both as to Light and Darknesse 51. And yet we are not so to think that a Spirit or Angell is it self the Out-breathing of the Eternall Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity in the Divine Voyce But it is the out-spoken Word as a Model and Image of the speaking Word a fitted Instrument of the Spirit of God through which the Spirit of God as by his fitted Instrument playeth or melodiseth and soundeth 52. So far as the Instrument remaineth standing in its fitted Order as with the Desire of the Fiat which standeth in all Angells as the Angells proper own wherewith the Will of the Angell may lift up it self into the Good viz into Gods Love or into the Anger and introduce it self into the Figure and Tang thereof then is the sound of the Word out of the Fathers Love and Anger out-breathed and become introduced into an Image in verbo Fiat in the Word Fiat 53. As is to be seen how some Prince-Angels give up themselves with the Desire into the Love and some as Lucifer into the Anger viz into the Desire of the Fiat and Created or Extracted a Will in the Desire of the Anger in the Fires Might to Live and to Rule according to the Fathers Anger Property and thus to domineer over all Principalities of Angels over the Love in the fierce wrathfull Fires Might whence followed upon him his thrusting out by the Word Fiat into the Darknesse of Gods Anger 54. Thus we can not say of the Creation of all things or Substances that the Eternall Substance of the Ternary or number Three hath thus formed it self into an Image of an Angell but in the Eternall Desire which hath Originated it selfe in the Longing delight of the Deity through the Moving of the Father of all things or Substances as an ETERNALL Nature and a Revelation or Manifestation of the Eternall hidden Nature 55. In that Eternall beginning-lesse Nature viz in the All-being All-substantiall working of the Great Mystery have the Angells and Souls of Men received their Originall in the Eternall Out-spoken Word in the Eternall Wisdome of God according to Love and Anger 56. For if they had Originated only in the holy voyce of God viz in the One only Love then they could not have attracted or framed in themselves any Will to the Anger or if the Love-Will of God in the Angels were fallen then it would have this understanding that God in the Creature had fallen and become a Devill which were abominable to be spoken 57. No Creaturely Spirit can subsist in the Creature without the Fire-world for even the Love of God would not be if his Anger or the Fire-world were not in him The Anger or the Fire of God is a cause of the Light and of the power strength and Omnipotency 58. But in the Love the Fire dyeth and transmuteth it self into the Kingdome of Joy for at the End Death originateth which is as a dying in the Fire out of which dying the Light as another source or quality originateth viz a Desire of Love which is called Gods Mercifullnesse or the Divine Kingdome of Joy the Life of Holinesse without source or pain goeth from the dying in the Fire sorth as a Glance of the Majesty a Glance of the Liberty 59. This dying Lucifer contemned he would Live and Domineer in the Fires Regiment in the Self-hood so he became also driven forth out of the Fire back into the Root of the Fire viz into the darknesse 60. Every Angell and Soul which will live in Gods Light and Power must DYE to the Self-hood of the Fires Dominion in the Desire and wholly immerse or cast himself with his own Propriety into Gods Will viz into the Divine Sound and dye to the own self Will in the Fire but bud or sprout forth in the Light of Love in the Resignation into Gods Sound or Word as a fruit of the Love of God that Gods will-spirit may rule and guide his Life 61. And that the holy Tincture of the Fire and Light may be the Glance of the shining of his Life out of which again Divine Will and Desire Originateth that the same Life may be able to live in the Power and vertue of the Wisdome of God to behold it self therein and frame or attract a Divine Will therein 62. Which Wisdome is the Angells Food out of which they generate to their Creatour Eternall Praise that Gods Joy play or-Melody in the Angelicall Voyce may be an Instrument of the Spirit of God all directed into the Harmony of the Divine Kingdome of Joy 63. For every Prince-Angell beareth the Name of the Great God every one according to his property as a peculiar Instrument directed into the Praise of God in the Divine Sound 64. In like manner we are not so to think of the Creation of Heaven and of the Earth that the Heaven and the World with its Substance or Matters are Created out of Gods holy Voyce or Word but IN the Voyce and through the Word 65. Not out of the Sound of the Divine property but in the word Fiat viz in the Impression of the Eternall Mystery of the Eternall Fire-and-Lights Desire and entered into a Substance according to the fires and Darknesses Property as also according to the Lights Desire viz according to the Free Longing delights Property as a Revelation or Manifestation of Evill and Good of Joy and also of pain and Torment 66. All which is undeniably before our Eyes and the whole Creation convinceth us thereof whereby men know that in ALL things there is Good and Evill for which things sake the Last judgment of God is appointed viz a Day of Separation wherein all shall again enter into its beginning 67. This visible World is a Similitude of the Eternall Mystery out of which Joy and Sorrow Light and Darknesse originateth through which Eternall Mystery the Spirit of the Ternary in the Trinity manifesteth or revealeth it selfe and introduceth it self into Three Principles 68. Viz First into the Dark Cold and Fire World viz into an Abysse of the Mystery And then Secondly into the divine Light World of the Kingdome of Joy And Thirdly with or by a Similitude of the Dark Fire and Light World viz with or by this outward visible and Elementary World 69. In which it generateth the Image of the Eternall World in Evill and Good as is to be seen in all living Creatures of this world as also in the Starres Elements Hearbs and Trees how all is contrary one o the other and yet the Birth or Geniture of all Life standeth in such a Contrary 70. Every Life standeth in Evill and Good viz in Poison and Oyle out of which the Life in the Fire burneth or shineth which ALL is a similitude of the Eternall Birth or Geniture of the Mystery of all Substances or of every thing also Men see the similitude of the Holy Trinity in every Life viz the Fire Light and proceeding Aire
the Father hath given the power to CHRIST through the JESUS for he to whom a thing is given hath not had it from Eternity nor made it himself but he that hath himself made a thing to him it can not be given 28. Hath CHRIST made all things in himself understand in the CHRIST and out of himself then nothing can be given to him but he hath had it from Eternity and there is no giving 29. But he saith all power was given to him of his Father Now if the power be given of the Father to this Sonne viz to this CHRIST then must a Man think that the power that is given originateth in the Fathers Will. 30. For that which is given was not from eternity like or equall with the Gift in the Giver Indeed the Dear Name JESUS had it from Eternity for he had an Eternall Originall in the Eternall Ever speaking Word 31. He is the Name of the First-Born of the Father from Eternity whose out-going and beginning is from Eternity as the Angel said to Mary which Name in the Word which Created all things and generated all things in Mary in the Humane and Divine Essence and Substance became Flesh both a Heavenly and Humane Flesh which dwelleth both in Heaven and on Earth at once Joh. 3. 32. Which in the holy Trinity was from Eternity the Second Person of the Divine Substance and Eternally generated of his Father also in Eternity also still in CHRIST becometh ever and eternally generated of his Father 33. Not that CHRIST becometh continually generated that is once become generated in Man but the Eternall Word in CHRIST becometh from Eternity in Eternity ever generated from the Father 34. For CHRIST said to Philip Dost thou not beleeve that the Father is in Me and that I am in the Father for the Words which I speak are not Mine but the Fathers that dwelleth in Me. 35. They were not Christs Words but the Fathers viz the Fathers Sound and Eternall Voyce which had manifested it self in the Humanity Therefore said the Humanity the Words are Not Mine but the Fathers Words wherein and wherewith he hath assumed the Humanity 36. The Humanity is Eternally under the Deity in the assumed humanity in THAT the Word became Flesh the Name Christus or CHRIST originateth as a Saviour of the Flesh and of the Soul and not out of the humane fleshly property but out of the Name JESUS in the Word of the Father of all things or Substances 37. Now if I will speak of the Holy Trinity then I say not That the Divine Love is an Exgenerated Substance and a Mother of God or a Woman or Wife of God as this Authour Conceiteth as if the first begotten which he calleth CHRIST were generated out of the Mother of his Voyce and Love 38. The Eternall Word or the first begotten out of the Father from Eternity is it self the generating of the Love for from him and the Father goeth forth the Holy Spirit 39. The Eternall Wisdome is the Out-generated or out-spoken Substance as a Looking-Glasse and Ornament of the Holy Trinity in which the Power Colours and vertues of the Deity become Manifest and in which the Spirit of God hath seen ALL things from Eternity 40. Both according to the Fathers Property in which he calleth himself an Angry Zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming Fire in which Property is generated the Darknesse and source or quality of pain or Torment as also Nature and all Spirits and all whatsoever liveth in the Sulphur and Mercury both according to the Eternall Spirits and according to the Temporary Spirits 41. And then according to his Love and the Property of the Eternall Light according to which Property the Name GOTT God viz the GUTE or Good Originateth from Eternity in which the Name JESUS Originateth from the Eternall Light viz from the Creatour of the Humility or of the well-willing in it self as the Meeknesse of the Light Originateth in the Fire and bringeth along with it another Will of another quality then the Fire according to which God Calleth himself a Mercifull and Good Munificent God 42. Thus the Name JESUS is the first Eternall Originall to Gods Mercifulnesse Therefore saith Saint Paul We were foreseen or Elected in CHRIST JESVS before the Foundation of the World was laid For in the Fathers Anger was the Fall known and in the Name JESUS in his Love was CHRIST as a Redeemer from the Anger known 43. For To God are all his works knowne from Eternity the Good and the Evill The Evill is become known in his Anger the Good in his Love 44. That same Eternall God in Trinity hath Created all things with and through the Eternall Word which is his Mouth and the Sound of his Voyce out of himself out of BOTH Properties out of the Anger as out of the Eternall Nature and then out of the Love as a Healer or Saviour of Nature into Substance 45. Understand God in the Trinity is a Spirit and no Substance But in the Word of his Sound he hath in his Desire introduced it into Substance His desire is the Fiat which originateth in verbo Domini in the Word of the Lord viz an Eternall Desire 46. God in himself is the Eternall Longing Delight of the Liberty free from all things or Substances but with his Desire out of the Longing Delight as out of the Eternall Fires-Property he hath Created all Spirits viz the Angels and Souls of Men In which Fires-Property the Center of the Light in all Angels with the Fire of the Anger stood in Equall Ballance Harmony or Temper 47. For when God once moved himself to the Creation then he moved himself according to ALL whatsoever himself was in all things especially according to the Eternall Wisdome in which the Form of the Creation was seen from Eternity in the Fire and Lights Glance in the Spirit of God according to Love and Anger according to Darknesse and Light 48. The Creation is nothing else but an out-breathing or out-speaking of his Substance Whatsoever GOD is in the Nature of the Fire and then also in the Eternall Liberty of all sources or qualities that hath the Free Longing delight introduced into a Desire and impressed into a Moving Substance 49. The Desire viz the Fiat of all things or Substances Originateth in that the Vnchangeable God viz the Abysse hath once Moved it self in the Eternall Longing Delight where then Time began 50. All Angells and Creatures which are Created to Eternall Life are all of them comprised in the Out-breathing of the Father through the Word in the Desire as in the Moving in the Fiat and in a Model of the Eternall Longing Delight as the Eternall Spirit in the Wisdome hath comprehended it in its wonders become Created into an Image of the Longing Delight and there remained in all things the possibility to Good and Evill according to the whole Divine Property
in JEHOVA but with the Will of JEHOVA viz with the Voyce of the Word in the Impression of Nature which in the Eternity is only a Spirit but with the Moving of God in the beginning of the Creation of this World is in the Spirit become a Substance viz an own self Principle 215. Man is not become Created and Manifested in CHRIST without the Divine Manifestation in him CHRIST was yet in JEHOVA viz hidden in JESU in the out-speaking Word as a Power of the Deity 216. JEHOVA that is God hath moved himself in the JESU viz in the Lust or Longing of the eternall Desire viz with Gods Heart and generated and Manifested CHRIST in the Humanity as a Treasure of Divine Power and Wisdome 217. For Mary said to the Angel Gabriel to the Prince of Gods Wonders when he brought her the Message that she should be impregnate or conceive with Child How should that come to passe for I have known no Man The Angel said the Holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will overshadow thee thou shalt be impregnate with Child and generate or beare a Sonne whose Name thou shalt call JESVS he will be great and be called the Sonne of the Most High whose out-going hath been from Eternity 218. This was the Originall of CHRIST in the eternall Word in the Power of the Most High of all which hath moved it self and out of and in the JESU viz in the desire of the Divine Love generated the CHRIST viz the Champion in the Battle between Gods Love and Anger Not so as that the power of CHRIST was not from eternity in the Word It was indeed but not manifested in such a property as a Breaker of Death in pieces 219. God generated to himself the breaker of Death in peeces out of the Fountain of HIS Self hood For in the Creation there was no Death so there was also no breaker of Death in peeces With Sinne came Death into the World and through the Breaker in pieces of Death it came out of the World again 220. In Adam was JEHOVA the great All being All-substantiall God manifested but not in the Forme of the breaker of Death but in the Power of his Spirit according to Love and Anger according to the property of the Fiat viz through the glimps of the Tincture of the Fire and Light as an expresse Image of God 221. Adam was not God himself he was not Created in the Trinity in JEHOVA as a Self-subsisting God as this without writeth he was made an expresse Image of God in CHRIST visible and Manifest but without Divine Knowledge and that God first Manifested the Treasure of this Wisdome in Adam when Christ became Man 222. No! God Created Adam to the Eternall Life in Paradise with Paradisicall source or quality and Perfection he forbade him to eate of the source or quality Evill and Good he Created a Perfect expresse Image in the Looking-Glasse of the Eternall seen Image without Substance The Power JEHOVA viz Gods the Fathers Love throughly enlightened him as the Sun through-enlighteneth the whole World 223. The Divine Sun shone through and through Adam in his heavenly substantiality viz in the pure Element and outwardly the Outward Sun enlightened him neither Heat nor Cold touched him for he stood in equall Harmony or accord in them the Pure Element held the Four Elements swallowed up and Captive in it self as the Day the Night and this Man shall not perswade me that God was not manifested in Adam he is indeed manifested in all things but according to every things Property 224. In the Property as Adam was Created God was manifested in him but when he Manifested the Center of the Anger in him then God put enmity against the Evill and manifested the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Man which before without Sinne was hidden in Gods Power and was in the Divine Vnity in the Love of God in JESU Thus this Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent became set as a Mark or Limit to Man into which he should turn in his Desire 225. Not that Man should become the JESUS or a God but that we should carry our Faith into him and in our Desire receive into us the CHRIST who hath broken Death in pieces that he may make our Soul and the faded Image in Adam living the Divine Life in himself 226. For in JESU the Eternall Sun shineth forth through the CHRIST JESUS is JEHOVA that is God and Christ is the Mediatour between Gods Love and Anger 227. To CHRIST is all Power given from JEHOVA or JESUS JESUS hath given the divine power to CHRIST not that CHRIST should bear the Power or Authority to or for himself but GOD who is a Spirit he useth the Christ for an Instrument whereby he takes away the Power and Authority from the Anger JESUS is the Power or vertue of CHRIST which giveth the CHRIST the power or authority For in own self authority CHRIST did Nothing upon Earth for he said at the Crosse when the Jewes Hung him upon it Father forgive them for they know not what they do 228. And when he raised Lazarus up he said Father hear me yet I know that thou hearest me alwayes And David said in Spirit He hath set the Lord before him therefore shall Irest secure there he meaneth CHRIST that he had set before him the JESUS or JEHOVA wherein CHRIST resteth 229. Now Christ is a Regeneratour or Restorer of that which is Lost he is not come for the sake of the Earthly Man that he should keep THAT in its Dominion but that he might regenerate that in Adam which when he awakened to sinne disappeared and dyed concerning which God saith That Day thou wilt eate of the Tree of Good and Evill thou shalt dye the Death he dyed to the Divine World and awakened to the Outward-World viz to the Sinne-House full of Misery and Ever dying source or quality 230. He would not generate the Sinne-Life anew for he dyed away in his Body of OUR Sinnes-Life which in the Regiment or Dominion of the Four Elements was existed with the Sinne in Adam and brought our true Life of the pure Element aloft again his death was our Life The Four Elements held us Captive in the Anger but he brought our Life of the Four Elements through Death forth in the Element again and made for us in the humane Life a path or Way to heaven again 231. Now we must follow after him and also dye away from the Life of the Four Elements aforehand yet first of all receive Christ in us who introduceth us through the Death of our Dying into his Way or Path through Death into the pure Element 232. This outward Visible Body cannot inherite the Element of God unlesse he break that in pieces aforehand but if we have put on CHRIST in the Faiths Desire he introduceth our Lifes Essence into
more assured certainty 16. At the Beginning he maketh a great Speech or Sermon signifying how He will Answer out of Christ the Triune God out of Gods Mouth and Heart out of all Saints men should hearken to it and look upon it as Gods infallible Word 17. This now is sufficiently explained above that it is groundlesse and that to speak in such a manner is ineffectuall also it doth not become any Angel or Man so to speak 18. But concerning the Text Isa 54. 5. The Explanation thereof is very sufficiently made before yet for the Readers sake I will set down somewhat more 19. The Prophet saith He who hath made Thee is thy Man or Husband The Lord of Hoasts is his Name and thy Redeemer the Holy One in Israel who is called the God of all things 20. The Prophet speaketh here in his own understanding not of a Man or Husband but by way of Similitude in like manner as the Seed to Man lyeth in the Man or Husband from which Man becometh manifested So all yes all whatsoever is manifested lay in the Eternall Man or Husband viz in the Generatour of all things or Substances 21. But especially of mans Life which he hath breathed into the Created Image according to the Similitude of his Substantiality and out of all his out-breathed Substance as John saith The Life of Man was in HIM 22. And yet in this we are not so to think as if the inbreathed Life or Substance of Man were only and solely the Spirit of God in Divine Holinesse and Omnipotency No else if that were perished as it came to passe then God were perished but each Life of each Creature becometh given to the Creature out of the Originall of its Substance 23. So the Substance of Man is given forth out of the Three Principles viz out of the Eternity and out of the Time viz out of the Substance and Source or Quality of Darknesse which containeth in it Nature viz Sulphur Mercurius and Sal. 24. As to the First Part and Principle Spirituall as a Regiment or Dominion and Source or Quality out of which Substance cometh to be and as to the Second Part according to the outward World corporeall in the first Principle fiery and in the Third Principle out of the dark impression Earthly and Four Elementary and sydereall from the Sun and Stars And from the Second Principle from the Light and Power of that out-breathed or generated Substance Heavenly Holy and Oyly viz from the pure Element and divine indwelling also Paradisicall in Power and Highnesse 25. In this created Images Substance out of Three Principles viz out of the out-spoken Substance of all things or Substances hath the eternall Spirit of God extracted the Originall of this whole Substance which is a Spirit out of all the Three Principles out of and through the Substance and made it a Ruler and Life of the Substance viz a Living Soul 26. That is A Fire-spirit out of the First Principle with the Root of the first Impression to the manifestation of the Deity and in standing in the Darknesse and in the Center of the first Fire of the eternall Nature with the first Life in generating in the seaven properties out of which ALL Substances are existed 27. THAT is the true Fire-Soul out of the Fathers property wherein God calleth himself a Strong Zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming Fire but is not knowne or manifested in the Light of God but is only the CAUSE of the Kingdome of Joy 28. And in the dark Root viz in the first Impression viz in the true Center of the Creature is the Originall of Sinne viz of the Evill if that property in the Creature becometh manifested then is that Life a life in the fierce wrath and Anger of God and an Enmity of the Love and Meeknesse 29. And Secondly the Spirit of God hath inbreathed into him the Originall of the Substance of the Second Principle viz the Life out of which the heavenly Substance in the desire of Love becometh generated out of and through that very Substance in which Life the Soul is the true Image and Similitude of God and an Angell in the Kingdome of God 30. Which Life Adam squandered away and lived only in the dark fiery and Earthly part which Life God hath manifested out of JESUS viz out of the greatest depth of humility in CHRIST out of himself again in Man 31. Thirdly Gods Spirit hath inbreathed into him the Aire viz the Soul of the outward earthly Substance out of and through the earthly Flesh as viz a Life of the Flesh of the Earthlinesse which Life should be subjected to the holy and stand hidden in him as a help and Instrument in equall agreement of Heat and Cold and neither of them be in the Dominion but the holy Life of the Second Principle in the Sonne should Rule The Sulphur and Mercurius should Rule in a holy power viz in a Quintessence in the pure Element then the Paradise had continued manifest 32. Understand us aright thus the Man or Husband who hath spoken or expressed this fore-mentioned Substance out of himself hath Created Man out of this his generated corporeall Substance The Prophet meaneth THAT where he saith He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband 33. For in him lyeth ALL viz as a Seed in the Man or Husband out of his Exhalation or out-breathing a Seed became manifested First the Three Principles and out of the Three Principles the Creature 34. The Second Clause of the Verse The LORD of Hoasts is his Name This the Prophet of God understandeth concerning the Eternall Substance of God without besides or beyond all Nature and Creature and without besides or beyond the Principles as the eternall Will of the Free Longing Lust or Delight manifesteth it self in the Abysse 35. Which at this place or in this Birth or Generating is NOT said to be THREE fold but ONE only GOD who riseth up in himself and goeth forth out of himself in a Spirituall Manner and manifesteth himself through the Center of his Fire with the Light and the Power of the Love desire in the Transmutation of the Fire into the Light 36. Which Birth or Geniture and manifestation manifesteth out of the Fire the Divine Sound Power and Understanding after the Manner of the Five Senses as a peculiar Life a Life of Love and this Life is called the Second Person of the Deity viz the Second Principle of the Divine Substance 37. Wherein the Abysse viz the eternall Nothing in the stillnesse of the Will manifesteth it self through the Fire in the Light and maketh the Fire to be the Kingdome of Joy and this Birth or Geniture is called the First Born of the Father of all Genetrixes through which the Father hath generated and Created all things to the Light Whatsoever is out of or from the Inward Spirituall Eternall and then out of or from the outward Nature
entered into Spirit and Substance and here is God rightly understood in TRINITY 38. Viz The Father in the First Originall from Eternity in the Fiery and dark Substance and yet is no Substance but spirit out of which Substance the Impression of Nature viz an inward eternall Spirituall Sulphur Mercurius and Sal of all Power originateth also the originall of all Creaturely Life which is generated out of the Eternity viz Angells and Souls and the Spirits of the Third Principle in the out-birth of the Inward viz all earthly Creatures 39. And in the Second Principle wherein the Light Power and understanding with the Love-Will becometh generated out of the Eternall Father HE is rightly called God For the Father is in the Light viz in the Sonne in his Eternall first Birth or Geniture Manifested in the Love 40. And here he is called Mercifull and in that the Free Will of the Anger entereth through the Transmutation of the Pain into Love and Joy he is called JEHOVAH and with that Longing Delight of the Relish or tast of the penetrating through he is called JESUS as the Spirit in the Language of Nature giveth us sufficiently to know and the Tincture of the Fire and Lights Glance giveth in the Properties the Colour viz a Manifesteresse of the Power 41. Thirdly the Exit of the Power viz the true Life viz the Eye of God in the Father of the Fire and in the Father of the Light in the First Born is the out-going Sound viz a Flame of the fiery Love-desire a Formour of the Eternall Will a Blower up of the Fire and constant kindler of the Light of the Love viz of its own Substance out-going from the Father of the Fire and Light as a Constant Exhalation or out-breathing wherein the Father generateth forth the Sonne out of himself Thus the Spirit viz the POWER of the Sound or Word in the out-breathing goeth forth and that is now the God JEHOVA in the Trinity 42. Fourthly That which is out-breathed which the Father in the Sonne through the Sound of the Word or Voyce breatheth forth out of the Spirit is the Eternall Wisdome and Omnisciency for therein becometh Manifest whatsoever God is in his Deep 43. The Wisdome is Gods Manifestation and the Holy Spirits Corporeity the Body of the Holy Trinity and this whole Name in one Eternall Substance manifesteth it self through the Wisdome and is called the LORD of Hoasts or Lord ZEBAOTH 44. We have no other Language to Expresse this with only the Spirit of God in Man in its own Principle which searcheth the depths of the Deity that understandeth it in it self but we stammer childishly thereof so far as the outward Tongue or Language is able to lift up it self and commit this here to every Soul in its Apprehension for here is no Beginning nor End neither place nor Limit but the Manifestation of the Abysse in a Bysse or Ground 45. But as concerning the words or that clause of the verse which the Prophet annexes And thy Redeemer the Holy one in Israell who is called the God of all the would 46. With these words the Prophet looketh distinctly forward upon CHRIST and divideth these words from the First saying and thy Redeemer and therewith looked upon the humane Misery viz. upon the Second MAN who should new regenerate us in himself and Redeem us from the Anger of God 1 John 5 That the same should then be called the God of all the World 47. The Prophet sets it down first He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband and afterward he sets it down thus and thy Redeemer the holy One in Israel 48. The First Man viz the Creator he calleth Lord of Hoasts or Zeboath and the Second he calleth the Redeemer and holy One in Israel who is called the God of all the World Understand out of the Zebaoth cometh the Name to the Redeemer THAT he is called the God of all the World and this Name ariseth in the JESU with the Moving of JEHOVA 49. Viz CHRIST became manifested out of JESU in the Limit of the Covenant as a God and Judge of all the World To whom the Father hath given the Judgment of the World 50. Therefore the Expositour shall not perswade me to set the Second Man viz the Redeemer in Israel in the Creation For the Prophet saith He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband the Lord of Hoasts or Zebaoth is his Name and thy Redeemer and the holy One in Israel whom the Lord of Hoasts or Zebaoth manifested to Man for Redemption and gave to him for Regeneration he is called the God of all the World 51. For therefore hath God manifested him that he should seperate the Evill and the Good as a GOD of all things or Substances of this World for all Prophets have prophesied concerning THIS God CHRIST that he should be manifested and generated in the Flesh out of the Eternall Originall of the Word of the Divine holy Voyce 52. And therefore this Author shall not perswade me to set him as Creatour of all things or Substances For when the World was created then was he hidden in the Word of the Divine Power the World is become created through the Word out of which Christ is generated or Born Joh. 3. 53. For John saith in the Beginning was the WORD he doth not say CHRIST but all things were made by it and without it was nothing made that was made and though indeed all which is spoken of the Word may also be spoken of Christ yet men should distinguish that men might know what God and the person of Christ are and the Office of each of them 54. This Author Cooketh or Minceth all together that Men cannot understand what the Office and Substance of each of them is and how the Originall of the Word and of the Person of Christ should be distinguished and what God and Creature is 55. He wrongfully concludeth the CREATION in Christ he should conclude the END of the World in Christ and not the BEGINNING though indeed Christ was from the Word in Eternity yet he was not called CHRIST but JEHOVAH or JESUS 56. And for Mans and this Worlds sake JESUS hath manifested the CHRIST out of himself and that in the Time and not from Eternity as a high Priest and King of Men who is a Prince of God 57. We ought not to speak otherwise of him for he hath in this World spoken no otherwise of himself and ascribed all Power to his Father For he said indeed he was come forth from God and come into the World and that was indeed done in Time and not from Eternity 58. Though indeed he was in the Eternall Divine Birth or Geniture yet he hath only in Time manifested himself out of God in the World and not in the Creation of all things or Substances 59. Thus also CHRIST is NOT the Saviour and Redeemer of the Angels
world which giveth Life to all Creatures but in the Curse of the vanity viz in SINNE lyeth the Evill Child which Adam awakened and manifested 101. But what kinde of Whimseyes this Authour hath that He will not allow the Divine Tincturing and Transmutation to consist with the New Birth and contemneth and rejecteth ALL that it cannot be enough discerned why he giveth forth so altogether Blind and absurd Matters 102. He telleth us of a totall New strange Creature which is generated in CHRIST if that were so then we could not at all say that Christ had taken on himself our Flesh and Bloud Much lesse the Soul then also he might not at all be called The Womans Seed How should we then be partakers of him 103. Hath not Christ taken on him my Creature how then hath he in my Flesh slain Death and quenched the Anger of God but if he hath taken on him my Creature what kind of strange New Creature should enter into me 104. I know of no strange one It were directly contrary to the Article of the Resurrection of the Dead I must not speak of another Man of another Creature but of a TRANSMUTATION of the Course stone into Gold the unholy into pure holinesse 105. If that must be done then must the right Artist in ME Come viz the Holy Spirit with the divine Tincture which is Christs Bloud wherewith he brake in peeces the vanity of our Humanity and brought our right Life forth through Death 106. I must be Tinctured or else I cannot be Transmuted If Christ do not Tincture me with his Bloud then my HOLY Paradise-LIFE remaineth faded or disappeared in Death but if he doth Tincture ME then the Holy Spirit in me becometh stirring who CAN in Christs Flesh and Bloud Transmute ME according to the Inward Paradise-Man 107. God had not to do about a strange Creature in that he became Man but about that which in Adam he created in Paradise Job saith In this MY Flesh shall I see GOD and my Eyes shall see him and NOT anothers 108. My Own Essence of the INWARD Man is in this Life time tinctured and Transmuted and my OUTWARD Mortall Man is Tinctured with Christs Death to DYE and the MYSTERY of the outward Man viz the Fift Essence or QUINTESSENCE understand the Outward Spirit WITHOUT the Abomination wherein the Four Elements stand in Equall agreement in One Will and Substance is Tinctured for the Last release and Resurrection of the Dead which transmutation will be effected at the Last DAY 109. This Man Imageth or frameth a Phantasie in himself and Thinketh he is no more what he was his Nature is totally gone from him he is totally a New Creature inwardly and outwardly and that is totally false and groundlesse 110. His earthly Man is not Christs Bride in Gods holinesse but he is Christs Bride in Christs Death so farre as he is capable or partaker of that 111. But while he will needs be Perfect and cursorily passe over Christs Death and be already risen again in Christs Death he truly in the Self-hood goeth back with Christs Death into the 〈◊〉 112. I wish him from my Heart that his Body visibly were capable or partaker of Christs Death for in that I live in my self-hood I do not rejoyce but I rejoyce in this that I in my self-hood stand in CHRISTS Death and continually DYE 113. And I wish that I yet might totally dye to self-hood that my self-hood might be totally resigned up into God and I be only an Instrument or Tool of God and knew nothing more of my Self-hood 114. But that this Authour mentioneth that he is altogether dead to self-hood and is the Glorious Type of Christs Bride which God would manifest upon Earth in this Last Time totally inwardly and outwardly holy PERFECT without vanity blemish or Sinne we would readily allow him to be so if he would sufficiently assure us of it 115. But upon his supposititions insufficient groundlesse literall demonstration whereas yet he doth not understand How the Scripture speaketh we shall not be able to beleeve him unlesse we see the Paradise upon him and see that he is dead from the outward world and do use it no more 116. For no conceit availeth but Feeling by Experience and so 〈◊〉 all the while he liveth in the vanity and perplexeth himself in the vanity and is affected with strife we beleeve him NOT neither can we beleeve him in regard of Christs word which warneth us that we should beware of those that give forth themselves to be CHRIST 117. And if one did go about in doing Miracles and did live still in the vanity in Evill and Good yet then we must say that he is a Mortall Man even though he were inwardly holy and New-born in CHRIST 118. The Golden Mountain which he promiseth in this Tabernacle the old Adam might or would readily allow and put on if it were possible and that God would do so with us 119. Also we would very heartily esteem him for the Type and the first born of the Adamicall Bodyes if it were he that could manifest or perform so great a promise upon OUR Mortall Bodies or if he could but manifest it on HIS own 120. But that he saith we can not see it on him we should beleeve it none can assure us of it I cannot beleeve him unlesse he assure me of it that I may conceive it is true else I take it to be an Imagination 121. What the Spirit of GOD signifieth concerning the Last Sion hath another A. B. C. we understand it NOT to be with clarified Transfigured or Glorified Bodies wherein the vanity shall be totally Dead but concerning the Fall of Babel and that the end belongeth to the Beginning NOT the Two Tinctures turned into One according to the OUTWARD Man but we understand Eve in the REPENTANCE and in the simplicity for the evill Lust or Longing which SHE had 122. His marriage State or City which he supposeth to be is only an Eve his SION is a Vale of Misery in Care Toyle Labour and Necessity For Winter and Summer Day and Night Seed time and Harvest shall not cease as was said to Noah till the Great and Terrible DAY of the Lord shall COME 123. Also thus the Mountain of God viz SION is in the whole world where there be honest vertuous people that fear and Love God HE himself is IN the Honest Men the marriage City of GOD must be in MAN as also the Temple of CHRIST where the HOLY SPIRIT teacheth 124. We need no conceit nor running up and down the City of Gods Habitation IS every where where honest Men are together as Christ saith Where TWO or THREE are met together in My Name there am I in the midst amongst them 125. But seeing he speaketh of a visible holy Seed and woman of Christ and will have that to