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A28527 Mercurius Teutonicus, or, A Christian information concerning the last times being divers propheticall passages of the fall of Babel and the new building in Zion / gathered out of the mysticall writings of that famous Germane author, Jacob Behmen, alias, Teutonicus Phylosophus.; Selections. English Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. 1649 (1649) Wing B3409 51,513 57

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consuming fire if his wrath be stirred up according to this same property he desireth to consume and devoure all that moveth and enkindleth it selfe therein And from this property God bad Israel fight and smite the Heathens for his Anger was set on fire in them and was as wood cast into the fire which the fire desireth to consume 10. Therefore the wrath of God bad one Nation slay another that it might out of his wrath be taken away otherwise the fire of his Anger would have enkindled it selfe as hapned to the five Kingdomes of Sodom and Gomorra Thus the Wrath of God did satiate it selfe in the life of the wicked which it devoured into it selfe in that they slew one another 11. As it yet now adayes so comes to passe that oftentimes men cry unto God for to give them successe and victory against their enemies that they might murther them but God giveth them not victory therein but the sword of his Anger which they awaken with their prayers and will were they true Men and children of God they would need no warre for the holy Spirit wageth not warre but he onely loveth and giveth peace but according to the property of Anger he consumeth all ungodlinesse and is yet thereby onely blowne or stirred up c. 14. Thus we must understand how the children of the Saints have waged warre against the crew of wicked men and drove them out viz. in the Anger 's Property which managed its sword by them to blot out the Heathen and Generation of Ha● for Abraham went out with his whole house and People against the Heathen who had carried away Loth his brothers Sonne captive and he smote the Heathen and delivered his brother This was done in the zeale of God which thus delivered his children through the might of his Anger for what conduceth to the wicked for destruction that conduceth to holy men for life and deliverance 15. But that those who will be called Christians who ought in and with Christ to be dead to the Anger and Wrath of God in Christs death doe wage warre they doe it not as Christians but as Heathens no Christian warreth for if he be a Christian then he is dead in and with Christs death to the foure Elements of Gods Anger in Selfe and borne a new man in Christs Spirit of Love who liveth in righteousnesse in love and patience and not to himselfe but to God in Christ 16. For a true Christian leadeth his conversation and will in Heaven in the life and spirit of Christ as St Paul saith Our conversation is in Heaven but when the Christians doe wage warre they doe it from the Heathenish property and not from Christs property for a Christian is not of this world his Kingdome is in heaven and he is dead in Christ to the world according to the new spirituall man in him the Heathen viz. the halfe devillish man who hath his Kingdome in this world who never hath room enough upon the Earth who liveth in the foure Elements of Gods Anger viz. in pride covetousnesse envy and wrath desireth in the Christians to warre fight and kill 17. St. Paul saith Give your members to be weapons of Righteousnesse for why doe men fight for the Kingdome of this world and yet Christ said his Kingdome was not of this world so also his childrens Kingdome in him is not of this world Now then if we give our body and soule for weapons of Gods Anger and seek onely thereby Selfe interests liberties and priviledges of Mammon and slay one another for the Kingdome of this world I thinke we are herein Christians indeed with the mouth but the heart and soule is an heathen and not borne out of Christs Spirit 18. When Abraham had smote the Heathen he desired nothing of the goods which he took but restored to the King of Sodom what the Heathen had taken from him and was onely zealous in the Lord he did not fight for Countrey and Kingdome but to deliver his brother This was a true zeale which the Lord drove in him he did not stand up and fight for Countrey or Citie and albeit he obtained it he desired it not but went againe unto his own place Mysterium Magnum Chap. 51. 44. OUr knowledge must be filled and abound with the Love of Christ that we love one another else knowledge is not at all available if I bring not my knowledge with the Desire into the Love of God wherewith he hath Loved us in Christ and Love my Neighbour in the Love of God in Christ with that Love wherewith God generally Loveth us and Loved us when we were his Enemies then I have not as yet the Love of God dwelling in me 45. But how will he Love his Brother who contemneth him for his knowledge sake whereas yet God Loved us when we knew nothing of his Love If a man hath not this Love of God in him wherewith God Loved us when we knew him not why doth he boast then of Gods Adoption If he be the childe of God then he hath the free Love of God wherewith God Loveth all things if he hath it not he is not then yet capable of the adoption Now then if any one contemneth and condemneth his brother which hath not as yet his knowledge how can he boast of the Love of God wherewith God Loved his Enemies in Christ wherewith Christ prayed for his Enemies Mysterium Magnum Chap. 44. 6. WHen God will punish a Land he first sends them Messengers and exhorts them to repentance and declares unto them his Grace soon after he sends them the Angel of Righteousnesse who tryeth them whether they be capable of the grace that is tendred to them and representeth unto them judgement with threats of their ruine also with denouncing of great warre and plagues that he will blot and root them out if they doe not Returne and Repent and sheweth them by his Messengers the light and way of Righteousnesse and suffers them to run on in the light that is tendred to them till they be weary and glutted and hold it onely for a common thing and an history and againe become a Sodom 7. And then he sends them both Angells together to wit the Angel of Righteousnesse and the Angel of truth and first threatneth them and exhorts them and setteth the judgement before them but when they are wholly a Sodom he leaveth off from the outward Figure and lets them fill up their measure and then it seems as if the Sunne was risen upon their Sodom and now it should be good but even then saith the Angel of truth in his children hasten and goe out the punishment and ruine is at hand 8. Thus wee declare unto thee Babel that God hath already long since sent thee Messengers and with the declaration of the Gospel hath tendred thee his grace and therewith also hath mightily threatned thee with the punishment of thy ruine but thou hast made a