Ther shal be more Ioye in Heauen ouer one Sinner that repenteth / then ouer nyntie-and-nyne-Iust-persons / that neede no Repentance Luk. 15. b. O how louely are the Feere of the Messengers that publish the Peace preache the Good and witnes or declare the Saluation Esa. 52. b. Rom. 10. c. Beholde I wil sende myne Angel or Messenger / which shall prepare the waye· or pathe the Streete / before Mee Mala. 3. a 4. a. Math. 11.17 Mar. 1. Luk. 7. To-daye if ye heare his Voyce / then harden not your Hearts that ye byde not without the Rest of y e People of God Psal. 95. a. Heb. 3.4 a. The First Chapter THis is the Crying or Voyce / which cometh-to-pas and is heard now in this present Daye / through the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ and wherwith all People â–ª are â by HN called and bidden to the Repentance for their Sinnes and to the Howse of the Loue of Iesu ChristØ›the a Esa. 32. â— Heb. 3. b. 4. c. Rest of all the Saincts or Children of God / And not alone with this Calling but also with all the Scriptures· heauenly Testimonyes· and spirituall Voyces of the eternall Trueth / which are gon-forth from the holy Spirit of Loue and brought-to-light by HN like as y e holy Gost hath sproken therof and warned all People / y t they in thatt present Daye â when they heare his Voyce shoulde in no-wyse harden b Psal. 95 b. Heb. 3. a. their Hearts namely that they shoulde not c 2. Cor 6. a. refuse nor resist thesame proffered Grace· Heb 12. b. but humbly indeuour them therunto to th end they mought enter into the godly Rest / which â till vnto thissame Daye of Loue is reserued for the People of God / for to rest them therin 2. The Mosthighest hath also â after such a long tyme that He had promysed the d Psal. 95. b. Heb. 3. b. Rest to the People of God yet once-more appoynted a Daye / on the e Act. 17. â— which / the vniuersall Earth shoulde be iudged with Righteousnes 3. Therfore â as the holy Gost sayeth f Psal. 95. b. Heb. 3 b. Todaye if ye shall heare his Voyce that is when the Tyme now is fulfilled / that the Daye of Loue â which the mosthighest hath appoynted to be a Rest for the People of God declareth itself / then shall ye heare / that yee â g Esa. 42.51 a O all ye People are called and bidden to thesame Grace and Mercie then harden not your Heartes 4. Let eueryone h 2. Cor 6. a. Heb. 12. b. take-heede to thissame gracious Tyme / that he may liue· and rest him in thissame Daye / from his Workes Trauayle and i Apo. 14. b. Labour 5. Seing then that ther is yet a Rest k Psa. 32 â— Heb 4 â—· at-hande / for the People of God / which is made-many-fest and inherited in the Family of Loue and that without thesame or without his Seruice / ther is nothing but all l Deut. â—â— a. Good-thinking m Esa 59. a. Tedious-trauayle Labour and Misery / Therfore doth not the holy Spirit of Loue ceasse this Daye â by his Minister HN to call and bidd all People to thesame Family of Loue / n Psal 16. b. 84. a. Ecclâ— 24. c. Apo. 2â— a. full of all louely Beeing and to his safe-makeing Seruice / to the Preseruation of them all in the Godlynes And to warne them eueryone / of the o Esa. 13. a. 3â— c 47. b. Dan. 12. b. Math. 24 b â–ª Wo and Misery and of the Plagues of Good-thinking that shall com vppon them / that remayne without thesame or that wil not suffer themselues to be leadd into thesame / through the Seruice of thesayde Family of Loue / To th end that they moughâ—all now â in y e Seruice of Loue and in the Obeying of his Requyring doo vpright Repentance p Math 3. a Luk. 3 a. 13. a. Act. 2. f. 3. c. for thier Sinnes· and enter into y e Rest of y e Lorde The Second Chap. BEare Sorrow for your Sinnes and a Eze. 1â— c Math 3. a. shewe vpright Fruits of Repentance the great b Esa. 13. a. b. Ioel. 2 a. c. Abel 1. c. Daye of the Lorde is com hard-by and wil now â as a righteous c Ier. 46. c. Soph 1.2 a Iudgment of God appeere ouer the whole Earth 2. Let eueryone now turne him away from the wicked Worlde and from the Abhomynation d Dan 9 c. Math 24 b. of her Desolation / and make his Repaire hether / to the e Esa 2 a. Mich 4. a. Hill of the Loue wheron the Lordes Howse is buylded / that he may be preserued in thissame Daye of the righteous Iudgment of God 3. Yea turne you hether betymes / to the Howse of the Loue of Iesu Christ and to his safe-making Seruice beare Sorrow rightly for your Sinnes f Math. 3. a. Luk 3 a. 13 a. Act 2. f 3. c. and shewforth vpright Repentance or Amendment for thesame â O ye strayed People er-euer the g Soph. 2. a. Mal. 4. a. Daye of the Lorde fall vppon you / to the Recompencing of your Wickednes 4. COm now all hether / whear the heauenly Day-light Ø› h Esa 60. d. Sap 5 a the Sunne of Righteousnes shyneth and whear the Waters i Eze. 36. c. Apo. â—2 d. of Lyfe flowe-forth out of y e FoÌ„ntayne of the liueing Godhead / to the Purging of your Sinnes 5. Let eueryone now forsake his owne Woord Doctrine and taken-on Knowledg / and also the Woord Doctrine and Knowledg of all k Ier. 23 d. 2â— 29.32 c. Eze 13 a. b. Mich. 3. b. vnsent Preachers and Good-thinking-wyseones / wher-through ye be seduced· blynded from y e true Fruits of Repentance· and estranged from the true Sainctification of your Spirit and Mynde and com now all to thissame l Ier. 19. b. 31. f. Mich. 1. a. Sainctuary of God out of the which / the Lordes liueing m Esa. 2. a. Woord is witnessed· the true Repentance for the Sinne / made-knowen· and the vpright n Ephe. 4. c. Col. 3. a. Righteousnes and Holynes of Iesu Christâ— / taught / wherthrough ye be brought to the right Quyeting of your Consciences· to the o Math. 11. c. Health of your Soules· and to the Sainctifycation or p Rom. 12. a. Ephe. 4. c. Renewing of your Spirit and Mynde 6. For-that-cause com now all to thissame q Esa. 2 a. Hill or Howse of Loue and in his out-flowing Water / r Eze. 16.36 clense and amende or hallow your Beeing / vnder the Obedience of y e Loue of Iesu Christ / that your Sinnes may be s Act. 3. c. wyped-out and yeâ— becom lead euenso into the t Esa. 32. c. Heb. 3.4 b. Rest of all y e
vnderstande / that we do not account the Seruices of the christian Ceremonyes / vnprofitable nor-yet in vayne but do esteeme them of great Value / in their right Vee 3. But veryly the Seruices and Ceremonyes of y e Vnchristians and of y e Straingers / which are a Rom. 1. c Ephe. 4. â— darkened in their Vnderstanding and estrainged from y e Light of Lyfe let them then take-on thosame out of their owne ImaginatioÌ„ or out of their Knowledg which they frame out of the Letter all those do we account vnprofitable and in vayne / Yea for an harmfull Institution and for an arrogant b Ier. 5. b â— a. 14 b. 23 c Presumption against Gods Commaundement The which is an Abhomynation c â—sa 1. b. Luk. 16. b. Tit. 1. b before the Epes of our Lorde and God 4. But the Seruices and Ceremonyes which God esteemeth which be ministred out of his Light and Lyfe / in the Seruice of Loue / according to his owne Commaundement / those are acceptable vnto God and are d Rom. 1. b to the Saluation and Peace of the Beleeuers of y e Woord For the vpright Godlynes and the true Light of Lyfe of the godly Cleernes / is made-manifest in thosame Seruices 5. And although that they â according to the outward Action are not like vnto the Ceremonyes of the contencious and vnilluminated Scriptur-learnedones â wherwith they stryue and contende or be not vsed after that maner / yet are they notwithstanding â before God agreeable to the Seruices and Ceremonyes which God hath willed and commaunded and which auayle before Him 6. Thewhiles then that the Childhod â or the Youngnes of Vnderstanding in the Inheritance of the Lorde / doth e Gal 4. a. yet remayne / so are the Seruices and Ceremonyes which be ministred by the Elders in the holy Vnderstanding â through the Light of Lyfe vnder the Obedience of the Lawe or vnder the Obedience of the Beleefe or vnder the Obedience of the Loue as f Gal 4. a. Tutors and Keepers vnto all Littleones of Vnderstanding wher-through they receaue Assistance till that the Daye com-on vnto them g 2. Pet. 1 c. and that the Light of Lyfe ryse-vp in their Hearts / who as-then haue â thorough the Light of Lyfe and his Seruice of Loue exercised Myndes / for to h Heb. 5. b. discerne â thorough thesame Light the Good and Euell the Lyfe and Death the Preseruation and Destruction and so to be meete to all good Exercises 7. When they now are com to this State / so are they as-then nomore ChildreÌ„ or Littleones-of-vnderstanding / in the holy Vnderstanding to whom the Hande must be reached with Seruices and Ceremonyes and that must be informed or taught to the Enterance into the holy Vnderstanding or to the Beginings i Heb. 5. b. of the christian Lyfe but they are with the Agedones / growen likewyse to be aged Men Elders k 1. Cor. 4. â— Heb 13. b. and Fathers of the Howsholde or Comunialtee in the Loue / who do knowe how to be seruiceable vnto the Little and Weakones l 2. Cor 6. a 1. Pet. 4 b â–ª Heb. 13. b and to go before them with the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue / to all Concord vnder the Obedience of the Loue and to informe the Congregation to the Lyfe and Peace / with thatt which is fordersom vnto them to m 2. Pet. 1. a. the Lyfe and Peace 8. Beholde and consider These are the Seruices and Ceremonyes which God regardeth in his Congregation the which shall continue foreuer in our mostholy Seruice of Loue / to a n Heb 7. b Gyding-in of People to the vpright Righteousnes and Godlynes For o Luk. 1. b the Saluation â–ª and the Peace of the People / in all Loue and Gods p Rom. 1â— c. Will and Counsayle / is made manyfest and knowen therby It is verytrue 9. Heer-with I do hartely salute thee / with a Salutacion of Loue and with thesame Salutacion / salute me also to the Comunialtee that is with thee as likewyse to all those that submitt their Soules vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 10. MOrouer â my Beloued I shoulde haue rehearsed a larger Answere vnto thee / touching certen Things wherof thou wrytest vnto me but I haue had no tyme to accomplish it No I haue scarsly had so much speare tyme / as to wryte this little vnto thee The Cause / our Brother whom we haue sent vnto thee / shall also tell thee by Mouth But if thou bist yet vnsatisfyed in anything then giue him to vnderstand of the Matter and aske his resolusion therof And if thou bist not satisfyed so in thyn Vnderstanding theÌ„ wryte-ouer the Matter vnto mee I proffer myself alwayes â out of an Inclynation of Loue to doo thee Seruice The Loue of God the Father / get the Victory in all your Hearts Amen The Ende of the Nynth Epistle The Tenth Epistle A precious Iuell of pure Instructions and loueing Exhortations / how one shal be obedient to the Woord of Lyfe and Trueth / in the Seruice of Loue· and grow-vp therin / to the Perfection or Age of the manly Beeing of Christ. Let vs now leaue the Doctrine of the Begining of the christian Lyfe and go to Perfection Heb. 6. Harken vnto mee / O ye holy and vertuous Children and bring-foorth Fruit like a Rose planted by the Ryuers-syde and giue a sweete Sauour from you / lyke vnto Libanus Growe and blowe lyke a Rose-garden and giue a Sauour / lyke a Lilly Sing a Song-of-prayse and laude God in all his Workes Eccli 40. To my courteous Freendes / which are comprehended with Vs / in one Light of the Loue / be Health and Saluation The First Chapter ALL my Hearts Wishing is / that it mought in all respects / go well with you eueryone and that ye mought â vnhindered increase in the Godlynes and in the Light of the heauenly Trueth and of the holy Vnderstanding / which is appeered and declared vnto vs out of Grace / through the Loue of God the Father 2 Out of which Light of the godly Cleernes / wee haue now in this last Tyme / receaued a Gal. 1 b. 1. Timo. 1. b such a godly Office / from the eternall and liueing God / through the holy Spirit of his Loue. namely the Seruice of Loue / wherby to minister in thesame Seruice â with the true Light and heauenly Vnderstanding the Mostholy of the true Tabernacle of God / vnto all Louers of the Trueth / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and so to make-manifest vnto them â out of thesame Mostholy b Exo. 25. c. Rom. 3. c. Heb. 5. a. the Mercy-seat with the sundry costly Garnishings of the spirituall and heauenly Ritches 3. Into which Mostholy / the High-preest is gon for to sprinckle euenso out of the Mostholy / the Holy of thesame
casteth y e Seruice of the holy Woord and the instructionable g Pro 5. c. 15. â— Chastisment / from him and so refuseth the Loue / hee veryly shall likewyse be reiected by the Lorde· and h Apo. 22. b. shute without the louely Beeing of God 4. For seing that God doth now present vs with all Loue / therfore wil Hee likewyse â in the Obedience of his Loue be loued of Vs agayne 5. Wherfore â my beloued Children giue-ouer yourselues to the Lorde / with vpright Loue euen as I haue often sayde vnto you and as our Wrytings do mencion in many Places namely i Eccli 6.7 â— 1. pet 5. a. in Humilitee and Lowlynes of Heart / So shall ye taste that the Lorde is freendly The which our Lorde Iesus hath also taught vs / wheare He sayth k Math. 21. c. Learne of Mee For I am humble and meeke of Heart and your Soules shall fynde Rest. 6. Com vnto l Math. 11. c. Mee sayth Hee witâ— your Loading or Burden / I wil ease you or take your Burden from you And take you on my Yoke or Burden For my Yoke is sweete and my Burden is lyghte for to beare / sayth the Lorde 7. This is the liueing m 1. Pet 1. c. Woord of Grace / proceeded-out from our Father / the liueing God to the Saluacion of all People namely / those that beleeue in his Name and n 2. Pet. 3. b. wayte for the Coming of his Christ / to their Saluacion 8. Out of thissame Woord of Grace / ther appeereth vnto vs now in the last tyme â thorough the Reuealing o 2 Timo 1. b of the Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ p Rom. 8. b Ephe. 1. b. the Paune of our godly Inheritance namely / the holy Spirit of Loue / full of all Graces and Amiable-delytfulnesses which Spirit of Loue / is q Iohn 14 c. 25. c. 16. b. the right and true holy Spirit of Christ which proceedeth or cometh from the Father and the Sonne and hath his Flowing-foorth from them 9. The Children of thissame Spirit / which He r 1 Pet 1. a. b bringeth-foorth out of the Loue / are chosen for to possesse the s Esa. 33 a Ephe 1. b 2 a. 3. a. Col 1. c â— a. Treasures and the Inheritance of the Ritches of Christ of the heauenly Father / for euermore The II. Chap. FOrasmuch then â ye Deerly-beloued as that yee likewyse are now called and bidden to thissame high-worthy Maiestee of God and to be a Rom 8. b Ephe 1. a. Co-heires â with Christ and his Saints in the Treasures of the heauenly Goodes / therfore take-heede to thissame gracious b Eccli 27. b 2 Cor. 6. a Ephe. 5 b Tyme and c 4. Esd. 2. d. Rom. 12. a. 1 Iohn 2. b 〈◊〉 4. a flye the Shadowes of the wicked and blynde Worlde Loue not her Darknesse in-anywyse but loue the Light of Lyfe / which is healde-foorth vnto you through the Seruice of Loue / to your Saluacion 2. Depart out from the Vncircumcised and let your Hearts d Deut. 10 c. Ier 4. a. be circumcised in thissame New or Eigth Daye / vnder the Obedience of the Loue / that the Foreskinne of the worldly and fleshly Desyres / may be e Esa. 25. a. 2. Cor. 3. b. put-away from your Hearts 3. Therfore let all those pas now / that would drawe you to their Good-thinking or Knowledg or to their chosen f Gal. 3. a. 6. b. Col 2 b. c. Holynes· or allure you to any g Tob. 3. b. Ephe. 4. a â–ª Light-behauiour 4. Endeuour you to enter into the good and vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ euen-as thesame is ministred vnto you out of the Loue and her Seruice and make none account of it / although ye be mocked blaspheamed and contemned / for thesame cause or for your single-mynded Obedience to thesame 5. But against all your â–ª Aduersaryes / h Math 10. d. 16. c. Mar. 8. c. Luk. 9.14 c take vnto you the Crosse of Christ â the which is Patience or Forbearance / in the Obedience of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue and so j 1 Pet. 2.4 a. follow-after Christ. For in that sort is He gon before vs and hath â through his Crosse ouercom k Phil 2 a. Col. 1. c. â— his Enemyes 6. To which Ouercoming / yee shall also com â through Christ if yee â in the Following of Christ do posâ—â—sse your Soules l Luk 21. b with PatieÌ„ce and had rather â—uffer CoÌ„tempt Reproche and Blaspheaming / with the Children of God / m Heb. 11. c. then to inherite all y e Treasures of this Worlde 7. Therfore â my beloued Children let it not greeue you / although the n Iohn 15. b. Worlde do hate you or though you be contemned and blaspheamed by her Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones but beholde or consider o Hâ—b 11. c. of the Rewarde of the Children of God 8. For I do acknowledg and testifye vnto you truly â according to the Grace of the Knowledg that is chaunced vnto mee that it shall now in the last tyme / go-well euerlastingly with all good-willing Hearts which haue a Lust to God and his Righteousnes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and that their Labour in the Lorde / shall p 1. Cor. 15. f. not be founde in vayne 9. But whosoeuer doth wilfully contemne the Lorde and the Righteousnes of his louely Beeing and inclyneth to the Worlde or to his owne Good-thinking / hee shall beare his Iudgment / whosoeuer he bee 10. Inasmuch then â ye Deerly-beloued as that wee haue now â vnder the Obedience of the Loue sett our Hope / towards God and our Beleefe / towards his Saluacion / Therfore let vs now likewyse â through the Seruice of the holy Spirit of Loue take a q Heb. 5. a. cheerfull Passage â in Iesu Christ to God the Father and to his gloryous and louely Maiestee and not regarde the Temptacions of the wicked Worlde and of our Resisters 11. For happy is hee r Iam â–ª 1. b. that endureth Temptacion and snareth or byndeth nor himself vnto the Euell For therin lyeth the s 4. Esd. 2. c. 2. Timo. 4. a. Iam. 1. b. Apo. 2. b. Victory and the Crowne of Lyfe of the perfect Saluacion 12. But if anyman now be yet weake as that he is yet somtymes drawen-back by the Euell and dismayed or made wauering in his Beleefe and seeth that he is falne ther-thorough / let him stande-vp agayne and suffer himself to be renewed in the Seruice of Loue and praye vnto the Lorde for Strength and Constance / so shall He be gracious vnto him and giue him Strength against his Temptacion For God is almighty 13. For-that-cause let noman iudg or condemne himself t Luk. 6. d. much-les another For although that God do otherwhyles hyde v Esa.
seruiceable to the Peace and Vnitee of Heart in the Loue For by her almighty and vertuous Nature / she begetteth o Rom. 13. a. Gal. 5. b. 1. Timo. 1. a. or bringeth-foorth the perfect Righteousnes of the Beleefe of Christ. 12. The p Iohn 4.7 d Water of Lyfe that floweth from her Body / is the vpright Doctrine in the Wisdom wherwith she q Gen. 2. b. watereth the whole Paradise of the Lorde and refresheth his Planting 13. Her Fruit which the Righteous do bring-foorth out of her Doctrine / r Gen 2. a. Pro. 3. b. 4. Esd 8. f. Apo 2. a. is a Tree of Lyfe whose Leaues do s Psal. 1. a. Ier 17. a. Ezâ— 47. b. Apo. 22 a. not wither neither is her Rooting-out founde Of which Loue and the Seruice of her Doctrine / we haue rehearsed more-at-large in the t 3. Glas 31. c d. Glasse of Righteousnes 14. The Lorde bring vs all to thesame vpright Beeing of the Loue / To th end that we may enioye the Fruiâ—s of the heauenly Kyndnes / in all Loue. Amen The V. Chap. MOreouer â my beloued Freendes in the Loue of Iesu Christ I must yet wryte a little-more vnto you and disclose or declare vnto you / the two-maner of Kingdoms namely of God and of the Deuill which do make-manifest themselues in our Inwardnes as spirituall or inuisible / Because that yee may also learne to knowe them with Distinction / according to the Spirit / wherby you may with an vpright Discerning when they make-manifest themselues against eachother / in you cleaue vnto thatt â with your Spirit which is godly heauenly and true / and which saueth you and may forsake and leaue thatt / which is deuilish deceitfull and false / and which bringeth to the Condemnacion 2. For-that-cause inasmuch as it is Spirit / a Iohn 3. â— that condemneth and saueth vs / therfore haue now a regarde with good Discerning / vnto Spirit and Spirits and learne to knowe those well / b Iohn 4. a. that are of God and true and those that are deuillish and false or lying 3. But if ye wil descerne them rightly according to the Trueth / then becom first-of-all circumcised to the Lorde / c Deut. 10. â— Ier. 4. a. Col. 2 b. on the Fore-skinne of your Hearts the which is the Laying-away of the Flesh of Sinne and so then becom d Rom. 8. a. spiritually mynded / in all your Vnderstanding of the godly Knowledges and continue stedfast in the Obedience to the Woord / till vnto y e seconde Birth like-as ye be taught by the Seruice of Loue / according to the Trueth of Christ. 4. If-so-be now that ye continue in the Woord of the Loue of Iesu Christ and do not turne-away neither to the left nor to the right syde / e Iohan. â— d. then shall ye knowe the Trueth and the Trueth shall make you free 5. Therfore giue-eare now and vnderstande / what the Spirit of Loue and Trueth sayth 6. Knowe in your Spirit â O ye goodwilling Hearts to the Righteousnes how that God Ø›the true Father is f Iam 1. c. an euerlasting vnchaingable Spirit a stedfast Power a g Gen. 1. a. Creator of Heauen and Earth and of euerything that shall continue for euer h Heb. 1. a. also an Vpholder of his Workes / with the i Sap. 7 c. Woord of his Beeing a cleere Light and liueing Fountayne wherout all Vertues and Righteousnesses do flowe 7. Euenthus according to thesame like Beeing of God the Father / so knowe likewyse â according to the Spirit his Sonne / our Lorde Iesus Christ k Gen. 1. a. Psal 33. a. Pro 8 c. through whom / God hath made all his Workes and He is out of God the Father published vnto vs â by the l Rom 10. a. 1 Pet. 1. c. Woord of Preaching of the holy Gospel m Iohn 1. a. to be a true Light / that lighteth all Men through the Coming of his Appeering and is set-before vs / for an euerlasting Sauiour n Math. 1. c. Rom 3. c. 2. Cor. 5. b. Col. 1. c. â— Iohn 2.4 b and a Reconciler for our Sinnes namely for all those Sinnes o Math. 12. d. Luk. 12. b. that are committed against the Father and the Sonne 8. Knowe also the holy Gost p Iohn 14. c. 15. c. â—6 b. which cometh vnto vs / out of the Father and the Sonne â as a Spirit of Trueth and Loue in the Obeying of the Woord of God and Christ which establisheth vs therin and declareth the Kingdom of the God of Heauens vnto vs and in what Foorme and Beeing / that the Father and the Sonne and the holy Gost / is one true God 9. Beholde thatt is veryly the true Kingdom of God / q Luk â–ª 17. c. inwardly with in vs and his Righteousnes is / that the Man shoulde â with his Spirit be incorporated to thesame Godhead and liue therin for euer The VI. Chap. VNderstand now according to the Trueth â ye Deerly-beloued which is the Kingdom of God and his Righteousnes / a Math. 6. d that we ought first or before-al / to seeke 2. But seing that the Man doth now generally / seeke the Kingdom of God and his Righteousnes / contraryly and not rightly b Ier. 19 d. Iohn 7 d. and for-that-cause cannot fynde thesame / through his owne Vnderstanding / Therfore hath the Goodnes of God / looked vpon our Ignorance and declared his Kingdom and the Righteousnes therof / vnto Vs / through his Loue. 3. To which Kingdom of God and his Righteousnes / and godly Maiestee of the euerlasting spirituall and heauenly Beeing / and to all his Holynes Beawty Ritches and to his euer-liueing Ioyfulnes / Wee be all now called and bidden / by the holy Spirit of the Loue of God the Father / to the Preseruacion of vs all / in thissame last and perillous Tyme For Hee / thesame God Ø›y e Father the Sonne the holy Gost presenteth vs now with his Loue and wil c Leui. 26. b. Eze. 37. c. 2. Gor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. â— dwell liue and worke in vs. Let eueryone take-heede to thissame gracious Tyme 4. The Father draweth d Iohn 6. â— â–ª g or allureth vs to him / by his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue and whosoeuer yeeldeth himself to be drawen by the Father / cometh to the Sonne / the out-flowen gracious Woord of the Father 5. And whosoeuer cometh to the Sonne and e Iohn 3.6 c. beleeueing Him / remayneth f Iohn 8 1â— a in Him / He saueth 6. And Whom the Sonne saueth / g Iohn 3.6 f. hee hath the euerlasting Lyfe and is h Act. 1. a. 2. b. annoynted with the holy Gost. 7. And whosoeuer is annoynted with the holy Gost / hee is established i Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 1. b. c. â—ol 1. b. â— or altogether
EPISTOLAE HN. The Principall Epistles of HN / which he hath set-foorth through the holy Spirit of Loue· and written and sent them â most-cheefly vnto the Louers of y e Trueth and his Acquaintance And are by him newly perused and more-playnly declared Translated out of Base-almaine All Scripture geeuen by the Inspiration of God â–ª is profitable to Teache to Rebuke to Amendment and to Information in Righteousnes for that the Man of God may be perfect prepared to all good vvorkes 2. Timo. 3. No Prophecie in the Scripture / cometh-to-pas by priuate Interpritacion For ther vvas yet neuer any Prophecie brought-forth out of manly VVill but the holy Men of God haue sproken it / being mooued by the holy Goste 2. Pet. 1. Now goeth the Iudgment ouer the World â–ª Now is the Prince of this World cast-out Iohn 12. Now is the Saluation the Power and the Kingdom / becom our Gods and the Might his Christes Apoc. 2. THE PREFACE LYke as an Apotecary doth â by his apotecaries Arte prepare many-kinde of Medecineâ— / to the Health of the naturall Bodyes of sick Men and diuers delightfull Tastes and also sundery sweete Sauors of Spices / to the Delighting of the Children of Men Euen so doth likewyse a Man of God / prepare â by the Wisdom of y e godly Vnderstanding many-kinde of godly Medecines which he â in the Ministration of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue bringeth vnto the falne Man â who is captiued thorough the Sinne / with sundry Sicknesses and Infirmities in the Soule to the Health of his Soule â–ª and many sweete Tastes of the spirituall and heauenly Foode to the Refreshing and Delighting of his Mynde and to the great Ioye of his Spirit in y e secret hauenly Goodes Lyke as one may euidently perceaue in the many and sundry-sorts of distinct and groundy Instructions / touching the true Godlynes and euerlasting Ioye in Iesu Christ / which are witnessed and set-forth by HN Ø›Gods elected Minister in these his Epistles and in all the Testimonyes of his Wrytings / to a perpetuall Health and Lyfe of the Soule and to the Welfare of the Children of Men. 2. To the which true Godlynes and euerlasting Ioye / all Louers of the Trueth and all hungery and thirstye Soules after the Righteousnes as likewyse all People / be â by the godly Testimonyes of these Epistles called and bidden to th end to leade them all namely those which vnder the Obedience of the Loue / do beleeue the Godlynes into the Howse of Loue and to nourish and bring-them-vp in all Godlynes 3. For-that-cause / these Epistles are likewyse to a Teaching and Edifying of all Beleeuers of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue and of the Comunialtee or Church of Christ and are also very profitable and seruiceable vnto all Men / to giue an vpright Knowledg Wherunto the Man is created of God and called or bidden through Christ To th end that all those â which haue a Lust or Will to God and his Righteousnes mought â vnder the Obedience of the Loue giue themselues vprightly to their Calling through Christ· and so becom godly mynded / according to the Requyring of the holy Scriptures· and well exercised or prepared to all good workes Take it to heart A TABLE Contayning the Matter â and Redie finding of the begining of eueri-one of these Epistles The First Epistle A Crying-voyce of the holy Spirit of Loue where-with all People are called / to repentance for their Sinnes Fol. 1. The Second Epistle A Short and pithie Instruction contayning the Misterie of the Loue. Fol. 10. The Thirde Epistle A Groundlie Instruction Declaring the difference betwixt God the Father and his Sonne / the Lorde Iesu Christ. Fol. 19. The Fourth Epistle Of the Mediation of Iesu Christ / in the Spirit for a Reconciliation betwixt God / and the Man Fol. 39. The Fifth Epistle A Stirring-vp of the hearte to the Immitation of Christ in the tyme of suffering and affliction Fol. 65. The Sixt Epistle A Groundlie Instruction / and a Difference of the vnderstandings according to the Truith / of the holy Scriptures Fol. 79. The Seuenth Epistle A True Iudgment or Sentence / out of the Seruice of Loue agaynst the false Iudgment out of the fleshe Fol. 137. The Eight Epistle A Distinction of the Submission / and Vnsubmission in the Spirit Fol. 159. The Nineth Epistle Of the Seruices and Ceremonies / of the Christians / and of the vnchristians and of the right and false vce of them Fol. 189. The Tenth Epistle A pure Instruction / howe one shal be obedient to the woorde of Lyfe and Trueth in the Seruice of Loue. Fol. 205. The Eleuenth Epistle A Rebuke and Exhortation seruing to a Reformation / and to a Repentance for their Sinnes vnto all those that thincke them selues to bee wyse and Therfore blaspheame / and iudge falslye our Seruice / and Comunialtie in the Loue also a warning to the Simple Hearts Fol. 223. The Tvvelueth Epistle A Reproouing Instruction / and exhortation â out of hartie loue to the vnitee of harte / in the Loue. Fol. 251. The Thirteenth Epistle Loueing Informations vnto a Louer of the Trueth which before-tyme had bine a Blaspheamer of the Seruice of the Loue / and of the Ministers ther-of Fol. 265. The Fourteenth Epistle A Breefe Exhortation / vnto a Disciple in the Seruice of the Loue wher-with he is exhorted / to keepe a sharpe watch towards the Spirits / that make-vp themselues in him Fol 287. The Fifteentb Epistle An hartie Exhortation / vnto all Louers of the Trueth To awarning Touching all false Spirits / that make-vp themselues and Iudge falsly agaynst the Trueth Fol. 293. The Sixteenth Epistle An Instructionable Exhortation to the good-willingous whearin is Distinguished the vpright Obedience and the Godlie / and ongodlie beeing Fol. 314. The Seuenteenth Epistle Of the Mans Lordelines / in the beginning of his affall Death and Condamnation and of his restoring agayne vnto his former Lordelines Fol. 337. The Eighteenth Epistle A loueing Exhortation vnto an house-holde / that haue ioyned themselues to the Familie of Loue to be obedient to the Trueth Fol. 352. The Nyneteenth Epistle An hartie Exhortation / to the mooste-zealous good-willing hearts to the Righteousnes also to the Elders and Ministers of the woorde for a warning vnto them of all deceayt that maye chance vnto them / by the an-commers Fol. 365. The Tvventith Epistle Reproouinge of the VVhoordom with good Doctrine / and groundelye Instructions howe one shall turne hym self / to Iesu Christ and the woord of his holie Spirit of Loue and Trueth Fol. 386. FINIS The First Epistle A Crying-voyce of the holy Spirit of Loue / wherwith all People are â out of meere Grace called and bidden by HN / to the true Repentance for thier Sinnes· to the Entrance into the vpright christian Lyfe· and to the Howse of the Loue of Iesu Christ.
Sinne and Death / through his Death of the Crosse / and hath made himself manifest vnto his Freendes / that loued Him and were his Disciples and renewing them in the Woord of his Doctrine / He q Luk. 24 c shewed them â through his Suffering and Death of the Crosse the Victory r 1 Cor. 15 g. against the Sinne Death Deuill and Hell 5. Now when-as these his Disciples were renewed and established in the Woord of his Doctrine· and armed s 1 Pet 4 a with thesame Mynde of the Suffering of Iesu Christ / t Mar 16. b Luk 24 f Act 1. a then was He taken-vp from them to the Right-hande of God his Father / in the heauenly Beeing From thence hath He comforted his Disciples and comprysed his Shape in them / out of the heauenly Beeing powring-foorth v Act. 1 â— 2 â— his holy Spirit into them as a newe and true x Apo. 21 a Ierusalem which is not prepared by Men / but by God like a garnished Bryde for her Husbande And euenthus became God the Father / thorough his only-borne Sonne Ø› Christ of one-substance agayne y Act â— with the manly Creatures And to that ende also because that all manly Creatures / shoulde â through Christ be z Iohn 17 c one-substance with God the Father / is Christ preached And in such a State doth God requyre to haue his People or the Congregation of Iesu Christ. 6. BEholde These Disciples of Iesu Christ â who through Christ / were sealed with the holy a Act. 2. a Rom 8 b 2 Cor 5 a Spirit of Christ / from the Right-hande of God· b Math. 13. f taught to the Kingdom of the God of Heauens· and established in God the Father and in the Lorde Iesu Christ were the right Christians / not out of the Letter or Flesh / c Math. 26. c. Luk. 22 c Iohn 6. f. 1 Cor. 11. c wherwith they had bin serued till vnto the Coming of thesame Clernes of Christ but out of the Power of God / d Luk 24. c Act 1. a. 2. a 1 Cor. 2 a b in the Spirit and did beare euenthus e 2. Cor. 4. a a costly Treasure / in earthen Vessels namely the very-like Beeing of God the Almighty 7. Which Beeing of God / f 2. Cor. 4. a. Phil. 2. a. Col. 1. b. Heb 1. a is the true Christ himself / according to the Spirit with whom they had their Fellowship And through Him â seing He was One with God their g 1. Iohn 1. a. Fellowship was also with God the Father Wherby they vsed that Woord God our Father and the LordeØ›his Sonne Iesu Christ. The which also Many nodout / do speake or witnes in-that-maner / out of the Letter and out of the Imagination of the good-thinking Knowledg but they are wyde of it / according to the Trueth But These â who h Act 2.3 1 Cor 2 a b 1 Iohn 1. a. witnessed that Woord / out of the Spirit and Trueth haue witnessed the Grace from God the Father and from the Lorde Iesu Christ / in the Trueth of God And yet notwithstanding / haue confessed nomore but one God but haue witnessed the Wonderful-acts of God / shewed on them through Iesus Christ. And i Ioel 2. d. Act. 2 â–ª b. it shall com-to-pas â sayeth God in the last Dayes 8. THis Grace of Saluation / that was k Luk. 1. f. g 2. a b. c Act. 2.3.4 c. apeered to the Iewes â which Many of them in that tyme refused is published to the Heathen / l Math. 3. a. Luk. 2. d Act. 13. c to a Repentance for their Sinnes / to th end that they shoulde m Iohn 1. c. beleeue on the like Beeing of God the Almighty / that was appeered vnto them· and so becom partakers likewyse of the Gifts of the holy Gost â through Iesus Christ out of the fatherly Grace and that their Fellowship mought be one n 1. Iohn 1. a. with God the Father and his Sonne Iesu Christ / in one-maner of Fayth 9. And to that ende was the Seruice of Christ ministred o 2 Cor. 10. a vnder y e Obedience of Fayth â by the Apostles of Christ to the vnbeleeueing Heathen namely in the Woord of the Preaching of the Disciples and Apostles of Christ / To the intent that thesame Lyfe of Righteousnes â that was refused p Act. 3. c. by the Iewes shoulde be set-vpp among y e Heathen / through Fayth and so they sought to confirme y e Lawe among y e Heathen / through Fayth and to bring forth the Righteousnes ther-by / q Rom. 3. c. Gal. 2 b. 3 b Phil. 3. b. that is requyred by y e Lawe The V. Chap. BEholde euenthus / for a a Luk. 2. â— Light and Saluation of the Heathen / is thissame â only out of Grace / vndeserued published vnto the Heathen / for a Gospel / to a Mortifying of their vayne Vnderstanding b Rom 1.6.8 1 Cor 5.6 Gal. 5 6. and of the corrupt vngodly Beeing and to an Incorporating to the newe Man whom the Apostles of Christ did publish namely ChristØ›the Like-beeing of God c Luk. 1. g. Ephe. 4. c. in vpright Righteousnes and Holynes In whom â and in none Other standeth d Act. 4.10 c the Forgiuenes of Sinnes 2. These Publishers of the holy Woord or Gospel of the Kingdom of God seing now that Iesus Christ had a Shape in them / as a verytrue Light and Lyfe of God and that Gods Shape / was in Christ wher-thorough they lykewyse were in Christ â–ª and God in them haue published that Woord Ø› Grace and Peace from â—od our Father and y e Lorde Iesu Christ in the Trueth 3. But although the Apostles did publih this after-this-maner / yet haue they notwithstanding / spoken no otherwyse then of One God / who had shewed his Procreation or Generation in them / as a e Iohn 1. c Glory of the only-borne Sonne of y e Father / full of Grace and Trueth namely that God the Father had begotten and declared in them / his like f Iohn 1. a 1. Iohn 1. a Lyfe of God / out of his Lyfe and his like Light / out of his Light 4. Seing then that they did beare this like Beeing of the Godhead / in them / therfore haue they â through thesame knowen the liueing God / who was their Saluation namely through the Lyfe of God / Iesu Christ being appeered vnto them g Ephe. 3. â— in the Spirit Wherthrough they also published the Lyfe that is euerlasting and so witnessed likewyse that Those which had h â— Iohn 5. b. not the Sonne of God / coulde not also haue the Father / and that they were without i Ephe. 2 b. God / in this Worlde For the like Lyfe of God / k Iohn 1. a 1 Iohn 1. a 5
and verytrue Light and as the right Father of his like Beeing and e Ieam 1. â— Light for euer and his Will and Requyring â as a fatherly Loue / to the Mans Preseruation in the Godlynes is administred / in the Ministration of his gracious Woord vnder the Obedience of the Loue of whose Beeing and vpright Forme / we haue witnessed before and that then likewyse in thesame Administration / Beleefe and Obedience is shewed by the Man / in thesame Will and Requyring of God / euen-thear â in the Beleefe is thesame liueing God seene and knowe / like as Hee â according to the Spirit is an vpright Beeing f Ioh. 1. â— â— b. 1. Iohn 1. â— and verytrue Light / for a Lyfe of Men· and the right Father of his like Beeing and Light thear is also seene and knowen that thesame Gods Procreation or Seede / is likewyse his vpright Beeing and verytrue Light / and is euenso â in the Beleeueing and Obeying of thesame Administration proceeding from thesame Father / and that thesame is wholly and altogether of one-mynde and g Iohn 17. c. Col. 8. â— of one-substance with the Father / and is the true Christ himself / and geteth in-that-sort / his Foorme in the Man 4. To whomsoeuer now thesame Christ doth com thus in the Spirit / essentially / h 1. Iohn 1 â— to those is He also seene and knowen rightly in the Spirit and He is likewyse of i Iohn 17. c. one-substance with them / in all Loue and vpright Righteousnes 5. This self-same Christ / the true Sonne and like k Col. 1. b. Heb. 1. a. Beeing of God his Father although Hee â from eternitee be the l 1. Cor. 15. c. Col. 1. b. First-borne of all Creatures· and the m Math. 16. b Luk. â— c. Iohn 6. g. only-borne Sonne of God is also â according to his Birth of the Seede of Dauid after the Flesh named the Sonne n Math. 8 12. c Luk. 6. a. â— 21. of Man / because that Hee â as the true Seede of the Promyses of God the Father is sowne or planted in our Manhod / through the Ministration of the gracious Woord of the Lorde and through the Beleef and Obedience to thesame Woord also manned with our Manhod and so â after our Passing-ouer his like Death of the Crosse / vnto the o Iohn 3. a. Rom. 12. a. â— Ephe. 4. b. c. second Birth from the Death borne agayne out of our Manhod 6. And thatt is the verytrue Seede of God from Heauen / which is sowen in our p Math. 13. b Mar. 4. b. Luk. 8. b. Manhod / through the Administration of the holy and gracious Word / vnder the Obedience of the Loue· and â at the appoynted tyme borne agayne by vs and out of vs / as a q Iohn 15. a. b Fruit of the ouerflowing good Lyfe and of the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes and wherthrough wee are then likewyse â according to the Woord of our Lorde Iesu Christ the r Math. 12. .c Luk. 8. c. Moother Brothers and Sisters of Christ / which doo the Will of his heauenly Father 7. Thissame Man of God from Heauen according to the Spirit and the Sonne of Man s Math. 1. c. Rom 1. a. of the Seede of Dauid according to the Flesh / is in all poynts mynded t Math. 26. d. Iohn 4. d. 6 d. 8. c. according to the Will of God his Father and his Will is / that all what is good / shoulde bee and He beareth in vs / the u Phil. 2. a. Heb. 2. b. 5. a Image of the earthly Man and suffereth with vs for our Sinnes 8. But now when the Beleeuer of his gracious Woord / hath x 2. Pet. 1. b. regarde obediently vnto his gracious Woord / according to the Requyring of his Seruice of Loue and that euenso â in his Beleefe and Obedience thesame Woord beginneth to appeere or breake-thorow / as a verytrue y Iohn â— a. 2. Cor. 4. a. Light of the vpright Lyfe and like Beeing of the perfect Cleernes of God· and as a z 2. Cor. 5. b. Gal. 6. b. new Creature from Heauen / Then hath God the Father his Pleasure a Esa. 42. a. Math 12.17 b 2. Pet. 1. b. only in thesame Light and Lyfe of his lyke Cleernes and vpright Righteousnes For thatt is his beloued Sonne Ø›his spirituall heauenly Beeing whom He hath geeuen vnto vs for an euerlasting b Heb. 1. a. Heyre to th end that we shoulde liue through Him 9. SEing now that the Lorde Ø›the God of Heauen is spirituall· and mynded to the vpright Righteousnes / and that the Man of the Earth is fleshly c Gen. 6. a. Rom. 7. b· â— and mynded to the Sinne· and vnbeleeueing and disobedient to the Requyring of God in the Ministration of his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue / Therfore hath God â according to such a Mynde of the Man no d Rom. â— a. pleasure in the earthly Man / nor-yet the earthly Man / in God nor in his Requyring 10. But seing now that the only-borne e Math. 16. b. Luk. 9. c. Iohn 6. g. Sonne of God the Father according to the Spirit namely Christ / the like f Sap 7. c. Col. â— b. Heb. 1. a. Beeing of God is also the only-borne Sonne / out of the g Math. 1. a. Rom. 1. a. Manhod / of the Seede of Dauid according to the Flesh and beareth in vs the Image of the earthly Manhod / as-wel as the Image of y e heauenly Godhead / Therfore it is not his Will that the Man â whom He hath created h Saâ— 1. b. 2. c. Eccli 17. a. to be an Image of his like Beeing shoulde perish in the Disobedience of the earthly Man· i Eze. 18 3â— â— 2. Pet. 3. a. nor in the Sinnes of the earthly Beeing but shoulde liue for euer and euer / with Him and with his Spirit / in the vpright Righteousnes of his heauenly Beeing / and that all Men likewyse â which loue God and his Righteousnes shoulde be assembled into thesame Beeing and be saued both in Soule and Bodye 11. Beholde thesame forementioned Christ and Sonne of God â who for our Sinnes cause / hath suffered in vs the Death k Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. of the Crosse and armeth vs l 1. Pet. 4. a. with thesame Mynde of his Suffering and Death maketh knowen vnto vs as is before sayde through his Seruice of Loue / his vpright Beeing of Righteousnes And in our good Will to thesame / He bringeth his Beleef vnto vs and so in the Beleef / He himself m Esa. 53. b. 2. Pet. 2. beareth our Sinnes and iustifyeth n Rom. 3.8 â— Gal. 2. b. vs from thesame / through the Beleef And so takeing our Sinnes vppon him / in Patience He o 1 Iohn 1.4 reconcileth vs before
thou from all those which do seeke only the earthly Things Heer-vppon let vs alwayes think / in thissame euell and perrilous Tyme The V. Chap. THou wrytest also vnto me / that thy Sight is / that thou doest not so knowe God / as that He shoulde still deale rygorously with his People likeas He hath don in the olde Testament euen as ther standeth written 2. I haue not doutles written vnto thee / that God hath dealt rygorously with mee but that his Enemyes as is also before rehearsed haue dealt rygorously with me / with Crueltee and Accusation euen as they haue likewyse shewed in a Psal. 42.44 b. 69 b â— 102 b. 109. e. Math 26.27 Act 22 23. tymes-past / on Christ and his Saincts 3. These woulde gladly haue satisfyed their Lust on me / to my Destruction Of whom I had written vnto thee / that I hoped to see my Desyre on myne Enemyes and Accusers namely that they / all those that accused me and woulde gladly haue seene my Destruction shoulde be iudged into the Condemnation themselues 4. Looke into the matter rightly For euenso soundeth the Letter that I haue written vnto thee and not that God dealeth rygorously with his People / neither hath He also at any tyme â as neither now presently nor-yet in the olde Testament dealt rygorously· but alwayes graciously with them but I haue bin constrayned by myne Enemyes â for my Sinnes cause to suffer my Punishment for a certen-tyme / like as the Lordes People also / in the olde Testament / were constrayned by their Enemyes â of whom they were captiued to suffer-out their Punishment / for their Sinnes cause For for their Sinnes cause / the holy Citee Ierusalem b 4. Reg. 2â— 2. Par. 36. Ier. 5â— and the Temple of the Lorde were layd-waste / and they lead-away captiue and very-sore punished / vnder the Power of Babel 5. But after thatt / when they obtayned the Grace agayne before their God c Ier. 32. Zach. 8. and that their Harts were cleansed / both from the Sinne and the sinfull Desyres / they were brought agayne out of the strainge Nations / to their owne Lande and Heritage and to the holy Citee Ierusalem / the which â and also the Temple of the Lorde was buylded d 1 Esd. 3. Ezech. 40. Agg. 1.2 Zach. 2.4.6 agayne anew / in thesame Tyme for to offer holy Gifts and Offerings euen-thear vnto their God / that are delytfull vnto Him the which they coulde not doo among the strainge People nor in forrayne Landes neither coulde they likewyse sing e Psal. 137. a. their Songs of Sion / in their Captiuitee in Babilon but they must thear beare their Contempt / for their Sinnes cause 6. Consider well of the Mynde and looke into the Images of the olde Testament / according to the Spirit and according to the Trueth and how that it shall all now that is set-foorth f Ezo 25. c. Act 7. c. Heb. 8. a. image-lyke in the Olde-testament / be g Math. 5. b. accomplished in the true Beeing Besydes-this / so consider also / how that God hath neuer dealt rygorously with his People and h Psal. 13.6 how that his Goodnes endureth for euer The VI. Chap. BUt thou wrytest Hath He not taken on him the manly Nature and therin geeuen vs a Promyse in such-sort / as that his Sonne shoulde performe or satisfy all for vs And for those that rightly vnderstande it / He hath performed it all / according as thou Vnderstandest the matter 2. OH Heer-vpon mought I take occasion to wryte much / because ther is so much and many-kyndes of Misunderstanding risen-vpp out of such Sentences or Iudgments But I hope well of the best Vnderstanding / in thee Neuerthelesse / with doubt 3. It is true Hee which is all that is Ø›the God of Glory hath â in Christ taken on him the a Phil. 2. a. Heb. 2. b. manly Nature and geeuen vs a Promyse therin but thatsame is don with Difference 4. Therfore looke into the Scripture / according to the Mynde of the Wisdom and not according to the Vnderstanding of the earthly and fleshly Myndes 5. For God taketh not on him / the Seede of the Heathen nor the Nature of the Vncircumcisedones but / b Heb. 2. b. the Seede of Abraham which beareth in him / the Couenant of Gods Circumcision and in thatt Seede c Gen. 12.21 b 22. b. 26. a Act. 3. c. Gal. 3. a. b is the Promyse of Saluation or the Blessing of all Generations of the Earth / geeuen 6. And euenthus hath the Seede of Abraham the Promyse / to possesse the d Gen. 12.17 Psal. 105. b. Lande of Canaan namely the Kurnell or the Heart of the Heathen as an Heritage / for euer For inasmuch as Abraham beleeued / therfore is he likewyse chosen of God / e Gen. 17. a. Rom. 4. b. to be a Father of Fayth and called out of the Heathen or Vncircumcision / into the Couenant of Gods Circumcision and euenthus in his Fayth and in his Seede / is the Promyse made to the Blessing of all Generations of the Earth 7. Which Promyse standeth-firme for euer / in the Woord of Lyfe and in the Fathers of the Couenant Wherout also all Gods Prophets haue had their cleere Sight and Testymony of the Trueth and f Esa. 40.60.62 Ier. 13. a. 30. a. 31.33 so haue prophecied g Luk. 1.8 1. Pet 1. b. on the Establishing of the Promyses 8. Beholde this Promyse euen as God had spoken to the Fathers of the Couenant· h Act. 30. and by the Mouth of all his holy Prophets is sealed confirmed or established on the Stock of Iuda i Math. 1. Luk. .1.2 b. the Sonne of Iacob / wherout Dauid is borne From whom / k Gen. 49. b. the Rodd is not taken nor a Master from his Feete / till that the Iust com For to Him shall the People inclyne and obtayne their Saluation in Him according to the Promyses 9. This Iustone consider wel of the Vnderstanding is the l Sap. 7. c. â— Cor. 4. a. Col 1. b. very-lyke Beeing of God the almighty Father And Hee â in his Birth out of the liueing Godhead according to the Spirit m Rom 1. a. 1. Tim. 3. c â–ª and out of the Seede of Dauid according to the Flesh is verytruly the Sonne of God and Man and the true Sauiour n Luk. 2. b. Phil. 3. c. 1. Tim. 4. c. of Men / to the Blessing of all Generations of the Earth according to the Promyses 10. Therfore also hath the Power of God named o Luk. 1. â— 2. c Him Iesus and He is by his Disciples / published among all People / p Act. 2.3 4.5 c. to be a Christ which saueth 11. Beholde this vpright and true Beeing of God the Father which according to the Flesh / is q Esa. 53. a b. Sap.
2. b. Math. 27. mocked contemned and killed by the Children of the wicked Worlde and by her Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones woulde God â according to his Promyses and the Affirmation of his Prophets that the Man shoulde carry r 1. Cor. 15. c or beare / to his owne Blessing and to the Honour of God and to the Prayse of his holy Name And not the Sinne / s Sap. 2. c. Iohn 3. â— that very-like Beeing of the Diuell 12. With which vngodly or lyke Beeing of the Diuell and also with Offenciuenes and wicked Imaginations / many Men do runne-on and so do suppose â through their corrupt Vnderstanding and vngodly Beeing to be saued for-al-that â–ª they do likewyse comfort t Ier 8 â— themselues with Lyes and saye / Christ hath performed it all and so they continue going-on in v Ier. 4. â— â— a. their Sinnes and Abhominations or wicked Imaginations 13. AH beloued Consider I pray thee / of such a great Misunderstanding / that is flatt against all the Preaching of the holy Gospel of Christ. For the Scripture of the holy Gospel mentioneth and witnesseth cleerly vnto vs / that Christ is obediently gon-before u Phil. 2. a. 1. Pet. 2.4 â— vs / in the Death of the Crosse / to th end that wee likewyse shoulde follow-after Christ therin / to y e Mortifying x Col. 2. or to a Consumeing of our Sinnes and of all vngodly Beeing the which is the true Burnt-offering as also shoulde be incorporated vnto Him / with his lyke y Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Death and euenso to the Establishing of the gloryous Name of God â according to his Promyses shoulde becom saued Theron likewyse do all Gods Prophets witnes 14. And if thou doest consider rightly from the Begining of the Promyses of God / till vnto their Ende or Fulfilling in the Saluation / Then shalt thou perceaue / that we be informed and taught with the Promyses of God and with the Figures z Rom. 3.4 Gal. 3.4 Heb 7.8.9.10 and Seruices of the Lawe / to the Fayth of Iesu Christ and the Seruice therof and to the Requyring of the Preaching of the holy Gospel And so foorth from the Seruice of the Fayth of Christ and of the holy Gospel / till vnto the a Iohan. 13. d. 14. c. 15. b Loue and her Seruice And thesame is the Perfection b Rom. 13. b. 1. Cor. 13. a. Gal. 5. b. Col. 3. b. 1. Timo. 1. a and the Establishing or Fulfilling of the Promyses of God and Christ. 15. Therfore is the Seruice of Loue / the Very-last and Most-holy / wherin c Math. 22. d. it is all fulfilled / whatsoeuer is written of the Righteousnes of the Lawe and of Christ and his Beleeuers For in the Loue and in her Children / God d Apo. 21. is all in all and the Kingdom of the God of Heauens with his Glory 16. BEholde This true Beeing of God the Father like as is sayde therof is the Stone that is layde in Sion / e Esa. 28. b Act. 4. b. 1. Pet. 2. a. for to trust vpon it wherof ther is also written f Esa. 59 c. Rom. 11. â— He shall com out of Sion / which shall put-awaye the vngodly Beeing from Iacob 17. And thatt is the seconde Testament â the which is the gracious Woord g Ier. 31. d. Rom. 11. e. Heb. 8.10 b that is promysed to the Howse of Israel and to the Howse of Iuda / in the last tyme For then shall the Punishment for their Sinnes / be ended and their Sinnes shall God nomore remember For in thatt Daye â h Iohn 12. d. wherin the Sonne of Man is exalted shall y e Sonne of Man drawe it all vnto Him seing that the Inheritance doutles appertayneth vnto Him 18. In this-self-same â which is the very-likie and true Beeing of God the Father standeth the Blotting-out i Act. 4. b 10 c Heb. 1. a and Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Fayth euen as is written of Him 19. To be incorporated vnto Him with the Spirit / is veryly the right Satisfaction of the Sonne of Promyse / the right k Heb. 5. â— Heyre of all godly Goodes 20. Of Him hath likewyse Esaias witnessed / whear he sayth l Esa 9. c. A Childe or an Heyre is borne vnto vs a Sonne is geeuen vnto vs whose Dominion is vppon his Shoulders / and He is called / Wonderfull Counsayle Power Gyant euerlasting Father a peaceable Prince for that his Dominion may be great and no â—nde of the Peace / vppon the Seate of Dauid and his Kingdom 21. Him hath God sett to be an Heyre ouer all Things Through Whom / He hath also made the Worlde and He maketh the Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Himself and euenthus standeth his Satisfaction according to the Promyses like-as is written of Him and not according to Mans Good-thinking or Imagination The VII Chap. THou wrytest likewyse vnto mee / that it is wel knowen vnto mee / that God hath created all Things / each-one according to his Kynde in â—uch-sort that all Creatures haue their Nature or Kynde / wherin they liue / and cannot transgresse / and that thou doest also half cal-to-mynde / that thou hast heard it so of mee 2. It is true / that all Creatures are created a Gen. â— according to their Kynde and that each-one hath his Ordinance / according to his Kynde which â of Natures-part it cannot transgresse 3. Whatsoeuer now is incorporated vnto his owne Nature and is not turned ther-out nor estrainged ther-from but bydeth ther-in / thatt liueth then in his vpright â— Nature Beeing and Kynde / wherin it is created and wherto it is ordayned or foreseene of God 4. COnsider â thou Beloued God hath created all earthly Creatures and ioyned each-one to his lyke / according to his Nature and Kynde 5. After thesame maner also / the Creature of the Manhod but the inward Man / hath God created to Himself and ordayned him to be a b Leui. 26. b Ier. 31. â— Iohn 14. c. Apo. 21. â— Dwelling for his Glory 6. And God woulde not that this inward Man / shoulde be subiect to the outward created or to the vayne Things nor cleaue vnto them to a Bondage / to th end that the great Name of the almighty God / shoulde alwayes and euerlastingly byde sealed and stand-fast in the inward Man 7. God hath likewyse foormed the c Gen 1. c. Sap. 2 c very-like Beeing of his inuisible and liueing Godhead / in the inward Man / because that the Man shoulde liue according to the Requyring of his vpright Beeing to the Laude and Prayse of his godly Maiestee 8. Beholde and vnderstande Thissame Beeing of God and Christ / is the Mans Nature and Kynde / according to the inward Man / wherunto he is created by God· and chosen through Iesus Christ as also ordayned
Seruice / are not Seruants of Men nor of the Letter like-vnto the earthly Generacion out of the Flesh â who are h Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b â–ª altogether Straingers and ignorant of Gods heauenly Trueth but i 2. Cor. 3. Ministers of the holy Woord k 2 Cor. 4. 2 Pet. 1. b. and Witnesses of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes 3. And so through Gods true Beeing and his spirituall and heauenly Goodes in l Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 1. b. the which / God hath herited vs / as his beloued Children wee â which are comprehended in the Comunialtee of Loue and m Ephe. 4. b. Age of the holy Vnderstanding are eueryone / n 1 Pet. 2. a. Apoc. 1. a. 5. b. 20 a. Priestes Kinges or Gods / o Exo. 22. a. Psal. 82. a. Iohn 10 d. and Children of the Most highest / which are not com of the Earth / but of Heauen and p Iohn 1. a. 3. a. borne out of God for to raigne vppon the Earth / with Righteousnes 4. Therfore are wee likewyse / q Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 1. b. God 's Heyres with Christ our Sauiour / in all r Esa 33. a. Ephe. 1 b. 2. a. Col 1. c. 2. a. the Treasures and Ritches of his spirituall and heauenly Goodes / as free borne Children who do all s Ier. 31. d. â—1 Iohn 1 â— Hed 8. b. knowe God / from the Least to the Greatest vnto whom also / God hath â to a more Aboundance of his· Grace geeuen to t Math. 1â— d. 13. b. 1 Cor 2. b. Ephe 3. a. Col. 1. e. vnderstande the Secretnes of his Kingdom and of Christ and his secret Counsayle and Will / To th end that the true and perfect Beeing of God the Father· the Secretnes of the Kingdom of Christ· and the endles Ioye of the heauenly Delytfulnes and of the euerlasting Lyfe / shoulde â by vs be declared vppon the Earth / now in the last tyme. 5. Beholde thatt is the Brightnes of the vertuous Cleernes / which all the Children of God haue now / through the Loue. It is also the vpright Rest / which God hath v Heb. 4. b. kept or reserued for his Children / for to herite them therin in thissame last Tyme and it is likewyse / the vpright Righteousnes of the heauenly Trueth / against the which / the Worlde can do nothing neither can any Flesh / lett thesame in-any-wyse 6. For all the Darknesses Vnrestfulnes and all the Foolishnesses and Vnrighteousnesses of this Worlde / cannot x Act. 9. b. c. bring-to-nothing / God 's Light Rest nor his Righteousnes and Wisdom / which cometh ritchly and aboundantly vnto vs / through his Loue neither can likewyse all the false God-seruices chosen Holynesses of the Flesh nor the false Heartes of the Scripture-learned / y Mat. 16. c. destroy the vpright God-seruice â which cometh-to-pas with vs in the Spirit / through the Loue nor-yet our vpright Holynes which God esteemeth 7. Therfore are wee likewyse wel-at-quyet in our God and in the true Beeing of his vndisturbable Power / wherin all Myndes and Thoughtes z Psal. 15.24 â— Esa. 33. b. of pure Hearts / do liue and dwell For those Things wherof we speake and wherwith God illuminateth vs / are not vncertayne to our Consciences The IIII. Chap. WE confesse also out of a good Conscience / before God and before all those that desyre to heare vs in Humilitee that now in thissame Daye / it is altogether the Will and the Precept or Commaundement of God / a Esa 1. b. 55. a Ier. 7. a. c. 18. b. 25. a. 35. b. Eze. 18. c. Math. 3. a. Act 2.17 d that eueryone shoulde turne him from all his Vnrighteousnes and with a penitent Heart / giue his Vnderstanding captiue b 2. Cor. 10. â— vnder the Obedience of the Loue and euenso shoulde â vnder the Wings of the Loue leade an vpright Lyfe with vs Little and Electedones of God / both before God and Man wherby to inherite and possesse with Christ / for euermore â like Children c Rom 8. b. Ephe. 1 c. and Heyres of God all the heauenly Ritches of God our Father / through y e Loue. Haue a good regarde therunto 2. VEryly / This is now the Sounde of the last Trumpet d Ioel. 2. a. b. 1. Tess. 4. b. Apo 12. a. and the Trumpets-noyse of the righteous Iudgment of our God / which we do witnes in the Worlde before the Eares of all People and do publish it generally e Mat. 24. d. Apo. 14. b. in the Worlde / vnto all Louers of the Trueth / as a ioyfull Message 3. But if now we be not beleeued heerin / by reason of the Blyndnes of the People or because of their self chosen Holynes but much-rather resisted f Act. 7. f. 2. Pet. 2 b. Iude. 1 b. and blaspheamed / through the Disobedience g psal 95. a. Ier â— e. Heb 3. a. and Hardnes of their Heartes / What doth thatt concerne vs / God 's h Iohn 12. c. Iudgment goeth neuer-the-lesse ouer the Worlde for-al-thatt but to take-heede to thesame Iudgment and to haue a good regarde vnto the Sentences of his righteous Iudgment / thatt veryly doth concerne vs much For now in thissame Daye / it yeeldeth vnto vs eueryone / either the euerlasting Saluacion or the euerlasting Condemnacion 4. But let vs not therfore feare nor be dismayed For the Iudgment of God chauneth to all vs â Wee / which vnder the Obedience of the Loue / do beleeue Gods Trueth as likewyse all the Saincts of God to an euerlasting Ioye and Saluacion in the eternall Lyfe i Dan. 12. b. Mat. 25. c. Iohn 5. c. Rom. 2 a. but to the Vnbeleeuers and all Vngodlyones together with all erring Spirits or Children of the Deuill / to a perpetuall Condemnacion in the euerlasting Death among whom / the Flame of the hellish Fyre and the k Esa. â—6 c. Mark 9. â— Gnawing of the Worme of the euell Conscience / shall endure / euen for euer and euer It is verytrue 5. BVt though anyman now shoulde beleeue our Testimonyes of the true Spirit of Loue / which we do witnes with Courtesye / before all Consciences of Men and in the Beleefe â vnder the Obedience of the Loue shoulde be l Iohn 3. d. 6. c. 20. d. 1 Iohn 5 b. saued and shoulde therfore be protected from the last m Apo. 18. a. 20. c. Plagues of the Vngodly or be ridd ther-from / Yet is not thatsame then our Worke nor-yet his that beleeueth n 2. Cor 3. b. but the Worke of our God / in his righteous Iudgment 6. Therfore is the Beleefe / o Rom. 12. a. 1 Cor. 12. a. b Ephe. 2.4 a a Giâ—t of God wherwith God sheweth Mercy on vs and so draweth vs out of the Aboundance of our Darknesses / p 1. Pet. 2.
godded in the euerlasting liueing Godhead and is vniforme with all what concerneth the Godhead or is of God and inheriteth the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and all the Ritches of Christ of the heauenly Goodes 8. Beholde euenthus doth the holy Gost â which is the Spirit of Loue confirme the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and the Promyses of God the Father and of Christ and k Iohn 16. b leadeth the godly Man into all Trueth and declareth euery-thing vnto him that is in Heauen and vppon the Earth 9. But whosoeuer hath bin negligent in the l Iohn 6. c. â— Drawing of the Father· and â through his Ignorance contemned or bin disobedient vnto Him and his Lawe or seruiceable Woord and whoso likewyse hath not taken-heede to the Saluation in Iesu Christ / through the Beleeâ—eâ— but â through the Blyndnes m Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b. of the Vnbeleefe resisted or blaspheamed thesame / Hee doth yet in thissame Daye / through the Ministracion of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue â the which is the Office of the holy Gost fynde Grace and Forgiuenes of Sinnes / if he submitt n 1. Pet. 5. b. Iam. 4. â— himself o Math 3. a. Luk. 3. b. penitently vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 10. But whoso neglecteth him in the holy Spirit of Loue and resisteth and blaspheameth thesame or his mostholy Seruice of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes / p Math. 12. d. Heb. 6.10 c Hee continueth in Indignation and shall neuer q Iohn â— a. see the Kingdom of God â–ª For the Spirit of the Loue of God and Christ or holy Gost â who is the Perfection of all the Workes of God hath and vseeth his Seruice â the which is the last Seruice of Grace now in thissame last gracious Tyme or Daye of Loue. After which gracious Daye of Loue / ther-is r Apo. 10. a. no Daye of Grace more for to com but s Heb. 10. c. the righteous Iudgment of God to the Condemnacion t Math. 25. d. of all Vngodlyones / that haue refused the Godlynes through the holy Spirit of Loue and the Ministracion of his godly Testimonyes· and euenso contemned and blaspheamed his most holy Seruice 11. THerfore â all ye good-willing Hearts take-heede now â according to the Counsayle of the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue to the Kingdom of God v Luk. 17. c. inwardly within you / To th end that ye may be incorporated to thesame / with your Spirit For thatt is the Righteousnes which auayleth before God 12. But take you good heede of the Kingdom of the Deuill which also sheweth itself inwardly â before the Eyes and Thoughts / that are earthly x Rom. â— a. and fleshly mynded as a Kingdom of God and deceaueth the Fleshly-myndedones / with his false y Esa. 59. a. Light and â— Good-thinking and with his false z Ier 7. b. Sap. 2. 2. Pet 2. b. Iâ—de 1. b. Freedom / which it bringeth to the Flesh / according to his Fleshly Lusts and Disyres and seduceth the Hearts of Men. The VII Chap. KNowe likewyse thatsame Kingdom of the Deuill / inwardly / according to the Spirit For his Generacion is also inwarde / but not out of any Beeing or Lyfe that is spirituall and heauenly but out of thatt which is nothing and earthly or corruptible and therfore is likewyse the Generacion of thesame / earthly and not heauenly / fleshly / and not spiritually mynded / according to Gods Spirit / therfore doth it also growe offended alwayes / at those things that are against their Myndes or Thoughtes and maketh-vp itself a 2. Tess. 2. against thatt which is of God and of his Seruice of Loue. 2. Thesame Generacion of the Deuill / wil not also stande submitted vnder the Obedience of the Loue nor of the holy Woord but refuseth the Requyring therof / and so wil liue according b Ier. 7 â—â— a. 13. b. 18 b to their owne Will and Good-thinking and wrest c 2. Pet. 3. b. and construe the Scripture / according to their false and Fleshly Mynde / and so wil liue vnto themselues and loue themselues / according as the Knowledg imagineth in them 3. Therfore is the Deuill / in his Kingdom although he appeere before all fleshly Myndes / as if he were a d 2 Tess. 2 a. God of Light not els-what but a Nothingnes of the Lye and is likewyse for-that-cause / a e Iohn 8. a. Father of all secreet or inward Wickednes and a Render or Parter-asunder of all Concorde / whearas he is harkened-vnto and beleeued and accepted as good and true 4. Beholde thesame Father of Wickednes Ø›the God of the f 2. Cor. 4.2 wicked Worlde and of all Vngodly or impenitent Men is / in all his Beeing / a g 2. Tess. 2. b. Contrary-beeing vnto God â–ª and his Sonne / a Contrary-beeing vnto Christ a Destroyer h Iohn 17. b. 2. Tess. 2. a. a Childe of Wickednes which maketh the Hearts of Men / stout vppon their Knowledg and bringeth also a false Freedom vnto Many / for to sinne boldly and to continue in the worldly Abhomynacions and Foolishnes / with vnaccused Consciences and to make-vp themselues i Dan. 22. a. resistant against the Trueth and the godly Loue of God the holy Father 5. And their Spirit namely of the Father of Wickednes and of his Sonne or Childe of Wickednes is a wicked Spirit k 2. Tess. 2. a. of Lyes which confirmeth the Man â being in his Vnrepentance and in his Disobedience to the Requyring of the gracious Woord of the Lorde and his Seruice of Loue in the Beeing of Lyes and leadeth him into all Lye and Errour â–ª 6. Thesame false God and Father of Wickednes / doth also â with his wicked Self-willednes allure l 2. Tess. 2. a. b or drawe vs vnto him / through the priuate Loue of ourselues and whosoeuer doth yeelde himself to be so drawen by him / cometh to his Sonne Ø›his Childe or Being of Wickednes the false Christ or m 1 Iohn 2. c 4. a. Antichrist the Destroyer which is the Christ of the wicked Worlde and of all Vngodlyones and worketh in his People an inwarde or n â— Tess. 2. b. secret Wickednes / which they themselues cannot wel perceaue 7. And whoÌ„soeuer then cometh so to the Sonne of the Deuill as also becometh incorporated to thesame Beeing of Wickednes and bydeth therin / hee is quyte and cleane corrupted / in all his Mynde / by the Wickednes and by the priuate Loue of himself and by the Disobedience and Resistance to the Loue and her right Seruice Yea so quyte corrupted / that he is inclyned to nothing-els / in all his Mynde / but to his Self-wilednes and to all Destructionablenes and to destroye the Family of Loue / wherin the liueing God of Heauen