hath chosen him thereunto from his youth to witness the same Testimonies of the Truth of God And to administer Gods holy and gracious word and to manifest his heavenly works and to declare upon the earth now in these last times under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ Gods Truth and upright being and the acomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 7 Thus in this election by the living God H. N. hath declared on earth to this present day from the n uncovered face of God and of Christ Gods real Truth and the requiring of his upright righteousnesse together with his righteous Judgement and the fulfilling of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 8 Now whether this be believed or not believed however he hath revealed the the same out of Gods true light eternal life in manifest declaration brought it to light in this holy day of the love of God and Christ 9 And the same day of the love of God and of Christ which is come unto us from Gods grace is the newest or last day of which long agoe the Prophets of God and the Evangelists of Iesus Christ have foretold and published and is the day o which God hath appointed or ordained for to judge on the same the whole circuit of the Earth with righâ—eousnesse 10 For on the same day of the Love of God and of Christ p shall all unbelievers and disobedient ones to the gracious Word of the Lord and all evil surmisers towards the Ministers thereof together with all opposers of H. N. and blasphemers of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ be q revealed and r judged and according to their works shall receive their reward 11 Therefore take warning by this declaration of mine all ye people which love the truth of Iesus Christ that you in no wise oppose neither the gracious Word of God nor his chosen servant H. N. because God the Father with his Son Iesus Christ dwelleth and liveth perfectly * in H. N. in the heavenly being and hath anointed him with the holy Spirit of God and of s Iesus Christ and that no man without the fellowship of H. N. or without the obedience of the requiring of his doctrine can be brought or gathered to the true living God nor to his Sonne Iesus Christ nor united with the same good being 12 Behold out of a very hearty love which I have to all your preservations in the godlinesse am I presently in this day of the Love impulsed and forced through the holy Spirit of the love of Iesus Christ to make the same known before all your understandings and to declare unto you how the calling H. N. came to passe by the living God and how he was chosen of the same God to Administration of his holy and and gracious word under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ 13 And also to testifie unto you some mysteries t of the Kingdome of the God of heavens and of the heavenly revelations and workings of God which were revealed and shewed to H. N. by the living God out of his heavenly being even from the youth of H. N. 14 The Lord grant unto you all mercy and his Graee that in the hearing of these Testimonies your hearts may not be offended nor be hardened against the Truth u of the same Testimonies but that yee may hear them humbly receive and accept of them in all thanksgiving to God for his grace be well minded to the holy and gracious word of the Lord and his service of the Love to your preservation in the Godlinesse and may enter into the requiring of the same obediently Amen So be it Take it to heart Certaine wonderfull Workes of God which befel H N. from his youth CHAP. I. IN the eighth year of the age of H. N. in the days of Maximilian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation it fell out on an Evening in a Winter season That the Father of H. N. exhorted his Family and instructing them with many words That they should fear God a and to give praise and thanks unto him for the grace he bestowed on man 2 The same time The Lord opened the mouth of the childe H. N. and touched his lips and tongue and with this the childe spake to his Father and said Instruct me O my Father what is that singular Grace bestowed on us for which we ought to give praise and thanks to God 3 When the child had asked this questiof his Father The Father looked on the child and wondered that the child should aske him so earnestly and answearing the child said to him 4 O my sonne doest thou aske what that especial grace is which God hath bestowed on us and for which we are bound to give praise and thanks to him The same you read daily in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and is set forth unto us dayly in the service of the Masse and often also and abundantly is attested by Preaching how that God the Father by reason of Adams sinne whereby we all became the children b of death and damnation caused his deare Sonne Jesus Christ to suffer the ignominious c death on the Crosse and that thus Jesus Christ hath born the sins of Adam satisfied for the same on the Crosse and delivered us from that sinne into which Adam did fall hath reconciled us to his Father d and hath set up again the sincere righteoness and the true e life of Godliness and so all is found and restored againe that was lost by Adam that same is joyned again f made whole which through Adam was broken and wounded And this is that singular Grace which God bestowed on us to the laud and praise of his great Power 5 Then said the child O my Father I doe read indeed of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and I heare it daily testified in Sermons that God the Father hath bestowed on us his great mercy and that his beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath suffered the ignominious death of the Crosse by reason of sinne g but I finde not according to Truth that the sinne is amended in us nor that the true righteousness h wherein Adam was created and placed is restored in us or set up again 6 Then said the Father Oh my sonne what I have told you about the grace of God shewed to us through Jesus Christ you need not to doubt of it beleeve the same in simpleness of heart and that it all is come to passe as I have told you 7 Then said the child O my Father I make no question of the mercy of God which is come unto us through Jesus Christ and all that which is preached to us of Christ and his satisfaction for the sinne as that he through the death on the Crosse
Lord my God a my heart quaketh before thee for though thy punishment upon my sinnes my bones do shake and great b sadnesse pain and smart fall on me 2 Thus I fear O Lord thy punishment for with the same thoâ— makest known unto me my sinnes and thou lettest me see the evil things which have ensnared me 3 O God wilt thou not deliver me from these evil things so must I continue in misery and must feare thy hand continually 4 But thou O Lord art he which c woundest and healest againe help me as thou usest to doe 5 Let my sighings d out of the bottome of my heart come before thee and turne not thy mercy from me 6 For O Lord I do not e forget thee but wait dayly for thy goodnesse 7 Look f on my misery and leave me not in death nor let me be lost for ever 8 g Take away O Lord the sinne from me and let thy Spirit of life refresh me otherwayes O Lord O Lord of Lords I have no life in me 9 Therefore O Lord of life when thou art my life then I live and my bones must rejoyce 10 When I find mercy in thine eyes then is comforted the inward mind of my soul 11 But O Lord when thou art h a death to me and art angry with me then am I like unto the dead and go i down to hell as the wicked that are damned 12 Out of which k depth now my foul sigheth and calleth O Lord unto thee for in the same I remember with anguish of mind my sinnes past and must bewaile with tears my evil actions 13 For thou O Lord art the strength and l Saviour of men from the sinne he that taketh hold on thee m falleth not into transgressions 14 But the man which relyeth on hâ—s owne strength he falls soonest and then must he confess that thou alone O Lord art the life of his Salvation 15 When thou takest pity on him and raisest him again then he obtaineth mercy and must praise thy goodnesse continually 16 For what is man O Lord without thy grace is he any thing ah no he is nothing of himselfe n 17 Therefore let thy mercy o shine about me and doe not think on my transgressions 18 Therefore my ioy O God is in thee and with thankfullnesse must I praise the grace of thy Love 19 For thou comfortest the low p minded and those which be forsaken thon blotest out their sinnes and takest q away the evil heart of their misdeedes 20 When thou O Lord givest the blessing then is thy consolation present and then with a joyous song of praise is thy holy name praised 21 But in case thou dost hide thy selfe then is the sinne active and when thou doest rise up to punish O Lord who can then r stand before thee 22 Is not a man like unto s the blossome of the field which thy heat causeth to wither and like unto t dust and ashes which the wind doth â—catter here and there 23 Therefore have thou mercy on me O my God and Father and let thy good spirit support me u otherwayes I shall vanish into nothing CHAP. VII Psalme II. 1 O Lord let thine a anger be turned about and punish me not continually in thy displeasure b 2 O Lord c punish me not according to my sinnes but chastise me unto amendment and d teach me also thy Lawes and hide not thy mercy from me 3 Reject me not O Lord nor wholly e forsake me but bring to my knowledge my transgressions 4 And chastise me even so O my God with a f fatherly correction so shall I turne unto thee 5 But if thou totally rejectest me to whom g shall I then goe O God and King of all righteousness for thou alone art my h comfort 6 For vain is the comfort of i maâ— and all the Treasures of the world are O God no joy to me 7 The sinne is an abhomination unto me the worlds joy with the pleasures thereof are all dead unto me 8 If thou Lord k hidest the lovely being of thy countenance from me O Lord what is then my life 9 Therefore O God remember not l alwayes my sins but guide my m feet in the way of life 10 Then shall I praise thy mercy O Lord among the n living and spread thy praise among the upright 11 For I acknowledge my o transgressions and my sinnes are a p heavy burthen unto me 12 O how q heavily was I wearied in the wayes of my errors what cumbersome wayes did I go through 13 Now sinne with its death hath r throughly pierced me the Devil with his bands ruled over me and Hell with its power hath shut me into the stocks to devoure me 14 But thou O Lord that canst deliver from death deliver s me from all mine enemies 15 Helpe me out of my misery and forsake me not in my sorrow CHAP. VIII Psalme III. 1 O Lord Almighty God art thou not he that a killest and makest alive againe 2 Art thou not a God who condemnest and b bringest into hell and from thence bringect again and savest 3 How Long O Lord shall I go on into perdition how long yet shall sinne raigne over me 4 How long shall the c bonds of death hold bound How long shall the power of the Devil and of Hell captive me 5 If thou deliver me O Lordâ— then am I freed but if thou forsakest me then am I desolate and must remain comfortless eternally 6 Therefore O Lord be thou my aid and from the bottomless d mercy of thy love succour me and according to the multiplicity of thy grace blot out mine iniquity 7 For I am filled up with sins and lie in the deep under them and feel no power of comming out e by my self 8 Seeing I am impotent therefore have my enemies bound me and brought guiltiness upon me to condemn me 9 And those which were sometimes my f friends now set their mouthes horribly against me and make a terrible face at me and shew all their hatred towards me 10 I lookt every where up and down for a faithful g friend but there is not one of all my friends as a faithful friend adhered to me but they have all made up themselves in enmity against me and whetted their h teeth at me and sharpned their swords to destroy me 11 O God seeing thou punishest mee now and art against me therefore are all become enemies to me that are round about me and all fall on me there stayeth not one with me to my defence 12 But they all cry i there hee lieth there he lieth he is faln and shall never rise again 13 O Lord reward them according as they have k deserved recompence to me let thy fierce
mind in which I may live and praise thee CHAP. XX Psalme XV 1 WHen I now for a long time confessed my sins before the Lord and his Saints sought for mercy praying for comfort to my soul and had suffered the chastising instruction in following after Christ in a his death of the cross and thus did manifest that I was humbled and willing to all obedience Then the goodness of God the Father appeared to me aagain And I spake with great thankfulness in my heart and said 2 O well and happy is he which hungreth and b thirsteth after the righteousness and is no mans enemy therein and so c boweth himself under the rod of his God and endureth his correction And waiteth in d patience on the goodness of the Lord and his compassion 3 For behold the punishment e lasteth onely for a short time which cometh to an end but the mercy of the Lord and his goodness f endureth for ever and his love hath no end g 4 Hee forgiveth and blotteth out the sins of the people which turn unto him with all their heart for they meditate upon that which is holy and good and learne also to practise that which is h right and reasonable 5 Yea this the Lord turneth away his fury and displeasure from his Elect and turns his wrath on his enemies which must perish through his indignation as i chaffe and dust 6 Therefore O God my soul k shall praise thee for ever for thou seekest the life to the preservation but the enemies of the life l must be brought to nothing 7 O Lord how is thy Goodnesse and Mercy out of thy love so great m that thou settest them free who were taken and bound by others 8 And thou makest that good againe which was spoiled and corrupted by another 9 Againe thou n seekest and findest that which was lost by another even unto nothingnesse 10 Thou bringest o to right againe that which was mis-led by another 11 Thou revivest that p which was put to death by another 12 Thereby is known O Lord thy Almightinesse for this O God is thy Love Power and Mercy CHAP. XXI Palme XVI 1 GIve thanks to the Lord with Hymns for a Great and wonderfull is his mightinesse 2 Where is there such a God as the God of b Israel who maketh the dead alive and delivereth his Elect out of the c condemnation and judgement of hell 3 And bringeth them away out of all the straights of their enemies to his holy inheritance of rest and peace according as he hath d promised and sworne of old 4 For be is Potent who e killeth Thousands and hath killed ten Thousand for to deliver his 5 He riseth early against his enemies which are oppressors of his who out of anguish call upon him for the injustice sake 6 Therefore is the Lord a f King of all Glory an over ruler of all Powers 7 For with the Arme of his strength he taketh in the land and treads down his enemies as if they were loame or â—lay 8 With his breath or wind he g scattereth them away as if they were dust and chaff 9 And he delivereth the h poor and miserable which call upon him 10 Therefore is the Lord great mighty a i King and God in Eternity Allelu-ia Allelu-ia CHAP. XXII Psalme XVII 1 THerefore exalt our God and praise his holy Name 2 Because he hath taken the Kingdome and the Scepter of his Kingdom is made manifest 3 For the Lord is a become King wherefore let his people rejoyce 4 His Word hath shewed power his righteousness is become manifest 5 His Spirit hath appeared like a light and confirmeth his salvation forever 6 The same God hath renewed us in him and given us a new understanding 7 A new b creature hath he brought forth the image of God the upright righteousness 8 Therefore the people speak with new tongues the new song is in our mouth 9 Lord c wonderful are thy works for thou hast done marvellous acts among us 10 The evil that was in us is now no where to be found amongst us that which we knew not in the death is now apparent to us in the everlasting life 11 The sinne is now with us condemned in the sinne d The righteousnesse is declared unto us in righteousness 12 The death is now among us swallowed up in the death e the everlasting life is come unto us in the renewing of our lives 13 The hell is judged or condemned in the f pit of hell the heaven is shewed unto us in the heavenly being 14 The lye is come to shame the Truth is risen up unto us in the Truth 15 The darknesses are gone into the bottomlesse pit to the darknesses g the light hath illuminated us in the light 16 The Idol is fallen in his Idolatry the living God is become known unto us in the Diety or Godhead 17 Therefore we confesse the maiestie of our God and the sanctification of his people eternally CHAP. XXIII Psalme XVIII 1 O Lord thou almighty God Great and a Wonderful are thy Works 2 Righteous b and true are thy ways thou Prince and King of Saints 3 Who should not fear and love thee O Lord of life and praise thy Name 4 For there is no holiness but thou for thou only O Lord c art holy 5 All people shall worship thee in d thy thy presence where thou becommest manifest in thy holy Temple 6 For thy righteousness e are known and thy holiness inherited by thy people 7 But not a holiness by mens hands but an holiness which is from Eternity and shall continue forever 8 Therefore do'st thou O Lord remain a God for ever a King which shall reign eternally 9 Thus are we now joyful in this portion and sing Heja Heja 10 Play to the Lord a new f song and sing Allelu-ja Al elu-ja CHAP. XXIV Psalme XIX 1 REjoyce ye with joy ye a daughters of Sion anâ— refresh you ye Citizens and inhabitants of the City Jerusalem 2 Shout now b with triumph all ye Generatious of Israel And rejoyce you in all love the children of peace 3 Behold your King c appeareth unto you in meeknesse and he cometh d with majestie 4 For that he should establish you heire like in his Sanctuary for to possesse his Kingdome for ever 5 But to his enemies the resisters of the Love e hee appeareth in wrath and severity 6 For to thrust them from him and to f shut them without his Kingdome eternally 7 For he will put a period g to iniquity and cast all falshood aâ—d offencivenesse out of his h Kingdome 8 He will disperse the deceitfull thoughts his life disposition and nature he will bring to light 9 He will establish his Kingdome in peace and the
the envious heart of the Letter-learned who h betrayed and killed Christ and his Witnesses 6 These wicked Generations of the said wicked Fathers have not rested to i accomplish the most horrid wickedness of their Fathers but with their envious hearts have they with great diligence endevoured to resist the godly Testimonies of God and his commiserating mercy together with the love of the holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and Gods elect Servant with all false testimonies lyes and reproach So that they are most fearfully faln against Gods commiserating grace which he on the earth to the commiseration of all men through his elect Minister H. N. hath testified and published and gainst the Love of the holy Spirit of Jesus Christ into all blasphemie of God and into contempt of his Truth 7 These said false hearts likewise with the children of the Devil or the false Christians of the Devils School have also with all manner of wickedness defamed H. N. who yet was no mans enemy nor contemned any man in particular for his religion but heartily wished to all Religion urgers that they might have the true light of life in the Lanthorn of their Service hath loved all people to the godliness in Jesus Christ and behaved himself courteously to all men in all upright conversation have also secretly exclaimed against him to the Magistrate when hee was not there present for a Seducer and Malefaor when he was not heard or not at all speaking with him although he yet walked openly very falsly accused him and have also contrived a matter or charge very cunningly with all subtilty against Law and all Christian Ordinances to the end that H. N. through their accusation and clamour might by the Magistrate be prosecuted or rooted out And thereunto tâ—â— Magistrate condescended CHAP. XXVII 1 BUt at the same time in the nine and fiftieth year of the age of H. N. in the time of Maximillian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation then sought the Magistrate where H. N. dwelled in the East through the false relations of the enemies of H. N. and through the false slanders which they had spoken against him among the people to lye in wait for H. N. for to lay him fast in Prison And so with the consent of the same aforesaid Magistrate was H. N. in the same Land where he dwelled very vehemently persecuted And many ambushes were laid for him for to bring him into prison But the Lord smote them all with a great blindness who were his enemies and persecuted him insomuch that they could by no means apprehend H. N. 2 Now when the Officers of the said Magistrate had used all their diligence to bring H. N into their hands then the Lord manifested his mercy and assistance to him carried him by the hand of his b Angels openly before the eyes of his persecutors away from that land without hurt And no man knew him or could finde out which way he travelled 3 Now when H. N. for the upright a righteousness of God and the Godliness of Jesus Christ and because that he attested and published the same under the obedience of the Love was thus through persecution driven away through the hand of the Lord he travelled away before the eyes of his persecutors notwithstanding they writ very earnestly after him to several places and his enemies made very diligent search after him to find him out nevertheless he kept on in his journey in the way of Patience towards another land which the Lord shewed him and wherein it should be more quiet and peaceable for him to inhabit 4 He was sometime also in his journey through his persecutors and through all false aspersions and undecent contumelies which were cast after him much perplexed and bnrthened and that for the most part because those which were Letter-learned and did seem to be so wise And to whom he had shewed all love and friendship were yet so ignorant blind and misunderstanding that they envied him and unadvisedly resisted the d Truth of God and shamefully despised the fulfilling of the godliness in Jesus Christ and undecently reproched the e holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ and also persecuted him with wicked hearts of f lying slanderous lips whom they had most cause to love for as much as hee shewed all love and all ministrations to the Godliness in full explanation to them 5 And so in his travelling and sadness H. N. took unto him to read the Psalms of David especially that Psalm which the holy Prophet David the anointed of the Lord had formerly spoken when g Saul after the good Spirit of the Lord was departed and was much disquieted with an evil spirit from the Lord persecuted him and sought to take away his life and when he was betrayed by h Doeg the Edomire and first he made his preface to the Lord and said 6 O Lord God heavenly Father how perverse and wicked of heart have the i wise of the World alwayes been who do not fear thee O God with an humble heart nor walk uprightly before thee 7 And how imbittered k and hardned of heart and how bloud-thirsty in their spirits and minds have alwayes been the Letter-learned and also the urgers of ceremonial Services who have not O God believed thee in the Word of thy holy Prophets nor been obedient thereunto And also all those who forsake the Doctrine of thy dear Son Jesus Christ and l his humility and meekness and have not learned the upright righteousness to the cleansing of their hearts but framed and chose to themselves out of the letter counterfeit ceremonial services and invented holinesses and have neither known nor received m the holy anointing of thy holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ 8 For like as Saul n with his evil and restless spirit envyed and persecuted thine anointed David who walked uprightly and without deceit before thee and like as the false hearts of the Letter-learned have despised belyed reproached and with falshood defamed and persecuted as evil doers and seducers thy o holy Prophets and thy p deare sonne thine anointed Jesus and his q witnesses and had an intention to root them out Even so O God this wicked Generation of the same wicked seed and nature of the aforesaid false-hearts have persecuted reproached and belyed me H. N. thy chosen servant because O God I love all people to the Godlinesse in Jesus Christ And attest and set forth before them thy commiserating Grace and Love and the upright righteousnesse r and holinesse of thy beloved Sonne Jesus Christ out of thy holy and gracious Word and Spirit of Love and call and invite them all thereunto And they have resisted and s reproached also thy holy Spirit whom thou now in these last times hast sent to declare
Praising the Lord the Word of the Lord came to H. N. and said 27 Hast thou H. N well observed in thy journey into this my holy inheritable land of the living That the most part of the people despise thy ministration of my holy gracious Word and blaspheme my holy Spirit of Love And also that they despising or contemning the offerings of my Grace bring upon themselves my t wrath and displeasure and the judgement of their eternal condemnation 28 Besides hast thou also well observed that the many Godly Testimonies of thy Writings which thou with great diligence and care out of my holy Word and Spirit of Love hast written brought to light are come among many Whoremongers forsworn or unfaithful ones among many enemies reprochers of my House of Love how falsly they do judge the same and how disorderly shamefully that they * handle and deal with the same For with the same they commit their Whoredoms prophane my holy Name and break the mariage of fidelity of the Covenant of my * Wedlock and so after the nature of Harlots and of impudent adulterous ones They manifest against me and my holy Word and Spirit of Love all unfaithfulness So that they wholy contemn my upright Righteousness and Love and make a mock at it and so continually procure upon themselves the horrible vengeance of the hellish fire CHAP. XXXIII 1 AGain the Lord spake to H. N. Forasmuch as thy writings of my holy and godly Testimonies which thou hitherto with great care and diligence hast written and published are now come into so many hands of the Enemies of my house or Family of Love and into so many hands of Whoremongers unfaithful-ones And also that some impure hearts which for a time have * medled therewith have mingled therewith their impure sense and good-thinking knowledge also many to the covering of their selfishness and to their own destruction have therewith defended and covered the unclean minds of their wicked justs and desires and have not believed the a upright Righteousness of my Love according to the requiring of the Godly Testimonies of thy Writings So shalt thou now the Godly Testimonies of thy Writings which thou broughtest of each one with thee with the twenty four ancient * Elders carefully peruse have a sharp regard upon all sayings with careful consideration 2 I the Lord will enlighten thy heart and the heart of the four and twenty Elders who are with thee and who are to perform the laborious Service with thee with my Godly Wisdom and with the true light of my Godly cleerness more more with my abounding b Illumination 3 And after the same perfect Illumination of my Godly cleerness ye shall then also renew all the same Testimonies of thy Writings to a more plain * declaration and witness all the same in a more perfect * cleerness and write them more plainly then they have been and likewise that the Whoremongers remain c without the mystery thereof and also without the marriage of my unity or conjunction 4 For now is the time nigh at hand that all whoremongers and all unfaithful ones in the covenant of my we dlock or matrimony and all such who delight in whoredome and adultery and are enemies of my Family of Love and who with their prudence out of the flesh conceive themselves d to be wise shall in their whorishness unfaithfulness and envious nature before all the believes and obeyers of my gracious word and service of Love be made manifest and made known In their whoredome and enmity and in all theâ—â— good-thinking shal be wholy blinded e scattered laid waste or hardned in their hearts and also if they repent not shall be excluded from my unity and heavenly f tiches 5 And on the other side all believers and faithful obedient disciples of my gracious word and all penitent sinners together with all those who preserve in or defend the Service of my Love and wish all good and prosperity shall be illuminated in the Godly life of my Love and be made heirs g in my spiritual and heavenly riches 6 And further on the same fifteenth day of the first moneth when the Lord had spoken all these words with us we took to us the same Testimonies of our Writings which we had brought with us and so we began the same with all devoutness to God and to his Truth and upright righteousness very seriously to peruse and the same according to Gods most perfect cleerness and wisdome and the knowledge of his upright righteousness and so much necessary or profitable for the children of men to know to declare and write in the plainest manner and to set it in the best order so that the same and the requiring thereof may the better or easier in the plainest or simplest manner be understood according to the mind and will of God and according to the true ministration of his h Testaments which tend into the upright being of Jesus Christ 7 And for to observe out of it what God through the ministration of his gracious word and Testament requireth and to what end that God himself i hath created and chosen the man and to what an upright and lovely or single-minded Godliness that he in his k fall and estranging from God hath l called and invited him again through Jesus Christ and whereunto be now in these last dayes is loved through the Holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ and through H. N. Gods Elect Minister 8 The Lord grant to all men who hear or read the Godly Testimouies of our Writings his Grace and mercy that they may understand rightly the requiring of the saving testimonies of God and of his Christ and of the holy Spirit of his Love and that they may endeavour themselves rightly thereafter 9 For all what God doth to the man to reduce him to his upright Righteousness and to save him cometh all out of the Grace of the mercifull Love of God for to bring the fallen and straying man againe into the m right way of Life to the Love of his God and to the Love of his neighbour And then to deliver him also from all his sinnes And to set him aright and make him faithful in all unity and Peace with God and his neighbour and to inherit him in all his spiritual and heavenly goods and also n thereunto his Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life 10 Now when we together with each other according to the word and comand of our Lord and God had begun persued and transcribed all the godly testimonies of our Writings so neglected we no time to endevour with great diligence the same Godly Testimonies of our Writings which we had brought with us to read and to transcribe and according to the requiring of the Lord out of his true light to declare it in
the inheritance of the Lord Let us accuse Him x that is his body and bloud or his Fellowship of Love with all manner of malignity or unjust actions and let us charge him with most wicked things let us destroy or kill him with the most shamefullest sufferings or let him be delivered up to the Iudge to his * slaughter or destruction So remain y we in the Inheritance in the estimation among men that we are pure upright and have right in our cause or demands against him his Communialty of Love 44 Thus we observed in the union with the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ that the wicked hardened hearts against us the Body bloud of Jesus Christ likewise the apostates from the obedience of the Truth did all their endeavour or diligence to have the estimation amongst z men as if they against that Body and bloud of Jesus Christ and against us were * upright and did well therein although they earnestly endevoured wholy to dishonour Jesus Christ and us and to make us detestable before men and likewise that precious pure bloud of Jesus Christ that was to the forgiveness of sinnes d shead for many wherewith we with our bloud are become one bloud to defame as impure before all men so that the same is * despised for unclean among many And as unclean might be poured forth and trampled upon 45 Now when we thus observed the rising up of the wicked and all Hypocrites and enemies of the Godly Life against the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ And beheld that the Body bloud of Jesus Christ wherewith we were become one body and bloud was suffering all that with lowly and meek hearts without resisting so we saw and observed that the same Body and bloud of Jesus Christ in all his suffering and reproach opened a not his mouth even as a Lambe that is led to the slaughter-house and as a sheep that is dumbe before his shearer Where through we also in all our sufferings wherewith we were one Body and bloud with him were wholy moved with his sufferings So that we also in our whole Body and bloud obteined an inclination to suffer with them we found our selves wholy prepared rather to suffer to die with him forasmuch as we knew him righteous then to live in sin with the falshood of the false hearts with the sin of sinners and enemies of the Godly life 46 And thus travelling forth in this-Good-willingness with Jesus Christ b we came on the seventh sixth day to the * accomplishing of the sufferings of Jesus Christ wherein we observed the whole summe of the finishing and fulfilling or satisfaction of Jesus Christ and his Believers unto the true Godliness 47 For in this fulfilling or or accomplishing we perceived in the understanding That all men who will live and reign with the Lord Jesus Christ in his Glory must also c suffer with Christ and then likewise with Christ enter into the Glory of Christ and inherit the same 48 Furthermore wee observed also in this accomplishment to what end this Gospel of the Kingdom is d published in all the World and from thence cometh the accomplishment and fulfilling of e all that is written of Christ and the salvation of man 49 There was also in the same * accomplishment fully revealed and in clearness made manifest * unto us The whole Scripture which testifieth of Christ and of his Sufferings or Passeover and of the upright righteousness of men in Jesus Christ And f how that Christ like as we have heard and seen of him in his sufferings and passed through with him must suffer all these things and so to enter into his Glory and thus g go before all sinful men in to the entrance of the eternal life and the Kingdom of Heavens that they also should follow after him therein and inherit with him the eternal life 50 For Christ h must thus * suffer and accomplish his love to us and so go before us as an * Innocent and that he also by his guiltless sufferings should be an example or patern to all sinful men and thereby to shew unto them that they by reason of their sins are debtors to the same sufferings and as debtors to i follow him therein and to draw unto him all men who are loaden with sins and also to acquit them though his Body and bloud and through his like sufferings from their sins to deliver k them from the bonds of death and to save them and restore or bring them again with him in all upright righteousness and holiness to their God his heavenly Father and to his glory in the kingdom of God and in the everlasting life 51 And that wee might uprightly endeavour us to this aforesaid accomplishment with the Lord Jesus Christ and the * humanity and rightly enter into and inherit the same with the Lord Jesus Christ according to the truth of Jesus Christ and according to the requiring of the obedience of his belief So gave wee up our selves there on the same seventh sixth day of our travelling into a good * custody with the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ which standeth upon the Mount Nebo l on the uppermost height top or firmness from whence we obtein'd the sight of the holy inheritance of God of his living ones 52 And on the same Mount * Nebo there was revealed and made known unto us also m the secret place where the Prophet Jeremian had hid the true Tabernacle and Ark and the true Altar of the Offerings of Incense And the time also was come or accomplished in which the Lord should be merciful unto his people and bring them to his rest 53 And the same good * watchfunless to which we betook our selves on the Mount Nebo was the true n implanting with Christ in his like death and the right implanting with Christ in his like burial 54 Of this implanting with Christ in his like death and of the implanting with Christ in his like burial wee were very firmly embraced 55 At the same instant in the embracing of the implanting with Christ in his like death and burial we offered to the God of Heaven on his Altar of Incense in the Holy of the true Tabernacle our free willing Offering in the Offering * of the High Priest Jesus Christ And o the Offering of the High Priest Jesus Christ kindled or fired our Offering And thus our Offering was a hollowed burnt Offering before the Lord And the Lord Jesus Christ made this our Offering through his Offering acceptable before God his Father and the holy of his Tabernacle was full of sweet perfumes and the p veile opened asunder and the most holiest in his pure and perfect beauty was revealed and Christ also according to
the Spirit as High Priest in the same most holy as a minister of the spiritual and heavenly Goods 56 Thus had the Lord our heavenly Father through the Offering of our High Priest Jesus Christ to the accomplishing of the dayly God-service in the holy of the true Tabernacle a great delight in the accomplishing of our Offering and God-service in the holy of the true Tabernacle of Jesus Christ under the obedience of the Beliefe 57 Which freedom to the entrance into the said holy for to perform to the living God of heaven such acceptable Offering and pleasing Service of God we have obtained and purchased through the bloud of Jesus Christ Yea verily to the accomplishing of the same hath Jesus Christ prepared for us the entrance into the Holy by a new and living way the q veil that is through his flesh 58 And thus when we had finished or fulfilled our Offering and God-service under the obedience of the Belief in the offering and God-service of our Lord r Jesus Christ wee rested us with Christ in his like death and burial on the nine and fortieth day of our journey 59 And thus on the nine and fortieth day resting us in our Lord Jesus Christ from our work and labour we have perfected or * fulfilled our journey and our offering and God-service with Jesus Christ in the holy under the obedience of the Belief And thus through Christ according to the Spirit wee have gotten and obteined the ministration of the spiritual and heavenly Goods and the everlasting life CHAP. XXXII 1 BUt on the fiftieth day of our journey on the fifteenth day of the first moneth on the day of Phase or Pasche came into us a still soft silent voice wind or Spirit And we were enlightned in Christ with the a clearness or brightness of Christ And thus in our illuminating * on the same fiftieth day there appeared to us in a cloud the living God-head of our Lord Jesus Christ and became altogether of one being with us and gathered us to the Mercy-Seat of his divine Majesty and also to the holy Mount Sion b where the Law or Ordinance of the Lord is promised to go forth at the last time And to the true Jerusalem where the Word of the Lord at the last time is likewise promised to go forth 2 And the Lord gave his mighty great sound out of Sion and caused his voice to be heard out of Jerusalem And so c flowed the Law or Ordinance of the Lord out of Sion And his Word forth of Jerusalem And the Scripture of the Godly Testimonies were accomplished in us and with us in Jesus Christ And the former kingdom full of all pure beauty and heavenly riches and full of all vertues aâ—d upright righteousness which God from the beginning d hath prepared for the man was shewed unto us in his perfect adorning and we were inherited therein eternally and it was all e restored again to us in us and with us what God had spoken wrought and appointed and promised through the mouthes of his holy Prophets from the beginning of the World 3 And that same is the new day and the manifestation of the kingdom of Heavens and his righteousness wherein all Believers of Jesus Christ who follow after Jesus Christ f to the second birth do inherit And the same new day with the fulnesse of his beauties riches and vertues is the day of which the Kingly Prophet David hath of old Evangelized like as there standeth written this is the g day the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad therein 4 And thus in these wonderfull works of God the word of the Lord came to H N and said This holy Land which thou here at this present beholdest and wherein thou art now everlastingly inherited is the holy inheritance of my living-ones h and is my rest and the holy place of my dwelling it is also the true Rest which I have promised my people Israel and all the holy-ones of my Christ and have given it for an eternall inheritance 5 It is my true Building i that I my selfe have prepared for all those who love mee and whereinto I gather all my Lovers to mee and to my people and it is my holy and godly understanding wherein I live eternally and in which I illuminate and endue all the Believers of my Christ in their second birth with such an abounding godly understanding That they far excel all humane and Letter-learned knowledges and in the life of my godly clearness far surmount the same 6 It is my durable kingdom k wherein I will for ever plant and firmly settle all mine Elect to an eternal rest and perfectly joy now in the last times 7 And I have from everlasting ordained them thereunto to manifest therein for ever and ever my heavenly wonders and also to declare the same from thence upon the earth for a witness That I the Lord who am an eternal and living God live from everlasting to everlasting l And that I now at the last time m bring upon the earth the judgment and the righteousness and the Majesty of my divine Glory 8 Therefore shalt thou H. N together with the four and twenty Elders and the four Seraphims dwell with me and all my holy ones in this my holy place eternally 9 And the declaration of my upright Godliness which thou here hast received from my n uncovered face shalt thou also make known upon the earth And with the testimonies of my righteousness and with the publication of the joyful message of my Kingdome enlighten the whole World and so declare that now my true kingdom of heavens with the fulness of it's pure beauty and heavenly riches is appeared manifested and comne upon the earth according to the promises to the salvation and blessing of all men who with their whole hearts seek the same and the righteousness thereof 10 I also will yet shew unto thee in this holy place of my living-ones more of my heavenly workings and give thee also to understand many mysteries which hitherto hath not bin known to the o world Also what my last Will or Testament is of the ministration of my most holy Priestly Office under the obedience of my Love 11 For from hence-forth in this day will I look upon the estranging of men from my Truth with the eyes of compassion to give unto them out of my Priestly Office of Love p the true repentance for their sins and shew forth the true entrance of the Goodlife 12 And because that all men in their estranging or before they out of the doctrine of my grarlous word and out of the holy Spirit of my love are renewed or born again beare q a veile or covering before their hearts betwixt them and my face so will I also now in this last time be gracious unto all those who believe my