the envious heart of the Letter-learned who h betrayed and killed Christ and his Witnesses 6 These wicked Generations of the said wicked Fathers have not rested to i accomplish the most horrid wickedness of their Fathers but with their envious hearts have they with great diligence endevoured to resist the godly Testimonies of God and his commiserating mercy together with the love of the holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and Gods elect Servant with all false testimonies lyes and reproach So that they are most fearfully faln against Gods commiserating grace which he on the earth to the commiseration of all men through his elect Minister H. N. hath testified and published and gainst the Love of the holy Spirit of Jesus Christ into all blasphemie of God and into contempt of his Truth 7 These said false hearts likewise with the children of the Devil or the false Christians of the Devils School have also with all manner of wickedness defamed H. N. who yet was no mans enemy nor contemned any man in particular for his religion but heartily wished to all Religion urgers that they might have the true light of life in the Lanthorn of their Service hath loved all people to the godliness in Jesus Christ and behaved himself courteously to all men in all upright conversation have also secretly exclaimed against him to the Magistrate when hee was not there present for a Seducer and Malefaor when he was not heard or not at all speaking with him although he yet walked openly very falsly accused him and have also contrived a matter or charge very cunningly with all subtilty against Law and all Christian Ordinances to the end that H. N. through their accusation and clamour might by the Magistrate be prosecuted or rooted out And thereunto tâ—â— Magistrate condescended CHAP. XXVII 1 BUt at the same time in the nine and fiftieth year of the age of H. N. in the time of Maximillian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation then sought the Magistrate where H. N. dwelled in the East through the false relations of the enemies of H. N. and through the false slanders which they had spoken against him among the people to lye in wait for H. N. for to lay him fast in Prison And so with the consent of the same aforesaid Magistrate was H. N. in the same Land where he dwelled very vehemently persecuted And many ambushes were laid for him for to bring him into prison But the Lord smote them all with a great blindness who were his enemies and persecuted him insomuch that they could by no means apprehend H. N. 2 Now when the Officers of the said Magistrate had used all their diligence to bring H. N into their hands then the Lord manifested his mercy and assistance to him carried him by the hand of his b Angels openly before the eyes of his persecutors away from that land without hurt And no man knew him or could finde out which way he travelled 3 Now when H. N. for the upright a righteousness of God and the Godliness of Jesus Christ and because that he attested and published the same under the obedience of the Love was thus through persecution driven away through the hand of the Lord he travelled away before the eyes of his persecutors notwithstanding they writ very earnestly after him to several places and his enemies made very diligent search after him to find him out nevertheless he kept on in his journey in the way of Patience towards another land which the Lord shewed him and wherein it should be more quiet and peaceable for him to inhabit 4 He was sometime also in his journey through his persecutors and through all false aspersions and undecent contumelies which were cast after him much perplexed and bnrthened and that for the most part because those which were Letter-learned and did seem to be so wise And to whom he had shewed all love and friendship were yet so ignorant blind and misunderstanding that they envied him and unadvisedly resisted the d Truth of God and shamefully despised the fulfilling of the godliness in Jesus Christ and undecently reproched the e holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ and also persecuted him with wicked hearts of f lying slanderous lips whom they had most cause to love for as much as hee shewed all love and all ministrations to the Godliness in full explanation to them 5 And so in his travelling and sadness H. N. took unto him to read the Psalms of David especially that Psalm which the holy Prophet David the anointed of the Lord had formerly spoken when g Saul after the good Spirit of the Lord was departed and was much disquieted with an evil spirit from the Lord persecuted him and sought to take away his life and when he was betrayed by h Doeg the Edomire and first he made his preface to the Lord and said 6 O Lord God heavenly Father how perverse and wicked of heart have the i wise of the World alwayes been who do not fear thee O God with an humble heart nor walk uprightly before thee 7 And how imbittered k and hardned of heart and how bloud-thirsty in their spirits and minds have alwayes been the Letter-learned and also the urgers of ceremonial Services who have not O God believed thee in the Word of thy holy Prophets nor been obedient thereunto And also all those who forsake the Doctrine of thy dear Son Jesus Christ and l his humility and meekness and have not learned the upright righteousness to the cleansing of their hearts but framed and chose to themselves out of the letter counterfeit ceremonial services and invented holinesses and have neither known nor received m the holy anointing of thy holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ 8 For like as Saul n with his evil and restless spirit envyed and persecuted thine anointed David who walked uprightly and without deceit before thee and like as the false hearts of the Letter-learned have despised belyed reproached and with falshood defamed and persecuted as evil doers and seducers thy o holy Prophets and thy p deare sonne thine anointed Jesus and his q witnesses and had an intention to root them out Even so O God this wicked Generation of the same wicked seed and nature of the aforesaid false-hearts have persecuted reproached and belyed me H. N. thy chosen servant because O God I love all people to the Godlinesse in Jesus Christ And attest and set forth before them thy commiserating Grace and Love and the upright righteousnesse r and holinesse of thy beloved Sonne Jesus Christ out of thy holy and gracious Word and Spirit of Love and call and invite them all thereunto And they have resisted and s reproached also thy holy Spirit whom thou now in these last times hast sent to declare
Praising the Lord the Word of the Lord came to H. N. and said 27 Hast thou H. N well observed in thy journey into this my holy inheritable land of the living That the most part of the people despise thy ministration of my holy gracious Word and blaspheme my holy Spirit of Love And also that they despising or contemning the offerings of my Grace bring upon themselves my t wrath and displeasure and the judgement of their eternal condemnation 28 Besides hast thou also well observed that the many Godly Testimonies of thy Writings which thou with great diligence and care out of my holy Word and Spirit of Love hast written brought to light are come among many Whoremongers forsworn or unfaithful ones among many enemies reprochers of my House of Love how falsly they do judge the same and how disorderly shamefully that they * handle and deal with the same For with the same they commit their Whoredoms prophane my holy Name and break the mariage of fidelity of the Covenant of my * Wedlock and so after the nature of Harlots and of impudent adulterous ones They manifest against me and my holy Word and Spirit of Love all unfaithfulness So that they wholy contemn my upright Righteousness and Love and make a mock at it and so continually procure upon themselves the horrible vengeance of the hellish fire CHAP. XXXIII 1 AGain the Lord spake to H. N. Forasmuch as thy writings of my holy and godly Testimonies which thou hitherto with great care and diligence hast written and published are now come into so many hands of the Enemies of my house or Family of Love and into so many hands of Whoremongers unfaithful-ones And also that some impure hearts which for a time have * medled therewith have mingled therewith their impure sense and good-thinking knowledge also many to the covering of their selfishness and to their own destruction have therewith defended and covered the unclean minds of their wicked justs and desires and have not believed the a upright Righteousness of my Love according to the requiring of the Godly Testimonies of thy Writings So shalt thou now the Godly Testimonies of thy Writings which thou broughtest of each one with thee with the twenty four ancient * Elders carefully peruse have a sharp regard upon all sayings with careful consideration 2 I the Lord will enlighten thy heart and the heart of the four and twenty Elders who are with thee and who are to perform the laborious Service with thee with my Godly Wisdom and with the true light of my Godly cleerness more more with my abounding b Illumination 3 And after the same perfect Illumination of my Godly cleerness ye shall then also renew all the same Testimonies of thy Writings to a more plain * declaration and witness all the same in a more perfect * cleerness and write them more plainly then they have been and likewise that the Whoremongers remain c without the mystery thereof and also without the marriage of my unity or conjunction 4 For now is the time nigh at hand that all whoremongers and all unfaithful ones in the covenant of my we dlock or matrimony and all such who delight in whoredome and adultery and are enemies of my Family of Love and who with their prudence out of the flesh conceive themselves d to be wise shall in their whorishness unfaithfulness and envious nature before all the believes and obeyers of my gracious word and service of Love be made manifest and made known In their whoredome and enmity and in all theâ—â— good-thinking shal be wholy blinded e scattered laid waste or hardned in their hearts and also if they repent not shall be excluded from my unity and heavenly f tiches 5 And on the other side all believers and faithful obedient disciples of my gracious word and all penitent sinners together with all those who preserve in or defend the Service of my Love and wish all good and prosperity shall be illuminated in the Godly life of my Love and be made heirs g in my spiritual and heavenly riches 6 And further on the same fifteenth day of the first moneth when the Lord had spoken all these words with us we took to us the same Testimonies of our Writings which we had brought with us and so we began the same with all devoutness to God and to his Truth and upright righteousness very seriously to peruse and the same according to Gods most perfect cleerness and wisdome and the knowledge of his upright righteousness and so much necessary or profitable for the children of men to know to declare and write in the plainest manner and to set it in the best order so that the same and the requiring thereof may the better or easier in the plainest or simplest manner be understood according to the mind and will of God and according to the true ministration of his h Testaments which tend into the upright being of Jesus Christ 7 And for to observe out of it what God through the ministration of his gracious word and Testament requireth and to what end that God himself i hath created and chosen the man and to what an upright and lovely or single-minded Godliness that he in his k fall and estranging from God hath l called and invited him again through Jesus Christ and whereunto be now in these last dayes is loved through the Holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ and through H. N. Gods Elect Minister 8 The Lord grant to all men who hear or read the Godly Testimouies of our Writings his Grace and mercy that they may understand rightly the requiring of the saving testimonies of God and of his Christ and of the holy Spirit of his Love and that they may endeavour themselves rightly thereafter 9 For all what God doth to the man to reduce him to his upright Righteousness and to save him cometh all out of the Grace of the mercifull Love of God for to bring the fallen and straying man againe into the m right way of Life to the Love of his God and to the Love of his neighbour And then to deliver him also from all his sinnes And to set him aright and make him faithful in all unity and Peace with God and his neighbour and to inherit him in all his spiritual and heavenly goods and also n thereunto his Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life 10 Now when we together with each other according to the word and comand of our Lord and God had begun persued and transcribed all the godly testimonies of our Writings so neglected we no time to endevour with great diligence the same Godly Testimonies of our Writings which we had brought with us to read and to transcribe and according to the requiring of the Lord out of his true light to declare it in
Now goeth ye Iudgment ouer this world now is ye prince of this world cast out Iohn â—2 Now is ye Saluation ye porâ—â—â— and ye Kingdom becom our gods and ye Might his Christs Revet â—2 D. Mirabilia opera Dei Certaine wonderfull Works of God which hapned to H. N. even from his youth and how the God of Heaven hath united himself with him and raised up his gracious Word in him and how he hath chosen and sent him to be a Minister of his gracious Word Published by Tobias a Fellow Elder with H. N. in the Houshold of Love Translated out of Base Almain Now come hither and behold the works of the Lord Ps. 46 66. Know ye that the Lord leadeth his Saints wonderfully Ps. 4. a. And take heed that ye do not despise the works of the Lord lest there come upon you that which is said in the Prophets Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I do a work in your days which you will in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you Hab. 1. a. Acts 13. b. THE PREFACE Tobias with H. N. a fellow Minister of the gracious Word of the Lord wisheth to all lovers of Truth Salvation and Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FOrasmuch as I Tobias a fellow Elder with the Oldest Elders in the Houshold of Love have alwayes been present with H. N. in all what the Lord hath revealed unto him and now in this day of the Love of Iesus Christ am impulsed of the Holy Ghost to declare and to publish among the children of men under the obedience of the love of the Truth of certain wonderful works of God which befell H. N. and us the oldest Elders in the house of Love and that I also know that H. N. Gods chosen Minister and his ministration of the gracious Word of the Lord hath been disorderly rejected and censured with several false judgements by many false hearts and good-thinking wise-ones by many false Christians and unsent Teachers or Preachers and by some unfaithfull and opinionated self-seekers who are turned away from us And that the Godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ published by H. N. were by many disgracefully contemned and reproached as if God had neither chosen nor sent H. N. to be a Minister of his holy and gracious Word and as if the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ were an unclean thing So have I for Gods cause and in regard of the Love which I bear and have to all mens salvation I could not omit to declare to all God-fearing-understandings and Lovers of the Truth That they may believe the Truth understand the Godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love and may be preserved in these dangerous times and to witnesse the Truth before them how and in what manner the Lord the living God of Heaven hath chosen H. N. from his youth to the ministration of his holy and gracious word and hath sent him thereunto in his old age of the holy and godly understanding through the holy Spirit of his Love 2 For the holy Spirit of the Truth of God and of the Love of Iesus Christ was alwayes powerfully abiding upon H. N. in all his ministrations after that the Lord had anointed him a with the same spirit and hath through the same spirit raised and sent him for to declare to all people the true b repentance for their sinnes and to draw and bring in through his ministration of the holy and gracious Word all those that love Gods Truth and the accomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ and hunger and thirst after righteousnesse c to the peaceable Love and his Godly service for the preservation of them all in the Godlinesse that all they which H. N. and our fellowship may have their communion in Iesus Christ and may not be seduced in these dangerous times in which if it were possible the very elect d should be seduced with the unprofitable prating of the false hearts and unsent Teachers or Preachers which alwayes oppose the Truth of God e and blaspheme against the holy Spirit nor through any depraved hearts and Apostates who continually accuse with falshood the true Ministers of the gracious word and endeavour with all their power to abolish the same ministration nor should be kept of or held back from our most holy Service of the gracious word under the obedience of the Love to their condemnation 3 And therefore and for the Truth of Gods cause and for to declare the knowledge that the Promises of God the Father and of the Lord Iesus Christ g be fullfilled and established in the Love So is there also now presently in this same day of the Love in plain words to all understanding and before all good-willing hearts unto the righteousnesse through H. N. testified and published what that very thing which the Gracious Word of the Lord which the Lord now hath raised up according to his Promises doth require of all men 4 And for to witness and publish the truth that the Lord hath chosen and sent H. N. therefore have I through the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ plainly testified and declared the sending of H. N. also certaine wonderfull workes of God which from his youth hapned unto him from the living God That all those which read or hear all the Godly Testimonies of our writings may believe the Truth with a single heart to have a right regard to the true Promises of the Father and of the Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ and of the accomplishing of the same and may hope upon the fulfilling of the requiring of the gracious word and of his service of Love and rightly and in Truth follow and imitate our Lord Iesus Christ in the saving word of his holy Spirit of Love h and might be of one mind with us and our communialtie of the Saints i in the Love of our Lord Iesus k into all unity and peace 5 And likewise that through the same declaration the enemies of H. N. together with all the opposers and reprochers of the Truth and of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ may see and know That they have villified and contemned not onely H. N. a choseu servannt of God but also God the Father the builder of our house of Love and the Lord Iesus Christ our Phisician and Saviour and the holy Ghost the inheritance of our spiritual and heavenly goods l and have pulled upon their own necks the wrath and judgement of their condemnation That they with humble hearts might bring forth real fruits of repentance 6 For it is not unknown or uncertaine to us that H. N. doth testifie out of the Truth of God and his gracious word and that the office of the ministration of the gracious Word is imposed and intrusted to him through m God's grace to administer for the Lord
as he of old had promised to a raise up the same through his holy Prophets and with the same word and out of the same word the Lord b poured upon H. N. his holy Spirit of the of the Love of Jesus Christ 4 With this heavenly glory and out-flowing of the same holy Spirit of the true Love of Jesus Christ upon H. N. the Lord chose him to be a Minister of his holy and gracious word which He the Lord had excited and revealed in him 5 And the Lord prepared or ordained to H. N. for his assistance in the same ministration Daniel Elidad Tobias which continued allwayes with him and assisted him in all his ministration of the the gracious word of the Lord 6 And at that time also through the power of God and impulse of the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ H. N. was driven in his whole spirit mind for to administer on t of the holy and gracious word and holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ the most holy Office of the Love according to the command of God and to attest and set down in writing the godly truth of God and of Christ and the c upright way of the through-going or Passe-over which reacheth to the npright righteousnesse and to the eternalllife and to publish and express writingly in letters before all eyes of understanding 7 H. N. being thus chosen of the God of life to the ministration of his gracious word and was impulsed by the holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ to set * forth the manefestatton of the Truth of God and of the Godlinesse of Jesus Christ and let the Sonnes of men to know their errours that they repenting of their sins d may turn from their errour and sincerely endeavour to keep the truth of God and the godliness of Jesus Christ So he gave himself obediently at that time to that service and work of the Lord and carefully endeavoured to set down all that the Lord revealed and commanded him and that should be most profitable and necessary for the Sonnes of men to their Salvation and Peace and to the entrance of the upright life 8 But in his beginning of the same service and writings the word of the Lord came to him and said H. N. stay thy hand from writing in this place and get thee up and travel out of this land wherein now thou livest that thy soul may be preserved alive in my service and worke and be not devoured by bloud-thirsty men and in thy going out from this land take thy journey Eastward and dwell there till I my selfe by the hand of my Angel bring thee from thence 9 For whilest thou livest there thou shalt apply thy selfe for the most part to be in the land Pietas that thou mayest be diligent there rightly and according to the truth to manifest my honour and Love and to reveal the same to those who are worthy of love 10 For there in the manifesting of mine honour and Love thou shalt testifie and figure forth in writing the godly and heavenly things which I do reveal and make known unto thee and that profitable for the children of men unto Godliness 11 To thee shall also from henceforth many mysteries of my heavenly Kingdome which hitherto have been kept and concealed from the e world and her wise and letter-learned be revealed and made known for to bring the same to light 12 At the time according to the word and command of the Lord H. N. instantly took his journey Eastward and became an Inhabitant in the land of the East and was for the most time iu Pietas even as the Lord had commanded him ae3 And the Lord the God of heaven revealed to him in Pietas many godly mysteries and in these revealed mysteries H. N. excereised himselfe in Gods holy understanding to the serviceable benefit or utility of the children of men and to all their good knowledge of their Salvation and peace in Jesus Christ 14 There were revealed unto him also many wonderfull Acts or Workes of God many of which are testified and brought to light in the writings of H. N. to the knowledge of the upright Godliness in Jesus Christ 15 But in all this which the Lord hath revealed to H. N. he was rejoyced too exceedingly insomuch that he forgot all the sore wayes which he in great sadnesse had passed through 16 And the Lord afflicted him heavily through his enemies for the Lord suffered him to fall into the hands of the wicked his enemies whose ungodly being is the false destruction which hath brought on the Earth death or f mortality namely the Kingdome of the Devil and of hell which God hath not willed that it should be in the Earth but be condemned in the g bottomlesse pit and the everlasting darknesse from whence it also came And that the h Glory of Jesus Christ should be revealed on the earth and raigne over it eternally 17 Yea the same wicked Beeing must be abolished in the condemnaâ—ion at the appearing of Jesus Christ in his glory for that same is the i envious man against God and his righteousnesse and against all that is Godly and * God-service k and wherewith the man practiseth his whoredome and adultery to the disobeying and resisting his God so that thereby the man every where l turneth or inclineth to himselfe and to things which are vaine and unprofitable whereby also the same ungodly being in the false light of the mans disobedient knowledge is become predominant 18 Behold into this Abysse or Depth the Lord let fall his chosen servant H. N and suffered him to tast and feel the condemnation of all ungodly ones in the hellish fire the most horrible perdition and the most ugly abomination of desolation 19 But when now H. N. found himself thus captived in misery wherein hee was sorely vexed by his enemies so there came on him a great and mighty sadnesse and he could find no comfort at all insomuch that by reason of his great heavinesse of mind he wringed his hands and exceedingly bewailed his sinnes and cryed aloud to God and besought him for his Grace and continued therein day and night And in this his misery he composed these Psalmes of mourning and lamentation and did not hide his sinnes and thus calling on and praying to the Lord he spake forth his mourning Psalmes with weeping and lamentation Here follow the Psalmes of H. N. and the declaration of his weeping and praying in his chastisement The Rod and punishment giveth wisdome Pro. 29. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth and delighteth in him as a Father doth in his sonne Pro. 3. Therefore shall the eare which barkeneth to the correction of the Lord dwell among the wise but he that letteth go the chastising Instrâ—ction or turneth away from it he rejecteth his own â—oul Pro. 2. CAAP. VI Psalme I. 1 O My
the Spirit as High Priest in the same most holy as a minister of the spiritual and heavenly Goods 56 Thus had the Lord our heavenly Father through the Offering of our High Priest Jesus Christ to the accomplishing of the dayly God-service in the holy of the true Tabernacle a great delight in the accomplishing of our Offering and God-service in the holy of the true Tabernacle of Jesus Christ under the obedience of the Beliefe 57 Which freedom to the entrance into the said holy for to perform to the living God of heaven such acceptable Offering and pleasing Service of God we have obtained and purchased through the bloud of Jesus Christ Yea verily to the accomplishing of the same hath Jesus Christ prepared for us the entrance into the Holy by a new and living way the q veil that is through his flesh 58 And thus when we had finished or fulfilled our Offering and God-service under the obedience of the Belief in the offering and God-service of our Lord r Jesus Christ wee rested us with Christ in his like death and burial on the nine and fortieth day of our journey 59 And thus on the nine and fortieth day resting us in our Lord Jesus Christ from our work and labour we have perfected or * fulfilled our journey and our offering and God-service with Jesus Christ in the holy under the obedience of the Belief And thus through Christ according to the Spirit wee have gotten and obteined the ministration of the spiritual and heavenly Goods and the everlasting life CHAP. XXXII 1 BUt on the fiftieth day of our journey on the fifteenth day of the first moneth on the day of Phase or Pasche came into us a still soft silent voice wind or Spirit And we were enlightned in Christ with the a clearness or brightness of Christ And thus in our illuminating * on the same fiftieth day there appeared to us in a cloud the living God-head of our Lord Jesus Christ and became altogether of one being with us and gathered us to the Mercy-Seat of his divine Majesty and also to the holy Mount Sion b where the Law or Ordinance of the Lord is promised to go forth at the last time And to the true Jerusalem where the Word of the Lord at the last time is likewise promised to go forth 2 And the Lord gave his mighty great sound out of Sion and caused his voice to be heard out of Jerusalem And so c flowed the Law or Ordinance of the Lord out of Sion And his Word forth of Jerusalem And the Scripture of the Godly Testimonies were accomplished in us and with us in Jesus Christ And the former kingdom full of all pure beauty and heavenly riches and full of all vertues aâ—d upright righteousness which God from the beginning d hath prepared for the man was shewed unto us in his perfect adorning and we were inherited therein eternally and it was all e restored again to us in us and with us what God had spoken wrought and appointed and promised through the mouthes of his holy Prophets from the beginning of the World 3 And that same is the new day and the manifestation of the kingdom of Heavens and his righteousness wherein all Believers of Jesus Christ who follow after Jesus Christ f to the second birth do inherit And the same new day with the fulnesse of his beauties riches and vertues is the day of which the Kingly Prophet David hath of old Evangelized like as there standeth written this is the g day the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad therein 4 And thus in these wonderfull works of God the word of the Lord came to H N and said This holy Land which thou here at this present beholdest and wherein thou art now everlastingly inherited is the holy inheritance of my living-ones h and is my rest and the holy place of my dwelling it is also the true Rest which I have promised my people Israel and all the holy-ones of my Christ and have given it for an eternall inheritance 5 It is my true Building i that I my selfe have prepared for all those who love mee and whereinto I gather all my Lovers to mee and to my people and it is my holy and godly understanding wherein I live eternally and in which I illuminate and endue all the Believers of my Christ in their second birth with such an abounding godly understanding That they far excel all humane and Letter-learned knowledges and in the life of my godly clearness far surmount the same 6 It is my durable kingdom k wherein I will for ever plant and firmly settle all mine Elect to an eternal rest and perfectly joy now in the last times 7 And I have from everlasting ordained them thereunto to manifest therein for ever and ever my heavenly wonders and also to declare the same from thence upon the earth for a witness That I the Lord who am an eternal and living God live from everlasting to everlasting l And that I now at the last time m bring upon the earth the judgment and the righteousness and the Majesty of my divine Glory 8 Therefore shalt thou H. N together with the four and twenty Elders and the four Seraphims dwell with me and all my holy ones in this my holy place eternally 9 And the declaration of my upright Godliness which thou here hast received from my n uncovered face shalt thou also make known upon the earth And with the testimonies of my righteousness and with the publication of the joyful message of my Kingdome enlighten the whole World and so declare that now my true kingdom of heavens with the fulness of it's pure beauty and heavenly riches is appeared manifested and comne upon the earth according to the promises to the salvation and blessing of all men who with their whole hearts seek the same and the righteousness thereof 10 I also will yet shew unto thee in this holy place of my living-ones more of my heavenly workings and give thee also to understand many mysteries which hitherto hath not bin known to the o world Also what my last Will or Testament is of the ministration of my most holy Priestly Office under the obedience of my Love 11 For from hence-forth in this day will I look upon the estranging of men from my Truth with the eyes of compassion to give unto them out of my Priestly Office of Love p the true repentance for their sins and shew forth the true entrance of the Goodlife 12 And because that all men in their estranging or before they out of the doctrine of my grarlous word and out of the holy Spirit of my love are renewed or born again beare q a veile or covering before their hearts betwixt them and my face so will I also now in this last time be gracious unto all those who believe my
Lord my God a my heart quaketh before thee for though thy punishment upon my sinnes my bones do shake and great b sadnesse pain and smart fall on me 2 Thus I fear O Lord thy punishment for with the same thoâ— makest known unto me my sinnes and thou lettest me see the evil things which have ensnared me 3 O God wilt thou not deliver me from these evil things so must I continue in misery and must feare thy hand continually 4 But thou O Lord art he which c woundest and healest againe help me as thou usest to doe 5 Let my sighings d out of the bottome of my heart come before thee and turne not thy mercy from me 6 For O Lord I do not e forget thee but wait dayly for thy goodnesse 7 Look f on my misery and leave me not in death nor let me be lost for ever 8 g Take away O Lord the sinne from me and let thy Spirit of life refresh me otherwayes O Lord O Lord of Lords I have no life in me 9 Therefore O Lord of life when thou art my life then I live and my bones must rejoyce 10 When I find mercy in thine eyes then is comforted the inward mind of my soul 11 But O Lord when thou art h a death to me and art angry with me then am I like unto the dead and go i down to hell as the wicked that are damned 12 Out of which k depth now my foul sigheth and calleth O Lord unto thee for in the same I remember with anguish of mind my sinnes past and must bewaile with tears my evil actions 13 For thou O Lord art the strength and l Saviour of men from the sinne he that taketh hold on thee m falleth not into transgressions 14 But the man which relyeth on hâ—s owne strength he falls soonest and then must he confess that thou alone O Lord art the life of his Salvation 15 When thou takest pity on him and raisest him again then he obtaineth mercy and must praise thy goodnesse continually 16 For what is man O Lord without thy grace is he any thing ah no he is nothing of himselfe n 17 Therefore let thy mercy o shine about me and doe not think on my transgressions 18 Therefore my ioy O God is in thee and with thankfullnesse must I praise the grace of thy Love 19 For thou comfortest the low p minded and those which be forsaken thon blotest out their sinnes and takest q away the evil heart of their misdeedes 20 When thou O Lord givest the blessing then is thy consolation present and then with a joyous song of praise is thy holy name praised 21 But in case thou dost hide thy selfe then is the sinne active and when thou doest rise up to punish O Lord who can then r stand before thee 22 Is not a man like unto s the blossome of the field which thy heat causeth to wither and like unto t dust and ashes which the wind doth â—catter here and there 23 Therefore have thou mercy on me O my God and Father and let thy good spirit support me u otherwayes I shall vanish into nothing CHAP. VII Psalme II. 1 O Lord let thine a anger be turned about and punish me not continually in thy displeasure b 2 O Lord c punish me not according to my sinnes but chastise me unto amendment and d teach me also thy Lawes and hide not thy mercy from me 3 Reject me not O Lord nor wholly e forsake me but bring to my knowledge my transgressions 4 And chastise me even so O my God with a f fatherly correction so shall I turne unto thee 5 But if thou totally rejectest me to whom g shall I then goe O God and King of all righteousness for thou alone art my h comfort 6 For vain is the comfort of i maâ— and all the Treasures of the world are O God no joy to me 7 The sinne is an abhomination unto me the worlds joy with the pleasures thereof are all dead unto me 8 If thou Lord k hidest the lovely being of thy countenance from me O Lord what is then my life 9 Therefore O God remember not l alwayes my sins but guide my m feet in the way of life 10 Then shall I praise thy mercy O Lord among the n living and spread thy praise among the upright 11 For I acknowledge my o transgressions and my sinnes are a p heavy burthen unto me 12 O how q heavily was I wearied in the wayes of my errors what cumbersome wayes did I go through 13 Now sinne with its death hath r throughly pierced me the Devil with his bands ruled over me and Hell with its power hath shut me into the stocks to devoure me 14 But thou O Lord that canst deliver from death deliver s me from all mine enemies 15 Helpe me out of my misery and forsake me not in my sorrow CHAP. VIII Psalme III. 1 O Lord Almighty God art thou not he that a killest and makest alive againe 2 Art thou not a God who condemnest and b bringest into hell and from thence bringect again and savest 3 How Long O Lord shall I go on into perdition how long yet shall sinne raigne over me 4 How long shall the c bonds of death hold bound How long shall the power of the Devil and of Hell captive me 5 If thou deliver me O Lordâ— then am I freed but if thou forsakest me then am I desolate and must remain comfortless eternally 6 Therefore O Lord be thou my aid and from the bottomless d mercy of thy love succour me and according to the multiplicity of thy grace blot out mine iniquity 7 For I am filled up with sins and lie in the deep under them and feel no power of comming out e by my self 8 Seeing I am impotent therefore have my enemies bound me and brought guiltiness upon me to condemn me 9 And those which were sometimes my f friends now set their mouthes horribly against me and make a terrible face at me and shew all their hatred towards me 10 I lookt every where up and down for a faithful g friend but there is not one of all my friends as a faithful friend adhered to me but they have all made up themselves in enmity against me and whetted their h teeth at me and sharpned their swords to destroy me 11 O God seeing thou punishest mee now and art against me therefore are all become enemies to me that are round about me and all fall on me there stayeth not one with me to my defence 12 But they all cry i there hee lieth there he lieth he is faln and shall never rise again 13 O Lord reward them according as they have k deserved recompence to me let thy fierce
therefore have not shewed the upright obedience to their requirings nor performed the first School-rule of the Christian Doctrine of the Service of my Love yet notwithstanding are well inclined to bring forth upright fruits of repentance to the intent that to every one who will permit himself to be renewed and repenteth the truth of my word may be known And the Whoremongers and impenitent ones or any of the enemies to the house of Love should understand the h of the godly sayings 13 I will yet also reveal unto thee in the land of the living many of my wonderful works and will give thee to understand yet truth many mysteries 14 I will also declare and shew unto thee the appearing of my Glorie the i glorious comming of my Christ and the Resurrection of my Saints among the right believers and obeyers of my word or Christ and also how the right beleevers and obeyers shall be renewed in their k spirit and mind in this same day of l my righteous Iudgement and how the same renewing in the inward man is the true accomplishing of the Priestly Office of my Christ under the obedience of the Beliefe And how also in accomplishing the same The said Priestly Office reacheth into the obedience of my Love to the inheriting of the spiritual heavenly riches of the holy spirit of my Christ 15 And thereupon H. N. praysed and thanked the God of heaven for his great mercy and compassion and for his righteous judgement at the last time And called to the Lord and said 16 O my Lord and God now reveal unto me also which way I shall travel on with thy chosen Saints chiefest Elders in thy Family of Love and with thy holy Testimoâ—ies of our writings to performe thy holy will and to come to thy holy land of which thou hast told me and also that I might doe as thou hast commanded me 17 Then said the Lord to H. N. the same way of the suffering of my Christ and of all my Saints whereiâ— thou now also walkest thou shalt goe on to travel through it and from the same way shalt thou not turne thee m neither to the right hand nor to the left for the same way is the true way n to my holy land of the living where no o manner of building of men are found 18 Therefore travel on in the same even as I have told thee and in the passing over the same take good heed to the doctrine of my truth the true preparation to the entrance of my land of the living For so in the fulfilling of the same way thou shalt find thy selfe in the holy place wherein I the Lord dwell live and raigne eternally 19 Be of good courage in the same way of thy forth-going for in the same way shall nor can any selfishnesse nor humane conceited wisdome or subtiltie follow thee nor by no meanes endamage thee 20 And although they would seemingly travel thorow with thee the same way yet shall they not be able but shall fail therein and become unbelieving and so through their stumbling or dislike turn aside therefrom either to the right hand or the left 21 But whosoever proceedeth in the same p till to the end constantly and faithfully and q forsaketh all for my sake and simply and faithfully in the requiring of the obedience of my service of Love followeth thee will I through my holy and gracious Word and Service of Love lead them rightly into my holy land of the living and not r remember their sins nor their slumbling and falling any more 22 Therefore endevour thee deligently with these my holy-ones which I have set before thee and with the godly testimonies of thy Writings to accomplish more and more the foresaid way of Patience 23 Likewise consult thou not with the flesh or bloud of men nor with any mans craft or subtilty but travel upon the belief or trust of my word till thou with the four and twenty Elders and four chiefest Seraphims be come to the holy place where I shall reveal and shew unto thee my heavenly workings where no t works of man can remain standing 24 For there in my Inheritance of the living will I give thee an heritage for ever And confirm thee also in the Testaments of the holy Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob to the end that thou mayest administer the same Testaments u to the death of the sin and till to the life of the righteousness among the believers of my gracious word and that then all they also may be confirmed in the same Testaments and be made heirs with thee in my hereditary land of the living and so know and understand that my testaments of the holy Fathers are not administred forth of the knowledge of men according to their conceiving but x out of my true being according to the requiring of my gracious word and service of Love 25 That also my Inheritance of the living is not like unto the earthly Inheritance of the dead nor my life and joy to the the earthly life nor to the joy of the earthly man nor my mind and y meaning to the thoughts and meanings and plausible conceiving of men 26 But all these words which the Lord did speak to H. N. he laid up in his heart for to do accordingly and he took himself to his journey according to the requiring of the Word of the Lord with the 24 Elders and the four Seraphims and with the godly testimonies of his Writings 27 And in this our travelling forward into the hereditary land of the living we were seven times seven dayes that is nine and forty dayes 28 And in this our iourney in all these nine and forty dayes we eat z no kind of food or creature which had any breath of life in it self or had received any 29 Neither did we drink in all this same time of our travel any * wine or strong drink for to rejoyce our hearts nor to refresh our minds that we might not forget diligently to apply our selves to our journey CHAP. XXXI In this Chapter is plainly figured forth and declared the true preparation of the believers of the Word to the Passeover of the new birth in Iesus Christ and to become profitable and meer Elders and Ministers of the Word in the houshold of the Love of Iesus Christ 1 NOw the beginning of our journey to the accomplishment over of the way of our passage to the heritable land of the living came thus to passe 2 First of all before we gave up our selves to travel forward * to the service-ablenesse we earnestly endeavoured us willingly and obediently out of intire Love to fulfill the Lords will and all a righteousnesse and remembring the Law of Moses the b servant of the Lord which the Lord commanded him on the mount * Horeb we gave our selves and all