me is given to see as sharply and accutely as any one can search Mark this which followeth 227. NOw when the Image was faded or disappeared what did God with it did he let it fall quite away and remaine in Death No. Then instantly the Doore of his Mercy set it selfe Open and said The Womans Seed shall Crush the Serpents head 228. Then the Deare Name JESUS incorporated it selfe in the faded disappeared Image and the Mark or Limit in this faded disappeared Image became strengthened which with the Revelation or Manifestation stood in the Body or Womb and Seed of the Virgin Mary as a propagated Seed for if that had not been so then had all those before Christs Birth been Lost 229. For the high Noble Virgin of the Wisdome of God with which Adam in his heavenly in breathed Spirit was Espoused or Married that is Immortall that presented it self in the Light of Life to Man viz to Adam and Eve and warneth them of the ungodly wayes and continually sheweth through the Propheticall Spirit the Limit or Mark of the Covenant where it will with the Deare Name JESUS with the Word and power of the true Deity open it selfe againe in Mans Soul The Second Part. Of the Becoming Man or Incarnation and Person of Christ How Christ is become Man or Incarnate out of No Strange Seed but out of Mary and yet indeed not in Eves Earthly Essence the Holy Ghost was the Man or Masculine therein 230. MY Opponent tell me here what the Womans Seed is upon which you found your Election you say the Children of God must become generated out of the Womans Seed as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse and reject Adam's and Eves Seed and make a Strange Seed and yet God said Through the Womans Seed shall the Head of the Serpent be Crushed Who is the Woman is it Eve No that you will not admit Why Because otherwise you cannot Cloake your Election or Predestination 231. Well now if you be Learned as indeed you goe about mightily to Colour your Cause with Texts of Scripture then shew in the Holy Scripture that God entended a Strange Woman you say that Mary is not from us Men but is a Virgin from Eternity that you must and shall prove or else it shall have neither place nor beliefe 232. But I will demonstrate with strong Arguments that the Word of Promise goeth upon the Womans Seed viz upon Eve and Adam that is upon the Matter or Matrix which was taken from Adam out of which the Woman was framed out of and in which Adam should have impregnated himselfe if he had stood and had not suffered himselfe to be over-powred 233. For the Woman Eve should have been the propagated Childe but it could not be and therefore she was taken out of Adam's Essence and Bone and was Made a help for him so that the propagation must be performed through TWO 234. Now if Mary Christs Mother be not from us Men then is Christ not the Son of Man as he so very often calleth himself and where then would my poor Soul remaine which lyeth Captive in a darke Dungeon whereas if God would Regenerate it againe as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse could he not well doe it without becoming Man 235 Besides if Mary were not Man or Humane from us what then would the strange CHRIST be profitable to Me and then it would not be true that the Word is become Flesh Or how could I enter into CHRISTS Suffering Dying and Death if it were not done in Me. 236. But I can with Truth say as the Apostle saith that I beleeve I am Crucified and dead with Christ and rise up in and with him and bear his Image on me 237. Thus saith my Opponent then Christ were conceived in a sinfust Seed if Eve had been the Woman in the Promise No I say not that 238. Christ viz the Living Word was not generated from Mans Seed but in the shut up Seed of the Heavenly part which in Eve faded or disappeared as the dry or withered Rod of Aaron signifieth he became againe the dead parts Sap and Life for the Sinne fell not upon the heavenly part but that dyed understand Substance and not Gods Spirit which rested in the Covenant till at the Limit of the Covenant in Mary 239. The Anger of God Manifested or revealed it self in the Earthly Part as a Life and the heavenly disappeared or faded as God said the day thou eatest thou dyest 240. He meant not solely the Earthly Death for Adam lived Nine hundred and Thirty Yeares e're he dyed and God said the day thou eatest thou dyest that is to the Kingdome of Heaven and livest to the Earthly World as it came to passe 241. I say not that God became Man in Eves Earthly Essence else he must have had a Father but thus himself is the Father 242. Understand this aright The Angel said to Mary The holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee in that sticketh the Mark or Key the Angel said he will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee Do you not understand this The Holy Spirit would open the shut Center in the Covenant in the Dead Seed and the Word of God would give it self in with living heavenly Substantiality into that which was shut up in Death and become a Flesh the Holy Spirit was instead of a Man or Husband he brought the Heavenly Tincture of the Fathers Fires Glance and of the Eternall Sonnes Lights Glance He was in the Tincture the Life and the Moving What Manner of Essence the Word received or assumed wherein God and Man became One Person Also how Christ is a Creature and how he is No Creature 243. NOw understand me according to its high worth I speak in the Vision or Sight and not in the Opinion or Conceit In Adam when God inbreathed the Soul into him then was the Soul surrounded or endued from the Glance of the Fathers Fire together with the Center to the Fire and also from the Glance of the Light with Divine Substantiality Moving in Gods Wisdome or Substantiality 244. But now in the Fall the Light extinguished and only the Fire with the Center to the Fire remained that was now the Dryed or withered and dead Soul as the Dry Rod of Aaron signified and Old shut up Barren Sarah Abraham's Wife and Old Elizabeth dead in the Womb or Matrix the Mother of John the Baptist 245. This Soul was from Adam thus dry or withered propagated except some Holy or Saints in the Covenant where the Holy Spirit in the Covenant Moved as is to be seen by Old Elizabeth that the Child in the Covenant in the Mothers Body or Womb when the Spirit moved the Childs Spirit when Mary came to her that it leaped for joy in the Spirit of the Messiah when it
will not cast the Pearle under your Feet know that nor under None 53. I have my knowledge and skill not from Conceit or Opinions as you have but I have a living skill or knowledge in the visibility Experience or perceptibility I need no Doctor from the Schools of this World about it for I have not learned it from them but from Gods Spirit therefore I am not afraid of your Clamour and Scorne Of a right Christian And of the Divine Wisdome the Eternall Virgin that is no Genetrix 54. DEare Sirs and Brethren in Christ I pray be Schollers of Gods Wisdome let none say of Himself I understand it we know nothing concerning God what HE is but Gods Spirit must become the knowing in US else our knowing is but Fiction a continuall Confusednesse a continuall Learning and understanding nothing in the Ground of the Center 55. What is it for me to speak much of the Wisdome out of the Scripture and could repeat the Bible without Book and understood nothing of what the Wise Men have spoken and out of what Spirit and knowledge if also I have not the same Spirit which they had HOW then shall I understand them 56. To such knowledge belongeth not Conceits and to collect together a heap or abundance of Texts to his purpose THAT no Holy Man or wise Man hath done but a living Spirit out of God can See the Mystery and converse in its own knowledge 57. Gods Spirit must be IN the Reason if Reason will see God there belongeth an humble resigned heart to it not a Scorner in Reason where Reason boasteth it self to be enlightened that is only a Sydereall or Starry Enlightening to be so sharp witted 58. If any be a Child of God then let him seek his Brother in the Love of God and then I can trust him but while he is a Scorner he hath put on the Devills Vizard and Hood and goeth about in Pride he is no Christian but a Mouth or Lip-Christian and Consufed Babel as indeed such Books of Controversie or Contention and Hypocrisie are ALL Babel 59. Let one shew another the Way of God in Love Humility and in the Fear of God as becometh the Children of God then such Contemning would not exist in the World whereby the simple Layick is seduced and totally ignorant of the Cause falleth on in reproach and Contempt against his Brother who is not of his Opinion or Sect of Religion and yet One in a Religion which without Gods Spirit and Power is but a conceit and Opinion is as blinde as the other 60. For the true Religion standeth not alone in outward Words in appearance or shew but in Living active power that one desireth from the Ground of his Heart to performe to another what he knoweth he ought to doe 61. It must come into deed else it is but a Coloured or Painted faith a Historicall Babel where Gods Spirit is not there is no Faith also no Christian but where that is there it worketh cleere works of Love he teacheth and reproveth Meekly he is not puffed up and Scornfull as my Opponent 62. He will needs write out the Ground of the divine Wisdome scorn my Explanation which I have spoken from the Center Confirm himself with the Collected Texts of Scripture despiseth that which I have Written That the Wisdom is a Virgin without Generating that she is NO Genetrix but that the Spirit of God is her Life and Generating which Revealeth or Manifesteth in her the Divine Wonder and he will set that which is better in the stead thereof 63. He saith the Wisdome suffereth and Generateth and he collecteth a heap of Texts for proof Who now is at odds with him in this Not I I say the same and he writeth but my words but understandeth not my Sense or Thoughts he is at Odds with himself 64. I speak out of the Center and he from the Substance that is Generated I understand that the Wisdome is not the Center or the Opener but Gods Spirit is that I understand thus to speak in a Similitude that as the Soul in the Body manifesteth or revealeth it self through the Essence of the Flesh and that the Flesh had not the Might or strength if there were not a living Spirit in it so also Gods Wisdome is the Out-spoken Substance where through the Power and the Spirit of God manifesteth or revealeth it self in Forms understand in Divine Forms and Shapes in the Wonders 65. It generateth or beareth indeed but it is not the Divine Principle or the Center of the Genetrix but the Mother wherein the Father Worketh 66. And therefore I call it a Virgin because it is the Modest Chastity and purity of God and carrieth no Desire backward to the Fire but its longing pleasure or Lust of Delight goeth forward with or in the Revelation or Manifestation of the Deity 67. She could generate Nothing if the Spirit of God did not work in her and therefore she is NO Genetrix but the Looking-Glasse of the Deity the Spirit of God generateth in her he is her Life she is his Chist Cabinet or Body she is the Holy Spirits Corporeity in her lye the Colours of the Vertue for she is the Out-spoken Substance which the Father comprehendeth out of the Chaos that is out of himself without besides beyond or before Nature in the Nothing and bringeth the same forth with the desire to Nature through the Eternall Nature through the first Principle through the Fire of his Might into the Second Principle in the Divine Power into the Light of the Majesty 68. It is that which the Father from Eternity in Eternity continually re-comprehendeth which the Father who is a Fire and Light introduceth into his Fire-Life to the Center of his Heart 69. She is the highest Substantiality of the Deity without her God would not be Manifested or Revealed but would be only a Will but through the Wisdome he bringeth himself into Substance so that he is Manifested or Revealed to himself 70. And therefore I call her a Virgin being she is in the Marriage with God so that she generateth without a Fire-life for in her the Light or the right Divine Life Manifesteth or Revealeth it self she is a Virgin of the Modest Chastity and purity of God and yet is in the Marriage with God 71. Thou suttle prudent School or Vniversity from the Constellation if thou didst here understand the Ground thou wouldst NEED NO Books more ALL lyeth herein the Stone of the Wise Men or Philosophers STONE lyeth in this place but first put off your rough Garment and then you will see it Of the Third Principle which is the Bride of God and how the Spirit of God is no Principle and yet is a Principle 72. NOw when I speak of the Third Principle I understand the Outward World Then saith my Opponent God hath made it through his Wisdome and proveth it by Scripture and I
desire it no more become its Enemy have Enmity against it let God make of thee and beleeve in thee as strongly as he will depend on God and wrestle with him as Jacob did the whole night who then said I will not let thee Goe unlesse thou blesse me and David said Though it continue all the Day and in the Night and againe till the Morning yet my heart shall not give over 114. This is really to beleeve above all Reason when the Heart receiveth no Comfort and yet dependeth on God and saith in the Will LORD LORD I will not leave thee whether thou cast me into Heaven or Hell I will not forsake thee for thou art mine and I am thine I will be Nothing in thee make of me what thou wilt 115. Deare Brethren observe it well This storme and force at last breaketh Heaven and Hell whereof my Opponent as I understand in his very lamentable Writings knoweth nothing at all 116. He saith Man should stand still and expect what God will doe with him whether he casteth him into Heaven or Hell Man cannot prevent or hinder it it is concluded in Gods predestinate purpose or Councill whether he will cast every One O the Most Lamentable Place and Miserable Faith God pitty us that we suffer our selves to be so blinded 117. If we cannot come to God why then doth he bid us to Come Christ indeed saith he came into this world to seek and to save poor sinners also he came to seek that which is Lost viz the poor condemned Sinner whom God had cleerly drawne into the Darknesse and firmely included therein and Chosen him to be a Childe of Darknesse the same is Christ come to seek and to save and not the Righteous who is honest or pious beforehand look upon the Father of the Lost or prodigall Sonne how he did with the Swineheard who had spent his heavenly Goods with the Devills Swine Of the Grosse Errour of Balthasar Tylcken Concerning the Seed of Adam upon which he buildeth his Election 118. MY Opponent will make TWO Seeds in Adam out of which Naturally two sorts of Men become generated from the Mothers Body or Womb one out of the Seed of the Woman and the other out of the Seed of the Serpent therefore God Loved the One and forsooke or hardened the Other and will prove it with Cain and Abel also with Jacob and Esau upon which he buildeth the Election 119. But I tell you Deare Brethren if at that time when he wrote such Blasphemy against God and Mankinde he had been asleep how happy had the time been thus he maketh of the Image of God a twofold Image out of One Seed Two Seeds One party he ascribes to the Devill viz to the Serpent and the Other to the Womans Seed 120. But I would ask him Whether Cain and Abel as also Jacob and Esau were both conceived from the Seed of Father and Mother or whether at the Time when Cain became conceived there was in that very Seed in Adam and Eve out of which he became conceived a meere fleshly Essence as he giveth forth then must even the Devill have wrought or effected that very Seed in Adam and Eve for which God out of his predestinate purpose hath rejected him or let him but tell me who wrought or effected that same Serpents Seed in Adam and Eve of which he speaketh being he will not permit him to be Good and Evill according to the Two Inward Worlds and so maketh a Totall Seperation 121. O thou totally blinde lamentable miserable Reason be but advised The Doore of Grace standeth yet wide open doe not thus seduce the Children of Christ Whom Christ hath purchased with his precious Bloud who there saith Come all to me who are heavy laden with sinne observe yet the Center and the Ground of the Will of God look upon the Center 122. John saith The Light shineth in the Darknesse and the Darknesse Comprehended it not doe you not understand this when Adam was in his Innocency then his Light also shone to him in the Darknesse and the Darknesse comprehended not his Light but when he Imagined after the Darknesse that is after Evill and Good then the Evill quenched out his Light to him and the Darknesse became manifested or revealed on him then the Divine Substantiality dyed to him understand the Divine Bodyes or heavenly Fleshes Substantiality and the outward Spirits and the outward Elementary Fleshes Substantiality awakened or arose and gat a beastiall property 123. Also together in that beastiall property awakened or arose the Spirit or source or quality of Darknesse viz the First Principle in Gods Anger and so he dyed to the Angelicall World viz to Paradise and awakened or arose to the Outward World which is Evill and Good out of the Two Inward Spirituall Worlds 124. The Dark World should not be manifested on Man for the Light understand the Divine Light shined in Adam in the Darknesse and the Darknesse viz the first Principle could not Comprehend the Light but when Adams Imagination went thereinto then the Darknesse Comprehended the Light and all the Three Principles were stirring and manifested or revealed in Adam 125. For Adam would be as God and know Good and Evill which God did forbid them that they should not Eate of Good and Evill else they would dye but the Devill perswaded them they should become wise thereby yes wise Indeed so that when their Eyes became opened through their Imagination and Earthly Eating that they knew the outward beastiall property which became manifested or revealed on them the poor Soul was ashamed and is still ashamed to see the Beastiall Property 126. The Outward Body on Adam was indeed before the Fall but not Manifested or revealed to the Soul as now at present the Kingdome of Heaven is in us but to the Soul in its outward Part in this World not Manifested or revealed A Childe of Christ liveth at present in this World with the New Birth in Heaven and the Eye of the averted or Reverse Soul seeth it not but the Eye IN Christ seeth it Why God hated Cain and Esau and loved Abel and Jacob and which are those lost sinners that Christ is come to save 127. DEare Brethren doe but understand it aright Cain was not begotten out of a totall Devillish Essence out of the Serpents Seed but out of the Essence of all the Three Principles of all the Three Worlds for as Adam was after his Fall so also was his Seed 128. But know this when Adam fell then came the Three Principles together in Adam into Strife one with another viz Gods Anger-Kingdome Gods Love-Kingdome and this World Kingdome Cain was Comprehended in the Anger-Kingdome and Abel in the Love-Kingdome therefore rightly said God of Jacob Jacob have I loved and hated Esau thus also it was with Cain and Abel Cain had comprehended the Anger-Kingdome viz the First Principle
in the Essence in the Seed in the Mothers Body or Womb in the Wrestling and Abel Gods Love viz the Second Principle And now Cain was of an Evill kinde or Condition and Abel honest or vertuous 129. Now see Deare Brethren when Cain and Abel Sacrificed then God that is Gods Love and Meeknesse viz the Second Principle savoured Abels sacrifice but Cain's God would not accept then Cain was in fierce wrath against his brother Abel there ye see the Strife between the two Eternall Principles between Love and Anger in both the Brothers in Man how the dark fierce wrathfull Kingdome is become also manifested or revealed in Man then said God to Cain Why art thou in fierce Wrath Is it not so that when thou art honest or vertuous thou art accepted but if not then Sinne resteth before the Doore but rule thou over it and let it not have the authority or preheminency 130. Here observe God said Rule over sinne let it not have the preheminency or power Had there not been in Cain wherewith he could rule over the Evill then God had not bid him doe it though likely the Anger in him was mightier or stronger than in Abel yet he was not therefore altogether begotten out of the Anger 's Essence but out of the THREE into ONE Christ is come to seek and to save that which is Lost as himselfe saith and not for the sake of the righteous 131. Now who are those that are lost Cain Ishmael and all poore Sinners comprehended in the Anger of God who were lost from their Mothers Body or Womb for their sakes is he become a Man or Incarnate and calleth them all to him they should come whosoever will they should seek pray and knock and he will give them the Holy Spirit and if they come there is more joy at one alone lost Man comprehended in the Anger of God among the Angells of God in Heaven than at Ninety and Nine Abels or Jacobs which need no repentance which became comprehended in the Love in the wrestling-wheele in the Center of the Three Principles 132. God loved Jacob understand he was comprehended in the Mothers Body or Womb in Gods Love which co-worketh therein and Esau was hated for the Anger had comprehended him But now the hate is not so to be understood as if God would not have the lost Sinner No but for the sake of the Sinner is God become Man and Come to call the poor Sinner to Repentance and to the New Regeneration out of the Anger in the Soul 133. And Christ said thou wouldest Not O Jerusalem Jerusalem how oft would I have gathered thy Children together as a Hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and thou wouldst not Also How faine would I eate of the Best Grapes but I am as a Vine-gatherer that Gleaneth What the hardening is And how the Love of God warneth the Sinner Also how the Love of God is as well Omnipotent to preservation as his Anger is to Destruction 134. Question NOw saith Reason What is THAT Now which Willeth not Seeing God calleth the Lost Sinner and willeth in Christ to have them and new Generate them is that the Fathers Hardening Answer Yes indeed it is his Anger 's hardening and the Devills Will understand it is the Dark Worlds Will which hardeneth Man but it cannot doe that TO Death but as a Dark Night 135. But what doth Gods Love viz the Second Principle to that Man It complaineth very often IN the Heart when Man desireth Sinne and saith commit it not or doe it not Gods Anger will burne in thee feare Gods judgement and it warneth Man of his wicked wayes now if he followeth the Free-Will and Converteth then it is rightly said To the Honest or vertuous that is so long as he is honest or vertuous the Light must arise or spring up to him out of Darknesse and then the Light beginneth to shine in the midst in the Darknesse 136. But if thou sayest He cannot convert it is impossible then thou speakest in the Might or Strength of God and against all that which Christ saith he came for the sake of lost Man because he would seek and save him should then Gods Anger be greater than his Love Christ hath undeniably broken the hard Death and fierce Anger of God in pieces which held us captive in the Center of the Soul to the bands of the Dark World viz of the First Principle and made a shew in Triumph of Death in the Soul on the Crosse so that the Scripture in the Spirit of Christ saith Death where is thy Sting Hell where is thy Victory the Snare is broken and we are delivered thus singeth the Church of Christ 137. Dear Brethren I will ask you what Profit is there in all Teaching and Preaching if GOD doe harden Mans heart as my Opponent saith that he can not understand and receive it in What need Men Preach to the Righteous who run their Course without it But Christ saith he came for the sake of the poor lost Sinner and not for the sake of the Righteous which need not Repentance Doe you not see that Christ Drave the Devill out of those that were cleerly already possessed of the Devill and received them for Children Also Out of Mary Magdalen the great Whore 138. Though now indeed the Scripture saith He hardeneth whom he will that is meant of the Stubborne arrogant Sinner who sinneth against Grace and doth but â—â—arn God under a flattering hypocriticall shew he flattereth him with the Mouth and his Spirit entendeth only falshood and wickednesse from those he withdraweth himself at the Last and letteth him goe on in his flattery and hypocrisie who will help him who taketh his own Will in for a helper Would he be helped then must he goe out from his own Will and be resigned up into God 139. Then thou sayst God is Omnipotent and may he not doe with Mans Will what he will It is he which is Potent in all things Who will Contend with him as the Scripture saith and my Opponent urgeth that mightily 140. Hearken my Opponent you are much too young for that matter Learn first what God is What his Will in Evill and Good is thus there is a Chain fixed in Reason but know also that Heaven is against Hell and Hell against Heaven the Anger against the Love the Darknesse against the Light What doe you here mean concerning God if I should speak after your manner that God is Mighty to do all in all things as indeed it is true then must I say that God is ALL He is God He is Heaven and Hell and is also the Outward World for from him and in him all things Originate But what doe I effect by such Discourse which is no Religion such a Religion the Devill receiveth into himself and would be Manifested or Revealed in all things and be Mighty Potent in all 141.
my self the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ if My Will willeth yet I cannot doe it but Gods Will in Mine 172. My Will and Gods Will must be One for my Saviour hath told Me he will give the Holy Spirit into my Will if I but ask him for it And should not that be true then would my Opponent deny me also to Ask I can Ask THAT none On deny 173. Now Christ hath promised to hear and though I find it not instantly in the power or vertue yet if I ask THEN I beleeve that God hath given me his Spirit and though my heart and all the World should say cleerly No yet I will let the Words of Christ be more certaine to me then all Bablings and Fictions 174. Am I indeed the day Staffe or Rod of Aarow in me lyeth the Drying or withering through Adam but if Christ hath introduced his Sap into my withered Flesh and into my Dark Soul again shall I not take or receive it to my self shall I first expect the Drawing 175. I know that I can have no Good Thought in me unlesse it be from God Now if I would faine be saved then I know that very Will is Gods Drawing why should I long then expect other drawing if the Lord calleth in me and biddeth me turne to him is not that Drawing but what Man can say he is not SO drawne Even none at all God draweth every one 176. The evill Man will not follow he goeth on in a disputable Way and seeketh Subterfuges or Excuses and saith he is Holy and his Heart is a Theef and Covetous a Murtherour and moreover a Proud Devill he flattereth himself only under Christs Purple Mantle and tickleth himself with Christs Suffering and Death but will not enter thereinto and with Christ dye to Sinne and become an Enemy to it he will only walk upon Roses in sat and Jolly Dayes and devour the sweat of the Miserable in Pride for saith he God draweth me not yes thou wilt not therefore he hardeneth thee and his Anger draweth thee also the Devill whom thou servest 177. Should God draw thee then cast the false or wicked wayes from thee set thy self as if thou wert to meet an Enemy where it concerns Body and Life If the Anger draweth thee and holdeth thee doe but Defend thy self and thou wilt soon get One that will help thee 178. Doth the Anger in the Conscience Say thou art mine thou canst not be saved then say in opposition I take only CHRISTS Death with me and doe with me how thou wilt take that and wrap thy self therein let Gods Anger and all Devills roar over thee and say and complain against thee what they will out of these Swadling Cloathes shall no Election pluck THEE whether it be of God or the Devill or Man 179. But the Wanton Licentious way which men now walk wherein Men only tickle and comfort the Old Evill wicked One the Murtherer the proud stately Covetous Babylonish Antichrist with Christs sufferings and Death he should only be quiet and fatten himself well Christ hath satisfied if he be marked or noted under Christs Bloud Banner and Elected then he cannot be damned this way is totally false or wicked Murtherous and unrighteous 180. If thou wilt be a Christian then thou must be and become conformable to Christs Image and walke in his Footsteps and with him suffer persecution disgrace and scorne love the way of Truth and Righteousnesse doe that which Christ hath taught thee not with hypocrisie to take double or four-fold and give a little piece of it to another No it must be earnest thou shouldst not Esteeme any thing thou hast as if it were thy own only but consider that thou art only a servant therein and servest thy Lord in Heaven therein thou shouldst dispose of it according to HIS pleasure 181. Not to suck up the Miserable and give a little piece thereof to a Beggar and say I minister indeed to the poore First 〈◊〉 them their Sweat else thou wilt be accursed in all thy Service of God and be kept back from God 182. Serve him with Minde and Heart walke in the Light let the scorne of the World be the Prints of Christs wounds to thee labour watch and pray and stand alwayes in care and circumspection against the Devil Arme and fortifie thy selfe continually against him and consider thou art here a Pilgrim and in the Vineyard of Christ labour faithfully in the Kingdome of God all thy Labour followeth after thee for Christ said My Father worketh and I work also so must thou also as a Branch on the Vine work and beare fruit 183. For a Christian is a Branch on the Tree of JESUS CHRIST if it will not work and beare fruit then it shall be cut off that it hinder not other Branches that is it must quite wither and he hardened as to the Life of Christ these will God harden Here it is said I harden whom I will viz a Branch that will not bring forth fruit to such a one God will not give the Sap of Christ It is not said God will not be mine but thou wilt not be his and so you are parted 184. Doest thou say God can make of me what he will he is Omnipotent he maketh of thee what thou wilt his Love is Omnipotent and also his Anger THAT which getteth thee holdeth thee The wicked is to God a good savour to Death and the Saint or holy is so to the Eternall Holy Life as thou growest so thou art such Sap as thou drawest into thy selfe such Fruit thou bearest 185. Why doest thou blame God God so farre as he is called God CANNOT will Evill for he is Good there is no Evill Will in Him but according to his Anger he desireth Wood or Fewel in his Fire which is conformable to or fit for the Fire 186. Therefore rightly saith the Apostle To whom you give your selves for servants in Obedience his servants you are whether of Gods Love or Anger Here the Apostle speaketh of Mans Election that Man CAN give up himselfe and be given up and though indeed of himselfe he cannot take or receive yet God giveth him the taking or receiving for he hath promised it him The abominable Doctrine of Balthasar Tylcken Admonition not to doubt of Election Admonition and Warning to Balthasar Tylcken 187. THe Doctrine of My Opponent is throughout no other then this If God make a Good Tree then it is so that is if he make one a Christian then he is so as if Man need doe nothing in it he need not work and labour for it that he may become a Good Tree 188. Alas God 〈◊〉 us why hath God given us the LAW and Teaching and said thou shalt not doe this or that If he will have Evill How very shamefully goeth this Man astray how very carelesse and negligent doth he cause Men to be Deare Brother Minde and
Consider of this abominable Doctrine How he gathereth the Texts of Scripture together for a false service to God only that he may prove that God worketh both Good and Evill in us 189. What needs proofe for that I say so too that Gods Love worketh Good in us and his Anger if we give our selves up into it worketh evill fruit to Damnation but what doth it avane him to bring men into such a carelesse negligent way He should rather tell them that they should Repent as God saith in the Prophets To day when you heare the voyce of the Lord Harden not you hearts Let my word enter into your Hearts and Eares 190. But he saith It cannot Enter God maketh either a Good or an Evill Tree this serveth well to all carelesse negligence and wickednesse and lastly to Despaire that is the end of his Doctrine you will finde nothing better or more in his Grace Election or Predestination 191. And I say with good ground and it is the precious truth that if such Doctrine should become embraced or received then will the World at length become a Murthering Den of Devills For every one will say how can I doe otherwise then God driveth me if God will have me to be his childe he will teach and lead me well enough but if I be not Elected why should I long favour the Honest and vertuous I will doe as the Devill doth and hate them and be their Enemy to his kingdome I belong I will steale rob murther and cheate and deceive the simple that I may be potent and voluptuous there will no other come of it being God will not draw me therefore really I must serve God Lucifer but if God will have me he will well draw me from THAT that I shall not doe it 192. Alas be not so Evill and wicked doe not that God hath forbidden it let every one have a care of his own salvation and feare the Lord with Trembling let no Man despaire and say there is a fast doore upon me I cannot be saved for such Thoughts the Devills have and the Damned in Hell If I knew there were but seven Men Elected in our City or scarce two I would NOT despaire but beleeve that I were one of them 193. My Opponent consider your selfe for the sake of your Salvation when you shall appeare before the Judgement of God and Christ shall say to the wicked who in such Doctrine have become lazy carelesse and negligent goe away from me ye Cursed I was hungry thirsty sick naked and in Prison and ye have not ministred unto me and they shall say Lord thou hast not Elected us for children and drawne us then will he say have I not caused my goodnesse to be prelented to you and caused my Word to be taught and faithfully called you and warned you of the false or wicked way and they shall say we have been Taught that thou hast out of thy predestinate purpose Elected one to the childship or filiation and hardened the other now being that sslandeth in thy Word why wilt thou blame us then we were able to doe nothing that was Good 194. My Opponent I put you in Minde of this Consider I pray what will you answer that you have expounded thus that the Anger of God which God in his Love in the Soul of Man hath drowned with the bloud of his Sonne you make to be an Electour againe you give the Sword into its hand againe 195. The Anger was indeed in Adam before the Fall yet not manifested or revealed and the God of Love hath set his heart upon it that he will boult it up againe in the humane Soul that we should run to him as to an Open Fountaine 196. I would have you asked that if Adam had continued in his Innocency where theâ— had remained your Eternall Election or Predestination if he had begotten children in Paradise therefore now if you will maintaine your Eternall Election over Man then must you say the Fall of Man is also out of God predestinate purpose 197. But what means that which God said Thou shalt not eate of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill if he would have that to be done and hath also forbidden it then God were unrighteous and Men need keep no Commandment which he hath forbidden in Moses For he would have if that Man should Sinne that he might have cause to punish him thus it were to be Concluded in Reason 198. Beloved Consider your Glosse or Exposition I will speak brotherly and Child-like to you put but away your Crooked scornfull Hornes and let us deale one with another as Brethren and Members with scorne we can advance Nothing that is Good we doe but deceive the Men in the World that are plaine and simple therewith 199. If you have Christs Spirit as you would be thought to have then meete Me and my Brethren in the Meek Love and Humility of Jesus Christ shew me I pray you your love in the Spirit of Christ who came in great Humility to us poor lost children of Eve to seek and save that which is Lost If you be a childe of that Spirit be so faithfully with Meeknesse Love and Friendlinesse with modest speech and cast the Hornes of scorning away that I may know that you are my Brother then will I be very Loving to you if God give you more then me but if not yet I will in that weaknesse rejoyce with you and refresh my selfe in that which God giveth 200. And be not so furious against the deare Revelation which God hath favoured VS with at Last reade it first aright it hath a very Noble pretious Originall and beginning which reacheth above all Reason yes above the Outward World and above the Light of the Outward Nature why doe you rage against the Most High 201. I Christianly admonish you take heed what you doe that the Anger of the Lord doe NOT take hold of you and God Curse you I tell you I will be guiltlesse as to your Soul if you doe awaken it 202. See what was done by Eliah Also to Corah Dathan and Abivdm in the Wildernesse I tell you for so much as it is knowne to me in the Lord it may happen so to you and more besides for at present it is a Wonderfull Time not knowne or acknowledged by All The Lord hath sent his Spirit of Zeale or Jealousie There is a Wonderfull time before the Doore which you will finde by Expersence if you Live Of the Eternall Predestination and Election of God The beginning and End thereof is One only and Alwayes the same 203. MY friend you speak after a humane Manner and write of Gods Eternall Predestination and Election it will not beare to be so written of 204. When the Scripture speeks of Gods Eternall purpose or Predestination it speaketh not of a purpose or predestination that hath been Long before for in God there is no
perceived THAT and both the Mothers Prophesied 246. That stryed or withered Essence of the Soul understand the Womans Part not the Mans although the Mans Part also lyeth in the Seed of the Woman but too weakly in respect of the Fire the Word took or assumed to himself with the dead Substantiality into the Living now opened and introduced with or by the Holy Spirit and God and Man became ONE Person 247. But now understand me aright my Opponent will not permit that I should say CHRIST is aCreature and yet it is true so far as concernes the Soul and thâ— Outward Kingdome viz the Third Principle he is a Creature for the outward hangeth to the Inward else Christ had not been in this World if he had not had the outward Kingdome on him but without impurity in the Similitude of the Deity 248. He was a Creature and he IS one Eternally understand as to the Soul and as to the Substantiality which dyed in Adam which he with the introducing of the living Divine Substantiality and with the Word and Spirit of God made living againe and as to the Third Principle with that he is a Creature and a King and High-Priest of Men. 249. But as to what concernes the Eternall Word together with the Divine Substantiality which now became introduced into the in death inclosed Substantiality Christ is NO Creature but the first Born of the Father in Eternity 250. Understand in the Creature is the new introduced Substantiality viz Christs heavenly Flesh Creaturely but without besides or beyond the Creature it is uncreaturely for that very Substantiality is the right true Divine Principle it is as great as Gods Majesty in all places filling all in the Second Principle and THAT in the Body or Creature and THAT without the Creature is totally entirely ONE undevided totally one power or vertue might and Glory Paradise and pure Element wherein Gods Eternall Wisdome dwelleth 251. As the SUN shineth or enlighteneth in the whole World and so now if there were not in the deep such a Substance as the Sun then it would not receive the Glance or Lustre of the Sun Thus the Gorporeity of Christ is the fulnesse of the Heaven in the Person Creaturely and without the Creature Living in ONE Spirit and Power or vertue Not TWO Of the Virgin Mary How Mary was no strange Virgin but the Daughter of Joachim and Anna Whence the Author hath his Knowledge And what is called Christs Descending into Hell 252. MY Dear Opponent you will needs have a strange Virgin and you despise my very high knowledg given me of God was Mary Whose Generation or discent is sufficiently to be found in the Bible a strange heavenly Virgin And moreover standing in Gods Wisdome And from Eternity Elected or Predestinated thereto How then came it That when the Angel came to her and brought the Message That she should be impregnate or with Child And bear or Generate a Sonne She said How shall that come to passe Seeing I know of no Man Did not the Eternall Wisdome then know it how it should come to passe 253. I Suppose therefore my Dear Opponent you must permit Her to be the Daughter of Joachim and Anna as the Holy Scripture sets it downe else our Salvation will stand in suspence and be in doubt 254. I ask you in earnest if you be Gods Child then tell me How or where hath Christ Broken Death And whither went he into Hell as the Church teacheth tell me If he hath NOT received or assumed our Soul 255. Your Conceited work of a Sacrifice alone doth not satisfie me I would know from you HOW Death in the Soul is become broken neither Covenant nor promise availeth as to that if Sacrifices could have done it then it had been done among the Jewes it must be done with right Heavenly Mans Bloud 256. Now I would know whether it be done in my Soul Whether my will-Will-Spirit have attained an Open Gate to God with or by Christs Death that I may say Abba my Dear Father or No Tell me this or leave my Writings uncensured 257. I have my knowledge from God and not from your Fiction Schools or Vniversities where you contend about words as a Dog about a Bone goe with me into the Center be taught of God I will shew it you in the whole World in all Substances living Creatures and Created things I will set it lively before your Eyes how the greatest secret hidden Mystery is in Death 258. Now if my Soul were not together in the Death of Christ seeing it was in the Father from Eternity in the Divine Essence then have I no part in Christs Death 259. I know that JESUS CHRISTS precious heavenly Bloud which out of the Divine Substantiality became Bloud in the dryed or withered Images Seed through the Might or strength of the Heavenly Tincture hath kindled the Fire which was dark in the Soulish Essence so that the same Souls Fire in that very hour began to burne in a white cleere bright Majestick Power Light and Glance or Lustre 260. And there Gods Anger in the Soulish Essence was quenched and made to be Love THIS is Called * CHRISTS Descention into Hell when Gods Love in the Vertue or Power of the Living Word in the Heavenly Substantiality with Christs Bloud brought it self into the Center of the Soul viz into the Fathers Anger and overcame and quenched the Same with Meeknesse 261. That was the Smoak-Hole white the Devill and the Serpents Seed Ruled and Now that very Hell became destroyed and the Devills Kingdome in the Soul taken away 262. And here it is rightly said that as Sinne came from One upon all and penetrated from One upon all so also came the Grace and Eternall Life from One upon all and penetrated upon all Now whosoever will not himself receive it but expects another peculiar Election let him remaine as he is he may come or not come It is said We have Piped to you and you have not Danced we have called you and you have not come to us Question How is the New Birth performed in Vs Also WHAT of Vs shall Arise 263. MY Deare Brother Tell me if you be borne of God and enlightned as you suppose how is the New Birth performed in US is it entering in or exgenerating is it not performed in us in our Souls Indeed Christ must become manifested in us after the Manner as in Miry 264. What meane you by the New Creature Also doe you understand a New Soul Or the Old which you have inherited from Father and Mother or what do you hold concerning the Resurrection of the Dead WHAT of us must arise For the Soul dyeth not also Christ in us dyeth not for he is once dead to Sinne for and in Vs What is it that ariseth The EARTHLY Body viz the Evill Flesh that is infected by the Devill and full of Sinne and Abomination THAT is NOT
it that shall live in God For Christ said Flesh and Bloud CANNOT inherit the Kingdome of Heaven 265. What is it then For the New Creature generated out of the Dew of Heaven as you say also cannot arise for it dyeth Not Christs Life is its Life You will quite take away the first Adam what remaineth then If you are Learned tell me and play not on my Pipe you would have it that Christ hath not received or assumed Adam's Flesh then can Adam NOT rise again 266. My Friend I Exhort you in the Love of Christ be not an opposer till you understand the Center of all things or Substances together with the Three Principles For the Power or vertue of the Resurrection is performed according to the THIRD Principle there shall Nothing of ADAM passe away but only the grosse Droffinesse of the Beastiall Property and the Sinne which hath been wrought or committed according to the Anger of the First Principle 267. The Mystery viz the Quintae Essentia shall arise For Christ Flesh so farre and in whomsoever it is become Living Dyeth NO more In whomsoever the shut up heavenly part is in the power of the Word that became Man become Living that dyeth not It dyed in Adam therefore it needeth no further Resurrection 268. Also our Works follow not after us in That but in that which is a Similitude of the inward World viz in the Outward Mystery Now if Christ hath not received or assumed that to himself from US Men how then will it arise 269. I say Christ hath received or assumed the whole humanity from us on to his Heavenly but only not the BEASTIAL Property and Sinne but he hath received or assumed the Sinnes of the World on to himself As an own self-guilty Person and slaine the Death in our Souland Flesh else there were no Remedy for Man therefore must only a strong Saviour come into the Humane Property and slay Death and destroy Sinne and Introduce his Love into us 279. Now I beleeve that I shall arise in HIS and MY Flesh and Eternally Live in him his Life for mine his Spirit for mine and all whatsoever I am for his He God I Man and in him God and Man and he in me God and Man 271. This shall none teare out of my Heart I have knowne it Not I. but Christ in me therefore whosoever will may Fable and Babble about it I need no Election or Predestination to it my Saviour Christ hath Elected me IN my Soul Spirit and Flesh in himself I am therein Joyfull and Comforted let who will be a Heretick and Feigner I have with MARY Elected or Chosen the Best thing and will in the meane time sit at the Feet of my LORD JESU till all Feigners and Grace Electioners or Predestinatours have seigned and babbled Out ALL they CAN. 272. They say they cannot doe so that is their Obstinacy and Wilfulnesse I say if I cannot yet Christ in Me can And say with Jacob I will not leave thee unlesse thou blesse me and Though Body and soul should be dissolved yet I will not leave thee cast me into Heaven or into Hell yet I am in thee and thou in me thou art mine and I am thine the Enemy shall NOT part us How Mary was Eves Daughter and how Christ hath had a Humane Soul which is Eternally Immortall 273. MY Opponent hath so wonderfull a vaine discourse concerning Mary he will prove out of the Scripture that SHE hath been from Eternity and draweth a whole heape of Texts together about it which yet are all against him those very Texts speak all of the Virgin of the Divine Wisdome and then who is it that contendeth with him that Christ is become Man in that very Virginity not I I have throughout written just So but I understand also that the same Virgin was also IN the Mark or Limit of the Covenant in which God became Man 274. But Mary was from Eve else Christ had not received or assured our humane Soul as he also very strongly denyeth it that he hath assumed no Soul from us a strange thing helpeth not me in a strange thing he is not my Brother 275. Is his Soul no Creature but God himself Is he not out of or from us why then did he commend it to his Father in his Death into his hands And said On the Mount of Olives My Soul is troubled even unto Death May God also be troubled I beleeve he must now permit it to be a Humane Soul if he will stand before the Scripture and Truth that so Christ remaine to be our Brother as he said After his Resurrection Goe and tell my Brethren I ascend to my God and to your God else how should Christ say I goe to MY God if he were no Creature God needs no going without besides and beyond the Creature 276. Beloved what may indeed his Temptation in the Wildernesse have been WHAT in him became Tempted His Deity or his Soul Beloved pray tell me Did God Tempt himself Or What had he to doe with the Humanity I suppose the Man will here be Silent Read my Book of the Threefold Life therein thou wilt have the ground of all even More then any one could Ask which I here let passe 277. He writeth that Christs Soul did flow forth out of the Word and the Wisdome then is Christ Totally strange and not my Brother as he saith if they are to be Brothers then they must come out of ONE Body but Christ would not have spoken right if this Opinion should take place 278. God promised Abraham that in HIS understand in Abraham's Seed should all People become blessed but he saith no but in Abrahams promised Seed he saith not in the Seed which I promise thee or in my Seed but in thy Seed 279 O! how terrible it is that Man Dare so to pervert the Scriptures Dear Sirs where will you abide How will you stand before God Have you not the Spirit of True Knowledge from God Why then doe you make Glosses or Expositions upon the Scripture What are your conceits profitable that you Exchange Words for Words and imbitter the Scriptures let them stand unexplained if you be not called to it of God Why doe you so long make many Errours leave the Explanation to the highest Tongue in Every Man 280. Why doe you Juggle so much with the Holy Spirit are you more knowing or skilfull then HE Yes indeed ye are stately proud self honouring self-profiting wilfull stubborne Children Ye run and None hath called you suffer your selves first to be called and enlightened with Gods Light before you run 281. From such imbittering from the beginning of the World to this time nothing hath existed but strife Wars and Desolation and Babel is an unsure Leader full of Abomination and Pride to make Ostentation of it self that a Man hath studied or that a
Man hath read much But the Holy Spirit useth in those Children which he calleth only ONE Book with THREE Leaves therein only they must study they need none of them more neither are they profitable 282. My Opponent will not permit that the Virgin Mary is out of or from Adam if that were true then she had also no Soul or else a strange one for she said being with Old Elizabeth my Soul doth magnifie the Lord and Simeon said to her A Sword will pierce through thy Soul Now if she be only the Virgin of the Wisdome of God as he writeth then no Sword could pierce through her Soul for that is God himselfe that is his outspoken or Expressed Substance 283. Also I tell you indeed that the Virginity of God viz the Wisdome became Manifested or revealed in Mary through the awakening of God when God manifested the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which stuck in her then she became highly blessed above all women for God was manifested in her and in her Seed her in Adam dead Substantiality viz the heavenly part Sprouted againe but her outward Body was from this World that we see in all her life and Conversation in Eating and drinking in sleeping and waking Also in her perplexity when she had lost her childe JESUS when in the twelfth yeare she offered JESVS in the Temple 284. Now if she were only Gods Wisdome and not Man or humane why did she not then know all things as JESUS her Sonne did seeing in the Wisdome of God ALL knowledge lyeth from Eternity in Eternity and though likely she did give up her selfe into the Lowlinesse as the Opponent saith that doth not cause her skill and knowledge to cease it did not cause the skill and knowledge in JESUS her Sonne to cease why then should it doe so in his Mother Had she not the Flesh of Joachim and of Anna her Mother Why then did she Suck her Mothers breasts and desired the Essence of this World and did Naturally eate Earthly food What manner of Body had she then nourished with the Earthly food Doth the Divine Virgin Eate Earthly food I suppose my Adversary is in an Errour 285. There is in Mary assuredly a two-fold Virgin to be understood viz One out-of God and One out of Eve I beleeve and know that the inward was hidden in the outward and only manifested in God as also in US the New Man is hidden to the Earthly 286. For nothing may become manifested in the outward World unlesse it take or assume the outward Worlds Substance on to it selfe Indeed the Outward World as also the Outward Man is generated through Gods Wisdome and the pure Mystery of the Outward World which lyeth hidden in the impure standeth in the roote of the inward World and belongeth thereunto 287. Therefore shall the Outward Man with his Mystery of the Third Principle arise at the Last Day and enter into the inward so that the inward standeth turned outwards and the outward inwards and so God is ALL in ALL. 288. I know not what manner of understanding that would afford if I should say with my Opponent that CHRIST hath not assumed our humanity would God only Tincture Man through the Wisdome then it might well have been done without becoming Man 289. Also if Christ be no Creature why then hath he conversed in a Creaturely forme and dyed with woe and paine as a Creature on the Crosse Can the Deity also suffer and dye I know nothing of that yet that it can dye which was from Eternity without beginning had that been possible to have dyed then should Lucifer and Adam's Soul also have dyed 290. But now that only dyeth which is generated out of the Time viz the outward Man from the Third Principle that so out of the Temporall Death the Eternity may Sprout forth and the Time viz the Temporary figure become turned and brought into the Eternity 291. For therefore came Christ in our Outward and inward Mystery that he might introduce our Temporary Mystery into the Eternity that he might Convert Man againe IN and WITH himselfe into that Forme which Adam was of in the Creation when he knew not what Evill and Good was Of the vaine Contention about knowledge When we reade IN our selves then we reade in Gods Book No knowledge maketh us happy A Warning and Admonition 292. MY Deare Brethren in Christ take it into Consideration pray be Christs Members pray be Branches in the Tree of Christ see diligently in the Epistles of Saint Paul how we must Enter into Christs Suffering and Death and dye away to the old Earthly Man and enter into a right Love 293. Of a Truth most certainly in Contention and Reproaching the Spirit of Christ is not but only a painted Looking-Glasse without Life and knowledge but Consider that we are Branches in one and the same Tree which is Christ and God is Christs Tree 294. Why doe we so long contend about knowledge Indeed knowledge is not alone the way to blessednesse or Salvation the Devill knoweth more than we but what doth that availe him For that I know much affordeth me no Joy but that I Love my Saviour JESUS and continually desire him that affordeth me Joy for the desiring is a receiving 295. I know Nothing also desire to know nothing nor have I at any time sought any skill or knowledge for I am a childe in knowledge and a Nothing I would also faine know Nothing that I might in knowledge be dead and a Nothing that God in the Spirit of Christ may be my knowing willing and doing that I may run in his knowing and willing and that not I but he that I may be only the Instrument and he the Hand and the Labour 296. Why will you long contend with me I know Nothing of your knowledge neither have I ever learned it Search your selves in whom knowledge is wherein it is that I know seeing I am indeed dead in the knowing for the sake of that which will know IN Me. 297. In my knowing I doe not first collect Letters together out of Many Books but I have the Letters in Me indeed Heaven and Earth together with all things or Substances and Moreover God himselfe lyeth in Man Should he not then dare to Reade in that Book which he HIMSELF is 298. If I had no other Book at all but only My own Book which I my selfe AM I had Books enough even the whole Bible lyeth in Me If I have Christs Spirit what need I then more Books Shall I contend and dispute against that which is without me before I learne to know what is in me 299. If I Reade my selfe then I reade in God's Book and ye my deare Brethren ALL are my Letters which I reade in me for my Minde and Will sindeth you in me I wish heartily that you also may finde me 300. I exhort you as Children and Brethren out of