the heathenship and hath at that time his conversation or fellowship with the administration and discipline of the holy Word ministred betwixt the fore-front and the Altar of the holy offering till that his offering and gift be through Faith begun or taken in hand in the holy for a burnt offering through which burning of the offering upon the holy Altar of the Lord Jesus Christ in the holy (g) Isa 57. b Eph. 2. b the Peace betwixt the man and God the Father is prepared The ninth Chapter BUT for as much as this true God-service in the holy is not yet according to the inward man in the spirit known unto every one nor understood according to the truth and we do find many young and little ones of understanding many feeble and weak ones and many uncertain consciences all which notwithstanding do stand bent and well-minded with a good will towards the Love and towards the holy understanding So is therefore the life of righteousness evidently witnessed unto them out of the service of Love which testimonies of the truth are likewise administred unto them through Doctrines speakable words or with writing namely unto those that have turned from the heathenship and so endeavour them to the obeying of the word and his service and which do fear God with which service there is required of them the obedience to the Love of the Father (a) Gal 3. c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. to a sustaining of them whereout some better thing is yet to be hoped for 2. That same is verily the daily God-service which is well pleasing unto the Lord and the upright Ceremonies which be ministred before the Lord unto the God-fearing hearts by the Ministers of the holy word 3. Which Ministers with the same service of the gracious and holy word is the Levitical Priests office wherethrough the slain-offering is prepared before (b) Jer. 33. b the Lord among the little-ones and sinners who bear sorrow and grief for the sins cause also the burnt-offering is begun and daily used the meat offering likewise kindled and offered up 4. Which service likewise of the Levitical Priests office alwayes stands or continues before the Lord in the service of his Love as a mutual assistance and strengthening for the little or weak ones and that altogether in the Love to the serviceableness of the Congregations for the sins of the ignorant 5. Which service of the Levitical Priests office God would not have required if the man had not fallen into the sin but had still walked uprightly in the light of God 6. But forasmuch as it hath not gone so with the man therefore hath God even of necessity added the same service unto his promises for to inform therewith the unilluminated ones the infirm weak and young ones or little ones of understanding who do yet oftentimes sin and are of little growth in Faith and so to assist and serve them therewith for a certain time betwixt the fore-front and the Altar for an entrance unto them in the holy to bring unto the high or great God of heaven (d) Psa 11. d Isa 56 a Mal. 1. b Rom. 11. a such an offering as is delightful unto him 7 Even thus become they all converted or turned away from the sin and succoured or trayned up under the service of the Love to the (e) Luk. 1. g Eph. 1. a knowledge of the upright life of the Just to the end that they may all become one even as of one mind (f) Ioh. 17 c in the Love 8. Now when one doth know the same life according to such an upright service and nature of the Love and is grown believing towards the same then is there revealed and brought in the spirit unto the Believers the boldness to enter into the holy for to accomplish the service of God and his requiring in the holy like as God is requiring the same accomplishment by the Law and the Prophets and by the service of the Elders in the holy understanding which accomplishment in the holy is our offering in the offering of Christ through his (g) He. 9. b. c blood which prepareth for us a new and living way 9 Behold that is the true God-service through Christ in the holy which is now by Gods grace opened and brought unto us to the end to set up the righteousness in the same through Faith which is required by the Law and Ordinance of the Lord. For whatsoever is (h) Rom 8. a unpossible for the Law to do through works that same is accomplished in Christ through Faith whereby Christ is in that manner the accomplishment of the Law and erecteth the upright righteousness among his Believers and establisheth them in the same 10. Therefore Christ is no breaker but a fulfiller of the Law for (i) Mat. 3. b Christ came not to make void or break the Law and the Prophets but to perform them because the righteousness that is of value before God may be made manifest through his light to an everlasting establishment of the promises of God made unto the Fathers whereby to wash and cleanse the man from his spotted or (k) Heb. 9. b evil conscience that he might laud God with peace and joy 11. But this daily God-service betwixt the front and the Altar in the holy which is prepared and ministred by the service of the holy and gracious Word and by the Priests office out of Levy or by the Elders in the holy understanding is the service which God hath added to his (l) Rom. 4. b 5. c. 7. a. Promises made unto Abraham to a strengthening of the belief extending to the Promises Because the man should with a good courage in the good and godly life of righteousness among the Elders in the holy understanding (m) Eph. 1. b 1 Pet. 2. a grow up therein to an establishing of the Promises of God the Father 12. In such manner doubtless is the same service of the holy Word which is administred by the Elders in the holy understanding under the obedience of the Love very profitable and furthersome for the good-willingness the while they (n) Gal. 4. a. are yet little or young in the godly understanding And for those that like unto children stand simply submitted under the Love to the end that no man should err through any ignorance nor tye his heart to the imagination of his own spirit but only have regard unto the service of Love to the obeying his requiring until that the daily God-service in the holy be begun with him and have his full course with him Also till the true (o) 2 Pet. 2. b light come unto him and the day likewise appear from on high or as a cleerness of the morning star arise in his heart and that the everlasting (p) Ioh. 1. a life be come unto him in the spirit according to the truth and have (q) 2 Cor. 4. Gal.
openeth it self asunder when the foregoing service in the (e) Heb 9 c holy is accomplished 2. For the vail before the most holy cleerness of the Godly being of Jesus Christ and before his spiritual and heavenly goods departeth not away from before the cleerness of the most holy (d) Heb. 7 8 9.10 unless that the former God service in the holy have first his full course the which is the accomplishment of the daily God-service in the holy in the (e) Mat. 16. Luk. 9. c taking up of our Cross in the willing obedience to the belief for to continue therein obediently till (f) Mat. 10 2â— unto the end that is till unto the (g) Rom. 6. a Phil. 2. b. death of the Cross 3. Which death of the Cross of Christ and to be implanted or incorporated into Christ with the same like death and so (h) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. b. baptised or washed into his death is verily the (i) Math. 28. Mar. 16 b upright Baptism unto salvation wherein the man is rightly baptised or washed according to the truth of the holy Scriptures and so then (k) Rom. 6. a out of the same death regenerate (l) Ioh. 3. b or born again as a new Creature in Jesus Christ 4. For that the same (m) Tit. 3 b 1 Pet. 3. c baptism is the right font of regeneration serving to the washing away of the sin wherethrough the believing man who doth with Christ according to the flesh lay away mortifie and (n) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. c. 3. a bury the sin in the flesh is made alive again with Christ and also according to the spirit in upright (o) Luk 14. Eph. 1. a. 4. b righteousness and holyness and so through the second birth from the death or the resurrection of Christ he becometh holy and altogether renewed in the spirit of his inward mind and the (p) Act. 2. b. holy Ghost poured upon him in whom Christ also with the cleerness of his Godly being getteth (q) 2 Cor. 4. a Gal. 4. a a shape or form By the high priest Iesus Christ the new and liuing way is prepared for us through the â—imple that is to say his flesh Heb 10 5. And that same verily is (r) 1 Co. 13. b. 2 Cor. 3. b the cleerness of the true being and of the holy spirit of Jesus Christ where through one beholdeth and inheriteth in the spirit the Love in her vertuous nature that most holy as likewise the fulness of the riches of God the Father in the heavenly being or essential form 6. Behold and consider that is the true (s) Ioh. 11. c resurrection from the death according to the Scripture (t) Ioh. 17. a through the which the living God of heaven and his Christ is known according to the Spirit and Truth 7 It is true the (u) 1 Cor. 15. c. same is sown in the mortality and it riseth up in the immortality And God giveth it a body after his own pleasure and that of the seed of his own body 8. See that is the everlasting life against the death And the (x) Eze. 13. b 1 Cor. 15. f Heb. 2. b conquest or victory against the Hell and against all the enemies of the life whereby all those that follow after Christ have or possess that life and (y) Ioh. 10. b that in fulness 9. That is verily the (z) Heb. 3.4 a. Rest of life which God hath reserved or kept and is left in store for the children of God as a perpetual inheritance in the last time according to the Promises The fifteenth Chapter THE true most holy of the inward Tabernacle or Sanctuary of God is the Love for that (a) Rom. 13. Col. 3. b is the perfection (b) Rom. 6. a the incorporating into God in the spirit the (c) Ioh. 17. everlasting life (d) Col. 2. b and the fulness of all the riches of God 2. If one now be not (e) Ioh. 1. a born anew then can he not see the Kingdom of God Ioh. 3. 3. Therefore if there be a new (f) 1 Pet. 2. a Gal. 6. c creature in Christ then is the old (g) Isa 43. c Apo. 21. perished or worn out behold it is all become new but that altogether of God who (h) Col. 1. b hath reconciled us with himself through Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 5. 4. The Lord our Almighty God hath gotten (i) Apo 12. the Kingdom let us rejoyce and be glad and give (k) Ioh. 9. him the honour for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his bride hath made her ready and it is granted unto her to cloath her self with white glistering silk and the silk is the Justification of the Saints Apo. 19. 5. The Members or Commonalty of the body of Christ in the love which are (l) Act. 2. Rom 8. b Eph. 1.4 c sealed with Christ in the true being through the spirit of Love is (m) Apo. 21. a living Tabernacle of God wherein God liveth and worketh In the which the fore-front the holy and the most holy is revealed or made known according to the spirit 6. In which true Tabernacle of God also the (n) Deut. 32. song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb is sung and it soundeth even thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 EMÌ„ANVEL God and Man Loue The everlasting life the perfection in the service of the holy gratious word vnder the obedienâ— of the Love God with the man is vnited the man with the God head namely in the everlasting mind being all with God 〈◊〉 christ it is of one being with the man all what is manly be it the being will mind is then minded w th the God head so it is all one God the man one being one will one thought or spirit one hart one everlasting life Behold here the tabernacle of God is in men hee shall live in them they shal be his people hâ—e himselfe shal be with them for he is their God Apoca 21 the Kingdom of God shall not cvm with outward shew men shall not say Behold here or there it is for behold the Kingdom of God is inwardly in you Luke 17 this saith the Truth of God who loveth mee he shall keepe my words and my father shall love him and wee shall come to him and make an habitation in him John 14 7. Great and wonderful are thy Works Lord (o) Ier. 10. a thou Almighty God righteous and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Lord who should not fear thee and praise thy name for thou only (p) Levit. 19. art holy Apo. 15. 8. Consider now how that the mans knowledge is but (q) 1 Cor. 13 a peice-work or a thing unperfect the which among those that do yet remain divided or as broken off is
of Art But that they would become all of one minde with us in the Love to the end that every one might likewise through the Love be partaker with us of the Grace and mercy which God is now extending on us little and poor ones through his Love 8. For unto us doth God reveal the health and life of our salvation out of his heavenly being and hath called and chosen us thereunto because that we should be his ministers in his Love to the eâ—d to reveal even so through us under the service of obedience in the Love his secret mysteries according to the Law according to the Prophesying of the Prophets and according to the Godly Word of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 9. (d) Act. 2. b. All which former services have to a unity under the Love Prophesied on this time and service of Love for that the glory of God might be great in the last time through the Love And so the Peace become prepared on earth according to the Promises 10. Therefore let no man have his regard bent either to the method or artificial skilfulness or yet to the unskilfulness of Art But unto that whereunto our service of the gratious Word extendeth namely to the Love and to let every one become assembled with us into one Spirit of the lovely being under the obedience of the Love that the service of Love may to an unity of peace be spread abroad over all the world 11. For that cause O yee single-minded good willing ones to the righteousness apply you all with a good will and an humble heart to the Love and her service And (f) Act. 2 d. permit your selves to be baptized or washed in the name of the Love to the forgiveness of your sins that ye may even so be renewed refreshed and reformed through the Love and her service Suffer not in any wise (g) Math. 18. a. Io. 3. a. the deceitful slights nor the wicked thoughts to have any dwelling place in you But through the service of Love and of the gracious Word become you turned about to the obedient and little children that the Love may be planted in you with meekness 12. Unto this same service of Love see that ye become all agreeably minded For it shall all perish and consume away to nothing namely all manner of knowledge and God-services which are come or risen up before this day or light of the Love (i) 1 Cor. 13 b. But the Love shall not perish nor yet cease but their service shall continue for ever 13. Whosoever likewise do not assemble them under the love they shall be scattered abroad For the Love is the Light of the world (k) Ioh. 8. b. whoso follows after her walketh not in darkness 14. The Love is the gracious word of the Lord or (l) Ioh. 6. f. bread of Life which is come unto us out of heaven For the Love is essentially the very true good (m) 1 Tim. 1. a. the head-sum of the commandment (n) Col. 3. b. and the bond of perfection 15. Through which Love the secret Treasures of God the Father (o) Eph. 1. b. 2. a. b. and the abundant Riches of his spiritual and heavenly goods be revealed 16. Whosoever then doth not apply himself to the Love but refuseth her or despiseth her service and is grown self-wise or self-minded against the same by means of his aspiring or loftie knowledge such a one remaineth a Bastard or a Stranger from the inheritance of God and cannot also inherit the Riches of Christ 17. But the children of Love are the upright heirs of God For they are of a good nature and disposition namely (p) Col. 3. a. meek-minded loving and peaceable 18. Even such be all those likewise which do with humble hearts submit them under the Love and are obedient to the requiring of her service 19. And though they be laden with many sins (q) 1 Ioh. 1. yet are their sins forgiven them and blotted out through the Love and in their repentance for their sins they walk with a good conscience both before God and men 20. Behold such is the service or office of the Love The Almighty God vouchsafe to enable and strengthen us thereunto through his Love Amen THE FIGURE Of the true and Spiritual Tabernacle of God Witnessed and Figured forth by H. N. according to the true being or form of the inward Temple or House of God and that in every respect according to thar form even as the very essence or being thereof was by the holy Spirit of the Lord revealed and declared unto him out of the heavenly Truth The first Chapter FOrasmuch as my inclination had a long time stood bent towards the service of Love And that I had longed even with a fervent desire that the true God-service might once flourish out of the Love namely to the peace and salvation of all people and to a true declaring of the spiritual Tabernacle of God in the holy of his holy ones Therfore became the true Tabernacle or (a) Lev. 26.26 b 2 Cor. 6 b. Apoc 21. a. habitation of God by grace out of the Love of God the Father revealed unto me in the Spirit through Gods heavenly revelation to the end that I should consider of or note therein the true God-service which serveth to the blessing of the earth and to the peace salvation of all people 2. In the which I at the first thought not upon the noting or marking of any thing else but only of the most holy and most pure being (b) Ex 26 d. 40. a b. c. Heb. 9. a the mercy seat and the Ark of the Covenant together with the manifold glorious riches and sumptuous garnishing All which I beheld in their pure and perfect beauty 3. Through which Revelation proceeding out of the heavenly being I rejoyced me far beyond measure But there came not into my remembrance so presently at the first to consider or note the holy and his daily offering or God service and the fore front nor yet the service of the Levites and Priests 4. But when I once remembred the holy of the same Tabernacle and his service of the holy offering extending to the forgiveness of sins then turned I my self to the same for to behold the daily offering for God-service ministred therein because I might see and also understand the daily offering in the holy and the Altar whereon the debt-offering sin-offering death-offering is offered burnt to a forgivness of sins 5. I also noted the fore-front the which is a difference (c) Eze. 44. a. b. betwixt the holy of the Tabernacle of God and the unholy of the uncircumcised heathen-ship 6. In which forefront the Levites and Priests in their service and in their requiring of the righteousness are to (d) Ex. 27 c Lev. â— b Num. 16. b Eze. 43 44 prepare the daily offering betwixt the holy and the unholy
4. b a shape in him as a Kingdom of God or of Christ which is the upright being or real form it self full of all Love 13. Till unto this same day namely till that the light of life as a true being an upright righteousness be come unto the man doth the daily God-service for the sins cause endure in the holy so long also (r) 1 Co. 3. b remaineth the vail before the most holy namely till the holy be performed or ministred in his full course of ministration with upright daily oblations which are acceptable unto God 14. But this daily offering or gift which the man is Debtor to offer in the holy or that wherein God hath a pleasure is not alone the outward for God hath (s) Ps 40.50 never willed nor required the same without the good will of the heart 15. Therefore it is a spiritual offering proceeding out of (t) Psal 11. c Isa 57.66 a lowly and humble heart and the beginning of the same upright offering soundeth even thus in every man that is good-willing towards God and towards his righteousness 16. O God I come and have a lust to (u) Psa 40. a Heb. 10. a do thy will 17. Now when the man findeth himself thus minded and desireth to enter into the service of Love and his requiring in this sort is his heart prepared and altogether become willing to (x) Mat. 16. c Luk 9.14 c take up his Cross and obediently to follow after the (y) 1 Pet. 2. c crucified and killed Jesus Christ in the belief under the obedience of his love till unto his death even the death of the Cross (z) Rom. 6. Col. 2. b. and to be baptized into the same death whereby to enter even so into the life out of the deadly sin (a) Ioh. 3. a Rom. 6.8 b 2 Cor. 4. through the second birth from death Wherethrough he is likewise made free The true holy of the holy and true Tabernacle of God is the belief tending to the mortifying of the sin in the after following of Christ till unto the second birth from the death the which is the willing obedience of the belief which holy and his service or obedience in the belief wherein the death of the sin cometh to pass is the very true holy and the right difference between the most holy and the fore-front or delivered from all choosing of this or that according to his own will or pleasure saying with his whole heart 18. O GOD (b) Act. 9 a WHAT wilt thou have me to do 19. Behold in such a mind intent or inclination to the obedience of the belief and to continue (c) Eccl. 2. a Math. 24. â— stedfast therein till unto the death and to the new birth from the death consisteth the mans conversion to his God and he becometh so clean turned about from his selfness that he is like unto (d) Mat. 18. a 1 Pet. 2. a a new born babe that hath no manner of self-wisdom or self-willedness but that liveth only that life that is given and brought unto him by God In such a manner is the man meet also to come into the Kingdom (e) Ioh. 3 a of God to enter thereinto 20. But behold with such a heart and mind cometh the man unto the (f) Deut. 6.10 b. 1 King 15. true obedience which God regardeth And so through Faith he goeth out of all deadly corruption or perdition and cometh into the life of his God in the everlasting immortality in all Love and is filled with all fulness of the holy Ghost (g) Rom. 8. b and inherriteth with Christ all the treasures riches of God and of (h) Isa 33. a Col. 2. a the spiritual and heavenly goods Those verily are the promises of God the Father through Jesus Christ to the blessing of all the generations of the earth 21. By this means as is said the man cometh again to his soundness and to his (i) Ioh. 8. d precious freedom whereunto (k) Gen. 1. c Sap. 2. c Eccles 17. a God hath created him from the beginning as being unbound or untyed from all vain and unprofitable things The tenth Chapter NOW when as the service of the offering in the holy hath once had his full course with such a good will as is aforesaid and the debt-offering sin-offering and death-offering is all through the like-suffering of Christ accomplished on the Altar through the belief then (a) Isa 25 a Math. 27. 2 Cor. 3. b doth the vail as opening asunder divide it self from before the most holy and so there is then discovered in the most holy the mercy-seat the Ark of witness and the heavenly bread with many costly treasures pertaining to the most holy Sanctuary and all that sanctified likewise that is in the holy with the (b) He. 9 10. sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ the high Priest for an everlasting forgiveness of sins 2. That verily is the New Testament of the grace of God touching the sins of the people even as God hath promised the same to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah for a stedfast and continuing Testament 3. This high Priest over the house of God is the old antient one in the holy and godly understanding and is the (d) Col. 1. first born of all creatures (e) Rom. 6 a Phil. 2. a who was slain with the death of the Cross and hath suffered in the holy for the sins cause and is (f) 1 Cor. 15. c Col. 1. b as the firstling risen from the death where-through he hath prepared the everlasting life for all his Believers which follow after him in the holy (g) Mat 16. c Rom 6. a 1 Pet. 2. till unto the death of his Cross 4. He himself verily is the Light and Life that is everlasting which was (h) Ioh. 1. a Psal 210 a with the Father from the beginning and is at the right hand of the (i) Heb. 1. a Almighty in the heavenly being or estate who also as high Priest entreth into the most holy maketh alive his believers from (k) Rom. 8. b 1 Cor. 15. b Eph. 2. a. b Col. 1.2 b the death and (l) Eze. 36. c Isa 44. a Ioel 2. c Act. 2. b poureth forth the holy spirit of his love abundantly over them The true most holy of the holy and true Tabernacle of God is the Love the everlasting life and the perfection from which most holy in his service that is in the making alive from the death in the pouring out of the holy Ghost and in ministring of the spiritual and heavenly good the vale is put away whereby to inherit the everlasting life of God in his cleerness in the same service ministred under the obedience of the Love of the holy Ghost which most holy in his service maketh right difference betwixt the living and the dead
meer error (o) Isa 44. a Ier. 10. a their Gods and God-services are vain and unprofitable 11. Therefore there is no God but Israels God whose God-services Wisdom Ordinances Statutes and Rights are alone upright holy and true Deut. 4. a. 12. Happy is he that hath the same God to be (p) Psa 33. b 144. b his God or which seeketh him with all his heart Deut. 4. c. 30. a. Ier. 29. b. Sap. 1. a. The thirteenth Chapter THE true holy of the house of God or of the true Tabernacle is (a) Rom. 5. a the belief of Christ unto Justification through whose service and the obedience unto the requiring thereof the man if he have a lust with all his heart (b) Psa 40. a Heb. 10. a to do the Lords will becometh Justified from the sin Also the way of his course of walking prepared (c) Isa 40 a 57. b. to be an even path before the Lord. And the truth of God extending to the everlasting life revealed unto him in the spirit Beleefe The Truth to the Evâ—rlasting Life In the service of the holy and gratious word Vnder the Obedience of the true beleefe is the man in the spirit of his hart in Jesus Christ justified from the Sin and brought to the everlasting life Therefore beare patience and vpright fruites of repentance The Kingdom of heaven is nigh Mat 3 a Luke 3 a Behold so crieth the Voice in the Wilderness of the Mans harte The which crieth prepare the way of the lord make straite his pathes Esay 40. Behold the word that thou shouldest beleeue is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thine hart that thou mightest doe it Deutri 30 and that is the word of beleefe which formerly hath beene preached in the World through Christ to Salvation and Obedience of the Beleefe Rom. 10. And is now preached under the Obedience of the Love 2. Behold the Lord sendeth forth his (d) Mal. 3. a Math. 11. b Angel or Messenger who in his service prepareth the way (e) Math. 4 a Luk 1. b before him and he goeth before in the spirit or power of Elias that he may turn the hearts of the Fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their Fathers and the unbelievers to the prudence of the just whereby to prepare an upright people for the Lord. 3. How delightful are the feet of the (f) â—o 10 b messengers that publish the peace from the mountains preach a good Message and reveal the salvation Isa 51. Nahum 2. 4. Leave off from the evil and learn to do good labour after that which is right and help the oppressed Isa 1. b. 5. Let the ungodly leave off from his waies (g) Eze. 18 33. b. and the evil doer from his imaginations and turn him to the Lord so shall he be merciful unto him Isa 55. a. 6. Let every one turn him away from his wicked wayes and amend his being or life and so do that which is right Ier. 7. a. 7. If the ungodly will turn him from all the sins that he hath done c. Then shall he live and not dye for the Lord desireth not the (h) Eze. 33. b Sap. 1. b death of a sinner but much rather that he should turn him and live Eze. 18. d. 8. Repent now and amend you that your sins may be put out Act. 3. b. 9. Lay away from you now (i) 1 Pet. 1. b 4. a. according to the former walking the old man which destroyeth through the lust of error (k) Ro. 12. a and renew you in the spirit of your mind and put ye on the new man which is formed like unto God in upright righteousness and holyness Ephes 4. c. 10. But before all things take hold of the Shield of Faith with the which we may quench out all the fiery darts of the wicked enemy Eph. 6. b. 11. Hold fast what thou hast that no man bereave or take away thy Crown from thee Apo. 3. b. 12. Whosoever continueth steadfast unto the end he shall be saved Math. 24. b. 13. The Messenger or voice of the Angel which crieth in the heart Prepare (l) sa 40. a the way of the Lord is the serviceable ministration of the gracious word of the Lord which the Lord willeth to be ministred unto the man before (m) Act. 3.17 c. his revealing of his great day By which means in the grace and mercy of the Lord. (n) Rom. 10. the belief that very true holy and the (o) Heb. 10 b boldness to enter into the same is prepared to serve the man to an accomplishing of the service in the said holy whereby the true fore-going service might likewise be ministred unto the Believers in their conversion unto God and in their doing (p) Math. 3. upright fruits of repentance Also to kill (q) Rom 6. a Col. 2. b and bury the same under the obedience of the belief And through the baptising or washing (r) Rom. 6. a Col. 1 b in the death of Christ to justifie the believing man from the sin 14. And so then after that in fulfilling or accomplishing the same fore-going service cometh the (s) Mat. 19. c Ioh. 3. b new birth from the death through the annointing by our Saviour who doth quite and clean take away or blot out the (t) Heb 9. sins of his people and so in his spiritual office or heavenly ministration serveth them (u) Heb. 8. with the spiritual and heavenly goods and leadeth them into the everlasting life and so bringeth the perfection unto them or setteth up the same in them and as (x) Heb. 7 8 9. a chief Priest declareth his (y) Isa 27. a Math. 27. highest salvation unto them in the most holy namely in the Love which is the holy-Ghost where through the vail betwixt the holy and the most holy and (z) Isa 59. a Eph. 2. b Col. 2. a the portion betwixt God and the man departeth away and of two (a) Eph. 2. b. is made one to wit the man and God 15. That verily is the everlasting (b) Rom. 3. a 2 Cor. 5. c Col. 1. b Ioh. 2. a 4. b reconcilement of the man before his God and so he cometh again to the seat of grace and into the true light of the (c) 2 Cor. 3. b. 4. a clear shining of God and into the everlasting life with thanksgiving and joâ— the which is the (d) Isa 60. a Apo. 21. a true rising of the light and life out of the high heaven in the spirit The fourteenth Chapter THE true vale before the most holy of the true Sanctuary of the Tabernacle of God (a) Heb 10. c is the flesh of Christ the which is before the cleerness of his uncovered naked being or substance and before his spiritual and heavenly goods and (b) Mat. 27. 2 Cor 3. b it departeth away therefrom or
A FIGURE of the True Spiritual TABERNACLE According to the inward Temple or House of God in the Spirit Whereunto is added the Eight Vertues or Godlynesses Set forth by H. N. and by him perused and more evidently declared The Temple of God was opened in heaven and the Ark of his Testament was seen in his Temple Apoca. 12. Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people And he God himself with them shall be their God Apo. 21. 1 Cor. 3. 2 Cor. 6. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. The Preface SEeing now that God hath extended his mercy on us and through his grace (a) Exod 25. Eze. 40.41 42.43 44. Apoc 21.22 revealed and made known unto us in our Spirit his true Tabernacle or Temple wherein his Holy God-service is uprightly ministred according to the truth Therefore are we become occasioned or moved even out of Love to witness our Figure forth writingly (b) Ex. 25.31 Eze. 43. Act. 7. c. Heb. 8. a. in Letters this present Figure or Pre-figuration of the same Tabernacle or Temple of God together with his true services in the Spirit namely in the fore-front in the holy and in the most holy before all lovers of the truth and of the true God-service and to set it forth under the obedience of the Love 2. The bearing of which true being or form in the Spirit is (c) Ex. 29. c. Jer. 23. a. 30. b. 31. d. Eze. 36.37 that which God regardeth and requireth of the man For even therefore namely to the setting up of this same true God-service in the Spirit under the obedience of the Love hath God the Father through his benign or hearty Love revealed or declared in (d) Mat. 13. b Ephes 3. a. Col 1. c. heaven his true Sanctuarie or Tabernacle unto us as also the fore-front the holy and the most holy of the same And granted to discern and understand the mysterie or secretness thereof and also chosen us to the ministration of the same under the obedience of the Love to the end that now in this last time (e) Isa 2. a. 60 61 62. Jer. 31 33. Eze. 36 37. Ioel 2.3 b. Mich 4. a. Zach. 8 a. Act. 2. the truth or verity of the same Tabernacle of God should alwayes and for evermore be ministred among the children of men under the obedience of the Love to a consecrating or sanctifying of the fore-front and of the holy and to the setting up again or restoring of the (f) Dan 9. daily offering which hath ceased for a long time for which cause likewise the fore-front and the holy hath been so utterly ruined or laid wast with abominations among the children of men 3. Which consecrating or sanctifying of the fore-front and of the holy as also the setting up of the daily offering and of the true God-service among the children of men cometh to pass altogether to (g) Eph 1 a. the laud praise of the glory of God and to the salvation or blessing of the children of men namely to those men which are good of will also believe on the Love submit them humbly to the requiring of the service of Love and so have a lust to the establishing the Promises of God the Father Take it to heart To the Reader Vnto the single-minded ones whose love is agreeable with us in one spirit of the Love be health and peace ALthough yee dearly beloved that our intent and purpose was to make but a small preamble or prologue before the beginning of the Glass of righteousness yet is it now notwithstanding fallen out otherwise For the Prologue is grown to be more then we our selves meant it should But yet the labour bestowed therein hath not been tedious unto us (a) 1. Cor. 13. a. For the Love maketh all painful travel and labour easie and her service is not tedious neither doth she think any time too long wherein she may further the good 2. Therefore is our hope also that it is all come to pass for the best and shall likewise be looked into by every one for a very profitable labour unto edification in asmuch doubtless as it is all serviceable to the inducing or guiding in of men to the holy understanding of the Glass of Righteousness and to the Love 3. Also I did not purpose to let this Figure of the true and spiritual Tabernacle go forth with the Glass of righteousness but to set it forth with other writings after the publication or going forth of the same said Glass 4. But for as much as we have seen into or perceived that it was very needful profitable and serviceable to publish or set forth the same Figure to give thereby an intelligence or understanding of the inward spiritual Tabernacle and to be a furtherance of the mans salvation Therefore could we not through the inclination of the Love conceal or keep back the same any longer But have for the Loves sake unto the Righteousness placed the same to stand next after the introduction to the holy understanding of the Glass of Righteousness And next before the beginning of the book of the said Glass by which occasion the Prologue is become so much the larger 5. Yet is our hope notwithstanding that neither the good willing Reader nor any one else will stumble or take offence at the muchness or plenty of writing that is used before the beginning of the Book but rejoyce them so much the more therein and take a greater pleasure and liking therein then if we had left out the same For it is doubtless a more plain declaring or opening of that forenamed Book intituled the Glass of Righteousness 6. It is true that it doth not accord or sute very well to make large Preambles or large Prologues Howbeit we have least esteemed of the Clarkly form of congruity or artificial sutableness But have much rather had our respect bent unto that which is serviceable unto the good and to the holy understanding whereby to reveal the (b) Eph. 1. b. 1 a. 3. a. Col. 1. c. riches of the mysteries of God the Father extending to salvation and to testifie (c) 2 Pet. 1. b. 1 Ioh. 1 a. that which we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears 7. But although now that we do not utter forth or write the same according to the artificial skill or Clarkly cunning of manly wit Nor yet with painted or flowred words or garnished speech of the renowned wise or famous Clarks But even with a plain and mother or common style or form Yet is notwithstanding our request that the Readers or Hearers of the same our writing would not take offence thereat and so in any such respect despise or make less account of our labour because it is plain and not practised or set forth according to the skill
the sin whereby (p) 1 Pe. 4. a to draw and arm us to the same mind and so we to offer up our sins through the daily offering in the holy and to burn the same upon his holy Altar The which is his cross or patience in the holy 10. So even thus doth Christ through himself namely through (q) Rom. 9. a Eph. 2. a. Col. 1 c. 2. b. the incorporating us into his death of the Cross prepare the life and peace for us making us free and washing (r) Heb. 10. c. us from the evil conscience And so we obtain through him in that manner a free entrance into the holy for to accomplish the God-service in the holy to inherit the abundant riches of God the Father and the everlasting life The which cometh unto us plentifully and appeareth in cleerness if that we for our parts do (t) Mat. 16. c Luk. 9.14 c daily take up our Cross with Christ follow after him in the holy and so become (u) Rom. 6 a baptized in his death Rom. 4.5.8 a. to be an offering for the sin whereby to be (x) Col. 2. b. justified from the sin through Faith that meerly by Grace not by Works 11. Behold such a manner of offering and daily God-service in the holy is no doubt very convenient for us to use and perform For so then namely in the performance of the daily offering or God-service in the holy there appeareth or cometh to us in the spirit the spiritual high Priest or Christ according to the Spirit who is not of this earth neither of flesh and blood but of the heavenly God-head the same high (y) Heb. 7 8 9 10. Priest is also very needful for us because he is faithful and remaineth for ever 12. Whose service or high Priests office is not outward according to the manner of the foregoing service of the Elders administred among the unregenerate or unrenwed men as in the letter and with the letter or with speakable words but his service cometh to pass in the new birth of the inward spiritual and heavenly man (z) Heb. 7 8 9 10. with the ministration of the spiritual and heavenly goods according to the spiritual and heavenly Priest-office 13. And to that end namely to bring men to the new birth of the inward spiritual heavenly man have the outward ministrations of the Elders the foregoing with the man (a) Gal 3. c. 4 5 a under the which he to the training up of him in all good nurture and order is kept and taught even unto the new birth in Jesus Christ through the which he doth then likewise live and walk in (b) Luk. 1. g. all upright righteousness both inwardly before God and outwardly among men and to such an upright (c) Ioh. 3. a. Titus 3. b. birth or the outward services or administrations of the Godly testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love a foregoing office or (d) 2 Co. 3. a light unto the man which witnesseth declareth and holdeth forth the godliness unto him as in a Glass And so then the man if he believe the requiring of the fore-going service and desire to stand obedient thereunto becometh prepared thereby to the same godliness and taught to the Kingdom of heaven And that is the same ministration which (e) Gal 3 c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. reacheth to the spiritual and true being in Jesus Christ And it is the upright Priests office of the Elders of the holy understanding which in its office or service hath the foregoing to the (f) Ioh. 3. a. 1 Cor. 4. b. Gal. 4. b. new birth in Jesus Christ as is already said which services are all witnesses and directions unto the very true and spiritual office in the Spirit And although the same services being ministred in the letter and through the letter or serviceable word do bring (g) 2 Co. 3. b a great illumination and clearness unto the unilluminated ones yet are those same for all that no more but a serviceable shaddow proceeding from the spiritual and heavenly service of the great glory and cleerness of Christ in the inward being and form 14. For Christ according to the Spirit hath (h) Heb. 3.8.9 a. an higher function or office or a more excellent service and a greater lighâ— or clearness then hath all flesh and blood writing letters or speakable words For he is a Minister or an high Priest in the Spirit (i) Heb. 8 a. 9. a. b. c. as a Minister of the spiritual and heavenly goods as is before said For he himself is the (k) Heb 1. a. right heir in all the riches of God his eternal and Almighty Father 15. Behold this high Priest is spirit and life the true (l) Isa 9. a King and a faithful Lord a peaceable prince And not this or that without us But he (m) Act. 17. c is in us all which believe on him according to the truth And we all which abide stedfast in the faith have the life through him who is neither unfaithful nor falling away like unto a man For he doth not shrink nor fall away either from us or from his Father but through the Love (n) Mat. 28. c Ioh. 14 b. continueth with us and with his Father for ever 16. Also he is not changeable in his office or ministration like as are the children of men who do one while setup one thing for an obedience or for a God-service and that altogether without the service of Christ and his Love and then again some other thing which directeth not to the true life of Christ nor unto the upright being of his Love 17. But his service will and commandement is both now presently and at all times like as it was in the beginning and it shall so remain unchangeable for evermore For his Commandment Will and Precept is (o) Da. 6.10 Math 22. d Ioh 15 b. 1 Tim. 1. a nothing else but the love and the life of godliness And that is the old commandment from the beginning (p) Ioh. 2. a And it is the new commandment as being for to come or for to be made manifest in this same last time in the obedience of the requiring of the service of Love 18. Therefore seeing now that this high Priest which is invisible but yet is known in the spirit hath such an unchangeable commandment or service among us in the ministration of the service of his Love So standeth he likewise firm and immovable towards us in the same service to an everlasting reconcilement for our sins as a true (q) 1 Tim. 2 a Heb. 9. b mediator betwixt God and us 19. He himself also is partaker with us in suffering touching (r) Heb. 2. b 5. a. our griefs and purgeth us in his service of Love through himself and through none other or any other services 20. Therefore hath God likewise sworn unto
b or understand the truth except that he should first of all be or stand grounded therein according to the spirit and that the truth as a light of life repugning or striving against his lyes were risen up unto him in his obeying of the requiring of the service of Love For in that sort do we attain to know the truth from the lye the life from the death and the sin from the righteousness Because that we should rightly or according to the truth hate or reject that which is worthy to be hated or rejected and according to the truth in like manner love that which is worthy to be loved And so then might with a good understanding come to (s) Eph. 4 b the knowledge of the right commonalty of Saints whose names are written in the (t) Apo. 5.20 21. b living Book of the Lamb. 12. Which Book of the Lamb the mysticalness of God shall not alwayes remain shut but his seals shall be opened and the book being full of writing both without and within shall likewise be read to a comfort of life and to a perpetual Godlyness unto all those whose names are written in the Book of the Lamb whose bodies are killed even like unto the Lamb and (u) Apo. 6. b their blood cryeth vengeance in the height upon those that dwell upon the earth unto whom the recompence thereof shall be made by God and the Lamb. 13. For although the Lamb be killed yet shall he notwithstanding condemn the living ungodly ones and raise up those that are his (x) Eze 37. b Dan. 12 b Ioh 5. c 1 Cor. 15. f from the death out of the grave and make them Lordly and glorious with himself over all his enemies namely through his righteous judgement to the (y) Mat. 25. c 2 Pet. 3 b condemnation of all ungodly ones to the end that they may be rooted out and (z) Apo. 18 a that it may be recompenced again even as they have done unto the Saints of God 14. Even thus now from henceforth be reputed for a praise or an advancement unto all that are his whereby to keep the judgement against every one which hath brought forth ungodlyness judged Gods truth falsly and shewed no repentance and to exhalt and garnish his Saints above all what is upon the earth for (a) Apo 5 b 1 Pet 1. b the Lamb hath bought them with his blood out of all generations people and nations He hath made them Kings and Priests unto God and they shall raign upon the earth and triumph in joy everlastingly with the Lamb for they shall live for ever and not dye any more 15. And that same is the everlasting life which was preached in the world in times past to the end that men should believe on the same And which also cometh unto us in the last time in the resurrection of the righteous dead ones The seventeenth Chap. THerefore give ear O all ye that live upon the earth consider of the words of wisdom ye children of men For the life to the end that ye may live is now published unto you likewise as well as unto the people (a) Gen. 6.18 19. Exo. 3 4. Deut. 3. in times past because that ye may shew repentance assemble you with us to the mercy seat of the love of Jesus Christ and enter (b) Heb. 3.4 a. into the rest which is reserved for the children of God inasmuch as the entrance into the rest of the Lord and of his children or Saints of Jesus Christ cometh to pass and is to be enjoyed now in the last time according to the Promises 2. Therefore give ear attentively that ye may once understand whereunto ye are created and turn you to the same if ye will remain preserved and not bide lost for ever 3. Apply your hearts unto the good that ye may live and not be buried in hell everlastlngly (c) Psa 55. Apo. 21 22. with the ungodly 4. Shew upright fruits of repentance that ye may serve the (d) Deut. 6. b Lord your God only and walk in all love like children of peace And halt no longer neither (e) 3 Kin. 18. on the one side nor on the other 5. For although that ye which covet after knowledge do daily read many Scriptures or writings whereout ye do also gather some sentences or get a certain kind of knowledge therethrough wherein ye think to rejoyce your selves Yet is not the same the life for all that for it is neither the Scripture nor yet the knowledge thereof (f) 1 Cor. 8. that maketh us righteous but the life of Jesus Christ wrought through the belief or faith 6. For that same life is (g) Deut. 30. Rom. 10. the word of God the Father and the very true light wherein we stand grounded or whereon we are set for to believe the same because that we should live and not (h) Deut. 5. Prov. 4 c turn or shrink therefrom with our mind wits memory or thoughts neither to the right side nor to the left 7. If so be now that ye stand not minded hereunto as in tending to live in the Love and to stand upright therein to what end then do ye assemble together and to what end do ye read the Scriptures For if ye read the Scripture only for the knowledge sake and rest unbelieving unto the life whereof the (i) 1 Ioh. 5. Scripture witnesseth then do ye (k) 3 Kl. 18. halt on both sides and break the bond of wedlock and go a whoring with that which is not the life namely that ye cleave unto that which ye neither are grounded in nor created unto by God neither yet called through Jesus Christ nor also through his service of Love ministred now in the last time 8. But if ye will perform the Scriptures counsel then follow the Scriptures counsel Turn you to the life and to his service of Love And in the obedience of the requiring of the life of Jesus Christ and of his service of Love behold in the spirit your own being or estate And consider there inwardly in your selves whether that your memory wits senses and thoughts do in all their course or proceedings stand minded to the true life of Jesus Christ and not run out after this or after that for to go a whoring after that which is not the life it self and also whether that they being without the life are bound or tyed unto any other thing that is not the life And likewise whether they have or gather all their knowledge wisdom and understanding only out of the l fe of Jesus Christ and out of his love and so do neither know discern or understand any thing without the Life and without his upright Love For behold to such a concord hath God joyned together the thoughts and the life 9. This doubtless was the life of the man in (l) Gen. 1. b Joh. 1. a the beginning for that
whereby to know thee as a true God which liveth everlastingly 21. For thou O God art a God that lovest the very best of the fruits of the field and (b) Exod. 13.34 Le. 1 2 3. Deut. 12.14 hast a delight unto the fat of the Sheep and Lambs as it is a burnt-offering unto thee of a sweet Savour upon thy (c) Psal 43. Isa 56. holy Altar in thy Tabernacle of thy dwelling which thou hast chosen unto thy self (d) 2 Par. 6. a. 7. b in thy holy City Jerusalem 22. But thou (e) Isa 57.65 despisest all oblations offered in Forrein Lands as likewise all God-services upon their mountains and upon all their hills and high-places 23. Thou also rejectest (f) Amos 5. all songs of praise used under their trees and under all their green eaves 24. Thou abhorrest all presumptuous arrogancy of the flesh they do all displease thee which seek thee through their own doings to the end to be at one with thee and yet have no regard unto thy Promises 25. Their God-service is (g) Isa 16.43 Amos 5. Hos 5.6 an abomination unto thee their self-Sanctification although the flesh appeaseth it self therewith doth altogether stink before thee 26. Unto their Sabboths Holy-dayes or self-made rest-dayes thou hast no desire or liking 27. Their prayer also cometh not before thine ears (h) Prov. 11 Isa 1.59 Mich 3 4 Esd 3. as that it pleaseth thee any whit at all For it is all filthy before thee if they seek thee without thy Promises For they seek not thee O God but themselves and how to please themselves 28. Their waies that they walk lead not unto thee But they run apace towards Hell and have a lust unto error 29. There is nothing among them but manly fear and snaring of the heart with captivated consciences according to the old custom of the vain heathen which O God knew not thy wayes but upon their own wisdom and self-made wayes they (i) Isa 3. b are proud and very bold 30. Therefore is not likewise (k) Isa 59. b the right knowledge of their sin among them as to account the same for sin that they might turn them unto thee because they know not O God of thy peace nor understand rightly any thing thereof 31. Thy rebuke and chastionable information have they not rightly felt neither also rightly taken heed to the same nor yet understood what thou intendest therein and requirest therewith therefore doubtless the right fear of God is not before their eyes like as the fear of men is for to please them O God plant thy (l) Psal 40. Isa 51. Jer. 31. d Law in their hearts as a Glass or a clear light unto their inwardness then shall they rightly know their sin (m) Rom. 7. d how or in what manner she is sin to the end that sin may make up her self and shew in what form she is the fruits of death or the deadly being the which she estrangteh the man from the living God-head for that the sin thereby may be consumed (n) 1 Co. 15. f for thy Law is an encountring or enveighing power against the sin and then shall they know and understand whom they ought to fear and cleave unto 33. For when as thy Law O God groweth up in us in our earthly and weak man-hood and requireth thy righteousness of us then are we burthened and grieved wherethrough we grow to discern our fall from thee and the (o) Psal 51. a great abundance of our sins and that likewise it is all sin wherein we are conceived wherein we have lived 34. Yea that which in times past we supposed to be good is now found to be meer wickedness and sin by reason whereof our souls become humbled before thee for to obtain mercy from thee out of thy abundant grace Even then also do we confess what we are according to our earthly manhood namely (p) Gen. 2. b Eccl. 10 17. b dust earth and ashes and that we of our selves being without the effect or estate of thy Love are altogether (q) Ps 14.53 a Rom 3. b ignorant and lying and utterly estranged from thy righteousness And so with lowly hearts by reason of the depth of our necessity or extremity for the sins cause we become then O God rightly turned unto thee whereby through the drawing or allurement of thy Love to come again unto thee 35. By means of which humiliation or abasing of our selves we through thy grace and mercy become endowed by thee with the most holy belief through the which we be then likewise baptized or washed in the (r) Rom 6 Gal. 3. Col 2. death of Christ and do stand firm in the hope to the obtaining of the health of our souls and so through the belief ministred under the obedience of thy Love we become made (s) Rom. 8. a. free from the Law of sin and death by the spirit of thy Law which maketh alive in Jesus Christ 36. Oh how far is the man departed and estranged from the upright knowledge of this wisdom of God 37. O God that my heart might rent open it self and might cry unto thee with a forcible courage And that thou wouldest hearken to my voice and wouldest vouchsafe to look down towards us with thy merciful eyes and take compassion of our misery deformity and fall and over the blindness of our errors and wouldest in chastionable manner draw us unto thee that we might rightly convert or come again and live in thee For we are doubtless fallen estranged and strayed very deep and far from thee and thy Christ we have mingled our selves with the strangers and walked in many errors 38. O God let us in every part see into our (t) Iob 13. Psa 14. Isa 59. transgressing and make known unto us the lyingness of our hearts against thee 39. For many do say It is very good whereas doubtless it is meer evil And they say moreover out of the blindness and ignorance of their hearts Behold (u) Ier. 8 a Math. 24. b here is the holy Scripture we have the right or the truth the being of God and the holy Ghost And also the mind and sense of the wisdom for to understand the same we have the true belief in Christ and are the Lords people O God they speak lyes before thine ears and understand not the counsel of thy wisdom but are children of the fall or transgression among whom there is neither being of God nature of thy love nor belief of thy Christ but only a vain and false boasting whereby they seduce both themselves and others more for they oppress the little ones and the poor and resist thy holy service of Love therefore one may easily find many masters and vaunters but very few servants and yet (x) 1 Cor. 4. b many fewer Fathers in the Office of the Love 40. Oh that many of them saw their vain wisdom
whereon they boast so highly and that they knew their misery then would they also out of meer necessity cry (y) Psa 130. a unto God for his grace that they might come again to the life of Godlyness 41. Now O Lord and God be mindful of us extend thy mercy over us (z) Tob. 3. a and revenge thee not on us for our sins cause 42. Remember not (a) Psa 79. a O God our offences and ignorance but remember (b) Ps 103 b we are dust and remaining without thy being are nothing (c) Gen. 3. Eccl. 10. b 17. d but earth and ashes for all our beauty or self-chosen wisdom or righteousness (d) Isa 40 a. 1 Pet. 1. c must wither away like unto the flowers or grass of the field And all whatsoever is not of thy being must be consumed and brought to nothing in (e) Eccl. 1. a the Furnace of humiliation or abasing wherein our tryal cometh to pass but thy righteousness word will and (f) Psa 33. a 119. 2. Isa 40.4 b wisdom continueth for ever 43. O Lord thou Almighty God which art the Father procreator or begetter of all generations shew thy mercy upon thine own handy-work namely on those that labour daily to do thy will 44. Open unto us with thy light (g) Psa 13. a the eyes of our spirit and shew thy grace on us we blind people who yet notwithstanding have eyes unstop unto us with thy understanding the ears of our inwardness even of us deaf people who yet notwithstanding have ears to (h) Isa 6. Math. 13. Acts 28. the end that we may rightly hear thy word believe the same and understand and obey it according to thy truth and turn about or (i) 4 Kin. 22 Eze. 11.18.36 mollifie the hardness of our hearts with thy meekness that we may humbly and obediently with all good-willingness turn us rightly unto thee and to the Love of Christ and be saved And may (k) Ioh. 17. c also become one with thy holy word like as thou thy self O God art one with the same wheteby the (l) Num. 14. c world may become full of thy glory and that thy Christ may appear and bear sway over all in all and with all and that we all may be one in thee and may (m) Ioh. 17. b know in the truth that thou only art a very true God for to that end because the world should know and understand the same hast thou sent thy Christ 45. Now O God strengthen thereunto the office of thy Love for that all those which hope on thee and love thy righteousness may be drawn into one (n) Col. 3. b band of Love and that thou mightest be the head over us all as a God and King over all power and Lordship and that we all from (o) Ier. 31. Heb. 8. b the least even unto the greatest may know and acknowledge thee according to the Promises 46. Therefore is likewise our flight for refuge O God only unto thee and unto the requiring of thy service of Love whereby to find grace at thy hands that thou mayest raign over us and for (p) Par. 36. that cause do we daily bow the knees of our hearts before thee and pray and make supplication unto thee in the spirit O God be thou gracious and merciful unto us 47. Be thou our Shepheard King and Prince and remember Lord thy Covenant and (q) Isa 64. a b Sanctuary that hath a long time lain waft and been spoiled 48. Awake O Lord (r) Psa 35. c with thy spirit over us for all the comfort of man is vain (s) Psal 62.118.146 a Ier. 17. a all confidence and stay on Princes is nothing in it self (t) Isa 4. b the Prophets seduce and deceive (u) Ier. 5.8.23 27 29. the Seers do fail in the right the worldly wise and Scripture-learned do preach lyes The Priests do deal with false God-services the Judges give Sentence even as the Princes do require it (x) Isa 1. c Ier. 5. Eze. 22. Ioh. 3. the world is replenished with traytorie the common people do deal with crafty deceipts unto the poor and miserable people there happeneth wrong and violence everywhere and the Lands are full of innocent blood-guiltyness 49. Therefore look down O God look down and sanctifie thy great name and teach us thy Law Statutes and Rights that they may all know that they be but men and that thou O Lord art God only unto whom also (y) 1 Tim 1. b all honour praise and laud doth only belong and appertain 50. Wherefore should the (z) Psal 50.47 heathen still blaspheme thy Sanctuary and why should our enemies with the Arrogancy of their minds and vain perswasions say that thou O God art with them and minded according to their will boasting themselves in arrogancy that their ingenious wit and prudence shall keep the upper hand or prevail 51. O God hast not thou from the beginning foreseen thy Christ to be a head (a) Eph 1.3 b and Father over all and in all and elected him thereunto before the foundation of the world was laid yea to that end also thou (b) Ioh. 3. d hast loved him (c) Mat. 11. c Luk. 10. c and given him all what is thine for that (d) Isa 9. a Luk. 1. d he might possess the seat of his Father David and be a King over the house of Jacob for evermore 52. Is not he also ordained to be a restoring to the house of Israel (e) Ro. 15. a whereby to establish the Promises made to their Fathers hath not he likewise called and bidden the heathen thereunto (f) Isa 57. Luk. 2. Eph. 2. b Is not the peace published through Christ Hath not he in holyness of heart loved faithfulness (g) Psa 81. Hos 2. c and truth hath not he also taught (h) Mat. 11.18 a humility and meekness of heart Have not his Messengers preached and published the Love to (i) 1 Co. 13. a Col. 3. b be a bond of perfection But oh where is all this where shall men find the same 53. O God prepare the hearts of the people unto lowlyness that they may stand submitted to the Love in all humility and may love the coming (k) Matth. 24.25 d 1 Cor. 1 a of thy Christ in his glory by whom the (l) Tit. 2. b Acts 17. d universal earth shall be judged with righteousness who likewise shall disturb or trouble all authority and power and bring it under his obedience and then resign or yield up the (m) 1 Cor. 12. c Kingdom all power and dominion unto thee O Almighty God that thou mayest be all in all 54. O God put this into the hearts of all Governors or Magistrates to look into and consider of and illuminate all Kings Princes Lords and Potentates or Rulers with thy godly wisdom that they may fear
thy holy name stand submitted to thy Love and her service and turn them away from all violence and abuse And that the world may to thy praise be inhabited in the Love and in all truth and all men become turned unto thee (n) Exo 18.33 Math 3. Luk. 3 a in true repentance for their sins and the horrible plagues of ungodlyness which are (o) Apo. 18. a come over the world for the sins cause might cease 55. O God let us now find grace before thine eyes like as in times past the (p) Ioh 3. b City of Nineveh did on the which thou shewedst mercy that we do not all perish (q) 4 Esd 2 2 Pet 2. a like unto Sodom and Gomorrah for our sins are become many and grown to be (r) 3 Esd 8. b abundant even beyond all measure 56. O Lord and God O heavenly Father give ear I beseech thee to the crying of the poor (s) Psa 25.27.86 b and lead us in thy wayes gather us together on thy pathes and unite our hearts into (t) Col. 3. b one band of Love (u) Ioh. 17. c as one in all and all in one with love equity and righteousness and cleanse our (x) Psa 51. b Eze. 36. minds from all ungodly being or nature and destroy or break in sunder (y) Psa 1.33 all ungodly counsel that iniquity may not raign for ever 57. For wherefore should the darkness possess thine inheritance and still unhallow and lay wast thy holy place Temple or Tabernacle Should the house of the Devil also still be builded and thy house and holy city continue waste and ruinated more and more 58. O God behold how that the (z) Isa 64. c dwelling of thy Sanctuary lyeth overthrown and destroyed for in thy Temple (a) Lam. 4. Matth. 24. a Luk. 19. c there is not one stone that remaineth standing one upon another but are all broken and scattered from each other and upon the holy place of thy Sanctuary are now the (b) Dan. 9. Matth. 24. Mark 13. b abominations of desolation raigning 59. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou City of Peace of the great and mighty King how art thou grown (c) Lam. 1 2 3 4. now to suppression and contempt when shalt thou yet O thou holy City be repaired or (d) Isa 58. c 61. a builded up again to an everlasting stability and receive thy peaceable children of Israel into thy dwelling 60. O Sion thou hill of pure Beauty when shall thy contempt as also the Heathens deâ—iding thee have an end And when shalt thou O forsaken one be comforted again to (e) Isa 49 5â— 66. the end that thou which hast a long time been unfruitful mightest become fruitful again and that thy dried up brests might give forth their milk again (f) Isa 61. â—â— that Kings might suck thy brests the Counsel Lords learn thy peace thy children dwell at Jerusalem and rejoyce their in thee O Sion 61. But when as I now O Jerusalem and Sion do think upon thy contempt and suppression then doth my soul suffer (g) La. 1.2 c great sorrow and grief for thy sake and mine eyes gush over with tears for very pitty and compassion sake towards thee that thou hast so long time layn wast and supprest 62. But when I think upon the Promises touching thy restoring and upon (h) Isa 54.60 61 62. the garnishing of beauty which is coming unto thee O Jersusalem and Sion in holyness and righteousness and that thy children shall be taught by the (i) Ier 31. d Ioh. 6. a Lord then doth my soul refresh or comfort her self a little 63. For the Law shall (k) Isa 2. a Mich. 4. a proceed out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem He shall come from thence which shall turn away (l) Isa 59. Rom. 11. Ioel 2 3. ungodlyness from Jacob that the children of Iacob may have their dwelling at Jerusalem for ever according to the Promises 64. For the Lords Election is at Jerusalem (m) Psa 78.87 Isa 2. Mich. 4. and even there upon the Hill of Sion hath God foreseen him an holy house which shall be exalted above all hills or high places because that his name may still be worshipped there and that (n) Isa 56. a Mal. 1.3 a his offering may alwayes and for evermore be offered there for his house which he hath chosen to himself is (o) Mat 21. b a house of Prayer and of holy offering 65. An upright mind towards thee in our inwardness (p) Psa 34.51 Isa 57.66 A contrite heart and a lowly spirit shalt not thou O God despise For thou wilt enter into the same also make thy (q) Ioh. 14. c dwelling even there and sanctifie thy name from generation to generation for evermore it is very true Take it to heart Charitas extorsit per H. N. FINIS Of the Eight VERTVES OR Godlynesses whereout all Vertues or Godlynesses do proceed or spring 1. MY beloved Here have I out of the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ witnessed and set forth unto you eight Vertues or Godlynesses and possess or endow you therewithal or leave the same â—â—…â—nd for you as a good Testament to a perpetual Memorial oâ— Remembrance Deut. 30.31 2. For that cause is also my exhortation heartily unto you all that ye would continually with diligence give your endeavor to ensue or follow after the same eight Vertues or Godlynesses and to exercise your selves therein obediently and even so according to the requiring of the holy and gratious word of the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ Psal 83. Eph 4. Col. 3. proceed and grow forth from the one Vertue or Godlyness unto another For out of the same eight Vertues or Godlynesses proceedeth or springeth all upright righteousness love and peace 3. For that cause let all your exercise be for to live and and walk in the same going forth from the one Vertue or Godlyness into another Deut. 4.30 31. Psal 83. till unto the perfectest 4. The first Vertue or the beginning of the same eight Vertues or Godlynesses is the Lust Pleasure or the Will of the Lord. 5. For which Lusts cause 1 Cor. 13.1 or Will of the Lord because the same might obtain an essential shape in you ye shall altogether forsake Math. 16. Mark 8. hate and leave all your own lusts pleasures and will and give over your selves wholly to the Lust or Will of the Lord Luk. 9 14. Ioh. 12. Math. 26.39 Mark 14.36 Luk. 22.42 and to the Elders or dayed-ones in the same for to live and walk obediently only according to the Lords Lust or Will according to the Ordinance of the Elders or dayed-ones in the same for to live walk obediently only according to the Lords lust or will according to the Ordinance of the Elders or dayed-ones in the same 6. When ye now