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A28521	The epistles of Jacob Behmen, aliter, Teutonicus philosophus very usefull and necessary for those that read his vvritings, and are very full of excellent and plaine instructions how to attaine to the life of Christ / translated out of the German language.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3404; ESTC R2334	183,592	232

Unity and seeke the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Pilgrims and Strangers and seek our native Countrey 31. In this time a Zyon verily shall be found and the Heaven shall drop downe its dew and the Earth yeeld her fatnesse yet not so as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Sonne of man shall come that there will be Faith upon the Earth And though the Children of Zyon shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine Maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the time of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end for as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the comming of the Son of man be as it is written 32. But that the holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zyon I acknowledge I know it for Zyon shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne hee that would seeke it let him but seeke himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and hee shall finde whether Jesus bee borne in him 33. If he findes it not let him enter into himselfe and seriously consider himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him these he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be revealed in him and he shall be born with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda in the darke Stable not in Jerusalem as reason faine would have it that Christ should be born in the old Asse the old Asse must become servant and serve the new man in Zion 34. But that in Foure hundred yeares there shall be a meer golden Age I know nothing of it it is not revealed to mee also the limit of the Worlds End is not revealed to me I cannot speake of any four hundred Yeares for the Lord hath not commanded me to teach it I commend it to Gods might and leave it for those to whome God would vouchsafe the knowledg of it seeing therefore I have not as yet apprehended it I rest satisfyed in his gifts yet I despise no man if he had a knowledge and command so to teach 35. For the fourth Book of Esdras is not sufficient as I understand to give a positive assurance to it yet I wait for my Saviour Jesus Christ and rejoyce that I may finde my Lord when I have him then I hope after the death of my old Adam fully to recreate my selfe in the Still rest of Zion and to wait in my God expecting what he will doe with me in his and my Zion for if I have but him then I am in and with him in the Eternall Sabbath where no strife or contention of the ungodly can any more reach me in my New man at this I doe in the meane time rejoyce in this miserable Vale of Tabernacles 36. The first resurrection of the dead to the thousand yeares Sabbath of which there is mention in the Revelation is not sufficiently made knowne to me how the same may be meant seeing the Scripture doth not mention it elsewhere and Christ also and his Apostles give not an hint of it in other places save only John in his Revelation but whether they shall be a thousand Solar yeares or how it may be referred seeing I have not full assurance I leave it to my God and to those to whom God shall vouchsafe the right understanding of it till God is pleased to open my eyes concerning these Mysteries 37. For they be Secrets and it belongeth not to man to make conclusions about them without the command and light of God but if any had knowledge and illumination of the same from God I should be ready and willing to learne If I could see the ground thereof in the light of nature 38. But seeing it behooveth me not to hide my knowledge of it so farre as I apprehend it in the light of Nature I will therefore set downe some Suppositions or considerable Opinions which are in my minde not positively to affirme but give it to consideration for good and wholesome instructions may be drawne forth thereby and t is also profitable for man so to search I will doe it in all syncere uprightnesse to see if we might attaine somewhat neerer the matter and perhaps there may be some to whom God shall bestow such a gift stirred up thereby to write more clearely 39. As first whether or no it be certaine that the World must continue Seven thousand yeares and one thousand of them should be a meere Sabbath Seeing that God created all in six dayes and began the rest on the sixt day towards evening whence the Jewes begin their Sabbath on Friday evening and Elias also saith that the World should stand but Six thousand yeares and Christ likewise declareth that the dayes of tribulation shall be shortned for the Elects sake else no man should be saved which you apply to the fall of Babel and to the time of Zyon but it seemes as if Christ sp●ke of the fall of the Jewes and the end of the World and foresheweth an evill End 40. Also Christ saith that it shall be at the time of his comming to judgement as it was in the dayes of Noah where men did Marry and were given in Marriage now we know very well as the Scripture testifieth what manner of wicked World was in the days of Noah that the Deluge must come and destroy them This would intimate and denote a very meane Sabbath 41. And though a man should otherwise expound the words of Christ concerning his comming yet that would not be sufficient to prove it being also that the Disciples of Christ doe alwayes represent the End to be nigh and Paul saith That the end should come after that Antichrist is revealed 42. But that the Resurrection of the dead and the last Judgement should be understood of both namely that the righteous shall arise to the thousand yeares Sabbath and among them some ungodly and that Gog and Magog at the End of the thousand yeares should fight against the Saints it seemes to run quite contrary to the light of Nature 43. For first I cannot apprehend how the first Resurrection must come to passe seeing the Saints shall have their workes follow them according to the words of the spirit besides wee know very well that all our workes are sowne into the great Mystery that they are first brought forth into the foure Elements and so passe into the Mystery and are reserved to the judgement of God where all things shall be tryed by fire and that which is false shall consume in the fire and the figures shall fall unto the Centre of Nature Viz. the darke Eternity 44. But if mens workes shall follow them in the first

81. And though I have not obteined many dayes of pleasure thereby yet I must not therefore resist his will I have written onely according to the forme as it was given to me not according to other Masters or Writings 82. And besides my intent was onely for my selfe albeit the spirit shewed me how it should fall out yet my heart willed nothing but committed the same to him to doe therewith what he pleased 83. I have not run with it not being called and made my selfe knowne to any for I can say also with truth that my acquaintance knew least of it but what I have shewne unto any the same was done upon his entreaty and importunate desire 84. And then further I give you to understand seeing that you have my writings in hand to read that you would not looke upon them as comming from a great Master for Art is not to be seene or found therein but great earnestnesse of a zealous minde which thirsteth after God in which thirst it hath received great things as the illuminate mind shall well ●ee and without light no man shall rightly know and apprehend them as the Reader shall surely finde 85. And yet it could not be written more clearely and ready for the understanding although I conceive that the same is cleare and plaine enough in such a depth but yet if there were any thing that should seeme too obscure and difficult I might represent it in a more simple and plaine manner if it were mentioned to me 86. There are yet other Bookes besides this written concerning the wisedome of God of a very deep sence and understanding treating of the great depths of the wonders of God which at present I have not at hand 87. But that I give you not a large answer of my judgement upon your Booke concerning the thousand yeares Sabbath and the foure hundred yeares in Zyon which you suppose to prove with many places of holy Scripture is because I doe not fundamentally and certainely know whether those Texts may be applyed to such a meaning 88. For there be many sayings of Scripture which seeme to intimate onely one Generall Resurrection of the dead and they are cleare especially in the words of Christ in the soure Evangelists which I hold for the most certaine 89. In like manner the Cause stands with Zyon that wickednesse shall continue to the end and though a Zyon shall be yet it will not be wholly Universall Babel shall go to ruin and get another forme yet they shall not all be Children of God that are called Children in Zyon 90. Also I have no knowledge of the thousand yeares Sabbath I know not sufficiently to ground it with Scripture for we finde one place seeming to crosse another men may interpret the Scripture as they are disposed but seeing I have no command from God of it I let it alone and leave every one to answer for his owne opinion This I tell you syncerely out of good affection and am however your faithfull Friend in the love of Christ 91. In your forty second and forty third Page where you write of the Mystery of the Soules departed or separated you bring the opinion of Theophrastus and others into question and suspition as if they had not written aright of the Mystery it were better tha● had been left out seeing you have not understood their Opinion ●s you say and just so it seemes you shall finde in my Booke of the Forty Questions about the thirtieth Question concerning the last Judgement and also in other Questions sufficient and large information if the same be read and rightly understood 92. There is no need of any further searching it is there cleare enough what the Mystery is that comprizeth body and soule and also what condition the separated soules are in both with their expectation of the last Judgement and also in the meane time in respect of their habitation source life and difference I had thought that it was so deeply and highly grounded that the minde of man should be satisfied enough therewith and if you neither have nor cannot set forth any thing more fundamentall then it remaines of right in its owne place the thousand yeares Sabbath and the foure hundred years in Zy●● will but finde fault with all and bring it into suspition and though many objections might be made yet they would be of no service or esteeme 93. Moreover the manifestation of the thousand yeares Sabbath is not of much importance or concernement to the World seeing we have not sufficient ground of the same it should of right rest in the Divine Omnipotence for we have enough in the Sabbath of the new birth for that soule that obtaines this Sabbath of Regeneration will after the death of the earthly body have Sabbath enough in Paradise we may very well leave and commend the other unto the Divine Omnipotence and waite on God what he will doe with us when we shall be in him and he in us 94. For I suppose there should be a better Sabbath in God then in this World and if man should dwell upon the earth in Paradise then must God restore that which in his curse entred into the Mystery as is to be seen in the forty Questions 95. But that you suppose that the righteous shall not be brought with their workes before the judgement is contrary to the words of Christ who saith That all things shall bee proved through the Fire 96. I say not that they shall come into the judgement for the judgement is in the wicked understand the judgement of Anger of which the Scripture saith the righteous or as Christ saith He that beleeveth on me commeth not unto judgement hee understands hereby the source or paine of the judgement his words doe hold forth that they shall all come together before the judgement and every one heare his sentence The ungodly depart hence and the righteous come hither c. 97. Also every one shall stand forth with his owne workes in the Mystery and themselves be judged according to their workes now you know very well that our workes in this World have beene wrought in good and evill and shall be proved and separated in the fire of God how shall they then being unseparated follow the Saints in the Resurrection to the Sabbath and they hold Sabbath therein But if they shall follow them then they must be tryed and separated in the Fre and then they shall have no more any need to come before the judgement but if they should keep a Sabbath without their workes then they are not perfect 98. If we would speake of Paradise and apprehend the same then we must have cleare eyes to see into it for the internall Paradificall World and the externall World doe hang one within another we have onely turned our selves out of the internall into the externall and so we worke in two Worlds 99. Death cannot separate our workes the