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A94559	Theauraujohn Tani his Second part of his Theous-ori apokolipikal, or, God's light declared in mysteries for which epistles I was six months falsly imprisoned, as by judgement of my Lord Chief Justice Rolls, and the rest of his brethren the judges upon the upper bench is declared : and what I have written I will maintain against all the learned men in the world : and I challenge the whole universities and their adherents to answer the books, if they be able, or to a fair dispute before the people, and if none dare appear, then I conclude that they are in the dark, and dare not come to the light / wrote by me Magi Tani Est.	Tany, Thomas, fl. 1649-1655.; Tany, Thomas, fl. 1649-1655. Theauraujohn his Theousori apokolipikal.	1653 (1653)	Wing T156; ESTC R38281	102,103	101

I accounted gain was loss unto me for the excellent knowledge in Christ Jesus our Lord. Beloved brethren I come not in the eloquentness of mans even weaved connexions that is with mans curious composers for the Apostles and Prophets they took not a verse to study a Sermon but wrote the Texts that you study from Now what they wrote was true what you study is a ly the smooth composure in their writing is not found a composure composed as yours is theirs was life to them yours being studied is death to you for know it is but name and not the substance thing which is Christ the Lord. Now beloved I come to the main Doctrine of all that is in the new Testament that is Ackki Cristus in sabat re el vau salvat ori in se The English is this Christ is the strong Saviour to the trusting soul in knowledge for without knowledge Christ no Saviour and that knowledge must be Christ in the soul it is his own teaching that brings us to life in himself But now I come to shew you Christ the Saviour whom multitudes of knowing people as they think they know him not Id est non corpus sed alvah a Deo in spiritus It is not the body that is Christ but 't is the high spirit in the body now the mystery doth begin I intreat you mind for I must treat Allegorically as well as litterally Non sanguise selma a maxi pele ethrati sele meos in saba almat rogel perene aks elle nene sabat not the composure of the Elements is the body of Christ but mind the word spirit that commandeth them abstracted elements into a composure O beloved I could wish that I had the highest learned men in the world to speak to for you cannot fathome my reach though litteral I beseech you mind me exactly and distinctly that you asperse not me neither wrong the Scripture nor your selves the point is this First I demand do you believe that that body of Jesus that died at Jerusalem was our Saviour for the Scripture saith that he offered up willingly an acceptable sacrifice unto God for us This is a true Scripture for it is God himself he is our alone free Saviour Now beloved this Scripture is and hath been owned many hundred years together but if it hath been viewed with vailed eyes the truth cannot be reached for you know that the Scripture speaks of Christs second comming which is the Sun in light to unvail all the mystery both in the Law and the Gospel which is his preaching within our souls teaching us the Evangelical truths that is a true sight in all things both Allegorically Mysteriously and Litterally Now I come to the called Scriptures that are litterally expressed they are Christs body shadowie pointing us unto a higher resurrection as Paul saith Let us go on to a further height not laying again the beggerly rudiments of the first principles Now Brethren for Christs body that suffered that is not your Saviour nor Christs body mind me for Christs body is obedience in the whole new man for what Christ did he did it figuratively and yet true Christ is your true Saviour now that must be sought Christ saith I will destroy this Temple in three dayes The Words that I speak is spirit and life All these are mystery let me tell you that there is not one word that came from Christ and his Apostles but were all mystery if the insert had been truly translated whereof to make up the Romish Church a body they have bodyed Christ in a body that the Spirit never intended In alagma senaim maxsi sadaos in re perflex sele nos oramus sabat al. The English is this The Church of Rome hath built their Church upon that body which is not Christs body but upon mans dung and not Christs for true Christ hath not nor cannot have any true corporal body for he is a spirit and a spirit is free from flesh and imbodies himself where he pleases but it is in the soul that is not of the body but is the Divine riches of Christ and Christs riches are spiritual in the souls of men there is one glimpse of Christs body Now know that that body of flesh that suffered at Jerusalem was not Christs body but in that body was spiritual obedience that was the Son of God and that Son in the obedient spirit in that body that was Christ your Saviour which Saviour is in you offering up you unto God which is but thus much obedience in love unto God for do you know and all people that God doth give into the soul light that light is Christ which in the soul is obedience so that God is God in regencie Christ in the soul in every man that is in light that light is obedience hereby man is made obedient and so one with the Father through the Spirit and that light in the soul is perfect Christ Now as ever the light in the soul is Christ in flesh God in spirit do not mistake me for God is the Creator Christ is the strength of God the holy Ghost and Christ are both one in the earthly creation for God is the Creator Christ is the strength of that created the holy Ghost is the valley in which the two Persons as you say act but I say one union in all that hath been spoken and no Persons for know that a spiritual essence cannot be person in true truth but if you say Persons and I say God here is no difference between us for say you what you can say I know beyond what you and the creation can say for mind saying is nothing and knowledge is all things Wrote by me Theauraujohn Taniour Allah High Priest allah all Epistle 18. Wrote at Eltham June 28. 1651. O Beloved God is love O beloved so great is my desire that love should be engrafted in every one of you that my soul painteth after my God for you even that he would fill your souls with love which love in truth is God himself planted in you Brethren let me tell you that then Christ raigns in his kingdome that is in your spirits ye being in love for know that Christ hath an earthly Kingdome but the Spirit in that earthly Kingdome that is his Throne I will come and dwell within the humble and meek spirit saith the Lord. Alvah havilah el asui arab salu in rem madad ai in sele mem The English O the height of Christs Throne is situate in the low spirits of humble men in the earthly form that is the English of that Hebrew state brethren I am comming down to the Hebrew that is now used which is the tenth derivasi of and from the first Hebrew that was wrote Hieroglyphically Moses wrote it Radically that was in Roots for know that in the Hebrew three Radiaces or letters as you count will denote any word in the creation without any more adjuncts Now beloved

mans voice that is the Lye it is Antichrist for it speaketh great names and it is but a sound and nothing which is but an atrie Lye fomented by mans invention But now if this be granted which cannot in truth if duly considered cannot be denyed Then Priests where are you with your Nomen that name Gospel that Whore that you have decked up by the peoples spoile if the sound from the true light be a lye I pray ye what is that ye sound from that hath no senter in truth but a lye in the root and a lye in the branchings forth I speak in tearm that you may understand what I say Now I begin to call to you for proofs from your Scripture to sustifie your actings or else you have not taught the Gospel as you call it but I will give you one hinte to help you with It is that you tax me for because I do not site the Scripture to prove my delivered or expressions by To which I answer thus That that is not against Scripture is the Scripture so saith Christ though the words do not bear the same expression know all truth is but one Scripture and all Scriptures make up being speled together makes up the expression of but one onely truth But know when I site a true maxim and would produce a Scripture to confirm it to you the Translation is false in that state and the maxim stands alone in strength being its basis is founded on the truth and it needs not the lye in the Translation to help to uphold it There is a plain reason in English but brethren ye Priests this is the light in me expressing it self for to unvail your grose lying darkness But to come to prove your selves preachers of the Gospel of Christ or Embassadours Brethren this word to ye Priests I will open from its original not by learning for I am unlearned in what I declare but by the Spirit of Jesus that hath made me the true Jew Brought forth of the Tribe of Ruben the anointed of God for the carrying backof the captive Jews from the North. O selat arri reme Rex sede sophim in absolemus in se Sopatar arma legagit el donior al. The English O the heavenly light that will appear in the beautiful excellency of it self in briging together again his dispersed people to himself and glorify them with his owne glorious excellency This the Spirits lettings downe to ye poor Jews my brethren for whose sake I have forsaken all that I might seek thy wellfare with my owne both being wrapped in union Thou Buteous dafter Sion Seron el though thou art not gathered yet mind thy beauty remaines and the crown of thy glory is now a setting on Now to open the word Embassadour as I promised the words is connexed in divers significants as thus Em is proper hebrew Bas is hebrew worte in ק kof derived from Koahsh Now Koahsh is a various maxim the signification is thus t is the strength in letting down the strength in caseing away the strength in restoring or taking up in strength it is read both an Affirmative and a Negative The word is proper thus Em-bas-dor that word is singular t is hebrew Dor t is knowledge or generation for generation implies the single knowledge which is one knowledge that is all knowledge which is God the Lord I write it in three Sillables as thus Em bas dor that is perfect hebrew Now you great learned Rabbies will not quarrel yet untill I Sipherate the signiphicants and never a one doth give a sound litterally in the decipheration in its adherent the word I write in three significants he braick the Radiacies is this כ י ר that is Resh Jod and Caph. Now you are all lost and will say that no one radical doth give a sound in the word Em bas dor E is the proper English radical I say that them three כ י ר are the true radaxes in England radaxes is the proper word Resh Jod and Caph are the true radaxes being wrote in Mophes that is in the Meaish Methodical method thus ר Resh is Gods wisdome in himself in man י Jod being stated behind ר Resh is read negative et affirmative that is negation and affirmation thus God doth clusterate in י Jod through ר Resh and ר Resh combines in the insert with י Jod so that these two in their proper state stated in this insert is thus much God his wisdome now ad כ Caph that is an impead granted by all now ad כ Caph on the left hand or the left point and then she makes man for in that word radical is exact three distinct sentered in one that is God his strength and his weakness that is the Impead or Shrine in which the divine doth shaddow it self now this mystery is fetched from the radical root now close כ י ר Resh Jod and Caph then the truth is Gods strength declared in weakness which is proper in this word Em bas dor Now I come downe from the Oriental View unto the lower derivasy that you derive from this word and its figure is Emissio that word is not lattin● though it be read from that root the true significant is to know or sent for sent is knowledge● as well as the word Knowledge now the word conexsed is Bas that word in the hebrew is strength and hath not a word of conextion in any place but the word in Spanish is Basshau that is his proper sphear though used in Turky but I speak the place of the word in its proper regency by a created-dex-sela which word Basshau signifies great or high in esteem the import lies in the hebrew Bas-shau is but a declaration from Bas for Bas if truly understood doth carry in its sercumferance all that is strength and strength that is life and light doth declare it self Now Dor is read Dora now the proper significants of Dor is a generation knowledge or knowledge in generation Dora is thus much the increase of generation the word Dora is a flock a multitude it is wisdom It is strength t is beauty t is all ad but to Dor א Aleph Hebraick the● read what you will of excellencies that word Dora will bear the state So you are deseaved in the Import of the word Dorau V or ו Vau give him but the full word and grace in grace of word that is in our English Dorau but in Hebrew it is ו ד ר Vaudorau it must be so wrote to bear the state I have stated upon the maxims that is to say Dor Dorau now spel all together Embasdor that is thus much in import A true witness bearer that is the Spirits denotation in the word Embasdor Now Brethren I have found your name in its Origini I shall finde your declarative nature and examine you to the true examination for you are troubled at Theaurau John and I am troubled at you Priests that say you are the Embassadours

but that they hold is a mear Fancinated thing from that local place fained Purgatory Reme●el Salu in re The English Mind the height of the Declarative doth undation the search but this expression from the Tongue you understand not but this The high notation of hell doth unbottom it Thus that that hath such a high and great name that causes fear t is Darkness and darkness is not knowledge now that that is not known cannot have a senter and that that hath no senter cannot have a being for if a being it must be in God I prove it thus God is the being of all beings and they refined returne to their senter from whence was their original fountain Now this Hell or Locallity of place I desire all the English Clargy with their Essence Cleargy that is Romes called Priests For brethren you are but Romes derivacie and Romes derivacy is from the Greek Tongue and the called Testament in which Testament is many snares and feares to uphold the Popes supremacy and their and your trade of lies and this Local Hell and the Devil are the fearful constellations from whence ye furiously Thunder to make men afraid that you may thereby strengthen your selves by the peoples submssion unto you and that Whore learning that you have set up Now Priests in short I desire to know how you came by your Apostolical calling for you to say you are Priests and are of the Apostolical Institution that I shall try and leave it to the people to judge of whether ye are so or no If it prove you are not then are ye Blasphemers and that Harlots locust that hath deceived the Nations And the first Maxim I do lay down to prove it by is this Hos se ad me nelle one Sem albat ar o●au s●on hassbu●p●loct adba deleous in re This is the English Maxim to the height it will bear all People minde for I am putting a leaver into the Priests roots to unbottom them from that Lye called Apostolical Calling which they hold Juri divino Brethren ye Priests here is a deep search making into your Roo●s or bottoms now comes the English from the hebrew citation that is this I pray you minde How slew the apostolical fore seeing to ye named Priests and the world never heard of it This is one state in that Maxim there is two more Sates in that Sitation Now Schollars is it not strange that from one abstract of Language to read in English three States as an Affermative and a Negative and both their derivatives in one intire Essence The second State though negative read is affermative I Theauraujohn Eval alsiel do declare that ye Priests are lyers and deceivers neither have you any thing to do in or with the Apostolical function for ye are not anointed by God as all and every one of his true Messengers were and are This I know by what the Lord hath made know unto me Now if you are what you say and would have us so to esteem you so your Derivative must be the Cords binding us up unto that beliefe which must be Miracles Signes and Wonders for thus you must be Witnesses of his second Comming then you know it must be in greater appearances in glorious manifestation this you cannot deny Brethren ye Priests I do not come to flatter you but to hew and out you up by the roots Another quere I desire that the Clargy may answer What peace or reconciliation hath issued from your called Gospell in Europe but woful murdering one another for your prating and lying quarrels If yee were Ministers of the Gospel then peace would follow your declarings but who more ready then the Priests to ingage the people one against another for your owne Hellish ends O that God would be pleased to open the eyes of our States that they would but look into the Clargies black bottom from whence our misery arises for there cannot be peace in England till that Caterpillar locust be swept out of the place of Regency Now Priests you will run to the Secular power and there lies your Cab●● of strength to uphold you you say such men are Blasphemers and cry out upon them and then to the Majestrate to help you to hold up your Trade Now know that can be no Gospel That must be upheld by a humane Law But it is the Lye in the whole earth For the Gospel is Love and then no Law But the Law makes it a trade and the Law is your strength Now shew me how many Converts did your Master Christ inforce into his Conregation by a humane Law but love was the tying Cord that bound his together The Law is an inforcement to Idolatry but not to the Gospel because the Gospel is Love Now Priests I shall desire no favour at your hands but that we may come before the State and People and if I do not prove your Calling a trade of Lyes and deceit I will be content to suffer for my aspersing you If so it be found but I must not have Priests to accuse and Priests to judge this is not with the priviledge nor liberty nor freedome of our Nation For the Bishops are gone and I Theauraujohn say that the Cleargy shall not long stand therefore your rage is great ye Priests I pray you tell me how many sides and turnings would you take so that at last you might but turn in your own designe all that can be Imagined One more how came you to have your holy Calling conferred unto you I deny any man can confer the holy gift or holy anointing from Generation to Generation sixteen hundred year and more together This I answer If man can confer Gods gift I affirm he is as great nay greater then God himself I prove it thus God gave his Spirit in fulness to Christ being the first in the Trine descending in Vive Vosa the Apostles they were indued with the same Spirit but not in that full measure These Misteries no man under heaven knowes yet but that light in me who is the true discoverer of his owne secret intendants One more Ye Priests that have dranw unto you a congregated companie called members of a Church nay you would be called the Church Apostolical or according to the Apostolical institution Now I deny any man to be a Priest according to the Apostolical institution as for the desidement I refer to the juditious people to Judge of Now I say that there was not nor is not any true visible Church Select in any visible appearance since the Apstles time Thus there is true members but not a true gathered Church Apostolical in that you are deceived thus and in this ye take the name of their words but the power that did recead and accompany them words is retracted and hath been since that Revolution of the Apostles for that manifestation was confermed for the bringing in the Heathen to the acknowledgment of God and was

confirmed by miracles singes and wonders Then the Spirit did detract as of the detraction Christs death was the figure Now I will shew you what a Church Apostolical was and is the people are gathered by the Spirit of God by which Spirit they are made a seeing and a discerning people Then the Priest ought to be the discerning East and the seeing East of them people then that is a Head and Members of which temporal figure Christ and the Evangelical Spirits is the truth in the true senter in Perfection As Moses was commanded See thou make them like the pattern I shewed thee in the Mount Know he must be in the Mount with God that doth take his pattern from God in his declarative Them words were wrote long ago and now are comming forth in glory to be made good which is proper to Christs second comming in Visible power in signes and wonders of which declarative I Theauraujohn am the morning light declaring the peaceful tideings at hand Now ye Congregated Priests what a brasen whorish forehead have you put on your selves that you dare assume to your selves the hight of the Apostolical foreknowledge in that you dare act and give and deliver up to Satan Now in this you have declared your selves to be Antichrist in his full lusture in appearances as I shall open plainly before all people First I demand of you in my masters name Jehovab that you do produce your president for the matter of Excommunication for mind where that delivering up to Satan was acted forth by the Apostles in them did the Spirit reside and dwell and rest with them in power of signe and miracle which is not declared neither is in the called Church and called Priests for what is more in you and your Congregated companies then is in Antichrist or that Babilonish whore that is spoken of in Scripture For shee deceived the Nations by her Inchantments Sorceries and Witchcraft which is but thus much I intreat you minde it is this The word confined to men confined to time and confined to place I beseech you to take true notice wat Antichrist is and his Sorceries it is the confining the word to men to time and to place I pray minde but this sitacion that is stated and it will unbottome and Excommunicate all ye Priests from your trade of lies Thus prove your selves to be any more then ye have learned then so far ye are in knowledge yet no Priests for let me tel you ye know not what a Priest is Nor what that word Priest meaneth in his full import a Priest is Gods representative in righteousness that is the Image of God in man that is the Priest now let me tell you all even ye gathered Churches ye shall all be broken and God will gather unto him the holy seed from amongst you into one fold And now for men to assume to be Priests and members when indeed he is no Priest neither they all true members for know that apearances doth make members and doth not make true members in the intendant Church which I deny to you for ye are they that are deceived that have got the dead name but ye are not the true living thing yet ye will take authority to name over men that name and the namer is an abomination before God Therefore I desire you that you would but look into your owne waies and search into the bottom for it is darkness which is develish and ye have grievously sinned and blasphemed in taking and assuming unto your selves that glorious name when that is Gods glorious free gist or ●nointing upon man which is Gods inscrption wrote upon man Holiness to the Lord and from this Institution and ingraftment in the true thing which is Gods mercy Brethren by creation ye Priests ye are exhorsists that take up words and names to name over and upon the people of Christ and his Apostles ye intimate the name thinking by them names to do miracles which is but a meer forged falschood for ye your selves are but the dead name and they the Apostles were the true living thing in the true root That was I may say God in the Bottom or root from whence in strength that Voice had power to cast down and cast forth and raise up this was Gods voice from the root that overthrew all opposition but for man to name them words and the effects not follow it is but Antichrist and a lye Brethren be not deceived you are in no better case then thus you think you are rich and need nothing when in truth you are but a name and poor and blind and naked and yet know not the lye is in your right hand and hath deceived you for ye name a name that in truth ye know not But now I pass to the Apostolical effects for the effects followed the Sound or Name That was this the Blind received sight both in Spirit and Body for the Spirit is the healer of the same Body man and men were weaned from the love of the World to sell all and distribute to every necessity as the Pastors saw fit and needful But to answer this before I go any further Ye Priests are ingrosers to your selves greatness and prehemenency and you are Directives to your Congregations so to do for know the Priest ought to be the peoples Eye Then I beseech you people look what a Directive Eye you see withall do you think your eye doth see Apostolically or Hypocritically these two I leave you and the whole world to judge of Now I come to matter of more concernment that is this And behold I saw a new heaven and a new earth the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea And I The auraujohn saw the holy City new Hierusalem come down In Oli-el Emasanet from God out of heaven prepared as a Bride trimmed adorned beautified Selected for her Husband Now the mystery that lies buried within them faint words or weak expressings they are words of life and power and wisdom O sapuit ad amalum in re amamu● seba oli Aneratory Salma magit legi amamus sede oli mem oluani saluite Te egromene selmat am al sede oli bene am Salu el odi selose in re This is the English of the Connexion abstracted from the true Original O the Wisdome free from evil it is God himself in his Reigning Essence But man is weakness that is evil yet God doth take this weakness into Strength and adorne it with beauty and excellency That is thus much T is letting downe the New Hierusalem whose beauty is so excellent that it turnes all the beholders of it into it self Now I come to Ephata and open the mysterious words which are these I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away I beseech you mind what was my brother Johns meaning in this strange and Phiriatical expression was

figtree for ye are full of beautious leaves of expression but come to the fruit ye are Devils in action Now you count the expression strange but it it is true therefore to be owned by you if you will do the Devils work be not ashamed of your Masters name now here you will use my owne method and say that the name is not the thing and that the Masters name is not the servants thing Now comes the plaine definition thus God is light that light is love now man in love he is in that light and that light is Christ and Christ is God now is not this a clear apparant truth Now as God is light the Devil he is but darkness to that light now in darkness is hatred and hatred is the Devil and hate being in man predominate he is Satan or Apollyon but these words will not carry the intention of our English word Devil if we would but let that word stand in name but we will have it thing and so we are one with that Apollyon or Abaddon which you say is the English Devil but the intendant out-runs the name quite out so brethren God and man make a declared truth Devil and man make a declared Lye Now what is that Devil and man for why it is to set forth the glory in created appearances though the Devil was never created nor made it is we that make him a creation and judge ye how great creators we worms and dust are things are greater in esteem then many times in truth they are But I pass now let me tell you the balance is come to weigh this Nation and Mene Tekel is found upon its basis or in hebrew Orbus kabus all ah The English is Thou art not weight in the highest ballance or in the center weight thy people are a vaine people trusting in the name but the knowledge in the thing is not in them Bealah arki peal ardi neset doni The English is this Thou art high in name but in me saith the Lord thou art not found for then love was the connexing thy joynts or members one to another but thou art Quas in tiby allah pealah anvi pean ardi dele mem The English is this Thou art for thy self in every man and self is exalted and Charity cast forth or is made a vagrant amongst us to our shame is this motto inserted upon us by the Spirit of God this saying is strange to you but it is true and you will feel it true if you belong to light as I have found so shall many more to their sharp sorrow but their after joy O Beloved I mourn for you I strive with God for you beseeching him to inlighten you in all spiritual knowledge and understanding blessed be the Lord I can say in a safe conscience as ever Paul could say I have not coveted after no mans gold or silver nor desired any thing of any man or of any of you but onely that life part that my soul thirsts after to see it gathered into union in the celestial center O beloved my soul is ravished with the deliteful delite for when I am poor then am I rich in him who is my riches that is Christ the mercy and strength of God Brethren ye and to ye onely I speak that are passed the Apostolical teaching and are come into the Evangelical living Allah all ah allah hoei selma amaseret one peon alpha haggarim semam in re ex al olo on The English of this hebrew state is to what the English will bear O the light the light the light of peace is in the Evanglical thing that is in God when we have passed these beggerly rudiments Apostolical which are dead names pointing us to the Evangelical living in God for if Christ be come you are no longer in the dead name but you are risen in the life of Christ into his body that is Evangelical Minde the Apostles words We are dead and our life his hid with Christ in God Behold here is the greatest mystery in the world men living speaking the height of the Gospel as you call it and these men are dead the same condition is every true new-borne man and woman in for our life is not in our selves nor in this body of dung nor in things below that is to say these beggerly rudiments or elements motional but our life is in God the Evangelical caller and gatherer of his people into himself and for this cause God did send forth his Spirit in men to converse with that self same Spirit in men that their conversing by his power are turn 〈…〉 to converting unto this end God made some Apostles some Pastors some Ministers and teachers some Evangelists and all was but the union of one Spirit in its efficacious varieties So now Brethren the same work is God a bringing about now in England and all Lands and it lies included in these Prophetick words of expression I the Lord will gather her I have cast 〈◊〉 off and she shall rebefore me as in the daies of old Brethren this is the gathering the Church of the Jewes for whom I The auraujohn and the rest of my brethren the Lord hath made fishers for to gather the people into a figurative figure of the Evangelical building therefore the foundation of the Jewes Church Evangeli 〈…〉 is laid here even in this house and the Lord my God adde unto it dayly thy increase of blessing the place may remove but the people cannot be shaken for God the Lord he is the Evangelical center so this meeting hath been the gathering the Church of the Jewes and the Jewes Church is the true name So you that are ashamed of the name of the Jewes see me nor hear me no more Sebat allah am R. Theauranjohn Taniour high Priest Epistle 15. Wrote at Eltham DEarly beloved Brethren God is love and know that he that acts in love doth act in God Now I beseech you mind how can it properly be said for man to act in God Thus it is if radically understood the Spirit of God in man being predominate that Spirit is in union with God in Essence though it be for a time a derivacie Now the Querie would be resolved thus God is love how is God love Thus God is love His fulness is a filling every want and necessity in the whole Creation that is by distilling acts of courpassionate refreshments to every distinct of his or of himself Now let me speak thus man is the Image of God in the earthly form not of the earthly form the distinction lies in these two words IN and OF Now beloved to come close unto the matter of the main concernment it is this that if you are not in God then you are in the Devil Now know that there is but light and darkness in the whole Creation now God he is the light the death or darkness is the called Devil Now what is God I answer