do not know God and Christ and the true righteousnes of the godly-beeing in himself but imagineth of God and Christ without him and so goeth on according to his own good-thinking without the Administration of the true light and his Love Yea it is d Mat. 11. Mat. 13. 19. Iohn 14. unpossible after that manner to understand the right mind cleerly And although likewise he would search out all the knowledge of the world yet is it all in vaine for to understand the same 5. Although the man should imagine of the same minde in the deepest ground of his reason yet can he not doubtless with any manner of prudence of the flesh conceive that understanding For it is an understanding e Esa 57. Esa 66. Sap. 1. Mat. 11. that riseth not up in the knowledge but to the lowly and poor of spirit namely in the belief of the holy and gracious word under the obedience of the Love 6. For God the Father the Lord Iesus Christ nor yet the true light of the godly wisdom shall f Sap. 1. 1 Cor. 2. not be known out of the blood or will of man nor out of any deep searching with the knowledge For God is a g Iohn 4. Spirit a very true light h Iohn 1. Iohn 8. Iohn 9. Iohn 11. Iohn 12. 14. and an everlasting life which God also is not known seen nor understood but in his own Spirit and in his true light and godly beeing 7. Seeing then that the only God is a i 1 Iohn 1. very true Light that no darknesses do know or behold is not to be known or beheld but in his light k Psal 36. therefore is not he known likewise but by those that doe hear and beleeve his gracious word and that submit them l Iohn 8. obediently under the requiring of the same word and wil and so do carry the Image m 1 Cor. 15. Eph. 4. of his godly-beeing or doe behold the same n 2 Pet. 1 in their Spirit as a pattern of God and hope thereon through faith And the Spirit of those same obedient humble ones is the spirit that giveth respect too the serviceable testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love to the end to be incorporated o John 15. Iohn 17. Ephes 3. to the like-beeing of God namely the brightness of the cleerness of the godly beeing the upright Righteousness p Ephes 4. and holiness that God esteemeth and then to know God the Father and his Son Jesu Christ rightly and according to the Truth and to understand the q Iohn 17. Mat. 13. secretness of the kingdom of God and Christ 8. But seeing now that the man is gon back or faln away r Gen. 3. Deut. 32 Ier. 2. from his God and from this pure beauty and cleerness of the godly-beeing and Å¿ Rom. 1. Ephes 4. estranged from the understanding of the wisdom of Iesu Christ therefore is he also become dis-inherited of this cleerness or brightness of the godly light and hath neither known the Father nor his Son the Lord Iesu Christ by meanes of which estranging he hath not borne or carried in his spirit t 1 Cor. 15. Ephes 4. the Image or like-beeing of his God namely Jesus Christ to which effect the Gospel or u Mat. 28. Mar. 16. joyfull message is published whereby to bring the man again to Christ and to establish him in him But x Gen 3. the man is by the self wisdom of the flesh and by his own opinion quite led away from the upright minde or understanding of the Gospel and from the incorporating or establishing in Iesu Christ and brought to the corruption and hath with smart and calamity born the ungodly beeing or the contrary nature unto his God y Sap. 1. to the which he is neither created nor called 9. This contrary nature unto God or darkness hath captived z Mar. 6. Rom. 1. 2 Cor. 4. his senses and thoughts and stoln away his heart and understanding so that he can conceive or understand very little of the true light or Christ of God and that only because he is so utterly estranged from * Ephes 4. Col. 1. the beeing of God and hath grounded him on the knowledge The third Chapter NOw for to discover the minde a little how or in what being or form the word God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ is witnessed by the Apostles of Christ So must I rehearse a little of Adam to what end he was created whereby men may understand the intent whereto Christ is preached 2. When the Almighty God who is full of wisdome and righteousness had finished a Gen. 1. heaven and earth and all their garnishing then did he also create him a man b Gen. 1. Gen 2. Sap 2. Eccles 17. according to the likeness of his Godhead who should carry or beare the very like beeing of God and the Image of his glory as a fellow partaker of or being like unto the godly nature and kind Through which like beeing of God God would be known everlastingly in the man as a true God 3. Here through was God in the beginning as a light of life of one substance with the manly creatures God c Gen 2â— brought forth the memory for a good and holy understanding because that his like-beeing should not be alone in the manly creatures but that the memory should in all good and holy understanding be an help d 2 Gal. 10 or aid to the like-beeing of the Godhead in the manly creatures to all peace and concord and to all Love and welfare upon earth 4. Behold according to all like resemblance even as God is a very true e Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 1. light and everlasting life so is also his like-being a true light and everlasting life in the manly creatures that are comprehended in the upright Estate of their manly being and in Christ in such like manner also in them the memory that God hath brought forth out of his like-being which memory in those same manly creatures namely being in their right estate is likewise a light of the true light and a life of the true life and that altogether to peace and righteousnesse upon earth 5. This in the former Kingdom was Gods glory in his manly creatures whom he had chosen to himself to the end that they should f 2 Pet. 3. inhabite the earth with righteousnesse and that even so there-through the highest God as a living and true God and his holy being and vertuous nature should as well upon earth as in heaven be known for evermore in the spirit of the manly creatures and have his shape in them and so live in them 6. Behold that same true and like-beeing of God which is flowed or born out of the eternall and living Godhead is the first born g 1 Cor. 15. Col. 1. of all creatures
and is the true and living Christ of God h Psal 16. Act. 2 Act. 13. which cannot be corrupted but he continueth alwayes i Psal 9. and everlastingly For he is the k Iohn 3. Rom. 1. only born son of God and avery true l Ioh. 1. Iohn 14. light and eternall life for evermore like unto his Father 7. From hence hath the man turned him and seen and tasted the corruption but so hath not the Christ of God For Gods very like-being the true Christ of God m Eph. 4. Col. 3. is the upright righteousnesse and holinesse which is everlasting and n Sap. 1. immortall also undestroyable unchangeable and uncorruptible But the unrighteousnesse is the obtaining of death and of the corruption which corruption or deadly mortality o Gen. 3. Rom. 5. 1 Cor. 15. the man hath taken on and there-through hath born the contrary being to God p Sap. 2. Iohn 8. that Antichrist the like-being of the devill and so is driven from the beholding of God q Gen. 3 without the riches of the godly goods and hath lost the mercy-seat of his salvation 8. Which salvation of the mercy-seat is r Gen. 12. Gen. 22. Act 3. Gal. 3. covenanted and promised again by the God of life unto Abraham and his seed And through that same the blessing of all generations of the earth after which salvation many Å¿ Mat. 13. Luke 10. 1 Pet. 1. Kings and Prophets have sought and inquired which they saw into afar off as coming but they could not attain unto it but have witnessed and prophecied thereof that the same should be inherited in all Love Peace and upright Righteousnesse in the last time The Fourth Chapter THis grace of salvation and this like being of God which became unknown through Adam did in times past appear in Israel out a Mat. 1. Luke 1. Luke 2. of the house of David of the tribe of Iuda like as God had promised b Psal 78. Esa 9. Ier. 23. Ier. 30. Dan. 9. through the Law and the mouth of all his Prophets and he is published c Act. 2. Acts 3. Acts 13. to the whole generation of Israel to be their King Saviour and Messias and that God had shewed the mercy d Luke 1. on them for to help up Israel his servant And so at the same time God was mercifull unto his chosen people and hath not forgotten his Covenant even as he had promised unto Abraham and his seed 2. Even thus verily was this like-being of God the true Christ and only born son of God from Eternity born of the e Luke 2. Rom. 1. seed of David according to the flesh to be a Saviour to the generation of Israel for to set up Israel in his righteousnesse But certain of the wise and scripture-learned ones after the Law f Mat. 12. Mat. 15. Mat. 21. 27 c. Acts 2. Acts 3. have neither believed nor received the same Iesus Christ according to the flesh but have withstood him and refused both him and his requiring g Mat. 23. not allowed of him but have delivered him over unto the Heathen h Mat. 27. to the death of the Crosse 3. Yea so far is the unregenerated man differing from the minde of God although he bewise prudent or understanding in the knowledge and Scripture-learnednesse that he for his own wisdomes cause doth understand i Mat. 11. 1 Cor. 2. nothing at all of the mind of God nor of the setting up of Israel neither yet can he attaine thereunto with his own wisdome like as it hath also come to passe with the wise Scripture-learned ones of the Law And this Christ of God k Luke 24. Acts 3. Acts 17. hath been forced to suffer yea from the l Apoc. 13. beginning of the world forth for the wisdome of the flesh and the sinnes cause And it went with him m Mat. 26 Luke 22. as was written thereof and he was killed on the earth with the contemnable n Sap. 2. Mat. 27. death of the Crosse and buryed in the heart of the earth 4. Seeing now that it was impossible that the death could hold him or that he should see the o Psal 16. Acts 2. Acts 13. corruption to a consumation therefore is he risen again p Mar. 16. Luke 24. Acts 2. Acts 10. 1 Cor. 15. from the death for a perpetuall conquering of the sinne and death through his death of the Crosse and hath made himselfe manifest unto his friends that loved him and were his Disciples and renewing them in the word of his doctrine he q Luke 24 shewed them through his suffering and death of the Crosse the victory r 1 Cor. 15 against the sinne death Devill and Hell 5. Now when as these his disciples were renewed and established in the word of his doctrine and armed s 1 Pet 4. with the same mind of the suffering of Jesus Christ t Mar. 16. Luke 24. Acts 1. then was he taken up from them to the right hand of God his Father in the heavenly being From thence hath he comforted his disciples and comprised his shape in them out of the heavenly being u Acts 1. Acts 2. powring forth v his holy Spirit into them as a new and true x Apo. 21. Jerusalem which is not prepared by men but by God like a garnished Bride for her Husband And even thus became God the Father through his only-borne Sonne Christ of one substance againe y Acts 2. with the manly creatures And to that end also because that all manly creatures should through Christ be z Iohn 17. one substance with God the Father is Christ preached And in such a state doth God require to have his people or the Congregation of Jesu Christ 6. Behold these disciples of Jesu Christ who through Christ were sealed with the holy a Acts 2. Rom 8. 2 Cor. 5. Spirit of Christ from the right hand of God b Mat. 13. taught to the Kingdome of the God of heavens and established in God the Father and in the Lord Jesu Christ were the right christians not out of the letter or flesh c Mat. 26. Luke 22. Iohn 6. 1 Cor. 11. wherewith they had been served till unto the coming of the same clearnesse of Christ but out of the power of God d Luk. 24. Acts 1. Acts 2. 1 Cor. 2. in the Spirit and did beare even thus e 2 Cor. 4. a costly treasure in earthen vessels namely the very like-being of God the Almighty 7. Which being of God f 2 Cor. 4. Phil. 2. Col. 1. Heb. 1. is the true Christ himself according to the spirit with whom they had their fellowship And through him seeing he was one with God their g 1 Ioh. 1. fellowship was also with God the Father Whereby they used that word God our Father and the Lord
his Son Jesu Christ The which also many no doubt doe speak or witnesse in that manner out of the letter and out of the imagination of the good-thinking knowledge but they are wide of it according to the truth But these who h Acts 2. 1 Cor. 2. 1 Iohn 1. witnessed that word out of the spirit and truth have witnessed the grace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesu Christ in the truth of God And yet notwithstanding have confessed no more but one God but have witnessed the wonderfull acts of God shewed on them through Jesus Christ And i Ioel 2. Acts 2. it shall come to passe saith God in the last dayes 8. This grace of salvation that k Luke 1. Luke 2. Acts 2. Acts 3. Acts 4. c. appeared to the Jewes which many of them in that time refused is published to the Heathen l Mat 3. Luke 2. Acts 13. to a Repentance for their sinnes to the end that they should m Iohn 1. believe on the like-beeing of God the Almighty that was appeared unto them and so become partakers likewise of the gifts of the holy Ghost through Jesus Christ out of the fatherly grace and that their fellowship might be one n 1 Ioh. 1. with God the Father and his Sonne Jesu Christ in one manner of faith 9. And to that end was the service of Christ ministred o 2 Cor. 10 under the obedience of faith by the Apostles of Christ to the unbelieving Heathen namely in the word of the preaching of the Disciples and Apostles of Christ to the intent that the same life of righteousnesse that was refused p Acts 3. by the Jewes should be set up among the Heathen through faith and so they sought to confirme the Law among the Heathen through faith and to bring forth the righteousnesse thereby q Rom. 3. Gal. 2. Gal. 3. Phil. 3. that is required by the law The Fifth Chapter BEhold even thus for a a Luke 2. Light and Salvation of the Heathen is this same only out of grace undeserved published unto the Heathen for a Gospel to a mortifying of their vaine understanding b Rom. 1 Rom. 6. Rom 8 1 Cor. 5. 1 Cor. 6. Gal. 5. Gal. 6. and of the corrupt ungodly beeing and to an incorporating to the new man whom the Apostles of Christ did publish namely Christ the like-beeing of God c Luke 1. Ephes 4. in upright righteousnesse and holinesse In whom and in none other standeth the forgivenesse of sinnes 2. These publishers of the holy Word or Gospel of the Kingdome of God seeing now that Jesus Christ had a shape in them as a very true light and life of God and that Gods shape was in Christ where-thorough they likewise were in Christ and God in them have published that word Grace and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesu Christ in the truth 3. But although the Apostles did publish this after this manner yet have they notwithstanding spoken no otherwise then of one God who had shewed his procreation or generation in them as a e Iohn 1. glory of the only-borne Sonne of the Father full of grace and truth namely that God the Father had begotten and declared in them his like f Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 1. life of God out of his life and his like light out of his light 4. Seeing then that they did beare this like-beeing of the God-head in them therefore have they through the same knowne the living God who was their salvation namely through the life of God Jesu Christ being appeared unto them g Ephes 3 in the spirit Where-through they also published the life that is everlasting and so witnessed likewise that those which had h 1 Ioh. 5. not the Son of God could not also have the Father and that they were without i Ephes 2. God in this world For the like-life of God k Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 5. is the only born Son of God himself And whosoever refused him might not obtain the grace before God For it is so concluded by God for ever that in the Son is the life of salvation l Iohn 10. Iohn 14. and that it shall also be obtained in him 5. This is verily the grace of God the Father which was published in times past unto the children of men under the obedience of Faith and which is also published now in the last time under the obedience of the Love that the life of the living Godhead is appeared upon earth and that through the same the Unity in the Peace with God the Father is to be obtained whereby to m Iohn 8 Iohn 14. Iohn 17. know him in his glory and his uniformeness with the manhood through the Lord Iesus Christ Read Iohn 17. 6. Behold this is the difference with a brief Instruction betwixt God the Father and the Lord Iesus Christ Take it to heart 7. My service to content thee my Beloved vouchfase to take in good part with a regard to the God of the living And this my writing to the answering of thy request have I rehearsed in this manner seeing otherwise no means for to open the understanding of the Godhead of Christ and to content thee or to satisfie thy demand 8. Behold I have here witnessed the mind unto thee in full manner so that in this Instruction so far forth as the Lord n Ephes 1. dothilluminate thine understanding there shall be sufficient to answer thy request And thy intent of heart in the Spirit shall likewise through the beleif of the truth if thou hast a right regard hereunto o Prov. 4. and takest this same to heart be well-minded to our most holy Service of Love The Almighty God lead thee into his Righteousness Amen The End of the Third Epistle The Fourth Epistle A cleer Instruction of the Mediation of Iesu Christ that cometh to passe in the spirit for a Reconciliation betwixt God and the Man Jesus speaketh to his Disciples I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh to the Father but through me John 14.6 If any man enter in through me he shall be faved John 10.9 I am the light of the world who so followeth after me walketh not in darkness but he shall have the light of life Joh. 8.12 If any man will follow after me let him forsake himself and take up his Crosse on him and follow after me Matth. 16.24 Luke 9.23 He that taketh not up his Crosse on him and followeth after me he is not worthy of me or he may not be my Disciple Mat. 10.38 Luke 9.23 There was demanded by a lover of the Truth and an Instruction in writing desired thereupon how the Mediation of Jesu Christ according to the Spirit or spiritually cometh to passe in us to our a Rom. 5. Reconciliation with God the Father and how Christ is an b Heb. 1.
hath God according to such a mind of the man no d Rom. 8. pleasure in the earthly man nor yet the earthly man in God nor in his requiring 10. But seeing now that the only-borne e Mat. 16. Luke 9. Iohn 6. Sonne of God the Father according to the spirit namely Christ the like f Sap. 7. Col. 1. Heb 1. beeing of God is also the only-borne Sonne out of the g Mat. 1. Rom. 1. manhood of the seed of David according to the flesh and beareth in us the Image of the earthly manhood as well as the Image of the heavenly God-head therefore it is not his will that the man whom he hath created h Sap. 1. Sap. 2. Eccles 17. to be an Image of his like-beeing should perish in the disobedience of the earthly man i Ezek 18. Ez k 33. 2 Pet 3. nor in the sins of the earthly being but should live for ever and ever with him and with his spirit in the upright righteousnesse of his heavenly beeing and that all men likewise which love God and his righteousnesse should be assembled into the same beeing and be saved both in soule and body 11. Behold the same forementioned Christ and Sonne of God who for our sinnes cause hath suffered in us the death k Rom. 6. Phil. 2. of the Crosse and armeth us l 1 Pet. 4. with the same minde of his suffering and death maketh known unto us as is before said through his Service of Love his upright beeing of righteousnesse And in our good will to the same he bringeth his belief unto us and so in belief he himselfe m Esa 53.1 Pet 2. beareth our sinnes and justifieth n Rom 3. Gal. 2. us from the same through the belief And so taking our sinnes upon him in patience he o 1 Iohn 1. Iohn 4. reconcileth us before his Father and maketh his p Iohn 14. Apoc. 21. dwelling in us 12. Even thus verily with patience doth Christ come before the man for his q Rom. 8. 2 Cor. 12. Heb. 5. ignorance and weaknesse cause in the ministration of the gracious word of God his Father and in the same patience he through his Service of Love r draweth the man away from all that is ungodly and unreasonable and whereunto he is bound or wherewith he is bewitched according to his earthly and manly mind 13. Behold in this sort doth Christ in the obeying of the requiring of the service of his Love r Oze 13. Rom. 8. 1 Cor. 15. 2 Tim. 1. Heb. 2. 1 Iohn 3. break all the bands of the Devill and of the selfe-mindednesse of the flesh and bringeth the believing and obedient man to his spirituall and heavenly mind of the upright righteousnesse according to the mind of God his Father and even so as the f 1 Tim 2. Heb. 9. true mediatour to our reconcilement with God the Father he putteth away the t Esa 59. Ephes 2. middle-wall betwixt God and us and procureth the man that he uniteth him with a good will with a Godhead and God u Iohn 17. to an uniting with the manhood 14. Behold and have a good regard hereunto my beloved for even thus as is rehearsed is x Rom. 55. the peace and reconciliation with God the Father prepared for us through Christ and so he maketh of two y Ephes 22. that they be one namely the Godhead and the manhood 15. But in the meane time that we doe suffer with a Rom. 22. 2 Cor. 44. Phil. 3. 2 Tim. 22. Christ for the sinnes cause and doe daily take our b Mat 16. Luke 14. Crosse upon us with him so doe there yet daily no doubt many temptations meet with us through the unbeliefe of the earthly man and we doe stumble or fall and doe sinne also yet sometimes by reason of our ignorance and weaknesse Which sinne we doe not then commit in the Father but c Mat. 12. in the Sonne But if we be good of will and continue stedfast therein then is the sin d Act. 10. forgiven us through his name 16. For inasmuch as he himselfe beareth in us our sinnes therefore hath he e Heb. 55 compassion with our weaknesse and suffereth likewise with us in the belief till that all the contrary-being that is against the upright beeing of God the Father be overcome through the belief in the like-suffering with Christ f Rom. 6. Phil. 2. of the death of the Crosse and that Christ with his Father have gotten g 1 Cor. 15. the dominion against the sinne Which Crosse or suffering of Christ is the altar of the offering of Christ h Heb. 9. Heb. 13. in the holy whereon our sinnes be offered up through the offering of Christ as a sinne-offering death offering and debt-offering Through which offering of Christ wherein we doe obediently follow after i 1 Pet. 2. him till unto the second birth from the death we be k 2 Cor. 5. Ephes 1. Ephes 2. Heb. 9. sprinckled with his bloud of the true testament to the forgivenesse of sinnes and to an everlasting reconcilement with God the Father through faith and that same is the fulfilling of the true God-service in the holy 17. Through which fulfilling of the foregoing Service in the holy the godly understanding l 1 Cor. 13 Eph. 4 of the true age of the manly-beeing of Iesu Christ is inherited by us m 2 Cor. 3. the veil before the most holy put away from us and the n Esa 16. Heb. 1. Heb. 5. mercy-seat uncovered and declared unto us and likewise all the costly o Col. 2. riches of the upright spirituall and heavenly Goods in the very true most holy 18. When as we now are thus renewed p Rom. 12 Ephes 1. in Iesu Christ through faith also come to the same q Ephes 4. age of the man Christ and become one body with Iesu Christ so is God the Father then likewise r Ephes 2. one substance or manned with us through Christ and f 1 Cor. 15. is all in all and we have the t 2 Cor. 1. paune of his inheritance namely the holy Ghost wherewith we be grounded sealed and established n Ephes 3. in God through Iesus Christ And all that godly beeing even as we have witnessed before of God the Father doth then live substantially in us and so we have our x 1 Ioh. 1. fellowship with God the Father and with his Sonne the Lord Jesu Christ in the everlasting life wherein our joy is perfect 19. Behold that is the true joyfulnesse with Christ which we doe inherit in the Kingdome of God his Father and doe know no more of the Sinne. For in that we are dead y Rom 6. that are we dead unto the sinne and in that we live that live we unto God in Jesu Christ and so have a good and quiet conscience through Jesus Christ in his dominion over the Sinne and death 20. Which dominion of Christ and z Luke 16 Kingdome of God is as then come inwardly into us and it is with us in all points one God in one beeing namely the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost with the manhood in all Love And that is the life and peace and the * Gen 21. Rom 4. Gal. 3. seed of Promise to the blessing of all generations of the earth The Sixth Chapter MY beloved this same even as I have here witnessed unto thee is the right mediation of Jesu Christ inwardly in us to our safe-making and reconciliation a Rom. 3. 2 Cor. 5. Col. 1. 1 Iohn 2. with God the Father wherethrough also Christ is an b Heb. 1. heir of all things and God all c 1 Cor. 15. in all It is very true 2. And with this Instruction out of the heavenly truth doe I heartily salute thee in the Lord d Ephes 4. to an Unity of heart in the Love and look thou with spirituall eies of a pure heart into the ground of that whereof I write unto thee to the end that thou maist comprehend the secret understanding of the spirituall and holy knowledge whereof I write unto thee and let thine understanding awake to the Love and to her Service I desire likewise of thee that the Commonalty which is with thee may also read the Letter and salute them all in my behalfe e Rom. 16. 2 Cor. 13. with a salutation of the Love and if there be any among you that are acquainted with any people whom they know to seek God with heart or that are no undiscreet blasphemers but stand well-minded to the unity of heart in the Love let them also read over this writing And love alwayes the unity of heart in the Love to an increasing of the hely knowledge and rejoyce you among each other in the Love through the spirituall f Ephes 1. heavenly goods which doe come unto us in the Spirit out of the godly Love 4. The love of God the Father g Col. 3. get the victory in all your hearts Amen 5. Pray for me that the Lord will strengthen me in my Spirit with his Love to the end that I may bee strengthened in him without feare and so may stand fast against all mine enemies and that the concord of Peace may be prepared upon earth through the Love and her Service according to the Promises The End of the Fourth Epistle Our heart is the mind of God most High Our beeing amiable as the sweet Lilly Our faithfulness love and truth upright Is Gods light life and cleerness bright FINIS
The First Epistle A CRYING VOICE of the holy Spirit of Love wherewith all People are out of meer Grace called and bidden by H. N. to the true Repentance for their Sins to the Entrance into the upright Christian Life and to the House of the Love of Jesu Christ Luke 15.7 There shall be more joy in Heaven over one Sinner that repenteth then over ninety and nine just persons that need no Repentance O how lovely are the Feet of the Messengers that publish the Peace preach the Good and witness or declare the Salvation Isa 52.7 Rom. 10.15 Behold I will send mine Angel or Messenger which shall prepare the way or path the Street before me Mal. 3.1 Matth. 11.10 Mark 1.2 Luke 7.27 To day if ye hear his voice then harden not your Hearts that ye bide not without the Rest of the People of God Psal 95.7 8. Heb. 3.15 and 4.7 Printed in the yeer 1648. The First Epistle The First Chapter THis is the Crying or Voice which cometh to passe and is heard now in this present day through the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesu Christ and wherewith all People are by H. N. called and bidden to the Repentance for their sins and to the house of the Love of Jesu Christ the a Isai 32. Heb. 3. Heb. 4. Rest of all the Saints or Children of God And not alone with this Calling but also with all the Scriptures heavenly testimonies and spirituall Voyces of the eternall Truth which are gone forth from the holy Spirit of Love and brought to light by H. N. like as the Holy Ghost hath spoken thereof and warned all people that they in that present day when they hear his voice should in no wise harden b Psal 95. Heb. 3. their hearts namely that they should not refuse c 2 Cor. 6. Heb. 12. nor resist the same proffered Grace but humbly endeavour them thereunto to the end they might enter into the godly Rest which till unto this same day of Love is reserved for the People of God for to rest them therein 2. The most highest hath also after such a long time that He had promised the d Psal 95. Heb. 3. Rest to the people of God yet once more appointed a day on the e Acts 17. which the universall Earth should be judged with Righteousnesse 3. Therefore as the holy Ghost saith f Psal 95. Heb. 3. To day if ye shall heare his voice that is when the time now is fulfilled that the day of Love which the most highest hath appointed to be a Rest for the People of God declareth it self then shall ye heare that yee g Isa 42. Cap. 51. O all ye People are called and bidden to the same Grace and Mercy then harden not your hearts 4. Let every one h 2 Cor. 6. Heb. 12. take heed to this same gracious time that he may live and rest him in this same day from his Works Travell and i Apoc. 14. Labour 5. Seeing then there is yet a Rest k Isa 32. Hebr. 4. at hand for the people of God which is made manifest and inherited in the family of Love and that without the same or without his Service there is nothing but all l Deut. 12. good thinking m Isa 59. tedious travell labour and misery therefore doth not the holy spirit of Love cease this day by his minister H. N. to call and bid all people to the same family of Love n Psal 16. Psal 84. Ecclus 24. Apoc. 21. full of all lovely being and to his safe-making service to the preservation of them all in the godliness and to warn them every one o Isa 13. cap. 30. cap. 47. Dan. 12. Matth. 24. of the Wo and misery of the plagues of good-thinking that shall come upon them that remain without the same or that will not suffer themselvs to be led into the same through the service of the said family of love to the end that they might all now in the service of love and in the obeying of his requiring do upright p Mat. 3. Luke 3 Act. 2. 3. repentance for their Sins and enter into the Rest of the Lord. The Second Chapter BEare sorrow for your sins a Ezek. 18. Matth. 3. and shew upright fruits of Repentance the great b Isai 14. Ioel 2. Obad. 1. day of the Lord is come hard by and will now as a righteous c Ier. 46. Soph. 1 2. judgement of God appear over the whole Earth 2. Let every one now turn him away from the wicked world and from the Abomination of d Dan. 9. Matth. 24. her desolation make his repair hither to the e Isai 2. Mich 4. hill of the love whereon the Lords house is builded that he may be preserved in this same day of the righteous judgement of God 3. Yea turn you hither betimes to the house of the Love of Jesu Christ and to his sake-making service bear sorrow rightly for your sins f Matth 3. Luke 3. Luke 13. Acts 2. and shew forth upright Repentance or amendment for the same O ye strayed people before the day of the Lord fall upon you g Soph. 2. Mal. 4. to the recompencing of your wickednes 4. Come now all hither where the heavenly day light h Isai 60. Sap. 5 the Sun of righteousness shineth and where the waters i Ezek. 36. Apoc. 22. of life flow forth out of the fountain of the living Godhead to the purging of your Sins 5. Let every one now forsake his own word doctrine and taken-on knowledge and also the word doctrine and knowledge of all k Ier. 23.27.29 Ezek 13. Mich. 3. unsent preachers and good thinking wise-ones whereby ye be seduced blinded from the true fruits of Repentance and estranged from the true sanctification of your spirit and mind and come now all to this same l Ier. 29. Ier. 31. Mich 1. sanctuary of God out of the which the Lords living m Isai 2. word is witnessed the true repentance for the Sinne made known and the upright n Ephes 4. Col. 3. righteousness and holiness of Jesu Christ taught where-through ye be brought to the right quieting of your Consciences to the o Mat. 11. health of your souls and to the sanctification or p Rom. 12. Eph. 4. renewing of your spirit and mind 6. For that cause come now all to this same hill q Isai 2. or house of Love and in his out-flowing water r Ezek 13. Ezek. 36. clense and amend or hallow your being under the obedience of the Love of Iesu Christ that your sins may be Å¿ Acts 3. wiped out and ye become led even so into the t Isai 32. Heb. 3. Heb. 4. rest of all the children of God and Saints of Iesu Christ 7. Come now all likewise which through your u Rom. 1. Ephes 4. ignorant knowledge or
misunderstanding have turned away your selves from this same x Isai 16. Heb. 5. seat of Grace and lovely house of the love of Iesu Christ and from our y Iohn 17. 1 Ioh 1. Commonalty grown offended at our meanes or a 2 Cor. 1. simpleness and at the godly testimonies of our sayings and so made up your selves b 2 Tim. 1. 2 Tim. 3. resistant against us and our good doctrine and exercises separated your selves from us and grown bitter or wrathfull towards us together withall ye that have mistrusted us and c Iohn 8. Iohn 10. 2 Thes 2. not beleeved the holy word of the eternall Truth which we by Gods grace do administer under the obedience of the love but doubted therof and so for that cause through some perverse conceiving towards the same or towards us refused the d Prov. 1. proffered grace or kept your selves back e Ezek. 18. and repent you for your sins to your sanctification and to the health of your souls 8. Come likewise all ye which through any opinion of the self-wise-ones or through any good thinking or imagination of the knowledge have bin f Prov. 18. unregarding towards this same gracious and godly service of Love and towards his requiring and also ye which have heard or read the testimonies of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesu Christ and shewed no right obedience as likewise all ye which have over-reached your selves in any disorderly g Sap. 14. Rom. 1. dealing or false h 2 Pet. 2. Iude 1. freedom or in hearing and beleeving of any i Ier. 23. Ier. 17. unsent Preachers and so are faln to your k Ier 7. Ier. 18. own counsell or to the counsell of those that stand not submitted to the house of the love of Iesu Christ nor to his service and requiring or are strangers thereunto or yee that through your negligence or little regarding l Pro. 6. Prov. 24. of the requiring of the service of love are become vainly minded with the wicked world and with the vain or false m Rom. 2. 2 Pet. 2. Praters through the imagination of the knowledge that false light come and n Ecles 7. 1 Pet. 5. humble you and let all your understandings be renewed and to the obtaining of a good o Ephes 4. knowledge of Iesu Christ and his godliness brought to right under the obedience of the love and under the same p 1 Pet. 1. obedience q Ezek. 36. wash your bodies with the pure water of the love and so cleanse your hearts from all ungodly being r Isai 1. and wicked thoughts 9. Come now all hither and Å¿ Gal 6. Ephes 5. Apoc. 2. Apoc. 3. neglect not your time to day becometh the grace of the love of Iesu Christ poffered yet unto you all and the hand reached forth serviceably with the same to a peaceable t Eph. 4. Col. 3. Reconcilement with each other in Iesu Christ to an unity of heart with us in all love 10. Yea to day ere ever the u Prov. 1. Mat. 15. punishment of the last judgement go forth over all ungodly ones to their condemnation in the hellish fire yet yee be all called and bidden even out of meer Grace x Eph. 1. Eph. 2. and hearty love to the Commonalty of Saints which y 1 Ioh. 1. have their fellowship with Christ in the house of the love of Iesu Christ and that altogether to the preservation of you all in the godliness The third Chapter COme likewise all ye People Governours and Subjects noble and unnoble rich and poor wise and simple as also all men a Mat. 9. sinners and women sinners Turn you about betimes b Heb. 5. to the Mercy seat ere ever that ye be quite and clean swallowed up by the wicked world or with seducing babling through the false light and overwhelmed with the curse by the wrath c Eccles 5. Mal. 4. Rom. 2. of God 2. Come now all hither and confesse your sins lay open the d Prov. 18. Eccles 4. inwardnes of your hearts and bring forth right e Mat. 3. Luke 3. fruits of Repentance and so then suffer your selves to be f Ezek 36. Heb. 10. washed with the pure and safe-making water of the love in the Font of g Sap 3. Eccles 2. humiliation to the end that ye may be h Rom. 5. Rom. 8. Heb. 9. justified or cleansed from all your sins received into the holy Commonalty of love to be i Rom. 12. Ephes 4. fellow members of the Body of Iesu Christ and bide standing in holy k Psal 45. Sap 5. garnishing and not perish with the wicked world when as she now in this same day is judged with the Lords mighty hand 3. Which wicked world is kept l 2 Pet. 3. to the hellish fire till unto this day of love for to condemn the same for evermore in the same day of love to her eternall cursing and m Mat. 25. 2 Pet. 3. judgement of other fires cruelty together with all those that maintain the wicked world as also are affected to the same and will not turne them to Repentance 4. Verily in the same day when as now all ungodly ones n Mat. 25. 2 Thes 1 2 Iude 1. and all self-wise-ones with all unrepentant ones false hearts of the Scripture-learned which in their own opinion have falsely o Mat. 24. boasted themselves very stoutly to be Christians do inherit the terrible p Psal 13. Psal 47. Rom. 2. condemnation with many smarts in the cruelty of the hellish fire then shall the people of God namely the whole Commonalty of the love of Iesu Christ and all those that have turned them penitently from their sins to the same Commonalty or family of love q Isai 35. Isai 65. rejoyce them in all love and obtain a perpetuall r Isai 32. Sap. 3. rest in the everlasting life according to the promises of God the Father and his Christ 5. For that cause O all ye people upon earth take heed to this my voice or calling to this proffered Å¿ Prov. 1. Isai 49. Grace and to my warning all yee saith the holy Spirit of love which will remain preserved and be saved now in this same last day 6. For after the day of love inasmuch as it is the last or newest day on t Acts 17. the which the whole earth shall be judged with Righteousness there shall no u Apoc. 10 day of grace appeare any more upon the earth but a severe or hard x Heb. 10. 2 Pet. 3. judgement over all ungodly ones as is before said Take it to heart The End of the first Epistle The Second Epistle A short and pithy Instruction of the Mysterie of the Love Labour for Love Earnestly covet spirituall Gifts but chiefly that ye may prophecy 1 Cor. 14.1 The End of the
Commandment and the chief sum of faith is love with a pure Heart and with a good Conscience and with unfained faith 1 Tim. 1.5 There was demanded and an Instruction required thereupon in writing which is the Secretness or Mysterie of the Love and thereupon is answered by H.N. in writing according to the Declaration of the spiritual and heavenly truth this Instruction here following He that hath Eares to hear * Mar. 13. Luke 8. Apoc. 2.3 let him hear He that hath Wisdom let him conceive understanding The First Chapter WIth whom shall I a Prov. 8. speak saith the Wisdom that shall understand my words 2. To whom shall I reveal the Mystery of the love that shall conceive or know it 3. VVho are those that give eare unto my doctrine and have found my wayes 4. Who hath marked where my dwelling is and followed after me in my out-going and in-going 5. Who hath born the contempt blasphemy and shame with me when I lay in the b Prov. 1. Isai 59. street where the people shaked their Heads at c Psal 22. Psal 109. me as at a d Isai 53. Sap 2. filthy thing that is worthy to be cast away and as mad and frantick men ran over me with feet 6. Who hath had his pleasure in me when I was so e Isai 53. Sap. 2. filthy and so loathsome to look upon or to behold before all wisdom of the flesh and of the Unrepentant ones 7. Who hath denyed f Mat. 10. Mat. 16. Mar. 8. Luke 9. Luke 14. himself and is for the loves sake gone out of himself with me when I did in the love require the mans salvation and was condemned to the death g Mat. 26. Mat. 27. Marke 15. Luke 22. John 18. Iohn 19. of the Crosse and killed with the same death by the wise ones of the earth as a despised one or an out-cast upon the earth 8. Who hath born such a death h Rom 6. Phil. 2. of the Cross with me in all shame despising blaspheming and wicked defamation and shewed patience therein even unto the death 9. Who hath suffered himself to be buried in the heart of the earth with me like one that is dead 10. Who hath believed my i Iob 19. Dan. 12. 1 Cor 15. 1 Thes 4. rising from the death or trusted thereon for to rise also with me with his body 11. Who hath seen mine k Mat. 16. Luke 24. Acts 1 ascension to God my Father unto his right hand in the heavenly being and waited my coming l Isai 25. Isai 30. Mich 7. Phil. 3. from thence to a righteousnes upon the earth 12. Who hath marked that I live and raign with m Ecclus. 24. God and that my greatnes is more then all n 3 Reg. 8. 2 Par. 2.6 heavens can comprehend where also no earthly o 1 Cor. 2. understanding nor all whatsoever is born out of the earthly blood can know me 13. And if now there be any man that is passed thorow all these things with me or that doth now presently go thorow this narrow way p 4 Esd 7. Mat 7. Luke 13. with me to the life he shall understand and know the mysterie of the love 14. He shall likewise taste and feel the perfection of all goodness and approach to the love in her vertuous nature and become of one being therewith 15. Behold and consider that is the ground of the holy and godly understanding touching the Mysterie or Secretnes of the upright love The Second Chapter OYe lustfull Souls to the mysterie of the love gather out the a 1 Esd 8. minde and search no further For doubtless the love suffereth not her self to be approached unto understood nor known neither for this nor that nor through any manner of cause let it be by what meanes soever it will nor through any manner of minde or will but only by her own vertuous nature and lovely being as through her self or through her service For shee the everlasting good excelleth it all far away 2. Also she receiveth nothing of any man but she her self out of her almighty and vertuous nature and spirit is a plentiful distributrix of her own abundant riches as an infinite flowing river of all godly goods alwaies b Gen. 2. refreshing the Paradise of the Lord. 3. The Love is her self a nurse unto her children and a sure band unto all those that are incorporated to the everlasting life and a mighty strength which is able to suffer and to endure c Cor. 13. all things 4. The Love is also an d Exod. 3. cap. 19 20 Isai 33. holy mountain the which no man being unhallowed or unprepared may touch or come neer For whosoever toucheth the same mountain and is not of her part to him is she a consuming fire whose burning heat e Isai 33. no man can endure but he which is of her like nature or seed Who so resisteth and submitteth not himself under her and her service he shall be broken and battered to pieces like f Psal 2. Isai 30. Ier. 18. Ier. 19. a Potters Vessell 5. The love in her service is an originall or beginning of all good and upright life For through her service she draweth the minde and thoughts of the heart away from all that is vaine corruptible and evill 6. She unbindeth or looseth the everlasting perfection For to come into the life of the eternall uncreatedness in the kingdom of the God of heavens full of all pure beauty wherein all earthly and corrupt self-minded thoughts doe cease and where the corruptible mortality is not beholden 7. For in the love is nothing else but all good and life as also the heavenly and endless kingdom of Jesu Christ in full undisturbable power wherein the mindes of the pure hearts doe dwell free without care or fear with all g Isai 35. Isa 51. Apoc. 21. glory and joy and with Christian Triumph 8. Which freedom of the children of God which fulness of the godly delights and of the godly life no man can obtain that hangeth his delight will and life and tyeth or bindeth himself on the earthly visible or corruptible beeing But they remain vainly-minded in the darkness of the unbelieving mindes whose h Rom. 1. Eph. 4. hearts are blinded with the vain comfort of this world and of the good-thinking wise ones For which Ignorances cause they cannot understand the right ground of the secret love 9. But salvation and i Luke 2. Peace be unto all those that are good of will and that take heed to the time k 1 Cor. 6. Heb. 12. of grace that give their understanding captive under the obedience of the Love and that doe even so with humble and obedient hearts beleeve or trust the love in her Service 10. Happy are they whose devotion of heart God stirreth up thereto For through the love of God the Father
heire of all things and how c 1 Cor. 15. God is all in all Whereupon this present Letter is written by H. N. out of an Inclination of the Love very profitable and needful to the understanding thereof for all those that hope upon God upon Christ and upon their salvation To the end that they may understand which is the right ground of the belief in Iesu Christ where-through one is justified from the Sin for to be in that sort reconciled with God in a new Life according to the Scripture The First Chapter FOrasmuch as I have alwaies found my self willingly bent to doe thee service my beloved Brother so doe I also still find my self ready prepared thereto namely in that wherein I may be serviceable unto thee to a guiding into the holy understanding to the end that thou if God vouchsafe the same mightest through my small Service be a little furthered to the good knowledge in God and his Christ 2. But seeing I am alwaies carefull and do stand in fear to write much of the deepe grounds of the a Rom. 11. secret knowledges of God and Christ so am I alwaies carefull lest that the same if we should write boldly thereof might thrust back any one from us and our godly doctrine or offend him thereby or that any one should desire to glory or to boast therein as in a knowledge of the flesh and not before all things or with his whole heart to be partaker in the spirit b 2 Pet. 1. of the beeing whereof we doe write or witness 3. For albeit that we do know well according to the comprehension of our naturall reason that there is a God a Christ and a holy Ghost and so do talk of them and yet do not through that knowledge believe serve nor love the same God as he is a God and his Christ as he is a Christ and the holy Ghost as he is an holy Ghost nor yet desire to become partakers of his being but to live in a c Rom. 1. Ephes 4. strange being which is none of Gods being and to cleave unto the same so is then the knowledge of the holy secretnesse of God more hurtfull then furdersome unto us For if we know in what forme or being that there is a God and yet doe not honour nor serve him as he is a God but have a lust to the contrary-being unto God then is that same to a d Mat. 25. Luke 12. more grievous condemnation unto us 4. Seeing now that I through the light doe behold these perils so am I likewise carefull therein to write of the secrets of God before many And if thou lookest with me into the perils then know I well that thou wilt not disalow me in my carefulnesse For I have much more delight in the obeying of the requiring of the service of Love and where Gods being light or upright righteousnesse doth even so then rise up in e Esa 58. power in the inward man then where as men doe with speakable words out of the knowledge talke much of the secretnesse of God according to the outward manner 5. Thou also knowest partly my conversation in what sort it was with thee and how fearefully touching many words I have behaved my self with thee shewing thee that the f Mat. 13. secretnesse of the Kingdome of God or Christ consisteth not g 1 Cor. 2 in the multitude of words nor in the riches of the knowledge because that thou shouldest not suffer thy selfe to be bewitched by any man with outward or strange words or sayings of plentifull store of Languages as to let thine heart commit whoredome therewith But that thou mightest have a much more regard unto the power of God and unto the upright righteousnesse that God worketh through the ministration of his gracious word and service of love in the spirit of the inward man to the end for to live uprightly therein with a meek-minded spirit For a meek-minded h Psal 5. Esa 57. Isa 61. Esa 66. spirit which hath his proceeding obediently according to the requiring of the Lords word is very precious and acceptable before God 6. And although that we doe in the same spirit goe on in silence as touching the outward manner and are poore of spirit in Tongues or Languages yet is not for all that the richnesse of the spirituall and heavenly knowledge of God ever the lesse among us but rather the greater and the same and all that which is of God and Christ doe we esteeme very i Iob. 28. Psal 19. Pro. 3. Pro. 8. Sap. 7. precious yea much worthier then all the riches or costly treasures of this world for that same of worthinesse part excelleth it all For which occasion we let our words be few because that the same which we speak may not proceed out of the knowledge but out of the k 1 Cor. 2. power of God and out of the truth of Jesu Christ 7. And in the same speech of the godly things we do also take heed with foresightfulness so much as we may therein of the loose ones of heart to the end that there be not one godly saying of the precious secret wisdome spoken out in vain O! how l Eccl. 14. Eccles 15. Iames 3. happy is he that falleth not in his tongue and whose words m Col. 4. are tempered with salt 8. Now this being omitted I rejoyce me doubtlesse of thee and of the Commonalty that is with thee and I hope to rejoyce me yet more with thee with greater joy by means of the Answer unto me that I have heard from thee as that ye altogether are wel-minded to that which is the beeing it selfe whereof the Scripture witnesseth as personally of God of Christ and of the holy Ghost Which beeing for those that be partakers thereof are the secret Treasures and n Mat. 12. heavenly riches of God whereof the world the rich Scripture learned ones nor the good-thinking wise with all their deep-groundly knowledge do neither know nor understand o Mat. 11. 1 Cor. 2. any thing at all 9. It is true they have the Scripture of the godly witnesses where-through they suppose to be wise and understanding But seeing they give not their understanding captive under the obedience of the Love of Jesu Christ and come p Iohn 5. not even so to the beeing whereof the Scripture speaketh nor yet believe thereon q Iohn 7. as the Scripture saith so is there likewise no light nor truth nor yet spirit nor being of God among them and they also doe neither know nor r Mat. 22. 1 Tim. 1. understand that which they themselves speak thereof 10. But the God of life f Ephes 2. who is rich of mercie hath out of his hearty Love t Ephes 1. Ephes 2. Ephes 3. Col. 1. revealed the beeing of his glory unto us renewed our ignorant understanding under the obedience of his
Love to a spirituall mind of the upright righteousnesse and when we were full of infirmities u Rom. 5. Ephes 2. Col. 1. Col. 2. and dead for the sinnes cause begotten us again out of his Love x Tit. 1. Tit. 3. to a sure hope of his life 11. Seeing then that y Heb. 12. such a cloud of holy dew is by Gods grace appeared in our sight according to the spirit and come from Gods right hand as an heavenly blessing and whereout also the right beeing of God whereof we speak a 2 Cor. 4. ariseth unto us as a light and cleernesse therefore have we although the Scripture witnesseth thereon and that we doe heare many speak thereof more regard unto that which is the upright beeing it selfe wherein our joy standeth then unto that which witnesseth thereon 12. For the same light that shineth now unto us out of the heavenly truth b 1 Ioh 1. is the everlasting life which was with the Father in the beginning and it is c Psal 45. Heb. 1. the Mercie-seat of the godly Majesty which continueth from everlasting to everlasting Even as I likewise have talked with thee of the same when I was last with thee The Second Chapter FOrasmuch then as thy request was unto me at that time to write thee an Instruction of the mediation of Jesu Christ after the Spirit and how the same cometh to passe in us a Rom. 3. 2 Cor. 5. Ephes 2. 1 Iohn 2. 1 Iohn 4. for a reconciliation betwixt God and us and how Christ is b Heb. 1. an heir of all things and how c 1 Cor. 15. God is all in all therefore will I open a little of the same unto thee and I hope also to satisfie thee well with this instruction 2. Inasmuch then as I have partly marked thine Inclination to the holy and spirituall understanding of the upright righteousnesse therefore can I not of natures part omit but must witnesse unto thee of that which thou desirest at my hands also reveale the d Ephes 3. Mysterie of Christ and make known unto thee that which is hidden e Rom. 15. Ephes 1. Eph. 3. Col. 1. before the world and all her wise ones and describe it unto thee in writing accordingly as the Lord illuminateth mine understanding thereto and as it may be profitable for thee to edification 3. There is testified in the Scripture the which according to the spirit is also very true that God is f Iohn 4. 2 Cor. 3. a Spirit and a g 1 Ioh. 1. very true light with whom no darknesses or sins are mingled But seeing that the man is faln h Gen 3. Esa 59. into a strange contrary-beeing unto God and goeth on and liveth therein so is he likewise i Ephes 4. Col. 1. estranged from God and from his light and walketh according to the flesh or outward and according to the requiring and desires of the fore-skin of his uncircumcised heart and not according to the spirit or according to the requireing of the godly-beeing and so he k Psal 82. Ephes 5. walketh in the ungodly-beeing of the darknesses and that same ungodly-beeing of the darknesses hath l Rom. 1. Ephes 4. blinded his heart And that verily is the sin m Esa 59. which separateth the man from his God and it is the n Ephes 2. middle wall as an enmity between God and the man By meanes of which middle wall both God and the man are grown into two parts and are partially minded against each other Yet ought they both God and the man to be o Iohn 17 Ephes 5. one like as it was p Gen. 2. in the beginning 4. Seeing now therfore that they are divided either of them in his own minde q Gal. 5. against each other so is God r Iohn 4. 2 Cor. 3. who is a spirit spirituall and minded to all upright righteousness against the minde of man and the man who is Å¿ Gen. 6. flesh and blood and not yet circumcied t Gen. 10. Ier 4. on the fore-skin of his heart to a laying away of the sin u Rom. 8 is fleshly and ungodly minded against the minde of God 5. Now doth Gods love and mercy extend towards the man as alluring x Iohn 6. and drawing him daily by his gracious word and service of Love and by his Ministers unto him and to his spirituall minde of upright righteousnesse But seeing that the darknesse the sinfull flesh or ungodly beeing is grown between God and man as a fore-skin y Esa 59. Ephes 2. or middle wall and as an enmity and that God is spiritually minded and the uncircumcised man fleshly minded according to the minde of his fore-skin of the sinfull flesh therefore doth not the z Rom. 8. 1 Cor. 3. man understand the spirituall minde of God the father neither yet know the good will of God that loveth him to Salvation and he believeth not God in his word nor service but he believeth the darknesse which hath inclosed him and following those sad lusts a Ephes 4. of error he goeth back and so sinneth daily against the father and that is the sin that is forgiven b Mat. 12. the man in his repentance for the sin because of his ignoance through unbelief The Third Chapter NOw mightest thou demand what spirit or being is this God of whom the Scripture witnesseth or unto whom we ought to turne us in the Spirit the Answer Of the same have we rehearsed in the a Intro 22 Intro 23. Introduction to the holy understanding of the glasse of righteousnesse But now for to come to the knowledge of our selves and to a good knowledge of our God and his righteousnesse so will we to a larger declaring of our understanding touching that whereof we speak and to a distincting of the true light the living God who b Heb. 13. was and is and continueth for ever rehearse and testifie here in this place also of the beeing of the only God 2. This God the living and very true one is the true c Exod. 3. God of Abraham through whom the d Gen. 12. Rom. 4. promises of the mans salvation or blessing doe come to passe in his faith the true God e Mat. 22. of Isaac in whom the f Gen. 21. Heb. 11. promises be inherited and in whom the seed of blessing is named and the true God of g Acts 7. Jacob or Israel in whom the promises of the glory h Numb 14. Esa 40. of God and of the mans salvation or i Ier. 23. Ier. 33. blessing become established and k Luke 1. Gods true righteousnesse this selfe same God l Sap 5. Eccles 24. 1 Pet. 2. Iames 1. is a very true unchangeable light a cleer m Ephe. 1. day and a glistering delightfull beauty 3. This light is the n Ioh. 14. everlasting
life of the upright righteousnesse an overflowing o Ps 42. Ier. 2. Iohn 4. fountaine of living waters full of joy full of all sweetnesse full of Love and full of peace abounding with plenty of grace and mercy 4. This life is the p Iohn 1. everlasting firm-standing essentiall word q 1 Cor. 2. Heb. 4. full of power and possibility 5. This word is the r Iohn 6. Ephes 1. Ephes 6. 4. true spirit with full power of sealing or to an everlasting establishing of the living Godhead with the manhood and that is unto the man the certainty of the truth that he the same God is only Å¿ Ps 116. Iohn 3. Rom. 3. a very true God 6. This spirit is t Sap. 7. the holy wisdome and the upright understanding full of all spirituall heavenly goods 7. This holy wisdome and upright understanding is the u Eccles 4. providence which so reseeth every thing that is good and discerneth life and death and giveth knowledge of the good x Pro. 2. to a warning from the evill 8. This providence is the will y Sap. 1. which willeth that all that which is good should be and come to light 9. In this same good will is the z Heb. 11. beliefe grounded as a sure and firme confidence that all that which is good and foreseen to the good shall be performed or come to light the which the good will desireth that all that which is good may be become manifest and live 10. The beliefe a 1 Cor. 2. Ephes 1. Ephes 3. Phil. 3. is the power as mighty to bring to light all good there through 11. This power is the deed or the work of all good and b Phil. 2. the accomplishment of all the works of God 12. Behold such a spirit or beeing is the true God of whom the Scripture speaketh and unto whom the man ought to turne him for he the same God is the right Father who out of himselfe and through the like-being of his Godhead hath made c Gen 1. Psal 33. Iohn 1. Ephes 3. all that is any thing and all his d Psal 19. Ps 89. 97. Rom. 1. works doe testifie of him that he the same God is an everlasting living and true God to the end that he only should be e Deut. 6. Deut. 10. served honoured and worshipped in all his workes as a great glorious God f Ps 10. 29. who only is the Lord and King 13. This everlasting God seeing that he hath made g Pro. 8. Iohn 1. all that is any thing through his like-beeing for that the same like-beeing should be h Heb. 1. an heir in all things hath also in the beginning formed i Gen 1. Sap. 2. that same his very like-beeing in the man And so hath God made and ordained every thing k Eccl. 39. well through his godly beeing And l Iohn 1. without that same beeing God hath made nothing that is any what nor ordained any thing without the same and that same like-beeing of his Godhead m Iohn 1. Iohn 6. is his only born Son Jesus Christ and is the n 1 Cor. 15. Col. 1. firstling or the first-born of all creatures whom God hath fore-seen thereto ere-ever o Pro. 8. the foundation of the world was laid p Heb. 1. and to be an heire of all his works 14. He is promised q Iohn 3. Rom. 8. and given unto us by God the Father as a Christ of God for a life and for a Salvation and is likewise so r Ps 19. Acts 2. Act. 3. c. preached and published to the world But the world hath not beleeved in him and therefore also Å¿ Iohn 8. Iohn 9. remaineth her sin and death 15. For in no man else but in that same only Christ t Iohn 1. is the life Which life is a light of men and that light shineth in the darknesses and the darknesses have not comprehended it 16. That same is a very true light u Iohn 8. which lighteth all men through his coming into this world and he was in the world and the world was made through him but the world knew him not 17. He came into his own and his own received him not But so many as received him to them gave he the power to be children of God namely Those that beleeved on his Name which are not born of blood nor of the will of the Flesh nor yet of the will of man but of God The Fourth Chapter OF this selfe same only born Son of God the Father the Prophet Isaiah doth also witness a Esa 3. A childe saith he is born unto us a son is given unto us whose dominion is upon his Shoulders and he is called wonderfull counsell power giant everlasting Father a peaceable Prince Because that his dominion may be great and no end of the Peace upon the seat of David and his Kingdom 2. Him hath likewise the Prophet David seen in the Spirit and witnessed of him that God hath b Ps 110. Heb. 5. Heb. 7. sworn and it shall not repent him that he is a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech and he continueth also an High Priest c Heb. 3. Heb. 10 over the house of God for ever as d Heb. 8. Heb. 9. a Minister of the spirituall and heavenly goods Which ministration cometh to passe in the spirit and not in the letter even as is written of him 3. But seeing now that the man is fallen away e Gen. 3. Ephes 4. Col. 1. or estranged from this upright beeing of his God therefore hath this Christ the true Lambe of God suffered f Phil. 2. the death of the Crosse in the man Which Lambe of God was killed g Apoc. 5. Apoc. 13. from the beginning of the world for the sins cause But seeing he is not of the death but of the living Father the God for ever therefore is he also risen h Mar. 16. Luke 24. Acts 2. Acts 10. 1 Cor. 15 Col. 1. again and as the i Mat. 28. firstling risen up from the death k Act. 1. Act. 2. Acts 10. 13. and hath shewed himself alive unto his Disciples and Beleevers and set himself at the l 1 Cor. 15 right hand of God his Father in the heavenly beeing bearing the dominion till that all his enemies be laid under his feet to a conquering of sin and death through faith 4. This is that Jesus Christ which like as he was preached before and m Acts 1. 1 Thes 5. 2 Thes 1. should be seen in his coming is n 2 Cor. 4 2 Tim. 1. appeared and come unto us in the obedience of the Love according to the scripture who must possesse the heaven till unto this time o Acts 3. wherein all becometh restored again that God hath spoken by the mouth of all
his Prophets from the beginning of the world 5. This same was in times past published in the world p Mar. 16. Luke 24. Acts 1. Acts 2. for a Gospel or joyful message to the end that all those which were burthened w th sin captived w th darknesses should be baptized or washed q Rom. 6. Col. 2. in his death of the Cross according to the inward man and planted into him r 2 Cor. 4. Phil. 3. w th his like death for that all those which beved in him should be born again out of the same death so become partakers of the Å¿ Rom. 6 2 Cor. 4. Phil. 3. resurrection of Christ the very like-beeing of God the righteous one and that they might even so then in the spirit have their fellowship with Christ t Ephes 2. in the heavenly beeing in the Kindom of God his Father and so rejoyce them in this coming in the everlasting Life 6. Behold that is the upright u Luke 1. Ephes 4. Righteousnes and holyness which cometh to the Man in the Spirit through Christ to an everlasting Reconciling of the Man with God or to an x Iohn 17. Ephes 2. Unity betwixt God and the man to th' end that God may in that sort be y 1 Cor. 15 all in all according to the Promises The Fifth Chapter BUt seeing now that thy question is how or in what manner the same shall come to passe in us so can I not omit to give thee a full instruction thereof 2. Therefore behold and consider in thine understanding my beloved how that now in the last time the same living God out of Grace undeserved is a 2 Cor. 4. 2 Tim 1. appeared unto us out of his holy heaven and dwelleth b 2 Cor. 6. Apoc. 21. liveth and walketh among us the family of his Love and how that he and his upright righteousness is by his gracious word administred in the familie of Love and how that likewise in the same administration c 2 Cor. 10. 1 Pet 1. the belief and the obedience to the requiring of the same God is required of all men d Ephes 4. to an unity of heart with us in all Love 3. So consider then wheresoever the same living God of heaven and his goodnesse as an upright being and very true Light and as the right Father of his like-beeing and e Iames 1. light for ever and his will and requiring as a fatherly Love to the mans preservation in the godlinesse is administred in the ministration of his gracious word under the obedience of the Love of whose beeing and upright forme we have witnessed before and that then likewise in the same administration belief and obedience is shewed by the man in the same will and requiring of God even there in the belief is the same living God seen and known like as he according to the Spirit is an upright being f Iohn 1. Iohn 8. 1 Iohn 1. and very true light for a life of men and the right Father of his like-beeing and light there is also seen and known that the same Gods procreation or seed is likewise his upright beeing and very true light and is even so in the believing and obeying of the same administration proceeding from the same Father and that the same is wholly and altogether of one mind and g Iohn 17. Col 8. of one substance with the Father and is the true Christ himselfe and geteth in that sort his forme in the man 4. To whomsoever now the same Christ doth come thus in the spirit essentially h 1 Iohn 1. to those is he also seen and known rightly in the spirit and he is likewise of i Iohn 17. one substance with them in all Love and upright righteousnesse 5. This selfe same Christ the true Son and like-beeing k Col. 1. Heb. 1. of God his Father although he from eternity be the l 1 Cor. 15. Col. 1. first born of all creatures and the only m Mat. 16 Luke 9. Iohn 6. born Son of God is also according to his birth of the seed of David after the flesh named the Son of n Mat. 8. Mat. 12. Luke 6. Luke 9. 21. Man because that he as the true seed of the promises of God the Father is sown or planted in our manhood through the ministration of the gracious word of the Lord and through the belief and obedience to the same word also manned with our manhood and so after our passing over his like death of the Crosse unto the o Iohn 3. Rom. 12. Ephes 4. second birth from the death borne again out of our manhood 6. And that is the very true Seed of God from heaven which is sown in our p Mat. 13. Mar 4. Luke 8. manhood through the Administration of the holy and gracious word under the obedience of the Love and at the appointed time born again by us and out of us as a q Ioh. 15. fruit of the overflowing good life and of the upright righteousness and holiness and where-through we are then likewise according to the word of our Lord Iesu Christ the r Mat. 12. Luke 8. Mother brothers and sisters of Christ which do the will of his heavenly Father 7. This same Man of God from heaven according to the Spirit and the Sonne of man f Mat. 1. Rom. 1. of the seed of David according to the flesh is in all points minded t Mat. 26. Iohn 4. Iohn 6. 8. according to the will of God his Father and his will is that all what is good should be and he beareth in us the u Phil. 2. Heb. 2. Heb. 5. image of the earthly man and suffereth with us for our sinnes 8. But now when the believer of his gracious word hath x 2 Pet. 1. regard obediently unto his gracious word according to the requiring of his Service of Love and that even so in his beliefe and obedience the same word beginneth to appeare or break through as a very true y John 1.2 Cor. 4. light of the upright life and like-beeing of the perfect clearenesse of God and as a z 2 Cor. 5. Gal. 6. new creature from heaven then hath God the Father his pleasure a Esa 42. Mat. 12. Mat. 17. 2 Pet 1. only in the same light and life of his like-cleernesse and upright righteousnesse For that is his beloved Sonne his spirituall heavenly beeing whom he hath given unto us for an everlasting b Heb. 1. heir to the end that we should live through him 9. Seeing now that the Lord the God of heaven is spirituall and minded to the upright righteousnesse and that the man of the earth is fleshly c Gen 6. Rom. 7. and minded to the sinne and unbelieving and disobedient to the requiring of God in the ministration of his gracious word and Service of Love therefore