to the Supper of the Lord Jesus Christ wherein we perceived in what manner the Supper of our Lord Jesus Christ is g uprightly kept And how that all those who rightly keep that same Supper with the Lord Jesus Christ enter with Christ h out of the death into the good life and totally delivered or freed from all the enemies of the life and from all their temptations 30 Now when we observed all this obteined an intire desire of heart to the same Supper we then for * to keep uprightly the same Supper according to his requiring submitted our selves to a good * safeguard namely to the Body and to the Bloud of Jesus Christ and having assembled us to the same Body and Bloud of Jesus Christ we committed our selves wholy to the Body of Jesus Christ and his requiring and to the Bloud of Jesus Christ and his requiring 31 And thus were kindly * received of the Body and of the Bloud of Jesus Christ and were also on the same day earnestly invited to the Supper of the Lord Jesus Christ that in us with us and through us also with the Lord Jesus Christ i all righteousness should be accomplished and established whereto God the Father hath chosen and loved Mankind 32 Now for to * keep or celebrate rightly that same supper of the Lord Jesus Christ to which we were invited by the Grace of the Lord and his commiserating Love we endevored us earnestly for the same and joyned our selves humbly as * invited ones to the Table of the Lord where at first were uttered forth great praise and thanks to the Lord * 33 Now when all this was done then the k good food of the same Supper was administred to us And then to it the most precious cup with the costly pure drink of the same Supper 34 And so we did eat of the most worthy good food and did drink out of the excellent cup of the precious pure drink of the same Supper of the Lord 35 And moreover also when we had fed upon this good food and pure drink of the same Supper there was made known unto us in the understanding that all must so be l accomplished and fulfilled in Jesus Christ with the manhood which was fore-appointed and written of Christ and of the salvation of the * manly Generation 36 But this good food which was administred unto us in the same Supper was m the Body of Jesus Christ and the good drink was the Bloud of Jesus Christ And that same Body and bloud of Jesus Christ was the good meat and pure drink of which we did joyntly eat and drink and the Cup out of which wee drunk the precious pure drink was the n Suffering or Passion of Jesus Christ 37 Now when we in the Supper of the Lord had fed upon the body and bloud of Jesus and had received or drawn it in to our Body and bloud and we having submitted us wholy to it to the will and requiring of the same Body and bloud of Jesus Christ as unto a good * conserver And thus being come with our body and bloud one o body and bloud with the body and bloud of Jesus Christ so rested we with the same body and bloud of the Lord Jesus Christ on the sixth seventh day 38 The first day to it next the sixth seventh day we travelled as of one being with the body and bloud of Jesus Christ forward on our way rested us not in all the seven six dayes of our journey to do our labour diligence for to live and walk with the body and bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ with which we were one body and bloud in p all upright righteousness and holiness of our Lord Jesus Christ and to conquer with him and his armour of righteousness all enemies of the godly being of Jesus Christ and to q reign and to triumph with him eternally in the everlasting life and kingdom of his heavenly Father 39 For at that time when we had fed on the body and bloud of Jesus Christ and were with our body and bloud become oâ—e body and bloud with the body and bloud of Jesus Christ and with him as a Wife with a Husband become one flesh and r bone of his flesh and bone and endevored us with all diligence to go forth with him in all upright righteousness and holiness to his true being according to the Spirit then we observed how that all enemies of the Godly life and all those who were turned away from the obedience of the requiring of our service of Love rose up very resistingly 40 For all those who were turned to themselves and their opinion and imagination of the knowledge became our enemies together with the enemies of the Godly Life and upright being of Jesus Christ all did resist or strive every one with his particular power and malice against the body bloud of Jesus Christ and against us Namely the worldly hearts with their worldly pride or lusts s of the flesh lust of the eyes and haughtiness of life The false hearts of the Letter-learned with their scribling knowledge * The hypocrites with t their self made holiness and counterfeit ceremonial God-service The self Seekers with their profit-seeking and * greediness The self-conceited together with the Apostates from the obedience of the doctrine of the service of Love with their opinion of the humane Self-conceitedness and with the fals freedom of impenitent unregenerate men The lascivious sinners and sinneresses with their ungodly and unchast life The envious and slanderers with their persecuting and speaking lyes and all spiteful and wicked doers with their malice and falshood c. 41 All these and such like with their consorts adherents or companions used all their subtilty totally to destroy and from the sight of their eyes to put away or root out from the earth the holy Body pure bloud or life of Jesus Christ and his good or upright being and so then to live free by themselves in the separateness from the obedience of the doctrine of H. N. and the service of the love of Jesus Christ 22 For the eyes of the wicked hearts can by no means endure u the Goodness nor the true doctrine of the love of Jesus Christ nor also the obedience to the entrance of his upright being as * to cast a good lookon it or to think well on it but to make the worst construction of it and to despise and to destroy his Body and bloud 43 Yea they say one to another he boasteth himself too highly and giveth himself out that he is of one being with God and u is the Son of God and the heir of Gods spirituall and heavenly treasures and that there belongeth not to us though we yet know how to talk of it to have any * share in
as he of old had promised to a raise up the same through his holy Prophets and with the same word and out of the same word the Lord b poured upon H. N. his holy Spirit of the of the Love of Jesus Christ 4 With this heavenly glory and out-flowing of the same holy Spirit of the true Love of Jesus Christ upon H. N. the Lord chose him to be a Minister of his holy and gracious word which He the Lord had excited and revealed in him 5 And the Lord prepared or ordained to H. N. for his assistance in the same ministration Daniel Elidad Tobias which continued allwayes with him and assisted him in all his ministration of the the gracious word of the Lord 6 And at that time also through the power of God and impulse of the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ H. N. was driven in his whole spirit mind for to administer on t of the holy and gracious word and holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ the most holy Office of the Love according to the command of God and to attest and set down in writing the godly truth of God and of Christ and the c upright way of the through-going or Passe-over which reacheth to the npright righteousnesse and to the eternalllife and to publish and express writingly in letters before all eyes of understanding 7 H. N. being thus chosen of the God of life to the ministration of his gracious word and was impulsed by the holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ to set * forth the manefestatton of the Truth of God and of the Godlinesse of Jesus Christ and let the Sonnes of men to know their errours that they repenting of their sins d may turn from their errour and sincerely endeavour to keep the truth of God and the godliness of Jesus Christ So he gave himself obediently at that time to that service and work of the Lord and carefully endeavoured to set down all that the Lord revealed and commanded him and that should be most profitable and necessary for the Sonnes of men to their Salvation and Peace and to the entrance of the upright life 8 But in his beginning of the same service and writings the word of the Lord came to him and said H. N. stay thy hand from writing in this place and get thee up and travel out of this land wherein now thou livest that thy soul may be preserved alive in my service and worke and be not devoured by bloud-thirsty men and in thy going out from this land take thy journey Eastward and dwell there till I my selfe by the hand of my Angel bring thee from thence 9 For whilest thou livest there thou shalt apply thy selfe for the most part to be in the land Pietas that thou mayest be diligent there rightly and according to the truth to manifest my honour and Love and to reveal the same to those who are worthy of love 10 For there in the manifesting of mine honour and Love thou shalt testifie and figure forth in writing the godly and heavenly things which I do reveal and make known unto thee and that profitable for the children of men unto Godliness 11 To thee shall also from henceforth many mysteries of my heavenly Kingdome which hitherto have been kept and concealed from the e world and her wise and letter-learned be revealed and made known for to bring the same to light 12 At the time according to the word and command of the Lord H. N. instantly took his journey Eastward and became an Inhabitant in the land of the East and was for the most time iu Pietas even as the Lord had commanded him ae3 And the Lord the God of heaven revealed to him in Pietas many godly mysteries and in these revealed mysteries H. N. excereised himselfe in Gods holy understanding to the serviceable benefit or utility of the children of men and to all their good knowledge of their Salvation and peace in Jesus Christ 14 There were revealed unto him also many wonderfull Acts or Workes of God many of which are testified and brought to light in the writings of H. N. to the knowledge of the upright Godliness in Jesus Christ 15 But in all this which the Lord hath revealed to H. N. he was rejoyced too exceedingly insomuch that he forgot all the sore wayes which he in great sadnesse had passed through 16 And the Lord afflicted him heavily through his enemies for the Lord suffered him to fall into the hands of the wicked his enemies whose ungodly being is the false destruction which hath brought on the Earth death or f mortality namely the Kingdome of the Devil and of hell which God hath not willed that it should be in the Earth but be condemned in the g bottomlesse pit and the everlasting darknesse from whence it also came And that the h Glory of Jesus Christ should be revealed on the earth and raigne over it eternally 17 Yea the same wicked Beeing must be abolished in the condemnaâ—ion at the appearing of Jesus Christ in his glory for that same is the i envious man against God and his righteousnesse and against all that is Godly and * God-service k and wherewith the man practiseth his whoredome and adultery to the disobeying and resisting his God so that thereby the man every where l turneth or inclineth to himselfe and to things which are vaine and unprofitable whereby also the same ungodly being in the false light of the mans disobedient knowledge is become predominant 18 Behold into this Abysse or Depth the Lord let fall his chosen servant H. N and suffered him to tast and feel the condemnation of all ungodly ones in the hellish fire the most horrible perdition and the most ugly abomination of desolation 19 But when now H. N. found himself thus captived in misery wherein hee was sorely vexed by his enemies so there came on him a great and mighty sadnesse and he could find no comfort at all insomuch that by reason of his great heavinesse of mind he wringed his hands and exceedingly bewailed his sinnes and cryed aloud to God and besought him for his Grace and continued therein day and night And in this his misery he composed these Psalmes of mourning and lamentation and did not hide his sinnes and thus calling on and praying to the Lord he spake forth his mourning Psalmes with weeping and lamentation Here follow the Psalmes of H. N. and the declaration of his weeping and praying in his chastisement The Rod and punishment giveth wisdome Pro. 29. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth and delighteth in him as a Father doth in his sonne Pro. 3. Therefore shall the eare which barkeneth to the correction of the Lord dwell among the wise but he that letteth go the chastising Instrâ—ction or turneth away from it he rejecteth his own â—oul Pro. 2. CAAP. VI Psalme I. 1 O My
Lord my God a my heart quaketh before thee for though thy punishment upon my sinnes my bones do shake and great b sadnesse pain and smart fall on me 2 Thus I fear O Lord thy punishment for with the same thoâ— makest known unto me my sinnes and thou lettest me see the evil things which have ensnared me 3 O God wilt thou not deliver me from these evil things so must I continue in misery and must feare thy hand continually 4 But thou O Lord art he which c woundest and healest againe help me as thou usest to doe 5 Let my sighings d out of the bottome of my heart come before thee and turne not thy mercy from me 6 For O Lord I do not e forget thee but wait dayly for thy goodnesse 7 Look f on my misery and leave me not in death nor let me be lost for ever 8 g Take away O Lord the sinne from me and let thy Spirit of life refresh me otherwayes O Lord O Lord of Lords I have no life in me 9 Therefore O Lord of life when thou art my life then I live and my bones must rejoyce 10 When I find mercy in thine eyes then is comforted the inward mind of my soul 11 But O Lord when thou art h a death to me and art angry with me then am I like unto the dead and go i down to hell as the wicked that are damned 12 Out of which k depth now my foul sigheth and calleth O Lord unto thee for in the same I remember with anguish of mind my sinnes past and must bewaile with tears my evil actions 13 For thou O Lord art the strength and l Saviour of men from the sinne he that taketh hold on thee m falleth not into transgressions 14 But the man which relyeth on hâ—s owne strength he falls soonest and then must he confess that thou alone O Lord art the life of his Salvation 15 When thou takest pity on him and raisest him again then he obtaineth mercy and must praise thy goodnesse continually 16 For what is man O Lord without thy grace is he any thing ah no he is nothing of himselfe n 17 Therefore let thy mercy o shine about me and doe not think on my transgressions 18 Therefore my ioy O God is in thee and with thankfullnesse must I praise the grace of thy Love 19 For thou comfortest the low p minded and those which be forsaken thon blotest out their sinnes and takest q away the evil heart of their misdeedes 20 When thou O Lord givest the blessing then is thy consolation present and then with a joyous song of praise is thy holy name praised 21 But in case thou dost hide thy selfe then is the sinne active and when thou doest rise up to punish O Lord who can then r stand before thee 22 Is not a man like unto s the blossome of the field which thy heat causeth to wither and like unto t dust and ashes which the wind doth â—catter here and there 23 Therefore have thou mercy on me O my God and Father and let thy good spirit support me u otherwayes I shall vanish into nothing CHAP. VII Psalme II. 1 O Lord let thine a anger be turned about and punish me not continually in thy displeasure b 2 O Lord c punish me not according to my sinnes but chastise me unto amendment and d teach me also thy Lawes and hide not thy mercy from me 3 Reject me not O Lord nor wholly e forsake me but bring to my knowledge my transgressions 4 And chastise me even so O my God with a f fatherly correction so shall I turne unto thee 5 But if thou totally rejectest me to whom g shall I then goe O God and King of all righteousness for thou alone art my h comfort 6 For vain is the comfort of i maâ— and all the Treasures of the world are O God no joy to me 7 The sinne is an abhomination unto me the worlds joy with the pleasures thereof are all dead unto me 8 If thou Lord k hidest the lovely being of thy countenance from me O Lord what is then my life 9 Therefore O God remember not l alwayes my sins but guide my m feet in the way of life 10 Then shall I praise thy mercy O Lord among the n living and spread thy praise among the upright 11 For I acknowledge my o transgressions and my sinnes are a p heavy burthen unto me 12 O how q heavily was I wearied in the wayes of my errors what cumbersome wayes did I go through 13 Now sinne with its death hath r throughly pierced me the Devil with his bands ruled over me and Hell with its power hath shut me into the stocks to devoure me 14 But thou O Lord that canst deliver from death deliver s me from all mine enemies 15 Helpe me out of my misery and forsake me not in my sorrow CHAP. VIII Psalme III. 1 O Lord Almighty God art thou not he that a killest and makest alive againe 2 Art thou not a God who condemnest and b bringest into hell and from thence bringect again and savest 3 How Long O Lord shall I go on into perdition how long yet shall sinne raigne over me 4 How long shall the c bonds of death hold bound How long shall the power of the Devil and of Hell captive me 5 If thou deliver me O Lordâ— then am I freed but if thou forsakest me then am I desolate and must remain comfortless eternally 6 Therefore O Lord be thou my aid and from the bottomless d mercy of thy love succour me and according to the multiplicity of thy grace blot out mine iniquity 7 For I am filled up with sins and lie in the deep under them and feel no power of comming out e by my self 8 Seeing I am impotent therefore have my enemies bound me and brought guiltiness upon me to condemn me 9 And those which were sometimes my f friends now set their mouthes horribly against me and make a terrible face at me and shew all their hatred towards me 10 I lookt every where up and down for a faithful g friend but there is not one of all my friends as a faithful friend adhered to me but they have all made up themselves in enmity against me and whetted their h teeth at me and sharpned their swords to destroy me 11 O God seeing thou punishest mee now and art against me therefore are all become enemies to me that are round about me and all fall on me there stayeth not one with me to my defence 12 But they all cry i there hee lieth there he lieth he is faln and shall never rise again 13 O Lord reward them according as they have k deserved recompence to me let thy fierce
wrath fall upon them and root out all my enemies totally 14 Destroy and bring them all to shame which imagine evil against my soul and which lie in wait for my life 15 Yea let them be condemned to l hell eternally which profess themselves friendly to me and there under mix their poisonous falshoods therewith to destroy me 16 O Lord my God root out all the m wicked ones for they have spoiled the earth and made it wast that thy Saints may take in the land and inherit the same in truth and righteousness forever 17 O my Father and my God thou n who art my strength and Saviour support me for I lie faln among the midst of the wicked 18 They have bound me with their cords or snares and deal very unmercifully with me 19 Look on my o sorrows how miserable my enemies have made me I loved them all and have declared my love unto them 20 But they have in hate rewarded me with wickedness they have wounded me deadly and they have pierced through all my inward parts with poison 21 They fed me with p wormwood or bitterness when I was in the snares of death and have poured me forth poison and bitter drink for wine when I thirsted after a little refreshment and sought comfort in my soul 22 O Lord heal thou my soul lest I perish and let thy Word of life shine about me then shall my soul recover her health 23 O Father q forsake me not for ever in thy displeasure but let thy mercy be a comfort to my soul 24 When I called thus long and the Lord did not hearken unto mee then I thought in my heart I am as nothing and as one that goeth forsaken or as a lost one 25 O Lord shall thy punishment upon me not cease can there no grace be found for me in thine eyes O thou most high God thou that art full of all mercy 26 Therefore O God chastise me yet to amendment let me know what thy pleasure is and r guide me in thy way which thou wouldest have me to walk 27 Strengthen O Lord my bones and s create in me an upright heart mind 28 Then shall I be able to walk uprightly in thy ways else my undertakings are without strength as nothing CHAP. IX Psalme IV. 1 OH Lord how are my sinnes over-weighty and a how heavy stand before me my transgressions 2 For the anguish of them over-burthen me exceedingly O Lord if thou doest not ease me I must consume to nothing 3 O Lord doest thou delight in the death of sinners doest thou not rather desire that we should b turn and live 4 Thou hast no pleasure in our destruction therefore c arise O God and help me that I may praise thee and may tell among all the Congregations of thy mercy to the honour praise of thy holy name 5 O Lord be gracious unto me and d let the great bounty of thy mercifulness come upon me 6 Forgive me O Lord mine iniquities and guide me in thy righteousness let not O Lord thy wrath devour me 7 But poure forth thy e anger upon the ungodly and destroy them before mine eyes which imagine nothing but mischief against me and their delight is onely to destruction 8 And let thy goodness O Lord assist me prepare my heart according to thy will and have compassion upon any ignorance and weakness 9 My ignorance f and my conversation with the iniquity remember not O Lord forever but deliver thy servant out of their hands 10 For thou O Lord hast made known unto me the wayes of my errours but to come again into the right way the knowledge nor the power is not in me 11 Therefore O Lord make them g all blind and feeble that are against me and give me the sight of thy life the power of thy righteousness 12 Deliver me h out of the hands of the crafty for they have no good in their minds 13 If so be O Lord that I find mercy before thine eyes then is my soul rejoyced 14 Then will I O Lord with thy power rule over all mine enemies and break them to pieces as earthen vessels 15 But now O Lord heal me of my torment and take away all ignorance from my thoughts and i teach thy servant thy Statutes 16 O God by reason of my sius hast thou with chastising humbled me reiect me not now wholly but draw my soul again unto thee 17 Thereby is made known thy great mercy that thou shewest mercy again to those who were k estranged from thee and have sinned against thee 18 For I O Lord have transgressed and turned my back on thee and feared not thy great power nor glory 19 But seeing thou now chastisest me O God for my errours my soul submitteth before thee confessing that I am worthy of death and damnation 20 Therefore O God of life thou who art an errour to the erring and a death l unto the dead for to prepare a conquest of death for the living and to lead the upright out of all errour into thy wayes take me now by thine hand and lead me out from among the wicked who all surround me like so many Bears and fierce m Wolves 21 O Lord make hast before they devour my soul for thy Goodness n endureth for ever CAAP. X. Psalme V. 1 AH why is it thus woful with me what aileth me how hard do my sinnes presse me how am I thus overwhelmed with the wickednesse 2 That which I would not that must I endure and that which I a desire flyeth far from me 3 The evil presseth and tormenteth me the devils power tyrannizeth over me 4 O Lord deliver me from these snares and let thy life be gracious to me and refresh my minde 5 Grant O Lord that my soul be refreshed in thee and be thou my comfort in this desertion 6 For what am I that I should be able to stand b when thou O Lord pourest forth thy wrath upon me 7 Or wilt thou quite destroy me O God of life and no more reveal salvation to me 8 What is then my life if I may commend them for happy which never c lived and that never knew thee nor thy Glory 9 For who O Lord shall praise thee most but he whom thou hast delivered out of great misery and freest him from all vexation of his soul 10 Therefore O Lord be d merciful unto me mercy O Lord mercy through the great abundance of thy mercies deliver me from my torments CHAP. XI Psalme VI 1 O Lord thou which art the God of all the World let thy mercy shine upon me and deliver me out of the pit of death and out of the hellish fire 2 For sadness compasseth a me above measure and the snares of death have environ'd me my sins stand in my sight against b
me and the Devil c roareth to devour me 3 Hell taketh hold on me and the d sorrows of my mind oppress me 4 My heart is cut through with e the sword of anguish and my thoughts bring forth all perplexities 5 Therefore must my soul now lament f as one that is forsaken without comfort 6 O Lord wilt thou not once look down and wilt thou quite turn away thy loving countenance from me what is then my soul which thou hast begotten g brought forth to life 7 Or O Lord doest thou try my Manhood or searchest thou the strength of my creature which is but earth and ashes h and is able to do nothing as a thing which is nothing 8 For it is now become as a spoiled instrument which is unprofitable to thy service 9 Therefore I must confess unto thee my weakness and impotency be thou O Lord my power my life and my ability 10 For if thou hidest thy self from me then am I as i the dead in the grave 11 And I find my self in great misery k like to those that are in Hell 12 Therefore O Lord consider my misery and refresh the soul of my mâ—nd then O Lord will I praise thee magnifie thy glory and will sing praises unto thy name for ever 13 For who is he among the l dead which remembreth thee in Hell there are no praises sung unto thee 14 But when thou O Lord doest afflict then the sighs of the poor come before thee and when thou makest glad again then they sing with joy a song of praise whereby thy name is magnified as holy CHAP. XII Psalme VII 1 OH Lord how am I thus perplexed how long shall my soul endure sadness how long shall the wickedness as an over-lorder triumph over me 2 That thou O God would'st guide me in thy wayes and would'st lead me in thy a paths and would'st deliver me from my adversaries and from all b mine enemies which have made up themselves against me Then would I O God out of the whole minde of my soul bring unto thee an offering of joy and offer up a sacrifice of thanksgiving 3 O Lord let not my adversaries have their pleasure over me let not my enemies prosper against me 4 O that the wicked might give up themselves to flight and not reign over me for ever to the end that my c enemies boast not that they have destroyed me 5 O Lord assist me and rise up against mine enemies d that they may all be put to shame that assault me 6 O Lord let thy goodness imbrace me clense me from my sins and deliver me from the murtherous e persecutors of my soul that my soul may dwell in thee thee O my God in peace and without care 7 Ah how long shall I yet endure mine enemies how long shall they torment my soul with disquietness 8 Well I will be of good chear in the confidence of my God that my soul may get some refreshment 9 Oh my soul thou oppressed one f be of good chear in thy perplexity and expect the comfort of the Lord in long-suffering 10 For he will comfort thee in peace g if thou takest patience to thee as a precious treasure 11 He will bring unto thee meek-mindedness for an ornament and the burthen of the wicked shall be lightened in thee and h thy mind shall be refreshed in God CHAP. XIII Psalme VIII 1 WHy art thou so troublesome to me a O thou unbelief and distrust for my hope is in the living God that he will yet heal my soul 2 O Lord b heal me and take away from me the evil nature namely all the opposition of thy goodness 3 Ah I am doubtless very deeply wounded there is c no soundness in my soul 4 O God I am very miserable by reason of my torments is there any so d distempered as I am 5 I am not now like unto any e man but to those which have changed their humane form and shape 6 Wherefore was I born f upon the earth for I perish in great misery and am good for no use 7 O that my Father had let fall the seed of which I was begotten like Onan the sonne g of Juda that I had never been 8 Or that I for or to my Fathers sinne like the first born son of David h by Bashsheba had died 9 Ah that the earth would open it self receive me that the i hils would fall on me and cover and smother me in the earth that I might no longer see this horrible abomination 10 For I am bereaved of all comfort riches honour and wisdom 11 All unsoundness torment k sinne death Devil and Hell is faln upon me 12 Ah my l heart is thus afflicted and my mind is so much disquieted 13 My â—ones m quake my feet tremble and my jaw-bone is shaken 14 My teeth chatter my hands are wrung about or turned round my eyes weep and my thoughts affright me 15 All evil spirits domineâ—â— over me and and my enemies drive me upon doubtings 16 Anguish and n perplexity more heavily oppress me then if the whole world lay on me 17 Doubt of deliverance and all despair o assault me the unbelief bringeth desperation before me as if I were forsaken eternally 18 There is no where any refreshment p for my soul that I might revive my self a little 19 Ah how hard doth the punishment of my God laid hold on me his stripes fall on me as q burning coals and flames of fire 20 I am afraid that the heat of his fire r will consume me to nothing 21 Or that he will hold his fierce countenance continually over me and hide his lovely face for ever from me 22 Ah I must bewail my sins continually for these hard stripes torment me CHAP. XIV Psalme IX 1 WHile I was thus wounded stricken chastised my friends also a made up themselves against me and became my enemies 2 And they also cried out against me with great accusation and said b O yea that is his reward the accursed 3 Kill him c away away with this wicked one condemn him for ever into hell 4 His sins are manifested to be beyond mercy for his evil deed is as of the most ungodly wicked one 5 Yea God thus rejecteth all those which fall off from him and never more come to his favour again 6 Therefore let all shame reproach and the eternal death befal him let not God help or succour him for ever 7 O Lord let that perdition which they have wished to me and also themselves have framed against me let it fall on d themselves and when they are smitten down let them never rise again 8 They have intended mischief against me e O Lord repay them that they have f deserved on my behalf
thou who art the God of all the world turn thee in mercy to me that the enemy destroy me not and let not thy d wrath abide upon me for ever 8 My sins make me fearful and my transgressions make me timerous to speak of thy righteousness 9 Therefore am I become dumb e as if I had no speech in my mouth 10 I am become ashamed of my self because of the multitude of my sins 11 O God support me under thy rod f and chastising instruction that I forget not thee nor thy law 12 Clense g me O God from my sins from the Heathenship and from all ungodly being 13 O how presumptuous are the despisers the gain-sayers of thy holy Name 14 How long must I O God endure thy reproach and thy adversaries CHAP. XVIII Psalme XIII 1 O How long shall I yet suffer thee thou dissembling nature which hast as it were honey in thy mouth but there under a shootest thou forth thy poison according to the nature of the Serpent 2 Thou allurest forth my soul as to a life of sweetness and embracest me b as with a faithful love 3 Thou walkest before me in shew of a Lambe thy wayes are laid forth as if they led to a peace of good rest 4 Thou risest up as a light unto life and among the impenitent thou art as c a morning star to the uprising of the day 5 The sound of thy voice is delightful d and thy speech seemeth very pleasant 6 But thou art a false nature which drawest the souls of men to thy own propriety or interest and then thou shewest forth thy evil fruits and rulest over them with thy good-thinking knowledge 7 Thou fallest a roaring as a Lion e that would tear in pieces and spewest out thy fiery flames as a Dragon 8 Thou destroyest as a Wolfe and shewest there through thy robbing as a Thief f and so indevourest thee as a Murderer to destroy my soul 9 O God Father thou Almighty Lord how long shall I be set with the wicked and be judged or accused by them How long shall I tast of their poison and endure their false testimonies against me 10 In all my ways where I go they g lay their snares for me and use all subtilty to take h my soul and to bring an accusation against it 11 For in my presence many of them shew as if they were my friends and account me for one of their kindred and brethren 12 O God make their dissimulation to be an abomination to me and make me an enemy to them poure out thy fierce i wrath on them that they may flie farre from me 13 That my soul may seek for her comfort onely in thee and may be delivered from her plagues CHAP. XIX Psalme XIV 1 O Lord take away the a inclination of my own will and purge my heart from the offence 2 Let O Lord no bitter b root grow in me lest envy take possession in my heart 3 But O Lord my God change my being and refresh my miude 4 For the taking on of my own c will plant in me the submission 5 Instead of perversness and bitterness d plant thy nature of the love and the vertuous being 6 That I also O Lord may walk uprightly before thee and shew thy mercy to me that I may tell it forth e continually and forever 7 For I am faln down in sins and there is no comfort in my heart for there is no power in me of rising 8 Therefore O Lord let thy grace shine on me and help those that are weak For I am smitten down even unto Hell 9 And now is my soul afflicted and I must f lament my untimely birth 10 Because I am born upon the earth such a disobedient one to thy truth 11 Therefore O Lord consider that I am g brought forth in sin yet will I love thy goodness but without thee and thy power h I am not able to inherit any thing of thy goodness 12 All the intentions of my own counsel or mind are vain and my own i thoughts meditate nothing but folly 13 There is no strength k nor understanding in me to do good how shall I then O Lord be able rightly to turn unto thee 14 Therefore O Lord consider me and appear unto me in my misery 15 Turn me to thee through thy light l then O Lord am I rightly turned unto thee 16 And give unto me such a portion of faith as I may through thee O Lord conquer the iniquity 17 For I have kept nothing by me neifaith nor spirit whereby I may live 18 For all my portion m which I have received of thy goodness have I spent wasted and consumed upon strangers 19 And now seek I here and there my feeding or food but I finde no comfort â—n my soul among strangers to my satisfaction 20 As I ponder of all this in my heart then sigheth my soul out of great distress 21 Because I perish for hunger and thirst in misery and that there is such abundance of goods in the house of the Lord my Father 22 When I consider this that I of my own accord have wandred from thence then suffereth my soul far greater sorrow 23 Forasmuch now O my God and Father as I have consumed all thy good gifts therefore am I not worthy to be called after thy name 24 But let me find from thee the favour of a stranger and that I may stand in thy favour as one of the meanest of the servants of thy servants and that my sins might be forgiven me 25 For I O Father have dealt more unjustly with thy goods then the n unfaithfull servant which buried his talent in the earth which he received from thee 26 O God I have yet done more unfaithfully with thy goods for I have not done so well as to bury thy goods but have made them away and therewith committed unrighteousness 27 Therefore I am ashamed of my self and desire now O God nothing else from thee but onely thy mercy that thou would'st pardon o mine iniquities and blot out my transgressions 28 And that I may p walk in thy house among the meanest of thy servants and might feed upon a morsel of thy bread 29 But now O Lord I lie down before thee q as a footstool of thy feet and submit to thee in the greatest humiliy of my heart receive mee O God into thy mercy 30 Plant in mine inwardness r thy law and write it in the minde of my thoughts and hide not thy will from me 31 But take away from me the perverse minde and thoughts which are against thee 32 And guide me O Lord in thy truth s in the way in which thou wilt have me to walk 33 And give then O my God and Father such an t heart and
mind in which I may live and praise thee CHAP. XX Psalme XV 1 WHen I now for a long time confessed my sins before the Lord and his Saints sought for mercy praying for comfort to my soul and had suffered the chastising instruction in following after Christ in a his death of the cross and thus did manifest that I was humbled and willing to all obedience Then the goodness of God the Father appeared to me aagain And I spake with great thankfulness in my heart and said 2 O well and happy is he which hungreth and b thirsteth after the righteousness and is no mans enemy therein and so c boweth himself under the rod of his God and endureth his correction And waiteth in d patience on the goodness of the Lord and his compassion 3 For behold the punishment e lasteth onely for a short time which cometh to an end but the mercy of the Lord and his goodness f endureth for ever and his love hath no end g 4 Hee forgiveth and blotteth out the sins of the people which turn unto him with all their heart for they meditate upon that which is holy and good and learne also to practise that which is h right and reasonable 5 Yea this the Lord turneth away his fury and displeasure from his Elect and turns his wrath on his enemies which must perish through his indignation as i chaffe and dust 6 Therefore O God my soul k shall praise thee for ever for thou seekest the life to the preservation but the enemies of the life l must be brought to nothing 7 O Lord how is thy Goodnesse and Mercy out of thy love so great m that thou settest them free who were taken and bound by others 8 And thou makest that good againe which was spoiled and corrupted by another 9 Againe thou n seekest and findest that which was lost by another even unto nothingnesse 10 Thou bringest o to right againe that which was mis-led by another 11 Thou revivest that p which was put to death by another 12 Thereby is known O Lord thy Almightinesse for this O God is thy Love Power and Mercy CHAP. XXI Palme XVI 1 GIve thanks to the Lord with Hymns for a Great and wonderfull is his mightinesse 2 Where is there such a God as the God of b Israel who maketh the dead alive and delivereth his Elect out of the c condemnation and judgement of hell 3 And bringeth them away out of all the straights of their enemies to his holy inheritance of rest and peace according as he hath d promised and sworne of old 4 For be is Potent who e killeth Thousands and hath killed ten Thousand for to deliver his 5 He riseth early against his enemies which are oppressors of his who out of anguish call upon him for the injustice sake 6 Therefore is the Lord a f King of all Glory an over ruler of all Powers 7 For with the Arme of his strength he taketh in the land and treads down his enemies as if they were loame or â—lay 8 With his breath or wind he g scattereth them away as if they were dust and chaff 9 And he delivereth the h poor and miserable which call upon him 10 Therefore is the Lord great mighty a i King and God in Eternity Allelu-ia Allelu-ia CHAP. XXII Psalme XVII 1 THerefore exalt our God and praise his holy Name 2 Because he hath taken the Kingdome and the Scepter of his Kingdom is made manifest 3 For the Lord is a become King wherefore let his people rejoyce 4 His Word hath shewed power his righteousness is become manifest 5 His Spirit hath appeared like a light and confirmeth his salvation forever 6 The same God hath renewed us in him and given us a new understanding 7 A new b creature hath he brought forth the image of God the upright righteousness 8 Therefore the people speak with new tongues the new song is in our mouth 9 Lord c wonderful are thy works for thou hast done marvellous acts among us 10 The evil that was in us is now no where to be found amongst us that which we knew not in the death is now apparent to us in the everlasting life 11 The sinne is now with us condemned in the sinne d The righteousnesse is declared unto us in righteousness 12 The death is now among us swallowed up in the death e the everlasting life is come unto us in the renewing of our lives 13 The hell is judged or condemned in the f pit of hell the heaven is shewed unto us in the heavenly being 14 The lye is come to shame the Truth is risen up unto us in the Truth 15 The darknesses are gone into the bottomlesse pit to the darknesses g the light hath illuminated us in the light 16 The Idol is fallen in his Idolatry the living God is become known unto us in the Diety or Godhead 17 Therefore we confesse the maiestie of our God and the sanctification of his people eternally CHAP. XXIII Psalme XVIII 1 O Lord thou almighty God Great and a Wonderful are thy Works 2 Righteous b and true are thy ways thou Prince and King of Saints 3 Who should not fear and love thee O Lord of life and praise thy Name 4 For there is no holiness but thou for thou only O Lord c art holy 5 All people shall worship thee in d thy thy presence where thou becommest manifest in thy holy Temple 6 For thy righteousness e are known and thy holiness inherited by thy people 7 But not a holiness by mens hands but an holiness which is from Eternity and shall continue forever 8 Therefore do'st thou O Lord remain a God for ever a King which shall reign eternally 9 Thus are we now joyful in this portion and sing Heja Heja 10 Play to the Lord a new f song and sing Allelu-ja Al elu-ja CHAP. XXIV Psalme XIX 1 REjoyce ye with joy ye a daughters of Sion anâ— refresh you ye Citizens and inhabitants of the City Jerusalem 2 Shout now b with triumph all ye Generatious of Israel And rejoyce you in all love the children of peace 3 Behold your King c appeareth unto you in meeknesse and he cometh d with majestie 4 For that he should establish you heire like in his Sanctuary for to possesse his Kingdome for ever 5 But to his enemies the resisters of the Love e hee appeareth in wrath and severity 6 For to thrust them from him and to f shut them without his Kingdome eternally 7 For he will put a period g to iniquity and cast all falshood aâ—d offencivenesse out of his h Kingdome 8 He will disperse the deceitfull thoughts his life disposition and nature he will bring to light 9 He will establish his Kingdome in peace and the
the Truth of thy Christ 9 Therefore must I now also with thy Prophet David take up a speech against miâ—e enemies and persecutors and utter forth the same against their wicked deeds And will O God abase my selfe before thee t glory in thee and thy Goodnesse Supplicate and pray unto thee and give thanks and praise to thee O God for all the Goodnesse which thou O heavenly Father hast bestowed on me H. N. thy chosen servant 10 And thereupon when H. N. had spoken these words before the eares of the most high then he began this speech against his enemies out of the Psalme of David and said CHAP. XXVIII 1 OYe a Tyrants why do ye boast because ye can do mischief whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily 2 Your tongues follow mischief and with lyes ye cut as a sharp Razor 3 Ye rathhr speak evil then good and rather falshood then truth 4 Ye willingly speak all that tendeth to destruction with false tongues 5 Therefore will God also confound and totally consume you remove you out of his Tent or Tabernacle and root you out of the land of the living 6 And the righteous shall see it and fear and laugh at you and say 7 Behold b these are the men that held not God for their comfort but trusted onely in their c great riches and were mighty to do mischief 8 But I shall continue as a green Olive tree in the house of God for I trust in the goodness of God constantly and for ever 9 I thank thee O God for ever for thou art able to do it I will relie on thy Name for therein have thy Saints joy 10 Help d me O God through thy Name and let me have justice through thy power 11 Hear O God my prayers hearken to the voice of my mouth 12 Proud men set themselves against me and Tyrants lay wait for my soul and have not God before their eyes 13 Behold God standeth by me the Lord supporteth my soul 14 He will reward the wickedness of mine Enemies e cast them out through thy faithfulness 15 Then will I O Lord bring unto to thee an offering of joy and thank thy name because it is so comfortable 16 For thou delivereâ—â— me out of all my misery so that mine eyes see their desire on my enemies 17 Deliver me f my God from mine enemies and protect mee from them that set themselves against me 18 Deliver me from the evil doers and help me from the bloud-thirsty 19 For behold Lord they lie in wait for my soul the strong ones gathered themselves against me without any crime or mâ—â—deed of mine 20 Their g doctrine is meer sin they persevere in their pride they preach meere curses gain-sayings and detractions 21 They think to extinguish him that is simple h and are diligent to lye give fair words but they curse in their hearts 22 But my soul waiteth upon God alone for he is my hope 23 For they have opened their i wicked and false mouthes against me and speak against me with false tongues 24 They speak every where poisonously against me and fight without a cause 25 Because I love them therefore are they against me but I do pray 26 They requite me evil for good and hatred for love 27 Lord O God k heare my voice in my complaint preserve my life from my cruel enemies 28 Hide me from the gatherings of the wicked from the multitude of evil doers 29 Which whet their tongues as a sword they aime with their poisonous words as with arrows 30 Secretly l to shoot at the upright hâ—shly they shoot at them without fear 31 They are bold in their evil attempts and say how that they will lay snares and say who can see it 32 They invent deceit and keep it secretly they are destroyers and exercise falshood subtily 33 But God will suddenly shoot them that woe shall come upon them their own tongues shall overthrow them and he that beholds them shall deride them 34 And all men that see it shall say God hath done this and shall perceive that it is his work 35 But the Righteous shall rejoyce in the Lord and trust in him and all upright hearts shall glory thereat CHAP. XXIX 1 I Thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour 2 I praise thy Name that thou art my helper and protector 3 For thou hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snares of false treacherous tongues and lying lips and thou haâ—â— helped me against mine enemies 4 And according to thine abundant mercy thou hast delivered me from the roaring of them which would devoure me and out of the hands of such as sought after my life out of many sorrows which had surrounded me and out of the middest of the fire that I should not be therein consumed 5 Also out of the depth of Hell and from the false praters and lyers and also hast delivered me from the King or Magistrate and from the unrighteous judgement of false tongues 6 I was neer to death and my life was almost going down to Hell for I was compassed about on every side and there was no man to help me 7 I hoped indeed for the help of man and behold there was none 8 Then I remembred O Lord thy mercy and how thou hast helped constantly Thou deliverest all those which wait upon thee and releasest them out of the hands of the heathen or uncircumcised 9 Against their fierceness I prayed unto God and intreated for deliverance from death and called to the Lord my Father and Ruler that he would not forsake me in my trouble for the proud have lifted up themselves and when I had no hope 10 I will praise thy Name continually and I honour and give thanks unto thee for my prayer is heard and thou hast delivered me from the destruction and from all evil 12 Therefore will I O Lord thank and praise thee and extol or magnifie thy Name 12 When I was yet but young and before any errors took hold to seduce me I very earnestly sought for wisdom in my prayer 13 I went therefore into the Temple and here even until the last and she was unto me an early ripe Grape 14 My heart rejoyced in the wisdome and I went presently in her way and thus from my youth I sought after her 15 I hearkned and inclined my ears after her and took her to me or united me with her 16 Then found I much wisdome and through her I increase greatly and praised him who gave me wisdome 17 I was resolved to do accordingly and to endeavour carefully after the good and I was not there at ashamed 18 I wrested there after with all my heart and was diligent to do accordingly 19 I lifted up my hands to Heaven and my soul was enlightned through the wisdome that I knew my follishness 20 I ordered
my heart to wisdome and found her pure in all things and I joyned in all things and I joyned my heart with her even from the beginning 21 Therefore shall I not be forsaken for my heart exceedingly longeth after her And therefore also have I obtained a good Treasure 22 For the Lord hath given me through her a new tongue that I with her should praise him 23 Come hither to me ye that are unlearned and assemble you to me in the house of instructioâ— and what you want that may ye learn if your souls be very thirsty after it 24 Behold I have opened my mouth teach therefore come now and buy wisdome for your selves forasmuch as ye can have her without money and bow your necks under her yoke and be instructed for she is now found neer at hand 25 Look on me how I have had for a little time labour and trouble and have found a great comfort 26 Therefore embrace the doctrine of wisdom as a great treasure and keep her as a great heap of gold 27 Rejoyce in the great mercy of God and be not ashamed to praise him 28 Do what is commanded you whilst ye have time and he will well recompence you in his time CHAP. XXX 1 IN the 65 year of the age of H N. in the 12th moneth of the yeer in time of Maximilian the second was made Roman Emperor by the power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the Gâ—rman Nation the Word of Lord came to H. N. and said 2 H. N. Arise and be diligent to perform thy journey towards the land which will be convenient peaceable for thee to dwell in and conceal thy self very carefully from thy despisers and keep thy self apart for a time from thine acquaintance and friends according to the â—lesh especially from those with whom thou hast outwardly most friendship 3 But from thy despisers and from the lascivious whoremongers from all slanderous Traitors accusers and false censurers of the testimonies of the holy Spirit of my Love together also from all impenitent ones which have heard the same testimonies and do not obediently take to heart to the reforming of their lives the requiring of my holy and gracious word but have their conversation with the light-minded and mockers and with the enemies of my house of Love and from all perjured and unfaithful ones which will not repent Thou shalt as much as possible thou mayest wholy and altogether separate And shalt keep thy self altogether separated from such so long as they do not obediently humble themselves under my gracious word and ministration of Love and bear not sorrow for their sins neither confess nor repent And so proceed in thy journey till thou commest to another land that I will shew thee which is full of blessing which I have prepared from the beginning for my a chosen ones with abundance of all my riches to b a land of rest and peace 4 In which land it will be very convenient and peaceable for thee to dwell in all those which love my gracious word and service of Love unto Obedience and bring forth sincere fruits of repentance likewise all those which desire to assemble with thee to the gracious Throne of my Majesty have faithful hearts and do mind righteousness and Love will indeed willingly follow thee and be joyned to the requiring of my Testimonies and obedience for to become c one in their heart and minde in me 5 They shall likewise for to come into the same land and there to have their walking in thy fellowship willingly heare and believe the out-flowing words of thy mouth or of the Elders in the houshold of Love and will obediently perform the requiring thereof 6 Therefore thy journey also and the way of thy Passeover to the same land as a preparation to the d new birth in Jesus Christ shall continually be kept in remembrance and plainly declared shewed and proposed to the lovers of the Truth and the upright Righteousness and he thus passed through by the On-comming Elders to the end that all those who are inclined to the new birth in Jesus Christ and desire to have their fellowship with thee and with the Elders of the houshold of Love pass through the same way of preparation to the entrance of the e same good Land and to the new Birth in Jesus Christ uprightly and obediently with an upright understanding of the Truth and that they might be assembled to thee and thy heart and mind in my hereditary land of rest and of peace And should not erre through their good thinking opinion nor yet suppose themto be therein before they be gone through the same way of the Passeover and in any wise not deceive themselves 7 And when thou thus separatest thy self for an example or glass to all good willing hearts unto the righteousneâ—s from thy kindred after the flesh for a time and be takest thee to the journey then shalt thou not â—eparate thy self nor by no means esteem thy self severed or disjoyned from the Ancients thy fellow Elders in the Family of Love nor from the faithfull ones but take advise keep friendship and all loveliness with them even to eternity For of them shall travel with thee 24 and they shall be called unto me * Nazaraeans f 8 Further there shall travel with thee four of the chiefest Seraphims in the houshold of Love who shall alwayes be about and with you to the preservation of you all 9 Behold with these four and twenty Elders and the four chiefest Seraphims which I have ordained or joyned to thee shalt thou travel forwards till that thou commest into mine holy land of the living g where there are no buildings of men 10 Thou shalt also out of all the testimonies of thy Writings which thou hast published take of each one with thee and bring it with thee into the holy land of the living For there shalt thou with the said Elders through the light of my wisdome renew all the said testimonies of thy Writings to make them more plain to the understanding and also testifie the same in fuller explanation and write them again more distinctly 11 For the Whoremongers and the Adulterous generation as also the earthly and fleshly minded and the enemies of my houshold of Love have out of the testimonies of thy former Writings judged many sentences very unjustly to their own seducing therefore shalt thou now renew them all in a more plain declaration and bring forth and publish the same to the wel-willers of my Love 12 There shall also be renewed to all those with the same declared testimonies to the upright knowledge of the requiring of my word service of Love and of the entrance to the upright life namely unto such who out of a good intention apply them to the testimonies of thy Writings and have not rightly understood nor observed the requiring thereof and
that was in our power wholly over as a free willing offering to the Lord and his gracious word and committed our heart and mind to obedience unto the same gracious word and his requiring And preparing our c soules for assaulting we prayed the Lord which dwelleth in the heavens 3 And this with willing hearts we undertook our journey forward like as the Lord had said to us And travelled the the first six dayes upon the assurance or promises of the Lord with cheerfull minds and we had in all these six dayes of our travel no kind of griefe nor assaulting and we came on the first sixth day to the view of the upright Righteousnesse as to the Glasse of the same Righteousnesse In which Glass is represented unto us d the upright Righteousnesse before God and man unto which the man was created e from the beginning and is in his estranging from God called and invited thereto through Jesus Christ 4 In the same Glasse was also represented to us the unrighteousnesse or sinne f whereby the children of men estrange themselves and turn away from God and his truth deal deceitfully one with another 5 There was also figured forth unto us the right confession of sinnes and g the upright fruits of repentance which all sinfull men ought to bring forth And also earnestly to endeavour themselves in reforming their liues unto the upright righteousnesse 6 Now when all this was thus represented unto us we were very earnestly carefull to have a right regard on the upright righteousness also of the upright fruits of repentance and amendment of life That we might keep all that in our hearts unto a fruitfull life in the same upright righteousnesse 7 And therefore that we might alwayes uprightly endeavour our selves to all this so gave we our selves continually thereto into a good watchfulness namely into the h true Beliefe and Hope to the Righteousnesse and into the i bewailing and confessing of sinnes unto an amendment of life 8 And being in all friendship received by the Belief and Hope to the Righteousnesse and by the contrition for and Confession of sinnes to the amendment of life and endevoring and wholly submitting our selves to their will and requiring we rested with them the first seventh day 9 The first day thereafter next to the first seventh day we travelled forward on our way and rested us not in all the other six dayes of our journey to do our work and diligence And to inable us uprightly in the Beliefe and Hope to the Righteousnesse and in the Bewailing and Confessing of the sinnes to the amendment of life to excercise our selves in the understanding and to be instructed and taught in all these uprightly and according to the Truth And so we came on the second sixth day to the Teaching of the Righteousnesse In which Teaching we were fundamentally taught and rightly instructed in the upright righteousnes and in the Belief and Hope to the same and in the upright bewailing and confessing of sins to the ameÌ„dment of life 10 And that we might rightly and obediently endevour us to the same doctrine and instruction so thereupon gave we our selves continually to a good * observation namely into k the Delight to do the will of God and in the Freewilling obedience 11 Being most friendly received of the Delight to do Gods will and of the Free-willing obedience and endeavouring and wholly giving over our selves to their will and requiring we rested with them the second seaventh day 12 On the first day followinng next to the second seventh day we went on in our journey and we rested us not in all the third six dayes to do our worke or endeavour and with diligence to excercise our selves in the delight to do the will of God and in the Free willing obedience and to performe or to accomplish l all righteousnesse even as we were instructed and taught by the Elders in the doctrine of Righteousnesse 13 In which exercising in the delight to do the will of God and in the free willing obedience to accomplish all Righteousnesse we were in all the three six dayes of our travel strongly m assailed with divers manner of false humane * desires for to doe the will of the flesh and with all selfe willed obedience * for to performe mens opiniated or good conceited Righteousnesse And so wholly to withdraw us from the delight to doe the will of God and from the willing obedience to accomplish all Righteousnesse and from the doctrine and instruction of the Elders in the Godly understanding unto the upright Righteousnesse 14 For we did in all these third six dayes of our journey all our best indeavour and earnestnesse to overcome the assailing of the averse desires against the desire to do the will of God and the disobedience against Gods requiring together with the false selfe will'd obedience and with the free-willing obedience unto Gods requiring to be preserved there from n And humbly praying to the Lord for it we came on the third sixth day to the right Fasting and Praying In which Fasting o and Praying we observed how that men through the right o Fasting and Praying and through the constant or earnest willingnesse to the good life delivered from all false lusts or desires and from all selfe-willed inclinations to p serve the Lord alone in his upright Righteousnesse and holinesse 15 And that we might uprightly endeavour thereunto and overcome all that which is against the will of the Lord and his Righteousnesse And with the will of the Lord and his Righteousnesse obtaine the upper hand there against we gave our selves continually into a good observation namely unto the q fasting and forbearance of all that the flesh lusted after and that which the man selfishly conceived and into the hunger r and thirst after the Righteoâ—snesse 16 And being in all friendship admitted by the fasting and abstaining from all that the flesh desired and the man selfishly conceived and the hunger and thirst after Righteousnesse and earnestly endeavouring and wholly submitting us to their will and requiring we rested with them on the third seventh day 17 The first day to it next the third seventh day we travelled on our way and rested us not in all the fourth six dayes of our journey to performe our labour or industry and with all our diligence to fall and abstaine from all that the flesh and the mans good conceiving lusted after and became also very hungry and thirsty after the Righteousness for to obtaine the same and that it might everlastingly remaine stedfast upon the s earth 18 In which fasting and absteining hungring and thirsting wee were in all the fourth six dayes of our travelling most vehemently assailed or temptedâ— with all manner of things which the flesh lusted after and which the man conceived to be good and wherein hee loved his own life
therefore have not shewed the upright obedience to their requirings nor performed the first School-rule of the Christian Doctrine of the Service of my Love yet notwithstanding are well inclined to bring forth upright fruits of repentance to the intent that to every one who will permit himself to be renewed and repenteth the truth of my word may be known And the Whoremongers and impenitent ones or any of the enemies to the house of Love should understand the h of the godly sayings 13 I will yet also reveal unto thee in the land of the living many of my wonderful works and will give thee to understand yet truth many mysteries 14 I will also declare and shew unto thee the appearing of my Glorie the i glorious comming of my Christ and the Resurrection of my Saints among the right believers and obeyers of my word or Christ and also how the right beleevers and obeyers shall be renewed in their k spirit and mind in this same day of l my righteous Iudgement and how the same renewing in the inward man is the true accomplishing of the Priestly Office of my Christ under the obedience of the Beliefe And how also in accomplishing the same The said Priestly Office reacheth into the obedience of my Love to the inheriting of the spiritual heavenly riches of the holy spirit of my Christ 15 And thereupon H. N. praysed and thanked the God of heaven for his great mercy and compassion and for his righteous judgement at the last time And called to the Lord and said 16 O my Lord and God now reveal unto me also which way I shall travel on with thy chosen Saints chiefest Elders in thy Family of Love and with thy holy Testimoâ—ies of our writings to performe thy holy will and to come to thy holy land of which thou hast told me and also that I might doe as thou hast commanded me 17 Then said the Lord to H. N. the same way of the suffering of my Christ and of all my Saints whereiâ— thou now also walkest thou shalt goe on to travel through it and from the same way shalt thou not turne thee m neither to the right hand nor to the left for the same way is the true way n to my holy land of the living where no o manner of building of men are found 18 Therefore travel on in the same even as I have told thee and in the passing over the same take good heed to the doctrine of my truth the true preparation to the entrance of my land of the living For so in the fulfilling of the same way thou shalt find thy selfe in the holy place wherein I the Lord dwell live and raigne eternally 19 Be of good courage in the same way of thy forth-going for in the same way shall nor can any selfishnesse nor humane conceited wisdome or subtiltie follow thee nor by no meanes endamage thee 20 And although they would seemingly travel thorow with thee the same way yet shall they not be able but shall fail therein and become unbelieving and so through their stumbling or dislike turn aside therefrom either to the right hand or the left 21 But whosoever proceedeth in the same p till to the end constantly and faithfully and q forsaketh all for my sake and simply and faithfully in the requiring of the obedience of my service of Love followeth thee will I through my holy and gracious Word and Service of Love lead them rightly into my holy land of the living and not r remember their sins nor their slumbling and falling any more 22 Therefore endevour thee deligently with these my holy-ones which I have set before thee and with the godly testimonies of thy Writings to accomplish more and more the foresaid way of Patience 23 Likewise consult thou not with the flesh or bloud of men nor with any mans craft or subtilty but travel upon the belief or trust of my word till thou with the four and twenty Elders and four chiefest Seraphims be come to the holy place where I shall reveal and shew unto thee my heavenly workings where no t works of man can remain standing 24 For there in my Inheritance of the living will I give thee an heritage for ever And confirm thee also in the Testaments of the holy Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob to the end that thou mayest administer the same Testaments u to the death of the sin and till to the life of the righteousness among the believers of my gracious word and that then all they also may be confirmed in the same Testaments and be made heirs with thee in my hereditary land of the living and so know and understand that my testaments of the holy Fathers are not administred forth of the knowledge of men according to their conceiving but x out of my true being according to the requiring of my gracious word and service of Love 25 That also my Inheritance of the living is not like unto the earthly Inheritance of the dead nor my life and joy to the the earthly life nor to the joy of the earthly man nor my mind and y meaning to the thoughts and meanings and plausible conceiving of men 26 But all these words which the Lord did speak to H. N. he laid up in his heart for to do accordingly and he took himself to his journey according to the requiring of the Word of the Lord with the 24 Elders and the four Seraphims and with the godly testimonies of his Writings 27 And in this our travelling forward into the hereditary land of the living we were seven times seven dayes that is nine and forty dayes 28 And in this our iourney in all these nine and forty dayes we eat z no kind of food or creature which had any breath of life in it self or had received any 29 Neither did we drink in all this same time of our travel any * wine or strong drink for to rejoyce our hearts nor to refresh our minds that we might not forget diligently to apply our selves to our journey CHAP. XXXI In this Chapter is plainly figured forth and declared the true preparation of the believers of the Word to the Passeover of the new birth in Iesus Christ and to become profitable and meer Elders and Ministers of the Word in the houshold of the Love of Iesus Christ 1 NOw the beginning of our journey to the accomplishment over of the way of our passage to the heritable land of the living came thus to passe 2 First of all before we gave up our selves to travel forward * to the service-ablenesse we earnestly endeavoured us willingly and obediently out of intire Love to fulfill the Lords will and all a righteousnesse and remembring the Law of Moses the b servant of the Lord which the Lord commanded him on the mount * Horeb we gave our selves and all