and to a plucking of the Destruction ouer themselues / and also ouer other moe 15. Thissame is verely the Destruction / of the which all the Disciples of the Woorde and of the Doctrine of his Seruice· and all Bretheren and Sisters in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / shall warne one-an-other And for that cause â for to bide kept from thesame Destruction let eueryone applye himself so-much the dilligenter to the Doctrine and Requiring of the Woord / and so-much the heartelyer exhort one-an-other to bide stedfast in the Doctrine and Requiring of the Woord / euen to the Ende The XVIII Chapiter Ther is demaunded / how the vpright Bretheren shall behaue themselues / towardes Such as also go-fourth as Bretheren / and haue gotten and read som part of the Writinges of the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / and yet will not make-manifest themselues â for to be incorporated into the Communialtie of thesame Familie of the Loue by the Elders but runne hetheâ—-and-thether with the Writinges or with the Knowledge out of thesame / among the Bretheren / and among other moe / for to teach them / with their Knowledge / or to pluck them to the Knowledge of their Minde And thervnto is answered by HN and sayde VErelye / Then that com-on vnto you / without the Ordinaunce and Requiring of the gracious Woord and of his Seruice of Loue / bring-in nothing-els but Breach / Diuision / and Offence / a Rom. 16. c. besydes the good Doctrine which is taught you to the Entraunce of the vpright Life and also besydes the good Doctrine which becometh yeat daylie taught vnto you / to b Ephe. 4. b. the Growing-vpp in the holie Vnderstanding of the Godlynes of the holie Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ. 2. Oh alas / ouer those wee haue to lament vs very-much for They are the c 2. Gla. 23. b c 4. Gla. 23. c. false Bretheren / which euery-wheare slip-in â with their goodthinking Knowledge besydes the good Doctrine of the gracious Woord and of his vpright Seruice / and enter not in by the right d Iohn 10. Doore of the Sheep-folde / to the Sheepe of Christ or of the Familie of his Loue / nor by the right Entraunce to the e Iohn â— a. New Birth in Iesu Christ but breakâ—-in thorowe som other waye / and euenso seeke their owne priuate Commoditie and the Honour of themselues / at Mens handes / and not the Saluation of Men and for their owne Ease and Peaces cause in the Fleash / they knowe also well how to holde themselues â after y â— Aspect or Pleasing of Men / and according to the Measuring-fourth of their Knowledge as Teachers and f 2. Cor. 11. c. Appostles of the Woord they knowe also somtymes how to prate talke at-large of high heauenlie Mattiers / which yet they haue neuer seene / but haue taken-on such a Knowledge therof to themselues Howbeit / they desire not to make-manifest the Vncleannes of their Heartes / nor-yet â in Repentaunce for their Sinnes to be purged ther-of but they cloke or couer thesame / and yet will neuerthelesse â with their vncleane vngodlie Heartes esteeme themselues to be â—â—â—uall with the Righteous 3. Of which / and ouer which / the vpright Propheates / Teachers / and Appostles of the Woord / haue euer very-sore complayned them / that g Esa. 2â— 56. d. Ier. 14. c. 23. a c. d. 50. b. c. Eze. 13. 34. Oze 4. 5. 9. b Iohn 10. a. Rom. 16. c. 2. Cor. 11. â— 2. Tess. 3. a. b. 2. Tim. 3. a. Tit. 1. c. 2. Pet. 2. a. c. such false Bretheren Teachers / knowe how to breake-in alwayes so subtillie / betweene the vpright Doctrine of the holie Woord and the singlemynded Bretheren yea and also obtaine the greatest Estimation among Manye / and drawe likewise many Vnfaithfull vnto them But they themselues bring therin y â— Sentence of their Punishment with them / wherin both they and such as followe them â in their Errour Fourth-going destroye themselues / like as the holie Propheates and Appostles of the holie Woord / haue figured-fourth and witnessed their Iudgment / Punishment / and Destruction· together with their Falshod and Seducing / in manye Places of the holie Scripture and warned all goodwilling Heartes to the vpright Righteousnes / of them and of such-like· and of their Destruction 4. And wee ourselues also haue mentioned the-like in many of our h 2. Gla. 23. b. 4. Gla. 23. c. Writinges / to th ende that now likewise / in this perrelous Time wherin all Falshod / Seducing / and Deceipt â to the Destruction of Men beareth so great sway eueryone which â vnder the Obedience of the Loue loueth the Righteousnes with vs / should be warned of the Falshod and Deceipt of the false Bretheren· and of Such as take vpon them out of themselues / to administer any Doctrine â besydes the Doctrine of the gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue vnto anyone and also of them / which turne-away themselues from Vs and from the Woorde· and from our mostholie Seruice of the Loue / and can yet neuerthelesse highlie and at large prate of the Woord and the Loue. But they themselues enter not into the Begining of the christian Doctrine of the Seruice of the Woorde· nor into the vpright Beeing of the Loue nether-yet also indeuour them ther-vnto / to passe-thorowe the i Luk. 13. c. small Waye / which leadeth to the Life of the k Ephe. 4. c. vpright Righteousnes 5. And therfore / to th ende that now in this perrelous Time / the right Entraunce to the vpright Righteousnes / mought be the-lightlier knowen· and the Deceipt of the false Bretheren â which enter not into thesame the-better eschewed and that they mought be preserued therfrom / So is presentlie in this Daye â through the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue the right l Iohn 10. Doore of the Sheep-folde of the vpright Sheepe or Bretheren of the Familie of Loue / or the right Entraunce to the Newe Birth in Iesu Christ â wher-thorowe all vpright Sheepe / Teachers / and Appostles of the holie Woord do enter-in / to the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and his Loue figured-fourth and expressed distinctlie and nakedlie vnto vs / with-out the which / all Vnbeleeuers of the Woord / and all Hypocrites and false Bretheren / with all false Teachers or Appostles / byde-remayning and haue not any lust / to go thorowe thesame 6. And although they dissembled neuer so-much / as pretending to go therin or ther-thorowe with you / yet can they not â if they in the Obedience of the Requiring of our mostholie Seruice of y â— Loue / loue not with all their Heart the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ perseuer therin to the Ende / that they mought be saued but they turne them away / ether to the right Syde or to the
and thy Woord / so haue I then receaued thesame / of thy Grace namelâ—â— / in the c Rom. 10. c. Hearing Crediting of the Ministration of thy Woord For in Mee â through my Consenting to the Sinne ther is nothing-els but all Inclination d Gen. 6. a. Rom. 7. b. to the Destruction And if I â O Lorde remaine standing â in any Righteousnes by thy Woord / so cometh thesame to mee from thy Grace / and from the Power that thou hast geeuen or brought vnto mee 5. For-that-cause trulie / wee must needes alwayes confesse / that wee cannot bring any Good vnto God / nor-yet serue him with anything / but with That which wee haue receaued of Him and his Grace 6. Thissame acknowledged likewise the kinglie Propheat Dauid and the holy Salomon when-as they presented or offered-vpp their Sâ—â—stes or Oblation / before the Lorde / and saide e â— Pâ—â— â—â— c. O Lorde / All thinges com of thee / and that which wee haue receaued at thyne Handes / that haue wee brought againe vnto thee 7. Euen-thus after thesame maner / must the Man also acknowledg / that all what-euer hee geeueth-ouer to the Lorde or bringeth vnto Him / and serueth him with-all / is the Lord-his Good and that hee bringeth againe vnto y e Lorde / that which hee hath receaued of Him 8. But if now the man thinke otherwise / or that hee account thesame / to be his-owne Woorke / so misseth hee the Right / and looketh vpon his owne Dooing â wherthrough hee seeketh Praise or Honour and not vpon the Lordes Grace / for to laude and thanke therin the Lorde / for his Guift 9. But a lowlie Man / which acknowledgeth that all that which is good / and don by Hym as good or wel-don / is the Lord-his Good and Weldooing / as the Guift of the Lorde f 1. Cor. 4. b. which hee hath receaued and euenso thanketh the Lorde / for that which is Hys / and â according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord of the Lorde bringeth-againe vnto the Lorde / that which is Hys / Hee knoweth then himself a-right / how g Apâ— 3. d. poore that hee is / as also of himself / the Most-feeble or Infirmest and that the Lorde onlie / is all in All. And acknowledgeth euenso â in the Beleef to haue receaued all Good and h 2. Cor. 4. b. Strength / at the Lordes Handes 10. And euenso in such a Confessing â that wee are altogether poore and infirme of our-selues will God be gracious vnto vs / and â with his Guiftes bring his Power vnto vs. And when wee then / coÌ„fesse it all to be the Lordes â to-wit / that wee haue receaued all that is good / of the Lord / so shall wee then also haue alwayes â vnder the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue compassion towardes another / which staggereth or falleth / or that is not yeat so altogether perfect and euenso i Rom. 15. d. Gal. 6. â— beare-with and suffer one-another / and help-vpp each-other from the Fall 11. When wee now in such-sort / shew-fourth the Loue one towardes another / so shall then also eueryone be moued to thinke in himself Oh â alas If ther were no Grace nor Loue shewed on mee· nether any Helpe chaunced vnto mee / by the Lord and his Ministers of the Woorde / so should I then doubtles myself / haue still remayned the greatest Sinner / and the Most-weake / among the Children of Men. 12. If wee now doo euen-thus / and deale or behaue ourselues so â in all Grace and Loue towardes each-other / so geeue wee then the Honour onlie vnto God / and not vnto our-selues And the Euell shall likewise euenso be washed-away· and all Offencifenes cleene rooted-out / from among vs and ther shall be nothing that can 1. Pet. â— b. hinder vs / for to haue our conuersation in all Loue and vpright Righteousnes / one with an-other The XIII Chapiter A groundlie Instruction / how wee should be faithfull / to the Lorde and his gracious Woord also geeue-ouer ourselues whollie therto and â with faithfull Heartes cleane vnto thesame A Man which loueth the vpright Righteousnes / cannot applye himself vprightlie thervnto / before that hee haue whollie geeuen-ouer himself / to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / for to be obedient vnto the Woord and is euenso admitte herto / by his Elder in the holie Vnderstanding and Minister of the gracious Woorde / for to becom taught therin 2. And although now all this com thus topasse / or when-as thesame hath in such-sort his Entraunce / so is not the Man then receaued or admitted vnder the gracious Woord of the Lorde / that hee should liue / besides the Doctrine of the Woord / vnto himself or his Goodthinking but that hee should a 2. Cor. 5. b. shewe all Obedience and Faithfulnes / to the Woord / and to the Seruice of his Doctrine or Requiring 3. For when-as the Man is receaued by the gracious Woord / in his Seruice of Loue / for to stand obedient and that hee hath consented thervnto / so hath hee then geeuen-ouer himself and his Fidelitie / to the gracious Woord and to the Seruice of his Requiring / for to doo â through thesame Woorde and his Seruice the Will of the Lorde 4. For euenso in the Coniunction of the Man to the gracious Woord of the Lorde / and to his Seruice of Loue / the Man entreth into the Testament of the Promises of God the Father and so voweth or promiseth himself / before God and his Holyons / that hee will cleaue onlie to the Woord and his Requiring· shewe faithfull Obedience / out of his whole Heart and Minde· and not seperate himself therfrom for-euer nether-yet also to turne his Heart and Minde â at any tyme to anything that the Woorde itself is not or requireth / or that is not one with the Woord but to loue thesame with all his Heart like as a faithfull Espowsed-wife promiseth her Husband / not to loue nor addict herself to any other / nor-yet to depart from him / for any maner of cause 5. Verelie / euen so whollie and altogether ought wee also to cleaue vnto the Woord and to the Seruice of his Requiring in such-sort / that y â— Woord and his Requiring / should be y â— Deerlyest-beloued in our Heartes For at that time â when wee haue turned our Loue so whollie to the Woord and his Requiring ther can no Assaulting indamaige or hinder vs Yea / although ther came an hundred thowsand For wee are so fast-knitt and established with the Loue of our Heart / on the Woord and his Requiring / that they all / are not able to pluck vs from the Woord / nor to make vs consent to any Euell or Vanitie For the Lord the strong God is than our Helper / and b Math. 6. b. Luk. 11.
of his Seruice of Loue / for to bring-fourth the good Frutes b Iohn 15. a. Col. 1. a. of the Woorde And They that doo not / nor-yet will doo or shewe-fourth any such Expressing of Good-willingnes / to the Requiring of the Woord but liue altogether according to y â— Counsell and Will of their c Deut. 12. b. Good-thinking / and turne them away from our Doctrine 4. Whosoeuer then are vtterlye vnwilling to the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / according to the Doctrine and Ordinaunce of the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue and which will not make-manifest themselues and their whole Heart / Dealing / and Inclination / by the Elders in the Familie of Loue / shewe-fourth no Repentaunce for their Sinnes / nor geeue-ouer / nor-yet will geeue-ouer themselues for to be obedient nether-yet do fauour the gracious Woord in his Seruice of Loue / nor stand to maintaine thesame or which holde not themselues stedfastlie / by the gracious Woorde and the Ministers of thesame but make Breach / and bring-in Discord / With all Those â although they wist neuer-so-well to talke much of the Woord and of the Loue yee shall not â as with Fellowe-disciples of y â— Woorde communicate in the Schoole-rule of the christian Ordinaunce of the Familie of Loue Notwithstanding yee maye well exhort them / that they applye themselues to the Obedience of y â— Requiring of the Woorde / and whollie geeue-ouer themselues to the Entraâ—nce of the Doctrine and Requiring of the Seruice of Loue. 5. For so longe as Those which reade or heare our Writinges / do not humble themselues / for to becom implanted obedientlie into the gracious Woord and the Doctrine of his Requiring / d Rom. 12. â— 1. Cor. 1â— c. to Fellowe-members in the Bodie of Iesu Christ. but turne-away themselues therfrom and that also the Entraunce to our Communialtie and Seruice of Loue / taketh-not-effect nor is consented-vnto by them / according to the Requiring of the gracious Woorde / So are These â although they bring-fourth much Knowledge of the Woord / and set-vp a Doctrine of their owne / according to their Heartes Good-thinking not yeat becom any Disciples nor Subiectes of the Woord / nor-yet any Fellowe-members of the Bodie of Christ nor of his Familie of Loue / nether-yet also any Fellowe-bretheren with vs / in the Testamentes of God and the holie Fathers 6. SEeing then that the gracious Woorde / in his Seruice of Loue / is our e Gen. â— b. Pro. â— b. Tree or Stocke of Life / and that yee â which haue geeuen-ouer yourselues to the Requiring of the Woorde / and to the Doctrine of his Seruice are implanted to thesame Tree or Stocke / for to bring-fourth ther-out good Frutes of the Life / So are then also in 〈◊〉 all they that are implanted to thesame Tree â for to bring-fourth ther-out the good Fruteâ— of the Life your Fellowe-braunches f Rom. 11. â— in thesame Tree And not any Other 7. And euenso in that part / yee all which are implanted to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / for to be obedient / are also y â— vpright Members of the onlie Bodie of Christ and vpright Neighbours with each-other / which stand seruiceable one towardes an-other / to Fruitfulnes of the good Frutes of the vpright Life 8. Whosoeuer now therfore are incorporated into thâ— gracious Woord of the Life and his Seruice of Loue / to the Fulfilling of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine / those shall also haue a good Will / to bring-fourth the good g Iohn 15. a. Col. 1. a. Frutes of the Life ther-out / and reioyce them that they finde men seruiceable vnto them therto / and that warne them of the Destruction 9. But verelie / Such as byde without the Entraunce of the first Schoole-rule of y â— christian Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / and euenso adioyne them in Hypocrisie or Couerednes â as with Any-seeking of their Self nes / or of their owne Life or Lust vnto the Woord or Seruice of Loue / and so reade or heare the Testimonies and Writinges of the Woorde and then with their Knowledg / runne off and on / from the Woorde and his Seruice / or-els besydes thesame / go-fourth according to their olde corrupted Vnderstanding or Good-thinking / and haue nether Lust nor Will to y â— Requiring of the Woord and his Seruice / Those shall not be exhorted nor instructed any farder / then to the h Heb. 10. d. Entraunce of the first Schoole-rule of y â— gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue. That is / to make-manifest their whole Heart by their Elder in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ. to shewe-fourth Repentaunce for i Act. 2. f. their Sinnes and to geeue-ouer themselues obedientlie / to the Doctrine Requiring of the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue and euenso to warne them no farder / but of y e DestructioÌ„ / which hangeth ouer Them that byde therwith-out / or turne them away therfrom 10. If they now take thesame Exhortation and Warning to heart / and loue the Godlynes / in the good Life / so shall they then also applye themselues goodwillinglie to y e Entraunce of the k Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. f. first School-rule of the Woord / and let them be implanted â to Obedience into the gracious Woord his Seruice of Loue / for to bring-fourth euenso ther-out / the good Frutes of the Life But if not / so shall they then 〈◊〉 them away therfrom / euenso â through their Disobedience and Vnwillingnes to the Entraunce of the SanctificatioÌ„ of y e Holyons of God prepare themselues to Vessels of the Wrath of God / and l Math. 25. d. plucke or bring vpon themselues y e Sentence of their Condemnation 11. For they that are so goodthinking-wyse by themselues / that they for-that-cause turne them away from vs 〈◊〉 euenso refuse / to becom implanted with vs / 〈◊〉 the gracious Woorde and his Doctrine / Those-same â when one requireth them therto do all commonlie turne them away / from the Seruice of the Woorde / and from Those that require of them / the Obedience of the Woord Yea they becom also â by that meanes farre-worse then before / and are turned-about to Blaspheamers of the Woorde and of the Elders in the Communialtie of the Loue and of m Leui. 10. Num. 16. 2. Tim. 3. â— such take yee good-heede / to th end that yee becom not partakers of their Destruction And if they will not by any-meanes enter â with you at the right Doore n Iohn 10. â— of the Sheepe-folde of Iesu Christ but chuse them an other Way / to breake-in vnto you / or that they likewise turne them away from vs Elders· and from our Ministration of the Woord and Requiring of the
the Sinne ceasseth and to becom borne-anew therout / all vpright Beleeuers receaue â in the Faith of Christ the euerlasting Life It is very-true The IIII. Chapiter In this Chapiter â which dependeth on the former doth HN testifie / that euery Beleeuer of the Woorde / shall shewe-fourth the Loue towardes his Neighbour / when hee transgresseth or ouerreacheth himself in any-thing / wherthorough he staggereth and falleth and that they shall not wax-offended one at another / nether â—et haue any euel Conceauing towardes each-other OH / That â—ee all beleeued aright on the gratious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and through the Ministration of the gratious Woord / sawe rightlie into the a Math. 7. b. small Waye / wher-thorowe yee ought to goe vnto the Life / or are deptours for to passe-thorowe thesame / So could yee not then verelie but be moued with great compassion towardes your Neighbour / which falleth into any Sinne / and not â in anye-case wax-offended at his Fall / nor at his Frailtie but b Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. beare and haue-sufferaunce with him / and infourme him with all Loue Discreetnes like-as if yee sawe any-man fall into the Water / and had such Compassion and Loue towardes him / that yee would rather fall therin with him eauen vp to the Throte â for to helpe him therout then that yee should let him perrish For euenso â to the Preseruation of your Neighbour ought also all your Loue / to be towardes your Neighbour and so to infourme each-other / with Discreetnes / and not to take-â—ffence one at an-other of you / much-lesse to blame one-another / or yet to beare Hate or Enuie / or any Euel-conceauing towardes anyman / ether yet to vpbraide him with his Sinnes / or to construe them to the worst / ether to speake of them behinde him but to lay it all downe vnder the Loue / and to couer it with y â— Loue For the Loue â doubtles c Pro. 10. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. Iam. 5. c. couereth the Multitude of Sinnes 2. Beholde / with such Grace and Discreet-dealing / or with such a beneuolent Heart of Loue â to your Preseruation / in the Beleef of the Woorde / and to the Couering of your Sinnes are yee all presentlie â with the gracious Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue infourmed by the Lorde / and by the Ministers of his Woord / and also loued to the Righteousnes of the Life 3. Seeing then that yee are loued and infourmed in such-sort / by the Lorde / and by the Ministers of his Woord / to the good Life of the vpright Righteousnes and that y â— Seruice of Loue / doth also require the-like of you all / So ought yee not therfore to imagen or conceaue any Euell â in This or in That ouer your Neighbour / nor to vpbraide him with any Euell / to d Rom. 2. a. blame nor to slaunder him / nor yet to spread-fourth his Sinnes among each-other / much-les then among y â— Straungers but to couer alwayes y â— Faultes and Weaknes of your Neighbour / so much as yee are able Yet notwithstanding / let eueryone e Pro. 28. b. Eccli 4. 17. confesse his Sinnes â wherin hee falleth before his Elder in the holie Vnderstanding / and make-manifest before him / all his Dealing and Conuersation and also that the-one do exhort the-other thervnto 4. If yee now see or perceaue / that your Neighbour hath f Gal. 6. a. don-amisse in any-maner of thing or that hee is heerin or therin â touching that which concerneth the outward or inward Righteousnes weake or infirme / and so sinneth against any Righteousnes and that thesame mought be to his Destruction / or to an Estraunging from the Seruice of Loue his Concorde / So shall yee then warne him therof in stilnes / and with the g Leui. 19. b. Eccli 19. b. Math. 18. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. Loue â wherwith the Lorde and his Ministers loue you couer his Sinnes / and h Ephe. 4. b. shewe Mercie towardes him and that altogether / to Concorde and Loue among each-other 5. And euen-thus after such a Patron or Example / shall yee haue your conuersation in y e Loue / with each-other / vnto Godlynes and all the Loue and Goodnes which yee wolde should i Leuit. 19. Rom. 13. chaunce / or be shewed vnto you by your Neighbour / that shall yee likewise shewe alwayes towardes your Neighbour 6. BEholde / Such is the Seruice of Loue / which the right Children and Disciples of the Loue of Iesu Christ / vse among each-other For the k 2. Pet. 1. a. Loue dealeth in such-sort with them and euenso deale also the Elders in their Seruice / with the Communialtie of the Famelie of the Loue of Iesu Christ. For if the Elders in the Seruice of the Loue of Iesu Christ / chaunce to perceaue by anyone of the Communialtie / that hee enterprised any-thing / wherby hee mought be in daunger of his Destruction / or which mought happelie cause him to be estraunged from the Way to the good Life / so are they then very sorrowfull for such-aone / and seeke or vse â through the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue all-maner of Meanes / wherwith they mought so preuent and infourme him / that hee may be preserued from his Destruction and they admonish him so louelie and discreetlie as they are able / or so much as is necessarie for him ther-vnto 7. For they see and perceaue / that if they should let him runne-fourth therin without any warning / and not assist him with reached fourth-hand / that great Infelicitie and Miserie mought then light-vpon him· and the terrible condemnable Beeing catch or fall-ouer him 8. BEholde / eauen-thus with such a Loue / ought wee also to deale and behaue ourselues one towardes another / if wee desire to be right Disciples of the Woorde / and to accomplish the Requiring of the Seruice of Loue. But â oh alas wee perceaue presentlie / among the most part of People / that this Loue for that the Iniquitie hath euery-wheare gotten the Dominion is by Many / vtterlie l Math. 24. a. waxen-colde For if anyman now see or perceaue anything in his Brother / that hee liueth not â in all perfectlie / according to his outwarde Eye / so hath hee then a Lothsonnes in him / and taking-offence at him / hee blaspheameth and accuseth him / and maketh his Sinnes or Transgressing manifest / among other-moe / or-els hee seperateth himself from hym 9. But yee â yee Deerlie-beloued shall not so doo / in the Seruice of the Loue but shall stand redie to helpe your Brother / with all Loue and Resonablenes / and exhort him to Amendment / and take the Burden of his Sinnes vpon you / as your owne Fault or Sinnes and euenso â for to ridde him out
mutual-fellowship / in all vpright Righteousnes and Holynes 4. For the Loue to thesame should be so great / and the Value therof / should be so worthy in the Mans estimation / that hee should c Phil. 3. a. recon or thinke all other outward Thinges â in comparison therof to be but Durt For in itself it is so great· and his Bewties / Riches / and Life / are so many d Rom. 11. d. Ephe. 3. b. and infinite / that it cannot be writen nor spoken-fourth 5. Behold / Heer-to namelie / to this heauenlie Beeing and his vpright Righteousnes / and to the Conformable-vnyting of all his Bewtifulnes and Riches yee are all presentlie â through the seruiceable Woorde of the holie Spirit of Loue called and courteouslie-bidden 6. THerfore / looke now all well to it / that yee account not this proffered Grace / e 2. Cor. 6. a. Heb. 11. b. to be small but heartelie-imbrace thesame that is heald-fourth before you and offered vnto you / and â out of all your Soules and Power indeuour you alwayes ther-after / in all Humilitie and Lowlynes For thesame that is presentlie heald-fourth and offered vnto you / chaunceth to you all out of Grace / through the Mercies of God extended on you For which Grace and Mercies cause so extended on you / it behoueth you all likewise very-well namelie / eueryone to whom these heauenlie Goods / and this euerlasting Life â through the seruiceable Woord of Grace is administred / and that is bidden thervnto alwayes to shewfourth Lowlynes of Heart· and all Thankfulnes to the God of Life and thinke 7. O God / I Vnworthyone / had no-doubt bidden full in all my Corrupt-estate Estraunging from thee / and perseuered in all myne Iniquitie and in the Errour of thesame / if that thou â O Lord haddest not â through the gracious Seruice of thy Loue called Mee therout 8. Therfore must I â O God thanke thee alwayes and for euer / for that thou â through the seruiceable Woorde of thy Grace dost so graciouslie leade mee Vnworthyone ther-out / eauen to the Throne of thy heauenlie Maiestie 9. O God / of all This / the Honour and Praise redoundeth onlie vnto thee For who am I â O Lord that thou electest mee â which surelie am not better then all other Sinners thervnto / and vouchsafest to account mee worthy / to knowe all thissame / and leadest mee thervnto and that ther are yeat so many thowsand Men / vnto whom thou hast not made thissame knowen But â O God this is thy intire f Act. 10. â— Ephe. 3. b. Grace and mercifull Loue / ouer mee poore Synner Therfore â O God haue mercie also â I beseech thee on all Men-synners and Women-synners / which seeke thee with-out thy gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue / and so g Luk. 23. c. Act. 7. f. ignorantlie do erre 10. SEe / in such-amaner shall euery Man â which is stirred-vpp by the Grace of God / to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and that submitteth himself ther-vnder be alwayes humble of Heart and thankfull / before his God / and h Act. 7. f. pray for all Synners / which erre ignorantlie and recon this i Phil. 1. c. for his Sayne / namelie / that hee may passe into the Death / with the Woord of the good Beeing of God / to the Purging of his Sinnes For so shall hee â with the Woord of the good Beeing of God rise-vpp againe from the Death / to the eternall Life The IX Chapiter Of the right Accusation or Chastisement / which cometh vnto the Man / out of the Woord and his Seruice / to Repentaunce for his Sinnes / and to the Amendement of his Life EVeryone ought to take very good-heed / that hee be not slack or sluggish / in the Requiring of the holie Woord and Seruice of Loue / nether-yet holde himself ydle / before that the Light of Life â euen-as thesame is administred with the seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue a Gal. 4. c. haue a liuing Shape in him And till thesame Time / let him holde whollie all his Loue turned onlie thervnto 2. For / to loue anywhat besides the Light of Life and the godlie Vertue / is nothing-els but an vnknoweÌ„ erring Darknes / and a bewitched Sinne the which b Gen. 3 a. b. 2. Tess. 2. a. is an apostated Beeing / and a Seducing from the liuing God and his Righteousnes / wherin all Men c Rom. 7. â— haue ben captiued Of which bewitched Sinne / the gracious Woord doth also accuse or blame eueryone / and calleth them to Repentaunce / to th ende that eueryone should euenso â in his Repentaunce looke vpon his owne Sinnes· and not blame one-another / but exhort each-other to the Good and so inset or consider / that none of all the Children of Men / haue ben lose or free from the Sinne. 3. Therfore shall not the Accusation or d Math. 23. Chastisement / that cometh out of the gracious Woord or Seruice of Loue / be â at anytime cast-back for thesame is vpright But verelie / it is far different from the Accusation or Reproof that proceedeth from the goodthinking Man / or out of anymans corrupt Conscience / through the Knowledg and wherwith also the one Man accuseth or reprehendeth the-other / and exhorteth him not to Repentaunce 4. Verelie / when wee now perceaue in ourselues / that wee haue not rightlie applyed vs / according to the Requiring of the Woord and that wee therfore â through the Woord and his Seruice are chastened or accused / in our Minde / and that our Sinnes or Errours are euenso made-knowen ther-through vnto vs / So shall wee then insee and knowe / how altogether vnlyke of Nature / Beeing / or Disposition / wee yeat are / to the Woord and his Requiring and shall then geeue God thankes / for that ther is graunted vs to see and knowe â thorough the Woord or through the Ministers therof our Vnrighteousnes and Errour 5. And when wee then euenso â through the Woord or the Ministers therof do perceaue or vnderstand our Vnrighteousnes or Errour / so shall wee then â without delay e Math. â— Luk. 3. Act. 2. shewe Repentaunce for thesame / and applye vs â with all Humilitie to the Requiring of the Woord / and say or confesse before God / in our Heartes 6. O God â full of Grace and Trueth How louelie is thy Beeing / and into what a forren Beeing am I yeat incorporated I must euermore thanke thee â O God for that ther is made-knwen vnto mee â with thy Woorde and through thy Woorde and Seruice of Loue all what-euer is contrarie to thy Beeing 7. Oh â alas I was almost becom of-one-mind with the Iniquitie· and seduced â with her Errour from Thee and thy Will But through thy Woord â in his Seruice of Loue
a. Releasser from all Euell 6. For in like-maner / as a faithfull Espowsed-wife loueth her Husband so intirelie / that all her Heart / Minde / and Delight / is whollie swallowed-vpp in him and to him / and that hee is euenso the Deerlyest-beloued in her Heart Yea / so beloued / that although a thowsand diuers Intisers would go-about to pluck her Loue to them / yet should it be all in vaine For such-a-one â through the Loue which shee hath sett to her Espowsed-husband bideth still faithfull to her Husband / Euen so fast and stable shall wee also holde vs / on the gracious Woord / and on the Requiring of his Seruice of Loue in such-sort / that thesame should be y e Deerlyest-beloued / in our Heartes / to th end that wee euenso â through the Loue mought bide altogether faithfull vnto thesame· and indeuour vs alwayes obedientlie / according to the Requiring of his Seruice of Loue and that thesame mought be all our Lust and Will 7. But / if in the meane time â er-euer wee be so altogether swallowedvpp in the Loue of y â— Woord ther chaunce any c Iob. 5. b. Iam. 1. a. Temptation / by our Paramours â which wee in times-past haue loued to com vnto vs or assault vs / So shall wee then turne-away our Loue altogether from them / and turne thesame whollie and in all / to the Woorde of Grace and exercise ourselues fourth-and-fourth / in his Seruice of Loue and euenso crye and pray vnto God for Helpe / to our d Math. 6. b. Luk. 11. a. Releassing from their Temptation / and from the Euell / whervnto they would seduce vs and so with the Grace and Helpe of the Lorde / to take good-heede / that wee incline not to their Desires / for to commit sinne with them 8. But if they take or lay-holde on vs with Force and Violence / and that then â although wee crye ther cometh not any Power nor Helpe vnto vs / for to withstand them in their Force and Violence â–ª and that they euenso rauish vs against our Will / so are wee giltles of the Transgressing For wee haue cryed / for to be releassed from the Tirannie of the Euell / and ther is no Helpe com vnto vs. Of which giltles Transgressing / the Lawe likewise witnesseth / where it saith A Woman which is violentlie-taken in the Feelde â wher-as ther is not any Helpe and so rauished and although shee haue Deut. 22. d. cryed alowde / yet gotten no Helpe shee shall be giltles of the Transgressing But if shee be in the Howse with any-bodie / and so holdeth her peace / then is shee giltie in the Transgressing of Matrimonie 9. In like-maner also with vs When wee are assaulted with any Temptation / against y e Woord and his Requiring / wher-as ther is well Helpe to be had or coâ—-by / in the Seruice of the Woord / or by the Ministers of thesame / if wee made-manifest our case but wee keepe-scilence therof / and fall to y â— Errour of Adulterie / So do wee then commit synne / and are giltie of the Transgressing For if wee crye not to God nor by his Ministers for Helpe / but keeping-scilence / do synne / and then also not confesse the Sinne but â as much as wee may hide or couer thesame / So are wee verelie Consenters to the Iniquitie / and Adulterers against the Lorde and his holie Woorde 10. But if wee desire not to addict vs to the Lustes nor Temptation to the Iniquitie / nor to doo after her will / so shall wee then alwayes â in all our Assaulting thinke in our Heartes / and also confesse still by the Assaulters / that wee haue no power â contrary to the Requiring of the Woord ouer our owne Bodie / as to geeue-ouer thesame to the Transgressing but that it belongeth onlie vnto the Lorde / to his Seruice Wherof also Paule witnesseth an Example vnto vs / wher hee sayth / that a Woman / hath not f 1. Cor. 7. a. 1. Pet. 3. a. Power of her owne Bodie but the Man / with whom shee is entred into Matrimonie 11. Euenso should wee also haue this alwayes before our Eyes / and acknowledg / that our Bodie / is not Our Bodie â for to doo therwith our owne Will and Lustes but the Lordes / for to vse thesame / to an g 1. Cor. 6. b. Instrument of his seruice / and to all Vprightnes and Equitie and that wee also haue promised and yealded-vpp thesame â to Righteousnes vnto the Lorde and haue not any Power to vse thesame to any-thing els as likewise all whateuer is gouerned vnder our Handes 12. Therfore shall the Man alwayes continew in Prayer / and so in his h Ephe. 6. c. Col. 4. a. Prayer / watch continuallie against all the Assaulting of the Sinne and not esteeme thesame Assaulting ouer-light / although hee somtimes â with little Greef or Trouble hath ben released therfrom 13. For a Man which hath ben assaulted by any Wickednes or Vanitie / and is easelie com-thorowe thesame Assaulting / thinketh then somtimes so-much the lightmindeder I am passed-thorowe the Assaulting or Temptation thus easelie Let it hardelie com-on againe / I knowe wel-enough how to resist and 〈◊〉 from thesame But â oh alas When the Man now begineth in such-sort to trust so-much on himself / that hee meaneth euenso / out of his Prudence or owne Power / to perseuer or bide-stedfast theragainst / so doth the Sinne then vanquish him / easeliest-of-all 14. For when-as the Sinne or the Iniquitie / doth â in such a self-conceited Purpose of his assault him / and that hee perswadeth himself / that it can not indamaige him / so shall hee then verelie finde himself oftentimes in the Assaulting / to be to vnmightie / for to bide-stedfast therin / and euenso want the Grace and Helpe of the Lorde 15. Therfore shall the Man alwayes feare the Lorde / and continew still in i Ephe. 6. c. Col. 4. a. 1. Tess. 5. c. Prayer If it then be well with him / as that the Sinne â with her Assaulting doth not ouercom hym / so shall hee geeue God thankes for his Grace / and euenso thinke and confesse in his Heart 16. O God / the Power of my Stedfastnes â so much as thesame remayneth with mee cometh onlie k 2. Cor. 4. b. from Thee and from thy Grace / and not / from my-self Therfore â O God / full of Grace If that the Assaulting chaunce for to meete with mee againe / so extend thou then alwayes â I beseech thee ouer Mee poore feeble Man / thy Grace and Mercie and be thou thyself alwayes â I beseech thee my Power and Strength / wherby that I may in the euell Daye of my Temptation â as a iust l 2. Tim. 2. â— Souldier resist the Iniquitie· and euenso keepe the Fielde or the
be subdued and vtterlie-destroyed / That wee may then euenso bring vnto the Lorde / a Ioyful-offering· and liue with the Lorde euerlastinglie The XV. Chapiter â—her is demaunded / Who be the right Disciples of the Wâ—ord / and after what sort then stand also at what time / that anyone is a right Disciple of the Woord And thervnto is answered by HN and certen Instructions are declared theron / liâ—e as heer-after followeth VErelie / ther are very Fewe / that are right Disciples of the Woord For I say vnto you trulie / that they are not all Disciples of the Woord / which heare the Testimonies of the Woord / nor which reade thesame / and speake therof Nether-yet also com they all into the Schoole of the Loue of Iesu Christ wherin they ought whollie to geeue-ouer themselues / vnto the Woord and his Seruice of Loue for to be instructed by their Elder and Minister of the Woord / to the Requiring and Accomplishing of the Woord· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauen / which speake much good of the Woord As that the Woord and his Doctrine / is right / and that-men are directed and infourmed by thesame / to the Life of Righteousnes But Those which through the Ministration of the Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / are touched â by y â— Lordes Grace in their Inwardnes and to whom it is likewise graunted to see-into or to knowe their Sinnes and their Estraunging from God and his Christ and which also then a Math. 3. Luk. 3. beare-sorrowe for their Sinnes / confesse thesame before their Elder in the holye Vnderstanding / and whollie geeue-ouer themselues â for to be obedient vnto the Doctrine of the Woord and Seruice of Loue and euenso vtterly b 2. Cor. 6. c. depart out of all that which they â in their olde and corrupted Vnderstanding haue liued-in / and seperate themselues therfrom / for c 1. Cor. 4. d. Phil. 3. c. to insue â with all their Heart and Minde the Doctrine of the Woord / and the Ministers of thesame / obedientlie / and that they mought be d Iam. 1. c. Fulfillers of the Woord / and not Hearers alone and so then to perseuer firme therin / till vnto the new e Iohn 3. a. Birth in Iesu Christ which is in vs the Fulfilling of the Woorde· and the vpright Life itself 2. BEholde / Those or Such â which so geeue-ouer themselues whollie / to the Requiring of the gracious Woord / and are admitted thervnto / by their Elder in y â— holie Vnderstanding / and Minister of the gracious Woorde / and perseuer firmlie therin are verely the right Disciples of the Woord and looke-into the Woord a-right / according to his Excellencie And therfore seeing that y â— gracious Woord of the Lorde / is the most-best and worthyest Good they loue thesame aboue all what is on the Earth / or that cleaueth vnto them 3. For verelie / thesame Woorde / which is This-daye administred â through the holie Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ vnto vs / and set-fourth out of the Seruice of Loue / is well worthy to be loued / aboue all what is vpon the Earth / as also for the loues-cause therof / to f Luk. 14. d. forsake all that is vpon the Earth For it is the true Christ which was preached in times-past vnto the World / to Repentaunce / and to a Safe-making of them from their Sinnes / as also to a tocoming righteous Iudge and which is also presentlie com vnto vs â to a Fulfilling of the former Preaching out of Heauen / from y â— Right-hand of God his Father / for to iudg g Act. 10. c. 2. Tim. 4. â— 1. Pet. 4. b. ouer Liuing and Dead / and h Act. 3. to restore it all / what God hath spoken â through the Mouth of his holie Propheates from the Begining of the World hetherto / euen-as ther is writen therof 4. Where now this Woord hath his Incorporating / and floweth-fourth againe seruiceablie from thesame / therin hath Christ his i Gal. 4. c. Shape / liuinglie and the perfect Godhead / in thesame Christ. Out of whom / the Ministration of the Woord cometh vprightlie to passe and they witnes in their Ministration / the appeered Grace that cometh vnto all repentant Sinners / in the Obedience of the Woord / together with the Declaring of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / which they inherit in the euerlasting Life And That is the Daye which God k Act. 17. â— hath appointed / for to iudg in thesame / the Compasse of the Earth with Righteousnes / through his Woord / in whom / Hee hath concluded his Iudgment 5. So many now as ther are / which heare the Testimonies of the Woord / and to whom ther is graunted through the Ministration of those-same / to see-into their Estraunging from Christ and whose Sinnes are made-knowen vnto them / Among those verely / the l Tiâ— 2. b. Grace of the Lorde is appeered and they are euenso stirred-vp through the Woord / to m Act. 2. f. adioyne themselues to the Minister of the Woord / for to be instructed â by him out of the Woord / through the Woord / and in the Woord / to the vpright Frutes of n Math. 3. Luk. â— Repentaunce· taught to the Kingdom of the God of Heauen· and made Heyres in the spirituall and heauenlie Goods 6. But Those to whom the Grace of the Lorde / is in such-sort as ther is saide appeered / and yet will not make-manifest themselues before their Elder in the holie Vnderstanding / and Minister of the gracious Woord / nor shewe any Sorrowe before him / for their Sinnes nor-yet make any Confession therof / for to becom instructed â as Disciples of the Woorde to the right Frutes of Repentaunce but chuse or take-on a Life vnto themselues / according to the Goodthinking of their Knowledg and so knowe then â out of their Knowledg how to prate much of the Woord and Life Verelie / Those that so followe their Goodthinking / are no Disciples of the Woord / nether-yet do they followe the Doctrine of the Ministers of the Woord But they themselues take-on the Foregoing / with their Knowledg and Goodthinking / before the Woord / and wrest and interpret the Woord / according to their Heartes o Deu. 12. â— Goodthinking / and not according to the Requiring of thesame 7. For in dooing so / they followe not the Requiring of the Woord / nor the Doctrine of the Eldest in the Seruice of the Woord and of his Loue but they exalt themselues aboue the Woord and his Seruice and euenso presume to set-vp themselues / to Iudges of the Woord / and to Aduersaries or Invayers against the Ministers of thesame And lay or shutt-vp the Grace of the Lorde â which is appeered vnto them to Repentaunce in their Prison or Subiection / and kill
leaft / and com not to the true Beeing of Iesu Christ â wherin notwithstanding the vpright Knowledge of the Misterie of God and of the heauenlie Kingdom / together with the spirituall and heauenlie Goods are obtayned or purchased that they mought inherit thesame / in their Spirit and Minde 7. For-that-cause wee tell you yeat presentlie / like-as wee haue also tolke you heere-to-fore / that yee shall at no time haue any regarde nor geeue-care to Anyone of them all / that indeuour them not / nor yet will indeuour them / to the Entraunce of the m Math. 3. Luk. 3. first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine· nor to the n Iohn 3. New Birth in Iesu Christ nor-yet to Such as bide not stedfast therin / to Faithfulnes· nether-yet account them for vpright Bretheren / much-lesse then / for Teachers or Ministers of the Woord For they that make not manifest themselues / before their Elder in the holie Vnderstanding of the gracious Woord / nor confesse the Errour of their former Life and Vnderstanding / before him / nor yet doo nor shewe-fourth any Repentaunce for their Sinnes / haue not any good in their minde / whether they acknowledg it or acknowledg it not 8. If they then appeere not or make not manifest themselues in that place / wher the Sunne Ø›the heauenlie Day-light shyneth / and where the o Iohn 7. d. Fountaine of the safe-making Water floweth / and euenso holde not themselues stedfastlie / by the cleere Shyning of the heauenlie Day-light· nor by the daylie Out-flowing of the safe-making Water / nor becom daylie refreashed and washed with the outflowing healthsom Waters / till that they â in their Spirit and Minde be borne-anew / out of the holie p Iohn 3. â— Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ but / before they haue attayned to thesame Time / runne-away with som flowen-fourth Water / and that they suppose euenso to byde couered / in their inwarde filthye and stinking q Ieâ— 2. c. Poole or Pit / or-yet to purge themselues / without the pure Water that floweth out of our Pitcher· and from our Bodie / So shall it not then verelie auayle them / to the Life of Righteousnes· nor the vncleane stinking Poole of their Inwardnes / becom so purged / nether-yet shall their Inwardnes be any sweete Sauour / before the God of Heauen / to his Habitation 9. And the flowen-fourth Waters / which they haue seperated from their Streame· and taken-on to themselues a false Iudgment ther-out / shall also â seeing that they themselues are seperated from the Fountaine and from her daylie outflowing Water-streame wax drye by them or becom of no force and they themselues shall also â as dead r Iudae â— Trees or broken-off s Rom. 11. d. Braunches wither or fade-away and their poluted Bowels shall be eaten-away by the vncleane fretting Wormes / and they shall â at the last finde themselues profitable to no vse / but for the t Esa. 26. b. Math. 3. 7. b. Iohn 15. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Fire 10. Therfore â O yee Adioynedons and Incorporatedons to the Woord yee shall not holde you v Math. 18. c. 1. Cor. 5. b. 2. Tess. 3. b. common / with such Straungers and Declyners from the Seruice of Loue / for to eate daylie with them â at your Table the holie x Iohn 6. d. Act. 2. f. Bread which is brought â from the Right-hand of God the Father vnto you â to the Life of your Soules out of Heauen but breake distribute and eate thesame among each-other But-yet holde not yourselues therfore as y 2. Tess. 3. b. Enemies against them but exhort them to the Entraunce of the vpright Brotherhod / to th ende â if the Lorde graunted thesame that they mought â to Life becom saued· and preserued from their Destruction 11. And euenso / in it-all that chaunceth vnto you / beare in no-wise any Enimitie to anyone but shewe alwayes / in your Brotherlie-loue â which yee haue among each-other also the z 2. Pet. 1. b. common Loue / towardes all them which ignorantlie erre / and yet notwithstanding / by you or besydes you / loue the Righteousnes and exhort them euenso to the Beleef of the gracious Woorde / and that they in the Beleef / applye them repentantlie to the Entraunce of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the gracious Woord and of his Seruice of Loue. 12. And with all them that applye them thervnto and doo euenso / and perseuer therin / yee shall holde you common and also eate or feede-of the Bread a Iohn 6. c. Act. 2. f. to Life / with them and so all b Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. growe-vpp with each-other / in the Godlynes of the gracious Woord and of his holie Spirit of Loue / till vnto the Olde-age of the holie and godlie Vnderstanding and becom you then euenso strengthned with the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and c Ephe. â— c. repleanished with the Fulnes of his holie Spirit of Loue. O Yea That com-to-passe euenso A gracious Calling / wherwith all People are called and courteouslie-bidden â through HN to the gracious Woorde and Supper of the Lorde / and to the Mercie-seate of the Loue of the Maiestie of God COm hether to the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / O all yee People Spirituall and Worldlie / Maiestrates and Subiectes / Noble and Vnnoble / Ritch and Poore / Wise and Simple / together with all Sectuaries and Setters-fourth of Religion and likewise also / all Men-sinners and Women-sinners / how horrible Sinnes or Iniquitie / soeuer yee haue committed or liued-in 2. Com yee all presentlie / and doo a Math. 3. Luk. 3. vpright Frutes of Repentaunce for yee are all presentlie â to vpright Repentaunce bidden to the Supper of the Lorde / where the Bread-of-life of Iesu Christ â which is com from Heauen is eaten and where also the pure b Math. 26. c. Luk. 22. b. 1. Cor. 11. c. Bloud of our Lorde Iesu Christ is droâ—â—ken / out of the Cupp or Passion of Christ· â—â—d shed-fourth for Manye / to the Remission of Sinnes 3. Com now all / and turne you to this Mercie-seate of the Loue of the holie Spirit of Iesu Christ and obtaine the Forgeeuenes of your Sinnes Put-away presentlie the c Deut. 10. d. Fore-skinne froÌ„ your Heartes / and receaue in the Spirit of your Minde / a cleere Sight of the vpright Righteousnes before God and Men. 4. Com hether also to this gracious Seruice of the Loue / all yee d Math. 5. â— hungrie and thirstie Soules after the Righteousnes / together with all yee which loue the Peace Com and perfourme â vnder the Obedience of the Loue your giltie Offering and Godseruice / in the e Rom. 6. Heb. 10. 13. c. true Offering and Godseruice of our Lorde Iesu Christ and haue your communion with the Sainctes of God / in all Loue. Take it to heart CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER HN.