shee hath given Lawes to it so to propagate it selfe further in the received Government 55. Where then this birth is ascended to the Kingly degree and hath so further sought the Abysse that is the one till it is become a Monarchy that is Empire and there it is climing still and would be onely one alone and not many and though it selfe be in many yet the first Source whence all is generated will rule over all and will be one onely Lord over all Governments 56. And being the same Seeking was one onely Government in the beginning and yet in processe of time hath severed it selfe into many according to the Effences therefore the Multiplicity seekes againe the unity and it is certainly borne in the sixt number of the Crown that is in the fixt thousandt yeare in the figure not at the end 57. But in the houre of the day in which the Creation of the Wonders were finished that is when the Wonders of the Turba are at the End A Lord is borne who shall Governe the whole World yet by many Offices 58. And there the Magistracy that is growne up of it selfe and the Oppressour shall be sought after for the smallest which hath lien under is also run to the limit and even then all things sever themselves for they be at the limit and there can be no stay or calling backe 59. Also the Turba being the wrath is sought by every creature for the same is also with the loathing of the Creature run to the limit and is now manifest namely at the limit in the midst of the number of the Crowne in the sixt thousandt yeare a little above and not under in the day and houre when the Creation was finished in the Mystery and in the Mystery was set as a looking-glasse of Eternitie in the Wonders 60. That is on the sixt day past noon even there the Mystery with the Wonders stand open and it is seene and knowne where then the Purity shall drive out the Turba a Time till the beginning passe into the end and then the Mystery is a Wonder in Figures c. In his consideration upon the Booke of Isaias Steefel he Prophecieth concerning Babel and Zion Pag. 47. thus 104. THat the Author mentioneth that this carnall Babel shall fall and a Fountaine arise in Zion out of the true Jerusalem is truly so and the time is already come about that that break in pieces that is growne up of and to it selfe without divine Order for it hath attained its age and limit the beginning hath found the end the middle shall be manifest against which no fighting or defending availeth but seeing the childe of sin and perdition doth so rage against it it must therefore ruine its own selfe in its rage 105. But if it would enter into the beginning it should then remaine and its Wonder would onely appeare but being it is growne up in pride covetousnesse envy and in all manner of iniquitie and cunning mischiefe for what use shall this evill Beast be it is not fit for the Sacrifice of God also it will not be converted that it might get an humane heart 106. Therefore the Lord doth proclaime that his children must goe out from it for the Lord will terribly shake the earth and overthrow Babel and a Fountaine shall flow out of Zion to refresh the thirsty soule for the miserable shall be refreshed and eat in his own Pasture 107. The Oppressour shall be destroyed yet thou shalt rejoyce a little while for thou art naught from thy youth and onely seekest the Limit in the Wonder as thy beginning was so shall also thy end be he that is blinde will not see this but sleepe till the day dawne 108. Christ said Doest thou thinke that when the Son of Man shall come that he shall finde faith upon the Earth Therefore the time of the end is an evill dreggy Setling and it will not be meet Zion save onely in the sanctified children of Christ for the beginning and the end be just like one another 109. The wonders were in the beginning manifest with the high Tongue and the Signature was h Or highly perfectly knowne This cometh againe at the end but we understand also thereby a good and an evill time when the gates of all the Three Principles shall stand open as wee likewise see this in the beginning by Cain and Abel therefore let every one have a care what he speake teach and write for all things shall be proved by the Highest Tongue 110. But when we speake of the Temple of Christ and of the fountaine flowing out of Zion we doe not meane a place in one Countrey onely for the Temple of Christ is every where wee understand among all tongues and languages Albeit in one place the tongues shall be brought to an higher degree then in another all according to the property of the people according as the Spirit is in man 111. For the Temple of Christ is within us wee must heare Christ teach in us if Christ teach not in us then is all outward i The fine hypocrisie of the mouth lip-labour to no purpose and spoken into the aire 112. Therefore let no man thinke that it will so come to passe that men shall come and perforce teach and drive in the Holy Spirit into men No it is said To day when you heare the voice of the Lord harden not your hearts and eares waite for no other time for this is the time of your visitation 113. Incline your eares and hearts to the Temple of Christ in you cast away your abominations and false will from you and bring your will with earnestnesse through Christ unto the Father and purpose never to enter any more into the iniquity viz. into pride covetousâ—esse envy anger and falshood regard not the highnesse of this world and humble your selves under the hand of the Lord and in love towards the needy c. 129. Loving brethren doe not jest at it and hold it for a fiction it is known in the Sacred Ternary in the pure fountaine out of Zion Let no man waite for a golden time when the holy Spirit shall presse or breath it selfe perforce into the beastiall will of the hardened and obstinate that will onely live in the lust of the flesh O no this cometh not to passe 130. He that will heare the Holy Spirit teach from the mouth of another he must before bring his will into the Holy Spirit even then the Holy Spirit teacheth to him inwardly from the mouth of another This we see on the day of Pentecost in those that heard St. Peter those whose will was bent inward and desired the Kingdome of God in them the Spirit of Christ preached from Peters mouth but those whose spirit was bent into this world the spirit passed over who said the men are drunke that they so speake 131. The time is already that Enoch teacheth and Noah proclaimeth the Deluge there
in Ezekiel and the whole Revelation of John belong unto this figure also the Temple of Jerusalem 12. Set before thee the figure of the Ark with its three Stories with its height length and breadth and place it in the three Principles and in the three Principles open the Mysteries of the Hierarchies of Christ according to the three differences of Heaven which yet are but one yet in three properties as fire light and aire are three and yet but one Place in these differences the three Sonnes of Noah and proceed out of their properties into the world in their Monarchy which continue to the end of dayes also set before thee the formed Word according to all the three Principles and so you will finde the ground of all Especially set before thee Moses Eâ—â—as and Christ in their Appearance and Transfiguration in the Mount The Ark of Noah was the first type of all these and the Hierarchy of Christ is the fulfilling of that figure of the Ark at the End of dayes Enough to Ours c. 33. And Moses saith When the waters were abated the Arke rested upon the Mountaine Ararath this Name Arararat doth plainly hint unto us in the language of Nature a Mount or the Compacting of an Essence out of the Centre of Nature out of the Wrathfulnesse when as the Anger of God had allayed it selfe then the Ark stood upon the allayed anger but the last syllable in this word Arararat doth signifie that the Wrath of the Eternall Nature proceeding from the Centre betook it self into an acting government would from thenceforth ride through Nature as a Warriour and mightily exercise its Power in the humane property whereby they would begin warres and advance themselves in pride pomp and power and slay one another and contend about this Mountaine of the wrathfull might or austere authority 34. This Mountaine Ararat denotes the houses of the Potentates upon the Earth viz. the great Castles Bulwarkes and Mountaines of the Power and Strength of the rich and also the Nobility sprung up from the Mystery of the great world upon which Kingdome the Ark of Noah hath set it selfe and above this Mountaine of warlike Power or force of Armes arisen from the Anger of God the Covenant with Noah hath set it selfe to be an Eternall Lord I mean the Kingdome of Christ which shall take away this Mountaines Kingdome and quite suppresse it and it sheweth us truly fundamentally and properly that this Power upon the Earth would take upon it in its own power the Ark of Noah viz. the divine Covenant and carry it yea put it on as a garment and proudly perk up it selfe therein as if it had the Kingdome of Christ in its own power 35. And also it shews how this Mountaine of the wrathfull Anger of God in the humane property would beautifie trim up and adorne it selfe with the Ark of Noah and would proclaime it to be the holy Ark of Christ and yet its foundation would be onely upon the wrathfull Anger of God and continue onely an Antichristian Kingdome that indeed should carry the Ark viz. the Name of divine holinesse in the mouth but the heart would be this Mountaine onely a vessell and a confused masse of Gods wrath and yet would make devout shews and proudly perk up it selfe with the Arke but the heart would onely minde and hunt after the Strong Holds the preferment power and riches of the World 36. Furthermore it denotes that the potent and mighty of the World would build the Ark viz. the Service and Worship of God upon their Heart and Reason with great Stone-Houses and Churches and these Houses thus built up of Stone should be their God whom they would serve in the Ark and they would wage warre for the Houses of Stone of their own contriving and framing and would contend about the figure of the true Ark and not confider that the Ark stands upon their Mountaine and that God hath placed it above them and that they ought to walke under Gods Dominion in humility and suffer the Ark to stand upon them and not to usurpe to themselves or take away the power and authority of the holy Ghost and binde him unto their feigned power in their hypocriticall forme and bid him be silent as they doe in that they cry with full mouth here is an assembly of Divines here is the Church of Christ this you must beleeve and doe this is the Law and Ordinance of the Church No the Ark stands upon them they are under as the Mount Ararat under the Ark Christ is the Ark and not the contrived Heapes of Stone the Concilium is under the Ark Christ and not above for the Arke of Noah placed it selfe above the Mountaine to signifie that the Mountaine must beare the Ark we must beare the Ark of Christ upon us and have the Temple of this Ark in us 37. Furthermore it denotes how the figure of this Ark viz. the * Or Ecclesiasticall Clergicall spirituall Kingdome upon the earth would place it selfe upon the Mountaine of Power and Lordlinesse and would rule with the Mountaine in the Ark and take upon it selfe the worldly Kingdome and authority and bring the Mountaine viz. the power or Secular Arme above the Ark whereas the Ark ought to stand upon the Mountaine and Noah with the Covenant to remaine in the Ark till the Lord bid him come forth that is till Christ deliver the Ark to the Father 38. And Moses saith further After fourteene dayes when the Arke rested Noah sent forth a Raven to see whether the water was abated but the Raven flew too and fro till the waters were dryed up from off the earth The Raven denotes the earthly man and shews how he would first put forth himselfe upon the Mount Ararat that is in selfenesse and fleshly lust and build up his Kingdome in the Second Monarchy or world 39. And albeit he truely came forth out of the Ark yet he would onely fly too and againe in the Kingdome of his selfe and not enter againe into the Ark whence he had his rise in Adam and would onely be a covetous Muckworme and a greedy devourer of fleshly temporall pleasure in his own will and remaine as the Raven and not returne to the Arke desiring to enter into it but minde onely to possesse the Kingdome of this world in glory also it betokens that the generation of this Raven would have the chiefe place preheminence and Government in the Second Monarchy like the Devill in the Wrath of God as Histories witnesse that it so came to passe 40. Afterward Noah sent forth a Dove from him to see whether the waters were abated from off the face of the earth but when the Dove found no rest for the sole of her foot shee returned againe unto him unto the Ark And he put forth his hand and tooke her to him into the Arke This denotes the figure of Gods children who soone after
contentious disputing Babel of the light of the Gospel and art now the well-fatted Sodom 9. And know for certaine that the Lord for a farewell hath now sent thee two Angells one hath the Truth in him and bids Loth with his daughters to goe out from Sodom and the other hath the Severe judgement and hath now at last sifted thee and turned thy inward Signature outward and set it before the Lord and thy Murtherous * Thy Cain-like crying for ruine upon others The pregnant brand of hypocriticall Cain or the seeming holy Antichrist in Babel Cry is come up before the Most High and it is exceeding great He hath sent his Angel to destroy thee and to overturne the Cities 10. Thy Signature wherewith thou art outwardly marked is the great covetousnesse and envie together with thy evill ammunition-money and thy great Wrathfullnesse of thy Oppression of the poore and miserable in that thy covetousnesse hath scrued it selfe aloft desiring to devoure all into it selfe whence thy great enhancement of all mens * Whence the scarcity and deernesse of Commodities doe arise Also the neglect of the poore and miserable desperately forlorn in body and soule a crying sinne Necessaries is risen 11. But thou saist now it is good and prosperous the Sunne is risen upon me and shineth on my purse so that I can fill it as I please it is a good and fine time for me it shall now be good I shall surely enjoy it and arise in high authority and be respected 12. But heare now what at present the sound of the Trumpet declareth it saith Goe out from Sodom the Anger of the Lord is enkindled the Sunne is risen in Love and Anger this wee will not hide from you the Angel of truth hath now already taken Loths daughters together with the father and his wife by the hand and bids them goe out it is time this thou shalt soon see by wofull experience 13. For the Angel of Anger hath also taken thee into judgement and therefore thou art so wrathfull covetous murtherous and wicked doe but behold thy selfe whether we speake Truth thou gettest to thy selfe much to spend in thy Signature yet thou haste a store-house or provision in the Abysse he that can see let him see in whom there is but the least inckling of the Trumpets sound let him goe out of Sodom there is no longer any tarrying c. Mysterium Magnum Chap. 43. 67. BY this Figure this present world may behold it self for as certaine and as true the Preaching of Loth was true and the punishment followed thereupon so certainly shall the punishment also of the sixt Seales-time which seale is even now at hand and hath already opened it selfe suddenly follow 68. But that the warning hereof came so long agoe declareth and sheweth that the time of the sixt Seale in its Manifestation is the most wonderfull of all the six Seales till the Seventh Seale which is yet more wonderfull for it is the end of this world and the last judgement 70. The hardned * Ensnared or apprehended surprized crew is already judged for the sifting sword hath apprehended them they run as people raving as enraged and out of their wits in pride covetousnesse and envy and contemne what the Angels Trumpet soundeth 71. This is the cry which the Angels Trumpet soundeth Goe out from Babel goe out from Babel goe out from Babel shee stands apprehended and captivated in the Flaming sword Amen Mysterium Magnum Chap. 45. 12. TO thee O! Germany it is now shewn and also to those Nations from whom thou art borne with the Name of Christ that thou hast for a long time walked under the Mantle of Christ with an heathenish heart and boasted of the adoption but onely lived in the iniquity of the flesh that thy judgement is at hand 13. For the Angel of the judgement calleth aloud in the sound of the Trumpet to the residue of Abrahams children in Christ goe out from Sodom Abraham in Christ is departed from you yee have no more of Christ than an empty breath and a disputing verball lip-labour a mockery whereby one brother doth contemne scorne and mocke another for Christs knowledge sake and onely killeth Christ in his members The Citie Jerusalem and Babylon wherein thou hast gloried and proudly perked up thy selfe in thy devout hypocrisie shall goe to ruine Amen 14. Lo a Starre shineth from the East and North which shall blindfold thee and breake downe thy walled Towers and strong Holds in Jerusalem and Babylon for thou art called no more Jerusalem but Babel and the children which fit in the shadow of the night and which lie imprisoned in Babel shall be delivered and come forth and enter into the Citie of God which he hath set open to all Nations and Tongues of the Earth that his glory may be knowne a light for all Nations or People 313. The Conclusion to the second Apologie to Baltasar Tilken vers 313. I Entreat you all that reade and heare this not to shut up or harden your hearts looke upon the Time and consider it seriously doe but behold in what Time we and our Fathers have lived namely in meere brawling contention and strife What is the world viz. Man bettered and amended by contention by the letter-learned disputations and controversies about God Christ and the way of Worship Nothing at all it is become more prophane lewd disdainfull and scornfull 314. He is growne onely worse and worse in his life with the Manifestation of the Gospel and by reason of the contentions and different opinions of men one brother hath despised persecuted and hated another what fruits have you now of the Gospel which you should have or manifest Must not the exceeding precious Name of God be a cloake for the cunning mischiefe of men 315. Be not the Moderne Titular Christians so also Turkes Jewes and Heathens all alike in life and conversation What doth the Name of Christ availe you when as you live as Heathens Thinke yee that it is enough that you know that Christ dyed for sinne that you need onely flatter and comfort your selves with Christs death and hugge and embrace the false Man that is onely proud and a contender 316. Cannot yee learne what will suddenly follow hereupon viz. this that being you are all alike in life and will you shall also be accounted alike before God And seeing that men doe seeke onely contentions wrangling disputes and fightings it must come to such a confusion in the Controversie that one People devoure another 317. For God withdraweth his hand from the Nations seeing that they will not suffer his Spirit to reprove them and the Anger hath taken hold of its sword and desire and driveth mightily in the minds of men that one People doe destroy ruine and devoure another What our Fathers have brewed with revilings and scoffings that shall their children drinke out with swords and fightings 318. This God doth therefore