and transgression of Adam this is I hope no doubt of Christ satisfaction but I may iustly doubt of our satisfaction for I conceive in my understandings that we are still indebted to God concerning our satisfaction in Jesus Christ 8 Then said the Confessor O my sonne thou runnest out too far with thy young understanding for after that thou mayest not search so deepe nor no man else but simply beleeve all that concerneth Christ and our salvation 9 Then said the child well Sir I will simply beleeve all as you say yet must I aske somthing of thee out of my simplicicy desire for the love of Jesus Christ that thou wouldest answer to my simple question 10 Then said the Confessor well my sonne aske and I will answer thee 11 Then said the child if Adam had lived simply according to the commandments of God and had not falne off from God had not transgressed the command of God should then he and we have lived in the sinne or in the righteousnes 12 The Confessor said Adam and we all should have lived eternally in the righteousness and no sin nor e death should have reigned over us 13 Furthermore the child asked and said when God created Heaven and Earth and all that is therein f and the man also whom he made after his owne Image did not God then make all things good and perfect and came it not to passe as he would have it 14 The Confessor said O yea my son g what ever God hath made he made it well and good and all what God said and h commanded to be it stood there present and all things had their progresse * towards perfection according as God would have it and even so the man in his upright being 15 Then said the child Seeing the man was created from the begining good and upright and i to live eternally in Gods upright righteousnesse and that he remained not steadfast therein And that God for to reduce the man to his right estate againe hath given up his beloved Son Jesus Christ to the death of the Crosse k and so through the death of the Crosse of Jesus Christ to re-establish l the man and all that was fallen in his right state and condition Therefore all must then be m restored to the same in his right form through Jesus Christ and his death of the Crosse even as it was from the begining the transgression of Adam must be mended and we must be n justified or cleansed from the sinne and must be o borne again unto the Image of God 16 Behold Sir in my understanding I conceive it soe and that we ought to take heed to this mercy of God p and to follow our Lord Jesus Christ in his q death of the Crosse and to be wholy incorporated into him with his r like death where through in us also the s sinne of Adam and our sinne becomes amended and blotted out in us from the death of sinne her t power and dominion taken away and the upright righteousnesse simplicity and the eternal life to which Adam was created u and set and was ordained to live therein eternally be raised up again 17 Now if all as you say should be fulfilled or satisfied then as I conceive nothing should be wanting in Gods work nor in mans upright life and obedience to God and all things must be restored to his right forme And seeing there is yet defect therein thereupon I aske where doth the fault lie in God or in us that the worke of God and his will is not performed in all on us and in us and that not the righteousnesse and the good life of Jesus Christ but the sinne and the death reigneth and hath dominion over us for me thinks that the right ground of this whereof we now speakâ— is not yet by many entred into nor rightly understood and that the most necessary part of our Godlinesse in Jesus Christ and the x obedience which God requireth of us through his Son Jesus Christ is still to be performed by us and in us CHAP. III. WHen the Confessor had heard all these words from the young child he could answer nothing to it but said to his fellow brother that was present and had heard all the speech of the child I know not what I shall say of the child and his sayings I know not whether it be childishnesse or Godly understanding it speaketh of 2 Then said his fellow brother surely thou art bereaved of thy wit doest thou not perceive that it is foolery and childishnesse the boy speaketh and I wonder also very much why thou exchangest so many words about it for if men of judgment were present they would say that you were more childish then the boy himselfe because thou hearest and answerest him in all his foolish words whereas they are meerly unprofitable things after which he diggeth and searcheth and should with these matters if he be let alone bring himselfe into weaknesse of minde Therefore it is most needfull that he be punished for these things and make him to forget them This he spake that the Father and the childe should heare and spake it so loud to that end that neither the Father nor the childe should observe that they were not able to answer to the childs questions or informe him therein and so these two fellow brethren tooke the childe between them and in the presence of his Father rebuked the childe with many hard words and among the rest the Confessor said to the childe do'st thou know what evill thou hast committed that thou troublest thy selfe with the matters of the mysteries of God the child said no Sir 4 Then said the Confessor O my son thou hast nigh committed the greatest sin that man can do on Earth for thou hast with thy thoughts digged and searched and troubled thy selfe which is not permitted to any man upon the a Earth let him be never so judicious to know the secrets of God I scarce know whether this sin may be forgiven to thee or whether thou shalt for this go to hell and he made the child quite astonished so that he spake no more of the same nor asked after any more instruction but fell on weeping and said Oh that I and all men might be saved Then said the Confessor 5 O my sonne seeing thou art now sory for thy sinne I promise salvation unto thee and that thy sins are forgiven 6 Then said the child I thank you Sir and will commit the cause to God let it come to passe according to his will And so his Father thanked the Minory brethren for that they had well taught and instructed his sonne and so departed from each other and the Minory brethren went their way and thought no more on this businesse or gave little respect unto it 7 But child was not appeased with the sayings of
mind in which I may live and praise thee CHAP. XX Psalme XV 1 WHen I now for a long time confessed my sins before the Lord and his Saints sought for mercy praying for comfort to my soul and had suffered the chastising instruction in following after Christ in a his death of the cross and thus did manifest that I was humbled and willing to all obedience Then the goodness of God the Father appeared to me aagain And I spake with great thankfulness in my heart and said 2 O well and happy is he which hungreth and b thirsteth after the righteousness and is no mans enemy therein and so c boweth himself under the rod of his God and endureth his correction And waiteth in d patience on the goodness of the Lord and his compassion 3 For behold the punishment e lasteth onely for a short time which cometh to an end but the mercy of the Lord and his goodness f endureth for ever and his love hath no end g 4 Hee forgiveth and blotteth out the sins of the people which turn unto him with all their heart for they meditate upon that which is holy and good and learne also to practise that which is h right and reasonable 5 Yea this the Lord turneth away his fury and displeasure from his Elect and turns his wrath on his enemies which must perish through his indignation as i chaffe and dust 6 Therefore O God my soul k shall praise thee for ever for thou seekest the life to the preservation but the enemies of the life l must be brought to nothing 7 O Lord how is thy Goodnesse and Mercy out of thy love so great m that thou settest them free who were taken and bound by others 8 And thou makest that good againe which was spoiled and corrupted by another 9 Againe thou n seekest and findest that which was lost by another even unto nothingnesse 10 Thou bringest o to right againe that which was mis-led by another 11 Thou revivest that p which was put to death by another 12 Thereby is known O Lord thy Almightinesse for this O God is thy Love Power and Mercy CHAP. XXI Palme XVI 1 GIve thanks to the Lord with Hymns for a Great and wonderfull is his mightinesse 2 Where is there such a God as the God of b Israel who maketh the dead alive and delivereth his Elect out of the c condemnation and judgement of hell 3 And bringeth them away out of all the straights of their enemies to his holy inheritance of rest and peace according as he hath d promised and sworne of old 4 For be is Potent who e killeth Thousands and hath killed ten Thousand for to deliver his 5 He riseth early against his enemies which are oppressors of his who out of anguish call upon him for the injustice sake 6 Therefore is the Lord a f King of all Glory an over ruler of all Powers 7 For with the Arme of his strength he taketh in the land and treads down his enemies as if they were loame or â—lay 8 With his breath or wind he g scattereth them away as if they were dust and chaff 9 And he delivereth the h poor and miserable which call upon him 10 Therefore is the Lord great mighty a i King and God in Eternity Allelu-ia Allelu-ia CHAP. XXII Psalme XVII 1 THerefore exalt our God and praise his holy Name 2 Because he hath taken the Kingdome and the Scepter of his Kingdom is made manifest 3 For the Lord is a become King wherefore let his people rejoyce 4 His Word hath shewed power his righteousness is become manifest 5 His Spirit hath appeared like a light and confirmeth his salvation forever 6 The same God hath renewed us in him and given us a new understanding 7 A new b creature hath he brought forth the image of God the upright righteousness 8 Therefore the people speak with new tongues the new song is in our mouth 9 Lord c wonderful are thy works for thou hast done marvellous acts among us 10 The evil that was in us is now no where to be found amongst us that which we knew not in the death is now apparent to us in the everlasting life 11 The sinne is now with us condemned in the sinne d The righteousnesse is declared unto us in righteousness 12 The death is now among us swallowed up in the death e the everlasting life is come unto us in the renewing of our lives 13 The hell is judged or condemned in the f pit of hell the heaven is shewed unto us in the heavenly being 14 The lye is come to shame the Truth is risen up unto us in the Truth 15 The darknesses are gone into the bottomlesse pit to the darknesses g the light hath illuminated us in the light 16 The Idol is fallen in his Idolatry the living God is become known unto us in the Diety or Godhead 17 Therefore we confesse the maiestie of our God and the sanctification of his people eternally CHAP. XXIII Psalme XVIII 1 O Lord thou almighty God Great and a Wonderful are thy Works 2 Righteous b and true are thy ways thou Prince and King of Saints 3 Who should not fear and love thee O Lord of life and praise thy Name 4 For there is no holiness but thou for thou only O Lord c art holy 5 All people shall worship thee in d thy thy presence where thou becommest manifest in thy holy Temple 6 For thy righteousness e are known and thy holiness inherited by thy people 7 But not a holiness by mens hands but an holiness which is from Eternity and shall continue forever 8 Therefore do'st thou O Lord remain a God for ever a King which shall reign eternally 9 Thus are we now joyful in this portion and sing Heja Heja 10 Play to the Lord a new f song and sing Allelu-ja Al elu-ja CHAP. XXIV Psalme XIX 1 REjoyce ye with joy ye a daughters of Sion anâ— refresh you ye Citizens and inhabitants of the City Jerusalem 2 Shout now b with triumph all ye Generatious of Israel And rejoyce you in all love the children of peace 3 Behold your King c appeareth unto you in meeknesse and he cometh d with majestie 4 For that he should establish you heire like in his Sanctuary for to possesse his Kingdome for ever 5 But to his enemies the resisters of the Love e hee appeareth in wrath and severity 6 For to thrust them from him and to f shut them without his Kingdome eternally 7 For he will put a period g to iniquity and cast all falshood aâ—d offencivenesse out of his h Kingdome 8 He will disperse the deceitfull thoughts his life disposition and nature he will bring to light 9 He will establish his Kingdome in peace and the
therefore have not shewed the upright obedience to their requirings nor performed the first School-rule of the Christian Doctrine of the Service of my Love yet notwithstanding are well inclined to bring forth upright fruits of repentance to the intent that to every one who will permit himself to be renewed and repenteth the truth of my word may be known And the Whoremongers and impenitent ones or any of the enemies to the house of Love should understand the h of the godly sayings 13 I will yet also reveal unto thee in the land of the living many of my wonderful works and will give thee to understand yet truth many mysteries 14 I will also declare and shew unto thee the appearing of my Glorie the i glorious comming of my Christ and the Resurrection of my Saints among the right believers and obeyers of my word or Christ and also how the right beleevers and obeyers shall be renewed in their k spirit and mind in this same day of l my righteous Iudgement and how the same renewing in the inward man is the true accomplishing of the Priestly Office of my Christ under the obedience of the Beliefe And how also in accomplishing the same The said Priestly Office reacheth into the obedience of my Love to the inheriting of the spiritual heavenly riches of the holy spirit of my Christ 15 And thereupon H. N. praysed and thanked the God of heaven for his great mercy and compassion and for his righteous judgement at the last time And called to the Lord and said 16 O my Lord and God now reveal unto me also which way I shall travel on with thy chosen Saints chiefest Elders in thy Family of Love and with thy holy Testimoâ—ies of our writings to performe thy holy will and to come to thy holy land of which thou hast told me and also that I might doe as thou hast commanded me 17 Then said the Lord to H. N. the same way of the suffering of my Christ and of all my Saints whereiâ— thou now also walkest thou shalt goe on to travel through it and from the same way shalt thou not turne thee m neither to the right hand nor to the left for the same way is the true way n to my holy land of the living where no o manner of building of men are found 18 Therefore travel on in the same even as I have told thee and in the passing over the same take good heed to the doctrine of my truth the true preparation to the entrance of my land of the living For so in the fulfilling of the same way thou shalt find thy selfe in the holy place wherein I the Lord dwell live and raigne eternally 19 Be of good courage in the same way of thy forth-going for in the same way shall nor can any selfishnesse nor humane conceited wisdome or subtiltie follow thee nor by no meanes endamage thee 20 And although they would seemingly travel thorow with thee the same way yet shall they not be able but shall fail therein and become unbelieving and so through their stumbling or dislike turn aside therefrom either to the right hand or the left 21 But whosoever proceedeth in the same p till to the end constantly and faithfully and q forsaketh all for my sake and simply and faithfully in the requiring of the obedience of my service of Love followeth thee will I through my holy and gracious Word and Service of Love lead them rightly into my holy land of the living and not r remember their sins nor their slumbling and falling any more 22 Therefore endevour thee deligently with these my holy-ones which I have set before thee and with the godly testimonies of thy Writings to accomplish more and more the foresaid way of Patience 23 Likewise consult thou not with the flesh or bloud of men nor with any mans craft or subtilty but travel upon the belief or trust of my word till thou with the four and twenty Elders and four chiefest Seraphims be come to the holy place where I shall reveal and shew unto thee my heavenly workings where no t works of man can remain standing 24 For there in my Inheritance of the living will I give thee an heritage for ever And confirm thee also in the Testaments of the holy Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob to the end that thou mayest administer the same Testaments u to the death of the sin and till to the life of the righteousness among the believers of my gracious word and that then all they also may be confirmed in the same Testaments and be made heirs with thee in my hereditary land of the living and so know and understand that my testaments of the holy Fathers are not administred forth of the knowledge of men according to their conceiving but x out of my true being according to the requiring of my gracious word and service of Love 25 That also my Inheritance of the living is not like unto the earthly Inheritance of the dead nor my life and joy to the the earthly life nor to the joy of the earthly man nor my mind and y meaning to the thoughts and meanings and plausible conceiving of men 26 But all these words which the Lord did speak to H. N. he laid up in his heart for to do accordingly and he took himself to his journey according to the requiring of the Word of the Lord with the 24 Elders and the four Seraphims and with the godly testimonies of his Writings 27 And in this our travelling forward into the hereditary land of the living we were seven times seven dayes that is nine and forty dayes 28 And in this our iourney in all these nine and forty dayes we eat z no kind of food or creature which had any breath of life in it self or had received any 29 Neither did we drink in all this same time of our travel any * wine or strong drink for to rejoyce our hearts nor to refresh our minds that we might not forget diligently to apply our selves to our journey CHAP. XXXI In this Chapter is plainly figured forth and declared the true preparation of the believers of the Word to the Passeover of the new birth in Iesus Christ and to become profitable and meer Elders and Ministers of the Word in the houshold of the Love of Iesus Christ 1 NOw the beginning of our journey to the accomplishment over of the way of our passage to the heritable land of the living came thus to passe 2 First of all before we gave up our selves to travel forward * to the service-ablenesse we earnestly endeavoured us willingly and obediently out of intire Love to fulfill the Lords will and all a righteousnesse and remembring the Law of Moses the b servant of the Lord which the Lord commanded him on the mount * Horeb we gave our selves and all
hath chosen him thereunto from his youth to witness the same Testimonies of the Truth of God And to administer Gods holy and gracious word and to manifest his heavenly works and to declare upon the earth now in these last times under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ Gods Truth and upright being and the acomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 7 Thus in this election by the living God H. N. hath declared on earth to this present day from the n uncovered face of God and of Christ Gods real Truth and the requiring of his upright righteousnesse together with his righteous Judgement and the fulfilling of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 8 Now whether this be believed or not believed however he hath revealed the the same out of Gods true light eternal life in manifest declaration brought it to light in this holy day of the love of God and Christ 9 And the same day of the love of God and of Christ which is come unto us from Gods grace is the newest or last day of which long agoe the Prophets of God and the Evangelists of Iesus Christ have foretold and published and is the day o which God hath appointed or ordained for to judge on the same the whole circuit of the Earth with righâ—eousnesse 10 For on the same day of the Love of God and of Christ p shall all unbelievers and disobedient ones to the gracious Word of the Lord and all evil surmisers towards the Ministers thereof together with all opposers of H. N. and blasphemers of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ be q revealed and r judged and according to their works shall receive their reward 11 Therefore take warning by this declaration of mine all ye people which love the truth of Iesus Christ that you in no wise oppose neither the gracious Word of God nor his chosen servant H. N. because God the Father with his Son Iesus Christ dwelleth and liveth perfectly * in H. N. in the heavenly being and hath anointed him with the holy Spirit of God and of s Iesus Christ and that no man without the fellowship of H. N. or without the obedience of the requiring of his doctrine can be brought or gathered to the true living God nor to his Sonne Iesus Christ nor united with the same good being 12 Behold out of a very hearty love which I have to all your preservations in the godlinesse am I presently in this day of the Love impulsed and forced through the holy Spirit of the love of Iesus Christ to make the same known before all your understandings and to declare unto you how the calling H. N. came to passe by the living God and how he was chosen of the same God to Administration of his holy and and gracious word under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ 13 And also to testifie unto you some mysteries t of the Kingdome of the God of heavens and of the heavenly revelations and workings of God which were revealed and shewed to H. N. by the living God out of his heavenly being even from the youth of H. N. 14 The Lord grant unto you all mercy and his Graee that in the hearing of these Testimonies your hearts may not be offended nor be hardened against the Truth u of the same Testimonies but that yee may hear them humbly receive and accept of them in all thanksgiving to God for his grace be well minded to the holy and gracious word of the Lord and his service of the Love to your preservation in the Godlinesse and may enter into the requiring of the same obediently Amen So be it Take it to heart Certaine wonderfull Workes of God which befel H N. from his youth CHAP. I. IN the eighth year of the age of H. N. in the days of Maximilian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation it fell out on an Evening in a Winter season That the Father of H. N. exhorted his Family and instructing them with many words That they should fear God a and to give praise and thanks unto him for the grace he bestowed on man 2 The same time The Lord opened the mouth of the childe H. N. and touched his lips and tongue and with this the childe spake to his Father and said Instruct me O my Father what is that singular Grace bestowed on us for which we ought to give praise and thanks to God 3 When the child had asked this questiof his Father The Father looked on the child and wondered that the child should aske him so earnestly and answearing the child said to him 4 O my sonne doest thou aske what that especial grace is which God hath bestowed on us and for which we are bound to give praise and thanks to him The same you read daily in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and is set forth unto us dayly in the service of the Masse and often also and abundantly is attested by Preaching how that God the Father by reason of Adams sinne whereby we all became the children b of death and damnation caused his deare Sonne Jesus Christ to suffer the ignominious c death on the Crosse and that thus Jesus Christ hath born the sins of Adam satisfied for the same on the Crosse and delivered us from that sinne into which Adam did fall hath reconciled us to his Father d and hath set up again the sincere righteoness and the true e life of Godliness and so all is found and restored againe that was lost by Adam that same is joyned again f made whole which through Adam was broken and wounded And this is that singular Grace which God bestowed on us to the laud and praise of his great Power 5 Then said the child O my Father I doe read indeed of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and I heare it daily testified in Sermons that God the Father hath bestowed on us his great mercy and that his beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath suffered the ignominious death of the Crosse by reason of sinne g but I finde not according to Truth that the sinne is amended in us nor that the true righteousness h wherein Adam was created and placed is restored in us or set up again 6 Then said the Father Oh my sonne what I have told you about the grace of God shewed to us through Jesus Christ you need not to doubt of it beleeve the same in simpleness of heart and that it all is come to passe as I have told you 7 Then said the child O my Father I make no question of the mercy of God which is come unto us through Jesus Christ and all that which is preached to us of Christ and his satisfaction for the sinne as that he through the death on the Crosse
Lord my God a my heart quaketh before thee for though thy punishment upon my sinnes my bones do shake and great b sadnesse pain and smart fall on me 2 Thus I fear O Lord thy punishment for with the same thoâ— makest known unto me my sinnes and thou lettest me see the evil things which have ensnared me 3 O God wilt thou not deliver me from these evil things so must I continue in misery and must feare thy hand continually 4 But thou O Lord art he which c woundest and healest againe help me as thou usest to doe 5 Let my sighings d out of the bottome of my heart come before thee and turne not thy mercy from me 6 For O Lord I do not e forget thee but wait dayly for thy goodnesse 7 Look f on my misery and leave me not in death nor let me be lost for ever 8 g Take away O Lord the sinne from me and let thy Spirit of life refresh me otherwayes O Lord O Lord of Lords I have no life in me 9 Therefore O Lord of life when thou art my life then I live and my bones must rejoyce 10 When I find mercy in thine eyes then is comforted the inward mind of my soul 11 But O Lord when thou art h a death to me and art angry with me then am I like unto the dead and go i down to hell as the wicked that are damned 12 Out of which k depth now my foul sigheth and calleth O Lord unto thee for in the same I remember with anguish of mind my sinnes past and must bewaile with tears my evil actions 13 For thou O Lord art the strength and l Saviour of men from the sinne he that taketh hold on thee m falleth not into transgressions 14 But the man which relyeth on hâ—s owne strength he falls soonest and then must he confess that thou alone O Lord art the life of his Salvation 15 When thou takest pity on him and raisest him again then he obtaineth mercy and must praise thy goodnesse continually 16 For what is man O Lord without thy grace is he any thing ah no he is nothing of himselfe n 17 Therefore let thy mercy o shine about me and doe not think on my transgressions 18 Therefore my ioy O God is in thee and with thankfullnesse must I praise the grace of thy Love 19 For thou comfortest the low p minded and those which be forsaken thon blotest out their sinnes and takest q away the evil heart of their misdeedes 20 When thou O Lord givest the blessing then is thy consolation present and then with a joyous song of praise is thy holy name praised 21 But in case thou dost hide thy selfe then is the sinne active and when thou doest rise up to punish O Lord who can then r stand before thee 22 Is not a man like unto s the blossome of the field which thy heat causeth to wither and like unto t dust and ashes which the wind doth â—catter here and there 23 Therefore have thou mercy on me O my God and Father and let thy good spirit support me u otherwayes I shall vanish into nothing CHAP. VII Psalme II. 1 O Lord let thine a anger be turned about and punish me not continually in thy displeasure b 2 O Lord c punish me not according to my sinnes but chastise me unto amendment and d teach me also thy Lawes and hide not thy mercy from me 3 Reject me not O Lord nor wholly e forsake me but bring to my knowledge my transgressions 4 And chastise me even so O my God with a f fatherly correction so shall I turne unto thee 5 But if thou totally rejectest me to whom g shall I then goe O God and King of all righteousness for thou alone art my h comfort 6 For vain is the comfort of i maâ— and all the Treasures of the world are O God no joy to me 7 The sinne is an abhomination unto me the worlds joy with the pleasures thereof are all dead unto me 8 If thou Lord k hidest the lovely being of thy countenance from me O Lord what is then my life 9 Therefore O God remember not l alwayes my sins but guide my m feet in the way of life 10 Then shall I praise thy mercy O Lord among the n living and spread thy praise among the upright 11 For I acknowledge my o transgressions and my sinnes are a p heavy burthen unto me 12 O how q heavily was I wearied in the wayes of my errors what cumbersome wayes did I go through 13 Now sinne with its death hath r throughly pierced me the Devil with his bands ruled over me and Hell with its power hath shut me into the stocks to devoure me 14 But thou O Lord that canst deliver from death deliver s me from all mine enemies 15 Helpe me out of my misery and forsake me not in my sorrow CHAP. VIII Psalme III. 1 O Lord Almighty God art thou not he that a killest and makest alive againe 2 Art thou not a God who condemnest and b bringest into hell and from thence bringect again and savest 3 How Long O Lord shall I go on into perdition how long yet shall sinne raigne over me 4 How long shall the c bonds of death hold bound How long shall the power of the Devil and of Hell captive me 5 If thou deliver me O Lordâ— then am I freed but if thou forsakest me then am I desolate and must remain comfortless eternally 6 Therefore O Lord be thou my aid and from the bottomless d mercy of thy love succour me and according to the multiplicity of thy grace blot out mine iniquity 7 For I am filled up with sins and lie in the deep under them and feel no power of comming out e by my self 8 Seeing I am impotent therefore have my enemies bound me and brought guiltiness upon me to condemn me 9 And those which were sometimes my f friends now set their mouthes horribly against me and make a terrible face at me and shew all their hatred towards me 10 I lookt every where up and down for a faithful g friend but there is not one of all my friends as a faithful friend adhered to me but they have all made up themselves in enmity against me and whetted their h teeth at me and sharpned their swords to destroy me 11 O God seeing thou punishest mee now and art against me therefore are all become enemies to me that are round about me and all fall on me there stayeth not one with me to my defence 12 But they all cry i there hee lieth there he lieth he is faln and shall never rise again 13 O Lord reward them according as they have k deserved recompence to me let thy fierce
wrath fall upon them and root out all my enemies totally 14 Destroy and bring them all to shame which imagine evil against my soul and which lie in wait for my life 15 Yea let them be condemned to l hell eternally which profess themselves friendly to me and there under mix their poisonous falshoods therewith to destroy me 16 O Lord my God root out all the m wicked ones for they have spoiled the earth and made it wast that thy Saints may take in the land and inherit the same in truth and righteousness forever 17 O my Father and my God thou n who art my strength and Saviour support me for I lie faln among the midst of the wicked 18 They have bound me with their cords or snares and deal very unmercifully with me 19 Look on my o sorrows how miserable my enemies have made me I loved them all and have declared my love unto them 20 But they have in hate rewarded me with wickedness they have wounded me deadly and they have pierced through all my inward parts with poison 21 They fed me with p wormwood or bitterness when I was in the snares of death and have poured me forth poison and bitter drink for wine when I thirsted after a little refreshment and sought comfort in my soul 22 O Lord heal thou my soul lest I perish and let thy Word of life shine about me then shall my soul recover her health 23 O Father q forsake me not for ever in thy displeasure but let thy mercy be a comfort to my soul 24 When I called thus long and the Lord did not hearken unto mee then I thought in my heart I am as nothing and as one that goeth forsaken or as a lost one 25 O Lord shall thy punishment upon me not cease can there no grace be found for me in thine eyes O thou most high God thou that art full of all mercy 26 Therefore O God chastise me yet to amendment let me know what thy pleasure is and r guide me in thy way which thou wouldest have me to walk 27 Strengthen O Lord my bones and s create in me an upright heart mind 28 Then shall I be able to walk uprightly in thy ways else my undertakings are without strength as nothing CHAP. IX Psalme IV. 1 OH Lord how are my sinnes over-weighty and a how heavy stand before me my transgressions 2 For the anguish of them over-burthen me exceedingly O Lord if thou doest not ease me I must consume to nothing 3 O Lord doest thou delight in the death of sinners doest thou not rather desire that we should b turn and live 4 Thou hast no pleasure in our destruction therefore c arise O God and help me that I may praise thee and may tell among all the Congregations of thy mercy to the honour praise of thy holy name 5 O Lord be gracious unto me and d let the great bounty of thy mercifulness come upon me 6 Forgive me O Lord mine iniquities and guide me in thy righteousness let not O Lord thy wrath devour me 7 But poure forth thy e anger upon the ungodly and destroy them before mine eyes which imagine nothing but mischief against me and their delight is onely to destruction 8 And let thy goodness O Lord assist me prepare my heart according to thy will and have compassion upon any ignorance and weakness 9 My ignorance f and my conversation with the iniquity remember not O Lord forever but deliver thy servant out of their hands 10 For thou O Lord hast made known unto me the wayes of my errours but to come again into the right way the knowledge nor the power is not in me 11 Therefore O Lord make them g all blind and feeble that are against me and give me the sight of thy life the power of thy righteousness 12 Deliver me h out of the hands of the crafty for they have no good in their minds 13 If so be O Lord that I find mercy before thine eyes then is my soul rejoyced 14 Then will I O Lord with thy power rule over all mine enemies and break them to pieces as earthen vessels 15 But now O Lord heal me of my torment and take away all ignorance from my thoughts and i teach thy servant thy Statutes 16 O God by reason of my sius hast thou with chastising humbled me reiect me not now wholly but draw my soul again unto thee 17 Thereby is made known thy great mercy that thou shewest mercy again to those who were k estranged from thee and have sinned against thee 18 For I O Lord have transgressed and turned my back on thee and feared not thy great power nor glory 19 But seeing thou now chastisest me O God for my errours my soul submitteth before thee confessing that I am worthy of death and damnation 20 Therefore O God of life thou who art an errour to the erring and a death l unto the dead for to prepare a conquest of death for the living and to lead the upright out of all errour into thy wayes take me now by thine hand and lead me out from among the wicked who all surround me like so many Bears and fierce m Wolves 21 O Lord make hast before they devour my soul for thy Goodness n endureth for ever CAAP. X. Psalme V. 1 AH why is it thus woful with me what aileth me how hard do my sinnes presse me how am I thus overwhelmed with the wickednesse 2 That which I would not that must I endure and that which I a desire flyeth far from me 3 The evil presseth and tormenteth me the devils power tyrannizeth over me 4 O Lord deliver me from these snares and let thy life be gracious to me and refresh my minde 5 Grant O Lord that my soul be refreshed in thee and be thou my comfort in this desertion 6 For what am I that I should be able to stand b when thou O Lord pourest forth thy wrath upon me 7 Or wilt thou quite destroy me O God of life and no more reveal salvation to me 8 What is then my life if I may commend them for happy which never c lived and that never knew thee nor thy Glory 9 For who O Lord shall praise thee most but he whom thou hast delivered out of great misery and freest him from all vexation of his soul 10 Therefore O Lord be d merciful unto me mercy O Lord mercy through the great abundance of thy mercies deliver me from my torments CHAP. XI Psalme VI 1 O Lord thou which art the God of all the World let thy mercy shine upon me and deliver me out of the pit of death and out of the hellish fire 2 For sadness compasseth a me above measure and the snares of death have environ'd me my sins stand in my sight against b
gracious Word in its doctrine and obediently enter into its requiring and they shall all through the good exercising in my * Ordinances be nourished up unto my upright righteousness and unto my Love and be brought in unto the peace of my Christ 17 And like as I have in former times through my servant Moses r upon the Mount Horeb given to my people good Ordinances and * Exercises which extend and bring in to my Christ and to his belief of the salvation from their sins so will I now at the last time through thee H. N. from the moūt s Sion give to the welaffected ones to my righteousnes good Ordinances and godly Exercises which * extend bring into me to my Love upright righteousness to the peace of my Christ to the renewing of their lives minds and into this my kingdom of Heaven unto the inheriting of all these my spiritual and heavenly treasures and my upright lovely being in the same kingdom and everlasting life as also that I may raign now at this last time everlastingly with my people in the righteousness t over the whole World unto all unity and peace on earth and to a blessing of all the Generations of the earth according to my promises 4 Seeing then I now declare on earth though my Love and through the service and the good exercise thereof the upright righteousness of my Lawes the true faith of my Christ and the upright being of my holy Spirit Therefore it is my will and command that all people on earth shall obey the requiring of my Love and her services likewise the good Ordinances and Exercises thereof and live therein 15 For all those who live and walk obediently in the service and ordinance of my Love the same are truly the right Disciples u of my gracious word and service of Love also my first-born in my Covenant or Testament of the holy Fathers 16 For thus in their obedience the doctrines and services of the Priestly Office of my Love shall be unto them a foregoing testament which bringeth them to my new y true Testament that is to the new life of the mind of God which is full of Love and full of all spiritual heavenly riches ☜ and all they who are led therein shall be to me my second born in the new Covenant of the holy Spirit of my Love in the heavenly being as I have in former times in the accomplishing of my fore-going Testaments and Priestly Offices brought to my people the same new Covenant to the end that all now in this last or newest day z be restored or established under the obedience of my Love which I from the beginning of the World have spoken wrought and required and my word work and will continueth on the earth unchangeably for ever and ever a even as it is in the Heaven and also that for ever and ever through the Ministers and Priests of my Famlly of Love The Disciples of my gracious Word with the Testimonies of my holy Spirit of Love may be b preserved and susteined to the Godly life c taught to the kingdome of Heavens and brought up to Elders in all Godly wisdom and holy understanding 17 And therefore will I here through thee H. N. set * up my most holy Priestly Office of Love will also declare the same over the World through its Ministery under the obedience of my Love to an everlasting d Priestly Office of the holy Spirit of my Christ for renewing of life in my love in them all through my love to them who are implanted into my Christ with his e like death and burial or are fal◠asleep in him 18 In the same Priestly Office will I also under the obedience of my Love be merciful to all penitent sinners also to those who submit themselves to the Family of my Love That they may all now rejoyce themselves in this day of my divine glory appear with my Christ in Glory and shew forth my praise and wonderful great works 19 Furthermore I will declare and make known unto thee and to all them who * humble themselves under my Love and Priestly Office that the same Priestly Office of my Love which I will here presently set up with thee is the eternal fast-standing Kingly Priesthood f of my holy Spirit and the everlasting peaceable g kingdom of my Christ which shall never be destroyed or moved neither shall it fall to any other but shall of it self and by it self remain in my truth everlastinly 20 Whoever resisteth the same Priesthood of my holy Spirit of Love in his office and requiring the same if he do not repent shall procure the judgement of h the curse the eternal i separation from the beholding of my face But my Grace and mercy k shall be alwayes and for ever upon all men who through the same Priestood and its office under the obedience of my Love turn themselves to me and repent them of their sins 21 Again the Word of the Lord came to H. N. and to us the Elders and said Seeing I my self with all that which concerneth my * Godhead and the judgament of my Righteousness have fully united with thee H. N. and with the Elders Thereshall ye also and all they who are born of you and your doctrine shall judg uprightly out of my righteous judgment according to the Truth 22 And all what ye out of the same my judgment curse separate and condemne l shall be accursed separated and into the Hell condemned And all what ye bless or give a benediction unto shall be also blessed in the Heavens 23 Therefore all whatever shall continue in your doctrine shall be m one heart and mind with you in my Godhead but what separateth it self from you and your doctrine shall likewise be separated from me and my Grace find no way to the eternal life but shall die in hisn sin and also be estranged from me everlastingly 24 But all those who through you and your doctrine and turned to me and also are o taught to the kingdom of my heavenly being shall inherit the spiritual and heavenly riches of my kingdom and p thereunto the eternal life 25 At the same time when we thus heard the Word of the Lord and had well understood all his sayings and were assembled with Christ our Saviour to the Majesty of God and were entered into his Glory and also in the presence of the Lord beheld and and inherited the peace q beauties and riches of God all our hearts were fully delighted and made glad And so with joyful hearts we lauded praised the most High in his holy Land of the Living and the four Seraphins gave r all Honour Laud and Praise unto him who liveth therein from Everlasting unto Everlasting 26 After this our Thanksgiving and
hath prepared and obteined for us i the Salvation from the Sinne I believe also firmely That Jesus Christ for to bring us againe in all Godlinesse to God his father k is gone before us in l that death of his Crosse and hath opened to us the way and passage to the Kingdom of God his Father and to the everlasting life And m hath prepared the way for us that we might obtein the same 8 For I understand out of the preaching of Christ That Jesus Christ is preached unto us in his Gospel to such an end that we should beleeve in him n and should obediently o follow him in the same Passeover of his sufferings till unto the fulfilling of our Godlinesse in the same Jesus Christ and then also that we through Jesus Christ should obteine againe the inheritance of our God the upright p righteousnesse together with the spiritual heavenly goods the which as it stands to me in my understanding is the same Grace and Mercy of God which is come unto us through Jesus Christ So I cannot conceive that it is any otherwise brought again or shall be restored which was lost through the fall of Adam or that we have missed by reason of Adams sinne 9 For as I have heard preached in the Church that the Worke of God which he did make in the beginning and also the man q when he created him was perfect between which perfect worke of God there came in a breach or rent through the sinne r whereby the man also is turn'd off from his God and is wholly s estranged from his upright manly estate and from the union with his God 10 Now if all this same shall be restored again then that which was torn and broken must be t joyned together again and the man with all that God hath made and ordained even as it was in the beginning must be set againe in his upright u forme and order which we see now plainly and perceive that the same is not yet come to passe or accomplished in us Therefore it appeareth altogether in my understanding That God for the bringing again of the man into his upright being that the repentance or satisfaction for our sins must have another performance and fulfilling then many men suppose or conceive 11 Then the Father mervailed much at the distinct expressions of the child and said O my son hold they self iu silence lest you dig too deep into the works of God I will relate the matter to our spiritually learned which are our advisers * they shall well instruct thee therein to the belt for I my selfe doe not understand this business nor thou neither as I suppose and besides thou art yet too much young to be able to comprehend such things therefore let us hearken to our Advisers and simply beleeve them herein 12 Then said the child Father it is well let it be so I submit my selfe alwayes to your authority and so in that evening there was no more talke of it 13 But all the night after the Father was much perplexed with the sayings of his young sonne And being of himselfe plaine and simple went the next day to the Minorie-brethren to his Confessor for he thought in his judgement that these brethren of the Minories which were called also the Observators were the most holy and most judicious in the Godly things and able to give good instructions to him and his sonne and intimated to his Confessor confiding in him most the whole businesse of his sonne 14 And his Confessor gave to him this answer That he should bring his sonne to him then he would take to himselfe a good brother and would resolve them of all these matters 15 The Father did according to the direction of his Confessor and at a convenient time he went with his young sonne H. N. to the Minorie-brethren That both of them the Father and the child might heare and understand the right instruction of what the child had spoken and therein might be pacified CHAP. II. NOw when both of these came to the Confessor of the Father of H. N then the Confessor looked on the child which was very young and little and said to the Father Is that the lad thou told'st me of That hath such strange whimses in his head Surely he is to childish yet as to trouble himself with such things as you told me of Thou shouldest of right with a rod chastise him from the same neither to hear nor answer him in his sayings for it is not otherwise then the madness of a child 2 Then said the Child hold there Sir why do you speak forth such words It is true that I am yet young and childish and am still under the Rod and Discipline of my Father and stand under his doctrine and instruction And if my Father at his convenient time doth instruct me And I cannot conceive or comprehend in my apprehension of my Fathers saying should it not be granted or permitted me to aske for the sense and true meaning thereof 3 When the Confessor observed the Lad 's so modestly answeared him he began to be somewhat moved in himself And answered then to the child more discreetly and said yea in truth my sonne it behoveth you indeed to aske what the right understanding is but you are yet much too young and too small of capacity to search into the a deep profound mysteries of the godly things or to fathom them 4 Then said the Child because I am young and of a small understanding in the mysteries of divine matters therefore am I the more inclined for that reason to aske and not to search thereafter out of my owne power but desire to be instructed and taught therein from my youth of my Elders and Teachers 5 Then said the Confessor it is well done my sonue if you keepe there but me thinketh that thou makest a doubt as thy father informeth me of the satisfaction of Christ for the transgression of Adam and for all our sins 6 Then said the childe no Sir thereof I doubt not but my saying is that I do plainly see b That the satisfaction in Christ for our redemption or deliverance from the sinue for which Christ suffered death on the Crosse c and made satisfaction is not performed as yet in us and that we have not followed Christ in his Passeover to his Father and if I pereeive this and find it to be so Is it ill done that I akse whether the satisfaction or the upright fruits of repentance be still owing or how d we shall be delivered from the sinnes and be brought to the upright righteousnesse 7 And when I inquiring after this and likewise have and hope that it be performed in us and that the righteousness in which Adam was created and set into shall be restored unto us and that we also shall be delivered from the fall