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A28533	Several treatises of Jacob Behme not printed in English before ... : to which are annexed the exposition of the table of the three principles : also an epistle of the knowledge of God, and of all things, and of the true and false light : with a table of the revelation of the divine secret mystery / Englished by John Sparrow.; Selections. English. 1661	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3418; ESTC R21811	234,994	342

Jerusalem viz the City or Habitation of God Wherein thy Sabbath becometh sanctified I give up my self wholly altogether into thy Sabbath only deliver me I pray thee from Evill AMEN The * The 4. according to Luthers Catechisme otherwise the 5. Commande Fourth Commandement Thou shalt Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thou mayst live Long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee 224. O Eternall God! by our Bodily Parents thou settest before us an Image of our Eternall Father and of our Eternall Mother 225. For THOU art our FATHER from whom we have received our Life and thy WORD is our MOTHER who hath generated us out of thy Creation and formed us according to the expresse Image of thy Manifestation or Revelation 226. Our Soul and Mind O God and Father is thy Expresse Reflex Image And our Body is an Expresse reflex Image of thy out-flown Word Which Word is our Eternall Mother In whose Body we are given Suck and are nourished Whom we should honour and humble our selves before HER and be obedient to her 227. As we should honour our outward Corporeall Parents so also our Eternall out of whose Mouth we are sprung forth 228. O Eternall Father we are become disobedient unto thee and have given our selves up to a strange Mother into her Tuition we have taken the World to be Our Mother and are become unfaithfull to the inward Mother of thy Power in thy Word 229. And now we must suck into us the Poyson and Death from the strange Mothers Breasts yea she beareth us now in her Body or Womb of Contrariety and Generateth and Consumeth us again in thy fierce Wrath and nourisheth us the time of this whole outward Life in meer Cumbersome Care Misery tedious Weariness and Necessity in Suffering and Calamity and holdeth us captive so that we cannot see our first Eternall Mother 230. Our Soul lamenteth after her but thy Anger holdeth us captive in it self so that we must serve and minister to the strange Mother 231. O God! How long wilt thou forget us in our Misery Take us again I pray thee to be thy Children and generate us again in our Eternall Mother anew and give us an Obedient Will that we Eternally never more depart from thee Give us also an Obedient Heart towards our Bodily Parents that we may love and honour them as THY Ordinance seeing through them thou Generatest and daily bringest us up to this World Therefore help us we pray thee that we may be obedient to thy Commandement O Dear God! Thou hast of thy Grace given us a New Mother viz thy Most holy Word in thy Love and sent it into our Humanity to generate us again in thy Eternall Power to be thy Children and Heires and pourest into us again the * Divine Meekness MILK of thy holy Substance thy Love Draw us I pray thee to it and open in us the right Mouth of Faith that we may continually hunger and thirst after it and be renewed in its Power For the Old Body from the Earthly Mother availeth not before THEE it cannot possess thy Kingdome for that which is born of flesh and Bloud or of the Will of Man cannot attain the filiation but that only which is generated of or out of GOD. Therefore I pray thee O Eternall Father generate ME a New I pray thee through the New Mother of thy Grace and Mercy in JESUS CHRIST and let me grow and increase in HIM to a living and holy fruit in thy Kingdome that I together with thy Holy Angel may be Eternally obedient to THEE and Eternally rejoyce my self in THEE AMEN At the End of the High-dutch Copie is noted these Books following of the Authour that were not finished FIrst This Prayer-Book Secondly The Aurora Thirdly The Treatise of divine Manifestation or Revelation what God Nature and Creature also Heaven Hell and the World together with all Creatures are Deduced through the whole Process and Course of the World to the End and in the Eternity and set down in 177. Questions Fourthly The Most highly pretious Gates of Divine Vision What the Mysterium Magnum is And how all is from through and in God How he is so neer to all things and filleth all in all These the Authour of pious Memory finished not but in the 24. Sunday after Trinity 1624. daparted from this vain World Speaking these his last words Nun fahre Ich hin in s Paradis Now goe I hence into Paradise Lyeth buried at Gerlitz in the Church-yard and upon the Grave was set a wooden Crosse with a Mystical Threefold Figure of an Eagle a Lyon and a Lamb The Superscription upon the Monument was this V. H. I. L. I. C. I. U. Vnsor Heil Im. Leben Jesu Christi In. Vns Our Salvation is In. the Life of Jesus Christ In. Vs. Born of GOD. Dead in JHSUH Sealed with the HOLY-SPIRIT Resteth here Jacob Behme of Old Scidenburg A ✚ O. 1624. 18. November About the 6th hour in the Morning Sunday in the 50. year of his Age blessedly departed The Translatour into the Nether-dutch hath this Postscript ANno 1641. 1. Julij that Translation was finished out of two written and different Copies Vnder one of the Copies is noted by Herre Abraham van Francken-bergh as followeth The Authour Jacob Behme of Gerlitz could not bring this little Prayer-book to an End But dyed Anno 1624. buried Gerlitz c. as before Vnder the other Copie is noted by Herre Heynricus Prunius as followeth This I have written off from the Authours own blessed Manuscript who is now in Blisse He proceeded no further he would have gone through the Six Dayes of the Week and made the beginning on Munday as here is to be seen and would have concluded it on the Seventh that is on the Sunday in the true Paradisical Sabbath The Prayers from the Holy Ten Commandements are the beginning of Tuesday he would have Expounded the whole Decalogue Apostles Creed And Our Father in such a Manner by way of Confession and Prayer But he was continually hindered as also of writing other Excellent Treatises Being by the Earnest-entreaty of several Friends that Loved God put upon the writing sometime of one sometime of another Work He also Entended with the permission of the divine Help to make an Exposition upon All the Epistles and Gospels through the whole Year but hath begun nothing of it because his time was Interrupted and Cut off A Brief Table of the Contents 1. THe true Ground of the right Skill of Prayer Very Edifyingly teaching to understand what Praying is and how Men should pray verse 1. to 32. 2. An Introduction to right Praying verse 33. to 46. 3. A Prayer and right acting Repentance before Gods Face verse 47. to 64. 4. A Thanksgiving and Prayer when a Man feeleth the divine Power and Vertue in himself verse 65. to 72. 5. A Prayer to the Fire-burning Love of God Shewing how rightly to pray for it

viz as to one part to the Commandement with their Will directed into Gods Will as the first Patriarchs and all the honest good People of Israell 96. The other acted with their Hands the Works of the Law and clave with their Will to their poysonous Magia viz to Covetousness and sought nothing Else but the Numbers of the Multiplicity 97. Their Mouth was a Jew and the Heart a Babylonish Whore an Hypocrite and Antichrist with good words and a false covetous Heart 98. And thus in Christendome and with all People and Nations is the Babylonish Whore together with Antichrist sitting and there in one only People two Kingdomes dwell at once and they let themselves not mix in the inward Spirit so that they become one * Dan. 2.43 as Lime and Iron mingle not 99. They doe indeed mingle themselves according to the outward Body But their Spirits are of two sorts of Tribes or Generations as the Prophet Daniel saith Daniel 2. from 40. to the 45. verse 100. Therefore whosoever will know the Antichrist let them seek him only thus they will find him in every House but the worst of all is the Crowned Whore and her God-mothers who elevate her out of the Baptisme of Whoredome that they also may live in Number of the Multiplicity viz the Cryers who lead from the one Will of God into Many Wills that they alone may inherit the Number of the Multiplicity and may stuffe of fatten Earthly Bellies 101. And the other part belonging to the Free-Will of God goeth forth with the Magick Will hereof out of it self into the Liberty viz into the one only incomprehensible Will of God and it standeth * In the Philosophick Globe in the 40. Questions of the Soul turned Backward in the Magick Figure 102. The Life thereof seeketh Bread and goeth forward and its Will is not in the Bread but goeth out of it self out of the seeking into God into one only Number these are the right Children of the Eternall M●gia 103. For Gods Spirit dwelleth in their Will and openeth to them the Eternall Wonders of God and their Lifes Spirit openeth the Wonders of this World and they are free from Babell and the Antichrist though indeed they should sit in the Bosome thereof for the right true Image of God standeth in the Spirit of the willing which becometh generated out of the Spirit of the Soul The Ninth Text. 104. WHereas then there are thus two Magia's in one another so there are also two Magi which manage and drive them viz two Spirits the one is Gods Spirit and the other the Spirit of Reason into which the Devill insinuates himself and in the Spirit of God the Love of the Unity stirreth it self 105. † Note And Man cannot better try and prove himself then by taking serious Consideration To what his Desire and Lust or Longing driveth him The same he hath for a Conductor and its Child he is 106. Neverthelesse he hath Now Might and Strength that he can break and alter that Will for he is Magicall and hath the Might or Ability Yet it must be Sincere or Earnest for he must Tame or subdue the Starry Spirit which ruleth in him Note Note 107. To this belongeth a Temperate sober and quiet Life with continuall giving up into the Will of God for the taming or subduing of the Source or Quality of the Starres there is no Wisdome nor Art needfull but Sobriety or Temperance of Life with continuall going out from the Influxes or * Instigations of Evill in Lusts and Passions Instigations the Elements continually dart into him the seeking of the Starres into the Will 108. Therefore it is not so easie a thing to become a Child of God to that belongeth great Labour and Toyle 109. And yet the Antichrist dares call himself a Child of God but Christ saith * Math. 7.21 22 23. They shall not all come into the Kingdome of Heaven that say LORD LORD and have not we Cast out Devils in thy Name and done great works but he faith to them away from me ye stinking Goats I know you not you have done this out of the false or wicked Magia and are not become known in my Spirit and Will 110. Ye are in your Spirituall Figure Goats Tyrants Covetous Proud Stately Voluptuous ye have brought my Name on to your Tongue but have sacrificed your Heart to the Pleasures and Voluptuousnesse of the Flesh and are generated in the Turba ye must be tryed through the Fire and so Each Kingdome getteth home its Fruit. 111. Therefore ye brave World behold your self in these Writings which have set before you the Eternall Ground and Consider further and deeper concerning it else you will become captivated in your Turba and there you shall with your Substance goe through the Fire of God and whatsoever is † 1 Cor. 3.13 14 15. a work without the Will of God that shall remain in the Fire but whatsoever is generated in the Will of God that shall stand to Gods Glory and deeds of Wonder and to the Eternall Joy of the Image of Man 112. Now Consider what thou doest For Babell standeth already in the Flames and beginneth to Burn there is no Quenching or Extinguishing More nor no Remedy or Medicine she is become known to be Evill her Kingdome goeth to the End Hal-le-lu-jah The 8 of May. 1620. The Translation into the Nether-dutch was the second time made 1642. in July out of Three written High-dutch Copies Out of which Nether-dutch this was translated into English Saturday 6. of February 1657 8. Old Stile And compared with a High-dutch Copie The Holy Week Or A PRAYER-BOOK In which is mentioned the true Ground of Right Praying Set forth upon the entreaties and desires of his loving and good Friends for the daily Exercise of True Christianity in their Hearts and Little Church of their Families In the Year 1624. left unfinished By Jacob Behme Teutonicus Philosophus Englished by JOHN SPARROW London Printed by M. S. for Lodowick Lloyd and are to be sold at the Castle in Cornhill 1661. The brief Contents of this Prayer-Book for Every Day in the Week HOw Man should continually consider and call to mind his Employment Office or Duty his State Condition and Conversation wherein God hath set and ordained him and how he should Commit and Commend his Beginning Middle and End of all his Doings to God and Continually work all his Works with and IN God just as the Stock of the Tree generateth its Branches with and IN the power of the Root and bringeth forth its Fruit upon them And how in all his Beginnings he should draw Power and Vertue to his Works out of Gods Fountain or Well-spring and thank his Creatour for all Benefits Together with a hearty Consideration of the Suffering Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ shewing how Man should continually bring his Soules hunger and desire through Christs Death in his Resurrection into