unto whose goods they are received in grace as strangers 74. For as Ishmael did not goe to Isaac for the inheritance which properly belonged to Isaac because the Lord was in him who freely bestowed it upon him and set him as a Steward but would have it of the Father even so the Turkes have turned themselves from Isaac viz. from the Sonne to the Father and will have the inheritance of God from the Father 75. Now the Father is manifest to us in the Sonne and when they now doe call upon the Father he heareth them onely in his Sonne viz. in his voice manifest in the humane property and they yet serve the Sonne in the Father 76. For we men have no other God at all without Christ the Sonne for the Father hath manifested himselfe toward us with his voice in the Sonne and heareth us onely through his voice manifested in the Sonne 77. Now when the Turkes worship the Father he heareth them in the Sonne and receiveth them to adoption in the Sonne in whom God hath onely manifested himselfe in humane property and in no other property besides 78. Now saith Reason How can they attaine to the adoption of Christ when as they will not have the Sonne to be the Sonne of God but say that God hath no Sonne heare O man Christ said Whosoever speaketh a word against the Sonne of man to him it shall be forgiven but he that blasphemeth the Holy Ghost to him it shall never be forgiven that is as much as if he should say 79. He that reproacheth the humanity of Christ in confidering it as his own flesh to him it may be forgiven for he knoweth not what the humanity of Christ is but he that blasphemeth the Holy Ghost the onely God who hath manifested himselfe in the humanity wherein Father Sonne and Holy Ghost are one onely God he hath no forgivenesse for evermore that is he that rejecteth the onely God he hath quite broken himselfe off from him and is become his owne 80. Now the Turkes doe not blaspheme the holy Spirit who manifested himselfe in the humanity but they reproach the humanity and say a creature cannot be God 81. But that God hath wrought and done wonders in Christ that they confesse and blaspheme not the holy Spirit that hath wrought in Christ viz. in the humanity blindnesse is hapned unto them so that they walke under a vaile 82. Now saith Reason God hath taken away the Candlestick from them and rejected them Heare O man What was the cause that God as he threatned by St. Paul did take away the Candlestick from them and shut them up under the vaile thinkest thou that it was done without his foreknowledge without his will no it was done with his will 83. He permitted the Kingdome of Nature to give them a doctrine of Reason The cause and ground that the Turks deny Christs deity seeing Christendome became blinde in respect of Christs person and did wrangle and jangle about Christs humanity and put all manner of scorn disgrace and reproach upon it as it fell out among the Arians when they denied his Deity and the Bishops in their covetousnesse did apply his merits in his humanity for the belly-sake to their belly-orders and did practice all manner of lewdnesse and prophanenesse even with swearing cursing and witchery by his suffering and holy wounds so that there the holy Name of God which had manifested it selfe in the humanity was abused thereupon God did hide himselfe from them in their understanding so that they first became blinde with the Arians in respect of the Deity of Christ 84. But afterward when as they would be onely blinde beasts he hid himselfe also from them in respect of the humanity by the * The Doctrine of Mahomet Turkish Religion so that they were wholly bereaved of the Candlestick of the world and it went with them as the Prophet said to Israel under their King Ah! I must give them Judges as in former times 85. Thus the King of light in the humanity was withdrawne from them and the Judicature of Nature was given them againe for a guide and Governour so that they turned againe into the Mothers wombe viz. into the roote whence man was created that is to the onely God so that the Name and knowledge of the holy humanity of Christ is yet put out with them 86. And that they might not use the same so vainely and uneffectually for swearing and false defence they must againe enter into Hagar as into the Mothers wombe and have now verily been a long time a people run away in their mother Hagar from Abrahams house viz. from the humanity of Christ 87. But know and declare this as a word of the most High A Prophecy concerning the Turks conversion knowne in the sound of his Trumpet which he hath prepared to awaken all Nations and to visit the face of the whole earth that the Angel of the Great Counsell viz. the holy voice of Christ is not departed from them eternally to forget them so little as a Mother can forget her childe that shee should not againe have pitty upon the Sonne of her wombe albeit he were disobedient to her 88. For as the Angel came to Ishmael being yet in the wombe when his Mother fled from Sarai and did enrich him with a blessing and worldly Dominions and bad the Mother with the childe returne to Sarah Thus likewise when the Eastern Countries entred againe into the Mothers wombe with their knowledge of Religion God gave unto them in the Kingdome of Nature power and authority over the Princely Dominions of the world for to possesse and rule them under the light of Nature till its time and then they shall come in againe with great joy and with great humility to Abraham viz. to Christ 89. And not in the forme of the Babylonicall formall literall Christendome in their invented and contrived Orders which are onely Letter verball outside Christians so that a Testimony and some outward footsteps of Christ and his Kingdome have still continued upon the earth but they shall be borne in Spirit and in power for they are the lost Sonne which is wandred away from the Father and is become the Swineheard 90. But when the Angel shall bid them Returne they come in the humility of the lost Sonne returning to the Father where then the great joy shall be kept by Christ and his Angels that the dead is made alive and the lost is againe sound and the true golden juball-yeare of the marriage of the Lambe ariseth up among them 91. And albeit the Elder brother who hath continued in the letter doth grumble at it in respect of the different forme which he hath made to himselfe for the most part for his belly and honour yet they are not moved at it they are merry with the Father 92. If now then we truely compare painted Christendome and the Turkes together and looke upon them aright
then we see that they since the Turkes departed from them have been but one People before God in holinesse and righteousnesse with different names 93. And they are the two Sonnes to one whereof the Father said Goe and doe this and he said yea but did it not and to the other also doe this and he said no but did it which doth so highly advance and magnifie the Turkes in the Kingdome of Nature which the blinde Christian world doth not understand 94. Not that we justifie the Turkes and say that they should remaine in their blindnesse no but to the painted Christians wee declare that they are alike with them before God in that they are as blinde in respect of Christs Kingdome as the Turkes as it plainly shews it selfe in that Christendome is full of strife and contention wrangling and jangling about Christs Deity and humanity and abominably prophaneth and hideously unhalloweth the holy Name in his humanity and use it onely for a forme and custome to sweare Covenant and protest also to Idolatry superstition and hypocrisie and are gone from the sword of the holy Spirit unto a bloud-thirsty confounding Sword wherein is nothing but contending and contemning one another and the whole titular Christendome is turned into meere sects and orders where one sect doth despise and brand another for unrighteous and thus they have made of Christendome a meere murthering Den full of blasphemies about Christs person and have bound the Spirit of Christ to the formes and orders of disputation and have set foolish Reason over Christs Kingdome to be a Master or Judge of the understanding or meaning of Gods Spirit in the holy Scriptures and mysteries 95. But ought we to speake so of Christendome and the Turkes as if they were alike Thus we say the Turke is openly an Ishmalite and mocker of Christs humanity and holdeth him not for the Sonne of Man and God too for he understands not the heavenly Ens in the person of Christ 96. But the Sects of Christendome doe indeed cover themselves with Christs Mantle but doe attach him in his humanity and Deity and revile him in his whole person teare and rend one another with words and swords about his person the one will have it this way another that way every one will be Master over his words and spirit and so deride Christ in his members and thereby destroy all brotherly love and are as revolting rebellious and fugitive Ishmaelites as the Turkes and live in their selfish will and serve the Kingdome of Nature in their selfe-hood selfe-interests and pleasure 97. A Christian must be dead with Christ to selfe and be risen againe in Christ and be borne anew of Christ and to have put on Christ that he be a Christian in Christ in the Spirit and heavenly flesh of Christ according to the internall spirituall man 98. But instead hereof men have put on Babel and the Antichrist and doe boast themselves of their Ordinances of the divine orders in the performances of devout duties in lip labour and much prating and in the Stone-houses of Churches and in the Cathedralls and Cloysters of Christendome where indeed they doe counterfeit somewhat of Christ seeing that they there reade the writings which the Apostles left behinde them but afterward with their Preaching for the most part they foist in the Kingdome and Government of Nature with brawling and disputing and spend the time with disputing confuting and contending about Sects and the different mentall Idolls or opinions insomuch that one party is brought wholly to condemne another and the eares and hearts of the hearers are so infected with gall and bitternesse that one Sect wilfully opposeth another and cryes it downe for devillish whence nothing but wars and disdainfull provocations doe arise to the desolating of Countries and Cities 99. Thus they are all alike before God and lie as it were shut up in Hagar in the dead Reason except the true children of God which verily are here and there to be found among all Nations and Sects but wholly simple and despised also covered under Christs Crosse to the Reason-wise-world 100. For like as the foure Elements receive the power or influence of the Sunne into them and in the substance the body yet not the Sunne is seene albeit it worketh therein so also the Spirit of Christ is hid in the children of God but as an hearb springing from the earth doth by the vertue of the Sunne put forth a faire blossome and fruit so likewise Gods children out of their plaine homelinesse or deformity to the lewd world's or prating hypocrites eye In the 27 Chapter of the Three Principles what the Lilly is may be discerned 32. THe Lilly will not be found in strife or warres but in a friendly humble loving Spirit together with good sound * Wall-grounded convincing satisfactory Reason This will grow to the throwing downe Babel and the building up of Zion Reason this will dispell and drive away the smoake of the Devill and flourish in its time Therefore let none thinke that when strife goeth on and he getteth the upper-hand now it is well and right and he that is under and subdued let him not thinke sure I am found to be in the wrong I should now goe to the other opinion or side and helpe that party to prosecute the other no that is not the way such a one is meerly in Babel 33. But let every one enter into himselfe and labour to be a righteous man and feare God and doe right and consider that this his worke shall appeare in Heaven before God and that he standeth every moment before the face of God and that all his works shall follow after him and then the Lilly of God springeth and groweth and the world standeth in its Seculum AMEN Mysterium Magnum Chap. 41. Pag. 326. 43. LOving Brethren be instructed aright the God of Love he will not the death of a poore corrupt and lost man but hath powred forth his best Treasure which he had in himselfe and is himselfe in Grace over all men like as the Sunne doth shine unto the good and evill but the wicked doth corrupt and spoile the * His precious Image Treasure in himselfe and will not receive it but sucketh and taketh in the Ens of the Serpent full of vanity and is baptized with the fire of Gods Anger in the will of selfe 44. But if he went with his own-selfe-will into the death of Christ and desired from the bottome of his heart to die from his selfe and own will in Gods mercy and cast his whole dependance and trust upon God and thought that he had nothing of his Own in this earthly Cottage but that he was onely a servant of God and his Neighbour in all that he possesseth and forsooke in his minde the propriety and selfe-interest he should soone be baptized with the holy Spirit and put on Christ in his will 45. But these mischievous earthly
temporall goods temporall honour and pleasure of the flesh captivate him in the Ens of the Serpent so that he is not capable of the Baptisme of the Holy Ghost 46. Also the selfe-elected unfitted corrupt Teachers are wholly blinde herein and teach onely the husk viz. the casket or sheath of regeneration they will be outwardly adopted children albeit they live onely in the will of selfe and will teach the holy Spirit into the Beast of selfe-will which yet is no wayes capable of the holy Spirit understanding nothing either of Baptisme or the Lords Supper the New birth is strange unto them they deny the divine essentiall in-dwelling of Christs Spirit in Gods children viz. the Temple of God in man and stand before the Jewes when as they should declare unto them what Christ is in us what Baptisme and the Lords Supper is just like pictured Christians or as Idolls 47. For the Jewes know that God hath spoken with their Fathers and given them the Circumcision and the Covenant there they stick but could the Christians fundamentally demonstrate to them what the Covenant and Circumcision is essentially and effectually together with their Offrings they would forsake the Signe and enter into the Substance 48. But that it hath so fallen out that both the Jewes and also the Christians have walked in blindnesse even till this last time and so also the Turkes who by reason of the blindnesse wrangling and ungodlinesse of the Christians have turned themselves unto Reason and Nature God hath therefore permitted because the Christians and Jewes both in the Old and New Testament received or appropriated to themselves the Covenant and the Seale of the Covenant in the outward shell onely viz. in the vessell or literall apprehension and lived onely to the outward earthly mortall man they alwayes minded and provided for the earthly Kingdome and life more then for the Eternall 49. They would understand in the husk viz. in the outward letter what God hath spoken and chose to themselves Reason-wise people which were well gifted and learned in the outward formall logicall and Notionall understanding of the letter who had not the Spirit and power of Gods Word and life in the new-birth in them but onely the spirit of selfe pride and the earthly Belly-god contriving how they might be rich in Christs poverty upon the Earth these have blinded them so that both among the Jewes and Christians men have minded and loved onely the earthly Ens. 50. Therefore God hath permitted that the Wonders of Nature in the power of his Anger should be opened and brought forth in them and that they should thus stick in blindnesse yet in controversie so that the name and memory of his Covenant might not quite be extinguished and one Nation evilly to entreat and exercise another in contention and contrariety whereby often times a greene twig hath sprung from the right understanding which hath been strange unto them by reason of their received opinion and they have contemned and persecuted it for the earthly man in selfe is not worthy of the holy Covenant and Seale 51. And seeing God knew very well that they would run of themselves without being sent of him and would abuse the holy Ens in the Covenant thereupon the Vaile of Moses hath beset the Jewes and the Tower Babel with the Antichrist viz. the outward Christ instead of the holy Ens in the Covenant viz. Gods presence the Christians so that they have been evermore seeking in this same Antichrist what God might be in his Covenant Will and Beeing 52. Thus they have been exercised in contention and persecution in that they have persecuted one another yet so as that Gods children have sprung forth in the Crosse and Christ hath been inwardly manifest to them but outwardly Babel hath stood still both among the Jewes Christians and Turkes the antixt is onely the same among all for he is the Letter-God wherein the selfe-will seeketh and worshippeth God in the huske 53. Heare now therefore yee Christians Jewes Turkes and Heathen even all Nations of the earth What now yet this once more for a farewell in this worlds beeing is freely tendred unto you in the visitation of the mercifull God in the voice of his Trumpet by his Love-Will and Spirit the Sound of the Trumpet concerns you all let it enter into your eares and doe but open your eares and hearts a little from selfe and then you shall heare the Sound in you It soundeth through all even to the ends of the Earth but no selfe-will heares it 54. The simple Childrens way to divine Wisdome The first and chiefest step to a safe well-grounded-Reformation in Church and Common-wealth The onely divine way wherein man may see God in his Word Beeing and Will is this that man become wholly One in himselfe and in his own will forsake all whatsoever he himselfe is or hath let it be authority might power honour beauty riches money goods father mother brother sister wife and childe body and life and become wholly a Nothing to his Selfe He must freely resigne up all and be poorer then a bird in the aire which yet hath a Nest the true man must have none for he must travell away from this world that he be no more to himselfe in this world He must be a Nothing to the worlds selfe and interests for the Substance of this world which he possesseth for a propriety is the Tower of Babel and the Antichrist wherein men will be their own God and with this selfe-contrived God they will ascend upon the Tower to Heaven and place themselves with or for a God Understand it thus 55. It is not meant that one should run from house and home from wife children sisters c. and fly out of the world or so forsake his goods as not to remaine in them but the own or selfe will which possesseth all this for a propriety that he must kill and annihilate 56. And thinke that all that of which he is a Master is not at all his own let him win or loose be rich or poore wise or simple high or low let him have something or nothing that he esteeme all these things alike a faire fine Garment as a course patcht one the prosperity of this world as the adversitie life as death his authority as a servants a Kingly Crowne as an old Hatt and forsake it all in his minde and not account it for his owne 57. But thinke and wholly resigne up his will thereinto that he is but a servant of all whatsoever he hath and onely a Steward of that calling profession office and order that it is Gods and his brethren in common that he onely serveth God and his brethren therein and all whatsoever they conferre and put upon him be so received of him as that it may conduce to the generall brotherly Order and Profession and that God may make such Orders in this world as a figure of the
38. Out of an Epis vers 38. COncerning their desire about the affaires at Prague where I was present at the coming in of the new a Palsgrave Frederick King the same into Sagan you have understood that it is already done he came in at the Fort upon Reâ—shin of Shlan and was received of all the three Orders with great Solemnity as the Custome hath been formerly among all Kings 39. I exhort you to heed well what the Prophet Ezekiel hath written in the 38. and 39. Chap Whether the time of the gathering together upon the seven Mountaines in b Confused Christendome Babel be not at hand especially in respect of the Seven c Bethlem Gabor Berger who should get help from the Turk and very easily come to the Ryne-strome 40. Where then the great overthrow of the children of Babel may come to passe where two great Rods of God shall appeare the one by warre the other by mortalitie in which Babel shall be ruined sheweth the Spirit of the Lord in all those who have prophecied before us 41. Although I account the Election of a right Germane Emperour must be yet a little while deferred and in the meane time great d This is come to passe in Germany warre and contention also desolation of many Cities strong Holds and potent Countries shall follow so far as even now is the right time of which the Spirit prophecieth which we doe not so punctually understand 42. For a thousand yeares before God is as one day the Spirit seeth all things nigh at hand then supposeth the e The Astrall spirit or apprehension of Reason Sidereall man that it shall be instantly yet it stands in Gods Counsell 43. However we know for certain the ruine of the Citie Babel to be very nigh and it appeareth to us as if the time were even instantly at hand whereas yet we cannot fully apprehend the Counsell of God but as a Pilgrim that is a day in a Countrey cannot learne all even so it is with us For God keepeth the time and houre to himselfe and yet sheweth by his Spirit the wonders that are to come 29. Out of an Epist vers 29. BUt seeing God hath promised by the Prophets especially in Joel that he will powre forth his Spirit in the last dayes upon all flesh therefore the time is to be considered 30. I say as I have knowne it that whosoever at present will dye to himselfe him shall the Spirit of the Lord according to Joels prophecy apprehend and manifest his wonders by him therefore if any be in Earnest he shall finde it by experience 31. Yet let every one be faithfully warned that if the light of God doe arise in him that he continue stedfast in great humility in resignation namely in the death of Christ c. 36. I give you out of good affection to know that this present time is seriously to be taken into consideration for the Seventh Angel in the Revelation hath prepared his Trumpet the Powers of Heaven be in Peculiar Motion Moreover both gates stand open and light and darknesse are in great desire as every thing is taken so shall it goe in 37. At what the one shall exceedingly rejoyce the other shall mock at it whereupon followeth the sore and severe judgement upon Babel 7. Out of an Epist vers 7. HAppy are those who are comprehended under the sound of the Trumpet which hath already sounded for there cometh such an earnestnesse after that Babel and her convention together with all pride ambition falshood and unrighteousnesse shall drinke an earnest Draught and even that which shee hath filled c. 3. Out of an Epist to Carel van Endern vers 3. IT is knowne to me that the time is nigh and at hand that the contentions about Religion shall enter into the Temperature but with great ruination of the false Kingdome in Babel that hath set up it selfe in Christs stead together with other great alterations concerning which although men perhaps will hardly beleeve me yet in a short time shall appeare c. * 40 Quest the 39. Quest EVery Age hath had its Seekers who have sought the Mystery but it hath been a long time very darke in Babel 5. Now for these two hundred yeares it hath begun againe to be manifest in that the fall of Antichrist hath been foreseene and men have begun to Storme Babel on one side but her strong Tower standeth still fast indeed the Whore hath been somewhat discovered yet her Beast hath but growne the more lusty 6. Therefore there is yet a wonderfull time neare at hand wherein all things shall be altered Many great Mountaines and hills shall be made a plaine and a Fountaine shall flow out of Zion wherein the afflicted and distressed shall drinke and be refreshed 7. And they shall be guided to the fresh Pasture by one onely Crooke and the Shepheard shall rejoyce with the Sheepe that God is so gracious 8. At that time Silver and Gold shall be as common as in Solomons time and his wisdome shall governe the whole Earth this is a Wonder 23. Out of an Epist vers 23. IF the world were not so blinde it might know the wonderfull Beeing of God in all creatures but now that it doth so rage and rave it doth it wholly against it selfe and against the holy Spirit of God at whose light they shall once be astonished they shall not hinder the Sonne which the travelling Mother bringeth forth in her old age for this the Heaven declareth 24. God shall f Or make him glorious enlighten him against all the raging and raving of the Devill and his g Splendour glory light shall reach from the East unto the West I write not of my selfe for I onely foreshew that this is at hand and shall come The sixt Text of his Booke entituled The Abridgement of the heavenly earthly Mystery 49. WHen we consider and ponder thus with our selfe we finde the strife of all Essences that the one is a continuall loathing of the other and is an Enemy to the other 50. For every will desireth a purity without Turba in the other Essence and yet it hath the Turba in it selfe and is also the loathing of the other 51. And then the greatest gets power over the smallest and keepeth it in subjection and except it get rid of it the strong ruleth over the weake 52. Thus the weake doth also run and seeketh the limit of the Oppressour and it will be freed from constraint and thus the limit is sought by all creatures which is hid in the Mystery 53. And even hence ariseth all the power of this world so that the one continually ruleth over the other and this was not commanded nor appointed by the highest Good in the beginning but it grew from the Turba 54. Whereupon Nature afterward acknowledged it for her own Essence which was borne out of her and