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
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-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
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
9 For why should the wicked rule over thy Sanctuary and drive out thy beloved ones 10 Yea let themselves be cursed g which intend me evil and let them with thee O God find no mercy 11 Let them be totally rooted out with root and branch for they fall on me very heavily and bring an evil report on me among the people 12 Yea they are such which appeared as friends h did eat bread with me daily and are become secret Traytors to me 13 For those which somtimes praysed me and were friendly when I was in prosperity now reproach hate me most of all 14 Yea my wife i which lyeth in my arms who is one flesh and bone with me where all my heart delight comfort and mind was fixed bringeth also all wicked out-cryes against me with all accusations for to condemn me 15 Now when I consider all this and that all things are averse and fall contrary to me which formerly I loved so it afflicteth me much more then the rebuking of God 16 But seeing all my love is thus requited with malice therefore all my oppression misery and anxiety is a heavy burthen above measure 17 Now when I out of my heavy burthen call on God then mine enemies which sometimes were my friends k rise up against me 18 They reproved and l contested with me why I was so bold and presumptuous as to call to God for mercy 19 They all cryed against me with one voice Thou hast neither help nor m comfort with the Almighty for he hath poured forth his wrath on thee everlastingly 20 There stood my soul before the Tribunal and I was very much perplexed in my heart and strongly bound with the cords of sinne and was heavily accused of the enemies of life 21 I look't up to the highest and down again to the lowest and round about me far and near whether any one did take to heart my cause for to defend me n but I found none 22 But my enemies which sought my life and were against me o stood in great multitudes even as grass in the field round about me to condemn me 23 And my wayes which sometimes they commended for good they presented before me as evil to a great accusation and I beheld them all as an p abomination of desolation 24 This same grieved me exceedingly and I suffered great great sadness with heavy oppression in my heart 25 Where-ever I did go or stand q there was I surrounded with my enemies and they speak nothing but evil against me 26 And I was full of wo in my soul sadness and out of great anguish I called on the Lord for help or else I had perished CHAP. XV Psalme X. 1 O God a hearken to my crying and sighing let my lamentation come into thine eares and let me not b remain ashamed 2 I am now faln in the sin c and am estranged from thy light and go up and down as one that is condemned and lost 3 I am as the weakest among the children of men d for there is no strength of any vertue in me 4 Those that look on me according to the judgement of mine enemies abhor me e for my enemies cry all shame and disgrace upon me 5 But thou O Lord in whom I hope let me not perish in the darkness but f inlighten me with thy light and take away my shame and reproach 6 For my sins and transgressions are a loathing to me and to do any thing which thou hast prohibited or is against thy will is no pleasure to my soul 7 But I remember thee in my anguish and take a g delight in thy righteousness 8 Therefore O Lord take not the rod of thy correction from me until that I love thy law and forget not that which thou hast commanded 9 O God my mouth is made dumbe h to speak of thy truth through shamefastness of my sin 10 For they stand as an abomination in my sight and have made me dismaid in my mind 11 The ungodly reigned over me and would draw me from thy law that I O God should no more think on thee and thy law 12 They have presented lies before me as a snare and had honey in their lips i wherewith they kissed me friendly 13 But k poison was under their tongue and they mingled that same in my soul and they O God stirred up thy wrath against me 14 For those which were friendly in their falshood and made a shew as if they loved me have brought me to shame 15 But they themselves must fall into the pit l and perish in the destruction which they have prepared for my soul CHAP. XVI Psalme XI 1 O God a make hast to come unto me that my enemies which wait to destroy my soul may be destroyed that I may highly b praise thy Name in the land c of the living 2 Root out the ungodly make thy salvation break forth and let thy Name be glorious over all thine enemies 3 O Lord thou Eternal and Almighty God forsake me not d for my ignorance remember not O God for ever mine errours in the time of my youth 4 But teach e in thy truth that I may praise thy goodness and may highly esteem of thy correction and not forget thy righteousness 5 I rejoyce me in my soul when as thy hand of correction hūbleth me under thee 6 And that I endure my punishment for the folly and ignorance of my youth 7 That I might have my walking among the f Elders in Israel and have my habitation among the Citizens of Jerusalem 8 Therefore O God circumcise g the fore-skin of my heart to me and take away from me the fore-skin of my evil thoughts 9 That I may come up to worship with thy people h into thy holy Temple or Tabernacle and with i offerings and gifts which may be acceptable and well pleasing unto thee for an eternal joy upon mount Sion 10 O Lord help yea O God Iesu help and draw my spirit to thee in thy holy heaven in thy appearing to me in glory CHAP. XVII Psalme XII 1 HOw long shall I O God want thy goodness or when shall I be delivered from the sin 2 Have I hoped in thee in vain or hidest a thou thy goodness for a while from me 3 Let me intreat thee O God b strengthen me and lead me aright O God lead me aright otherwayes must I perish by reason of my sin 4 O Lord hear thy servant who is full of sorrow and misery 5 Ah how long shall I be deaf before I shall hear how long shall I yet be blind before I shall see how long shall I be dying before that I live 6 Is there then c no remnant unto righteousness left for me O God must I then perish in my sins 7 O God
i peace of his Kingdome shall have no end 10 Behold this is the spiritual Kingdome of Christ the heavenly King for ever Allelu-ja Allelu-ja CHAP. XXV Psalme XV 1 WHerefore O yee souls a shout now in your God for joy and let your mind rejoyce in his Salvation 2 From whom you were turned away and are turned to him againe 3 Behold that is the stone b which saveth you the eternal God of Israel who the hath made heaven and earth 4 His anointing is at his right hand out of his spirit of Salvation commeth faithfulnesse and Truth unto us 5 That which he hath smitten and wounded he hath c healed and made whole againe 6 He can d kill and make alive again he leadeth into hell and bringeth thence again 7 He thrusteth away and condemneth as it were in cursing he calleth to him againe in blessing as his best â—e loved 8 He bringeth dovâ— to dust earth and ashes He exalteth e again above all Cedar trees 9 He suffereth to fall into sorrow as if it were nothing and as if he esteemâ—d it not 10 He maketh it glad again aâ—d esteemeth it more precious then Gold Silver and and precious Stones 11 Where is their such a God f as the God of Israel which moveth or overspreadeth above all Heavens 12 He hath founded the earth upon his Word g the Firmament is comprehended in him 13 Sun and Moon stand obedient to his commandment all hearts of the living hath he in his hand 14 He h doth all what ever he pleaseth he respecteth i no man neither wise nor simple 15 When he ariseth all must stoop to him and fear his mighty hand 16 He chastiseth or rebuketh for a certain time k but his goodness l endureth for ever 17 Praise him all ye Kings and m all ye Counsellors in the Land fear his Majesty all ye people 18 Hee that worketh Wonders among the Heathens and taketh a delight in his Elect. 19 He hath a pleasure in the house of Israel that he may plant the Generation of Jacob in righteousness 20 He will not n for ever be angry with his people their punishment shall not alwayes indure 21 He punisheth them for their sins he saveth and justifieth them for his holy Name sake 22 Hee will not forget his Covenant that o he hath made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob 23 He will not forsake his mercy which he hath promised by his Servants and Prophets 24 Yet once again will hee move the Earth p and gather his people together q from all ends of the Earth and be r gracious unto them 25 A new s covenant he will establish with them he will give them a new name t the everlasting free ones the redeemed of the Lord 26 To whom the Law of the Lord his Statutes and Rites shall no more stand written in Tables of stone 27 But God will write them in their hearts in the innermost u of their minds in the ground of faith after the manner of Father Abraham 28 Rejoyce yee then that have been rejected among all heathen 29 x Clap then with your hands and dance then with your feet 30 Make then your songs of joy at Sion sing then Allelu-ja y in all the streets and lanes of Jerusalem 31 Then cast from you the mourning garment for that is the end of your shame and contempt 32 Then put on z the ornaments of joy sing play and a praise the Lord in triumphing 33 Play upon Harpes upon Lutes upon Cymballs Flutes Tabors Uialls and upon all manner of Instruments with strings 34 For then will God be your King your head and onely Shepherd 35 No b sinne shall any more destroy you no Prophets shall any more seduce you 36 Then shall you all c know the Lord your God as also his Statutes and Ordinances 37 Hope now thereon O Israel the same shall come unto you all yee children of Jacob Allelu-ja Allelu-ja Amen 38 Give perpetual thanks to the great God of Israel for besides him there is d no other God CHAP. XXVI THus hath the Lord who forsaketh not a Elect likewise not forsaken his chosen servant H. N. in his misery lamentation aâ—d prayers For like as he bringeth his own even into the death and b maketh alive againe carrieth into hell and bringeth from thence againe permits the c enemy to carry away into captivity and againe delivereth them out of the hands and captivity of their enemies and exalteth or honoureth them among his living ones So likewise the Lord delivered H. N. out of his misery and out of the bonds of his enemies and brought him also with Gladnesse with his children of the Kingdome againe to his most holy being which is full of all pure beauty and heavenly riches and revealed unto him the whole Tabernacle of his Sanctuary and the requiring of the service thereof 2 And H. N. praised and thanked the most highest for the abundance of his mercy because that he replenished him with all fulnesse of his godly understanding and H. N. diligently endeavoured himselfe againe to the obedience of his Service And the Lord revealed all things to him in the understanding that was needful for the children of men to know for their salvation 3 And so in all these things that were revealed and given him to understand from the Lord hee was very zealous and diligent out of the revelation of God to set down in writing the godly understanding and the right knowledge thereof Also for to describe the godly Testimonies as far as the Lord revealed unto him and might be profitable to the children of men and to declare to the lovers of the Truth and before all understadding according to the true Being of Jesus Christ and his holy Spirit of Love to publish the same in writing And he hath done the same and through the help of God in some measure accomplished it 4 But after that this ministration of the same godly Testimonies had had their forth-going thus for some years through H. N. in writing and Printed Letters So were there some Writings of the same godly Testimonies come into the hands of Whoremongers into the hands of Traitors and into the hands of self-conceited wise ones also into the hands of the generation of Cain and of the false hearts of the Letter-learned whose d fore-fathers persecuted Christ and his Witnesses accused him falsly and killed him 5 Which wicked generation of false hearts have dealt most shamefully with the Writings of H. N. and the same testimonies of God and have also out of their evil deeds manifested e the wickedness of their hearts and that the good nature of Christ dwelleth not in them f but the false nature of Cain who murthered his brother Abel also the evil spirit of g Saul who persecuted the holy Prophet David and
gracious Word in its doctrine and obediently enter into its requiring and they shall all through the good exercising in my * Ordinances be nourished up unto my upright righteousness and unto my Love and be brought in unto the peace of my Christ 17 And like as I have in former times through my servant Moses r upon the Mount Horeb given to my people good Ordinances and * Exercises which extend and bring in to my Christ and to his belief of the salvation from their sins so will I now at the last time through thee H. N. from the moūt s Sion give to the welaffected ones to my righteousnes good Ordinances and godly Exercises which * extend bring into me to my Love upright righteousness to the peace of my Christ to the renewing of their lives minds and into this my kingdom of Heaven unto the inheriting of all these my spiritual and heavenly treasures and my upright lovely being in the same kingdom and everlasting life as also that I may raign now at this last time everlastingly with my people in the righteousness t over the whole World unto all unity and peace on earth and to a blessing of all the Generations of the earth according to my promises 4 Seeing then I now declare on earth though my Love and through the service and the good exercise thereof the upright righteousness of my Lawes the true faith of my Christ and the upright being of my holy Spirit Therefore it is my will and command that all people on earth shall obey the requiring of my Love and her services likewise the good Ordinances and Exercises thereof and live therein 15 For all those who live and walk obediently in the service and ordinance of my Love the same are truly the right Disciples u of my gracious word and service of Love also my first-born in my Covenant or Testament of the holy Fathers 16 For thus in their obedience the doctrines and services of the Priestly Office of my Love shall be unto them a foregoing testament which bringeth them to my new y true Testament that is to the new life of the mind of God which is full of Love and full of all spiritual heavenly riches ☜ and all they who are led therein shall be to me my second born in the new Covenant of the holy Spirit of my Love in the heavenly being as I have in former times in the accomplishing of my fore-going Testaments and Priestly Offices brought to my people the same new Covenant to the end that all now in this last or newest day z be restored or established under the obedience of my Love which I from the beginning of the World have spoken wrought and required and my word work and will continueth on the earth unchangeably for ever and ever a even as it is in the Heaven and also that for ever and ever through the Ministers and Priests of my Famlly of Love The Disciples of my gracious Word with the Testimonies of my holy Spirit of Love may be b preserved and susteined to the Godly life c taught to the kingdome of Heavens and brought up to Elders in all Godly wisdom and holy understanding 17 And therefore will I here through thee H. N. set * up my most holy Priestly Office of Love will also declare the same over the World through its Ministery under the obedience of my Love to an everlasting d Priestly Office of the holy Spirit of my Christ for renewing of life in my love in them all through my love to them who are implanted into my Christ with his e like death and burial or are fal◠asleep in him 18 In the same Priestly Office will I also under the obedience of my Love be merciful to all penitent sinners also to those who submit themselves to the Family of my Love That they may all now rejoyce themselves in this day of my divine glory appear with my Christ in Glory and shew forth my praise and wonderful great works 19 Furthermore I will declare and make known unto thee and to all them who * humble themselves under my Love and Priestly Office that the same Priestly Office of my Love which I will here presently set up with thee is the eternal fast-standing Kingly Priesthood f of my holy Spirit and the everlasting peaceable g kingdom of my Christ which shall never be destroyed or moved neither shall it fall to any other but shall of it self and by it self remain in my truth everlastinly 20 Whoever resisteth the same Priesthood of my holy Spirit of Love in his office and requiring the same if he do not repent shall procure the judgement of h the curse the eternal i separation from the beholding of my face But my Grace and mercy k shall be alwayes and for ever upon all men who through the same Priestood and its office under the obedience of my Love turn themselves to me and repent them of their sins 21 Again the Word of the Lord came to H. N. and to us the Elders and said Seeing I my self with all that which concerneth my * Godhead and the judgament of my Righteousness have fully united with thee H. N. and with the Elders Thereshall ye also and all they who are born of you and your doctrine shall judg uprightly out of my righteous judgment according to the Truth 22 And all what ye out of the same my judgment curse separate and condemne l shall be accursed separated and into the Hell condemned And all what ye bless or give a benediction unto shall be also blessed in the Heavens 23 Therefore all whatever shall continue in your doctrine shall be m one heart and mind with you in my Godhead but what separateth it self from you and your doctrine shall likewise be separated from me and my Grace find no way to the eternal life but shall die in hisn sin and also be estranged from me everlastingly 24 But all those who through you and your doctrine and turned to me and also are o taught to the kingdom of my heavenly being shall inherit the spiritual and heavenly riches of my kingdom and p thereunto the eternal life 25 At the same time when we thus heard the Word of the Lord and had well understood all his sayings and were assembled with Christ our Saviour to the Majesty of God and were entered into his Glory and also in the presence of the Lord beheld and and inherited the peace q beauties and riches of God all our hearts were fully delighted and made glad And so with joyful hearts we lauded praised the most High in his holy Land of the Living and the four Seraphins gave r all Honour Laud and Praise unto him who liveth therein from Everlasting unto Everlasting 26 After this our Thanksgiving and
hath chosen him thereunto from his youth to witness the same Testimonies of the Truth of God And to administer Gods holy and gracious word and to manifest his heavenly works and to declare upon the earth now in these last times under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ Gods Truth and upright being and the acomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 7 Thus in this election by the living God H. N. hath declared on earth to this present day from the n uncovered face of God and of Christ Gods real Truth and the requiring of his upright righteousnesse together with his righteous Judgement and the fulfilling of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 8 Now whether this be believed or not believed however he hath revealed the the same out of Gods true light eternal life in manifest declaration brought it to light in this holy day of the love of God and Christ 9 And the same day of the love of God and of Christ which is come unto us from Gods grace is the newest or last day of which long agoe the Prophets of God and the Evangelists of Iesus Christ have foretold and published and is the day o which God hath appointed or ordained for to judge on the same the whole circuit of the Earth with righâ—eousnesse 10 For on the same day of the Love of God and of Christ p shall all unbelievers and disobedient ones to the gracious Word of the Lord and all evil surmisers towards the Ministers thereof together with all opposers of H. N. and blasphemers of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ be q revealed and r judged and according to their works shall receive their reward 11 Therefore take warning by this declaration of mine all ye people which love the truth of Iesus Christ that you in no wise oppose neither the gracious Word of God nor his chosen servant H. N. because God the Father with his Son Iesus Christ dwelleth and liveth perfectly * in H. N. in the heavenly being and hath anointed him with the holy Spirit of God and of s Iesus Christ and that no man without the fellowship of H. N. or without the obedience of the requiring of his doctrine can be brought or gathered to the true living God nor to his Sonne Iesus Christ nor united with the same good being 12 Behold out of a very hearty love which I have to all your preservations in the godlinesse am I presently in this day of the Love impulsed and forced through the holy Spirit of the love of Iesus Christ to make the same known before all your understandings and to declare unto you how the calling H. N. came to passe by the living God and how he was chosen of the same God to Administration of his holy and and gracious word under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ 13 And also to testifie unto you some mysteries t of the Kingdome of the God of heavens and of the heavenly revelations and workings of God which were revealed and shewed to H. N. by the living God out of his heavenly being even from the youth of H. N. 14 The Lord grant unto you all mercy and his Graee that in the hearing of these Testimonies your hearts may not be offended nor be hardened against the Truth u of the same Testimonies but that yee may hear them humbly receive and accept of them in all thanksgiving to God for his grace be well minded to the holy and gracious word of the Lord and his service of the Love to your preservation in the Godlinesse and may enter into the requiring of the same obediently Amen So be it Take it to heart Certaine wonderfull Workes of God which befel H N. from his youth CHAP. I. IN the eighth year of the age of H. N. in the days of Maximilian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation it fell out on an Evening in a Winter season That the Father of H. N. exhorted his Family and instructing them with many words That they should fear God a and to give praise and thanks unto him for the grace he bestowed on man 2 The same time The Lord opened the mouth of the childe H. N. and touched his lips and tongue and with this the childe spake to his Father and said Instruct me O my Father what is that singular Grace bestowed on us for which we ought to give praise and thanks to God 3 When the child had asked this questiof his Father The Father looked on the child and wondered that the child should aske him so earnestly and answearing the child said to him 4 O my sonne doest thou aske what that especial grace is which God hath bestowed on us and for which we are bound to give praise and thanks to him The same you read daily in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and is set forth unto us dayly in the service of the Masse and often also and abundantly is attested by Preaching how that God the Father by reason of Adams sinne whereby we all became the children b of death and damnation caused his deare Sonne Jesus Christ to suffer the ignominious c death on the Crosse and that thus Jesus Christ hath born the sins of Adam satisfied for the same on the Crosse and delivered us from that sinne into which Adam did fall hath reconciled us to his Father d and hath set up again the sincere righteoness and the true e life of Godliness and so all is found and restored againe that was lost by Adam that same is joyned again f made whole which through Adam was broken and wounded And this is that singular Grace which God bestowed on us to the laud and praise of his great Power 5 Then said the child O my Father I doe read indeed of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and I heare it daily testified in Sermons that God the Father hath bestowed on us his great mercy and that his beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath suffered the ignominious death of the Crosse by reason of sinne g but I finde not according to Truth that the sinne is amended in us nor that the true righteousness h wherein Adam was created and placed is restored in us or set up again 6 Then said the Father Oh my sonne what I have told you about the grace of God shewed to us through Jesus Christ you need not to doubt of it beleeve the same in simpleness of heart and that it all is come to passe as I have told you 7 Then said the child O my Father I make no question of the mercy of God which is come unto us through Jesus Christ and all that which is preached to us of Christ and his satisfaction for the sinne as that he through the death on the Crosse
me and the Devil c roareth to devour me 3 Hell taketh hold on me and the d sorrows of my mind oppress me 4 My heart is cut through with e the sword of anguish and my thoughts bring forth all perplexities 5 Therefore must my soul now lament f as one that is forsaken without comfort 6 O Lord wilt thou not once look down and wilt thou quite turn away thy loving countenance from me what is then my soul which thou hast begotten g brought forth to life 7 Or O Lord doest thou try my Manhood or searchest thou the strength of my creature which is but earth and ashes h and is able to do nothing as a thing which is nothing 8 For it is now become as a spoiled instrument which is unprofitable to thy service 9 Therefore I must confess unto thee my weakness and impotency be thou O Lord my power my life and my ability 10 For if thou hidest thy self from me then am I as i the dead in the grave 11 And I find my self in great misery k like to those that are in Hell 12 Therefore O Lord consider my misery and refresh the soul of my mâ—nd then O Lord will I praise thee magnifie thy glory and will sing praises unto thy name for ever 13 For who is he among the l dead which remembreth thee in Hell there are no praises sung unto thee 14 But when thou O Lord doest afflict then the sighs of the poor come before thee and when thou makest glad again then they sing with joy a song of praise whereby thy name is magnified as holy CHAP. XII Psalme VII 1 OH Lord how am I thus perplexed how long shall my soul endure sadness how long shall the wickedness as an over-lorder triumph over me 2 That thou O God would'st guide me in thy wayes and would'st lead me in thy a paths and would'st deliver me from my adversaries and from all b mine enemies which have made up themselves against me Then would I O God out of the whole minde of my soul bring unto thee an offering of joy and offer up a sacrifice of thanksgiving 3 O Lord let not my adversaries have their pleasure over me let not my enemies prosper against me 4 O that the wicked might give up themselves to flight and not reign over me for ever to the end that my c enemies boast not that they have destroyed me 5 O Lord assist me and rise up against mine enemies d that they may all be put to shame that assault me 6 O Lord let thy goodness imbrace me clense me from my sins and deliver me from the murtherous e persecutors of my soul that my soul may dwell in thee thee O my God in peace and without care 7 Ah how long shall I yet endure mine enemies how long shall they torment my soul with disquietness 8 Well I will be of good chear in the confidence of my God that my soul may get some refreshment 9 Oh my soul thou oppressed one f be of good chear in thy perplexity and expect the comfort of the Lord in long-suffering 10 For he will comfort thee in peace g if thou takest patience to thee as a precious treasure 11 He will bring unto thee meek-mindedness for an ornament and the burthen of the wicked shall be lightened in thee and h thy mind shall be refreshed in God CHAP. XIII Psalme VIII 1 WHy art thou so troublesome to me a O thou unbelief and distrust for my hope is in the living God that he will yet heal my soul 2 O Lord b heal me and take away from me the evil nature namely all the opposition of thy goodness 3 Ah I am doubtless very deeply wounded there is c no soundness in my soul 4 O God I am very miserable by reason of my torments is there any so d distempered as I am 5 I am not now like unto any e man but to those which have changed their humane form and shape 6 Wherefore was I born f upon the earth for I perish in great misery and am good for no use 7 O that my Father had let fall the seed of which I was begotten like Onan the sonne g of Juda that I had never been 8 Or that I for or to my Fathers sinne like the first born son of David h by Bashsheba had died 9 Ah that the earth would open it self receive me that the i hils would fall on me and cover and smother me in the earth that I might no longer see this horrible abomination 10 For I am bereaved of all comfort riches honour and wisdom 11 All unsoundness torment k sinne death Devil and Hell is faln upon me 12 Ah my l heart is thus afflicted and my mind is so much disquieted 13 My â—ones m quake my feet tremble and my jaw-bone is shaken 14 My teeth chatter my hands are wrung about or turned round my eyes weep and my thoughts affright me 15 All evil spirits domineâ—â— over me and and my enemies drive me upon doubtings 16 Anguish and n perplexity more heavily oppress me then if the whole world lay on me 17 Doubt of deliverance and all despair o assault me the unbelief bringeth desperation before me as if I were forsaken eternally 18 There is no where any refreshment p for my soul that I might revive my self a little 19 Ah how hard doth the punishment of my God laid hold on me his stripes fall on me as q burning coals and flames of fire 20 I am afraid that the heat of his fire r will consume me to nothing 21 Or that he will hold his fierce countenance continually over me and hide his lovely face for ever from me 22 Ah I must bewail my sins continually for these hard stripes torment me CHAP. XIV Psalme IX 1 WHile I was thus wounded stricken chastised my friends also a made up themselves against me and became my enemies 2 And they also cried out against me with great accusation and said b O yea that is his reward the accursed 3 Kill him c away away with this wicked one condemn him for ever into hell 4 His sins are manifested to be beyond mercy for his evil deed is as of the most ungodly wicked one 5 Yea God thus rejecteth all those which fall off from him and never more come to his favour again 6 Therefore let all shame reproach and the eternal death befal him let not God help or succour him for ever 7 O Lord let that perdition which they have wished to me and also themselves have framed against me let it fall on d themselves and when they are smitten down let them never rise again 8 They have intended mischief against me e O Lord repay them that they have f deserved on my behalf
the Truth of thy Christ 9 Therefore must I now also with thy Prophet David take up a speech against miâ—e enemies and persecutors and utter forth the same against their wicked deeds And will O God abase my selfe before thee t glory in thee and thy Goodnesse Supplicate and pray unto thee and give thanks and praise to thee O God for all the Goodnesse which thou O heavenly Father hast bestowed on me H. N. thy chosen servant 10 And thereupon when H. N. had spoken these words before the eares of the most high then he began this speech against his enemies out of the Psalme of David and said CHAP. XXVIII 1 OYe a Tyrants why do ye boast because ye can do mischief whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily 2 Your tongues follow mischief and with lyes ye cut as a sharp Razor 3 Ye rathhr speak evil then good and rather falshood then truth 4 Ye willingly speak all that tendeth to destruction with false tongues 5 Therefore will God also confound and totally consume you remove you out of his Tent or Tabernacle and root you out of the land of the living 6 And the righteous shall see it and fear and laugh at you and say 7 Behold b these are the men that held not God for their comfort but trusted onely in their c great riches and were mighty to do mischief 8 But I shall continue as a green Olive tree in the house of God for I trust in the goodness of God constantly and for ever 9 I thank thee O God for ever for thou art able to do it I will relie on thy Name for therein have thy Saints joy 10 Help d me O God through thy Name and let me have justice through thy power 11 Hear O God my prayers hearken to the voice of my mouth 12 Proud men set themselves against me and Tyrants lay wait for my soul and have not God before their eyes 13 Behold God standeth by me the Lord supporteth my soul 14 He will reward the wickedness of mine Enemies e cast them out through thy faithfulness 15 Then will I O Lord bring unto to thee an offering of joy and thank thy name because it is so comfortable 16 For thou delivereâ—â— me out of all my misery so that mine eyes see their desire on my enemies 17 Deliver me f my God from mine enemies and protect mee from them that set themselves against me 18 Deliver me from the evil doers and help me from the bloud-thirsty 19 For behold Lord they lie in wait for my soul the strong ones gathered themselves against me without any crime or mâ—â—deed of mine 20 Their g doctrine is meer sin they persevere in their pride they preach meere curses gain-sayings and detractions 21 They think to extinguish him that is simple h and are diligent to lye give fair words but they curse in their hearts 22 But my soul waiteth upon God alone for he is my hope 23 For they have opened their i wicked and false mouthes against me and speak against me with false tongues 24 They speak every where poisonously against me and fight without a cause 25 Because I love them therefore are they against me but I do pray 26 They requite me evil for good and hatred for love 27 Lord O God k heare my voice in my complaint preserve my life from my cruel enemies 28 Hide me from the gatherings of the wicked from the multitude of evil doers 29 Which whet their tongues as a sword they aime with their poisonous words as with arrows 30 Secretly l to shoot at the upright hâ—shly they shoot at them without fear 31 They are bold in their evil attempts and say how that they will lay snares and say who can see it 32 They invent deceit and keep it secretly they are destroyers and exercise falshood subtily 33 But God will suddenly shoot them that woe shall come upon them their own tongues shall overthrow them and he that beholds them shall deride them 34 And all men that see it shall say God hath done this and shall perceive that it is his work 35 But the Righteous shall rejoyce in the Lord and trust in him and all upright hearts shall glory thereat CHAP. XXIX 1 I Thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour 2 I praise thy Name that thou art my helper and protector 3 For thou hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snares of false treacherous tongues and lying lips and thou haâ—â— helped me against mine enemies 4 And according to thine abundant mercy thou hast delivered me from the roaring of them which would devoure me and out of the hands of such as sought after my life out of many sorrows which had surrounded me and out of the middest of the fire that I should not be therein consumed 5 Also out of the depth of Hell and from the false praters and lyers and also hast delivered me from the King or Magistrate and from the unrighteous judgement of false tongues 6 I was neer to death and my life was almost going down to Hell for I was compassed about on every side and there was no man to help me 7 I hoped indeed for the help of man and behold there was none 8 Then I remembred O Lord thy mercy and how thou hast helped constantly Thou deliverest all those which wait upon thee and releasest them out of the hands of the heathen or uncircumcised 9 Against their fierceness I prayed unto God and intreated for deliverance from death and called to the Lord my Father and Ruler that he would not forsake me in my trouble for the proud have lifted up themselves and when I had no hope 10 I will praise thy Name continually and I honour and give thanks unto thee for my prayer is heard and thou hast delivered me from the destruction and from all evil 12 Therefore will I O Lord thank and praise thee and extol or magnifie thy Name 12 When I was yet but young and before any errors took hold to seduce me I very earnestly sought for wisdom in my prayer 13 I went therefore into the Temple and here even until the last and she was unto me an early ripe Grape 14 My heart rejoyced in the wisdome and I went presently in her way and thus from my youth I sought after her 15 I hearkned and inclined my ears after her and took her to me or united me with her 16 Then found I much wisdome and through her I increase greatly and praised him who gave me wisdome 17 I was resolved to do accordingly and to endeavour carefully after the good and I was not there at ashamed 18 I wrested there after with all my heart and was diligent to do accordingly 19 I lifted up my hands to Heaven and my soul was enlightned through the wisdome that I knew my follishness 20 I ordered