born of God before all creatures 3. Which revealed great Mistery with the whole Divine fullnesse afterwards in its appointed Time in the assuming of our humane Body and Soul Flesh and Bloud in the Flesh of Christ became knowne and Manifested whence this Text according to your Scripture signification in Eternity cannot be severed or the first secluded from the Created Adam but the second viz the Justification in the Spirit following according to your Meaning is to be understood only in Christ but both belong only and alone to the Regeneration of Christ and of ALL his holy Members in the flesh 4. As indeed according to your visible Explanation in the Letter not only the flesh of the Created Adam but the whole Person Body and Soul the Totall Soul-Man which is created in the Naturall Life hath sinned and through the Fall come into Eternall Perdition 5. Whence the Justification and Regeneration through God the Lord who is the Spirit in Christ yea Christ the highly praised God himself is appropriated to all the faithfull and Elect new Creatures and Imaged or Represented and United in the Faith 6. Through which highly praised Triune God CHRIST JESUS the Expresse Image of the totall holy perfect Divine Triunity all Elect rightly Beleeving in with and through himself are GLORIFIED in his Expresse Image and brought from one Glory to another as by him the Lord and Triune God himself who is the Lord the Spirit 7. As really the Justification cannot be applyed and explained concerning God and Christ without the Regeneration and union of Body and Soul of the whole humane visible and palpable Person who is the Eternal Righteousness it self but concerning the converted and redeemed whole humane Person in ONE Body concerning Body and Soul and not concerning the Flesh alone which without Soul and the inbreathed breath of God is nothing but Dust and Ashes according to the Testimony of Scripture in Many places and Texts Thus far Esaiah Stiefel My Answer upon this 1. LEt the Christian Reader but look this Author Rightly into his heart and consider what he seeks under this description where he saith God hath created ALL things in Christ as also created and made Man visible in him but wholly without divine manifestation and knowledge so that God with his Mystery in the least was not manifested in Adam whereas yet the Spirit of God did breath into him the living Breath whence Man became a living Soul 2. Also how this Authour speaks quite against himselfe for he acknowledgeth in many places That God did breath into Man a powerfull living Spirit-Life out of the Divine understanding and Mouth in which Man was the Image of God 3. Now if the Spirit of God did breath into him his Breath viz the living understanding Soul how then was not God manifested in Man But he must do it for another cause that thereby he might give forth or professe himself wholly altogether to be God for he sets it down thus That God Created and made Adam visible in Christ and not further manifested himself in Adam but only in Christ and so Created Adam onely to and for the Naturall Life and he understandeth properly under it only that he should or must Fall For if he had no Divine knowledge and if God had never been manifested in him then the Devill might easily have got the Game of him 4. This Authour understandeth it thus that God might have cause to bring forth the hidden Treasure of the Divine wisdome the Second Time in Christ and manifest himself in Christ in the Humane Property and new Regenerate Man totally in the Treasure of his Divine wisdome so that Man is wholly Christ out of which he frameth to himself such a thought that HE himself is Christ 5. And this must help him to it and be the ground and Corner stone thereof That God did Create and make Man visible the First Time in Christ and is now the Second Time wholly new generated in Christ 6. From this now it followeth seeing Christ manifested himself the Second time in the Flesh and manifested the Soul and Body of Man in him with the WHOLE fullnesse of the Deity that MAN is TOTALLY God and Christ and so HE cannot fail of his purpose 7. For if in CHRIST he be come to be visible as to this world in Adam and that Christ as God the second time manifest himself wholly in him with the fulnesse of the Deity inwardly and outwardly in the totall humane Property so that God and Man is totally one then it cannot fail him but that Man must be God 8 Now understand this Authours confusednesse or intricacy First he saith God Created and made Man manifest in his Image that is in Christs Eternall Image which is the Authours Corner-stone but altogether erroneous and not right CHRIST in JEHOVA in IESU from Eternity was no Image of the Deity and even NO Christ The first begotten or born of the Father before all Creatures from Eternity is Gods Heart Voyce Word or Manifestation of the Divine Mouth the Scripture understandeth no other Image 9. The Man Adam became not created and manifested in Christs Image but in his own Image which God had seen from Eternity in his wisdome in the out-spoken word he can shew us no other 10. God created Man in his Image and to the Image of God it stands not written of Christ but of God to the Image he became created to substance and IN the Image he became created in his own Image from Eternity known by the Spirit of God 11. Not to A God but to a Similitude of God as Moses saith God Created Man according to his Similitude Also Let us make Man a Similitude according to us that the Spirit of God may behold it self in a Similitude and might Melodise with himself 12. And therefore he breathed into him the Breath out of his Sound of all his Substance out of all the THREE Principles viz a Tang and Voyce of his Instrument viz a Harmony of God upon which the Spirit of God would melodise and take pleasure in the Tang of the out-spoken Mercury or Word in the Humane Sound and with this Instrument Govern all whatsoever is and liveth in the world and so manifest himself in this humane Sound in Mans voyce and ride upon the wings of Mans Spirit as David saith The Lord rideth upon the wings of the Wind. 13. In this respect his Corner-stone upon which he buildeth is erroneous and not rightly understood If Adam had continued in Gods Harmony there had needed no Christ in Man for the Power of the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser to be the Christ was hidden in the Word of Gods voyce and manifested in no Image 14. God also took not his Love to himself for a wife in that he would generate an Image to himself He himself generateth the Love the Love is IESUS or IEHOVA viz the Second
Principle or the Second Person in the Deity 15. When the fair Harmony in Adam became poysoned by the Devill so that the Souls Will-Spirit which should have been wholly resigned into Gods Love-voyce went forth out of GODS Harmony and Tang into the Harmony of the DEVIL and all Evill or Malice then the true Divine Lute-player departed from him For Adams Spirit went out from him 16. Now if Adam had been created and brought forth wholly in Christs Image and had been standing in the Harmony of Christ then were the Image of Eternity which God as this Authour conceiteth Generated in his Love-Mother from Eternity in him destroyed and had suffered it self to be overpowered by the Devill and then were the Devill stronger than God seeing he had destroyed Christs Image 17 O how were it possible that any thing should perish that were brought forth onely and solely out of the Image and will of the Love of God then must GOD perish 18. And though he would say the Body over-loaded or overswayed the Soul yet the Soul was breathed into Man out of the Mouth of God out of the Holy Spirit also it were much that God would Introduce an Earthly Man into the Image of the holinesse of God viz into CHRIST who was generated in the voyce of the Mother of the Love from Eternity out of God as he saith So he would indeed have had Divine holy Substance which the Debill had not been able to Sift 19. I beleeve we shall here leave the Author to his Conceit and must Say That God hath Created Man IN his own Image known of God without Substance into a Substance and Image according to Gods out-spoken and Created Substance as Moses saith To be Lord over all Creatures upon the Earth we shall not dare to set him into the Seat of the Deity 20. The Omniscience of MAN was never at all nor in Eternity ever will be for indeed no Throne Angell is Omniscient but all is indeed under God and a work of his Hands 21. When God manifested himself in and with the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser he said Iohn 3. None goeth to Heaven but the Son of Man who is come from Heaven and who is in Heaven It is an empty or void Point which the Authour mentioneth that Christ hath manifested himselfe in a totall pure Virgin immaculate or without blemish and Sinne. 22. He said he was come from HEAVEN and NOT out of his Image which perished as this Authour conceiteth and yet became Man in Maryes right humane Essence 23. Of which this Authour as is to be observed in his Omniscience and Deity knoweth nothing at all O that he would learn before-hand the Theosophick A. B. C. in the School of the Holy Spirit e're he give himself forth or professeth himself to be holy and Omniscient and were a while under Gods Harmony e're he would himself be Gods Lutenist There is for certain a Luciferian Pride under it 24. Observe loving Brother he cometh in Christs Name and wholly in his person try him Christ is gone to Heaven this is but a confused Man MARY was the daughter of Joachim and Anna according to Flesh Soul and Spirit shut up under the Law of Sinne and under the Fall of Adam and Eve 25. But in HER was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God had promised in Paradise understand in the faded Image of the heavenly substantiality in which Adam dyed to the Kingdom of Heaven that can receive NO Sinne for the Heaven of God is subjected under no Sinne. 26. When Lucifer perished in his Creature the Heaven spewed him out from it self The true Soul of Adam was the Life in the Heavenly Substantiality but when the Souls Will entred into the Earthly Substance viz into Evill and Good into Heat and Cold viz into the Center of Nature after sutlety and cunning then faded his heavenly substance wherein Gods Light shone and Gods Light remained standing in its selfe in its Principle 27. This Gods Love-Will Lamented that its similitude perished and promised Adam the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent out of the Seed of the Woman which had with the Limit or Mark of the Covenant here stuck or set it selfe in MARY 28. Not in the sinfull Flesh of Mary but in the faded Image which JESUS by his entrance would move and move himself in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant and open the CHRIST viz a New Life out of himself and out of this Limit or Mark of the Covenant of Promise in the faded Seed of Mary 29. So that the faded Substance in the power of the moving of JESUS in that this JESUS with his moving moved the divine wisdome and hidden power in it and gave this hidden Seed for a Life might become manifest and in Christ living again who was God and MAN in ONE Person to whom the outward Kingdome of our Flesh in the seed of MARY hung 30. WHEREIN he took upon him our Sins and Infirmities upon his Shoulders and querched them with the bloud of the now present New-borne heavenly Substantiality with the true Womans Seed and drowned the fierce wrath which became manifested in the center of Nature in the Soulish Property together with the disobedient Will and introduced it again into Gods Will. 31. And in this that God moved himselfe in the Seed of Mary in the shut up hiddennesse of the Humanity and manifested himself with his Love and conceived CHRIST in the Faded or disappeared Seed viz the Eternall Life in the still death Therefore is Mary become the blessed of all women 32. For that happened to None that God had moved himself in their right Seed that dyed and disappeared in Adam For here came the first Image again which Adam was in the Creation and God now gave to this Image which could not stand but dyed in Adam this Serpent Crusher or Bruiser out of JESUS or JEHOVA for an assistant that should Help the Soul to over-power the Anger of God and the Devill 33. JESUS hath with this CHRIST which he manifested out of his moving in the Seed of Mary and gave Life to the Seed not received the outward sinfull Seed of Mary into the Deity so that God is become manifested in the outward Seed of Mary 34. This proves it self in Christs Person that he on Earth in form or Shape condition and Outward Conversation and Flesh was like VS for the outward Flesh was mortall wherein he also slew death He took only the Inward Seed viz the disappeared which dyed in Adam wherein Gods Light shined 35. And in the JESU viz in Gods Love and wisdome he manifested the divine power and strength wherewith he would overcome the Anger of the Father and transmute or change IT into the divine Kingdome of Joy 36. But the Soulish and outward Fleshly Seed of Mary Wherein Sinne was hung to the inward disappeared Seed These mix not themselves also they are not
alwayes by the Serpents seed the unfaithfull wicked world slain persecuted despised scorned and put to Death in which regard also the Death of all Saints was before the Lord very highly dearly and preciously Esteemed 13. So he hath also in his divine fullnesse and perfect Seed and word of God the pure faithfull womans and Virgins Sonne God and Man in one Person the right Seed Sonne and Word of God of the perfect faithful Flesh and Bloud the totall persecution enmity hatred and envy of the abominable Satanicall Serpents Seed of the wofull Devill substantially united in all unfaithfull unrepentant children of the world hath taken upon him for the sake of the redemption of all the faithfull of his body and holy woman 14. And through his innocent suffering and dying hath paid the penalty and debt of all the Sinnes of the world on his most holy body and woman reconciled it with the Deity in himself overthrown all Enmity between God and Man and in and according to this his most holy totall or UNIVERSALL Redemption through his guiltlesse Crosse with and in divine union through God and out of the infancy to a perfect Man presented himself to his totall holy Church or Congregation 15. In and with which he now according to his most holy prediction Hosea 2. I will Espouse my selfe with thee in Eternity I will betroth my self with thee in Grace and Mercy Yes in the Faith I will unite and bind my self with thee with this his holy unreproveable undefiled Church and perfect Bride and most holy Sulamith Canticles Reconcileth and espouseth in Eternity 16. In which he now according to his own most holy revelation of himself here upon Earth Esaiah 9. The Eternal Father in an undivided Person God and Man ONE Eternall Generatour TRIUNE God and Lord yes ALL in ALL his beloved totall perfect Bride his holy body and woman wherein he Eternally generateth his holy Seed his holy Word Will Work and Performance substantially livingly and powerfully 17. And to his Eternall praise laud and honour in this his holy Church holy Jerusalem and perfect City of the perfect appearing divine Peace which is kept in Heaven but now on Earth in this ending ceasing Last time of the world manifesteth himself in the Eternall Unity of his body and woman the undefiled untransitory unfadable Inheritance 18. And the receiving his holy kingdom and Dominion according to the Testimony of the Holy Scripture Dan 7. under the whole Heaven in his Saints his united woman and Eternally ruling it to be openly proclaimed 19. The Bride the Woman of all faithfull Flesh and Bloud according to the Testimony of the Scripture Revelations 22. hath called Come LORD JESU the Bridegroom and Man Christ appeareth and saith in the unity of his Wife or Woman Here I am Here I am Here will I dwell this is my Rest Eternally 20. Here thou wilt with the beloved woman of all faithfull Flesh and Bloud in divine unity of thy Man with this Scripture Explanation for further holy consideration in and with thy united Bridegroom according to thy desire for Love and divine will acknowledge and receive this 21. In which the Triune highly praised Sonne and Word of God the fullnesse of the Deity generated from Eternity the most holy seed of the Woman from the beginning of the World after the Fall of Adam and Eve as also the regenerated new faithfull flesh and bloud the woman in that which is in Part and perfect holy substance is discovered to thee and manifested to the Eternall and in Eternall unchangeable Union 22. NOT Tinctured according to the Cabalisticall Theophrasticall Roso-Crucian kind and transmuted out of the unfaithfull Substance into the Faithfull 23. But according to the Testimony of the Scripture a New Birth not out of the old sinfull Substance but in the Center and inward Heart in the Love of the divine voyce a new beginning a New Heart a New Flesh and Bloud a New faithfull Person as to Body and Soul a Faith not born out of the unbeleef but out of God 24. A Body a Woman a Man an unity of the Woman a Seed a faithfull visible good Substance of God A Christ a Lord a God a Spirit Substantially opperatively livingly powerfully and actively the self-subsisting Eternall ONE onely blessednesse or salvation an undefiled unfadable untransitory inheritance reserved in Heaven 25. But now in this Last Time revealed or manifested to all over all through all and in all faithfull with himself the Triune Eternall God an Eternall REST and holy City and habitation of the highest of all and lowest of All in Heaven and upon Earth which is and is called in All Eternall Eternity according to the Testimony of Scripture of Ezekiel the last Chapter A Wedding City Here is the LORD Psal 48. 1 2. Very greatly and highly to be praised is The Mountain SION the fair Branch with which the whole Land is Comforted Yours alwayes willingly A. V. E. Esaiah Stiefell HEre followeth My Answer upon this Fourth Point of the Fourth Text. 1. T Fourth Point I would even leave unexplained if it were produced by the Authour in a right understanding but he jumbleth all together and sticketh his erroneous meaning therein and maketh much more a Confusion of it then a right explanation But seeing I have explained the contents of it above almost in every particular I will therefore only expound the chief matters and extract the Erroneous Opinions out of his Confusion for the sake of the Reader 2. Concerning the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ concerning which the Authour here mentioneth That the Seed of the Holy Trinity in the Totall divine Substance is become Man or Incarnate in the Totall Holy Perfect totally united with the Deity virgin MARY and hath taken HER Flesh and Soul upon him and so made MARY the Genetrix of God viz the holy word of God as he writeth and that MARY was before new born in the Faith e er she was impregnate or with Childe with the Saviour 3. This needs yet a sharper explanation and exposition and it had stood this Master in hand that will needs be Perfect and Omniscient to have unsolded this Mystery and not to have confused it so that a man cannot know what he understandeth thereby but only that a Man may see his secret in sown Grain or Seed spring up therein 4. He will not herewith satisfie the seeking Mind which enquireth after the Ground and lead him into the Center of Nature he must put on other Stieffeln or Bootes if he will ride with Christs Spirit over Death and Hell and say how Gods Anger is quenched Death broken to peeces and the Devills Kingdome IN Man destroyed 5. His explanation is much more erroneous and an obscuring the understanding of the seeking Mind than an Expounding He hâ—nteth some high Points concerning the manner of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and produceth none 6.
as God in and with God but he said The Words which I speak are the Fathers who dwelleth in Me that is in the humane self-hood I doe as the Father Commandeth Me. 136. Men should alwayes distinguish the Humanity and the Deity and the humane Will from Gods Will for No man can attain Gods Mind or Sence Thoughts and Will in Self-hood Man seeth after or behind the Spirit of God even Moses could not see Gods Face or Countenance he must see after or Behind him When he did see him he saw but the Lords Track or footsteps How then will this Man speak in with and through God and though the Lord do speak through him yet he knoweth it not till he see and know his Footsteps 137. It is therefore a vain enterprise or rashnesse which beside is not sufficiently grounded It is only intricate Confusion he will not be Nature and yet in Man there can be no divine knowledge without Nature 138. Nature is Gods Revelation or Manifestation the humane Spirit is or is from the Eternall Nature understand the Soul and the outward Spirit is or is from the Outward Nature and yet they are not two Spirits but they stand in one another in Three Degrees after the kind of the Three Principles 139. And yet all Three are only the out-spoken or expressed Word of God the speaking remaineth Eternally dwelling in it Selfe this expressed or Out-spoken Word may give it self up into Love and Anger BOTH are therein it CAN alter or Change it self in the source or quality but the speaking Word which dwelleth in it self IN the Out-spoken or expressed CAN NOT alter it self for it standeth in the Eternall Birth or Geniture it is generated and is become continually generated from Eternity in Eternity 140. Man hath it not IN self-hood but IN the free Resignation God becometh generated in him Man hath Originall God hath none God is as to Man as a Nothing Man is the Nothings somewhat therefore now the somewhat can not comprehend the Nothing 141. Therefore beware dear Brethren make not Gods Dear Redeemed Children to Erre and to become their own self-Idol-Gods it is an abomination in the presence of God 142. We are indeed his beloved Children but begotten out of the Somwhat we are not the Nothing without or besides all source or quality and Nature let every one feel in his Bosome and consider what he is and not think that he is wholly like God or GOD himself 143. We are indeed the Manifestation of God viz the Instrument of his Harmony We are his Pipe through which he Pipeth Now there are Three sorts of Pipers in us which Pipe in the Pipe viz The Three sorts of Properties of the Spirit of Life out of all the Three Principles 144. When now will the Pipe know when Gods Love-Will will Pipe or when his Anger-Will will Pipe Must it not as a Pipe give the Mercury to Good and Evill It findeth it indeed when Gods Love-Will Pipeth but before-hand it knoweth it not 145. Thus this Authour should not say He can Pipe out of the Sound of the Holy Trinity for we understand his Sound that the Tang soundeth out of his Self-hood not out of Gods Love Voyce while himself will be the Piper we hear his Tone only as a humane Tone CHRIST will not receive the honour in the self-hood therefore much lesse doth it become us 146. Secondly That the Authour saith God hath created all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures IN Christ this hath no Ground it is very erroneous and ill applyed therefore it shall be here better explained and given forth for the better understanding of the Reader that he may know how to speak distinctly concerning Christ and concerning the Eternall Word of God 147. It is not set down for a reproach to the Authour but for a Direction to the Reader of his writings that he may not be Lead astray in his writings Moreover only out of a true Christian Love desire towards all that Love God also not thereby to lift up my selfe and to flye aloft over this Author but to give forth that understanding that God hath given me out of Grace written for Good Friends upon their frequent desires and importunity 148. Thirdly That the Authour mentioneth that he will Speak and Act through and out of the Omnisciency that a very childe may well understand what he meaneth thereby and that he is not Omniscient else he had known that I would better explain it He hath no more in his knowledge than a Creature hath but if he hath that which he boasteth of then let him tell what shall be done to Morrow and next day and what shall be done at all times to the End of the World 149. It is written in the Evangelists that the Son of Man according to his assumed humanity knoweth not the END of the World and that this knowledge is only in God how then will this Man be Omniscient 150. And though he should say he will know it in Christ yet I say no he must see after or behinde the Spirit of Christ which is Omniscient what and when THAT will know in him 151. He is not a Knower of every thing therefore he is not sufficiently grounded but is as a mixt confusion he sets himself wrongfully in the seat of God for he liveth yet in Evill and Good and is Mortall which time will shew forth 152. Fourthly But that he also saith he will answer out of all the holy Members of Christs Body they are almost all against him in their Gifts how then will he speak out of their Spirit It is a vile confusion he hath not all Mens Gifts but only his own 153. I am also a Member of Christ but do not see that he answereth out of me In deed he hath borrowed from me but he answers not out of my Mind thoughts or apprehension I would he would let his borrowing alone and did not make Confusion in my Gifts that he might there by boast himself It would become him better 154. Fifthly Though indeed he saith He will do this for the salvation sake of all the Faithfull Beleevers yet it is not enough perceptible to me that he seeketh such a thing only seeing he sets himself in Christs Seat and somewhat else may lye behind the green Leaf 155. Seeing he saith God hath brought forth to Light all things whether they be Heavenly or Earthly in Christ and cloatheth himselfe wholly in Christs Might and Omniscience therefore it is very considerable to me especially seeing he ascribes immortality to himself that I should therefore follow and observe Christs Words viz If any should come and say he is Christ we should not beleeve it till he demonstrate it in Power 156. Sixthly Also if he be the Omnisciency of the Holy Trinity he needs no Litterall Testimony or demonstration he may shew his Omniscience in Divine power as Christ did and
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
be distinguished from other People therefore God sheweth us in this Image that we stand with the Mouth trimmed and adorned before him but the Spirit is a false or wicked Man As this Authour saith We should call our selves Holy and deny the Earthly Name and firmly beleeve we are NO Sinners but God in Christ born Totally Holy 15. And when this seeming Holy World existeth then is the knowledge or acknowledgement of Sinne totally Dead and although God should blame us yet would the flattering Hypocrite Murmure against God and say he did him wrong and then is the enmity against God generated and Sinne totally blind 16. No Man would know more of Sinne and though likely we were totally sinfull before God yet then is the time of which Christ said Dost thou suppose that when the Sonne of Man shall COME that he shall find FAITH on the Earth there would be NO Faith in Power but only meer Faith of a History so that we will not beleeve if any should charge us as guilty of Sinne thus there would be a fine secure negligent or carelesse SION like Life 17. Whatsoever we did then it were all Good there would be accounted no Sinne in the world none would be said to have sinned Christ must do all and though many were very Theeves yet no MAGISTRACY or Government would be usefull for CHRIST ruleth all in all 18. Where there is no Sinne there is also no punishment then also men would need no Superiour to Judge for every one judgeth himselfe and whatsoever he doth that doth God through him which indeed would run contrary to the Angellicall Government and against the Government of the Inward and Outward Nature 19. I admonish all Readers of His writings very sincerely from a true heart as a brother for our eternall salvations sake diligently and well to ponder and consider what is hidden under this giving forth the bring Holy and how the Devill thinketh to take us with a New 〈◊〉 seeing he perceiveth that his smoak-hole shall be manifested 20. Therefore will he now drive us wholly forth from the acknowledgement of Sinner that we should be wholly secure or negligent and understand no Sinne more and supposeth that we in our present evill life which we have shall finely learn to cover our selves With Christs Purple Mantle and introduce us totally into security and carelesness and so keep us from the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Sinnes and entrap or take US all 21. But dear Brethren observe and convert or turn away from security and acknowledge your selves to be the lost and returning Sonne to the Father and say continually you have shamefully spent your inheritance and that the Father hath received you again for his Sonne he hath done it of Grace and Favour 22. Be not proud again say not to the Father divide the inheritance between us continue only in humility under the servitude of a Sonne as CHRIST hath set before us in his Similitudes or Parables if God will effect any thing New with us he will well manifest it with power we suppose words without demonstration are too little in so high a matter whereon salvation and blessednesse depends 23. But therewith I set before the Reader the true ground what Adam and Christ are in ONE Person and which Man is without Sinne therefore Mark this which followeth 24. The Kingly Prophet of God David Was a man after Gods own Heart as the Scripture testifieth of him in whom was the Spirit of God and he prophesied of Christ but he said In Sinne was I born in Sinne did my Mother conceive me which also manifested it self in him so that he had neer the Spiritual Man also a sinfull Man IN him which was a Murtherour and an Adulterour as the like may be seen in the Patriarchs 25. But who will now say of David that he was not holy Seeing he was a Man after Gods Heart who also will say that his Murther and Adultery was without Sinne The Man that in David was a Prophet THAT was no Sinner but that which was a Murtherer was a Sinner and yet it was but one only MAN in one Person but in two Properties viz one Heavenly and one Earthly 26. The Spirit of God speaketh of things to COME and of CHRIST concerning the Heavenly Property and the fleshly desire into which the Devill introduced his desire speaketh out of the Earthly Property out of the Earthly cursed Life viz out of the Murther and Vnchastity 27. In ALL men lyeth the Heavenly Image which disappeared in Adam but it liveth in one and in another it is Vnlively That Heavenly Image viz the second Principle is that out of which CHRIST was conceived and born out of JESUS 28. For God is in all places but not Manifest in all things but if he manifesteth himself in the disappeared Substance then is Christ born who dwelleth in his Principle and the Earthly Man of the Earthly part in the Curse of God dwelleth in its own Principle in it self 29. The Spirit of Christ dwelleth in the inward Substance of the disappeared Image from the Divine worlds Substance that dyed in Adam and the Elementary Spirit dwelleth in the Four-Elementary Flesh 30. The Spirit of Christ hath Spiritual Flesh for it taketh the Spiritual Flesh which dyed in Adam on again for a Body and Maketh it living THAT is in its Flesh holy but the outward Spirit of the four Elements in the Earthly Flesh is longing after falshood and wickednesse and bringeth its Lust against the Inward Man for the Devil sifteth it 31. And that is it which the Scripture saith The Flesh lusteth against the Spirit understand against the inward Divine Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh And God said to the Serpent in the Outward Flesh of Adam I will put Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and of the Serpent 32. The Inward Spirituall Flesh is Heavenly the Devill cannot possesse that for if the Soul forsake that and go out from it then is THAT vanished or disappeared and as a Nothing In the wicked it is as a Nothing 32. But when the wicked turneth himself to God and turneth the Will of the Soul to God then is Christ out of the disappeared Seed born a Man and is set before the Devill in the outward Flesh for a Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent which hindreth and breaketh the Will of the evill Flesh so that Sinne is NOT committed 34. And THEN there is a constant Enmity Christ Governeth in his Heavenly Flesh through the outward and striketh the Outward Lust to the Ground then cometh the Anger of God in the Center of the Soul and will also have its fierce wrathfull Government and the Devill with the false or wicked Lust crouds himself thereinto 35. And the Elementary Spirit hungers constantly after its Mother the Elements and then the Devill bringeth the Lust aloft and wheeleth the desire about then the Hand
marryed people might learn to distinguish the holy in the Love from the beastiall and learn in this work to remain Modest Chast and Temperate before God and Man 11. And not as a burning Lustfull Bull to which brutish work this Authour openeth a wide Door while he calleth it totally holy and so at last in his holy giving forth All shame would be extinguished 12. Whereas yet the understanding and also Nature testifieth that an Abomination hangeth to it which is not quite holy before God in respect that also Nature it self together with the Soul is ashamed of it which ought well to be considered and how the poor Soul which appeareth by the Eyes is ashamed before its Bridegroome CHRIST that it now after the Fall must propagate it self after such a Beastiall Manner like other Beasts 13. For this cause I will unfold it that marryed people may learn to know themselves and that this Authour might not make them So totally blind and they live in abomination before God as Beasts without any knowledg thereof unlesse for this I would not particularly oppose him in this Article for holy people should get also holy children which yet miserably often faileth as is apparent to our Eyes 14. We know what Moses saith That God said Let us make Man an Image that is like us He saith not TWO Images but ONE Image that is like us 15. God is according to the Fire and Light but ONE substance viz according to the Fires and Lights Tincture in the Eternall Nature he is also but ONE substance And that he is and is called Father and Sonne yet he is therein also but ONE substance 16. But manifested in TWO Principles viz with the stern Fire-world according to the Fathers Property and according to the Light and Love-world in the Sonnes Property And yet is but ONE only substance undivided but ONE God as Fire and Light is ONE 17. Thus he hath also created his Image Man according to his similitude out of his out-spoken substance out of ALL into ONE substance into one only Image and also inbreathed the Spirit of all the THREE Principles into ONE only Spirit 18. All the Three worlds viz The Eternall dark cold fiery viz the Eternall Nature as also the Eternall Light fiery together with the substance thereof viz the pure Element and therein the Paradise for also the outward Four Elementary and Syderiall world with its substance were in this created Image but One in like or Equall Concord or agreement 19. Man was and is the Inward and outward world the Inward World is the Heaven wherein God dwelleth thus was Man upon Earth in Heaven the Inward and outward was ONE the Inward manifested it self in the outward viz God in the Time the Outward is the Time that was in Man swallowed up in the Eternity but it was manifested in it self not totally for the Dominion but for the wonder of the Dominion of the Divine World 20. The Outward World knew it selfe not in the Time but it wrought in it selfe as an Instrument of the Master The outward Sulphur and Mercury of the Body were manifested in the power of the inward Spirituall Sulphur and Mercury The Tinctures of both were manifested in one another as One the Spirit wrought through the Time and that was a Paradise where neither heat nor cold might be manifested 21. The Life of Both worlds viz the Heavenly Holy in the Pure Element and also the outward in the Four Elements were but One only Life and that was a Similitude according to God viz an Expresse Image 22. For God dwelleth in the Time and the Time is not manifested in him but before him as a similitude it is IN him in the dominion all one The Time is servant and his work it liveth in it self but God is the Life of Time But in comprehensible to Time the Time ruleth not in God but it is in him as an Instrument wherewith he ruleth and maketh or worketh 23. But now understand us concerning the Soul The Soul is not out of the Temporary or Time-Nature the Time-Nature is but its dwelling-house even as an Instrument with which it maketh or worketh It hath in it self the Center to the Fire and Light world and out of the Center it became inbreathed into Adam by the Holy Spirit in the Moving of the Father out of the Three Principles 24. And this is its Fall and Sinne that it hath through its mighty desire manifested the Properties of the Dark World in the Center of the Eternall Nature which was done through Imagination in that it introduced its Lust into the Instrument of Time viz into the Outward world 25. And would try how it relished when the Equality of agreement went forth or away one from another so that Evill and good were Manifested each in it self it lusted to eat of the relish of both and thereby be omniscient and suttle as Lucifer in like manner so perished who lusted after the dark Center in the Fire-birth and awakened that in his desire that so the like concordance or equall agreement in him might be Manifested in an awakening of all Properties whence Lust and falshood or wickednesse existed to him 26. For if the Lifes forms viz the Forms of the Eternall Nature were manifest every One in it self then there is a great Enmity for every one will rule every One hath its own will and if this were not then there would be neither perceptibility nor finding but an Eternall stillnesse 27. But now the Lifes formes should not be manifested in the qualifying or operating each pressing forth but instanding in equall agreement like a Tuned Lute and the Spirit which was brought forth out of this equall agreement by Gods Spirit was also in equall agreement viz the Spirit of the Soule as the Aire out of the Fire that should enter into the Sound of God and strengthen it self in the power of the Light and with that very power strike the Cittron of the Lifes forms 28. But that it did not but it entered into own will and reached after the Center of the Lifes forms and awakened the same it would it SELF be GOD and made it self a dark Devill according to the first impression in the Fiat of its Property out of which in this world are evill poysonous worms and beasts come to be according to the outward Impression and that is the reall Fall of the Devill as also of Adam 29. But that we may render it better intelligible concerning Adam as also concerning his Wise Adam was a totall entire Image of God when God had created him then he was Man and Wife and yet neither of them but a modest Virgin in the Similitude of God 30. He had the Fires Matrix and also the Lights Matrix out of which through the Element water becometh generated through the dying in the Fire He had the Fires and Lights Desire in him viz the Mother of the Love
Sal and manifested that in Venus'es Matrix 52. Understand from Adam was taken his faire Rose garden of the great Lust Desire or Pleasure of the Kingdom of Joy viz the Lights Tincture according to the Property of the Love-desire And according to the bodily substance the Property of the Spirituall Water which in the Love-desire becometh generated through the Fire and is the Fires or Souls-Spirits greatest refreshment in which the Fire-spirit had impregnated it self in Substance and generated its Similitude viz in the Love-desire 53. This Venus Mother became figured into a Wife or Woman and in Adam remained the Fires Mother which continually introduceth its hunger into the Venus Mother in like manner also the Venus Mother into the Fires Mother viz into its Father and Man or Husband which giveth it Essence and Life 54. In which Conjunction the PERFECTION of the Kingdom of Joy standeth and the fulfilling of the desire which should damp and hold Captive the Lust of Vanity out of the Center of the Impression according to the dark worlds property and onely refresh it self in the Love viz in the Kingdome of Joy 55. This Love-sport or Scene of both the Tinctures of Fire and Light were divided in Adam in his Sleep for God parted them in the Fiat and here Adam lost his chast Love-sport and his Virginity which CHRIST brought to him again and in the place of his Rib for a Wife where he became broken must Longinus'es Spear enter and the Regenerate Virgin-like bloud must Tincture this Breach and heal and make it whole again and quench the wrath which was in the Breach 56. Thus we understand what the Woman or Wife is viz A halfe Adam Adam hath in the Superiour might the first Principle and Eve the second In Adams part the vanity became first manifest viz in the Center to the Fire 57. Which Fires-desire entered into the Venus desire and in the Lust became manifested in the Substance in which the propagation was therefore God in Paradise promised to enter again into the Seed of the Woman and with the new generated Love-desire to break the Head of the Serpents desire which was existed out of the Center to the Fire-Life 58. That is to overcome IT with the great Love to go it self into the abomination viz into the Womans Seed which the abomination in Venus'es Matrix hath poysoned and introduced into false or wicked Lust and to break that very will which against Gods holinesse and purity went into own self and turn it again into the Love-desire 59. And here when Adam was divided and the Divine might or power slept he together with his Wife with his Pleasure-Garden was ordained into the outward Life for the divine understanding was in him faded 60. For he was gone forth from the Divine Love-Fire with his desire into the self-hood after the vanity viz after the Manifestation of Nature after Art and much knowing THAT he gat also but he lost thereby the knowledge of the DIVINE Kingdome of Joy 61. He was yet indeed in Paradise with his Eve when the Spirit of the outward World awakened to him but in the Lust of the vanity together with his Eve to which the Devill afterwards gave him more cause at the Tree of Temptation as is above mentioned 62. Adam Slept in the Divine world and awaked to the outward world and with the Earthly Eating of the Tree of Temptation which was Evill and good the vanity in the Substance of the Flesh fully awaked for there began the Properties of the abomination in the Center of Nature to qualifie or opperate as a seething 63. Now was Heat and Cold moreover bitter sweet and sowre and all whatsoever is manifested in the Dominion of the Starres and the Elements manifested also in him The Sulphur and Mercury became manifest and stirring in vanity of the Poyson-Life of which now the Souls Spirit in Adam and Eve was ashamed when they saw that they in their self-hood stood in such misery and that Heat and Cold pressed upon them 64. And when God called them again with the voyce of Grace Adam said I am naked and am afraid But God said who hath told thee that thou art naked hast thou not eaten of the Tree which I forbad thee and he said the Woman gave me and I did eat and the Woman said the Serpent beguiled me 65. Here now lyeth the whole forementioned matter or Substance how it came to passe for the Lust stood in Adam and was in the Love-Desire in the Fiat become introduced into Substance in which Adam had the Birth standing that was divided from him and now began that very abomination of false or wicked Desire in the Woman to lust and raised fully the whole work up to Sinne and abomination against Gods holinesse 66. And this is the very abomination before God that the Lifes Forms are gone out from the equall agreement every one into the Manifestation of IT self whence in the Life contention viz rising up of Pride as also Covetousnesse Envy Anger and false or wicked suttlety existeth 67. So that every Forme knoweth it self in the self-hood and is Manifest to it self whence Man viz the Flesh in this opposite Strife is introduced into Sicknesse woe pain and corruption 68. For in the equall agreement NO Corruption can be for all Wills of the Lifes Forms are but One only Substance they goe in one equall harmony every property is the good relish and love-desire to the other but in the inequality or disagreement there is meer Enmity not at all willing in its property to hear see smell tast and feel 69. In these Five Senses standeth the Enmity of the Life wherein there is nothing but meer strife in respect of the inequality or disagreement and disharmony which the sound viz the Voyce of God receiveth not or suffereth not to come into it self unlesse the multiplicity of the Wills let their right or propriety goe and sink down again totally in resignation into Gods Mercy 70. As Christ saith Vnlesse ye convert and become as Children which know of no falshood or wickednesse ye shall not not inherite the Kingdome of Heaven Also ye must be born anew That is this Will of falshood and vanity must totally break and a new spring forth which willeth the falshood or wickednesse no more else there is no blessednesse or Salvation 71. And therefore must the Flesh totally Dye and corrupt wherein the abomination and the vanity lyeth in the Substance and goe again to the Limit where it originally existed in Adam to a new Revelation or Manifestation 72. Now we are to weigh the Propagation of Man the humane body is become earthly for the vanity out of which the earth became generated is awakened in it and hath swallowed up the holy heavenly Substance into it self 73. For the true love-Love-Spirit departed in the Curse of the Earth from Man when the vanity awakened then God Cursed the Earth
then all was done concerning the faire Paradise of Man his heavenly Image of the divine Substantiality faded and was no more known 74. Which in a Similitude is understood to be no otherwise then as when look upon LEAD which before had been GOLD and had through MERCURY turned it selfe into LEAD wherein the poysonous Mercury is manifested which before in GOLD stood in great brightnesse and Perfection 75. And as now in the Lead there is yet a possibility to be Gold but it was not manifested in the Mercury the Mercury could not turn it self again into Gold unlesse the Artist came and brake to pieces the Lead Totally and turned it into the first matter out of which it was Created then might out of that matter fair Gold come to be as it was at first 76. Or else if the power of Sol did move it self in this Mercury of the Lead which yet is a Saturn but yet hath the Impression viz the first Ground to Gold in it selfe and generate in its power Gold again in the Lead so that I see Lead and Gold in ONE Substance and yet it is not manifested but the Lead holdeth the Gold as it were half Swallowed up and covered 77. Thus we are to understand in like manner concerning Adam and Eve their faire Golden Body in divine power and Substance became a Dark obscure Lead spoken by way of Similitude The Golden Mercury awaked in the vanity of the poyson then faded and vanished the Gold viz the holy Body in the Abomination and now it was totally Earthly and must to Earth again 78. But the voyce of God which called them again espoused it self again with the promise of the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Second Principle in the part of the Heavenly Substantiality in which before the Word of the Divine sound had been manifested But when the Souls desire went out from it it faded and vanished in it selfe 79. Thus in this espousall in the Lead there was Gold and Lead one in another but the Gold was not manifested till Gods Mercury in the word of Promise manifested it self in the Lead viz in the Flesh then became the Lead in Christs humanity again changed into Gold and the processe was held as the Transmutation of Mettals is performed which becometh changed into Gold as in our Book of the Signature or Seal of things is very largely and expressely written of 80. And we are hereby to understand that the Limit of the Covenant viz the promised new Golden Life is become propagated in Venus'es Tincture as a Possibility of the Divine Regeneration which God through the Center of his Heart through that very moving Manifested in Christ 81. And manifested the CHRIST viz the Anointed out of JESUS and out of his deepest humility and Love and changed the poysonous Mercury in dark Lead into bright Gold 82. Whereby we are cleerly to understand that in all men the VANITY viz the awakened Lifes forms in their self-hood and strife are again become propagated and will still continually be propagated till in the breaking or Corruption of the Earthly Body for so long as Man findeth Heat and Cold or sicknesse and opposite will in his Spirit and Body so long the Abomination is in FULL Life 83. Concerning the Saints of God which as Prophets in the Spirit of JESUS have prophesied of the CHRIST to Come they have all spoken out of the Limit of the Covenant out of the promised Word which would move it self again in the Flesh none of them was totally new born again in the Flesh 84. For the Word stood in the inward faded Image and opened it self with the voyce through the outward Mercury and shewed the outward Man what would yet happen and be done to him when the word of Promise should he manifested in the Mercury of the Flesh and therein break to pieces the abomination and death of the Strife in the Lifes forms 85. But after CHRIST out of JESUS became manifested in the Flesh then that very Flesh became anointed and therefore he was called the Anointed of the LORD and if we introduce our Souls desire into this Manifested Word in the Flesh of Christ then will also that very promised word which is together propagated in ALL men in the Limit of the Covenant be manifested in our Souls-desire in the faded Image of the Divine Substantiality and in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Second Principle wherein God is viz in his right Heaven which is in MAN cometh to Life 86. That is the faded Image getteth the Divine sound in the Souls desire Christ becometh Man in the faded Image and crusheth or bruiseth Death viz the Abomination of the vanity in the outward Leaden Flesh viz the poysonous Mercury in the Lifes forms the Head of the false or wicked will and bringeth forth the Souls will in it self into GOD. 87. Now understand us further concerning the Propagation between Man and Wife both in the Holy Children and in the wicked How and in what manner it is with the Conjunction of the Masculine and Feminine desire and How in NO Man holy children without Sinne CAN be begotten as this Authour paints it forth to us without sufficient understanding 88. The Conjunction of the Desire towards Wife or Woman and Husband or Man cometh from both the Mothers viz from the dividing of Adam from both the Tinctures of Fire and Light which are in themselves not much nobler and purer than the Flesh or the Mercury in the Sulphur of the Flesh they are done with and have not the true Life in them but they are the fiery desire to the true Life 89. But if they come together into ONE into Substance then they awaken the true Life in the Mercury their vehement desire is after Life they would again be that which they were in the Image of God when Adam was Husband and Wife or Man and Woman out of which existeth now the vehement Imagination in the Sulphur and Mercury in the Flesh 90. The Fires Tincture longeth in the Flesh thus vehemently after the Lights Tincture and the Lights after the Fires The Man or Limbus or Limus Terrae et Coeli the extract of Earth and of Heaven longeth after Venus'es Matrix viz after the Joyous Conjunction of the Love-Life viz of the Love-relish which relish in Adam was one in another wherein he loved himselfe and the Perfection consisted therein 91. For the Flesh knoweth not what it doth it is indeed a substance of that desire for in the desire of the Tinctures the Seed is Generated wherein again the Tincture lyeth and so vehemently driveth on that it also might come to Life for all Life or every Substance and thing presseth after its Center out of which it is generated 92. Now it is to be known what is there sowen The Tinctures which Imagine so vehemently are in the Seed of Man and Woman and the Seed becometh in the Impression of
the Holy Trinity hath been hidden to all Creatures and yet is through the second moving of the Deity as a holy sweet Love-Sun become manifested 15. I must not say that in the Person CHRIST viz in the Man according to his humanity according to that part which he hath on him from us Men from our Body and Soul that is on to the Deity on to the Divine Substantiality or Heavenly Corporeity taken on to him That the Creature is ceased and taken up or that the Creature Soul and Body from us Men is unmeasurable 16. No for such a One is not our Eternall High Priest which I could never more see in the Form of Man for the Men when he went to Heaven said Ye shall SEE this JESUS come again as he is Ascended 17. Only the Deity in him and the Christ understand the divine property together with the Heavenly divine substantiality wherewith he saith John 3. 13. He was come from Heaven THIS is uncreaturely and yet IN every Man as an own Sun yet only in one point which shineth forth out of the fountain of this Sun indeed from no place or space but the place of this holy revelation or Manifestation is in ALL Men the Center of the Originall 18. This SUN is in all Men but this Sun is not revealed or manifested in all Men but only in the Desire to the Point which is CHRIST which point is JESUS out of JEHOVA 19. But concerning the Holy woman or wife which this Authour mentioneth which is holy and PERFECT wherein the Man CHRIST becometh generated needeth also a farre other Explanation 20. And though he sets down the Holy Christianity to be the woman or wife which I blame not yet a Man must not speak that concerning the outward Earthly Man for the Earthly Man is not Christs Spouse or Wife but the inward Spiritual which faded or disappeared in Adam the Heavenly which Christ as viz the Holy SUN vivifieth 21. But this Authours writing is altogether Contradictory and runnes counter against it selfe for here in this Point he writeth of this Spouse or Woman and Body thus which he NOT outwardly prepareth createth and maketh new but in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the world instantly after the Fall in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith espouseth betrotheth and uniteth to himself and prepareth it for his Eternall Rest In like manner also this holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which was slain from the beginning of the world IN all Faithfull and Saints according to the Testimony of the Scripture 22. Before this Authour hath set down in another place that if CHRIST became manifest or revealed in Man then Nature falleth Totally away Now he sets it down that CHRIST in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart hath from the beginning of the world espoused and united himself with the Saints in the Faith which indeed were true if he did not speak it concerning the Man CHRIST but concerning the Promised CHRIST in the Covenant which first in Time fulfilled the Covenant 23. For Not CHRIST the Man who in the Time in the Limit of the Covenant manifested or revealed himselfe was slain in the Holy Patriarchs but the Children of Faith in whom the Covenant became manifested 24. CHRIST hath once given and offered up his holy Life in the sweet Love to his Father into his Anger which was manifested in the Humane Property and with the Love broken the Anger to pieces He hath not dyed in ALL the Saints from Adam to this time and suffered himself to be slain and put to death Only the Children of the Faith of the Covenant have suffered themselves to be put to death according to the MAN of SINNE that the word of Life in the Covenant in them might put on the new promised Life which would manifest it self in the Covenant with the future Sun of the New Life in the Spirit of the Covenant 25. So that when Christ would manifest himself in the Covenant in the Flesh he also in that Covenant which had manifested it selfe in them would be manifested in them with the divine Substantiality viz with Christs heavenly Flesh 26. For even after the Resurrection of Christ when he had assumed the Humanity and slain death it was not CHRIST that dyed any more in his Members in the Christians or was slain but Adam in Christs Death that Christs Spirit in the Soul and the holy Man might Live When Christ becometh born then should the Man of Sinne continually Dye till at last when the Outward body departeth it WHOLLY ceaseth 27. But if Christ the Lamb of God were become slain in the Old Patriarchs then the reconciliation was performed IN them and then it cometh not solely and onely from the Sonne of MARY 28. Abel was NOT the Lamb of God which was slain for Sinne Christ dyed not in Abel but in the BODY which he received from MARY 29. Abel and all the Martyrs dyed as to their own Bodies for the sake of the Covenant which opened it self in them they were slain and dyed as to their sinfull Adamicall Body and not as to the Holy Body which was shut up in the Covenant which Christ when he would manifest himself in the Covenant would manifest it to be an Eternall Life and holy Flesh in which he would dwell and be the power and Life thereof 30. When the Holy Scripture saith CHRIST was slain in the Saints then it understandeth then Members of the Body of CHRIST according to Christs humanity which HE the Christ assumed It understandeth not the Triune God that should suffer it selfe to be slain from the beginning of the world for doubtlesse God cannot dye That which dyeth is only the Body of Christs Members according to the humane Creature and not according to the Spirit of Christ 31. The Spirit of Christ hath therefore manifested it self in the Humanity and slain Death in his assumed Body that the Gates of Life in us should be opened for if I be murthered for the sake of Christs Name and the Testimony thereof then doth not Christ dye in me but Adam dyeth in Christs death and Christ in my dying becometh first rightly manifested 32. My dying is Christs Resurrection in ME for I dye away to the sinfull self-hood or Nothingnesse and live to the Resignation in the Spirit of Christ 33. Therefore this is a voyd and groundlesse thing that this Authour writeth that the Man Christ the Innocent Lamb of God God himself which from the beginning of the world according to the Testimony of the Scripture was slain in all the Saints and faithfull c. 34. The Triune God is not from the beginning of the world slain in his Saints the Scripture saith not so but the Faithfull Men were slain for Christs sake and NOT the Triune Christ IN them