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A08217	Dicta HN. Documentall sentences eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN, and writen-vp out of the woordes of his mouth. And are by him perused, and more-distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne.	Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?; Vitell, Christopher, fl. 1555-1579.	1574 (1574)	STC 18551; ESTC S119960	50,857	97

loueth hee the Darknes And That is the Mans n Iohn ● ● Condemnation / when hee loueth the Darknes / more then the Light It is very ▪ true The XI Chapiter A cleere Demonstration / that the Seruice of the Lawe after the Letter / and the Seruice of Christ after the Fleash / haue both one 〈◊〉 Ministration to the Death of y ● Sinne and that then the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / springeth therout IF anye Ministers of the holye Woorde should saye Wee publish the Lawe / and minister and teach thesame / to a Mortifying of the Sinne / and to a Death and Burying of thesame / seeing that thesame Seruice / is the right Priestes-office of the Lawe Or-els if they should saye Wee publish Christ after the Fleash / vnto the Beleeuers of Christ / to an Entraunce ⁏ with Christ into a Rom. 6. the lyke Death of his Crosse to-wit / into the Obedience of the Beleef of Christ and to mortifie and burie the Sinne / So is-it both right / and well saide / if the Lawe of the Lorde and his Christ haue a Shape in thesame Minister and it is both one-maner of Seruice / vnto the Beleeuers of y e Woord to a Righteousnes of Life 2. For / to administer Christ after the Fleash / is a Seruice / which also ⁏ life-as the Seruice of the Lawe reacheth to b Rom. ● b. the Death of the Sinne and so then fourth / to the Making-aliue of y ● Inward-man of God / in Iesus Christ after the Spirit 3. Therfore saith Peter thus Christ hath suffered for vs / and c 1. Pet. 2. c. left vs such an Example / to th end that wee should followe his Foote-steppes 4. Christ himself saith also Whosoeuer will be my Disciple / let him d Math. 10. 16 Mark. ● Luk. ● 14. forsake himself / and take-vpp his Crosse on him / and followe after mee And That is the right Imitacion of Christ that wee should followe-after him ⁏ in the Doctrine of his Requiring obedientlie / euen vnto his e Rom. 6. Death and Burying / and vnto his Resurrection from the Death And This is the Inheriting of the eternall Life / in the heauenlie Beeing / wherin Christ after the Spirit / liueth and triumpheth ⁏ with his Father and all his Sainctes perpetuallie 5. Therfore / to th ende that hys Disciples / mought inherit the eternall Life with Him / they must first followe-after Him ⁏ in the Fore-going of his Doctrine and Requiring obedientlie / till into his lyke Death / and then euenso out of thesame Death / obtaine the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / and inherit the eternall Life 6. For-that-cause / men ought to consider rightlie / on both these Sayinges / of the Lawe and of Christ after the Fleash For in themselues they haue both / one Minde or Sence and leade both to one Entraunce of the Mortifying and Depriuation of all vngodlie Beeing For all that which goeth-before out of God / before the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / and hath his Ministration to the true Righteousnes / doth point or direct the Man to the Death and Laying-away of the Sinne in the Fleash And That is it wherof Paule speaketh / saying The Letter f 2. Cor. 3. ● slayeth namelie / the Ministration of the Lawe after the Letter / or the Ministration of Christ after the Fleash And That is nothing-els / but that the Letter / according to the Requiring of the Lawe / and according to the Requiring of Christ / pointeth and leadeth vs g Rom. 6. to the Death of the Sinne / and withdraweth euenso our Mindes and Thoughtes / from all that which is vngodlie· and vayne and consumeable on the Earth / for that wee mought euenso attaine to the euerlasting Vnconsumeablenes / in the eternall Life / wherin all Vnderstandinges of pure Heartes do liue and dwell 7. BEholde / in such-sort and to such a Fulfilling of the Lawe and the Propheates / is the Seruice of the holie Woorde / in the Letter / with the Letter / and through the Letter For the Ministration of those-same soundeth euenso / and requireth thesame For when-as wee perceaue anything in vs / that tendeth to the Lust of the Sinne / ther-against doth the seruiceable Woord teach vs / to mortifie and burie thatsame for-as-much as the same is his Requiring 8. And when-as wee then do humble ourselues obedientlie / vnder the Lawe or vnder the seruiceable Woord / for to accomplish thesame in his Requiring and to becom euenso ⁏ with the Lawe / or with Christ after the Fleash / and with his Faith to Iustification k Rom. 6. implanted into Christ with lyke Death· baptised in his Death· and washed with his Bloud / So cometh-ther then vnto vs / the Spirit of the Lawe / or the Rom. ● b. Making-aliue in Iesu● Christ after the Spirit It is very-true The XII Chapiter A cleere Demonstration / that the Man hath not any-Good of himself but receaueth it all of the Lorde and his Grace O Yee goodwilling Heartes to the Seruice of the Loue / suffer-pacientlie and beare-with a Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. each-other in your Weatnes and infourme each-other with the Coadiuuation or Hand-reaching of the seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue. And if any-man chaunce to fall / so help-vpp then each-other againe and hee that bydeth standing / let him laude the Lord / for his Strength For y ● Strength ⁏ or the Power so much as thesame remayneth with vs / to the Good / is onlie the Lordes / out of his Grace and not out of our-selues 2. For-that-cause / think or haue alwayes before your Eyes / in your Fourth-going to y ● good Beeing of God / that yee haue receaued all your Lust / Loue / and Stabilitie or Faithfulnes ⁏ which yee shewe to the Lorde and his Woord of the Lorde and his Grace 3. For what haue yee ⁏ I pray you to serue the Lorde with all / but that yee haue b 1. Par. 19. c. 1. Cor. 4. b. Iam. 1. a. receaued it of the Lorde or the Lorde must first bring thesame vnto you / by his Grace and Mightynes both all that wherwith yee serue your-selues another also 4. Therfore ought the Man alwayes to holde himself ⁏ in the Obedience of the seruiceable Woord humble or lowlie of Heart / and also to feare the Lorde continuallie and euenso ⁏ in the Feare of the Lorde alwayes to thinke O Lorde How should I out of myself / haue perceaued or knowen my Sinnes / Except that they had ben made-knowen vnto mee / through thy seruiceable Woord / and that it were graunted mee to perceaue them by thy Grace and that thou euenso ⁏ through thy Power or Mightynes releasedst mee therfrom For if I ⁏ O Lorde haue any Loue to thee

Woord and of his Seruice of Loue ⁏ if one warned them not of their Destruction ●ide alwayes ⁏ with their Darknes or b ● Cor. 3. d. Couering of the olde Man vtterlie couered or seperated / from the Face of the liuing God of Heauen and of his Christ which is presentlie in the last time ⁏ through God-his Grace appeered vnto vs in naked vncouered Cleernes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue of Iesu Christ· and declared with the Fulnes of his Grace and Mercie and which also / all Disciples of the Woorde ⁏ in the c Ephe. 4. c. Laying-away of the Coueringes of the olde Man shall in like-maner beholde naked and vncouered / as d 1. Cor. 13. c. 2. Cor. 3. b. from Face to Face / in the essentiall Cleernes of God and Christ. 4. Secondlie / they should through their herited Birth of the olde Man and of his corrupted Vnderstanding if that they be not borne first / out of the e Iohn 3. ● Water or Doctrine of the gracious Woorde and of his Seruice of Loue / euen vntill the f Rom. 6. b. c. Death and Buryall of Iesu Christ to the Slaying and Burying of the olde Man / and of his corrupted Vnderstanding / Lust / and Desyres and that they be not euenso then borne againe / out of the Spirit of the gracious Woord / euen vnto y ● vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ fall into manifolde Errours and Seducinges / and vtterlie perrish therin 5. Thirdlie / they should also ⁏ if they be not whollie withdrawen frō the Woorkes and Lustes of g Ephe. 4. b. ● the olde Man· and euenso taught prepared to the New Birth in Iesu Christ bide alwayes Members of the Deuell and his vngodlie Beeing ▪ and minded to all Destruction and Errour / and obtaine no h Iohn 13. a. Part nor Inheritaunce in the holie Bodie of our Lorde Iesus Christ nor in the Kingdom i Math. 13. ● of Heauen nor yet likewise in any Treasures of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods 6. Fourthlie / they should if they be not ⁏ to the Mortifying and Burying of all vngodlie Beeing implanted k Rom. 6. into the gracious Woord or Bodie of Iesu Christ bide euermore in Errour / with-out the gracious Woorde or Bodie of Iesu Christ and not be driuen or directed any otherwise / then by the Spirites of Errours· and taught by the many-maner l 3. Reg. 22. c. Spirites of Lyes whether it were then to false Spiritualnes / Doctrine / or Religion or-els to the Disorderlynes or Iniquitie of the Worlde and should likewise also for-that-cause-sake / not be able to vnderstand knowe nor obtayne or receaue / the holie Spirit of God and of the Trueth or Christ nor-yet feele or perceaue anythinge-at-all therof nether-yet of the Grace of the Lorde / how large thesame reacheth ouer the Children of Men / or how neere-by it is vnto them 7. Verelie / all these Straungers vnto the Familie and Seruice of the Loue / or Such as go-fourth according to their Good-thinking / stand comprehended or are bewrapped in a great Destruction and whoso maketh thesame knowen vnto them / and so warneth them therof / er-euer y e great Destruction take them cleene awaye and destroye them / in their Errour and Estraunging / hee doth very-well / and sheweth a great Good-deede of Loue and Mercie towardes his Neighbour And if they then conuert them to the gracious Woord of the Lorde / and to the Doctrine of his Seruice make Confession of their Sinnes and m Luk. 13. b. shewe-fourth Repentaunce / So shall then their Soules be wonne to the eternall Life· and to the euerlasting Preseruation in the Godlynes 8. BVt the Destruction / wherof the Disciples of the gracious Woord / and the Brothers and Sisters in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / shall warne one-an-other / is this ▪ 9. If it chaunce that any of the Disciples of the Woord / or of the Bretheren or Sisters in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / should ⁏ without the Doctrine or Requiring of the Woord and his Seruice fall into any Good-thinking / or into any-sort of Dealing / contrary to the Doctrine or Requiring of the Woorde and his Seruice whether it were then out of himself / or-els through any Straungers or Offallenons or that they should be assaulted / for to turne them away from the n 2. Cor. 11. ● Singlemindednes of Life which wee haue in the gracious Woord wherin yee are also taught and exercised aright to thesame Singlemindednes so shal-men then warne those of the Destruction / which is witnessed heere-following And if they then take not to heart the Warning for y ● auoyding of their Destruction but turne-away themselues from the Woorde and from the Doctrine of his Seruice / through the Assaulting or Temptation which meeteth them to that effect / and marre or depraue themselues againe in any Good-thinking and Self-wisdom· or in any brutish or worldlie Beeing / and euenso estraunge them from the good Doctrine of the Woord / so should then thesame verelie chaunce vnto them / to a damaigefull Destruction 10. For first / ther should ⁏ by that occasion a Couering of the Wrath of God / enter-in betwixt them and God / and the Doctrine of his gracious Woord in such-sort / that they should not be able to heare nor vnderstand / o Esa. 6. c. Math. 13. b. Act. 28. c. what God requireth through his gracious Woord Seruice of Loue. Of this Destruction heer mentioned / shall the Disciples of the Word warne one-an-other to thend that the-l●ke com not vpō them 11. Secondlie / their Good-thinking or their Pleasure in the Fleash or in the carthlie Thinges / should also estraunge them from the pure Bewtie of the heauenlie Beeing / and so bring them into greater Errour of Destruction / then that wherin they walked before 12. Thirdlie / their Errour should ⁏ through their Pleasure in thesame incorporate them againe much faster and stronger ⁏ to pernitious Members of the Deuell into the Deuell and his vngodlie Beeing / then they to-fore were incorporated into him 13. One should in like-maner much lesse or worsser / be able to make them to knowe their Errour and Destruction / for to ridde them therout / then in times-past / when-as they yeat stoode in their first Blindnes or Errour 14. Fourthlie / they should also through the Incorporating-againe into the Deuell / and through their Addicting of them to the earthlie consumeable Thinges / be driuen by the wicked Spirit of the good-thinking earthlie fleashlie and deuelish Beeing / in greater Presumption with more Freenes / into the Falshod / against God and his holie Spirit and Seruice of Loue / then hee had driuen them in times-past And that altogether / to cause them to invay or be against the good Doctrine of the Woord and the Ministration of thesame yea /