Constellation viz. the Magicall Constellation the Great Mystery out of which the outward Constellation was produced and brought into a creaturall Beeing 28. The fire-Spirit viz. the fiery Soul dwelleth in the fiery Spirituall body And in the lights body which is from the holy Element viz. from the true heavenly Image which consisteth in a Spirituall Sulphur Mercurius and Sal dwelleth the holy Soule viz. the true Spirit of the soul which is of a Temple of God and in the outward Body which is a limus of the Earth and the other Elements viz. in the outward Constellation of the five Sences the outward Soule viz. the reall Spirit of the outward world doth dwell 29. Each Property of the Soule hath a Corporeall property in it self which may be called an heaven viz. a Sundry Speciall Magicall Astrum As the fiery Property of the soul hath a body from the inward Constellation of the darke and fire-world which is a Spirituall Body 30. And the c c c Or light Lucid Property of the Soul hath a spirituall oleous and watry Body wherein the two properties of the highest Tincture of the fire and light doth open the Lustre and beauty of the Colours wonders and vertue of the divine wisdome this water is the water above the Firmament of which Moses speaketh and this oyle is the holy Oyle of the divine Powers and this was a usuall Type in the old Testament in that the reall oyly body of the heavenly property did disappeare in Adam in the awaked vanity God ordained the Type of the new Regeneration with an unction of Oyl wherein he powerfully wrought through the promised Covenant as in a Type 31. The Third outward Property of the Soul hath likewise every way such a body of many Constellations in it as the inward properties all which multiplicity of properties may be called heavens for each property of the outward body hath a Magicall Constellation as there is a body of the Sulphurean Constellation of the Earth also a Body or Constellation of the Mercuriall poysonfull life also a body of the Salt-Powers of Bodies also a body of the soul of the outward world viz. of the upper Created Constellation all according as the outward Powers of the outward soul are thus each Power hath a Corporeall property in it and thus also the inward Powers of the Spirituall Property are to be understood with the inward body CHAP. XVI Of the difference of the Heavenly and Earthly Man 1. WHen we consider the Image of God which God created in Paradise unto the Eternall uncorruptible life then we can in no wise say of the grosse fleshy Image that the grosse property of the earthlinesse is the Image of God which can possesse the holy world for it is not of the same Essence and Ens whereof also Christ speaketh John 6. The Spirit is life the flesh profiteth nothing also flesh and bloud shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven and yet verily the true Body is coucht in this bestiall grosse property as the Gold in the Oare 2. All that is Earthly on man that is bestiall and corruptible and not man Albeit God created Man an externall body out of the limus of the Earth yet it is not to be considered of us as now it is for the true humane Body according to the inward world is a Spirituall Sulphur a Spirituall Mercurius and a Spirituall Sal each property of the Soul hath a Coporeall or Essentiall quality on it 3. God created such a Body as the Soul was in its Essence viz. in the Spirated Word of the understanding and breathed the Soule thereinto for the Understanding also the outward Sulphurean body is in no wise the Grosse Beast which passeth away and returneth not againe the true reall body which is hidden in the Grosseness is a spirituall body in comparison to the Grossenesse it is created in deed in flesh and bloud but in a fixed stedfast uncorruptible flesh and bloud 4. By the Lust and Imagination of Adam the Grosseness was manifest the True outward body is a Sulphureous Mercuriall and Saltish Property a pure Essentiall Power according to the nature of the Soul That which the Soule is in the Spirit the same is the true humane body in the Essence as a mansion of the Soul 5. All the Properties of the inward holy Body together with the outward were in the first man composed in an equall harmony none lived in selfe-desire but they all gave up their desire unto the Soul in which the divine light was manifest as in the holy heaven the light shone through all the Properties and made an equall Temperature in the properties all the properties gave their desire into the light viz. into the manifested sweetness of God which penetrated all the properties in which Penetration they were all Tinctured with the Sweet Love so that there was nothing but meer pleasing relish Love-desire and delight betwixt them 6. The inward holy Corporallity * * * Of. from the pure Element penetrated through the foure Elements and held the limus of the Earth viz. the outward Sulphureous body as it were swallowed up in it selfe and it was really there but in manner as the darkness dwelleth in the light and yet its darknesse cannot be manifest for the light but if the light extinguisheth then the darknesse is manifest 7. Thus the inward man held the Outward captive in it selfe and penetrated it as a fire through-heats an Iron that it seemes as if it were all fire but when the fire goeth out then the dark swart Iron is manifest 8. Thus likewise was the first man when he stood in Paradise in his fixed condition in manner as time is before God and God in the time and they are distinct but not parted asunder as the time is a play before God so also the outward life of man was a play * * * Before unto the inward holy man which was the reall Image of God 9. The outward Spirit and Body was unto the inward as a wonder of divine manifestation according to the fire-darke-and light world a mirror of the Great Omnipotence and Omniscience of God and the inward was given unto it for a Ruler and Guide 10. As God playeth with the time of this outward world so likewise the inward divine man should play with the outward in the manifested wonders of God in this world and open the divine wisdome in all Creatures each according to his Property so likewise in the Earth in stones and metalls in which also there is a twofold Essence viz. one from the originall of the fire-dark-world and one of the Originall of the holy-light-world 11. All this was given him for his play he had the knowledge of all Tinctures all was subject to him he ruled in heaven and earth and over all the Elements so also over all the Constellations and that because the divine Power was manifest in him no heat nor cold
new assumptions and formings are effected and wrought forth in the divine will in Resignation and they are the heavenly Images and formings which are formed and shaped in the holy Ghost to the honour of God 78. For if the holy Name of God be not in its power in the forming of the words viz. in the spirits of the Letters which are the formed word and helps to forme the word in the Sensuall tongue then the false Antichrist speaketh onely from his own selfe assumption of the literall forme 79. For the Spirit of God doth form and imprint into the word of the mouth when as the Sensuall tongue takes it righteousnesse truth faith Love and patience viz. divine power and vertue but the Antichristian childe doth co-forme in the conception of the word out of the Serpents Ens lies falsehood Tales unfaithfulnesse pride coveteousnesse bitter stinging envy anger backbitings revilings and all whatsoever is against God and maketh the formed word of the letter to a Beast and wicked Bastard which is rejected from the face of God upon which the Judgement passeth 80. The like is also to be understood concerning the externall wisdome and Art if the divine wisdome worketh therein then the understanding and Art is very good and grounded in the divine wisdome but if it be otherwise it standeth in meere antichristian false Image and Phancy to the Judgement of God Note 81. Therefore Let a man prove and try himselfe what falls in and suggests it selfe into the Sensuall tongue in the formation of his words if it be truth righteousnesse faith in hope Love in patience an earnest full unfeigned desire to speak and doe the truth and that for Gods sake in hope of Eternall life then it is well with him let him continue stedfast in such exercise and work more and more effectually and powerfully therein and his pretious Pearl Tree stands in its growth and encrease 82. But if the contrary be found in him that when he will speake that then lying a proud look great words for pomp and ostentation also envious bitternesse false speaking against his neighbour falsehood Anger a revenging desire false and evill interpretings and wrong harsh censurings doe fall in and imprint themselves into the formings and Phancy of his words then he may ceratinly and really know that he hath the antichristian babilonicall whore together with the false wicked Dragon-Beast sitting in his Heart which doth introduce and insinuate and imprint such will and desire in his words for the forming and building up of the Hellish Images for these false insinuations and suggestions are all brought to Substance in the formation of the Sensuall tongue 83. Therefore know O man Note and prove thy selfe that thou art the Image of God according to the divine word and understanding if thou speakest willest and dost righteously then thou art that same Image of God wherein God dwelleth speaketh willeth and worketh but if otherwise and the contrary is found in thee then thou art the apostate rebellious Lucifer in his Generation and traine and dost willest and desirest even that which he willeth and doth 84. And though thou desirest not Hell-fire Lucifer also did not desire it but there is no other reward for the false Image being it formes it selfe out of the Abysse it must verily enter into its Fathers countrey 85. For the speech and understanding of man doth not befall him from the Stars and Elements for then other creatures could also speak and understand Man hath the same Originally from the incorporated formed word of God it is the Name of God which he must not abuse upon paine of eternall punishment This incorporated word man hath out of all the Three Principles in himselfe and hath a free own-peculiar-will to forme a Substance out of which Principle he will and thereupon also followes the Separation and reaping in of every thing into its receptacle or appointed place CHAP. XXXVII Of Abraham and his seed and of the Line of the Covenant in its Propagation and also of the Heathenish Gods IF we look upon the Hystory of the Acts of the Ancient holy Patriarcks with right eyes of understanding then we see therein meere wonders for the lines or Races of the children of God are like unto a tree which groweth into boughes and branches untill it bears fruit thus also the line of Christ grew in the Stem of the promised word in the Covenant from branch to branch even into the height of the twigs unto its right Age untill the Power of the Tree that is the word in the Covenant put forth it selfe with the glorious Soverain fair blossome 2. Out of which blossome the holy Image of God is again growne in flesh and bloud viz. in a holy Body we see its boughes and branches so fair and excellent that the soul doth most exceedingly rejoyce at this contemplation and truly desires to bud and grow forth along with these boughes and branches to the great Praise of God in our Angelicall Tree of the Hierarchies of Christ * * * Text of in the holy Paradise 3. God made a Covenant with Adam after his fall when he dyed to the heavenly Ens in him that he would quicken him againe and regenerate him anew and this Covenant was the root in the disappeared Ens which grew in this line of Adam from Seth and his children and posterity even unto Noah in one * * * In the Stock or body of the tree Stem of the tree and with Noah God renewed the Covenant 4. For the undivided Sensuall tongue wherein the spirits of the letters did rule in one harmony continued untill the floud so that all men spake in one Tongue in which Tongue the divine Spirit of the five vowells viz. the divine understanding moved 5. But being they had introduced the Image and Beast of vanity into the sensuall tongue and fell wantonly in Love with the babylonicall whore of self-hood therefore God complained against them that they would not suffer his spirit any more to rule them and said that it repented him that he had made man 6. For as the Sorrow to destruction did manifest and open it selfe even so also the sorrow of repentance to the new regeneration out of the Covenant thus the sorrow of the formed word in the onely Sensuall tongue destroyed every life and being which lived in the Aire that is in the manifested Spirit of God viz. in the third Principle and the word of the Sensuall tongue did after the floud put it selfe forth in a compaction of the spirits of the Letters 7. For God said to Noah the men are flesh and moreover vaine and wicked even from their youth thus the holy Spirit would not any more manifest himselfe in the evill contrived Sensuall tongue but left them to follow their own Phancy seeing they refused to follow him he suffered the power and force of nature to manifest its wonders out of evill and good
againe as the whole figure together of Jacob thus fairely typifieth and as the Spirit hath signified thereby 16. * * * Gen. 33 8 9 10 11. And Esaw said farther to Jacob What meanest thou by all this herd which I met Hee answered that I might finde grace in the sight of my Lord Esaw sayd I have enough my Brother keepe what thou hast Jacob answered O no if I have found grace in thy sight then receive my Present at my hand for I have seene thy Face as if I had seene the Face of God and let it please thee from mee take I pray thee the Blessing from mee which I have brought thee for God hath bestowed it upon mee and I have enough thus he constrained him that he tooke it This now is the faire figure wherewith the Spirit alludeth how Christ appeareth before God with his Christendome viz. with his purchased Goods then sayth the Father to the Sonne Whither wilt thou goe with these thy Children who meete mee daily in that they come to thee And Christ saith O Lord that I might finde Grace from thee with them And the Father saith they are thy purchased goods keepe what thou hast I have without them enough even all things 17. But Christ saith O no my Lord receive I pray thee the blessing which God hath bestowed upon mee in my children which I have brought to thee for God hath bestowed them on mee and I have enough and he constrained God his Father that he received the kingdome againe from him And it is a true figure shewing how Christ after he sits at the right hand of God and ruleth over his enemies * * * 1 Cor. 15.24.28 would deliver up the kingdome again to his Father And then also will the Son be subject to the Father together with his Christendome as the Scripture saith Which the Spirit in this figure powerfully prefigureth and representeth in a Type or Image 18. This is an excellent figure where Jacob cometh to his brother Esaw that had been angry and perceiveth how Esaw falleth about his neck and weepeth that Jacob saith I saw thy face as if I saw the face of God Which signifieth to us that the wrath of God in the kingdome of nature was become an enemie in Adam's Soule and Body viz. the fiery Soule it selfe which standeth in the Fathers property in the eternall nature 19. But when this great love and humility pressed through in the bloud of Christ then was this wrath viz. the fiery soule converted again into Gods most cleare countenance and attained again the Eye of God's love Thus also we are to undestand concerning Esau when the Covenant of Grace in the figure of Christ in Jacob's humility was discovered to him then was his curse and malice through the Spirit of Christ turned into love that he was no more hee of whom the Scripture saith †††Rom. 9.13 Esaw have I hated for in the kingdome of the Adamicall nature was God's hatred manifested in him and he was himself that hatred and of that saith the Scripture †††Rom. 9.13 Esaw have I hated Now so long as the hatred in him had the dominion so long he was in God's hatred and was himself the hatred but when the Covenant of Grace in Jacob discovered it selfe to him and that Jacobs humility pressed into his hatred then began he to lament and weepe and Gods cleare countenance was manifested in his hatred so that in great compassion he fell upon Jacobs neck and wept 20. Which denoteth the repentance of poore sinners when the malicious wicked soule which lieth captive in the hatred of God turneth to God then beginneth first this compassion and repentance and sorrow for its former Sinne. When the Spirit of Christ afflicteth the soule then it weepeth and sorrrweth that it hath been so wicked and then instantly the Sun riseth upon it and the hatred of God is turned into the countenance of Love where of an hatefull spirit he is made an Angel 21. And though clearly the Scripture saith in a certaine place * * * Heb. 12.17 Esaw sought repentance with teares and yet found it not but this Text giveth us to understand much otherwise namely that indeed Esaw and all the children of corrupt Adam doe not finde repentance in their owne willing going and running else would it stand in the ability of man to attain Grace but the grace and divine mercy and compassion worketh repentance Yet man must give up his will to the Divine working 22. The Soules will must incline it self towards the promised Grace And then will the divine Sun shine into it's will and dissipate the †††Or the hatred in wickednesse hatred of wickedness and then the soule graspeth after the Sun of Grace and so beginneth the working of repentance in the power of Grace and then the Anger of God in the soule giveth it's severe righteousness to the Spirit of Christ and so Christ then saith to his Father * * * Joh. 6.39 I have lost none of them that thou hast given to mee 23. The Scripture saith †††1 Tim. 2.4 God willeth that all men should be saved And * * * Mat. 18.11 Christ is come to seeke and save that which is lost and †††Ezek. 33.11 Hee hath no pleasure in the death of a Sinner Then saith Reason If God will that all men should be saved and willeth not the evill can he not then save all Why doe they remaine hardened if he willeth not their hardening 24. Answer The Soule standeth in the * * * Vnfathomable unsearchable will of God in the eternall speaking word It is a sparke from the divine Speaking whereby the Abysse viz. the eternall one expresseth or speaketh forth it selfe in the science understanding and knowledge of the ‖ ‖ ‖ Seperability Severation it is in the speaking come into nature and creature and hath now the ability to express again viz. an Image of it selfe Note 25. Also in its knowledge it speaketh forth the wonders of the divine possibility in good and evill It speaketh it selfe in its essential speaking out of the eternal science it self in evil Where it should speak God it speake's in it self want where it should speake in its science into the eternal one viz. into Gods love and wisdome there it speake's into severation viz. into multiplicity and bringeth the science of its ability which standeth in the eternal speaking word out of the temperament into a self-will which breaketh off from the onely will of God and entreth into self 26. Therefore then it changeth the eternal will of the unity in it into the centre of severation wherein the only God introduceth his only will in the speaking forth of the word into nature and painfulness to the Divine perception and feeling viz. into an essential spirituall fire and out of the fire
Fall viz. how God becometh Man and Man becometh God and how this Image or Type conceived in the New divine seede even then againe hideth it selfe from the Earthly * * * One Copie sayth Eve Adam that Eve must put on and weare her widdowes apparrell againe that the Noble seede might not be knowne in this world as is to be seene by the children of Christ who are conceived of Christ according to the inward ground how they must after the wedding of the Lamb viz. this Divine wedlock or Coition which is indeed done in the soul with great joy enter againe into the state of mourning and be forsaken in this world as a poore widdow 36. And as Thamar inquired not after the kid but would have an eminent Pledge so the Spirit of Christ in the Covenant inquireth not after the outward solemnity Pagintry wherein Men will Offer Gifts to it It will have the Body Soule and Spirit for a Pledge 37. In this figure it representeth the Jewish Offerings as a whoredom in the sight of God for as Judah committed whoredome with Thamar and entended onely the whoredome and would give a kid for it so also stood the Priests of the Law and in seeming holinesse and hypocrisie play the Harlots with God with the Bloud and flesh of Beasts which indeed was a figure of the Inward and God was pleased to beare with it but he would not accept their Offerings neither did he mix himselfe with the Offering but with the Faith in the Body Soule and Spirit of Man whereof we have an excellent example 38. Judah had begotten three sonnes of the Cananitish Woman but the Line of the Covenant which lay in him would not passe on in the Cananitish Woman and her children but Opened it selfe in this whoredome of Judah with Thamar in Perez whom Thamar conceived of Judah by this Coition or lying together with which figure God represents the misery of Man and presents his Covenant of Grace with the Opening of this pretious Line of the Covenant which pressed on to the Limit Christ in this whoredome of Judah and Thamar viz. in the Earthly Adam and in the Earthly Eve but in the inward ground of its Essence to signifie that even the children of God in their corrupt Nature doe but commit whoredome in the presence of God and that their state of wedlock is but whoredome and a defiled beastiall thing in the presence of God and hath nothing at all therein chast or pure in the sight of God Therefore the Line of the Covenant manifested it selfe in this whoredome of Judah and Thamar to signifie that Christ should come out of this Line of the Covenant and enter into the middle of this whoredome as a Mediatour and break the head of the false whorish desire and earthly Serpent and purifie our fleshly impure beastiall Conception with his heavenly virgin seede and in himselfe change it into the Paradisicall Image againe 39. Also God doth therefore manifest the Line of his Covenant in this whoredom of Judah and Thamar that his wrath in our humane impurity might not burne up and devoure body and soule but that the Covenant of Grace might withstand the Anger in our impurity least God should devour Israel in their Abominations and impurity in his wrath 40. Now seing the Line of the Covenant as to its manifestation and propagation lay in Judah and that Israel also was impure according to the Adamicall Nature therefore God did represent his Covenant of Grace at the first propagation from the stock of Israel in such a figure that the Faith of Abraham of Isaack and of Jacob in the first branch from them viz. in Judah and his Children might withstand his wrath and that continually the Faith of Abraham viz. the Spirit of Christ in Abrahams Faith might be a Mediatour between God and the impurity of Man 41. Wee see also such a figure in the Royall Prophet David with Bethsheba upon whom also the Line of the Covenant pressed on in Salomon and though cleerly David caused her Husband Vriah to be slaine and used deceipt that he might get Bethsheba to wife which in the humane Nature was an Abomination and great sin before the face of God yet the Spirit hath its figure in David thus seeing God had renewed his Covenant of Grace with him concerning Christ therefore God set the line of his Covenant in Davids unrighteousnesse in the woman that he had gotten to himselfe with unrighteousnesse in whoredom by murthering her husband to signifie that all humane matters and doings are vaine and evill in the sight of God and that he will come himselfe with his Grace to help our sinnes and impurity and introduce his Grace into our sinne and slay it with the Grace therefore God represents this Image and Type in David for an Attonement pointing at the coming of Christ who when he rendred himselfe into this figure tooke on him the sinnes of all Men and clensed againe the whoredome of Judah and Thamar as also of David and Bethsheba and of Adam and Eve and laid himselfe in the Marriage-Bed with them as he did with Judah and Thamar and with David and Bethsheba in whom the Line of the Covenant was manifested in their evill purposes and doings 42. For heere the Old Proverb was fullfilled Where God erects a Church there also the Devill builds a Chappell God had built a Church of his Covenant in Judah and David close by also the Devill in Gods anger buildeth his Chappell in Mans Lust but the Church of God alwaies resisted the Devills Chappell 43. For heere in this figure the seede of the Woman presents it selfe shewing how it would break the head of the Serpent in Mans impurity and so the Type of Gods Anger and the Type of Grace were represented in one figure viz. Adams fleshly whoredom with his Eve and all her Daughters and then the womans holy seede of the heavenly worlds substance which with the Word of Grace mediated interceded and set it selfe in the Middle 44. A much more excellent figure wee see in the Most wise King Salomon who stood just in the figure of Judah as Judah was the sonne of Jacob who received and embraced the Promise and Jacob stood wholly in the figure of Christ so David also received and embraced the renewing of the Covenant of the first Promise and David begat this Salomon also of an unrighteous Marriage though he tooke her to wife yet the unrighteousnesse and Murther * * * Lay under the greene leafe stood behinde the Doore 45. This Salomon was indued with high Divine wisdome and the Line of the Covenant pressed and passed through him but at length he became such an unsatiable †††Vxorious Luster after women Lecherous person Luxurious Person that the Scripture sayth of him he had ‖ ‖ ‖ 700 Concubines seaven hundred Concubines and * * * 300 Wives Three hundred Wives and
now no more as spies before Joseph but as earnest hungry Men viz. with an Earnest hungry Life which from all its powers and vertues hungereth after Gods Mercy after the food of Jesus Christ. 22. Heere now beginneth the earnestnesse in feare and Trembling and this is the true going forth after heavenly food wherein the Conscience stands in anxiety and Reason despaires of its owne ability and thinketh alas God is angry with mee where shall I seeke for Grace I am not worthy of it I have trampled it underfoote I must stand ashamed before God Into what Deepe shall I goe where I may dare to lift up my face to God and bewaile my wants to him 23. Then comes the poore Conscience in need and with trembling before God and hath not many Confessions or words for it accounteth it selfe too unworthy to speake one word before God but setteth it selfe before his face and boweth downe to the Ground and thus in it selfe demerseth it selfe into the Most meere and deepest Mercy of God into Christs wounds suffering and death and beginneth from its most inward Ground to sigh and to fly into Grace and wholly give up it selfe thereto as Josephs brethren came thus the second time before Joseph and fell downe before him 24. And when Joseph saw them thus that they were all there and stood so humbly before him he had so great Compassion upon them that he could not speake a word neither but turned him and wept And this is the state and condition wherein the inward ground of the heavenly worlds substance which faded in Adam into which God a-againe inspoke or inspired his Word of Grace in Paradise for an Ensigne Banner Mark and Limitt became living againe in this Compassion wherein Christ is assuredly borne in Man in this ground and now instantly ariseth through his sufferings from Death in Man and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father which right hand is the fiery soule from the Fathers property in the word of the Eternall Nature and presenteth the soule in this ground before the Anger of God and satisfieth and filleth it with Love 25. And heere a Christian beginneth to be a Christian for he is one in Christ and is no more a spie and verball or Mouth-Christian but that is in the most inward Ground and heere Simeon is loosed and * * * Rom. 8.1 there is no more Condemnation to those that are thus in Christ Jesus although perhaps the Outward body is in this world and subjected to vanity yet it hurteth it now no more but every fayling which it now committeth in the flesh must turne to serve for the best to it For now it beginneth to kill the works and contrivance of the flesh and continually to Crucifie the Old Adam for its whole life is now a meere repentance and Christ in it doth help it to work repentance and bringeth it now to his Glorious feast or Banquett as Joseph did his brethren when they came againe to him when he commanded to make ready and gave them of his Table 26. Thus now Christ feedeth the Converted soule with his flesh and bloud and in this feast or Banquett is the †††Rev. 19.7.9 Wedding of the Lamb whosoever hath been a Guest heere he understandeth our sence and minde and no other doth they are all of them but Spies though perhaps they suppose they understand it yet there is no right understanding of this feast or Banquett in any Man unlesse he hath been at it and tasted of it himselfe for it is a very impossible thing for Reason to apprehend it without Christs spirit in himselfe who is himselfe the food at this feast or Banquet of Joseph 27. And it is told thee Babell in thy spying by Josephs feast or Banquett that thou deludest Christendome in that by this feast thou pointest them to the Resurrection of the Dead thou Errest a Christian must * * * John 6.53 eate the flesh of the sonne of Man here or he hath no life in him †††1 Cor. 15 28 In the Resurrection God will be all in all ‖ ‖ ‖ Col. 3.1 Christ sitteth at the right hand of God in Man heere and presenteth him with his Body and with his Innocent Bloud that was shed and that he covereth the soule withall and floweth into it with the same when Gods Anger will stirre being instigated by the desire of the flesh 28. O thou poore old Jacob of †††Or inspecting Spying Christendome let thy hungry sonnes who are very leane for great hunger in the Conscience goe to Joseph keep them no longer back in thy feare what I pray thee is thy feare thou supposest that if this Ground should come to light in the world thou shouldst loose thy sonnes whom thou lovest but who are thy sonnes there is thy owne honour in that thou thinkest to sit in the Stead of Christ upon Earth Also there is thy Lucifer of fleshly honour which thou takest care for and thy countenance is dejected about it if a man should require an Apostolique Life from thee and seeke thee in the Processe and Imitation of Christ it pleaseth thee better that thou livest in honour and voluptuousnesse of flesh in Spying and honourest thy Belly and so bringest thy poore Christianity under a vayle 29. O thou poore old Jacob trouble not thy selfe so about temporall momentany things see how it went with old Jacob when he let all his sonnes goe from him to Joseph how Joseph caused him to be fetched to him and did so much Good to him and his children and nourished them in the famine and placed them in a better Land and so it will goe also with thee if thou wilt let thy sonnes goe to Joseph but if thou wilt henceforth keepe them back longer then thou must starve thou and thy children and be famished in Misery sayth the Spirit of Wonders by Josephs feast or Banquett 30. O Israell Mark this Text very well it concerneth thee and hath cleerely concerned thee but that thou art yet blinde in thy hungry misery and waitest for the sword of the Turba that shall awaken thee since thou wilt needs have it 31. Every one thinketh if three parts of Men were destroyed then I should have good dayes with those that remaine and then wee would be honest and vertuous and leade an upright honest life Also men gaze about to see whence that Salvation will come which is so much written off and say and thinke Salvation will enter into the Lust of the flesh from without Men alwayes gape for an Earthly Kingdome of Christ. 32. O Israell if thou knewest these present times wherein thou livest in blindnesse thou wouldest repent in Sackcloath Ashes thou lookest for the * * * Signall-Star such a Starre as lead the Wisemen to Christ. Matth. 2.2 Signall-Starre and it hath appeared it shineth whosoever hath Eyes may see it it is indeed as
thy outward Life and I will nourish thee and provide for thee and all that over which thou art set Come away with all thy Thoughts and works into Egypt that is into lowlinesse and humility to mee that very Land will I give into thee to dwell in that is in Lowliness and humility shall thy dwelling be and there in thy temporall state and condition thou mayst with Temporall Nourishment in temporall Good things dwell by mee your Eyes shall there see my Goodnes and Bounty that I will doe well to you in the Famine of your Earthlinesse 18. For the Land of Goshen signifieth a fatnes of the Blessing of God in this Earthlines and therein your Eyes see and also the Eyes of my brother Benjamin viz. of the inward New Man that I speake to you with my owne Mouth that is Essentially within you For if a Man cometh to the New Birth then Christ speaketh Essentially that is actually or operatively in him and the Eyes of the soule together with the most inward Ground wherein Christ viz. the word is Essentially see and finde the same 19. But the outward five senses cannot in this Earthlinesse wholly comprehend it but they dwell neere by it the inward Eyes see through the outward senses as the Sunne shineth through transparent Glasse and the Glasse remaineth Glasse still so also the outward Nature of this time of the five following deare yeares of the Earthly Essence continue in their right till the soule forsaketh the Body and then at the Last Judgement Day also the right Adamicall Body of the five senses shall come againe to the soule but the Grossenes or Drosse of the Earthly Body hath no more place for all temporall things seperate themselves in Mysterium Magnum into the Great Mysterie out of which they proceeded 20. But that Joseph fell about his Brother Benjamins neck and wept and kissed them all it signifieth this in the figure when Christ in the inward Benjamin viz. in the Image and Substance of the heavenly worlds Substance which faded in Adam is manifested againe then the Holy Name JESUS viz. Gods great Love kisseth the incorporated Ground of Grace and penetrateth or presseth through this Image with his weeping Love viz. with Gods great sweetnesse viz. the Temple of Christ and heerby kisseth the Creaturely Soules Essences and presseth also with the weeping Love through it and then it obtaineth its life againe and speaketh with God in Christ Jesus 21. For in this Speech or voice onely the soule is heard of God for in this Kisse the soule hath its hearing given to it againe so that it heareth and teacheth Gods Word for the Senses or Thoughts of the Soule stand now in the Word of Life and heare what the Lord speaketh in them through Christ out of the inward Ground and that is it that Christ sayd * * * John 8.47 He that is of God heareth Gods Word and to the Pharisees he said Therefore ye heare not for ye are not of God 22. If the present Contending Babell had in it the Kisse of Christ then it would with Josephs Brethren turne to the heavenly Joseph and in great humility and lowlinesse speake with Joseph and would heare Gods Word in Josephs Love and speake humbly with him they would not contend for temporall honour and fat * * * Or Benifices Bellyes and about Dominion and Wast the Land of Goshen in a †††Or Barbarous Heathenish manner 23. O Babell Thy shame and reproach is set in judgement before the Most High thou art that same Antichrist of whom St. Paul hath spoken thou boastest of Gods Word in Teaching and hearing and thy Ground is not of God but from the Tower of Babell thou wilt teach Gods word with the Letter without the living Word in thee but the Sheepe heare not thy voice for it proceedeth not from Josephs Kisse 24. And Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 45.16 17 18 19 20. And the report came into Pharaohs house that Josephs Brethren were come and it pleased Pharaoh well and all his Servants and Pharaoh sayd to Joseph say to thy Brethren doe thus load your Beasts and goe up and when ye come into the Land of Canaan then take your Father and your Families and come to mee and I will give you the Good of the Land of Egypt that ye shall eate the Marrow of the Land and command them to doe thus take you from the Land of Egypt Chariots for your wives and for your children and bring your Father and come and regard not your houshold-stuffe for the Good of the whole Land of Egypt shall be yours The Figure standeth thus 25. When Josephs viz. Christs voice soundeth in the soule then this report presseth into God the Fathers property for the soule in its Nature is from the Eternall Nature in the Word out of the Fathers property of Fire and so is manifest againe in the Father from whom the will had broken off it selfe and he speaketh or inspireth himselfe into its Lifes Essence for it pleaseth him well that the soule is become manifested in Christ and biddeth the soule with all its properties through Josephs viz. Christs Efficiency to come into Paradise againe he giveth it Chariots and all necessaries which Chariots are his Spirit in the Word which bringeth it and giveth it the whole Land of Egypt that is the whole Paradise or Kingdome of Heaven for its owne this the Spirit of God powerfully prefigureth under this History 26. * * * Gen. 45.21 22 23 24. And the Children of Israell did so and Joseph gave them Chariots according to the command of Pharaoh and provision to spend by the way and gave each of them all sumptuous apparell but to Benjamin he gave three hundred peeces of silver and five suits of sumptuous apparell and to his Father he sent besides Ten Asses laden with the choice Good things of the Land of Egypt and ten shee Asses with Corne and Bread and food for his father upon the Way thus he sent his brethren away and they departed and he sayd to them contend not upon the way The Figure standeth thus 27. Christ taketh the provision as also the Chariots viz. the Holy Ghost from the father which he sendeth to his children as Joseph tooke the Chariots and Present from Pharaoh and giveth them provision to spend upon the way of their Pilgrimage viz. his Body and Bloud for meate and drinke 28. The sumptuous apparell which Joseph gave to every one of his brethren signifie the Temple of Christ wherein the Soule feasteth and resteth and Josephs five suits of sumptuous apparell which he gave to his brother Benjamin are the five wounds of Christ wherein the inward Man feasteth in Gods Love but the Three hundred peeces of silver which he gave to Benjamin are the Gifts of the Word out of this great Love wherewith this Benjamin should trade and get increase and gaine much for his Lord
but heere lieth the vaile before the brightnesse of Moses's face by reason of the unworthinesse of the bestiall Man 2. For we finde that the woman was taken and formed in the Fiat out of Adams Essence i i i Or out of his body and Soule both in body and soule But the Rib betokeneth Adams dissolution or breaking viz. that this body should and would be k k k Or destroyed dissolved for in the place of this rib Longinus's Speer must afterward when Christ vvas crucified enter into the same and tincture and heale the breach in the wrath of God with heavenly bloud 3. Now when Adams hunger was set after the earthlinesse it did by its magnetick power impress into his faire Image the vanity of evill and good whereupon the heavenly Image of the Angelicall worlds Essence did disappeare as if a man should insinuate some strange matter into a burning and light-shining candle whereby it should become darke and at last wholly extinguish so it went also with Adam for he brought his will and desire from God into selfehood and vanity and brake himselfe off from God viz. from the Divine Harmony 4. Even then he forthwith sunke dovvn into a l l l faintnesse or impotency svvound into Sleep viz. into an unability which signifieth the death for the Image of God vvhich is immutable doth not sleep whatsoever is eternall hath no time in it but m m m Or with by the sleep the time was manifest in man for he slept in the Angelicall world and awaked to the outvvard world 5. His sleep * * * Signifieth or was the reall type is the Rest of Christ in the Grave where the new regenerate life in Christs Humanity n n n Or was to must enter into Adams sleep and awaken it againe to the Eternall life and bring it out of time into the Eternall beeing 6. But the breaking or dividing of Adams Essence when the woman was taken out of him is the breaking or bruising of Christs body on the Crosse from the sixt houre unto the ninth for so long was the Fiat in Adams Sleep o o o Or a making the Sex of Male and Female in the Separating of the Man and Woman for in such a space of time the woman was compleatly finished or brought forth out of Adam into a female person or Image 7. And when Christ on the Crosse had againe accomplished this Redemption of our Virgin-like Image from the divided p p p Text from the Man and woman Sex of Male and female and tinctured it with his heavenly bloud in the divine Love He said it is finished for before he stood in Adams thirst As Adam did thirst after the vanity so Christ did now fill or satiate this thirst of vanity with the holy divine Love-thirst and turned about the will of the Soul that it might againe introduce its thirst into God and when this was brought to passe he said now it is finished and converted Christ turned back Adam in his sleep from the vanity and from the Man and woman againe into the Angelicall Image Great and wonderfull are these Mysteries which the world cannot apprehend for it is as blinde in them as a man that is borne blinde is to behold this world but he that Regardeth and findeth them hath great joy therein 8. Eve is the right q q q Understand as to the right life which was then manifest but afterward disappeared for in her lay the womans seed which was to breake the monstrous Serpent of the earthly Eve magicall childe for she is the Matrix in which the Love-desire stood in Adam viz. the Magicall r r r Conception Impregnation and birth she was Adams Paradisicall Rose-Garden in peculiar Love wherein he loved himselfe For the Amassing or conceiving of the Magicall Impregnation or Incarnation or divine formation of propagation was or did stand in the conjunction of both Tinctures 9. And God said after the eating of the Apple unto them the womans Seed shall bruise the Serpents Head the Ground and Corner-stone lyeth here in this Matrix for the womans Matrix wherein the divine formation stood was as to the Right life heavenly being out of the heavenly Essentiality vvherein consisted the Right Paradise 10. But Adam with his Imagination brought earthlinesse and vanity thereinto viz. Selfe-will and then the holy part viz. Venus's desire which was the divine Centre in the humanity viz. the manifested Love-word in the Image of God did disappeare in this Matrix therefore Eve s s s Out of or by reason of from this strange will introduced into the Matrix brought forth at first a selfe-willed proud murtherer for Adam vvith his false Imagination had introduced this vanity so also the Devills desire thereinto 11. But the divine Love-will vvould not forsake this disappeared Angelicall matrix and gave himselfe by promise thereinto with the Deare and precious Name of Jesus who should againe awaken it in the Holinesse's property and bruise the head of the Devills insinuated desire and false Rebellious will that is destroy and take away the Might of its life and introduce it againe through divine Love into the First life and even in this holy matrix which the word and power of God did againe awaken in the sweet Name of Jesus in the Seed of Mary in the t t t Ayme mark or limit Bound of the Covenant the Serpents poyson in the Soule and flesh was destroyed 12. And this is the Seed of the woman dear bretheren observe it it is highly known The u u u Text the promised marke of the Covenant Ayme of the Covenant of Promise was pight or set into this Matrix but Eve was not the very childe for the part of the Heavenly Matrix stood disappeared in her but yet it was in the Covenant of God as the dry rod of Aaron which budded forth afresh did tipify unto us 13. Shee was indeed the whole Matrix of Adam but the holy part was shut up in her and the outward part of the outwrrd world with evill and good viz. the matrix of the third Principle which had indeed an halfe soule-like property but captivated in the prison of Gods anger the holy Covenant of Love Rested in the disappeared part in the midst of the awaked anger from which Covenant the Propheticall Spirit in the old Testament spake and prophecied of the future opening or manifestation in the Covenant 14. The greatest mystery is to be understood in the formation of Eve for a man must very entirely and intimately understand and apprehend the birth of nature and the originall of man if he will see the ground for she is the halfe Adam not taken onely and wholly out of Adams flesh but out of his Essence out of the female part she is Adams Matrix 15. The woman received no more from Adams flesh and bones save the rib in
whereinto it introduceth the false word so far as the false word in its Speaking findes a place of Rest to work and bring forth its evill fruit 42. And therefore the holy word shall judge the False as also at the end of this time the holy word shall cast out from it selfe all false e e e Carved work of phancy Idoll Opinions and all whatsoever hath been formed in the Serpents Ens and give them to the darke world 43. All those that take or conceive the word in them in their devillish and Serpentine Ens and use it against Gods children in whom the holy Ens is manifest and doe stir up also an offence or occasion of stumbling in the children of God that the free will in them doth also conceive it selfe in the Serpents Ens viz. in Anger and aversenesse where alwayes the holy Ens doth likewise forme it selfe and the Spirit of zeale ariseth these false authors beginners and Causers doe all sin against the holy Ghost 44. For they doe extreamely despight and defye him that he must even proceed forth through the anger of the children of God whereby he is stirred up and oftentimes shewes himselfe in the Turba of the children of God and falles upon the neck of the wicked as may bee seen by Elias and Moses and also by Elisha who cursed the Boyes that the Beares came out and tore them to pieces for thus the sword of God comes forth through the mouth of the Saints if the holy Spirit be extreamly displeased and set into a fiery zeale then he awakeneth Turba magna which draweth the Sword against a wicked people and devoureth them 45. Thus understand it in its full scope and meaning Man hath Gods Word in him which created him understand the word hath imprinted and formed it selfe with the Creating both in its Holiness and also in the Anger and that also f f f Or out of in the outward world for the limus of the Earth or the Earth it selfe was amassed and compacted through the word so that the formed Word which tooke its beginning in the divine desire viz. in the Fiat is an exhalation forth-breathed from the Spirit of God out of Love and Anger therefore it is evill and good but the Evill was hidden and as it were wholly swallowed up in the light as the night in the day 46. But the sinfull desire in Lucifer and Adam hath awakened the Anger so that it is become essentially manifest now the Gates of the formed Word both in Love and Anger doe stand open in the earth and also in the limus of the earth viz. in man and also in the free will of man whatsoever he doth now forme and amasse in his free will that he hath made be it either evill or good 47. But now the Evill shall in the judgement of God be separated from the Good and in what part either of the evill or good the humane understanding viz. the soule shall be found thereinto it must enter with all whatsoever it hath done as into its owne made habitation and therefore Christ saith their workes shall follow them and be purged or proved by the fire Note also at the end when the bookes of the Essence shall be opened they shall be judged according to their works for the worke be it evill or good doth embrace the soule unlesse it doth wholly depart from the evill and destroy it againe by reconciliation of his offended and wronged brother and drown the Substance in the Bloud and Death of Christ else there is no remedy 48. Therefore a man must vvell consider what he will speake for he speaketh from the formed Ens of Gods manifestation and well bethinke and ponder with himselfe before he intendeth or conceiveth in the will to doe any thing and by no meanes consent unto any false backbitings or approve by a yea neither privately nor openly 49. For all forged tales and sharp taunts proceed from the Serpents Ens all Cursings and swearings and stinging girds proceed from the Serpents Ens yea though they be but in Jest yet the Serpents Ens hath stuck it selfe with them to the good and compacted them with the word therefore Christ saith sweare not at all let your speech be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evill Note that is it is borne of the Serpents Ens. 50. All Cursers and swearers have introduced their free will viz. the poore soul into the vanity of the Serpents Ens and forme their Curses and Oaths vvith all their lewd wanton talke which is wrought in the Serpents Ens and sow into Gods anger and on the contrary all Gods children who are in right earnest doe forme their words in the holy ens especially the Prayer when the free will of the soul doth amasse or conceive it selfe in the holy Ens which is opened by Christs humanity then it formeth the true essentiall word of God in it selfe so as it comes to Substance 51. Therefore Saint Paul saith the Spirit of God doth mightily intercede for us in the sight of God as it pleaseth him for the Spirit of God is formed in the desire of the holy word he is taken or apprehended and this taking or receiving is that which Christ said he would give us his flesh for food and his bloud for drink 52. The soules will taketh Christs Ens and in Christs Ens the word of Christ became man which the soules desire or Fiat doth receive or impresse into its holy Ens disappeared in Adam and here Adam ariseth in Christ and becomes Christ the second Adam or the Anointed one according to the heavenly Ens and divine word and from this Ens of Christ proceeds forth divine knowledge out of the word of God 53. Thus the children of God are the Temple of the holy Ghost which dwelleth in them and so they speake Gods Word and without this there is no true knowing or willing but meere fable and Babel a Confusion of the crafty Serpent 54. Therefore Christ called the Pharisees a Seed of Serpents and a generation of Vipers and although they were the High Priests yet he knew them to be so in their essence for they had formed their will in the Serpents Ens they carried the words of Moses in their mouth and therein they mixed the Serpents Ens as many still doe to this day where the incarnate Devill carrieth Gods word upon his tongue and yet doth onely hide the Serpents Ens thereby and introduceth the Diabolicall Ens into the litterall word whence Babell the mother of all Spirituall whoredome is borne a meere verball contention and wrangling about Words where the Ens of the Devill and the Serpent doth oppose the divine Ens in the Formed Divine Word 55. But so it must be that the formed and Conceived Word in Gods children may be stirred up whetted and exercised and the truth come forth to light Deare brethren this is the
which Babel knoweth nothing nor can know nor will know but climeth up continually in the compacted tongue on the Towre of Babel into an Heaven of humane Selfehood and hath put Christs garment outwardly upon it selfe but it hath not the twofold voice therefore also it doth not hear when God calleth Abraham 26. And Abraham Answered Here am I and he said Lay not thine hand upon the Lad neither do thou any thing unto him Gen. 22.12 for now I know that thou fearest God and hast not spared thy onely Son for my sake That is thus when man hath wholly resigned up his Selfe viz. his own will or Son and put it wholly to the mortification in Christs death then the nature of man falls into Sadness for it hath lost its right its own law and will then saith the Spirit of God by the Soul do nothing to thy nature now I know that it is given up and resigned to me and that the Soul hath now * * * Plerophory an assurance of confidence in God and is fully bold even to leave the outward life for Gods sake and give over its will to mee in Obedience as here Abraham had fully resigned up his will unto God he would now do whatsoever God commanded him 27. And as Abraham did not spare his Son and would have given him up unto death so also God did not spare his Son and gave him to death for us even so should wee also not spare even our own will but rather be willing to leave all whatsoever the own will hath taken possession of and delights in and willingly dye to all Temporalls for Gods sake let it be Principality Dominion or Kingdome Temporall Honor or Goods or whatsoever it may be that is our dearly beloved Son all this a Christian must give over and resigne up in the minde and account and esteem himselfe onely a Servant therein yea esteem his outward life not for his own but in his Minde depart from and forsake every creature and then he lyeth bound upon the wood of the Burnt offerings Altar and waiteth for the Voice of God from Heaven which calleth to him and becomes the Voice and Mouth of his life and this is truly with Abraham to beleeve God where God beleeves in man and then God saith Now I know that thou fearest God and puttest thy trust in him alone for the humane will sincketh into the most pure Being of God 28. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and lo a Ram was hung in a thickett by his hornes Gen. 22.13 14 and he went and took the Ram and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his Son and Abraham called the name of the place * * * Jehovah-jireth The Lord seeth as it is said to this day upon the Mount where the Lord Seeth This is the golden figure which sheweth that the killing death and dying doth not reach the true man but onely the Ram with his Hornes which sticketh in the flesh and bloud in the Thornes of Sin and it chiefly denotes that the true * * * Text. Soules-man humane Soul in Christ and his children shall not dye in this burnt-offering of God but after that it hath resigned up the will of Selfe then God openeth its eyes that it seeth the Ram behinde it viz. it spieth the will of the wilde evill flesh and learnes to know it which will sticketh with its pushing beasts-hornes in the thorny Thickett of the Devill in flesh and bloud viz. in the desire of the vanity of the world in Selfefull Lust This the Resigned Soul seeth and offereth it up for a burnt-offering in the stead of the true Nature for the right nature is delivered in this burnt offering from the Ram of the flesh the Hornes are the injections oppositions and assaults of the Devill and the thickett of Thornes is the Serpents Ens which the lust of Adam hath introduced 29. Thus wee must understand in this figure that the whole man in Christs person should not be given to the Anger of God as if the Adamicall man should be wholly consumed and devoured by it no but the wild Ram onely the Enmity the opposite will the property of Apostacy and Rebellion but the life's Essence should remain forever the same Adam which God created unto Paradise the same shall remain eternally but the division or dissonant disunion of the life's formes in that they are rent asunder and brought into the property of Selfehood whence strife and enmity is arisen in man I say this evill Ram viz. this introduced infection vain desire and adverse will must be offered up in Christ in the fire of Gods Anger This was the Beast for the burnt-offering The Lamb of God in Adam shall not be consumed in the fire but it must onely shed its bloud it must immerse and sinck it selfe wholly with the humane nature into the One viz. into the Eternall Nothing without all nature and then this place is called here the Lord Seeth that is when the Ram is offered then this place is afterwards the Temple of God where the Lord Seeth 30. And the Spirit of Moses speaketh very hiddenly hereof and saith Hence it is said still to this day upon the Mount where the Lord Seeth the Mount is the life's nature where the Lord hath seen not onely in Abraham and Isaac but he seeth in Christs spirit yet at this day upon this Mount in the children of God when the Ram is offered up then the Spirit of God seeth through nature as the Sun through-shineth a Glass or as a fire through-heats an Iron 31. Therefore a man ought not to be so foolish as to torment his whole life in his repentance and conversion and to offer it up in the fire of death without Gods command but he must onely sacrifice the Sin and Selfe-Love of vanity he must offer up onely the Ram and not do any violence or mischief to nature not strike whip and beat it or creep into a corner and suffer the Body to * * * Note starve for hunger no he must not out of his own purpose Give the Image of God to death but the Ram he must he meritts not any thing by plaguing martyring and torturing himselfe for God hath bestowed his heart to that end to redeem us from Pain and Torment 32. When the Soul with the Right nature hath tamed it selfe from the Ram of the flesh then it must Sacrifice the Ram to the death of Christ but it must remain stedfast in great humility in the Resignation in God and not any further afflict and rack it selfe either with doubts or with any other externall inflicted tortures and also give nature its necessary nourishment and not Enfeeble and distemper it selfe for it is the Temple and the Image of God but it must daily and continually mortifie the Ram in the flesh viz. the selfish lust of the evill flesh and
and bless thee for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these Countries and I will perform the Oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father that is 12. Remain but stedfast in my will and then I will give thee after this life-time the kingdome of nature according to its inward good ground for possession and propriety and I will perform and ratifie my Oath viz. Jesus Christ whom I promised thee in thy fall and whom I introduced into Abrahams faith unto thee for ever and I will in the kingdome of nature wherein thou must in this Time stand work labour toil and be in need and distress even * * * Gen. 26.4 multiply thy seed as the Stars in heaven and give thy seed all the wrought powers and workes to an eternall propriety and through thy seed all the Nations of the earth shall be blessed that is 13. Through thy Ens of faith which in Christ viz. in the Aym and limitt of the Covenant shall be manifested in the kingdome of thy nature and creaturall property and become man in thee all nations viz. the whole Adamicall tree shall be blessed and therefore * * * Gen. 26.5 because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge commandments wayes and lawes that is Abraham hath received my working word into his Soules desire and obeyed my voice in its operation which divine operation is the Command law and form out of which operation also God shewed Abraham by the Circumcision the figure of the kingdome of Christ that the same should cut off the Sin and vanity which figure God called his charge law in the Covenant and his Statute 14. The spirit of Moses doth now proceed further in the relation of this figure and signifyeth under the outward history of King Abimilech how that Abimilechs servants Gen· 26.18 19 20 21. and Isaacs servants contended about the wells of water and that Abrahams and Isaacs servants digged the wells of water which wells were continually stopped up by the envy and enmity of the Philistims by which figure the spirit secretly signifieth how the children of the Saints viz. the Patriarchs Abraham and Isaac have alwayes digged in their Ens of faith for the wellspring of life in the Covenant and have also obtained the knowledge of the Messiah 15. But these wells were continually covered and obscured by the Devill in Gods Anger and by their earthly Reason untill they apprehended and laid hâ—ld of the promise of the Messiah in faith and then thâ—y said we have digged a well Gen. 26.32 33. and have found of the water of life the same Isaac called * * * Or Saba Sheba and therein hinteth at the Sabbath Christ as he also forthwith saith that thereupon the place was called Beer-sheba viz. a contrition and breaking of the Anger and envy of the Devill in Mans property to signifie that the SABBATH Christ viz. the spirituall well-spring is truly called BEER-SHEBA viz. a contrition of death where the Sabbath introduceth it selfe into death and brings forth the fountain of life through death 16. At which fountain the children of Gods Covenant did pitch their tent and waited upon the promise untill the same fountain was opened in the humanity and flowed forth out of Christs bloud and death of which the poor Soul drank and thereby was brought into the Eternall Sabbath where it was redeemed and freed from the strife of the Philistims viz. from the contention of the Anger of God and of the Devill as the History in this Text doth clearly signifie thus much in the High Tongue which the spirit of Moses hath thus represented in the figure and doth play with the description of this figure 17. As indeed the whole Old Testament is a figure of the New and the New a figure of the future Eternall world wherein the figure shall stand in divine Power and the Spirit of God shall in Eternity play with his deeds of wonder to which end also he hath created Man and * * * Or inspoken inspired the power of his voyce viz. the living word into him that so he might be an Image of the Eternall word with which Image the Eternall Spirit will play and work wonders that so there may be a joy and knowledge in the Eternall wisdome 18. Now when as the spirit of Moses had pointed out the figure of Adam and Christ under an history he proceeds and further Relates how it must go with the children of God in this time shewing in what desire the poor soul in flesh and bloud lieth captive and is continually vexed and tormented as here Isaac and Rebecca for the Text saith * * * Gen. 26.34 35. When Esau was forty yeares old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite which were a grief of minde to Isaac and to Rebecca and in this place he speakes no further of these wives or their children to signifie that it is a figure whereby he alludes at something else which Reason looks upon as very strange and wonders that God should yet permit two evill women to be with holy Isaac through his Son Esau with whom he and his fair blessed Rebecca must live in trouble vexation and opposition so very secretly doth the spirit of Moses set forth his figure that Reason must even be blind in it The spirituall figure is thus 19. The * * * 40 yeares of Esau. forty years of the Age of Esau or of Isaac after he begatt Esau signifieth that Adam with his Eve when as he was man and woman and yet neither of them did stand in Paradise ‖ ‖ ‖ Adam 40 Dayes in Temptation forty dayes in the Temptation or Proba and had joy with his fair Eve viz. with his * * * Or feminine female property in himselfe 20. But Abimilech viz. the King of this world had introduced his lust into this fair * * * Or feminine female Rose-Garden viz. into the Tincture of Venus understand into the holy life of Love in Adam and stirred the Centre of the Souls nature whereupon Adam became lusting and longing to take to him in his property yet two wives viz. the beastiall wife according to the beast-like property out of the four Elements and the Astrall Sydereall or Starrie wife from the Constellation or Astrum of this world which wicked woman did awaken in Adams female property which he took up to wife for his lust as Esau did the wives of scorn and mockery with whom he caused meer grief of minde and lamentable perplexity to himselfe and his Right female property and we indeed do still suffer and endure the same and must consume our time with them in misery and lamentation 21. Further this figure denoteth the * * * Israel 40 yeares in the Wildernesse Forty years of Israel in the wilderness when they did eate Manna and
the humane Ens and Substance in the power of the Eternall word 15. In which word the Holy Name Jesus viz. the highest Love of the Deity hath unfolded and manifested it selfe in our humanity which he hath assumed which sole Love of God in the Name Jesus hath overcome the wrath of the Eternall Nature in our soules which is from the Fathers property in the Anger and hath changed it into the Love of the Divine Joy and hath broken the still Death which hath severed us from the life of God and hath manifested the Divine life of the highest holy Tincture in the Eternall speaking Word of the Divine power in Death and hath made Death to be Life and so our Soule in this Divine power is together penetrated and pressed through Death and the Anger of God 16. And it is in no wise to be so taken as some say that the substance wherein the Word is become Man proceeded not from Adam but as some Erroneously say the virgin Mary proceeded not from Mankinde shee hath outwardly onely taken upon her a humane Body from Anna and is not of the seede of Joachim but is an Eternall virgin chosen by God for this purpose before the world was 17. This Text teacheth us otherwise where God sayth Through Thee and thy seede not through a strange Divine seede onely but through thee and thy seede with the entrance of the Divine substance Christ should break Death in Adams Soule and Body and destroy Hell in Adams soule and body which was manifested or revealed in Paradise 18. For heere lay our Sicknesse and Misery which Christ tooke upon him as a yoke Christ sacrificed his Fathers wrath which was kindled in our humanity and awakened his highest Love in our humane and his holy Bloud his holy Tincture entered into our humane Death and Tinctured our in Adam faded heavenly substantiality which faded in Adam when he brought earthlinesse and the false will thereinto and raised up our faded heavenly substance with his heavenly living substance so that Life sprung up through Death and this was signified by the Dry Rod of Aaron 19. Therefore that is not the true meaning as some say Christ hath assumed a soule from the Word in the Eternall virgin Mary so that Christ as one come from God and his soule in the Humanity of Christ hath one and the same beginning 20. They were indeed united in the Incarnation or the becoming Man so that they are inseperable but the true Ens of the soule which the word assumed in the Name Jesus was of us Men from the female Tincture viz. from the true Adamicall soule yet from the property of the Light which was severed from Adam and put into the woman that this property of the Light might transmute or change the fiery Masculine property againe into the Love and Divine Humility and that the Masculine and feminine property might be quite changed into One Image againe as Adam was before his Eve when he was neither Man nor woman but a Masculine Virgin 21. Therefore Christ tooke his soule from a Woman viz. from a virgin and yet was a Man so that he rightly stood in the Adamicall Image and brought the averted severed properties of Life in which our will had broken it selfe off from God againe into the Temperature and union viz. into that ONE 22. For Adam turned his will from the onely will of God and Jesus Christ tooke our soule againe into the onely will of God and turned the will of our soule in our Humanity which he assumed into the onely will of God againe 23. But that the Reader may be throughly and fundamentally informed what our soule and what the Word that became Man is compare one with the other it is thus Our soule before the beginning of the humane * * * Soulish soules creature was an Ens of the Word of God in the Word Joh. 1. and yet it was inspired or inspoken from the speaking word of God into the humane Image in a Naturall and creaturely Life and formed in an Image of the Eternall speaking Word This Creaturely Life of the soule turned it selfe in Adam away from the divine speaking into an owne will and speaking and was in this respect broken off from the most unsearchable Substance and seperated from God 24. Into this Seperated Word viz. into the soule The onely Eternall divine speaking word gave it selfe in againe and turned the will of the soule againe into the Eternall one viz. into Gods Eternall speaking Therefore the soule is indeed from the Eternall word but Christ viz. the highest Love of the Deity did not take a new soule out of the Eternall speaking but our soule viz. the word which was once spoken or formed in Adam viz. our humane Soule into his Love-speaking in the Grace and union of the Deity 25. God spake againe into our poore fallen soule in Paradise immediatly after the Fall the Covenant and Roote of his highest Love and Grace through the Word as a Centre of Grace to Conception and to the New Regeneration 26. And in Abraham he Manifested the Covenant which Abraham layd hold on with his desire and received it after a spirituall manner as an Ens to the Tree but it lay without Substance in Man onely as a spirituall Forme and Modell or Idea of the Powerfull Word 27. Which word in its spirituall Figure in the virgin Mary was at the Limitt viz. at the End of the spirituall forme where that same spirituall forme of the Word of God was comprehended in a Substantiall Ens and therewith also in like manner Our humane substance as to the soule was comprised in the Image of the Word and as to the substance of the Body in a humane * * * Frame or Formation Building forme and was a selfe subsisting God-Man 28. This comprised Spirituall Image which was the Seede of Faith which Abraham laid hold on in the Faith was invested on Isaac and from Isaac on Jacob and to Jacob sayd God * * * Gen 28.14 Through thee and thy seede shall all the People of the Earth be blessed viz. through this seede of Faith which Jacob had received from his father Isaac in this Line of the Covenant which Line of Faith had incorporated it selfe in the Humane Property according to the inward ground of the second Principle viz. in that Image of the Heavenly worlds substance Extinguished in Adam 29. In which incorporated Ground the limitt of Gods Covenant remained in a spirituall forme till Mary and was propagated from Man to Man as from Adam and Eve along to Mary and there the Word of the Divine Power was moved and Essentially assumed our humane Flesh and Bloud together with the soule and quickened the Extinguished heavenly Ens in the seede of Mary as to our Part which manifestation penetrated and pressed also into Maries heavenly substantiality so that shee became living as to that heavenly virginity which disappeared
Christ signifying that Christ should come and change this whore viz. the seaventh property of the humane Life into the virginity againe 46. Therefore was Christ borne of a virgine that he might sanctifie the Womans Tincture againe and change it into the Mans Tincture that the Man and the Woman might be One Image of God againe and no more Man and Woman but Masculine Virgins as Christ was 47. In Rachel wee see now the selfe-love of the kingdome of Nature where both Tinctures the Masculine and Feminine according to the kingdome of Nature in selfe-love binde themselves in Conjunction as Jacob loved Rachel according to the kingdome of Nature according to the Tincture of selfe-love and on the other side so did Rachel love Jacob therefore must these Tinctures of Naturall selfe-love be so long shutt up and bring forth no Life till †††Gen. 30.22 the Lord remembred Rachel and heard her as the Text in Moses sayth that is till the Lord stirred up the Tinctures of the kingdome of Nature with his blessing then shee bare a Prince in the kingdome of Nature viz. JOSEPH in whom wee see by his great Chastity and feare of God that the blessing of God stirred up the Tinctures of the kingdome of Nature which lay shut up in the Seeds and manifested the Covenant of Grace therein 48. For Christ should deliver the kingdome of Nature in Man from wrath therefore also the Spirit in this figure presenteth an Image or Type in Joseph which it sets downe also in the figure of Christs humanity how it would goe in the future with Christs humanity which he tooke from us Men. 49. In Lea Christ was represented according to his heavenly hidden humanity shewing how the heavenly worlds Substance would be hidden in our humanity under the yoake of Gods Anger and how Christ must appeare in a servile and contemptible forme 50. In Rachel with Joseph now the figure is represented which sheweth how he would Overcome and in our humane Nature should be a Lord and Prince over all his Enemies who have held us poore Men in flesh and bloud Captive and how he would bring us forth out of the Misery and Famine of Adam into a Good Land and not remember how wee in this world have cast him into the Pit as Josephs brethren did him 51. The Spirit of God presents this figure in the Twelve Patriarchs as a Glasse to see by whom God was attoned in his Anger poynting at the future fullfilling for the Text in Moses speaketh very hiddenly in this Figure and sayth * * * Gen. 30.25 26. Now when Rachel had borne Joseph Jacob sayd to Laban let mee depart and travaile to my owne Place and into my Country give mee my wives and my children for which I have served thee that I may goe The inward Spirituall figure is thus 52. When the Blessing of Jacob viz. Christ in the kingdome of the humane Nature was manifest so that Man stood in Christs Image then he desireth to returne from the servitude of this House wherin he must serve and goe againe to his fathers first house and desireth to take with him his fruits viz. his children brethren and sisters and all the children of this Birth he hath a great longing after that as Jacob had after his fathers house But the Lord sayth to him stay and serve heere a while and feed my sheepe †††Gen. 30.28 appoint the wages that I shall give thee that is aske of mee so will I give it thee as Christ sayth * * * Joh. 16.23 Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my Name he will give it you 53. Thus then this Jacob demerseth himselfe in Humility and keepeth the sheepe of Christ in hope of the Eternall wages which followeth after him For in Joseph that is in Christ the wages will be firct given him as Joseph was the wages of Jacob in the Outward kingdome and preserved and nourished him and his house in the famine which signifieth Christ who will Eternally nourish us in himselfe and bring us home with him into his Fathers house as Joseph brought his Father and Children into his Lords Country CHAP. LIX How Jacob departed from Laban what this Figure signifieth and what is to be understood thereby Genesis the 31. IN this Chapter for the most part is the Outward History set forth Gen. XXXI under which yet the Spirit hath its secret Figure wherewith it playeth for the Text sayth * * * Gen. 31.1 2· And the words of the Children of Laban came before Jacob saying Jacob hath gotten all our Fathers Goods to himselfe and of our Fathers Goods hath he procured this Riches And Jacob looked upon Labans Countenance and saw that it was not towards him as formerly 2. This is a figure represented in the Spirit of Christ when the Spirit of Christ in Man hath gotten the kingdome of the humane Nature to himselfe then the Envy of the Serpent in the wrath of Nature in flesh and bloud awaketh understanding and feeling that the power of Nature in Man is taken away from him and opposeth the Spirit of Christ in the power of Nature 3. Then proceedeth the opposite will in Man so that the poore soule is every where faint and in an agony perceiving that it dwelleth among strange Goods and that the Devill is its Neighbour and hath a continuall accesse to its owne Nature and opposeth the soule because it hath in Christs Spirit taken away from him the kingdome of Nature viz. the Land and Country which he had for his possession and therefore the mortall Nature in the wrath of God sets its desire endeavour against the poore soule as a stranger unfriendly when it seeth that it looseth its voluptuous Earthly Inheritance which Right is intimated in the Children of Laban where Reason looketh to get temporall Honour and pleasure that all its naturall right is taken away as Jacob by subtilty tooke away Labans Goods 4. Then thus sayth God to the soule as heere he did to Jacob †††Gen. 31.3 Returne againe into thy fathers Country to thy kindred I will be with thee that is the poore soule should enter againe into its first Country of its father viz. into the Eternall Word out of which it proceeded and therein God blesseth it and therein it can also call its children and Members and bring them along out of the servile House of Gods Anger in the kingdome of Nature as * * * Gen. 31.4 Jacob called his wives and his Children and brought them out of the Servitude of his Father Thus also the Enlightened soule bringeth the power of its Life in the kingdome of Nature together with its fellow-members out of the servile house of flesh and bloud againe into the first house viz. into Gods Word 5. And as †††Gen. 31.21.23 Jacob did flee from the servile house of his Stepfather and Laban pursued after and
would hurt him so also in like manner is done to the children of Christ when they begin to flee out of the servile house of Satan viz. out from fleshly pleasure and voluptuousnesse and would againe enter into its first Land of its father viz. into righteousnesse and the feare of God then instantly the fleshly Crue of the wicked world with rage and folly pursue after it and would slay it and take away with evill and false Tongues all its Riches and Goods in Gods righteousnesse 6. But the Lord aweth them that they cannot doe it as was done to Laban though they stand up and reprove the Children of God as unrighteous because they turne away from their Idolls and abominations and follow their hypocrisie no more neither will they beare their Evill yoake any more and serve them in their unrighteousnesse and call their falshood Good as the present world playeth the hypocrite under this yoake and serveth their wickednesse onely that their God Maâ—zâ—m may â—ive and be Fatt 7. The Spirit of God heere also presenteth a Figure shewing how Christ would for a while put himselfe under this servile yoake in the kingdome of Nature and would betroth to him Adams daughter that is our flesh and bloud and acquire to himselfe Adams possessions Goods and Riches viz. the Kingdome or Dominion of the humane Nature that is Draw many Men to him and in the End goe there with out of this servile House of this world againe into his Fathers Eternall House in which departure to his Father would the Devill and the wicked world scorne him and quite slay him and would take away and rob him of his Goods as also of his Children which he hath heere begotten even as the Devill by the Pharisees and wicked Jewes did who would take away and rob Christ of all his Faithfull Children as Laban pursued and hunted after Jacob and would take away his purchased Goods from him againe 8. But as * * * Gen. 31.7 God would not suffer Laban to hurt Jacob so God would not suffer the Devill and the wicked High Priests to rob Christ of his purchased Goods although they slew his outward Humanity yet he rose againe from the Dead and brought his purchased Goods into his Fathers Country 9. The Spirit of Moses representeth in this Chapter a wonderfull Figure which ought well to be Observed because he intimates a secret Mystery under it For he sayth †††Gen. 31.19 20.30.33 34. When Jacob did flee away from Laban Rachel had stolen away her Fathers Idoll Gods and further sayth Thus Jacob stole away the Heart of Laban the Syrian in that he told him not that he fled and wee see further how Laban when he came to Jacob was eager after his Idoll Gods and searched all Jacobs housholdstuffe for his Idoll Gods also wee see in this Text how Rachel was shee that loved those Idoll Gods and sate upon them and so hid them that her Father could not get them againe 10. In these words there is represented to us an Outward and an inward Figure shewing how it would goe with Israel in the future for these Idoll Gods were not Heathenish Idolls according to the Constellation or Starre * * * Acts 7.43 Molech as the Heathens had but as we reade they made Images Monuments Statues or Pictures of their friends that were dead as a Patterne for Instruction which Images among the Heathen afterwards were turned to Idolls and these might well be such Images of his kindred that were dead which Laban was loath to loose because they were Patternes of Instruction and Memorialls to him of his Auncestours and deceased kindred whom he loved 11. But the true Figure under which the Spirit pointeth at the Future is this First That Israel would not continually cleave to God with their whole Heart but would alwayes take these Idoll Gods of fleshly selfe-love along with them and love themselves and their Images viz. Genealogies of Humane Greatnes State High Birth and Noble Pedigrees of Gentility more then God even as it came to passe 12. Especially this departure of Jacob intimates the departure of Israel out of Aegypt into the promised Land when they tooke with them also their fleshly Idoll Gods and presently after * * * 1 Sam. 8.8 served their owne Idoll Gods viz. Humane Greatness and forsooke their God and regarded their Mammon and would have †††19. Kings among them according to the Custome of the Heathen and forsooke their right King who had brought them out of Aegypt 13. Secondly it intimates how Christ in whose figure Jacob stood would take to him this Rachel in our flesh and bloud viz. these in Adam Idoll wills of the soule turned away from God which hath acquired to it selfe Images and Idolls and possessed them as Rachel and would bring the averted wills of the soule with their acquired Idolls and Images out of the Idolls house or Temple which Idolls viz. Idoll-wills and desires must afterwards be all broken to pieces in the Death of Christ. 14. As presently Genesis 35 Chapter the figure is represented to us when God sayd to Jacob †††Gen 35.1 2. Arise and goe to Bethel and dwell there and make there an Altar to God who appeared to thee when thou steddest from thy Brother Esau Then sayd Jacob to his houshold and to all that were with him put away from you the strange Gods that are among you and cleanse you and change your Garments and let us arise and goe to Bethel that I may there make an Altar to God that heard mee in the time of my trouble and hath been with mee in the way which I have gone 15. Which History of Jacob signifieth nothing else but this viz. when Christ would with this Rachels Idoll Gods viz. our flesh and bloud depart from this servile house and goe to his Father then he would by his going forth when he should build the High Altar before God which Altar is himselfe lay off these our Idolls in humane selfe-will viz. every Imagination of selfe-love before the Altar of God in his Death and cleanse our Hearts viz. our soules Will and change our Garments viz. our flesh and bloud as this Text in the 35 Chapter cleerly signifies and wholly entendeth it that Christ would offer us up upon that same Altar of his New Testament to the God who appeared to us againe in Our trouble and Misery after the Fall in his Covenant of Grace 16. But that the Text of Moses Gen. 31. sayth * * * Gen. 31.20 21. Jacob stole away the Heart of Laban the Syrian in that he secretly fled away with his Daughters it hath the very same inward spirituall Figure conteined in it for the Word became Man and tooke Labans viz. the earthly Adams daughters and brought them by divine subtilty away out of Adams house into Gods house which in that place is called Stealing in that
††Wicked thing or substance wickedness and severs it from the Good and the Officer is free from the Commandment of Death but if he hath any evill intent in his will there the Judgement passeth upon the Officer himselfe 28. In Potiphar Pharaohs Officer wee have a powerfull figure who set Joseph over his whole House and gave him full power to rule in his Government shewing how God hath sett his Officers in his house of this world that they should doe and direct Judge and manage things in a Creaturely manner as God doth in them after a Spirituall manner 29. For Potiphar tooke upon him no disposall of any thing but let Joseph manage the Government thus also are all Officers instituted in the Kingdome of this world that they should outwardly manage Gods Government as Christ giveth a Similitude or Parable of ‖ ‖ ‖ Matth 25. from the 14 to the 31. Luk. 19. from the 12. to the 28. Stewards whom a Lord appointed over all his Goods and went into a far Country and after a long time returned againe to require an ccompt of his Stewards where he distributed to the Officers and gave one of them five Talents and the other foure Talents to the third three Talents to the fourth two to the fift one Talent wherewith every one should trade and get gaine and then when he that had but one Talent had gained nothing he commanded him to be bound hand and foote and to be cast out into Darknesse and commanded also to destroy those murtherers and to burne their Cities who after their Lord was gone away and had committed his goods to them and they presently in his house began to fight and beate their fellow-servants and to be drunken and play and kill his Messengers which he sent to them All which are Similitudes and Parables concerning his Officers in the house of this world shewing how he will punish the evill Householders with hell fire and burne their Cities viz. their Kingdome which they have built in their own voluptuousnesse to their owne glory and honour and shut them out from his face for Ever * * * Luk. 19 17. But the other who were faithfull in his Ministry and service he gave full power over his house and gave them also the Government †††Luk. 19.24 and Talent of him that had buryed it in the Earth and would not execute his office that was appointed him 30. Thus all Potentates and Magistrates in Offices ought well to Consider this that they ought to work in Gods office and have a care of his house and not think onely to look after Nobility and High Estate and think how to fill their Belly and satisfie their pleasures with gurmundizing and gusling Gluttony and Drunkennesse and to wrest the sweat of the miserable with unrighteousnesse and lay it out upon their Pride and bravery and constraine and presse upon the miserable and inferiour with power All these one with another are the evill and wicked Officers and the Murtherers which the Lord commandeth to be destroyed and their Cities to be burned with the fire of Gods Anger 31. But at present the world is full of such Officers to whom the Lord cleerly for a long time sent many Messengers but they have vilified and contemned them therefore now is the time of the Lords Coming for they have even now * * * Mat. 21.39 also killed his sonne viz. the plaine Truth of his Word and turned it into meere selfe-lust and wantonnesse therefore these householders must †††Luk. 16.2 give an accompt of their Offices 32. Moses speaketh further concerning Joseph sayth ‖ ‖ ‖ Gen. 39.7 8 9 10. And it came to passe after this was done that his Masters wife cast her Eyes upon Joseph and sayd Lye with mee But he refused and sayd to her Behold my Master taketh no notice what is with mee in the House and whatsoever he hath he hath committed it under my hand and charge and there is nothing so great in the House which he hath withholden from mee but thee because thou art his wife how should I then doe so great an Evill and sin against God and shee pressed such words upon Joseph dayly but he obeyed her not to lye with her or to be neere about her This is now the mighty * * * Or Image Type shewing how it goeth with the children of God when they have attained the Divine Government in the New Regeneration in that they must now converse in this house of flesh and Adamicall Prison with their holy blessed Government Also how the soule hath taken in Marriage this unchast whorish-woman in the Spirit of this World in the beastiall desire in flesh and bloud which whorish Woman now sets upon the chast Joseph and continually would urge and draw him to her amorous lust that the New Virgin childe might lye with the beastiall whore againe as Adam did from which lustfull bed the Earthly Eve proceeded with whom afterwards he copulated in his Lust as all Beasts doe 33. This Lecherous Eve sticketh yet to the children of God in flesh and bloud and it is the Animall Soule viz. the Mortall Spirit full of Evill Lust and Impurity whereinto the Devill hath yet stuck his Serpents-sting for which cause the Body must dye and rott also this beastiall Spirit must be * * * Or corrupt destroyed and goe quite into its mother againe out of which it proceeded in the beginning 34. In this whore the Devill assaulteth the Noble Virgin-childe Dayly viz. the chast Joseph in Christs Spirit encompassed with heavenly Spirituall corporeity viz. with Christs flesh and bloud This virgin childe is †††Revel 12.1 the woman in the ‖ ‖ ‖ Or Revelations Apocalyps that standeth upon the Moone viz. upon this earthly whore and hath Twelve Starres in the Crowne upon her head which woman the * * * Verse 4. Dragon in the Earthly whore would continually devour when shee bringeth forth the holy childe viz. the Noble Joseph viz. the chast and divine purity which causeth woe to the Dragon in flesh and bloud that it must resigne its Kingdome and in that respect ‖ ‖ ‖ 15 Verse powereth forth the Great †††Floud or water streame Deluge of Earthlinesse upon her to slay the Childe together with its Mother 35. * * * 16 Verse But the Earth cometh to help this woman that is the Earthly desire in flesh and bloud openeth its Throate wide and swalloweth this Dragons floud into its selfe seeing it is its like that it may not hurt the Virgin Childe as Potiphars wives unchast Dragons whorish flouds and streames did not hurt Joseph in that he fled from her and did not yeeld his will to her 36. And this is first the most powerfull Proba or Tryall of the children of God that as soone as they attaine the New Birth
then the Devill comes and stirreth up the fleshly whore in flesh and bloud and all false and wicked desires and Imaginations and then injecteth and frameth in this whore the Honour and Glory of the world also Riches and the pleasure of this Life also he modelleth and represents the Great misery and desolation wherein the poore soule in this world must stand in shame and scorne also the great unworthinesse of the soule also he represents Covetousnesse to think all temporall good things and necessaries will fayle and so it should come into great Misery 37. To the Potent and Rich the Devill modelleth and represents in this their fleshly Serpentine whore their Nobility and Highnesse their Great Honour Might and Power also voluptuous eating and drinking of dainty fare and how they may acquire it with power and suttle policy also he represents unchastity and wantonnesse and to think that if they should walke in humility and lowlinesse they should loose the respect and reputation of the world for who would feare and honour them if they did not put themselves forward with ostentation 38. All these are the words of Potiphars whore in flesh and bloud which the Devill stirreth up in the Serpents insinuated poyson with his Imagination wherewith he plagueth the poore imprisoned soule in flesh and bloud and provoketh it to such and the like unchastity and sinnes and this whore in the flesh sayth continually to the soule lye with mee copulate with mee thou wilt be blessed happy and saved well enough use thy lust with mee and this shee doth dayly that shee might bring Joseph into Lust viz. the New childe that the soule might bite at that bait and defile the New childe and its faire Crowne 39. For this whore is ashamed before this New childe shee resembleth a dirty Swine compared with the Sunne when shee heareth mention made of the wantonnesse of the world shee rejoyceth at it but when Men speak of such chastity and purity shee is ashamed of it and then bespattereth or sullyeth the Speech of the holy childe with the abovesaid abominations and despiseth it for shee knoweth that if Joseph holdeth the Government shee must dye 40. But honest vertuous and chast Joseph viz. the inward New Man sayth to this whore behold my Lord and Master hath trusted mee with all his Eternall Goods and the whole Kingdome of Christ how shall I then doe so evilly before him I will not lye with thee thou art thy Lords wife viz. the wife of the Spirit of this world I will not lye with thee nor be neere thee 41. And Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 39.11 12 13 14 15. It came to passe on a Day that Joseph went into the House to doe his employment and there was none of the people in the House and shee caught him by his Garment and sayd lye with mee but he left the Garment in her hand and fled and ran forth out of the House but when shee perceived that he left his Garment in her hand and was fled forth shee called the People of the House and sayd behold he hath brought in an Hebrew Man to us to defame us he came in unto mee and would have lyen with mee but I cryed with a lowd voyce and when he heard that I cryed out and called he left his Garment with mee and fled and ran forth This now is the figure shewing how the Devill through this whorish Woman strongly sets upon the soule especially when the Devill observeth that the soule is alone that the Spirit of God stirreth not in it then he falls a storming of it and layeth hold of it in its lifes Essence and will force it in such whoredome that the Pretious Virgin-childe might be defiled and that shee might with the Serpents power copulate with the soule 42. This also is a powerfull figure of the whorish and unchast world shewing how the faire Daughters of Eve in the instigation of the Devill run after the tender Youths and allure them with flattering hypocriticall behaviour with wicked burning Lust which trimme and adorne themselves as if an Angell sate under their dresse and have drawne many an honest vertuous childe that never desired it to themselves and bound them with the Devills chaines and have bereaved them of their honour and chastity 43. And if there were an honest and chast Joseph who would not goe into these Hogsstyes and Jakes of the Devill they cry out against such a one and accuse him of unchastity as willing to betray him and rob him of his honour and yet are even the lustfull Panders which strow sugar and give Gall to Eate which strange people strow sugar so long as he hath money in his Purse till they bereave him of his livelyhood honour and Goods that he have no more to give them and then they scorne him and leave him without a Garment as Potiphars wife did Joseph as he was going out of the house so the Devill hath the soule and the whore the Garment for a Pledge in which whore nothing else governeth but the Serpent with its brood of young ones and he that joynes himselfe unto them is poysoned by the Serpent for the Serpent sheds its spawne into body and soule and poysoneth him so exceedingly that his heart cleaveth to the whore and runneth after her as if he were fast tied to her 44. At present the world is full of these vermine among high and low and therefore also at present the Serpent it selfe is pregnant and will shed forth its spawne which the Zeale of God will consume for Joseph with his Governing-Office lyeth as yet in Prison and Potiphars wife governeth in her burning Lust which shee bare to Joseph but since shee could not betray Joseph shee set her selfe in Josephs Government and governeth the house of this world and accordingly hath generated many Bastards which now governe in her stead and therefore the Judgement cometh upon her whoredome and breaketh her to pieces that men will say †Shee is fallen shee is fallen Babell the Mother of the Great Whoredome and is become a habitation of all Devills and uncleane Spirits shee is for Ever sealed up in the Abysse 45. On the Contrary wee heere see in this Image and Type also the great Chastity and Purity of Joseph who when he was drawne and held with power yet fled from this whore and had rather leave his Garment and good Name at Stake that he might but keepe a good Conscience The Holy Figure standeth thus 46. When this chast New virgin childe in the Spirit of Christ seeth this whore in flesh and bloud draw neere it that her desire layeth hold on this Chastity then it flyeth out of the house that is this virgin childe hideth it selfe in its owne Principle and may not come neere the soule seeing the soule is defiled by this whores Poyson so that it is brought into Lust thus strongly the divine purity shields it selfe from the
bigge as the world is and yet Men will be blinde Enough to those that are Ours 33. And as Jacobs children spake much with their father concerning Benjamin and promised to bring him againe he sayd at last * * * Gen. 43.11 12 13 14. If it must be so let it be so and take of the best fruit of the Country in your Sacks and carry downe a Present to the Man a little Balsam and Honey and Spices and Mirrhe Dates and Almonds take also other Money with you and the Money that was put above in your Sacks againe carry with you it may be it was done by mistake moreover take your brother arise goe againe to the Man and the Almighty God give you Mercy before the Man that he may let your other brother and Benjamin goe but I must be as one quite bereft of his children 34. This now is the figure that is above explained and wee see a very Excellent cleere Type and Image therein shewing that Jacob commanded his sonnes to take with them of the most precious rich and costly fruit of the Land and carry it with them to Joseph in which the Spirit pourtrayeth in the figure how the Christian Church when it seeth it selfe in such Trouble and spirituall Famine hunger and want and now is on the way of Repentance should carry these good fruits with it before God viz. Hope Faith and divine affiance and not wilde fruit as Covetousnesse Selfe-willed Lust and Hypocrisie but a purpose and resolution towards Truth Righteousnesse Chastity Love and Meeknesse 35. Thus must the Old Man take a resolution to goe in such a purpose to Joseph that is to Christ and then hee yeeldeth up all his sonnes for the Journey of this Pilgrimage and sayth Now I am bereaved of all my Sonnes I have nothing more in the desire of fleshly voluptuousnesse I have yeelded them alltogether into the will of God 36. Also wee see in this figure how Jacob commanded them to take with them againe the unrighteous money that they had brought back in their Sacks and restore it againe thus also must a Man who will be or is a Christian put away from him all unrighteous things all that he hath gotten to himselfe by subtilty craft and wrong that he should repay againe or else indeed give it to the Poore 37. For that which he giveth to the needy and miserable that suffer want he giveth to the hungry brethren of Joseph and the heavenly Joseph receiveth it in his hungry brethren and fellow-Members and returneth it to him againe manifold as Josephs Steward gave them againe the Money which they carried home in their Sacks the first time and brought it againe and sayd Peace be to you your fathers God hath bestowed Treasure on you 38. A man must put away all unrighteousnesse from him if he will enter in to the Wedding of Jesus Christ Hypocrisie and flattery in comforting ones selfe avayleth nothing it must be Earnestnes and this is that which keepeth Men back from the wayes of God even their walking upon the wayes of Hypocrisie and flattering themselves whereas they should leave off and forsake unrighteousnesse and Extortion and restore that which is gotten by falshood thus they have cast the Purple Mantle of Christ over the crafty wretch and covered him with the satisfaction and merits onely that the Theefe may live under that Cloake 39. O thou poore Christendome how hath Antichrist deluded thee with this Cloake and Covering O flee away from him it is time The Covering will not avayle any wicked and unrighteous person so long as any is such a one he is the Devills Servant 40. A Christian is a New Creature in the Ground of his Heart his Minde is bent onely to well-doing not to steale Else were Christ by Consequence accounted a Theefe in Man Let but the Mantle of Christ fall off and restore what thou hast stolen and gained and extorted with unrighterusnesse and injury and cast away the old Quarrells strivings and * * * Law-suits Litigations from thy soule and goe naked and empty under the Crosse to which Christ hangeth and looke upon his fresh bleeding wounds and take his bloud into thy hungry soule and then thou wilt be healed and redeemed and released from all want else no comfort of Satisfaction and Merit will helpe thee All true Comfort is but this that a Christian comforteth himselfe that he shall in this Repentance in Christ Jesus obtaine a Gracious God and that shall even be his Comfort that he may not despaire 41. The satisfaction wherewith the unrighteous comforteth himselfe and sayth My works avayle nothing Christ hath done all I can doe nothing and continueth under such Comfort in sinnes that is the Devills fishhooke whereby he catcheth his fish with Christs Mantle 42. Christ had his Purple Mantle on him when he was in his suffering but when he hung on the Crosse he had it no more much lesse in his Resurrection so also should a Man take this Mantle about him onely when he goeth into Christs Suffering and Death in Repentance in Repentance it is onely avaylable and no way else that a soule should wrap it selfe up in it when it is ashamed in its sinnes before the face of God 43. All that is taught and beleeved otherwise is deceipt a fable and Babell All teachers that teach otherwise are but servants and slaves of the Belly and the fishermen and a Deceipt of the world of these let Men beware for he that will be a Teacher must also be a true Christian that so he may also thus live in Christ Else * * * John 10. he is a Theefe and a Murderer that climeth up some other way into the sheepfold of whom Christ speaketh 44. And Moses sayth further Gen. 43.15 16 17. Then they tooke their Present and the double money with them and Benjamin and arose and went into Aegypt and presented themselves before Joseph and when Joseph saw them with Benjamin he sayd to his Steward bring these Men to my House and stay and make ready for they shall eate with mee at Noone and the Man did as Joseph sayd unto him and brought the Men into Josephs house 45. This now signifieth thus that hee that hides himselfe under the Mantle must come forth and bring his unrighteous wrong gotten Goods againe and come before the face of the heavenly Joseph and come naked and empty of his I hood or owne ability and bring the right Benjamin that is in him along with him then Joseph draweth neere him and seeth him and commandeth his Steward viz. the Spirit of Power to bring these Men into his house viz. into his Humanity and then the Lamb of God shall be made ready and these Men or the Lifes Essences of the right soule shall eate at Josephs Table with him at Noone then it is Noone when the high Light of Grace shineth as at Noone or Midday in the soule and heere
and Compassion of God manifested it selfe out of the Covenant then must the Law with all Ceremonies together with the Covenant cease and be gone also all Mans ability and power as also all willing going and running must goe forth and depart 6. For that presented it selfe out of the Covenant the Law which fullfilled both the Covenant and the Law and set it selfe in the stead of the Covenant and the Law in the Middle as a Mediatour between and in God and Man as a God-Man and Man-God who alone should bring Adam into Paradise and destroy sinne none should be with him he alone would and should manifest himselfe * * * John 8. for a Light John 8 and for a new Life to the Humanity 7. And it is the figure which sheweth how the Repentant Man must come to God for he must cast away all things from himselfe all his works and doings cannot reach the Top and point of this he must wholly enter into Resignation and dereliction and turne himselfe away from the Comfort and help of every Creature that he may stand naked and alone before the most cleere and meerest Mercy and Compassion of God in Jesus Christ. 8. No hypocrisie or humane Comfort wherewith Men please and tickle the heart will availe in this presence of Joseph but a totall forsaking of Every Creature wherein Every thing is left to the naked soule and that must in it selfe sink downe in the presence of the heavenly Joseph in its will and whole desires and totally leave it selfe to him and will nothing without his will and set no other meanes or Medium aloft in Esteeme for all will availe nothing 9. The whole Creaturely Life must be resigned and forsake its will and desires that the Creaturely will may be received and purified againe by the un-creaturely will that Gods will and Mans will may be one will and then God is all in all in him according to the inward and the Outward World in each world according to its property viz. according to the Eternall Speaking Word in the soule and according to the animale soule in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the world in all as an instrument of God 10. Now when this is done then sayth the heavenly Joseph in his Mercy and Compassion I am JESUS in thee and openeth the inward Eye in the soule that it knoweth him in a Moment and he speaketh friendly into the soule and sayth Doth my father yet live that is is the fathers Nature yet in the soule is there yet a Breath of the divine Life in it 11. Before this Manifestation now the soules owne will is terrified so that it hath in its own power no word more to speak nor can it in selfe speake for in this terrour the selfe of the will goeth to the Ground for with this aspect ariseth the will of God up and slayeth the soules own will as Josephs brethren were so very much terrified before his Face that they could not speake a word more all their ability fayled them as if they had been dumb and thus also will the wicked and ungodly at the last Judgement be dumb before the face of God and terrified to Eternall Death that his life will be a meere anguish and terrour of an evill Conscience which will be an Eternall gnawing 12. * * * Gen 45.4 5. But Joseph sayd to his Brethren Draw neere to mee and they drew neere and hee sayd I am Joseph your Brother whom ye sold into Egypt and now be not carefull nor thinke that I am angry for it that ye have sold me hither for to preserve your life hath God sent mee hither before you The holy Figure standeth thus 13. When Christ with his revelation or Manifestation thus terrifieth the soule that the soules owne will is terrified into the death of its willing and ability then he speaketh in or inspireth his word of Grace into it and giveth it power and vertue and sayth in the Soulish Essence Draw neere to mee and raise up thy countenance from the terrour of Death goe in my power to mee and into my will I am no more angry with thee that I have been sold into thy death God hath sent mee hither before thee that I might nourish thee in thy hunger of Misery viz. in the hunger of Gods anger till thou art frâ—ed from thy earthly Body in which lyeth the great hunger and Divine Famine in the Anger of God 14. For to preserve thy Life hath God sent mee into thy humanity and soule †††Gen. 45.6 for there will yet be five yeares of dearth in thy flesh that is the Divine hunger will yet remaine in thy five senses of the Earthly Reason therefore hath God sent mee before hither ere this world cease to be to thee and into thee that he might deliver thee in thy earthly five senses with a powerfull deliverance that my power and vertue of the famine in the five earthly senses may deliver and feede the poore soule God hath set mee as a Lord and Prince and made mee a father of thy Nature that I should rule as Joseph over the Land of Egypt I am become Lord over all thy house and all that thou hast art that I should nourish thee in thy famine with the Divine foode of my flesh and Bloud be no more afraid I am with thee in the Necessity of the earthly Life I will deliver thee and bring thee to Glory and honour 15. And Joseph sayd further * * * Gen. 45.9 10 11. Make hast now and goe up to my father and to your father and tell him Thus sayth Joseph thy sonne God hath set mee as Lord over all Egypt come away to mee delay not thou shalt dwell in the Land of Goshen and be neere by mee and thy children and thy childrens children thy small and great cattle and all that thou hast I will there provide for thee for there are still five yeares of Dearth and Famine that thou mayst not perish with thy house and all that which thou hast 16. Behold your Eyes see and the Eyes of my Brother Benjamin that I speake to you with my owne Mouth make knowne to my father all my Glory in Egypt Verse 12 13 14 15. and all that ye have seene make hast and come with my father downe hither and he fell about his Brother Benjamins neck and wept and Benjamin also wept upon his neck and he kissed all his Brethren and wept over them and afterwards his Brethren parlyed with him 17. This now is a figure representing that when the soule hath seene the Countenance of the heavenly Joseph that he hath comforted and refreshed it againe then sayth the Divine word in it make hast now and bring also thy Father that is thy Nature and thy whole Life with all thy conversation and doings in thy state and condition to mee and thou shalt dwell neere by mee with
the first Adam and his children he calleth his brethren so very secretly and mystically the Spirit of Moses speaketh in the figure of Christ else in this place he had sayd enough in saying my father is come to mee if he had not had another figure under it 31. Hee sayth Out of the Land of Canaan and they are heardsmen thus he would tell Pharaoh that they might dwell in the Land of Goshen That in the Figure is thus much Christ sheweth with his inspeaking of Love into the word of his Father that his brethren are come to him out of the vanity of the Canaanites out of the wilde beastiall property and that they from their youth up from the time of Adam hitherto have been onely heardsmen that is the word of the humane Life ought to have dwelt in this fleshly Canaan in flesh bloud must and ought to have the Keeping and Ordering of the beastiall property of the flesh 32. For the Animale soule in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the World in Man hath many hundred Beasts which it hath awakened and manifested in it selfe with the false and wicked Lust these Beasts now must the word of the humane Life keep always from Adam to this time and must be conversant with such Cattle and manage these beasts and take care of them therefore now sayd Joseph that they might dwell with their Cattle in the Land of Goshen that is in a peculiar place by it selfe and not with Pharaoh for Heardsmen sayth the Spirit were an abomination to the Egyptians that is the beastiall propertie in Man is an abomination to God therefore Christ bringeth onely the inward Paradisicall Ground this time of the Beast before the face of God but he bringeth the Beast into Goshen that is into the outspoken or Expressed substance of this world into a place blessed of God 33. The Beastiall Man cannot dwell with Pharaoh that is in Gods Majesty and holy power and vertue Joseph or JESUS leaveth him in the outward Nature in the Kingdome of this world and setteth him in a Blessing that he should dwell neere God but a principle is the distinction as between Time and Eternity 34. And Joseph sayd circumspectly he would say they had brought along with them their small and great Cattle to signifie that the whole Man with all his works were brought into the Grace and fat blessed habitation before God that Christs children with all their earthly works were placed in Goshen viz. in a state and condition of Grace 35. And he sayd to his brethren when Pharaoh shall aske what is your Trade and employment then shall ye say thy servants have been heardsmen from our youth up that is thus much when Gods Spirit shall search and trie what ye are in Minde and Thought whether ye be Angells and Ministers of God then humble your selves before God and say not concerning your selves before the Face of God wee sitt in thy Office and are Lords or Potentates and Rulers of the World or Rich Noble excellent Learned understanding persons or such like doe not esteeme your selves good in the sight of God say not wee are thy deare Ministers and Servants in thy Power but say wee thy Servants are Heardsmen from Adam to this time wee keepe and manage our Beastiall property viz. the works of thy wonders which thou hast made wee cannot subsist before thee O holy God for wee are unfitt unworthy ignorant heardsmen of thy wonders let us but finde Grace in thy sight that wee may dwell before thee in this Goshen O Lord wee know not what wee shall doe before thee doe thou direct and teach us how wee shall manage these thy heards for wee are thy Servants and will serve before thee as thy heardsmen 36. In this Glasse behold thy selfe thou faire world what thou art in thy high State places and Offices even all of you from the Emperour to the beggar and him that is least and lowest of all are but heardsmen every one is but a heardsman for their authority is but an Office of the Beastiall Man and hath under his Command and management but to rule over Beasts and no more for no worldly Office can rule over the inward divine Man he must in his Office manage onely a heard of Beasts or Cattle and Governe take care and tutor them and they Tutour him againe 37. With these Offices of heardsmen now the Earthly Lucifer prideth and boasteth himselfe as if he had an Angelicall Government and yet in the presence of God is but a heardsman or keeper of Beasts and no more 38. And therefore hath God typified and prefigured his Mysteries by such simple heardsmen that Man should see what he is in his Office State and Condition also that his wrath may not lift up it selfe and destroy these shepheards and heardsmen and so he hath alwayes in his prefiguration premodeled them onely as heardsmen that he might powre out his Grace upon Mans ignorance and want of understanding 39. Heerin behold your selves ye Potent Noble Rich Learned people all of you one and other how the Spirit of God represents you by the deere Patriarchs in the manner of the heardsmans Office in the revelation of his Mysteries ye are all one and other before him no other then his heardsmen the Emperours as well as his Ministers and servants the Noble as well as his inferiour one as well as another one in this beastiall Office ordereth and manageth another in another beastiall Office 40. But the Pharisee will say I keepe the sheepe of Christ wo be to him that committeth his sheepe to a Wolfe if he teacheth that which is Good from the Spirit of Christ then it is not from his owne authority and power but the Arch-shepheard doth it through him But he manageth Beasts onely and himselfe taketh one Beast of the heard to himselfe which must also be kept and cared for or else the Wolfe will devoure it 41. Thus hath God placed all offices in the Office of a Shepheard so that one should manage and take care of another and yet they are all but shepheards before him which keepe Beasts and Cattle Christ only is the shepheard of Soules and no other 42. None should trust the sheepe of Christ which he hath in him to any earthly Shepheard but onely to the Shepheard Christ for there are Wolves in all the outward offices of Shepheards which take and devoure the sheepe of Christ he may passe well for one in the Office of a Shepheard but let him have a care of the Shepheards Dogs that they doe not bite him 43. O World in thy high State and Condition O that thou didst but consider what thou art in thy State Condition in the sight of heaven and didst not set thy State and Condition so aloft in Gods Love for it standeth only in his deeds of Wonder in evill and good 44. When God would have a worldly State and Condition prefigured in his
neere to him buyeth for his Grace his whole Nature with all the †††Affections properties or faculties formes conditions and qualities thereof and bringeth all whatsoever is in Man againe into the house of the Great Pharaoh that is of God and maketh it a subject to God his Father againe 21. For in Adam all Men are become untrusty and perfidious and are entered into the Selfishnes of the Will but Christ hath bought this humane owne selfe to be his own againe and giveth this up againe to God his Father and it pointeth directly at Christendome which Christ hath bought with his Grace by the Treasure of his pretious Bloud and made it his owne and hath now distributed his Offices wherein the Christians serve him and are his owne 22. But that the Priests fields were not sold and that Pharaoh would not buy them but leave them for their owne pointeth at the inward Man who is the Priestly Temple of Christ this God buyeth not back againe he willeth that Man should have it for his owne he desireth onely to have the Kingdome of Nature for his owne servant but the incorporated ground of Grace viz. the Temple of Christ he leaveth to the Soule for a Dowrie for it is the place and Citty of God wherein God dwelleth in Man No Man can sell it againe pawne it or engage it by oaths for it belongeth to the Eternall One and not to the possession of the Creature but it is a bestowed Ground of Grace wherein Christ manageth his Office it is his habitation and dwelling house 23. * * * Gen. 47.23 24 25 26. Then sayd Joseph unto the People Behold I have this day bought you and your fields for Pharaoh behold there you have seede sow your fields and of your Corne you shall give the fift to Pharaoh fower parts shall be yours to sow your field for your food for your house and Children and they sayd now let us live and finde Grace before thee wee shall willingly be Pharaohs bondslaves Thus Joseph made them a Law unto this day concerning the fields to give the fift to Pharaoh except the Priests fields which were not Pharaohs owne 24. This figure is a true Type and Image of Christendom which Christ hath bought with his Love in his Bloud having proffered to give Christendom his Grace and righteousnes for their Earthly †††Images Imagibility or Phansies Imaginations that it should give them only up to him and when that is done then sayth Christ behold I have this day that is from this time forth to Eternity bought all your Earthly †††Images Imagibility or Phansies Images as also Body and Soule I have bought you for my Eternall Bondslave Servants and Ministers with my Grace from the hunger of Gods Anger behold there you have seede that is there you have my Word wherewith you may sow the Ground of your Conscience in Body and Soule that this seede may bring forth fruit and of this fruit you shall returne the fift to Pharaoh that is to God for fower parts shall be your foode that is this seede shall quicken and cherish the fower Elements of the Body as also the fower properties of the Soules fire-Life and ye shall keepe this seede of the divine Word fowerfold for the cherishing of your Life but the fift ye shall give to God 25. The fift signifieth heere very secretly and Mystically the fift forme of the Naturall Life viz. the Love-fire in the Light which is borne out of the fower properties and Manifest wherein the uncreaturely and Supernaturall God is manifested This forme generateth now the divine Joy and the Praise of God wherein the Soule is an Angell and thanketh and praiseth God because he hath delivered it out of the Fire-Source of Torment and hath given himselfe with this Love and Grace into its Fire-source and changed it into a Love-fire and divine Light 26. This Source of Love viz. the fift property of Life wherein the Soule is an Angell it giveth now to God againe with great praise and thanksgiving for it giveth this fift forme to Christ againe for a habitation for that is the habitation of his Word wherein * * * Or consisteth Luk. 17.21 is the Kingdome of God in us and wherein wee are the Temples of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us and this fift forme in the prayse of God Christ requireth againe from his Christendome that it should give this to him that he may gather in the prayse of God that is the fruit of Love for his Father into the house of the Divine power 27. But the Priests fields that is the inward Ground of the heavenly Worlds Substance he buyeth not with his bloud for that never received the Turba of destruction but in the fall of Adam it went out and faded and went into the Abysse so that the soule had it no more in its owne possession for it was in the soule as it were dead although in God nothing dyeth but the soule was blinde concerning it in that manner as God viz. the Eternall one is in and through all things and yet nothing apprehendeth it but that which introduceth it selfe into its substance wherein he will manifest himselfe 28. This faded Image or Substance is the Priestly Ground whereinto God againe in spake or did sow his Word and Seed againe in Paradise that is not bought with Christs Bloud as the averted soule is but it is filled with the heavenly Ens with Christs flesh and bloud so that it is or becometh Christs flesh and bloud wherein the High Priest Christ dwelleth it is his Eternall seate and possession wherein God is manifested in Man for it is the branch on Christs vine which is Gods proper owne and not Mans. 29. It is indeed in Man but not in the possession of the fiery Soules Essence it hath another Principle then the soule and yet is in the soule and through the soule and from the soule after the manner as the light is from the fire which is through the fire and in the fire and hath its manifestation from the fire out of which fire and light Aire proceedeth and out of which aire dewy water proceedeth and that same dewy water denoteth the substance of this inward Ground which giveth to the fire againe Nourishment foode lustre and life 30. So also it is to be considered and understood concerning the soule when it extinguished as to the Divine Light then this substance was generated no more from it nor in it but remained faded extinguished or quenched and then the soule had no divine foode more for its source of fire for it had turned its desire forth into the third Principle and was overcome by the Earthly Lucifer and by Sathan viz. by the property of the wrath of the dark worlds property in the place of this world 31. This Grace came to help this averted soule which was bought through Christs
bloud for the buyer entered with his Money of Grace into this faded Image and tooke it to himselfe and set the soule therein for a High-Priest and Teacher 32. And this Image now was the Priests fields which he bought not for it was Gods before-hand God only set his High Priest Christ therein that he should therein feede and teach the poore soule that it should not eate of the vanity and fully darken and bring to nothing this Image againe 33. And this is also the same in the figure of Joseph in that he bought not the Priests fields and so is the figure concerning Moses and the Levites that they kept their fields and Ground and yet possessed them as Tenants all which denoteth the inward Man of the heavenly worlds substance which is Gods Ground wherein God soweth his word of Grace viz. Christs Spirit which Ground or Substance belongeth onely to the High Priest Christ for a possession and not to the Creaturely Life but the Creaturely Life receiveth power and vertue from it it hath it indeed in it selfe but it is not one and the same thing with Nature as the Light and the painfull source of the fire is not one and the same thing 34. This figure of Joseph in that he bought the Egyptians to be Pharaohs proper owne and made them his owne servants signifieth nothing else but that Christ should buy us from the Anger of God in the famine of our destruction through his Grace to be his obliged servants through his bloud and death and would give us his word for seede that wee might sow his purchased * * * Or possessions Goods viz. our Naturall Life therewith 35. And for this Cause now should wee give him againe the fift part of this fruit viz. the Birth of Love the fift propertie of Life for in the fift propertie standeth Faith and that his children should give to him againe and this he gathereth into his fathers Barnes for an Eternall prayse and to the divine Manifestation of his wonders 36. But that Earthly Men have made such †††Or Bondslavery Bondage and keepe one another for Bondslaves and vex torment and misuse one another therein and squeeze out their sweat for their pomp pride this is an Image of the Anger of God which ‖ ‖ ‖ Imageth or modelleth it selfe representeth it selfe also according to the heavenly Figure 37. For every thing must ‖ ‖ ‖ Imageth or modelleth it selfe fashion it selfe according to the Ordinance or appointment of the Word of God whether a thing ‖ ‖ ‖ Imageth or modelleth it selfe fashion it selfe in Evill viz. in Gods anger according to the property of Hell or in Good in Heaven in the Kingdome of Christ for with the Holy Psa. 18.25 26. the Word is Holy and with the perverse and froward it is manifest in Gods wrath as the People is such is their God also sayth the Scripture 38. Earthly Men represent the Image in the anger of God in that they vex torment squeeze and plague them with * * * Bondslavery Bondage and hold it for just and right and it is right in the wrath of Nature in Gods anger and it is a figure of Hell and it is also a figure of the Kingdome of Christ in the heavenly * * * Bondslavery Bondage For all whatsoever the Earthly Man doth with paine and torment that doth Christ in his Kingdome with his children in Joy Love humility and power 39. The Earthly Man taketh away his brothers Labour also his will and desires his sweate and Trade profession and sustenance Christ also taketh away his childrens evill will desires also their labour working in God when with great paine and anguish they presse thereinto these labours Christ taketh all from them and gathereth them into his Chists of Treasure and searcheth through and through his childrens body and soule to see whether there be yet a little Sparkle that can and will administer to him and work for him that he driveth and necessitateth into the Divine Ministration of Gods Court viz. into the vineyard of Christ. 40. He often also withdraweth the foode of Grace and letteth them afterward hunger and lament for it and letteth them sit in misery and afflicteth them so that they must work in great anguish in lamentation feare and trembling before him in Divine Labour for the old Adams Asse is unwilling and untoward to labour in that which is divine 41. And therefore it is often compelled so that the punishment and threatning is alwayes behinde it where Christs Spirit in the Conscience threatneth it with Hell and the Anger of God as also the Earthly Lords upon Earth doe with their Subjects which stand indeed in the figure of Christ but the Office is altogether unlike 42. Christ gathereth in for his father by the works of his children much heavenly fruit which Man will obtaine againe and enjoy the same for Ever but a worldly Lord gathereth in by the labour and sweat of the poore only Money and Goods into his Chists to his owne honour which labour the poore Man can no more enjoy in this world but Christ is his wages in that he must serve the figure of Gods anger heere in Misery 43. But in the End when the Earthly Offices shall be also gathered into their Barnes into the Treasure Chists of their hearts for whom they have served and ministred then there will be unlike and different reservatories many will have very much gathered into the Kingdome of Gods anger and from that will his foode be given to him againe in Eternity viz. the Curse of the oppressed also the affliction feare paine and molestation of the poore which they have heere with their agitation wrought by the inferiours that will be given them for foode also after this time to Eternity for * * * Gal. 6.7 what any soweth heere that they will finde in Barnes in the Eternall Life 44. All Offices of this world are Gods and all Officers from the Emperour to the least and meanest are Gods Officers but they serve him much unlike and differently one serveth him in Love as a Minister of Christ and the other serveth him in his anger as a Minister of Hell 45. All that seeke their owne in these Offices and not regard God and his Ordinance and so serve Man therein they serve the anger of God and gather up into Hell 46. For all the Treasure of Princes and Potentates should be gathered in for the Common profit of brethren and for the supporting of Good Orders and Offices also of the miserable and impotent even as an * * * Or housholder Inn-keeper laboureth worketh with those that are under him and draweth the profit to himselfe and yet therewith he provideth for feedeth and nourisheth all his servants Ministers and assistants and the over-plus he useth for common necessaries of himselfe his wife and children and
needs striving then Is it not now a simple shee-Asse which beareth Christ and Adam upon it viz. Christ in it which is its Noble Branch viz. its sap and power and Adam upon it as a Burthen 58. O thou Babylonish whore thou keepest off this shee-Asse with thy Dragon-Beast so that poore Christendome must beare thy Evill Beast whereon thou whore ridest but thy time is neere that thou art to goe into the Abysse of Hell-fire sayth the Spirit of Wonders 59. Also he will wash his Garment in wine and his Mantle in the bloud of the Grape that is Christ will wash our humanity viz. the Garment of the soule in the wine of his Love and with the Love wash away from the defiled Adamicall flesh the earthly drosse and spawne of the Serpent that Adam had received with his desire and Lust from which the Earthly Man became a Beast and leave the spawne of the Serpent to the Earth and in the End burne it up with the fire of God 60. And his Mantle in the bloud of the Grape the Mantle is the Cover which covereth the washed Garment and is even the pretious purple Mantle of Christ viz. the scorne affliction Torment and suffering when he thereby washed our sinnes in his bloud that is the right bloud of the Grape wherein he washed his Mantle which now he casteth over our Garment and covereth it viz. over our humanity that Gods anger and the Devill may not touch it 61. O Man consider this this Mantle will not be cast over the Beast and the Whore to cover them as Babell teacheth but over the washed Garment that is washed in right true Repentance with Gods Love this Garment of the soule will be covered with the Mantle of Christ which is once washed in his bloud of the Grape and not whores Panders uncleane persons Covetous Extortioners unrighteous cruell raging sterne and proud so long as they are such they have onely the Mantle of the Babylonish whore about them and get not this holy washed Mantle of Christ upon them flatter and play the hypocrite as much as thou wilt yet thou wilt not get it except thou art washed beforehand thy Comforting thy selfe will not avayle thee thou must set upon it in Earnest that thy shee-Asse may live thy â—ole be Essentially bound to the vine Christ else thou art a Member of the Whore sitting upon the seaven headed Dragon and if thou couldest passe through the Thrones of Heaven yet thou wouldest be but a childe of the Dragon 62. O Babell Babell what hast thou done in Covering the Beast with this Mantle and art thy selfe remaining under it a Wolfe 63. Also His Eyes are redder then wine and his Teeth whiter then Milke His Eyes are now the fire-flaming Love which pierce and presse through the Fathers Anger and looke through the fiery-soule wherein the Fathers anger in the fiery soule becometh a light flaming Love-fire and so the Soules Essence is thereby become a sweet pleasant tasted divine red Love-wine one property in the Soulish Essence tasting the other in great desire of Love and the fathers property of anger floweth forth in a cleere good pleasant relish 64. And his Teeth are whiter then Milke these white Teeth are the desire of the inward Spirituall Man where the holy word is together in the desire of these Teeth which white Teeth of heavenly desire apprehendeth eateth and drinketh the Grape of Christs bloud for it is the Spirituall Mouth for which Christ hath ordained his Testament that it should with these white Teeth * * * Joh. 6.53 c. Eate his flesh and drinke his bloud this the Spirit in the Covenant declareth cleerly and plainly by Jacob. 65. For the Testament of Judah pointeth throughout at Christ at his Person Office and Kingdome for of Judah Christ should come according to the humanity outwardly the figure of the Type standeth and inwardly in the Spirituall Figure Christ standeth clearly CHAP. LXXVII A Further Exposition of Jacobs Testament Concerning the other Eight Sonnes how both the Jewish Government or Kingdome on Earth and also Christendome is Typified under it shewing how it would goe with them From the 12 th verse of the 49 th Chapter of Genesis to the last verse thereof 1. BY the first Three sonnes of Jacob is typified in the Figure the Kingdome of perished or corrupt Nature viz. the Adamicall Man what it is and by Judah Christ is Typified who should come and bring the Adamicall Man into his Kingdome but by the other Eight sonnes of Jacob is Typified only the figure of worldly Officers States Governments signifying how the Adamicall Man would manage the Superiour Dominion and how also the inward figure of the Kingdome of Christ would stand close by it 2. For heere in the outward figure is first Typified where each Tribe or Stock would have their dwelling and habitation and what their Office in Israell would be but neere to it standeth alwayes the figure representing how the outward and the inward Man would stand close by one another and how the Kingdome of Nature and the Kingdome of Grace would dwell one by another also how the Seaven properties of Nature in Gods anger according to the first Principle would also put forth or explicate themselves and introduce themselves into figure to the divine manifestation which the reader should well observe and consider for we will explaine both the inward and the outward figure V. The Testament of Zebulun 3. Zebulun will dwell at the Haven of the Sea and at the Haven of Ships Gen. 49.13 and reach to Zidon This first is the outward figure shewing where this Tribe or Stock will dwell in the promised Land but the Spirit also hath its figure to which it pointeth 4. For Zebulun in the Language of Nature in sense is called a desire or Longing that goeth to God which longing resides with good people and it signifieth heere that the Adamicall Man would dwell neere God and that he would have delight and refreshment from the divine * * * Neighbourhood co-habitation for Jacob begat Zebulun of Lea which otherwise was not esteemed because shee was tender-sighted and bleere-eyd and not so fayre as Rachell was which Lea put her hope in God that he would blesse her that shee should be fruitfull and beare children to her husband Jacob. 5. Now when shee bare Zebulun ‖ ‖ ‖ Gen. 30.20 shee sayd God hath pleaded well for mee that is I turned my desire to him and he hath fullfilled it for mee now his will dwelleth with mine and shee called him * * * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zebulun a neere dwelling or Co-habitation that is God dwelleth with mee and now also will my husband dwell with mee in Love and it signifieth that the Grace of God in his mercy and Compassion shall still dwell with the poore Adamicall perished or corrupt children of flesh and not forsake them in their misery