such as have received Ordination and are therefore called Divines Preachers Spirituality sitteth aloft upon the Dragon finely and stately trimmed and adorned with a Crowne 62. And there you may behold your selfe you faire Bride upon the Dragon doe but see what you ride upon is that Christs Asse in lowlinesse or is it the Devill from the Abysse your own authority and the eliming up of your Tyrannicall Power which you your selfe have erected is your Beast in that you have set up a wicked compulsion forcing and oppressing of poore people and have lived onely in Pompe State and Pride your spirituall Heart is the beautifull glistring Bride upon the Beast 63. Behold I must tell it you behold your selfe you dainty Bride full of abominations and desolations since you account your selfe so faire behold what have you built Great glistering Houses of Stone into which you enter and there practice whoredome hypocrisie and dissimulation you give God fine words and your heart hangeth to the Dragon you devoure the fat of the Earth and your Hypocrites must fall downe before your Beast and Dragon viz. your tyrannicall Power and worship you or else your Dragon will devoure them whatsoever you a Ordaine Preach Teach or Direct set up must be accounted Divine 64. O how finely are you deciphered doe but behold your selfe it is high time doe you not see how the Angel throweth you together with the Dragon into the Abysse into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone or doe you not know your selfe yet 65. Doe you not know that we must be borne of God in Christ and live in the conversation of Jesus Christ Doe you not know that the Word is become Man Wee must be new-borne in Christ that so the soule may be a Member of Christ wee must all be generated put of one body which is Christ or else wee cannot behold the seaven Candlesticks or Lights of God in us 66. To what purpose doe you so much play the Hypocrites with your seeming holinesse why doe you usurp b Jus Divinum Divine power in your seeming holinesse you have it not you have nothing else but the power of the Dragon your Antichristian Idol if you desire to have b Jus Divinum Divine Power you must be in the life of Christ in God and so you receive Divine Power to worke in those who lift up their heart to Christ in God there you have the Keys of the Kingdome of Heaven in the Angelicall world 67. Your Lawes Councells Decrees Cannons and your singular Articles or Opinions are but meere deceit the Spirit of Christ in God will not be bound to any Lawes Whatsoever you teach concerning your own Power in Heaven which you appropriate and usurpe to your selves without the New Birth in Christ is all false and lyes and the power thereof belongeth to the Dragon or your own power consisteth in the Tyranny of Rulers 68. None have any Power in God except he be borne of God in Christ Jesus and such a one can open the seaven seales to the inclined heart which inclineth it selfe to God in Christ Jesus by his voyce and word which soundeth from God and can sound the Trumpet into the desiring Minde 69. Therefore behold your selfe in the Revelation in that Representation or Image of your riding upon the Dragon How bravely ride you on Earth as the Dragon the old Devill doth in the seaven Seales which would alwayes ride over the heart of God in the might of the Fire and yet remaineth sealed up in the seaven Seales hi the dark Abysse of the Eternity in the originall of Nature in the wrathfull Matrix and so you ride also 70. And though the seales in the soule of Man are broken in the Death of Christ yet the Anger of God with the Spirit of this world hath sealed you up and driveth you on that it may accomplish all its wonders in you 71. Behold you proud Whore upon the Beast what have you sought after since the Times of the Apostles who walked in the life of Christ and not according to the lust of the fierce Spirit in the originall of Nature as you doe behold your brave Kingdome that you have erected in the world in which you goe about to compell men to turne away from God and to reverence and c Or prayed to worship your Lawes 72. Christ c Or prayed to worshipped his Father his soule pressed in verbum Domini into the Word of the Lord in the seaven Golden Candlesticks which are the burning Love-Spirit of the Heart of God in the Father in the still Eternity there in the source of the Father Christ wrought great d Miracles Wonders for he opened the seales of the hidden Mystery and did drive the uncleane Spirits out of the wrathfull source of the soules and sounded with his Word in the Centre of the poore captive soules so that they stirred all Seales and in the life of Christ pressed in to God and there the Devill could not dwell for he is a Spirit of Darknesse and wee will hereafter shew him to be 73. But you take and usurp the Kingdome and power of Christ with faire hypocrisie and deceit where are your Wonders while you make Divine Lawes onely for your worldly honour and deceit onely that you might rule over silver and gold and the soules of Men 74. O you Babylonish Whore you are shee of whom the Prophets have spoken who have prophesied in the hidden seales of the Wonders which were hidden in the Eternall Nature in you the Wonders are brought to Light But you spoile the Tree of Life therefore you must goe into the Lake which burneth with Brimstone and therefore the Spirit saith in Revelation Goe out of her my People that you be not partakers of her source plagues or Torment 75. Now since you are growne forth of your selfe in the fierce Might of the Anger of God and are a devourer and have e Or used set up the Wonders of God in pride for the honour of your Beast therefore the seales in you are f Or hidden to you sealed up till the time that the Anger hath shewne its Might upon you and that you devoure your selfe 76. For you have despised the Angels sounding of the Trumpet and persecuted those that were sent from God you esteeme your belly God and glory most of all and love flattery 77. The Bride of the Beast saith I am your God set mee upon you ride on how you will I will cry aloud and say the fatnesse of the Earth is yours and men shall worship you in mee feare and horrour be upon all those that disesteeme us Thus I ride over the bended knees and over the soules of Men where can there be such a Kingdome as wee have for wee are exalted more then Princes and Kings and wee are honoured and reverenced by them and placed above them 78. But the Spirit Mercurius which goeth forth out of
he thus generateth in his still Joy in the conception of his will without touching the Liberty of the Light 81. And the other Word is that which n God the Father he generateth out of Nature out of the Meeknesse understand that wherein the Eternall Liberty of the Light is which is called God which is o Or ariseth out of Nature out of Nature and so the dark nature disappeareth which is still in the fire of the sharpnesse as is mentioned before and yet the soure astringency in its own dark propriety is terrified and looseth its eagar propriety 82. For the flash maketh the dark stern Might thin againe and so a sprout springeth up therein out of the innumerable Essences and this is the vertue or power of the second Centre for in this springing up there is a Love-desire and the Eternall Light catcheth hold of the Liberty p Extra Naturam without Nature so that the Liberty p Extra Naturam without Nature kindleth in this Love and becometh a burning Light wherein the Glance or brightnesse ariseth 83. For there is no Glance p Extra Naturam without Nature though indeed there is a light pleasant habitation but the Glance ariseth first from the sharpnesse and yet in the springing up of Love there is no sharpnesse that is perceptible though indeed it is really and so it is a Birth of Joy and a right fulfilling of the first Will which is Gods which he putteth into desiring and so Generateth Nature and out of Nature he generateth the sprout or word of Love 84. Thus the second Sprout or Word of Love dwelleth in the First Will and is its right fulfilling which it q Or wherein it is well pleased desireth for r The Love it is meeke pleasant and friendly and is the vertue and heart of the first Will from whence the Eternall Desire continually Å¿ Or Expresseth its Essentiall Word is sprouting and subsisting 85. And thus the Light breaketh open the Gates of Darknesse and the loving Sprout or second Word which is the heart of God springeth up out of the Dark Nature and dwelleth in the Eternall Stillnesse of the Father and is called his Sonne for the Father Generateth him out of his Eternall Will and herein is the Glance Lustre Glory or Majesty of the Father manifested which otherwise in the first Will in the Dark Nature appeareth only in Fire but in the second Centre it appeareth in the Love in the Light and here Love and Enmity ought to be considered and how they oppose one another 86. For Love is Death to Wrathfulnesse and by its shining taketh away the Power of the Wrathfulnesse And heere the Power of God in Love and Anger is rightly to be considered 87. But that the Love may thus be Generated is caused by the first Will from the still habitation for the still and cleere habitation which is without a source desireth no fiercenesse and yet causeth fiercenesse and if the fiercenesse were not there would be no sharpnesse and so the second Centre of Love would not be generated neither out of which the supernaturall light shineth where then the Name of God the Father and of God the Sonne existeth 88. For if the Eternall Liberty did not Generate the Beeing of Nature there would be no Father but a meere nothing but since it doth generate the Beeing of Nature therefore the Generator whence it is Generated is called Father 89. Thus the Light shineth in the Darknesse and the Darknesse comprehendeth it not as John saith and thus Light and Darknesse are opposite one to another and so the Light is Lord over the Darknesse and it is an Eternall Band where one would not be without the other and heere we are rightly to consider the Enmity against the vertue of the Light of God how each of them taketh its originall 90. For the Darknesse holdeth in its Centre soure fiercenesse stinging Anguish in the Brimstone-Spirit woe in the flash of fire great fire in the Breaking Wheele ascending of the Essences in the flash of the Might of the fire and yet there is no flying out but it causeth such a will of flying out or flying away and that is a Spirit and it is the Band of Nature which God the Father Generateth in his Will wherewith he manifesteth himselfe in the Eternall Stillnesse whereas otherwise there would be nothing and herein is God the Father with his Might and fiery sharpnesse an angry Zealous Jealous God and a Consuming Fire 91. Let this be shewen you O yee Philosophers which from the Counsell of God is opened to you in the Seventh Seale in t The seventh Seale is the Holy Ternary Ternario sancto 92. Thus the fountaine of Love is a clasping and keeping in of the fierce wrathfullnesse yea an overcomâ—ng of the fierce Might for the Meeknesse taketh away the property of the fierce soure hard Might of the Fire and the Light of the Meeknesse holdeth the Darknesse captive and dwelleth in the Darknesse without being comprehended by the Darknesse 93. And thus the fierce might willeth nothing else but the fiercenesse and the u Or to shut up in Death shutting in of Death for the fierce sourenesse is the shutter up in Death and the Meeknesse presseth forth as a sprout and groweth our of Death and overcometh it and maketh the Eternall Life and turneth Enmity into Love 94. Let this be a Light unto you O ye Theologists or Divines and consider the writings of the Saints better and behold the Wonders of God with other Eyes Consider what God is in Love and Anger and observe how two Principles stand open where each is desiring desist from the Naturall Wisdome of this world and consider the Eternall Nature and so you shall finde God and the Kingdome of Heaven Your z Cannons and Ordinances Lawes will not doe it if you would know God another manner of Earnest or Zeale must be used then to make Conclusions in Councells and Synods you must goe out from y From wrangling contentious disputation Babell that you may attaine the Centre of the Sonne of God and so you shall be borne or Generated in Meeknesse and in Love and then you may feed the sheep of Christ otherwise you are Theeves and Murtherers and step into the Centre of the fierce Wrath where you doe nothing else but devoure the sheepe of Christ with your blowing up of hellish Fire O how falsly doe you deale against Love how will you appeare when the Sun riseth and when you shall stand in the Light it shall hereafter be set before your eyes The Third chapter 1. AND now if we will dive into the blessed Birth of Love and search how it is Generated and where it hath its Originall wee must search the Centre inwardly and set the Sixt forme of Nature before us viz. Mercurie wherein the sound sound or noise is Generated and so wee shall finde in the
Native Country into Paradise 17. The desirous Seekers have found out many difficult things and brought them to light and alwaies thought to finde the Pearle of the Creation of this world and it had been much neerer found but that the Time of the seaventh Seale or Angel was not yet come the six Angells must first found their Trumpets and powre forth their Vialls therefore none should contemne n The former zealous Seekers another for he knoweth not under what voyce every one hath been onely that is o Done come to passe which should p Be done come to passe Yet every one hath been free or at Liberty to goe out from the Seale for the Sun of Righteousnesse hath shined q From the Rising to the Setting from the East to the West If any have immersed himselfe in the Darknesse God is not to be blamed for it 19. The Law of God and also the Way to Life is written in our Hearts It lyeth in no mans r Wit or skill supposition and knowing nor in any Historicall Opinion but in a Good will and Well-doing The will leadeth us to God or to the Devill it avayleth not whether thou hast the Name of a Christian Salvation doth not consist therein 20. A Heathen and a Turke is as neere to God as thou who art under the Name of Christ if thou Å¿ Or leadest a wicked life bringest forth a false ungodly Will in thy Deeds thou art as much without God as a Heathen that hath no desire nor will to God 21. And if a Turk seeke God with Earnestnesse though he walke in blindnesse yet he is of the t Heape or Company Number of those that are children without understanding and he reacheth to God with the children which doe not yet know what they speake for it lyeth not in the knowing but in the u Or purpose and resolution Will. 22. Wee are all blinde concerning God but if wee put our earnest will into x God Goodnesse God and desire him then wee receive him into our will so that wee are borne in him in our Will For by the will this world was made also our life and all our doing standeth in the will 23. Or doe you suppose wee speake without knowledge and alone by our selves No the Booke of the Revelation of Jesus Christ sheweth us that the innermost y Chor. Court of the Temple shall be cast out and given to the Heathen who know not the Name of Christ but presse with earnestnesse into God and so they come to him ignorantly 24. And this is that which Esaiah saith I am found of them that sought mee not neither did they enquire after mee For my Name the z JEHOVA LORD was not revealed unto them and thus they are children not in Name but in Will But when the Driver goeth away to his own place then wee live together as Children with our Father Adam in Christ out of whose Loynes life and spirit wee are all propagated and begotten to life through Christ 25. Or doest thou boast of thy Calling that thou art a Christian or a Jew Indeed let thy Conversation be accordingly or else thou art but a Heathen in the Will and in the Deed. He that knoweth his Masters Will and doth it not must receive many stripes 26. Or doest thou not know what Christ said concerning the two Sonnes when the Father said to one of them goe and doe such a thing and he said he would and the other said no and the first went away and did it not but the other that said no went away and did it and so performed the will of his Father and the tother that was under the Name of Obedience or who in word was obedient or had the name to be so did it not 27. And wee are all such one and other wee beare the name of Christ and are called Christians and are within his Covenant wee have said yes wee will doe it but they that doe it not are unprofitable servants and live without the will of the Father 28. But if the Turkes as also the Jewes doe the Fathers will who say to Christ No and know him not who is now their Judge to thrust them out from the will of the Father Is not the Sonne the Heart of the Father and then if they honour the Father they lay hold also on his Heart for without or beyond his Heart there is no God 29. Or doest thou suppose that I a Or encourage confirme them in their blindnesse that they should goe on as they doe No I shew thee thy blindnesse O thou that bearest the name of Christ and thou judgest others and yet doest the same thing which thou judgest in others and so thou wilfully bringest the judgement of God upon thy selfe 30. HE that saith Love your enemies doe well to them that persecute you doth not teach you to judge and despise but he teacheth you the way of Meeknesse you should be a Light to the world that Heathens might see by your works that you are the Children of God 31. If wee consider our selves according to the true man who is a true similitude and Image of God then wee finde God in us and our selves without God And the onely remedy consisteth herein that wee enter againe into our selves and enter into God in our hidden Man If wee incline our wills in true earnest singlenesse to God then wee goe with Christ out of this world out from the Starres and Elements and enter into God For in the will of Reason wee are children of the Starres and Elements and the Spirit of this world ruleth over us 32. But if we goe out from the will of this world and enter into God then the Spirit of God ruleth in us and establisheth us for his children and then also the Garland of Paradise is set upon the soule and then it becometh a childe without understanding as to this world for it looseth the Master or Ruler of this world who formerly ruled it and led it in Reason 33. O Man Consider who leadeth and driveth thee for Eternally without end is very long Temporall honour and Goods are but drosse and dung in the sight of God It all falleth into the Grave with thee and cometh to nothing but to be in the will of God is Eternall Riches and honour there is no more care but our Mother careth for us in whose Boosom wee live as children 34. Thy Temporall Honour is thy b Pitfall Trappe or Ginne Snare and thy Misery in Divine hope and confidence is thy Garden of Roses Patience is a precious hearb O how gloriously wilt thou be crowned what is brighter then the Sunne and yet thou shalt be farre brighter thou wilt obtein a Garland in Ternario Sancto viz. in the Angelicall World in the Eternall Essentiality before the Holy Trinity 35. Or doest thou suppose againe that wee speake historically No wee speake
Earth was his Ornament and sport altogether childe-like without Covetousnesse he needed no other cloathing and as the Gold was pure without drosse so was his childe-like Minde also 48. But the Devill awakened unto him the Sulphur or Grosse Matter therein and hath set the Beastiall spirit in the superiour Dominion in him that which Man should have ruled over ruleth over him and that is his Fall 49. Thus now the Devill hath gotten power in as much as the Outward Dominion is generated out of the Inward viz. the Centre of Nature and that he dwelleth in the most innermost and so he slideth out of the innermost into the outermost and kindleth the outermost in the Minde from whence arise false lusts and inclinations and evill Concupiscence so that two Dominions viz. the inward and the outward strive against the soule and so the poore soule is in the midst between the Dominion of this world and the Dominion of the Hellish source or quality and there it standeth before the Gate of Heaven in a very great Deepe in great danger its Roote is the Anger of God and Hell-fire its superiour or predominant spirit is the Dominion of this world and there it standeth in the Tincture of the Fire in the midst and whither soever it inclineth thither it entereth if it goe into the lust and pleasure of this world then it standeth therein and is captivated by the Devill but if it enter into it selfe inwards into God then the Devill will buffet it for then it is in his Countrey 50. But when it getteth the flesh of Christ for a new Body then it is not in his Countrey that is a Tree before him which is poyson and death to him at which he is vexed and loath to touch it but he stirreth up his servants and Ministers against the outward Body that must beare i Shame and disgrace reproach and scorne that thereby he may cover and hide this Tree that it may not be knowne else it might bring forth more branches whereupon at last Hell would be too narrow for him therefore he will prevent it as long as he can 51. And so now when the poore soule breaketh away from him and with its deare Bridegroome Christ turneth to the Love of God so that through earnest Repentance and turning into God it enter into the will of God yet then the Devill hath seaven k Snares or Ginnes coards still with each of which he holdeth it fast before he will let it goe and then it must get it selfe through all the seaven and leave his cords wholly to himselfe These seaven Bands are the seaven spirits of Nature hereafter mentioned 52. And Eightly it must goe through the Fire and there is the Earnest severe Proba or hard trial And when it is come through it getteth the heavenly Tincture in the Ninth Number and in the Tenth Number upon the Crosse it getteth the Body of Christ and so is an Angell in Heaven and a stranger and Pilgrim upon Earth in this Tabernacle 53. The seaven snares wherewith it is entangled are the seaven spirits of the outward Nature of the Dominion of this world these it must winde through and presse quite through them and cast them all behinde it and in the Eighth Number standeth Moses with his Law and there is first read to the soule what a * Or faire Bird. fine Fowle it was and there cometh the Devill with his l Or Account Register or Catalogue and readeth what it is sheweth his right to it and there it is directed to bow downe and lay hold on the Wounds and Passion of Christ and heere it is necessary that the poore soule take hold on the Merits and Death of Christ and wrap it selfe fast therein for out of these swadling bands the Devill cannot pull the soule nay he dareth not touch them and heere the Devill must leave the soule for Christ standeth in the fire of the Fathers Anger and is the accomplishment of Obedience and there the soule is brought into the Ninth Forme into the Tincture of the Eternall Life and there it is surrounded with the Majesty of God and the faire blessed Virgin the Wisdome of God meeteth it with her Garland of Pearles and Crowneth the soule as a heavenly Conquerour 54. What Joy is heere to the Angells of God and what Joy the soule attaineth there wee have no Pen to describe it nor in this world any tongue to Expresse it Onely wee wish to the Reader and all Men that they might themselves have experience of it for which cause wee goe about this Writing with much toyle and deepe labour 55 For wee write what wee our selves have knowne and have seene with spirituall Eyes wee speake it not to our owne boasting but that the Reader may know that if he will follow us what he is to expect from it seeing he perceiveth how the world maketh a Gazing stock of the children of God But wee shall after this short Life have full recompence and moreover this Garland is more delitious then this whole world and though it be often covered and hidden from us yet it dyeth not 56. For as the rough winter hideth the budding and flourishing of the Earth so that reason saith all is Dead but when the Spring cometh then it beginneth to bud and blossome againe and so also it is with the Noble and faire Garland of Christ when that springeth againe then it produceth Lillyes without Number and every Spring when the Minde is renewed in Christ it multiplyeth Tenfold Of the Company and assistance of the Holy Angells 57. As wee that are Men in this world if wee be the children of God assist and help one another in necessitie and distresse and readily deliver one another from misery and trouble thus also it is in heaven concerning the children of God while the soule belongeth to the fellowship of Angells they affect the company of honest vertuous and chast Men that feare God and stand by them in necessitie for the Scripture saith They are all Ministring Spirits sent forth for the service of those that are to inherite the Kingdome of God they often avert the fiery darts of wickednesse what mischiefe would the Devill often doe if he were not opposed and hindered by the Throne-Princes of the Legions how often would he terrifie and cast men downe headlong to the ground 58. But the Angells are our servants and keepers if wee be Christians and not Beasts though indeed the Devill setteth upon Christians most of all how very often would many be drowned and killed by a fall who yet receive wonderfull deliverance from Angells they are ready about people who sing and speake of God they have great delight among little Infants so that they many times manifest themselves to an Infant and play with it if it be the childe of God 59. How many Examples are there in the Scripture of the Angells leading and conducting of the Children of
at This Parents and Antient People see and take delight and pleasure in it that their children are so dextrous and witty in their wantonnesse and waggery they are tickled at the heart with it when they unhappily jeast at honest People that which Old folkes dare not doe for shame that they Teach the children that thereby the lust of their hearts may be brought to passe all this the Devill teacheth them and so rideth in their hearts as Lord over body and soule 6. If any can but conzen and cheate his neighbour despise slander and finde fault with him and bereave him of his honour and goods that is the satisfying of their lusts all immodest wanton words and manners are held the best Art and Courtship he that can laugh and jeere his neighbour out of countenance is Master upon the Place all these are the Devills Prancks and Tricks and thus he leadeth the poore soule in his string and Man understandeth it not 7. Youth both of the Male and female sex learne first the Devills Trade before they take any thing else in hand disdainfull malicious wantonnesse is the first work they learne and the Parents incourage their children in it and hold it for a necessary worldly fashionable accomplishment 8. When they are growne up a little then the desire of beastiall unchastity is the second work they learne which they call a trick of youth and allure one another to it thus youths give roome to the Devill at the first blossoming to enter into the Heart so that the Devill maketh his nest therein and so catcheth one with the abominations of another the male with the female and the female with the male 9. If any send a sonne to the Vniversitie to learne somewhat that is Good that he may be serviceable to God and usefull g To his Countrey in the world then he learneth wantonnesse bravery Pride suttlety how to deceive the simple of their owne and bereave them of their sweate and contrive a cloake for it saying it is h Sua Jura Rights Titles Interests his right by Law but that cloake is the Devills and the false deceitfull heart is his Minister If he can speake a little Latine or forraine Language then no simple Man is good enough for his company his high-mindednesse flies aloft the stinking Carcasse which is but meate for Wormes must be trimmed with Ribbands and bables to goe a whoring and deflouring Maids is Courtship there are people that can behave themselves so finely till they awaken the gnawing worme of Conscience in the heart of many a Mothers daughter 10 And such are advanced in the Churches and Vniversities and set up for i Pastours or Ministers Shepheards of Christ and yet they have the Devill lodging in their heart and so also they are promoted to worldly Government or the Civill Magistracy and then they Governe as their Guest in their heart will have it Thus the Superiour or Magistrate worketh the greatest abominations and the Inferiour learneth of him He inventeth k Tricks and slights of Law tricks how he may with the appearance of Law Justice and Equity get the Goods or Estate of the Inferiour to himselfe Hee maketh Constitutions Orders and Statutes and saith they are for the publick Good he constraineth the poore and miserable to doe hard service that he may satisfie his Pride and State he crusheth the simple with harsh cruell Language he taketh away his sweate and tormenteth his body he maketh him his very slave and though he hath no more but one soule of his owne no more then others and is but a stranger and Pilgrim in this world yet he thinks the needy must spend his sweate wholly in his service there is no pittie nor release to be had from him His Dog hath a better life then the poore needy soule under his roofe and this he accounteth his Right and l Or Priviledge Prerogative whereas it is not at all grounded in Nature but onely in the Abysse where one forme or property plagueth vexeth and tormenteth the other where the Life is its own Enemy and there it is grounded 11. This the Inferiour learneth from the Superiour and so getteth his living also with suttlety and deceit covetousnesse and knavery for if he doe not use these things he can hardly fill his belly in righteousnesse and therefore Reason perswadeth him that necessitie forceth him that he must enhance his labour and commodities and must wrest from his neighbour his sweate againe without love and righteousnesse that he may but fill his belly he learneth from his superiour to Gurmondise and Pamper his body and live a beastiall life What the superiour spendeth in a Courtly stately fashion that the inferiour spendeth in a Beastly swinish fashion and manner of life thus one wickednesse effecteth another and the Devill remaineth Prince on Earth over body and soule 12. How wilt thou be able to subsist when God in his Zeale or Jealousie shall Judge the secrets of Mankinde when the cause of every thing will appeare why that or the other thing came to be Evill and there every soule will cry out of those that lead it astray and curse them Every thing will have its cause appeare before it and the soule will feele it in its Conscience where then will you superiour remaine when your inferiour shall cry out and say woe be to you in that you have forced him to such wicked courses and that you have bereaved him of his sweate and consumed his goods and labours in Idlenesse and Wantonnesse how will you give an account of your Office into which you are put wherein you should stop unrighteousnesse and hold the wicked in awe by reproofe and Punishment and you have not regarded his wicked courses that you might prevent and hinder them but have onely looked after your covetousnesse how you might bereave him of his sweate you have not sought his soules Good but his sweate and labour he might else doe what he would and besides you have given an Evill Example to him so that he hath looked upon your courses and made it his Patterne Cursing blaspheming threatning daring * Or provocations to wrath and malice surlinesse hath been your fashion and that he hath learnt of you and hath so constantly reproached the Name of God which you have not regarded you have onely looked after his money and not after his soule 13. And now when the severe Judgement of God shall appeare and that every work shall be manifested in the fiery Essences where then all shall be tryed in the fire What thinke you Shall not all such works remaine in the Eternall Fire and there will the poore soule cry out upon your ungodly cursed deeds words and works and one will curse and wish all Evill to the other for being the cause of such Evill to him and the source or property of falshood and wickednesse will rise up in the soule and gnaw it that
Government be ordained of God 77. Therefore ye Rulers and Potentates of the world looke to it and see whether you be the Ordinance of God and are placed in the Right Divine Order Have a care how you deale with the distressed inferiour for now he standeth before your Eyes and blameth you saying that you have been the cause of all his sinnes and wickednesse 78. For there one will crie out and accuse the other saying that he hath caused me to commit such ludenesse and will curse him the Inferiour his Superiours and the Superiours their Superiours Also the Prince will accuse his false Counsellours and his Counsellours the Priests because they did not reprove their Courses but soothed and flattered them for Ambition and honour sake 79. How will you be able to stand ye i Or Universities high Schooles and Doctors even all of you who have set up your selves in Christs stead and have so proudly k Or disputed wrangled about Christs Cup also about Christs Doctrine and Glory that you have provoked and put on the Princes of your Land who are the Ordinance of God to warre and bloud-shed for a few l Termes of Art words sake which you your selves have m Or Contrived forged 80. Where is Christs teaching and Spirit of Love who said Love one another for thereby shall they know that ye are my Disciples Where is your Love looke upon your bloudy instigations wherewith you have encouraged men to battle and have lead the world astray from Love and n Or Concord Unanimity 81. Ye have made Rents and Divisions so that Kings have been at variance and enmity for your Pride sake in that you have wrested the words of Christ and have not regarded whether you have had Christs Spirit and o Or meaning Will or no and therefore you above all others shall give an heavie account for you have knowne the will of the Lord and have not done it you have run and thrust your selves into Christs Office meerely to get profit favour and Honour you have not regarded the Spirit of God therefore the Spirit calleth you Babell a confusion of all those that live 82. You have set the whole world at ods and though you should teach them Love you have taught them Contention and strife so that one brother hath hated and persecuted another for your p Opinions Doctrineâ— which you have set down for Orthodox fables sake O! how is the name of Christ q Reproched or scandalâ—sed for your disputations sake blasphemed for your contentîons sake whether will you betake your selves and where will you abide when this shall be set before your Eyes and the whole world crye woe woe woe to you 83. Also here the Angels who are the Reapers shall divide all into two Heards and place the r Or Righteous Honest at the Right hand and the wicked at the left viz. at the Eye of Anger for the Principle of Light is here called the Right hand and the Principle of Fire the Left 84. And thus the Tribunall or seate of Judgement will be set All the great Shepheards whom God hath sent forth for a Light to the world who have reproved and taught as the Patriarchs who taught of the Promise of Christ shall be placed with the Prophets and Apostles at the Right hand of the Judgement and Moses and all Teachers of the Å¿ And Law-givers Law at the left hand of the Judgement 85. For Moses and Elias and all those exceeding precious teachers of the Law beare the fiery Sword and require Gods Justice and they at the Right hand Gods Mercy 86. And in this houre is the very last Day when the Judge shall say Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the Beginning for I was hungry thirsty naked sick and in Prison and you have administred to me 87. And to the wicked company Goe ye cursed into everlasting fire I know you not for I have been hungry thirsty naked sick and in Prison and you administred not to me 88. And then they will excuse themselves before the presence of the Judge and say we knew thee not Lord but he shall say being you have not done this to my poore Children you have not done it to me 89. And here the Spirit of God will manifest himselfe forthwith in all the three Principles and stirre up the t Or Ground Center of Nature so that it shall burne in the fire of Anger for all both Heaven Earth and the Firmament will be set on Fire together 90. And the Turba will swallow up the Earthly world in the Fire and restore it to that which it was before the Creation onely the u Viz. All whatsoever grew was borne made or done by word or Deed from the beginning of the world to the End Wonders remaine still in two Principles the third Principle doth vanish quite away all but the Wonders which shall be brought into the beginning 91. And then the Earthly Life and the Earthly Body will fall away and the Fire will consume them 92. And the Glorious bright Paradisicall Body of the Righteous shall passe through the Fire with its owne Wonders which shall follow it and whatsoever is false shall remaine in the Fire 93. And so they shall be caried through the Fire in the twinckling of an Eye and the fire comprehendeth them not for as little as the fire can retaine the light or Wind so little can x The fire of Wrath. it retaine the Light of the Holy men for they can dwell in the Fire without feeling any paine 94. Then instantly by the kindling of the Fire the Divine Majesty and Paradisicall Life is made ready and thither they enter as Children and live Eternally with their Father in one Love in a simple Childe-like Life and this is a Communion of Saints together 95. There is no Day or Night there for the Sunne passeth away and the Starres passe away but their y Or operations Wonders remaine apparently in the Great z See in the small six points what the Magia is Magia to the glory of God thus they shall passe away 96. The wicked also must goe into the Fire and their Earthly Life will also fall away and their a Or Vizard monstrous Image will appeare in the Spirit according to the shape of all hideous abominable Beasts like the Devills 97. For they dwell in one and the same Principle and Lucifer is their great Prince whom indeed they served here though they depended on their Hypocrites for a false Paradise 98. Thus my beloved friend you have a briefe description and Declaration of the last Judgement Day for whatsoever is of this world shall passe away 99. The Earth and all stony Rocks and Elements will melt away and that onely will remaine which God would have and for the sake of which he hath created this word 100. Both the good and