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A76955	Of Christs testaments, viz: baptisme and the Supper. Written in two bookes. The 1. of holy Baptisme, how it is to be understood in the ground thereof, and why a Christian should be baptised. The 2. of the holy supper of the Lord Christ, what it is, with the benefit and effects of it, and how the same may be worthily participated of. And how these are to be understood, both according to the Old and New Testament. Set forth from the true theosophicall ground, through the three principles of the divine revelation, and presented to the children of God for the information of their understandings. / Written in the yeare of Christ 1624. by Jacob Behm of Old Seidenberg alias Teutonicus Philosophus. And Englished by John Sparrovv, barrister of the Inner Temple London.; Von Christi Testamenten. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1652 (1652)	Wing B3412; Thomason E665_4; ESTC R14724	100,767	137

Paschal-Lamb Christ in his Testament all which was a Figure of the New Regeneration signifying how the same should be borne through the right Paschal-Lamb Christ 1 Cor. 5.7 and how the same New Birth would Eate the sweet food of the Divine Grace 4. This is a Powerfull Figure of the terrible Fall in Adam and then in the New Birth or Regeneration in Christ for in Adam the first Birth viz the first Angelicall Life was slaine by Gods Anger and by the grace-Grace-Covenant in Christ was the same brought back againe and spoken or inspired into Adam and Eve thus now the Spirit of God signifieth by this figure of Moses in Aegypt how that same inspoken Grace should be fullfilled with heavenly and divine Substance also how Man should be d Smeared or streaked marked and sprinckled by that Mark viz by the bloud of the Lamb of God and how God would give him the substance of his sweet Love for food whereby the Naturall foulish fire-Life should be againe quickened and attaine a Divine Ens in its Lifes-Essence and thereby be transmuted and changed againe into the Angelicall Image 5. Also wee see this Image very cleerly in the Sacrifices of Israel How they must slay and sacrifice Beasts and burne the Fat For when God gave the Law to Moses that Israel should live in full obedience in the Covenant of this Law then he gave him also the figure shewing how this Law should be fullfilled and how Man should be e Released or reconciled attoned from Sinne and the Anger of God as wee may cleerly see this in the * Levit. 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. third Book of Moses in the Eighth Chapter where the Image of the reconciliation or attonement standeth Where it standeth thus Å¿ Sacrifice And Moses caused an Heifer to be brought for a Sinne-Offering and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head there it was slaine and Moses tooke the bloud and with his finger put it round about upon the homes of the Altar and g Clensed it from sinne clensed the Altar and powred out the bloud at the foote of the Altar and sanctified it so that he made an attonement on it And tooke all the fatt upon the Inwards and the Kall upon the Liver and the two Kidneyes with the fatt on them and burned it upon the Altar But the Heifer with his hide flesh and dung he burnt with fire without the Host as the Lord had commanded him And brought a Weather or Ram for a Burnt Sacrifice and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head and it was slaine there And Moses sprinckled the Bloud round about upon the Altar and clave the Ram in pieces and burnt the head the pieces and the Rump and washed the Inwards and the leggs with water and so burnt the whole Ram upon the Altar this was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour a fire to the Lord as the Lord had commanded him Leviticus 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. 6. This is a true figure of the Sacrifice of Christ with our assumed humanity how he hath offered our humanity through the sacrifice of his body to the Anger of God and how God in this sacrifice hath smelt his sweet love in the Humanity of Christ and reconciled his wrath in the fire 7. The Figure of Christ standeth thus * Levit. 8.10.11.12 When Moses should make this sacrifice he tooke first the anointing Oyle and anointed the h Tabernacle dwelling place and all that was therein and sanctified it and sprinckled therewith seaven times upon the Altar and anointed the Altar and all its implements the Laver with its foote so that it was sanctified and powred the anointing Oyle upon Aarons Head and anointed him so that he was sanctified Moses standeth heere in the figure of God and Aaron standeth in the figure of Christ according to our Humanity and the Heifer standeth in the figure of the earthly perished Adam according to his Beastiall property and the Ram standeth in the figure of the true Man created in Adam shewing how the same should be offered up to God againe in the humanity of Christ Moses anointed Aaron that is God anointed our Humanity in Christ with his highest Love viz with the substantiall Wisdome and Divine substance in the Name JESUS 8. And that is it that Moses first anointed the Tabernacle which signifieth the Body of Mary in which GOD became MAN and therefore the Angel called her the Blessed among all women Luk. 1.28 For God first sanctified the Tabernacle and sprinckled with his anointing oyle of Love upon all the seaven properties of the Naturall Life which life in the humanity of Christ the Altar of Moses signified which God anointed when JESUS assumed Mans Life The Laver with its foote signifieth How God hath anointed the humane Hand or desire in the humanity of Christ with which he should doe wonders The anointed Head of Aaron signifieth how the humanity of Christ viz our humane Science should be anointed with the Holy Ghost 9. This God set forth by Moses in the Type for when Moses had anointed Aaron together with the Tabernacle and the sonnes of Aaron and established the whole buisines then he caused a Heifer to be brought for a sinne-offering which Heifer signified the Grosse Earthly Man impressed through Adams Lust On this Heifer must Aaron and his sonnes lay their hands upon his head which signifieth how God in Christ and then the Priests or Pharisees would lay their hands upon our in Christ assumed Mortall humanity and flay that is put to death our humanity according to this Worlds Substance and how his humane Bloud should be sprinckled round about on the Hornes of the Holy Altar with the finger of God viz as with the laying hold of Gods Anger and how God would thus cleanse his Altar in the Humanity upon which Altar viz the humane Life should holy Sacrifices be offered to God againe 10. But that Moses did burne the fatt of the Liver and Kidneys upon the Altar signifieth that our true Adamicall Man out of the Limus of the Earth according to its right Inward Ground should not be cast away or thrust out from God but be kindled in the fire of Gods Anger with the fire of Love and be offered to God As this then was done in the humanity of Christ when he sacrified our humanity to the Anger of God but yet did introduce it with his Love through Death into Life as out of the fire there springeth up a cleere Light as out of the-fire dying a new Life which consisteth in power and Love 11. But that Moses did burne with fire the Heifer with his hide flesh and Dung without the Host and only sprinckled the bloud of the Heifer upon the hornes of the Altar and kindled the fatt it signifieth that the grosse beastiall body of our flesh with skin and bones shall not come upon Gods

else ye shall not ïnherit the Kingdome of God That which is borne of flesh viz of fleshly Imagelikenesse that is flesh and cannot inherite the Kingdome of God but that which is formed and generated spiritually and through the Spirituall Imagination that is Spirit Joh. 3.6 For to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace and to be Fleshly Minded is Death and enmity to God sayth St. Paul Rom. 8.6 7. 16. Into what the Spirit of the Will bringeth it selfe with its Imagination so that it impresseth and comprehendeth it therein also it Imageth it selfe into Beeing or Essence For no Spirit can bring any thing to passe without Beeing or Essence If the Eternall One were not Essentiall all would be nothing and if that ONE had not a Will there would be no Desire nor Power nor Word nor Essence 17. Indeed we acknowledge that the Will of the Abysse hath brought it selfe into a Longing and Imagination of it selfe whence Nature and Creature have their Originall Whence also the Naturall Life hath its Originall which now also out of the Partiblenesse of the Exhaled will hath its owne Will and Imagination to forme and Image it selfe according to its longing and desire As we see such changing in Nature how Nature Imageth it selfe into so many kindes and Properties and how those Imaged Properties doe every one desire their like againe 18. Seeing then we understand in Man that he especially above all other Creatures desireth and longeth after three Properties As first he longeth according to his h Sensible or conceptive apprehensive understanding after the Hidden God and though indeed he seeth him not with bodily eyes yet he desireth him Secondly he longeth after his Astrum or Constellation out of which the Minde and Rationall Life is proceeded therefore the Rationall Life longeth again after its Mother Thirdly he longeth after the Starres or Powers of the Earth and the other Elements and desireth them for his Nourishment and therefore we know also by this hunger of his that he must have his Originall out of these Three For there is also such a threefold Spirit out of such an Originall to be understood in him And then also such a Threefold Essence or Substance wherein his Spirit worketh where every Operation longeth after it● first Mother and receiveth its Nutriment from her 19. But seeing the Soule viz the Inward Ground of Man in Adam the first Man hath with its longing and desire out of its first Mother out of its first Originall viz out of the Divine Word and Will turned out into the Operation of the Constellation and Elements and formed it selfe in that Operation and plowed it selfe into a strange Imagination whereby the Divine food viz the Essentiall Wisdome of God is withdrawen from which with its longing desire it hath broken off it selfe thereupon it is wholly blinde as to God and the first Divine Essence wherein God Created it is departed 20. When the soule brought its Imagination from that Divine Essence or Substance out of and into the Earthly and Astrall property then also its Body wherein the Threefold Spirit worketh became wholly Earthly Grosse and Beastiall for into whatsoever the Imagination of the Spirit bringeth it selfe such a Body also is through the Impression of the Spirituall desire As we see in Man that he hath gotten a Grosse Earthly Body wherein the Principles now stand in Meere Strife Contrariety and Enmity from which Paine i Fragility Corruptibility and Death exist which yet God did forbid him in Paradise while he yet stood therein That he should not Eate of the Knowledge of Evill and Good with the Imagination else he should fall into such Necessity Misery and Death and die to the Kingdome of Heaven as it is also come to passe Gen. 2.17 21. When the Soule brought it selfe into the Earthly Imagination it brought it selfe into the Earthly Image and lost the Heavenly Image whereas it should Image it selfe into the Essentiall Wisdome viz into the Holy Heavenly Essentiall Word and take its Nourishment therestom then it Imaged itselfe in the outward Astrum or Constellation and in the Serpents and Devills desire whereby in its Noble Image it became a Visard and Monster in the sight of God and lost its Angelicall forme which it had as also Paradise and the Kingdome of Heaven and now with its Ground stood in the Impression of Darknesse in the Anger of God and must have ever stood in such Visardly Image If the Great Love of God had not come to helpe it againe and that the Divine Word viz its first Mother its first Originall had not againe Inspired or Spoken the Grace into it so that the same Word would with its most Inward Secresie and Love give it selfe againe into the Ground of the Soule with a New well-spring and fountaine and bring the soule a New Nourishment into its Life whereby its naturall fiery and painfull property becometh changed into the Image of God againe 22. Which great Divine Love would be a Death to the k Adverse Contrary will as also to the Serpents and Devills Poyson and slay the Monstrous Image and false Imagination and bring the first Image againe into a New Life which New Life in this introduced Love should againe cate of the essentiall Wisdome of God and with its desire Image it selfe therein that the true Divine Science may be manifested therein againe and might worke in a Creaturely Life and so bring it selfe l In the midst together into a Creaturely Imagibility 23. To which End also God Created Angells and Men because he would Image his Eternall Knowledge with the Essentiall Wisdome in m Formings Formes in and with which the Eternall Spirit playeth and hath thereby erected a Harmony of Divine fullnesse of joy to the endlesse Solace of such Images viz of the Angells and Men and those who have their rise out of Gods Word and Power 24. And even therefore it is that the Eternall Word of the Divine Exhalation with the Manifestation of so Great Love and Grace which inspired or spake it selfe in againe in Paradise after the Fall is become Man and hath introduced its Essentiall Love viz the Essentiall Wisdome of God againe into Our Heavenly Ens and Substance that was faded as to God and hath made our Substance that was faded as to God living in him with the Introduction of his living Divine Essence and with this Introduced Essentiall Love which gave it selfe in with the Essence of our soules as also into our Flesh and Bloud hath with its will and desire broken the Monstrous will of the soule viz the selfe-sixed Image-like false desire as also the Devills Imagination which he had introduced into Man and hath with his Love brought the false properties into the Temperature againe and is become Death to Death which held us captive so that it must die to its Wrath and n Fragility Corruptibility in this Introduced Love and suffer the Humane

is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne z Text. Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light 5. As a hard Stone is shut up so the Soule was shut up and was out of the good Love-Life a Poyson-Life after that manner as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a horrible poysonous stincking fire source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light The cause is this that they are become Enemies of the Divine Love that the Love is to them a Death of their Evill Will and Essence which would slay their false Life in the twinckling of an Eye if they did but come therein 6. This a Text. Impresseten compressed Substance of the Soule perished as to God and blinde as to God the Great Love of God out of m●●re Grace came againe to help as soone as the Soule together with the Body was thus fallen and spake in or breathed in it selfe againe into the Centre of the Soule viz into the Compressed shut up and vanished Heavenly Ens of the Soule viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which was no more Moveable 7. Into this Soule the Moveable power spake in it selfe againe to be a New Centre and Covenant that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace and in Mans vanished heavenly Ens introduce and Manifest his living Ens viz the Essentiall Word of his Power and Wisdome with the Most high Love viz the Name JESUS out of JEHOVA and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance of the Heavenly part living and growing againe whereof the Soule should Eate and thereby its anxious fire-source would be transmuted and changed into a Love fire 8. This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer that is it now which the Soules of the Holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his promise of the fullfilling that was to come And in this Faith have they sacrificed 9. For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were onely that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of GODS Wrath and how through this inspoken-inspoken-Grace Ground and Covenant the Soule should be transmuted in the fire of b Or Gods Wrath fire Gods Wrath and changed into a Love fire and how it should enter into the Death and Dying of its self-will with the false Imagination and should burne away the false will in the fire of Wrath and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God goe forth through the fire into a cleare light and so become a New-borne childe that is no more Dark but Light and how the Introduced poyson of the Serpent must sever it selfe therefrom as the smoake severeth it selfe from the Fire and Light so that then the Fire and Light becometh a clearer Glance and no more shut up as in the Wood it lyeth shut up in the Essence 10. This Image Type or Figure they set before them with their Sacrifice and introduced their Imagination thereinto with the inspoken Grace of the seede of the Woman and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Imagination might Forme Mould or Image it selfe in the Figure of Christ that so the spirit of their Will might stand in a c Or Imaging Modelling wherein it might worke in the Grace 11. For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire how HEE would change Gods fire of Wrath in the soules-fire into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death where the Love of God gave up it selfe into this fire be changed into an Angell 12. By this Immodeled Image or Type they pierced with their desire and earnest Prayer to God and Gods Word of Grace also thus had modelled and inspoken it selfe in Men and Now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer and so the desire of Man brought this Image of the Imagination into the Sacrifice and so the Sacrifice was kindled with the Holy fire And it was not a Common fire that they had Note If thou Babell couldest understand this it were well for thee and thou wert delivered from the Fables wherein thou runnest on thy Course 13. This Holy fire consumed their Sacrifice through Gods-Imagination and kindling to signifie how the d Or Animall Image Beastiall Image of Man should be preserved in the fire of God and the grossnesse of the Element be consumed and out of the fires Consuming should goe forth the right true created pure bright Spirituall Image in Adam which through this Great Love shall be preserved and brought through into Clarity by the Fire In which New Image the Love it selfe would be the fire of life that it might no more Imagine and Imprint falshood 14. Note With such an Imagination and Beleefe or Faith the first Men before Christs time before he manifested himselfe in this incorporated Grace-Covenant and became Man were apprehended and taken into the Living Word of God viz into that Grace wherein their Soule came into Divine Rest untill at the fullfilling that Christ fullfilled this processe and arose from Death and then Hee also with his Life and Substance in them viz in their Inward Ground of the Heavenly part which vanished in Adam arose and they have put on Christ as to the Soule and spirituall Substance and so now waite for their Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the Third Principle viz the Outspoken formed Substantiall outward Word with its Spirit of the Resurrection at the Last Day As also it is thus to be understood concerning Christians which here have put on Christ 15. Note This Ground of the Holy Fire began with Adam and Abel When Abel and Cain Sacrificed God looked graciously on Abels Sacrifice for the Image or Type of Christ stood with his Imagination of Faith therein therefore God kindled his Sacrifice with the Holy Fire and it was acceptable before him for it was a Conjunction with the Divine Desire But Cains he looked not graciously on for he had not such Faith or Beleese but stood in the perished Natures owne Lust and Desire and had Imprinted or Imaged to himselfe the Kingdome of this World and therefore the Holy Fire would not kindle in his Image or Type 16. For Cain stood in the Image of the perished Adam as a

of the heavenly Manna What signifieth now this Anointing Answer Nothing else but that as Man is Tinctured againe in Soule and Body and so throughly penetrated and healed that he is capable of the Divine Power againe viz of the Divine fire of Love so must his Brimstone Spirit of the Wrathfull fiery Soule perished as to God be remedied againe by the Covenant of God by such an Anointing Oyle As with the Baptisme there is powred into it the Water of the Eternall Life of Divine Meeknesse and in the Supper is powred into it the fire-burning Love in the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ Reason sayth Cannot God forgive Man his sinne without a Medium Answer The Matter was not about forgivenesse The Soule wanted not onely forgivenesse but a New-Birth It had brought it selfe into owne-will and quite broken it selfe off from Gods will whence the Eternall Darknesse existed in it For the source of its Life viz it s own Seperator understand the Cause of its Creaturely Moving and Life had lift up it selfe and the properties of Life were quite gone forth from their Temperature and had brought themselves into a strange burning fire viz into an anguishing heat and cold into Eternall hunger and thirst into Horror and Despaire Where in the Life of the Body and of the Soule all properties were against one another and Man stood in an Eternall dying source Hee was become quite Blinde and Dead as to God and the more he moved himselfe in his owne ability to apprehend God the greater was his anxious source For the poore Soule was by Lust gone into Earthlinesse wherein Satan and the Spirit of Errour had captivated it and made it wholly Monstrous And now the More it sought Rest therein the greater was its Paine And this now is that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death Gen. 2.17 Thus the poore Soule is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne q Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Divine Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light As a hard Stone is shut up so also the Soule was shut up and out of its Good Life there became an Evill Life as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a Horrible poysonous stincking fire-source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light and are an Enemy of all Love and Truth This Compressed blinde Soule-substance and perished as to God the Great Love of God came againe to helpe instantly after that Fall and spake it selfe in againe into the Centre of the Life as a new Covenant viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which Love-source in it was no more Moveable And did set into the Humane perished heavenly Ens his new Grace-Covenant viz the Destroyer of the Serpent that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace introduce thereinto and manifest therein his living Ens viz the Living Word of his Power and Wisdome with the most high Love viz the Name JESUS and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance living and growing againe from whence the Soule should againe Eate of the heavenly Substance whereby its anxious fire-source would againe be changed into a Love fire Of which the dry Rod of Aaron mentioned by Moses which grew againe and bare Almonds was a r Text. Bild Image or Type figure This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer is it now which the Soules of the holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his Promise of the fulfilling that was to Come and in this Faith have they sacrificed For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were only that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of Gods Wrath and how the Soule should through this inspoken Ground of Grace and Covenant in the fire of Gods wrath be changed into a Love-fire how it should Enter into Death and a Dying to its self-will of false Desire how the false will should be burned off from it and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God spring up or goe forth through the fire into a cleere light and so become a new borne childe which is no more dark but light also did live no more in its owne will but in Gods will and how the introduced Serpents-Poyson in this transmutation doth sever it selfe there from in that manner as the smoake severeth it selfe from fire and Light whereas then the fire and Light becometh a cleerer Glance and is no more shut up as it lyeth in the Essence of the Wood shut up Even as the Holy Divine fire of the Soule was through sinne thus also shut up which none could unshut and kindle but only the Love of God in this incorporated Grace-Covenant This Image Type or Figure they set before them with the Sacrifices looking upon the future fulfilling and introduced their Faith with the inspoken Grace of the Womans-seede and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Faith might thus Forme or Mould it selfe in the Figure of Christ that the Spirit of their will might stand in the figure and Image of Christ that their Faith might Work in that incorporated Grace For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire typifying how HEE would change Gods Wrath-fire in the Soule into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death in which the Love of God would Give up it selfe into this Wrath-fire be changed into an Angell By this Immodeled Image or Type with their desire and Earnest prayer they pressed through the Sacrifice to God and Gods Word with the Grace had thus also with the Covenant Modeled it selfe in Men and now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image through the Sacrifice in the Holy fire into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer For God kindled the Sacrifice with the Holy Fire And it was not a Common fire that they had in their Sacrifices though they used wood and Sacrifices thereto yet their fire was not from a stone and a steele but from the highest Tincture of the Paradisicall ground from whence the fire of Life is sprung If Man could understand it and did not so runne on in blindnesse it were well for him and he were delivered from Babell and Fables This holy Fire consumed their Sacrifices