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A76955	Of Christs testaments, viz: baptisme and the Supper. Written in two bookes. The 1. of holy Baptisme, how it is to be understood in the ground thereof, and why a Christian should be baptised. The 2. of the holy supper of the Lord Christ, what it is, with the benefit and effects of it, and how the same may be worthily participated of. And how these are to be understood, both according to the Old and New Testament. Set forth from the true theosophicall ground, through the three principles of the divine revelation, and presented to the children of God for the information of their understandings. / Written in the yeare of Christ 1624. by Jacob Behm of Old Seidenberg alias Teutonicus Philosophus. And Englished by John Sparrovv, barrister of the Inner Temple London.; Von Christi Testamenten. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1652 (1652)	Wing B3412; Thomason E665_4; ESTC R14724	100,767	137

kindling the humane desire through the Covenant went to meete God and Gods-Imagination went into the Covenant Thus stood the Holy Fire in the Covenant opposire to the Wrath in the Introduction of the humane desire in the Sacrifice Gods Imagination in his Love-fire went into the Covenant and the Humane Imagination went also through the Sacrifice in the Fire into the Covenant for in the fire was Gods Wrath met opposite where through the humane Imagination must goe into the Covenant and so consume the sinne and uncleannesse in the Humane desire which pierced to God Thus stood in the Covenant the lov●r fire met opposite to the humane desire and the same tooke the humane desire in the Wrath-fire to it according to its purity 29. As may be seene by Moses on Mount Sinai where first the Fathers Property in the Covenant out of the Wrath-fire opened it selfe and required Mans Righteousnesse that the same should walke before God in full obedience and purity and in purity draw neere unto him through the Sacrifice in the fire And if not then he would devoure them in the Curse through this Wrath-fire which was an Image Type or shadow signifying how the humane vanity should and must be purged through Gods wrath-fire But in the same wrath-fire stood the love-fire met opposite in the Covenant in the Sacrifice as an Image of Christ and quenched the Wrath-fire so that the soules desire with its prayer and Will could pierce through this wrath-fire into God 30. This Love-fire that stood opposite to the Wrath in the Sacrifice which also the Wrath-fire kindled so that it devoured the Sacrifice that is it which in the limit of the Covenant in the seede of the Woman awakened it selfe with heavenly Substantiality viz with the Essentiall Wisdome and gave it selfe up into our Substance vanished as to God yet heavenly 31. Our substance vanished and shut up in Death was signified by the drie Rod of Aaron which Substance grew in this awakening and introducing of the Heavenly Living Love n Or Substance Essence where Gods Substance became Man in whom the Holy fire could Burne For the Divine Ens which vanished in Adam which grew againe with such kindling was the food of this Love-fire as a Spirituall Holy Oyle wherein the Love-fire could kindle and burne and that same Love-burning was the New Life of the Regeneration 32. But seeing in o By OTHER may be ment other men then the man Christ himselfe OTHER Men there should not be Effected such a supernaturall kindling through the speciall Moving of God but that other Men should all be kindled through this holy fire out of Christ therefore went the Covenant through the Water-Baptisme with the out flowne Grace first into the Heavenly Ens of Man viz into the vanished Substance wherein the Incorporated Paradisicall-Covenant of the Serpent-Destroyer steed and pierced into the same Covenant 33. Yet seeing the Humane Essence which was become Earthly should goe together with such piercing in therefore there must also be such a Medium for it wherein the Humane Essence can take hold for in Gods Holinesse it cannot take hold for the will was rent off from that therefore there must now be a similitude wherein the Imagination of the Humane Nature may take hold 34. For Christ also had this similitude viz the Elements received from us Men that the Divine Imagination might take hold in the Water that so the Divine and humane Imagination together might awaken and kindle the Incorporated Paradisicall-Covenant in that manner as a Glimmering Mother fire or tinder-fire cometh into the wood and Glimmereth 35. After such a manner through the Baptisme was introduced a Divine Mother-fire of the Holy fire a holy and Divine Glimmering fire which destroyed and brake sinne and Death to pieces in the Inwardnesse of Man viz in the vanished heavenly Ens from which the dry withered Tree of the Inward Ground might receive a life againe viz a Spirituall Oyle In which new Spirituall Oyle of the Power of the Divine Light the Love-fire viz the New-Life should burne 36. This is now the Water-Baptisme to which the Holy Ghost in the Inward Ground is the hand which with the flowing forth of the Divine Love out of Christs suffering Death and Resurrection baptiseth with his Victory That is Hee Infuseth Christs Humanity Suffering Death and Resurrection into the Inward Ground and kindleth the Incorporated Paradisicall Covenant with this fire that the dry Rod of Aaron buddeth forth 37. For with this Infusion of the Holy Ghost Christ is bestowed upon Man he is hereby incorporated to Christ and the Heavenly Ens which in Mary assumed our humane Ens with the whole processe of Christ is put on him and imprinted in his even heavenly vanished Ens to a New Life which hath overcome Death 38. As a Tincture tinctureth wholly and throughly penetrateth the Mettle or as fire gloweth quite through the Iron so heere it is to be understood concerning those who are capable of such Infusion as shall further be taught The Second Chapter Of Gods Covenant after the Fall what the Fall of Man is and how God hath bound and united himselfe with him againe What the Circumcision in the old Testament and the Baptisme in the New are WHen any will kindle a Fire they must have some Substance that will take Fire it must be a Substance wherein there is an Oyle and Brimstone or it burneth not For if they cast a Stone or the like into the Fire it will not so burn as to come to a shining light so also it is to be understood concerning the poore Soule When it brake its desire off from Gods Essence of Love and Meeknesse which Essence in the beginning was in it as a Spirituall Oyle and Water and it was as a Spirituall Brimstone wherein the Light of God did burne then it brought it selfe into owne Desire whereby it was shut up as a hard Stone and lost all its Love and Meeknesse and was as a burning Brim-stone-spirit which could not be remedied unlesse the Oyle of Divine Meeknesse and Love did flow into it againe To this flowing into the Humane property there must be a Subject as a Medium or Meanes or o Resemblance or thing of the like nature Antitype whereby it may be done whereinto also the Humane Faith Entered and received the virtue or power through a Medium or Meane This Medium in the Old Testament is the Circumcision together with the Sacrifices and in the New Testament it is the Holy Baptisme and Supper of Christ together with the Word taught whereby the Divine Love and Meeknesse as the right p Balsam orVnction Anointing Oyle of divine power is againe flowen into the * Glauben See Ch. 1. v. 28. on the second side Faith and so the shut Mouth of the soule is received into and comprehended in the Covenant of God and opened againe by the sweet Grace so that it can againe Eate

Paschal-Lamb Christ in his Testament all which was a Figure of the New Regeneration signifying how the same should be borne through the right Paschal-Lamb Christ 1 Cor. 5.7 and how the same New Birth would Eate the sweet food of the Divine Grace 4. This is a Powerfull Figure of the terrible Fall in Adam and then in the New Birth or Regeneration in Christ for in Adam the first Birth viz the first Angelicall Life was slaine by Gods Anger and by the Grace-Covenant in Christ was the same brought back againe and spoken or inspired into Adam and Eve thus now the Spirit of God signifieth by this figure of Moses in Aegypt how that same inspoken Grace should be fullfilled with heavenly and divine Substance also how Man should be d Smeared or streaked marked and sprinckled by that Mark viz by the bloud of the Lamb of God and how God would give him the substance of his sweet Love for food whereby the Naturall foulish fire-Life should be againe quickened and attaine a Divine Ens in its Lifes-Essence and thereby be transmuted and changed againe into the Angelicall Image 5. Also wee see this Image very cleerly in the Sacrifices of Israel How they must slay and sacrifice Beasts and burne the Fat For when God gave the Law to Moses that Israel should live in full obedience in the Covenant of this Law then he gave him also the figure shewing how this Law should be fullfilled and how Man should be e Released or reconciled attoned from Sinne and the Anger of God as wee may cleerly see this in the * Levit. 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. third Book of Moses in the Eighth Chapter where the Image of the reconciliation or attonement standeth Where it standeth thus Å¿ Sacrifice And Moses caused an Heifer to be brought for a Sinne-Offering and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head there it was slaine and Moses tooke the bloud and with his finger put it round about upon the homes of the Altar and g Clensed it from sinne clensed the Altar and powred out the bloud at the foote of the Altar and sanctified it so that he made an attonement on it And tooke all the fatt upon the Inwards and the Kall upon the Liver and the two Kidneyes with the fatt on them and burned it upon the Altar But the Heifer with his hide flesh and dung he burnt with fire without the Host as the Lord had commanded him And brought a Weather or Ram for a Burnt Sacrifice and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head and it was slaine there And Moses sprinckled the Bloud round about upon the Altar and clave the Ram in pieces and burnt the head the pieces and the Rump and washed the Inwards and the leggs with water and so burnt the whole Ram upon the Altar this was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour a fire to the Lord as the Lord had commanded him Leviticus 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. 6. This is a true figure of the Sacrifice of Christ with our assumed humanity how he hath offered our humanity through the sacrifice of his body to the Anger of God and how God in this sacrifice hath smelt his sweet love in the Humanity of Christ and reconciled his wrath in the fire 7. The Figure of Christ standeth thus * Levit. 8.10.11.12 When Moses should make this sacrifice he tooke first the anointing Oyle and anointed the h Tabernacle dwelling place and all that was therein and sanctified it and sprinckled therewith seaven times upon the Altar and anointed the Altar and all its implements the Laver with its foote so that it was sanctified and powred the anointing Oyle upon Aarons Head and anointed him so that he was sanctified Moses standeth heere in the figure of God and Aaron standeth in the figure of Christ according to our Humanity and the Heifer standeth in the figure of the earthly perished Adam according to his Beastiall property and the Ram standeth in the figure of the true Man created in Adam shewing how the same should be offered up to God againe in the humanity of Christ Moses anointed Aaron that is God anointed our Humanity in Christ with his highest Love viz with the substantiall Wisdome and Divine substance in the Name JESUS 8. And that is it that Moses first anointed the Tabernacle which signifieth the Body of Mary in which GOD became MAN and therefore the Angel called her the Blessed among all women Luk. 1.28 For God first sanctified the Tabernacle and sprinckled with his anointing oyle of Love upon all the seaven properties of the Naturall Life which life in the humanity of Christ the Altar of Moses signified which God anointed when JESUS assumed Mans Life The Laver with its foote signifieth How God hath anointed the humane Hand or desire in the humanity of Christ with which he should doe wonders The anointed Head of Aaron signifieth how the humanity of Christ viz our humane Science should be anointed with the Holy Ghost 9. This God set forth by Moses in the Type for when Moses had anointed Aaron together with the Tabernacle and the sonnes of Aaron and established the whole buisines then he caused a Heifer to be brought for a sinne-offering which Heifer signified the Grosse Earthly Man impressed through Adams Lust On this Heifer must Aaron and his sonnes lay their hands upon his head which signifieth how God in Christ and then the Priests or Pharisees would lay their hands upon our in Christ assumed Mortall humanity and flay that is put to death our humanity according to this Worlds Substance and how his humane Bloud should be sprinckled round about on the Hornes of the Holy Altar with the finger of God viz as with the laying hold of Gods Anger and how God would thus cleanse his Altar in the Humanity upon which Altar viz the humane Life should holy Sacrifices be offered to God againe 10. But that Moses did burne the fatt of the Liver and Kidneys upon the Altar signifieth that our true Adamicall Man out of the Limus of the Earth according to its right Inward Ground should not be cast away or thrust out from God but be kindled in the fire of Gods Anger with the fire of Love and be offered to God As this then was done in the humanity of Christ when he sacrified our humanity to the Anger of God but yet did introduce it with his Love through Death into Life as out of the fire there springeth up a cleere Light as out of the-fire dying a new Life which consisteth in power and Love 11. But that Moses did burne with fire the Heifer with his hide flesh and Dung without the Host and only sprinckled the bloud of the Heifer upon the hornes of the Altar and kindled the fatt it signifieth that the grosse beastiall body of our flesh with skin and bones shall not come upon Gods

of the heavenly Manna What signifieth now this Anointing Answer Nothing else but that as Man is Tinctured againe in Soule and Body and so throughly penetrated and healed that he is capable of the Divine Power againe viz of the Divine fire of Love so must his Brimstone Spirit of the Wrathfull fiery Soule perished as to God be remedied againe by the Covenant of God by such an Anointing Oyle As with the Baptisme there is powred into it the Water of the Eternall Life of Divine Meeknesse and in the Supper is powred into it the fire-burning Love in the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ Reason sayth Cannot God forgive Man his sinne without a Medium Answer The Matter was not about forgivenesse The Soule wanted not onely forgivenesse but a New-Birth It had brought it selfe into owne-will and quite broken it selfe off from Gods will whence the Eternall Darknesse existed in it For the source of its Life viz it s own Seperator understand the Cause of its Creaturely Moving and Life had lift up it selfe and the properties of Life were quite gone forth from their Temperature and had brought themselves into a strange burning fire viz into an anguishing heat and cold into Eternall hunger and thirst into Horror and Despaire Where in the Life of the Body and of the Soule all properties were against one another and Man stood in an Eternall dying source Hee was become quite Blinde and Dead as to God and the more he moved himselfe in his owne ability to apprehend God the greater was his anxious source For the poore Soule was by Lust gone into Earthlinesse wherein Satan and the Spirit of Errour had captivated it and made it wholly Monstrous And now the More it sought Rest therein the greater was its Paine And this now is that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death Gen. 2.17 Thus the poore Soule is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne q Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Divine Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light As a hard Stone is shut up so also the Soule was shut up and out of its Good Life there became an Evill Life as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a Horrible poysonous stincking fire-source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light and are an Enemy of all Love and Truth This Compressed blinde Soule-substance and perished as to God the Great Love of God came againe to helpe instantly after that Fall and spake it selfe in againe into the Centre of the Life as a new Covenant viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which Love-source in it was no more Moveable And did set into the Humane perished heavenly Ens his new Grace-Covenant viz the Destroyer of the Serpent that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace introduce thereinto and manifest therein his living Ens viz the Living Word of his Power and Wisdome with the most high Love viz the Name JESUS and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance living and growing againe from whence the Soule should againe Eate of the heavenly Substance whereby its anxious fire-source would againe be changed into a Love fire Of which the dry Rod of Aaron mentioned by Moses which grew againe and bare Almonds was a r Text. Bild Image or Type figure This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer is it now which the Soules of the holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his Promise of the fulfilling that was to Come and in this Faith have they sacrificed For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were only that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of Gods Wrath and how the Soule should through this inspoken Ground of Grace and Covenant in the fire of Gods wrath be changed into a Love-fire how it should Enter into Death and a Dying to its self-will of false Desire how the false will should be burned off from it and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God spring up or goe forth through the fire into a cleere light and so become a new borne childe which is no more dark but light also did live no more in its owne will but in Gods will and how the introduced Serpents-Poyson in this transmutation doth sever it selfe there from in that manner as the smoake severeth it selfe from fire and Light whereas then the fire and Light becometh a cleerer Glance and is no more shut up as it lyeth in the Essence of the Wood shut up Even as the Holy Divine fire of the Soule was through sinne thus also shut up which none could unshut and kindle but only the Love of God in this incorporated Grace-Covenant This Image Type or Figure they set before them with the Sacrifices looking upon the future fulfilling and introduced their Faith with the inspoken Grace of the Womans-seede and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Faith might thus Forme or Mould it selfe in the Figure of Christ that the Spirit of their will might stand in the figure and Image of Christ that their Faith might Work in that incorporated Grace For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire typifying how HEE would change Gods Wrath-fire in the Soule into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death in which the Love of God would Give up it selfe into this Wrath-fire be changed into an Angell By this Immodeled Image or Type with their desire and Earnest prayer they pressed through the Sacrifice to God and Gods Word with the Grace had thus also with the Covenant Modeled it selfe in Men and now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image through the Sacrifice in the Holy fire into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer For God kindled the Sacrifice with the Holy Fire And it was not a Common fire that they had in their Sacrifices though they used wood and Sacrifices thereto yet their fire was not from a stone and a steele but from the highest Tincture of the Paradisicall ground from whence the fire of Life is sprung If Man could understand it and did not so runne on in blindnesse it were well for him and he were delivered from Babell and Fables This holy Fire consumed their Sacrifices

Altar and inherite the kingdome of God but it shall be consumed with the Essentiall fire of the Earth without the holy Fire of God as Moses must burne the Heifer without the Host so also should and must the Grosse beastiall Man be burnt up without the City of God viz in its owne Principle by that same Nature-fire as it is done before our Eyes But this Earthly Mans Bloud wherein the Astrall soule ●●veth should be sprinckled upon the Hornes of the Altar which signifieth the right Man created in Adam out of the Limus of the Earth with the right Astrum whose bloud or power shall come againe at the Last Day that same bloud was in Christs humanity with the inclusion of the Heavenly bloud sprinckled upon the hornes of the Altar in his suffering and dying on the i Note Tree of the Crosse for a signe that our bloud after a right humane manner is with Christ come upon Gods Altar and that God in Christ hath therewith Marked us in the Eternall Heavenly Altar 12. But that the other bloud must be powred at the foote of the Altar signifieth that our humane bloud wherein our outward humane life consisteth which here dyeth is in its dying powred out at the foote of the Altar viz into the foure Elements and reserved to the bringing againe of the first true Man that the right life shall be kept at the foote of the Altar that is in its owne Principle as in Mysterio Magno in Spiritu Mundi in the Great Mysterie in the Spirit of the world till God shall purge this Altar of the foure Elements and bring forth againe the same pure vertue and power of the bloud together with the Elements and bring them into the Temperature and so then the humane bloud shall againe come to the Soule according to the property of the Spirituall World 13. For this cause must Moses and Aaron in the figure powre out the Heifers bloud at the foote of the Altar for God had not to doe about the blood of Beasts but he set forth the figure of Mans restoration and signifieth under it that Wee Men according to the outward Grosse Earthly Man were but such Beasts which Grosse beastiall property had swallowed up the true Man into it selfe Thus he signifieth how he would with his power bring againe and new Generate that same inward devoured Ground And as the power and vertue of our Mumia of the oyly property shall be kindled againe through the fire of God as Moses kindled the fatt so shall the power of the inward Ground heere even in the time of this life be kindled with the Divine fire and burne upon Gods Altar which through the Vnction or anointing of the Spirit of God should be done in us Even as Moses kindled the fatt so should also the spirit of Christ kindle our Inward Ground even in this lifes Time And when this comes to be done then should the Heifer viz the beast-Man be slaine that is he should be daily Mortified and with his will and beastiall desire be cast forth without the Host of God for he is but Earth and a Beast and not fit for the Kingdome of Heaven Joh. 6. 14. But the Ram now signifieth the right anointed Man in the humanity of Christ as also our inward Ground which with Christs anointing in us becometh living againe As God through Aarons sons viz through the high Priest would lay the hand of his Anger upon it and slay it that our humane will might be slaine so shall in this slaying the bloud of this Ram viz the right humanity be sprinckled every where upon the Altar of God and the humane will shall be split in pieces and quite forsake the owne will and the Head viz the humane senses or thoughts be kindled with Gods fire Even as Moses kindled the Head of the Ram as also the pieces and the Rump so must also our humanity in Christ be washed with the water of Love and afterwards be sacrificed upon the Altar of God viz on the Tree of the Crosse 15. Note But that the Ram must be kindled with fire Note and be offered to the Lord for a sweet savour to the Lord therein Lyeth the Great Mystery The Ram is the right Man Created in Adam which Christ as the Word or the power of God tooke on him from our Adamicall Humanity in the Body of Mary and signifieth by the Ram that God in Christ would thus anoint our right Adamicall Humanity with the holy anointing Oyle and bring it to God againe 16. But seeing the humane will was departed from God and had brought it selfe into Earthly beastiall Lust therefore should this Ram viz the Humanity of Christ be kindled with Gods fire of Anger for the Anger of God was become manifest in the humanity and therefore God anointed first the humanity with the Spirit of his Love in Christs humanity and afterwards offered this Ram viz the right Adamicall humanity to the fire of God that in the Anointing of the Love-Oyle the anger-fire might be kindled and the anger fire in the anointing of the Love viz through the Oyle of its holy substance be transmuted and wholly turned into a Love burning 17. For our humane soule was become an Anger fire viz an Enmity against God and therefore thus God reconciled it in the Love of its substance That is Gods anger in the humane life was thus econciled for Gods power smelt or thus drew in the fire the humane life againe into the Eternall Word viz into God Gods Anger-fire was the Mouth which received the humane Life againe into it and swallowed up the humane averted will into it selfe 18. But when this Great love had given up it selfe into the humane Life in Christ then was Gods Anger-fire with its devouring in the soules fire turned into meere Love viz wholly into a Love-fire and thus Death in the fire of Gods Anger which holdeth the soule captive with its Impression wherein the soule was a darknesse viz a darke fire was broake open and againe turned into the Light Life 19. And that is it which God with this Sacrifice sets forth in a Type of the Comming of Christ for Moses sayth This was a sweet savour to the Lord Now God doth not savour the beastiall Life for that shall not inherite the Kingdome of God Gods buisines which he had to doe by Moses was not about the Ram and the Heifer but he set forth the humanity under them before him Gods Imagination went into the Humanity in his inspoken Grace-Covenant viz in that inspoken Grace word of Love which stood as a Goale or Limit in Man even unto Mary where it manifested it selfe in the Humanity Into this went Gods Imagination and Mans Imagination went into this Type viz into the Sacrifice in the fire Thus went also the Incorporated Grace-Covenant with Mans Imagination into the Sacrifice of the fire as into the Type signifying how Christ should reconcile Gods

againe It will not make the New-Birth All Strife cometh from hence that Men doe not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the Right hand of God that he is in this world and that the world standeth in Heaven and Heaven in the World and are in one another as Day and Night The Inward Ground of the Word out of which the Foure Elements are sprung is the Heaven viz. a Spirituall World In that Inward Power Christ Ruleth true God and Man through the Outward World For where Christ sayth Matth. 28.18.20 All Power is given to Mee in Heaven and on Earth Also I am with you alwayes till the End of the World Also Hee shall rule over all his Enemies till all his Enemies are laid under him as a footstoole 1 Cor. 15.25 Psal 110.1 This is to be understood of his inward Kingdome where in the inward Power he ruleth over the outward Earthly and also the Hellish For the outward World is sprung out of the inward Spirituall World viz out of Light and Darknesse which fabrick before the Office of Christ stood in the Eternall Creators Office who from Eternity hath wrought or effected light and darknesse viz the Spirituall World which fabrick is flown forth and become visible and brought by God into a Creation wherein Light and Darknesse viz Good and Evill rule one with another where is understood Hell and Paine in the flowing forth of the Eternall Darknesse and the Light of Nature in the flowing forth of the Light and in that where Evill and Good ruleth alike is understood the Kingdome of Nature with hot and cold and all other properties This Dominion hath God given to the Office of Christ that he being both true God and Man should rule over all the Propriety and selfe-willing of this Kingdome where Evill and Good rule one in another As the Sun in the visible World ruleth over Evill and Good and with its light and power and all whatsoever it selfe is is present every where and penetrates into Every Beeing and yet in its Image-like for me doth not pluck away to it selfe with its Efflux but wholly giveth it selfe into Every Beeing and yet ever remaineth whole and nothing of its Beeing goeth away therewith Thus also it is to be understood concerning Christs Person and Office which ruleth in the Inward Spirituall World visibly and in the Outward World Invisibly and throughly penetrateth the Faithfull Mans Soule Spirit and Heart And as fire gloweth through the Iron and as the Sun worketh through and through an Hearb so that the Hearb becometh Solar or filled with the vertue of the Sunne and as it were so converted by the Sunne that it becometh wholly of the Nature of the Sunne so Christ ruleth in the Resigned Will in soule and body over all Evill Inclinations over Satans introduced Lust and Generateth the Man to be a new heavenly Creature and wholly floweth with it selfe into him both as to Divine and humane power so that the Faithfull Man becometh a right branch on his Vine in which God and Man as to that same inward New Birth dwelleth Now herein consist the Testaments of Christ that Hee offereth himselfe to the l Text Glauben Vide Ch. 2. v. 1. on the second side Faith that Hee will give it this Flesh and Bloud and all Grace and Spiritually dwell in Man as the Sun dwelleth in the Plant and maketh the fruit Ripe and m Or supple Tender So in like manner is the poore fallen Earthly Man which perished in Soule and Body againe renewed and wrought out to be a heavenly fruit where in the End onely the Grossnesse of the flesh falleth from him and the Spirit together with the Soule remaineth in Christ and also heere in this Life according to this indwelling power dwelleth in Heaven concerning which St. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven Phil. 3.20 But the Body is in the World and of the Worlds Essence And now as the Heaven penetrateth the World and giveth it Vertue and Power so also Christ throughly penetrateth the outward Man with his inward ruling power and resisteth the vaine Lust of the Earthly Nature Therefore say I none understand any thing of God except God worke it in his Minde and n Or senses Thoughts for all Naturall knowledge is outward in the World and ariseth from its Astrum and runneth on in surmisings doubting whether a thing be so or no But the Spirit of Christ assureth in the Soule and Spirit of his Faithfull and witnesseth in them that they are Gods Children Rom. 8.16 Now how this present Essentiall participation is effected and what the Covenant of Grace between God and Man is both of the Old and New Testament What Baptisme and the Supper of Christ are shall be declared in the following Chapters The Second Chapter Of the Institution of Baptisme what it is who it is that Baptiseth and what is Baptised And how the q Or Baptisme of Water Water-Baptisme is to be understood 1. WHen any will kindle a Fire they must have some substance that will take fire it must be a substance wherein there is an Oyle and Water or it burneth not For if they cast a Stone or the like into the Fire it will not so burne as to come to a r Blazing shining Light so also it is to be understood concerning the Soule When it brake its desire off from Gods Essence of Love and Meeknesse which divine Meeknesse in it was as a Spirituall Oyle and fountaine of Water wherein it s Asswaged or refreshed allayed its fiery source and therein its fire had a shining and Light then it s owne Seperator viz the Naturall Fiat t Text. Impressed Impression compressed it selfe so that by such t Text. Impressed Impression compression its properties became as a hard Stone or as a hungry source of Fire wherein there is indeed great heate and yet cannot come to any kindling of Light as a hard Stone which lyeth in the Fire and yet u Or is not of a light fire is not properly the same with Fire because of the hard t Text. Impressed Impression conpression of the Stone 2. And yet a Man may understand that there is not onely a Hots fire in the perished Soule as a hot burning Fire-source but also a Cold Fire-source wherein Hot and Cold stand in Eternall Strife and x Or opposition Contrary Will as the Cause of the true fire viz a darke fire-source of Anguish wherein there is alwayes a desire of kindling and yet no kindling may be effected because of the strong y Text. Impression Compression And that the Substance of the Oyly and Watery Meeknesse is game and is she up in such a hard indissoluble Death 3. And this is now that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree or fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death 4. Thus the poore Soule

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Not so to be understood as if the worke by the unworthy hand were therefore wholly f Or Ineffectuall powerlesse no the Covenant of God g Absenteth or withdraweth severeth not it selfe for the unworthy hands sake which is but a Medium or Means for faithfull Parents which stand in the anointing of this Covenant and have put on the Covenant they have the anointing also in their seede and generate Children out of the property of their bodyes and soules now if they be baptised in body and soule and have put on the anointing of Christ wherefore then not also the Ens of their bodyes if they be the Temples of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in them and eate Christs flesh and drink his bloud so that Christ is in them and they in Christ as Christ sayth Joh. 6.56 Wherefore then not also the fruit of their Bodies For Christ sayth indeed Matth. 7.18 a Good Tree cannot bring forth bad fruit and a bad Tree cannot bring forth Good fruit If the eye of the spirit be light then is the whole body light If the Leven be Holy then is the whole Lump Holy Matth. 6. Rom. 11. 14. John was baptised in the Mothers womb through the Spirit of Christ out of Maries voice as also his mother Elizabeth and wee see cleerly how it came to passe for as Elizabeth heard the Spirit of Mary the Holy Ghost moved in her and also in her fruit alike they received the Baptisme of Christ out of his humanity alike the Mother with the Sonne wherefore then not also now at present in holy Parents in whom the anointing is For such as the Tree is such is also its fruit But the Covenant in the Baptisme is therefore that every one should themselves with their owne will as a particular branch on the Tree and as a life of their owne put on the Covenant of Christ as through the outward Medium or Meanes ordained thereunto 15. Not to understand that a childe of honest anointed Parents which hath attained life though it dye before the Baptisme that it is not in the anointing of Christ It hath indeed put on the anointing of its Parents for it is existed out of their substance out of their baptised soules and bodies substance and onely needeth if it liveth to enter into the Image of the visible Covenant as a life of its owne and with its will give it selfe up into that which it inheriteth from its Parents But seeing a childe understandeth not this therefore the Parents doe it with their Faith and every one of those that are called to that work viz the h Pathen Gossips Witnesses or God-fathers and God-mothers who in their faiths-desire with their Prayer i Transferre or deliver over recommend the childe to the Covenant of Christ and present it in the Covenant of Christ to the Holy Trinity and desire the Covenant to be upon this Childe 16. All these both the Parents and standers by viz the faithfull Baptiser and Witnesses worke with their faith in the property of the Childe and reach out to it with their faith the Covenant of Christ for the will of their Faith taketh the Childes will being without understanding into their faiths desire and so beare the childes will in their will with their anointing into the Covenant of Christ viz before the Holy Trinity 17. When the Baptiser sprinkleth or powreth the water upon the Childe then is his faith together in the water and fastneth it selfe in the words of Christ who sayth Matth 28.19 Goe hence into all the world Baptising all Nations in the Name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Upon Christs command they Baptise Men the Baptiser Baptiseth with the Hand and with Faith and the Parents together with the Witnesses baptise with their Faiths desire with the anointed will they infuse it into Christs Covenant and Christ infuseth himselfe therein with his Bloud Death and Victory viz with the victory of his Death and kindleth the faiths Ens of the Childe with his love fire 18. Thus the Graine of Mustardseed of the love-fire soweth it selfe into the Childes Soules and Bodies Ens as a Glimmering k Hatcher breeder or Ember Mother of Divine Love which Mother afterwards when the childe getteth understanding of its owne is more kindled through Faith Repentance and Prayer and becometh a high shining Light and when afterwards the Mouth of Faith eateth Christs flesh and drinketh his bloud then this holy Mother love-fire atteineth holy Oyle to the burning of its Life 19. With the Baptisme is implanted the humanity of Christ according to the holy Love-water viz the Water of Eternall Life in which water the holy fire may burne and with the Supper is participated the Holy Tincture in the bloud and flesh of Christ viz the true Love-fire burning a spirituall Anointing Oyle out of the divine fire and Light which the water of Love kindleth viz the Baptisme-Covenant And though a Childe be borne of Holy Parents Note and in the Mothers womb be cleerely in this Covenant yet it ought also to put on this Covenant in its owne selfesubsisting person in its owne lifes will for this Cause that in the flesh Sinne and uncleannesse is together propagated and inherited and therefore should it selfe put on this Covenant for it ought and must it selfe with the Covenant of Grace breake the head of the Serpent in the flesh and therefore it ought also it selfe to put on Christ with his victory For Christ now offereth himselfe to it selfe it ought therefore in its owne person to receive him with its owne will and give its owne will up to him 20. For the Baptisme is nothing else but a marriage or Contract with God l Text. auff upon in Christs bloud and Death wherein Christ bindeth himselfe to Man with his victory and Resurrection and placeth Man therein And Man in the Baptisme giveth up his Adamicall averse will to the Death of Christ and desireth to dye to his owne will in the Death of Christ and to rise againe through Christs Resurrection out of Christs Death with and in Christ to a new will and to live and to will with Christ For wee are through the Baptisme with Christs victory planted anew in the Word of God for Man is the Outspoken Imaged Word of God which hath brought his will in Adam from the speaking of God into an owne will and speaking and is become treacherous to the Word of God and with the Baptisme the Imaged Word promiseth and incorporateth it selfe againe with the Eternall Speaking of God that it will speake and will according to God viz Gods righteousnesse and truth 21. The Baptisme is an Oath which Man sweareth m In or into to God when he renounceth the Devill and his Kingdome and giveth up himselfe to God for his proper owne viz for a Temple of God And though a childe understandeth not this yet the Baptiser as also the Parents and Witnesses should