Divine power and vertue excelleth the humane therefore is the humane brought forth through the Divine power so that the humane power and vertue giveth it selfe together with the Divine through the Divine power for the humane power and vertue is a perception or invention of the Divine wherein the Divine findeth it selfe in something viz in the formed Substance of the word of power wherein the Divine power loveth it selfe as in its perceptible Substance as the Soule loveth it selfe in its Body 6. Note And thus hath God powred his love through the humane Substance in the humanity of Christ into the Disciples of Christ with the humane Substance in that way and manner as the Sunnes power and vertue in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the World as with the Effluence of the power and vertue of the Starres mingleth it selfe with the Spirituall Brimstone Salt and Oyle in the upper Elements so that it comprehendeth their power and vertue in its Glance and giveth it selfe to them and it the power giveth it selfe into the Sunnes power and vertue and so they worke together whereby the light of Nature is unlocked and with such working give themselves into the Earth Hearbs Trees and all Creatures so that in an Heath or Tree such a vertue doth exist whence the vegeration or budding forth of Creatures doth exist where alwayes in such growing or life a man is to understand 1 an Elementary Substantiall power and vertue and then 2 a super-Elementary Sunney or Solar and Starry or Astrall power and vertue where the Sunney and Sâ—arry with their strong power presse forth with the Elementary 7. Note Now wee see in hearbs and all things that grow out of the Earth when they take hold of and Eate this power and vertue of the Sunne and Starres in them that they doe not rend themselves and make or use a severed Mouth to doe it withall but the Essence of their desire viz even the Naturall Brâ—mstone Salt and Oyle in the Hearb is the Mouth which taketh hold and eateth in it selfe the Influence of the upper Elements of the Sunne and Starres Thus also in like manner it is to be understood concerning Christs Disciples and all other Men they have Eaten and drunk Christs flesh and bloud under Bread and Wine as through a Medium with the â—ssentiall desirous Faiths-Mouth not with a circumscribed creaturely comprehension but with the Faiths desire 8. Note Yet that a Man may rightly understand it he is to know 1 the outward Mouth with its comprehension apprehendeth the outward Elementary Substance Bread and Wine The Mortall tâ—ansitory Substance of Man viz the Grosse Flesh which shall not nor cannot inherite the Kingdome of Heaven Joh. 6.63 1 Cor. 15.50 that apprehendeth and eateth Bread and Wine for Bread and Wine is also an earthly transitory Substance which goeth into the Belly and out from thence againe as all naturall sood Matth 15 17. And 2 the right true Man which was created in Adam which before the beastiall grossenesse was a right Man and Image of the visible World according to its inward Spirituall Ground the same eateth Christs flesh which is even such Spirituall Substantiall flesh with the Essentiall desire Note understand the flesh that he tooke on him in Mary viz our humane but not the outward Ground of the Corporall foure Elements but the Inward holy Element viz the Ground out of which the soure Elements proceed Not Fire Aire Water and Earth but the Eternall pure Element which is a Substance of Paradise which is hidden in the foure Elements understand the Substance of Eternity out of which time is gone forth into a vision Substance that same flesh as a spirituall Mumia out of which Man as to the visible body hath taken its originall in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat which in Adam became blinde as to the Kingdome of Heaven when he went with the desire into the foure Elementary grossenes which fleshly Substance in Christs becoming Man was filled with heavenly living Substance and made living againe Note that is it which the right Adamicall Man eateth which sticketh hidden in the Grosse shell of the foure Elements and in that Substance the right Man Eateth Christs Passion Dying and Death which death of Christ is in his victory become an Eternall Life which Life so risen out of the Death of Christ breaketh our Earthly evill will and is become a Death to our Death which the outward Nature holdeth for a Life 9. Note Note And heere is Christs Passion and Dying put on to Man altogether Essentially a Workingly Effectually Operatively which Lifes-Death of Christ swalloweth up our Death wherein the Body when it heere dyeth according to the foure Elementary Substance resteth and the foure Elementary becometh dust and ashes this same power and vertue of the true humanity resteth in its Principle to the coming againe of the Corporeall Substance 10. But 2 the Soule which is a spirituall fire in its desire as with the true Faiths Mouth eateth the Supernaturall Substantiall Love of the Name JESUS which Name is become a Substantiall Power and vertue viz the Supernaturall Wisdome of God wherein the whole Deity is understood workingly 11. The Soules Mouth eateth of this Holy Substance whereby the Soule is turned into a Love-fire-burning for the Love of Christ giveth Ens and Substance to the Soules Fire the fiery Life of the Soule taketh this Love Substance into its Essence and by this Love-burning the Temple b Or Sophia The Wisdome of God Soph-JAH is againe unlocked viz the Substantiall Holy powerfull-Light the true Spirit which vanished in Adam As a Light goeth forth out of fire so through the Soules-fire another Principle viz the property of the Divine power and vertue goeth forth and in that out-going power and vertue dwelleth the supernaturall unsubstantiall God in Trinity for this is the Divine Principle where God in Man dwelleth worketh and willeth wherein the Divine Light is understood which c Penetrateth diffuseth it selfe through the true Man as fire through Iron 12. Note Understand it aright thus Man standeth in Three Principles viz in Three Beginnings 1 the visible Man is the visible World which is outward and inward viz a transitory and an untransitory viz the Pure Element and the Efflux viz the soure Elements 2 the Grosse Man with outward flesh and bloud is the foure-Elementary Body and the Spirituall Body in the Quintessence or fist Essence is the Holy Element which is hidden in the foure which is neither hot nor cold neither dry nor moist But the Soulish Ground is not the Element it is grounded in the Eternall Word where the fiery Word of the Fathers property hath inbreathed it selfe into the Created body as another Principle of an Eternall Nature 13. Now the Third 3 Supernaturall Ground of Man is the true Spirit understand the Substantiall Light the Substantiall Wisdome which with the Soules breathing in came into Man but yet vanished when
doe try and exercise himselfe and by practise attain the skill and readinesse in his trade by Experience that he may be able not onely to direct how to worke by hearesay but to shew his skill by his own doing the same thing himselfe The Apostles could doe the same thing which they taught others or else they could not have rightly taught as they did Now hee that considereth this Booke will finde that the Authour knew and writt Experimentally and that if wee follow his doctrine and Experience wee may attaine not onely the understanding of his Writings but be able to speak and write all that he understood and so disclose those things plainly and fully which he had not time nor leave to write otherwise then obscurely of Which when wee have arrived to wee shall leave that seeking after the most desirable worldly things which passe away in a Moment and presse after the high Price of the Calling of Jesus Christ now if by my means any shall be stirred up to strive and so undoubtedly attaine the blessed Crowne of Eternall Life it will be also my Crowne of rejoycing in the world to come though heere I must acknowledge my selfe one of the unworthiest of the children of Men. JOHN SPARROVV A LETTER TO Charles of Endern Carol von Endern Our salvation is in the Life of Jesus Christ in us NOble Sir beloved in Christ with the Hearty Desire of the Divine Light in the working power of the Holy Ens in our Immanuel I send over to you the little Booke of Christs Testaments with the Preface to it It should have been written but singly in the three first sheets for I would have written it all over againe and had begun with the first Chapter And I am purposed to bring to the Presse this little Booke in a more child-like manner for the better understanding of the simple But because of the high sense I let the One by the other one on one side the other on the other verse for verse one be written against the other seeing you and others Exercised Lovers understand this sense well and so the sublime understandings may have that which is high and the simple that which is lowly in the sense yet there is one and the same understanding in them both though in the lower sense more simple words might be made use of and so I commit you to the continuall saving Love of Jesus Christ Dated at Gerlitz 7â— May the yeare of Christ 1624. JACOB BEHM The Summary Contents of the Chapters in this first Booke concerning the Holy Baptisme CHAP. I. How Reason useth to behold it selfe in a Creaturely Image-like manner when it considereth of Christ and his Testaments and whence the strife about Christs Testaments ariseth and how that strife is an empty unprofitable thing CHAP. II. Of the Covenant of God after the Fall what the Fall of Man is and how God hath bound himselfe in Covenant with him againe What the Circumcision in the old Testament is and what the Baptisme in the New CHAP. III. A Briefe and fundamentall information how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost with Christs sufferings Death and Resurrection in body and soule CHAP. IV. Of the outward Water-Baptisme by the hand of Man who is worthy so to * Or to Administer it Baptise and what baptised Infant receiveth that Testament worthily and how it goeth with the unworthy Hand as also with the unworthy Baptised Infant The Preface to the Reader SHEWING How the Testaments of Christ must be fundamentally understood rightly participated and worthily fed upon A Looking Glasse for Teacher and Hearer 1. CHristian loving Reader this little Booke of the Testaments of Christ in this present time when Men strive onely about Opinions ought well to be considered Men are wholly and altogether departed from the right understanding seeing they will maintaine Christs Testaments with Disputing and the Sword 2. There needs no Disputing about it onely an earnest sincere penitent Man who hath the Faith understandeth this Testamentary a Covenanting Institution and participation in the Power of Christ but it is foolishnesse to the Naturall Man and cannot be apprehended 1 Cor. 2.14 3. There belongeth quite another Earnest Sincerity to the true understanding which is not apprehended by humane Reason and is rightly understood by no Man unlesse the Spirit of Christ open it to him in his Heart 4. There lyeth a fast Seale before it which no Reason nor Art can breake up but onely that slaine Lamb of the House of Israel who hath the Key of David Revel 3.7 Chap. 3.5 5. Christs Testaments are to Reason without the Divine Light a closed Booke but to the true children of Christ they are an Opened Booke Christs Testaments are a Seale of the firme and Eternall Covenant of God wherewith God hath received Man to Grace againe after the horrible Defection and sealed him with the flowing forth of his Love by his bloud and Death that wee b Or Might should beleeve his Word and Promise which he hath revealed to us in the Holy Scripture concerning his Sonne with the Redemption from sinne and heertofore declared by the Prophets 6. Which Word in the flowing forth of his Love is come into our humanity and hath assumed a Humane Soule also flesh and bloud and hath established this Eternall Covenant with his Bloud and Death And so now he giveth this Testament to his Faithfull ones for a c Ausibeute Talent or earnest Penny or Pawne Pledge and so maketh them Branches on the Vine of his Flesh and Bloud so that they are imbodied to himselfe therewith and made his right children in whom HEE himselfe will dwell with his flesh and bloud with this Testamentary c Ausibeute Talent or earnest Penny or Pawne Pledge so that thereby they may Pray to the Father with joyfull affiance in true child-like Humility in the Name of his Sonne JESUS CHRIST and so he will give them this Grace John 16.23 7. This Testament he offereth to us after a twofold Manner First through his Word Preached whereby he Stirreth and Openeth the Hearts of the Hearers that they enter into true Repentance for their Sinnes and so procure themselves this Pledge of his Testaments 8. Secondly Through the True d Or Essentiall substantiall participation of his Flesh and Bloud by the Mouth of Faith with Bread and Wine whereby he sealeth the Faith with his Bloud and Death and thereby Openeth the Lifes understanding of the Inward Divine Hearing so that the poore fallen Man which was dead to the Divine Hearing through sinne attaineth againe the Divine Hearing in his understanding and so is converted againe and so entereth into his first Inheritance which he had in Paradise and giveth up his will to God who reneweth his Heart e Senses Thoughts and Minde through his Inspeaking or Inspiration and continueth and dwelleth in him with his Pledge of this Testament and powerfully worketh in him in
Life in this Love to spring forth through IT to a new Will and Eternall Life 25. This new introduced Love and Grace hath given it selfe together into the Breaking of the Humane Life viz into the Dying of Man in the Person of Christ and brought the Humane received Owne-will with it selfe into Death and broken it and hath suffered the Humane Image which the Owne-will through its Imagination and Desire of selfe-hood hath made thus Grosse and vile and brought it from the first Angelicall Image into such a Monster to hang upon the Crosse and there to be put to scorne and so hath borne the Eternall scorne which Man must have borne as a o Triumph or shew spectacle upon the Crosse And there openly made it appeare before all Angells and Spirits how this great Grace of Love would destroy the Devills introduced Desire and Death also and with this new Introduced Love spring forth through death and bring forth the humane Life through Death and change the Wrath of the Anger of God into Love and make Darknesse Light and through this new inâ—â—oduced Love convert and transmute the Grosse Earthly Humane Image into a Heavenly Image againe 26 As the impurity of Gold is changed in the fire or much more as a Man may by the Tincture turne Copper Lead or Grosse Iron into Gold so also is the Humané Spirit together with the Body in their Three Principles changed into the Divine power and property and through Death brought into an Eternall Life which consists in Power and Glory in the Will of God 27. Where now wee understand that the humane Soule in this transmuted new Birth and introduced Love doth againe Eate of the Essentiall Wisdome of God and with its will Imageth or frameth it selfe in the Divine Science and therein hath Divine skill and knowledge And so by such Resurrection through the Death where the Man Christ in the Divine Power is arisen through Death and hath made Death Life is become a Lord over Sinne Death the Devill and Hell and hath borne all of them in its Resurrection as a p Shew or Triumph spectacle on the humane Soule and Body as a Victor over them 28. And here may be rightly mentioned what Christ saith Joh. 17. Father the Men were thine but thou hast given them unto Mee and I now give them this victory viz the New Life introduced into Death that Death in them also may be Destroyed that they in my Power may goe through Death and in my â—ower be also thus transmuted and through my Resurrection come againe to thee and as I am arisen from Dead and have brought their by Me assumed Humanity to thee so that I as true God and Man in One Person am One with thee and have possessed the Throne of Glory So Father I will also that those which thou hast given Mee be where I am and see my Glory 29. Now seeing Christ hath said Joh. 6. Hee is the Bread that is come downe from Meaven that giveth life to the World and that wee should eate his flesh and drink his bloud and that whosoever eateth and drinketh the same he would remaine in them and they should remaine in Him and whosoever eateth not nor drinketh not the same they have no life in them Also Joh. 4. Hee would give us the water of Eternall Life and whosoever should drink thereof should thirst no more but it would flow in him to a sountaine of Eternall Life and streames of living water should flow from him 30. Therefore here-following I will set downe a short fundamentall Exposition what his Testaments which he left behinde him of Baptisme and the Last Supper are what Baptiseth and is Baptised how it is done and to what profit and Effect it is done also how the participation of his body and bloud in his Testaments is effected with what Mouth and what food it is also who partaketh thereof worthily and how it is with the unworthy The First Chapter How Reason useth to view it selfe in a Creaturely a Imaginary Manner Imagelikenesse when it considereth of Christ and his Testaments Whence the Strife about Christs Testaments ariseth and how the same is an Empty unprofitable thing ALL Strife and Mis-understanding concerning Christs Person Office and Beeing or substance as also concerning his Testaments which he left behinde him wherein he worketh b At Present Presentially ariseth from the defected Creaturely Reason which runneth on onely in an Imagelike Opinion and reacheth not the Ground of this Mystery and yet will be a Mistris of all things or beeings will Judge all things and doth but loose it selfe in such Image-likenesse and breaketh it selfe off from its Centre and disperseth the c Inward senses or thoughts thoughts and runneth on in the Multiplicity whereby its Ground is confused the Minde disquieted and knoweth not it selfe No Life can stand in Certainty except it continue in its Centre out of which it is sprung Seeing then the Soule is sprung from Gods Word and Will and yet is entered into its own Lust and desire to will of it selfe in such searching of selfe-willing it cannot reach its first Ground from whence it is sprung and threupon it runneth without its Ground in meere uncertainty till it returne to its Originall againe Every Beginning goeth out of the Eternall ONE viz out of the Tri-unity of GOD through the Exhalation or speaking of the unity of GOD. As a fountain floweth from its Originall Through which flowing forth the unity bringeth it selfe into selfe-viewing findingnesse and perceptibility to the Forming and Imaging of it selfe Every visible and Invisible Beeing both Spirituall and Corporeall have taken their Originall in the Exhalation of the Divine Power and are a d Or Resemblance or Antitype Reflection of the seperable will of God and stand with their Ground therein For the Beginning of every Beeing is nothing else but an Imagination of the out-flown will of God which hath brought it selfe into Seperability formednesse and Imagelikenesse wherein lyeth the whole Creation And every life doth consist in its re-exhalation and e Resemblance or Antitype Reflection in the same manner Seeing then that the Humane Life is an out-flowing and Reflection of the Divine Power understanding and skill therefore the same ought to continue in its originall or else it looseth the divine knowledge Power and skill and with selfe-speculation bringeth it selfe into Centres of its owne and Strange Imaging wherewith its Originall becometh darkned and strange As is to be knowne by Erroneous Reason which ever teacheth concerning GOD and yet hath no true understanding also it never cometh to rest whiles it runneth on in Strange Imaging Therefore say I that this is the onely cause that Men Dispute and Strive about God his Word Essence or Beeing and Will that the understanding of Man hath broken it selfe off from its Originall and now runneth on in meere self-will thoughts and Images in its own Lust to
it might pierce to God By Moses on Mount Sinai wee see this Image also where first the Fathers Property in the Fire manifested it selfe and required Mans full obedience to live before God in Holinesse and draw neere to him in purity through the Sacrifice If not then would he devoure them in the Curse through this fire Which also was an Image Type or Shadow signifying how the humane vanity should and must be purged through Gods Wrath-fire But Israel could not through the fire come to salvation and the Love of God and through Moses goe into the Promised Land but through Joshua and Christ Therefore God brought his Heavenly Substance with his Covenant into the Water-Baptisme that there might be a tolerable Medium whereby he might introduce his Love-Essence into our vanished also heavenly Substance wherein the Holy fire might kindle it selfe againe Even therefore because the humane Essence was become Earthly that Man might beare or endure it for there must be such a Medium wherein the humane Essence can take hold for in Gods Holinesse without a Medium it cannot take hold the will was rent off from it Therefore God became Man that he might cause to flow in us his Deity with the humanity that we might comprehend or take hold of him also that the Divine Imagination might introduce and awaken it selfe in Man and co-worke with the humane Imagination and therefore he assumed the humanity that he might work in us with the Deity through the Humanity Thus with the Water-Baptisme was a Glimmering Mother holy-fire imprinted in Gods Love for a Subject or Object of Divine Imagination and working whereby Death according to the Inwardnesse of Man would be broken to Pieces and a new life spring forth As fire in wood beginneth to Glimmer so was this Infusion or Baptising an z Or Vnction Anointing of the Holy Spirit for a new Lifes Oyle wherein the Divine Light might kindle it selfe This is now the Ground of the Water-Baptisme to which the Holy Ghost in the inward Ground is the hand which with the flowing forth of the Divine Love out of Christs suffering death and resurrection baptiseth with his victory That is Hee Infuseth Christs humanity suffering Death and resurrection into Man and kindleth the incorporated Paradisicall Covenant with this fire that the dry Rod of Aaron cometh to Bud forth againe For with this Infusion of the Holy Ghost Christ is bestowed upon Man he is hereby incorporated to Christ and the heavenly Ens which in Mary assumed our humane Ens with the whole processe of Christ is put on and imprinted in him to a new Life As a Tincture tinctureth the Mettle or as fire gloweth through the Iron so here also it is to be understood concerning those that are capable of this Infusion as it followeth further The Third Chapter A Briefer and more fundamentall Instruction how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost with Christs Suffering Death and Resurrection in Body and Soule 1. WHen God would introduce his Covenant with the Circumcision into the Water-Baptisme then the Word of the Inspoken Grace wherein the Holy Fire of God was First before hand became a Man and assumed first beforehand the Womans seede as our soule and humanity that he might baptise us with the Living Covenant which was become a Man 2. For the Body of Man to which the Baptisme was necessary was out of the Elements and now if it should be Baptised the Covenant must first beforehand give it selfe into an Elementary Medium as in the Humanity of Christ and Sanctifie that Medium that Man might through this Medium be baptised 3. For it was not to be done onely for the Heavenly Substance of Man which vanished in Adam in which the Covenant in Paradise incorporated it selfe that it alone should be baptised No but also for the Soule and for the Body out of the Limus of the Earth 4. The whole Man needed the Baptisme All the Three Principles of all the Three worlds in Man must be baptised viz The first Principle is the Eternall Nature viz the true Soules Life that came out of the Word of the Inspeaking into the Body The Second Principle is the true Eternall Spirit viz the Holy Power of the Light and Love which I call in this little Booke the heavenly vanished Ens and Substance in Adam wherein Adam vanished viz the Soules will departed out from it The Third Principle is the Astrall Animall Soule Ex Spiritu Mundi out of the Spirit of the World with its Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the whole outward visible Man 5. This Threefold Man was wholly fallen for as the Divine Light in the Spirit of the Second Principle went out he was quite blinde as to God and dead as to Paradise In this must a Divine Love Ens be Infused againe in which Love Ens the Divine fire and Light might againe kindle to a new Life but if this must be done then must the Holy Fire first beforehand manifest it selfe with the Covenant in the Threefold Humanity as in Christs Humanity that Gods Spirit might baptise us out of with and through this threefold Humanity that Each Principle in us might be baptized with its like or similitude For the Holy Ghost Baptizeth through Christ to the forgivenesse of Sinnes 6. The Holy Fire of the Divine Power in Christ Baptiseth his Temple in us which the Holy fire viz the Divine life in us would possesse viz the vanished Ens of the Heavenly worlds Substance the Spirit of understanding or of Power viz the Second Principle or Angelicall Body out of the Angelicall worlds Substance to which Substance Christ afterwards giveth his most holy spirituall flesh for food in which he himselfe dwelleth This Divine Love in the Holy fire baptiseth this Spirit for it is an Ens of the Holy fire wherein it burneth or liveth And the first Principle viz the fiery Soule out of the Divine Science of the seperable speaking word out of the Fathers Property is baptised with the fiery Spirit of the Fathers Property as with the fire burning Love 7. Thus to be understood The Soule is of the Fathers Property and in this Baptisme with his Infusion into the Soule he giveth it to the Son in his Love-fire The Fathers Property in the fire taketh hold on the Soule first with the Law of Nature with his Strickt Righteousnesse with the Eternall Birth of the fire-Ground whereby the hard p Impression Compressed Dead Soule in that Infusion of the fire is moveable and its hard p Impression Compression of the false Magnetick Desire is broken in sunder and opened in that manner as a Man strikes up fire 8. Thus now the Divine Light of the Great Love is in the Opened Name JESUS out of JEHOVA in the Centre of the Fathers fire When the Fathers fire unlocketh the fiery Soule then the light of the Divine Love can shine into it and Introduce the Love Ens
into it for so soone as the Wrath-fire unlocketh the Soule iustantly it receiveth the Love-fire of the Sonne and goeth into it as fire Gloweth through Iron or as a Tincture penetrateth Metrall 9. And thus is the Soule given from the Father to the Sonne and thus the Sonne Giveth it the Love-fire viz the Eternall Life for if the Fathers Property did not move together in the shut up Soule then the Soule would remaine in its Impression in Eternall Death and the Light could not be manifested in it 10. The q Commotion or Contrition shrill sounding and kindling of the Fathers fire is the fountains of humane Repentance where man trembleth before sinne for in the fire-glance is the false compressed vanity of sinnes in the Darknesse of the Soule Manifest and the Love-shining in of the Sonne is the Meeke Love-Oyle that uniteth and tempereth the Contrition or shrill sounding againe 11. For the Sonne is in the Father and the Father in the Sonne and they baptise together The Father with fire and the Sonne with Light after that manner as fire is struck so that the meeke Light-Glance is manifested out of the fire and so the fire burning is wholly turned and growne into a Light Glance â— The Fathers fire with its terrour consumeth the vanity in the Soule and the Sonnes Love healeth it againe Thus is the Baptisme according to the Inward Ground of Mans Soule and Spirit to be understood 12. The Third Property of the Third Principle r Text. With. in the Water-Baptisme wherewith the body of the outward Worlds Substance as also the Spirit of the Constellation in Man is baptised is thus to be considered By the Water viz by the Element of the Body of Christ the right Adamicall Man which was created in Adam as to the Body understand out of the outward worlds Substance is baptised for here the Holy Ghost baptiseth who goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne his Going forth is the formation of the world and the world is the outspoken formed Word and the Spirit of God it is that hath formed it 13. For Hee is to be understood in all the Three worlds in each world according to their Property As in the Fathers wrath according to the Darknesse he is the flame of Painfullnesse and in the Eternall Light he is the Love-flame of God and in this world in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the world he is the formour and workmaster of every thing in every thing according to its property As the Seperator of the thing is so also is the outflowne Spirit out of the out-spoken word in every thing 14. For in the outward worlds Substance it is not to be understood that the Spirit of its Substance is called God but it is the outflowne Spirit in the outspoken word of God which with its ground standeth in the Word of God 15. The Outflowne Spirit of the Outward Creaturely and Naturall Life is flowne forth out of Gods Love and Wrath out of Light and Darknesse viz out of the first and second Principle as out of the Eternall Nature out of the Speaking of the Word and standeth with its Ground in Gods Speaking for the Eternall Word Å¿ Or breatheth forth that out-spoken Spirit exhaleth it selfe with that Spirit into a Creaturely Life 16. It that same Exhaled Spirit is the outward Creaturely Life in Every Creature according to its property It is the Soule of the Outward World viz the Inceptive Soule a life of the foure Elements It s power is a fiery and lightish Constellation What the whole outward Constellation is in it selfe in its power the same is that Spirit alone in it selfe yet as a shut up Constellation that lyeth in the Temperament and yet unfolds it selfe in Every Life and maketh it selfe Seperable according to the lifes property t Text. By. In the Temporary Creatures with a Temporary Property and t Text. By. in the Eternall with an Eternall Property In Man with a temporary and fragile Corruptible property and also with an Eternall Which Eternall hangeth to the Eternall Exhaled Word to the Eternall Exhaling wherein Man at the Last Day according to the visible Image shall arise and come againe out of the Corruptibility and be presented before Gods Judgement before The Judgement and be put upon the Great u Or fiery Triall fires Proba where the Mortall shall seperate it selfe from the Eternall 17. Understand us now heere rightly thus concerning the Baptisme of this Outward Spirit The Inward Holy-Spirit of Divine Love kindleth the Outflowen Spirit and anointeth it with Divine Power For the humanity of Christ according to our Outward Spirit was anointed of the Holy Ghost and that same outward Spirit of Christ which in Christs Person in the Elements of the Body ruled after a humane Manner that in the Covenant of his Testament in the Water-Baptisme anointeth the Inward ground of the Water and the anointed power in the water in the word of the Covenant anointeth the true Man which in Adam was Created out of the Limus of the Earth and so also it anointeth the Spiritus Mundi the Spirit of the world viz the right x Note Astrall Soule which at the Last Day shall come againe and be tryed 18. Now understand us dearely and well it availeth us much This Anointing of Water-Baptisme is anointed with Christs suffering death and resurrection it is anointed with Christs shedding of his bloud with which heavenly bloud he changed Gods Wrath into Love and besprinkled Death in the humane Property wherewith he anointed the Earth when he shed forth this his bloud upon and into it Note also It was anointed therewith when Christ yeelded his anointed Life of the outward humanity received from us in his Death into this Spiritus Mundi this spirit of the world againe and anointed that also with his Anointing in his Death viz where his outward mortall soule received from us which dyed on the Crosse and yeelded it selfe into the hand of God as into his Outspoken Word went out of the Body into the Elements Also It is anointed therewith where this his outward Soule with the Eternall Soule wherein the holy Ghost was penetrated through Death and Hell And also therewith where the Holy Ghost in the Word received this his dead Astrall Soule our of death and brought it through death with his resurrection into Eternall Life where Gods Love anointed it with the Eternall Life 19. This Anointing of Christ is understood in the Water-Baptisme as in the Covenant of God for God anointeth in the humanity of Christ the Elements of the Body together with the Mortall and Immortall Soule and bringeth Christ with this anointing into his Death and into the Wrath and through Death into the Eternall Life And this Anointing wherein Christ hath overcome Gods Wrath Sinne Death the Devill and Hell hath God with his Covenant of the Old-Testament ordained in the Water-Baptisme and offereth it
now to Every man 20. And so now if a Man desireth it and inclineth himselfe to it as a Man and not a Beast then the Holy-Ghost baptiseth the inward Ground viz his Temple which himselfe possesseth viz the true Eternall Spirit together with the Eternal Soule And the anointing of Christ out of his humanity received from us anointeth and baptiseth in us the true first Man Created in Adam out of the Limus of the Earth together with the Mortall Soule yet that a Man may understand the Ground herein is that which shall arise and live Eternally 21. This is done through Christs suffering Death and Resurrection in his bloudy y Or Fight or combat Conflict viz the victory of his Death is the hand that baptiseth Note the right Man is baptised unto Life and the Serpent-Grosse earthly Man is baptised with Christs Death and dying so that he shall dye and leave all his evill lusts and desires to the Death of Christ that that may kill it and bring a new will out of the Death of Christ out of Soule and Body 22. The Evill Man viz that Serpent-Monster is taken with this baptisme viz where the hand of God viz his speaking Word it selfe taketh and baptiseth and is buried with Christ in his Death and in that Hell into which Christ in his dying entred understand into the Darknesse of Gods Wrath viz into the Abysse of the humanity and this anointing in the Baptisme bindeth and uniteth it selfe with the true Adamicall first Body which was before the fall of Adam and generateth through Christs victory a new will in soule and body which obeyeth God 23. Thus then according to this anointing the true Man standeth in the Anointing of Christ and the Serpent-Monster standeth in Gods wrath and yet during this time of life dwell in one body but each in its Principle viz in its own Property concerning which St Paul saith Rom. 7.20.25 Now if I sinne it is not I but sinne in the Evill flesh that doth it Also so then I now serve God with the minde of the anointed Ground and with the Minde of the false flesh I serve the Law of sinne 24. And saith further Rom. 8.1.28 Now then there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus in his anointing which according to this purpose of God are called in the Word or are thus comprehended in the Calling in the Anointing where he then meaneth the right anointed Man which in this time of life sticketh hidden in the z Viz Shell Scales of the Earthly Body as fine Gold in a Grosse stone and yet according to the Anointing dwelleth in Heaven as St Paul also saith Phil. 3.20 Our Conversation is in Heaven Also Rom. 6.15 Gal. 2.17 Shall we then that belong unto Christ be yet sinners that be farre from us where he meaneth the Anointed Ground and not the beastiall Monster of Earthlinesse full of Evill inclinations which standeth in the wrath of God the Condemnation and shall not inherite the Kingdome of God which yet in this life time hangeth to the right anointed Man 25. The anointed Ground is the Christian and not the outward Grosse Beast The Anointing it is which daily breaketh the head of the Monster the Serpent viz the Evill Earthly will where the Strife in Man is where one property willeth Evill and the other Good and that which overcometh driveth Man on to Work Therefore shall and must Mans Works be Judged and every one be gathered into its barne viz that which is done in the power of the Anointing into the Kingdome of God and that which is done in the power of the Monster the Serpent into Damnation into the Darknesse of Wrath and Death The Third Chapter A Briefer and more fundamentall Instruction how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost with Christs Suffering Death and Resurrection in Body and Soule WHen God would introduce his Covenant with the Water Baptisme into the humanity then was the inspoken Grace-word of the holy fire of God viz the fiery Love First beforehand become Man and tooke first beforehand the Womans seede on him viz our soule spirit and whole humanity that he might Baptise us with the living Covenant which was God and Man For the Body of Man to which the Baptisme was necessary was out of the Elements and now if it should be baptised the Covenant Would first beforehand give it selfe into an Elementary Medium as in the humanity of Christ and sanctifie the same that Man might through this Medium be baptised For it was not to be done alone for the heavenly Substance which vanished in Paradise in which Substance as in the most inward Ground of the humanity the Covenant in Paradise incorporated it selfe that the same Ground alone should be baptised No but also for the Soule and for the Body out of the Limus of the Earth The whole Man needeth the Baptisme All the Three Principles viz all the Three worlds Properties in Man must be baptised The first Principle is the Eternall Nature The Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery out of which the visible world is sprung forth a ground of the true Eternall Soule which through Gods inbreathing came into the Body The second Principle is the true Eternall Spirit viz the Holy Lights-Power which Power I call in this little Booke the heavenly Ens or Substance vanished in Adam which vanished in Adam with the Fall as the Soules-will departed out there-from into Earthlinesse and brake its will off therefrom The Third Principle is the Man from the outward worlds Substance viz the Astrall soule with its Body out of the Limus of the Earth which standeth in the foure Elements This Threefold Man was wholly fallen for as soone as the Light in the Spirit of the Second Principle went out he was quite blinde as to God and dead as to Paradise in this must a Divine Love Ens be Infused or imprinted againe wherein the Divine fire and Light might kindle it selfe to a new Life and therefore the Holy Fire of the Great Love of God in the Covenant must manifest it selfe in the Humanity of Christ that Gods Spirit might Baptise us out of with and through this Threefold Humanity that Each Principle in us might be baptised with its like or similitude For the Holy Ghost Baptiseth through Christ to the forgivenesse of sinnes How is this Baptisme of the Holy Ghost Effected Answer Gods holy Fire of the Divine Love power in Christ Jesus baptiseth his Temple in us which the holy fire Life viz Gods Spirit will possesse viz the vanished Ens of the Heavenly worlds Substance the Spirit of power and understanding the second Principle or Angelicall Ground to which Ground Christ afterwards giveth his holy Spirituall flesh for food wherein the true b Owne very Reflect Image Expresse Image of God doth Consist The Divine Love and sweetnes in the holy fire baptiseth this Spirit for it is an Ens of the holy fire wherin it
its Originall Verse 3.4 Heaven Book 1. Ch 1. How Divine understanding is attained and the Kingdome of Heaven Verse 8.9 Book 1. Ch 1. Of the Misunderstanding where Heaven is Verse 24 Book 1. Ch 1. How Christ dwelleth in Man and Man in him in Heaven and witnesseth in the soule infallibly that wee are the children of God Verse 28.29.30 Book 1. Ch 3. How wee dwell in Heaven and have our Conversation there Verse 24. Hell Book 2. Ch 4. The wicked partaketh of Christs going to Hell It were better the wicked did not meddle with Christs Testaments Verse 7 Humanity Book 1. Ch 3. VVhy Christ assumed our Humanity Verse 1 Book 2. Ch 3. The Substantiall VVord taketh on it our Humanity the Spirituall Humanity the Invisible Substance with which Christ came downe from Heaven Verse 17 Image Book 1. Ch 2. The Beastiall Earthly Image of Man is preserved in the Fire of God Verse 13 Book 2. Ch 4. How wee are made conformable to Christs Image Verse 24 Book 2. Ch 5. How Three Parties strive onely about a literall Image of Christs Testaments Verse 7 Infant Book 1. Ch 4. How the Faithfull Baptiser Parents VVitnesses and Standers by work to the Baptising of the Infant though it hath no understanding of what is done Verse 15.16 Book 1. Ch 4. How the Command of Christ Matth. 28.19 is effectuall in the Baptising of an Infant Verse 17 Book 1. Ch 4. VVhat a wicked Baptiser doth and how the Infant is notwithstanding baptised with the Living VVord Verse 23 Book 1. Ch 4. How it is with an Infant of wicked Parents that is baptised by a wicked baptiser and wicked People standers by Verse 26.27 John Book 1. Ch 4. John the Baptist the sonne of a Priest Verse 8 Lamb. Book 2. Ch 4. How the wedding of the Lamb is rightly kept Verse 10 Law Book 1. Ch 3. How the soule is layd hold on by the Law of Nature and what is the Ground and fountain of Repentance Verse 7.10.11 Life Book 1. Ch 1. Where the Book of Life is to be found Verse 18 Book 1. Ch 2. What is the New Life of Regeneration Verse 31 Book 1. Ch 3. How the Sonne Giveth the Soule Eternall Life and what Eternall Life is Verse 9.11 Book 1. Ch 3. VVhat the Creaturely Life is Verse 15 16 Light Book 1. Ch 3. When the Divine Light in the Name Jesus is received into the Soule Verse 8 Book 2. Ch 3. The Invisible Substance of Christ is a Light and Spirituall Oyle in the Life of Man Verse 19 Medium Book 1. Ch. 2. VVhy there must be an Earthly Medium to Enter into the Covenant of God by Verse 33 Book 2. Ch 1. VVhy the Beastiall Medium in the Sacrifices must be used Verse 21 Book 2. Ch 2. Of the Elementary Medium of blessed Bread and Wine Verse 16 Book 2. Ch 2. How through the Medium of Bread and Wine wee participate of Christ in a Corporeall and Spirituall way Verse 18.19 Book 2. Ch 2. VVhy there must be a Medium in the New Testament as well as in the Old Testament Verse 20 Book 2. Ch 3. Bread and VVine a Medium to the visible Man Verse 22 Mumia Book 2. Ch 3. Of the Humane Mumia and what it is Verse 1 Opinion Book 2. Ch 5. How Men cleave to an Opinion whether they understand it or no. Verse 9 Ordinance Book 2. Ch 4. None should rely meerely upon the Outward Ordinance Verse 14 Participation Book 2. Ch 5. The Three Contenders about the presence of Christ in the Supper have no understanding how the true Participation is wrought Verse 6 Passeover Book 2. Ch 1. Of the Paschall Lamb the Passeover and how it was a Type of Christ Verse 1.2 Power Book 1. Ch. 1. How the Soule comes to loose the Divine power and knowledge Verse 5 Book 2. Ch 3. VVhat the Humane Power is to the Divine Power Verse 5 Book 2. Ch 3. What that Sinne was upon which Gods Power went into the received Humanity againe Verse 14 Book 2. Ch 3. Man liveth not by Bread onely but by the inward Power thereof Verse 23 Book 2. Ch 3. Mans Life cannot in its owne Power receive the Substance of God but it is given of Grace Verse 29 Presence Book 1. Ch 1. How Christs Presence Office and Kingdome are to be understood Verse 25.26.27 Principles Principle Book 2. Ch 3. Of the Three Principles in Man Verse 12 Book 2. Ch 3. How each Principle in Man eateth its like in the Participation of Christs Testaments Verse 15 Reason Book 1. Ch 1. How the Body and Reason and Soule of Man is distinctly fed with Nourishment Verse 13.18 Redemption Book 1. Ch 1. How Christ effected our Redemption and through Death brought the Soule into Eternall Life and how the Soule is become Lord over Sinne Death the Devill and Hell Verse 25.26.27 Book 1. Ch 2. Of Isaac a Type of Our Redemption Verse 19 Repentance Book 1. Ch 3. How the Soule is layd hold on by the Law of Nature and what is the Ground and Fountaine of Repentance Verse 7.10.11 Book 1. Ch 4. John baptised but with Repentance onely prepared the way and Opened the Gates for the King of Glory to Enter in Verse 7 Book 2. Ch 4. Repentance must not be deferred till the participation of the Testaments Verse 9 Sacrifices Sacrifice Book 1. Ch 2. How the Sacrifices were effectuall and how God and the Soule wrought with the Sacrifice Verse 20.21.22.23.24 Book 1. Ch 2. The Fat of Beasts a Medium in the Sacrifices Verse 28 Book 1. Ch. 2. VVhat the Sacrifice Typified Verse 29 Book 2. Ch 1. How the Sacrifices were a figure of Christs Sacrifice Verse 6 Seede Book 1. Ch 2. Of the Seede of the Woman and Destroyer of the Serpent Verse 8.9.10.11 Book 1. Ch 2. Of Abrahams seede as the Starres Verse 19 Book 1. Ch 2. The Love-fire awakened it selfe in the Seede of the VVoman Verse 30 Book 1. Ch 4. The Parents of John Dead in their fleshly Seede Verse 2.3 Book 1. Ch 4. How the Graine of Mustard seede is sowen in the Ens of the Childe Verse 18 Book 2. Ch 4. How the Seede of the Serpent stingeth Christ in the Heele Verse 4 Signified Signifieth Book 2. Ch 1. What the unleavened Cakes signified Verse 3.4 Book 2. Ch 1. What Moses Aaron the Heifer and the Ram signified in the figure Verse 7.9 Book 2. Ch 1. What the Tabernacle signified why Mary was called the blessed among all women what the Altar the Laver and anointing the Head of Aaron signified Verse 8 Book 2. Ch 1. What the Burning of the Fat signified Verse 10 Book 2. Ch 1. What the Burning of the Heifer without the Hoast signifieth and that the bloud sprinckled upon the Altar signifieth that our bloud shall come againe to the Soule in the power of it at the Last Day Verse 11.12 Book 2. Ch. 1. What the powering of the bloud at the foote of
Abyssall Deity as a speaking forth of the Abysse into a Ground of the Unsubstantiall into a Substantiall In which the whole Creation with the speaking forth as in the seperability of the speaking hath taken its beginning and doth yet evermore so take it And every life doth consist in that seperability of the speaking where the immodeled Imagination in the Exhalation parteth it selfe into seperability In which Parting the sensibilility of the onely life is understood where the One vieweth it selfe in the Multiplicity 6. Also heerein is to be understood the Ground of the Properties in that the Parting of the Onely Longing bringeth it selfe into Desiringnesse and d Comprehendeth incloseth and maketh it selfe Essentiall or Substantiall in which e Comprehensibility Inclosibility the seaven formes of Nature take thâ—â— beginning as is sufficiently declared in our other Writings 7. Therefore say I the cause that Men dispute and strive about God about his Word Essence or Beeing and Will is that the understanding hath broken it selfe off from its Centre or Ground which Breaking off is nothing else but that the Properties which are gone forth out of the Eternall out-speaking of the Word into a Creaturely Life have brought themselves into selfe-lust to the out-speaking of themselves and in their own selfe-conceived Lust have broken themselves off from the Eternall-Longing * Or after towards the Word of the Eternall speaking and brought themselves into an own sensibility of Nature and confused themselves in the formes of Nature Where all the thoughts or senses will dwell and run without the Onely God in selfe Speculation and Reason and can in no wise come to their Centre or Ground except they sinck downe into themselves in the Speculation and goe againe into the Ground out of which they are Existed and fall againe into the Eternall speaking Word and give their owne wills into the Eternall speaking Word that the same owne will of the Creaturely Life may be out-spoken with and in the Eternall Speaking Word in the Seperability of the Word 8. In which re-out-speaking the New Regeneration of the Humane Life and Will is understood For the Humane Life was in the Beginning of Man in the Word of GOD and by the Inbreathing of the Word into the Humane Body was manifested and came into Sensibility Perceptibility and Willing Where then the willing hath broken it selfe off from the Word wherein the Life was without Creature and hath brought it selfe into a selfe-Seperability and visibility of its perceptibility of the five senses In which Sensibility it now at present runneth and seeketh the Seate of God therein but findeth onely a measurablenesse and Naturall and Creaturely formednesse wherein now it striveth about its owne Centre For the own will hath brought it selfe into an own Centre and broken it selfe off from the whole and as to the totall is become as it were dead 9. Therefore saith Christ Vnlesse ye be converted and become as Children and be new-borne through water and the Spirit ye cannot see the Kingdome of God Matth. 1â— 4 Joh. 3.5.7 The owne will should goe againe into its nothing and then it standeth againe in the first Birth and will be againe out-spoken from the Eternall Word in a Divine Will For whatsoever it is whose living and willing willeth or runneth without the Eternall speaking Word that same is without the Eternity and liveth meerely in the Time 10 But seeing the soule hath its Originall out of the Eternall Word as a Power thereof therefore it cannot Rest in the Beeing or Essence of Time but seeketh its own Mother who Generated it and brought it into a Creaturely Forme but its going forth maketh that it cannot finde its Mother 11. Therefore all Strife about the Divine Mysteries is an unprofitable thing and is done from without without God in selfe-perceptibility where the Sensibility vieweth it selfe in Nature in a Creaturely Forme There is no comprehension or true understanding or knowledge of God except the Image like Reason forsake it selfe and sinke downe with its owne will into its Centre againe out of which it is gone forth viz into the Eternall Speaking Word of God that it receive that speaking or breathing of God into it selfe againe and through the Divine Science or skill speake in a f Distinguishable Separable and sensible Forme that it be a dwelling and Temple of God wherein Gods will worketh Governeth and willeth Else there is no true knowledge or skill concerning God and his Beeing or Essence 12. For no Spirit knoweth God or his word and will unlesse Gods word and will be manifested and Stirring in it Naturall Reason without the Light of God seeth onely the Naturall Imagelikenesse and goeth on in its own speculation and frameth in it selfe the Divine Beeing or Essence as if that were just such a thing From whence is come the Strife amongst the Learned in Reason so that Men strive and dispute about God and about his Beeing or Essence and Will where each of them holdeth his Imagination for Divine and will have his own Image which he hath framed in the Imagination of his Reason to be honoured for God whereas yet it is onely a Naturall Image of Reason and thus Men strive all the world over about these Images of Reason 13. But a true Man who standeth rightly in the Image of God hath no Strife in Religion For he liveth in his first Mother who hath formed him with Soule Spirit and Body and his whole Substance into an Image he co-willeth and acteth with her he is resigned into her and yeeldeth his will to her and she feedeth and nourisheth him Every property of the true resigned Man is nourished with its like As first the Body out of the Limus of the Earth is nourished from the Earth Secondly the Body of the g Thoughts Senses and Reason which is a spirituall Body is nourished from its Astrum or Constellation and Starres out of which it hath its Originall Thirdly But the Soule is nourished in its Principle from the Word and Beeing or Essence of God for it is out of Gods Word brought and come into a Body 14. Now if it bring not it selfe in its own Imagibility and willing into self-hood but bringeth its will againe into the Divine Speaking then it gets its nourishment from the Essentiall Word of God viz from the Essentiall Wisdome of God this is its Nutriment from whence it also reacheth and attaineth divine skill For every Spirit seeth no otherwise nor deeper then onely into its Essentiall Imagibility viz into that Essence wherein it worketh so that the same hath made it Imagelike through the Imagination therewith it formeth itselfe and in such Essence vieweth it selfe and so high also is its knowledge 15. Therefore saith Christ Except you turne againe with your Will and Imagibility and become as a Childe which hath no Imagibility in its Imagination you shall not see God Also ye must be new-borne againe or
againe It will not make the New-Birth All Strife cometh from hence that Men doe not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the Right hand of God that he is in this world and that the world standeth in Heaven and Heaven in the World and are in one another as Day and Night The Inward Ground of the Word out of which the Foure Elements are sprung is the Heaven viz. a Spirituall World In that Inward Power Christ Ruleth true God and Man through the Outward World For where Christ sayth Matth. 28.18.20 All Power is given to Mee in Heaven and on Earth Also I am with you alwayes till the End of the World Also Hee shall rule over all his Enemies till all his Enemies are laid under him as a footstoole 1 Cor. 15.25 Psal 110.1 This is to be understood of his inward Kingdome where in the inward Power he ruleth over the outward Earthly and also the Hellish For the outward World is sprung out of the inward Spirituall World viz out of Light and Darknesse which fabrick before the Office of Christ stood in the Eternall Creators Office who from Eternity hath wrought or effected light and darknesse viz the Spirituall World which fabrick is flown forth and become visible and brought by God into a Creation wherein Light and Darknesse viz Good and Evill rule one with another where is understood Hell and Paine in the flowing forth of the Eternall Darknesse and the Light of Nature in the flowing forth of the Light and in that where Evill and Good ruleth alike is understood the Kingdome of Nature with hot and cold and all other properties This Dominion hath God given to the Office of Christ that he being both true God and Man should rule over all the Propriety and selfe-willing of this Kingdome where Evill and Good rule one in another As the Sun in the visible World ruleth over Evill and Good and with its light and power and all whatsoever it selfe is is present every where and penetrates into Every Beeing and yet in its Image-like for me doth not pluck away to it selfe with its Efflux but wholly giveth it selfe into Every Beeing and yet ever remaineth whole and nothing of its Beeing goeth away therewith Thus also it is to be understood concerning Christs Person and Office which ruleth in the Inward Spirituall World visibly and in the Outward World Invisibly and throughly penetrateth the Faithfull Mans Soule Spirit and Heart And as fire gloweth through the Iron and as the Sun worketh through and through an Hearb so that the Hearb becometh Solar or filled with the vertue of the Sunne and as it were so converted by the Sunne that it becometh wholly of the Nature of the Sunne so Christ ruleth in the Resigned Will in soule and body over all Evill Inclinations over Satans introduced Lust and Generateth the Man to be a new heavenly Creature and wholly floweth with it selfe into him both as to Divine and humane power so that the Faithfull Man becometh a right branch on his Vine in which God and Man as to that same inward New Birth dwelleth Now herein consist the Testaments of Christ that Hee offereth himselfe to the l Text Glauben Vide Ch. 2. v. 1. on the second side Faith that Hee will give it this Flesh and Bloud and all Grace and Spiritually dwell in Man as the Sun dwelleth in the Plant and maketh the fruit Ripe and m Or supple Tender So in like manner is the poore fallen Earthly Man which perished in Soule and Body againe renewed and wrought out to be a heavenly fruit where in the End onely the Grossnesse of the flesh falleth from him and the Spirit together with the Soule remaineth in Christ and also heere in this Life according to this indwelling power dwelleth in Heaven concerning which St. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven Phil. 3.20 But the Body is in the World and of the Worlds Essence And now as the Heaven penetrateth the World and giveth it Vertue and Power so also Christ throughly penetrateth the outward Man with his inward ruling power and resisteth the vaine Lust of the Earthly Nature Therefore say I none understand any thing of God except God worke it in his Minde and n Or senses Thoughts for all Naturall knowledge is outward in the World and ariseth from its Astrum and runneth on in surmisings doubting whether a thing be so or no But the Spirit of Christ assureth in the Soule and Spirit of his Faithfull and witnesseth in them that they are Gods Children Rom. 8.16 Now how this present Essentiall participation is effected and what the Covenant of Grace between God and Man is both of the Old and New Testament What Baptisme and the Supper of Christ are shall be declared in the following Chapters The Second Chapter Of the Institution of Baptisme what it is who it is that Baptiseth and what is Baptised And how the q Or Baptisme of Water Water-Baptisme is to be understood 1. WHen any will kindle a Fire they must have some substance that will take fire it must be a substance wherein there is an Oyle and Water or it burneth not For if they cast a Stone or the like into the Fire it will not so burne as to come to a r Blazing shining Light so also it is to be understood concerning the Soule When it brake its desire off from Gods Essence of Love and Meeknesse which divine Meeknesse in it was as a Spirituall Oyle and fountaine of Water wherein it s Asswaged or refreshed allayed its fiery source and therein its fire had a shining and Light then it s owne Seperator viz the Naturall Fiat t Text. Impressed Impression compressed it selfe so that by such t Text. Impressed Impression compression its properties became as a hard Stone or as a hungry source of Fire wherein there is indeed great heate and yet cannot come to any kindling of Light as a hard Stone which lyeth in the Fire and yet u Or is not of a light fire is not properly the same with Fire because of the hard t Text. Impressed Impression conpression of the Stone 2. And yet a Man may understand that there is not onely a Hots fire in the perished Soule as a hot burning Fire-source but also a Cold Fire-source wherein Hot and Cold stand in Eternall Strife and x Or opposition Contrary Will as the Cause of the true fire viz a darke fire-source of Anguish wherein there is alwayes a desire of kindling and yet no kindling may be effected because of the strong y Text. Impression Compression And that the Substance of the Oyly and Watery Meeknesse is game and is she up in such a hard indissoluble Death 3. And this is now that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree or fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death 4. Thus the poore Soule
is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne z Text. Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light 5. As a hard Stone is shut up so the Soule was shut up and was out of the good Love-Life a Poyson-Life after that manner as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a horrible poysonous stincking fire source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light The cause is this that they are become Enemies of the Divine Love that the Love is to them a Death of their Evill Will and Essence which would slay their false Life in the twinckling of an Eye if they did but come therein 6. This a Text. Impresseten compressed Substance of the Soule perished as to God and blinde as to God the Great Love of God out of mâ—â—re Grace came againe to help as soone as the Soule together with the Body was thus fallen and spake in or breathed in it selfe againe into the Centre of the Soule viz into the Compressed shut up and vanished Heavenly Ens of the Soule viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which was no more Moveable 7. Into this Soule the Moveable power spake in it selfe againe to be a New Centre and Covenant that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace and in Mans vanished heavenly Ens introduce and Manifest his living Ens viz the Essentiall Word of his Power and Wisdome with the Most high Love viz the Name JESUS out of JEHOVA and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance of the Heavenly part living and growing againe whereof the Soule should Eate and thereby its anxious fire-source would be transmuted and changed into a Love fire 8. This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer that is it now which the Soules of the Holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his promise of the fullfilling that was to come And in this Faith have they sacrificed 9. For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were onely that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of GODS Wrath and how through this inspoken-Grace Ground and Covenant the Soule should be transmuted in the fire of b Or Gods Wrath fire Gods Wrath and changed into a Love fire and how it should enter into the Death and Dying of its self-will with the false Imagination and should burne away the false will in the fire of Wrath and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God goe forth through the fire into a cleare light and so become a New-borne childe that is no more Dark but Light and how the Introduced poyson of the Serpent must sever it selfe therefrom as the smoake severeth it selfe from the Fire and Light so that then the Fire and Light becometh a clearer Glance and no more shut up as in the Wood it lyeth shut up in the Essence 10. This Image Type or Figure they set before them with their Sacrifice and introduced their Imagination thereinto with the inspoken Grace of the seede of the Woman and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Imagination might Forme Mould or Image it selfe in the Figure of Christ that so the spirit of their Will might stand in a c Or Imaging Modelling wherein it might worke in the Grace 11. For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire how HEE would change Gods fire of Wrath in the soules-fire into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death where the Love of God gave up it selfe into this fire be changed into an Angell 12. By this Immodeled Image or Type they pierced with their desire and earnest Prayer to God and Gods Word of Grace also thus had modelled and inspoken it selfe in Men and Now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer and so the desire of Man brought this Image of the Imagination into the Sacrifice and so the Sacrifice was kindled with the Holy fire And it was not a Common fire that they had Note If thou Babell couldest understand this it were well for thee and thou wert delivered from the Fables wherein thou runnest on thy Course 13. This Holy fire consumed their Sacrifice through Gods-Imagination and kindling to signifie how the d Or Animall Image Beastiall Image of Man should be preserved in the fire of God and the grossnesse of the Element be consumed and out of the fires Consuming should goe forth the right true created pure bright Spirituall Image in Adam which through this Great Love shall be preserved and brought through into Clarity by the Fire In which New Image the Love it selfe would be the fire of life that it might no more Imagine and Imprint falshood 14. Note With such an Imagination and Beleefe or Faith the first Men before Christs time before he manifested himselfe in this incorporated Grace-Covenant and became Man were apprehended and taken into the Living Word of God viz into that Grace wherein their Soule came into Divine Rest untill at the fullfilling that Christ fullfilled this processe and arose from Death and then Hee also with his Life and Substance in them viz in their Inward Ground of the Heavenly part which vanished in Adam arose and they have put on Christ as to the Soule and spirituall Substance and so now waite for their Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the Third Principle viz the Outspoken formed Substantiall outward Word with its Spirit of the Resurrection at the Last Day As also it is thus to be understood concerning Christians which here have put on Christ 15. Note This Ground of the Holy Fire began with Adam and Abel When Abel and Cain Sacrificed God looked graciously on Abels Sacrifice for the Image or Type of Christ stood with his Imagination of Faith therein therefore God kindled his Sacrifice with the Holy Fire and it was acceptable before him for it was a Conjunction with the Divine Desire But Cains he looked not graciously on for he had not such Faith or Beleese but stood in the perished Natures owne Lust and Desire and had Imprinted or Imaged to himselfe the Kingdome of this World and therefore the Holy Fire would not kindle in his Image or Type 16. For Cain stood in the Image of the perished Adam as a
of the heavenly Manna What signifieth now this Anointing Answer Nothing else but that as Man is Tinctured againe in Soule and Body and so throughly penetrated and healed that he is capable of the Divine Power againe viz of the Divine fire of Love so must his Brimstone Spirit of the Wrathfull fiery Soule perished as to God be remedied againe by the Covenant of God by such an Anointing Oyle As with the Baptisme there is powred into it the Water of the Eternall Life of Divine Meeknesse and in the Supper is powred into it the fire-burning Love in the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ Reason sayth Cannot God forgive Man his sinne without a Medium Answer The Matter was not about forgivenesse The Soule wanted not onely forgivenesse but a New-Birth It had brought it selfe into owne-will and quite broken it selfe off from Gods will whence the Eternall Darknesse existed in it For the source of its Life viz it s own Seperator understand the Cause of its Creaturely Moving and Life had lift up it selfe and the properties of Life were quite gone forth from their Temperature and had brought themselves into a strange burning fire viz into an anguishing heat and cold into Eternall hunger and thirst into Horror and Despaire Where in the Life of the Body and of the Soule all properties were against one another and Man stood in an Eternall dying source Hee was become quite Blinde and Dead as to God and the more he moved himselfe in his owne ability to apprehend God the greater was his anxious source For the poore Soule was by Lust gone into Earthlinesse wherein Satan and the Spirit of Errour had captivated it and made it wholly Monstrous And now the More it sought Rest therein the greater was its Paine And this now is that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death Gen. 2.17 Thus the poore Soule is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne q Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Divine Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light As a hard Stone is shut up so also the Soule was shut up and out of its Good Life there became an Evill Life as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a Horrible poysonous stincking fire-source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light and are an Enemy of all Love and Truth This Compressed blinde Soule-substance and perished as to God the Great Love of God came againe to helpe instantly after that Fall and spake it selfe in againe into the Centre of the Life as a new Covenant viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which Love-source in it was no more Moveable And did set into the Humane perished heavenly Ens his new Grace-Covenant viz the Destroyer of the Serpent that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace introduce thereinto and manifest therein his living Ens viz the Living Word of his Power and Wisdome with the most high Love viz the Name JESUS and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance living and growing againe from whence the Soule should againe Eate of the heavenly Substance whereby its anxious fire-source would againe be changed into a Love fire Of which the dry Rod of Aaron mentioned by Moses which grew againe and bare Almonds was a r Text. Bild Image or Type figure This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer is it now which the Soules of the holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his Promise of the fulfilling that was to Come and in this Faith have they sacrificed For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were only that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of Gods Wrath and how the Soule should through this inspoken Ground of Grace and Covenant in the fire of Gods wrath be changed into a Love-fire how it should Enter into Death and a Dying to its self-will of false Desire how the false will should be burned off from it and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God spring up or goe forth through the fire into a cleere light and so become a new borne childe which is no more dark but light also did live no more in its owne will but in Gods will and how the introduced Serpents-Poyson in this transmutation doth sever it selfe there from in that manner as the smoake severeth it selfe from fire and Light whereas then the fire and Light becometh a cleerer Glance and is no more shut up as it lyeth in the Essence of the Wood shut up Even as the Holy Divine fire of the Soule was through sinne thus also shut up which none could unshut and kindle but only the Love of God in this incorporated Grace-Covenant This Image Type or Figure they set before them with the Sacrifices looking upon the future fulfilling and introduced their Faith with the inspoken Grace of the Womans-seede and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Faith might thus Forme or Mould it selfe in the Figure of Christ that the Spirit of their will might stand in the figure and Image of Christ that their Faith might Work in that incorporated Grace For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire typifying how HEE would change Gods Wrath-fire in the Soule into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death in which the Love of God would Give up it selfe into this Wrath-fire be changed into an Angell By this Immodeled Image or Type with their desire and Earnest prayer they pressed through the Sacrifice to God and Gods Word with the Grace had thus also with the Covenant Modeled it selfe in Men and now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image through the Sacrifice in the Holy fire into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer For God kindled the Sacrifice with the Holy Fire And it was not a Common fire that they had in their Sacrifices though they used wood and Sacrifices thereto yet their fire was not from a stone and a steele but from the highest Tincture of the Paradisicall ground from whence the fire of Life is sprung If Man could understand it and did not so runne on in blindnesse it were well for him and he were delivered from Babell and Fables This holy Fire consumed their Sacrifices
13. Not so to be understood as if the worke by the unworthy hand were therefore wholly f Or Ineffectuall powerlesse no the Covenant of God g Absenteth or withdraweth severeth not it selfe for the unworthy hands sake which is but a Medium or Means for faithfull Parents which stand in the anointing of this Covenant and have put on the Covenant they have the anointing also in their seede and generate Children out of the property of their bodyes and soules now if they be baptised in body and soule and have put on the anointing of Christ wherefore then not also the Ens of their bodyes if they be the Temples of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in them and eate Christs flesh and drink his bloud so that Christ is in them and they in Christ as Christ sayth Joh. 6.56 Wherefore then not also the fruit of their Bodies For Christ sayth indeed Matth. 7.18 a Good Tree cannot bring forth bad fruit and a bad Tree cannot bring forth Good fruit If the eye of the spirit be light then is the whole body light If the Leven be Holy then is the whole Lump Holy Matth. 6. Rom. 11. 14. John was baptised in the Mothers womb through the Spirit of Christ out of Maries voice as also his mother Elizabeth and wee see cleerly how it came to passe for as Elizabeth heard the Spirit of Mary the Holy Ghost moved in her and also in her fruit alike they received the Baptisme of Christ out of his humanity alike the Mother with the Sonne wherefore then not also now at present in holy Parents in whom the anointing is For such as the Tree is such is also its fruit But the Covenant in the Baptisme is therefore that every one should themselves with their owne will as a particular branch on the Tree and as a life of their owne put on the Covenant of Christ as through the outward Medium or Meanes ordained thereunto 15. Not to understand that a childe of honest anointed Parents which hath attained life though it dye before the Baptisme that it is not in the anointing of Christ It hath indeed put on the anointing of its Parents for it is existed out of their substance out of their baptised soules and bodies substance and onely needeth if it liveth to enter into the Image of the visible Covenant as a life of its owne and with its will give it selfe up into that which it inheriteth from its Parents But seeing a childe understandeth not this therefore the Parents doe it with their Faith and every one of those that are called to that work viz the h Pathen Gossips Witnesses or God-fathers and God-mothers who in their faiths-desire with their Prayer i Transferre or deliver over recommend the childe to the Covenant of Christ and present it in the Covenant of Christ to the Holy Trinity and desire the Covenant to be upon this Childe 16. All these both the Parents and standers by viz the faithfull Baptiser and Witnesses worke with their faith in the property of the Childe and reach out to it with their faith the Covenant of Christ for the will of their Faith taketh the Childes will being without understanding into their faiths desire and so beare the childes will in their will with their anointing into the Covenant of Christ viz before the Holy Trinity 17. When the Baptiser sprinkleth or powreth the water upon the Childe then is his faith together in the water and fastneth it selfe in the words of Christ who sayth Matth 28.19 Goe hence into all the world Baptising all Nations in the Name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Upon Christs command they Baptise Men the Baptiser Baptiseth with the Hand and with Faith and the Parents together with the Witnesses baptise with their Faiths desire with the anointed will they infuse it into Christs Covenant and Christ infuseth himselfe therein with his Bloud Death and Victory viz with the victory of his Death and kindleth the faiths Ens of the Childe with his love fire 18. Thus the Graine of Mustardseed of the love-fire soweth it selfe into the Childes Soules and Bodies Ens as a Glimmering k Hatcher breeder or Ember Mother of Divine Love which Mother afterwards when the childe getteth understanding of its owne is more kindled through Faith Repentance and Prayer and becometh a high shining Light and when afterwards the Mouth of Faith eateth Christs flesh and drinketh his bloud then this holy Mother love-fire atteineth holy Oyle to the burning of its Life 19. With the Baptisme is implanted the humanity of Christ according to the holy Love-water viz the Water of Eternall Life in which water the holy fire may burne and with the Supper is participated the Holy Tincture in the bloud and flesh of Christ viz the true Love-fire burning a spirituall Anointing Oyle out of the divine fire and Light which the water of Love kindleth viz the Baptisme-Covenant And though a Childe be borne of Holy Parents Note and in the Mothers womb be cleerely in this Covenant yet it ought also to put on this Covenant in its owne selfesubsisting person in its owne lifes will for this Cause that in the flesh Sinne and uncleannesse is together propagated and inherited and therefore should it selfe put on this Covenant for it ought and must it selfe with the Covenant of Grace breake the head of the Serpent in the flesh and therefore it ought also it selfe to put on Christ with his victory For Christ now offereth himselfe to it selfe it ought therefore in its owne person to receive him with its owne will and give its owne will up to him 20. For the Baptisme is nothing else but a marriage or Contract with God l Text. auff upon in Christs bloud and Death wherein Christ bindeth himselfe to Man with his victory and Resurrection and placeth Man therein And Man in the Baptisme giveth up his Adamicall averse will to the Death of Christ and desireth to dye to his owne will in the Death of Christ and to rise againe through Christs Resurrection out of Christs Death with and in Christ to a new will and to live and to will with Christ For wee are through the Baptisme with Christs victory planted anew in the Word of God for Man is the Outspoken Imaged Word of God which hath brought his will in Adam from the speaking of God into an owne will and speaking and is become treacherous to the Word of God and with the Baptisme the Imaged Word promiseth and incorporateth it selfe againe with the Eternall Speaking of God that it will speake and will according to God viz Gods righteousnesse and truth 21. The Baptisme is an Oath which Man sweareth m In or into to God when he renounceth the Devill and his Kingdome and giveth up himselfe to God for his proper owne viz for a Temple of God And though a childe understandeth not this yet the Baptiser as also the Parents and Witnesses should
anger in the humanity 20. And thus was the humane will in the Type of Christ ransomed in the fire for the Incorporated Grace-Covenant went with the humane desire in their prayer which through this Sacrifice in the fire pressed into God together into the fire of the Sacrifice and reconciled that is destroyed the Earthly Beastiall property of the humane will in the fire with the Love For with the fire God formed an Image before him as a substance in which fire substance Gods fire Imaged it selfe and reconciled the Elementary fire in Man his Eternall Love-fire savoured the humane will through the incorporated Grace through that Medium of the fire for Moses had holy fire wherewith he kindled the Sacrifice 21. Thus was the Elementary fire of Man reconciled in the Holy Fire and yet must a Beastiall Medium viz Beasts flesh come into the Holy fire of Moses seeing Man was become Beastiall that the beastiall kinde be burned away in the Holy fire through the Fathers anger-fire and that Gods Love-fire might kindle the humane soule-fire in its introduced desire in the Sacrifice and so Gods desire in the Word smelt Mans desire through the fire for in the fire the Beastiall vanity of Mans will burnt away in the anger-fire and so then the cleere humane will pressed into Gods Love-fire as a sweet savour for the incorporated Paradisicall inspoken Grace pressed with the cleere will of Man into God 22. And that is it which Moses sayth It was a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the Lord For God desired to smell nothing there but onely Mans will viz the humane Life which before the times of the world was in the Word of God indeed without Creature but yet in power which was inbreathed to the Created Image That same did God smell through the Sacrifice in the Ens of Christ viz through the inspoken Grace and reconciled the averted will through the Grace in the Fire so that the humane will became divine againe and brought 1 the humane Lifes fire and 2 Gods Love fire into one fire as into one lifes burning and that was a right Sacrifice of Reconciliation or sinne-offering when sinne was offered to the fire of Gods anger to be consumed 23. And thus also the beastiall flesh which they offered and eare afterwards was sanctified to Man for Gods Imagination in the Covenant went thereinto therefore Moses calleth it Holy Flesh also Holy Bread such was the Shew bread sam 21.6 Matth. 12.4 All which stood in the Type signifying How that same incorporated power of the Grace-Covenant would manifest it selfe with Heavenly Substance in Christ and give it for food of the humane soule viz to the soules fire in which food the soules-fire should be turned into a Love-fire 24. For in the Old Testament this sweet Grace Covenant gave it selfe into the Sacrifice of the fiery soules desire for sood as to the Soules Mouth in the fire For the Soule viz the Soulish Faiths Mouth did in the Sacrifice of fire eate of this sweet Grace not in the Substance but in the power upon the fullfilling that was to come till the power was manifested in the flesh But their Body did under it eate of the blessed bread and flesh Note wherein also the power of the Grace viz the Imagination of the Covenant was Thus the Jewes did eate Christs flesh and drank his bloud in the Grace Ens in the power in the Type where the power was not yet flesh and bloud but yet that same word of Grace which afterwards became Man was therein 25. But when the time came and was fulfilled that the same incorporated Word of Grace which received their Soule in the faiths-desire in the fiery Essence became Man then it gave it selfe to this faiths Mouth viz of the fiery soulish Essence according to the Divine and humane property for food Of which wee will heere following write more at large and set downe the true Ground how Christs flesh and bloud it to be eaten and drunk not out of a Conceit or Opinion but out of the Ground of the Scripture and true certaine knowledge through Gods Grace The Second Chapter Of the Supper of the New Testament how the Type is come into Substance 1. WHen the time was fullfilled that this Grace-Covenant should manifest it selfe and assume the Humanity with Soule and Body then the Type ceased For the Anger-fire of God in the Soule and in the flesh of Man was together a Or Immodeled imprinted in the Substantiall Word viz in the Divine Ens which Divine Ens out of the Divine power assumed also the Divine Ens of Adam which vanished as to the Kingdome of Heaven viz to the Holy Working Fire when the Soule Imaged it selfe into Earthlinesse and made it living that is burning in it selfe againe through the Holy Fire where then the Divine Sacrifice in the fire was manifested in the Humanity 2. For the Soule was of the Fathers property according to his fires might and was become a meere fire of Anger This the Father gave to the Sonne as to the Manifested Grace-Covenant and brought the Fathers Anger-fire in the Soule into the Sonnes Love fire so that the Fathers anger-fire and the Sonnes Love fire in the humane Substance stood in one Ground the Love-fire became Substantiall that is a heavenly flesh and gave it selfe to the anger-fire of the Father in the humane Lifes property for food to a fire-burning after the manner as a Man putteth a pleasant Oyly Balsam to a fire and then the fire in its burning giveth forth out of it selfe a pleasant smell and vertue out of this Balsam Oyle 3. Thus the Father now smelt this pleasant savour in the Humanity in the Soules fire which savour he formerly smelt in the Sacrifice in the Type for Christ was now the right high Priest which offered to God his Father the acceptable Sacrifice of the sweet savour in the Humanity and reconciled the Anger in the Humanity The Altar of God upon which Moses sacrificed was now in the Humanity of Christ who offered up to God the sweet humanity out of the heavenly Ens with the Adamicall humanity into his Anger-fire which burned in the Adamicall humanity Sinne in the Adamicall flesh was destroyed through the sweet heavenly flesh viz through the Substantiall Word of Love through JESUS viz Gods greatest Sweetnesse 4. God brought the Sacrifice of Moses viz the reconciliation in fire into the humanity and made of Moses Christ viz the right high Priest who with his holy bloud besprinckled the Altar viz the fire Life as Moses did with the bloud of Beasts in the Type 5. And we see this Eminently in the Supper of Christ which when at last he would enter into his sufferings and kill sinne in our humanity with the substantiall Love fire in his bloud then at last he Eate the Paschall Lamb with his Disciples for he had given himselfe up into the Type with his Grace-Covenant
the Soule brought it selfe from the breathing Word into owne Will into the visible Substance with the desire for the Soules fire-Life out of the Fathers property could no more attaine that therefore was this ground vanished as to the Creature and not in God but onely to the Creaturely Soule 14. And when this holy Ground of the soule and body was hidden then was soule and body a dark d Dale or Valley Dangeon sull of Paine and Torment for God was hidden to it and instantly the Principles according to their properties began to qualifie and operate as 1 the Soule according to the Anger property of God the Father which as to the light shining in it was hidden And 2 the outward Body began to qualifie in the foure Elements viz in hot and cold and in all other properties of the Starres power and vertue and every awakened property impressed it selfe into a substance whence the body became grosse hard and beastiall and the true Image of God a Visard and Monster And that is the sinne for the sake of which Gods power and vertue went againe into the Humanity and received the Humanity and overflowed into us againe his divine power and vertue through and in a right Humanity 15. Seeing then Man standeth in Three Principles as an Image according to time and Eternity of the visible and invisible Substance and that Christ true GOD and MAN hath also put on to himselfe the visible and invisible Substance in one undivided Person so also is the participation of his Substance in his Testaments to be understood as that every Principle in Man eateth and drinketh of its likenesse againe viz Note 1 The outward right Adamicall Image out of the Limus of the Earth eateth againe of the same humanity of Christ which he received from Man and 2 The Soule eateth of the Divine Love-fire and 3 the Heavenly Divine Substance vanished in Adam eateth of the Substantiall Wisdome and yet wholly unsevered through one onely Faiths Mouth alike But Note 4 The grosse Beast of the Grosse flesh which is but a Huske receiveth onely the outward husk of the Testament viz Bread and Wine and under them the Judgement of God that breaketh and killeth the Lust of the body of this Grossenesse therefore Man should distinguish the body of the LORD and his bloud from the Animall Man that is without Faith which receiveth onely the Judgement under Bread and Wine for as the Mouth is so is also the food in the Mouth 16. Christ sayd Joh. 6. My flesh is the right food and my bloud is the right drink Also I am the Bread that is come from Heaven that Giveth Life to the World Hee that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud he continueth in Mee and I in Him but he that eateth not the flesh of the Sonne of Man he hath no life in him Then the Jewes contended one among another and sayd How can this Man give us his flesh to eate and were offended at this saying But he sayd My words are Spirit and Life Note To signifie that wee should beleeve his words and he that comprehendeth and receiveth his word in himselfe he comprehendeth in himselfe that word which is become flesh and bloud which word is become a true humane Substance and that the Faiths Mouth comprehendeth in it selfe viz the right hunger or desire of the right true humanity after a spirituall way and manner Note As the word of the Divine power is become Man so is it also comprehended by the Faith and is Man in his Members also 17. That same Spirituall Substantiall Word taketh on it our Humanity understand the spirituall humanity and giveth it selfe into the same and worketh and dwelleth therein substantially after a spirituall manner as hee dwelt and wrought in the Body which he received from Mary where Men saw on Him outwardly our flesh and Bloud viz the spirituall Worlds substance and yet in the visible was the invisible substance of which he sayd Joh. 3.13 He was therewith come from Heaven 18. Thus also that same invisible spirituall substance of Christ which hath united and introverted it selfe with our Huâ—â—nity into our Faiths desire in that manner as a spark of fire falleth into Tinder and kindleth the Tinder and consumeth the substance of the Tinder and maketh it altogether fire so also the Substantiall Power and vertue of Christ consumeth in his Tinder viz in the humane spirituall Ground in the Minde e Seâ—ses Thoughts and Will and evill influxes in Thoughts and Will whether they were from the desire of the Earthly flesh or from the Devill and from the Lust of the world cast thereinto yet that same spirituall fire consumeth all for it taketh in the Life of Man and ruleth it 19. It is a Light viz a Spirituall Oyle in the Life of Man wherein the true Spirituall Life viz the soulish Life burneth and without this Spirituall Oyle there is no true Light or Life in Man but onely an Astrall Light and the true soule standeth in the dark Dungeon in its Essence and helpeth it selfe with the Astrall Light of the Sunne in which regard it hath also vaine earthly Desires and Lust in it 20. But that soule which attaineth this Holy anointing Oyle of Christ in it selfe turneth its longing and desires away from the vanity of the World into Gods word and power and is as a new young childe that lyeth in the Mothers womb and suffereth the Mother to nourish it Thus it hangeth to Christs Essence Substance and power and eateth of the Stock of the Vine Christ as the branch eateth of the Stock of the Vine Joh. 15. 21. Reason should understand us right It is not so to be understood that Christ hath with his flesh and bloud with the grosse mortall flesh and bloud introverted himselfe into Man which flesh and bloud is of no profit but is onely as a receptacle or shall of the right spirituall Man Much lesse doth the Divine Substance mingle it selfe with Bread and Wine so that when I behold the blessed Bread and Wine and receive it into the Earthly mortall Mouth I should think that I comprehended Christs flesh and bloud with my fleshly Mouth as I comprehend Bread and Wine therewith 22. No That cannot be Bread and Wine is but a Medium or meanes thereunto even as the Earthly Mouth is a Medium or meanes of the Spirit the Spirituall Faiths Mouth of Man comprehendeth Christs flesh and bloud under Bread and Wine not inherent in Bread and Wine for Bread and Wine changeth not it selfe into Christs flesh and Bloud but it is a meanes thereto ordained which Medium belongeth to the visible Man through which Medium the Invisible giveth it selfe into the Invisible Spirituall Man 23. In Bread and Wine two properties are understood as 1 the Grosse Elementary Earthly Substance that belongeth to the Morâ—all Man and then 2 the power and vertue therein wherein the Tincture of the Bread and the Wine
the works of Love then he hath also no Faith the opinion maketh no salvation but is Babell a confusion of the Tongues of the one onely Love None is a Christian unlesse he love his neighbour and desireth to doe him good 14. The outwardly imputed Grace without the innate e Or childelike filial Grace is all false when Christ worketh in a Man then he is a Christian and then the sufferings merits and satisfaction of Christ availe him when he hath him in himselfe for an Advocate who hath done it that he doe it also in him and attracteth his merits to him then is the kingdome of God in that Merit otherwise all Imagelike Opinions are faise No work pleaseth God but what he himselfe worketh in Man through his Spirit therefore let us be the children of Christ and not the children of Images 15. Christ hath imparted his kingdome to us in his Testaments he that will receive it must be his childe else there is no Inheritance to work Repentance is better then to desire to know much Is not the knowledge given from God to a Man then he will not be able to understand the Ground of the divine secret Mystery but if it be given him he neede no Image to continue in the humility and simplicity of Christ and to cleave to his love and Grace without despising of any one is good Christianity All whatsoever speaketh of it selfe is Babell in Christ wee are all Members and all one AMEN The End of the second little Book concerning The Holy Supper The Table of the Two Testaments Angells Book 1. Ch 1. THe End why God Created the Angells and Men also of Reasons Misunderstanding of the Testaments of Christ Verse 23. Book 1. Ch 2. How Angells became Devills Verse 3 4 5 Anointing Anointed Book 1. Ch 3. How Christs anointing is understood in the Water Baptisme Verse 19 Book 1. Ch 3. How the Body and Soule is anointed by Christ in the Water-Baptisme Verse 19.20 Book 1. Ch 4. John Anointed when Mary saluted Elizabeth Verse 4 Book 1. Ch 4. A Baptizer should be the Anointed of Christ Verse 22 Antichristian Booke 2. Ch. 5. Of Antichristian doings Verse 4 Arise Booke 1. Ch. 3. What that is wherein Man at the last day shall Arise and stand before the Judgement Verse 16.17.20 Baptisme Baptised Baptise Baptiser Booke 1. Ch. 2. How the Deluge was a figure of Baptisme Verse 17 Booke 1. Ch. 2. Why God sent the Baptisme and Divine Infusion in an Elementary Earthly Medium Verse 26.27 Booke 1. Ch. 2. What is the Ground of that Water Baptisme to which the holy Ghost is the Hand that Baptiseth Verse 36 Book 1. Ch 3. How the whole Man needed Baptisme Verse 4 Book 1. Ch 3. How the Baptisme of the holy Ghost is effected Verse 6 Book 1. Ch 3. What it is in the Water Baptisme wherewith the Body from the Outward World and the Spirit of the Constellation in Man is Baptised Verse 12 Book 1. Ch 3. How wee are buried with Christ in Baptisme Verse 22 Book 1. Ch 4. John the Baptist the Beginner of Water Baptisme Verse 01 Book 1. Ch 4. Circumcision changed into Water Baptisme Verse 6 Book 1. Ch 4. Why God Ordained the Water Baptisme Verse 9 Book 1. Ch 4. Why the Outward Baptisme is requisite to those that live to have it Verse 14.15.19 Book 1. Ch 4. Wee are through Baptisme planted anew in the Word of God Verse 20 Book 1. Ch 4. How God is with the Holy with the Vnholy in the Baptisme Verse 24 Book 1. Ch 4. What required to Baptisme in them that are present Verse 33.34.40 Book 1. Ch 4. Wicked people at the Baptisme a hinderance to the work Verse 36 Book 1. Ch 4. Baptisme not a meere signe but a substantiall work Verse 38 Book 1. Ch 3. What was done that the Three Worlds properties in Man might be Baptised Verse 5â— Book 1. Ch. 3. What it is in Man that is Baptised into Death Verse 21 Book 1. Ch. 4. Faithfull Parents Baptised in Soule and Body generate Children in that Baptisme Verse 13 Book 1. Ch. 3. How the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Baptise together Verse 11 Book 1. Ch. 4. Who it is that is worthy to Baptise with Water Verse 10.11.39 Book 1. Ch. 4. Holy Parents Baptise their Ofspring in Spirit yet why the Outward Baptisme is requisit in those that live to have it Verse 14 15.19 Book 1. Ch. 4. The unfaithfull Baptiser is dead in that work though God alwayes worketh in respect of his Covenant Verse 12 Beasts Book 2. Ch 1. The Image of Reconciliation in the sacrificing of Beasts and burning the Fat of them mentioned Levit. 8.14 c. Verse 5 Body Book 1. Ch 1. How wee came to have this Beastiall Body Verse 20 Book 1. Ch 2. What Body the Saints before and since Christ put on and what Body they waite for in the Resurrection at the Last Day Verse 14 Book 1. Ch 3. The Body of Man necessary to be Baptised Verse 2.3 Book 2. Ch 3. Why the Bread and Wine cannot be turned into the Body and bloud of Christ Verse 25 Book 2. Ch. 4. How it is not to distinguish the Lords Body Verse 1 Children Book 1. Ch 4. Christ biddeth Suffer little Children to come to him Verse 28 Christ Christs Christian Booke 1. Ch 2. Why God must become Man and why Christ must receive the Elementary part from us Verse 34 Booke 1. Ch 2. How Christ is bestowed upon Man Verse 37.38 Booke 1. Ch 3. How Christ is the Light of the little World Verse 10 Book 2. Ch. 2. How Christ is the Light of the world Verse 10 Book 1. Ch. 3. How Christ penetratrated through Death and Hell Verse 18 Book 1. Ch. 3. How Christ descended into Hell Verse 22 Book 1. Ch. 4. John the forerunner of Christ Verse 5 Book 2. Ch. 2. How Christ was the right High Priest Verse 3.4 Book 2. Ch. 2. Christ gave his whole Humanity to his Disciples Verse 8.9 Book 2. Ch. 2. What the Citie of God in Man is and how wee continue in Christ and be in us Verse 11 Book 2. Ch. 2. Christ by the last Supper fulfilled the Old Testament Verse 17 Book 2. Ch. 3. Man cannot say I am Christ though Christ dwelleth in him Verse 30 Book 2. Ch. 4 Who they are that Crucifie Christ now and wound him Verse 15 Book 2. Ch. 4. How a Man shall feele and Taste what Christ in him is Verse 23 Book 2. Ch. 5. None know Christ but those to whom and in whom the Father revealeth him Verse 2 3 Book 2. Ch. 5. How Men say heere is Christ Verse 8 Book 2. Ch. 5. How Christ is with us Every Day to the End of the World Verse 12 Book 1. Ch. 3. What was effected by Christs shedding forth his bloud upon the Earth Verse 18 Book 1. Ch. 3. What in Man is the Christian and why Mans works must be Judged Verse