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lord_n	abide_v	spirit_n	zion_n	49	3	8.8246	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28521	The epistles of Jacob Behmen, aliter, Teutonicus philosophus very usefull and necessary for those that read his vvritings, and are very full of excellent and plaine instructions how to attaine to the life of Christ / translated out of the German language.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3404; ESTC R2334	183,592	232

reality commeth from his Revelation and Operation 6. For albeit the World prateth and talketh much of God yet it doth it onely from Custome and receiveth its knowledge from the Hystory of the literall word by the habituall faculties of its naturall reason and yet it is void of true knowledge For none knoweth the Father but the Sonne and he to whom the son will reveal him 7. And therefore we have no true knowledge of God unlesse it be given us of the son who liveth in us if we be living branches on the vine 8. For Christ said whosoever is of God he heareth Gods word and to the Reason-learned who were onely skillfull and taught in the letter he said therefore you doe not heare because you are not of God also you are not my sheep you are ravening wolves and hirelings 9. Therefore I say that if we will speake aright of God and understand his will then his words must abide in us in a quicke and living working for Christ said without me you can doe nothing also none can call God Lord without the holy spirit in him for his calling Lord must be borne of God and flow from the holy Ghost 10. Nothing is pleasing to God and also nothing is accepted of God but that which he himselfe doth and worketh in and through the spirit of man therefore saith Christ all the plants which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out and burnt with fire 11. Therefore my beloved brother you doe well to hold and keep your selfe to the Originall of life and desire power and strength from it you shall be well quickned refreshed and strengthened you are an acceptable guest to God and the members of Christ in this your purpose 12. And if you persevere stedfastly and resist the devill the World and the Earthly flesh and blo●d and prepare your selfe to fight like a true Noble Champion for Conquest against all these and overcome in you the Potent and open Enemy selfe-love and come aright into our Generall LOVE then you shall certainly know and sinde by experience that the noble and exceeding worthy Trophee or Crowne of Christs conquest which he obtained in the overthrow of death and Hell shall be set upon you with the Heavenly Kingdome of joy 13. And then all the Children of Christ together with the holy Angels shall exceedingly rejoyce more with you then for 99 righteous ones who have allready obtained it 14. And the fair and noble Sophia shall be given for a spouse unto your soule which now at present standeth at the doore of your soule and doth earnestly entreat and call you with her vo●ce and knocketh bidding you to come forth and hold out aright in Battle against sin death Devill and hell and with your earnestnesse or fixed resolution to set the grea● Petards against the strong Fort of nature and shee will helpe you to blow up and demolish this strong Fort. 15. And then you shall see great wonders and at the hour of Conquest the joyfull nuptialls or marriage of the Lambe shall be celebrated in Heaven in you and then the Shepheards staffe shall be given by Christ into the hand of your soule 16. But be sure remember to keep truly and faithfully unto the end what you have promised unto this chast Sophia it must be in right earnest and not to looke back again into Sodom as Lots Wife who was turned into a pillar of Salt 17. But you must goe out of Sodom with Lot according to Gods command and enter into the footsteps of Christ not at all regarding the scoffings reproaches and opprobrious speeches of the World but love the Brand of Christ more then the friendship honour and goods of the whole World and then you may walke along with us upon the Pilgrims path of Christ 18. But if you doe not relish this but minde and desire rather the pleasure and honour of the World then you are not as yet ready and prepared for the Marriage and to come to your Spouse our loving and deare Sophia 19. Therefore consider well your selfe behold and examine well your whole heart if you finde a longing desire and drawing thereunto as I in part perceive and take notice of then doe not delay or put it off an houre but goe forward and enter with a right earnestnesse or fixed minde into repentance and yeeld up your will wholly and fully to enter instantly thereinto and never to goe out from it againe albeit you should therefore forsake body LIFE Honour and Goods 20. And if you doe thus then you are rightly prepared and the true Pioneer will come unto your soule and doe that in you which you cannot doe without him 21. And although afterwards vaine inclinations and great strife and opposition in the flesh might stick and cleave unto you and your reason call you a Foole yea though Gods anger should cover and cloud you in soule and body yet all this will not hurt you you shall spring forth under such thornes with a new minde and walke with the spirit in Heaven 22. And albeit the earthly body must be conversant with the creatures yet it shall be with it as with a rough stone in which fine Gold groweth 23. Be not at all offended at my tribulation and persecution neither be afraid for it is the marck of Christ Looke but back into the Scripture and see how it went with the children of God how were they continually persecuted and killed by those who should have taught the wayes of God 24. For I am entrusted with a precious Pearle which God doth so cover that the unworthy see it not but are blind therein and are offended at the simplicity of the person that so they may remaine blind to themselves in the wisedome of their owne Reason this they see and yet doe not understand it seeing they scorne and despise the simplicity of Christ 25. But the time is very nigh at hand when they shall give an earnest account for it 26. But that God hath given you to understand what it is and from whence it commeth be thankfull to him for it it is befallen you out of grace for you have humbled your selfe before him and there may yet greater grace happen unto you if you persevere stedfast in humility and earnest Prayer 27. I will willingly impart unto you my Love as a member of Christ with praying and cooperating for it is meer joy in my heart so to doe albeit I must therefore suffer bodily trouble and calamity yet I rejoyce to see what God the Lord hath done by me poore Man hitherto 28. Satan cannot hinder the wayes of God and though it seemes as if he hindered them by his murtherous cryes yet they are thereby the more divulged and made knowne so that the Children of God doe enquire after the true ground 29. But the wicked crew is thereby hardned and hindred but others are thereby called and this you

Unity and seeke the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Pilgrims and Strangers and seek our native Countrey 31. In this time a Zyon verily shall be found and the Heaven shall drop downe its dew and the Earth yeeld her fatnesse yet not so as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Sonne of man shall come that there will be Faith upon the Earth And though the Children of Zyon shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine Maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the time of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end for as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the comming of the Son of man be as it is written 32. But that the holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zyon I acknowledge I know it for Zyon shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne hee that would seeke it let him but seeke himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and hee shall finde whether Jesus bee borne in him 33. If he findes it not let him enter into himselfe and seriously consider himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him these he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be revealed in him and he shall be born with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda in the darke Stable not in Jerusalem as reason faine would have it that Christ should be born in the old Asse the old Asse must become servant and serve the new man in Zion 34. But that in Foure hundred yeares there shall be a meer golden Age I know nothing of it it is not revealed to mee also the limit of the Worlds End is not revealed to me I cannot speake of any four hundred Yeares for the Lord hath not commanded me to teach it I commend it to Gods might and leave it for those to whome God would vouchsafe the knowledg of it seeing therefore I have not as yet apprehended it I rest satisfyed in his gifts yet I despise no man if he had a knowledge and command so to teach 35. For the fourth Book of Esdras is not sufficient as I understand to give a positive assurance to it yet I wait for my Saviour Jesus Christ and rejoyce that I may finde my Lord when I have him then I hope after the death of my old Adam fully to recreate my selfe in the Still rest of Zion and to wait in my God expecting what he will doe with me in his and my Zion for if I have but him then I am in and with him in the Eternall Sabbath where no strife or contention of the ungodly can any more reach me in my New man at this I doe in the meane time rejoyce in this miserable Vale of Tabernacles 36. The first resurrection of the dead to the thousand yeares Sabbath of which there is mention in the Revelation is not sufficiently made knowne to me how the same may be meant seeing the Scripture doth not mention it elsewhere and Christ also and his Apostles give not an hint of it in other places save only John in his Revelation but whether they shall be a thousand Solar yeares or how it may be referred seeing I have not full assurance I leave it to my God and to those to whom God shall vouchsafe the right understanding of it till God is pleased to open my eyes concerning these Mysteries 37. For they be Secrets and it belongeth not to man to make conclusions about them without the command and light of God but if any had knowledge and illumination of the same from God I should be ready and willing to learne If I could see the ground thereof in the light of nature 38. But seeing it behooveth me not to hide my knowledge of it so farre as I apprehend it in the light of Nature I will therefore set downe some Suppositions or considerable Opinions which are in my minde not positively to affirme but give it to consideration for good and wholesome instructions may be drawne forth thereby and t is also profitable for man so to search I will doe it in all syncere uprightnesse to see if we might attaine somewhat neerer the matter and perhaps there may be some to whom God shall bestow such a gift stirred up thereby to write more clearely 39. As first whether or no it be certaine that the World must continue Seven thousand yeares and one thousand of them should be a meere Sabbath Seeing that God created all in six dayes and began the rest on the sixt day towards evening whence the Jewes begin their Sabbath on Friday evening and Elias also saith that the World should stand but Six thousand yeares and Christ likewise declareth that the dayes of tribulation shall be shortned for the Elects sake else no man should be saved which you apply to the fall of Babel and to the time of Zyon but it seemes as if Christ sp●ke of the fall of the Jewes and the end of the World and foresheweth an evill End 40. Also Christ saith that it shall be at the time of his comming to judgement as it was in the dayes of Noah where men did Marry and were given in Marriage now we know very well as the Scripture testifieth what manner of wicked World was in the days of Noah that the Deluge must come and destroy them This would intimate and denote a very meane Sabbath 41. And though a man should otherwise expound the words of Christ concerning his comming yet that would not be sufficient to prove it being also that the Disciples of Christ doe alwayes represent the End to be nigh and Paul saith That the end should come after that Antichrist is revealed 42. But that the Resurrection of the dead and the last Judgement should be understood of both namely that the righteous shall arise to the thousand yeares Sabbath and among them some ungodly and that Gog and Magog at the End of the thousand yeares should fight against the Saints it seemes to run quite contrary to the light of Nature 43. For first I cannot apprehend how the first Resurrection must come to passe seeing the Saints shall have their workes follow them according to the words of the spirit besides wee know very well that all our workes are sowne into the great Mystery that they are first brought forth into the foure Elements and so passe into the Mystery and are reserved to the judgement of God where all things shall be tryed by fire and that which is false shall consume in the fire and the figures shall fall unto the Centre of Nature Viz. the darke Eternity 44. But if mens workes shall follow them in the first