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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69592	An apologie concerning perfection being a fundamentall answer and reply upon Esaiah Stiefel his exposition of four texts of the Holy Scripture written in the year 1622 ... / by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.; Vom Irrthum der Secten Esaiae Stiefels und Ezechiel Meths. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3415; ESTC R14771	119,599	158

the Faith was the divine and humane Conjunction IN the Spirit and NOT in the Womans Seed 56. Men should not set down the Triune God Christ to be in the Humane substance before Christs becoming Man or Incarnation for after the Word became Flesh then he was called CHRIST and no theretofore in the Covenant where he was only in the Promise 57. And though indeed he was in the Deep of the Deity from Eternity yet he was not then called the Womans Seed for the womans Seed was not sooner called Christ then till the word of God manifested it selfe in the Womans Seed and sanctified the Wo-Womans Seed and generated it to a Divine Life or Substance 58. The womans Seed attained the Anointing in the Motion of the Name JESU in MARY and not in Adam Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob and David 59. The Saints of Old knew not Christ in their Seed that he moved and manifested himself in their Seed but in their Spirits and Souls not in the Fleshly Seed but in the Faiths desire viz as a Divine Conjunction 60. What this Authour speaketh further concerning the Serpents Seed that it hath manifested it self in the Saints neer to the holy Womans Seed as he peremptorily sets it down that Esau was generated out of the Saw or Swine viz out of the Serpents Seed that is with the Authour a plain ignorance and confusion 61. Esau was generated of NO Saw or Swine for his Mother was NO Saw or Swine He was begotten out of Isaac's and his Wifes Seed as well as his brother Jacob but the kindled Anger of God which Adam awakened had laid hold on Esau 62. For the Love and Anger were both manifested in Man viz Evill and Good and they were alwayes in the wrestling till at last CHRIST came and overcame the Anger with the sweet Love of God out of JESUS and changed it into Divine Joy 63. Esau was a Type or Shadow of the Earthly Sinfull Adam and Jacob was a Type of Christ Christ would blesse and reconcile the Esau through Jacobs Seed for he was come to call the poor sinners viz the perished or corrupt Adam and Esau to repentance and Not the Righteous Jacob in the Line of Christ 64. Esau was not begotten out of the Serpents Seed else must the Devill have dwelt in Isaac and Rebecca in their Seed out of which they begat Esau which were abominable to be spoken 65. This Authour setteth Open a Hellish door in the Holy Patriarchs which yet he will have to be Perfect His writing is much more a blasphemy and reproaching of God than a Christian Explanation 66. That this Jacob and Esau have striven in their Mothers womb signifieth the Paradise as to one part and as to the other Part the Earthly world viz Gods Love and Anger which were both stirring in the Humane Essence and in strife about Man as I have expressed it at large in another place 67. This Authour should not make of Esau a Saw or Swine nor of Cain so totally a Serpents Seed It should be shewn in the Holy Scripture or else none will give credit to him for the Judgement belongeth to God and not to Man 68. He cannot shew that Cain and Esau were generated Devills totally out of the Serpents seed for God said to Cain Rule over Sinne Suffer it not to have the Dominion Thus there was a possibility in Cain that he could rule over Sinne else God had not commanded him to do so but whatsoever is totally the Serpents and the Devills therein is NO Possibility 69. Esau had even such a Soul as Jacob had both begotten from their Parents and this only was the difference that in the one the Divine Love and in the other the awakened anger was manifested which yet Christ with his Bloud would drown in all those who would introduce their Souls desires into him 70. But that this Authour rejecteth all worldly Wit and Art and saith they serve nothing to the kingdom of God but that they are much more hurtfull needeth also another Explanation 71. ART indeed giveth no divine power or wisdome and helps nothing to the kingdome of God but it belongs to the outward Man of Gods WONDERS that he should behold Gods wonders and great hidden wisdome and praise God in all his works 72. If the outward Man learneth NO Art then he is most NEER to a BEAST which knoweth not what the substance of all Substances is 73. Indeed the Divine wisdome standeth NOT in Art and Reason but it sheweth Art the way what it should do and how it should Seek ART is really the Tool or Instrument of God wherewith the divine wisdom worketh or laboureth why should I then despise it Through ART All Creatures are ruled by Man and in Art is the Outward Body Covered and defended from Heat and Cold. 74. But that this Authour also mentioneth that by Repentant Men ALL Art is cast behind and forgotten and that many in their Old age become so childish they do at length forget OUR FATHER which they had learned that is very cunningly and Slyly intended by him 75. For before he had said He was so perfect that he need not any More to PRAY OUR FATHER c. likely he would fain that none should learn to PRAY and besides should learn NO Art and then he need forget nothing 76. If none should learn any Art then could we no more mannage our Estate and Employment upon Earth and if none should learn to PRAY then all Men would continue in Self-hood and then Sinne is TOTALLY Covered and is no more known or acknowledged and then Folly standeth in the place or stead of ART and Man in his Reason is like ALL the Beasts 77. The deeper a Man is LEARNED concerning GOD the deeper he seeketh and SEETH into Gods deeds of Wonder in ART for all profitable ARTS are revealed or manifested out of Gods Wisdome NOT that they are THAT by WHICH Man cometh to God but for the Government of the outward Life and for the Glorious Manifestation of the Divine Wisdome and Omnipotence 78. With the supposed Womans Seed wherein he conceiteth himself to be totally divine and holy he will not make all ARTS to Cease for the Womans Seed is Humane but when CHRIST viz Gods Love assumeth it and manifesteth himself therein then is that Womans Seed the Humanity of Christ viz the true Image of GOD. 79. This Authour calleth the Womans Seed the good holy divine living working Seed of God CHRIST JESUS the Living Word of God and yet understandeth not what Gods Seed or the Womans Seed is what the Life and power is when I speak only and alone of the Womans Seed then I say not Gods seed CHRIST JESUS The Name JESUS is divine but the Name CHRIST is God and Man 80. When JESUS manifested himself in the Womans Seed and assumed THAT then the Person was called CHRIST yet now