where will you go in when the Supream Richter or Judge CHRIST whom you disgrace in his Members will appear in his wrath and will Richten den Richtenden Richter Judge the Judging Judge and will himself be the jus right or Law and the Judgement 10. That Richter or Judge will not respect a Primate or his followers which he draws after him nor any King Prince or Lord of the world according to the Authority they have had nor their Laws Statutes or Institutions but will judge the LIFE and try it in HIS Fire 11. Where will then your reproachings and disgracings abide which you have exercised against Christ in his Members It is written he that blasphemeth the Holy Spirit hath no forgivenesse Eternally Math. 3. 29. What will you then Answer to him you who have knowingly blasphemed his Gists and so miserably persecuted the Children of Christ when Christ will say What you have done to these the least of my brethren you have done unto me what Answer will you then Give 12. You despise me in that I am a Layick and not come from the high Schools or Vniversities with my skill or knowledge and cry out Fy upon my Gifts which yet I have received from God as a Noble Bounty which also is more dear to me than the whole world and reproachest my Trade or Handicraft with your crying fye upon it and callest it together with my Gift a stink how can it go well with you when such reproaching blasphemies and your crying fy upon it whereby you cry fy upon the Gift of the Holy Spirit shall awaken in you in Body and Soul and become kindled with Gods Anger so that the world will become too narrow for you what would you then afterwards give that you had never done such a thing 13. The Spirit which now rejoyceth you that you may have your will upon me with reproaches and disgraces If that should now become a Hellish fire and enter into your Conscience where will you then remain 14. You force Tears from me and earnest Prayers against the reproaching or blaspheming of God in that you blame me altogether with untruth have a care that my Tears become not Red hot Coals upon your head 15. I have prayed much to God for you that God would enlighten you and give you to acknowledge the Truth but you become continually the worse I will be blamelesse concerning you if Gods Anger touch you 16. Why do you despise me because I am a Layick and yet have high Divine aud Naturall knowledge Do you suppose the Holy Spirit is bound to your Schools or Universities Did not our dearest Christ say My Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him for it Luke 11. 13. Also ask and you shall receive seek and you shall find knock and it will be opened unto you Matth 7. 7. 17. I have received my Gift through earnest PRAYING and knocking and relish it so that I would not give it for all the worlds Honours and Goods also can never deny or forsake it wherefore do you ascribe the Gift of God to the Devill 18. Do but look back into the world what kind of simple People hath he used for his work what was Abel Seth Enoch and Noah what were the Patriarchs Shepheards none of them was a Doctor what was Moses A Shepheard what was David A Shepheard what were the Prophets especially Elisha and Habbakkuk honest simple people who were Tillers of the Ground what was Mary the Mother of our Lord CHRIST A poor honest destitute young Maid what was the Foster-Father of Christ during his child-hood A Carpenter what were Christs Apostles all of them poor simple Handicrafts-men or Trades-men as Fisher-men and the like why did not Christ reject them also seeing they had not studyed did HE cry fy upon them because they were Handicrafts People as you do 19. What was Christian Nobility from the Beginning even Humility and the Feare of God where now lyeth your great boasting in the Scripture as also in Art shew me it Saint Paul was a Scribe learned in the Scriptures but when he became a Christian then he must first become a Fool to his Art and knowledg that the divine wisdom might find a place in him 20. Why do you brag so much of your Art if you call your self a Christian do you not know that we are ALL ONE in Christ which is Christ us ALL If Christ teacheth us and loveth us why then do you curse us and call Christ in US a stink 21. Moreover hath not that an ill aspect or symptome as if the ill spirit were in you that can not endure Christ nor willingly would see that Men do repent and pray being you call Repentence and Prayer a stink which you can not deny being you say that every Line is a blasphemy against God and you forbid the people to read it under pain of Eternall punishment 22. Do but open your Heart and read that little book aright you will find some what else therein you have not read it at all yet that I perceive by the Title of your Libell for you set down the Title wrong and have not seen the little book of true Refignation of the Imitation or following of Christ therein you set the Morning Rednesse or Aurora for the First Book of which you know little or nothing and the way to Christ for the Seccond Book and yet it is no single Book but is only the Generall Title And the Book of Repentance he sets for the Third whereas it is the First in the printed Book and the last he hath never seen 23. O Primate Satan hath blinded you and led you into Anger that for anger you could not so much as read it but he hath instantly made haste with you to reproachings and scandalizing for it is a stink in his Eyes thus you have imitated and followed him do but drive away Evill affections from you and read it aright and you will see very much otherwise therein 24. Also you know that God hath converted ' some thereby so that they are entered into true Repentance and have attained that very thing which Christ hath promised us that is to say the Gift of the Holy Spirit Luke 11. 13. there are eminent Examples neer by 25. These Mens Gifts of the Holy Spirit you call them all A stink whereby Men may espye and discerne that this little Book is altogether against the Devill and that in you no good Spirit must dwell while you blaspheme the Gift of God for you say this Stink viz Repentance and Prayer which is the whole Contents of this Book be farre from you it may well so come to passe that Gods Gifts should remove and be farre from you Libell 26. You say also that Great Plagues hang over those places where such Blasphemy against God unpunished may be devised divulged and beleeved where Men may also freely without interruption think write beleeve
and divulge what they will Answer 27. Yes I beleeve so too that those places where Men blaspheme the Gifts of God and ascribe them to the Devill great punishments hang over them Also there hangeth over the Earâ—hly Man where such an Earnest sincere Repentance becometh exercised cleerly great punishment for he must be dayly killed and be made a Fool to the world when he shall walk in the Divine way 28. You see very well how I am punished by you in such wayes and not only by you but you egg and set on the whole City also with reproaching upon my Neck so that they beleeve you and punish me but it is the Badge Character or Mark of Christ 29. But that you will prescribe a Modell or platform of FAITH for the People so that they should not every one beleeve in his own Divine Gift as the Spirit of God in their soul manifests or reveals it self to them Another Libell is requisite of that this is not sufficient for that purpose 30. But that you threaten them with punishment that I beleeve you in very well If you had the Power then they must either into the Fire or out of the Land or Countrey 31. But that you say the way to Repentance is a devised Doctrine that the New Testament saith not for when Christ began his Gospel with John the Baptist then he said Repent Mark 1. 15. and my book saith also the same 32. The Naturall Man receiveth or perceiveth nothing of this way 1 Cor. 2. 14. you need not punish him he goeth without that enough in the wayes of the Devill till Christ in Repentance doth enlighten him Now look upon your self and try your self whether your self be in such away Before you prescribe to me and other children of God limits and bounds in our Gifts of God whereas your prescription is but a defaming desgracefull Libell Libell 33. Further saith the Libell God will wonderfully rescue his honour and will not suffer his Eternity to be taken away by such Sectarian or swarming Shoemakers Tanners Taylors Woman Priests and Doctors Answer 34. I hold the same opinion and beleeve stedfastly that God will suffer his honour which he in JESUS CHRIST with the victory over Death and Hell hath manifested or revealed in us poor Men to be taken away by no Devill much lesse a Primate Doctor Priest Shoemaker Taylor Tanner or Woman but whosoever among these shall Repent and turn himself to him upon those he will bestow his honour I beleeve also well that he will deliver his children from all Evill and fave them Libell 35. The Poyson of Arrius which denieth the Eternity of the Sonne of God was not so bad and pernitious as this Poyson of the Shoemaker which takes away the Eternity from the Eternall Father and in a blasphemous way against God Teacheth the Quaternity or fourfoldnesse in God 36. The Eastern Countreys in respect of the Heresie of Arrius have been horrible punished with the Mahumetan darknesse what kind of horrible darknesse should we then Expect if we do not with diligent earnestnesse hunt away and root out this Poyson out of our Native Country Answer 37. To this I say cleerly NO you can not in Eternity Demonstrate this that I take away the Eternity from the Father much lesse that I teach the Quaternity of the Deity you have a long time groundlessely feigned that upon me and cited my writings with a strange understanding and in the Pulpit said that I have written that the Sonne of God was made of Quick-Silver you should demonstrate that else it shall remain Eternally an untruth in such untruth it might be well said Fy upon it 38. I acknowledge ONE only God which it the Eternall beginninglesse one only Good Substance which dwelleth every where without or beyond besides or distinct from all Nature and Creature in it self and needeth no space or Place and in subject to no Measurableness much less to any Comprehension of Nature and Creature 39. And I do acknowledge that this one only God it Threefold in Persons in Equal Omnipotence and Power viz Father Sonne and Holy Spirit and acknowledge that this Triune Substance fills all things alike at once and also hath been the Ground and Beginning of all Things and still is and will abide so Eternally 40. Moreover I beleeve and acknowledge that the Eternall Power viz the divine breathing or speaking is flown forth and become visible in which out-flown word the inward Heaven and the visible world standeth together with every Creaturely Substance and that God hath made all things by his Word 41. That I have written in the Aurora of Salniter and Mercury thereby I mean NOT the meer pure GOD I mean HIS out-flown Substantiall word viz a shadow of the inward Ground wherewith the word hath introduced it self into a Naturall working thereby made that Materiall so I Demonstrate the Three Principles in Nature which are viz a Spirituall Mercury Sulphur and Sal and what the Ground and Originall of them is seeing the Totall Nature together with all Creatures standeth therein 42. I have written of Three Births First of an Eternall beginningless Divine Secondly of a Heavenly wherein light and darknesse that is Gods Love and Anger is understood and Thirdly of a beginning or inceptive temporary one viz the visible world and I understand the Salniter and Mercury in the Third viz the Created Substance 43. I demonstrate what the Heavenly and Earthly Mystery is viz the Holy and pure Element and its Efflux with the Four Elements and the Constellations I demonstrate how the Divine Powers are flown forth out of the Heavenly and become visible also what the invisible Ground of all Substances and what Time and Eternity is I beleeve very well that you understand Nothing thereof for it is not every Mans Gift but theirs to whom God giveth it 44. But that you say that I by this will search out the Deity and call it Devillish thereby you shew your ignorance to the day light that you understand nothing of the book of Nature and also do not read the New Testament for Saint Paul saith the Spirit searcheth all things even the depths of the Deity 1. Cor 2. 10. 45. It is not of Mans Ability but Gods Spirit performeth that searching through Mans Spirit But you call it Devillish if I should speak with you of the hidden secret Mystery of Nature you would be able to understand very little thereof but I would demonstrate to you my book of the Morning Rednesse or Aurora in all things if you were not such and angry zealous or furious Man so that a Man could but speak with you but with such disgracing you do but hinder the Gift of God and make your self unworthy 46. It standeth written And after these dayes I will poure out my Spirit upon all flesh and your Sonnes and Daughters shall Prophesie and your Old Men shall have Dreams and your young Man
whom he is Libell 81. Moreover the Libell calls me a perjured Shoemaker and in the Pulpit he hath called me a Rascally knave Answer 82. This reproachfull defamation is in all Statutes and Laws of the Empire forbidden upon pain of severe punishment that none should disgrace anothers good Name and honour or should make any defamatory Libell or disgracefull writings He should be the Man to forbid others and doth it himself 83. O Primate I ask you if I had caused such a Libell to be printed against you and had So abominably vilified and disgraced you to what place would you have sent it and condemned it surely to the Gallows and the Authour with it but what shall I say to you even God forgive it you 84. I have sworn an Oath to the Emperour also to the Prince Elector my Gracious Lord as also to the honourable Councill and the City Goerlitz to be true and faithfull in their defence and that I have firmly kept to this very houre and you call me a perjured or forsworn Fellow Rascally Knave I have brought my honour reputation to Goerlitz and you would bereave me of it for a perjured Man is not good enough to be in any bodies company 85. Well now you should and ought to demonstrate that I am such a one and flee with earnest complaint for it to the Magistrate and implore Justice and protection but seeing you oppresse me therefore in the mean time these deaming reproaches shall rest upon your selfe so long till you set before my Eyes my perjury 86. You have studied upon it this Fasting Time how you might bespatter Christs Children in the whole Church or Congregation with Serpents filth so that they are become Reproachers and disgrace me and have not stopped there but moreover caused such defaming Poyson to be printed that they may read it at home and tickle themselves therewith that the Devill indeed may be proudly Courted and Banqueted in state 87. I ask also your selfe is not that a sign of the Antichrist was not this your Office and Ministry that you should this Fasting Time have considered CHRISTS Bitter Passion Dying and Bloud-shedding and represent it well to your Parish Children that they might also have laid it to Heart but you on the Contrary have this Fasting time contrived two Libells and been angry at miserable People so that you have been fain to leave Christs Passion Wounds and Death lying on the Sick-bed and you lay your self by it as an awakened Poyson 88. Thus unworthy have you been before the Eyes of God consider your self a little seriously if men would lay it rightly to heart it might well make ones Haire stand upright for fear and amazement that you possesse the place of God and stand in the stead of the Holy Spirit and yet poure out such poyson upon the poor innocent People and not only here at Goerlitz but you also send your disgracefull writings into strange places and Countreys and poyson them so that they help you to reproach and blaspheme 89. All this is a certain sign of the Antichrist which the Libell would thrust upon me I pray and he curseth me Now judge upon it those that understand with which of US Antichrist dwells Libell 90. O Christ the Holy Spirit hath anointed thee with Oyle more then thy fellowes and hath made thee a Priest But thou Shoemaker the Devill hath desiled thee with Dirt and Dung and made thee a Heretick Answer 91. The Holy Spirit hath anointed Christ and his Children with Gods Oyle of Gladnessâ— and hath introduced that anointing into our Soul so that we beleeve in him and that I take or receive to my Self as a Branch of Christ and have tasted his Anointing powerfully in me which I rejoyce my selfe IN under the Crosse of CHRIST in my bodily Misery 92. But that the Primate saith the Devill hath defiled mewith Dirt and Dung that is true after his manner for that very Dung wherewith the Devill hath defiled me is his reproaching in the Pulpit against me and this Evill dirty Libell wherewith the Antichristian Devill hath defiled me and made me as a Fool before the whole Congregation so that the Ignorant People which have a Mind to it cast such Dirt at me But the Primate thinks it were better to throw Stones at me for then would the Book of Repentance have a riddance out of the way But the remembrance of Steven is still taught at this very day though the High-Priests did Stone him Acts. 7. 57. what God builds no Devill CAN destroy 93. But that he also saith and made thee a Heretick that is also a Ray of Antichrists colours for when Men would persecute the right true Christians and worry burn and kill them then hath Antichrist cryed out they are Hereticks none other Cause Men had to bring against them yet thereupon execution proceeded 94. O how will these Hereticks at the last Judgement day be set before your Eyes when they shall be set in the divine Power with Christ in the Judgement and judge the Antichrist who hath persecuted and killed them what will you then answer to CHRIST and to me when your Libell will burn forth IN your Soul who hath given you authority so to Judge demonstrate it out of the Apostles doctrine There is yet time to ropent before I must through Gods driving summon you before the severe Judgement of Jesus Christ Observe what I say to you I am a Christian in Christ you call Christ in his Member a Heretick and his power Dirt or Dung. 95. The Mercifullnesse of Christ calleth you herewith yet once more to try whether you will repent if Not I will be blamelesse concerning you if you be set in the Judgement you have a great Mountain before you through which you must climb up then if Christ leave you you may well remain Eternally in this Cliffe 96. Observe what is said to you it is well known Hypocrisie availeth nothing it must be earnest sincerity to sinne upon Grace makes a Man uncapable of Grace the hour is neer be perswaded you will have no Such Protector or assistance there as you draw to your self here upon which you relye you must stand before My eyes and give an account for your Malice and reproaching Blasphemy 97. Christ in me and in all the Members of Christ citoth you before the Judgement of Christ what shall I then say to you for all your scandalous blemishes you have put upon me here on Earth I pray you as a fellow Member of my Soul convert yet while the Door of Grace standeth open before the Great Cliffe or Gulfe between me and you be shut Luke 16. 26. 98. It becometh A High-Priest indeed very ill who should bring into his mouth the Divine word of the Love of Christ that instead thereof taketh filth into his mouth and polluteth Christs word which he should teach with filth and spit such filth into the Heart of the
People and poison them as you do for where filth is there is not at all the Holy Spirit in that Mouth but Satan 99. The Christian Church or Congregation should do well to open its eyes and observe what it is Men teach them the punishment of God followeth be perswaded dear Brethren there will shortly come a Time wherein you will well see what I here say Libell 100. CHRIST taught Men the divine Commandements but this fellow teacheth with great earnestnesse the Seduction Answer 101. Where standeth that in my Book that I teach Men the outword Separation shew me that or else it is not so I teach them the Anointing of Jesus Christ with his delicate humanity after a spiritual Kinde IN us according to the inward ground of Faith concerning which CHRIST saith he which Eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud he continueth in me and I in him John 6. 53 54. 102. For THAT is the Temple of the Holy Spirit where Christs Flesh and Bloud continueth in us as Saint Paul saith 1 Cor 6. 16. Also it is the NEW Regeneration wherein the HOLY SPIRIT in us SEARCHETH THE DEPTHS OF THE DEITY 1 Cor 2. 10. It is the out-powred word of the substantiall Divine Love which marryeth and incorporateth it self with our Soul as the whole New Testament teacheth 103. Where it is written Try whether Christ hath gotten a form in you Gal 4. 19. If Christ be to get a form in us then must not that be absent if we are to be a Branch on that Vine of Christ then we must not cleave to an other for none can serve two Masters saith Christ Matth 6. 24. Also My Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him for it when that shall come it will declare me in You Luke 11. John 6. 14. 104. It is not an outward Seduction but an inward Enlightning whence the Soul when it tasteth this Oyle of Joy and Gladnesse cometh into such great rejoycing as is mentioned in my little Book concerning the Noble Sophia which is viz the Substantiall Love of JESUS CHRIST 105. I understand very well that you know not this Noble Sophi a it is no good signe that you deny her and call her an Enthusiast I know her well and have a love to her For she is my Souls dear Bride If I knew her not then surely I would not have suffered so very much for her Love sake srom you and other people 106. Christ saith John 10. Whosoever entereth not through me to the Sheep viz Into the Sheepfold But climbeth in some other way he is a Thief and a Murtherour and but an hireling and is come only with suttlety to rob the sheep of their food and to shear off their wool these belong to the Wolves and have not the Shepheards Crook or Staffe of Christ but the Devills Sheers and must hereafter eternally howl with the Wolves But YE say he that entereth not in through the high Schools or Vniversities he is a Thief and a Murtherour and so you deride the Dore of CHRIST viz the anoynting or Unction of the holy Spirit and will needs have it to be that men must draw the divine knowledge and skill only from the high Schools or Vniversitles and bind and tye up Gods Gifts to ARâ— 107. But Christ teacheth us quite otherwise that this thing is hidden from the wise and prudent and revealed to the seeking and hungry Babes Math. 11. 25. As Mary also saith He thrufleth out the Mighty from their Seat and exalteth the miserable and lowly who are humble in their hearts before him Luke 1. 12. She meaneth not Might and Authority but Spirit and Power 108. O Primate I had much to say to you here but I know not whether it would be well bestowed or no for you would cover your self only with Christs Purple Mantlâ— that you might live according to the Lusts of the flesh you would not become regenerated and dayly dye away from sinne but only comfort your self that it is Christ hath done it 109. But I tell you it will not availe you unless you put on Christs Satisfaction through earnest Ropentance and turning in to grace and become a Branch on the stock of the Vine Christ that Christ in you also doe kill sinne and renew to you your senses thoughts and mind so that you desire to imitate Christ else will your tickling be unavailable and be only an hypocriticall flattering Shew 110. I tell it you in love observe it well I have received it from God so that I know it also the New Testament throughout teacheth you the same I have in my little Book very well signified to you that No man knoweth or understandeth this Noble Sophiah in the feeling or Experimentall Love of JESUS CHRIST unlesse it be given him from God 111. I will not here further cast the pearle under your feet till you are fit and prepared for it in true Repentance if that were done which I would wish then would I have further speech with you about it for now you are not yet worthy of it seeing you contemn it 112. In that regard also is your teaching so cold because you have not this power in you for you yet have not the right Hammer to strike the Clock you cannot yet strike the Clock which awakeneth the poor captive Soul you must use the right Hammer if you would strike the right Hour and awake the Soul out of sleep you have the WORD indeed but the right power is not in you wherewith you should Co work with the Litterall Word it self Therefore said Christ The sheep hear not the voice of the Hireling John 10. 3. for his crying and calling is but meer jugling and a fighting with a shadow He is with his teaching without Gods Hammer but a Jugler a Belly-Hammer an Ear-Hammer aud not a Soul-Hammer 113. This Power which I mean is the Doro to the Sheep you often use with your blaspheming reproaches Satans Hammer under Christs Purple Mantle your Heart is full of Gall and Bitternesse O alas it is Time Repent Libell 114. CHRIST hath directed us to the Word and to the hidden secret Mystery which the Beleeving hearts hold or retain in the Faith but the Shoemaker leads us to head-long Seduction and to Dreams which rob the beleeving hearts of Faith Answer 115. I lead not Men away from the Preached and written Word you do me wrong in that but I say that they should bring along with them the Temple of JESUS CHRIST to the preached or written word viz a Repentant hungry Soul which heareth in its own self Christ which is viz the LIVING Word in the Litterall and preached Word as David saith I will hear what the Lord saith in me Psal 85. 9. And Christ also saith He that is of God heareth Gods word and to the Pharisees he saith therefore you hear not for you are not of God John 8.
like * Marcolphus his filthey scurrilous scoffings who allwayes carrieth filth in his Mouth as this Libell also doth 136. It bringeth but little repute to a Teacher of Christ who should forbid it others and yet doth it himselfe The Shepheards Office will be handsomely served by it none should trust his SOUL to such scoffings he will be deceived this Spirit standard upon the Sand and tottereth to and fro Men may try him now in such scoffings 137. Men may well know the Fowle by his Feathers Christ said That which is within that cometh forth what the Heart is full of that comes out upon the Mouth Also how can you that are evill speak that which is Good Also Can a Man gather Grapes of Thistles or Figs of Thorns A Good Man bringeth Good forth out of the Treasure of his heart and an Evill Man bringeth Evill forth out of the Treasure of his Evill Heart Luke 16. 45. 138. This I give now to the Reader to ponder of what kind of Good Treasure can the Primate have in Heart when he brings forth such wondrous things out of his Heart there must certainly needs stick many strange things therein which he ought indeed to be a little ashamed to bring forth seeing he is the High-Priest but if a Man come to him and but displease him with one word then a Man may hear Satan many times laugh out from him with reproachings and blasphemyes Libell 139. When Christ Taught the People he did it openly but the Shoemaker useth to creep into secret Corners Answer 140. CHRIST was a Teacher sent from God and yet must oftentimes depart from the Pharisees and Scribes learned in the Scriptures and go into the Wildernesse to teach the People when they saw him teach they would sain have killd him and called him a deceiver and maker of uproars and said he had his skill and Doctrine from the Devill and though they saw the wondrous signs or Miracles yet they were so Mad and hardned and supposed Teaching belonged only to them and did to him also as the Primato doth to the Shoemaker they called him a Wine-bibber and Minister or Servant to rich Publicans And John the Baptist preached also in the Wildernesse yes in the Wildernesse was the Gospell of Christ began by John also the Apostles must often for fear of the High-Priests Teach in Corners and Houses as the Acts of the Apostles witnesse 141. But the Shoemaker is no Preacher but he giveth only an account of his Gift and knowledge and speaketh often with Honest Hearts concerning The Way to Christ how we must convert and repent and become new-born for CHRIST saith also thus Where two or Three of you are met together in My Name there am I in the midst among them Matth 18. 10. 142. The Primne should teach us that when we come or meet together we should speak of GOD and of our Salvation and edifie or build up one another in true Love on the Contrary he forbids us this whereby Men may try what spirit he serveth A high Glasse of Wine in his meetings is better liked by him then A hearty blessed Conference concerning the New Birth 143. CHRIST on Earth had no greater Enemies then the High Priests it will be so still at this Day for all Warres and strife come from the High-Priests disputings and reproachings as it is before our Eyes if our Eyes be open to see it but the account is neer at hand Libell 144. Christ desired no Kingly honour but the Shoemaker if he could would be King and God to o Answer 145. CHRIST came upon Earth poor that he might have compassion on us and make us rich in Heaven and like his Dear Angells The Shoemaker also is upon Earth Poor and despised but desireth from CHRIST the Heavenly Kingly Honour and to be like the Angels also he desireth in Christ according to his Inward Faiths Ground to become with and in CHRIST Deified that Christs Deity may dwell and Eternally abide in him and that No Primate shall take away from him Hallelu-jah 146. The Starre is appeared which leadeth tho wise men or Magi to the Babe JESU oppose it how thou wilt O Devill it is in vain here is Body and Life MY Eternall Kingdome with CHRIST and the Holy Angels can none take away from me and if the whole world lay full of such Libells yet I would keep my Kingdome in Christ and tread the Libells under foot and not spare my outward Life for it I know a better Life which Christ my Lord will give me 147. Therefore then be gone thou fair wicked world I ask not after thy Honour Goods nor Money our Conversation is in Heaven with Christ for he is mine and I am his the Enemy shall not part us Hallelu-jah It is fallen it is fallen Babylon the Great City upon Earth and become habitation of all Devills and unclean Spirits Now is the Kingdome of our Christ sing my Soul and rejoyce that the Dragon in THEE is killed and the Life of GOD is brought forth again Nun last zornen Teâ—fell und die Hell Gott's sohn i st worden unser Gesell Let Devills rage and Hell have Indignation The Sonne of God 's become our sweet Companion Libell 148. Christ desired no Title and vain honour but the Shoemaker is brag of his Titles Answer 149. The will of his Father was the Title of CHRIST his honour was in God and he introduced it into our Humanity and exalted our humanity to the right hand of the Power of God that very honour he hath bestowed upon his Christians that they also in him sit at the right hand of the power of God an reign over Sinne Death the Devill Hell and the World THIS high Title also the Shoemaker claims to himself an desireth the highest kingly Title in the victory of our Lord JESUS CHRIST as a Champion over Death and Hell he desireth such a high Title that he may stand in the strife against Death and Hell and that in CHRIST he thinketh to conquer and overcome the whole world to be a King in Christ to rule over all Enimicitious Libells and reproaches of the Primate otherwise he desireth no worldly Titles for the Kingdom of a Christan is not of this world John 15. 19. for Christ saith I have called you out of the world so that you may be where I am John 17. 24. 150. But the Primate doth desire a Title for he hath set his Titles of the High-Priests Office and of his Person in the Libell with GREAT LETTERS that men might see the Richter or JUDGE who hath authority over Christs Children also if one come a little too neer him and did but forget to take of his Hat for fear of him he might well expect-some strange king of Title from him if he were not kickt for his pains Libell 151. CHRIST was satisfied with the Name of a Master but this Fellow will be called
and presents as he supposeth 167. I believe verily that some Old Ruffians have brought him those tydings as Newes concerning Me And the Good Lord hath beleeved it as Gospel and with great earnestnesse written it and so enraged himself at it that he hath thereupon condemned the poor Shoemaker unheard but it would look strangely if Men should ask after the Ground of it and compare this Answer with the Libell 168. It is truly a great Matter for such a Man as you are so to deal with the Truth The City Goerlitz know very well that I for a long time without necessity have come into No Mans House The Tap-houses and Wine-Cellers are at quiet for all me for you have so judged and condemned me that I would willingly come no whither now if I should go to drink in Tap-houses how many hundred of your Flouts should I not get which you have cast among Common-people which are all your Fruits which will follow you you may well rejoyce at them Libell 169. Now if by this thou knowest the Shoemaker as the Lyon by his Paw Wilt thou then read his Books No but Shun them as the filthy Spawn of a Devill and abominable Errour and hold thee close to the Word of God and beware of the Shoemakers Scholars or Disciples whether they be Noble-men or Doctors Taylours Men or Women The LORD CHRIST destroy Satans Instrument and let not THY Word be suppressed or obscured Answer 170. In these words it may well be observed wherefore the Libell hath been written viz that he might bring to nothing and quite root out my writings by these defamatory Reproaches It vexes the Devill that my writings do lay open his Smoak-Hole and therefore it is that he paints me with such colours that NONE should READ me Men might otherwise Repent and so there would be a greater Breach made to his Kingdome 171. But this Devill is so very Grossely vile that he goeth quite Naked the People may easily observe him and learn to know him for men see his Pawes in his disposition and reproachings and that he is altogether a Poysonous venemous or Spitefull Spirit It is now quite an other Time then it hath been Men will not now so suddenly beleeve what every one saith Men will see proof for it why doth he not demonstrate what he sayes out of the printed Book seeing he forbids it to the Congregation of the People such defamatory reproaches are no demonstrations men may well call them Filth and Dung 178. He speaketh of the Lyons Paw by which Men should know the Shoemaker Now it may well be true that men at present may easily see the Lyons Paw in Me how the Lyon with contemning and reproaching hath griped and clawed Me but the Bloud of JESUS CHRIST hath hitherto resisted the Lyon else he had torn the Shoemaker in peeces 173. But that he saith the Shoemakers Doctrine is Filth and Dung therein he calls CHRISTS Mind or Thoughts and Spirit Filth and Dung And that Men should beware of the Shoemakers Scholars or Disciples to that I say I know of No Scholars or Disciples but only of Christian Men where one SOUL is refreshed by an other I have no New Doctrine but only the Old which is to be found in the BIBLE and in the Kingdome of NATURE 174. But that he calls his reproaching Blasphemies GODS WORD which men should hear only from HIM and should so reproach as he doth that I offer to Christian Hearts to consider of what Spirits Childe he is The Third Part in the Libell A Spending Penny on the Way Libell 175. THe City of Goerlitz still driveth thee Shoemaker away and commandeth thee to be gone thither where thy writings are highly Esteemed away quickly and get thee A great way off thou vain Mouth which reproachest and blasphemest GOD and try thou Miserable Man what Mischief is prepared for thee Answer 176. O Primate keep this Spending Penny for your selfe against you go to Heaven I desire nothing from you your vain reproaching Blasphemies will indeed follow after you for a Spending Penny Be not deceived he that standeth let him take heed least he fall Though indeed you persecute Me and intend to Bannish me who knoweth who it is will persecute you so also in a short time 177. The Signatures or signs of it are at hand it is equall that you before hand do to others as afterwards you would it should be done to you for a Punishment but you must fill up your Measure and if you do not Repent then will the Evill Spirits one day sing you a very grievous Song and command you to go away a farre off from the Countenance of God For what you do now at present that you do to CHRIST in his Members and that will He also do to you if you do not quickly convert and Repent Libell 178 Thou art just like Oedipus whom the Earth swallowed up O take heed that the like doth not befall thee also his Shadow did much hurt the People who stood neer him but beleeve me thy Shadow hurteth many of them exceeding much Answer 179. The Shaddow of S t. Peter did the Devill also very much hurt so doth my Shaddow also do hurt only to the Devil so Antichrist its likely you suppose that my shadow might hurt you as to your earthly Life because I make known the imitation or following of Christ and so the people who receive that Doctrine would require of you that you also should live as the Apostles of Christ did and Imitate or follow their example and that relisheth not with you therefore you say my Shadow hurteth some viz the false or wicked Spiritualty or Clergy very Mightily It may not be otherwise it must so come to passe 180. But I know very Many Spiritual Priests or Clergy-Men whom it will NOT hurt but do them much good whose Office of the Ministry is sincerely and earnestly intended by them BUT who can do any thing before the Time which bringeth ALL THINGS to passe 181. If the Primate with his Warning or admonition intend so faithfully then let him leave his reproaching Blasphemies in the PULPIT and only require me to come to him and shew me my Errour if I did but find that he had any thing of Truth against me and would shew me a better way O how I would cheerfully love him and faithfully thank him for it he rejoyceth that he hath but any thing that he CAN reproach 182. AT the beginning after his first reproaching Blasphemy and persecution I bowed and yeelded to him for Six years together and wrote No word further of my works why did not he cease to Reproach who did any thing to him But he could not why Because God had made him a driving Hammer that must drive on the work 183. His reproaching hath become my strength and growth through his Persecution my Pearl is grown he hath pressed it forth and published it himselfe and