it might pierce to God By Moses on Mount Sinai wee see this Image also where first the Fathers Property in the Fire manifested it selfe and required Mans full obedience to live before God in Holinesse and draw neere to him in purity through the Sacrifice If not then would he devoure them in the Curse through this fire Which also was an Image Type or Shadow signifying how the humane vanity should and must be purged through Gods Wrath-fire But Israel could not through the fire come to salvation and the Love of God and through Moses goe into the Promised Land but through Joshua and Christ Therefore God brought his Heavenly Substance with his Covenant into the Water-Baptisme that there might be a tolerable Medium whereby he might introduce his Love-Essence into our vanished also heavenly Substance wherein the Holy fire might kindle it selfe againe Even therefore because the humane Essence was become Earthly that Man might beare or endure it for there must be such a Medium wherein the humane Essence can take hold for in Gods Holinesse without a Medium it cannot take hold the will was rent off from it Therefore God became Man that he might cause to flow in us his Deity with the humanity that we might comprehend or take hold of him also that the Divine Imagination might introduce and awaken it selfe in Man and co-worke with the humane Imagination and therefore he assumed the humanity that he might work in us with the Deity through the Humanity Thus with the Water-Baptisme was a Glimmering Mother holy-fire imprinted in Gods Love for a Subject or Object of Divine Imagination and working whereby Death according to the Inwardnesse of Man would be broken to Pieces and a new life spring forth As fire in wood beginneth to Glimmer so was this Infusion or Baptising an z Or Vnction Anointing of the Holy Spirit for a new Lifes Oyle wherein the Divine Light might kindle it selfe This is now the Ground of the Water-Baptisme to which the Holy Ghost in the inward Ground is the hand which with the flowing forth of the Divine Love out of Christs suffering death and resurrection baptiseth with his victory That is Hee Infuseth Christs humanity suffering Death and resurrection into Man and kindleth the incorporated Paradisicall Covenant with this fire that the dry Rod of Aaron cometh to Bud forth againe For with this Infusion of the Holy Ghost Christ is bestowed upon Man he is hereby incorporated to Christ and the heavenly Ens which in Mary assumed our humane Ens with the whole processe of Christ is put on and imprinted in him to a new Life As a Tincture tinctureth the Mettle or as fire gloweth through the Iron so here also it is to be understood concerning those that are capable of this Infusion as it followeth further The Third Chapter A Briefer and more fundamentall Instruction how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost with Christs Suffering Death and Resurrection in Body and Soule 1. WHen God would introduce his Covenant with the Circumcision into the Water-Baptisme then the Word of the Inspoken Grace wherein the Holy Fire of God was First before hand became a Man and assumed first beforehand the Womans seede as our soule and humanity that he might baptise us with the Living Covenant which was become a Man 2. For the Body of Man to which the Baptisme was necessary was out of the Elements and now if it should be Baptised the Covenant must first beforehand give it selfe into an Elementary Medium as in the Humanity of Christ and Sanctifie that Medium that Man might through this Medium be baptised 3. For it was not to be done onely for the Heavenly Substance of Man which vanished in Adam in which the Covenant in Paradise incorporated it selfe that it alone should be baptised No but also for the Soule and for the Body out of the Limus of the Earth 4. The whole Man needed the Baptisme All the Three Principles of all the Three worlds in Man must be baptised viz The first Principle is the Eternall Nature viz the true Soules Life that came out of the Word of the Inspeaking into the Body The Second Principle is the true Eternall Spirit viz the Holy Power of the Light and Love which I call in this little Booke the heavenly vanished Ens and Substance in Adam wherein Adam vanished viz the Soules will departed out from it The Third Principle is the Astrall Animall Soule Ex Spiritu Mundi out of the Spirit of the World with its Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the whole outward visible Man 5. This Threefold Man was wholly fallen for as the Divine Light in the Spirit of the Second Principle went out he was quite blinde as to God and dead as to Paradise In this must a Divine Love Ens be Infused againe in which Love Ens the Divine fire and Light might againe kindle to a new Life but if this must be done then must the Holy Fire first beforehand manifest it selfe with the Covenant in the Threefold Humanity as in Christs Humanity that Gods Spirit might baptise us out of with and through this threefold Humanity that Each Principle in us might be baptized with its like or similitude For the Holy Ghost Baptizeth through Christ to the forgivenesse of Sinnes 6. The Holy Fire of the Divine Power in Christ Baptiseth his Temple in us which the Holy fire viz the Divine life in us would possesse viz the vanished Ens of the Heavenly worlds Substance the Spirit of understanding or of Power viz the Second Principle or Angelicall Body out of the Angelicall worlds Substance to which Substance Christ afterwards giveth his most holy spirituall flesh for food in which he himselfe dwelleth This Divine Love in the Holy fire baptiseth this Spirit for it is an Ens of the Holy fire wherein it burneth or liveth And the first Principle viz the fiery Soule out of the Divine Science of the seperable speaking word out of the Fathers Property is baptised with the fiery Spirit of the Fathers Property as with the fire burning Love 7. Thus to be understood The Soule is of the Fathers Property and in this Baptisme with his Infusion into the Soule he giveth it to the Son in his Love-fire The Fathers Property in the fire taketh hold on the Soule first with the Law of Nature with his Strickt Righteousnesse with the Eternall Birth of the fire-Ground whereby the hard p Impression Compressed Dead Soule in that Infusion of the fire is moveable and its hard p Impression Compression of the false Magnetick Desire is broken in sunder and opened in that manner as a Man strikes up fire 8. Thus now the Divine Light of the Great Love is in the Opened Name JESUS out of JEHOVA in the Centre of the Fathers fire When the Fathers fire unlocketh the fiery Soule then the light of the Divine Love can shine into it and Introduce the Love Ens
into it for so soone as the Wrath-fire unlocketh the Soule iustantly it receiveth the Love-fire of the Sonne and goeth into it as fire Gloweth through Iron or as a Tincture penetrateth Metrall 9. And thus is the Soule given from the Father to the Sonne and thus the Sonne Giveth it the Love-fire viz the Eternall Life for if the Fathers Property did not move together in the shut up Soule then the Soule would remaine in its Impression in Eternall Death and the Light could not be manifested in it 10. The q Commotion or Contrition shrill sounding and kindling of the Fathers fire is the fountains of humane Repentance where man trembleth before sinne for in the fire-glance is the false compressed vanity of sinnes in the Darknesse of the Soule Manifest and the Love-shining in of the Sonne is the Meeke Love-Oyle that uniteth and tempereth the Contrition or shrill sounding againe 11. For the Sonne is in the Father and the Father in the Sonne and they baptise together The Father with fire and the Sonne with Light after that manner as fire is struck so that the meeke Light-Glance is manifested out of the fire and so the fire burning is wholly turned and growne into a Light Glance â— The Fathers fire with its terrour consumeth the vanity in the Soule and the Sonnes Love healeth it againe Thus is the Baptisme according to the Inward Ground of Mans Soule and Spirit to be understood 12. The Third Property of the Third Principle r Text. With. in the Water-Baptisme wherewith the body of the outward Worlds Substance as also the Spirit of the Constellation in Man is baptised is thus to be considered By the Water viz by the Element of the Body of Christ the right Adamicall Man which was created in Adam as to the Body understand out of the outward worlds Substance is baptised for here the Holy Ghost baptiseth who goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne his Going forth is the formation of the world and the world is the outspoken formed Word and the Spirit of God it is that hath formed it 13. For Hee is to be understood in all the Three worlds in each world according to their Property As in the Fathers wrath according to the Darknesse he is the flame of Painfullnesse and in the Eternall Light he is the Love-flame of God and in this world in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the world he is the formour and workmaster of every thing in every thing according to its property As the Seperator of the thing is so also is the outflowne Spirit out of the out-spoken word in every thing 14. For in the outward worlds Substance it is not to be understood that the Spirit of its Substance is called God but it is the outflowne Spirit in the outspoken word of God which with its ground standeth in the Word of God 15. The Outflowne Spirit of the Outward Creaturely and Naturall Life is flowne forth out of Gods Love and Wrath out of Light and Darknesse viz out of the first and second Principle as out of the Eternall Nature out of the Speaking of the Word and standeth with its Ground in Gods Speaking for the Eternall Word Å¿ Or breatheth forth that out-spoken Spirit exhaleth it selfe with that Spirit into a Creaturely Life 16. It that same Exhaled Spirit is the outward Creaturely Life in Every Creature according to its property It is the Soule of the Outward World viz the Inceptive Soule a life of the foure Elements It s power is a fiery and lightish Constellation What the whole outward Constellation is in it selfe in its power the same is that Spirit alone in it selfe yet as a shut up Constellation that lyeth in the Temperament and yet unfolds it selfe in Every Life and maketh it selfe Seperable according to the lifes property t Text. By. In the Temporary Creatures with a Temporary Property and t Text. By. in the Eternall with an Eternall Property In Man with a temporary and fragile Corruptible property and also with an Eternall Which Eternall hangeth to the Eternall Exhaled Word to the Eternall Exhaling wherein Man at the Last Day according to the visible Image shall arise and come againe out of the Corruptibility and be presented before Gods Judgement before The Judgement and be put upon the Great u Or fiery Triall fires Proba where the Mortall shall seperate it selfe from the Eternall 17. Understand us now heere rightly thus concerning the Baptisme of this Outward Spirit The Inward holy-Holy-Spirit of Divine Love kindleth the Outflowen Spirit and anointeth it with Divine Power For the humanity of Christ according to our Outward Spirit was anointed of the Holy Ghost and that same outward Spirit of Christ which in Christs Person in the Elements of the Body ruled after a humane Manner that in the Covenant of his Testament in the Water-Baptisme anointeth the Inward ground of the Water and the anointed power in the water in the word of the Covenant anointeth the true Man which in Adam was Created out of the Limus of the Earth and so also it anointeth the Spiritus Mundi the Spirit of the world viz the right x Note Astrall Soule which at the Last Day shall come againe and be tryed 18. Now understand us dearely and well it availeth us much This Anointing of Water-Baptisme is anointed with Christs suffering death and resurrection it is anointed with Christs shedding of his bloud with which heavenly bloud he changed Gods Wrath into Love and besprinkled Death in the humane Property wherewith he anointed the Earth when he shed forth this his bloud upon and into it Note also It was anointed therewith when Christ yeelded his anointed Life of the outward humanity received from us in his Death into this Spiritus Mundi this spirit of the world againe and anointed that also with his Anointing in his Death viz where his outward mortall soule received from us which dyed on the Crosse and yeelded it selfe into the hand of God as into his Outspoken Word went out of the Body into the Elements Also It is anointed therewith where this his outward Soule with the Eternall Soule wherein the holy Ghost was penetrated through Death and Hell And also therewith where the Holy Ghost in the Word received this his dead Astrall Soule our of death and brought it through death with his resurrection into Eternall Life where Gods Love anointed it with the Eternall Life 19. This Anointing of Christ is understood in the Water-Baptisme as in the Covenant of God for God anointeth in the humanity of Christ the Elements of the Body together with the Mortall and Immortall Soule and bringeth Christ with this anointing into his Death and into the Wrath and through Death into the Eternall Life And this Anointing wherein Christ hath overcome Gods Wrath Sinne Death the Devill and Hell hath God with his Covenant of the Old-Testament ordained in the Water-Baptisme and offereth it
now to Every man 20. And so now if a Man desireth it and inclineth himselfe to it as a Man and not a Beast then the Holy-Ghost baptiseth the inward Ground viz his Temple which himselfe possesseth viz the true Eternall Spirit together with the Eternal Soule And the anointing of Christ out of his humanity received from us anointeth and baptiseth in us the true first Man Created in Adam out of the Limus of the Earth together with the Mortall Soule yet that a Man may understand the Ground herein is that which shall arise and live Eternally 21. This is done through Christs suffering Death and Resurrection in his bloudy y Or Fight or combat Conflict viz the victory of his Death is the hand that baptiseth Note the right Man is baptised unto Life and the Serpent-Grosse earthly Man is baptised with Christs Death and dying so that he shall dye and leave all his evill lusts and desires to the Death of Christ that that may kill it and bring a new will out of the Death of Christ out of Soule and Body 22. The Evill Man viz that Serpent-Monster is taken with this baptisme viz where the hand of God viz his speaking Word it selfe taketh and baptiseth and is buried with Christ in his Death and in that Hell into which Christ in his dying entred understand into the Darknesse of Gods Wrath viz into the Abysse of the humanity and this anointing in the Baptisme bindeth and uniteth it selfe with the true Adamicall first Body which was before the fall of Adam and generateth through Christs victory a new will in soule and body which obeyeth God 23. Thus then according to this anointing the true Man standeth in the Anointing of Christ and the Serpent-Monster standeth in Gods wrath and yet during this time of life dwell in one body but each in its Principle viz in its own Property concerning which St Paul saith Rom. 7.20.25 Now if I sinne it is not I but sinne in the Evill flesh that doth it Also so then I now serve God with the minde of the anointed Ground and with the Minde of the false flesh I serve the Law of sinne 24. And saith further Rom. 8.1.28 Now then there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus in his anointing which according to this purpose of God are called in the Word or are thus comprehended in the Calling in the Anointing where he then meaneth the right anointed Man which in this time of life sticketh hidden in the z Viz Shell Scales of the Earthly Body as fine Gold in a Grosse stone and yet according to the Anointing dwelleth in Heaven as St Paul also saith Phil. 3.20 Our Conversation is in Heaven Also Rom. 6.15 Gal. 2.17 Shall we then that belong unto Christ be yet sinners that be farre from us where he meaneth the Anointed Ground and not the beastiall Monster of Earthlinesse full of Evill inclinations which standeth in the wrath of God the Condemnation and shall not inherite the Kingdome of God which yet in this life time hangeth to the right anointed Man 25. The anointed Ground is the Christian and not the outward Grosse Beast The Anointing it is which daily breaketh the head of the Monster the Serpent viz the Evill Earthly will where the Strife in Man is where one property willeth Evill and the other Good and that which overcometh driveth Man on to Work Therefore shall and must Mans Works be Judged and every one be gathered into its barne viz that which is done in the power of the Anointing into the Kingdome of God and that which is done in the power of the Monster the Serpent into Damnation into the Darknesse of Wrath and Death The Third Chapter A Briefer and more fundamentall Instruction how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost with Christs Suffering Death and Resurrection in Body and Soule WHen God would introduce his Covenant with the Water Baptisme into the humanity then was the inspoken Grace-word of the holy fire of God viz the fiery Love First beforehand become Man and tooke first beforehand the Womans seede on him viz our soule spirit and whole humanity that he might Baptise us with the living Covenant which was God and Man For the Body of Man to which the Baptisme was necessary was out of the Elements and now if it should be baptised the Covenant Would first beforehand give it selfe into an Elementary Medium as in the humanity of Christ and sanctifie the same that Man might through this Medium be baptised For it was not to be done alone for the heavenly Substance which vanished in Paradise in which Substance as in the most inward Ground of the humanity the Covenant in Paradise incorporated it selfe that the same Ground alone should be baptised No but also for the Soule and for the Body out of the Limus of the Earth The whole Man needeth the Baptisme All the Three Principles viz all the Three worlds Properties in Man must be baptised The first Principle is the Eternall Nature The Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery out of which the visible world is sprung forth a ground of the true Eternall Soule which through Gods inbreathing came into the Body The second Principle is the true Eternall Spirit viz the Holy Lights-Power which Power I call in this little Booke the heavenly Ens or Substance vanished in Adam which vanished in Adam with the Fall as the Soules-will departed out there-from into Earthlinesse and brake its will off therefrom The Third Principle is the Man from the outward worlds Substance viz the Astrall soule with its Body out of the Limus of the Earth which standeth in the foure Elements This Threefold Man was wholly fallen for as soone as the Light in the Spirit of the Second Principle went out he was quite blinde as to God and dead as to Paradise in this must a Divine Love Ens be Infused or imprinted againe wherein the Divine fire and Light might kindle it selfe to a new Life and therefore the Holy Fire of the Great Love of God in the Covenant must manifest it selfe in the Humanity of Christ that Gods Spirit might Baptise us out of with and through this Threefold Humanity that Each Principle in us might be baptised with its like or similitude For the Holy Ghost Baptiseth through Christ to the forgivenesse of sinnes How is this Baptisme of the Holy Ghost Effected Answer Gods holy Fire of the Divine Love power in Christ Jesus baptiseth his Temple in us which the holy fire Life viz Gods Spirit will possesse viz the vanished Ens of the Heavenly worlds Substance the Spirit of power and understanding the second Principle or Angelicall Ground to which Ground Christ afterwards giveth his holy Spirituall flesh for food wherein the true b Owne very Reflect Image Expresse Image of God doth Consist The Divine Love and sweetnes in the holy fire baptiseth this Spirit for it is an Ens of the holy fire wherin it
unfoldeth it selfe in every Life and maketh it selfe Seperable according to every Lifes property Note Courteous Reader this is what our Authour blessed in the Spirit of the high knowledge indeed readily began to bring to the easier understanding for the simple but hath not finished it for * Anno. A. †O. 1624. in his Jubilee yeare or 50th yeare of his Age he went according to the Mystery againe into his Grave or Magick and Mentall Principle The Fourth Chapter Of the Outward Water-Baptisme by Mans hand who is worthy to performe such Baptisme and what Baptised Infant doth worthily receive this Baptisme how it goeth with the unworthy hand as also with the unworthy Baptised Infant In this time highly necessary to be considered 1. WHen God established the Testament of his holy Covenant of Grace in Paradise out of the Type and Sacrifices would ordaine the Circumcision into Water-Baptisme then he bringeth forth a Branch out of his Covenant in a humane Manifestation and began the Water-Baptisme thereby As is cleerely to be seene in John the Baptist who was proclaimed by the Angelicall Message or Embassie and moreover of the stock of the high Priests 2 His Incarnation or becoming Man came not from the will of the flesh for his Father Zachary and Mother Elizabeth which were ancient people full of Dayes who were cleerly dead in the fleshly sperme or seede where the ability of Man was cleerly gone The seede of Zachary and Elizabeth was raised up through the moving of the Holy Ghost out of the Paradisicall Grace-Covenant in their now quite vanished Spermatick Property 3. Indeed he came out of the humane Ground but not out of humane ability for the Anointing in the Covenant awakened it so that their sperme above the course and power of Natures owne ability was unlocked which Holy Ghost raised up a seede out of the humane sperme and to that purpose chose a The Seede it in its first beginning 4. But the anointing of John was done in Maries Salute when shee came to old Elizabeth and the divine anointing stirred in her understand in Mary out of Christs Incarnation or becoming Man When Mary full of this anointing saluted Elizabeth then the Incarnation of Christ diffused with the anointing through the salute of Mary in John in the Mothers womb and not onely in John but also in his Mother Elizabeth so that shee was full of this anointing and both the Mothers prophesied in the Spirit of this anointing 5. And this is the Baptisme of John when as he was anointed with the Incarnation of Christ out of Christ and received the Baptisme of the Holy Ghost out of the Covenant in the Mothers womb so that he should be a Forerunner and declarer that the time of the Anointing and fullfilling of the Covenant of God was at hand that God hath introduced his Covenant of the anointing of Grace into the humanity and that the Covenant is become a Man that God will hence forward shed forth his anointing through the humanity of Christ through an Elementary Medium or Meanes that consisteth no more in fire as in the Old Testament but in Love and Meeknesse of Water so that the time of Grace is at hand wherein God hath given his anointing into the humanity 6. And then wee see that God there began no new Covenant but onely a New Ordinance for John suffered himselfe to be Circumcised as also Christ John tooke the power and calling out of the Covenant of the Circumcision out of the Sacrifices of fire and by the command of God brought them into the Water-Baptisme to signifie that hence forward sinne should be drowned by the death of Christ in his Love and Meeknesse and no more burne in the fire as was done by Israel in the Type 7. Moreover wee see by John that he did not yet baptise with the forgivenesse of sinnes but with Repentance viz. with the Spirit of the anointing to Repentance which soundeth through the hearts of Men and prepareth the way for the Spirit of Christ which unlocketh the Doores of Mens hearts and soules that after b Viz. John the Baptist him the King of Glory might enter in at those Opened Gates concerning which David sayth Open the Gates wide for the King of Glory that the King of Glory viz Christ may enter in Psal 24.7.9 And as John witnesseth He baptised with water to Repentance and forgivenesse of sinnes yet he is not Christ but after him cometh he that hath the fan in his hand who will baptise with the fire of the Spirit Luk. 3.16 17. 8. Also wee see in John that he must be the sonne of a Priest who were conversant about Circumcision and Sacrifices he must come out of the Law of the Covenant and suffer himselfe to be Circumcised and put on the Covenant that he might with the Spirit of the Covenant and of Circumcision begin the Water Baptisme viz the Ordinance of Grace and forgivenesse for sinne should be destroyed now no more by fire but by Love which God manifested in the Covenant through Christ it sinne should be drowned and changed by Gods Meeknesse 9. Therefore also God ordained for this destroying of sinnes this meanes of the Water-Baptisme to signifie that sinne should be drowned in the bloud of Christ in his Love and Grace and that Man should henceforth have an open Gate of Grace to God in the Love and Meeknesse so that now with the Repentant sorrow for sinnes with the c The absolution from sinnes forsaking of sinnes he may Enter through this Gate into Grace 10. And wee see heere in John the beginner of the Water-Baptisme what Man is worthy to baptise with this new Grace Covenant viz such a one as also beforehand hath been baptised with this Grace as John was by Christ who was Baptised even in his Mothers womb for flesh and bloud without this anointing cannot Baptise for this Might standeth not in the d Or Power authority of Man but in Christs d Or Power authority 11. Note A Christian in whom is the anointing of Christ baptiseth with the anointing of Christ for the Holy Trinity baptiseth with the Grace-Covenant of the anointing with Christs Incarnation or becoming Man with his suffering death and victory Now will any baptise they must not onely baptise with the Hand and Water-Baptisme but also with the Faith of the anointing 12. An unfaithfull or unbeleeving Baptiser doth no more in this high work of the Baptisme Then the Font-stone or Bason doth which holdeth the water for though he sprinkle or powre water and useth the words of Christ yet he Effecteth nothing therewith but is dumb or dead in the working except the Covenant of Christ worketh and baptiseth he is but meerly a Medium or means like a worklesse inanimate e Or Thing Substance that doth not it selfe work together in this Covenant but onely doth the work in which work God worketh in respect of his Covenant
they be knowne but by the same Spirit whose fruits they are he that hath not the fruits of this Spirit which is holinesse peace righteousnesse joy in the Holy Ghost enjoyeth not the kingdome of God nor till wee have sought and found peace and holinesse wee shall not see God and except wee be borne againe of water and the Holy Spirit we cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven though it be Luke 17.21 within us Now can any teach what it is to be born again and what this Water and holy Spirit is but he that hath them and hath been borne againe by them I would men were diligent to desire such spirituall things and then God who dwelleth in their hearts would feele and heare their desires and breath forth his holy Spirit in them and satisfie their desires with his Gifts and Graces and then he would fill their minds and understandings also with the knowledge of all his Mysteries and so they would learne in the schoole of Christ by Divine Experience the true Ordinances of God and then we should be better able to edifie one another in our most holy Faith and wee should by degrees improving that measure of knowledge we have at length attaine the highest knowledge of the highest Apostle Wee want but the sincere practise of what we know for by that meanes wee should not Quench but stirre up the Gifts and Graces of Gods Holy Spirit that are within us till it multiply and flow forth with all its Gifts which wee suppose are not attainable because men have not endeavoured that they might attaine them And that is the Reason wee have the Ordinances not in Power but in much weaknesse wanting those Gifts which would enable Men to dispence the Ordinances of God It is a Great Gift to have our Calling and Election sure in that sense which the Apostle Paul meant it according to the highest understanding of that Mysterie which the Apostle himselfe knew must needs be attainable by labour and Endeavour and upon the knowledge of this Mysterie doth many other Mysteries depend it is that for which the Ordinances were Instituted as helps and meanes to bring us to the assured certainty of our salvation wee content our selves with an Imaginary superficiall perswasion without knowing assurance for if wee did endeavour labour search seeke and try wee should soone perceive how it might be made infallibly sure and then wee should as assuredly understand the high Excellency of Every Ordinance of God All the Arts and Trades in the world are Mysteries and are not truly knowne but by those that have had Experience in them then how can there be a skilfull Dispencer of the Mysteries of God his Ordinances but by Experience in them we are able to learne them all by Experience but without that wee know nothing of them more then the very beast The Devills that far surpasse Mortall Men in knowledge yet cannot know the Mysteries of God because they cannot experiment them but those of Darknesse they worke and therefore know them and wee are placed in this world to work the works of God that wee may know what that Good and acceptable will of God is and therefore wee should Work out our salvation with feare and trembling by obedience in well-doing and that will bring us to feele and know the good Spirit of God which will teach us the way and course how to finde every thing if wee search and enquire in that Spirit threfore let us endeavour after that which is Holy and wee shall feelè what the God of Holinesse is and then we shall cleerly understand the Scriptures and the writings of all other Men wee shall be able to discover what is true and what is false in all the words and writings of any Man understandingly and demonstratively to the convincing of all hearers both in Divine and Naturall things From these Instances that have been mentioned it may be perceived that all the Ordinances of God have proceeded from the Holy Ghost neither can any thing be the Ordinance of God where the Holy Ghost is not in some measure or other no man is the Minister of the Word of God any further then he is taught by the Spirit of God and speaketh what he understandeth by the same Spirit None were fit to be made Deacons or Elders but one full of the Holy Ghost then surely none are able to make Deacons or Elders but by the Power of the Holy Ghost that is in them and so of all other Ordinances and according to the measure of the Holy Spirit in us such is the validity and Efficacy of the Ordinances to us the Outward performance of the things directed in the Scripture by men of sincere hearts is sufficient and they are warnings to us to forsake our Evill wayes in the Observance of which course wee may assuredly finde true Christianity and consequently salvation but this is in the lowest degree and it were to be wished that none were so presumptuous as to arrogate to themselves that they are such as performe the true Ordinances of God unlesse they have the same holy Spirit of God filling their hearts as they had of whom it is recorded in the holy Scriptures that they did performe them aright when wee are scarce truly Children of God let us have a care that wee suffer not others to account us above what wee are but rather informe them sincerely that wee are not such as they take us to be and not take upon us to be called Gods Faithfull Servants Ministers of God Preachers of the Word Elders Teachers Pastours Overseers Messengers and Embassadours of Christ or Apostles such as are sent from God neither should any mention those Texts of Scripture which speake of the true Officers of Christ as if the same were meant and applyable to thamselves and so urge them in Sermons that those hearers that have not ability to discerne the truth in things that differ are made confident to maintaine stiffely that those Scriptures mean them they call Ministers as well as it did the Apostles Evangelists and other faithfull Teachers in those dayes and doe alledge those Scriptures in their behalfe and call them Divines whereas none of the Apostles were so named in all the Scripture but John the Divine the beloved Disciple and most sublime in vision and Revelation when as if wee truly examine our selves according to the Scriptures wee shall finde wee ought rather to be esteemed Enemies of God and of his Sonne Jesus Christ our Lord But let us presse forward in the wayes of Godlinesse that wee may be at length strong Men in Christ and enjoy his Ordinances in the Power as it was and is in the spirits and soules of all the faithfull holy ones who have true understanding and knowledge in the Divine Mysteries by Experience such were the Prophets and Apostles and faithfull in all ages No curious workman can make his servant expert in his work except the servant
13. Not so to be understood as if the worke by the unworthy hand were therefore wholly f Or Ineffectuall powerlesse no the Covenant of God g Absenteth or withdraweth severeth not it selfe for the unworthy hands sake which is but a Medium or Means for faithfull Parents which stand in the anointing of this Covenant and have put on the Covenant they have the anointing also in their seede and generate Children out of the property of their bodyes and soules now if they be baptised in body and soule and have put on the anointing of Christ wherefore then not also the Ens of their bodyes if they be the Temples of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in them and eate Christs flesh and drink his bloud so that Christ is in them and they in Christ as Christ sayth Joh. 6.56 Wherefore then not also the fruit of their Bodies For Christ sayth indeed Matth. 7.18 a Good Tree cannot bring forth bad fruit and a bad Tree cannot bring forth Good fruit If the eye of the spirit be light then is the whole body light If the Leven be Holy then is the whole Lump Holy Matth. 6. Rom. 11. 14. John was baptised in the Mothers womb through the Spirit of Christ out of Maries voice as also his mother Elizabeth and wee see cleerly how it came to passe for as Elizabeth heard the Spirit of Mary the Holy Ghost moved in her and also in her fruit alike they received the Baptisme of Christ out of his humanity alike the Mother with the Sonne wherefore then not also now at present in holy Parents in whom the anointing is For such as the Tree is such is also its fruit But the Covenant in the Baptisme is therefore that every one should themselves with their owne will as a particular branch on the Tree and as a life of their owne put on the Covenant of Christ as through the outward Medium or Meanes ordained thereunto 15. Not to understand that a childe of honest anointed Parents which hath attained life though it dye before the Baptisme that it is not in the anointing of Christ It hath indeed put on the anointing of its Parents for it is existed out of their substance out of their baptised soules and bodies substance and onely needeth if it liveth to enter into the Image of the visible Covenant as a life of its owne and with its will give it selfe up into that which it inheriteth from its Parents But seeing a childe understandeth not this therefore the Parents doe it with their Faith and every one of those that are called to that work viz the h Pathen Gossips Witnesses or God-fathers and God-mothers who in their faiths-desire with their Prayer i Transferre or deliver over recommend the childe to the Covenant of Christ and present it in the Covenant of Christ to the Holy Trinity and desire the Covenant to be upon this Childe 16. All these both the Parents and standers by viz the faithfull Baptiser and Witnesses worke with their faith in the property of the Childe and reach out to it with their faith the Covenant of Christ for the will of their Faith taketh the Childes will being without understanding into their faiths desire and so beare the childes will in their will with their anointing into the Covenant of Christ viz before the Holy Trinity 17. When the Baptiser sprinkleth or powreth the water upon the Childe then is his faith together in the water and fastneth it selfe in the words of Christ who sayth Matth 28.19 Goe hence into all the world Baptising all Nations in the Name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Upon Christs command they Baptise Men the Baptiser Baptiseth with the Hand and with Faith and the Parents together with the Witnesses baptise with their Faiths desire with the anointed will they infuse it into Christs Covenant and Christ infuseth himselfe therein with his Bloud Death and Victory viz with the victory of his Death and kindleth the faiths Ens of the Childe with his love fire 18. Thus the Graine of Mustardseed of the love-fire soweth it selfe into the Childes Soules and Bodies Ens as a Glimmering k Hatcher breeder or Ember Mother of Divine Love which Mother afterwards when the childe getteth understanding of its owne is more kindled through Faith Repentance and Prayer and becometh a high shining Light and when afterwards the Mouth of Faith eateth Christs flesh and drinketh his bloud then this holy Mother love-fire atteineth holy Oyle to the burning of its Life 19. With the Baptisme is implanted the humanity of Christ according to the holy Love-water viz the Water of Eternall Life in which water the holy fire may burne and with the Supper is participated the Holy Tincture in the bloud and flesh of Christ viz the true Love-fire burning a spirituall Anointing Oyle out of the divine fire and Light which the water of Love kindleth viz the Baptisme-Covenant And though a Childe be borne of Holy Parents Note and in the Mothers womb be cleerely in this Covenant yet it ought also to put on this Covenant in its owne selfesubsisting person in its owne lifes will for this Cause that in the flesh Sinne and uncleannesse is together propagated and inherited and therefore should it selfe put on this Covenant for it ought and must it selfe with the Covenant of Grace breake the head of the Serpent in the flesh and therefore it ought also it selfe to put on Christ with his victory For Christ now offereth himselfe to it selfe it ought therefore in its owne person to receive him with its owne will and give its owne will up to him 20. For the Baptisme is nothing else but a marriage or Contract with God l Text. auff upon in Christs bloud and Death wherein Christ bindeth himselfe to Man with his victory and Resurrection and placeth Man therein And Man in the Baptisme giveth up his Adamicall averse will to the Death of Christ and desireth to dye to his owne will in the Death of Christ and to rise againe through Christs Resurrection out of Christs Death with and in Christ to a new will and to live and to will with Christ For wee are through the Baptisme with Christs victory planted anew in the Word of God for Man is the Outspoken Imaged Word of God which hath brought his will in Adam from the speaking of God into an owne will and speaking and is become treacherous to the Word of God and with the Baptisme the Imaged Word promiseth and incorporateth it selfe againe with the Eternall Speaking of God that it will speake and will according to God viz Gods righteousnesse and truth 21. The Baptisme is an Oath which Man sweareth m In or into to God when he renounceth the Devill and his Kingdome and giveth up himselfe to God for his proper owne viz for a Temple of God And though a childe understandeth not this yet the Baptiser as also the Parents and Witnesses should
Altar and inherite the kingdome of God but it shall be consumed with the Essentiall fire of the Earth without the holy Fire of God as Moses must burne the Heifer without the Host so also should and must the Grosse beastiall Man be burnt up without the City of God viz in its owne Principle by that same Nature-fire as it is done before our Eyes But this Earthly Mans Bloud wherein the Astrall soule â—â—veth should be sprinckled upon the Hornes of the Altar which signifieth the right Man created in Adam out of the Limus of the Earth with the right Astrum whose bloud or power shall come againe at the Last Day that same bloud was in Christs humanity with the inclusion of the Heavenly bloud sprinckled upon the hornes of the Altar in his suffering and dying on the i Note Tree of the Crosse for a signe that our bloud after a right humane manner is with Christ come upon Gods Altar and that God in Christ hath therewith Marked us in the Eternall Heavenly Altar 12. But that the other bloud must be powred at the foote of the Altar signifieth that our humane bloud wherein our outward humane life consisteth which here dyeth is in its dying powred out at the foote of the Altar viz into the foure Elements and reserved to the bringing againe of the first true Man that the right life shall be kept at the foote of the Altar that is in its owne Principle as in Mysterio Magno in Spiritu Mundi in the Great Mysterie in the Spirit of the world till God shall purge this Altar of the foure Elements and bring forth againe the same pure vertue and power of the bloud together with the Elements and bring them into the Temperature and so then the humane bloud shall againe come to the Soule according to the property of the Spirituall World 13. For this cause must Moses and Aaron in the figure powre out the Heifers bloud at the foote of the Altar for God had not to doe about the blood of Beasts but he set forth the figure of Mans restoration and signifieth under it that Wee Men according to the outward Grosse Earthly Man were but such Beasts which Grosse beastiall property had swallowed up the true Man into it selfe Thus he signifieth how he would with his power bring againe and new Generate that same inward devoured Ground And as the power and vertue of our Mumia of the oyly property shall be kindled againe through the fire of God as Moses kindled the fatt so shall the power of the inward Ground heere even in the time of this life be kindled with the Divine fire and burne upon Gods Altar which through the Vnction or anointing of the Spirit of God should be done in us Even as Moses kindled the fatt so should also the spirit of Christ kindle our Inward Ground even in this lifes Time And when this comes to be done then should the Heifer viz the beast-Man be slaine that is he should be daily Mortified and with his will and beastiall desire be cast forth without the Host of God for he is but Earth and a Beast and not fit for the Kingdome of Heaven Joh. 6. 14. But the Ram now signifieth the right anointed Man in the humanity of Christ as also our inward Ground which with Christs anointing in us becometh living againe As God through Aarons sons viz through the high Priest would lay the hand of his Anger upon it and slay it that our humane will might be slaine so shall in this slaying the bloud of this Ram viz the right humanity be sprinckled every where upon the Altar of God and the humane will shall be split in pieces and quite forsake the owne will and the Head viz the humane senses or thoughts be kindled with Gods fire Even as Moses kindled the Head of the Ram as also the pieces and the Rump so must also our humanity in Christ be washed with the water of Love and afterwards be sacrificed upon the Altar of God viz on the Tree of the Crosse 15. Note But that the Ram must be kindled with fire Note and be offered to the Lord for a sweet savour to the Lord therein Lyeth the Great Mystery The Ram is the right Man Created in Adam which Christ as the Word or the power of God tooke on him from our Adamicall Humanity in the Body of Mary and signifieth by the Ram that God in Christ would thus anoint our right Adamicall Humanity with the holy anointing Oyle and bring it to God againe 16. But seeing the humane will was departed from God and had brought it selfe into Earthly beastiall Lust therefore should this Ram viz the Humanity of Christ be kindled with Gods fire of Anger for the Anger of God was become manifest in the humanity and therefore God anointed first the humanity with the Spirit of his Love in Christs humanity and afterwards offered this Ram viz the right Adamicall humanity to the fire of God that in the Anointing of the Love-Oyle the anger-fire might be kindled and the anger fire in the anointing of the Love viz through the Oyle of its holy substance be transmuted and wholly turned into a Love burning 17. For our humane soule was become an Anger fire viz an Enmity against God and therefore thus God reconciled it in the Love of its substance That is Gods anger in the humane life was thus econciled for Gods power smelt or thus drew in the fire the humane life againe into the Eternall Word viz into God Gods Anger-fire was the Mouth which received the humane Life againe into it and swallowed up the humane averted will into it selfe 18. But when this Great love had given up it selfe into the humane Life in Christ then was Gods Anger-fire with its devouring in the soules fire turned into meere Love viz wholly into a Love-fire and thus Death in the fire of Gods Anger which holdeth the soule captive with its Impression wherein the soule was a darknesse viz a darke fire was broake open and againe turned into the Light Life 19. And that is it which God with this Sacrifice sets forth in a Type of the Comming of Christ for Moses sayth This was a sweet savour to the Lord Now God doth not savour the beastiall Life for that shall not inherite the Kingdome of God Gods buisines which he had to doe by Moses was not about the Ram and the Heifer but he set forth the humanity under them before him Gods Imagination went into the Humanity in his inspoken Grace-Covenant viz in that inspoken Grace word of Love which stood as a Goale or Limit in Man even unto Mary where it manifested it selfe in the Humanity Into this went Gods Imagination and Mans Imagination went into this Type viz into the Sacrifice in the fire Thus went also the Incorporated Grace-Covenant with Mans Imagination into the Sacrifice of the fire as into the Type signifying how Christ should reconcile Gods
Life in this Love to spring forth through IT to a new Will and Eternall Life 25. This new introduced Love and Grace hath given it selfe together into the Breaking of the Humane Life viz into the Dying of Man in the Person of Christ and brought the Humane received Owne-will with it selfe into Death and broken it and hath suffered the Humane Image which the Owne-will through its Imagination and Desire of selfe-hood hath made thus Grosse and vile and brought it from the first Angelicall Image into such a Monster to hang upon the Crosse and there to be put to scorne and so hath borne the Eternall scorne which Man must have borne as a o Triumph or shew spectacle upon the Crosse And there openly made it appeare before all Angells and Spirits how this great Grace of Love would destroy the Devills introduced Desire and Death also and with this new Introduced Love spring forth through death and bring forth the humane Life through Death and change the Wrath of the Anger of God into Love and make Darknesse Light and through this new inâ—â—oduced Love convert and transmute the Grosse Earthly Humane Image into a Heavenly Image againe 26 As the impurity of Gold is changed in the fire or much more as a Man may by the Tincture turne Copper Lead or Grosse Iron into Gold so also is the Humané Spirit together with the Body in their Three Principles changed into the Divine power and property and through Death brought into an Eternall Life which consists in Power and Glory in the Will of God 27. Where now wee understand that the humane Soule in this transmuted new Birth and introduced Love doth againe Eate of the Essentiall Wisdome of God and with its will Imageth or frameth it selfe in the Divine Science and therein hath Divine skill and knowledge And so by such Resurrection through the Death where the Man Christ in the Divine Power is arisen through Death and hath made Death Life is become a Lord over Sinne Death the Devill and Hell and hath borne all of them in its Resurrection as a p Shew or Triumph spectacle on the humane Soule and Body as a Victor over them 28. And here may be rightly mentioned what Christ saith Joh. 17. Father the Men were thine but thou hast given them unto Mee and I now give them this victory viz the New Life introduced into Death that Death in them also may be Destroyed that they in my Power may goe through Death and in my â—ower be also thus transmuted and through my Resurrection come againe to thee and as I am arisen from Dead and have brought their by Me assumed Humanity to thee so that I as true God and Man in One Person am One with thee and have possessed the Throne of Glory So Father I will also that those which thou hast given Mee be where I am and see my Glory 29. Now seeing Christ hath said Joh. 6. Hee is the Bread that is come downe from Meaven that giveth life to the World and that wee should eate his flesh and drink his bloud and that whosoever eateth and drinketh the same he would remaine in them and they should remaine in Him and whosoever eateth not nor drinketh not the same they have no life in them Also Joh. 4. Hee would give us the water of Eternall Life and whosoever should drink thereof should thirst no more but it would flow in him to a sountaine of Eternall Life and streames of living water should flow from him 30. Therefore here-following I will set downe a short fundamentall Exposition what his Testaments which he left behinde him of Baptisme and the Last Supper are what Baptiseth and is Baptised how it is done and to what profit and Effect it is done also how the participation of his body and bloud in his Testaments is effected with what Mouth and what food it is also who partaketh thereof worthily and how it is with the unworthy The First Chapter How Reason useth to view it selfe in a Creaturely a Imaginary Manner Imagelikenesse when it considereth of Christ and his Testaments Whence the Strife about Christs Testaments ariseth and how the same is an Empty unprofitable thing ALL Strife and Mis-understanding concerning Christs Person Office and Beeing or substance as also concerning his Testaments which he left behinde him wherein he worketh b At Present Presentially ariseth from the defected Creaturely Reason which runneth on onely in an Imagelike Opinion and reacheth not the Ground of this Mystery and yet will be a Mistris of all things or beeings will Judge all things and doth but loose it selfe in such Image-likenesse and breaketh it selfe off from its Centre and disperseth the c Inward senses or thoughts thoughts and runneth on in the Multiplicity whereby its Ground is confused the Minde disquieted and knoweth not it selfe No Life can stand in Certainty except it continue in its Centre out of which it is sprung Seeing then the Soule is sprung from Gods Word and Will and yet is entered into its own Lust and desire to will of it selfe in such searching of selfe-willing it cannot reach its first Ground from whence it is sprung and threupon it runneth without its Ground in meere uncertainty till it returne to its Originall againe Every Beginning goeth out of the Eternall ONE viz out of the Tri-unity of GOD through the Exhalation or speaking of the unity of GOD. As a fountain floweth from its Originall Through which flowing forth the unity bringeth it selfe into selfe-viewing findingnesse and perceptibility to the Forming and Imaging of it selfe Every visible and Invisible Beeing both Spirituall and Corporeall have taken their Originall in the Exhalation of the Divine Power and are a d Or Resemblance or Antitype Reflection of the seperable will of God and stand with their Ground therein For the Beginning of every Beeing is nothing else but an Imagination of the out-flown will of God which hath brought it selfe into Seperability formednesse and Imagelikenesse wherein lyeth the whole Creation And every life doth consist in its re-exhalation and e Resemblance or Antitype Reflection in the same manner Seeing then that the Humane Life is an out-flowing and Reflection of the Divine Power understanding and skill therefore the same ought to continue in its originall or else it looseth the divine knowledge Power and skill and with selfe-speculation bringeth it selfe into Centres of its owne and Strange Imaging wherewith its Originall becometh darkned and strange As is to be knowne by Erroneous Reason which ever teacheth concerning GOD and yet hath no true understanding also it never cometh to rest whiles it runneth on in Strange Imaging Therefore say I that this is the onely cause that Men Dispute and Strive about God his Word Essence or Beeing and Will that the understanding of Man hath broken it selfe off from its Originall and now runneth on in meere self-will thoughts and Images in its own Lust to
is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne z Text. Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light 5. As a hard Stone is shut up so the Soule was shut up and was out of the good Love-Life a Poyson-Life after that manner as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a horrible poysonous stincking fire source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light The cause is this that they are become Enemies of the Divine Love that the Love is to them a Death of their Evill Will and Essence which would slay their false Life in the twinckling of an Eye if they did but come therein 6. This a Text. Impresseten compressed Substance of the Soule perished as to God and blinde as to God the Great Love of God out of mâ—â—re Grace came againe to help as soone as the Soule together with the Body was thus fallen and spake in or breathed in it selfe againe into the Centre of the Soule viz into the Compressed shut up and vanished Heavenly Ens of the Soule viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which was no more Moveable 7. Into this Soule the Moveable power spake in it selfe againe to be a New Centre and Covenant that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace and in Mans vanished heavenly Ens introduce and Manifest his living Ens viz the Essentiall Word of his Power and Wisdome with the Most high Love viz the Name JESUS out of JEHOVA and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance of the Heavenly part living and growing againe whereof the Soule should Eate and thereby its anxious fire-source would be transmuted and changed into a Love fire 8. This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer that is it now which the Soules of the Holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his promise of the fullfilling that was to come And in this Faith have they sacrificed 9. For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were onely that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of GODS Wrath and how through this inspoken-Grace Ground and Covenant the Soule should be transmuted in the fire of b Or Gods Wrath fire Gods Wrath and changed into a Love fire and how it should enter into the Death and Dying of its self-will with the false Imagination and should burne away the false will in the fire of Wrath and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God goe forth through the fire into a cleare light and so become a New-borne childe that is no more Dark but Light and how the Introduced poyson of the Serpent must sever it selfe therefrom as the smoake severeth it selfe from the Fire and Light so that then the Fire and Light becometh a clearer Glance and no more shut up as in the Wood it lyeth shut up in the Essence 10. This Image Type or Figure they set before them with their Sacrifice and introduced their Imagination thereinto with the inspoken Grace of the seede of the Woman and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Imagination might Forme Mould or Image it selfe in the Figure of Christ that so the spirit of their Will might stand in a c Or Imaging Modelling wherein it might worke in the Grace 11. For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire how HEE would change Gods fire of Wrath in the soules-fire into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death where the Love of God gave up it selfe into this fire be changed into an Angell 12. By this Immodeled Image or Type they pierced with their desire and earnest Prayer to God and Gods Word of Grace also thus had modelled and inspoken it selfe in Men and Now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer and so the desire of Man brought this Image of the Imagination into the Sacrifice and so the Sacrifice was kindled with the Holy fire And it was not a Common fire that they had Note If thou Babell couldest understand this it were well for thee and thou wert delivered from the Fables wherein thou runnest on thy Course 13. This Holy fire consumed their Sacrifice through Gods-Imagination and kindling to signifie how the d Or Animall Image Beastiall Image of Man should be preserved in the fire of God and the grossnesse of the Element be consumed and out of the fires Consuming should goe forth the right true created pure bright Spirituall Image in Adam which through this Great Love shall be preserved and brought through into Clarity by the Fire In which New Image the Love it selfe would be the fire of life that it might no more Imagine and Imprint falshood 14. Note With such an Imagination and Beleefe or Faith the first Men before Christs time before he manifested himselfe in this incorporated Grace-Covenant and became Man were apprehended and taken into the Living Word of God viz into that Grace wherein their Soule came into Divine Rest untill at the fullfilling that Christ fullfilled this processe and arose from Death and then Hee also with his Life and Substance in them viz in their Inward Ground of the Heavenly part which vanished in Adam arose and they have put on Christ as to the Soule and spirituall Substance and so now waite for their Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the Third Principle viz the Outspoken formed Substantiall outward Word with its Spirit of the Resurrection at the Last Day As also it is thus to be understood concerning Christians which here have put on Christ 15. Note This Ground of the Holy Fire began with Adam and Abel When Abel and Cain Sacrificed God looked graciously on Abels Sacrifice for the Image or Type of Christ stood with his Imagination of Faith therein therefore God kindled his Sacrifice with the Holy Fire and it was acceptable before him for it was a Conjunction with the Divine Desire But Cains he looked not graciously on for he had not such Faith or Beleese but stood in the perished Natures owne Lust and Desire and had Imprinted or Imaged to himselfe the Kingdome of this World and therefore the Holy Fire would not kindle in his Image or Type 16. For Cain stood in the Image of the perished Adam as a
of the heavenly Manna What signifieth now this Anointing Answer Nothing else but that as Man is Tinctured againe in Soule and Body and so throughly penetrated and healed that he is capable of the Divine Power againe viz of the Divine fire of Love so must his Brimstone Spirit of the Wrathfull fiery Soule perished as to God be remedied againe by the Covenant of God by such an Anointing Oyle As with the Baptisme there is powred into it the Water of the Eternall Life of Divine Meeknesse and in the Supper is powred into it the fire-burning Love in the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ Reason sayth Cannot God forgive Man his sinne without a Medium Answer The Matter was not about forgivenesse The Soule wanted not onely forgivenesse but a New-Birth It had brought it selfe into owne-will and quite broken it selfe off from Gods will whence the Eternall Darknesse existed in it For the source of its Life viz it s own Seperator understand the Cause of its Creaturely Moving and Life had lift up it selfe and the properties of Life were quite gone forth from their Temperature and had brought themselves into a strange burning fire viz into an anguishing heat and cold into Eternall hunger and thirst into Horror and Despaire Where in the Life of the Body and of the Soule all properties were against one another and Man stood in an Eternall dying source Hee was become quite Blinde and Dead as to God and the more he moved himselfe in his owne ability to apprehend God the greater was his anxious source For the poore Soule was by Lust gone into Earthlinesse wherein Satan and the Spirit of Errour had captivated it and made it wholly Monstrous And now the More it sought Rest therein the greater was its Paine And this now is that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death Gen. 2.17 Thus the poore Soule is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne q Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Divine Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light As a hard Stone is shut up so also the Soule was shut up and out of its Good Life there became an Evill Life as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a Horrible poysonous stincking fire-source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light and are an Enemy of all Love and Truth This Compressed blinde Soule-substance and perished as to God the Great Love of God came againe to helpe instantly after that Fall and spake it selfe in againe into the Centre of the Life as a new Covenant viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which Love-source in it was no more Moveable And did set into the Humane perished heavenly Ens his new Grace-Covenant viz the Destroyer of the Serpent that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace introduce thereinto and manifest therein his living Ens viz the Living Word of his Power and Wisdome with the most high Love viz the Name JESUS and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance living and growing againe from whence the Soule should againe Eate of the heavenly Substance whereby its anxious fire-source would againe be changed into a Love fire Of which the dry Rod of Aaron mentioned by Moses which grew againe and bare Almonds was a r Text. Bild Image or Type figure This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer is it now which the Soules of the holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his Promise of the fulfilling that was to Come and in this Faith have they sacrificed For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were only that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of Gods Wrath and how the Soule should through this inspoken Ground of Grace and Covenant in the fire of Gods wrath be changed into a Love-fire how it should Enter into Death and a Dying to its self-will of false Desire how the false will should be burned off from it and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God spring up or goe forth through the fire into a cleere light and so become a new borne childe which is no more dark but light also did live no more in its owne will but in Gods will and how the introduced Serpents-Poyson in this transmutation doth sever it selfe there from in that manner as the smoake severeth it selfe from fire and Light whereas then the fire and Light becometh a cleerer Glance and is no more shut up as it lyeth in the Essence of the Wood shut up Even as the Holy Divine fire of the Soule was through sinne thus also shut up which none could unshut and kindle but only the Love of God in this incorporated Grace-Covenant This Image Type or Figure they set before them with the Sacrifices looking upon the future fulfilling and introduced their Faith with the inspoken Grace of the Womans-seede and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Faith might thus Forme or Mould it selfe in the Figure of Christ that the Spirit of their will might stand in the figure and Image of Christ that their Faith might Work in that incorporated Grace For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire typifying how HEE would change Gods Wrath-fire in the Soule into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death in which the Love of God would Give up it selfe into this Wrath-fire be changed into an Angell By this Immodeled Image or Type with their desire and Earnest prayer they pressed through the Sacrifice to God and Gods Word with the Grace had thus also with the Covenant Modeled it selfe in Men and now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image through the Sacrifice in the Holy fire into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer For God kindled the Sacrifice with the Holy Fire And it was not a Common fire that they had in their Sacrifices though they used wood and Sacrifices thereto yet their fire was not from a stone and a steele but from the highest Tincture of the Paradisicall ground from whence the fire of Life is sprung If Man could understand it and did not so runne on in blindnesse it were well for him and he were delivered from Babell and Fables This holy Fire consumed their Sacrifices
through Gods Imagination and kindling and there the humane introduced Will which hangeth to Earthlinesse is clensed and in the holy Fire purged and ransomed from sinne upon the future fullfilling For the ground out of which this Holy Fire came Manifested it selfe afterwards in Mans Life in the Person of Christ Thus stood the figure in their Sacrifices to shew how the earthly Image of Man should be preserved in the fire of God and how the grossenesse of the Elements should be consumed and out of the Consuming of the fire should goe forth the right true created pure bright spirituall Image in Adam which in the fire of Gods Wrath through this holy fire of the Great Love should be brought into Clarity In which New Image the Great fiery Love would it selfe be the fire of Life that it might no more Imagine falshood With this Faith the first Men before Christs time before Christ manifested himselfe in this incorporated Grace Covenant and became Man were apprehended and taken into the Living Word of God viz into the Grace wherein their Soule came into Divine Rest Note till Christ fullfilled this Type and arose from Death and then hee also with his life and Substance in them viz on their Inward Ground of the Heavenly part which vanished in Adam arose and was manifested and they put on Christ in Soule and Spirit and so now wait for their Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the Third Principle of the visible worlds property viz the formed Outspoken substantiall word of the Resurrection at the Last Day As also it is thus to be understood concerning Christians This Ground of the Holy Fire began with Adam with Abell and Caine when Abell and Caine sacrificed God looked graciously on Abells sacrifice and kindled it with holy Fire and the sweet smell went up before the LORD for the Image or Type of Christ in his Faith stood therein therefore God kindled his Sacrifice with the Holy Fire and it was acceptable before God for it was a Conjunction with the Divine desire But Cains he looked not graciously on for he had not such Faith or beleefe but stood in the perished Adamicall Nature of own Lust and desire and had imprinted or Imaged to himselfe the Kingdome of this world and therefore the Holy Fire would not kindle in his Sacrifice Cain stood in the Figure of the perished Adam after the Fall and Abell stood in the figure of the New Regeneration signifying how Christ would with his Sacrifice goe into Death and die for Man and so the Image of Caine stood neere signifying how Christ was come to seeke the poore falne Man and with his Sacrifice generate him a New But as the vanity of Men gat the upperhand and their Nature became still more Evill and shamefull then was quenched this understanding of the Holy Fire among them till the Flood came upon them and overthrew them which was a Type of the Baptisme signifying how the water of Eternall Life viz Gods Substantiall Meeknesse would drowne and quench that false fiery life of the Soule and how the Soule would grow up out of the Holy Water in the Meeknesse of God to a New Life of Light Now when the time came that God renewed his Covenant with Abraham which Hee had established in Paradise HEE gave him the figure of Christ againe Å¿ With. in the Circumcision and the Holy Fire as is to be seene by the Sacrifices of Abraham Gen. 15. how the Fire came forth between the Parts and how at the same time in a vision terrour and great anguish fell upon him all which signifie the Death of Christ and the transmutation of Soules The Circumcision of the Member of the Humane propagation was a figure signifying How the fleshly Man of Masculine and Feminine seede should be cut off from the Image Created in Adam through the Death of Christ with the Anger of God and through the bloud-shed of Christ be againe brought into the Eternall Virginity therefore must the Masculine Persons be Circumcised on that same Member to signifie the uncleane Birth after a Beastiall Manner which is a u Abomination vanity in the presence of God therefore God set his Grace-Govenant in the figure of Christ on this Member and so set Christ before him whom hee had set up for a throne of Grace that they might walke before him and that his anger might not eate them up Gen. 17. And he sets the figure of Christ forth with his processe neere upon Isaac signifying how the Redemption of Mankinde should be Effected How Gods Love-fire should swallow up into it selfe Gods Wrath-fire in Man and turne it into Love and thereupon gave him the Promise that this promised incorporated Seede which would through the Transmutation in the Fire through the Dying of Vanity grow forth in the Love-fire would be so great as the Starres in Heaven But when the time drew neere that GOD would manifest his Love-fire through his Covenant in the Humanity that the same fire should be kindled in the Humane Life then he brought his Covenant typified with Circumcision into Water-Baptisme and with St John began the Water-Baptisme But saith Reason What is or signifieth the Water-Baptisme What doth God worke thereby Answer As is mentioned above The Soule had so much enraged it selfe with wrath in its properties that thereby it stood in Eternall Death In it was Gods Love-Essence no more manifest wherein it might be able to kindle the Holy Fire of God viz the Holy Life therefore God sent the Holy Baptisme before and set it in the Covenant For when the Word viz the power of the holy Fire became Man and revealed it selfe in Christ then Christ with the holy Fire through the assumed humanity inspake himselfe into his fellow Members according to the Humanity Now if this Inspeaking should take Effect and become Substantiall then must the Divine x Eintauchen Infusion goe before for as soone as the word manifested it selfe in the Humanity then the Meeke Love and Grace in the Covenant did flow forth with this flowing forth of the Divine Love in the Covenant was the Covenant set in the Water-Baptisme Seeing Man was of an Elementary Earthly kinde there must also be an Elementary Medium or Meanes for that purpose wherein the flowing forth of the Divine Love in the Covenant might take hold that a humane Naturall Substance might be in the Middle whereinto the Divine and humane Imagination might Enter and y Eintauchen Infuse it selfe in the humanity for an Ens or kindler wherein the Holy fire might kindle it selfe in the dry soules fire As was done by the Circumcision and in the Sacrifice where the Beastiall fat was a Medium wherein the humane desire in such kindling with the Covenant went to meete God and Gods Imagination went thus to meete the Covenant in Man Thus stood the Holy Fire opposite to the Wrath and Consumed the uncleannesse in the Humane Will that
although the Baptisme may be performed without such Persons through the Parents and the Baptisers Earnestnesse and prayer yet the Christian Church hath so ordained that living Witnesses should be present which with their prayer attend this Earnestnesse and it was well ordained but it is come to such a Misuse that it were many times better that such children of Infidelity were not present for the Devill belongeth not to this work Now if the Devill have the chiefe Dominion in a Man what is then such a Man profitable at it As is mentioned before The Funt-stone or Bason and the unfaithfull Stander-by is one as good as the other but that the Proud Man is a hinderance to others 38. The Baptisme is a substantiall working not a meere signe or z Or signification symbole of the Testament of Christ The Holy Ghost baptiseth the Soule and the Spirit from Christs bloud and Death with his victory and the Holy Element of the spirituall Water baptiseth the Body of the foure Elements to the Resurrection of the Dead and baptiseth the Serpents Ens and awakened introduced Poyson to dye or for Dead 39. It is a substantiall working Infusion of the Covenant of God therefore if the Infant baptised should worthily receive it there must be Earnestnesse A Christian who is a Christian in Christ Note in whom Christ worketh liveth and * Text. Ist dwelleth he should Baptise for he must enter into this Sheepfold by the Doore of Christ viz through Christs Spirit and not climbe up otherwhere else he is a Theefe and a Murtherer and cometh onely that he may robbe and steale the honour of Christ Note and deceive Men he should be A true Shepheard and not a hireling Heere availeth no babling and making a shew but there must be Earnestnesse for it is an Earnestnesse with God All Jangling and disputation about this work is an unprofitable thing and moreover hurtfull Men should lay hould of it with Earnestnesse and follow the Command of Christ and beleeve what Christ hath sayd 40. There belongeth no more to this work but Faith and Water and Earnest Prayer in true Repentance with such a Will that one Man would helpe to release another from Death the Devill and Hell and help to introduce him with himselfe into the Kingdome of God that is the whole processe that belongeth heereunto Every one that is a true Christian in Christ Note is worthy to be a Stander by and present at this work but he that is not such a one is unworthy whether he be Baptiser or Stander-by one as well as the other there is no respect of Persons with God In Christ wee are ONE Hee is the Stock wee are the Branches Hee worketh his work through his fellow Members as the Stock of the Tree generateth its fruit through its Twiggs and Branches The Stock useth no strange Tree for its Twigges so also Christ onely useth his Members to his work of his fruit The End of this first little Booke Concerning The Holy Baptisme The Second Booke Concerning The Holy Supper of our Lord Jesus Christ What kinde of Participation it is and how that is to be understood Also concerning the Contention of the Learned about Christs Cup what they doe about it also what is to be held concerning it Wherein Babell the Great City upon Earth with her forme and Wonders together with the Antichrist standeth quite naked and manifest To the Comfort of the simple Children of Jesus Christ and to the building up of the true Christian Religion in this confused troublesome Time All very Earnestly and sincerely discovered from the knowledge of the Great Mystery LONDON Printed by M. S. and are to be sold by H. B. at the Castle in Cornhill 1652. 1 COR. 11.28 Let a Man Examine himselfe and so let him Eate of this Bread and Drink of this Cup. An Intimation or Instruction to the READER THough indeed I heere dive and search sublimely and Deepe and set it downe very cleerely yet the Reader must be told thus much that without the Spirit of God it will be a Mystery to him and not apprehended Therefore let every one looke well to it what he judgeth that he fall not into the Judgement of God and be captivated by his owne Turba and that his owne Reason distract him this I say meaning well and give it to the Reader to Ponder in his Minde JACOB BEHM of Old Seidenberg The Contents of the Chapters in this Second little Booke Concerning the Holy Supper of Jesus Christ 1. OF the Ground of the Old Testament how this Testament was cleerly in the Type among the Jewes 2. Of the Supper of the New Testament how the Type is come into Essence or Substance 3. How the Disciples did eate and drinke the flesh and bloud of Christ 4. Of the difference in the Participation of it what the wicked receive with this Testament and how a Man should so prepare himselfe that he may be truly worthy 5. Of the Contention and Strife in the high Schooles or Universities about Christs Testaments how that Strife that hath filled the face of the Earth is a vaine and very hurtfull thing and ariseth in the Anger of God from the Devills desire and will whereby all brotherly Love and unity is destroyed the highly pretious Name of GOD blasphemed and the Holy GHOST in his Divine Wonders is Judged and despised by Reason The First Chapter Of the Ground of the Old Testament how this Testament was cleerly in the Type among the Jewes 1. WHen God sent Moses to Pharao and commanded him to let the Children of Israel goe into the Wildernesse and sacrifice to him and Pharao would not doe it then God sent great Plagues and punishments upon him and lastly the a Stifling destroying Angel which slew all the first-borne in Egypt and there he commanded Israel the Passeover or to slay and eate the Paschal-Lamb viz a Lamb of a yeare old and besprinkle the Doores and upper Poasts with the Bloud thereof that the slaying anger should there b Passe by passe over and kill none in the House Exod. 2.12 2. Which was a Type of the New-Testament shewing how the Poasts and Doores of our Life should be sprinckled with the Bloud of the Lamb Christ that Gods Anger in soule and body may not swallow us up into his wrath And as they must Eate up that Lamb wholly or quite and leave nothing over so would the Lamb Christ give himselfe in his Testament wholly for food to his Christendome and not divided and would besprinkle the Poasts of our Life with his Bloud of Love that the destroying Angel in Gods Anger might not take hold of us and slay us 3. Also wee have an Image or similitude thereof in the Vnleavened Cakes which they must Bake and Eate shewing that they should through this Paschal-Lambs Figure which signified Christ be a New and sweet c Dowe Lump when they should eate the right
Divine power and vertue excelleth the humane therefore is the humane brought forth through the Divine power so that the humane power and vertue giveth it selfe together with the Divine through the Divine power for the humane power and vertue is a perception or invention of the Divine wherein the Divine findeth it selfe in something viz in the formed Substance of the word of power wherein the Divine power loveth it selfe as in its perceptible Substance as the Soule loveth it selfe in its Body 6. Note And thus hath God powred his love through the humane Substance in the humanity of Christ into the Disciples of Christ with the humane Substance in that way and manner as the Sunnes power and vertue in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the World as with the Effluence of the power and vertue of the Starres mingleth it selfe with the Spirituall Brimstone Salt and Oyle in the upper Elements so that it comprehendeth their power and vertue in its Glance and giveth it selfe to them and it the power giveth it selfe into the Sunnes power and vertue and so they worke together whereby the light of Nature is unlocked and with such working give themselves into the Earth Hearbs Trees and all Creatures so that in an Heath or Tree such a vertue doth exist whence the vegeration or budding forth of Creatures doth exist where alwayes in such growing or life a man is to understand 1 an Elementary Substantiall power and vertue and then 2 a super-Elementary Sunney or Solar and Starry or Astrall power and vertue where the Sunney and Sâ—arry with their strong power presse forth with the Elementary 7. Note Now wee see in hearbs and all things that grow out of the Earth when they take hold of and Eate this power and vertue of the Sunne and Starres in them that they doe not rend themselves and make or use a severed Mouth to doe it withall but the Essence of their desire viz even the Naturall Brâ—mstone Salt and Oyle in the Hearb is the Mouth which taketh hold and eateth in it selfe the Influence of the upper Elements of the Sunne and Starres Thus also in like manner it is to be understood concerning Christs Disciples and all other Men they have Eaten and drunk Christs flesh and bloud under Bread and Wine as through a Medium with the â—ssentiall desirous Faiths-Mouth not with a circumscribed creaturely comprehension but with the Faiths desire 8. Note Yet that a Man may rightly understand it he is to know 1 the outward Mouth with its comprehension apprehendeth the outward Elementary Substance Bread and Wine The Mortall tâ—ansitory Substance of Man viz the Grosse Flesh which shall not nor cannot inherite the Kingdome of Heaven Joh. 6.63 1 Cor. 15.50 that apprehendeth and eateth Bread and Wine for Bread and Wine is also an earthly transitory Substance which goeth into the Belly and out from thence againe as all naturall sood Matth 15 17. And 2 the right true Man which was created in Adam which before the beastiall grossenesse was a right Man and Image of the visible World according to its inward Spirituall Ground the same eateth Christs flesh which is even such Spirituall Substantiall flesh with the Essentiall desire Note understand the flesh that he tooke on him in Mary viz our humane but not the outward Ground of the Corporall foure Elements but the Inward holy Element viz the Ground out of which the soure Elements proceed Not Fire Aire Water and Earth but the Eternall pure Element which is a Substance of Paradise which is hidden in the foure Elements understand the Substance of Eternity out of which time is gone forth into a vision Substance that same flesh as a spirituall Mumia out of which Man as to the visible body hath taken its originall in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat which in Adam became blinde as to the Kingdome of Heaven when he went with the desire into the foure Elementary grossenes which fleshly Substance in Christs becoming Man was filled with heavenly living Substance and made living againe Note that is it which the right Adamicall Man eateth which sticketh hidden in the Grosse shell of the foure Elements and in that Substance the right Man Eateth Christs Passion Dying and Death which death of Christ is in his victory become an Eternall Life which Life so risen out of the Death of Christ breaketh our Earthly evill will and is become a Death to our Death which the outward Nature holdeth for a Life 9. Note Note And heere is Christs Passion and Dying put on to Man altogether Essentially a Workingly Effectually Operatively which Lifes-Death of Christ swalloweth up our Death wherein the Body when it heere dyeth according to the foure Elementary Substance resteth and the foure Elementary becometh dust and ashes this same power and vertue of the true humanity resteth in its Principle to the coming againe of the Corporeall Substance 10. But 2 the Soule which is a spirituall fire in its desire as with the true Faiths Mouth eateth the Supernaturall Substantiall Love of the Name JESUS which Name is become a Substantiall Power and vertue viz the Supernaturall Wisdome of God wherein the whole Deity is understood workingly 11. The Soules Mouth eateth of this Holy Substance whereby the Soule is turned into a Love-fire-burning for the Love of Christ giveth Ens and Substance to the Soules Fire the fiery Life of the Soule taketh this Love Substance into its Essence and by this Love-burning the Temple b Or Sophia The Wisdome of God Soph-JAH is againe unlocked viz the Substantiall Holy powerfull-Light the true Spirit which vanished in Adam As a Light goeth forth out of fire so through the Soules-fire another Principle viz the property of the Divine power and vertue goeth forth and in that out-going power and vertue dwelleth the supernaturall unsubstantiall God in Trinity for this is the Divine Principle where God in Man dwelleth worketh and willeth wherein the Divine Light is understood which c Penetrateth diffuseth it selfe through the true Man as fire through Iron 12. Note Understand it aright thus Man standeth in Three Principles viz in Three Beginnings 1 the visible Man is the visible World which is outward and inward viz a transitory and an untransitory viz the Pure Element and the Efflux viz the soure Elements 2 the Grosse Man with outward flesh and bloud is the foure-Elementary Body and the Spirituall Body in the Quintessence or fist Essence is the Holy Element which is hidden in the foure which is neither hot nor cold neither dry nor moist But the Soulish Ground is not the Element it is grounded in the Eternall Word where the fiery Word of the Fathers property hath inbreathed it selfe into the Created body as another Principle of an Eternall Nature 13. Now the Third 3 Supernaturall Ground of Man is the true Spirit understand the Substantiall Light the Substantiall Wisdome which with the Soules breathing in came into Man but yet vanished when
lyeth which Tincture is above the Elementary Substance wherein the foure Elements lye in the Temperature which is a heavenly Paradisicall power and vertue that same Tincture of Bread and Wine is the true Medium wherewith Christ the humane Tincture giveth himselfe as into the humane Life for Man liveth not f By Bread onely from the foure Elements onely Matth. 4.4 The Grosse food which entereth into the Mouth doth not alone sustaine Life but the Inward power and vertue viz the Quintessence or fist Essence wherein the Tincture lyeth as a spirituall fire 24. The Elementary food g Worketh or Effecteth produceth onely mortall flesh and giveth a Source or moving of the Mortall Life but the Spirituall Man taketh his Nutriment from the Tincture for it selfe is a Tincture viz a Spirituall Fire therefore Christ powreth or over-floweth his heavenly flesh and bloud viz the Holy anointing Oyle into the Life of Man through and with the Nutriment of the true Life viz through the Tincture of Bread and Wine Not to understand that the Tincture of Bread and Wine is able to apprehend such a thing but it is onely a permissive Medium thereunto as the Outward Mouth of a Man is but a Medium where-through the power and vertue of the Tincture in the food is over flowed into the Spirituall Man and because in Bread and Wine there lyeth the highest Tincture which is neerest to the Life of Man which most of all susteineth the Life of Man therefore also hath Christ ordained this Testament under it 25. But 1 wee should not be earthly minded and suppose that after the Bread and Wine is blessed with the words of Institution that then Christs flesh and bloud is inherent in the Bread and Wine and that every wicked Man may partake of it without the right Mouth No if that were so then could Bread and Wine comprehend the divine power and vertue in its own capacity and Christs Spirituall flesh and bloud were become Bread and Wine and it would no more continue to be as Christ sayd My words are Spirit and Life Joh. 6.63 26. Mans spirituall Mouth taketh with the Faith Christs words and Life which words are a power of his flesh and bloud where the divine word is become a humane Substance That same humane and divine substantiall word is given to Man with the Tincture of Bread and Wine as through a Medium that there may be a visible signe of what is done in the inward Ground 27. Note Note 2 wee should not depend on this meanes or Medium alone and think that Christs flesh and bloud is onely and alone Participated in this use of Bread and Wine as reason in this present time miserably erreth therein No that is not so Faith when it hungereth after Gods Love and Grace alwayes eateth and drinketh of Christs flesh and bloud through the Medium or meanes of the blessed food and without the Medium or meanes of the food Christ hath not bound himselfe to Bread and Wine alone but hath bound himselfe to the Faith that hee will be in Man Hee will continue in him and Man shall continue in Christ His powerfull living Word would continue substantially in the Faith of which Substance the Faith may alwayes as also it ever might eate for it is the Faiths Nutriment wherein the Faith doth subsist and is a Substance Note The Faith in such participation becometh a substance viz a spirituall flesh and bloud of Christ in which the Living GOD in Trinity dwelleth worketh and willeth 28. The Substantiall Faith in Man is Christ himselfe who continueth in Man who is the Life and Light of Man That is the Temple of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us as Paul sayth Know yee not that yee are the Temple of God that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you Also the Temple of Christ is Holy which yee are 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Also Shall wee that belong unto Christ be yet Sinners that be far from us then were Christ a servant of Sinne in us Galat. 2.17 This same substantiall Faith is also the branch on the Vine of Christ which power and vertue penetrates through the whole Man as the Sunne doth an hearb and killeth the Lust and workes of the flesh 29. The Mortall flesh is not the Substantiall Faith that flesh comprehendeth not Christs flesh and bloud but suffereth it as a Grosse stone suffereth the Tincture of Gold and as fine Gold lyeth and groweth in the Grosse stone so also the love of Christ groweth in the true Life of Man and penetrateth through the Life as fire doth through Iron Not that such power stood in Mans Life that it could receive the substance of God in its owne power and vertue No it is given him of Grace as the Sunne of its own will giveth it selfe to the Hearb And the Hearb cannot therefore say I am the Sunne because the Sunne worketh in it so also can Man not say Note I am Christ because that Christ dwelleth and worketh in him as in his Expresse Image But the Creature is the Passive wherein the Creator dwelleth and worketh 30. Wee are Members of Christ according to his humanity and are therefore called Christians because Christ dwelleth and worketh in us in that wee are in our Life his twiggs and branches in those in whom he bringeth forth fruit through his power and vertue O little Children it is a Great Mysterie Note Note the use of this Testament where wee especially under Bread and Wine should partake of Christs flesh and bloud is therefore ordained that so wee should come together and eate of One Bread drink of One Cup and thereunder receive Christ that wee should Instruct one another what he hath done for us and declare his suffering Death and bloud-shedding one among another and teach it to our children and should binde our selves therewith in Love and exhort one another that wee in Christ are Members of one Body that wee in Christ are all but One. 31. Even as the One onely Christ giveth himselfe into us all in Common to be one onely Life and loveth us all in his one onely Humanity and reacheth forth that same onely humanity with his great Love and Grace to us all in Common under one Bread and Wine and so bindeth himselfe to us in one only participation Thus should wee also in such coming together and participation as members of one body binde our selves together in true Love and faithfulnesse and seriously Consider that in such participation wee are all but one in Christ for wee partake all of one onely Christ and in that same one Christ wee are one onely Body which is Christ in his Members O little Children what a depth of Mysterie is this if wee did rightly consider it Satan in the Anger of God hath rent us asunder and made us at odds so that wee have Opposite thoughts and heere cometh Christ with his Love and maketh us all in himselfe one onely
was done by Christ to be true and that a Man need onely and balely to goe to his Testament and there receive the Grace which he left behinde him and comfort himselfe therewith and accompt it as a Merit and imputed Grace It is not enough for a Man to heare Sermons preached and to be Baptised to Christ and goe to the Supper so that a Man doe but keepe the Custome this by farre maketh no Christian it must be Earnestnesse none is a Christian unlesse Christ live and work in him as Christ himselfe sayth Without mee yee can doe nothing Joh. 15.5 Also Hee that gathereth not with mee scattereth Matth 12.30 17. A Christian must be one Spirit in and with Christ and will and work in the power of Christ it is a living active working Grace in a Christian a continuall burning fire a feeling power and vertue which though it be often covered with the Lust of the flesh and the vanity of the world yet it i Gloweth glimmereth and burneth in the Heart as a fire and reproveth the flesh and the vaine lust of untruth rejecteth the false way and willeth it not that same inward fire is the Spirit of Christ which without ceasing breaketh the head of the Serpent viz the Lust of the flesh The flesh hath the will of this world but that same kindled ground hath the will of God If any be a Christian then he will hate and be angry at the will of the flesh he will be an Enemy to his evill fleshly Lust and constantly complaine and hold himselfe to be unworthy Note and continually with his inward will of the soule sinck himselfe into the k Purest meerest Grace into Gods mercy and not say of himselfe I am a right Christian but will continually presse with his Desire into Gods Mercy and fly to Grace that he might be but a right Christian and will accompt himselfe in all his conversation alwayes too unworthy of such Grace and in continuall resigned humility with weeping and prayer onely presse into Grace his whole life will be a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all Repentance and he will evermore desire to apprehend Grace as it hath apprehended him 18. A right Christian is affrighted at sinne when the Lust of the flesh would worke sinne also when he seeth others work sinne then he groaneth in himselfe at it and wisheth that such evill were not committed it is an abomination to him in his Eyes he loveth truth and righteousnesse and hateth the false way and although the Earthly flesh often unawares without any purpose of will falleth upon him with a sudden false Lust and many times bringeth him to fall as hath been with David and Solomon and Many Saints and is still done yet such a Man in whom the Spirit of Christ is doth not lye in sinne but the Inward Ground viz the Incorporated Grace in the Spirit of Christ cometh quickly with Gods l Strict severe righteousnesse in the Anger and entereth into him in the Conscience as the Prophet Nathan entered into Davids conscience and touched his conscience and awakened the fire of Anger when David suddenly began with great sorrow to repent and acknowledge his sinne and entered into such Earnest Repentance that he would receive no comfort from all his friends and would not suffer his Eares to be filled with comfort and the tickling of Grace till he felt the Grace of the Lord in his Conscience no flattery would set his heart at peace till the Lord spake into him with his Grace◠2 Sam. 12.7 Of the worthy preparation to the holy Testament of Christ 19. If any will call himselfe a Christian and comfort himselfe with the Merits of Christ and approach to his Testament and worthily receive the same let him consider his wayes well and looke to his heart and see how it is framed 1. Whether he standeth in such a desire as to be willing to dye wholly from vanity 2. Whether it be in his purpose to goe out from all falshood unrighteousnesse lying and deceit and that he be resolved never to enter into them againe 3. Whether he desire the Grace of God in Christ with a cleane pure wil 4. Also whether he is sorry for his sinne 5. Whether he finde and feele such a will in himselfe that from henceforth he will wholly goe forth from his former Sinnes and Blasphemies 6. And also whether he be so minded that he will yeeld up his whole heart and will to Gods Mercy 7. Also whether he findeth feeleth and knoweth a place in himselfe where he will lay up this high Testament viz the flesh and bloud of Christ with his Grace 8. Also whether or no he hath made roome in his heart and whole soule for the Spirit of Christ that he may there enter in as a Living Conqueror over Death and Hell and may erect his Kingly Palace in his heart and soule 9. And whether he be capable of this where Christ sayth Wee will come unto you and make our dwelling in you Joh. 14.23 10. Also whether the Temple of the Holy Ghost in him be swept and purged with right repentance 11. Also whether there be a right Mouth in him that can rightly receive Christs Holy flesh 12. Also whether the Essence of his Life be so framed that Christ with his Substance and with his Love may continue therein For Christ sayth Hee that Eateth my flesh and drinketh my Bloud continueth in Mee and I in him Joh. 6.56 13. Also whether he finde in his Minde that the Streame of the Living Waters of Divine Love flow from him that he love his God and his brother and Neighbour as himselfe 14. Also whether he wisheth and desireth to doe Good to his Enemies 15. Whether he accompteth any thing in this world as his owne of which he sayth This is mine owne onely 16. Or whether in that which he hath and possesseth he accompteth himselfe but a servant of God and a Steward to him and his brother therein and Consider that he is but an Officer and Servant of God in his state and condition in his temporall Goods that none of it is his own but Gods and his brothers 17. Also whether he trusteth God in his conversation and keepe and esteeme his Life as his Lord Christ did who was but a Pilgrim in this world and had nothing for his owne and also willingly left his Life for his brethren 18. Also whether he findeth a sparkle of such a will in himselfe 20. Now if he finde all this in himselfe then he is rightly worthy and very fit for such a Testamentary participation but if not and yet findeth such a hunger in himselfe that he would willingly be and will so then he is in the drawing of the Father to the Grace in Christ then he should not long parly with Reason and frame doubts in himselfe but should that very houre enter into such an Earnest purpose that he will enter into Earnest sincere
burneth or liveth And the first Principle viz the fiery Soule out of the Divine Science of the Seperable Eternall-Speaking word out of the Fathers fiery Substance is baptised with the fiery Spirit of the Fathers Property as with the fire-burning Love Vnderstand this thus The Soule is of the Fathers Property according to the fiery omnipotency and in this Baptisme in which the Father cobaptiseth Hee giveth it to the Sonne in his Love-fire understand the Soule is of the Fathers fire become a wrath-fire This wrath-fire with his Infusion he giveth to his fire-burning-Love The Fathers Property in the fire taketh hold on the Soule first with the Law of Nature as with his strickt righteousnesse of the Eternall Birth of the fire-ground whereby the hard c Impressed Compressed dead Soule in that same d Eintauchen Infusion of the fire of the Divine life is moveable and its hard c Impressed Compression of the false Magnetick desire is broken in sunder and opened in that manner as a Man strikes up fire thus a new fire of God is kindled which e Trembling or Contrition Commotion or shrill sounding is also the Ground of Repentance Now when the Fathers fire is stirred and kindled then shineth the Divine Light of the Great sweet Love in the opened Name JESUS out of the Holy Name JEHOVA in the Centre of the Fathers fire out of the unity of God as the Beames of Divine Grace in the Soule for the Soule is with this Glimps unlocked and then suddenly the Light of Love taketh in the unlooked ground filleth it with the substance of Love And thus the Sonne viz the Love of the Father receiveth the Soule and sanctifieth it and throughly penetrateth it as fire throughly penetrateth the Iron And that is it which Christ saith Father the Men were thine and thou hast given them unto mee and I give them the Eternall Life Also Note This is the Eternall Life that they rightly know thee Father that thou art the true God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ Joh. 17.3.6 In this inshining and indwelling Light is the New Birth and God is Comprehended and knowne in the Spirit whereupon followeth instantly the true Faith which willeth nothing but what God will for thus is Christ the Light of the Little World viz of Man and giveth the Eternall Light-Life of God to the Soule And thus the Soule liveth in the Father and yet with the Sonnes office is governed and sanctified and its anxious Fire-Life is a meere Love-burning But the Fathers Concussion or shrill sounding is necessary that the soules fire-source may be touched that the Soule may finde what it is for it is thereby brought into continuall Repentance and humility when the Beame of Gods wrath often toucheth it that it consider its fall and is at no time secure for it hath a great Enemy neere it in its flesh and bloud viz Satans poyson that it may no more run-on in its owne will as formerly For the Soule in this Beame of wrath trembleth before sinne and so sinne is manifested in the Light and then comes Sorrow and Lamentation over sinne on a heape And thus standeth this pretious figure in the Inward Ground For where the owne will of sinne is shaken through Repentance there the holy anointing Oyle of Love penetrateth instantly and healeth these wounds Thus the Father Baptiseth with fire to Repentance and the Sonne with Love to Sanctification and the Holy Ghost manageth the office who baptiseth with a New life For the whole holy Trinity baptiseth according to the Divine Manifestation For without and beyond the Manifestation there is onely One Triune God in one onely Good f Substance or Essence Beeing and Will whereof a Man cannot say the Father is wrath this or that but is the Triune Good Beeing But according to his Manifestation out of which the Soules and Angells together with Every Heavenly and Hellish Beeing is sprung viz after the Manner of the Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery from hence ariseth his Wrath or fire-source and that from Eternity in Eternity Note Thus now a Man may understand the Baptisme according to the Inward Ground according to Soule and Spirit viz the Father Baptiseth with the Concussion or shrill sounding to Repentance with fire in which fire the bitter suffering and dying of Jesus Christ is impressed into the poore Soule for the Wrath-fire which holdeth the Soule captive is overcome and softened with Love and this is impressed in the Soule as a victory and the Sonne baptiseth with the holy anointing-Oyle of Gods Love and healeth the poore shaken Soule againe And the true Comforter the Holy Ghost which goeth forth through Christs Death through Christs Resurrection through the Father in the Sonne he baptiseth with a new Life and giveth true Faith and understanding that wee receive and know this The Third Property of the Third Principle with the Water-Baptisme wherewith the body of the outward worlds Substance as also the Outward Life is baptised that is considered as followeth By the Water viz by the Element of the body of Christ the Right Adamicall Man out of the Elements which was created in Adam understand the outward worlds Substance is baptised for heere the Holy Ghost Baptiseth who goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne his going forth is the formation of the world and the world is the outspoken formed Word and the Spirit of God it is that hath formed that outspoken Word Hee is to be understood in all Three Principles or Worlds in each world according to their property As First in the Fathers wrath according to the Darknesse Hee is the flame of painefullnesse and Secondly in the Eternall Light he is the Love flame of God and Thirdly in this world in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of this world hee is the formour and workmaster of Every thing in every thing according to its property as the Seperator or Archaeus of the thing is from whence it ariseth so also is the outflowne Spirit out of the outspoken word in every thing And it is not to be understood that the Spirit of the Outward Substance is called God but it is the outflowne Spirit in the outspoken Word of God which with its Ground standeth in the Word of God The Outflowne Spirit of the outward Naturall and Creaturely Life is flowen forth out of Gods Love and Wrath out of Light and Darknesse viz out of the first and second Principle out of the Eternall Nature out of the Speaking of the Word for the Eternall Word hath breathed it selfe with that Spirit into a Creaturely Image-like Life It is the Soule of the Outward World a Life of the foure Elements It s power is as a fiery and lightish Constellation What the whole outward Constellation is in it selfe in its power the same is that Spirit every where alone in it selfe yet as a shut up Constellation that lyeth in the Temperament and yet