Scripture as may be seen Prov. 1. 6. and Chap. 25. 2. Eccles. Syr. 39. 1. Math. 13. 34. 35. 1 Cor. 13. 12. Even because the outward man hath onely an outward understanding and therefore can onely understand the outward and not the inward 1 Cor. 2. 14. 15. And therefore the Scripture was written in this Parabolical way that we from thence might take occasion to pass from the outward into the inward from the Body and Letter into the Spirit and by this means become Spiritual I have many years since communicated and discoursed the Contents of this Appendix to persons of several perswasions to try whether the same would be received and put in practice amongst any of them but they all with one accord told me that the same was impracticable and impossible forasmuch as none would be able to return an answer to all the questions which in case this way were introduced would be propounded and therefore must needs be the cause of numberless contests and disputes By which answer of theirs they tacitly acknowledge that they keep the Door fast lock'd which leads to the Steps of Wisdom Without any further considering whether it be likely that our Saviour or his Disciples could leave us any Commands but what were possible to be obeyed and put in practice c. Wherefore notwithstanding these discouragements and in hope that what hath not been done hitherto may be done and put in practice hereafter I have here briefly set down the same together with a short Introduction concerning the Education and Instruction of Children As also added Christ's Hundred Commandments of which by the constant use the Children may have them as it were engrafted in them by the careful and loving Mothers direction to read and write them over daily instead of their Horn and Coppy Books that so they may serve them all their Lives time for their true guides Which practice the Lord grant may tend to his most Holy Names Praise Honour and Glory CHRIST's Hundred Commandments c. 1. JEsus said unto him it is written again Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Mat. 4. 7. And Jesus answering said unto him it is said Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Luke 4. 12. 2. Then saith Jesus unto him get thee hence Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Mat. 4. 10. And Jesus answered and said unto him get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Luke 4. 8. 3. And said unto them that sold Doves Take these things hence make not my Fathers House a House of merchandize John 2. 16. 4. Marvel not that I said unto thee Thou must be born again John 3. 7. 5. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him John 4. 23. 6. And saying the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand Repent ye and believe the Gospel Mark 1. 15. 7. Afterwards Jesus findeth him in the Temple and said unto him Behold thou art made whole Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 5. 14. 8. Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testifie of me John 5. 39. 9. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven Mat. 5. 16. 10. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the Judgement and whosoever shall say unto his brother Racha shall be in danger of the Council but whosoever shall say Thou Fool shall be in danger of Hell fire Mat. 5. 22. 11. But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery already with her in his heart And if they right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into Hell And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into Hell Mat. 5. 28 c. 12. But I say unto you That whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to commit Adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth Adultery Mat. 5. 32. 13. But I say unto you Swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is God's Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Footstool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy head because thou canst not make one hair black or white But let your communcation be Yea yea and Nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of Evil Mat. 5. 34 c. 14. But I say unto you That ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also And if any man sue thee at the Law and take away thy cloak let him have thy coat also And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile go with him twain Mat. 5. 39. Luke 6. 27 29. 15. Give to him that asketh thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away Mat. 5. 42. Luke 6. 30. 16. But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 44 c. Luke 6. 27 35. 17. Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect Mat. 5. 48. Luke 6. 35. 18. Take heed that you do not your alms before men to be seen of them otherwise ye have on reward of your Father which is in Heaven Therefore when thou dost thine alms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the Hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men Verily I say unto you they have their reward But when thou dost alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does Mat. 6. 1 c. 19. And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the Hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men Verily I say unto you they have their reward But thou when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and when thou hast shut the door Pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Mat. 6. 5 6. 20. But when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the Heathen do for they think they shall be heard for
Dutch Tongue is called wild flesh for that the same is not natural but a Disease and is like an Excrecence growing on a Tree of which several reasons may be given which for brevities sake are here omitted May not we therefore conclude that the foresaid nervous capillary Filaments of which the Skin is woven together are not there in vain but that they serve for motion dilatation and contraction 65 Q. Moreover seeing that the foresaid nervous Skin is covered with a thin and smooth upper Skin full of little Pores or Sweat-holes and small Hairs through which all the spiritual Powers of the whole man especially in his Face which is an Epitome of and represents the whole man do continually flow out from and enter and that in the appearance of Light as we do see in some persons that a light fire or shining glance doth continually proceed from their Faces and Skins and that when in the dark we rub their Skin with a piece of Cloath the said Cloath will appear full of light-shining flames in like manner as hath been mentioned before concerning the Hair of the Head Moreover experience teacheth that in great and dangerous Diseases the said upper Skin doth peel off and the Hair of the Head falls which is worth our observation as hath partly been mentioned though we find also that in other Accidents yea without any during the whole life of man the said upper Skin doth continually wear away and is renewed again in order to the continuation of mans life insomuch as the whole man in all his parts not so much as the Nails of his Feet and Hands or Flesh excepted is continually renewed which we may perceive by setting a mark at the root of our Nails for we shall find that in the time of three months the same will be grown up to the top of them The same is likewise demonstrable from hence that when a man by sickness hath lost the greatest part of his flesh he recovers the same again in three months accounting from the time he begins to recover Yea the very Bones of man from which the Flesh hath its original are not exempt from this Renovation for don 't we see that out of living broken Bones a moisture proceeds by means of which they are conglutinated again Now how can we conceive that this could ever be brought about without a continual Renovation and alteration of the Bones and their moisture The Seed of man likewise which contains in it and comprehends the whole man in all his parts the Bones as well as the Flesh doth evidence this for we see that a Child that is generated of the said Seed doth not onely resemble his Father in shape and flesh but also in his bones from which the flesh is produced And also because the Spirit of man doth properly dwell in the Bones which probably was the reason why Joseph commanded the Children of Israel to take his bones along with them out of Egypt viz. that his Spirit might go long with them which Spirit is that which forms the Body seeing it is impossible that a Body as such should bring forth a Spirit but the Spirit must bring forth the Body which Spirit therefore may be supposed to be that Rib of which Eve was built And may not we from all this conclude that the Bones must be renewed as well as the other parts of mans Body forasmuch as all proceeds from one and the same Spirit And doth it not follow from all this that the whole man according to all his parts not the meanest or least point excepted must be subject to a continual and never-ceasing Revolution 66 Q. This continual Revolution of Man is not onely to be gathered from the Sickness and Health of man according to what before hath been mentioned concerning his never-ceasing giving out and taking in but may likewise be inferr'd from other accidents happening to persons that are in perfect health amongst which the following instance will I suppose not be unacceptable to the Reader A known Friend was on a time carried a Prisoner out of Germany towards Rome to be laid up in the Inquisition there and passing through many great Cities and places in Italy in all which the Streets and Houses Doors and Windows were filled with People that flock'd to see him because the report was that he was to be burnt at Rome Forasmuch then as upon this account all eyes were fixed upon him as being desirous to eye him earnestly and to have a full view of him and he on the other side had as great desire to look upon them as being free and unconcern'd in his mind so as their imaginative sight could gain no entrance into him or be received by him and consequently all the central Aspects which they cast upon him were fain to concenter elsewhere and so made up a kind of shadowy Person or Image which sate with his back towards him insomuch that he could not imagine that the People gazed upon him but upon the Person that sate before him at which he was much surprized because he did not then apprehend the reason of it For further confirmation of this another person that was a Preacher once propounded this Query to the fore-mentioned party whence it was that many times as he was preaching he had seen a person in his own shape and likeness standing before him who as he thought preached instead of him forasmuch as when his Sermon was ended he found himself as fresh and lively as he was before he had begun to preach The fore-mentioned party hereupon related to the Preacher the fore-going accident which had hapned to himself which as he was doing these following thoughts opened in him viz. whether this might not be the reason of what the Preacher had related to him that forasmuch as his words were at that time received by his Hearers and taken root in them he again received back from them the strength or power he had given forth and thus seeing his Hearers continually received his image and word with delight and satisfaction and gave forth the same again to him himself all this while continuing free and unconcerned that from all this it could not be otherwise but that he must see the back of his image which his Hearers had made or fram'd before him XII Concerning the Stomack of Man 67 Q. Forasmuch as the Body of Man according to the testimony of Scripture is and should be the Temple of God 2 Cor. 3. 13. and Chap. 6. 19. 2. Cor. 6. 16. And that in the Temple at Jerusalem there was an Altar of Burnt-offering upon which many Beasts c. was offered and seeing that all the meat a man feeds upon enters into the stomack might not the stomack be compared with the said Altar And might it not properly be called an Altar in the Temple of God on which all right and well ordered food for the life of man is to be offered up For
ways as for example when a man is onely entred upon the beginning of any year he counts the same inclusively with the other years of his age notwithstanding that the said year be not yet ended but onely begun Have not we reason then to think that a very particular hidden meaning lies wrapt up in these words of Lamech and whether they may not import thus much when he saith I have stain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt that by the man Cain is to be understood and by the young man his Brother Abel And will not this interpretation lay a fair ground for the opening of many other misteries in a due and right order As amongst other things we learn from hence that both the Brothers Cain and Abel did from the time of their conception until Cain was killed inseparably continue together viz. Abel in Cain for his vengeance and punishment But that after Cain was killed they no longer continued Twins but separated themselves from each other and by Revolution were afterwards born of two distinct Mothers Where again we may observe that Abel who was the first conceived in Eve now became the first-born of Ada and was now named Jabal and his Brother Jubal which denotes the year of Jubile and continnes now his former course of life being a keeper of Cattle as he was before whereas Cain who was the first-born of Eve is here the youngest Son of Zillah and his name now is Tubal Cain which signifies the world of Cain and his exercise and labour is in the earth viz. about Minerals and Metals and his Sister is Naëmah which denotes Beauty of whom no further mention is made in Scripture but according to the common tradition of the Jews she and her Daughters did intice and seduce all men by their Beauty according to what is mentioned Gen. 6. 1. That the Sons of God were inticed by the Daughters of men But what may be the reason that in Holy Writ after the mentioning of Lamech's Speech to his Wives nothing further is declared concerning his being avenged nor any account of the Actions of Cain or Lamech's posterity May not we suppose that it was because they were all of them entred upon Revolution For how could they any other way have been so often avenged except that they themselves were present and born anew into this World And did not all of them afterwards perish in the Deluge and by this means enter into Noah for to be revolved in him in order to their perfection which they in process of time after Christs Resurrection according to Gods wise and good Disposal in part attained And is not this plain and evident from many places of Scripture particularly 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. where we are told that Christ as the Greek Text doth declare compared with v. 22. after his Ascension into Heaven preached in Spirit by which he was raised again to Life to the Spirits in Prison even to the same Spirits who formerly were unbelieving in the days of Noah while the Ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight Souls were saved Doth it not therefore follow from hence that all those Spirits whose Bodies perished in the Deluge and to whom afterwards Christ after his Ascension in that Spirit by which he was raised again to life and which was poured forth upon the Apostles preached in and by them which Spirits at that time appeared again in bodies in this world from the which they could not be separated forasmuch as they had not yet attained to their full and final perfection and consequently were in a condition to hear the Sermons of the Apostles in flesh I say may we not infer from hence that all these Spirits entred into these eight Souls in order to their Revolution and so consequently were propagated by them until the time of Christ 5 Q. Noah now as who derived his descent from Adam and Seth was an upright perfect man and begat three sons Japhet Sem and Cham Gen. 9. 24. and Chap. 10. 21. And may not we suppose that in him a new World began and that the same day he entred into the Ark for to bring forth a new World he represented the Spirit of God which in the beginning of the Creation moved upon the Waters And may we not compare the six hundredth year of Noah's age in which he entred into the Ark with the sixth day of the Creation in which Man and all Beasts were created In like manner may not Cham his youngest Son be supposed to represent Adam forasmuch as Adam in his Central Spirit in the Garden of Eden by his eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil desired through Knowledge which is a seeing of the Spirit to behold his Source and Original by which means Adam fell out of the inner into the outward and so begat Seth in his own likeness and not in the Image of God in which he was created Now Cham did the same also though in a more gross and material manner when he gazed upon his Fathers nakedness wherefore also he was cursed by his Father and made a Servant of Servants whereas his other two Brothers Japhet and Sem went backwards with a Garment upon their shoulders to cover their Fathers nakedness whereupon they obtained the Blessing as Adam likewise might have done in case he had behaved himself as they did which indeed he ought to have done in his Central Spirit viz. he should have gone backwards and wrought out the whole Creation which was created before him and of which â—he was the last viz. from the sixth day to the third which is the middle of the six days and not have gone from one extreme to the other as from the End to the Beginning viz. from Man immediately to the Trees but beginning from himself should have gone through all Beasts backwards and wrought them out one after another and glorified them in himself unto the very last of them counting backwards which are the creeping things as the first bestial Life which had their Original from the putrefaction of Herbs and Trees Is not this likewise the reason why the spiritual Serpent as being the head and chief amongst all the spiritual creeping Creatures in the spiritual World of Man did first speak in Adam 6 Q. When after the Deluge the Children of Noah who were saved in the Ark and in whom all the Souls that lived before the Deluge except Henoch alone whom the Scripture exempts and perished in it were ingrafted had now propagated and multiplied themselves until the number of their Children and Grand-children was grown very great and perceived in themselves one Mindâ— Speech and Expression but withal considering that this unity of theirs could not be lasting and constant but that in process of time they would be divided May we not suppose therefore that from an apprehension of such a Division and aâ— endeavour to prevent the same when in their