rightly intimate to me and informe me how thou didst pour in thy Holy Name into my Soul and Mind yea it is sprouted forth out of thy Name and thou hast given me authority and power with thy Name to rule over all things That it should flow forth out of my Mouth through thy power and Vertue and rule All Yea I should with my Mouth and Speaking-forth or Expression re-Image and form holy Figures and Images again 192. Even as thou Eternall God hast Imaged and formed All through thy breathing or Speaking forth So thou hast also given thy WORD with thy holy Name into my Soul and Mind that I as a Form and Image of thy Will should also so speak forth viz thy Wonder-deeds 193. That which thou O Great God hast Corporeally and Creaturely Imaged through thy Word I should Image that in thy praise and form it in thy Wisdome and Image or frame no strange Image in my Mouth against thy Creation and Ordinance But continue in thy working and rule over all things with thy Word in my Mouth and Heart as the Scripture testifieth The Word is neer thee viz in thy Mouth and in thy Heart Deut. 30.14 Rom. 10.8 Also the Kingdome of God is inwardly within you Luke 17.22 194. This thy Holy Word wherewith thou hast made Heaven and Earth hast thou given into our Mouth that thou mightest through our Mouth Create or Image thy Praise 195. But after Man had Introduced himself into own-self Lust and had turned his Will away from Thee then he began with his Mouth to Image in thy Word Earthly and Hellish Figures in thy Wrath viz Cursing Swearing Lying Formes false wicked evill serpentine formes to form Wolves Beares Lyons Dogs Cats Adders and Serpents and all manner of poysonous venomous Beasts and to Image or form the Name of God thereinto under the appearance of divine forming and Truth also into false wicked Sorcery Witchcraft and deceit and therewith to cast up or produce and honour strange Images for Gods and introduce and Image thy Name into Images of Idoll Gods 196. All this thou settest before us in this Commandement and requirest of us thy strong or severe righteousness to Image thy Name in Holiness to thy Praise and in thy Praise in Clearness Sincerity and Truth and without thy Will and Co-working to make no form of Our words but willest that we should Co-speak Will and Image with thee upon pain of Eternall Punishment as thy Command clearly soundeth forth Cursed be He that Keepeth not all the Words of this Law Deut. 27.26 197. O Great God! What shall I now here say before thee How innumerable many times doe we bring thy Word and Power in Our Mouths into false or wicked Imaging when we swâ—ar by thy Name and Curse and bring false or wicked Lust thereinto and make a Fair Flattering Hypocriticall Image upon our Lips and sell it to one another for Truth perswading one another to believe it to be so and yet there is inwardly nothing but a Serpent full of Lies and Poyson and so we Image thy Word under a right appearance into a Serpent and Devils Image Also we Curse by it and so generate a living Figure of the Devill and of Hell 198. Also we use thy Holy Name to scornfull reproach and Image our false or wicked Beasts therein all whatsoever we love in the World be it as false or wicked as it will thereinto we Image thy Name and Power with our Mouth Also in swearing wherein we bring thy Might and Power on to the Tongue also into Sorcery or Witchcraft Plagues or Torment and Sicknesses or Diseases Yea we Image it into Hellish Figures with our Mouth Yea Men further bring thy Manifested or Revealed Word and Will for the sake of their Belly and temporall Pleasure and Pride into a strange Image which themselves know NOT Only that the Truth may Continue obscure and that in this strange Image they themselves may be honoured for Gods they make Laws and Commandements for their own Honour Pleasure and Voluptuousness and bind them with the Oath of his Name and yet none keepeth the same in his Heart 199. O God! How much poysonous Anger and Malice of self-revenge doe we bring into thy Name When we reproach and tread upon or oppresse one another in our Proud Stately Mind with thy Name and bring it into Tyrannicall Power and Authority and doe no other with thy Name but as the Apostate Lucifer doth 200. All this thou settest before us in thy Commandement For thou sayest We should not misuse thy Name and this is called misusing when we introduce it into false Expression or speaking forth and * Forming or Figuring Imaging 201. O Great God! What shall I poor miserable sinfull Man say here before thee Thou requirest thy Name from and IN ME in Holiness in thy praise Where shall I bestow all these Devils Images which we poor Men Image in our †This Body of the Outward Flesh and Bloud Sinne-house before thy Countenance They are indeed meer abominations before thee for the sake of which thy Law Curseth me and sentenceth me to Eternall Death 202. O Holy God! I have nothing wherewith I may come before thee but only thy Great †Barmhertzigkeit Mercifulness that thy Holy Word according to thy Most inward Love is become Man and is come to help us viz thy first given Word which hath formed it self in Our Life that it may renew us again and kill all these Devils Images and release and deliver the poor Soul and Mind from such Images of the Serpent 203. For which I thank thee in Eternity and pray thee thou Eternall Shed-abroad Love in the Most Holy Name JESUS Come I beseech thee to help me and bring thy Word that became Man into my Soul and Mind and continue in Me that I may continue in thee 204. Awaken I pray thee in me thy Fire of thy Great Love kindle it O Lord that my Soul and Mind may SEE these Evill Beasts and kill them in thy Power through right and true Repentance That I may Constantly bring and use thy Holy Name JESUS in Me to thy Praise and Thanksgiving and no more generate in thy Word Evill Beasts which belong to thy Judgement 205. O thou living BREATH of God! I give my self wholly and altogether to be thy own work thou in me what thou wilt AMEN The * The 3. according to Luthers Catechisme otherwise the 4. Commandement Third Commandement Consider or Remember the Sabbath Day to Sanctifie it For in Six Dayes the Lord Made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all that in them is and Rested the Seventh Day 206. O DEAR GOD This Commandement Intimateth to me my inward right divine Rest in thy Love and Power that my Will should rest in thee from its own receptibility of its own willing and thou Eternall God wouldest with thy Power work in my Will 207. Thou art the right
hearts and minds being an infinite Treasury of good and bad we should preserve the Good thoughts which are Gods not our Own and suppress the Evil which are the Devils and ours since the heavy fall of Adam and NOT bring forth the unfruitfull works of Darkness but as learned Scribes of the kingdom of heaven bring forth out of the good treasure of our Hearts Good things both old and new even the words and works which declare us indeed the children of Light which shall be our joyfull fruit and harvest and kingdom of heaven for evermore in Paradise when all our own that is our Evil Thoughts shall perish and we be saved as it were through fire or else our evil thoughts words and works shall be our evil treasure and kingdome of Perdition where our Works shall burn with us for ever also Sixthly It sayes in brief what the Mysterium Magnum or great Mysterie is which is that which is resembled to us in this visible world wherein all things belonging to darkness or light are hidden and manifested in the eternal substantial wisdome in which also all things both evil and good are eternally resident as in ONE world together though they must for ever be invisible incomprehensible and incommunicable the one to the other as Day and Night Heaven and Hell are so the one being the Love and Light the other the Wrath and Fire of the One only Spirit the Wonderfull and Incomprehensible GOD. The SECOND Book contained in this Treatise is the Answer to the 177 Questions called Theosophick because they are of such divine matters as are collected out of the Eternal Ground of the holy Scriptures and belonging to the mysteries of the divine Wisdome whose glimps and footsteps only are hinted at in the Holy Bible There are but Thirteen of these Questions here answered and a piece of the Fifteenth to the fifth verse though in his Preface to that Book the Author sayes they are all at large to be found in his other writings in this but briefly and summarily as if this book had been finished by him though no more then here is printed is yet come to our knowledge In this Treatise especially we may find how in the Eternal Darkness and Light there hath Eternally been a transaction as it were of Wonders and Powers in a real representation and working in each world by it self and in respect of one to the other both conducing to the Eternal infinite Glory and praise of the Unity in Trinity of the Omnipotent Omnipresent God whose Eternal Blessedness had never any Beginning nor ever can have End Herein also we may be helped to understand undeniably how any are a sweet savour to God of life unto life in them that are saved and a savour of Death unto Death in them that Perish though these two things seem very inconsistent with the Divine Unity and Goodness in the appehension of our Mortal Reason The THIRD Book hinteth how the Heavenly and Earthly Mystery may be seen distinctly manifested together in this outward world which is a Looking-Glass of the Eternal Great Mystery wherein both the Heavenly Divine and Hellish wrathfull Mysteries are represented in the visible things of this world which hath had a Beginning and we may thereby be furnished with Skill to go out of the Earthly Corruptible and Hellish Mystery with our souls into the Heavenly and Blessed It also lays down some Grounds of discovering the Times of the Great Separation of Good and Evil and the Manner of it when these Mysteries now visibly mixt shall no more continue so but all that hath been wrought and produced in each of them shall go into and remain in its Eternal Habitation in its own world and then the Creature be quite delivered from Bondage and brought into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God Matt. 25. from the 3◠verse to the en◠When the Goats shall be divided from the Sheep they to the Left hand and these to the Right and to the Goats shall be said Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels and to the Sheep Come ye Blessed of my Father inherite the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Here every one may consider in himself his Inclination Desire Propensity Condition and whole imployment of his Thoughts Words and Actions whether he be a Goat or a Sheep he may in this life transmute and change his desires and then all his powers in Soul and Body will follow with joy that he is a Sheep fit for the Table of the Lord at the great Supper of the Wedding of the Lamb at the Last Day and this pledge of Gods love that Better Part once participated in this Life will be impossible to be taken from him Or else if he continue to be an unruly Goat and will not be changed or renewed in the Spirit of his Mind to be a Meek Lamb of Christ but will remain stubborn wilfull and careless following the Vanity Bent Tendency Liking and Lust of the outward flesh wherein as in a Lodging dwells Sin and the Devil he will be fit only for the Table of Devils and to be tormented with him in his Kingdome in Eternal Damnation This consideration will be very easie to him that reads this Book and exerciseth himself in what is written therein The This is the 27. Book in the Catalogue FOURTH is after the manner of a Common-Prayer-Book in such a Way and Form as that is used in the Lutheran Churches as at the end of the small Germane Bibles are Set Prayers for Every Day in the Week both for Morning and Evening also peeces of Scripture appointed to be read called Epistles and Gospels because most of them were first taken out of the Epistles of the Apostles and the Histories of Christ called the Four Evangelists and those according to the occasion are appropriated to the Dayes of the Year and they have other spiritual Psalms and Hymns made by Luther and other Holy Men The Author also intended this of his for the help of Beginners in the Exercise of Divine Meditations and Prayers out of the deep Treasury of 〈◊〉 knowledge Not to set a form to be unvaried or to tie up others in the use of those only but that their minds might therby be opened to raise its Desires up to God and so get strength to make larger or shorter or other Prayers as the Spirit of God in every one should stirre and move in the Good desires of their souls at all times and upon all occasions continually In this Treatise he had consideration of the Internal Eternal Powers of the Dayes of the week beginning on Munday and ending on Sunday the seventh from thence according to the Seven Forms of the Eternal Nature or the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God he would have expounded in them by way of Medition and Desires the Ten Commandments the Belief and the Lords Prayer as
for ITS Food And where then remaineth my Lust and Pleasure of Earthly things which I exercise here in the World If all will become a reproach to me why doe I lift up my self in Temporall LUST seeing it cannot release me from the Reproach Wherefore doth my Soul vex it self and is in anguish and panteth after ITS Enemy which leadeth it to the Dark night 157. O GOD teach me I pray thee to apprehend this that I may turn my Heart from the Toylsomeness of the Works of this World to THEE and not hold Death to be my Life so that I may Live in Continuall Repentance and that my Mind may throw or demerse it self to or into THEE and may work with Thee so that also my right Flesh created in Adam may be Sanctified and out of the Dust may be brought to the MIND again 158. Release me I pray thee from the Grosse Husk of the Earthly Flesh whereinto the Devill hath brought his Poyson which is of no profit in thy Kingdome John 6. and generate in me again the heavenly Spirituall Body wherein is the Immortality and wherein no evill or false or wicked LUST may exist any more and let me in CHRIST JESU Rest in thee till the Glorious Coming again and Revelation or Manifestation of thy Glory AMEN A Prayer when Man in the Evening ceaseth from his Work and would goe to Sleep 159. O GOD thou Father of ALL GOOD I thank thee through JESUS CHRIST thy Dear Sonne our LORD and Saviour For all thy Benefits that thou hast graciously protected me this day from all evill and hurt and now I commend to thee my Work into thy disposing and fly with my Mind to thee and give my self up wholly and altogether into thy Holy working 160. Work thou I pray thee now this Night and alwaies with thy Grace-power in me and break in me the vain desire of false or evill working wherein thy Curse and fierce Wrath in my Flesh desireth to co-work as also the Devils introduced Lust which stirreth up my whole Mind to Lust of vanity Destroy THESE O Dear God! with thy Power and kindle up in me the Fire of thy pure Love and overthrow the false wicked LUST of Impurity and Vncleanness 161. Withstand thou all evill Influences of the Constellations or Astrum and the Kindled Elements and let me rest in thy Power that my Mind may NOT be introduced into false or wicked Desires and Inclinations 162. O GREAT Holy God into thy Grace and Mercifulness I plunge my self wholly and altogether I pray thee let thy Good Angel be with me that he may keep off the fierie Streames or Darts of wickednesse that I may rest securely in thy Power through JESUS CHRIST our LORD Amen A Prayer when we undresse and lie down to Rest 163. O MERCIFULL GOD I pray thee doe thou in me draw or pull off the false or wicked Garment of the Serpent which my Father Adam and my Mother Eve have drawn on to me through their false Lust Wherein my poor Soul is cloathed with thy Anger and standeth in shame before thy holy Angels 164. I pray thee strip thou my Mind and Soul Naked that my Mind may become undressed from such a Garment and may stand clearly before thy Countenance but I pray thee yet cloath thou it with thy Power and with the Garment of the humanity of JESUS CHRIST that it may converse again with the Holy Angels before THEE 165. O Dear Lord JESUS CHRIST I give up my Soul and Mind altogether barely and Nakedly to Thee draw thou off from me the impure Garment Wherein I stand in Great Shame before Gods Holiness But I pray thee cloath thou me with thy Victory and set me before thy Father again as a New born Child which thou hast washed in thy Bloud and whose evill Will THOU hast put to death in thy Death and in thy Resurrection hast new regenerated 166. And kindle in this New Birth thy Light that I may walk in the Light and be and Continue a Branch in thee AMEN A Thanksgiving of the Repentant Soul for the bitter Passion and Dying of JESUS CHRIST 167. O Most deep LOVE of God in CHRIST JESU I give thee Praise and Thanks that thou hast delivered me out of the Fire Source or Quality of Torment or painfulness and hast given thy self with thy Love and Grace into my Fire-Source or Quality and changeâ— me into a Love-fire and divine Light 168. Thou hast put thy Power and Might into my Essence in Body and Soul and given thy self to me for my own Yea thou hast purchased my self with thy Grace through the Treasure of thy most pretious Bloud for thy own for which I thank thee in Eternity 169. And I pray thee thou Eternall shed-forth LOVE In the Most Holy Name JESUS bring me I pray thee when I shall have dyed away here from the Temporall Death again into My first Native Country in which my Father Adam in his Innocency dwelt even in to PARADISE and bury my Body and Soul in the divine Rest 170. In the mean while Grant that I may daily enter into Repentance and into the going out from my Earthly Will and also continue so stedfastly the whole time of my Life THEREIN and that I may bear much Good fruit in THAT Condition Till thou introducest me into the Rest in my right Native Country in the true Land of Promise wherein the Milk and Honey of the divine Power floweth AMEN Here End the Authours Meditations and Prayers for Munday Ten Commandements for TUESDAY A Prayer Concerning Gods Righteousness also his strong or Severe Commandement and Law what God requires of us and how the same may become fulfilled Deduced from and Through the Ten Commandements And Creed or Faith and set forth Confession and Prayer-wise An Earnest Looking-Glasse well to be Considered The First Commandement God said upon Mount Sinai to Israel I am the Lord thy God c. thou shalt have no other Gods besides me Exod. 1.2 Deut. 5.6 7. Also Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God from thy whole Heart from thy whole Soul and from thy whole Mind Deut. 6.5 Math. 22.37 The Confession 171. O Great HOLY GOD thou hast Made Man out of the Limus or Extract of the Earth wherein Paradise sprung forth viz thy Holy Power a Glorious powerfull and fair bright Body without distemper and without fragility a Likeness or Equality of the Elements 172. And hast in-breathed into him out of thy Power the Inward Psychicall or Soulish and outward Elementary Life from the power of thy inward divine Working and Knowledge or Skill viz the Great Name of * Germanice GOTTES GOD and hast given him a Will of his own that he may be an Image according to thy Wonder-deed Might and Glory and rule over all thy Creatures of this World also thou hast given him the outward Life of all Operation or Working with the Inward Soulish Life through which thou rulest the
World 173. Thou hast set him for a Regent or Governour over thy Works of Wonder and given him no Commandement nor Law but this that he should not bring himself into own Lust and Willing but should only Work and Will in thy Will given to HIM in thy Power and not bring himself into own receptibility to Prove Trie or Experiment Good and Evill that the fierce Wrath of the Fire and the Might or Power of the Darknesse might not awake in him and destroy the Noble Image and change it into the Sharpnesse of the Earth but should only Will and work in thy Will given to him in thy Power 174. But seeing our first Parents through Satans in Speaking of Lies have turned away from thy Willing and brought themselves into own willing and against thy Commandement proved Good and Evill and suffered themselves to Lust after the perceptibility and own receptibility Whereby the Anger and fierce Wrath awaked in them and destroyed the heavenly Image and turned it into an Earthly Image like the Beasts 175. Therefore hast thou O HOLY GOD given us thy Commandement and Law and set before us therein the heavenly divine form of full Obedience signifying what we have been and what we are in the Apostacie become And requirest of us that we in our Will should out of all Powers or Faculties and Senses or Thoughts only cleave to thee and work with thee alone 176. Yea thou requirest of us the Noble †Talent Pledge viz the Soul which thou hast in-breathed out of the inward Power of thy Name and Will and willest that the Soul which is flowed forth from thy Power may alone continue in thy Name and Power and Co-work with thee and it self use no other strange Name Will nor Lust but only and solely of that out of which it is flowed forth 177. That it Totally cleave to its Center and bring its desire only and solely into thy Love and with thy Love with thee rule over all thy Works and it self receive no own rule or dominion without thy Love and Co-working that it be thy Instrument wherewith thou governest all Matters Things or Substances of this World 178. It should introduce its Trust into no other Power nor Might also make Nothing its own peculiar also Image or form it self with Nothing For it is a Ray or Beam of the Almighty and should rule perfectly over all things as God himself and yet not in own self receptibility of its own Will but in and with God and use the body for its Instrument which should be a Manager of thy Creatures Thou hast given all to him for a Sport or Scene and Joy and subjected it under him 179. All this O Great God! thou settest before us in thy Commandements and requirest of us according to thy strong severe Righteousness and Eternall Truth upon pain of Eternall punishment that whosoever keepeth not all thy Commandements and Laws and continueth in thy Ordinance he shall be Cursed and be Seperated from thy Countenance and not see thy Glory Eternally nor come to thy Rest 180. O Great holy God! thou who art a Consuming Fire what shall I poor miserable Man who am full of disobedience of own Will and Lust and have no right Love or inclination towards thee say before thee What shall I answer thee when thou settest me before thy Judgement and tryest my Heart and Soul 181. O Dear God! I can doe nothing I stick in the slime or mire of vanity even unto the inwardness of my Soul thy Anger is burning in me In me live all Evill Beasts with their Lusts 182. O LORD my Lust in Soul and Body hath Imaged it self into * All Evill Beasts or Vices them and I am before thee a Worm and No Man also I cannot with this Imaging come before thy Countenance much lesse to thy holy Name viz to the Center of my Soul out of which it is sprung forth 183. I am ashamed in this Vizard before thy Countenance and have no Righteousness in Me towards thee I am become unfaithfull to thee and have broken my self off from thy Will and brought my self into own self Will. 184. And stand now before thy Countenance as the Lost Prodigall Sonne who is become a keeper of Swine and have lost the fair Garment of thy Power and every moment Eat with the Devils Swine the husks of vanity and am not worthy to be called thy Image and Similitude For I cannot be obedient to thee out of my own self powers or faculties I am in my self without thy Grace only a Source or Quality of thy fierce Wrath and Anger 185. But yet I rejoyce at thy great Mercifulness which thou out of thy Holy Name out of which my Soul is flowed forth hast turned to us again Yea thou hast opened the Gates of thy Eternall Vnity and poâ—red it into my Soul which destroyeth thy Wrath and breaketh the Monster to pieces 186. Yea thou hast with this pouring-in of thy most Inward Holiness and Sweetness impressed and imprinted the Name JESUS in my Soul which hath assumed or received my Soul and Humanity and is become obedient to THEE in my stead and hath fulfilled or satisfied thy Commandements and strong severe Law with perfect Love and Obedience 187. Therefore I come now with Thanksgiving to thee O Holy God and pray thee to make this thy bestowed Love of thy in-shed or poured Grace in me Great that I may now in this New Grace-Love be obedient to thee and fulfill thy Commandements and Law with the Obedience of JESUS CHRIST with his Love My Lord JESUS hath implanted me again into thy Name out of which my Father Adam had rooted me up 188. Therefore I now come in and with him to THEE and Comfort my self that I in him in his in-dwelling and in-ruling Grace and Love am and live in thy Obedience and that I in him can rule over Sinne Death the Devill the World and all Creatures and am become again thy right expresse Image and proper peculiar Portion in him my Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST 189. O DEAR GOD rule thou now through this in-poured Love of thy Grace in MEE and doe with and in me how thou wilt Only mortifie daily my evill Creatures in my Flesh and bind or unite thy self eternally with my Soul and Mind as thou hast done in the Humanity of JESUS CHRIST 190. I will readily leave my Evill Beast in the Flesh to the Earth till thy bringing again and Restitution Only cloath my Soul and Mind and bring the same into thy Obedience that it may seek and honour no other Name but only the Holy Name JESUS which in me fulfilleth thy Commandements AMEN The * Note this is according to Luthers Catechisme the 2. otherwise the 3. Commandement Second Commandement Thou shalt not misuse the Name of the Lord thy God for the Lord will not leave him unpunished that misuseth his Name 191. O Dear GOD This Commandement doth
Jerusalem viz the City or Habitation of God Wherein thy Sabbath becometh sanctified I give up my self wholly altogether into thy Sabbath only deliver me I pray thee from Evill AMEN The * The 4. according to Luthers Catechisme otherwise the 5. Commande Fourth Commandement Thou shalt Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thou mayst live Long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee 224. O Eternall God! by our Bodily Parents thou settest before us an Image of our Eternall Father and of our Eternall Mother 225. For THOU art our FATHER from whom we have received our Life and thy WORD is our MOTHER who hath generated us out of thy Creation and formed us according to the expresse Image of thy Manifestation or Revelation 226. Our Soul and Mind O God and Father is thy Expresse Reflex Image And our Body is an Expresse reflex Image of thy out-flown Word Which Word is our Eternall Mother In whose Body we are given Suck and are nourished Whom we should honour and humble our selves before HER and be obedient to her 227. As we should honour our outward Corporeall Parents so also our Eternall out of whose Mouth we are sprung forth 228. O Eternall Father we are become disobedient unto thee and have given our selves up to a strange Mother into her Tuition we have taken the World to be Our Mother and are become unfaithfull to the inward Mother of thy Power in thy Word 229. And now we must suck into us the Poyson and Death from the strange Mothers Breasts yea she beareth us now in her Body or Womb of Contrariety and Generateth and Consumeth us again in thy fierce Wrath and nourisheth us the time of this whole outward Life in meer Cumbersome Care Misery tedious Weariness and Necessity in Suffering and Calamity and holdeth us captive so that we cannot see our first Eternall Mother 230. Our Soul lamenteth after her but thy Anger holdeth us captive in it self so that we must serve and minister to the strange Mother 231. O God! How long wilt thou forget us in our Misery Take us again I pray thee to be thy Children and generate us again in our Eternall Mother anew and give us an Obedient Will that we Eternally never more depart from thee Give us also an Obedient Heart towards our Bodily Parents that we may love and honour them as THY Ordinance seeing through them thou Generatest and daily bringest us up to this World Therefore help us we pray thee that we may be obedient to thy Commandement O Dear God! Thou hast of thy Grace given us a New Mother viz thy Most holy Word in thy Love and sent it into our Humanity to generate us again in thy Eternall Power to be thy Children and Heires and pourest into us again the * Divine Meekness MILK of thy holy Substance thy Love Draw us I pray thee to it and open in us the right Mouth of Faith that we may continually hunger and thirst after it and be renewed in its Power For the Old Body from the Earthly Mother availeth not before THEE it cannot possess thy Kingdome for that which is born of flesh and Bloud or of the Will of Man cannot attain the filiation but that only which is generated of or out of GOD. Therefore I pray thee O Eternall Father generate ME a New I pray thee through the New Mother of thy Grace and Mercy in JESUS CHRIST and let me grow and increase in HIM to a living and holy fruit in thy Kingdome that I together with thy Holy Angel may be Eternally obedient to THEE and Eternally rejoyce my self in THEE AMEN At the End of the High-dutch Copie is noted these Books following of the Authour that were not finished FIrst This Prayer-Book Secondly The Aurora Thirdly The Treatise of divine Manifestation or Revelation what God Nature and Creature also Heaven Hell and the World together with all Creatures are Deduced through the whole Process and Course of the World to the End and in the Eternity and set down in 177. Questions Fourthly The Most highly pretious Gates of Divine Vision What the Mysterium Magnum is And how all is from through and in God How he is so neer to all things and filleth all in all These the Authour of pious Memory finished not but in the 24. Sunday after Trinity 1624. daparted from this vain World Speaking these his last words Nun fahre Ich hin in s Paradis Now goe I hence into Paradise Lyeth buried at Gerlitz in the Church-yard and upon the Grave was set a wooden Crosse with a Mystical Threefold Figure of an Eagle a Lyon and a Lamb The Superscription upon the Monument was this V. H. I. L. I. C. I. U. Vnsor Heil Im. Leben Jesu Christi In. Vns Our Salvation is In. the Life of Jesus Christ In. Vs. Born of GOD. Dead in JHSUH Sealed with the HOLY-SPIRIT Resteth here Jacob Behme of Old Scidenburg A ✚ O. 1624. 18. November About the 6th hour in the Morning Sunday in the 50. year of his Age blessedly departed The Translatour into the Nether-dutch hath this Postscript ANno 1641. 1. Julij that Translation was finished out of two written and different Copies Vnder one of the Copies is noted by Herre Abraham van Francken-bergh as followeth The Authour Jacob Behme of Gerlitz could not bring this little Prayer-book to an End But dyed Anno 1624. buried Gerlitz c. as before Vnder the other Copie is noted by Herre Heynricus Prunius as followeth This I have written off from the Authours own blessed Manuscript who is now in Blisse He proceeded no further he would have gone through the Six Dayes of the Week and made the beginning on Munday as here is to be seen and would have concluded it on the Seventh that is on the Sunday in the true Paradisical Sabbath The Prayers from the Holy Ten Commandements are the beginning of Tuesday he would have Expounded the whole Decalogue Apostles Creed And Our Father in such a Manner by way of Confession and Prayer But he was continually hindered as also of writing other Excellent Treatises Being by the Earnest-entreaty of several Friends that Loved God put upon the writing sometime of one sometime of another Work He also Entended with the permission of the divine Help to make an Exposition upon All the Epistles and Gospels through the whole Year but hath begun nothing of it because his time was Interrupted and Cut off A Brief Table of the Contents 1. THe true Ground of the right Skill of Prayer Very Edifyingly teaching to understand what Praying is and how Men should pray verse 1. to 32. 2. An Introduction to right Praying verse 33. to 46. 3. A Prayer and right acting Repentance before Gods Face verse 47. to 64. 4. A Thanksgiving and Prayer when a Man feeleth the divine Power and Vertue in himself verse 65. to 72. 5. A Prayer to the Fire-burning Love of God Shewing how rightly to pray for it
Sabbath in which all my Powers should work in an Eternall Rest and be and continue holy in THEE O alas indeed it was the True Paradise wherein thou didst set our first Parents that they should Sanctifie thy Sabbath viz thy in dwelling operative power that is rightly Love and bring no strange Lust of false or wicked desire thereinto and not darken or obscure this Holy Sabbath of thy in-dwelling Power with own desire and not bring the Serpents Lust or Falshood and Wickedness thereinto but Will Work and Live with THEE that thou alone in ME be the working willing and doing 208. O Dear God indeed thou settest before me in this Commandement the Figure wherein I see thy Ordinance and Will thou requirest the ability from me that I should live in the Ordinance in thy Will as thou hast Created me in Adam but my Father Adam hath turned his Will from thee and introduced it into own Lust and Desire and brought such Paradisicall working in thy Rest into a fiery enimicitious proud stately covetous Envious and Angry working 209. And hath unhallowed or prophaned thine and his Sabbath and brought the Serpents false or wicked working and willing thereinto For which things sake thou hast thrust him forth out of such Rest and Paradisicall working and Cursed his false or wicked working For while it worketh with the Devill and Hell and runneth on in meer unquietness it is so long even an Enmity against thy Holy Sabbath 210. Thou settest before us in this Commandement how thou hast wrought all things in the Six Properties of the Eternall Nature as the First I. the Desirousnesse the Second II. the Mobility the Third III. the Perceptibility the Fourth IV. the Fire or Life the Fift V. the Light or Love the Sixt VI. the Understanding or Knowledge of the Power But yet hast introduced it into the Seventh VII Property viz into thy Substantiall Unity and Rest wherein all thy Works should Rest in thy Working Love wherein thou wouldst work with thy Love Which then was the right Paradise upon Earth in the Elements wherein thy Shed-abroad Love had the Vpper dominion in ALL. 211. But the Devill and Man hath destroyed this and for that cause hast thou righteous God Cursed the working of the own false or wicked Will and withdrawn thy Sabbath from it so that now All things stand in meer Unquietness Misery Lamentation Necessity Stinging Breaking Murther Killing and Contrary Willing 212. This hath my Father Adam devolved upon me by Inheritance so that I now work and run on in thy Anger and Continually Break and Unhallow or Prophane thy Sabbath in me and Misuse thy Name which hath together with my Life given it self into my working and willing 213. But since Man is become blind as to this Knowledge therefore thou hast in thy Commandement set before him a Figure and Form signifying to or for what thou hast Created him and in what Order or Ordinance he stood and requirest of him that he should in such Form or Ordinance sanctifie thy Sabbath and on the Seventh Day stand still from all his working to signifie that THOU art the Sabbath in whom all things Rest 214. Also therewith thou settest before us the Eternall REST wherein All and Every thing which is flowed to the Eternall and out of the Eternall should rest in thy Sabbath and hast set thy Curse and Anger against whatsoever keepeth not thy Order or Ordinance and doth not rest on thy Sabbath in THEE and alone worketh with thee 215. O Eternall God! What shall I now here say before thee My Conscience witnesseth against me that we doe not rightly sanctifie thy Sabbath For Men therein exercise all wicked voluptuous vain and disorderly Life It is unhallowed or prophaned with vain pomp and voluptuousnesse of the Flesh wherein the Devill in thy Anger worketh in MANY and keepeth his Sabbath of Contrary Sports Actions or Scenes 216. We suffer our selves to be called and Invited by thy Word and hold the sound which we hear to be thy Sabbath but the Soul and the Mind is not regarded we passe by as the Deaf that hear not THY Voyce 217. Thou callest us into thy Sabbath but the Soul hath turned it self away from thee and worketh in own willing in the Lust of the Devill and rests contented with the Name that it is thy Sabbath but it will not hold still to thee and turn its Eares and desire to THEE that thou mayst work in it 218. The Devill hath introduced his Sabbath into Mankind and so blinded them that they know thy Sabbath no more for which cause thou hast also thrust our Father Adam and our Mother Eve out of thy holy Sabbath and yet hast introduced thy SABBATH in the Name JESUS into the Humanity again that it should work in us again and we in it which destroyeth the Devils Sabbath of Falshood Lying and Vanity and hath brought us the Paradise again that we should now turn to thee and receive this Sabbath and give our selves totally up into the working of thy Grace and so thou wilt O Eternall God in JESUS CHRIST erect a NEW Sabbath in us again and make an abode or habitation in us and sanctifie again thy Imaged Word viz our Minde and Soul and set it in the Eternall Sabbath viz in the Rest of thy Unity 219. O Eternall God! I give up my Soul and Mind to thee into thy Holy and New Sabbath JESUS CHRIST and direct all my Power Willing and Thoughts towards thee take and lead me I pray thee into thy New Sabbath for I cannot in my own power attain it if thou bringest not me thereinto 220. But since thou hast in thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST bidden me to come and thou wilt quicken or refresh me Math. 11.28 Therefore I come upon thy inviting Word to thy Eternall Supper of thy Eternall Covenant in CHRIST JESUS and pray thee to sanctifie my poor Soul in the Sabbath of thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST and introduce it therein into the Eternall Rest and give it again the food of thy true Sabbath viz his holy Flesh and Bloud that my Soul may again sanctifie thy Sabath and that thou alone mayst work in it as in thy very expresse reflex Image 221. Doe thou break in me I pray thee the Devils Sabbath and false or wicked working and give me an Obedient Heart that continually hungereth after thy Sabbath And let thy Word in me keep the Sabbath that my Soul may hear what thou in thy working Speakest in me that it may be Obedient to thee and that I may set ALL my Trust and Confidence in thee 222. O thou Eternall Love of JESUS CHRIST How Glorious is thy Sabbath in the Soul when it turneth it Self to thee so that thou penetratest and presseth through it with thy sweet Love wherein the Paradise becometh unshut to it again 223. Let my Soul I pray thee continue Eternally in thy Sabbath build up I pray thee in me again thy New