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A28529	Mysterium magnum, or An exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Concerning the manifestation or revelation of the divine word through the three principles of the divine essence; also of the originall of the world and the creation. Wherein the kingdome of nature, & the kingdome of grace are expounded. For the better understanding of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are. Also, how man should consider and may know himselfe in the light of nature, where he is, and where his temporall and eternall life, consist; also, where his eternall blessednesse, and damnation, consist. And is an exposition of the essence of all essences for the further consideration of the lovers, in the divine gift. Comprised in three parts: written anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To which is added, The life of the author. And his Foure tables of divine revelation.; Mysterium magnum. English.	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?; H. B. (Henry Blunden)	1656 (1656)	Wing B3411A; ESTC R212985	753,539	662

and seven and yet ye have the Word in one Number wherein the c c c Or the understanding of all things whole understanding is contained yee have it moving upon your tongues yet ye cannot comprehend it 66. And the Reason is that you will onely speake out of Seven and seventy and seven viz. out of the wrath which hath divided the tongues and doth Avenge the Life of Lamech Seventy and Seven times in your Tongues and Speeches but if ye would d d d Or enter into goe unto the Centre and open your eyes then you would see how the babilonicall Whore leads you captive by her String and how she hath set her selfe over the life of man with e e e One Copy hath it seven seventy and seven seventy and seven numbers and hath wholly hidden our Sister Naema with the Numbers that the Beast of the Numbers might Reigne and rule in the wrath of God over the life of our Sister Naamah 67. But we have heard a watchman say Away the Beast with the whore which stood upon the Earth in Naamahs stead is quite fallen and given to the Presse of the Seven-fold f f f Vengeance Racha in the Seventy and seven c. the Racha ariseth up in Lamech and goeth through the seventy and seven and this none can hinder AMEN 68. For Naamah shall be manifested to all Nations tongues and Speeches and even then out of the Seventy and Seven there shall be but One word of understanding for the life of man proceeded from ONE onely word of God and hath formed and divided it selfe in Selfe-hood in the Spirit of the wonders of the vvorld into Seventy and Seven properties of the Onely Word Novv cometh the time that the life's beginning shall againe enter with the Spirit of the wonders and Speeches into the End viz. into the Beginning and therefore the childe of the wonders which hath given it selfe forth g g g Or before in the Sight of God must be made manifest in the Vnity 69. And being that the free-will hath given it selfe into the vanity of the Speeches and the multiplicity of the Powers and defiled and slaine the life of the Onely Word the Racha proceedeth forth from the Murthering Spirit through Seventy and seven untill the Beast together with the Harlot be consumed and devoured vvith the fire of Gods Anger 70. And then Tubel-Cain findeth his Sister Naema in Golden Attire and Ada rejoyceth in her Son Jabal who is an Heardsman for Lamech hath again found his children which he left in the Racha and the Pride of Selfe and also the craft Deceit and Suttlety of the Serpent ceaseth * * * Or for Then Every Beast shall eat its Own Pasture the Time is neare HALLELV-JAH CHAP. XXX Of the Line of the Covenant THe Line of the Covenant is not so to be understood as if the Covenant fell onely upon this Line no the Covenant * * * Passeth upon belongeth to or is Entailed upon befalleth the onely Life which was in the word before the times of the humanity the Line of Seth passeth onely upon the manifestation in the flesh in which line the Word in the Covenant would externally manifest it selfe in the flesh but the Spirit proceeding from the Centre in the Covenant falls as well upon Cains line as upon Abels yet in Cains line in the Spirit and in Seths in the externall mouth or manifestation viz. in the formed and conceived Word that is in the office and ministry of Teaching and Preaching for Seth was sprung forth according to the Spirit out of the Covenant where the Spirit moved it selfe in the incorporated Word in the Covenant and Cain was comprehended under the Spirit of nature 2. For by Cains line the Arts were brought forth to light which were a Wonder of the Divine wisdome Contemplation and formation viz. of the Formed Word through and in nature and in Seth the word was brought into a formall Life viz. into a spiritual contemplation wherein the word of God did behold it selfe with the wisdome in a spirituall * * * Forme or Figure Image and in Cains line it beheld it selfe in a naturall formed Word and both Serve to set forth the wonderfull deeds of God 3. Not as Babel judgeth that God out of his purpose and determinate counsell hath thus predestinated and chosen one Part of men in his Anger to condemnation and the other Part to life they that so judge are yet under the Number Seventy and Seven in the multiplication of the word for the Promise was Given to Adam before Cain was conceived the Covenant touching Grace rested in Adam and Eve but the Spirit of Sanctification and Regeneration by Christ passed onely upon the Seed of the Woman viz. upon the Seed of the Kingdome of Heaven which was shut up that is upon the lights Tincture upon the Matrix of Venus wherein Adam when he was Man and Woman should have propagated himselfe in Peculiar Desire and Love which seing it could not be by reason of Adams strong Earthly Imagination was taken from Adam and made into a woman 4. But when the woman became earthly the heavenly Part of this Matrix which was to the producement of the heavenly birth was shut up in death into which Matrix the word of God did again incorporate it selfe with the Covenant to open and manifest himselfe in this Matrix with a living and heavenly Seed and to destroy the Power of death 5. For the word would not open it selfe in the formed word of nature viz in Cains Generation but in the disappeared heavenly Ens and by the same revived and requickned heavenly Ens that is by the VVomans Seed of the heavenly Part bruise the Serpents Head viz. the Devills introduced desire in the wrath of nature that is overcome the wrath and curse of God in the Generation of Cain and Seth. 6. The word in the Covenant did open it selfe in Seth and Abel it being as a Voice of the Teacher and Cains Generation should in its life receive this Voice and impresse it into its Life so that it might produce the New Regeneration but that many of them have continued in death and contemned this Voice is long of the free-will which suffered it selfe to be held by the Devill in the Anger of God and still to this Day doth suffer it selfe to be held in that the Cainicall will doth Love nature and Selfe too much 7. For if the free-will of the Soul will apprehend the Word in the Covenant then it must Dye to its naturall Selfehood and selfefull Will and be wholly Resigned to the Own will in the Covenant that it may with its Desire follow the Word and Spirit in the Covenant as the same doth lead guide and move it 8. And This Cain is very loath and unwilling to do he will be a Selfish Lord and with the desire doth figure and shape a

Ark but its spirit remaineth onely upon the Earth feeding upon the fat grasse upon the Riches Honour and beauty of this world and so it stayeth onely in Selfehood and returns not to the Ark it indeed maketh devout shews of holinesse to God and giveth good words but the man with its Senses and Reason will not forsake the world and return again to the Ark. They build themselves stately Pallaces without the Ark for the pleasure of the flesh and are very zealous and devout in hypocrisie without the Ark they will be accounted children by an externall Imputation of Grace and Adoption but they will not enter into the Ark but they say Christ is in the Ark he hath purchased and paid all we need onely to comfort our Selves therewith he will bring us in well enough 46. The other Party saith they have Christ in their Works of hypocrisie they take the Ark along with them when they fly out in their fleshly Pleasure all these remain without the Ark in this World and return not to the Ark. This the Third Dove denotes for the Antichristian Kingdome walketh demurely in the shape of a Dove and as a sheep but it is onely a figure and darksome shaddow of Christs Kingdome which consists in the Spirit in Power and is really in the Ark. CHAP. XXXIII Of the beginning of the Second Monarchy and of the Covenant of God with Noah and all creatures ANd Moses saith Then God spake with Noah Gen. VIII 16 c. to the end and commanded him to goe forth with Every living thing Each with its Kinde but Noah builded an Altar unto the Lord and took of every clean Beast ond of every clean Fowle and offered burnt-Offrings upon the Altar and the Lord Smelled a sweet Savour and said in his heart I will not henceforth curse the Earth any more for mans Sake for the Imagination of mans heart is evill even from his youth and I will not any more smite every living thing as I have done while the earth remaineth Seed-time and Harvest cold and heat Summer and winter Day and night shall not cease Moses saith that God smelled a Sweet Savour and Said in his Heart he would not again curse the Earth or smite every living creature any more for mans sake This is a figure or mysticall Type as is before mentioned in the Offring of Abel 2. For his Heart is the word in the Covenant which took the Prayer and will-will-spirit of Noah through the holy fire in the Offring and brought it in the word to Substance and withall smelled in the Divine Power the humanity of Christ who was to Resigne himselfe in the Covenant into the Word of Power that is it desired to have the humanity in his Power and vertue as a pleasant Savour and from this Smell or sweet savour of holy Rest in the Paradisicall property the Spirit of God declared that he would not again destroy Man and the Creatures any more so long as the Earth should endure these Creatures should also continue 3. For Noah offred all manner of clean beasts and fowle and the Spirit saith that he Smelled herein a sweet savour of rest now he doth not mean that he took pleasure in the Smell or Savour of the offring for all Beasts are in his Power and are continually before him but he spake it in reference to the hidden offring in the Covenant which the inward world in the creatures did smell which hereafter would deliver them by its own peculiar * * * That is the inward centrall fire w ch shall purge the floor and cristalize the Earth into transparent Gold Offring from the abomination of vanity and set their figure into the holy wisdome viz. into the spirituall world 4. When Noah offered then the Lord that is God manifested in the Offring by the unmanifest holy Name JEHOVAH through JESVS did Smell the holy disappeared humanity in Adam that is he did tast in the Lubet or good pleasure of his wisdome how the same should be again manifest in the holy Name Jesus And then he blessed Noah and his Children and said Be fruitfull and multiply and replenish the earth and the fear and dread of you be upon every Beast of the Earth Gen. IX 1 2 3. and upon every Fowle of the air Even upon all that creepeth upon the Earth and upon all the Fishes of the Sea into your hands they are all delivered Every living thing shall be meat for you Even as the green Hearb I have given you all things but the flesh * * * Or which yet liveth in the blood with the life thereof that is with the blood thereof you shall not eat for I will require the blood of your lives of every Beast will I require the same and at the hand of every man will I require the life of man being that he is his brother and whosoever sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for God created man in his owne image And you be yee fruitfull and multiply and be industrious upon the earth that you may increase abundantly 5. When God blessed Noah through the Offring proceeding from the Covenant and bad them be fruitfull he gave them againe the whole world withall its Hosts in possession all whatsoever liveth and moveth should be Subservient to them and be their owne and he gave it them all in common he made there no difference between Noah and his children no * * * Master Lord nor servant but he made them all alike none noble or ignoble but like as many branches and twiggs grow out of one Tree and yet all together are but one onely Tree so also he established the humane Tree upon the Earth and gave them all beasts fishes and fowles in common with no distinction restriction or prohibition save onely that they should not eat their life in the blood least they should become monstrous in their life * * * Or with the Eating the life of the B●asts with the bestiall life 6. God Commanded them to rule over all the Beasts and Creatures but in this place he gave them no peculiar Domination or ruling Power over one another for all Domination Lordly rule and authority whereby one man ruleth over another doth arise out of Ararat that is from or through the Order of nature according to its properties according to the Constellations and outward Dominion of the Princes under the Constellations or Astrum 7. The true Image of God hath no other Dominion in its members then the Body hath in its members or the Tree in its branches but the beastiall Image from the Stars and four Elements maketh it selfe a Dominion and Government according to its mother whence it taketh its rise and wherein it liveth 8. Also all Lawes and externall Ordinances which God hath appointed man doe all belong unto the Order of nature viz. unto the expressed formed Word the same God hath given man

the fire of the holy part of the Earth which lyeth hidden in the Curse and therein the free-will of the Soul and the free-will in the Ens of the heavenly part of the body did Immasse it selfe into a Substance and therewith did presse in before the holinesse of God 12. And heere the Serpents head was first bruised for it was a figure of the nevv birth out of Christ not that Abel had at this time put on Christ in the flesh but indeed the Spirit of Jehova in the Ayme of the Covenant in which the Name of Jesus stood hidden in God as a Regeneratour which would move and manifest it selfe in the fulnesse of time in this Ayme of the Covenant and introduce an heavenly holy Ens into the disappeared Ens of the heavenly part and quicken it to life againe in the opened power of Jesus 13. If a man would rightly and fundamentally understand the r r r Sacrifices Offerings he must consider that whereof the Offering consisted and what severed it selfe with the Enkindling in the fire out of the fire viz. out of the Enkindled offering for in the Enkindling nothing is seen or perceived but 1. the wood to the fire 2 ly The matter of offering 3 dly The fire and light 4 ly The Smoak of the fire which ariseth from the burning wood and matter of the offering all this without the faith and divine desire is as an abomination and indeed Nothing in Gods sight and attaineth not the Gate of God 14. But if Man brings his faiths-desire thereinto then he resigneth the free-will thereinto and vvill thereby as by a meanes in which fire the free-Will of the introduced Sinfull abomination doth burne and consume away presse in to Gods Eternall free-will and now how this is effected and comes to passe understand as followeth 15. Gods Imagination or Lubet meeteth the Free-inspired-will of the humanity and the humane free-will meeteth the deity heere is now the Conjunction 16. But now Mans free-will is become Sinfull and Gods free-will from whence the humane free will did first take its rise in its in-Spiration is holy and pure as yet the humane free-will cannot presse into Gods will unlesse it also become pure before God 17. But being God will out of free-grace receive it into him for the delight and harmony of his praise there is no other way or remedy but that God move himselfe in the Centre of the Eternall nature according to the fire of the Second Principle viz. according to the holy fire and devoure that enkindled Anger and vanity of mans free-will and annihilate it in the mortification of death viz. in the Anger-fire of God that the humane vvill might become pure before Gods will and so might enter into Gods Love-will and therefore Gods Love-desire did it selfe enkindle the offering of Abel and Moses that so the holy-and Love-fire might devoure and swallow up the Turba in the humane free-Soules-will in the Anger-fire of the Eternall nature in the Fathers property 18. But that there must be an Earthly offering thereunto is thus to be understood the Body of man as to one part is a limus of the Earth and as to the other part a limus of heaven and into this Body the free-will was inspired and body and soul is onely one man 19. But being in the fall the earthlinesse and false suttlety of the Serpent by the insinuation of the Devills desire was awakened in the flesh of man and so the earthly beastiall property got the upper-hand in his Ens and devoured the right humane will in the beastiall property that is took it captive thereupon the earthly will which was from the limus of the Earth must also be offered up in the fire 20. For the limus of the Earth shall arise againe out of earth but for to make it an offering it must also be offered in an earthly Elementall fire of its likenesse so that an heavenly fire and an earthly Elementall fire might be in one another and each will in the offring might respectively finde a place for its own comprehension and capacity viz. the will proceeded from the earthly limus of the Earth from the Kingdome of this world and the heavenly will out of the heavenly limus viz. out of the Ens s s s Of the Semina●l and Centrall Love of the word of the Lord. of the Verbum Domini each property of the free-will went into the offring and from the offring into the fire where the Atonement was 21. For the Covenant of the promise touching the Serpent-Stroyer did manifest it selfe by the holy fire which holy fire enkindled the Elementall fire for the holy fire shall awaken and raise up from death the Elementall man out of the limus of the Earth and in the holy fire Man who hath taken his Originall from Time shall be purged and tryed in the Resurrection who verily must first goe through the fire of the Anger but the power and might of the holy fire shall bring him through the Anger-fire and cleanse and purge away his introduced abomination of Sin in the Serpents and Devills Ens in him from the limus of the Earth that the limus of the Earth may be no more earthly but as a fine purified Gold which subsists in the fire 22. Even thus the Earthly man shall be purified in the Resurrection through the fire of which the Offrings were a type and yet they did really subsist in their power as to the Spirit but the Body must dye and the true corporality and Regeneration must come forth or begin to spring afresh in the opened body of Christ who with his Entrance into and manifestation in the humaniry did again open the heavenly disappeared limus in the humane Ens which did disappeare or fade in Adam and Eve 23. Thus understand us aright Abel and Moses offered the fatt of beasts and enkindled that with the holy fire which fire was first enkindled by God for the beastiall property became manifest in the outward earthly man of the limus of the Earth the humane limus of the Earth was turned to a Beast and was moreover sinfull and evill full of the Serpents poyson and Cunning Suttlety 24. The free-will did immasse it selfe in the Serpents craft and Devills desire and formed to it selfe such a figure in the Ens of the flesh as the desire was whereupon the Body was more vaine in Gods sight then a beast 25. But being the heavenly Ens lay hidden and shut up in the earthly property God would not utterly forsake the whole Image which Abel and Moses did understand in the Spirit of God by their offerings and therefore they offered the Fat viz. the oyle of the beasts and other earthly good fruits that so the desire of the true man created out of the limus of the Earth who shall arise from death might in the enkindling of the offring in the fire have a Substance whereinto it

might give it selfe and Imaginate it selfe and so in the property of the holy fire it might be able to enter with its will into the Ayme of the Covenant which stood before God in the figure untill the promise of the womans Seed was fulfilled and accomplished 26. In which Seed the dear and pretious Name of Jesus did open it selfe out of Jehovah and did again awaken the heavenly life in the disappeared Ens in the humanity and offered up this whole Image in the Person of Christ to the Anger fire of the Father and with the holy Love fire Regenerated and enkindled in the humane life did bring it quite through the Anger viz. through the fire of the Eternall nature of the Fathers Manifestation and changed the anger-fire into a love-fire and this was just thus prefigured in the Offring for the Love-fire enkindled the offring and in the offring was yet the Curse of the Earth aswell as in the humane free will and when the offring was offered it was a Sin-offering whereby the free-will of mans Soule was t t t Reconciled with God propitiated before God 27. Now if Sin shall be reconciled and appeased then it must be brought into the Anger viz. into the judgement of God into the sword of the Cherub that it may cut off the same which Cherub is the Sword of Gods anger and if then the humane will be wholly Sinfull and altogether capable of the fire of Anger then God Enkindleth the Sin-offering in which the Anger-fire lay hidden in the Curse with the holy fire that the humane will which was apprehended in the Anger-fire might be atonened in the Love-fire 28. For the Love-fire of God tinctureth the soules desire in the Offring as a tincture tingeth brasse and Iron and changeth them into Gold even thus the humane Soules free-will vvhich was inspired wholly pure and spotlesse into man was tinctured and again purified before God that so it might enter into Gods mercy for the mercy was hidden in the Love-fire viz. in the Aym of the Covenant in the Name of Jesus in God in which Covenant and Name the Anger of God was Reconciled and Atonened in the offring and laid down its Anger-burning flames and suffered the soules free-will to passe quite through it 29. But as touching the offring in it selfe with the Wood Fire Light and Smoak understand it thus Abel offered of his flock without doubt sheep or oxen as Moses did the like namely the fat of them now the offring viz. the wood and Smoak on the outward part as to the mater was earthly and so was Man as to the outward Body earthly and in the earthlinesse lay the Curse both in Man and in the Offring 30. But vvhen the Offring was Enkindled it was Spirituall for from the wood proceeded the fire which tooke the Offring and consumed it and out of the consumptivenesse vvent forth first from the fire the smoak and afterward the light this was the Figure whereinto Mans and also Gods Imagination entered as a Compaction or Conjunction 31. In the Enkindled Consuming fire vvas the desire of the Angry Father viz. a Conjunction of the eternall natures-fire with the Temporall fire the Eternall is Magicall and the temporall is the Substance and matter of the magicall viz. its u u u Or Amassement Reception and in the enkindled Light was the holy love-fire which is also magicall as subtile as a will which did also immasse it selfe in the enkindled light and in the forth-proceeding smoak which is an Elementall Sulphur and Mercury viz. a life of the quality the smell or taste went forth also which signifieth the humane power of the Body and the outward spirit of nature 32. In this power which proceeded forth from the offring out of the fire and light the Spirit of God which proceedeth forth from the Father and Son did Amass it selfe in the Amassement of the humane Faiths desire and so tooke the humane Faiths desire into it selfe and did Amasse it selfe into a Substance of the fire light and power proceeding forth from the Offring and brought it through the Gates of Gods Anger upon the holy Altar in the Aym of the Covenant upon which the Lamb of God should be offered for the sins of the whole world 33. For this Lamb of God viz. Christ should compleat perfect and make this introduced offring fully acceptable upon the Great Altar of the Angelicall world that it might be to God an Eternall Sweet Savour of his deepest Love which he represented in Man in his introduced offring in the Lamb of God Christ and Mankinde in this Representative offring 34. The humane offring was the Sojourner of the true Lamb and offering of God in Christ and now where the offring is there is also the spirit of man for mans spirit is gone forth and departed from God into Time and in the Time it hath defiled it selfe therefore it must forsake the Pollution and enter in again through this Offring to God 35. But if it will enter then it must doe it in manner and forme as it went out for it brought it selfe into false desire and lust even so likewise it must introduce it selfe againe by a Returning into a Sorrow and conversion and in the Sorrow or Repentance again into a divine desire which is called Faith 36. But that it might apprehend or lay hold on the divine desire Note it did bring the faith or the beleeving desire into an offring and so amassed or formed the beleeving desire in the offring into a Substance or Essence that the Faith also might become essentiall and this essentiallity of faith received the holy fire of God which would in the fulnesse of time open it selfe in the essentiality of faith and bring the humane Substance thereinto and also bring it forth in it selfe through Gods Anger and change it in it selfe into a Love-fire for all the words of prayer in the offring were also received into the Substance of Faith 37. For as all things were formed Amassed and introduced by the vvord of God into a Substance so likewise the words of the prayer of Abel and Israel in the offring were formed and amassed to substance viz. unto an Incorruptible Essence in which Essence Christ Gods Son in the fulnesse of time brake forth out of the Covenant and tooke upon him this same Essence together vvith the humane Essence and as a potent Champion and mighty Conquerour destroyed the Kingdome of death and the Devill 38. And to this faiths Essence in the Spirit of Christ in all his children and members was given the Judgement over the world yea over the Kingdome of the Devill and of death thereby to destroy and bring to nought their works and Possess the Royall Throne 39. This was the reall offring of Abel for the Spirit of the holy love-fire in the Aym of the Covenant had opened it selfe in him so that he understood it and therefore he offered

which is good onely for the amendment of his life else Cain goeth to Church to offer and cometh out againe a Killer of his brother 50. As it often appeares that when men in the Stone-Churches have taken and amassed io their Mindes a deale of revilings reproaches and Censures that have fallen from the false smoaky Cain-like fury and pretended zeale of the Preachers then they forthwith come with all and murther Abel and Christs members as this Spirit hath many hundred times found by experience and that onely for the sake of the Temple of Christ. 51. Now if we would rightly consider of the offring of Cain then we must looke him into the very Essnce of his will and desire for he also would offer and be acceptable to God but he loved onely his ownhood and selfe-full selfe his ayme and endeavour was not to be or become a new creature but God should so take away his Sins in the offring from him but he would still remaine the old Cain and so offer to God that he might be so accepted with him the Devill came in the forme of an Angel before God 52. Cain y y y Or did not acknowledge knew not his evill Serpentine property the poore Soul was captivated therewith and had set it selfe up in the Serpents wit and pride it would needs be an outwardly adopted childe and heir of God the offring must make reconciliation for him as Babell doth which taketh also the Mantle of Christ upon her and saith Christ hath undertaken and suffered for all my Sins upon the Crosse I cannot purchase or doe any thing for my selfe my works availe nothing before God I need onely beleeve that Christ hath done it and comfort my selfe therewith and then I am already justified and acquitted from all my Transgressions 53. Thus she cometh before God and thanketh God that he hath payed the reckoning and score in his Son and offreth with Cain and the Pharisee in the Temple and remaineth in her selfe a brother-slayer with Cain and this is the babylonicall fruit like as Cain would take the offring upon him for a cloake and Covering so also his succeeding Church taketh on it the offring of Christ for a cloake and Covert of its Sins and false murther and covereth its murtherous Spirit so that men must call it an holy devout Christian. 54. Saint Paul must serve their turne thereto when he saith I doe that I would not now if I doe it it is not I but Sin that dwelleth in my flesh but that he saith now then with my Minde I serve God but with the flesh the law of Sin the same Cain will not understand how the Minde must without intermission rule and reigne over the Sinfull will and desire of the flesh and mortifie the lust 55. Saint Paul speaketh of the heavenly Abel-like desire how Sin must be mortified in the flesh and not rule over the Minde as it did in Cain when he saw his brother was accepted before God and that he himself was not then the murthering Spirit arose in his Minde which should have been mortified in the offring by true Repentance and conversion 56. Thus also goeth Babel under the Mantle of Christ which offereth also to God and thanketh him for the offering of Christ but it selfe remaineth in the Minde of the Cainicall brother-slayer in pride covetousnesse Envy and Anger in Persecution in warre and Contention it fighteth about the Offring and about the Outward Covering least it should be stripped thereof and doth in the meane time fatten it selfe under it with the beastiall offrings of the fatnesse of the Earth and still remaines the Cainicall Beast and doth also continually murther Abel in Christs Members and comforteth it selfe with the death of Christ the same must be a Covert for the false murthering Spirit 57. The heart and minde is far from the new creature it is onely the old Cainicall brother-slayer which bemantles it selfe with Christs offring and offers with Cain such and nothing better remaines now of z z z Or Christendome Christianity among all Sects except the children of Christ who are heere and there hidden with Abel 58. Cain's Church was never more potent and predominant upon the Earth then it is even at this time whereas notwithstanding men cry out with full mouth-cry and great ostentation Come all h●●her we have found the offring of Abell in Christ yes forsooth dear Babel thou hast indeed found the Mantle of Christ but behold thy Cain-like heart and thou wilt see whether thou offrest with Abell from the new creature or from the false brother-slaying Spirit where are thy fruits where is Love and Righteousnes where is truth where is patience and meeknesse where is the Minde that with Paul serveth God where art thou thou fair Christian Church upon the Earth art thou not become a murthering Den of the Devill now shew thy Christian vertues art thou not full of contention and murther both in the Church and without the Church thy mouth is onely a prater of Gods Kingdome like as Cains mouth prated of the offring but his heart was a murtherer 59. Thus likewise men doe prate in the Stone-Houses of the mantle and offring of Christ and yet in the meane while in this Prate and Babble doe murther the children of Christ condemn and judge them and make a whole heap and crew of reviling devouring wolves that doe all cry out snarle and snap and none knoweth where the Hinde is which they hunt save onely that the Devill doth thus act and drive on his sport by them so that the true reall offring of Christ may remaine covered and hidden and be onely as a Mystery in this world 60. For we poor children of Eve doe sojourne heere in this Cottage in a strange * * * Or harbour lodging wherein the Devill in Gods Anger is Host we dwell upon the Cursed Earth where the Devill rideth over our Soule and Body and at all times tempteth us we had need be wary and watchfull and at no time secure it costeth Body and Soul CHAP. XXVIII Of Cains * * * Fatricide killing of his brother viz. of the Proud Haughty Antichristian hypocriticall Church upon the Earth and also of the true Christendome hidden under this Antichristian Church WHen the Devill in Gods Anger in the wrath of the Eternall nature had introduced his Throne and Seat into the humane property and awakened the Centre of the wrathfull nature in him there forthwith arose up such a desire out of the awakened Anger 's property in the humane Ens or Seed in the Propagation out of which property Babel viz. the Antichristian Church is begotten and brought forth 2. And now as God had incorporated and promised the Serpent-bruiser of this false property who should bruise the head of the Serpents Ens and will or desire unto the heavenly Ens of man which disappeared in and to Paradise which word of promise was a

of these Serpentine wolvish Pharisees and also of the verball Titular Christendome 16. As the false Serpents-child is a monster and fool before the Angelicall world so likewise the children of darknesse doe account and esteeme the children of the light for fooles for there must be a contrary that the one might be manifest in the other if the Anger had not taken hold of the humanity and devoured it into it selfe then the deepest Love of God would not have been manifest in Man 17. But thus the Love taketh Cause by the Anger to overpower and prevaile over the same with its motion and manifestation as the same may be known in Christ the true Son of God gave himselfe into our Image which was awaked in the Anger that so he might be made manifest with his Love in the Anger and change the same into joy 18. Christ gave our humane Image to the Anger of his father to be devoured in death and brought his life into death and yet manifested his Love in the life which death had devoured and brought forth the life in Love through the death as a Grain of corn which is sown into the earth the same must dye in the earth but out of that mortifyed grain growes a fair new body even so the corrupt body of Adam shall and must be offered to death and the Anger and out of the Death and Anger the body of the divine Love shall be manifest 19. It was exactly Typified and prefigured in Cain and Abel how it would be in the Succeeding and future generations being Abel outwardly did beare the Earthly Image and yet in the Spirit he was an Image of heaven his outward body in the Corruption was onely a e e e Text Larva or strange disgu●sed person visard before the outward world for there was another Spirit hidden therein which was not of the outward worlds Essence and property therefore because he was not wholly a right childe of the earthly world it would not suffer him being as a strange childe in it for the Devill was Prince in the wrathfull Essence in this world who would not that a childe of the light should spring forth through the wrathfull Essence and be in his Garden 20. Thus the Image or person of Cain and Abel is a true figure of the false and then also of the holy and true children of God of the outward Sinfull corrupt and mortall Man and of the inward now regenerate holy man when Christ with his Love-Kingdome ariseth from death out of the disappeared Ens then Adams earthly Image must dye in Christs death and if it now be that the outward body must yet live it is onely a scorne and foole before the Heavens Image and so also before the naturall f f f All naturall men life of this world 21. For so soon as Christ is borne the Sinfull life is condemned to death and standeth in scorne and open shame before all the false children in the Anger of God as an whore in g g g At the house of correction or whipt through the streets Bridewell whom other whores likewise help to deride and scoffe at and yet they doe but onely judge and condemn themselves thereby for if Christ be born then the judgement passeth upon the false beastiall life and that man must stand in the judgement of God as a malefactour and be termed a foole a Heretick and be jeered scoffed and reviled yea even utterly defyed and slaine that the Monster may be judged before Gods Anger but those that doe it are the children of the lusty pampered and well-fatned Anger of God whom the wrath of God useth for its Instrument for God is a Spirit therefore he accomplisheth his judgement by a materiall h h h By some outward substantiall meanes or Persons Image 22. For so soon as Abell did in his Offring put on or attract the Love of God in the Covenant anew into his humane desire and comprehended or amassed the same into his Essence then forthwith the judgement passed upon the externall mortall Man and Gods Sword of Anger tooke him which Cain executed and slew the outward body of Abel and at this time also the judgement passed upon the false Image of the Anger in Cain for he stood there and cryed My Sins are greater then can be forgiven me 23. This doth now hint and point at the figure of Christ how the Anger of the Father must i i i Or swallow up devoure the life of Christ in death and when as the Anger had devoured the life in death then the holy life of the deepest Love of God moved it selfe in the death and the Anger and devoured the death and anger into it selfe whereat the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder and the Graves of the Saints opened 24. And so likewise the Love-fire k k k Good and evill now mixed and in contest one with the other and the Anger-fire in the place of this world which wrathfull fire was enkindled in the Creation when the Apostate Lucifer fell shall at the Last Day be again changed into the Divine joyfulnesse and be Avalled or swallowed up in the Love understand it shall be thus in the third Principle where Love and anger doe strive this Time one with anorher but l l l Lucifer HE remaineth in the darknesse in the first Principle 25. The true Cause wherefore Cain murthered Abel was by reason of their Offrings and worship of God viz. Religion as this Contention continueth still to this day the Cainicall Church is not yet one with the Abelicall 26. Now saith reason I see it well enough that all contention and strife ariseth from Religion but what is the ground and most undoubted cause and reason thereof behold this is the Cause set before thee the false Serpents childe which is Evill and good and then set before thee the virgins-childe borne of Christ and then thou hast the fundamentall Cause exactly drawn to the life before thine eyes 27. The Cainicall Church drives a suttle Trade with externall Ceremonies and will appease God with some externall thing or other it will be outwardly an accepted and adopted child it must down right be called honest godly holy and heavenly it adorneth and trimmeth up it selfe very finely and standeth mightly upon its Calling which it hath it selfe Ordained and Instituted it makes a very specious and Renowned shew in the white sheepes cloathing and therein lodgeth the High Priest of selfehood without Christs Spirit and rules and masters the worke of the outward letters and whosoever learneth to transpose and compose the same boldly and bravely according to their forme of forged opinions he is an high Priest in their Office and Order he putteth Christs garment of innocency on him for his Cloake and Covert 28. The other party of the confused cainicall Church cryeth out and holdeth forth the Goodly glistering childe to m m m

prevaile and would Sever it selfe into a selfe-fulnesse and breake it selfe off from the Love Ens yet not as a Darke Source but as a Source of selfefull Lust and also of fiery Strength and might 19. For out of the Ens of Cain as the same was in the Centre of the Begetting nature in the wrestling wheele of life arose his will and out of the will the desire and out of the desire the Substance in which Substance the false minde is understood wherein the dominion of the outward did forme and fasten it selfe whereinto the Devill also in the wrath of nature croap in with his desire and desired the Lordship and domination of this world in Selfehood as the fallen Devill doth alwayes desire domination in the Place of this world in the inward Eternall and outward Temporall nature 20. But being the word of divine Power and Holinesse had i i i Or espoused it selfe incorporated it selfe with a Covenant of Regeneration into the womans Seed viz. into the disappeared Ens of the Spirituall worlds Essence that it would deprive the fiery wrathfull will proceeding from the Centre of the darke world of its fiery might of Selfehood thereupon after Cain there Sprung forth out of the humane Tree a Sprout out of the Aym of the Covenant viz. HABEL whose Name in the Language of nature signifieth an Out-breathed Angel which in the first will of the Essence whence the soule ariseth had formed and fixed it selfe in the Centre of light in the Love-desire and penetrated quite through the fires Centre whereupon the fiery desire did desire to cutt off the Earthly life which hath its Originall out of the fiery desire as its propriety for which cause Abel and all his * * * Or Successours Posterity became Marters 21. For this is the Doar of Christ who must give himselfe into this Death of the wrath and Penetrate the Humane Centre of the Soules Originall according to the fire-world with the Love Ens viz. with the deepest Love of the deity and change the fiery wrathfull desire of the darke worlds Essence into Love 22. Adam was the Stock of the universall humane tree but when Eve was made out of him then the tree was divided according to two Principles not wholly in the Essence but according to the nature and quality of the Centres of fire and light for the Centre of the light viz. the ground of the Love-desire did stand in Eves Matrix but it disappeared as to the Creature in her fall therefore the Divine Word did k k k Espouse betroth or promise re-inhest it selfe therein to a Centre of Regeneration 23. Now Cain and Abel were the two twigs which grew out of this tree from the property of both Principles viz. of the fire and light and they were a Type of the whole Tree with its fruit which it would bring forth but being Abel was a type of Christ who was to be conceived without the help of man onely and barely of the incorporated word in the Seed of the woman who should suffer death for Man therefore Abel must passe through without branches and fruit for the fruit which Christ should bring forth was to Generate anew the humane tree and not produce other twiggs out of his Loyns and therefore Habel also being the type of him should not generate any twigg out of his loins for the line of the Habelicall Seed remained in the Covenant and pointed at Christ who should spring forth out of the Habelicall Line and againe manifest the spirituall worlds Essence 24. Therefore Adam must bring forth another branch by his Eve out of the vitall Tree which was to be like Adam in his Image viz. SETH which Name doth signifie in the Language of nature a forth-running or leap where a glance or aspect of a Love-will ariseth out of the fiery will which notwithstanding is withheld and hindred by the outward worlds being Essence and Substance viz. by the Corrupt house of flesh 25. Now Christ must come to help this captivated forestalled and obscured will which notwithstanding hath its first ground out of Gods love and free it from the band of wrath wherewith the divine Ens was captivated for this was Christs Office not that he should beget but give himselfe into the Generation of Seth and Redeeme Seth and his branches from the wrath and regenerate him anew in himselfe he was not to beget children to this world but to bring forth Seth out of this world and bring him in himselfe into the Spirituall world 26. Now in Seth the Line of the Covenant went forth in which Christ would manifest himselfe according to the humane Tree but in Cain the line of the wonders viz. of nature and its Government went forth Genesis 4. v. 17. for Moses saith that unto Cain was born * * * Enoch Hanoch and he built a City and called the Name of the City after the name of his Son Hanoch now Cain was the first man borne of a woman and Abel the Second whom he slew 27. Now Moses saith that Cain built a city whereas indeed if we would goe meerely upon reason there were not men who might be able to build a city and inhabit it for the Spirit doth here make a vaile before the understanding which lyeth in the Word Citty for he saith Cains Son was called Hanoch and also the City now this is verily true but the Spirit in Moses looketh upon the root of Cain and Adam how the Tree Evill and Good hath opened and displayed it selfe into its boughes and branches for by the Name of Hanoch the Spirit looketh upon the property of the branch viz. of Cains Son intimating what kinde of people would arise from thence viz. a * * * Or Common-wealth City and Dominion of the outward world in Selfehood for in the Language of nature it is to be understood in the Name 28. HANOCH signifieth a forth-breathing of life and a re-assuming to a Selvish contemplation a childe of Selfe which in nature doth introduce it selfe into a selfefull Dominion and will so that it doth Imagine and frame in its Minde a Dominion or Region Country or City desiring and aspiring in its will to be a Tree or Prince of men for when the humane life departed from the Spirit of God into selfehood then it would be a Peculiar Selvish Lord which will 's Son was Hanoch viz. a City or Amassed Substance to a Selfe-full domination and Government 29. From which Government and dominion the branches or children were borne concerning which the holy Spirit complained in Noah that * * * Genesis 6.3 they would not suffer his Spirit to reprove them any more for they were a tree or branch sprung forth from the tree of Selfefullnesse from which the wordly Principalities and Superiorities have taken their rise and Originall for when the humane life fell unto the Stars and the Spirit of the outward world then

that so he might have great respect in the City Babel and therefore they build themselves strong holds and make great bulwarks and walls to defend and keep the Image and flatter themselves in hypocricy and understand and meane by the contrived and painted Image the God Maozim viz. the fat-belly God and pleasure of the beast viz. of this whores Image they set the Image upon the Towre for the shew of their holinesse and therewith they are very devout in glistering appearances before God as with a peculiar Selfe-born God but they immure the Beast within their Stone-houses that it may be secure and there fat it selfe 64. What is now this beast with the whore it is halfe-devill which hath its Kingdome upon the Earth and it is half beast this evill Beast hath devoured man viz. the Image of God 65. And for this cause God became man that he might destroy slay and nullifie the works of the Devill and we must put on this divine humanity and destroy the Devills Kingdome in us and mortifie all Images otherwise we cannot see God the living word must mortifie the literall Image 66. The living word is therefore become man that the literall Image might dye and the first man which was formed out of the living word in Gods Image might be regenerated anew in Christs Spirit viz. in the living word and if now he be borne then all the Image-teachers are more prejudicall then beneficiall to him for they introduce their Images onely into the Temple of Christ and destroy the Image of God 67. And let this here be declared concerning the children of Nimrod and the Towre of Babel as the Spirit hath so given us to know and we doe admonish the Reader in Love to prove and examine himselfe he shall finde where he is this is not written to reproach any but thus the Spirit speaketh with open mouth and sheweth what all things are from whence they come and into what End they shall goe 68. But the reason why so much is written of the Beast and the Whore of Babel is because it is at its End and shall soone be broken in pieces therefore it must be revealed that men may see and know it for Babel falleth not unlesse that all whatsoever hath made the Images doth likewise fall all Images Opinions and Sects of Religion together with the Beast and whore must fall else there is no Cure or remedy 69. Men have for a long time been a patching and pieceing of it and have verily thought to have made a virgin of the whore but her whoredome hath thereby been onely adorned trimmed up and made the greater if this whore shall fall then all Sects which are onely the Images of the whore must fall down and come to naught together with Beast upon whom she rideth every man must break down and destroy the Images and Idols in himselfe and where they will not doe it there the zeale of the Lord doth it 70. How very finely doth the whore at present perck up its head and being it heareth that the spirit doth intimate great and glorious things of Zion viz. of the Adorned holy bride of Christ then it thinks that it is the faire childe which God will bring into a golden Temple wherein there shall be a brave Golden Time and meere joy pleasure and delight and it looketh about to see from whence this faire Temple of God should come into which it should enter and become a virgin it hearkneth continually from whence these holy People should come who as it supposeth should make a Golden world 71. But it thinks not to leave off from its covetous voluptuous whoredome and be converted no! it groweth worse and worse and more unchaste and abominable full of blasphemies so that there is scarce any good at all in it and it standeth before God as an arraigned condemned whore 72. Hearken thou Adorned and crowned Babilon full of evill and wickednesse in the sight of God and his Angels we have heard a watchman say Away the city together with the Towre of the whore and the beast is fallen and judged of the most High thou shalt not see the city of God for ever unlesse that thy children doe put off and cast away the defiled Garment full of shame and fall down wholly naked and bare without any Image at the feet of the most High and turne unto him such as these may indeed see it but as for others who hope for golden mountaines and seek for Temporall honour money and pleasure of the flesh not any of them AMEN 73. Reason will here in the above mentioned Text where it is mentioned that a true Christian must dye to all Images Opinions and Selfe-knowledge and be wholly annihilated in himselfe begin to speculate cavill and say that we doe forbid man the naturall knowledge and externall Rationall wisdome whereby men doe Governe the life and all things of this world and if this were so all understanding would be abolished 74. Unto him we declare that nothing is hereby taken away or abolished in man neither understanding skill or Art for all these arise out of the divine wisdome we doe not nullifie the expressed Word of the formed wisdome but onely the Beast which will rule in divine contemplation viz. the beast-like will of Selfe and selvish ownhood and propriety which is departed from God which honoureth it selfe as a false selfly God and cannot beleeve or trust in God This is even the Antichrist which hath * * * 2 Thess. 2.4 set himselfe up in Gods place and we withall doe teach that man must wholly dye to the Antichristian Image that he may be born again in Christ with a new life and will which new will hath might and ability in the formed word of nature to see and behold with divine eyes all the wonders of God both in nature and creature in the formed wisdome 75. For if the Antichrist dyeth in the Soul then Christ ariseth from death for he resteth in the five vowells in his grave viz. in the mentall-tongue which dyed in Adam and lieth captive in Antichrist when this same ariseth from death in the mentall tongue and is made alive then he openeth all the treasures of the heavenly wisdome in the Sensuall tongue so that man doth far more clearly understand the spirits of the letters viz. the formed word of nature in all the three Principles then he did before in the Antichristian whores child 76. For the new birth is indeed effected and brough● to passe in the mentall tongue viz. in the disappeared Image of the heavenly humanity but it Tingeth and casteth away the false antichristian Image of the naturall humanity viz. of the spirits of the dumb sencelesse letters and doth make them all sencelesse and dead in their selfe-hood and gives them their own life so that they doe behold themselves in the new humanity and make all their assumptions and formations in the new humanity 77. These

† † † Matth. 27.5 Judas must first in his falshood and Treachery in the old Adam with sorrow for his committed sinne hang himselfe and as to his owne ability despaire and dye and then will Benjamin viz. the new Creature in Christ first be borne and * * * Acts 1.26 Mathias viz. the first Created Adam be Elected an Apostle 25. For Mathias was indeed borne before the Passion of Christ and was with Christ but he was then first an Apostle when Christ in him was dead from sinne and Judas had hanged himselfe thus also the Adamicall Man which shall be an Apostle or Christian is indeed borne aforehand before Christ suffereth in him but Christ must first arise from the Dead in him and Judas viz. the Serpents will must hang himselfe and dye to his owne evill will in the Death of Christ and then first is the ‖ ‖ ‖ Adams Man a Christ. Adamicall Man a Christian It is not the Historicall Man by an imputed Grace wherein Judas still liveth under the Purple Mantle of Christ that is a Christian as Babell playeth finely under the vayle concerning the virginity of her Daughter Dinah that the faire dainty Damsell may play the whore and finely sleepe with her Pandor Judas and lye with her Lovers in the Bed of Fornication 26. Great things are prefigured in this Text for the Text sayth † † † Gen 35.17 18. When shee was in sore Labour in the Birth of Benjamin the Midwife sayd to her Feare not for thou shalt have this sonne also But her soule being ready to depart that shee must die shee called him Benoni that is shee looked upon the inward ground upon the New Birth what he would be in Christ and regarded not the Name of the outward Creature 27. For Benoni is altogether a Spirituall Name after an Angelicall kinde and manner for shee sayd in Spirit when the Midwife comforted her concerning it that shee should have this sonne also I have him no more in the world the outward passeth away and it pointeth at the Angelicall New Name * * * Gen. 35.18 but his Father called him Benjamin as with the Name of this world that he should represent how a Christian must be borne under the Crosse of Christ in smart paine at which also his Mother looked as if shee should say through smart paine and sorrow wee come to Life as this sonne of my smart and sorrow 28. Then sayth the Spirit † † † Gen. 35.19 20. Thus Rachel dyed and was buried in the way towards Ephrath which is now called Bethlehem And Jacob set up a Pillar upon her Grave and that is the Pillar of Rachels Grave unto this Day This is a secret mysticall Figure that Rachel dyed and is buried at the Citie Bethlehem and it signifieth that shee shall there rise againe through the Birth of Christ for Christ should there be borne 29. And it is signified that when wee shall flie to Bethlehem to the Birth of Christ then shall Benjamin viz. the New spirituall Man be borne of Rachell viz. of the Mother of the Old Adamicall Man in the Spirit of Christ and then presently will the Mother yeeld up her birth-right to the Spirit of Christ and die to her right of Nature and then will the Spirituall Eternall Birth begin and Eve passe away for there Jacob setteth up the Grave-stone or Pillar and the Spirit sayth it is her Grave-stone unto this Day to signifie that it poynteth at the future and that this Grave-stone should continue and Christ be borne there where Rachel died 30. In this Historie of the Acts of Jacob wee see cleerly that the Spirit hath in this description a figure under which it signifieth For Rachel was big with Benjamin when Jacob departed from Laban when * * * Gen. 31·34 35. shee sat upon the Idol-Gods when her Father sought for them and shee sayd it is with mee after the manner of Women so that I cannot rise up before thee But now the Text relateth how Jacob first pitched his Tents before Sichem and dwelt there and afterwards went first to Bethel and then Rachel brought forth so that it appeareth that the Spirit speaketh wholly in the figure for the Acts doe all follow very Orderly one after another in the figure of Christ as it hath come to passe with Christ which ought well to be Observed 31. The Spirit of Moses sayth further * * * Gen. 35.20 21 22. And Israel went forth and spread his Tents on the otherside of the Tower of Edar And it came to passe when Israell dwelt in that Land that Reuben went and slept with Bilha his Fathers Concubine and it came before Israel What manner of figure is this which is very deeply hidden but the Circumstances make it as cleare as the Sun 32. Israel went on the other side of the Great Babylonicall Towre and dwelt there with the Children of that People which may well be a pretty way from Ephrath Bethlehem but the Spirit hath heere its figure under which it signifieth that is when Jacob had taken away the strange Gods from his people and also their Ear-rings and buried them and built the Altar of the Lord Converting to God and were sitting in Rest and Ease then the naturall fleshly Man turned againe to the Lust of the children of Babel even as the Text sayth 33. Jacob went and dwelt there and then Reuben lay with his fathers Concubine viz. with Bilha Rachels handmayd the Mother of Dan and Naphthali and committed * * * Blutschande Incest which was worse then that of Sichem with Dinah but the Spirit hath thus with this action presented a figure pointing at the future how it would come to passe how Israel would turne away from the Divine Ordinance from the Altar of their God and mixe their fathers Worship and service of God with Naturall whoredome viz. with heathenish Sacrificing to Idolls as is to be seene by Jeroboam and the Spirit signifieth thereby that the first Adamicall Man would have onely fleshly desires and Lusts. 34. For Reuben was the first sonne of Jacob by Lea viz. by her of whom also sprang the Line of Christ to signifie that every one that would be called Jewes or Christians and are Generated out of those stocks would forsake God and lye with their fathers Concubines viz. commit fornication with the Idolatry humane Inventions and bablings of the Pharisees and Scribes and with their Lawes and Cannons and forget the Truth of God and of his Commandements in their Hearts and † † † Einbilden make to themselves Images of these imprint those whoredomes in their Hearts Lusts. 35. For Reuben was indeed Jacobs first sonne as Adam also was the first Man but the Line of Christ was not manifested in Reuben as also not in Adam but it was manifested in Abel and in Judah and as Adam in Spiritu Mundi in the spirit of the

and yet during the time of this life outwardly it hangs to a Christian this the Spirit heere powerfully prefigureth 3. Heere we see a powerfull figure in Judah in whom stood the line of Christ in the Order of the Genealogie out of which Christ was to be manifested * * * Gen. 38.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. This Judah went away from his brethren and applyed himselfe to a Man of Odoliam called Hira and there Juda saw a Cananitish Mans daughter called Suha and he tooke her and went in unto her so shee conceived and bare a sonne and he called his Name Er and shee conceived againe and bare a sonne whose Name shee called Onan and shee conceived once more and bare another sonne whose name shee called Selah and shee was at Chesib when shee bare him and Judah gave his sonne Er a wife whose name was Thamar but he was evill in the sight of the Lord and therefore the Lord slew him then sayd Judah to Onan Lye thou with thy brothers wife and take her in Marriage that thou maiest rayse up seede to thy Brother But Onan knowing that the seede should not be his owne when he should lye with his brothers wife he let it fall to the ground and destroyed it lest he should give seede to his brother and it was displeasing in the sight of the Lord which he did and the Lord slew him also This Figure * * * Or is thus to be understood stands thus 4. Judah stands heere in the figure of Adam in that condition as when the Covenant of Grace concerning the seede of the Woman was againe inspired or inspoken into Adam just so he standeth in that same figure shewing that the Covenant of Grace stood in the Evill Adam as Adam then was for as in Judah the time of Christ viz. the Covenant of Grace was in Motion as a boundary reaching to Mary so also it was in Adam and so along to and in Judah 5. And Thamar standeth in the figure of Eve into whom God had inspired or inspoken his Promise the Word of Regeneration that the seede of the Woman in the power of the Word should breake the Serpents head so shee standeth as an Earthly Eve in whom inwardly the Covenant of Grace stood and outwardly there was the Corrupt Eve which in this figure standeth outwardly as a whore out of whom yet the Line of Christ sprang in Perez her sonne as Abel out of Eve though Eve were indeed become Earthly and we see here the Type very plainly how the Spirit playeth and taketh delight in this figure with the Old and New Adam as also with the Old and New Eve 6. For Adam was in his Lust gone forth from his fathers house as Judah to the Cananites and had taken to him in his Lustfull desire the Cananitish Woman the foure Elements of whom he begat Three sonnes the first called Er or Ger viz. selfe-will or desire wherein the Kingdome of the Nature of Man stood in selfe-desire or owne will and this sonne was the first world before the Deluge or Floud to this the father gave him his Name to signifie that he lived in the Fathers Nature 7. The second sonne shee called Onan whom the Mother called so which pointed at the second world after the Floud for the Nature of the Father in Man sayd to God O no O nein my Lord drowne me no more and the Mother viz. the Woman of this world in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the world in the Expressed or out-spoken Word and Life gave her sonne this Name for God had inspired his Grace againe into her that this her second sonne viz. the Other world should not be drowned with Water therefore this Name standeth thus in the high figure is called ONAN for the Spirit hideth it in the High Tongue and calleth him Onan or O nein O no. 8. The Third sonne shee called Selah and shee was at Chesib when shee bare him CHESIB signifieth in the * * * Either the Hebrew is heere meant or rather the Language of Nature High Tongue an Exhaling in and recomprehension that is this Selah signifieth the time of the Manifestation of the Law wherein the Divine Will in the Word hath manifested it selfe through the Expressed Word and comprized it in a Law or Commandement 9. These three sonnes signifie the Three Times from Adam to Christ Er is the Time before the Floud in selfe-will Lust and desire Onan is the second Time after the Floud This sonne viz. the World after the Floud hath knowne Gods Judgement and punishment which began to Weepe and Lament before God saying O nein O no Lord punish us no more thus 10. The Third Time is the Time of the Law viz. a manifesting and laying open of sinne and is justly called Selah for this sonne sayth I have found my soule againe in the Lord but it was not he yet which Thamar that is the hidden Eve in whom the Covenant of Grace lay could marry he could not raise up the seede of the Woman for Christ was as yet hidden in the Law therefore Thamar must waite till Selah be growne up that is the Law must waite till the fullness of Time yet neverthelesse Thamar that is the New Eve which lay hid under the veile of sinne must conceive through the Spirit in the Covenant and beare the Line of Christ hidden to the outward Thamar or Eve as this Figure of Judah and Thamar sheweth it The inward Figure standeth thus 11. Judah gave his first sonne a wife called Thamar but he was evill in the sight of the Lord therefore the Lord slew him That is in the inward understanding as much as to say God gave to the first world viz. to the first sonne Er this Thamar viz. the promised incorporated Covenant in the seede of the Woman but they looked onely upon the outward Eve and committed whoredome with her so Thamar remained unfruitfull by this sonne and bare onely the outward Eve in her whoredome and thus Er viz. the fleshly desire was evill in the sight of the Lord therefore the Lord slew him with the Deluge 12. When this sonne was slaine the Spirit of God sayd to the Second sonne after the Deluge take thou thy brothers wife and raise up in Thamar a seede out of the Line of the Covenant that is enter thou into the first Covenant of the Womans seede and bring thy will into the Obedience of God and work in the promised Grace but the second sonne viz. the second world would not marry with the divine Will neither nor work in the Grace but spilt their seede upon the Earth that is they set their desire● upon Earthly things and would raise up no seede in the inward Eve in the Covenant of Grace but introduced their seede into earthly vessells and bare children of fleshly voluptuousness as is to be seene in the children of Nimrod and presently after in