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A08217 Dicta HN. Documentall sentences eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN, and writen-vp out of the woordes of his mouth. And are by him perused, and more-distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne. Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?; Vitell, Christopher, fl. 1555-1579. 1574 (1574) STC 18551; ESTC S119960 50,857 97

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DICTA HN. Documentall Sentences eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN and writen-vp out of the Woordes of his Mouth And are by Him pervsed / and more-distinctlie declared Translated out of Base-almayne God hath graunted mee to speake wiselie and to consider a-right / of the Thinges which hee hath gratiouslie geeuen mee Sap. 7. The Mouth of the Righteous / is exercised in Wisdom and his Toung speaketh the Iudgment Psal. 37. Hys Lippes shall not speake the thing that is vnright nor his Tounge vtter-fourth anye Deceipt Iob. 27. Documentall Sentēces / eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN and writen-vp out of the Woordes of his Mouth The First Chapiter Ther is demaunded / How-men shall discerne● or knowe distinctlie the Perfect / from out of the Vnperfect· and the Seruice of the Perfection / from out of the Seruice of the Vnperfection And thervnto is answered by HN like-a● heer-after followeth VNderstand the Minde of the a 1. Cor. 13. c. Perfect and of the Vnperfect· and the Diuersitie of ether-others Seruice / well and rightlie A Man which hath whollie adioyned and geeuen-ouer himself / with all that which is vnder his Might ⁏ as a faithfull Disciple to the gratious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and to the Elders of the holie Vnderstanding in the same Woord / for to be obedient thervnto and euenso ⁏ in the b Math. 19. d. Mark 8. Luk. 14. Forsaking of himself and of all that which hee hath takē-on and appropriated vnto him proceedeth-forward and groweth-vp therin obedientlie / till vnto the Perfection and that also the Vnperfect ⁏ or That which is in part c 1. Cor. 13. b. ceasseth with him / and so is becom of-one-beeing / with the Loue and her holie Spirit / Such-a-one is then taught / with the seruiceable Woord and through the seruiceable Woorde of the holy Spirit of Loue / to d Math. 13. g. the Kingdom of the God of Heauen and is euenso ledde or brought vnto the euerlasting Perfection / vnto the Kingdom of the God of Heauen ؛the perfect Bewtie / and vnto the euerlasting Life / the vpright Righteousnes and Holines 2. When now then the obedient and beleeuing Man ⁏ through the seruiceable Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue is comprehended of the Perfect· well exercised in the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue· growen-vp to the Elderdom of the godlie Vnderstāding· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauē / So becometh then thesame Man ⁏ according to his Elderdom in the godlie Vnderstanding ordayned to a Fellow-minister of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / seeing that the godlie Testimonies haue ⁏ at that tyme rightlie e Iohn 7. e. their Outflowing / from the inward Bodie of thesame Man / to the seruiceablenes of Other-moe which are yeat vnperfect 3. And albeit that the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / haue their Outflowing and Ministration / from his inward Bodie ⁏ out of the Perfect among the Vnperfectons / So is notwithstanding / thesame Ministration of the seruiceable Testimonies / yeat also f 1. Cor. 1● vnperfect / by y e Vnperfectons / Because ther is a greater and perfecter Beeing / taught and required or diligentlie laboured-for with thesame / then ther is by the Vnperfectons / among whom the foresaid Testimonies are ministred namelie / the g Iohn 3. a. new Birth in the godlie Loue. Which Loue is h Col. 3. b. the Perfection itself 4. Eauen-thus haue the Seruices of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / their Ministration among the Vnperfectons and do remoue i Ephe. 2. c. the Middelwall / which is betwixt the Perfect and the Vnperfectons and make euenso of Twayne / that it be One. namelye / God and the Man / in one true perfect Beeing of Iesu Christ. 5. And till vnto thesame Perfection / the Seruices are ⁏ by the Vnperfectons also vnperfect But by Those / to whom the Perfection cometh / in their Beleef and Obedience of the Woord / the k 1. Cor. 13. b. Vnperfect ceasseth For the Perfect is than / by the Perfectons / a liuing Fountaine / wherout the Waters of Life do flowe / and geeue euenso their Refreashing ⁏ to the Releeuing of the thirstie Soules after the Righteousnes out of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue. And the refreashed Partes / assemble them to that one inseperable l Iohn 4. b. Fountaine / full of all liuing Waters / which flowe into the euerlasting Life 6. This liuing Fountaine / full of liuing Waters ⁏ wherof wee speake is in her-self / a Perfection without any begining or-yet ending / whervnto the seruiceable Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / do bring-men and wherout all vpright Vertues and Righteousnesses / haue their Originall or Fourth-springing 7. And the perfect Man ⁏ wherof wee speake and which is of-one-beeing with the true Perfection / cannot geeue-fourth els-what from him / but all humble and meeke Vertues and Righteousnesses / which flowe out of the Perfection And thesame Outflowinges / are eauen as m Esa. 55. b. Iohn 7. c. a Water-streame / that flowe●h out of a Fountaine / like as the Fountaine geeueth it fourth 8. Howbeit / the Water which is so flowen-abrode / is not the Fountaine itself but it is an out-flowen Water / which diuideth itself out of y e Fountaine Semblable-wise / so is not that any Perfection / which ⁏ to an Instruction Reformation of the Life floweth out of y e Perfectons For all that which a perfect godded Man speaketh witnesseth and teacheth / among the Disciples Beleeuers of the Woord / are all foregoinge Seruices Distributions / proceeding out of the Perfect / wherwithall the vpright n Ephe. 4. c. Righteousnes and Holynes of the Perfection / is expressed and held-fourth before the Disciples and Beleeuers of the Woord / for to leade them euenso ⁏ through the seruiceable Woord to the Perfection / wherof ther is spoken / and whervnto ther is poynted in the Knowledg / till vnto the Coming of his Appeering 9. Of the which also Sainct Paule hath witnessed / wher hee saith Our Knowledg o 1. Cor. 13. b. is vnperfect ⁏ or as a Peece-woorke as also our Prophecying But when that which is Perfect / is com / then shall that which is Vnperfect / ceasse 10. Therof speaketh also Sainct Peter Wee haue a p 2. Pet. 1. d. sure propheticall Woord / yee doo well / in that yee haue a regard on thesame / as on a Light which shyneth in a darke Corner / till that the Daye be com / and that the Morning-dawne arise in your Heartes 11. In such-sort as a foregoing Light of the sure propheticall Woorde / is also y e seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue / wherwith the Perfection is witnessed and expressed and thatsame Perfection / becometh also seene or perceaued ⁏ as in a
obedientlie thervnto / haue their communion with Christ after the Fleash 5. For euenso / among the Beleeuers of the Woorde / the Woorde became Fleash / and h Iohn 1. b. dwelled among them and Iesus Christ was also in such-sort borne vnto them of the Virgin Marie / out of the i Rom. 1. ● 2. Tim. 2. b. Seede of Dauid after the Fleash that is / of the pure Doctrine / out of the Seede of the Loue. which beareth euenso without woo or greef And whosoeuer then receaueth or feedeth-of the outflowen Woord and his Life ⁏ beleeuinglie in his Soule / Hee k Iohn 6. eateth trulie the Fleash of Christ drinketh his Bloud and is raysed-vp by Christ / in the last Day / to the eternall Life and becometh euenso in his new Birth / consubstanciated with Christ after the Spirit And Those that l Iohn 3. c. 6. f beleeue euen-so in Christ / haue the eternall Life 6. IF wee now ⁏ with whole Heart beleeue thus in Christ and becom m Rom. 6. implanted into Him / so feele wee then also most-trulie / that Christ؛the Woorde of Life n 1. Pet. 2. d. beareth in vs our Sinnes / and suffereth for our Sinnes cause wherthrough wee also are inclyned for to suffer with Him / and ⁏ to the o Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. Burying of our Sinnes to follow-after Him / euen vnto his Buryall and so wee becom Part-takers of the Passion of Christ as also after thesame / of his p Phil. 3. b. Resurrection euerlasting Life 7. In such-sort verelie / wee knowe or vnderstand in the Beleef and Obedience of the Woord / how that the Woord or Christ / q Iohn 1. c. beareth our Sinnes / together with all our Frailtie and Ignoraunce and how that likewise for that cause / the Elders in thesame Woord / take-vpp in Grace or Mercie / all the Sinnes / Weaknes / and Ignoraunce of the Beleeuers of the Woord / and couer thesame with their Loue / vnder the Obedience of the same Woorde and his Doctrine For in such-sort do the Elders and Ministers of the Woord ⁏ in their Seruice prepare and kindle the trespas r Ier. 33. ● Offeri●g of the Beleeuers of the Woorde / on the Altar in the Holie of Christ ⁏ ether Beleef of the Woord to a Burnt-offering of a sweete Sauour / before the Lorde 8. And the Accomplishing of thesame Offering / is the Puri●ying of our Heartes / from all sinfull Beeing And thatsame is the true Gods-seruice in the Spirit / wherin wee s 1. Pet. 2. 4. ● followe-after Christ in the like Passion t Rom. 6. a. or Death of his Crosse that is / in his like Contempt or Dispising the which is the true Furnace of Humiliation / wherthrough our Sinnes are consumed-to-nothing 9. When now the Seruice of the Woord and the Obedience of thesame / hath had in such-sort ⁏ in the Beleef Crosse of Christ his full Course with vs / so departeth then the v 2. Cor. 3. d. Heb. 10. d. Vayle ⁏ which is the Fleash of Christ from our Heartes and Christ after the Spirit / cometh vnto vs in Glorie And Hee is ⁏ euen as the right High-priest a x Heb. 3. 4. 7. Minister of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / in vs and wee inherit euenso all thosesame / through Iesus Christ after the Spirit 10. But till vnto thesame Tyme of the Coming of Christ after the Spirit / in his Glorie / so is vnto vs Christ after the Fleash / a Minister of the Circumcision ⁏ that is / in the Laying-away of the Synne for Gods Trueth-his cause / and for to establish y Rom. 15. b. the Promises made to the Fathers / and so to procreate in vs ⁏ out of the Beleef the euerlas●ing and true Heyre / in the Establishing of the Promises of God the Father and also-for that the Seruantship of the Lawe / should be no a Gal. 3. c. Heyre with the Beleeuers 11. And That was the Complaint of Abraham which hee ⁏ ereuer hee had a Sonne or an Heyre complayned before the Lorde / that hee had obtayned no b Gen. 15. a. Seede out of the Beleef / and supposed euenso / that his Seruant that is / the Seruantship out of the Lawe should be his Heyre But the Lorde said vnto him Not so / thy Seruant shall not be thyne Heyre but the Sonne which shall be borne out of thee That is / out of the Faith of Abraham 12. But so-long as the Heyre is yeat c ●al 4. a. younge / or first new borne by the Beleeuers of the Woord / and that also the Beleeuers are yeat younge or small in the heauenlie Vnderstanding / by Him and euenso ⁏ as goodwilling Seruantes to the Obedience of their Lorde haue a Lust ⁏ according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Will of the Lorde / So is-ther not any difference made / betwixt the Heyre and the Seruant but they stand both-alike vnder the Seruices of the gratious Woorde of y ● Lorde ⁏ as vnder Tutours till vnto the d Gal. 4. ● appointed Time of the Father In such like-sort is it also with all them / which beleeue the gratious Woord in his Seruice of Loue / and haue a Lust ⁏ according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Lord-his Will For as long as the Beleeuers of the Woord / are yeat younge or childish in the Procreation of the Seede of the Promise / that becometh borne in them / out of the Beleef of the Woorde and are not yeat growen-vpp to the e Ephe. 4. b. ●lderdom of the perfect Beeing of the Woord which is the appointed f Gal. 4. a. Time of the Father / ouer all Beleeuers of the Woord so stand they yeat although they beleeue vnder the Ordinaunce of the Lorde or his Woord Not therfore that they should alwayes remaine / as subiect thervnder but vnto the appointed Time / to-wit / til-vnto the manlie Olde-aige in the godlie Vnderstanding of y ● holie Woord / as ther is said That is / till that the Sinnes be subdued and that they euenso ⁏ through the Lawe be g Rom. 7. ● Gal. 2. d. dead vnto the Lawe· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauen / and haue attayned ⁏ in the Life of the Woord to the appointed Time of the h Eph● 4. b. manlie Olde-aige 13. And euenso on the Promise of y ● euerlasting Life ⁏ out of the Ministration of the holie gratious Woord vnder the Obedience of the Loue may well all the Beleeuers of y ● Woord ⁏ with Ioye / in the Hope of the euerlasting Life geeue-ouer themselues whollie in the i Rom. ● Death of Christ and so let themselues be baptised or wasshed ⁏ with the out-flowing safe-making Waters of Christ in the Death of Christ For euenso ⁏ in thesame Death
the Sinne ceasseth and to becom borne-anew therout / all vpright Beleeuers receaue ⁏ in the Faith of Christ the euerlasting Life It is very-true The IIII. Chapiter In this Chapiter ⁏ which dependeth on the former doth HN testifie / that euery Beleeuer of the Woorde / shall shewe-fourth the Loue towardes his Neighbour / when hee transgresseth or ouerreacheth himself in any-thing / wherthorough he staggereth and falleth and that they shall not wax-offended one at another / nether ●et haue any euel Conceauing towardes each-other OH / That ●ee all beleeued aright on the gratious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and through the Ministration of the gratious Woord / sawe rightlie into the a Math. 7. b. small Waye / wher-thorowe yee ought to goe vnto the Life / or are deptours for to passe-thorowe thesame / So could yee not then verelie but be moued with great compassion towardes your Neighbour / which falleth into any Sinne / and not ⁏ in anye-case wax-offended at his Fall / nor at his Frailtie but b Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. beare and haue-sufferaunce with him / and infourme him with all Loue Discreetnes like-as if yee sawe any-man fall into the Water / and had such Compassion and Loue towardes him / that yee would rather fall therin with him eauen vp to the Throte ⁏ for to helpe him therout then that yee should let him perrish For euenso ⁏ to the Preseruation of your Neighbour ought also all your Loue / to be towardes your Neighbour and so to infourme each-other / with Discreetnes / and not to take-●ffence one at an-other of you / much-lesse to blame one-another / or yet to beare Hate or Enuie / or any Euel-conceauing towardes anyman / ether yet to vpbraide him with his Sinnes / or to construe them to the worst / ether to speake of them behinde him but to lay it all downe vnder the Loue / and to couer it with y ● Loue For the Loue ⁏ doubtles c Pro. 10. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. Iam. 5. c. couereth the Multitude of Sinnes 2. Beholde / with such Grace and Discreet-dealing / or with such a beneuolent Heart of Loue ⁏ to your Preseruation / in the Beleef of the Woorde / and to the Couering of your Sinnes are yee all presentlie ⁏ with the gracious Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue infourmed by the Lorde / and by the Ministers of his Woord / and also loued to the Righteousnes of the Life 3. Seeing then that yee are loued and infourmed in such-sort / by the Lorde / and by the Ministers of his Woord / to the good Life of the vpright Righteousnes and that y ● Seruice of Loue / doth also require the-like of you all / So ought yee not therfore to imagen or conceaue any Euell ⁏ in This or in That ouer your Neighbour / nor to vpbraide him with any Euell / to d Rom. 2. a. blame nor to slaunder him / nor yet to spread-fourth his Sinnes among each-other / much-les then among y ● Straungers but to couer alwayes y ● Faultes and Weaknes of your Neighbour / so much as yee are able Yet notwithstanding / let eueryone e Pro. 28. b. Eccli 4. 17. confesse his Sinnes ⁏ wherin hee falleth before his Elder in the holie Vnderstanding / and make-manifest before him / all his Dealing and Conuersation and also that the-one do exhort the-other thervnto 4. If yee now see or perceaue / that your Neighbour hath f Gal. 6. a. don-amisse in any-maner of thing or that hee is heerin or therin ⁏ touching that which concerneth the outward or inward Righteousnes weake or infirme / and so sinneth against any Righteousnes and that thesame mought be to his Destruction / or to an Estraunging from the Seruice of Loue his Concorde / So shall yee then warne him therof in stilnes / and with the g Leui. 19. b. Eccli 19. b. Math. 18. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. Loue ⁏ wherwith the Lorde and his Ministers loue you couer his Sinnes / and h Ephe. 4. b. shewe Mercie towardes him and that altogether / to Concorde and Loue among each-other 5. And euen-thus after such a Patron or Example / shall yee haue your conuersation in y e Loue / with each-other / vnto Godlynes and all the Loue and Goodnes which yee wolde should i Leuit. 19. Rom. 13. chaunce / or be shewed vnto you by your Neighbour / that shall yee likewise shewe alwayes towardes your Neighbour 6. BEholde / Such is the Seruice of Loue / which the right Children and Disciples of the Loue of Iesu Christ / vse among each-other For the k 2. Pet. 1. a. Loue dealeth in such-sort with them and euenso deale also the Elders in their Seruice / with the Communialtie of the Famelie of the Loue of Iesu Christ. For if the Elders in the Seruice of the Loue of Iesu Christ / chaunce to perceaue by anyone of the Communialtie / that hee enterprised any-thing / wherby hee mought be in daunger of his Destruction / or which mought happelie cause him to be estraunged from the Way to the good Life / so are they then very sorrowfull for such-aone / and seeke or vse ⁏ through the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue all-maner of Meanes / wherwith they mought so preuent and infourme him / that hee may be preserued from his Destruction and they admonish him so louelie and discreetlie as they are able / or so much as is necessarie for him ther-vnto 7. For they see and perceaue / that if they should let him runne-fourth therin without any warning / and not assist him with reached fourth-hand / that great Infelicitie and Miserie mought then light-vpon him· and the terrible condemnable Beeing catch or fall-ouer him 8. BEholde / eauen-thus with such a Loue / ought wee also to deale and behaue ourselues one towardes another / if wee desire to be right Disciples of the Woorde / and to accomplish the Requiring of the Seruice of Loue. But ⁏ oh alas wee perceaue presentlie / among the most part of People / that this Loue for that the Iniquitie hath euery-wheare gotten the Dominion is by Many / vtterlie l Math. 24. a. waxen-colde For if anyman now see or perceaue anything in his Brother / that hee liueth not ⁏ in all perfectlie / according to his outwarde Eye / so hath hee then a Lothsonnes in him / and taking-offence at him / hee blaspheameth and accuseth him / and maketh his Sinnes or Transgressing manifest / among other-moe / or-els hee seperateth himself from hym 9. But yee ⁏ yee Deerlie-beloued shall not so doo / in the Seruice of the Loue but shall stand redie to helpe your Brother / with all Loue and Resonablenes / and exhort him to Amendment / and take the Burden of his Sinnes vpon you / as your owne Fault or Sinnes and euenso ⁏ for to ridde him out
leaft / and com not to the true Beeing of Iesu Christ ⁏ wherin notwithstanding the vpright Knowledge of the Misterie of God and of the heauenlie Kingdom / together with the spirituall and heauenlie Goods are obtayned or purchased that they mought inherit thesame / in their Spirit and Minde 7. For-that-cause wee tell you yeat presentlie / like-as wee haue also tolke you heere-to-fore / that yee shall at no time haue any regarde nor geeue-care to Anyone of them all / that indeuour them not / nor yet will indeuour them / to the Entraunce of the m Math. 3. Luk. 3. first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine· nor to the n Iohn 3. New Birth in Iesu Christ nor-yet to Such as bide not stedfast therin / to Faithfulnes· nether-yet account them for vpright Bretheren / much-lesse then / for Teachers or Ministers of the Woord For they that make not manifest themselues / before their Elder in the holie Vnderstanding of the gracious Woord / nor confesse the Errour of their former Life and Vnderstanding / before him / nor yet doo nor shewe-fourth any Repentaunce for their Sinnes / haue not any good in their minde / whether they acknowledg it or acknowledg it not 8. If they then appeere not or make not manifest themselues in that place / wher the Sunne ؛the heauenlie Day-light shyneth / and where the o Iohn 7. d. Fountaine of the safe-making Water floweth / and euenso holde not themselues stedfastlie / by the cleere Shyning of the heauenlie Day-light· nor by the daylie Out-flowing of the safe-making Water / nor becom daylie refreashed and washed with the outflowing healthsom Waters / till that they ⁏ in their Spirit and Minde be borne-anew / out of the holie p Iohn 3. ● Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ but / before they haue attayned to thesame Time / runne-away with som flowen-fourth Water / and that they suppose euenso to byde couered / in their inwarde filthye and stinking q Ie● 2. c. Poole or Pit / or-yet to purge themselues / without the pure Water that floweth out of our Pitcher· and from our Bodie / So shall it not then verelie auayle them / to the Life of Righteousnes· nor the vncleane stinking Poole of their Inwardnes / becom so purged / nether-yet shall their Inwardnes be any sweete Sauour / before the God of Heauen / to his Habitation 9. And the flowen-fourth Waters / which they haue seperated from their Streame· and taken-on to themselues a false Iudgment ther-out / shall also ⁏ seeing that they themselues are seperated from the Fountaine and from her daylie outflowing Water-streame wax drye by them or becom of no force and they themselues shall also ⁏ as dead r Iudae ● Trees or broken-off s Rom. 11. d. Braunches wither or fade-away and their poluted Bowels shall be eaten-away by the vncleane fretting Wormes / and they shall ⁏ at the last finde themselues profitable to no vse / but for the t Esa. 26. b. Math. 3. 7. b. Iohn 15. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Fire 10. Therfore ⁏ O yee Adioynedons and Incorporatedons to the Woord yee shall not holde you v Math. 18. c. 1. Cor. 5. b. 2. Tess. 3. b. common / with such Straungers and Declyners from the Seruice of Loue / for to eate daylie with them ⁏ at your Table the holie x Iohn 6. d. Act. 2. f. Bread which is brought ⁏ from the Right-hand of God the Father vnto you ⁏ to the Life of your Soules out of Heauen but breake distribute and eate thesame among each-other But-yet holde not yourselues therfore as y 2. Tess. 3. b. Enemies against them but exhort them to the Entraunce of the vpright Brotherhod / to th ende ⁏ if the Lorde graunted thesame that they mought ⁏ to Life becom saued· and preserued from their Destruction 11. And euenso / in it-all that chaunceth vnto you / beare in no-wise any Enimitie to anyone but shewe alwayes / in your Brotherlie-loue ⁏ which yee haue among each-other also the z 2. Pet. 1. b. common Loue / towardes all them which ignorantlie erre / and yet notwithstanding / by you or besydes you / loue the Righteousnes and exhort them euenso to the Beleef of the gracious Woorde / and that they in the Beleef / applye them repentantlie to the Entraunce of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the gracious Woord and of his Seruice of Loue. 12. And with all them that applye them thervnto and doo euenso / and perseuer therin / yee shall holde you common and also eate or feede-of the Bread a Iohn 6. c. Act. 2. f. to Life / with them and so all b Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. growe-vpp with each-other / in the Godlynes of the gracious Woord and of his holie Spirit of Loue / till vnto the Olde-age of the holie and godlie Vnderstanding and becom you then euenso strengthned with the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and c Ephe. ● c. repleanished with the Fulnes of his holie Spirit of Loue. O Yea That com-to-passe euenso A gracious Calling / wherwith all People are called and courteouslie-bidden ⁏ through HN to the gracious Woorde and Supper of the Lorde / and to the Mercie-seate of the Loue of the Maiestie of God COm hether to the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / O all yee People Spirituall and Worldlie / Maiestrates and Subiectes / Noble and Vnnoble / Ritch and Poore / Wise and Simple / together with all Sectuaries and Setters-fourth of Religion and likewise also / all Men-sinners and Women-sinners / how horrible Sinnes or Iniquitie / soeuer yee haue committed or liued-in 2. Com yee all presentlie / and doo a Math. 3. Luk. 3. vpright Frutes of Repentaunce for yee are all presentlie ⁏ to vpright Repentaunce bidden to the Supper of the Lorde / where the Bread-of-life of Iesu Christ ⁏ which is com from Heauen is eaten and where also the pure b Math. 26. c. Luk. 22. b. 1. Cor. 11. c. Bloud of our Lorde Iesu Christ is dro●●ken / out of the Cupp or Passion of Christ· ●●d shed-fourth for Manye / to the Remission of Sinnes 3. Com now all / and turne you to this Mercie-seate of the Loue of the holie Spirit of Iesu Christ and obtaine the Forgeeuenes of your Sinnes Put-away presentlie the c Deut. 10. d. Fore-skinne frō your Heartes / and receaue in the Spirit of your Minde / a cleere Sight of the vpright Righteousnes before God and Men. 4. Com hether also to this gracious Seruice of the Loue / all yee d Math. 5. ● hungrie and thirstie Soules after the Righteousnes / together with all yee which loue the Peace Com and perfourme ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue your giltie Offering and Godseruice / in the e Rom. 6. Heb. 10. 13. c. true Offering and Godseruice of our Lorde Iesu Christ and haue your communion with the Sainctes of God / in all Loue. Take it to heart CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER HN.
mutual-fellowship / in all vpright Righteousnes and Holynes 4. For the Loue to thesame should be so great / and the Value therof / should be so worthy in the Mans estimation / that hee should c Phil. 3. a. recon or thinke all other outward Thinges ⁏ in comparison therof to be but Durt For in itself it is so great· and his Bewties / Riches / and Life / are so many d Rom. 11. d. Ephe. 3. b. and infinite / that it cannot be writen nor spoken-fourth 5. Behold / Heer-to namelie / to this heauenlie Beeing and his vpright Righteousnes / and to the Conformable-vnyting of all his Bewtifulnes and Riches yee are all presentlie ⁏ through the seruiceable Woorde of the holie Spirit of Loue called and courteouslie-bidden 6. THerfore / looke now all well to it / that yee account not this proffered Grace / e 2. Cor. 6. a. Heb. 11. b. to be small but heartelie-imbrace thesame that is heald-fourth before you and offered vnto you / and ⁏ out of all your Soules and Power indeuour you alwayes ther-after / in all Humilitie and Lowlynes For thesame that is presentlie heald-fourth and offered vnto you / chaunceth to you all out of Grace / through the Mercies of God extended on you For which Grace and Mercies cause so extended on you / it behoueth you all likewise very-well namelie / eueryone to whom these heauenlie Goods / and this euerlasting Life ⁏ through the seruiceable Woord of Grace is administred / and that is bidden thervnto alwayes to shewfourth Lowlynes of Heart· and all Thankfulnes to the God of Life and thinke 7. O God / I Vnworthyone / had no-doubt bidden full in all my Corrupt-estate Estraunging from thee / and perseuered in all myne Iniquitie and in the Errour of thesame / if that thou ⁏ O Lord haddest not ⁏ through the gracious Seruice of thy Loue called Mee therout 8. Therfore must I ⁏ O God thanke thee alwayes and for euer / for that thou ⁏ through the seruiceable Woorde of thy Grace dost so graciouslie leade mee Vnworthyone ther-out / eauen to the Throne of thy heauenlie Maiestie 9. O God / of all This / the Honour and Praise redoundeth onlie vnto thee For who am I ⁏ O Lord that thou electest mee ⁏ which surelie am not better then all other Sinners thervnto / and vouchsafest to account mee worthy / to knowe all thissame / and leadest mee thervnto and that ther are yeat so many thowsand Men / vnto whom thou hast not made thissame knowen But ⁏ O God this is thy intire f Act. 10. ● Ephe. 3. b. Grace and mercifull Loue / ouer mee poore Synner Therfore ⁏ O God haue mercie also ⁏ I beseech thee on all Men-synners and Women-synners / which seeke thee with-out thy gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue / and so g Luk. 23. c. Act. 7. f. ignorantlie do erre 10. SEe / in such-amaner shall euery Man ⁏ which is stirred-vpp by the Grace of God / to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and that submitteth himself ther-vnder be alwayes humble of Heart and thankfull / before his God / and h Act. 7. f. pray for all Synners / which erre ignorantlie and recon this i Phil. 1. c. for his Sayne / namelie / that hee may passe into the Death / with the Woord of the good Beeing of God / to the Purging of his Sinnes For so shall hee ⁏ with the Woord of the good Beeing of God rise-vpp againe from the Death / to the eternall Life The IX Chapiter Of the right Accusation or Chastisement / which cometh vnto the Man / out of the Woord and his Seruice / to Repentaunce for his Sinnes / and to the Amendement of his Life EVeryone ought to take very good-heed / that hee be not slack or sluggish / in the Requiring of the holie Woord and Seruice of Loue / nether-yet holde himself ydle / before that the Light of Life ⁏ euen-as thesame is administred with the seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue a Gal. 4. c. haue a liuing Shape in him And till thesame Time / let him holde whollie all his Loue turned onlie thervnto 2. For / to loue anywhat besides the Light of Life and the godlie Vertue / is nothing-els but an vnknowē erring Darknes / and a bewitched Sinne the which b Gen. 3 a. b. 2. Tess. 2. a. is an apostated Beeing / and a Seducing from the liuing God and his Righteousnes / wherin all Men c Rom. 7. ● haue ben captiued Of which bewitched Sinne / the gracious Woord doth also accuse or blame eueryone / and calleth them to Repentaunce / to th ende that eueryone should euenso ⁏ in his Repentaunce looke vpon his owne Sinnes· and not blame one-another / but exhort each-other to the Good and so inset or consider / that none of all the Children of Men / haue ben lose or free from the Sinne. 3. Therfore shall not the Accusation or d Math. 23. Chastisement / that cometh out of the gracious Woord or Seruice of Loue / be ⁏ at anytime cast-back for thesame is vpright But verelie / it is far different from the Accusation or Reproof that proceedeth from the goodthinking Man / or out of anymans corrupt Conscience / through the Knowledg and wherwith also the one Man accuseth or reprehendeth the-other / and exhorteth him not to Repentaunce 4. Verelie / when wee now perceaue in ourselues / that wee haue not rightlie applyed vs / according to the Requiring of the Woord and that wee therfore ⁏ through the Woord and his Seruice are chastened or accused / in our Minde / and that our Sinnes or Errours are euenso made-knowen ther-through vnto vs / So shall wee then insee and knowe / how altogether vnlyke of Nature / Beeing / or Disposition / wee yeat are / to the Woord and his Requiring and shall then geeue God thankes / for that ther is graunted vs to see and knowe ⁏ thorough the Woord or through the Ministers therof our Vnrighteousnes and Errour 5. And when wee then euenso ⁏ through the Woord or the Ministers therof do perceaue or vnderstand our Vnrighteousnes or Errour / so shall wee then ⁏ without delay e Math. ● Luk. 3. Act. 2. shewe Repentaunce for thesame / and applye vs ⁏ with all Humilitie to the Requiring of the Woord / and say or confesse before God / in our Heartes 6. O God ⁏ full of Grace and Trueth How louelie is thy Beeing / and into what a forren Beeing am I yeat incorporated I must euermore thanke thee ⁏ O God for that ther is made-knwen vnto mee ⁏ with thy Woorde and through thy Woorde and Seruice of Loue all what-euer is contrarie to thy Beeing 7. Oh ⁏ alas I was almost becom of-one-mind with the Iniquitie· and seduced ⁏ with her Errour from Thee and thy Will But through thy Woord ⁏ in his Seruice of Loue
loueth hee the Darknes And That is the Mans n Iohn ● ● Condemnation / when hee loueth the Darknes / more then the Light It is very ▪ true The XI Chapiter A cleere Demonstration / that the Seruice of the Lawe after the Letter / and the Seruice of Christ after the Fleash / haue both one 〈◊〉 Ministration to the Death of y ● Sinne and that then the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / springeth therout IF anye Ministers of the holye Woorde should saye Wee publish the Lawe / and minister and teach thesame / to a Mortifying of the Sinne / and to a Death and Burying of thesame / seeing that thesame Seruice / is the right Priestes-office of the Lawe Or-els if they should saye Wee publish Christ after the Fleash / vnto the Beleeuers of Christ / to an Entraunce ⁏ with Christ into a Rom. 6. the lyke Death of his Crosse to-wit / into the Obedience of the Beleef of Christ and to mortifie and burie the Sinne / So is-it both right / and well saide / if the Lawe of the Lorde and his Christ haue a Shape in thesame Minister and it is both one-maner of Seruice / vnto the Beleeuers of y e Woord to a Righteousnes of Life 2. For / to administer Christ after the Fleash / is a Seruice / which also ⁏ life-as the Seruice of the Lawe reacheth to b Rom. ● b. the Death of the Sinne and so then fourth / to the Making-aliue of y ● Inward-man of God / in Iesus Christ after the Spirit 3. Therfore saith Peter thus Christ hath suffered for vs / and c 1. Pet. 2. c. left vs such an Example / to th end that wee should followe his Foote-steppes 4. Christ himself saith also Whosoeuer will be my Disciple / let him d Math. 10. 16 Mark. ● Luk. ● 14. forsake himself / and take-vpp his Crosse on him / and followe after mee And That is the right Imitacion of Christ that wee should followe-after him ⁏ in the Doctrine of his Requiring obedientlie / euen vnto his e Rom. 6. Death and Burying / and vnto his Resurrection from the Death And This is the Inheriting of the eternall Life / in the heauenlie Beeing / wherin Christ after the Spirit / liueth and triumpheth ⁏ with his Father and all his Sainctes perpetuallie 5. Therfore / to th ende that hys Disciples / mought inherit the eternall Life with Him / they must first followe-after Him ⁏ in the Fore-going of his Doctrine and Requiring obedientlie / till into his lyke Death / and then euenso out of thesame Death / obtaine the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / and inherit the eternall Life 6. For-that-cause / men ought to consider rightlie / on both these Sayinges / of the Lawe and of Christ after the Fleash For in themselues they haue both / one Minde or Sence and leade both to one Entraunce of the Mortifying and Depriuation of all vngodlie Beeing For all that which goeth-before out of God / before the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / and hath his Ministration to the true Righteousnes / doth point or direct the Man to the Death and Laying-away of the Sinne in the Fleash And That is it wherof Paule speaketh / saying The Letter f 2. Cor. 3. ● slayeth namelie / the Ministration of the Lawe after the Letter / or the Ministration of Christ after the Fleash And That is nothing-els / but that the Letter / according to the Requiring of the Lawe / and according to the Requiring of Christ / pointeth and leadeth vs g Rom. 6. to the Death of the Sinne / and withdraweth euenso our Mindes and Thoughtes / from all that which is vngodlie· and vayne and consumeable on the Earth / for that wee mought euenso attaine to the euerlasting Vnconsumeablenes / in the eternall Life / wherin all Vnderstandinges of pure Heartes do liue and dwell 7. BEholde / in such-sort and to such a Fulfilling of the Lawe and the Propheates / is the Seruice of the holie Woorde / in the Letter / with the Letter / and through the Letter For the Ministration of those-same soundeth euenso / and requireth thesame For when-as wee perceaue anything in vs / that tendeth to the Lust of the Sinne / ther-against doth the seruiceable Woord teach vs / to mortifie and burie thatsame for-as-much as the same is his Requiring 8. And when-as wee then do humble ourselues obedientlie / vnder the Lawe or vnder the seruiceable Woord / for to accomplish thesame in his Requiring and to becom euenso ⁏ with the Lawe / or with Christ after the Fleash / and with his Faith to Iustification k Rom. 6. implanted into Christ with lyke Death· baptised in his Death· and washed with his Bloud / So cometh-ther then vnto vs / the Spirit of the Lawe / or the Rom. ● b. Making-aliue in Iesu● Christ after the Spirit It is very-true The XII Chapiter A cleere Demonstration / that the Man hath not any-Good of himself but receaueth it all of the Lorde and his Grace O Yee goodwilling Heartes to the Seruice of the Loue / suffer-pacientlie and beare-with a Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. each-other in your Weatnes and infourme each-other with the Coadiuuation or Hand-reaching of the seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue. And if any-man chaunce to fall / so help-vpp then each-other againe and hee that bydeth standing / let him laude the Lord / for his Strength For y ● Strength ⁏ or the Power so much as thesame remayneth with vs / to the Good / is onlie the Lordes / out of his Grace and not out of our-selues 2. For-that-cause / think or haue alwayes before your Eyes / in your Fourth-going to y ● good Beeing of God / that yee haue receaued all your Lust / Loue / and Stabilitie or Faithfulnes ⁏ which yee shewe to the Lorde and his Woord of the Lorde and his Grace 3. For what haue yee ⁏ I pray you to serue the Lorde with all / but that yee haue b 1. Par. 19. c. 1. Cor. 4. b. Iam. 1. a. receaued it of the Lorde or the Lorde must first bring thesame vnto you / by his Grace and Mightynes both all that wherwith yee serue your-selues another also 4. Therfore ought the Man alwayes to holde himself ⁏ in the Obedience of the seruiceable Woord humble or lowlie of Heart / and also to feare the Lorde continuallie and euenso ⁏ in the Feare of the Lorde alwayes to thinke O Lorde How should I out of myself / haue perceaued or knowen my Sinnes / Except that they had ben made-knowen vnto mee / through thy seruiceable Woord / and that it were graunted mee to perceaue them by thy Grace and that thou euenso ⁏ through thy Power or Mightynes releasedst mee therfrom For if I ⁏ O Lorde haue any Loue to thee
Victorie with Thee and thy Woord / to the Impl●●●ting of mee in thy Righteousnes 17. BEholde / euen-thus ought the Man alwayes to continew in Prayer / to the Lorde / and alwayes to shewfourth Pacience / and to keepe a sharpe watch / against all his Enemies of the vpright Life / and m Ephe. 6. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. against all the Perswasions of the Iniquitie wherwith-all hee is assaulted 18. Therfore ⁏ my Beloued take this Mat●er well to heart For I declare thissame vnto you / in most-groundlie wise / for that yee should not faile to vnderstand it aright / and n 1. Iohn 2. ● not commit any sinne And if it chaunce that anyman ⁏ through Weaknes do sinne / yet let him not couer his Sinnes but let him confesse them before his Elder in the holie Vnderstanding / and o Math. 3. a. Act. 3. c. repent him / so shall then the Lorde be gracious vnto him / and forgeeue him his Sinnes For whosoeuer beareth-sorrowe for his Transgressing / and so p Pro. 28. b. Eccli 4. 17. confesseth his Sinnes / and leaueth them / shall obtaine Mercie / also be holpen-vpp out of y ● Fall of Sinne· and purged from his Sinnes But whosoeuer couereth his Sinnes or Transgression / and liueth therin / and keepeth them to himself / is a Deceauer / and hath no good in his minde It is very-true The XIIII Chapiter Of the vpright Patience / vnder the holie Woorde and his Seruice of Loue. THe Man which turneth himself to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / or geeueth-ouer himself for to be obedient / and that is admitted by the Elders and Ministers of thesame Woord and Seruice / for to stand obedient / shall not enterprise or take-on anye-thing / besides the Woord and his Seruice / nor besides the Obedience of his Requiring but all what seemeth good vnto him besides y ●same / or that chaunceth to meete / ●●m-vnto / or assault him for to take-on thesame / thatsame shall hee sett in the Pacience Yea / if it were so that any Ioy came vnto the Man / so shall hee neuerthelesse sett thesame in the a Eccli 2. ● Pacience / and beare thesame also himself / in maner-of-suffering and so take good-heede / that hee adde not his owne Ioy therto 2. For ther cometh often-times / a certen Ioy vnto the Man / which-proceedeth not out of the vpright Beeing of God / nether-yet bideth thesame as a stedfast Beeing / with the Man and for-that-cause it is not the euerlasting Ioy / which the gracious Woord requireth or promiseth And therfore shall the Man alwayes place or sett his Ioy / in the Pacience If then the Beeing of his Ioy / be out of Gods Beeing / so shall thesame Ioye / well remayne stedfast in the Pacience But if it be not / so shall it then sodenly vanish-away 3. In like-maner also shall the Man / when any Sorrowe or Distresse cometh vnto him / not adde any Sorrowe therto although notwithstanding it chaunceth so often-times and should not be / if that the Man applyed himself rightlie to the Requiring of the gracious Woorde For when-as the Man hath or receaueth somtimes and Ioye / which hee conceaueth to be a permanent Ioy of God wherin hee delighteth and reioyceth him verymuch and thinketh also in his Heart O God / it is presentlie so well and good with mee I stand now so free and loose from all Captiuitie or Ownednes / and my Heart is now so well at-peace and if hee now passe-on-fourth so light-heartedlie therwith / and setteth not thesame in the Pacience / So shall then verelie thesame Ioye / Freedom / and Appeasement / faile or perrish againe by him 4. And when hee then becometh quitt againe of thesame / together with all the sweete Tast and Zeale which hee hath had therin / or when-as thesame vanisheth by him / so is that then oftentimes a great Greef vnto him And when hee then findeth himself againe in such Heauynes / so doth hee then offende also therin / like-as in the Ioy and setteth not his Sorrowe / in the Pacience but hee addeth more Sorrowe / of his owne Sorrowe / therto and getteth euenso somtimes / an b 1. Reg. 16. ● 18. c. 19. b. vnquiet Spirit / which vexeth him wherthrough hee then also thinketh ⁏ other-whyles with himself 5. Oh / I had such a Ioye and Quickning Oh / that I had kept thesame Oh / it must be myne owne Fault / in that I am quit therof or / I must haue neglected thesame And more such like / thinketh the Man then With the which hee oftentimes accuseth and vexeth himself / the which the Woord requireth not And thinketh al-to-little on the vpright Righteousnes / which is required by the Woorde / wherout the vpright Ioye proceedeth 6. THerfore / let vs sett Al-thinges c Heb. 1● ● in the Pacience / be it then Ioye or Sorrowe / or els-what that cleaueth on vs and euenso endure it all / in the lyke Suffering of Christ and passe-thorowe thesame obedientlie / So shall then also verelie ⁏ in maner-of-suffering the vpright Ioye ⁏ out of the d Iohn 15. b. Obedience of the Woord com vnto vs / and remayne with vs euerlastinglie 7. For although it were so that any consumeable Ioye / should fayle or fal-away from vs / yet let vs not be sorrowfull for thesame but stay vs alwayes obedientlie / on the Woord and his Requiring / and euenso receaue or take-vp it all in the Pacience Yea / although wee should be assaulted with any Sinnes or vnquiet Spirites / yet let vs alwayes e Iam. 5. b. perseuer firme in the Pacience / and consent at no time / to the Desires of the Sinne and chuse euenso to dye rather on the Pacience / with Christ then to sinne with any Ioye or worldlie Sorrowe / or to liue in the Sinne. 8. Beholde / euen-thus as is saide shall wee let ourselues be fastened ⁏ with the Obedience of the gracious Woord on the Pacience of Christ till that wee are ⁏ in the Death f Rom. 6. of the Pacience of Iesu Christ passed-thorowe our Death of the Pacience· and so iustified from the Sinne. 9. And when wee then ⁏ in such-sort haue perseuered firme / in the Beleef of Iesu Christ and in the Obedience of the Requiring of the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / till into g Rom. 6. ● b. the Death / the lyke Pacience of Iesu Christ So are wee then also assured to inherit the h Phil. 3. b. Resurrection in Iesu Christ and the euerlasting Life 10. For ther is none other i 4. Esd. 7. ● Math. 7. b. Luk. 1● c. Waye to the euerlasting Life / but the k Rom. 6. lyke Pacience of Christ and to becom implanted with thesame obedientlie / into Christ and into the Woord of his holie Spirit of Loue. Therfore
Glasse in the seruiceable q 1. Cor. 13. b. 2. Cor. 3. b. Iam. 1. c. Woorde of the holie Spirit of Loue. But in the Appeering of his Coming / in godlye Cleernes / it becometh seene of Those to whom thesame appeereth ⁏ in his godlye Cleernes from r 1. Cor. 13. b. Face to Face That is / out of our codeified Minde / into the Minde of the liuing Godhead And That is the true Perfection / which becometh seene and knowen in the Perfection of our inward Manhod / and wherthrough the Loue is made-manifest / and also liued among Men. The Second Chapiter Ther is demaunded / How the Children of Loue or of God● do behaue themselues / and what-maner of Disposition and Nature then are of And thervnto is answered by HN / this Resolution heere-following AS touching this Matier / ther is much found witnessed in the holie a Leuit. 1● Deut. 6. Mark 12. Luk. 10. Rom. 13. Scripture / and it is also cleerlie testified / in the seruiceable Woorde b 4. Spe. ●2 of the holie Spirit of Loue / that the true Children of God / haue a good Disposition and Nature and that they keepe themselues alwayes therin / vprightlie graciouslie and peaceablie / both before God and Man and that they also are altogether inclyned ⁏ before God / and towardes Men for to walke in all Loue / and to shewfourth all Seruiceablenes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and euenso to couer with the Loue / the c Iam. 5. c. 1. Pet. 4. a. Sinnes of their Neighbour / and to inlardge the Loue ⁏ to all Edifying and Peace in her Seruice For they are / euen from the Youth vpp of their new Birth / exercised in all Weldooing and Loue. for that cause also / they cannot bring-fourth any-thing-els / but all Good and Loue. 2. For the true holie Spirit of Loue ⁏ wherwithall they are sealed leadeth them into all d Iohn 13. 14. 16. 1. Iohn 3. Trueth of the vpright Life and manifesteth euenso in them / the vpright Woo●●es of Loue. And they e 2. Cor. 4. b. beare thesame cosilie Treasure in earthen Vessels / to the Lande and Honour of the almightie God and are euenso of-one-minde with the three godlie Witnesses / that beare-witnes in Heauen 3. Of which three godlie f Iohn 4. Witnesses / the one is the Loue / which is God the Father himself The second Witnes / is the g Iohn 14. 17. Trueth / which is the Woord of God the Father / and IESVS CHRIST himself And the third Witnes / is the holie Spirit of Loue or of God / and of the Trueth of Iesu Christ which is the euerlasting Life / and the Inheritaunce of all spirituall and heauenlie Goods 4. And thatsame euerlasting Life / together with the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / and euerlasting Ioye / becometh reuealed and brought vnto Them that are borne out of God / in the heauenlie Beeing and therthrough / they haue their fellowship with God / the Father / with his Sonne / the Lorde Iesus Christ and with the Holie-gost of Loue / wherout they witnes and declare / the great h Act. 2. Actes of God / and the Saluation of all Men. 5. Those now that knowe thissame / and receaue it in the heauenlie Beeing / their Testimonies are true For they witnes That / which they haue seene in the Godhead / and i 1. Iohn 1. heard in the Heauen And That is the holie Spirit which witnesseth with them for the perfect Godhead / liueth and dwelleth in them 6. For-that-cause also / the Children of Loue or of God / are the true k 1. Cor. 3. b. 2. Cor. 6. c. Heb. 3. a. Temple of the liuing God / wherin God with his Christ and holie Spirit / dwelleth and wherthrough they expresse their good Nature and Beeing / among all Men / euen as ther is saide And in such-sort / the liuing God is their God / and They his l Apo. 21. a. elected People in whose Temple / ther is no Idoll / but alone the liuing God of Israel nether is-ther also any Idolatry-seruice ministred theare but alone the Ministration of Iesu Christ / with the spirituall heauenlie Goods of his holie Spirit of Loue. The Thirde Chapiter A distinct Declaration / how that Hee which beleeueth in Christ / hath the euerlasting life THer is noman that beleeueth rightlie in Christ but Such with whom Christ is remayning or present / or which assemble them to Him and his Doctrine / in his Name / and so becom his Disciples Therfore is all the Faith / that Men ⁏ without the Assembling vnto Iesus Christ and his Doctrine assume or take-on of Christ ⁏ whether it be then out of the Imagination of the Knowledge· out of the Good-thinking of the Heart· or out of the Text or Letter no Faith in Iesu Christ / that extendeth to the Inheritaunce of Christ / in the eternall Life Nether-yet is-ther also anyman / that preacheth or teacheth the Woord or the Doctrine of Christ but Such as haue first ben obedient Disciples of the Woord and of the Doctrine of Iesu Christ. and euenso ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue of Christ are a Math. 13. g. taught to the Kingdom of Heauen and in whom Christ b Gal. 4. c. hath then likewise his Shape 2. For that cause / they all which haue not rightlie beleeued in Iesu Christ / haue missed the eternall Life / as also the liuing Waters / wherof the Scripture maketh-mention / touching the Beleeuers in Christ like-as ther standeth writen Whoso c Iohn 7. c. beleeueth in Mee saith CHRIST as the Scripture saith / from his Bodie shall flowe Riuers of liuing Water Which liuing Waters / serue to the Purging d Ezec. 36. c. of y ● Heart or inward Minde / the which the vnilluminated Scripture-learned and vnsent Preachers / haue neuer out of the Letter ⁏ albeit that they testified thesame / and administred it / according to their Goodthinking obtayned or could attaine vnto For inasmuch as they turned them not about to the e Math. 18. childish Simplicitie / so hath also the f 4. Esdr. 1. c. wicked Nature ؛that Contrary-minde to God remained euer with them 3. But the Woord of the vpright Doctrine of Iesu Christ / that seruiceablie is administred ⁏ speakablie or in Letters out of the Loue / and out of the Light of Life / is trulie the vpright and safe-making Water or Doctrine / to the Purging of the beleeuing and obedient Heartes of thesame Woord For Christ the Sauiour / is present in thesame Seruice 4. For-that-cause thesame seruiceable Woord ⁏ which is administred speakablie or in Letters / out of the Loue and out of y ● true Light and euerlasting Life is also g 2. Cor. 5. d. Christ after y ● Fleash and so Many as beleeue thesame Woord / and assemble them