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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

also the several Epistles and Gospels and the wonderfull Mysteries contained in the Scriptures belonging to them As in the second Commandment he hath followed the way of the Lutheran Catechism which as in the Romish Liturgy leaves out that which is our Second according to Calvins Reformation and truly agreeable with the twentith Chapter of Exodus out of which it was taken however in their Second which is our Third that we should not take the Name of the Lord our God in vain he sheweth the true ground of Not making Images and so abusing Gods Name and Word in our evil wicked and false Imaginations or Thoughts and Words which are the Subtilest Images of all but the Author being bred up his whole life among Lutherans it could not well be expected he should so much vary form the usual form of their Catechisme so he help them as he hath done to stir up in themselves by the innate Grace or Word of God the true power of Prayer The This is the 21 Book in the Catalogue FIFT Book is concerning the Divine Vision or the true Sight or Discerning of Divine Things thereby to distinguish what is Divine and what is Natural in all things For as God is Eternally the same the Light and Love is himself and so called by Gods own Spirit and the Anger is His which is darkness Nature and a consuming Fire so his Creation is flowed forth from himself and endued or qualified with the same Harmony Concord Agreement and true ballanced Temper in all Things Qualities and Properties by his Law Ordinance and Appointment as is alwayes in himself and this is a creaturely Manifestation of what is in HIM from Eternity to Eternity And therein Mans Outward Reason is answered to many Objections argued about Gods Dispensations in this world wherein men may discern what is Divine and Good and the Cause why Reason seeth Little or Nothing of God either in the Things or Actings among Men in the world and yet how we may consider and find GODS Being and working in all things and what is contrary to him and his Will that so he may be rightly Obeyed by us and the Devil Our Adversary may be certainly vanquished by Gods strength in US The The 19. in Catalogue OTHER Peece is a Table of the Three Principles Expounded at large and is one of the Keyes to the understanding of his Writings as himself calls it which I have newly englished from Two very correct Copies The One of the Epistles which with the Clavis is the third in the Catalogue EPISTLE of the True and False Light was printed among his other Epistles in English before but till of Late the Table belonging to it of the Revelation or Manifestation of the Divine secret Mystery came not to my view but was upon my desire sent me in Manuscript from Holland neither can I hear that it was ever all of it printed in any Language before but is properly belonging to that Epistle they both illustrating and expounding the One the Other and I have willingly translated that whole Letter of his anew and annexed it here that it may further us to discern what the true and false light is in these times of so many Lights as are arisen and held forth among us I know nothing wherein I can better employ that Talent which God hath given me to Use which I must not hide in a Napkin or bury in the Earth for it will be required of me with increase Neither know I otherwise so well to improve it as in that which I publish of this Authors Writings for the benefit of Others But in all things I find Evil so present with me and so ready to spring up in my heart among the Good that the Eternal Word continually worketh there that I have Still cause to account my self one of the unworthiest of the Children of men John Sparrow Errata in the Printing these Eight Peeces of Jacob Behme Great Six Points PAge 1. line 33. read the willings Life p. 2. l. 7. margin for * r. † p. 3. l. 29. r. the son or Heart p. 4. l. 14. r. † as a wheel l. 16. and yet is p. 6. l. 32. r. beyond or Besides p. 8. l. 28. r. is as it were p. 10. l. 35. r. world p. 21. l. 39. r. Spirit Life p. 26. l. 2. f. Men r. Man p. 28. l. 8. f. and r. or p. 30. l. 14. f. Fires r. First p. 33. l. 32. r. be Set before p. 39. l. 2. r. it ought l. 7. r. without besides p. 45. l. 6. r. out or l. 44. r. It findeth p. 48. l. 18. r. is lowly p. 49. l. 28. r. to † Substance Margin l. 2. r. † or effect p. 61. l. 21. r. then could p. 66. l. 11. f. that r. the. p. 69. l 24. f. is r. it p. 74. l. 24. f. have r. hear p. 79. l. 7. r. you seek in self Tabernacle Small Six Points P. 8. l. 30. r. that proceedeth 117 Questions P. 3 l. 6. r. without or Besides p. 31. marg l. 6. r. Light and Glory l. 14. r. excuse especiallyl those p. 37. l. 14. 15. f. Twine-ness r. Twin-ness p. 40. l. 21. r. beneficence p. 50. l. 30. f. * r. † p. 52. l. 7. r. Enemicitious anxiety and p. 57. l. 26. r. Throne p. 60. l. mar 3. r. 12. 9. p. 69. l 34. r. wrestleth l. 35. r. will p. 65 l. 5 r. Spirits forth p. 67. l. 1 r. Image-like p. 74. l. 24. r. partakes of all The Heavenly and Earthly Mystery P. 5. l. 21. r. where then p. 6. l. 38. r. yet unawakable p. 9. l. 4. put out therefore p. 11. l. 10. r. from o● Out l. 20. r. others Characters p. 13. l. 3. r. those were Children The Prayer-Book P. 3. l. 14. r. power of p. 6. l. 28. f. the. r. this p 8. l. 29. r. Shell or Bark p. 10. l. 17. f. he r. it p. 11. l. 5. r. out-breathing p. 21. l. 24. r. knew not p. 29. l. 17. r. fierce wrath p. 44. l. 6. r. wholly and. p. 46. l. 18 f in r. on Divine Vision P. 5. l. 1. r. desirous For p. 6. l. 40. r. within out p. 8. l. 12. r. arise from p. 12. l 22. r Imaged p 26. l. 37. r. the Planets p. 31. l. 38. r. without besides p. 35. margin l. 1. r. The Word l. 14 f. and. r. an l. 26. r. of Divine Explanation of the Table of the Three Principles Title l. 10. r. without or besides p. 2. l. 28. r. the visible p. 13. l 30. f Principles r. Properties p. 16. l. 25 r. water is the. Epistle of the True and False Light P. 3. l. 33. r. III. Principles p. 8. l. 29. r. or wicked The Sixt Book of the Author Being a High and Deep searching out of the Great SIX Points AN Open Gate of all Arcana or hidden Secrets of the Life wherein the Causes of ALL and Every Being Substance

very part is God become Man that very part hath the * Covenant Ground of the Angelicall World for it hath its Originall out of the Angelicall World 16. But if as Many times wicked Parents wholly steep demerse and plunge themselves into the Anger of God and so beget Children Then indeed is their Seed shut up in Death and hath nothing of a right humane Essence in them which moveth it self but only that which the Constellation in the Spirit of the Great World Majoris Mundi hath in it self 17. † NOTE And there indeed is the divine Power somewhat stirring but the Anger 's power is Set in Opposition and it is very hard yet it is very possible for Gods becoming Man or Incarnation is set and presented to ALL Souls in the Lifes Light 18. But the Baptisme containeth somewhat Else Gods Essence viz the Water ef Eternall Life generated out of Gods Meekness must stirre the right humane Essence with Adam shut up or included in Death and must give in it self there as a New Life or a Living Essence Gods Water Must baptise the Holy Ghost must be the Workmaster 19. But I say according to my knowledge that the Water of the Eternall Life upon which the Holy Spirit * Hovereth or Hatcheth moveth is hardly given in to the poyson of the fierce wrath and of Death where there is not an Essence of desire within 20. I say thus that also a Child as soon as it hath the Life in the Mothers body or Womb So farre as the divine Essence which standeth in the heavenly part is stirring is clearly Baptised by the Holy Spirit and reacheth or attaineth the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ 21. For the Baptisme standeth not in the Preachers authority that the Holy Spirit should wait upon him for the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ waiteth not upon Mans authority but upon the Limit or Mark that God stuck or set in his Covenant 22. The Limit or Mark became blessed Therefore † Luke 1.42 said the Angel to Mary Thou art the Blessed among Women the Limit or Mark Stuck in her that became blessed and that blessed her also when Gods Heart made the Limit or Mark come stirring 23. That same Limit or Mark reached back even unto Adam and forward even to the Last Man and when God became Man then became the Limit or Mark in the heavenly Part stirring not in Mary alone but also in Adam and Eve and all their Children which have given themselves up into God they became all Blessed in the Limit or Mark. 24. For that is the Covenant of Grace which God instituted with Adam and Eve that very Covenant stood in all and every humane Essence but not in the Devillish 25. But the Baptisme is the Seal that God hung or annexed to the Covenant as in the Old Testament Circumcision was God giveth in the Baptisme divine Water to the humane for an Earnest or Pledge and Seal 26. But the Covenant is plainly there before the Baptisme it is made in Paradise yea * 1 Pet. 1.20 Eph. 1.4 before the foundation of the World As soon as a Soul in the Mothers body or womb is stirring so that a Principle and a humane Soul is generated or born so instantly it is in the Covenant 27. For Christ hath given himself into Gods Fire into the Principle and fulfilled the Covenant and is become the † Or P●●●ne Earnest or Pledge of the Testament 28. That same Pawn or Pledge waiteth upon no outward Ordinance or upon the outward Mans conceit but as soon as a Soul is generated or born out of the Principle it is in the Prey of the Testament so farre as the divine Life in the Soul is stirring 29. But not in the Wicked Souls there must the Divine Life first be generated or Born Gods Anger devoureth Many a Soul and that yet in the Essence ere it attai●eth or reacheth the Principle and therefore because it is out of false or wicked Essence from the Evill Seed of the Parents Objection 30. Reason saith What can a Child do to it that the Parents are wicked Answer Yea also what can God do to it Standeth it not in the power of the Parents to beget a Childe What Can God do with it that Whores and Whoremongers crawl together 31. Though indeed the false or wicked Tree doth not thus alone arise out of this Line or Lineage but also in the Marriage Is not Man Free If he awaken no Life then his Seed continueth an * Or Ground of Substance and Life Essence 32. Shall therefore God for the Childs innocency sake cast the Pearls before Swine Doth not the Kingdome of Heaven stand towards it it may enter in God † Or hindereth it shutteth it up from None 33. But an Evill Man is shut up in Body and Soul why also not in the Seed The Seed is truly the Fruit of his Body If a Man would reap good Wheat a Man must needs then sow Wheat but if Thistle-seed be sown then a Thistle groweth out of it And must God then change that into Wheat 34. Hath not the Sower power to sow in his Field what he will Or wilt thou say What can the Thistle do to it that it is a Thistle and pricketh It ought not to be among the Wheat but it groweth up together of it self 35. God would indeed be at quiet if no Thistle-Childe did grow it is also not his Ordinance * Luke 13.25 38 39. but the Devill soweth Weeds among the Wheat viz into Mans Mind Why doth Man let him doe that and destroyeth himself so that his Essence becometh a Thistle-seed and beareth Weeds for the Fire in the fierce Wrath of God 36. Also it lyeth not all in the Seed but in the Field or Soyle Many a Noble Grain of Corn perisheth in the Evill Field's or Soyle's Essence 37. The Heaven with the Sun giveth to all Vegetables or Sprouts Life and Power the Sun maketh no Weed also it desireth none but the Essence in the Field or Soyle maketh many somewhat Else and destroyeth the Good So also in Man 38. Many a Curse sticketh which one wisheth to the other when the other hath stirred up or provoked the Curse and is capable of it or Lyable to it as indeed is common among wicked married people who wish the Devill and Hell Fire to one another 39. If they both be wicked should not also their wicked Wills be done to them that they should beget wicked Children There is not any Good in them how then should Good proceed from or out of them 40. What can God doe to this Doth he not set his Word and Teaching before them and maketh their destruction known to them If they will not regard it Then let them goe whither they will thus also is their Seed and so many a Childe is Generated or born a Thistle and Evill Beast And is Baptised in the Anger