Woman 116. And by the Fall we are to understand nothing else but that the Earthly property which before stood as it were swallowed up in the Paradise manifested it self in the Souls Desire whence Heat Cold and the poyson Life of all Contrariety and Opposition took or gat the Dominion in the Body and the fair or bright heavenly and Paradisicall Image disappeared 117. For the Soul as a Fire-Life generated out of the Fathers Property went out from the Element of Paradise into the Four Elements and there the Paradisicall Sulphur in the holy Element lost its Life and the Substance disappeared 118. And that was a dying of Paradise the Soul dyed to Gods Light and went into its self-hood into its own propriety It would be a self-Lord to know Good and Evill and Live in both it dyed to God and awakened upon the Earthly World and lived to the Will of the Devill viz to the stern Anger of God in meer Anxiety Lamentation Misery Toyle and necessity as we poor Children of Eve now see and Feel in us 119. But here I am to informe the Reader concerning the perfect Creation of Man and what the errour and insufficient understanding in the Expositour of the Poynts of Conclusion is in this place as was above mentioned 120. I say the same as he saith in this That MAN in his Image viz in Gods Image was Created wholly perfect to Eternall Life in Paradise I say also to the Image of God it is true as to BOTH For in the Eternall Image which was only a shining or Looking-glasse of the Image in the Name and in the Eternall Birth or Geniture of JESUS or JEHOVA was the Image of the Three Principles Created and Created to the Image or Similitude according to the Three Worlds as an Image of Gods Substance of all Substances out of and in ALL things or Substances 121. But as God Ruleth over and in All and no THING is God for in his Gloriousnesse he is as a Nothing and yet is the Life in all so should this Image stand in the Resigned Life of God as an Instrument of God in which the Spirit of God doth what HE will 122. He Created him not a Lord but a Servant a Lute or Instrument of Musick I cannot say that Man was Created out of the Divine Voyce and out of the Center of the Heart of God as this Author very wrongfully puts himself into the Holy Trinity 123. No No an Instrument is not the Master the Master cannot make an Instrument wholly like himself God cannot make another God wholly like himself Out of his Eternall Mystery indeed he can make to himself an Image according to his Likenesse for a Sport of Joy as a Master of Musick doth an Instrument which yet maketh such a Melody as the Master will but such another Master as himself is he maketh not but only of or out of himself 124. Therefore seeing God is a Spirit and no Substance also not Nature therefore Man is not God but his Life is sounded forth out of Gods Life yet understand out of the THREE Principles 125. Not that the Life is God himself else if it should fall and become a Devill as Lucifer did then had God become a Devill 126. The humane Life is the out-spoken Word in which the speaking Word inhabiteth either in Evill or Good as the Out-spoken Word draweth a Property out of Gods Harmony or Concord into it self As a people are such a God they have also in them and yet it is but the ONE only but he manifesteth himself in ALL and every Life according to the Lifes Desire in good or evill 127. First Therefore the strife or Controversie between me and that Authour is this That he casts or Confounds all one in another and giveth forth no right or Direct Understanding and sets himself so finely as a Creature in the holy Trinity in the first Born or begotten before all Creatures Therefore he concludeth the Creation in the CHRIST But he erreth he should conclude it in JESU or JEHOVAH in the Eternall Word of the Father as Saint John doth in the First Chapter 128. He should make for me no Woman of the Genetrix of God wherein Christ is borne or generated from Eternity but he should say out of or according to the Scripture that the Father generateth the Word and that the Word is the Voyce of God and the Second Person in the Deity and that the Holy Spirit goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 129. It is not Supposition or an Opinion that will doe it and to set himself up therein as a Fair Bride which yet sticketh full of Sinnes and evill affections but to humble ones self before God and be submissive to him and not say Here is the Lord viz the Voyce of the holy Trinity out of Gods Heart sounding No that we will not grant to this Authour He should continue in the Harmony and hear what kind of Note the Lord in the Tang of the Harmony bringeth forth in the Creature as the Lord Soundeth 130. And though it had been at the Best that likely the glimps of the Holy Spirit had permitted it self in his Harmony of his Tone to be heard yet he should say Lord I am an unprofitable Servant Thou dost what thou wilt 131. Not say I will and shall speak to you out of Gods Heart out of the Voyce of the Holy Trinity that hath no Angel or Prophet done but they have all of them only said that the LORD had laid his Word in them to make known to them the Word of the Lord For the Prophet saith only Thus saith the LORD he accounteth himself only an Instrument to whom is commanded what he shall speak 132. He saith not I am the Woman the Bride of the Voyce of God I will speak in and out of Gods Heart My Sound is Gods Voyce but he beareth Gods Sound in his own humane Voyce and the Spirit of God soundeth only in the humane Voyce when and how he will which Man should not assume to himself as his proper own but stand before him in fear and trembling and lend his humane Voyce for an Instrument Not say I have aforehand apprehended what the Spirit of God will speak unlesse he have an expresse Command by word of Mouth 133. The Name JESUS which in the Humanity is also become CHRIST that standeth within in the Holy Trinity It standeth in its own Principle in the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity and not in the Power or Authority of the Creature 134. Yet Christ saith If I Witnesse concerning my Self my Witnesse is nothing but it is my Father in me that witnesseth concerning me that I am come forth from God I am proceeded forth from God and come into the World again I leave the World and goe to the Father 135. He saith not I that is in my humane self-hood am the Voyce of God I speak
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
from the Fire and Light 71. And Man viz the Image of God should not be such a Calfe as not to know and learn to understand his Fathers house nor should he indeed forbid THAT as this Authour doth in his Explanation to whom that God would give a better apprehension is my hearty wish and desire 72. Concerning Mans Originall Moses telleth us God said Let us make Man an Image of us which may rule over all that is upon the Earth c. And saith further God Created man in his Image yes to the Image of God Created he him 73. This now is very rightly spoken but the Explainer is here a Wrester or Perverter and understandeth it not Whereas yet he accounteth he hath spoken out of the voice of the Holy Trinity and giveth forth his matters for totally Divine without blemish but to this time yet he hath not heard the divine voyce nor apprehended it in the Sound but only the voyce of the out-spoken Word in Evill and Good in his own Reason and Self-hood Saint Paul saith Man was foreseen or elected in Christ before the Foundation of the world was laid In this lyeth the Kernell before the times of this world the Modell of Man was known in the Eternall wisdome as an out-breathing of the Word from the Fire and Light as a Form in the Divine wisdom but stood in No Creature or Image but after a Magick-kind as an Image appeareth to One in a Dream which is without Substance 75. Thus is the Appearance in the Universall out-breathed out-spoken-substance in the Spirit of God which hath known all things according to every ones property viz according to the Anger of the Fires property in the Darknesse and in the Light in the Love 76. For the Flash of the Creation out of the Great-Mystery was seen in the wisdom in Evill and Good according to the property of BOTH Desires as an Eternall Contrary 77. The Anger viz the Dark-world hath in its desire seen the Image or similitude of God and so also hath the Love in its free longing delights desire Not that the property of the Love plungeth it self into the Anger and beholdeth it in the Anger but each property IN it selfe 78. Therein hath the Spirit of God which eternally goeth forth out of the Fathers Fire and Light known the Fall in the Anger of God so that when this Image of the Figure of God should become created into a living substance it would be also drawn by the fierce wrath and loose its Glory 79. Here in this Place hath the CHRISTUS or Christ in the Name JESUS as a will to the CHRISTUS set it self towards the Similitude of God and given the Will thereinto out of the JESU into the Created humanity to be a Christus or SAVIOUR 80. And in this Will was created the Similitude of God MAN in the Time viz on the Sixt day of the Creation into an Image out of a Masse or Extract of all the Creation of this worlds Substance as also out of the heavenly worlds substance 81. Out of the out-breathed or out-spoken Substance of the Eternall Word and become formed in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat according to the Similitude of the Eternall Mystery and the Eternall birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity into an Image 82. Into which God the Father through the Word or Divine Sound with his Spirit hath introduced the Spirit of Life out of all the Three Principles viz out of the Fire-Light-and outward-World 83. Viz First The Fire-Spirit of the First Principle out of the Eternity out of the Fathers Property which is the true Soul 84. And Secondly the Lights Source or Quality and Spirit out of the voyce of the Love which is the Noble Image of the Deity each standing in its own Principle and governing its world 85. Thirdly The Spirit-Aire in like manner inbreathed from without into his Nostrills 86. So that Man is a living Spirit of all the Three Principles according to the Similitude of God as God himself is all in all but with the true Deity viz with the Good is known or comprehended by nothing but by his Similitude viz whatsoever is generated out of the GOOD and standeth therein 87. Now understand me aright As God in his Light in the Holy Light world shineth through ALL and tinctureth all and bringeth it from the Fiery Property into the power of the Joyfulnesse and with the same power also presseth through the outward world through all things and giveth all things power and life 88. And yet the Substance IN which God worketh is not called God though it hath a working from the out-breathed Mystery in it self in which the Vegetative or growing Life standeth viz a Sulphury and Mercuriall seething which in the Salt of the power becometh Corporeal viz an own self Fiat or Generating like an Impression according to the Property of the Eternall Spirituall Mystery as a Manifestation or Revelation thereof 89. Thus also was the Similitude of God Man in his innate station and thus from God Created out of the Substance of all Substances into an Image according to the Substance of all Substances and that even in his understand in Mans Image which was known from Eternity in the wisdom viz in the Glimps of the out-breathed shining of the Divine Revelation or Manifestation in that kind and manner as the Spirit of God hath seen all things in his wisdome from Eternity 90. This Image was not a Substance but a will to a Substance which with its root and originall stood in the Name JESU viz in the Humility of God where it introduced it self out of the Fire into the Light viz into the Good 91. And in this Place although it is no place where the Meek Love-Will goeth forth out of the Property of the Fathers Fire into the Light and Joyfulnesse or kingdome of Joy and compriseth and includeth in it self an own self Center of the Will and desire Originateth from Eternity the Name of the SONNE of God viz the first born of the Father from Eternity before all Creatures and here is called the Fathers Heart and Love and out of this Love goeth the Holy Spirit forth from the Father and the Sonne and is the Fathers Love-Flame 92. Understand us thus In that very Will which is out-breathed or out-spoken out of the Holy Name JEHOVA or JESUS out of the Speaking Eternall Word of the Father into the wisdome of God as a Glance of the knowledge or Representation of the Spirit like a Looking-Glasse was man created into an Image out of the heavenly and earthly Elementary Substance out of the out-breathed substance of Eternity and out of the Substance of Time standing one in another as the Eternity standeth in the Time and neither is the other and yet not divided asunder but only as through a Principle 93. The Substance of Eternity is the pure Element in which the vegetative
substance 10. II. One other is called the filial substance the Sonne the Birth the Word Speech the in-and-out-speaking Substance of the Paternal Substance of the Father the Generator of the Power of the Triune Total Perfect Deity 11. III. One the Third is called the Spiritual Living Substance the Spirit the Life the Exit in and out of the Paternal Filial Substance Power Word or powerfull word of the Triune Total fulnesse of the Father and of the Sonne or in the Father and the Sonne the totall holy Spirit and Eternall Life in Power and Word Father and Sonne of the whole Triune Deity 12. And this most holy Triune Deity Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Holy Spirit are and remain from Eternity in Eternity undividably ONE before in and after the Birth one only GOD and one only LORD over all through all and in all that set their faith and trust in Divine working and dominion therein 13. And this Triune God Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Spirit in Eternal UNITY hath generated to himself the Medium of his most holy Substance from Eternity the Word to his Sonne and Glance of his totall divine fulnesse and begotten him to his most holy Triune Deity 's highest praise and honour 14. And presented it to the most holy Glorious Throne Glance and Expresse Image of his Total holy Divine Triune Fulnesse and invincible confirmation in the Love of the Divine Fulnesse which the Triune highly praised God hath trusted with him and his Paternal Substance in and with the Word and Spirit in Eternal Eternity for a Wife and Mother of his own Triune Substance of his Sonne and Word from Eternity in Eternity in and with himselfe 15. And united to the Eternall Genetrix and betrothed or promised to in and with this most holy Triune Divine Substance to an unity this from Eternity most holy Birth of God CHRIST JESUS The Triune highly praised God is all that himself which to the Total Deity to its highest praise and honour is ascribed and appropriated from Eternity also remaineth peculiarly so in it self to its Eternal stability 16. Viz the Eternal Substantial Eternal stedfast unalterable Love Righteousnesse Wisdome Truth Mercifulnesse Humility Patience Long-suffering Holinesse Purity Innocency and in brief all vertues of the Deity which through the Power Word and Spirit the most holy Triune God from Eternity in Eternity may or can be expressed 17. Yes all whatsoever may be called good and profitable and serviceable in Heaven and Earth and be apprehended with or by the Triune God that is this most holy birth of God self-subsistingly Substantially from Eternity in all Eternity 18. Now Thirdly what this most holy Triune Divine Births acting and working was before the Fall of Man the Holy Scripture witnesseth thereof in many places here and there that through this most holy Triune Birth of God CHRIST JESUS not only all Creatures Heaven and Earth and all that liveth and moveth therein was made and is proceeded But that this most holy Triune Birth of God is also in it self Co-Creatour Generator Bringer forth Worker yes himself in the Creating was the Will and operative substantial self-subsisting Deed yes all in all so that he was not only the Creator Eternal Father and Generator of all Creatures whatsoever they may be called but also of Angels and Men. 19. Now Fourthly what this Holy Eternall Birth and Sonne of God the whole Fullnesse of the Deity came to be after the Fall of Man and is henceforth now and to Eternal Times and remaineth to be unchangeably the Testimony of the Holy Scripture mentioneth in several places very much 20. That this Eternal Divine Triune Birth and Sonne of the Triune Deity to the Comfort of whole Mankinde to the Redemption and Renovation of the same after their horrible Fall losing of all their Glory received and inbreathed from God in his holy breath and renewing regenerating and changing out of the Dead damnable Substance of Sathan into the Holy unfadable immaculate untransitory Inheritance of the Eternall God and most holy Glorious Eternally enduring Life and Substance of Eternal Happinesse or Salvation 21. Not only of fallen Man through the Anger and just Curse of God for Sinnes sake thrown into Eternal Pain and Torment but also of all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures which are set and ordained by the Lord for the service of the Created Man in his Innocency in which respect they also after the Fall of Man for the same Mans sake by the Anger and Curse of God were come and brought into an unstedfast troublesome miserable pittifull state and changeable sorrowful perishable transitory Substance or thing 22. For the Comfort and Salvation of all these and the restoring of the losse of all the Glory and Holinesse this Sonne of God Eternally Born out of God out of meer Grace and Mercy in the Love of the Divine Voyce wherewith this Triune God loved the whole world with all its Generations or births not only hath foretold and promised to Man and the aforesaid heavenly and Earthly Creatures first for a Redeemer through this Triune Deity 23. But also hath livingly substantially operatively and actively in the Regeneration and assuming of the Humane Flesh and Bloud in the Body or womb of the Virgin MARY God and Man in one person visibly palpably and substantially here upon Earth Regenerated and presented 24. As then this Triune highly praised Sonne of God and Man in one holy Visible and palpable Person hath rescued and redeemed not only whole Mankind all truly faithfull Men wholly perfect through this his holy Incarnation or becoming Man innocent suffering and dying Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven from all sinnes and the totall Satanicall Diabolicall and Mortall Substance 25. But also all Called Elected truly Faithfull who from their hearts trust and beleeve in this Redeemer as or according to their Redemption from all sinne unrighteousnesse Death Devill and Hell and the treacherous World the Lust of the Eyes and of the flesh and with their whole Person yes with every true Beleever especially among Men and Women Kind wholly Espoused with himself his totall most Holy Perfect divine substance in the Unity of the Humane Body and Soul 26. Hath united and betrothed himself and bound himself to an unseperable UNION in Eternity in the Love so that this whole truly faithfull Mankind in Generall and every Man and Woman kind in Particular in speciall he himself calleth his own Divine Substance and full or entire Love which before in Vnbeleef was not his of Substance and his Love 27. So that now this Elect truly faithfull holy Church together and also every person in particular in with and through this most holy espousall and uniting with Christ the Triune highly praised God are NOT two severall Persons two Substances and two Loves 28. But through with and in the most holy Union ONE good holy Divine unblameable Eternall stedfast Substance one Divine one Christian one
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
struck him who afterwards after the birth did himself terribly and damnably persevere and purposed to slay the beloved Jacob. 14. How mightily holily and gloriously this holy Womans seed manifested it self in the beloved Jacob concerning which the Lord Zebaoth himself giveth glorious holy Testimony in so much as he so highly entituled him that he called him Israel a Prince and Ruler with God 15. This should the faithfull Children and Womans seed of the highly praised Triune God united with and in this God further consider of and especially through this holy good divine living working substantial Seed of God CHRIST JESUS apprehend to themselves the living word of God from the least grain of Mustard-seed and least minutest measure and peece even the totall appearing fullnesse of the Deity in and to themselves according to the Testimony of the Holy Scripture 16. To which holy new-birth originall and beginning in the Faithful Hearts no worldly Wit Art skill learning in the Scriptures and getting it without Booke Phylosophicall Logicall Naturall puft up Art can any thing at all in the least attain or performe according to the Testimony of the Scripture 17. Where are the Scripture-Learned or Scribes where are the Worldly wise Men where are the Judges where are the Councellours Hath not God turned the wisdome of the world into Foolishnesse as it appeareth cleerly and manifestly in all the worldly wise in Scripture-Learned Art and Experience though likely many years from their child-hood to their highest age they have in their state and condition taken great pains for worldly Art 18. Yet they must at last be ashamed before this Triune seed of God CHRIST JESUS the living substantial word of God from the least particle to the highest Perfection in all Saints and let go their ART and lament over it saying that it hath not at all profited them to salvation but been totally hurtfull 19. As many of them also before their decease have forgotten this acquired Art and worldly naturall wisdome which they have learnt and have become so foolish and childish and indeed in all Stations and conditions that they alas could not any more preserve and recollect in their memory OVR FATHER which they learnt from their child-hood according to the Letter 20. As then they will apprehend this necessary information according to the Glorious appearing of this holy womans seed according to the measure in all Saints in Joseph Moses Joshuah Rebeccah Samuel David Solomon and all holy honest faithfull people and Prophets of the Old and New Testament in works words and deeds to the totall perfection inwardly and outwardly visible Birth of the Sonne of God born out of the perfect pure Virgin and Genetrix of God MARY even every Elect to the highest praise of God will partake with GOD himself and delight himself therein and will know how to praise the most high Eternally for it with himself Jacob Behme's Answer To this Explanation of this Third Point of the Fourth Text. 1. THis Authour mentioneth concerning the Triune God and Man CHRIST and concerning the Divine Woman or Wife and signifieth that not only all things were created through and for that Triune Man CHRIST but also after the Fall were by his holy Becoming Man or Incarnation and precious Inward Passion and Dying Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven and perfect merit perfectly Delivered 2. All which needeth far another explanation for if I say CHRIST is the Triune God then I speak of no Man or Creature for the Holy Trinity is no Man nor Woman much lesse a Creature 3. Only he hath manifested himselfe through and IN the Humanity and made himself visible in a humane Image but the visible palpable Substance of the Flesh is not the Triune Deity but the Spirit in the power of the Flesh the divine Spirit in the Spirituall the uncreaturely IN the creaturely is GOD. 4. CHRIST so farre as he is called the Triune God according to the Eternall Word in the Name JEHOVA or JESUS so farre as concerns the unmeasurable God is no Man or Creature but the Fullnesse of all things dwelling in himself 5. But according to the Name CHRIST the Deity is visible and this CHRIST viz The Anointed of God penetrateth only or presseth upon the humanity NOT upon ALL Creatures he uniteth himself to NO Creature but Man he hath also with his Incarnation Suffering Dying and Resurrection delivered NO creature but MAN 6. With the Name CHRIST he is become manifest only in the Humanity not in the Earthly or Heavenly Creatures The Earthly and Heavenly Creatures need NO Christ and the Hellish have NONE 7. This Christ it is through whom God who dwelleth in him and hath manifested himself with the Christ who will judge all things and separate the Good from the Evill HE is not manifested in the Creatures that he would deliver them to Eternity and dwell Creaturely in them as he dwelleth in MAN all Creatures of this world except Man go again into that out of which they proceeded in the beginning 8. When I will speak of the Man CHRIST what kind of Threesold God and Man he is then I distinguish the humane Creature which he hath received of us Men and difference it from the Triune Deity the manifested Substance from the power and Omnipotence 9. Not that he is divided but that the Spirit of God is higher then the Substance which he generateth in his Desire in his exhaled Sound for according to Our Substance CHRIST calleth himselfe the Sonne of Man and saith the Father is greater than HEE 10. According to the humanity he hath a given power and according to the Deity he is the Giver himselfe The Man is our Humanity and the Christ is the Anointed of God which God hath manifested out of the Name JEHOVA or JESUS out of the Deep of the wisdome out of the Center of God out of the Great Love and given it to the humane Creature for a Light and Eternall Seed 11. Not that this amiable blessed sweet Love of Christ is the Man but the holy SUN shine in the Great Love-flame in the Man for when I see a holy Christian Man going or standing I do not say there goeth or standeth Christ but I say there goeth or standeth a Christian Man in whom the Sun CHRIST shineth 12. The Person of Adam is not the Christ but the Person of the power of God which dwelleth in the Man Adam according to the Heavenly Part That is Christ 13. As the Sun shineth in the whole outward world and impowereth all and maketh it fruitfull and the world is not the Sun so also the CHRIST shineth as a revealed or Manifested Sun out of JEHOVA or JESUS in the Creaturely humanity of Christ 14. The Name Christ is the revealed or manifested Sun out of the Eternall Name JEHOVA or JESUS JEHOVA is the Eternall Divine SUN in which this great Love-Sun CHRIST as a Heart in the Center of
in Christs death and put on HIS Resurrection out of the GRAVE That the Man which dyeth according to Flesh in the Limit which God hath set or appointed viz at the Last DAY should ARISE out of Christs Death 79. He hath given us his Death and Buriall for a REST where the OUTWARD Body resteth from the working of vanity as in a meek soft Sleep 80. But what this Authour sets down concerning the opposition of the totall fleshly Man that the Earthly Man which he calleth the Serpents Seed despiseth contemneth derideth and persecuteth Christ in his Members and continually crucifieth and putteth them to death together with Christ that is so and cannot otherwise be 81. For when Christ is become born then the Man of Sinne in his self-hood MUST dye the Faithfull Man becometh himself an Enemy of his own Sinnes in the Flesh the Faithfull Man according to the Heavenly Substance is indeed yea undeniably the Bride of CHRIST in whom Christ dwelleth that I contradict not 82. But that this Authour sets it down that Christ was born a poor despised Infant in the highest Lowlinesse out of MARY and yet was equall in the Height of the Triune God and LORD there he should better explain it and shew wherein he is the Triune God and LORD 83. Not according to the Creature viz according to our Flesh and Soul which is Eternally under or beneath God but according to his Divine and according to the Heavenly Substantiality and Corporeity wherewith he came from Heaven and took our Substance upon him 84. The divine Substance is unmeasurable BOTH according to Spirit and Corporeall Substance but our humane Substance is measurable to our humane Substance the Power or Authority is given but to the divine nothing CAN be given 85. God will judge the humanity through the voyce of the humanity of Christ so that the humanity of Christ according to our humanity is the Instrument to do it with Not that our humanity in Christs Person and Creature hath the power or authority out of it self 86. It is a given power or authority from the Father As Christ himselfe saith ALL Power or Authority in Heaven and upon Earth is given me of my Father Matth 28. Not to the self-hood of the Creature that the Creature is as Omnipotent and self powerfull as GOD but that the CREATURE is the Instrument whereby the Spirit of God will Judge and separate ALL things 87. The Spirit of the Holy Trinity IN the Creature is the will and the Creature is the Instrument of performance as through a cleer visible open Image and Substance seeing God hath manifested himself through the Creature therefore through the Creature also he produceth a Manifested or revealed authority or power and Dominion 18. As an Artist fitteth an Instrument of Musick and himself strikes or playes upon it that it may sound and give melody to him SUCH as he would sain HEAR Thus also in like manner the Creature is Gods Instrument upon which God striketh or playeth and hath introduced his own sound out of the divine voyce into this Creaturely Lute which soundeth and Melodizeth to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will 89. This Lute doth not play upon it self for CHRIST saith also All whatsoever the Sonne seeth the Father do that the Sonne doth also And the word which I speak to you is not mine but the Fathers who dwelleth in me Also I and the Father are One but the Father is greater than I. 90. The Father is the Eternall Beginning and the Sonne is the Eternall Begun viz the Manifestation of that Spirit which is called Father and the Holy Spirit is that which the Father through the Sonne Manifesteth with the Eternall outspoken wisdome out of the sound which the Father with the Sonne Generateth 91. The Sonne is the Fathers sound or word and the Creature is the cleer or Loud manifested word through which the Father in the Eternall Generating of his holy word soundeth or speaketh 〈◊〉 hear the Creature viz the voyce of the Person CHRIST then I hear what the Father in his holy sound in the exit of his Holy Spirit manifesteth and expresseth in and with the Creature 92. Here it is not called beloved Woman or Wife with or as to the Creature but Gods Image Gods Manifestation Gods manifest Dominion Gods own Doing or self-acting viz the invisible and incomprehensible acting through a visible comprehensible image and Substance of his own propriety 93. For without God there is Nothing HE alone is ALL but all whatsoever is perceptible or comprehensible that is only an Image of the Invisible Divine Substance wherewith the Invisible hath Manifested or revealed it self 94. Therefore the Creature should NOT say of it self that it self is any thing but introduce its ability into THAT out of which it is originated that it may be the Omniscient Gods work and play or Melody in his Love that it may do what he will and SO God be ALL in ALL. 95. And if God will do any thing through his Creature and manifest his will then speaketh not the Creature from or of it self but saith Thus saith the LORD thus hath the Lord spoken this is the Command of the Lord and not esteem it self at all to be the speaking Word or divine Sound also not say with this outward Body that the outward Body is espoused with Gods Holinesse as this Authour sets it down 96. The inward Man is indeed together with or in Gods Harmony through which God soundeth and Singeth and is a Wedding-Place or City of God but all whatsoever is Creaturely is tinder or beneath that which hath made the Creature The Creature is Gods Artifice or workmanship which he hath made through his wisdome for it is the Nature it standeth in the Principle viz in a Beginning but God standeth in NONE God is without all Beginning his desire maketh Beginning 97. But what this Authour saith concerning the woman of Faithfull Flesh and Bloud is not spoken plain enough to be understood For Flesh and Bloud beleeveth not but the Spirit Flesh and Bloud is a House of the Spirit 98. And what he also setteth down concerning the Man CHRIST who is in the Marriage with the Woman cannot at all be spoken of the outward Flesh and Bloud of this Life time for Christ is himself the Woman and the Man God and Man 99. Of the Inward Man it may WELL be spoken that is in the Marriage with Christ but the Outward is in the Marriage with the Outward World and with the vanity and Sinne as also with Death and Corruptibility weaknesse sicknesse and Misery THAT is called Eve and not the Marriage City of God in Gods holinesse as this Authour saith it is 100. But a waste Tabernacle wherein the Spirit is perished understand the Outward Spirit which dwelleth in Flesh and Bloud not that we would or should DESPISE the Spirit viz the Soul of the Great
passe from me and he prayed to God so that he sweat a bloudy sweat 4. Also when he would do Wonders or Miracles and Signes then he prayed his Father to hear him as may be seen by his raising Lazarus from Death Moreover it is written also that God will give his honour to no other Also I only am the LORD and GOD Also God is one only God and none Else 5. Therefore his Title and Introduction to the Person for whom he sets forth the Explanation is instantly very Erroneous and he will answer in the Perfect power of the Omniscience in and out of the Holy Trinity and esteemeth himself like God in every thing or substance and sets himself up as if he were God himself 6. He will in Christ with his totall humane substance outwardly and inwardly in all Saints be and know that which no Creature can know or do or be but the Spirit of God only which IN Every Man bloweth up the knowledge and imparteth to every one his own measure according to his gifts as be will not as the Creature willeth 7. But this man saith He will answer out of Christ out of his Eternall Wisdome out of the Heart and Mouth of God out of the holy Trinity 8. And though he had a divine command for it which a Man may very well doubt of and come to us in an Angelical Embassie yet he could NOT speak to us out of the Manifested or revealed sound or voyce of the Holy Trinity out of Christs self-subsisting Person but out of his Creature in divine Power through the Creaturely and humane Property in that kind as all men from the beginning of the world to this time have spoken 9. And though Men may with truth say that Gods Spirit speaketh through the Humane sound yet men should give the honour to God and not ascribe it to himself For it is written God will not give his honour to another he hath given it to his Son JESUS CHRIST to whom alone he hath given the holy Spirit in the Eternall Word without Measure and to no other 10. Whence Christ saith Matth 28. All power in Heaven and on Earth is given to me of my Father which no other Man while he liveth in this world dare say concerning his creaturely Humanity that he hath all power in Heaven and on Earth but only this JESUS whose out-going hath proceeded from Eternity 11. Also this JESUS CHRIST said when he would depart from us If any shall come and say he is Christ that we should not beleeve it and prophesied to us that Many false Christs and Prophets would arise after him of whom we should beware 12. Therefore it is very suspicious to us that this man will of himself speak out of the Heart and Mouth of the Holy Trinity for the Creature should humble himself before God and by no means say that he is God himself but a created work and Image of his Likenesse with whom God may do what he will 13. Further He speaketh of the Originall and Creation of Man so wonderfully that he cannot shew it in the Holy Scripture nor in the Light of Nature and there belongeth clean another Explanation to it 14. Yes he speaketh also of Christ so strangly that in briefe it appeareth to be no sufficient intelligible Explanation he saith CHRIST is from Eternity the expresse Image of God in the Divine Mother of his Love generated or born out of the voyce of the holy Trinity and so maketh a difference between the first born before all Creatures and the Holy Trinity and yet will have him also dwelling in the Holy Trinity 15. So he makes very wonderfully FOUR Persons as it should seem in the Deity as if the holy Trinity had from Eternity generated in it self some other Similitude and Image in which birth or geniture he also will have the Humane Originall from Eternity and so wonderfully blendeth one thing with another that a Man can not understand what God is and what Creature is 16. He saith God hath Created all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures in that first begotten or born Sonne of God and begotten the Sonne out of the Greatest Substance even to the least from Eternity out of God he understandeth thereby out of the Holy Trinity 17. And maketh all things one in another as a whirling Wheele so that a Man cannot understand out of what the Creaturely Originall is seeing he concludeth all without distinction in Christ and so setteth the Name of CHRIST as proceeding from Eternity 18. And saith that God hath brought forth all things in Christ and then he must also have brought forth all Evill venomous poysonous Worms and Beasts in Christ as also Darknesse and the hellish quality source or Torment and all whatsoever liveth in such a property 19. John saith in the first Chapter At the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and God was the Word the same was in the beginning with God through that he hath made all things that were made and without it was nothing made that was made John saith God was the Word and in him was the Life of Men. 20. He saith NOT At the Beginning was CHRIST but the Word that very Word became Man in the Virgin Mary that was Christ which quenched the Anger of his Eternall Father in the humane property through the Christ and the Crusher or bruiser of the Serpent and destroyed the Devills Den of Robbery in the humane property 21. When the Angel Gabriel came to Mary and brought her the Message That she should be impregnate and bear a Sonne whose Name she should call JESVS whose out-going is from Eternity to whom God the Father will give the Throne of his Father David 22. He saith NOT there whose Name you shall call JESUS CHRIST but only JESUS whose beginning and Exit is from Eternity but the Name CHRIST existed in the JESUS when he possessed the Throne of his Father David and brake the Head of the Serpent and shed his Heavenly Bloud into the Fathers Anger and quenched the same in the humane property with divine Love 23. There he obtained the Name CHRIST as a Healer of the Soar or the Anoynted of God a breaker through Death a victorious Prince over Hell Death and the Devill 24. No Creature is Created or made in the CHRIST but he in the Regeneratour of the humane property he bringeth the humane Life out of Death and generateth that in CHRIST through the Name JESUS in the divine Power anew and to be the Child of God 25. For CHRIST is the Mother of the Regeneration and not the Creatour of All things in which all things lye inclosed 26. The CHRIST is become Man but the JESUS in the CHRIST is the Creatour of all things 27. The CHRIST saith To ME is given all power both in Heaven and on Earth he saith not from Eternity God
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
the Fiat viz in the hunger of the desire Material and originateth out of the power of the Flesh and of the Spirit both of the Man and of the Woman 93. In the Man the Spirit is fiery that soweth the Fiery Tincture in the Woman the Spirit is watery according to the Light that soweth the Spirits Tincture in the Inward Kingdome the Image of the faded Substantiality and in the outward the Aires property out of the abomination of the Earthlinesse 94. Her seed is in the outward totally Cagastrish or drossy but if She be Holy then it is in the Inward according to the saded Image Iliastrish that is halfe Paradisicall for it beareth the Rose-Garden wherein God became Man it beareth according to the second Principle the house of PARADISE but in the Outward Principle it beareth the Childe of the existed abomination out of Adams Lust and in the Third Principle viz in the Earthlinesse it beareth the Dying viz the Death and Earthlinesse 95. The Man beareth in his Seed in the first Principle the Fire-world viz the Fathers Property out of which the Father manifesteth his Sonne viz his Love viz Venus'es Matrix that is the second Principles Property in him but in his Seed not manifested but only as a Glimmering Tinder or Mother so far as he is holy and in the Third Principle he beareth in the Sulphur and Mercury in his Seed the awakened Anger of God in which the abomination against God existed and became Manifested in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Womans Property 96. These Properties become with the Seeds of Man and Woman in the Conjunction brought into ONE there the TWO Tinctures receive one another in great Joyfulnesse as it is found by experience when the Seed goeth forth How the Tincture lifteth up it self in Joy whence mans Life is moved as a Joyfull aspect enough understood by those that are OURS 97. And the Two Tinctures espouse themselves thus instantly in the Sulphur of the Seed into One and awaken the Mercury viz the Work-master of the Life so that he laboureth in the Seed and awakeneth the Lifes forms in the Sulphur 98. And if the Mercury be not potent enough then it draweth the Mothers Menstruum to it self and bringeth it into the Seed of the Conjunction then it maketh the Seed in Menstruo to be FLESH in which yet there is a materiall poyson and the great abomination against the holynesse and purity as is sufficiently understood by all Lovers of Mysteries what kind of poyson lyeth in the Menstruum which desttoyeth and poysoneth any tender plant of the Earth as is undenyable 99. Now in this Menstruum and poyson is the Seed come to be Flesh and both the Tinctures are therein and have their nourishment from their Substance and the true Life in Soul and Spirit existeth out of THAT 100. Where now in this is the totall holinesse without blemish according to this Authour Let him shew it me here and then I will esteem him for the Bride of Christ as he will needs be so in his outward Flesh 101. The Scripture saith Man is sown in dishonour but riseth up in power Here is understood the second Principle in which the Word of Life standeth together in that Espousall but not in the Evill sinfull Flesh which is full of kindled affections and false or wicked desires 102. But if the Seed be of wicked Parents then is the Mother Tinder in the second Principle not stirring but if the Parents be Holy then is the Seed manifested in the Threefold Life viz in the Threefold Essence but if not then is the Divine Mother or Tinder not Manifested according to the Love-power but onely according to the Anger and according to the outward world 103. And though it be so that honest marryed people beget children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath NOT this meaning or understanding That the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christs Spirit driveth on the Imagination as this Author supposeth Indeed the Noble Soul is ashamed of it 104. The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which kindle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz a vehement desire the tenderer the Complexion is the Nobler also is the Tincture in its sweet desire 105. But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus'es desire then is the Life kindled so that it is as it were more than halfe Mad with Love Thoughts and yet knoweth not what is happened to it 106. Must all this now be holy then would the Secret WHOREDOMES where oftentimes one vehemently and fierily loveth anothers Wife and in like manner one Woman anothers husband and so is shot with this Dart be also Holy also when two young persons look upon one another whence instantly Venus shooteth with her fiery Dart then must that also be Holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust 107. And though it be at the best yet it is a thing that is in all Beasts it is Naturall Men find some Beasts that are even ashamed of it wherein it appeareth that Nature it self is ashamed of it and when men will give it the best and rightest name then it is called an abomination before Gods holinesse being a thing existed out of Sinne through Adams-Fall which indeed is boarn with all under divine patience seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take many Examples in the Holy Scripture 108. Look upon the people Israel when God would give them the Law at Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his voyce then he commanded the Young People which were loaden with such burning Lust to abstain from their WIVES and that pointed not only at the Marriage work but also at the * Imagination 109. When David came to Nob to the Priest Abimelech and there was no Bread but the Holy Bread the Priest said to David if the young Men had abstained from Women then would he give to them and David said the Women were left these Three dayes 110. Herein Men have a very cleer example that even the People of David ought not to eat of the holy Bread if they had touched Women then were they unclean and David had shut up the Women therefore from the Young Men that they should not be Made unclean with the Women through burning and Lust for they were in the warres that they should not be an abomination before God and so God suffer them to fall in Battell 111. And Saint Paul saith 1 Corinth 7. 5. concerning Marryed persons That they should not depart one from another unlesse it be with both their consent that they may apply themselves unto Prayer Saint Paul meaneth that Men should FORBEAR the Marriage work when they will Repent viz enter into true sorrow with Prayer before God It is just
such an Example as that of Moses and David 112. Therefore a Man cannot say that the Spirit of Christ promoteth it and driveth it on and intoduceth it self into the burning or ardent Imagination Christ therefore became a Man without the help or Co-working or concurrence of any Man or Husband that he might bring us forth out of this abomination before God through his holy Incarnation or Becoming Man he became such a Virgin-like Child with both the Tinctures one in another with own self-Love that he might bring our Rent in himself into ONE 113. And this is the abomination in the Marriage work that the Seed is unclean in the Conjunction of both the Tinctures when they are brought together into One it is the Property of the Eternall Joyfullnesse viz of the highest desiring and fulfilling if that might be done without abomination THEN it were holy 114. But the Sulphur of the Seed is an abomination before the Holinesse The Elevation of the Naturall Lifes Forms where the Forms of Nature lift up themselves in self-hood they lye in the Seeds and are kindled in Gods Anger viz in the abomination of the dark world through the Devils Imagination 115. Therefore this impure Sulphur out of which the Tinctures in the Fire Life viz in the Fiery Tincture become generated is an abomination before Gods holinesse and therefore must also this Sulphur with the abomination totally corrupt or break in peeces and go again into the beginning of the Creation 116. And though it be so that the Word of the LORD Verbum Domini intermixeth it self together in the Holy People that is done according to the inward Man where the Divine Sparkle is propagated in the Image of God in the Heavenly Substantiality 117. For the Word of the Deity in the Spirit of Christ dwelleth in Heaven and the right true Image created from the Divine worlds Substance which in Adam dyed and faded is the Heaven's Substance into which NO abomination CAN Enter for the Holy Spirit receiveth not that 118. The Spirit of Christ possesseth and manifesteth it selfe in HIS Tents and not in the beastial Conjunction of the Abominations of Sinne It is not in the power of the Imagination of the Flesh but in the pure Love-desire of Chastity and Faithfullnesse where TWO joyn their Minds together in the Marriage Band and give up their Love and faithfullnesse one to another to be their own and desire to be ONE Heart and Will 119. There the Spirit of Christ is the Love-band and here now is rightly that thing Increase or Multiply and be fruitfull God said to Adam and Eve they should multiply themselves in their Marriage Band. 120. He saith not HE would do it with the promised Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent but he gave them the power of the Naturall Man but the Holy Spiritual Birth or Geniture he promoteth in his own Principle and not in the perished corrupt Flesh not in the Imagination of Lust which is more Beastiall than truly Humane 121. Indeed he bringeth holy children together but by the means of his Officer Nature how he will have it but the marriage work according to the outward Man is not Holy but according to the inward it is holy in the children of the Saints and Not in Beastiall Vessels 122. But that this Authour sets it down That through this Conjunction of Man and Wife in their Lust-desire the Evill Properties and Lust of the Flesh are separated asunder and totally sanctified in the Spirit of Christ the Love-Spirit of Christ mixeth it self in their Imagination and driveth on all Abominations and worketh in the Imagination this Lust of the Man and Woman and sanctifieth the Imagination and the Seed sinne dyeth and a totall holy child becometh conceived viz a Christ little Child or Infant that is without blemish and Sinne moreover God and Man outwardly and inwardly 123. And this he speaketh as one that understandeth nothing of the Mystery of CHRIST and takes upon him freely as a Saint of his own making a self elected one without power who knoweth not his beastial abomination and Filth 124. He will make Christ to be OUTWARDLY and yet Christ himself saith His Kingdom was not of this World after his appointed work was accomplished he went to Heaven and in the Heaven which is IN us he dwelleth with us and worketh in that very Heaven in us and not at all in the Beastial Man in the fleshly birth in which Death is 125. It is a meer fiction whereby young people which are very eager and fiery in Venus'es desire are made altogether wanton and Luxurious when it is so finely pourtrayed before them that their desire and Lust is Christs driving and that it is the Spirit of Christ which would mix it selfe and beget Children 126. When he conversed upon the Earth HE never desired to mixe himself but only in the Spirit in the Soul and in the Image of God will he then now mixe himself in the beastial outward Work we have NO testimony for that 127. In David was also the Spirit of God should therefore the Spirit of God have mixed it self in his outward whoredom and have driven on the work of the outward Imagination towards Bathsheba the Wife of Vriah whom he murthered then God would have had the whoredome to have been 128. No! God punished David for that very fact therefore men should not say the Spirit of Christ mixeth it self in the Center of the Imagination of fleshly Lust and sanctifieth the outward Seed it is altogether false 129. He sanctifieth his Tabernacles which he possesseth he indeed openeth and shutteth in the work of the Life so that the Mercury viz the Work master cannot many times bring his work to Life and also many times bringeth it to Life according to Gods will as in many times to be seen among the Saints of Old especially in the Line of Christ but men should distinguish the outward from the Inward 130. The Marriage work in it self if it Be done Ordinately is not sinfull for it is driven on by Gods Officer Nature and boarn withall under divine patience 131. God sets before him the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ his Sonne as among the Jewes the Sacrifices which God set before him in the Covenant through the future Humanity and reconciled himself in the Covenant that the Anger might not burn in the humane Abomination 132. Thus also in the outward Marriage work God sets before him the true Image which lyeth shut up in our Seed in Christ his Sonne and entereth in the working power into the Substance of that Image of the Heavenly Substantiality as a Glimmering Mother or Tinder of divine Property and herein lyeth the holinesse of the holy marryed peoples Children 133. But in the outward Flesh as also in the Soul the Abomination of Sinne cleaveth to them and so NO child is born into the world without Sinne The will to the outward work of