to see a sign or token thereof let him Set that before us that we may acknowledge it and see it on him and THEN we will beleeve him 126. And let him leave others whom God hath gifted in Part undisgraced else we will say of him that he hath neither Part nor Perfection but only a bare Imagination and Vain spiritual pride which is instigated by the driving of Satan who fain would erect such a flattering seeming Holinesse 127. Seeing he perceiveth that the Man of Sinne shall be revealed or manifested therefore he will set such a Glistering Chappell neer it That Sinne might no more be known or acknowledged and that he might still under such a Glistering Cloak have his hypocrisie and Church totally Blind in Sinne. 128. For that is the Devills manner when he seeth that Sinne in Man becometh manifested or discovered then he casteth over Sinne 〈◊〉 a fine Glistering Trimmed or adorned Cloak and giveth it into 〈◊〉 perswasion that he is Holy Perfect and Righteous 129. Thus he layeth the Man of Sinne in a Fine soft Bed and covereth him with Christs Purple Mantle to try whether he might under such a cover sift and betray him Thus will he also do at this Time for he observeth that the Man of Sinne shall be manifested and that Babel shall be discovered 130. Therefore he cometh very finely and Lovely Covered with a shining Luster or appearance and would cover the Adamicall evill child totally that it should no more be called sinfull it shall deny its sinfull Name in the vanity and call it self totally Christ and holy and saith it is a Lye if the Earthly beastiall Man calleth it self after its own self Beastiall Property 131. O beloved Brethren and fellow Members of Christ all that read this be faithfully warned and admonished cover NOT the Man of Sinne with Christs Purple Mantle and lay him not at all in his Bed of Best but uncover him continually before GOD and cast him dayly and hourly into the GRAVE into Christs Death CRUCIFIE him without ceasing all the while ye live in this vanity of this Flesh 132. Let him have no REST hold him for your Enemy who hath devoured your Noble Pearly Jewel viz the PARADISE presse generate or pierce him with Christs Death that you may attain your Pearl again out of Christs Death in his Resurrection out of this Tabernacle where it lyeth shut up in Death acknowledge your selves only for poor SINNERS before GOD and go continually with the Prodigall lost and yet returning Son to the Father and pray to him for Grace 133. Our whole life should be a continuall RESISTANCE 〈…〉 even a continuall SINNING and though indeed the 〈…〉 Branch new generated or Born IN Christs Spirit 〈…〉 yet the Earthly Man IN Soul and Body sinneth and which continually to break or destroy the Noble †Rose-Bud again and altogether obscure it 134. The more Divine OYL is introduced into the 〈◊〉 Rose-Bud out of the Wounds and Death of CHRIST the fresher and fairer it groweth and the fairer it Blossomed 135. Here is the Field where the fruit groweth let man be perswaded to such sluggishnesse and to lye on such a soft Bed as to think he IS fairly grown and quite or full BLOSSOMED O No no by no means 135. But continually without ceasing draw divine 〈…〉 selfe in the Greatest Humility from and out of Gods Love 〈…〉 Honey out of the fair Blossomes or Flowers for as soon as 〈…〉 cure or carelesse and thinketh he is HOLY Honey then the 〈◊〉 bringeth to him Poyson in the vanity which the own-self 〈…〉 own self Lust or Longing sucketh into it self 137. The Man that would fain grow and bear fruit in Gods Kingdome can not do better then to suck all his power and vertue which he will use for the growing or Springing of his Life through CHRISTS Bloud and Death and continually cast his vanity to the Ground before the Truth and Clarity of God and continually be as if he were a DYING where he mightily presseth on to the Death of SINNE 138. * No City or place of REST belongeth to Sinne and vanity for so soon as Sinne Resteth THEN groweth the desire to vain Lust or pleasure But while the Death and destroyer or Breaker in pieces is UPON it then it dyeth without ceasing away from vain Lust or Pleasure and the fair Rose-bud groweth out of this dying which becometh carryed in GODS Hand to a Joy and rejoycing of the DEITY 139. Dear Brethren I have made this explanation out of a 〈◊〉 mind not at all with intent to scorn or disgrace the †Authour for I know his miserable confusednesse more then he doth himself and wish him from my Heart that he will yet be humble and know himself that he yet standeth in the Field or Soil where the fruit groweth and not boast himself before the time of fruit 140. For most certainly and truly there will be A SION as I then my self Hope that the Man of Sinne will be manifested or revealed and seek himself in GODS MERCY then must follow a constant continuall Repenting Life wherein Man knoweth and acknowledgeth himself to be in the 〈◊〉 and continually presseth from vanity out from vain Lust and pleasing into Gods Mercy 141. The poor sinfull Man must only with the poor Lazarus Lay himself at Gods feet under his Table and at his Dore and desire the Crummes from Gods Table and continually cloath himself in the Ganaanitish Woman with Heart and totall Mind 142. NO Flattery or Hypocrisie attaineth the Pearly Jewell for it lyeth buried in NO place but in the Death of the Earthly MAN THAT must be gone and then it is manifested the Adamicall Death must be changed into Christs Death if any would find the Pearl of Christ 143. CHRIST prayed to his Father so that he sweat a Bloudy Sweat when he would brake or destroy Death in the Flesh Now if we will bee and his Children and be generated or born out of HIS Death then 〈◊〉 we also dye with him in his Death and continually introduce our 〈…〉 great desire into HIS Bloudy Sweat and drown the awakened vain Lust and Pleasure IN his Bloudy Sweat 144. It must be sincere and earnest and not comforting and flattering Hypocrisie NOT to say to the Old Adam Thou art Christs Flesh No NO only Say †In me lyeth Sinne and vanity O God have Mercy upon Me in CHRIST thy dear Sonne and break and destroy my SINNE and VANITY in thy Death and bring me in HIS victory and Resurrection forth out of Death 145. Make thou Sinne and Death Nothing and grow THOU in CHRIST forth out of ME bring my Soul forth out of the Jawes of Death and vanity in CHRIST that I may 〈◊〉 to THEE and NOT to my selfe 146. Man in self-hood should ascribe no Divine Substance or Thing to himself but in all things give the honour to God and account himselfe
in JEHOVA but with the Will of JEHOVA viz with the Voyce of the Word in the Impression of Nature which in the Eternity is only a Spirit but with the Moving of God in the beginning of the Creation of this World is in the Spirit become a Substance viz an own self Principle 215. Man is not become Created and Manifested in CHRIST without the Divine Manifestation in him CHRIST was yet in JEHOVA viz hidden in JESU in the out-speaking Word as a Power of the Deity 216. JEHOVA that is God hath moved himself in the JESU viz in the Lust or Longing of the eternall Desire viz with Gods Heart and generated and Manifested CHRIST in the Humanity as a Treasure of Divine Power and Wisdome 217. For Mary said to the Angel Gabriel to the Prince of Gods Wonders when he brought her the Message that she should be impregnate or conceive with Child How should that come to passe for I have known no Man The Angel said the Holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will overshadow thee thou shalt be impregnate with Child and generate or beare a Sonne whose Name thou shalt call JESVS he will be great and be called the Sonne of the Most High whose out-going hath been from Eternity 218. This was the Originall of CHRIST in the eternall Word in the Power of the Most High of all which hath moved it self and out of and in the JESU viz in the desire of the Divine Love generated the CHRIST viz the Champion in the Battle between Gods Love and Anger Not so as that the power of CHRIST was not from eternity in the Word It was indeed but not manifested in such a property as a Breaker of Death in pieces 219. God generated to himself the breaker of Death in peeces out of the Fountain of HIS Self hood For in the Creation there was no Death so there was also no breaker of Death in peeces With Sinne came Death into the World and through the Breaker in pieces of Death it came out of the World again 220. In Adam was JEHOVA the great All being All-substantiall God manifested but not in the Forme of the breaker of Death but in the Power of his Spirit according to Love and Anger according to the property of the Fiat viz through the glimps of the Tincture of the Fire and Light as an expresse Image of God 221. Adam was not God himself he was not Created in the Trinity in JEHOVA as a Self-subsisting God as this without writeth he was made an expresse Image of God in CHRIST visible and Manifest but without Divine Knowledge and that God first Manifested the Treasure of this Wisdome in Adam when Christ became Man 222. No! God Created Adam to the Eternall Life in Paradise with Paradisicall source or quality and Perfection he forbade him to eate of the source or quality Evill and Good he Created a Perfect expresse Image in the Looking-Glasse of the Eternall seen Image without Substance The Power JEHOVA viz Gods the Fathers Love throughly enlightened him as the Sun through-enlighteneth the whole World 223. The Divine Sun shone through and through Adam in his heavenly substantiality viz in the pure Element and outwardly the Outward Sun enlightened him neither Heat nor Cold touched him for he stood in equall Harmony or accord in them the Pure Element held the Four Elements swallowed up and Captive in it self as the Day the Night and this Man shall not perswade me that God was not manifested in Adam he is indeed manifested in all things but according to every things Property 224. In the Property as Adam was Created God was manifested in him but when he Manifested the Center of the Anger in him then God put enmity against the Evill and manifested the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Man which before without Sinne was hidden in Gods Power and was in the Divine Vnity in the Love of God in JESU Thus this Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent became set as a Mark or Limit to Man into which he should turn in his Desire 225. Not that Man should become the JESUS or a God but that we should carry our Faith into him and in our Desire receive into us the CHRIST who hath broken Death in pieces that he may make our Soul and the faded Image in Adam living the Divine Life in himself 226. For in JESU the Eternall Sun shineth forth through the CHRIST JESUS is JEHOVA that is God and Christ is the Mediatour between Gods Love and Anger 227. To CHRIST is all Power given from JEHOVA or JESUS JESUS hath given the divine power to CHRIST not that CHRIST should bear the Power or Authority to or for himself but GOD who is a Spirit he useth the Christ for an Instrument whereby he takes away the Power and Authority from the Anger JESUS is the Power or vertue of CHRIST which giveth the CHRIST the power or authority For in own self authority CHRIST did Nothing upon Earth for he said at the Crosse when the Jewes Hung him upon it Father forgive them for they know not what they do 228. And when he raised Lazarus up he said Father hear me yet I know that thou hearest me alwayes And David said in Spirit He hath set the Lord before him therefore shall Irest secure there he meaneth CHRIST that he had set before him the JESUS or JEHOVA wherein CHRIST resteth 229. Now Christ is a Regeneratour or Restorer of that which is Lost he is not come for the sake of the Earthly Man that he should keep THAT in its Dominion but that he might regenerate that in Adam which when he awakened to sinne disappeared and dyed concerning which God saith That Day thou wilt eate of the Tree of Good and Evill thou shalt dye the Death he dyed to the Divine World and awakened to the Outward-World viz to the Sinne-House full of Misery and Ever dying source or quality 230. He would not generate the Sinne-Life anew for he dyed away in his Body of OUR Sinnes-Life which in the Regiment or Dominion of the Four Elements was existed with the Sinne in Adam and brought our true Life of the pure Element aloft again his death was our Life The Four Elements held us Captive in the Anger but he brought our Life of the Four Elements through Death forth in the Element again and made for us in the humane Life a path or Way to heaven again 231. Now we must follow after him and also dye away from the Life of the Four Elements aforehand yet first of all receive Christ in us who introduceth us through the Death of our Dying into his Way or Path through Death into the pure Element 232. This outward Visible Body cannot inherite the Element of God unlesse he break that in pieces aforehand but if we have put on CHRIST in the Faiths Desire he introduceth our Lifes Essence into
sundred but as God dwelleth in the world and yet the World is not God a Principle severeth them and as God with his Anger dwelleth in the Creature and yet also in the hiddennesse with the Love among the Anger and yet the Anger receiveth not the Love 37. For I can say that God dwelleth with the Love in the Devil but the Devil cannot receive it the Love is his Enemy as the water is the Fires Enemy and yet the Fire dwelleth in the Originall in the water so God dwelleth in all things but the thing is not capable of his Love so also the Earthly Seed of Mary wherein Sinne was was not capable of the Deity but it hung as another Principle to the Inward Seed in which God manifested himself 38. The Inner Man which now became Christ THAT took our Sinne upon it self and hung the Body upon which he had Laid Mans Sinne on the Crosse as a Curse of God For there hung the first Adam which God cursed for the sake of Sinne on the Crosse with the curse of Sinne and dyed to Sinne on the Crosse and in his dying he shed the Bloud of the holy man in Christ into the Mystery of the Soul and of the Outward Man wherein Death was 39. For the holy Bloud was conceived in the Holy Spirit and was immortall it was conceived IN the water of the Eternall Life in the Tincture of Gods Light in his sweet Love and had resolved it self into and appropriated it self with the Bloud of the disappeared Image 40. Now when this Bloud fell together into Death then Death Trembled before this holy Eternall Life the Anger trembled before the Love and fell in its Poyson and Fierce wrath which held us captive into its dying according to the kinde of the fierce wrath 41. And yet there is no dying or ceasing to be understood but it went in the terrour of the Love up in the divine Kingdome of joy as a Light becometh shining out of an anxious hot Source or Quality where all anxiety taketh an End 42. The Fierce wrath which before was evill and angry that was now the cause of the great Fiery Love and Kingdome of Ioy for nothing must passe Away in Man he must remain as God created him in Adam but he must again be transmuted into that very Image into that very resigned will and be obedient to God 43. For the Scripture saith The Son of God Christ became obedient to the Father even to the Death on the Tree of the Crosse so wholly must also our humane will be broken in Christs death and the Anger in HIS Bloud be Transmuted into the Love 44. And that is it which David saith Thou wilt not let thy Holy ONE see Corruption or Consumption Now when he shed his holy Bloud in the true Image of God in Christ then became the Poyson of the Anger in Adams Flesh Soul and Spirit sanctified and transmuted into Love and the Devils Den of Robbery wholly destroyed 45. There enmity ceased and God became IMMANUEL Man with God and God with Man for here Adams Flesh became Tinctured prepared for the Resurrection for Death brake in the Eternall New-born Life of CHRIST out of JESU 46. And here the Gate of Death viz the Eternall Darknesse in Mans Body and Soul became broken open and the Cherubine with the Sword which did cut off the humane Life from the Light of Nature was taken away and the fountain began to flow out of Sion viz out of Christs Spring in the whole Man so that man could now henceforth drink of the Water of the Holy Element and Eat ex verbo Domini of the Word of the Lord. 47. Thus now we are to consider our Imitation of or following after him we cannot say that we can do what God in JESU did through CHRIST in breaking the way for us No WE can NOT shed heavenly Bloud and transmute the Anger of God into Love else if that were any way possible then we must also as a Curse be Nailed to the CROSSE and though that should be yet our inward Man is not exalted into the degree of Christ to be wholly like him 48 For JESUS viz the totall fullnesse of the Deity dwelleth in CHRIST without Measure and in him viz in his Mother MARY was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God blessed in Paradise into THAT God looked and through it Gods Imagination entered in through the Jewish Sacrifices 49. God brake death in peeces only through him but we must introduce our Imagination and desire into him that our Tinder of the faded Image in him may begin to glimmer or Glow in the Spirit and power of Christ which apprehendeth the true hunger of the right Faith wherewith Man through the glowing or glimmering Tinder which if it be sincere and earnest at length becometh a shining Light of God in JESUS can break the Power of Sinne in the Flesh and keep it in subjection as a Churlish unruly evill Dog which can NOT altogether be freed from ITS Malignity or Malice till it break wholly and altogether 50. That the Shell into which the Devil hath introduced his Imagination and had his Den of Robbery therein be altogether dissipated that there be no more life therein and then so soon as the outward Man dyeth that the Soul be freed of the Evill Beast THEN it hath the open Gate in its beloved Image in which Christ hath opened himself with the Divine Love-Fire 51. And then is the Union already there the Bride cheereth her Bridegroom viz the Noble Virgin in the Love of Christ being awakened again which taketh the Soul viz its loving Bridegroom and Man or Husband into her Arms of the Divine desire and what is there done I have no Pen to write it with It is more than humane or Natural to write that 52. What Gods Love and sweetnesse is which the converted Man if he enter into his Father again and acknowledge himself a Swineheard and bewayle his by past Sinnes and seeketh the Fathers Grace and Favour experienceth when Christ his Bridegroom sets upon him the Virgin-like Garland or Crown where the Pearl of the divine reception of Grace at first becometh sown 53. What Joy the Virgin hath when it obtaineth Life again and receiveth its Bridegroom Christ how very amiably and blessedly it presents it self towards the soul and comprehendeth the soul viz its Man or Husband in its Love at which indeed Soul and Body tremble in Joy 54. Which those only know who have been Guests in this Place and this Authour who in the Letter will be PERFECT and new-born only and meerly with a litteral skill and knowledge it is likely hath yet never experienced and scarce tasted the Supper of Christ 55. Seeing he is but a Litteral Saint and a Contender and moreover a high-minded despiser of the children of Christ in their unlike Gifts and his holiness is confined meerly within
substance 10. II. One other is called the filial substance the Sonne the Birth the Word Speech the in-and-out-speaking Substance of the Paternal Substance of the Father the Generator of the Power of the Triune Total Perfect Deity 11. III. One the Third is called the Spiritual Living Substance the Spirit the Life the Exit in and out of the Paternal Filial Substance Power Word or powerfull word of the Triune Total fulnesse of the Father and of the Sonne or in the Father and the Sonne the totall holy Spirit and Eternall Life in Power and Word Father and Sonne of the whole Triune Deity 12. And this most holy Triune Deity Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Holy Spirit are and remain from Eternity in Eternity undividably ONE before in and after the Birth one only GOD and one only LORD over all through all and in all that set their faith and trust in Divine working and dominion therein 13. And this Triune God Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Spirit in Eternal UNITY hath generated to himself the Medium of his most holy Substance from Eternity the Word to his Sonne and Glance of his totall divine fulnesse and begotten him to his most holy Triune Deity 's highest praise and honour 14. And presented it to the most holy Glorious Throne Glance and Expresse Image of his Total holy Divine Triune Fulnesse and invincible confirmation in the Love of the Divine Fulnesse which the Triune highly praised God hath trusted with him and his Paternal Substance in and with the Word and Spirit in Eternal Eternity for a Wife and Mother of his own Triune Substance of his Sonne and Word from Eternity in Eternity in and with himselfe 15. And united to the Eternall Genetrix and betrothed or promised to in and with this most holy Triune Divine Substance to an unity this from Eternity most holy Birth of God CHRIST JESUS The Triune highly praised God is all that himself which to the Total Deity to its highest praise and honour is ascribed and appropriated from Eternity also remaineth peculiarly so in it self to its Eternal stability 16. Viz the Eternal Substantial Eternal stedfast unalterable Love Righteousnesse Wisdome Truth Mercifulnesse Humility Patience Long-suffering Holinesse Purity Innocency and in brief all vertues of the Deity which through the Power Word and Spirit the most holy Triune God from Eternity in Eternity may or can be expressed 17. Yes all whatsoever may be called good and profitable and serviceable in Heaven and Earth and be apprehended with or by the Triune God that is this most holy birth of God self-subsistingly Substantially from Eternity in all Eternity 18. Now Thirdly what this most holy Triune Divine Births acting and working was before the Fall of Man the Holy Scripture witnesseth thereof in many places here and there that through this most holy Triune Birth of God CHRIST JESUS not only all Creatures Heaven and Earth and all that liveth and moveth therein was made and is proceeded But that this most holy Triune Birth of God is also in it self Co-Creatour Generator Bringer forth Worker yes himself in the Creating was the Will and operative substantial self-subsisting Deed yes all in all so that he was not only the Creator Eternal Father and Generator of all Creatures whatsoever they may be called but also of Angels and Men. 19. Now Fourthly what this Holy Eternall Birth and Sonne of God the whole Fullnesse of the Deity came to be after the Fall of Man and is henceforth now and to Eternal Times and remaineth to be unchangeably the Testimony of the Holy Scripture mentioneth in several places very much 20. That this Eternal Divine Triune Birth and Sonne of the Triune Deity to the Comfort of whole Mankinde to the Redemption and Renovation of the same after their horrible Fall losing of all their Glory received and inbreathed from God in his holy breath and renewing regenerating and changing out of the Dead damnable Substance of Sathan into the Holy unfadable immaculate untransitory Inheritance of the Eternall God and most holy Glorious Eternally enduring Life and Substance of Eternal Happinesse or Salvation 21. Not only of fallen Man through the Anger and just Curse of God for Sinnes sake thrown into Eternal Pain and Torment but also of all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures which are set and ordained by the Lord for the service of the Created Man in his Innocency in which respect they also after the Fall of Man for the same Mans sake by the Anger and Curse of God were come and brought into an unstedfast troublesome miserable pittifull state and changeable sorrowful perishable transitory Substance or thing 22. For the Comfort and Salvation of all these and the restoring of the losse of all the Glory and Holinesse this Sonne of God Eternally Born out of God out of meer Grace and Mercy in the Love of the Divine Voyce wherewith this Triune God loved the whole world with all its Generations or births not only hath foretold and promised to Man and the aforesaid heavenly and Earthly Creatures first for a Redeemer through this Triune Deity 23. But also hath livingly substantially operatively and actively in the Regeneration and assuming of the Humane Flesh and Bloud in the Body or womb of the Virgin MARY God and Man in one person visibly palpably and substantially here upon Earth Regenerated and presented 24. As then this Triune highly praised Sonne of God and Man in one holy Visible and palpable Person hath rescued and redeemed not only whole Mankind all truly faithfull Men wholly perfect through this his holy Incarnation or becoming Man innocent suffering and dying Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven from all sinnes and the totall Satanicall Diabolicall and Mortall Substance 25. But also all Called Elected truly Faithfull who from their hearts trust and beleeve in this Redeemer as or according to their Redemption from all sinne unrighteousnesse Death Devill and Hell and the treacherous World the Lust of the Eyes and of the flesh and with their whole Person yes with every true Beleever especially among Men and Women Kind wholly Espoused with himself his totall most Holy Perfect divine substance in the Unity of the Humane Body and Soul 26. Hath united and betrothed himself and bound himself to an unseperable UNION in Eternity in the Love so that this whole truly faithfull Mankind in Generall and every Man and Woman kind in Particular in speciall he himself calleth his own Divine Substance and full or entire Love which before in Vnbeleef was not his of Substance and his Love 27. So that now this Elect truly faithfull holy Church together and also every person in particular in with and through this most holy espousall and uniting with Christ the Triune highly praised God are NOT two severall Persons two Substances and two Loves 28. But through with and in the most holy Union ONE good holy Divine unblameable Eternall stedfast Substance one Divine one Christian one
for they need none and the Devils have NONE much lesse hath Christ redeemed all heavenly and earthly Creatures as this Authour conceiteth For the heavenly need no Redemption and the earthly are NOT created in the Eternall Life for indeed the earthly Creatures are NOW just as EVILL as before the Suffering and Death of Christ and so is the earth also yet or still in the Curse 60. In that regard this Omniscient Word is very Erroneous in this place And although indeed there is mention made in the holy Scriptures concerning the Redemption of the Creatures That all Creatures groane together with us to be delivered from vanity and that CHRIST shall Redeeme them 61. But it hath NOT this understanding to meane Oxen Calves Wolves Bares and other Beasts and Living Creatures BUT the Creation wherein the Vanity of the Curse of God which holdeth Captive in it self the Fair Paradise viz the GOOD part of the pure Element in this Worlds Substance THAT shall the Judge CHRIST in the Harvest Seperate and give the Chaffe to all Devills and Wicked Men to possesse 62. The Creatures are not yet redeemed they yet groane all this while to enter into the Mystery out of which they are gone forth it is but an erroneous Conceit which runneth contrary to any visible or apparent ground like a mad senslesse or raging Drunkennesse 63. Also the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent as this Authour sets it down in Paradise after the Fall was not promised to the BEASTS and earthly Creatures he can not shew that though he so much appeale to the SCRIPTURE 64. It is false and standeth not in the Scripture with such a meaning and men should not think while he speaketh falsly that he speaketh only and solely out or from God he that beleeveth him will be deceived 65. The Authour Esaiah Stiefel sets these words down concerning the Regeneration of Christ viz With which this Triune God loved the WHOLE World with all its Births or Genitures and not only promised it to Man and the abovesaid heavenly and earthly Creatures first for a Redeemer through this Triune Deity but also Regenerated and presented IT livingly substantially operatively and actively in the precious Birth and assumption of humane Flesh and Bloud in the Womb of the Virgin MARY God Man in one Person visibly palpably and Substantially here upon Earth 66. But Jacob Behme inserts that Christ hath Regenerated NO earthly Creatures but MAN 67. And while this Author Esaiah Stiefel with or by these words includeth ALL Creatures be they what they will in Heaven and Earth in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of CHRIST and in his Redemption and saith cleerly it is so palpably and substantially now here upon Earth a Man may thereby well know what Spirits Child this Author Esaiah Stiefel is 68. Viz That he is stark drunk with or from the Stars and likely also from that evill Enemy the Devill which I offer the Reader to ponder of and doe pray God that he will give this Authour Esaiah Stiefel a better Mind and Thoughts to leave off such an Errour that Christs Children be not deluded 69. He saith also God hath in CHRIST even while we are here upon Earth if we doe but beleeve redeemed and delivered us from ALL Sinne and Lust of the Flesh yes from the Devill Death and ALL unrighteousnesse And I understand it so too but according to or as to that Will which entereth into Christ but he who liveth in self-hood in the flesh he is NOT yet free from Sinne he Sinneth Dayly in himself till death cut off Sinne and the source or quality of sinne from the Faith and good Will 70. At this place he should distinguish the Earthly Evill and the Heavenly good Will and Spirit asunder which he compriseth all together in Christs Redemption that he might be able to say HE hath no sinne and that he is GOD in CHRIST but the Earthly Hide or Husk is not Christ but belongeth to the Earth and to Death till it dyeth and giveth up the Sinne Life or Life of Sinne. 71. But that he saith the truly Faithfull is ONE Substance with Christ That I say also but according to the Inward Man and Soul the house of sinne is so long severed from Christ whiles it sinneth but when it dyeth to sinne then it standeth in the Rest to or for the Resurrection and Restoration 72. But for what vertues he ascribeth to the Faithfull man those all only and solely the * Inward Man hath the outward doth nothing that is good freely and willingly unlesse the Inward Compel him to it that is proved in the Authour himself he should cleerly distinguish that else no credit will be given to him against all Reason Sense and Experience 73. I am perswaded that there are more that be Christians then he yet they must all acknowledge themselves to be sinners For it is written All the Saints will call on thee for the forgivenesse of sinnes therefore these men ought to consider with themselves 74. But that he saith Christ in the Faithfull is ALL the Will and the Performance or Deed Mind or senses and Thoughts working speaking living and all in all substantially visibly palpably inwardly and outwardly This is agreeable to no Truth If Man doth any thing that is good from an inward driving that indeed is from God but he doth also much Evill from the Lusts of the Flesh and the Devils instigation and that Christ doth not but the outward sinfull Man whether it be by Words Deed or Thoughts 75. He telleth me much of such truly Faithfull as cannot sinne at all I beleeve not that such a ONE liveth in the World he is himself a great sinner and a scornfull proud surly Man I beleeve he is altogether Drunk in Sinne so that he knoweth not himself 76. I know also well that CHRIST in Man if he once dwelleth in him SINNETH not but the FLESHLY Man sinneth dayly he cannot rule from one Sea to another Christ can doe it well but Man cannot he is only an Instrument this high painting for Man ought not to be the Tenth part so much Man is as to the Outward but a STINKING Sack of Wormes full of filth and Evill Lusts one as well as another The Fourth Text. Now followeth the Text. 1 Corinthians 11. 12. As the Woman is from the Man so also the Man cometh by the Woman but all from God Now followeth the Answer of the Explainer upon this Text in Four Points I. IN this is especially required First what the Divine good Wife or Woman is which cometh from Christ her only Lord Husband or Man and God and taketh her Originall according to a Divine humane Manner II. Secondly How and in what Manner and kind She proceedeth from her God and Husband or Man III. Thirdly How also the Husband or Man God Christ is proceeded and Manifested through the divine
the Name JESUS is the holy divine Life viz the Divine Seed out of the word of the Deity the Womans Seed is his assumed Substance 81. And therefore HE is called the Womans Seed because he is from the woman viz from the heavenly Virginity which faded or disappeared in Adam and as to another part from the outward worlds substance in which the Name JESUS viz Gods seed destroyed or brake in peeces Death and Gods Anger 82. The womans Seed is a totall humane Seed from Soul and Body but it must be rightly understood as to THAT Seed wherein Adam might have generated Magically if his Longing or Lust had not plunged it self into vanity Evill and Good and awakened the Abomination as is before mentioned and here following in the Fourth Point 83. Now if I will in this place speak so highly of the divine Womans Seed then I must distinguish Gods and the Womans Seed and must rightly shew How Gods Seed viz the Name JESUS out of the word of the divine Sound or Life hath united it self with the womans Seed and given up it self into ONE Person which is called CHRIST 84. The Name JESUS is the anointing of the Womans Seed and in the anointing he is called CHRIST the Sonne of God the Seed of the Woman hath a given power and the Seed of the Woman is under or beneath God as the Body is beneath the Soule but the Name JESUS is the Giver 85. This Authour mixeth ALL TOGETHER and that for TWO Causes one is because himself doth not rightly understand it the other because he may advance all humane things and give forth himselfe onely for CHRIST viz for the Divine power and Omniscience and therefore he rejecteth all ART and PRAYER it self and calleth it a Forgotten thing as if it were without power or powerlesse and did not attain that which is Eternall 86. He will needs perswade us that the Womans Seed CHRIST God and Man is according to BOTH Natures totally ONE and that will HE Himself be But the humane Nature continueth indeed Eternally beneath the Diety though it is not devided for all that yet the Substance is not AS the Spirit 87. God with or by creating Man hath not created to himselfe a GOD which is of his own Substance but an Image of a Similitude according to himself viz a Manifestation of his unsearchable divine Substance in which he manifesteth himself to his own Joy of himself and Deeds of WONDER 88. And hath given to Man again to seek and to reveal or manifest the wonders of God in THIS worlds substance to his viz man 's own Joy delight and longing pleasure that God might be praised known and acknowledged in ALL works and Substances or THINGS HEre followeth The Authour Esaiah Stiefel's Fourth Point of the Fourth Text. 1. HItherto hath been Mentioned How Christ the Triune highly praised God and Man the holy Seed the living substantiall powerfull word of God hath appeared according to Measure from the beginning of the world in all the Saints his wife or woman and been manifested in the Eyes and Hearts of the Faithfull 2. Hereupon now it is rightly acknowledged by all the Called Elect truly faithfull Christians that this most holy womans Seed the Eternall Birth of God before all Creatures the Triune highly praised Sonne and living totally substantiall powerfull word of God and most holy Seed of the totall fullnesse of the Triune Deity 3. In the holy body and woman or wife of God the pure chast undefiled Virgin MARY humane Nature yet through and in the FAITH of the New-and re-generated holy pure flesh and bloud in unity hath taken to himself the pure humane Body and Soul to the undivided Eternall union and united it 4. And hath been generated and Manifested in and out of the faithfull Love and Wife or Spouse or Woman of God the Holy Virgin Mary a little infant and visible holy Creature the Sonne of God and Man in ONE Person 5. And as the greatest and least yes the totall fullnesse of the Divine Substance in the kingdome of Heaven from the least to the greatest here upon Earth in the Flesh of the least of all and most despised and unworthy generated in the Holy divine Unity such a Man and little childe which is equally in the Most high highnesse of all the great Triune GOD and LORD 6. This Perfect holy Seed and Word of God in one holy pure undefiled Person God and Man in the union of the woman Body and Soul through the Faith out of God and this his holy Seed regenerated viz the right Bridegroom which hath united and taken to himself the Bride of all faithfull good divine holy Flesh and Bloud in his holy humane Person 7. Concerning which the faithful witnesse John the Baptist and Fore-runner of Christ mentioneth this He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroome 8. In this perfect totall divine totall humane holy substance in one Person hath this Triune God and Man CHRIST JESUS delivered his wife or woman of his Body yes faithfull Body and Soul to and in a Masculine and Feminine Person who from the beginning to the end of the World have put their FAITH and trust in him in this his holy becoming Man or Incarnation from all Sinne Death Devil Hell world and ALL worldly Lust of the Flesh and of the Eye temporal and Eternal Damnation through his holy Passion dying and bloud shedding 9. And through his Innocent Death hath rescued from the Guilty Death and sinfull will and out of the shameful Kingdome of the abominable Satan Thief Lyar and Murtherour and set us in his own kingdome of Glory with himself to the Eternall Endlesse Joy and holy peace out of the Eternal Satanical sadnesse misery anguish necessity disquietnesse hatred envy and enmity of the mischievous Devils yes set us in the Eternal rest and blessednesse or Salvation 10. Now as this Perfect Triune Seed and word of God the totall fullnesse of the Deity in visible union of the Humane yet faithfull Nature a little Infant hath been and appeared which according to the testimony of the Scripture like other faithful Children grew to visible palpable greatnesse and was received to wisdom Age and Grace or favour with God and faithfull Men. 11. Which also the most holy high divine Triune Majesty exalted in and to himself from hours dayes and years in his visible Holy Person Gloriously and also at last here upon Earth visibly through his holy innocent Suffering and Dying Joyful Resurrection and Ascention made PERFECT and himself presented for a perfect Man or Husband of his totall Bride all the faithfull Holy Flesh and Bloud of his totall Church or Congregation in holy undivided Eternall Unity 12. And as he was from the beginning of the world in all Saints his Woman or Wife and faithfull Flesh and Bloud viz a child and Sonne of God of the Faithfull Flesh and Bloud of his womans Seed
both as to Light and Darknesse 51. And yet we are not so to think that a Spirit or Angell is it self the Out-breathing of the Eternall Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity in the Divine Voyce But it is the out-spoken Word as a Model and Image of the speaking Word a fitted Instrument of the Spirit of God through which the Spirit of God as by his fitted Instrument playeth or melodiseth and soundeth 52. So far as the Instrument remaineth standing in its fitted Order as with the Desire of the Fiat which standeth in all Angells as the Angells proper own wherewith the Will of the Angell may lift up it self into the Good viz into Gods Love or into the Anger and introduce it self into the Figure and Tang thereof then is the sound of the Word out of the Fathers Love and Anger out-breathed and become introduced into an Image in verbo Fiat in the Word Fiat 53. As is to be seen how some Prince-Angels give up themselves with the Desire into the Love and some as Lucifer into the Anger viz into the Desire of the Fiat and Created or Extracted a Will in the Desire of the Anger in the Fires Might to Live and to Rule according to the Fathers Anger Property and thus to domineer over all Principalities of Angels over the Love in the fierce wrathfull Fires Might whence followed upon him his thrusting out by the Word Fiat into the Darknesse of Gods Anger 54. Thus we can not say of the Creation of all things or Substances that the Eternall Substance of the Ternary or number Three hath thus formed it self into an Image of an Angell but in the Eternall Desire which hath Originated it selfe in the Longing delight of the Deity through the Moving of the Father of all things or Substances as an ETERNALL Nature and a Revelation or Manifestation of the Eternall hidden Nature 55. In that Eternall beginning-lesse Nature viz in the All-being All-substantiall working of the Great Mystery have the Angells and Souls of Men received their Originall in the Eternall Out-spoken Word in the Eternall Wisdome of God according to Love and Anger 56. For if they had Originated only in the holy voyce of God viz in the One only Love then they could not have attracted or framed in themselves any Will to the Anger or if the Love-Will of God in the Angels were fallen then it would have this understanding that God in the Creature had fallen and become a Devill which were abominable to be spoken 57. No Creaturely Spirit can subsist in the Creature without the Fire-world for even the Love of God would not be if his Anger or the Fire-world were not in him The Anger or the Fire of God is a cause of the Light and of the power strength and Omnipotency 58. But in the Love the Fire dyeth and transmuteth it self into the Kingdome of Joy for at the End Death originateth which is as a dying in the Fire out of which dying the Light as another source or quality originateth viz a Desire of Love which is called Gods Mercifullnesse or the Divine Kingdome of Joy the Life of Holinesse without source or pain goeth from the dying in the Fire sorth as a Glance of the Majesty a Glance of the Liberty 59. This dying Lucifer contemned he would Live and Domineer in the Fires Regiment in the Self-hood so he became also driven forth out of the Fire back into the Root of the Fire viz into the darknesse 60. Every Angell and Soul which will live in Gods Light and Power must DYE to the Self-hood of the Fires Dominion in the Desire and wholly immerse or cast himself with his own Propriety into Gods Will viz into the Divine Sound and dye to the own self Will in the Fire but bud or sprout forth in the Light of Love in the Resignation into Gods Sound or Word as a fruit of the Love of God that Gods will-spirit may rule and guide his Life 61. And that the holy Tincture of the Fire and Light may be the Glance of the shining of his Life out of which again Divine Will and Desire Originateth that the same Life may be able to live in the Power and vertue of the Wisdome of God to behold it self therein and frame or attract a Divine Will therein 62. Which Wisdome is the Angells Food out of which they generate to their Creatour Eternall Praise that Gods Joy play or-Melody in the Angelicall Voyce may be an Instrument of the Spirit of God all directed into the Harmony of the Divine Kingdome of Joy 63. For every Prince-Angell beareth the Name of the Great God every one according to his property as a peculiar Instrument directed into the Praise of God in the Divine Sound 64. In like manner we are not so to think of the Creation of Heaven and of the Earth that the Heaven and the World with its Substance or Matters are Created out of Gods holy Voyce or Word but IN the Voyce and through the Word 65. Not out of the Sound of the Divine property but in the word Fiat viz in the Impression of the Eternall Mystery of the Eternall Fire-and-Lights Desire and entered into a Substance according to the fires and Darknesses Property as also according to the Lights Desire viz according to the Free Longing delights Property as a Revelation or Manifestation of Evill and Good of Joy and also of pain and Torment 66. All which is undeniably before our Eyes and the whole Creation convinceth us thereof whereby men know that in ALL things there is Good and Evill for which things sake the Last judgment of God is appointed viz a Day of Separation wherein all shall again enter into its beginning 67. This visible World is a Similitude of the Eternall Mystery out of which Joy and Sorrow Light and Darknesse originateth through which Eternall Mystery the Spirit of the Ternary in the Trinity manifesteth or revealeth it selfe and introduceth it self into Three Principles 68. Viz First into the Dark Cold and Fire World viz into an Abysse of the Mystery And then Secondly into the divine Light World of the Kingdome of Joy And Thirdly with or by a Similitude of the Dark Fire and Light World viz with or by this outward visible and Elementary World 69. In which it generateth the Image of the Eternall World in Evill and Good as is to be seen in all living Creatures of this world as also in the Starres Elements Hearbs and Trees how all is contrary one o the other and yet the Birth or Geniture of all Life standeth in such a Contrary 70. Every Life standeth in Evill and Good viz in Poison and Oyle out of which the Life in the Fire burneth or shineth which ALL is a similitude of the Eternall Birth or Geniture of the Mystery of all Substances or of every thing also Men see the similitude of the Holy Trinity in every Life viz the Fire Light and proceeding Aire
or growing Life is a Paradise and the substance of Time are the four Elements in which the Constellations make a seething and Life viz an Earthly Mortall Paradise 94. For the earthly seething hath its Originall in the Mystery where the Fires and Lights Property divideth it self into two Principles each in it self and therefore it is Evill and Good out breathed out of Gods Love and Anger 95. And that out-breathed Property God moved in the beginning of Time and introduced it into a Desire which hath thus generated Earth and Stones in the Desire of the Impression according to the property of the Dark Fire and Light World and Sulphur Mercury and Sal were the properties of that desire and in that regard those very Properties are the Life of all Elementary Substances or Things 96. And understand us aright In these Properties we have the Oyle in all Things that is the Similitude of the heavenly Lights Property from the Good Out of this Substance hath the Outward Body out of the Third Principle been comprehended in the word Fiat and in the Second Principle in the Angelicall World hath the Pure Element been comprehended in the Paradisicall Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the Power 97. That was now the Body which God Created in his Image and Likenesse understand in the Humane Image which God hath seene from Eternity in his out-breathed Glimps of the Wisdome in the Looking-Glasse 98. In which Looking-Glasse he impressed the Substance out of the two Principles in the word Fiat and Created it into an Image and introduced or in-breathed the out-breathed Sound or Voyce of his Word out of all the Three Principles to be a Soul and Spirit to be a Life understanding and Regiment or Dominion out of the Sound of his Mouth viz a Fire Light and Aire Spirit both out of the Eternity and Time that was the Image of God Of his Regiment or Dominion 99. AS the Light is the Regiment or Dominion in all or every Life and that very Light of Life burneth and shineth out of the Oyle of the Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the power as no understanding Person can deny so in the Inward Man which was Created out of the Second Principle viz out of the pure Element burned the pure Paradisicall Sulphur and Mercury and in that pure Fire-burning or Life totally without blemish shone Gods true Light 100. For the Name JESUS had incorporated it self together in the Image of the Eternity as a future CHRIST which would become a Saviour to Man and out of the dying of the Anger generate him anew againe in the pure Sulphur of the divine and Paradisicall Power 101. Understand this aright The pure Element in the Holy Sulphur pressed through and through the Outward Man and took the Four Elements into its power Heat and Cold were in the Flesh not manifest they were indeed in the Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the Body But while Gods Light shone therein they were in equall accord so that neither of them might be manifested above the other 102. For All the desires in the Mercury viz in the Cold and Hot Fire-wheel stood in the Light and were wholly enlightened through and through and their desire was a Paradise of Joyfulnesse or the Kingdome of Joy No enmity of Nature was manifest in them 103. Just as God the Father is called a fierce wrathfull zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming Fire and indeed he is so in these properties But in his Light in the Love-desire viz in his first begotten from Eternity which is his Beloved Heart none of them doe become manifested or revealed 104. According to this Heart he calleth himself GOD for he is in this the GOOD and according to the Fire he calleth himself Anger and according to the Desire to the Fire-Life as to the Revelation or Manifestation of the Generating where the free Longing delight introduceth it self out of the Nothing into Somthing viz into an Impression of the Desire he maketh the Nature and the dark World out of which Properties Sulphur Mercury and Sal exist 105. As in our Book of the Signature of things concerning the Originall and Marking of the signification of all things or Substances is expressed largely highly and intelligibly To which for the Readers better understanding he is referred and here I will let it passe in brief Concerning the Fall of Man 106. THe Will-spirit of the Soul out of the Fires Property hath listed up it self into the Earthly desire where Evill and Good were in the Center of the hiddennesse under the Paradisicall source or quality one among another but in equall accord and introduced it self into a desire of Evill and Good to manifest the same in it self 107. Moreover the Devill gave it cause to doe so who introduced his desire or Imagination into the evill part viz into the fierce wrathfull fiery Mercury in its property wherein the Poyson and Anger-Life standeth whence the poyson-Life began to hunger after the Similitude of its property 108. Then came the Commandement of God and said to the Soul eat not of the Tree of Vegetation of the knowledge of Good and Evill else thou dyest to the holy divine Life in the pure Sulphur and Element of the Substance and the day that thou wilt eate thereof thou wilt dye the Death 109. For in the poysonous Mercury according to the property of the Fathers Anger was the dying Life which before was not manifested or revealed but through the Devills Imagination became stirred and introduced into the Desire of the Similitude 110. Thus know that we have truly and highly apprehended that the Tree of Temptation is grown up through this power of the hunger after the apprehension of Evill and Good to know it but yet a man can NOT say that it was ANOTHER Tree or Vegetable then the rest only the Earthly Source or quality in Evill and Good was manifested or revealed in it 111. In the other Trees and Vegetables the holy paradisicall Mercury pressed through all and the Properties were in equall accord and the evill of Heat and Cold was not manifested but in this Tree the properties of Heate and Cold in the poysonous earthly Mercury were manifested 112. Which the hunger of the Soul caused For the Soul was a Sparkle out of the great Omnipotency of God whence Christ said to us If it would be born or generated of God again in the Faith then it might say to the Mountaine lift thy self up and cast thy self into the Sea and it would be done 113. How then would it not when it stood in the strong Might of God be able to bring forth the Properties in the Tree 114. To which the Devill in the Serpents Property laid it self and perswaded Eve that she should be Wish if she did eat of Evill and Good 115. Which hereafter shall be explained in the Question how The Woman cometh from the Man and the Man from the
then I may better comply with him therein 157. Seaventhly But that he saith God was not manifested or revealed in the First Adam He First manifested himself in CHRIST with the Deity in the Humane property and so casts away wholly the first Created Man in his Nature and bringeth a totall new and other Man forth out of Christ which is not at all the First which is wholly wrong and erroneous and he should demonstrate it by the Holy Scripture or else we will not grant it to this New Bride 158. For although the first Man fell wholly into Sinne as to Body and Soul yet we should Consider what Sinne Is viz this is Sinne that he departed or went out from the Order or Ordinance wherein God Created him 159. He went out of the Free Resignation in which the Name JESUS in the Divine Light was Manifested in him and manifested in the Flesh the Anger of God so that it began to qualifie or operate and took in wholly the Life in the Flesh of the three Principles For the Souls Will went forth from the Resignation from the JEHOVA or JESUS and so the Substance also disappeared wherein JEHOVA was 160. Thus the Outward Earthly body became accursed that is the through-pressing power JEHOVA which before made Paradise in the Flesh that departed from the Flesh into it self and so came the Death and dying into the Flesh 161. For the Eternall Life stood in JEHOVA viz in the Name JESU wherein man was foreseen before the time of the world that it would manifest it self again in the Humane Soul and make the disappeared Image of the Divine Substantiality living again and receive that into it self and would be the CHRIST therein Else it must follow that the sinfull Soul were become wholly rejected or cast away 162. If the Originall of the Regenerate Man were wholly strange what would become of Job's word where he saith I shall see God in this my Flesh and my Eyes and not a stranger shall see HIM 163. No strange Man it is that shall arise from the Dead but only that which God Created in Adam in his Image in which God himself took mercy and compassion on him again and for that purpose moved the Name JESUS in the humane property which assumed the Womans Seed on him and therein quenched the Anger of God in the Soul in the Fathers Property with Heavenly Bloud and became a Pestilence to the Devils Poyson in the Soulish Property and a sting of Death to Death so that Death must dye in his Death 164. For JESUS with the CHRIST brought the Life out of Death and Anger it is written He is made unto us Righteousnesse and Redemption understand the CHRIST but he which hath been from Eternity in Eternall full or Equall Omnipotency and the Creation of all things he cannot be made to be Righteousnesse for he is himself the Creator but this CHRIST is out of JESU or JEHOVA whose out-going is from Eternity become in our Flesh made to be Righteousnesse and Redemption from the Anger of God 165. Now that which is made beginneth it self in the Making indeed out of the Eternall for the Soul hath introduced it self into Time viz into self-hood but CHRIST who out of the Eternity out of the JESU became born in the Humane Property he brought it again into himselfe into the Eternity out of the Time viz forth out of the corrupt or perished Source or Quality of the Mercury 166. CHRIST was not in the Person from Eternity but in the Power in the Name JESU he was from Eternity in the same co-equall Substance with God and this strange Bride shall not perswade us that God was not manifested in Adam Indeed not in CHRIST but in JESU whose Exit was from Eternity 167. The Soul went forth out of JESU into own selfe-will but God took mercy and compassion on it and promised yet once to move himselfe in Man with the Name JESU and in Man to generate the CHRIST out of Gods and Mans Substance 168. NOT out of Sinfull Flesh from the Outward world but out of the Divine Flesh which in Adam when he entred into the outward Earthly disappeared and dyed so that the outward only hung to him 169. For in the Outward Flesh was the Death in THAT should Christ break death in Peeces and New Generate in him the Whole Man as God Created him not introduce a strange one but to heal the broken Reed 170. As a Grain of Seed is sown into the Earth out of which a fair Stalk groweth with many fruits where the Essence of the Grain giveth forth that Stalk and the Shell or Husk only dyeth so also in Man the husk of Sinne only dyeth the humane Essence in the Name JESUS in the CHRIST which became manifested in Man becometh that very CHRIST not the King or the Stock but a little Twig or Branch out of that very Stock 171. Therefore this Man cannot perswade us except he demonstrate it to us that CHRIST the Expresse Image of God out of the Stock of the Love his Mother was generated from Eternity and was an Expresse Image of God 172. But in this he was the Expresse Image of God from Eternity viz in the Figure of Man in which Figure God Created Man with beginning and Creature there the Image of the similitude became known in God and even in the Name JESU which in this Looking-Glasse of the Expresse Image in the power of JESUS would become a CHRIST 173. The Life of Christ began it self with the second Moving when God moved himself according to his Heart in the Humane Property in the Eternall seen similitude of God in the JESUS and gat the Name of CHRIST as a Saviour or healer of the Sore and not from Eternity 174. For the similitude of God which was Seen in Gods wisdome from Eternity and known in the JEHOVA wherein God created Man that was before the Times of the world without Life and Substance and was only a Looking-Glasse of the Image wherein God saw himself how he might be in an Image 175. But when JEHOVA moved himself in this Image and Similitude then God manifested his Life in this Looking-Glasse in humane Property then was CHRIST conceived and generated or born for according to the Humanity he is called CHRIST not according to the Deity before all Creatures 176. According to the Deity he is called the Eternall Word of the Father for it is written The Word became Flesh Not Christ became Flesh Christ is that simple Servant of which God saith in Esaiah Who is so simple as my servant He became the Servant of God by whom God brake death in Peeces and destroyed Hell 177. This Christ is ascended up to Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God as a Prince of God and beareth the Eternall Name of God which is there called JESUS or JEHOVA 178. He is the High Priest
the Holy Trinity hath been hidden to all Creatures and yet is through the second moving of the Deity as a holy sweet Love-Sun become manifested 15. I must not say that in the Person CHRIST viz in the Man according to his humanity according to that part which he hath on him from us Men from our Body and Soul that is on to the Deity on to the Divine Substantiality or Heavenly Corporeity taken on to him That the Creature is ceased and taken up or that the Creature Soul and Body from us Men is unmeasurable 16. No for such a One is not our Eternall High Priest which I could never more see in the Form of Man for the Men when he went to Heaven said Ye shall SEE this JESUS come again as he is Ascended 17. Only the Deity in him and the Christ understand the divine property together with the Heavenly divine substantiality wherewith he saith John 3. 13. He was come from Heaven THIS is uncreaturely and yet IN every Man as an own Sun yet only in one point which shineth forth out of the fountain of this Sun indeed from no place or space but the place of this holy revelation or Manifestation is in ALL Men the Center of the Originall 18. This SUN is in all Men but this Sun is not revealed or manifested in all Men but only in the Desire to the Point which is CHRIST which point is JESUS out of JEHOVA 19. But concerning the Holy woman or wife which this Authour mentioneth which is holy and PERFECT wherein the Man CHRIST becometh generated needeth also a farre other Explanation 20. And though he sets down the Holy Christianity to be the woman or wife which I blame not yet a Man must not speak that concerning the outward Earthly Man for the Earthly Man is not Christs Spouse or Wife but the inward Spiritual which faded or disappeared in Adam the Heavenly which Christ as viz the Holy SUN vivifieth 21. But this Authours writing is altogether Contradictory and runnes counter against it selfe for here in this Point he writeth of this Spouse or Woman and Body thus which he NOT outwardly prepareth createth and maketh new but in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the world instantly after the Fall in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith espouseth betrotheth and uniteth to himself and prepareth it for his Eternall Rest In like manner also this holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which was slain from the beginning of the world IN all Faithfull and Saints according to the Testimony of the Scripture 22. Before this Authour hath set down in another place that if CHRIST became manifest or revealed in Man then Nature falleth Totally away Now he sets it down that CHRIST in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart hath from the beginning of the world espoused and united himself with the Saints in the Faith which indeed were true if he did not speak it concerning the Man CHRIST but concerning the Promised CHRIST in the Covenant which first in Time fulfilled the Covenant 23. For Not CHRIST the Man who in the Time in the Limit of the Covenant manifested or revealed himselfe was slain in the Holy Patriarchs but the Children of Faith in whom the Covenant became manifested 24. CHRIST hath once given and offered up his holy Life in the sweet Love to his Father into his Anger which was manifested in the Humane Property and with the Love broken the Anger to pieces He hath not dyed in ALL the Saints from Adam to this time and suffered himself to be slain and put to death Only the Children of the Faith of the Covenant have suffered themselves to be put to death according to the MAN of SINNE that the word of Life in the Covenant in them might put on the new promised Life which would manifest it self in the Covenant with the future Sun of the New Life in the Spirit of the Covenant 25. So that when Christ would manifest himself in the Covenant in the Flesh he also in that Covenant which had manifested it selfe in them would be manifested in them with the divine Substantiality viz with Christs heavenly Flesh 26. For even after the Resurrection of Christ when he had assumed the Humanity and slain death it was not CHRIST that dyed any more in his Members in the Christians or was slain but Adam in Christs Death that Christs Spirit in the Soul and the holy Man might Live When Christ becometh born then should the Man of Sinne continually Dye till at last when the Outward body departeth it WHOLLY ceaseth 27. But if Christ the Lamb of God were become slain in the Old Patriarchs then the reconciliation was performed IN them and then it cometh not solely and onely from the Sonne of MARY 28. Abel was NOT the Lamb of God which was slain for Sinne Christ dyed not in Abel but in the BODY which he received from MARY 29. Abel and all the Martyrs dyed as to their own Bodies for the sake of the Covenant which opened it self in them they were slain and dyed as to their sinfull Adamicall Body and not as to the Holy Body which was shut up in the Covenant which Christ when he would manifest himself in the Covenant would manifest it to be an Eternall Life and holy Flesh in which he would dwell and be the power and Life thereof 30. When the Holy Scripture saith CHRIST was slain in the Saints then it understandeth then Members of the Body of CHRIST according to Christs humanity which HE the Christ assumed It understandeth not the Triune God that should suffer it selfe to be slain from the beginning of the world for doubtlesse God cannot dye That which dyeth is only the Body of Christs Members according to the humane Creature and not according to the Spirit of Christ 31. The Spirit of Christ hath therefore manifested it self in the Humanity and slain Death in his assumed Body that the Gates of Life in us should be opened for if I be murthered for the sake of Christs Name and the Testimony thereof then doth not Christ dye in me but Adam dyeth in Christs death and Christ in my dying becometh first rightly manifested 32. My dying is Christs Resurrection in ME for I dye away to the sinfull self-hood or Nothingnesse and live to the Resignation in the Spirit of Christ 33. Therefore this is a voyd and groundlesse thing that this Authour writeth that the Man Christ the Innocent Lamb of God God himself which from the beginning of the world according to the Testimony of the Scripture was slain in all the Saints and faithfull c. 34. The Triune God is not from the beginning of the world slain in his Saints the Scripture saith not so but the Faithfull Men were slain for Christs sake and NOT the Triune Christ IN them
35. Man in his self-hood and I-hood is not Christ himself but Christ dwelleth in him he is the shining Lustre of his holy Life as himself saith John 8. 12. I am the Light of the World This he speaketh according to the Name CHRIST out of JESUS and not according to our Humanity which Dyed on the Crosse concerning which Isaiah calleth him a simple Servant in that he saith who is so simple as my servant 36. This Servant of God is not the Holy Trinity but the revelation or Manifestation and habitation of the holy Trinity the servant is become slain as a Lamb and not the holy Trinity Men should alwayes make a difference between God and the Humanity else if God were dead in his Trinity then were Death stronger than God who must thus have given himself up to Death 37. Christ is indeed God and Man in ONE Person but the Deity viz the Divine Property is not the Person the Man but the Homo or humanity is the Man and the Lamb of God which was slain and is called Christ from the Anointing so that God hath anointed this humanity of CHRIST with his Spirit without measure for the JESUS is the Anointing viz the Deep Love in the Deity 38. Therefore now the Lamb of God according to the humanity viz IN the Members thereof wherein the promised Covenant was out of which Covenant the Anointing would manifest or reveal it self was slain not Christ the Anointed of God which in the Covenant was hidden in them 39. Abel was not anointed with Christ but indeed with the promised word in the Covenant in which the Christ manifested himself and when Christ manifested himself in the Covenant in the Humane property THEN Abel put on Christ in the Flesh before Christs humanity Abel had put on the Covenant in the promised Word and WHEN Christ arose from the Dead then Abel also arose in Christs anointing in Christs humanity out of Christs Death and lived in the Anointing of Christ 40. The Man Christ is the First that arose from the Dead in the Anointing and is also the First who in the Anointing dyed to the Humane I-hood He is only and alone the Lamb of God in whom God brake his wrath to pieces Abel and all Martyrs are his Members upon whom the breaking death in pieces pressed or penetrated out of this Lamb Christ 41. Abel received an imputed Righteousnesse not a self wrought one of his own Abel before the humanity of Christ was not the Lamb of God but he was a Member in the Lamb of God Christ hath in all things the preheminence and none of them hath been able to call himself a Christian much lesse the Lamb of God that is hath been Slain for or instead of Christ 42. They have all of them only been put to death in the spirit of Faith upon Christs future coming they have put on Christ in the Covenant of Promise in the Spirit of Faith Not as a Lamb or Man but in Power not in the Flesh but in the Spirit so that Christ is the First who in the Flesh should be called The Lamb of God 43. This Authour mentioneth in this Manner But also this holy divine Substantial womans seed hath in and to the Saints appeared and been manifest in many kinds and wayes as in Adam and Eve after the Fall If this be so that the divine substantiall womans Seed was manifest in Adam and Eve then they have put on Christ viz the true womans Seed in Substance 44. And then they need not expect further about any other womans seed why did Eve then say when she bare Cain I have the Man the LORD if she had before the substantiall womans seed manifested in her why did she then hope for another 45. And God said also to Abraham In thy seed shall all Nations be blessed this was spoken concerning the future womans seed which would manifest himself in Abrahams seed Substantially with divine Heavenly Substantiality 46. If it were spoken as to the present then God had not commanded him the Circumcasion and after that the Sacrifice The Substantiall womans seed was not in the Sacrifice but the word of Promise in the Covenant 47. The substantiall seed of which God said therein all Nations should become blessed that lay shut up in Abraham unlesse the opening of the Name JESUS should open it the Promise to Abraham went on as to the Limit 48. That very substantiality wherein God would become Man was saded or disappeared in Adam when he dyed to the Kingdome of Heaven and Paradise This saded or disappeared Seed become in its Principle co-propagated 49. And in this Seed stood the limit of the Covenant out of which the Spirit of God in the Saints manifested it self and not through the faded or disappeared substance but with Christs becoming Man or Incarnation the Substantiall revelation or Manifestation proceeded where God dwelleth within in the substance viz as a Life of the Substance 50. Also this Authour writeth further And after that through Christ the Triune highly praised God himselfe the promise of the Perfect womans seed of the Messiah was pronounced and promised to them The strong Hope Faith and Confidence in this womans Seed caused it self openly to sound forth from them 51. Now if Christ dwelt substantially in Adam and Eve what need he then promise another substance to them I verily think Christ would not be manifested or revealed in Adam much lesse hath Christ promised Adam to become Man in his seed but God promised the Christ to Adam viz to awaken the Anointed of God in his seed viz in the womans seed and not in the Mans seed As in the Fourth Point shall be expressed at large 52. Christ stood in Adam and Eve in the Limit of the Covenant in the Name JESU in JEHOVAH in divine hiddennesse or secresie in the seed of Adam and Eve without humane substance and unmoveably in the promised seed till the End of the Limit there he moved himself in the womans seed 53. This High hitherto much repeated Speech concerning the Triune Womans Seed before Christs Humanity is much more a Confusion than an Explanation the CHRIST in the womans seed was manifested in No Saint before Christs Birth but only in the Spirit of the Deity in a Prophetick manner and not in a Humane Manner 54. By the womans Seed is alwayes understood the Paradise which faded or disappeared in Adam viz the Heavenly corporeity from the pure Element and NOT the FOUR Elements this was manifest neither in Adam nor Abel till the Saviour CHRIST became manifest in this Seed 55. This Authour so wonderfully blends one in another that it hath no sufficient understanding one while he speaks of Faith that the Saints have had the womans seed manifested in the Faith then suddenly he speaks of the substance whereas in the Substance there was no manifestation or revelation in THEM but only in
He mentioneth that MARY was totally sanctified and Perfect before CHRIST was conceived Now if the Faith could have attained and have discovered the Perfection and Totally have new Generated Man that he had been united with and in God in Body and Soul in Totall perfect holinesse then Christ had come in vain 7. And his suffering and Death had not been profitable to us if the FAITH could have broken the Anger of God also Death and Hell and have appeased the Angry Father and have quite taken away the abomination in the vanity of the Flesh 8. Also if CHRIST viz the Word of God had totally inwardly and outwardly taken to himself a holy and perfect Body and Soul upon Earth wherein had he broken Death And in WHAT Body had he taken on himselfe the SINNES of All Men And in what Body then hath he dyed to Sinne WHAT Body became a Curse on the Crosse 9. If it had been only the holy Perfect Body then would Gods holinesse have made it selfe a Curse and our Restitution had been only a Sacrifice which might well have been done in the Faith or through the Judaicall Sacrifice O it must needs be an Evill God who will not suffer himself to be appeased unlesse he revenge himself upon his Perfect holy Substance 10. Else why should he lay all SINNE upon one holy perfect Man and cause his fierce wrath to be shewn upon him and so Revenge himself such an understanding this giveth if we say Mary was in the Faith in flesh and bloud in body and soul totally perfect and totally united with the Holy Divine Substance 11. But seeing the Omniscient Authour here spoiles his breath therefore we will here in part a little blow up our sparkle and unfold the Mystery better 12. King David said In Sin was I born and in Sin did my Mother conceive me and this David it is out of whom MARY was born viz out of the Seed of David of the Seed of Joachim her father and Anna her Mother 13. Now if MARY had attained in the Faith the highest Perfection why not also David and the Patriarchs in whom was the Holy Ghost as well as in MARY 14. And though this Authour indeed determines that they were totally Holy and Perfect yet their Sinne and Mortallity moreover their Infirme life in Sicknesse Care perplexity and necessity will not permit that in which they all lived in the Curse and abomination in the vanity of the Earthly Flesh which abomination in their dying was first broken and ceased as to them 15. In the Abomination of the vanity there is not by far any totall perfection but Sinne and Death as David witnesseth of himselfe as also all the Patriarchs 16. But concerning MARY and CHRIST this is the true understanding MARY was the Limit of the Covenant of God in Paradise instituted after the Fall That Covenant stood in the true Image which faded or disappeared in Adam when he manifested or revealed the vanity in his outward Flesh 17. Concerning which God said The day that thou shalt eat of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill viz of the vanity thou shalt dye the Death which also instantly came to passe he dyed to the divine world and awakened to the Earthly world in the vanity 18. For the Soul viz the true Life of the heavenly substantiality entered with its Desire into the Abomination then the Divine Light departed from the Image of the heavenly Substantiality and now it stood in Death as a Nothing and this true Image it is which God from Eternity hath beheld with his holy Spirit in the wisdome but without Substance which he created into Substance that is brought Substance into this Image from the Three Principles 19. But when the Spirit of the Three Principles viz the true Soul went from its Eternall Image of the purity into the Abomination of vanity viz into the Earthly Substance and awakened the same in the Forms of Nature and manifested it in the Flesh then the fair Image disappeared and stood again in the hiddennesse at its Eternall Limit without knowledge and perception of the Earthly Adam in Abomination 20. But seeing Gods purpose was that this fair Similitude of God should stand Eternally before him in Substance as a beloved Scene of his Joy and a Similitude of the Eternall Substance and Spirit therefore he promised to move himselfe yet once and with his highest Love and Humility viz in the Center of the sweet Love in the word of his Sound to manifest the Image in Substance again 21. Now in MARY lay the disappeared Substance in the Covenant this was the dry Rod of Aaron which grew again in One Night and bare Almonds as is to be read in Moses 22. Now when the Angel came to MARY and brought her the Message that she should be impregnate with Child and generate or bear the Saviour of the World though indeed she wondered how it should come to passe yet she said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord let it be done as thou hast sayd that is she gave up her will and desire into Gods will he should doe what he would 23. And in this Point hath the Center of the voyce of God according to the deepest Love of the hiddenness of God in the Image of the disappeared substance with the Introduction of the divine heavenly substance of the Paradise and Element and all whatsoever the Deity in the Holiness containeth manifested it selfe in the Natural seede of MARY 24. Understand in the seede of MARY of her spirit and Flesh wherein lay the soules and bodyes Essence viz in Venus'es Matrix in the womans seede as it was promised in Paradise also to Abraham and to David 25. Now understand us aright what the cleere Deity hath received to it selfe not Marys sinfull Seede in which death became broken on the Crosse indeede it had received it to it selfe but in another Principle 26. The pure Holy Deity was alwayes from Eternity in Eternity surrounded with the substance of the Heaven in the inward viz. with the Holy substance that very holy substance hath the voyce of the holy Deity with the Moving of the Word introduced into Marys disappeared Substance understand into the Seede of Mary and united it selfe with Maryes substance in the Covenant of God 27. For John the 3. he sayth None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man who is come from Heaven also I am gone forth and Come out from God into this world Now the cleere Deity needes no coming for it is in all places before hand it needeth only to Manifest it selfe to or in the â—â—ace and all whatsoever cometh that is substance but God in his Trinity is a spirit without substance as to what he is solely in the Deity 28. Therefore when God would move and Manifest himself in his Covenant in Maryes heavenly disappeared substance then came he with the substance and manifested himself
in the united substance he united his coming substance with the Humane substance understand with the heavenly humane substance 29. For when God Created his Image Adam wherein he dwell and manifest or reveale himselfe then could his holiness be manifested in NO other substance THEN in the Heavenly holy in the pure Element and Paradise 30. This he received againe in Marys Seede into his holy living substance and in that substance was Christ in the Faith of Mary become conceived by the Holy spirit for the Faith which demerseth it selfe into Gods will that demerseth also the seede in the Covenant into the holy Living substance 31. Here againe was the living holy conjunction with or betweene the Substance of Mary and of God and in this united substance Sprouted the Rod of Aaron forth that was the deepest Love of God in the Center of the Holy Trinity whose Name is called JESUS 32. Now observe further in this Seed of Mary which disappeared in it selfe and was not manifested to the Soul lay in in the soulish property but according to the feminine property in Venus'es Matrix according to the first Principle according to the Fathers property Manifested viz a living Essence in the seede of Mary 33. Which Essence otherwise in the Masculine Conjunction with the Springing up of the life in the Exit of the Fourth Month affordeth a living Creaturely Soul This soulish seede hath also received to its selfe the Divine Word but in its owne in the soulish seedes Principle 34. For the soulish seede hath alwayes the First Principle according to the Fathers property according to the Fire-world and the Second Principle hath the Sonnes property according to the Light-world 35. Yet now the Father is another Person then the Sonne And so it is here also to be known or acknowledged the soulish property hath its originall from Adam out of the Eternall Nature out of the First Principle it hath the Center to the inward and outward Nature and it is it selfe that in it selfe in its lifes Formes for a Fire and Light 36. This soulish property hath the Name JESUS receiv'd to it selfe after a Creaturely kinde and manner as an Eternall Espousall but NOT so to understand that the holy power JESU and the soules Naturall substance and ONE in the Essence 37. As little as fire and light are one though indeed they stand in One Birth yet they have a twofold source or quality Thus truly in JESU the source or quality is totally Holy and God himselfe but in the soules property lay the Worme of the Kindled Anger of God which God with this his holy Love out of JESU would quench and put to death 38. And in this soulish property was the Abomination existed whereinto the Devills Imagination had woven it selfe This soulish property was tempted in the wilderness to try whether it would totally give it selfe up into JESUS viz. into Gods love and eate of Gods Holiness 39. And in this Abomination of the soule in which the lifes forms were Elevated and gone forth out of the equall agreement every Forme into its proper owne out of which the Enmity and opposite will existed hath CHRIST shed his holy Blood of the Image of the holy heavenly substantiality and introduced it thereinto with the sweete love JESUS whence the fierce wrath in 〈◊〉 lifes Formes of the soule in the Angry Fathers property became drowned 40. For when the altogether sweete Love in the Holy Blood gave it self up into the fierce wrathfull anger of the soule then the fierce wrath trembled or shook before this great Holiness Sweetness and Love so that its owne right brake in the Trembling Crack to peeces and became transmuted into the Kingdome of Joy 41. So that the Anger became transmuted into another Will and all properties of the self-hood of the Eternall Nature in the self-hood became all ONE in this sweete Love for the Love fulfilled or satisfied them all 42. And then the abomination and the Enmity against Gods holiness Ceased for the abomination had dyed in the Crack or terror of Death which rose up into the Joyfulness and now the soules Will was called LORD GOD Thee will we praise 43. Now understand us Further With the receiving of the soulish property JESUS also hath received or assumed the outward humane Fleshly substance in the seede of Mary viz. the outward Humanity the Third Principle 44. But not into the Image or into the seede of the holiness in JESU but after the Manner as God is in the World and yet the World is not God but they hang in ONE substance one to another and yet they sever themselves in themselves in TWO Principles 45. The soule hangeth to the outward World to the Flesh the neerest for the Soule hath 〈◊〉 THREE Principles if it be Holy if not then it hath only â—WO manifest to it and the Holy is hidden to it 46. And in the outward fleshly seede lay the Death and the abomination before Gods holiness THAT became as a Curse banged to the Crosse and the death of Sinne in this abomination became drowned with the holy Blood and the Outward Mystery of the outward Body and Life Redeemed from the abomination and Curse and totally Sanctified and changed into Gods unblemished Image 47. In this outward Flesh lay the Evill childe which Adam generated when he dyed as to God here the evill childe became taken in againe into Gods Love for Isaiah sayth Hee tooke ALL Our sinnes UPON himselfe not into himselfe not into the JESUS or CHRIST whâ— was manifested in the holy Image but UPON himself in the perished or corrupt Adam 48. The accursed Adam HUNG to the Crosse as a Curse and THAT Jesus Christ REDEEMED with his Innocent suffering and with the shedding of his Blood Adams Body dyed on the Crosse and CHRIST borne out of IESU in the Womans sanctified seede Tinctured it and sprinkled it with his precious Love bloud 49. At which the Curse in the EARTH trembled or quaked because this Judgement came upon it And the SUN did hide or withdraw its shining at or for this Judgement of this Holiness at or before this NEW shining Sun From the Sixt Houre to the Ninth which is and signifieth Adams sleepe when he slept in the Sixt Houre and in the Ninth Houre that is on the THIRD Day of the outward World awakened or arose with his now prepared WIFE or woman 50. Now in the Ninth Houre the outward SUN with its shining Sprung forth or arose againe and in the Death of Christ the Paradisicall SUN arose or sprung forth which Adam in Christs Resurrection discovered or beheld againe 51. Now observe us Further concerning Marys BLESSING For the Angell sayd to her Thou blessed among all Women the LORD is with thee 52. In this Mary stood the highly blessed limit of the Covenant of God through which all the Holy Patriarchs and Prophets have spoken viz. through Gods voyce which causeth
it selfe to be heard through the Limit of this Covenant 53. For the Covenant was inherâ—â—ed all along from one to another and in Mary it stood at the â—â—â—MIT that is at the End of the Manifestation or Revelation wherein IESUS would Manifest himselfe with the CHRIST viz. with the anointed of God 54. And Now the Houre of the Revelation or Manifestation came wherein God would manifest himself in this his holy Covenant And God sent the Angelicall Message to HER and she gave up her will into Gods will so that the highly precious Name IESUS manifested it selfe in her seede of the disappeared Image and then also the word of Power awakened her own disappeared Image of the second Principle in HER Body and Life 55. For the seede of the disappeared Image which became thus propagated without life that qualified or operated with the substance whence it was generated and THIS was her high Blessing before or above ALL Women from Eve to that time in that she attained in the Inward Man the holy Life IN the disappeared Image 56. For IESUS pressed or penetrated out of his owne received or assumed substance into the Mother of the seede but in HER outward Flesh as also in the Soule was the Sinne and Death which must also with Christs holy bloud-shedding be overthrowne 57. For CHRIST alone was the Serpent bruiser or Crusher even IN his Natural Mother MARY Hee is with the Soule the first borne from the Dead to Gods Glory His soule was the first as a Dore to the Re-opening and through THIS Dore we must all Enter in 58. MARY in her outward Body was Mortall as also CHRIST according to the outward Humanity Christ Lived in the outward Man in the Dominion of the Four Elements in the source or quality of Heate and Cold as WE doe 59. But the ABOMINATION which Adam inherited to us that he received NOT to himself from Mans or the Masculine Seede but in the Womans or the Feminine Seede as a BURTHEN upon him which he must Beare 60. This was his outward received or assumed humanity a Vessell for it NOT that a Man may any way say that CHRIST hath wrought any sinne and abomination with his outward Body NO that COULD NOT be 61. For he took on himself the First Principle of the foulish property in Venus'es Matrix in the womans seed understand in the Property of Eve for Eve was the child that Adam should have generated Magically but seeing he awakened the abomination in the Center of the Genetrix therefore that could not be done 62. Eve was Adams beloved and fair well relishing sweet-savoured Rose Garden and Paradise when she was yet in Adams Essence and Now that very fair Rose-Garden became Manifest again in the humanity of CHRIST 63. THUS he took the Abomination of SINNE upon this Image in the Flesh as if he were Adam and yet was NOT but in the Womans or Feminine Seed he was THAT and Not in the Mans or Masculine Seed 64. He took the MANS Sinne on to the highly blessed Limit in the WOMANS outward Seed and brake in peeces the Man and the Woman and brought again the virginity viz TWO Tinctures into ONE unseparable Eternall Conjunction in the Love no more in the Desire after SUBSTANCE as it was in Adam but only in the Desire after POWER 65. The TWO Tinctures generate NO more Substance viz a Propagation but holy power and relish or Savour and Gods 66. And this is the information concerning Mary and Christs Humanity plainly unsolded and not so covered as this Authour hath done that a Man cannot understand how it is come into Substance 67. But that this Authour presseth so vehemently upon the New Regeneration of the Old Patriarchs and will have THEM New Born in Christ and totally Perfect by that I see very well what he meaneth by it and under it even that HE also may be esteemed totally Holy and totally PERFECT 68. For if the Old Patriarchs have put on Christ when as yet he was not Man how much more HEE seeing Christ is now become Man which I would heartily fain allow him if it were but True and if it were not so that it might yet be so 69. Why doth he not set the Apostles of Christ and THEIR Successors Imitators or followers in the humanity of Christ as he sett the Old Patriarchs before Christs Birth Even this is it that he might bring in this Schisme or Sectarisme that God hath created ALL Creatures in CHRIST his expresse Image and Redeemed them ALL. 70. Which revealed expresse Image he will have to be only in those that are HIS Followers that Men might not thrust him with THIS outward Tabernacle out of Christs Image 71. For if he be created in Christs Image in Adam and God now do reveal the same in Christs humanity again and that he be proceeded out of that very Image and standeth therein then he can not Fail he is CHRIST inwardly and outwardly 72. If it were certainly true and that the Old Patriarchs had not also the Image of Sinne on them that he could shew they had been totally Holy then in the Old Patriarchs there had been NO Transmutation of their Bodyes also NOT in the Apostles according to the outward Flesh 73. Christs Apostles and their Successors Imitators or followers have put on Christ in their Angelical Image in the holy Flesh but their Outward Body was sinfull and an ABOMINATION viz in the Turba The outward Abomination in the Flesh MUST Dye and enter into Christs Death that Christ who is arisen from the Dead may raise up their outward Body into himself 74. The Outward Life generated from MARY is RESERVED to the Resurrection of the Dead when the Man in the VIRGINITY shall arise 75. But if this Authour be Perfect then is he neither Man nor Woman How then doth he beget children of his Wife The Old Patriarchs have put on the Covenant of Christ and CHRIST the Man became put on in the Word of Promise pointing at the future fulfilling 76. God reconciled himself in the Covenant and therefore they sacrificed that Gods Imagination which entered into the promised Covenant might receive their Imagination in the sacrifice into the Covenant of Promise through the Limit wherein God became Man they were in the Covenant elected to be children in which Covenant God became Man and fullfilled the Covenant with the Humanity which was done in the Seed of MARY and not in the Bondage or Servility 77. The Old Patriarchs did not put on Christ in the Flesh but the Covenant to the Filiation and to the Resurrection of the Dead but now WEE put on Christs Humanity for the Covenant is fulfilled with the Humanity 78. But the Kingdom of this world doth NOT put on Christ for he said My Kingdome is not of this world The Kingdome of this world in the Flesh putteth on CHRISTS Death and dying it should dye
in Christs death and put on HIS Resurrection out of the GRAVE That the Man which dyeth according to Flesh in the Limit which God hath set or appointed viz at the Last DAY should ARISE out of Christs Death 79. He hath given us his Death and Buriall for a REST where the OUTWARD Body resteth from the working of vanity as in a meek soft Sleep 80. But what this Authour sets down concerning the opposition of the totall fleshly Man that the Earthly Man which he calleth the Serpents Seed despiseth contemneth derideth and persecuteth Christ in his Members and continually crucifieth and putteth them to death together with Christ that is so and cannot otherwise be 81. For when Christ is become born then the Man of Sinne in his self-hood MUST dye the Faithfull Man becometh himself an Enemy of his own Sinnes in the Flesh the Faithfull Man according to the Heavenly Substance is indeed yea undeniably the Bride of CHRIST in whom Christ dwelleth that I contradict not 82. But that this Authour sets it down that Christ was born a poor despised Infant in the highest Lowlinesse out of MARY and yet was equall in the Height of the Triune God and LORD there he should better explain it and shew wherein he is the Triune God and LORD 83. Not according to the Creature viz according to our Flesh and Soul which is Eternally under or beneath God but according to his Divine and according to the Heavenly Substantiality and Corporeity wherewith he came from Heaven and took our Substance upon him 84. The divine Substance is unmeasurable BOTH according to Spirit and Corporeall Substance but our humane Substance is measurable to our humane Substance the Power or Authority is given but to the divine nothing CAN be given 85. God will judge the humanity through the voyce of the humanity of Christ so that the humanity of Christ according to our humanity is the Instrument to do it with Not that our humanity in Christs Person and Creature hath the power or authority out of it self 86. It is a given power or authority from the Father As Christ himselfe saith ALL Power or Authority in Heaven and upon Earth is given me of my Father Matth 28. Not to the self-hood of the Creature that the Creature is as Omnipotent and self powerfull as GOD but that the CREATURE is the Instrument whereby the Spirit of God will Judge and separate ALL things 87. The Spirit of the Holy Trinity IN the Creature is the will and the Creature is the Instrument of performance as through a cleer visible open Image and Substance seeing God hath manifested himself through the Creature therefore through the Creature also he produceth a Manifested or revealed authority or power and Dominion 18. As an Artist fitteth an Instrument of Musick and himself strikes or playes upon it that it may sound and give melody to him SUCH as he would sain HEAR Thus also in like manner the Creature is Gods Instrument upon which God striketh or playeth and hath introduced his own sound out of the divine voyce into this Creaturely Lute which soundeth and Melodizeth to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will 89. This Lute doth not play upon it self for CHRIST saith also All whatsoever the Sonne seeth the Father do that the Sonne doth also And the word which I speak to you is not mine but the Fathers who dwelleth in me Also I and the Father are One but the Father is greater than I. 90. The Father is the Eternall Beginning and the Sonne is the Eternall Begun viz the Manifestation of that Spirit which is called Father and the Holy Spirit is that which the Father through the Sonne Manifesteth with the Eternall outspoken wisdome out of the sound which the Father with the Sonne Generateth 91. The Sonne is the Fathers sound or word and the Creature is the cleer or Loud manifested word through which the Father in the Eternall Generating of his holy word soundeth or speaketh 〈◊〉 hear the Creature viz the voyce of the Person CHRIST then I hear what the Father in his holy sound in the exit of his Holy Spirit manifesteth and expresseth in and with the Creature 92. Here it is not called beloved Woman or Wife with or as to the Creature but Gods Image Gods Manifestation Gods manifest Dominion Gods own Doing or self-acting viz the invisible and incomprehensible acting through a visible comprehensible image and Substance of his own propriety 93. For without God there is Nothing HE alone is ALL but all whatsoever is perceptible or comprehensible that is only an Image of the Invisible Divine Substance wherewith the Invisible hath Manifested or revealed it self 94. Therefore the Creature should NOT say of it self that it self is any thing but introduce its ability into THAT out of which it is originated that it may be the Omniscient Gods work and play or Melody in his Love that it may do what he will and SO God be ALL in ALL. 95. And if God will do any thing through his Creature and manifest his will then speaketh not the Creature from or of it self but saith Thus saith the LORD thus hath the Lord spoken this is the Command of the Lord and not esteem it self at all to be the speaking Word or divine Sound also not say with this outward Body that the outward Body is espoused with Gods Holinesse as this Authour sets it down 96. The inward Man is indeed together with or in Gods Harmony through which God soundeth and Singeth and is a Wedding-Place or City of God but all whatsoever is Creaturely is tinder or beneath that which hath made the Creature The Creature is Gods Artifice or workmanship which he hath made through his wisdome for it is the Nature it standeth in the Principle viz in a Beginning but God standeth in NONE God is without all Beginning his desire maketh Beginning 97. But what this Authour saith concerning the woman of Faithfull Flesh and Bloud is not spoken plain enough to be understood For Flesh and Bloud beleeveth not but the Spirit Flesh and Bloud is a House of the Spirit 98. And what he also setteth down concerning the Man CHRIST who is in the Marriage with the Woman cannot at all be spoken of the outward Flesh and Bloud of this Life time for Christ is himself the Woman and the Man God and Man 99. Of the Inward Man it may WELL be spoken that is in the Marriage with Christ but the Outward is in the Marriage with the Outward World and with the vanity and Sinne as also with Death and Corruptibility weaknesse sicknesse and Misery THAT is called Eve and not the Marriage City of God in Gods holinesse as this Authour saith it is 100. But a waste Tabernacle wherein the Spirit is perished understand the Outward Spirit which dwelleth in Flesh and Bloud not that we would or should DESPISE the Spirit viz the Soul of the Great