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A28529	Mysterium magnum, or An exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Concerning the manifestation or revelation of the divine word through the three principles of the divine essence; also of the originall of the world and the creation. Wherein the kingdome of nature, & the kingdome of grace are expounded. For the better understanding of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are. Also, how man should consider and may know himselfe in the light of nature, where he is, and where his temporall and eternall life, consist; also, where his eternall blessednesse, and damnation, consist. And is an exposition of the essence of all essences for the further consideration of the lovers, in the divine gift. Comprised in three parts: written anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To which is added, The life of the author. And his Foure tables of divine revelation.; Mysterium magnum. English.	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?; H. B. (Henry Blunden)	1656 (1656)	Wing B3411A; ESTC R212985	753,539	662

Inheritance which we have received from Adam and Eve and that is the cause that the Body must Dye and wholly putrifie and entet againe into its first Ens for the Serpents Ens must be wholly done away it cannot inherit the Kingdome of God 56. The first Ens in the limus of the Earth which was coagulated in in the Verbum Fiat must be wholly renewed in the Spirit of Christ if it will possesse the Kingdome of God but if it remaineth captivated in the Serpents Ens it shall never be any more manifest understand the holy Ens which disappeared in Adam and was captivated in the Serpents Ens whereby Death came into the flesh 57. Therefore a man must consider what he speaketh thinketh and doth least he conceive his Thoughts in the Serpents Ens and frame a will in the Minde in the Ens of the Serpent for else the Devill doth set himselfe therein and hatcheth a Basilisk viz. an hellish forme in the word 58. For all wrath which is conceived in man for Revenge doth primarily arise in its Centre out of the nature and property of the darke world viz. in Gods anger and formes it selfe further in the Serpents Ens to Substance let it be what zeale it will if it brings it selfe into a wrath to its owne Revenge it is formed in the Ens of the Serpent and is devillish 59. And though the same were a Prophet and an Apostle and yet would bring himselfe in the wrath to his owne Revenge then this Substance is formed from the Anger of God in the Serpents Ens and goeth into the wrath of God and the Anger of God is therein zealous which oftentimes doth so stir up and forme it selfe in the holy children of God that * * * The Saints they must against their purposed will bring down the Turba upon the house of the wicked also upon his Body and Soule as may be seene by Moses upon Chorah Dathan and Abiram whom the Earth swallovved up so also by Elias in the Fire concerning the two Captaines over fiftie whom the fire devoured also by Elisha and many other Prophets 60. And there are many remarkable examples to be found concerning this in in the holy Histories how oftentimes the children of God have been forced to carry the Sword of the Turba in them a great example whereof we see in Sampson and also in Joshua with his warres and likevvise in Abraham how the zeale of God did enkindle it selfe in them that they in their spirit of zeale have oftentimes awakened the Turba magna in the Anger of God and raised great Rebukes judgments and plagues upon whole Countries as Moses in Egpit did with the plagues upon the Egyptians 61. But we must heere distinguish if the zeale of God should awaken it selfe in an holy man without his purposed will and give him the Sword of Gods anger such a one differs much from those who in their owne Thoughts contrive and plot in the wrath and introduce the Conceived or purposed will into the Serpents Ens and make it to Substance for that is Sin yea though the g g g The greatest Saint most holy man should doe it 26. Therefore Christ so emphatically and punctually teacheth us in the new birth Love Humility and Meeknesse and would that a Christian should not at all Revenge Note also not be Angry for he saith that whosoever is angry with his brother is guilty of the judgement for the Anger is a conception in the Serpents Ens which must be cut off by the judgment of God from the Good Being and whosoever shall say unto his brother Racha shall be in danger of the Counsell for the desire of * * * Or Revenge Racha ariseth in the Centre of the darke fiery wheele of the Eternall nature therefore in the fire-soule there is a forme of the fire word in manner of a wheele like a madnesse and the soules fiery-forme stands in the Racha as a mad furious wheele which confounds the Essence in the Body and destroyes or shatters in peeces the understanding for every Racha desireth to destroy Gods Image thus the soule hangeth on the wheele of the Eternall nature viz. on the Centre of the horrible Anxious birth as is before mentioned concerning the Centre of the birth of nature 63. Moreover Christ saith Whosoever saith to his brother thou foole shall be in danger of hellfire this is thus wrought when the Conceived will hath formed it selfe in the furious wrath of Gods anger and introduced it into the Serpents Ens then it standeth in the furious wheele as mad and if it doth now purposely goe on and so forme the word and casts or speaks it forth against its brother and enkindles in him also an hatefull enmity in the Serpents Ens the same burneth in his Expressed Word in the fire of Gods anger and he is guilty of it for he hath enkindled it in his Racha 64. Therefore said Christ if thou wilt offer thy Gift goe first and be reconciled to thy offended brother or neighbour for otherwise he bringeth his wrath into thy offering and withholdeth thee in thy desire towards God that thou canst not reach the holy Ens which else washeth away the Turba in thy Enkindled vanity 65. For the Word foole is in it selfe in the Essence nothing else but an enkindled wrathfull fiery wheele an outragious madness and he that so calleth his neighbour without a cause he hath brought forth a word in the fire-wheele in Gods wrath and is guilty of it for the forth-produced word is arisen out of the Ens of the Soule and Body 66. Every word vvhen it is formed doth first awaken its owne Ens whence it taketh its originall then it leads it selfe forth through the Counsell of the five Senses against its brother now whosoever useth such a wrathfull devouring fire-word against his brother he soweth into the Anger of God and is in danger to reape the fruit which he hath so sown when it springeth up and groweth 67. Therefore take heed and beware O Man what thou thinkest speakest or desirest to doe looke vvell alwayes in what zeale thou standest whether it be divine or onely of thy own poysonfull nature thou Father thou mother thou brother and Sister which proceed and come from one bloud from one Ens and mutually Assimulate each with other as a tree in its branches thinke and consider what kinde of Sound or tune thou introducest into the vitall Ens of thy fellow-twiggs and branches whether it be Gods Love-word or his Word of Anger if yee doe not destroy the introduced Evill againe with Love and introduce againe the Love Ens into the Anger to overcome and reconcile it then the Substance must come * * * Or before into the judgement of God and be separated in the fire of God as the Devill is Severed from the good Ens and so shalt thou oh wicked man with thy vvicked formed Word

brother and yet the Spirit sayth of him he is a ravening Wolfe who in the morning would devour the prey In this Testament of Benjamin is couched the most hidden secret figure of the whole Scripture and yet in its Type in the unfolding in the Effect and work it is the most manifest and open figure which is cleere in the fullfilling so that Men may see it with bodily Eyes and yet in their Reason are quite blinde concerning it 49. This figure is fullfilled and yet is in action and shall be yet also further fullfilled it is very secret and yet as manifest as a Sunshiny Day and yet is not understood but it is knowne to the Magi and Wisemen who indeed have written much concerning it but it hath not been yet rightly explicated while the time of the Evening when Benjamins spoyle shall be divided was far off but now it is neere therefore wee shall offer somewhat concerning it and hint the sence and meaning for those of our society to consider of and yet remaine as it were dumb to the unwise seeing they sit in the dark and open their Jawes onely after the spoyle 50. The two Brethren Joseph and Benjamin are the Image or Type of Christendome and of a Christian Man which in their figure are twofold viz. the Adamicall Man in his Nature is signified by Benjamin and the New Man out of the Covenant in the Spirit of Christ is signified by Joseph and the figure representeth how Christ hath assumed the Adamicall Man and that this Man is halfe Adamicall and halfe heavenly and that entirely in one person which cannot be divided 51. So also in this Image or Type he prefigureth Christendome and how they would receive Christ and become Christians viz. that in them Christ and also the Evill Wolfe Adam would governe that is when they would receive the Faith they would be so ravenous raving and zealous as a Wolfe and would draw the Heathen to them with power and Compulsion and yet would devour them that is whosoever will not above all hold the same Opinion with them they would presently fall on to Condemne that other Opinion and persecute it with warres the sword as a raging Lyon or Wolfe biteth and devoureth thus in zeale they would devour round about them with Excommunication and the sword and that therefore not because they are zealous in the Spirit of Christ but from the Wolfe of the Evill Adam which would alwayes set it selfe in Spirituall and Worldly States and polities above the Spirit of Christ. 52. Thus their Zeale would be only from the devouring Wolfe Men being more zealous under the Name of Christ for temporall Goods fatt livings good dayes and worldly honour then for Love Truth and Salvation they will not be zealous in the power of Christs Love but in the power of the devouring Wolfe Also in the Zeale of their accustomed Exercises and Worship wherein yet they would but play the hypocrites before God they themselves would devoure one another as covetous greedy Wolves and so outwarldly the Wolfe would Governe But yet inwardly in the true children Christ would governe Outwardly Benjamin viz. the Naturall Adam which indeed is also a Christian but it is first after his Resurrection when he is quitt of the Wolfe and Inwardly Joseph who is hidden under the Wolfe 53. And now the Spirit of Jacob in the Covenant of God pointeth at the Time shewing how it would be viz. in the first time of Christianity they would be zealous hunger after God in the Spirit of Christ and yet must hide themselves from their Enemies as a Wolfe that Men hunt as an Enemie 54. But when they shall be great and possesse Kingdomes that is when Christs Name shall come under the power and authority of Dan so that Lawes and Ordinances shall be made out of pretence of Christian Liberty and its Orders and Exercises shall come under worldly authority and dominion then will this Christendom be a Wolfe which will no more judge and proceed in the Love of Christ but whosoever will not call all their Belly Orders good and right those they would devour with the sword of Excommunication with fire and * * * Racha vengeance and would raise warres for Christs Name and for their superstitions and compell the people with power to the acknowledgement of Christ and devoure round about them as a Wolfe and alwayes hunt after the spoyle and yet for the most part entend to get the Goods and authority of strange and forreigne people to themselves 55. Thus would Benjamin in the Morning viz. in his rising up devour the prey and towards the Evening he would againe divide this devoured spoyle that is towards the End of the world when Josephs Government will get aloft againe so that Christ shall be wholly manifest and that this Wolfe shall cease then will Benjamin viz. the holy true Christendom divide the spoyle of Christ wherewith Christ hath suppressed Death and Hell 56. This dividing or distribution of the spoyle shall come and is already come and yet is not though it is really in Truth and the whole world is blinde concerning it except the children of the Mystery The Time is and is not and yet truly is when this prey and spoyle of Christ and also the Wolfes prey shall through Josephs hand be given into Benjamins hand and be divided and distributed 57. O Babell let this be a Wonder to thee and yet no wonder neither for thou hast nothing and seest nothing at which thou canst wonder as a young plant groweth from a Seede and becometh a great Tree which bringeth forth much faire fruit so that a Man would wonder at the Graine or seede how so excellent a Tree and so much good fruit hath lyen hid in one only Graine or seede which men neither knew of nor saw before But because Men have knowledge and experience thereof that it is possible that a Tree should come out of one graine or seede Men wonder not at it yet Men see not how it comes to passe or where that great power and vertue was so also at present Men see the Graine or Seede of the Tree well enough but Reason contemneth that and beleeveth not that such a Tree lyeth therein whence such good fruit should come that thereby the Kingdome of Benjamin at the End of Time shall be called a dividing or distribution of the prey and spoyle 58. But Joseph must first be a Governour in Egypt and then Benjamin cometh to him and then Joseph giveth him five Garments of sumptuous apparell and five times more foode from his Table then the other when the famine famisheth the Land and the soule of Jacob hungereth then know that God will thereby draw Israell into Egypt viz. into Repentance and then is the time of visitation and Benjamin carrieth his spoyling sword in his mouth But Josephs countenance smiteth him so that he cometh into great Terrour and feare of

mother of the babylonicall whoredome is Arisen in the Kingdome of Moses among the Pharisees and in the Kingdome of Christ among the * * * Text The Letter crie● or Literalists verball and titular Christians who do all Onely boast and gloriously set up themselves in the figure as an Idol and appear as if they were the holy spirituall Kingdome but the Cherub carrieth forth the Sound through their word as a consonant of the wrathfull Anger of God 23. And therefore they must contend about the Kingdome of Gods will for they have not the Spirit of the inward Spirituall heavenly Kingdome but onely the voyce out of the figure where Evill and good are in contest they have and use the letter but as an Empty unprofitable instrument as a figure of the spirituall Form for thus also the Spirit did represent it by the name Jared as a mixt Kingdome upon the earth whereby the inward spirituall new-born children should be exercised and proved 24. And by this form it did signifie and foretell how that the greatest part in this Spirituall Office would be taken in the Sword of the Cherub and that their Office would be cut off by the Cherub from Gods holinesse and given to the Spirituall Eternall Kingdome of the Anger 25. For as Lamech in Cains line took two wives viz. two wills and confirmed his Kingdome therein and at last brought forth or pronounced the Seventy and Seven-fold Racha proceeding from the Centre of nature even from the seaven properties upon the Murther of the free-will which would murther and slay his life in many even so likewise Jared carrieth two wills in his Nature's Name viz. One into Gods Love and mercy in the Covenant and the other into the Figure in which the Anger of God ariseth up and carrieth the abominable Idol the Belly-God along with it which is here deciphered and painted forth to the Life 26. And Moses saith further Jared begat Enoch Here the great and wonderfull gate doth open for out of Jared viz. out of the Kingdome of the wonders the Prophet must arise for the Prophet is the mouth of the Kingdome he sheweth what the Kingdome is and how it is taken and apprehended in the Evill and good and what the issue and end of all things shall be also he declareth and pointeth out the * * * Or the middle viz. what hath bin done and acted by the Turba in the wonder of Time Means how the Turba hath apprehended the life and denounceth severe and earnest Threatnings concerning Gods anger how the sword of the Cherub will cut off the false man or Prophet 27. HENOCH signifieth in its own Speech as much as a forth-breathed breath of the divine * * * Or Lubet good pleasure which hath in the time thus beheld it selfe with the out-breathing in a form which power of the forth-breathing doth again draw the formed breath into it selfe and doth onely give forth its Sound as a voyce of the Divine will and First it doth point at a Twigg springing from the line of the Covenant viz. out of the internall Priestly office out of the holy divine Lubet of the wisdome of God out of Jehovah the Spirit would comprehend the deepest Love in Jehovah in one Name and Word which is called Jesus but in the mean time it did thereby play in the Time of the Figure in the holy wisdome in the Line of the Covenant as with an internall hidden holy Kingdome which he would manifest in the fullnesse of time 28. Secondly it signifieth the power of the formed word viz. the Person or the Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz. of the heavenly part of the Earth intimating that this body should be taken into the holy word and translated from this earthlinesse as the light doth withdraw and swallow up the darknesse even so likewise the good part of the true humanity in Adams first Image * * * Text should or is to be shall be translated extracted or drawn forth by the word out of the earthlinesse and arise out of the earth which Enochs Translation from this world doth point out and signifie 29. Thirdly it signifieth and pointeth at the Prophet viz. the Voice of the Divine Lubet Note which did declare and set forth the Kingdome of Christ and also the Kingdome of the wonders in their future transactions and junctures of Time for the propheticall voice did manifest it selfe again out of the translation and did foretell and signifie out of the Essence of the spirit viz. out of the most spirituall Kingdome that is out of the Humane Angelicall Kingdome through the Souls spirit and then also from the whole Body of the Kingdome viz. from the nature of the wonders from the Limus of the earth and of the Stars I say it did set forth both from the spirituall and corporall Kingdome how the outward Kingdome of man should afterwards arise in this worlds-being and what should happen and come to passe therein This the inward holy omniscient spirit doth signifie * * * Or by through the outward viz. through the wonders of the pregnatresse or mother of the outward beings viz. through the Spirit of the outward world for the inward spirit did view it selfe through the formed wisdome of God and did contemplate and behold it selfe in the formed spirit of the wonders this the Name Enoch signifieth unto us 30. Now the Spirit in Moses doth further demonstrate and saith Enoch was 65. years old and he begat Methusalah and after that he begat him he continued in a divine life three hundred yeares and begat Sons and daughters Gen. 5.21 c. so that the whole Age of Enoch was three hundred sixty and nine yeares and being he lead a divine life God tooke him away and he was no more seen Here the vaile hangeth right before the face of Moses by reason of the unworthinesse of man and the Spirit signifieth very clearely in Moses if we had but the eyes of our understanding open when these Mysteries should be manifested or fulfilled 31. But seeing the most High hath freely granted us by his Counsell to understand this we will so far as we * * * As we ought dare somewhat unfold these Mysteries to our school-fellowes and shew the pretious Pearle unto the children and yet with all suffer a Bolt to lie before our description that the false heart shall not enter into it but we shall be sufficiently and fundamentally intelligeable unto those that are Ours 32. Moses pointeth in each degree in the Lines onely upon one person which he also setteth into the Line through which the Spirit of wonders goeth afterwards saith Moses and he yet lived such * * * Or so long a time and begat Sons and daughters of vvhich he saith nothing any further thereby he vvould intimate and signifie unto us the Spirit of the manifestation of the wonders of God in each

hiddennesse in the Covenant Noah cursed * * * Or it him and said he shauld be a Servant of his brethren 11. For he said blessed be the God of Sem and let Canaan be his Servant God enlarge Japhet and let him dwell in the tents of Sem The God of Sem was he who had espoused or incorporated himselfe with the Covenant in the Seed of the woman the figure and type of this in the Spirit was Sem and Japhet was the figure of the poore Soul captivated in the monster God should let this Japheticall or Soules property dwell in the tents of Sem and enlarge it in Sems figure 12. But Hams figure according to the monstrous spirit should not have any dominion or Reign in the life of the new-birth but be only as a servant or as an instrument without selfe-will or any peculiar life of Selfeness must serve and administer to the use of the Spirituall Kingdome in manner as the night is hidden in the day and yet 't is really there and yet so as if it were not and it is the Handmaid to the dayes operation and power 13. Thus in like manner the Spirit did expresse how the three properties of the humanity viz. the womans Seed and the creaturall Souls Seed and the Earthly Seed in Hams figure should stand in their place order and rule in the Regeneration in the Spirituall Kingdome and thereby it did declare and point at the Kingdomes of the world intimating that this same figure would all along put forth it selfe in the Kingdome and Dominion of the * * * Or mankinde humanity upon the Earth and thus keep its figure externally so long as mankinde should live in the dominion of the four Elements as it hath thus fallen out 14. For Sems figure passed in the Covenant upon Abraham and Israel among whom the word of the Covenant was manifested and spoken forth and Japhets figure went along in nature viz. through the wisdome of nature in the Kingdome of nature whence the Gentiles arose who looked upon the light of nature and Sems linage looked upon the light in the Covenant thus Japhet that is the poor captive Soul which is of the Eternall nature dwelt in Sems tent viz. under the Covenant for the light of nature dwelleth in the light of Grace and is a tenant or inhabitant of the light of Grace viz. of Gods light it is even as a forme or framed Substance of the unformed un-comprehended Light of God 15. And Hams line passed upon the Animall beastiall man proceeded from the Limus of the Earth in which was the curse whence the Sodomiticall and almost wholly brutish people did arise who esteemed neither the light of nature nor the light of Grace in the Covenant 16. This signifieth and pointeth out the outward part of the Soul from the spirit of this world which in the regeneration in the Spirituall world shall be a formed and very fixed will which may not or desires not to rule in the manner and condition of a Selfish peculiar Spirit but shall be as a Servant and Minister of the cre●turall Soule and Gods Spirit in the holy lights Image it shall not be manifest in any Selfe-full arrogative understanding of Selfehood but remaine hidden as the night is hidden in the day and yet it is really there 17. For the Animal Soul shall not inherit the Kingdome of light although it shall and will be therein yet it hath no dominion or predominant vertue of its Selfenesse as an Instrument is a dead sencelesse thing in reference to the master and yet it is the masters Toole wherewith he maketh what he pleaseth the same in like manner we are to understand concerning the Animal Soul in the Regeneration 18. But in the Time of the four Elements it will have the upper hand and Sway for it hath brought it selfe into a proper selfehood and Imaginative life of Selfish propriety and therefore God hath accursed it and condemned it to Death so that it must dye to Selfe-hood 19. For when Adam did awaken the earthly properties out of the Limus of the Earth in his desire so that they went forth out of their just accord and mutuall Harmony each of them into its own selfe-will and lust to behold and looke upon its Selfe as a peculiar selfe-Life the beastiall Soul was hereby brought to its predominant power and force and this same is Hams property which God hath ordained to be Servant under the Angelicall Kingdome and Cursed its jeering Scorning Power in that it did mock at the heavenly Matrix and set forth its own figure and forme 20. The Spirit saith in Moses that Sem and Japhet took a Garment upon their shoulders and went backwards to their Father and covered him Gen IX Vers. 23. so that their faces were turned backwards and they saw not his shame O thou wonderfull God! How very Mystically and Secretly dost thou carry thy works who would know and understand thy wayes if thy spirit did not lead us and open the understanding 21. Both these brothers tooke a garment upon their shoulders and covered the father wherefore did not one doe it alone or wherefore did Noah drink himselfe drunke and lay so naked with his shame This reason looketh upon as if there were nothing more in it but onely an Hystory of such an Act but being that Ham was thereby cursed and made to be a Servant of his bretheren and not onely he but also all his posterity out of him we see thereby very clearly what the Spirit doth hereby signifie viz that it is a Type Character and figure of that which should afterward come to passe 22. The Earthly spirit which the Devill had made monstrous was a Scorner and jeerer of the heavenly birth it indeed saw the shame which it must bear upon it as a Monster but He went away as a Beast and mocked the new regeneration of the heavenly Matrix but Japhet viz. the poor Soul and Sem that is the disappeared Heavens Image which was moved stirred or quickned againe in the Covenant they tooke a Garment upon their shoulders this Garment was the new humanity which should open it selfe out of the Covenant out of the Angelicall world 23. And they went backwards and covered the Fathers shame this intimateth and betokeneth that the free-will of Selfe must and shall wholly turne it selfe away from the beastiall Monster of Selfefulnesse and ownhood wherein the shame standeth open and enter againe into the Resigned filiation or child-ship and goe no more forwards but retire again backwards and must take the Garment of the new humanity viz. Christs innocency merit and Satisfaction upon it and therewith cover the shame which our father Adam hath with the monster passed upon us by inheritance This was the Type which was here set forth 24. And that Sem did not carry the Garment alone and cover the father doth figure out unto us that the Soul viz. Japhet that

its Sword by them to destroy the heathen and the Generation of Ham Gen XIIII Verse 14. for Abraham went out with his whole house and people against the Heathen who had carried away Lot his brothers Son captive and he smote the heathen and delivered his brother This was done in the zeale of God which thus delivered his children through the might of his Anger for what conduceth to the wicked for destruction the same conduceth to the holy men for life and deliverance 15. But that those who will be called Christians who ought in and with Christ to be dead to the Anger and wrath of God in Christs death doe wage war they doe it not as Christians but as heathens No Christian warreth for if he be a Christian then he is dead in and with Christs death to the foure Elements of Gods Anger in Selfe and born a new man in Christs spirit of Love who liveth in Righteousnesse in Love and patience and liveth not to himselfe but to God in Christ. 16. For a true Christian leadeth his conversation and will in heaven in the life and Spirit of Christ as S t Paul saith our conversation is in heaven but when the Christians doe wage war they doe it from the heathenish property and not from Christs property for a Christian is not of this world his Kingdome is in heaven and he is dead in Christ to the world according to the new spirituall man in him the Heathen-man viz. the halfe-devillish man who hath his Kingdome in this world who never hath roome enough upon the Earth but liveth in the foure Elements of Gods Anger viz. in Pride Coveteousnesse Envy and Wrath the same desireth in the Christians to warre fight and slay 17. Saint Paul saith give your members to be weapons of Righteousnesse for why doe men fight for the Kingdome of this world Rom. 6.13 and yet as Christ said his Kingdome was not of this world James 4.1 so also his childrens Kingdome in him is not of this world Joh. 18.36 now then if we give up our body and Soule for weapons of Gods Anger and seek onely thereby Selfe interests liberties and priviledges of Mammon and slay one another for the Kingdome of this world I thinke we are herein Christians indeed in the mouth but the heart and Soul is an heathen and not born out of Christs Spirit 18. When Abraham had smote the heathen he desired nothing of the goods which he tooke but restored to the King of Sodom what the Heathen had taken from him and was onely zealous in the Lord he did not fight for Countrey and Kingdome but to deliver his brother Loth this was a true zeale which the Lord drove in him he did not stand up and fight for Countrey or City and albeit he obtained it he desired it not but went again unto his own place 19. And here the Spirit in Moses speaketh very wonderfully and saith that when Abraham returned from the Slaughter that the King of Sodome met him and Melchisedech King of Salem brought forth bread and wine who was a Priest of the most High God possessour of Heaven and of Earth and blessed Abraham and Abraham gave him Tithes And though we finde almost nothing elsewhere in the holy Scripture of this Priesthood yet the same was really in the figure of Christ for the Spirit saith in another place of Christ that he was an High Priest in the order of Melchisedech 20. Thus the Spirit of God doth very secretly and mystically represent the Figure of Christ by Abraham and calleth him a King of Salem and a Priest of the most High God viz. a Priest of Salvation and the holy Vnction as it intimates in the SenSAll Tongue that is Christ hath blessed Abraham and brought him forth bread and wine viz. his flesh and bloud and is the high Priest before God that makes Atonement for Abraham and his children 21. For Abraham had managed the Sword of Gods Anger against the Heathen now came Melchisedech and blessed Abraham againe least the Sword of the Turba should lay hold on him and he gave him forth bread and wine that is the heavenly Ens which he would introduce into Abrahams Seed and change it into flesh and bloud and here he appeased the Fathers Anger in the Covenant as in the Type 22. For this Priest with Abraham is really to be understood in a spirituall manner for although Abraham might have externally a Priest after the same manner with him under the figure of Christ yet Moses saith he was a Priest of God and said to Abraham blessed art thou Abraham unto the most High who possesseth heaven and earth who hath shut up thine Enemies into thy hands here is none other to be understood but Christ who very often appeared to Abraham in the figure and blessed him alwayes for the Spirit in Moses calleth him also a King of Salem which is nothing else but a King of Salvation 23. And Abraham gave him Tithes indeed he might have such a Priestly Order with him to whom he gave Tithes but this King and Priest was he of whom he preached to whom Abraham gave tithes viz. the Tenth Property of the humane properties of the fiery tongue of the Soule and the Priest gave his bread and wine and his blessing thereinto viz. the Love-fire the Tincture of the light together with the heavenly Substantiality that so Abraham might receive the lights Tincture into the Soules fiery Tincture and become again a compleat Image of God which was separated in Adam with the woman therefore Christ viz. the womans Tincture gave him againe the lights Ens that so the male and female property might become one Image or person this the Spirit doth here signifie in Moses under the Royall Priest of Salem 24. For Esdra when he dictated the lost Bible in the knowledge of the Spirit of God to his Scribes saw this very well Note Esdra dictated the Bible that was Lost. 2 Esdra 14. and therefore the holy Spirit doth so set it down and we see very exactly how Esdras wrote the hystories of Abraham in the vision of the Spirit for the whole hystory of Abraham is delineated under Christs Person and is an Image or Type of Christ. 25. Abraham saw in the Spirit this Priest of Salem and when Abraham offered Sacrifice then this Priest was in the offering and offered to God for he was to make reconciliation for the world with an offering therefore he was a Priest of God 26. He brought Abrahams will-offering viz. his prayer and desire in faith into the holy Ens of God and in the same Ens viz. in the divine Essentiality heavenly bread and wine was brought to Abrahams Soul that it might eat at Gods Table till this Priest became Abraham that is did manifest himselfe in Abraham with the heavenly Corporeity viz. with the Soules food in the Right bread and wine CHAP. XXXIX How God appeared to

God doth drive it selfe into a fire for its own enkindling And thus mad also must the people be when the punishment shall come that they must all make up the measure of their iniquities 52. And we will not hide from thee thou unclean lascivious rebellious self-willed lewd Idolatrous murtherous Babylon full of all vices sins and abominations that now also these two Angels viz. Gods truth and judgement are come into thee and declare unto thee now at the end of Enochs Seal which was hidden but at present is opened in its sound and voice thy destruction and overthrow for the Time of thy Judgement is at hand and behold thy selfe aright and observe it very narrowly thou hast at present cast scorn reproach and contempt upon Lot and the two Angels as the Sodomites did and therefore thy punishment hangeth over thee and observe it when the two Angels shall carry forth Lot under the opened Seal from thee then the Day of thy destruction is at hand which now thou wilt by no means beleeve but must be forced to finde it so by sad and wofull experience saith the spirit of wonders 53. We may see very fully what was the Sodomites vice and great Sin the cry whereof was come up before God for Lot would bring out his two daughters which were yet virgins unto them that so they might but cease from the raging uproar against these Angelicall Messengers for he knew well enough that they were wholly drowned in uncleanness if so be they might satisfie their desire 54. The inward figure in the spirit giving us to understand what Moses doth hereby typifie is this The judgement begins at the house of God as here in Lot the children of God must be first brought into judgement and proved if there be children of God in any place which may withhold the Anger so that the punishment may be kept back then the spirit taketh the children of God and proveth them in the same vice and sin of that City or Country to see if they be capable of the same lewdness 55. Lot must set his two daughters with entreaties into judgement he would give them to the unclean lascivious people to be tryed for that which he said was so directed by the Spirit which had the two daughters of Lot in the judgement and had brought the Proba or Tryall into their Essence and hereby signified and layd open the sin and shame of the City viz. that they were onely unclean Harlots-beasts 56. But when these two virgins were not capable of this vice the spirit viz. the two Angels defended them understand Gods truth protected them from the judgement of this people and also from the sin of uncleanness for Lot did not speak so of set purpose as if he would suffer his daughters to be defloured and defiled but the Spirit did set forth its figure 57. And know for certain that this first book of Moses was written wholly from the Prophecy of the Spirit intimating what each Act or sentence of the History holds forth in the figure and whosoever will read and rightly understand these Acts of the Patriarchs he must modelize or represent in his minde the old and new man and set Christ and Adam one against the other and then he may understand all and without this he understands nothing hereof but a child-like History which yet is so rich and full of Mysteries that no man from the cradle unto the longest age is able to express them although he had obtained the knowledge and understanding thereunto in his childhood and we in our gifts do also give but some glances and hints thereof albeit we have obtained the apprehension and meaning of them from the gift of God yet we cannot express all and the world were not able to * * * To understand or apprehend it aright V. 9 ●0 11. receive it 58. And Moses saith The men of the City pressed sore upon the man Lot and when they drew near together to break the door the men put forth their hand and pulled Lott into the house to them and shutt to the door and the men which were before the door of the house were smitten with blindness both smal and great so that they wearied themselves and could not finde the door 59. This figure was * * * Acted or don atchieved thus externally so that they were thus blind with visible eyes and could not see the door and did no hurt neither to Lot and the two men with him or his house either but in the spirit the figure stands thus 60. When God sendeth these two Angels viz. his truth and judgement into a mans spirit viz. into the house of his heart as here it came to passe in Lott in whom also the spirit viz. Gods truth and judgement was manifest and therefore he rebuked Sodom for which cause they did encompass him about to slay and murther him then the Judgement passeth first upon this man who is represented unto the Sodomites as if he were a fool whom they must vex plague and perplex and they also do without intermission revile and rail at him and condem him for false 61. But he must reprove rebuke and teach them and he hath no externall protection of man they all cast the dirt of their mouths upon him and they that should hinder it do but laugh at it let him look where he will he hath no Deliverer then supposeth the common people God rebukes and punisheth him on this wise 62. But these two Angels are with him in his Heart and stand in his person as in their vessell and instrument even amidst the enemies but the common people do eagerly labour and bestir them to destroy him and his house 63. And when it comes to the tryall in earnest then these two Angels do putt forth their hand upon the wicked malicious mens heart and strike them with blindness that they are confounded and know not how they should gett * * * Or 〈◊〉 by this Lott and the two Angels one casteth forth this another that one saith he is honest another reviles him and saith all evill of him so long till they cannot finde the door wherein they would break in unto him and do him mischiefe for these two Angels do shutt him up in themselves that they cannot see the door of Revenge as may be seen here in Lot how God doth deliver the messengers of his mouth and hides them from the enemies and this * * * Vnderhand the Author Pen hath so found it by good Experience Vers. 12 13. 64. And these men said unto Lott hast thou here any besides Son in law and sons and daughters and whosoever belongs unto thee in the Citie bring them out of this place for we will destroy this place because the cry thereof is waxen great before the Lord who hath sent us to destroy it and Lot went and spake to his Sons in law * * *

to make his Abode in us and thus one day upon another it is delayed and yet Christ goeth with his Bride into his native Countrey viz. into the Second Principle but the marriage is celebrated in all the three Principles 54. A very excellent figure we have in this also Gen. 24.61 to the 67. That when Rebecca went home with Abrahams servant and Isaac mett her in the field and shee asked him what man that was and Abrahams servant told her that it was his Master Isaac how shee lighted off the Camell and putt a vail before her eyes and was ashamed and how Isaac took her and carried her into his Mothers Tent. The inward figure is this 55. When the inward disappeared humanity doth again obtain the pretious Jewell and is quickned in the spirit of Christ and discovers its beloved Christ in it selfe then it falls down into the deepest humility before the holiness of God and is ashamed that it hath lyen so long captive in the beastiall man and that it was a Queen but hath lost its Kingdome in Adam then it vaileth its own face before Gods glorious Clarity and humbleth it selfe but Christ taketh her into his Armes and leads her into his Mothers Tent viz. into the heavenly worlds Essence from whence he is come with his heavenly essence and there shee becomes his wife and thus Isaac is truely comforted for his Mother viz. for the disappeared Matrix in the Tincture of Venus which dyed in Adam and which he again doth now obtain in virgin-like chastity for his Spouse as here the history concerning Isaac soundeth 56. And we seriously admonish the Reader not to contem scorn or deride at our exposition it is the true ground for when Isaac mett his Bride Gen. 24.62 he came from the well Lahai-roi from the fountain of the living and Seing One as Moses saith if any desire to understand our meaning and knowledge he must then make towards this fountain that so he may be received with Rebecca and then he will see from what spirit this pen hath written and in what * * * Seal Viall or Trumpett Number and Voice it is arisen 57. If any here see nothing he may well blame himselfe for blinde and no man else the Jewes and Turckes and also Babel may here open their eyes wide and look upon the figures of the old Testament aright they will even finde them so CHAP. LI. How Abraham took another wife of whom he begat six Sons to which he gave gifts and unto his Son Isaac he gave all his goods but the other he sent away from his Son Isaac while he yet lived and also how he dyed and was buried by his Sons Ismael and Isaac what hereby is signified unto us Gen. XXV 1 2. MOses saith Abraham took a wife and her name was Keturah and shee bare unto him Zimran Jochshan Medan Midian Ishback Shuah from whom sprang forth six generations but of Sarah Abraham begat onely one Son at which the whole history pointeth but of Keturah he begatt six Sons concerning whom no peculiar or especiall thing is mentioned but onely their families or generations This is thus to be understood in the inward figure Abraham and his Sarah must be first old before he begatt Isaac to signifie that Christ should be manifested in the flesh in the Old Age of the world 2. Isaac was begotten and conceived of Abrahams nature and of the Ens of faith in an old and almost dead Matrix as to the humane nature that so the divine Ens might have the preheminence but when Sarah dyed Abraham took unto him Keturah and soon begatt of her Six Sons Kethurah doth in its Name expresse the Centre of nature when we form the SensVAl un-compacted spirits of the letters in this word Keturah then we understand that KETVRAH is a formed matrix of nature which signifieth to us that Abraham after he had begotten the Type of Christ in the Ens of faith should now begett his own likenesse as to Adams nature out of the Six properties of the naturall spirits life and also set forth and represent his own naturall likeness and therefore he must also have such a vessell thereunto 3. Sarah must bring forth but One Son to signifie that the kingdome of mankinde is given but to one and that they all do belong to this one and should in him become the same onely one as branches on one tree which one should be Christ in All. 4. But here Abraham did now with Keturah begett Six Sons according to the Six properties of the formed nature of the operation of the Six dayes workes and Isaac that is Christ is the Seventh viz. the day of rest or Sabbath wherein the Six Sons should enter into Rest even as the six dayes of the creation understand the six properties of the Centre of nature viz. the working Spirit-life do rest in the Seventh thus the Spirit of God doth represent the figure in Abraham 5. And we have here a very excellent figure against the Reason-wise who say that whosoever is not born by nature in the Ens of faith that is naturally as it were begotten of the Seed of the woman which workes onely by a particular election of God as they feign the same is hardned and cannot attain to the Adoption of God he is not drawn by God that he should come to the new-birth this figure quite strikes down their fiction and shewes the true ground and first it setts forth Isaac viz. Christ and declareth plainly that to him alone the kingdome of God is hereditary and peculiar and that no man can have it any more for or from the Right of nature and how we are altogether cast out from thence with Adam and have lost the same as the children of Keturah were all cast out from the inheritance of Abrahams goods and Isaac onely did inheritt them 6. And he setts down hereby how Adams children were also begotten of Abraham and how he gave them Gifts of his goods betokening how free gifts were given to Adams naturall children Gen. 25.6 out of God the Fathers and Christs Goods as Abrahams goods were given them of grace as a free gift 7. For Abraham did not cast out his naturall children from him without gifts so likewise God did not cast Adam out of Paradise without his * * * Note where the Free Grace of God was given to Mankinde free Gift he first gave him the bruiser of the Serpent in the word of the Covenant and afterwards he cast Adam from the childlike inheritance of the naturall Right and yet he received him again in the free Donation as Abraham also did not here reject his children and cast them out from the child-ship but from the naturall Right of his goods yet they were dear unto him in the child-ship therefore he freely gave them gifts of his goods and thereby he signifieth to us that the Kingdome of heaven

the affliction of Joseph shall not be avenged behold in thy miserable Famine and distresse when thou shalt hunger and thirst even then thou must make thy Adresse and supplication to him the high Towre will give thee neither comfort nor deliverance the Time is come about that Josephs Affliction is to be Avenged and Reubens whoredome with Jacobs Concubine is come before Israel 32. Why makest thou such long delay and flatterest thy selfe playing the Hypocrite and saist not yet a good while behold it is come before the Eyes of Israel that thou hast committed whoredome a long time with the Concubine and defiled the line of Christ Israel will no longer endure it thou shalt with Reuben be cast out of the high Office of Sacrificing and Governing This is the voyce which the watchmen have pronounced 33. ‖ ‖ ‖ Gen. 37.5 6 7 8 9 10 11. When Joseph had had the two Dreames the one of his sheaf standing upright before which the sheafes of his brethren bowed the other of the Sun Moon and Eleven Starrs which had done obeysance to Joseph Envy forthwith arose amongst them and they supposed he would be their Lord and being that they were the Eldest they desired to rule over Him 34. Whereby we see how the outward man hath onely sought and aimed at the Kingdome of this world which was even the bane and undoing of Adam in that he forsook the inward and sought after the outward 35. * * * Gen. 37.3 Josephs party-coloured Coat which his father made signifieth how the inward power of God would again be revealed through the outward man whereby the humane nature would be variously coloured that is mixed with God as the inward spirituall Kingdome with the outward The Spirituall Christian figure is thus to be understood 36. Joseph with his Coat of many colours was as yet a Ladd both tender and young and had not yet the wit craft and suttlety of the world but spake the truth in simplicity for his soul was not yet defiled from without with the craft of lying and the Spirit of God began to † † † Work act or move in him drive him forward for his Coat of many colours was a figure of the inward 37. This figure prefigureth and representeth to us the Image of a true young Schollar and beginner in Christianity how he must be when the Spirit of God shall drive and act him namely he must turne his heart to God his Father and learn to love him heartily As Joseph loved to be with his father and told him the evill that was committed among his children so must a beginner in Christianity daily bring before God all his own miseries and the miseries and sins of all that belong to him yea of all Christendome As Daniel confessed the sins of the People of Israel before God and Joseph the evills of his brethren before his father so also a true Christian doth daily confesse the misery and sin of his People and Nation in hearty Compassion that God would be mercifull to them and preserve them from Great Evills and Sins 38. And when this is brought to passe his heart becometh very simple honest and upright for he desireth no craft but would fain have all things proceed righteously and justly and he cannot abide any unrighteousnesse or suttle dealings for he alwayes confesseth the peoples unrighteousnesse before God and thus his minde becometh altogether simple and seeketh no kinde of craft or suttlety but putteth his hope and confidence in God and liveth in the simplicity and lowlinesse of heart before God and the world and he is as the tender young ladd Joseph for he hopeth for good continually from God his Father 39. Now when a man is come so far then Joseph viz. the chast virgin childe of Sophia is even born then God his father cloathes his soul with the party-coloured coat viz. with the divine power and forth with the Spirit of God in him beginneth to play with the soul as he did with Joseph for the Spirit of God seeth through the soul and with the soul as Joseph in the Type saw things which were to come represented to him in the vision of dreames whereby the Spirit did also play with the soul even so the Spirit of God doth forthwith take delightfull communion with the soul of a new Joseph viz. with the inward spirituall world so that the soul understandeth divine mysteries and seeth into the Eternall life and knoweth the hidden world which yet is to be revealed in man as this Pen hath found by Experience from whence it hath received its Spirit of knowledge 40. Now when this man beginneth to speake of divine things and visions of the hidden worlds divine mysteries and speaketh forth the wonders of God that his brethren viz. the children of the outward world in whom the hidden spirituall world is not yet manifest do heare it they count it a meer fable and a melancholly Chimera and whimsey and esteem him foolish in that he speaketh of those things which they cannot understand and comprehend they make a meer Phancy and Fiction of it also they account it some Astrall instigation or false Enthusiasm or the like especially if he revealeth and reproveth their evill workes and wayes as Joseph did then they turn his open Enemies and grudge him his very life as hapned to Joseph 41. Now when it is thus Reason beholdeth it selfe at a stand as if it were confounded and knoweth not the wayes of God viz. that it must be thus with the children of God it thinketh thou seekest God and he bringeth thee into distresse and misery thus this man doth now wander up and down as Joseph wandred in the * * * Or Field Wildernesse when his father sent him to his brethren to see how it was with them 42. So it goeth likewise with Gods new children when Gods Spirit sendeth them to be zealous about the affliction of Joseph and the world doth every way hate and persecute them for it then they thinke in the Reason of this world dost thou not goe in the wayes of God wherefore then doth it goe so with thee that thou art but the fool of the world and then the Minde beginneth to be troubled and knowes not how it is with it for he heareth that he is every where accused for a frantick wicked person and hated for the young minde in flesh and bloud understandeth not the divine processe viz. how reason must become a fool and how Christ doth very willingly take upon himselfe in man the reproach and scorn of the Devill and of the world and how Gods righteousnesse and Adams propagated Guilt must be alwayes fullfilled with suffering how a Christian must stand in Christs figure 43. And now when it comes to be thus then Reason goes truely a wandering in great sorrow and desertion with Joseph in the wildernesse and is every way in distresse and yet he must performe his

bigge as the world is and yet Men will be blinde Enough to those that are Ours 33. And as Jacobs children spake much with their father concerning Benjamin and promised to bring him againe he sayd at last * * * Gen. 43.11 12 13 14. If it must be so let it be so and take of the best fruit of the Country in your Sacks and carry downe a Present to the Man a little Balsam and Honey and Spices and Mirrhe Dates and Almonds take also other Money with you and the Money that was put above in your Sacks againe carry with you it may be it was done by mistake moreover take your brother arise goe againe to the Man and the Almighty God give you Mercy before the Man that he may let your other brother and Benjamin goe but I must be as one quite bereft of his children 34. This now is the figure that is above explained and wee see a very Excellent cleere Type and Image therein shewing that Jacob commanded his sonnes to take with them of the most precious rich and costly fruit of the Land and carry it with them to Joseph in which the Spirit pourtrayeth in the figure how the Christian Church when it seeth it selfe in such Trouble and spirituall Famine hunger and want and now is on the way of Repentance should carry these good fruits with it before God viz. Hope Faith and divine affiance and not wilde fruit as Covetousnesse Selfe-willed Lust and Hypocrisie but a purpose and resolution towards Truth Righteousnesse Chastity Love and Meeknesse 35. Thus must the Old Man take a resolution to goe in such a purpose to Joseph that is to Christ and then hee yeeldeth up all his sonnes for the Journey of this Pilgrimage and sayth Now I am bereaved of all my Sonnes I have nothing more in the desire of fleshly voluptuousnesse I have yeelded them alltogether into the will of God 36. Also wee see in this figure how Jacob commanded them to take with them againe the unrighteous money that they had brought back in their Sacks and restore it againe thus also must a Man who will be or is a Christian put away from him all unrighteous things all that he hath gotten to himselfe by subtilty craft and wrong that he should repay againe or else indeed give it to the Poore 37. For that which he giveth to the needy and miserable that suffer want he giveth to the hungry brethren of Joseph and the heavenly Joseph receiveth it in his hungry brethren and fellow-Members and returneth it to him againe manifold as Josephs Steward gave them againe the Money which they carried home in their Sacks the first time and brought it againe and sayd Peace be to you your fathers God hath bestowed Treasure on you 38. A man must put away all unrighteousnesse from him if he will enter in to the Wedding of Jesus Christ Hypocrisie and flattery in comforting ones selfe avayleth nothing it must be Earnestnes and this is that which keepeth Men back from the wayes of God even their walking upon the wayes of Hypocrisie and flattering themselves whereas they should leave off and forsake unrighteousnesse and Extortion and restore that which is gotten by falshood thus they have cast the Purple Mantle of Christ over the crafty wretch and covered him with the satisfaction and merits onely that the Theefe may live under that Cloake 39. O thou poore Christendome how hath Antichrist deluded thee with this Cloake and Covering O flee away from him it is time The Covering will not avayle any wicked and unrighteous person so long as any is such a one he is the Devills Servant 40. A Christian is a New Creature in the Ground of his Heart his Minde is bent onely to well-doing not to steale Else were Christ by Consequence accounted a Theefe in Man Let but the Mantle of Christ fall off and restore what thou hast stolen and gained and extorted with unrighterusnesse and injury and cast away the old Quarrells strivings and * * * Law-suits Litigations from thy soule and goe naked and empty under the Crosse to which Christ hangeth and looke upon his fresh bleeding wounds and take his bloud into thy hungry soule and then thou wilt be healed and redeemed and released from all want else no comfort of Satisfaction and Merit will helpe thee All true Comfort is but this that a Christian comforteth himselfe that he shall in this Repentance in Christ Jesus obtaine a Gracious God and that shall even be his Comfort that he may not despaire 41. The satisfaction wherewith the unrighteous comforteth himselfe and sayth My works avayle nothing Christ hath done all I can doe nothing and continueth under such Comfort in sinnes that is the Devills fishhooke whereby he catcheth his fish with Christs Mantle 42. Christ had his Purple Mantle on him when he was in his suffering but when he hung on the Crosse he had it no more much lesse in his Resurrection so also should a Man take this Mantle about him onely when he goeth into Christs Suffering and Death in Repentance in Repentance it is onely avaylable and no way else that a soule should wrap it selfe up in it when it is ashamed in its sinnes before the face of God 43. All that is taught and beleeved otherwise is deceipt a fable and Babell All teachers that teach otherwise are but servants and slaves of the Belly and the fishermen and a Deceipt of the world of these let Men beware for he that will be a Teacher must also be a true Christian that so he may also thus live in Christ Else * * * John 10. he is a Theefe and a Murderer that climeth up some other way into the sheepfold of whom Christ speaketh 44. And Moses sayth further Gen. 43.15 16 17. Then they tooke their Present and the double money with them and Benjamin and arose and went into Aegypt and presented themselves before Joseph and when Joseph saw them with Benjamin he sayd to his Steward bring these Men to my House and stay and make ready for they shall eate with mee at Noone and the Man did as Joseph sayd unto him and brought the Men into Josephs house 45. This now signifieth thus that hee that hides himselfe under the Mantle must come forth and bring his unrighteous wrong gotten Goods againe and come before the face of the heavenly Joseph and come naked and empty of his I hood or owne ability and bring the right Benjamin that is in him along with him then Joseph draweth neere him and seeth him and commandeth his Steward viz. the Spirit of Power to bring these Men into his house viz. into his Humanity and then the Lamb of God shall be made ready and these Men or the Lifes Essences of the right soule shall eate at Josephs Table with him at Noone then it is Noone when the high Light of Grace shineth as at Noone or Midday in the soule and heere

is the inward Kingdome of the inward Eternall nature must help for the Soul is of the Fathers property and this Japhet doth typifie and the Soules spirit viz. the faire Image of God in the light which did vanish or disappear in Adam and stood * * * Or in the Image typically in the Covenant of which Sem was the figure doth point out unto us the Sons property who should open the Covenant thus also we are to understand that the Father in his will who freely gave us the Son tooke on one part the Garment of our Sins Covering and this was typified by Japhet and the Son on the other part who covered our shame with the Fathers will and this Sem was a figure of 25. For if Christ shall lay the Covering Garment upon our shame then the Soule must help that is it must give up and resigne its will wholly thereinto and goe backwards with its will towards the Bosome of the father and not any longer parley with it selfe in its own will and knowledge how it goeth or will goe but so it must take the Garment in true repentance upon its shoulders and leave the other part upon the shoulders of Sem viz. unto the true Image of * * * Or God Christ which is the pretiou● noble Sophia 26. Both these take the heavenly Garment and goe backwards to the Father and though they cannot see how they goe yet they goe in Faith trusting on Gods Mercy and turn away their eyes from the shame vanity and false will for going backwards and covering the shame in this place signifies nothing else but to Convert the Selfe-hood naturally going forwards in its own will and way and goe back againe into the ONE out of which the free-will departed and came into the monster or shame 27. Noahs drunkennesse signifieth that when Adam entred with his Lust and desire into this worlds property he became drunk in the beastall property and therein he uncovered his shame that is he disclosed and made bare therein the beastiall Lust now when this was done he stood before God in great shame and then the beastiall spirit in this Monster of false lust and poysonfull concupiscence brake forth and reviled the pretious heavenly Image and made it selfe Master 28. And thus Christ must in our Soul and in our disappeared and again revived noble Sophia cover the shame of our father Adam and his children for he would therefore not be borne of the Seed of man but out of the heavenly disappeared Ens and brought his living Ens of the holy world thereinto that so he might cover our monstrous * * * Text Seed Shame of the Soules property which Adams lust had uncovered with the heavenly Ens. 29. The corrupt nature which had opened it selfe now in Paradise went along in all men and though the Image of God was againe regenerate in the Spirit of the Saints as in a figurative forme untill the fulfilling of Christ in the flesh yet the monstrous Image was propagated all along in all in the earthly property 30. But being the First earthly world of the humane property was drowned in the floud and there the first Monarchies ceased the same figure did forthwith represent it selfe again in Noah and his Three Sons so that now the spirit doth here signifie from the very stock and root of the humane property how it should afterwards be viz. the Tree of man would in its properties introduce it selfe into boughes and branches that is spread forth it selfe into distinct Nations and Governments and that they would not all know the Onely God according to the light of his Grace and how that God would represent unto them the light of Grace in the Generation of Sem. 31. For Noah saith blessed be the God of Sem and let Japhet dwell in Sems tents by the God of Sem he meaneth the holy word in the Covenant intimating how the same would manifest it selfe and then the Japhites or Gentiles which lived in the light of nature should come to the light of Grace manifested from the Generation of Sem and enter into Sems Tents and dwell therein this did point at the Gentiles who before knew onely of the Light of nature but when the word did manifest it selfe in the Person of Christ with the gratious light of the Gospel they came into the Light of grace 32. And even here Ham viz. the fleshly lust-spirit must be in its own property and selfehood a servant among the children of light for the children of God doe compell him to servitude and keep him under and take away his reviling scorning will for the spirit of Ham which Noah cursed doth intimate how this Hams spirit would be great upon the Earth and goe on onely in its own proud monstrous and beastiall knowledge and scoffe at the children of the light account them fooles because they hope upon something else which they doe not outwardly see 33. Thus the spirit in Noah pointeth out unto us three Sorts of men first it signifieth the children of faith who nakedly and meerely looke upon the hidden light of Gods grace and have the same shineing in their Hearts 34. The other would look upon the light of Nature and Reason and would endeavour to fathome and search out the hidden light by the strength of reason and that they would therefore contend dispute wrangle and jangle and bring forth many wonderfull strange monsters and Conceits out of the light of nature and set them up for Gods or Gods light as it hath so come to passe among the Christians and Gentiles 35. The Third Sort would be of Hams nature and Generation and know neither the light of nature or grace but walk as the Beast and be onely Titular verball praters and litterall children and moreover mockers scoffers and fleering Apes who would also be called the children of God but their knowledge would be onely of the externall Stone-Church a meere custome and verball round of a * * * Or Divine Service as they call it Service of God where the mouth would use indeed the Name of God but the heart would onely bring forth a beastiall spirit to earthly pride lust and pleasure 36. Thus the spirit of Sem Ham and Japhet would dwell together in one Congregation Sems generation in faith hidden among the Japhites as a poor disesteemed contemned abject people but the tribe of Japhet would set forth themselves with great plausible words with great and huge ostentation of Gods Service but yet it would be but as an hypocricy and seeming holinesse proceeding from the light of nature but Hams linage would be full of gluttony and drunkennesse scoffing and reviling and they would mock at both viz. the children of the Caine-like seeming holinesse and also at the children of the true light and would live as the wilde brute beast and yet in their Swinish life would be children of Grace by an outward appropriation or