me is given to see as sharply and accutely as any one can search Mark this which followeth 227. NOw when the Image was faded or disappeared what did God with it did he let it fall quite away and remaine in Death No. Then instantly the Doore of his Mercy set it selfe Open and said The Womans Seed shall Crush the Serpents head 228. Then the Deare Name JESUS incorporated it selfe in the faded disappeared Image and the Mark or Limit in this faded disappeared Image became strengthened which with the Revelation or Manifestation stood in the Body or Womb and Seed of the Virgin Mary as a propagated Seed for if that had not been so then had all those before Christs Birth been Lost 229. For the high Noble Virgin of the Wisdome of God with which Adam in his heavenly in breathed Spirit was Espoused or Married that is Immortall that presented it self in the Light of Life to Man viz to Adam and Eve and warneth them of the ungodly wayes and continually sheweth through the Propheticall Spirit the Limit or Mark of the Covenant where it will with the Deare Name JESUS with the Word and power of the true Deity open it selfe againe in Mans Soul The Second Part. Of the Becoming Man or Incarnation and Person of Christ How Christ is become Man or Incarnate out of No Strange Seed but out of Mary and yet indeed not in Eves Earthly Essence the Holy Ghost was the Man or Masculine therein 230. MY Opponent tell me here what the Womans Seed is upon which you found your Election you say the Children of God must become generated out of the Womans Seed as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse and reject Adam's and Eves Seed and make a Strange Seed and yet God said Through the Womans Seed shall the Head of the Serpent be Crushed Who is the Woman is it Eve No that you will not admit Why Because otherwise you cannot Cloake your Election or Predestination 231. Well now if you be Learned as indeed you goe about mightily to Colour your Cause with Texts of Scripture then shew in the Holy Scripture that God entended a Strange Woman you say that Mary is not from us Men but is a Virgin from Eternity that you must and shall prove or else it shall have neither place nor beliefe 232. But I will demonstrate with strong Arguments that the Word of Promise goeth upon the Womans Seed viz upon Eve and Adam that is upon the Matter or Matrix which was taken from Adam out of which the Woman was framed out of and in which Adam should have impregnated himselfe if he had stood and had not suffered himselfe to be over-powred 233. For the Woman Eve should have been the propagated Childe but it could not be and therefore she was taken out of Adam's Essence and Bone and was Made a help for him so that the propagation must be performed through TWO 234. Now if Mary Christs Mother be not from us Men then is Christ not the Son of Man as he so very often calleth himself and where then would my poor Soul remaine which lyeth Captive in a darke Dungeon whereas if God would Regenerate it againe as the Dew out of the Morning Rednesse could he not well doe it without becoming Man 235 Besides if Mary were not Man or Humane from us what then would the strange CHRIST be profitable to Me and then it would not be true that the Word is become Flesh Or how could I enter into CHRISTS Suffering Dying and Death if it were not done in Me. 236. But I can with Truth say as the Apostle saith that I beleeve I am Crucified and dead with Christ and rise up in and with him and bear his Image on me 237. Thus saith my Opponent then Christ were conceived in a sinfust Seed if Eve had been the Woman in the Promise No I say not that 238. Christ viz the Living Word was not generated from Mans Seed but in the shut up Seed of the Heavenly part which in Eve faded or disappeared as the dry or withered Rod of Aaron signifieth he became againe the dead parts Sap and Life for the Sinne fell not upon the heavenly part but that dyed understand Substance and not Gods Spirit which rested in the Covenant till at the Limit of the Covenant in Mary 239. The Anger of God Manifested or revealed it self in the Earthly Part as a Life and the heavenly disappeared or faded as God said the day thou eatest thou dyest 240. He meant not solely the Earthly Death for Adam lived Nine hundred and Thirty Yeares e're he dyed and God said the day thou eatest thou dyest that is to the Kingdome of Heaven and livest to the Earthly World as it came to passe 241. I say not that God became Man in Eves Earthly Essence else he must have had a Father but thus himself is the Father 242. Understand this aright The Angel said to Mary The holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee in that sticketh the Mark or Key the Angel said he will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will over-shadow thee Do you not understand this The Holy Spirit would open the shut Center in the Covenant in the Dead Seed and the Word of God would give it self in with living heavenly Substantiality into that which was shut up in Death and become a Flesh the Holy Spirit was instead of a Man or Husband he brought the Heavenly Tincture of the Fathers Fires Glance and of the Eternall Sonnes Lights Glance He was in the Tincture the Life and the Moving What Manner of Essence the Word received or assumed wherein God and Man became One Person Also how Christ is a Creature and how he is No Creature 243. NOw understand me according to its high worth I speak in the Vision or Sight and not in the Opinion or Conceit In Adam when God inbreathed the Soul into him then was the Soul surrounded or endued from the Glance of the Fathers Fire together with the Center to the Fire and also from the Glance of the Light with Divine Substantiality Moving in Gods Wisdome or Substantiality 244. But now in the Fall the Light extinguished and only the Fire with the Center to the Fire remained that was now the Dryed or withered and dead Soul as the Dry Rod of Aaron signified and Old shut up Barren Sarah Abraham's Wife and Old Elizabeth dead in the Womb or Matrix the Mother of John the Baptist 245. This Soul was from Adam thus dry or withered propagated except some Holy or Saints in the Covenant where the Holy Spirit in the Covenant Moved as is to be seen by Old Elizabeth that the Child in the Covenant in the Mothers Body or Womb when the Spirit moved the Childs Spirit when Mary came to her that it leaped for joy in the Spirit of the Messiah when it
Eternall Principles viz out of the Light and Dark World and thus the Light moveth in the Darknesse and the Darknesse comprehendeth it not 94. And herein lyeth the Drawing to Evill and Good and here is that which the Scripture saith concerning the Will of Man To which you give your selves as servants in Obedience either to the Light of God or to the Darknesse in the Anger of God to that you are servant and into that you goe to which you are obedient of THAT you are led and drawne also Elected for children they are BOTH Gods but the Light is only called God or Good How the Soul is out of all the Three-Worlds of its Might and Free-will of the drawing of the Father and what is called to Beleeve above Reason 95. MY Opponent writeth that the Soul of Man is inbreathed into Man out of the Mouth of God and I have no Strife about that and it needeth no Glosse But I speak not blindly as he doth I say out of the totall Wonder of God out of the Center out of the Will to the Eternall Nature that is out of the Chaos and out of the Eternall Nature that is out of the two Eternall Principles out of Darknesse Fire and Light a totall Image and Similitude of the totall Deity of the Substance of all Substances 96. And I say that the Spirit of God hath inbreathed it selfe according to all the Three Worlds properties for it is the Life and the Spirit of all Substances in every Substance according to its property 97. For before the times of this World there was Nothing no Life without him but it is as the Scripture faith †With the Holy thou art Holy and with the perverse thou art perverse 98. In the Holy or Saints he is the Divine Kingdome of Joy and the Divine Life but with those which incline their will into Gods Anger in the Darknesse he is Gods Anger-Spirit 99. Indeed God himselfe is ALL for from him all is proceeded why then doe we longer Contend so much about God let us strive after that which is Best after Love then we become Children of Gods Love 100. Why will you * Deny Man Free-Will surely his Soul is created out of the highest Omnipotence of God and hath Divine might or strength if it entereth into the Love of God as Christ teacheth us †That we should not only doe such Wonders or Miracles as he did with the Fig-Tree but much greater if we had but Faith then we could with one word cast the Mountaines into the Sea 101. He hath indeed told us he would give us Faith for he said My Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him for it his words Must be true and whosoever speaketh against them are Lyars Moreover he saith He was come to call Sinners to Repentance and not the Righteous 102. What folly is it to make or set and impose Election upon Man and take away his Free-Will hath not the poor Sinner Free-Will that he CAN Come Why then doth Christ call them to himself Math 11. 103. You say with the Scripture There can none come to him unlesse the Father Draw him very right I say so too It lyeth not in our doing willing or running but in Gods Mercy He draweth whom he will and hardeneth whom he will it is all right but you are Blinde and understand it not aright 104. If it lay in Man then did Salvation stand in Mans strength or might to become saved through an Opinion as or how he will and though likely the old Evill Man which dyed in Adam continue 105. Therefore when we dyed in Adam then we lost the own selfe 〈◊〉 and lay in Gods Mercy and it was instantly said You must become borne of God againe if you would see God 106. Now at present after the Fall we have no power as to the kingdome of Heaven to meddle with it but if we obtaine the Spirit of Christ which hath of Grace generated it selfe againe in our Souls then the kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent snatch it to themselves 107. It is not in our ability that we snatch it to our selves but the ability is Gods who hath introduced it againe through Christ into us we cannot take it with force and own-selfe Right but of Grace it is promised to be bestowed 108. Now it lyeth not in that we hunt after it in own selfe-reason and willing to take it but it lyeth in this that we cast our selves againe into the Bosome viz into the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ viz into our New Mothers Body or Womb viz into a New Becoming Man or Incarnation that we with our Will be in the Obedience of Christs Will that we become Nothing viz nakedly and barely a glimps or Seed of a Will that Christ became our Will and his Becoming Man or Incarnation be our Becoming Man or Incarnation his New-Birth out of God and Man our Birth out of God and Man his slaying of the Anger of God in the Center of the Soul our slaying his Resurrection our Resurrection his Eternall Divine Life our Eternall Divine Life then it is really so that whosoever cometh to me viz into my Becoming Man or Incarnation that is into me him I will not thrust away Also my Lambs are in my hands none can pluck them away out of them and the Father who hath given them to me is greater than all Land the Father are one 109. Deare Brethren and Friends doe but understand the Drawing of the Father aright it should not so be understood that God hardeneth any who desireth to convert from Sinne but those who doe not desire that the desire standeth in our Will but the Conversion standeth in Gods Mercy 110. But now he hath promised the Mercy out of Grace to the desiring Will for he saith Turne to me then will I turne my selfe to you Also Knock and then it will be opened unto you seek and then you will finde ask and then you will receive What sonne is there that asketh his father for an Egge and he giveth him a Scorpion Can ye that are Evill give good gifts to your Children how much More my heavenly Father 111. Wilt thou now say God hardeneth thy Heart and Will that thou canst not ask prove that out of Scripture or wilt thou say thou canst not beleeve that is also NOT true 112. Canst thou not beleeve then cast all thy Sinnes into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ into his Spirit and be in him as Dead let HIM in THEE beleeve how or as he will why dost thou long take care or perplex thy selfe about strong Faith which overthroweth Mountaines it standeth not in thy power to beleeve SO. 113. Only take care about a true earnest sincere Will goe out from Sinne and strive against Sinne in Flesh and Bloud
will not cast the Pearle under your Feet know that nor under None 53. I have my knowledge and skill not from Conceit or Opinions as you have but I have a living skill or knowledge in the visibility Experience or perceptibility I need no Doctor from the Schools of this World about it for I have not learned it from them but from Gods Spirit therefore I am not afraid of your Clamour and Scorne Of a right Christian And of the Divine Wisdome the Eternall Virgin that is no Genetrix 54. DEare Sirs and Brethren in Christ I pray be Schollers of Gods Wisdome let none say of Himself I understand it we know nothing concerning God what HE is but Gods Spirit must become the knowing in US else our knowing is but Fiction a continuall Confusednesse a continuall Learning and understanding nothing in the Ground of the Center 55. What is it for me to speak much of the Wisdome out of the Scripture and could repeat the Bible without Book and understood nothing of what the Wise Men have spoken and out of what Spirit and knowledge if also I have not the same Spirit which they had HOW then shall I understand them 56. To such knowledge belongeth not Conceits and to collect together a heap or abundance of Texts to his purpose THAT no Holy Man or wise Man hath done but a living Spirit out of God can See the Mystery and converse in its own knowledge 57. Gods Spirit must be IN the Reason if Reason will see God there belongeth an humble resigned heart to it not a Scorner in Reason where Reason boasteth it self to be enlightened that is only a Sydereall or Starry Enlightening to be so sharp witted 58. If any be a Child of God then let him seek his Brother in the Love of God and then I can trust him but while he is a Scorner he hath put on the Devills Vizard and Hood and goeth about in Pride he is no Christian but a Mouth or Lip-Christian and Consufed Babel as indeed such Books of Controversie or Contention and Hypocrisie are ALL Babel 59. Let one shew another the Way of God in Love Humility and in the Fear of God as becometh the Children of God then such Contemning would not exist in the World whereby the simple Layick is seduced and totally ignorant of the Cause falleth on in reproach and Contempt against his Brother who is not of his Opinion or Sect of Religion and yet One in a Religion which without Gods Spirit and Power is but a conceit and Opinion is as blinde as the other 60. For the true Religion standeth not alone in outward Words in appearance or shew but in Living active power that one desireth from the Ground of his Heart to performe to another what he knoweth he ought to doe 61. It must come into deed else it is but a Coloured or Painted faith a Historicall Babel where Gods Spirit is not there is no Faith also no Christian but where that is there it worketh cleere works of Love he teacheth and reproveth Meekly he is not puffed up and Scornfull as my Opponent 62. He will needs write out the Ground of the divine Wisdome scorn my Explanation which I have spoken from the Center Confirm himself with the Collected Texts of Scripture despiseth that which I have Written That the Wisdom is a Virgin without Generating that she is NO Genetrix but that the Spirit of God is her Life and Generating which Revealeth or Manifesteth in her the Divine Wonder and he will set that which is better in the stead thereof 63. He saith the Wisdome suffereth and Generateth and he collecteth a heap of Texts for proof Who now is at odds with him in this Not I I say the same and he writeth but my words but understandeth not my Sense or Thoughts he is at Odds with himself 64. I speak out of the Center and he from the Substance that is Generated I understand that the Wisdome is not the Center or the Opener but Gods Spirit is that I understand thus to speak in a Similitude that as the Soul in the Body manifesteth or revealeth it self through the Essence of the Flesh and that the Flesh had not the Might or strength if there were not a living Spirit in it so also Gods Wisdome is the Out-spoken Substance where through the Power and the Spirit of God manifesteth or revealeth it self in Forms understand in Divine Forms and Shapes in the Wonders 65. It generateth or beareth indeed but it is not the Divine Principle or the Center of the Genetrix but the Mother wherein the Father Worketh 66. And therefore I call it a Virgin because it is the Modest Chastity and purity of God and carrieth no Desire backward to the Fire but its longing pleasure or Lust of Delight goeth forward with or in the Revelation or Manifestation of the Deity 67. She could generate Nothing if the Spirit of God did not work in her and therefore she is NO Genetrix but the Looking-Glasse of the Deity the Spirit of God generateth in her he is her Life she is his Chist Cabinet or Body she is the Holy Spirits Corporeity in her lye the Colours of the Vertue for she is the Out-spoken Substance which the Father comprehendeth out of the Chaos that is out of himself without besides beyond or before Nature in the Nothing and bringeth the same forth with the desire to Nature through the Eternall Nature through the first Principle through the Fire of his Might into the Second Principle in the Divine Power into the Light of the Majesty 68. It is that which the Father from Eternity in Eternity continually re-comprehendeth which the Father who is a Fire and Light introduceth into his Fire-Life to the Center of his Heart 69. She is the highest Substantiality of the Deity without her God would not be Manifested or Revealed but would be only a Will but through the Wisdome he bringeth himself into Substance so that he is Manifested or Revealed to himself 70. And therefore I call her a Virgin being she is in the Marriage with God so that she generateth without a Fire-life for in her the Light or the right Divine Life Manifesteth or Revealeth it self she is a Virgin of the Modest Chastity and purity of God and yet is in the Marriage with God 71. Thou suttle prudent School or Vniversity from the Constellation if thou didst here understand the Ground thou wouldst NEED NO Books more ALL lyeth herein the Stone of the Wise Men or Philosophers STONE lyeth in this place but first put off your rough Garment and then you will see it Of the Third Principle which is the Bride of God and how the Spirit of God is no Principle and yet is a Principle 72. NOw when I speak of the Third Principle I understand the Outward World Then saith my Opponent God hath made it through his Wisdome and proveth it by Scripture and I
say so to but I proceed not mutely I say out of what for God hath given me the knowledge It is Not I my self that know it but God knoweth it IN Me. 73. The Wisdome is his Bride and the Children of Christ are in Christ in the Wisdome also Gods Bride Now then if Christs Spirit dwelleth in Christs Children and if Christs Children be Branches on his Vine and one Body with him also one Spirit whose now is the knowledg is it Mine or Gods should I then not know in the Spirit of Christ out of what this World is Created if he dwelleth in me which hath created it should HE not know it 74. Therefore now I submit and will know nothing so far as I am self viz in that part from the outward World that he may know in me what he will I am not the Genetrix in the knowing but my Spirit is his Wife or 〈…〉 which he generateth the knowing according to the Measure 〈…〉 75. As the Eternaâ—â— Wisdome is the Body of God and he generateth therein what he will then now if he generateth it is not I that doe it but he in me I am as Dead in the generating of the knowledg and he is my Life and indeed I have neither sought it or learned it he inclineth himself to my Minehood and my Ihood inclineth it self up into him 76. But now I am Dead and understand Nothing but he is my understanding therefore I say I live in God and God in me and so I teach and write of him Dear Brethren and otherwise I know Nothing 77. Bear with my folly a little I pray in that which I tell you not for my own boasting but for your Learning and knowledge that you may know whom you scorne and despise when you deride me I will not hide it from you but mean it heartily 78. I have written of Three Principles which are known in Me but weakly as a Scholler which goeth to School so it hath gone with me 79 My Opponent writeth of Four Principles and calleth the Spirit of God a Principle also according to his meaning though I bring no Controversie into HIS meaning about it he may make Ten for the Wisdome hath neither Limit nor Ground but he neither understandeth my meaning nor his own 80. Let him tell me How the Holy Spirit is a Principle or what doth he understand by a Principle will he make the Cleere Bright Deity to be a Principle which is Eternall without ground and Beginning which dwelleth in the Nothing also possesseth nothing but only it self I can not speak so of the Principles but I speak of the Three Worlds in and with which the Incomprehensible Deity manifesteth or revealeth it self 81. One of them with or by the wrought power in the Desire to the Eternall Nature viz with the Spirit of the Dark source or quality through which the Will of the still Eternity sharpeneth it self and brings it self in the Fire through the Light and so the sharpnesse remaineth Eternally only in it self and yet in the still Will of the Meeknesse thus receiveth a Cause in the sharpnesse to the Kingdome of Joy and yet also remaineth not Essentially standing with the Spirit in the fierce wrathfull sharpnesse 82. But the Root is a Darknesse and the Spirit goeth forth out of the Chaos through the Root through the Fire in the Fathers Property through the Second Center of the Love and Kingdome of Joy into the Light 83. Now therefore that very SPIRIT which is the Life of all in every Substance or Thing according to its property is NO Principle but according to the Eternall Nature of the fierce wrathfulnesse it is a Principle 84. Thus also the Second Principle subsists with or by the Divine World viz where the Divine Power with 〈◊〉 of the Majesty is poured forth which is justly accounted 〈…〉 THREE Persons 85. But the Principle in the Fire is to 〈…〉 where the Dying is and out of the Dying another Life 〈◊〉 viz out of the Fire a Light and yet there is no dying but a consuming source quality or Torment and out of the Source Quality or Torment the high triumphing Spirit existeth where then Gods Love-Will and Anger-Will severeth it self into two Worlds viz into Light and Darknesse and he is called God according to the Light and according to the poured-out vertue or power of his Wisdome 86. But the Eternall Divine Originall is not in the Eternall Nature the Will to Nature is sooner and THAT Will is the Chaos wherein all lyeth and the Spirit existeth out of that and Manifesteth or revealeth it self with or by Light and Darknesse Therefore I call not the Spirit of God a Principle for it is without or besides all Beginnings yet with the Eternall Beginnings manifested or revealed with God in Trinity though the Ternary also is in the Chaos as is expressed in the Book of the Six Poynts Wherefore the Outward World is a Principle of its own its Model is Eternall 87. NOw when I Write of the Third Principle then I also say that God hath created all things through his Wisdome but out of the Spirit which is called God this World is NOT Created for it is called Evill and Good and a Murthering Den of the Devill 88. Also it is not generated out of the Divine Wisdome but by or through the Wisdome the Wisdome is Not the Matter of this World else I must call a Stone Gods Wisdome and Sinne also but it is generated out of the two Eternall Principles of both Worlds Substantiality viz out of the desires of BOTH 89. God the Father who is ALL hath moved himselfe with the Creation of this World that is in the Formes of both Worlds of both Natures and hath created Angells understand out of the Spirit of the Eternall Natures 90. For if a Spirit be to subsist in the kingdome of Joy then it must have the Center in it selfe out of which the Joy Originateth viz the Center to the Dark World which is the sharp might else it would be a stillnesse without Moving 91. Therefore when Lucifer contemned the Light he remained in that part of the Darknesse for his Will went out from the Light and would domineere in the Fires Might whereby he angred God according to the Fires property that is in the Principle in the Fires property 92. Thus I say the Outward World is a Principle that it hath a Life of its own generated out-of both the inward Spirituall Worlds viz a Revelation or Manifestation of the First and Second Principle a Model or Similitude of the Eternall Nature comprized in the desire of the Eternall Nature and Manifested with a Beginning and included in a Time which with the End goeth againe into the Eternity 93. This Model or Time hath stood in Gods Wisdome which the Wisdome hath manifested through TWO Spirituall WORLDS with the Moving of the Eternall Father and that which is Revealed or Manifested goeth out of both
my self the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ if My Will willeth yet I cannot doe it but Gods Will in Mine 172. My Will and Gods Will must be One for my Saviour hath told Me he will give the Holy Spirit into my Will if I but ask him for it And should not that be true then would my Opponent deny me also to Ask I can Ask THAT none On deny 173. Now Christ hath promised to hear and though I find it not instantly in the power or vertue yet if I ask THEN I beleeve that God hath given me his Spirit and though my heart and all the World should say cleerly No yet I will let the Words of Christ be more certaine to me then all Bablings and Fictions 174. Am I indeed the day Staffe or Rod of Aarow in me lyeth the Drying or withering through Adam but if Christ hath introduced his Sap into my withered Flesh and into my Dark Soul again shall I not take or receive it to my self shall I first expect the Drawing 175. I know that I can have no Good Thought in me unlesse it be from God Now if I would faine be saved then I know that very Will is Gods Drawing why should I long then expect other drawing if the Lord calleth in me and biddeth me turne to him is not that Drawing but what Man can say he is not SO drawne Even none at all God draweth every one 176. The evill Man will not follow he goeth on in a disputable Way and seeketh Subterfuges or Excuses and saith he is Holy and his Heart is a Theef and Covetous a Murtherour and moreover a Proud Devill he flattereth himself only under Christs Purple Mantle and tickleth himself with Christs Suffering and Death but will not enter thereinto and with Christ dye to Sinne and become an Enemy to it he will only walk upon Roses in sat and Jolly Dayes and devour the sweat of the Miserable in Pride for saith he God draweth me not yes thou wilt not therefore he hardeneth thee and his Anger draweth thee also the Devill whom thou servest 177. Should God draw thee then cast the false or wicked wayes from thee set thy self as if thou wert to meet an Enemy where it concerns Body and Life If the Anger draweth thee and holdeth thee doe but Defend thy self and thou wilt soon get One that will help thee 178. Doth the Anger in the Conscience Say thou art mine thou canst not be saved then say in opposition I take only CHRISTS Death with me and doe with me how thou wilt take that and wrap thy self therein let Gods Anger and all Devills roar over thee and say and complain against thee what they will out of these Swadling Cloathes shall no Election pluck THEE whether it be of God or the Devill or Man 179. But the Wanton Licentious way which men now walk wherein Men only tickle and comfort the Old Evill wicked One the Murtherer the proud stately Covetous Babylonish Antichrist with Christs sufferings and Death he should only be quiet and fatten himself well Christ hath satisfied if he be marked or noted under Christs Bloud Banner and Elected then he cannot be damned this way is totally false or wicked Murtherous and unrighteous 180. If thou wilt be a Christian then thou must be and become conformable to Christs Image and walke in his Footsteps and with him suffer persecution disgrace and scorne love the way of Truth and Righteousnesse doe that which Christ hath taught thee not with hypocrisie to take double or four-fold and give a little piece of it to another No it must be earnest thou shouldst not Esteeme any thing thou hast as if it were thy own only but consider that thou art only a servant therein and servest thy Lord in Heaven therein thou shouldst dispose of it according to HIS pleasure 181. Not to suck up the Miserable and give a little piece thereof to a Beggar and say I minister indeed to the poore First 〈◊〉 them their Sweat else thou wilt be accursed in all thy Service of God and be kept back from God 182. Serve him with Minde and Heart walke in the Light let the scorne of the World be the Prints of Christs wounds to thee labour watch and pray and stand alwayes in care and circumspection against the Devil Arme and fortifie thy selfe continually against him and consider thou art here a Pilgrim and in the Vineyard of Christ labour faithfully in the Kingdome of God all thy Labour followeth after thee for Christ said My Father worketh and I work also so must thou also as a Branch on the Vine work and beare fruit 183. For a Christian is a Branch on the Tree of JESUS CHRIST if it will not work and beare fruit then it shall be cut off that it hinder not other Branches that is it must quite wither and he hardened as to the Life of Christ these will God harden Here it is said I harden whom I will viz a Branch that will not bring forth fruit to such a one God will not give the Sap of Christ It is not said God will not be mine but thou wilt not be his and so you are parted 184. Doest thou say God can make of me what he will he is Omnipotent he maketh of thee what thou wilt his Love is Omnipotent and also his Anger THAT which getteth thee holdeth thee The wicked is to God a good savour to Death and the Saint or holy is so to the Eternall Holy Life as thou growest so thou art such Sap as thou drawest into thy selfe such Fruit thou bearest 185. Why doest thou blame God God so farre as he is called God CANNOT will Evill for he is Good there is no Evill Will in Him but according to his Anger he desireth Wood or Fewel in his Fire which is conformable to or fit for the Fire 186. Therefore rightly saith the Apostle To whom you give your selves for servants in Obedience his servants you are whether of Gods Love or Anger Here the Apostle speaketh of Mans Election that Man CAN give up himselfe and be given up and though indeed of himselfe he cannot take or receive yet God giveth him the taking or receiving for he hath promised it him The abominable Doctrine of Balthasar Tylcken Admonition not to doubt of Election Admonition and Warning to Balthasar Tylcken 187. THe Doctrine of My Opponent is throughout no other then this If God make a Good Tree then it is so that is if he make one a Christian then he is so as if Man need doe nothing in it he need not work and labour for it that he may become a Good Tree 188. Alas God 〈◊〉 us why hath God given us the LAW and Teaching and said thou shalt not doe this or that If he will have Evill How very shamefully goeth this Man astray how very carelesse and negligent doth he cause Men to be Deare Brother Minde and
perceived THAT and both the Mothers Prophesied 246. That stryed or withered Essence of the Soul understand the Womans Part not the Mans although the Mans Part also lyeth in the Seed of the Woman but too weakly in respect of the Fire the Word took or assumed to himself with the dead Substantiality into the Living now opened and introduced with or by the Holy Spirit and God and Man became ONE Person 247. But now understand me aright my Opponent will not permit that I should say CHRIST is aCreature and yet it is true so far as concernes the Soul and thâ— Outward Kingdome viz the Third Principle he is a Creature for the outward hangeth to the Inward else Christ had not been in this World if he had not had the outward Kingdome on him but without impurity in the Similitude of the Deity 248. He was a Creature and he IS one Eternally understand as to the Soul and as to the Substantiality which dyed in Adam which he with the introducing of the living Divine Substantiality and with the Word and Spirit of God made living againe and as to the Third Principle with that he is a Creature and a King and High-Priest of Men. 249. But as to what concernes the Eternall Word together with the Divine Substantiality which now became introduced into the in death inclosed Substantiality Christ is NO Creature but the first Born of the Father in Eternity 250. Understand in the Creature is the new introduced Substantiality viz Christs heavenly Flesh Creaturely but without besides or beyond the Creature it is uncreaturely for that very Substantiality is the right true Divine Principle it is as great as Gods Majesty in all places filling all in the Second Principle and THAT in the Body or Creature and THAT without the Creature is totally entirely ONE undevided totally one power or vertue might and Glory Paradise and pure Element wherein Gods Eternall Wisdome dwelleth 251. As the SUN shineth or enlighteneth in the whole World and so now if there were not in the deep such a Substance as the Sun then it would not receive the Glance or Lustre of the Sun Thus the Gorporeity of Christ is the fulnesse of the Heaven in the Person Creaturely and without the Creature Living in ONE Spirit and Power or vertue Not TWO Of the Virgin Mary How Mary was no strange Virgin but the Daughter of Joachim and Anna Whence the Author hath his Knowledge And what is called Christs Descending into Hell 252. MY Dear Opponent you will needs have a strange Virgin and you despise my very high knowledg given me of God was Mary Whose Generation or discent is sufficiently to be found in the Bible a strange heavenly Virgin And moreover standing in Gods Wisdome And from Eternity Elected or Predestinated thereto How then came it That when the Angel came to her and brought the Message That she should be impregnate or with Child And bear or Generate a Sonne She said How shall that come to passe Seeing I know of no Man Did not the Eternall Wisdome then know it how it should come to passe 253. I Suppose therefore my Dear Opponent you must permit Her to be the Daughter of Joachim and Anna as the Holy Scripture sets it downe else our Salvation will stand in suspence and be in doubt 254. I ask you in earnest if you be Gods Child then tell me How or where hath Christ Broken Death And whither went he into Hell as the Church teacheth tell me If he hath NOT received or assumed our Soul 255. Your Conceited work of a Sacrifice alone doth not satisfie me I would know from you HOW Death in the Soul is become broken neither Covenant nor promise availeth as to that if Sacrifices could have done it then it had been done among the Jewes it must be done with right Heavenly Mans Bloud 256. Now I would know whether it be done in my Soul Whether my Will-Spirit have attained an Open Gate to God with or by Christs Death that I may say Abba my Dear Father or No Tell me this or leave my Writings uncensured 257. I have my knowledge from God and not from your Fiction Schools or Vniversities where you contend about words as a Dog about a Bone goe with me into the Center be taught of God I will shew it you in the whole World in all Substances living Creatures and Created things I will set it lively before your Eyes how the greatest secret hidden Mystery is in Death 258. Now if my Soul were not together in the Death of Christ seeing it was in the Father from Eternity in the Divine Essence then have I no part in Christs Death 259. I know that JESUS CHRISTS precious heavenly Bloud which out of the Divine Substantiality became Bloud in the dryed or withered Images Seed through the Might or strength of the Heavenly Tincture hath kindled the Fire which was dark in the Soulish Essence so that the same Souls Fire in that very hour began to burne in a white cleere bright Majestick Power Light and Glance or Lustre 260. And there Gods Anger in the Soulish Essence was quenched and made to be Love THIS is Called * CHRISTS Descention into Hell when Gods Love in the Vertue or Power of the Living Word in the Heavenly Substantiality with Christs Bloud brought it self into the Center of the Soul viz into the Fathers Anger and overcame and quenched the Same with Meeknesse 261. That was the Smoak-Hole white the Devill and the Serpents Seed Ruled and Now that very Hell became destroyed and the Devills Kingdome in the Soul taken away 262. And here it is rightly said that as Sinne came from One upon all and penetrated from One upon all so also came the Grace and Eternall Life from One upon all and penetrated upon all Now whosoever will not himself receive it but expects another peculiar Election let him remaine as he is he may come or not come It is said We have Piped to you and you have not Danced we have called you and you have not come to us Question How is the New Birth performed in Vs Also WHAT of Vs shall Arise 263. MY Deare Brother Tell me if you be borne of God and enlightned as you suppose how is the New Birth performed in US is it entering in or exgenerating is it not performed in us in our Souls Indeed Christ must become manifested in us after the Manner as in Miry 264. What meane you by the New Creature Also doe you understand a New Soul Or the Old which you have inherited from Father and Mother or what do you hold concerning the Resurrection of the Dead WHAT of us must arise For the Soul dyeth not also Christ in us dyeth not for he is once dead to Sinne for and in Vs What is it that ariseth The EARTHLY Body viz the Evill Flesh that is infected by the Devill and full of Sinne and Abomination THAT is NOT
it that shall live in God For Christ said Flesh and Bloud CANNOT inherit the Kingdome of Heaven 265. What is it then For the New Creature generated out of the Dew of Heaven as you say also cannot arise for it dyeth Not Christs Life is its Life You will quite take away the first Adam what remaineth then If you are Learned tell me and play not on my Pipe you would have it that Christ hath not received or assumed Adam's Flesh then can Adam NOT rise again 266. My Friend I Exhort you in the Love of Christ be not an opposer till you understand the Center of all things or Substances together with the Three Principles For the Power or vertue of the Resurrection is performed according to the THIRD Principle there shall Nothing of ADAM passe away but only the grosse Droffinesse of the Beastiall Property and the Sinne which hath been wrought or committed according to the Anger of the First Principle 267. The Mystery viz the Quintae Essentia shall arise For Christ Flesh so farre and in whomsoever it is become Living Dyeth NO more In whomsoever the shut up heavenly part is in the power of the Word that became Man become Living that dyeth not It dyed in Adam therefore it needeth no further Resurrection 268. Also our Works follow not after us in That but in that which is a Similitude of the inward World viz in the Outward Mystery Now if Christ hath not received or assumed that to himself from US Men how then will it arise 269. I say Christ hath received or assumed the whole humanity from us on to his Heavenly but only not the BEASTIAL Property and Sinne but he hath received or assumed the Sinnes of the World on to himself As an own self-guilty Person and slaine the Death in our Souland Flesh else there were no Remedy for Man therefore must only a strong Saviour come into the Humane Property and slay Death and destroy Sinne and Introduce his Love into us 279. Now I beleeve that I shall arise in HIS and MY Flesh and Eternally Live in him his Life for mine his Spirit for mine and all whatsoever I am for his He God I Man and in him God and Man and he in me God and Man 271. This shall none teare out of my Heart I have knowne it Not I. but Christ in me therefore whosoever will may Fable and Babble about it I need no Election or Predestination to it my Saviour Christ hath Elected me IN my Soul Spirit and Flesh in himself I am therein Joyfull and Comforted let who will be a Heretick and Feigner I have with MARY Elected or Chosen the Best thing and will in the meane time sit at the Feet of my LORD JESU till all Feigners and Grace Electioners or Predestinatours have seigned and babbled Out ALL they CAN. 272. They say they cannot doe so that is their Obstinacy and Wilfulnesse I say if I cannot yet Christ in Me can And say with Jacob I will not leave thee unlesse thou blesse me and Though Body and soul should be dissolved yet I will not leave thee cast me into Heaven or into Hell yet I am in thee and thou in me thou art mine and I am thine the Enemy shall NOT part us How Mary was Eves Daughter and how Christ hath had a Humane Soul which is Eternally Immortall 273. MY Opponent hath so wonderfull a vaine discourse concerning Mary he will prove out of the Scripture that SHE hath been from Eternity and draweth a whole heape of Texts together about it which yet are all against him those very Texts speak all of the Virgin of the Divine Wisdome and then who is it that contendeth with him that Christ is become Man in that very Virginity not I I have throughout written just So but I understand also that the same Virgin was also IN the Mark or Limit of the Covenant in which God became Man 274. But Mary was from Eve else Christ had not received or assured our humane Soul as he also very strongly denyeth it that he hath assumed no Soul from us a strange thing helpeth not me in a strange thing he is not my Brother 275. Is his Soul no Creature but God himself Is he not out of or from us why then did he commend it to his Father in his Death into his hands And said On the Mount of Olives My Soul is troubled even unto Death May God also be troubled I beleeve he must now permit it to be a Humane Soul if he will stand before the Scripture and Truth that so Christ remaine to be our Brother as he said After his Resurrection Goe and tell my Brethren I ascend to my God and to your God else how should Christ say I goe to MY God if he were no Creature God needs no going without besides and beyond the Creature 276. Beloved what may indeed his Temptation in the Wildernesse have been WHAT in him became Tempted His Deity or his Soul Beloved pray tell me Did God Tempt himself Or What had he to doe with the Humanity I suppose the Man will here be Silent Read my Book of the Threefold Life therein thou wilt have the ground of all even More then any one could Ask which I here let passe 277. He writeth that Christs Soul did flow forth out of the Word and the Wisdome then is Christ Totally strange and not my Brother as he saith if they are to be Brothers then they must come out of ONE Body but Christ would not have spoken right if this Opinion should take place 278. God promised Abraham that in HIS understand in Abraham's Seed should all People become blessed but he saith no but in Abrahams promised Seed he saith not in the Seed which I promise thee or in my Seed but in thy Seed 279 O! how terrible it is that Man Dare so to pervert the Scriptures Dear Sirs where will you abide How will you stand before God Have you not the Spirit of True Knowledge from God Why then doe you make Glosses or Expositions upon the Scripture What are your conceits profitable that you Exchange Words for Words and imbitter the Scriptures let them stand unexplained if you be not called to it of God Why doe you so long make many Errours leave the Explanation to the highest Tongue in Every Man 280. Why doe you Juggle so much with the Holy Spirit are you more knowing or skilfull then HE Yes indeed ye are stately proud self honouring self-profiting wilfull stubborne Children Ye run and None hath called you suffer your selves first to be called and enlightened with Gods Light before you run 281. From such imbittering from the beginning of the World to this time nothing hath existed but strife Wars and Desolation and Babel is an unsure Leader full of Abomination and Pride to make Ostentation of it self that a Man hath studied or that a
into Good and out of Good into Evill From 144. to 153. XI How Balthasar Tylcken is the Devills Advocate How the Devill doth not assault any with Doubting more then the Children of God And of the firme Confidence of the Faithfull From 154 to 168. XII How Nothing is impossible for Faith what the drawing of God is Why the Wicked are not drawn what a right Christian is and who become hardened from God From 169. to 186. XIII The abominable Doctrine of Balthasar Tylcken an Exhortation not to doubt of Election and an Exhortation and warning to Balthasar Tylcken From vers 187 to 202. XIV Of the Eternall Purpose or Predestination and Election of God The Beginning and End whereof is one and the same alwayes From 203. to 229. II. Part. Of the Person of Christ Apol. to Tylck II. XV. How Christ became Man out of no strange Seed but out of the Seed of Mary and yet not in Eves Earthly Essence the Holy Spirit was the Husband From 230. to 242. XVI What manner of Essence the Word assumed in which God and Man became One Person How Christ is a Creature and how no Creature From 243. to 251. Of the Person of the Virgin Mary XVII How Mary was no strange Virgin but the Daughter of Joaohim and Anna Whence the Authour hath his Knowledge and what is Christs Descention into Hell From 252. to 262. XVIII Question How the New Birth is performed in us Also what of us shall arise Also of Impossibility and Possibility From vers 263. to 272. XIX How Mary was Eves Daughter how Christ had a humane Soul which Eternally is Immortal From 273. to 291. XX. Of the vaine Contention about Knowledge When we read in our selves we read in Gods Book No Knowledge maketh us Blessed a Warning and an Exhortation From vers 292. to 307. XXI A Conclusion How the present so called Christians Turks Jewes and Hoathens are all alike How one people shall devour the other and how the Harvest-is near at hand From 308. to 330. FINIS * Math. 18. 11. †Rev. 10. 7. * Rev. 14. 4. †The Book of Predestination written 1623. * Joh. 6. 45. †Jer. 31. 34. Heb. 8. 11. * Joel 2. 8. Acts 2. 17. * NOTE †The first Apologie to Balthasar Tylcken about the Aurora * 1 Tim 4. 10. Heb. 11. 26. †Eph. 6. 24. * 2 Cor. 5. 1. 4. †Rom. 3. 15. * 2 Thes 3. 2. †Joh 13. 35. * 1 Cor. 5. 12. †Phil. 3. 20. * Math. 6. 10. Luk. 11. 2. †Math. 18. 11. Luk 19. 10. * Note †Joh 6. 45 Isa 54. 13. Jer 31. 34. * Joh 16. 15. †Joh 1. 3. Col 1. 16. * Deut 4 24. Chap 9. 3. Heb. 12. 29. †Gen 3. 17. * 1 Cor. 3. 18. * Wesen * 2 Tim. 3. 7. †Or know the Bible outwardly inwardly were better * NOTE †Joh 1. 5 * Rom 6. 16. 18. 26. vsagen â—… 14. 12. â—… 22. 21. â—…k 11. 13. †Math 9. 13. * Math 11. 28. †Joh 6. 44. * Rom. 9. 16. 18. †Note Note * Joh 3. 3. †Math 11. 12. * Joh 6. 37. †Joh 10. 27 28 29. * NOTE †Ezek 1. 3. Mal 3. 7. * Math 7. 7. to the 11. Luk 11. 9. to the 14. †Note †Note * Gen 32. 26. †Psal 30. 5. * Note †Luk 5. 31. Math 18. 11. * Acts 20. 28. †Math 11. 28. * Joh 1. 5. †Note when it was that the Darknesse Comprehended the Light in Adam * Note Note * Mal. 1. 2 3 Rom 9. 13. †Gen 4. 4 5. * Gen 4. 6. 7. †NOTE * Math 23. 37. Luk 13. 34. †Micah 7. 1. * Col 2 14 15. †1 Cor. 15. 55 57. * Rom. 9. 18. †Rev. 19. 6. Math. 20. 15. * Isa 50. 8. †NOTE * Rom. 11. 36. 1 Cor. 8. 6. †The great Six Poynts * Note Note †Note Note * Or pregnant or satisfieth it †Math. 13. 12. Luk. 8. 18 * Note Note †Joh. 17. 6. 24. * Joh. 10. 28. †NOTE * Note †Psal 54. * Ezek. 33. 11. †Rom. 3. 4. †NOTE * Math. 15. 22 26 27. †1 Tim. 2. 4. * 1 Tim. 1. 15. †Rom. 8. 38 39. * Note †Or Accuser * B. T. * Note of the Potter c. See Chap. 9. in the Book of Predestination And Rom. 9. 21. †Numb 17. 8. * Joh. 3. 27. †Note * Note * Vix Of Gods Anger * Joh 20. 25. †Joh 5. 17. * Joh 15. 5. †Rom. 11. 22. * Rom 9. 18. †Note Note †Rom 6. 16. * Psal 95. 7 8. Heb 3 7. 8. 4. 7. †Phil 2. 1â— * Math 25. 41. c. †NOTE * Gen 2. 17. * 2 Kings I. 10 11. Numb 26. 10. * Note Note †Note Note Jer 18. 7 8. * Jon 3. 2. 10. †1 Cor. 14. 32. * NOTE †Eph 1. 4. * Note †Note * 1 Tim 2. 4. †Note * Joh 12. 40. * Note †NOTE * Gen 2. 17. * Numb 17. 8. Heb 9. 4. †Gen 3. 15. * Or Avrora †Gen. 2. 18. c. * Gal. 2. 20. * Note the dry Rod of Aaron grew not through the Four Elementary Water and Fire †Gen. 5. 5. * Luke 1. 35. †The Eternall Love-fire and the Water of tbe One Element * Luke 1. 41. * Note * Gal. 4. 6. †NOTE Christs Descending into Hell * Note Rom. 3. 17. †Math. 11. 17. Luke 7. 32. * NOTE †1 Cor. 15. 50. * Joh. 1. 29. 1 Joh. 2. 2. †Luke 10. 42. * Gen. 32. 26. * Joh 13. 15. * Luk. 23. 46. †Math. 26. 38. Joh 12. 27. * Joh. 20. 17. * Balthâ—sar Tylcken †God * Note ye Expositors of the Scripture †Note * Or Language of the Holy Spirit †Jer. 23 21. * Note †Luke 1. 46. * Luke 2. 35. †Luk. 1. 42. †Luk 2. 41 42 48. * Note * Note About the Resurrection * 1 Cor 15. 28. * NOTE †True brotherly Love Alles Bey Christo All. By. Christ * Note †Restitutio Renovatio Reditus Reparatio Regeneratio Revolutio OMNIUM Matt 5. 18. * The Holy Spirit dwelling in Gods Word in Every ones Heart * Note †Note * See the first Epistle to Paulus Keym. verse 30. †Note * Sustenance and preservation †Signifieth