loueth hee the Darknes And That is the Mans n Iohn â â 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 ãâã Ministration to the Death of y â 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 â 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 â life-as the Seruice of the Lawe reacheth to b Rom. â b. the Death of the Sinne and so then fourth / to the Making-aliue of y â 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. â Luk. â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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. â 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 â 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. â b. Making-aliue in Iesuâ 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 â Strength â 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 â good Beeing of God / that yee haue receaued all your Lust / Loue / and Stabilitie or Faithfulnes â which yee shewe to the Lorde and his Woord of the Lorde and his Grace 3. For what haue yee â 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 â in the Obedience of the seruiceable Woord humble or lowlie of Heart / and also to feare the Lorde continuallie and euenso â 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 â through thy Power or Mightynes releasedst mee therfrom For if I â O Lorde haue any Loue to thee
obedientlie thervnto / haue their communion with Christ after the Fleash 5. For euenso / among the Beleeuers of the Woorde / the Woorde became Fleash / and h Iohn 1. b. dwelled among them and Iesus Christ was also in such-sort borne vnto them of the Virgin Marie / out of the i Rom. 1. â 2. Tim. 2. b. Seede of Dauid after the Fleash that is / of the pure Doctrine / out of the Seede of the Loue. which beareth euenso without woo or greef And whosoeuer then receaueth or feedeth-of the outflowen Woord and his Life â beleeuinglie in his Soule / Hee k Iohn 6. eateth trulie the Fleash of Christ drinketh his Bloud and is raysed-vp by Christ / in the last Day / to the eternall Life and becometh euenso in his new Birth / consubstanciated with Christ after the Spirit And Those that l Iohn 3. c. 6. f beleeue euen-so in Christ / haue the eternall Life 6. IF wee now â with whole Heart beleeue thus in Christ and becom m Rom. 6. implanted into Him / so feele wee then also most-trulie / that ChristØthe Woorde of Life n 1. Pet. 2. d. beareth in vs our Sinnes / and suffereth for our Sinnes cause wherthrough wee also are inclyned for to suffer with Him / and â to the o Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. Burying of our Sinnes to follow-after Him / euen vnto his Buryall and so wee becom Part-takers of the Passion of Christ as also after thesame / of his p Phil. 3. b. Resurrection euerlasting Life 7. In such-sort verelie / wee knowe or vnderstand in the Beleef and Obedience of the Woord / how that the Woord or Christ / q Iohn 1. c. beareth our Sinnes / together with all our Frailtie and Ignoraunce and how that likewise for that cause / the Elders in thesame Woord / take-vpp in Grace or Mercie / all the Sinnes / Weaknes / and Ignoraunce of the Beleeuers of the Woord / and couer thesame with their Loue / vnder the Obedience of the same Woorde and his Doctrine For in such-sort do the Elders and Ministers of the Woord â in their Seruice prepare and kindle the trespas r Ier. 33. â Offeriâg of the Beleeuers of the Woorde / on the Altar in the Holie of Christ â ether Beleef of the Woord to a Burnt-offering of a sweete Sauour / before the Lorde 8. And the Accomplishing of thesame Offering / is the Puriâying of our Heartes / from all sinfull Beeing And thatsame is the true Gods-seruice in the Spirit / wherin wee s 1. Pet. 2. 4. â followe-after Christ in the like Passion t Rom. 6. a. or Death of his Crosse that is / in his like Contempt or Dispising the which is the true Furnace of Humiliation / wherthrough our Sinnes are consumed-to-nothing 9. When now the Seruice of the Woord and the Obedience of thesame / hath had in such-sort â in the Beleef Crosse of Christ his full Course with vs / so departeth then the v 2. Cor. 3. d. Heb. 10. d. Vayle â which is the Fleash of Christ from our Heartes and Christ after the Spirit / cometh vnto vs in Glorie And Hee is â euen as the right High-priest a x Heb. 3. 4. 7. Minister of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / in vs and wee inherit euenso all thosesame / through Iesus Christ after the Spirit 10. But till vnto thesame Tyme of the Coming of Christ after the Spirit / in his Glorie / so is vnto vs Christ after the Fleash / a Minister of the Circumcision â that is / in the Laying-away of the Synne for Gods Trueth-his cause / and for to establish y Rom. 15. b. the Promises made to the Fathers / and so to procreate in vs â out of the Beleef the euerlasâing and true Heyre / in the Establishing of the Promises of God the Father and also-for that the Seruantship of the Lawe / should be no a Gal. 3. c. Heyre with the Beleeuers 11. And That was the Complaint of Abraham which hee â ereuer hee had a Sonne or an Heyre complayned before the Lorde / that hee had obtayned no b Gen. 15. a. Seede out of the Beleef / and supposed euenso / that his Seruant that is / the Seruantship out of the Lawe should be his Heyre But the Lorde said vnto him Not so / thy Seruant shall not be thyne Heyre but the Sonne which shall be borne out of thee That is / out of the Faith of Abraham 12. But so-long as the Heyre is yeat c âal 4. a. younge / or first new borne by the Beleeuers of the Woord / and that also the Beleeuers are yeat younge or small in the heauenlie Vnderstanding / by Him and euenso â as goodwilling Seruantes to the Obedience of their Lorde haue a Lust â according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Will of the Lorde / So is-ther not any difference made / betwixt the Heyre and the Seruant but they stand both-alike vnder the Seruices of the gratious Woorde of y â Lorde â as vnder Tutours till vnto the d Gal. 4. â appointed Time of the Father In such like-sort is it also with all them / which beleeue the gratious Woord in his Seruice of Loue / and haue a Lust â according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Lord-his Will For as long as the Beleeuers of the Woord / are yeat younge or childish in the Procreation of the Seede of the Promise / that becometh borne in them / out of the Beleef of the Woorde and are not yeat growen-vpp to the e Ephe. 4. b. âlderdom of the perfect Beeing of the Woord which is the appointed f Gal. 4. a. Time of the Father / ouer all Beleeuers of the Woord so stand they yeat although they beleeue vnder the Ordinaunce of the Lorde or his Woord Not therfore that they should alwayes remaine / as subiect thervnder but vnto the appointed Time / to-wit / til-vnto the manlie Olde-aige in the godlie Vnderstanding of y â holie Woord / as ther is said That is / till that the Sinnes be subdued and that they euenso â through the Lawe be g Rom. 7. â Gal. 2. d. dead vnto the Lawe· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauen / and haue attayned â in the Life of the Woord to the appointed Time of the h Ephâ 4. b. manlie Olde-aige 13. And euenso on the Promise of y â euerlasting Life â out of the Ministration of the holie gratious Woord vnder the Obedience of the Loue may well all the Beleeuers of y â Woord â with Ioye / in the Hope of the euerlasting Life geeue-ouer themselues whollie in the i Rom. â Death of Christ and so let themselues be baptised or wasshed â with the out-flowing safe-making Waters of Christ in the Death of Christ For euenso â in thesame Death
owne Mindes and bydeth neuerthelesse in Captiuitie or Bondship 12. When-as wee now see-into all this / according to the Trueth / so ought wee onlie to seeke after the vpright n Iohn â c. Freedom of the Children of God / which is required out of the Woord of the Lorde And when wee then â at any time perceaue / that wee are not â according to the Requiring of the Lord-his Woord rightlie made-free / but rest yeat bound or owned / on our Mindes or Opinions / So shall wee not then seeke any other thing ther-against / but to becom Seruantes or Ministers of the Lorde / for to serue the Lorde / and to be altogether obedient / to the Requiring of his gracious Woorde and Seruice of Loue. 13. If wee then becom in such-sort o Rom. 6. b. Seruantes or Ministers of the Lorde / so shall the Lorde likewise â in the p Iohn 8. d. Obedience of the Requiring of his Woord bring vnto vs the vpright Freedom of the Children of God Therfore ought wee not to hunt-after any Freedom / according to our owne Mindes but first to applie vs dilligentli â / to the Woorke of the Lorde / and to shewe Obedience vnto the Requiring of his Woord / for to becom euenso Seruantes of the Lorde and not to seeke els-what in the Seruice of his Woord / but to humble vs with whole Heart / vnder the Requiring of his Woorde 14. When wee then are thus the Lord-his Seruantes / so shall the Lorde also â in thesame good-willing Obedience to the Doctrine of his Woord reueale or declare the Trueth of his Christ vnto vs and thesame q Iohn â Trueth shall make vs rightlie free / and release vs out of all Bondshipping In such-sort / that wee shall then sett ourselues / with all That which is the Lordes â as submitted vnder the Lorde· and vnder the Seruice of his holie Woorde of the godlie Loue / for to liue euenso with all the Children of God and Christ / in the vpright godlie Freedom / and to serue onlie the liuing God / in r Luk. 1. â vpright Righteousnes and Holynes The VI. Chapiter A cleere Distinction / betweene the Heauenlie and the Earthlie and how that the Immortall / is becom mortall and how it shall putt-on the Immortalitie againe NOman ascendeth vnto Heauen / but hee which a Iohn â b. Ephe. 4. a. cometh or descendeth from Heauen The which figureth-fourth vnto vs in Cleernes / that the earthlie Fleash and Bloud / cannot ascend to Heauen / in-as-much as it is not of the Heauen / but of the Earth But the holie Beeing of God / which God the Father â out of his holie Heauen hath grounded or setâ â from the Begining in the Manhod / and is in vs â for our Sinnes cause becom mortall / hath the sure Promises / to risevpp againe in immortall Glorie and that thesame shall reach / from the Man on the Earth / eauen vnto God / in the Heauen / for to make-knowen â out of the Heauen vnto the Man / on the Earth / the heauenlie Goods / and to bring thesame vnto him / out of the Heauen / and therto / the eternall Life 2. And That is it wherof Paule hath also witnessed in tymes-past / wher hee sayth b 1. Cor. 15. f. When the Mortall hath putt-on the Immortalitie / then shall the Death be destroyed in Victorie 3. Verelie / the Mortall â wherof Paule witnesseth is not any Creature of the earthlie Fleash and Bloud but it is the liuing Woord or Beeing of God / which in c Gen. 1. the Begining / was immortall in the Manhod / and is in vs â for our Sinnes cause becom mortall For thatsame â so-long as the Sinne hath the Victorie in vs is in vs / as One dead And although it beareth our Sinnes / and purgeth or maketh vs safe from the Sinne / yet haue wee not so d Esa. 53. b. Act. 8. c. esteemed it but accounted it as if it were nothing The which wee may also right easelie perceaue euenso in vs / so longe as we rest subiect to the Sinne. For if yee seeke in your inward sinfull Manhod / the good and heauenlie Beeing of God / and y e vpright Vertue and Righteousnes / so finde yee not thesame e Rom. 7. c. liuing in you but rather f Gen. 6. c. all Iniquitie / and all wicked Inclinations 4. When wee then see-into thissame / so must wee needes acknowledg / that the heauenlie Beeing of God· and God-his vpright Righteousnes / is becom mortall in vs but yet not for-euer / but for a certen season / till that the Man shew-fourth vpright Frutes g Math. â Luk. â of Repentaunce / against his Sinnes and sinfull Lustes / and that God euenso raise-vpp his godlie Beeing / in the Man / and that his Glorie becom great eauen vnto the Heauen 5. Yea / euen than at thesame tyme / shall the Mortall putt-on againe the Immortalitie / and the Death h Esa. 25. b. 1. Cor. 15. c. shall be swallowed-vpp / in Victorie And thatsame heauenlie Beeing of God / shall ascend vnto Heauen / and yet notwithstanding remaine still conformeablie-vnyted with the Man / euenlike as it came from Heauen and the Man shall then likewise bide euerlastinglie / one Soule and one Bodie with thesame / and be alwayes with his Spirit / wher God and his Christ is It is very-true 6. OH / That the Man vnderstoode the vpright Glorie / whervnto hee is i Gen. 1. c. Sap. 1. 2. c. Eccli 17. a. created by God / and also called through Christ so should then all earthlie Thinges be esteemed of him for no worthyer / then if they were Durt Yea / although the whole Earth â eauen vnto the Heauen were couered with Golde / yet were it all no-more / to be compared to the godlie Beeing and his vpright Righteousnes / then an Handfull of Chaffe / to a great Heape of good Wheate 7. Beholde / this costlie heauenlie k 1. Cor. 4. a. Treasure / is hid in the Man / and becometh presentlie raysed-vpp in the Man / in the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue. Thesame becometh now likewise â out of the Seruice of Loue distinctlie declared and expressed among Many and yet how Fewe are-ther that rightlie meditate or seeke-after thesame 8. OH â alas How exceedinglie doth the Man oftentymes afflict himself with sorrowe / for a little Losse of the earthlie thinges / and lameÌteth thesame Damaige al-to-much which notwithstanding is no-more worthye / to be compared to the Damaige of the vpright Righteousnes and heauenlie Goods / then the Losse of an Handfull of Chaffe / to the Losse of an hundred Quarters of Wheate But for the most-great Losse â as that hee misseth / and findeth not in him / the vpright Righteousnes· the liuing Woorde of God the Father· and the Mercifulnes of the
vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ hee doth not once lament / or â at lest-wise very-little Oh / what a lamentable Miserie is it / to haue such an Ignoraunce 9. Whilst now therfore the Man is thus ignoraunt / and perceaueth nor knoweth not / his Defection or l Esa. 5â b. Estraunging from God his Woord / so can not hee likewise â although hee would neuer-so-faine turne him againe rightlie vnto God For like as the good Beeing of God â through the Disobedience to the Woord of God and his Doctrine is becom as dead or mortall in vs / eauen so dead must likewise the Man â through the Obedience to the Woord of God and his Doctrine he with the good Beeing of God / if hee will be m Ephe. â â raised-vp with thesame / to the Life of Righteousnes For euenso â in the Death of the olde Man of Sinne doth the good Beeing of God n 2. Cor. 4. b. arise in the Man / and standeth-vpp / to his Glorie / and then likewise with him / the Man Wherin also then the Man inheriteth all spirituall and heauenlie Goods / and therto the eternall Life It is very-ture The VII Chapiter Of the vpright Christian Battaile / against the Enemies of the Life WHen the Man will prepare or indeuour himself to the christian Battaile for to accomplish the Requiring of the gracious Woord and his Doctrine / so shall hee then / in the Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / a Ephe. 6. putt on him the Armour of Christ and let himself be made-fast on the Pacience and all that which dwelleth or is borne in him â that hath also a Lust with him to the Battaile shall hee in like-maner arme therto / eauen as himself and so then pursue b Gen. 14. d. and fall-vpon his Enemies / and vtterlie roote them out 2. When the Man hath now in such-sort â as a goodwilling and valiant Souldier of Iesu Christ orderlie attempted the Battaile / and â in the christian c 2. Tim. 2. â Battaile vanquished all his Enemies / with the Pacience of Christ so cometh then vnto him the High-priest of Righteousnes like as the High-priest Melchisedech d Gen. 14. d. came vnto Abraham when hee had vanquished his Enemies For in the Vanquishing of our Enemies / ther appeereth vnto vs the e Heb. â c. High-priest Christ which cometh vnto vs out of the heauenlie Beeing / and bringeth vs the heauenlie Foode of the euerlasting Life / and the Riches of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods 3. Therfore ought wee daylie â in the Battaile of our Temptation to f Math. 16. c. Luk. 9. c. takevp our Crosse / against our Enemies / and to followe-after our Lorde Iesus Christ / in his Passe-ouer / vntill that all our Enemies be destroyed and vanquished / through the Crosse / and that wee euenso haue accomplished the true Godseruice / in the Holie· or ben obedient vnto the Ende / to-wit / euen vnto the Death of the Sinne. 4. For the Obedience of the true Godseruice of Iesu Christ / till vnto the g Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse / is the Vanquishing of the Enemies of the Life / and the Accomplishing of the daylie Godseruice / in the Holie After which Accomplishing of thesame Godseruice / in the Holie / h Heb. 7. â cometh y e High-priest Christ and appeereth in the Most-holie and erecteth euenso the i 1. Cor. 13. c. Perfection in vs. 5. Beholde / in this Obedience of God the Father â to the Accomplishing of the Godseruice in the Holie is Christ k Heb. 6. 9. b. gon before vs / and hath ben obedient to his Father / euen to the Death namelie / to the l Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse / wherin hee hath found the Purging of the Sinne / to our Safe-making / to th end that wee should m 1. Pet. 2. 4. a followe-after Him / in thesame Way / to the Purging of our Sinnes / for to inherit euenso with him the euerlasting Life 6. Verelie / to shew-fourth thissame Obedience / in the Seruice of the Loue / and to stand â in Lowlynes of Heart submitted vnder the seruiceable Woord of the Lorde / as also to haue a Lust with whole Heart / to doo his Will / is the vpright Wisdom which reacheth to the holie Vnderstanding and thesame is the Wisdom / which ingendreth the Peace in the Righteousnes for the which also n 3. Reg. 3. b. 2. Paâ 1. b. Salomon prayed 7. Therfore / applie yourselues now obedientlie· to this gracious Woord of the godlie Wisdom / which is presentlie â euen in thissame Day o 1. Pet. 1. b. administred vnto you / and turne not away yourselues in anywise therform / through Vnbeleef / that yee be not vanquished by the Iniquitie· nether-yet whollie lyke vnto y â Iniquitie / in her Nature For the Vnbeleeuers and Resisters or Blaspheamers of this Woord and Light of Life / together with all such as â according to the Nature of the Iniquitie becom offended therat· or at the Ministers of thesame / shall increase fourth-and-fourth â if they repent not in the Iniquitie / vntill that they be vtterlie p 2. Tim. â b. deliuered-ouer to the Iniquitie· becom of-one-beeing with thesame· and their Heartes hardened The VIII Chapiter Of the outward and inward World / and of the outward and inward Heauen and how that wee are all called and biddeÌ / to the pretious Bewties and Riches of the inward heauenly Beeing and also how that wee ought to shew ãâã thankfull to the God of Life / for thesame Grace THe whole outwarde World / is very-great and vnmeasurable and how great and vnmeasurable soeuer thesame is / yet is notwithstaÌding the inward World â without comparison much greater / inwardlie in vs. 2. Wee cannot likewise so conceaue in our Thoughtes of the outward Heauen â which incompasseth the whole outward World to be so great glorious and bewtifull / but that the inward Heauen â wherin God Esa. 66. a. Act. 7. f. with his Christ and Holy-gost / and with all his Holyâns / dwelleth and liueth essentiallie is far-away much greater and gloriouser / and much bewtifuller of Cleernes and Garnishing 3. Oh / That the Man could once conceaue or insee / what singuler pure Bewties and Riches of God / are to be beholden and inherited in the true heauenlie Beeing and also perceaued that hee were seduced with the Spirites of Errour which b Ephe. â a. raigne in the Ayre / and with the Imagination of his Knowledge / therfrom· and so degenerated or estraunged â ther-without touching thesame So were it not then possible that hee could reioyce him / in that case of his Estraunging from thesame / nether yet in any-wise be at-quiet / before that hee were com thervnto againe / or had therwith his communion or
Woord and of his Seruice of Loue â if one warned them not of their Destruction âide alwayes â with their Darknes or b â 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 â 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 â 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. â 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 â vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ fall into manifolde Errours and Seducinges / and vtterlie perrish therin 5. Thirdlie / they should also â if they be not whollie withdrawen froÌ the Woorkes and Lustes of g Ephe. 4. b. â 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. â of Heauen nor yet likewise in any Treasures of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods 6. Fourthlie / they should if they be not â 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 â 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. â 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 â 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 â 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-lâke com not vpoÌ 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 â through their Pleasure in thesame incorporate them againe much faster and stronger â 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 /