A FIGURE of the True Spiritual TABERNACLE According to the inward Temple or House of God in the Spirit Whereunto is added the Eight Vertues or Godlynesses Set forth by H. N. and by him perused and more evidently declared The Temple of God was opened in heaven and the Ark of his Testament was seen in his Temple Apoca. 12. Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people And he God himself with them shall be their God Apo. 21. 1 Cor. 3. 2 Cor. 6. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. The Preface SEeing now that God hath extended his mercy on us and through his grace (a) Exod 25. Eze. 40.41 42.43 44. Apoc 21.22 revealed and made known unto us in our Spirit his true Tabernacle or Temple wherein his Holy God-service is uprightly ministred according to the truth Therefore are we become occasioned or moved even out of Love to witness our Figure forth writingly (b) Ex. 25.31 Eze. 43. Act. 7. c. Heb. 8. a. in Letters this present Figure or Pre-figuration of the same Tabernacle or Temple of God together with his true services in the Spirit namely in the fore-front in the holy and in the most holy before all lovers of the truth and of the true God-service and to set it forth under the obedience of the Love 2. The bearing of which true being or form in the Spirit is (c) Ex. 29. c. Jer. 23. a. 30. b. 31. d. Eze. 36.37 that which God regardeth and requireth of the man For even therefore namely to the setting up of this same true God-service in the Spirit under the obedience of the Love hath God the Father through his benign or hearty Love revealed or declared in (d) Mat. 13. b Ephes 3. a. Col 1. c. heaven his true Sanctuarie or Tabernacle unto us as also the fore-front the holy and the most holy of the same And granted to discern and understand the mysterie or secretness thereof and also chosen us to the ministration of the same under the obedience of the Love to the end that now in this last time (e) Isa 2. a. 60 61 62. Jer. 31 33. Eze. 36 37. Ioel 2.3 b. Mich 4. a. Zach. 8 a. Act. 2. the truth or verity of the same Tabernacle of God should alwayes and for evermore be ministred among the children of men under the obedience of the Love to a consecrating or sanctifying of the fore-front and of the holy and to the setting up again or restoring of the (f) Dan 9. daily offering which hath ceased for a long time for which cause likewise the fore-front and the holy hath been so utterly ruined or laid wast with abominations among the children of men 3. Which consecrating or sanctifying of the fore-front and of the holy as also the setting up of the daily offering and of the true God-service among the children of men cometh to pass altogether to (g) Eph 1 a. the laud praise of the glory of God and to the salvation or blessing of the children of men namely to those men which are good of will also believe on the Love submit them humbly to the requiring of the service of Love and so have a lust to the establishing the Promises of God the Father Take it to heart To the Reader Vnto the single-minded ones whose love is agreeable with us in one spirit of the Love be health and peace ALthough yee dearly beloved that our intent and purpose was to make but a small preamble or prologue before the beginning of the Glass of righteousness yet is it now notwithstanding fallen out otherwise For the Prologue is grown to be more then we our selves meant it should But yet the labour bestowed therein hath not been tedious unto us (a) 1. Cor. 13. a. For the Love maketh all painful travel and labour easie and her service is not tedious neither doth she think any time too long wherein she may further the good 2. Therefore is our hope also that it is all come to pass for the best and shall likewise be looked into by every one for a very profitable labour unto edification in asmuch doubtless as it is all serviceable to the inducing or guiding in of men to the holy understanding of the Glass of Righteousness and to the Love 3. Also I did not purpose to let this Figure of the true and spiritual Tabernacle go forth with the Glass of righteousness but to set it forth with other writings after the publication or going forth of the same said Glass 4. But for as much as we have seen into or perceived that it was very needful profitable and serviceable to publish or set forth the same Figure to give thereby an intelligence or understanding of the inward spiritual Tabernacle and to be a furtherance of the mans salvation Therefore could we not through the inclination of the Love conceal or keep back the same any longer But have for the Loves sake unto the Righteousness placed the same to stand next after the introduction to the holy understanding of the Glass of Righteousness And next before the beginning of the book of the said Glass by which occasion the Prologue is become so much the larger 5. Yet is our hope notwithstanding that neither the good willing Reader nor any one else will stumble or take offence at the muchness or plenty of writing that is used before the beginning of the Book but rejoyce them so much the more therein and take a greater pleasure and liking therein then if we had left out the same For it is doubtless a more plain declaring or opening of that forenamed Book intituled the Glass of Righteousness 6. It is true that it doth not accord or sute very well to make large Preambles or large Prologues Howbeit we have least esteemed of the Clarkly form of congruity or artificial sutableness But have much rather had our respect bent unto that which is serviceable unto the good and to the holy understanding whereby to reveal the (b) Eph. 1. b. 1 a. 3. a. Col. 1. c. riches of the mysteries of God the Father extending to salvation and to testifie (c) 2 Pet. 1. b. 1 Ioh. 1 a. that which we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears 7. But although now that we do not utter forth or write the same according to the artificial skill or Clarkly cunning of manly wit Nor yet with painted or flowred words or garnished speech of the renowned wise or famous Clarks But even with a plain and mother or common style or form Yet is notwithstanding our request that the Readers or Hearers of the same our writing would not take offence thereat and so in any such respect despise or make less account of our labour because it is plain and not practised or set forth according to the skill
him (s) Psa 100. Heb. 7. c. and it shall not repent him that he shall continue a Priest for ever They (t) Psa 102. Isa 51. a. Heb. 1. b shall all become old and become changed like a garment But (u) Psal 45 Heb. 1. a. his seat as is aforesaid endureth and continueth from everlasting to everlasting it is very true The sixth Chapter FOrasmuch now as that that God which dwelleth in the heavens is through his bountiful Love a revealing of the holy things unto us out of an heavenly revelation in his service of Love therefore have we the more assured confidence on the same service of Love which very true service is now in the last time come unto us for to minister to a blessing and salvation of those men which are good of will to the end that they should all assemble them thereto For the love in her service is the (a) Mat. 24. Luk. 17. d. bait or prey whereunto the Eagles shall resort and assemble and that to a unity in one band of the Love 2. For it shall now whatsoever in the Love loveth the peace and the righteousness assemble or come to the service of the Love and concordably incline them unto the same for it is unpossible that it should bide back but that in those dayes it shall all namely all whatsoever loveth righteousness and hath intended peace and love joyn it self to one and not refuse to have or use the unity in the Love with us 3. Seeing that all my longing standeth towards the same therefore hath my heart seldom any rest by reason of my longing towards the same and for that the godly Baite namely the right and true service of Love might have his ministration and declaring everywhere whereby all Eagles which hunger and thirist thereafter might assemble them thereto For thereunto doubtless shall all those which love or stand affected unto righteousness become assembled and comprehended or knit in one Band of the Love with us 4. They shall also give themselves thereunto good-willingly if they do but hear of such an assembling and unity in the Love and that see into know and Credit the same let them be wheresoever they are or whosoever they be whether the Jews Christians or Mahometans heathen or of what generations nations sects factions or religions soever they be they shall all mutually for the righteousness and peaces cause submit themselves with us under the Love Because that they might every one be incorporated to the upright (b) Ro. 11. b stock of life to the laud and (c) Eph. 1. b. praise of the glory of the living God 5 Which glory of God God hath prepared for himself now in the last time in the service of his love to the spreading abroad of his great name (d) Mal. 1. b for that his holy name may be known and magnified universally 6. Before or in the presence of which service of Love (e) Psal 31. b all blasphemous tongues must become dumb all wickedness grow ashamed and all pride submit it self to the end that all that feareth God loveth his Promises and hopeth thereon may allow of or consent unto the office or service of Love and assemble them to the Concord of our commonalty 7. For the service of love only shall flourish under the which likewise all understanding shall to an obeying of the requiring of the said service of Love give it self (f) 2 Cor. 10. a. captive to an unity of peace and to an incorporating unto the vertues in all Love 8. Through which discerning of the upright and true se vice and of the assembling of the upright hearts to the same I have figured forth or witnessed with these present writings and testimonies the true Tabernacle of God and his services ministred under the obedience of the Love of Jesus Christ according to the life even as the same is by Gods grace revealed unto me because that we might all of us according to the spirit come to that (g) Rom. 12. a one manner of God-service of (h) Luk. 1. g. upright righteousness which God â—egardeth also that all people which according to the spirit are (i) Eph. 2 4. strangers and ignorant touching the true God and his service might look into the same also come to (k) 1 Tim. 2 a. the knowledge of the truth and be converted to the Love and her service whereby to walk in all love (l) Eph. 4. a. as children of peace and as peaceable brethren 9. But not in misnurter and disorderliness according to the manner of the uncircumcised heathen nor in contention through self-wisdom or Scripture-learnedness nor yet in disputing concerning the circumcision or baptism but in all discreetness and orderlyness of the upright life according to the true circumcision (n) Ier. 4 a Rom. 2. c Phil 3. a Col. 2. b. which cometh to pass in the heart the which is in laying away of the sin in the flesh and according to the true baptism of the (o) Math. 3. b Rom. 6. a Col. 2. b. holy Ghost which cometh to pass in the spirit in a new life of the true minde full of all Love 10. Therefore respect now well the upright Judgement in your hearts For all hearts shall now in this last time (p) Luk. 2. d become manifest 11. There shall also be found but one manner of heathen-ship foreskin or uncircumcision And all hearts of the heathen or uncircumcised being without Jerusalem and Gods sanctuary and without the commonalty of Israel or of Christ let them then hold what God-services they will shall through the foreskin of the sinful flesh appear manifestly to be uncircumcised and to stand captivated with the disobedient knowledge (q) Isa 52. a Eze. 44 b Of such uncircumcised ones there shall not one come into the sanctuary 12. In like manner there shall also be found but one manner of circumcision Baptism (r) Isa 56. a Eze. 37. c. Ioh. 10. b and house of Israel or Christ and all the Saints or holy ones of God that are of the house of Israel or Christ shall walk under the obedience of the Love and have their fellowship with us within Jerusalem the (s) Apo. 21. a holy City of God from heaven 13. And the same likewise shall be one manner of Tabernacle of God or house of the Lord wherein Gods light (t) Apo. 21. c Isa 60. yea he himself shineth as a light and cleerness unto his people Israel because that they all may even free without anguish and without fear walk peaceably in his light 14. From whose hearts (u) Isa 25 a 2 Cor. 3 b the foreskin of the sinful flesh and of the disobedient darknesses shall be put away for the light that ariseth over Jerusalem according to the promises (x) Is 60 a. c shall shine about them all Whereunto likewise all people that have a lust to Israels God
the heathenship and hath at that time his conversation or fellowship with the administration and discipline of the holy Word ministred betwixt the fore-front and the Altar of the holy offering till that his offering and gift be through Faith begun or taken in hand in the holy for a burnt offering through which burning of the offering upon the holy Altar of the Lord Jesus Christ in the holy (g) Isa 57. b Eph. 2. b the Peace betwixt the man and God the Father is prepared The ninth Chapter BUT for as much as this true God-service in the holy is not yet according to the inward man in the spirit known unto every one nor understood according to the truth and we do find many young and little ones of understanding many feeble and weak ones and many uncertain consciences all which notwithstanding do stand bent and well-minded with a good will towards the Love and towards the holy understanding So is therefore the life of righteousness evidently witnessed unto them out of the service of Love which testimonies of the truth are likewise administred unto them through Doctrines speakable words or with writing namely unto those that have turned from the heathenship and so endeavour them to the obeying of the word and his service and which do fear God with which service there is required of them the obedience to the Love of the Father (a) Gal 3. c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. to a sustaining of them whereout some better thing is yet to be hoped for 2. That same is verily the daily God-service which is well pleasing unto the Lord and the upright Ceremonies which be ministred before the Lord unto the God-fearing hearts by the Ministers of the holy word 3. Which Ministers with the same service of the gracious and holy word is the Levitical Priests office wherethrough the slain-offering is prepared before (b) Jer. 33. b the Lord among the little-ones and sinners who bear sorrow and grief for the sins cause also the burnt-offering is begun and daily used the meat offering likewise kindled and offered up 4. Which service likewise of the Levitical Priests office alwayes stands or continues before the Lord in the service of his Love as a mutual assistance and strengthening for the little or weak ones and that altogether in the Love to the serviceableness of the Congregations for the sins of the ignorant 5. Which service of the Levitical Priests office God would not have required if the man had not fallen into the sin but had still walked uprightly in the light of God 6. But forasmuch as it hath not gone so with the man therefore hath God even of necessity added the same service unto his promises for to inform therewith the unilluminated ones the infirm weak and young ones or little ones of understanding who do yet oftentimes sin and are of little growth in Faith and so to assist and serve them therewith for a certain time betwixt the fore-front and the Altar for an entrance unto them in the holy to bring unto the high or great God of heaven (d) Psa 11. d Isa 56 a Mal. 1. b Rom. 11. a such an offering as is delightful unto him 7 Even thus become they all converted or turned away from the sin and succoured or trayned up under the service of the Love to the (e) Luk. 1. g Eph. 1. a knowledge of the upright life of the Just to the end that they may all become one even as of one mind (f) Ioh. 17 c in the Love 8. Now when one doth know the same life according to such an upright service and nature of the Love and is grown believing towards the same then is there revealed and brought in the spirit unto the Believers the boldness to enter into the holy for to accomplish the service of God and his requiring in the holy like as God is requiring the same accomplishment by the Law and the Prophets and by the service of the Elders in the holy understanding which accomplishment in the holy is our offering in the offering of Christ through his (g) He. 9. b. c blood which prepareth for us a new and living way 9 Behold that is the true God-service through Christ in the holy which is now by Gods grace opened and brought unto us to the end to set up the righteousness in the same through Faith which is required by the Law and Ordinance of the Lord. For whatsoever is (h) Rom 8. a unpossible for the Law to do through works that same is accomplished in Christ through Faith whereby Christ is in that manner the accomplishment of the Law and erecteth the upright righteousness among his Believers and establisheth them in the same 10. Therefore Christ is no breaker but a fulfiller of the Law for (i) Mat. 3. b Christ came not to make void or break the Law and the Prophets but to perform them because the righteousness that is of value before God may be made manifest through his light to an everlasting establishment of the promises of God made unto the Fathers whereby to wash and cleanse the man from his spotted or (k) Heb. 9. b evil conscience that he might laud God with peace and joy 11. But this daily God-service betwixt the front and the Altar in the holy which is prepared and ministred by the service of the holy and gracious Word and by the Priests office out of Levy or by the Elders in the holy understanding is the service which God hath added to his (l) Rom. 4. b 5. c. 7. a. Promises made unto Abraham to a strengthening of the belief extending to the Promises Because the man should with a good courage in the good and godly life of righteousness among the Elders in the holy understanding (m) Eph. 1. b 1 Pet. 2. a grow up therein to an establishing of the Promises of God the Father 12. In such manner doubtless is the same service of the holy Word which is administred by the Elders in the holy understanding under the obedience of the Love very profitable and furthersome for the good-willingness the while they (n) Gal. 4. a. are yet little or young in the godly understanding And for those that like unto children stand simply submitted under the Love to the end that no man should err through any ignorance nor tye his heart to the imagination of his own spirit but only have regard unto the service of Love to the obeying his requiring until that the daily God-service in the holy be begun with him and have his full course with him Also till the true (o) 2 Pet. 2. b light come unto him and the day likewise appear from on high or as a cleerness of the morning star arise in his heart and that the everlasting (p) Ioh. 1. a life be come unto him in the spirit according to the truth and have (q) 2 Cor. 4. Gal.
meer error (o) Isa 44. a Ier. 10. a their Gods and God-services are vain and unprofitable 11. Therefore there is no God but Israels God whose God-services Wisdom Ordinances Statutes and Rights are alone upright holy and true Deut. 4. a. 12. Happy is he that hath the same God to be (p) Psa 33. b 144. b his God or which seeketh him with all his heart Deut. 4. c. 30. a. Ier. 29. b. Sap. 1. a. The thirteenth Chapter THE true holy of the house of God or of the true Tabernacle is (a) Rom. 5. a the belief of Christ unto Justification through whose service and the obedience unto the requiring thereof the man if he have a lust with all his heart (b) Psa 40. a Heb. 10. a to do the Lords will becometh Justified from the sin Also the way of his course of walking prepared (c) Isa 40 a 57. b. to be an even path before the Lord. And the truth of God extending to the everlasting life revealed unto him in the spirit Beleefe The Truth to the Evâ—rlasting Life In the service of the holy and gratious word Vnder the Obedience of the true beleefe is the man in the spirit of his hart in Jesus Christ justified from the Sin and brought to the everlasting life Therefore beare patience and vpright fruites of repentance The Kingdom of heaven is nigh Mat 3 a Luke 3 a Behold so crieth the Voice in the Wilderness of the Mans harte The which crieth prepare the way of the lord make straite his pathes Esay 40. Behold the word that thou shouldest beleeue is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thine hart that thou mightest doe it Deutri 30 and that is the word of beleefe which formerly hath beene preached in the World through Christ to Salvation and Obedience of the Beleefe Rom. 10. And is now preached under the Obedience of the Love 2. Behold the Lord sendeth forth his (d) Mal. 3. a Math. 11. b Angel or Messenger who in his service prepareth the way (e) Math. 4 a Luk 1. b before him and he goeth before in the spirit or power of Elias that he may turn the hearts of the Fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their Fathers and the unbelievers to the prudence of the just whereby to prepare an upright people for the Lord. 3. How delightful are the feet of the (f) â—o 10 b messengers that publish the peace from the mountains preach a good Message and reveal the salvation Isa 51. Nahum 2. 4. Leave off from the evil and learn to do good labour after that which is right and help the oppressed Isa 1. b. 5. Let the ungodly leave off from his waies (g) Eze. 18 33. b. and the evil doer from his imaginations and turn him to the Lord so shall he be merciful unto him Isa 55. a. 6. Let every one turn him away from his wicked wayes and amend his being or life and so do that which is right Ier. 7. a. 7. If the ungodly will turn him from all the sins that he hath done c. Then shall he live and not dye for the Lord desireth not the (h) Eze. 33. b Sap. 1. b death of a sinner but much rather that he should turn him and live Eze. 18. d. 8. Repent now and amend you that your sins may be put out Act. 3. b. 9. Lay away from you now (i) 1 Pet. 1. b 4. a. according to the former walking the old man which destroyeth through the lust of error (k) Ro. 12. a and renew you in the spirit of your mind and put ye on the new man which is formed like unto God in upright righteousness and holyness Ephes 4. c. 10. But before all things take hold of the Shield of Faith with the which we may quench out all the fiery darts of the wicked enemy Eph. 6. b. 11. Hold fast what thou hast that no man bereave or take away thy Crown from thee Apo. 3. b. 12. Whosoever continueth steadfast unto the end he shall be saved Math. 24. b. 13. The Messenger or voice of the Angel which crieth in the heart Prepare (l) sa 40. a the way of the Lord is the serviceable ministration of the gracious word of the Lord which the Lord willeth to be ministred unto the man before (m) Act. 3.17 c. his revealing of his great day By which means in the grace and mercy of the Lord. (n) Rom. 10. the belief that very true holy and the (o) Heb. 10 b boldness to enter into the same is prepared to serve the man to an accomplishing of the service in the said holy whereby the true fore-going service might likewise be ministred unto the Believers in their conversion unto God and in their doing (p) Math. 3. upright fruits of repentance Also to kill (q) Rom 6. a Col. 2. b and bury the same under the obedience of the belief And through the baptising or washing (r) Rom. 6. a Col. 1 b in the death of Christ to justifie the believing man from the sin 14. And so then after that in fulfilling or accomplishing the same fore-going service cometh the (s) Mat. 19. c Ioh. 3. b new birth from the death through the annointing by our Saviour who doth quite and clean take away or blot out the (t) Heb 9. sins of his people and so in his spiritual office or heavenly ministration serveth them (u) Heb. 8. with the spiritual and heavenly goods and leadeth them into the everlasting life and so bringeth the perfection unto them or setteth up the same in them and as (x) Heb. 7 8 9. a chief Priest declareth his (y) Isa 27. a Math. 27. highest salvation unto them in the most holy namely in the Love which is the holy-Ghost where through the vail betwixt the holy and the most holy and (z) Isa 59. a Eph. 2. b Col. 2. a the portion betwixt God and the man departeth away and of two (a) Eph. 2. b. is made one to wit the man and God 15. That verily is the everlasting (b) Rom. 3. a 2 Cor. 5. c Col. 1. b Ioh. 2. a 4. b reconcilement of the man before his God and so he cometh again to the seat of grace and into the true light of the (c) 2 Cor. 3. b. 4. a clear shining of God and into the everlasting life with thanksgiving and joâ— the which is the (d) Isa 60. a Apo. 21. a true rising of the light and life out of the high heaven in the spirit The fourteenth Chapter THE true vale before the most holy of the true Sanctuary of the Tabernacle of God (a) Heb 10. c is the flesh of Christ the which is before the cleerness of his uncovered naked being or substance and before his spiritual and heavenly goods and (b) Mat. 27. 2 Cor 3. b it departeth away therefrom or
coming over them for their sins cause 2. But that which did most of all grieve my heart was this that I perceived that all those that were born upon earth out of blood are out of their earthly birth inclined to (b) Gen. 6.8 d. Psal 51 a. nothing else but iniquity and with their unrighteousness are minded to destruction That their last is bent to nothing else but unto error that they also are utterly ignorant in all Godly things and that they therefore if they become not in their understanding recovered through the Love and her service or renewed (c) Ioh. 3. a Rom. 12. c Eph. 4. c. or born again in their Spirit cannot escape the severe Judgement of God 3. When I thus beheld the same according to the truth that it was so utterly unknown unto all people of the earth and that they did every one follow after the self wisdom of the flesh to their condemnation then was I much more grieved in my mind and I bowed down my self before the Majestie of God who is in heaven and said 4. O Lord God of heaven Thou that art a God of the living full of Grace and all goodness and hast (d) Sapi. 1. b. created all whatsoever is any thing because it should be and that it might go well with the same Seeing now thou hast made up thy self for to judge the (e) Act. 17 d circuit of the earth with righteousness so be therefore gracious I beseech thee to (f) Iob 14. b. Psal 138. a. the work of thine own hands to the end there may now in the last time some souls remain over upon the earth and that (g) Isa 10. c. Rom 9. c. the remnant O God might be saved 5. Shew O God thy mercie upon us through thy bountiful Love Remember also that we all of us out of our earthly births are (h) Psa 14. a. Rom. 3. b. an ignorant people void of understanding and by nature are clean contrary-minded unto thy wisdom and declining therefrom And have no lust or affection towards thy information nor any pleasure in the word of thy servants which present or hold forth thy salvation unto us under the obedience of thy Love but we do all out of our earthly birth stand affected towards our selves and do most gladly give ear to our selves and our own wisdom of the flesh which floweth of our self minded and fleshly heart 6. That is verily the sin and the rebelliousness or resistance committed against thee O God by all spirits of unregenerated men and the contraryness against thee of all self-wise and good-thinking Scripture-learned ones 7. Therefore O God rebuke and nurture us with thy Law or Ordinance and with the Doctrine of thy Commandments and humble our hearts to the obeying of thy holy gracious Word and service of Love that we may be reformed of our wicked or contrary nature and become understanding accoâ—ding to the Law or Doctrine of thy Commandments whereby we may O God accomplish thy will 8. Rebuke (i) Psal 6.38 a. Ier. 10. c. us not in thy wrath and chasten us not in thy displeasure but shake out the same over the ungodly which are alwayes O God against thee and like or allow not of thee 9. Destroy us not so utterly all alike that the the great horror of desolation come not over us all to our destruction but that there may yet a remnant find Grace before thee And that they even like as in the former time (k) Gen. 6 7 8. of Noah may now also in these last perilous times remain preserved The fourth Chapter BEhold the whilest I still lamented on this fashion the Angel Gabriel appeared unto me again whom I had in my sight before and he strengthened my mind For I was grown almost past recoverie by reason of my feebleness and faintheartedness 2. Then when my heart was a little refreshed then was it said unto me Arise and be of good chear for thou hast found grace before God the most highst to declare his salvation to the children of men and also for to witness under the obedience of the Love (a) 4 Glas 33. unto the people upon the earth the true God-service which God regardeth to the end that all those which believe on the Love and submit themselves thereunder may be saved and that those likewise which refuse the same also withstand the Love and allow not of her service may justly receive their judgement unto condemnation 3. Therefore turn now thy face again to the true remnant namely to the Love which is the most holy which is kept and remained over in heaven for an everlasting reconcilement touching the sins of those people which convert and submit them under the Love The true most holy through which most holy of the living Tabernacle of God namely in his service ministred under the obedience of Love the holy and the fore-front shall (b) Dan. 8. b be consecrated and cleansed again the daily offering in the holy erected (c) Isa 44.60 61 62 65 66. Ier. 33.30 31 33. Bar. 5. Eze. 36.37 Jerusalem builded and Sion comforted 4. The whole Israel shall likewise find Grace before the Lord and obtain the salvation also come again to his Land of inheritance and rest and the salvation shall be made manifest unto all people To the end that the whole world might not be accursed like as Sodom and Gomorah (d) Is 1.10 c Rom. 9. c. but that there might yet a remnant be saved and remain preserved even as the Lord hath spoken in times past 5. When as now I had understood these things I rejoyced me greatly and my heart became glad through the bountiful and entire love of God the Father touching his great grace and mercie to be shewed in the last time Because his rebuke and chastisement endureth (e) Psal 30. a Isa 54. a. 4 Mic. 7. b but for a season which cometh to an end And for that his love grace and mercy continueth for ever And in that (f) Deut. 4. d he forgetteth not his Covenant which (g) Ge. 12.13 17.22 26. he hath made with Abraham Isaac and Iacob for to gather and to set up through his Love his chosen people Israel like as in times past he hath promised and assured unto their Fathers by (h) Luk. 1. g the mouth of his holy Prophets 6. With that I turned my face again to the most holy and behold that same remained undefiled and was not (i) Ier. 17. b Lam. 5. b brought in desolation For Israels God who is a God of life had hidden the same in heaven And the heathen or uncircumcised which are captivated with manifold ignorances and errors have not been therein at all for (k) Isa 52. a Eze. 44. a no uncircumcised one can come or enter into the same sanctuary nor behold his beauty but it is reserved and kept in store for the Lords people Israel
in misery and in unrestfulness O ye children of men turn you to the (e) Deu. 30. c life with humble hearts and in like manner to the Love that ye may live 3. Awake up I pray thee O thou precious man for behold death and life (d) Deut 3. b Eccles 15. c Ier. 21. a evil and good destruction and preservation damnation and salvation the old wicked world in the which all wickedness dwelleth and the (e) Isa 61. b 1 Pet. 3. b Apo. 21. a new good world in the which all love peace and righteousness dwelleth is held forth or presented unto thee and figured out before thine eyes therefore choose or incline thou now unto that which thou seest or knowst to be Gods righteousness extending to the laud and praise of his glory and apply thy self to live only the same that (f) Deut. 6. a o. b Math. 4. thou mayest serve and live unto the Lord thy God only 4. If so be now therefore that any one do look into or esteem the being of the Devil the treasury of iniquity (g) Sap. 2 4.14 b Rom. 1. c 2. a. and the form or fashion of the wicked world to be an upright life tending to the praise and glory of God and if it be the same whereunto God hath created the man to have that raign over him then let him incline and stick unto it and serve the same only and let him separate himself from all what is contrary thereunto and accompany him with those that are of one mind with the iniquity or with the wicked world that he may beare or receive either his salvation or condemnation with those that are his own members which are agreeably-minded with each other and let him (h) 2 King 18. c halt no longer on both sides nor feign nor dissemble before the upright Love which is held forth and proffered unto him 5. But if now any man do look into or esteem the Being of God or Treasure of vertue to be the salvation of men tending to the land and praise of the godly glory and so understandeth or perceiveth that (i) Gen. 2. c Sap. 2. c Eccles 17. a God hath created the man to that end that the same should raign over him So let him then likewise submit himself obediently under the Love and incline or cleave wholly to the same good being even with a fervent good will that he may serve the same only (k) Deut. 6. a 10. b. 30. a and live only unto the eternal God 6. For to that purpose is the service of the word both by writing and by speech under the obedience of the Love administred unto men to assist them to the life of God and to the eternal truth because they should live in the same truth and life as in a Treasure of vertue and that altogether in a lively meek minded being or nature but not to the end to catch to snare nor to bring any one into bondage therewith or to (l) 2 Cor. 1. c 1 Pet. 1. a raign over his faith O no but in him free or at liberty to yield to the obedience of the Love and to the (m) Luk. 1. g Eph. 1. a righteousness of Faith because the righteousness of Faith which God esteemeth of might by that means be set up in the belief under the obedience of the Love And that the peace might appear upon the earth according to the Promises 7. For that cause to the end that the life of the eternal truth might be manifest and that the mans understanding might be planted into the same life therefore do we through our service of the holy word as by an inclination of the Love take (n) 2 Cor. 10. a captive all understandings under the obedience of the Love 8. To that end namely for the Love and the good lifes sake shall men also hear and believe the service of the holy and gracious word administred under the Love But with their spirits they (o) Isa 53. 2 Cor. 6. b shall depart out of the evil or that which is perditionable and enter into the vertue of the life 9. For the outward writings or speakable words which be testified or ministred unto the man out of the inclination of the Love to do him service and stretch to the incorporating of him into the vertuous nature are all figurings forth of the upright righteousness and godly word who in their service do go before the man and guide him to the living book of the Lamb which lieth hidden in (p) Apo. 12. a the Ark of witness namely within our hearts and consciences for there inwardly in the spirit is the life of God formed or written according to the truth 10. And that same life of God is the (r) Apo. 5. a book which John saw in his Revelation which was full of writing both without and within and which also was shut or made fast with seven seals for which books sake John wept because there was none found worthy neither in heaven nor upon the earth to open to read nor to look into the same book 11. Howbeit in the midst among the Elders or wise there stood a Lamb in manner as though it was killed and he took the book unto him and all prophesies testified of him with triumph and joy saying Thou (s) Apo. 5. d art worthy to receive the book and to open his seals for thou being killed hast bought us with thy blood 12. John hath also heard a voice of many Angels (t) Dan. 7. b Apo. 5. b whose number is many thousands of thousands saying with a mighty great voice the the Lamb that was killed is worthy to receive power riches wisdom strength honour praise and blessing 13. Behold this living book of the Lamb is a book of spirit and life and (u) 2 Cor. 3. a not a book of the sinful flesh and death for it is the (x) Eph. 5. c Apo. 14. commonalty of the Lamb in the spirit 14. Which Lamb is the living being of God it self the which was driven to (y) Isa 53. b 1 Pet. 2. a suffer and the book of life occasioned to be shut (z) Apo. 5. a with seven seals because of the great Dragon which is the (a) Apo. 12. murderly beast namely the self wisdom of the flesh unto (b) Dan. 7. Apo 11.13 a whom power hath been permitted to kill the Saints of God but the same power is now even in the uttermost or last time (c) Apo. 17.19 20. b taken away from her for God showeth his power and dominion against the same in the restoring or setting up again of his Saints (d) Eze. 37. Dan. 12. Apo. 2. whom he raiseth from the death 15. Verily now it shall no longer prevail with the Dragon how murderly soever the beast be neither shall her Kingdom which is full of abominations prosper any longer for her (e) Apo. 18.
to the truth know his God in the life and so might worship (z) Deut. 4. a 10. b Math. 4. c and serve him only which (a) Psa 14 b Acts 14. Apo. 14. hath made heaven and earth the Sea and the water Fountains through whose power the elements be moved and out of whom the upright wisdom of the wise the true light of the illuminated ones and the resurrection of the righteous life springeth which God is also the perfection the Love (b) Ioh. 17. c 1 Ioh. 4. b or the true being or essential power it self unto whom only appertaineth all praise laud honour for evermore Amen Take it to heart A PRAYER OF H. N. Even as he hath prayed the same unto Almighty God through the holy spirit of love according to the estate and representation of the fallen man corrupt and earthly weak man O God who livest for ever thou which in times past wast a comfort to the sorrowful in their affliction laid on them through the dominion of the violent power of Pharaoh and didst (a) Exo. 3. 12 13 14. Psa 78. b. f lead thy people out of the power of his afflictions delivering them from the hand of those that cruelly raigned over them and didst shew how that thou wert a Judge over thy flock which thou hadst chosen to thy self making known unto them (b) Ex. 20.34 Deut. 5.10.30 what thy will was and didst set up among them the banner of righteousness namely (c) Ex 35.40 the Tabernacle of thy Sanctuary and madest thy holy habitation amongst them and didst not suffer them to want any thing according as thou hadst said unto their Fathers and promised unto them by the mouth of thy holy Prophets 2. And unto the heathen which knew not thy holy name thou (d) Isa 11 13. Ro. 9 11.15 hast also in times past shewed thy mercy according to the Covenant of thy holy Promises which thou hadst made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob. 3. Now therefore O God comfort comfort us likewise in our miseries for thy (e) Isa 38. b holy names sake for when thou makest up thy self to raign over thine enemies then must they all be affraid and bow down themselves before the Authority and power of thy Almightyness 4. But we O God are well worthy of thy chastisement (f) Deu. 27.28 Dan. 9. for our sins cause for in all these thy former works proceeded out of the entire or hearty mercifulness of thy love borne towards us we have shewed our selves to be an unthankful people declining from thy word of life and like an ungodly people have estranged our selves from thy truth walking in error (g) Rom. 1. c according to the mind of our own delight and been ignorant in that thing thy will requireth 5. But now O Lord which art the God of all the world (h) Psal 106. Ier. 14. Lam 3. Dan. 9. we acknowledge and confess our own offences and also the falling away of our Fathers and seeking daily for thy wayes we do enquire what thy will is 6. Wherefore O God remember now thy mercy like as in times past and thy Covenant which thou hast made with thy people in times past and turn thee again unto us that thou mayest be known among all people as an eternal true God of life and of righteousness 7. O how often is my heart grieved because that there is neither (i) Hos 4. faithfulness nor love or at least wise very little anywhere to be found and for that the righteousness is so utterly turned back (k) Isa 59. b or refused in all places 8. Oh what a number of diseased (l) Isa 1. a and wounded ones are there and how many are there that do now mourn yea suffer grief and wofulness or anguish because (m 4 Esd 5.14 15. Math 24. b. the iniquity raigneth so exceedingly and for that the number of the upright and faithful ones are so few 9. Oh how long shall my soul rest in longing after that whereunto my heart hath a lust and whereunto it is drawn or inflamed with fervent affection 10. Oh where abideth now the (n) Is 60 61. Mal. 4. a rising up of thy glory O thou pure love of God the Father wherein all peace truth faithfulness and righteousness standeth comprehended 11. I have seen thee afar off and also neer by (o) Cant. 4.5 thou hast peirced me through with the bright beams of thy upright righteousness and amiable delightfulness but my soul suffereth so much the more grief for my spirit cannot be satisfied so long as thou only hast not the upper hand or dominion over us and that we do not with our mind approach or draw neer unto thee essentially nor become incorporated wholly or in every part unto thy being and substance 12. For we find by experience that without thee O pure Love there is no bread of satisfying (p) Isa 41.45 Ier. 14. a nor any water of refreshing because all delectable sweetness is contained in thee 13. In thee is milk and hony wine and (q) Hos 2. Ioel 2. oyl also riches joy and life 14. In thee are likewise (r) Isa 33. Ephes 3. Col. 2. all treasures of wisdom the holy knowledge of the secretness of God and the mysterie of the Christ of God for Christ is at thy right hand as a living salvation for all those that come unto thee 15. Whosoever also seeketh Christ without thee (s) Joh. 7. d he shall not find him and whosoever hath not thee he hath neither Law of righteousness nor yet Christ 16. Therefore art thou likewise O Love the (t) Ioh. 13 14 15. 1 Tim. 1. 1 Ioh. 4. band of perfection wherein all salvation consisteth and the last sign or token of the true righteousness wherein all Gods Prophets have witnessed 17. Also no man cometh (u) Ioh. 6.9 unto Christ except thou draw him for thou O Love art the fountain of all vertue 18. But who are those that love thee thou allurest all men doubtless but who yieldeth himself to be drawn by thee thou (x) Apo 3. c knockest daily but who letteth thee in (y) Prov 1. c Isa 65 66. a thou callest indeed but who heareth thee thou sayest 19. Come hither to this (z) Isa 55. water all ye that are thirsty ye which have no mony come buy both wine and milk Come buy that ye may have to eat of free-cost and not for money nor ware Wherefore bestow ye your money for that which feedeth not and your labour for that which any way satisfies not Hearken unto me so shall ye eat of the best and your soul shall have a delight in the fatness or plenty incline your ears hitherward and come unto me hearken so shall your soul be healed 20. O God who thinketh upon this that thy Promises are that we should be assembled unto thee in the Love (a) Ioh. 17.
thy holy name stand submitted to thy Love and her service and turn them away from all violence and abuse And that the world may to thy praise be inhabited in the Love and in all truth and all men become turned unto thee (n) Exo 18.33 Math 3. Luk. 3 a in true repentance for their sins and the horrible plagues of ungodlyness which are (o) Apo. 18. a come over the world for the sins cause might cease 55. O God let us now find grace before thine eyes like as in times past the (p) Ioh 3. b City of Nineveh did on the which thou shewedst mercy that we do not all perish (q) 4 Esd 2 2 Pet 2. a like unto Sodom and Gomorrah for our sins are become many and grown to be (r) 3 Esd 8. b abundant even beyond all measure 56. O Lord and God O heavenly Father give ear I beseech thee to the crying of the poor (s) Psa 25.27.86 b and lead us in thy wayes gather us together on thy pathes and unite our hearts into (t) Col. 3. b one band of Love (u) Ioh. 17. c as one in all and all in one with love equity and righteousness and cleanse our (x) Psa 51. b Eze. 36. minds from all ungodly being or nature and destroy or break in sunder (y) Psa 1.33 all ungodly counsel that iniquity may not raign for ever 57. For wherefore should the darkness possess thine inheritance and still unhallow and lay wast thy holy place Temple or Tabernacle Should the house of the Devil also still be builded and thy house and holy city continue waste and ruinated more and more 58. O God behold how that the (z) Isa 64. c dwelling of thy Sanctuary lyeth overthrown and destroyed for in thy Temple (a) Lam. 4. Matth. 24. a Luk. 19. c there is not one stone that remaineth standing one upon another but are all broken and scattered from each other and upon the holy place of thy Sanctuary are now the (b) Dan. 9. Matth. 24. Mark 13. b abominations of desolation raigning 59. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou City of Peace of the great and mighty King how art thou grown (c) Lam. 1 2 3 4. now to suppression and contempt when shalt thou yet O thou holy City be repaired or (d) Isa 58. c 61. a builded up again to an everlasting stability and receive thy peaceable children of Israel into thy dwelling 60. O Sion thou hill of pure Beauty when shall thy contempt as also the Heathens deâ—iding thee have an end And when shalt thou O forsaken one be comforted again to (e) Isa 49 5â— 66. the end that thou which hast a long time been unfruitful mightest become fruitful again and that thy dried up brests might give forth their milk again (f) Isa 61. â—â— that Kings might suck thy brests the Counsel Lords learn thy peace thy children dwell at Jerusalem and rejoyce their in thee O Sion 61. But when as I now O Jerusalem and Sion do think upon thy contempt and suppression then doth my soul suffer (g) La. 1.2 c great sorrow and grief for thy sake and mine eyes gush over with tears for very pitty and compassion sake towards thee that thou hast so long time layn wast and supprest 62. But when I think upon the Promises touching thy restoring and upon (h) Isa 54.60 61 62. the garnishing of beauty which is coming unto thee O Jersusalem and Sion in holyness and righteousness and that thy children shall be taught by the (i) Ier 31. d Ioh. 6. a Lord then doth my soul refresh or comfort her self a little 63. For the Law shall (k) Isa 2. a Mich. 4. a proceed out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem He shall come from thence which shall turn away (l) Isa 59. Rom. 11. Ioel 2 3. ungodlyness from Jacob that the children of Iacob may have their dwelling at Jerusalem for ever according to the Promises 64. For the Lords Election is at Jerusalem (m) Psa 78.87 Isa 2. Mich. 4. and even there upon the Hill of Sion hath God foreseen him an holy house which shall be exalted above all hills or high places because that his name may still be worshipped there and that (n) Isa 56. a Mal. 1.3 a his offering may alwayes and for evermore be offered there for his house which he hath chosen to himself is (o) Mat 21. b a house of Prayer and of holy offering 65. An upright mind towards thee in our inwardness (p) Psa 34.51 Isa 57.66 A contrite heart and a lowly spirit shalt not thou O God despise For thou wilt enter into the same also make thy (q) Ioh. 14. c dwelling even there and sanctifie thy name from generation to generation for evermore it is very true Take it to heart Charitas extorsit per H. N. FINIS Of the Eight VERTVES OR Godlynesses whereout all Vertues or Godlynesses do proceed or spring 1. MY beloved Here have I out of the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ witnessed and set forth unto you eight Vertues or Godlynesses and possess or endow you therewithal or leave the same â—â—…â—nd for you as a good Testament to a perpetual Memorial oâ— Remembrance Deut. 30.31 2. For that cause is also my exhortation heartily unto you all that ye would continually with diligence give your endeavor to ensue or follow after the same eight Vertues or Godlynesses and to exercise your selves therein obediently and even so according to the requiring of the holy and gratious word of the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ Psal 83. Eph 4. Col. 3. proceed and grow forth from the one Vertue or Godlyness unto another For out of the same eight Vertues or Godlynesses proceedeth or springeth all upright righteousness love and peace 3. For that cause let all your exercise be for to live and and walk in the same going forth from the one Vertue or Godlyness into another Deut. 4.30 31. Psal 83. till unto the perfectest 4. The first Vertue or the beginning of the same eight Vertues or Godlynesses is the Lust Pleasure or the Will of the Lord. 5. For which Lusts cause 1 Cor. 13.1 or Will of the Lord because the same might obtain an essential shape in you ye shall altogether forsake Math. 16. Mark 8. hate and leave all your own lusts pleasures and will and give over your selves wholly to the Lust or Will of the Lord Luk. 9 14. Ioh. 12. Math. 26.39 Mark 14.36 Luk. 22.42 and to the Elders or dayed-ones in the same for to live and walk obediently only according to the Lords Lust or Will according to the Ordinance of the Elders or dayed-ones in the same for to live walk obediently only according to the Lords lust or will according to the Ordinance of the Elders or dayed-ones in the same 6. When ye now
of Art But that they would become all of one minde with us in the Love to the end that every one might likewise through the Love be partaker with us of the Grace and mercy which God is now extending on us little and poor ones through his Love 8. For unto us doth God reveal the health and life of our salvation out of his heavenly being and hath called and chosen us thereunto because that we should be his ministers in his Love to the eâ—d to reveal even so through us under the service of obedience in the Love his secret mysteries according to the Law according to the Prophesying of the Prophets and according to the Godly Word of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 9. (d) Act. 2. b. All which former services have to a unity under the Love Prophesied on this time and service of Love for that the glory of God might be great in the last time through the Love And so the Peace become prepared on earth according to the Promises 10. Therefore let no man have his regard bent either to the method or artificial skilfulness or yet to the unskilfulness of Art But unto that whereunto our service of the gratious Word extendeth namely to the Love and to let every one become assembled with us into one Spirit of the lovely being under the obedience of the Love that the service of Love may to an unity of peace be spread abroad over all the world 11. For that cause O yee single-minded good willing ones to the righteousness apply you all with a good will and an humble heart to the Love and her service And (f) Act. 2 d. permit your selves to be baptized or washed in the name of the Love to the forgiveness of your sins that ye may even so be renewed refreshed and reformed through the Love and her service Suffer not in any wise (g) Math. 18. a. Io. 3. a. the deceitful slights nor the wicked thoughts to have any dwelling place in you But through the service of Love and of the gracious Word become you turned about to the obedient and little children that the Love may be planted in you with meekness 12. Unto this same service of Love see that ye become all agreeably minded For it shall all perish and consume away to nothing namely all manner of knowledge and God-services which are come or risen up before this day or light of the Love (i) 1 Cor. 13 b. But the Love shall not perish nor yet cease but their service shall continue for ever 13. Whosoever likewise do not assemble them under the love they shall be scattered abroad For the Love is the Light of the world (k) Ioh. 8. b. whoso follows after her walketh not in darkness 14. The Love is the gracious word of the Lord or (l) Ioh. 6. f. bread of Life which is come unto us out of heaven For the Love is essentially the very true good (m) 1 Tim. 1. a. the head-sum of the commandment (n) Col. 3. b. and the bond of perfection 15. Through which Love the secret Treasures of God the Father (o) Eph. 1. b. 2. a. b. and the abundant Riches of his spiritual and heavenly goods be revealed 16. Whosoever then doth not apply himself to the Love but refuseth her or despiseth her service and is grown self-wise or self-minded against the same by means of his aspiring or loftie knowledge such a one remaineth a Bastard or a Stranger from the inheritance of God and cannot also inherit the Riches of Christ 17. But the children of Love are the upright heirs of God For they are of a good nature and disposition namely (p) Col. 3. a. meek-minded loving and peaceable 18. Even such be all those likewise which do with humble hearts submit them under the Love and are obedient to the requiring of her service 19. And though they be laden with many sins (q) 1 Ioh. 1. yet are their sins forgiven them and blotted out through the Love and in their repentance for their sins they walk with a good conscience both before God and men 20. Behold such is the service or office of the Love The Almighty God vouchsafe to enable and strengthen us thereunto through his Love Amen THE FIGURE Of the true and Spiritual Tabernacle of God Witnessed and Figured forth by H. N. according to the true being or form of the inward Temple or House of God and that in every respect according to thar form even as the very essence or being thereof was by the holy Spirit of the Lord revealed and declared unto him out of the heavenly Truth The first Chapter FOrasmuch as my inclination had a long time stood bent towards the service of Love And that I had longed even with a fervent desire that the true God-service might once flourish out of the Love namely to the peace and salvation of all people and to a true declaring of the spiritual Tabernacle of God in the holy of his holy ones Therfore became the true Tabernacle or (a) Lev. 26.26 b 2 Cor. 6 b. Apoc 21. a. habitation of God by grace out of the Love of God the Father revealed unto me in the Spirit through Gods heavenly revelation to the end that I should consider of or note therein the true God-service which serveth to the blessing of the earth and to the peace salvation of all people 2. In the which I at the first thought not upon the noting or marking of any thing else but only of the most holy and most pure being (b) Ex 26 d. 40. a b. c. Heb. 9. a the mercy seat and the Ark of the Covenant together with the manifold glorious riches and sumptuous garnishing All which I beheld in their pure and perfect beauty 3. Through which Revelation proceeding out of the heavenly being I rejoyced me far beyond measure But there came not into my remembrance so presently at the first to consider or note the holy and his daily offering or God service and the fore front nor yet the service of the Levites and Priests 4. But when I once remembred the holy of the same Tabernacle and his service of the holy offering extending to the forgiveness of sins then turned I my self to the same for to behold the daily offering for God-service ministred therein because I might see and also understand the daily offering in the holy and the Altar whereon the debt-offering sin-offering death-offering is offered burnt to a forgivness of sins 5. I also noted the fore-front the which is a difference (c) Eze. 44. a. b. betwixt the holy of the Tabernacle of God and the unholy of the uncircumcised heathen-ship 6. In which forefront the Levites and Priests in their service and in their requiring of the righteousness are to (d) Ex. 27 c Lev. â— b Num. 16. b Eze. 43 44 prepare the daily offering betwixt the holy and the unholy
the sin whereby (p) 1 Pe. 4. a to draw and arm us to the same mind and so we to offer up our sins through the daily offering in the holy and to burn the same upon his holy Altar The which is his cross or patience in the holy 10. So even thus doth Christ through himself namely through (q) Rom. 9. a Eph. 2. a. Col. 1 c. 2. b. the incorporating us into his death of the Cross prepare the life and peace for us making us free and washing (r) Heb. 10. c. us from the evil conscience And so we obtain through him in that manner a free entrance into the holy for to accomplish the God-service in the holy to inherit the abundant riches of God the Father and the everlasting life The which cometh unto us plentifully and appeareth in cleerness if that we for our parts do (t) Mat. 16. c Luk. 9.14 c daily take up our Cross with Christ follow after him in the holy and so become (u) Rom. 6 a baptized in his death Rom. 4.5.8 a. to be an offering for the sin whereby to be (x) Col. 2. b. justified from the sin through Faith that meerly by Grace not by Works 11. Behold such a manner of offering and daily God-service in the holy is no doubt very convenient for us to use and perform For so then namely in the performance of the daily offering or God-service in the holy there appeareth or cometh to us in the spirit the spiritual high Priest or Christ according to the Spirit who is not of this earth neither of flesh and blood but of the heavenly God-head the same high (y) Heb. 7 8 9 10. Priest is also very needful for us because he is faithful and remaineth for ever 12. Whose service or high Priests office is not outward according to the manner of the foregoing service of the Elders administred among the unregenerate or unrenwed men as in the letter and with the letter or with speakable words but his service cometh to pass in the new birth of the inward spiritual and heavenly man (z) Heb. 7 8 9 10. with the ministration of the spiritual and heavenly goods according to the spiritual and heavenly Priest-office 13. And to that end namely to bring men to the new birth of the inward spiritual heavenly man have the outward ministrations of the Elders the foregoing with the man (a) Gal 3. c. 4 5 a under the which he to the training up of him in all good nurture and order is kept and taught even unto the new birth in Jesus Christ through the which he doth then likewise live and walk in (b) Luk. 1. g. all upright righteousness both inwardly before God and outwardly among men and to such an upright (c) Ioh. 3. a. Titus 3. b. birth or the outward services or administrations of the Godly testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love a foregoing office or (d) 2 Co. 3. a light unto the man which witnesseth declareth and holdeth forth the godliness unto him as in a Glass And so then the man if he believe the requiring of the fore-going service and desire to stand obedient thereunto becometh prepared thereby to the same godliness and taught to the Kingdom of heaven And that is the same ministration which (e) Gal 3 c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. reacheth to the spiritual and true being in Jesus Christ And it is the upright Priests office of the Elders of the holy understanding which in its office or service hath the foregoing to the (f) Ioh. 3. a. 1 Cor. 4. b. Gal. 4. b. new birth in Jesus Christ as is already said which services are all witnesses and directions unto the very true and spiritual office in the Spirit And although the same services being ministred in the letter and through the letter or serviceable word do bring (g) 2 Co. 3. b a great illumination and clearness unto the unilluminated ones yet are those same for all that no more but a serviceable shaddow proceeding from the spiritual and heavenly service of the great glory and cleerness of Christ in the inward being and form 14. For Christ according to the Spirit hath (h) Heb. 3.8.9 a. an higher function or office or a more excellent service and a greater lighâ— or clearness then hath all flesh and blood writing letters or speakable words For he is a Minister or an high Priest in the Spirit (i) Heb. 8 a. 9. a. b. c. as a Minister of the spiritual and heavenly goods as is before said For he himself is the (k) Heb 1. a. right heir in all the riches of God his eternal and Almighty Father 15. Behold this high Priest is spirit and life the true (l) Isa 9. a King and a faithful Lord a peaceable prince And not this or that without us But he (m) Act. 17. c is in us all which believe on him according to the truth And we all which abide stedfast in the faith have the life through him who is neither unfaithful nor falling away like unto a man For he doth not shrink nor fall away either from us or from his Father but through the Love (n) Mat. 28. c Ioh. 14 b. continueth with us and with his Father for ever 16. Also he is not changeable in his office or ministration like as are the children of men who do one while setup one thing for an obedience or for a God-service and that altogether without the service of Christ and his Love and then again some other thing which directeth not to the true life of Christ nor unto the upright being of his Love 17. But his service will and commandement is both now presently and at all times like as it was in the beginning and it shall so remain unchangeable for evermore For his Commandment Will and Precept is (o) Da. 6.10 Math 22. d Ioh 15 b. 1 Tim. 1. a nothing else but the love and the life of godliness And that is the old commandment from the beginning (p) Ioh. 2. a And it is the new commandment as being for to come or for to be made manifest in this same last time in the obedience of the requiring of the service of Love 18. Therefore seeing now that this high Priest which is invisible but yet is known in the spirit hath such an unchangeable commandment or service among us in the ministration of the service of his Love So standeth he likewise firm and immovable towards us in the same service to an everlasting reconcilement for our sins as a true (q) 1 Tim. 2 a Heb. 9. b mediator betwixt God and us 19. He himself also is partaker with us in suffering touching (r) Heb. 2. b 5. a. our griefs and purgeth us in his service of Love through himself and through none other or any other services 20. Therefore hath God likewise sworn unto
shall come to pass saith God in the last dayes when the end of the (c) Luk. 21. suppression of Ierusalem is come and the fulness of the heathen is come in or performed (d) Isa 59. c Rom. 17. because that all Israel in that sort become saved according to the Promises 2. Wherein God now sheweth that he is not forgetful of his Covenant as he hath (e) Gen. 12 13 15 17 21 22. made the same with Abraham Isaac and Iacob and that he is a God of Abraham and the God of his seed for evermore Through whom he hath in times past made known his holy name and will also in the last time make it known therethrough according to the Promises And they shall effectually perceive that (f) Deut. 3. d Isa 43 44 45 48. he the God of Israel is only the Lord and that besides him there is no God more and that all heathen that fear not the same God nor yet do learn to keep his Laws Statutes and Riâ—es are an ignorant people without understanding even as hitherto it hath appeared among many multitudes of people or heathen who through their own wisdom how ingenious and through-lighted or cleer of understanding soever they have been have (g) 1 Cor. 1. b. not known or understood Gods holy wisdom 3. Therefore hath it pleased God to (h) Isa 29. 1 Cor. 1. b shame the world in her wisdom to incompass or go beyond all chosen religions in their self-framed holyness and to save his people through himself because he would establish them all in his Love to become a Temple for his holy dwelling In the which (i) 1 Cor 3. Heb. 1. a God doth behold his best beloved whom he hath alwayes loved from the beginning namely the very (k) 2 Cor. 4. Col. 1. b like being of his God-head the which the God of life hath formed in the man from the beginning 4. But alass this same is unknown unto many or they are by reason (l) Gen. 3. a. of their fall and estranging from God so covered with the darknesses that they cannot according to the spirit of the inward man behold the being or real form of their God But when as the man through the hearing and believing of the gracious word turneth him in the spirit (m) 2 Cor. 3. b. 4. a unto God then becometh the fore-skin of his flesh or the covering of the sin put off from his heart For (n) Ioh. 4 b 8. c. 14. a. God is a Spirit a Light or a Life and is not otherwise known and beheld but in his own spirit light and life 5. Now when the man turneth him as aforesaid thereunto under the obedience of his gracious Word and service of Love the same like being cometh unto him in the spirit then (o) Eph. 5. b is the Image of God raised up in him and awakened unto him in the spirit 6. That same verily is the life whereof the Kingly Prophet David hath spoken in time past where he saith (p) Psa 17. b I will behold thy face in righteousness I will be satisfied when thine Image awaketh 7. When the man turneth himself in the spirit (q) Eze 18 d. Ioel 2. b. unto God as also humbleth himself with all his heart to the holy and gracious Word and is good of will to the obeying of the requiring of his service of Love then appeareth to him the difference between the (r) Lev. 10. b Eze. 44. c holy and unholy 8. Now when the man turneth himself away from the unholy of the uncircumcised hearts and turneth him obediently to the holy or to Gods sanctuary of all God-fearing and circumcised hearts and wholly gives himself to enter into the same and that so (s) Pro. 1. a Eccl. 1. b. 2. a the fear of the highest God gets a shape in him then doth the right departing out from all heathenishness and the entrance into the forefront of the true Tabernacle of God come to pass even there with the same man For he goeth out of the uncircumcision into the circumcision of the (t) Ier. 4 a foreskin of his heart and receiveth in that sort through the service of the holy and gracious Word Gods Covenant of circumcision in the flesh 9. In which service of the holy and gracious Word ministred in the fear of God the fore-skin or covering of the darknesses wherewith all heathen are covered or grown uncircumcised The true fore-front of the holy and true Tabernacle of God is the turning unto God in the fear of God and so through the service of the holy and gracious word to separate ones self from all heathenish misnurture or to turn away or circumcise ones heart from all wickedness which fore-front in his service is the upright circumcision which maketh the right difference between the holy and unholy and betwixt the circumcised ones the Lords people and the uncircumcised or heathen is (u) Isa 25. 2 Cor. 3. put off The which is the laying away of the (x) 2 Pet. 2.4 a. Heb. 12. a sin in the flesh whereby to shew due obedience according to the Law of the Lord namely to fear God uprightly to desire the good with fervency of heart and to circumcise or purge the heart and all whatsoever is manly The which is (y) Rom. 2. Phil. 3. Col. 2. b the true circumcision that God regardeth 10. Finally that same is the fore-front of the true Tabernacle of God and the right difference (z) Lev. 10. b Eze. 44. betwixt the circumcised and the uncircumcised heathen Betwixt those that fear God and are good of will and those that fear not God and are evil of will and (a) Jer. 7. c. 11. a. 13 18. so live according to the sensuality or self-mindedness of their own desires or according to all manner of light-mindedness as that are without rule loose unbridled or wilde of heart and do neither love nor obtain any wisdom nor any holy knowledge whose hearts take hold of nothing else but all manner of filthiness 11. But through the fear (b) Prov. 1. a Eccl. 1. c. 2. a of God by means of the circumcision of the heart through the good will the man cometh to the godly wisdom and holy knowledge and so the fear of God driveth him to turn away (c) Rom. 8. a from the sin And then proceeding forward even to the holy he becometh justified from the sin through the Faith in the daily taking (d) Lu. 9 14. c up of his Cross in like suffering with Christ till unto (e) Ro. 6. a. 8. b. the death of the sin which is the daily offering in the holy 12. But now when the man is turned (f) Eccl. 2. a unto God with a good will in Godly fear and under the obedience of the Love is coupled or joyned to a Commonalty of the Saints of God then is he departed out of
for in that same service doth the resurrection of the righteous life from the death come to pass or is wrought and that is the joy of life proceeding out of the heavenly being in the Kingdom of God the Father with Christ in the everlasting life to an everlasting blessing and that is the perfection of all that which goeth before and the most holy of the true Tabernacle of God and Christ 5. This high Priest in the most holy namely in the Love the everlasting life and the perfection is a King (m) Psa 110. Heb. 5. a. b. c 7. c. 8. a and Priest for ever according to the order of Melchizedeck as an everlasting Saviour unto to his people to their eternal reconciliation with God the Father and he himself doth through himself herit them or make them heirs in the everlasting life and that is the establishing of the true Testament which continueth firm for ever before God the Father 6. For through the light of the same Testament is Gods Law Ordinance or Doctrine (n) Psa 40. a Isa 51. a Ier. 31. d Heb. 8.10 planted in the hearts of the Believers and given unto them in their minds And God remembreth no more of all their former sins and that is the establishing of the promises of God the Father and of the belief of Jesus Christ 7. Among those children of the New Testament or holy Gospel the vail is (o) Isa 25. a 2 Cor 3. b put away from the most holy and the precious garnishings of the spiritual and heavenly goods declared and brought unto them as an everlasting heritage of God and Christ and they namely the children of the New Testament be taught in that sort to the Kingdom of God and made heirs in the everlasting life (p) Ro. 12. b Eph 4. a Col. 3. b 1 Pet. 3 a and have nor use any thing but Love Peace and Unity one with other and a good conscience in Jesus Christ through the holy Ghost the Love of God the Father which God (q) Rom. 5. a Tit. 3. b hath poured abundantly into their hearts 8. Behold (r) Apo. 12 a that is the true Jerusalem which descended from heaven and also the most holy of the true Tabernacle of God which is prepared of God from everlasting and which by Gods grace is come unto us in this same last time In the which Sion is established (s) Isa 2. a Mich. 4. a out of the which the Law and the word of the Lord proceedeth (t) Isa 1 c Zach. 8. c And unto the which all people which have a lust toward God shall assemble them and rejoyce them therein according to the Promises For it is the Fountain of life full of all vertues and the undisturbable (u) Dan. 2. Kingdom full of all Love peace and godliness wherein that song (w) Apo. 19. a Allelu-jah is sung for an everlasting song of laud unto God 9 Behold this Kingdom full of all pure beauty full of light and life and full of all delightfulness and riches of God the Father and of Christ hath been long hidden and unknown for the sins cause of the people by reason of which sin the children of men have not beheld this glorious cleerness neither can they endure the beholding of the same delightful cleerness 10 Because now of this blindness of the darkness which hath covered the earth because of the unwillingness of the manly generation therefore hath the eter rich bountiful God been forced to reserve or keep secret all those things in the holy and heavenly beâ—ng (x) Eph. 1. b which riches of God the Father are now notwithstanding coming unto all good willing ones which love the peace for an everlasting heritage according to the Promises 11. With which beauty of the heavenly riches of God God is now in the last time a drawing of us all unto him to wit all we which are good-willing towards him and his righteousness and which for the peaces cause do submit our selves under the Love whereby to make known unto us through his Love and through the declaring of his heavenly riches his holy will to an health to the earth and to the honour and glory of God and verily now in the last times to a joy and peace in all love to the end to prepare in that manner under the obedience of the Love an everlasting peace upon earth according to the Promises 12. Therefore (y) Deu. 32. a rejoyce you ye heavens and earth which hope upon God For behold (z) Isa 62. the salvation of God is now come that it may be revealed to the (a) Psa 112. a Eph. 1. b Heb. 1. b renewing of all things that are waxen old for (b) Isa 61 66 2 Pet. 3 b Apo 21. a the new heaven and the new earth wherein righteousness dwelleth and which perpetually continue before God upon which men have waited according to the Promises do now come with triumph in glory 13. In which very same time (c) Isa 28. a the Lord will be a lovely crown and glorious garland unto his people that remain over and a spirit of equity unto those that set in Judgement and a strength unto those which come again from the battle to the gates 14. Even thus verily in those daies shall God perform all good towards Israel and establish among them all what he hath promised and covenanted to them in times past by the mouth of his Prophets 15. For the chastisement executed for the sins cause over the Lords people and over the miserable and comfortless ones over (d) Isa 54. a whom all tempests do happen or come shall cease and they shall revive all beauty peace and delightfulness and be (e) Psal 45 a 1 Ioh. 2 c annointed with the oyl or ointment of joy for the Scripture the Law and the Prophets shall be fulfilled and not broken and it shall come to pass over the world and also over the Lords people even as it is written thereof The Lord grant us mercy and lead us into his wayes Amen The eleventh Chapter HEre have we figured forth unto you ye dearly beloved a certain circle In the which we have described unto you in writing and figuratively set forth both the way of the heathenship or of the uncircumcised ones (a) Mat. 7. b Luk. 13. c which leadeth or reacheth to the everlasting death and condemnation whose death being or estate is the strange being before or in the sight of the Lords people Israel As also contrary wise the simple and plain way (b) 4 Esd 7 a Math. 7. of the good-willing hearts to the righteousness which leadeth to the entrance of the true Tabernacle of God in the spirit and reacheth to the everlasting life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cursing Blessing The Inward Man Through the righteousness of the life is the man simple of heart humbled to the wisdom vndâ—â— sâ—â—â—â—â—ng to
the vpright virtue 〈◊〉 â—atient in the â—â—pâ— to the godlyness â—â—â—k minded faythfull and cometh also with the feare peace â— joy to God to â—â—â—vâ—nly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 everlasting The forth goâ—ng in the heathenisâ— impurity bringeth the man to the six of Death The forth goâ—ng in the feare of God the Obediâ— to the ordinance of the lord 〈◊〉 bringeth the man to the Righteousness of the Life The sin of death bringeth the man into all Ignorance hipocrisy 〈◊〉 falsehood into all chosen holyness according to the pleasure of the 〈◊〉 and is therein â—ratefull bitter and cruel and also dispaireth and so â—o maâ—â— to the destructionable calamity and to the divel hell and Condemnation (c) Psal 4 a 2. If the man now have by Gods grace gotten a good will to enter into the upright way directing to the everlasting life then must he with his heart (d) Isa 51 b 2 Cor 6 b Apo. 18 a depart out of the heathenship or uncircumcision and out of the straying being or nature yea from all what is not any being of God also separate himself from the darkness and turn him (e) Isa 55. a Ier 18.25 a 35. b Ezek 18 d. Ioel 2. b to the Lord his God namely to the God of life the (f) Ioh 1. true light full of light and life who hath created both him and all what is an thing (g) Luk. 1.2 b. c. likewise fear the same living God and circumcise his heart from (h) Deu. 10. b. 30 a all manner of darkness namely from all abominations of desolation which do separate the man from the living God 3. See or annoint your eyes with eye-salve that ye may see (k) Deu 1â— b. Ier. 4. a circumcise your selves or put away the foreskin of your hearts and continue not stiff-necked for that ye may rightly understand and know the true life which is a life unto you and may live therein 4. For even therefore because that the life might now in the same day through our (l) Deu 30. b Eccles 25. a most holy servlce of the Love be understood from the death and the light known from the darkness So have we out of the Love to the righteousness described and figuratively set forth even in the most evident manner here in the same Circle both these wayes both of death and of the life and all the ends whereunto each one hath his passage or course The which the inward man entreth into or liveth there whether it (m) Exo. 18. Rom. 6.8 a be then the deadly sins extending to the eternal death or else the righteousness to the everlasting life 5. Hereunto next adjoyning followeth the Figurative description or declaration of the inward Tabernacle of God according to the spirit after the which we do treat at length in large manner of both these natures which do bring in either the death or the life and we have likewise signified or marked out by writing the names both of the confused and of the Godly being or nature Take it to heart for it yieldeth to every one of us either the death or the life The twelfth Chapter THE true fore-front of the house of God or of the true Tabernacle (a) Deu. 10. c Eccles 1.26 is the fear of the living God serving to a turning away from the sin and from all heathenish foolishness Through whose service and through the obedience of the requiring thereof the man becometh circumcised in his heart in (b) Heb. 12. a 1 Pet. 24. a the laying away of the sin in the flesh and to the obtaining of the knowledge of the truth of God entreth into the way of peace Feare God The Way to the Truth In this same service of the holy and gratious word vnder the Obedience of the Love in the feare of God cometh to pass in the hart and minde the vpright repentance of the man to the living God and so walking in the fears of God he is circumcized of hart and is turned away from all the bewiching of the heathenish being that he may not be bewitched or taken with any destruction but be prepared to the entrance into the Sanctuary of God Jer 4. Eezek 4.4 wherefore repent you with all your hart in the spirit and feare the Everlasting invisible God which is the bgining to come to the Wisdome or the first entrance of the true Tabernacle or house of God in the spirit Whereof God himselfe is the Workman Turne ye not therefore from the lord in your hart nether trust in men nor take flesh for your Arme or Strength and so inherit the Cursing 2. For the same circumcision of the (c) Phi. 3. a Col. 2 b heart is the true circumcision which cometh to pass in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of man but of God Rom. 2. c. 3. Therefore (d) Ier. 4 a circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and be not hence forth stiffnecked any longer Deut. 10.8 4. Plough (e) Eze. 10. b upon the new and sow not among the thorns circumcise you unto the Lord and put away the foreskin of your hearts ye men of Judah and ye people at Jerusalem Jer. 4. a. 5. There shall none (f) Isa 52. Ioel. 3. come into the Lords sanctuary that hath an uncircumcised heart and an uncircumcised flesh Eze. 44. b. 6. Therefore shall the Lord thy God circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed (g) Deu. 10. c Math. 22. that thou maist love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live Deut. 30. 7. If thou (h) Deu. 10 c Isa 19 b wilt turn thee O Israel then turn uno me saith the Lord and if thou wilt put away (i) Jer. 15. b Zach 1. a Mal. 3. a thine abominations from before my face then shalt thou not be driven out but then shalt thou without hypocrisie swear rightly and holily as true as the Lord liveth and the heathen shall be blessed in him and make their boast of him Ier. 4. a. 8. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God (k) Mat. 4 b Luk. 4. a him shalt thou serve him shalt thou cleave unto or depend upon and swear by his name he is thy praise and thy God Deut. 6. a. 10. b 9. Behold the Heaven and the Heaven of all Heavens and the earth and all what is therein that (l) Psal 24. a Ier. 27 a is the Lords your God O Israel and Iudah (m) Deut. 4. d yet hath he had notwithstanding a lust only to your Fathers and loved them and chosen their seed after them namely you above all people Deut. 10 b. 10. O all ye people fear the same God for he is that God which hath created (n) Gen. 1. a Ioh. 1. a all whatsoever is any thing for truly all heathenish bewitching is nothing but foolishness Their wisdom and Laws are
openeth it self asunder when the foregoing service in the (e) Heb 9 c holy is accomplished 2. For the vail before the most holy cleerness of the Godly being of Jesus Christ and before his spiritual and heavenly goods departeth not away from before the cleerness of the most holy (d) Heb. 7 8 9.10 unless that the former God service in the holy have first his full course the which is the accomplishment of the daily God-service in the holy in the (e) Mat. 16. Luk. 9. c taking up of our Cross in the willing obedience to the belief for to continue therein obediently till (f) Mat. 10 2â— unto the end that is till unto the (g) Rom. 6. a Phil. 2. b. death of the Cross 3. Which death of the Cross of Christ and to be implanted or incorporated into Christ with the same like death and so (h) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. b. baptised or washed into his death is verily the (i) Math. 28. Mar. 16 b upright Baptism unto salvation wherein the man is rightly baptised or washed according to the truth of the holy Scriptures and so then (k) Rom. 6. a out of the same death regenerate (l) Ioh. 3. b or born again as a new Creature in Jesus Christ 4. For that the same (m) Tit. 3 b 1 Pet. 3. c baptism is the right font of regeneration serving to the washing away of the sin wherethrough the believing man who doth with Christ according to the flesh lay away mortifie and (n) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. c. 3. a bury the sin in the flesh is made alive again with Christ and also according to the spirit in upright (o) Luk 14. Eph. 1. a. 4. b righteousness and holyness and so through the second birth from the death or the resurrection of Christ he becometh holy and altogether renewed in the spirit of his inward mind and the (p) Act. 2. b. holy Ghost poured upon him in whom Christ also with the cleerness of his Godly being getteth (q) 2 Cor. 4. a Gal. 4. a a shape or form By the high priest Iesus Christ the new and liuing way is prepared for us through the â—imple that is to say his flesh Heb 10 5. And that same verily is (r) 1 Co. 13. b. 2 Cor. 3. b the cleerness of the true being and of the holy spirit of Jesus Christ where through one beholdeth and inheriteth in the spirit the Love in her vertuous nature that most holy as likewise the fulness of the riches of God the Father in the heavenly being or essential form 6. Behold and consider that is the true (s) Ioh. 11. c resurrection from the death according to the Scripture (t) Ioh. 17. a through the which the living God of heaven and his Christ is known according to the Spirit and Truth 7 It is true the (u) 1 Cor. 15. c. same is sown in the mortality and it riseth up in the immortality And God giveth it a body after his own pleasure and that of the seed of his own body 8. See that is the everlasting life against the death And the (x) Eze. 13. b 1 Cor. 15. f Heb. 2. b conquest or victory against the Hell and against all the enemies of the life whereby all those that follow after Christ have or possess that life and (y) Ioh. 10. b that in fulness 9. That is verily the (z) Heb. 3.4 a. Rest of life which God hath reserved or kept and is left in store for the children of God as a perpetual inheritance in the last time according to the Promises The fifteenth Chapter THE true most holy of the inward Tabernacle or Sanctuary of God is the Love for that (a) Rom. 13. Col. 3. b is the perfection (b) Rom. 6. a the incorporating into God in the spirit the (c) Ioh. 17. everlasting life (d) Col. 2. b and the fulness of all the riches of God 2. If one now be not (e) Ioh. 1. a born anew then can he not see the Kingdom of God Ioh. 3. 3. Therefore if there be a new (f) 1 Pet. 2. a Gal. 6. c creature in Christ then is the old (g) Isa 43. c Apo. 21. perished or worn out behold it is all become new but that altogether of God who (h) Col. 1. b hath reconciled us with himself through Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 5. 4. The Lord our Almighty God hath gotten (i) Apo 12. the Kingdom let us rejoyce and be glad and give (k) Ioh. 9. him the honour for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his bride hath made her ready and it is granted unto her to cloath her self with white glistering silk and the silk is the Justification of the Saints Apo. 19. 5. The Members or Commonalty of the body of Christ in the love which are (l) Act. 2. Rom 8. b Eph. 1.4 c sealed with Christ in the true being through the spirit of Love is (m) Apo. 21. a living Tabernacle of God wherein God liveth and worketh In the which the fore-front the holy and the most holy is revealed or made known according to the spirit 6. In which true Tabernacle of God also the (n) Deut. 32. song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb is sung and it soundeth even thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 EMÌ„ANVEL God and Man Loue The everlasting life the perfection in the service of the holy gratious word vnder the obedienâ— of the Love God with the man is vnited the man with the God head namely in the everlasting mind being all with God 〈◊〉 christ it is of one being with the man all what is manly be it the being will mind is then minded w th the God head so it is all one God the man one being one will one thought or spirit one hart one everlasting life Behold here the tabernacle of God is in men hee shall live in them they shal be his people hâ—e himselfe shal be with them for he is their God Apoca 21 the Kingdom of God shall not cvm with outward shew men shall not say Behold here or there it is for behold the Kingdom of God is inwardly in you Luke 17 this saith the Truth of God who loveth mee he shall keepe my words and my father shall love him and wee shall come to him and make an habitation in him John 14 7. Great and wonderful are thy Works Lord (o) Ier. 10. a thou Almighty God righteous and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Lord who should not fear thee and praise thy name for thou only (p) Levit. 19. art holy Apo. 15. 8. Consider now how that the mans knowledge is but (q) 1 Cor. 13 a peice-work or a thing unperfect the which among those that do yet remain divided or as broken off is
b or understand the truth except that he should first of all be or stand grounded therein according to the spirit and that the truth as a light of life repugning or striving against his lyes were risen up unto him in his obeying of the requiring of the service of Love For in that sort do we attain to know the truth from the lye the life from the death and the sin from the righteousness Because that we should rightly or according to the truth hate or reject that which is worthy to be hated or rejected and according to the truth in like manner love that which is worthy to be loved And so then might with a good understanding come to (s) Eph. 4 b the knowledge of the right commonalty of Saints whose names are written in the (t) Apo. 5.20 21. b living Book of the Lamb. 12. Which Book of the Lamb the mysticalness of God shall not alwayes remain shut but his seals shall be opened and the book being full of writing both without and within shall likewise be read to a comfort of life and to a perpetual Godlyness unto all those whose names are written in the Book of the Lamb whose bodies are killed even like unto the Lamb and (u) Apo. 6. b their blood cryeth vengeance in the height upon those that dwell upon the earth unto whom the recompence thereof shall be made by God and the Lamb. 13. For although the Lamb be killed yet shall he notwithstanding condemn the living ungodly ones and raise up those that are his (x) Eze 37. b Dan. 12 b Ioh 5. c 1 Cor. 15. f from the death out of the grave and make them Lordly and glorious with himself over all his enemies namely through his righteous judgement to the (y) Mat. 25. c 2 Pet. 3 b condemnation of all ungodly ones to the end that they may be rooted out and (z) Apo. 18 a that it may be recompenced again even as they have done unto the Saints of God 14. Even thus now from henceforth be reputed for a praise or an advancement unto all that are his whereby to keep the judgement against every one which hath brought forth ungodlyness judged Gods truth falsly and shewed no repentance and to exhalt and garnish his Saints above all what is upon the earth for (a) Apo 5 b 1 Pet 1. b the Lamb hath bought them with his blood out of all generations people and nations He hath made them Kings and Priests unto God and they shall raign upon the earth and triumph in joy everlastingly with the Lamb for they shall live for ever and not dye any more 15. And that same is the everlasting life which was preached in the world in times past to the end that men should believe on the same And which also cometh unto us in the last time in the resurrection of the righteous dead ones The seventeenth Chap. THerefore give ear O all ye that live upon the earth consider of the words of wisdom ye children of men For the life to the end that ye may live is now published unto you likewise as well as unto the people (a) Gen. 6.18 19. Exo. 3 4. Deut. 3. in times past because that ye may shew repentance assemble you with us to the mercy seat of the love of Jesus Christ and enter (b) Heb. 3.4 a. into the rest which is reserved for the children of God inasmuch as the entrance into the rest of the Lord and of his children or Saints of Jesus Christ cometh to pass and is to be enjoyed now in the last time according to the Promises 2. Therefore give ear attentively that ye may once understand whereunto ye are created and turn you to the same if ye will remain preserved and not bide lost for ever 3. Apply your hearts unto the good that ye may live and not be buried in hell everlastlngly (c) Psa 55. Apo. 21 22. with the ungodly 4. Shew upright fruits of repentance that ye may serve the (d) Deut. 6. b Lord your God only and walk in all love like children of peace And halt no longer neither (e) 3 Kin. 18. on the one side nor on the other 5. For although that ye which covet after knowledge do daily read many Scriptures or writings whereout ye do also gather some sentences or get a certain kind of knowledge therethrough wherein ye think to rejoyce your selves Yet is not the same the life for all that for it is neither the Scripture nor yet the knowledge thereof (f) 1 Cor. 8. that maketh us righteous but the life of Jesus Christ wrought through the belief or faith 6. For that same life is (g) Deut. 30. Rom. 10. the word of God the Father and the very true light wherein we stand grounded or whereon we are set for to believe the same because that we should live and not (h) Deut. 5. Prov. 4 c turn or shrink therefrom with our mind wits memory or thoughts neither to the right side nor to the left 7. If so be now that ye stand not minded hereunto as in tending to live in the Love and to stand upright therein to what end then do ye assemble together and to what end do ye read the Scriptures For if ye read the Scripture only for the knowledge sake and rest unbelieving unto the life whereof the (i) 1 Ioh. 5. Scripture witnesseth then do ye (k) 3 Kl. 18. halt on both sides and break the bond of wedlock and go a whoring with that which is not the life namely that ye cleave unto that which ye neither are grounded in nor created unto by God neither yet called through Jesus Christ nor also through his service of Love ministred now in the last time 8. But if ye will perform the Scriptures counsel then follow the Scriptures counsel Turn you to the life and to his service of Love And in the obedience of the requiring of the life of Jesus Christ and of his service of Love behold in the spirit your own being or estate And consider there inwardly in your selves whether that your memory wits senses and thoughts do in all their course or proceedings stand minded to the true life of Jesus Christ and not run out after this or after that for to go a whoring after that which is not the life it self and also whether that they being without the life are bound or tyed unto any other thing that is not the life And likewise whether they have or gather all their knowledge wisdom and understanding only out of the l fe of Jesus Christ and out of his love and so do neither know discern or understand any thing without the Life and without his upright Love For behold to such a concord hath God joyned together the thoughts and the life 9. This doubtless was the life of the man in (l) Gen. 1. b Joh. 1. a the beginning for that
At that time shalt thou swear uprightly and holily without hypocrisie as true as the Lord liveth and the heathen shall be blessed in the Lord and make their boast of him The twentieth Chapter BUT if any one now should determine in his heart to turn him unto God to cleave unto the Love and to enter into the Kingdom of God and yet for all that doth with his will hold his heart tyed unto any thing of all the abominations above named he doubtless cannot come to the Kingdom of God nor be perfectly incorporated to the being of the righteous spirit and of the Love neither yet can his name be written (a) Apo. 5. b in the living book of the Lamb with the commonalty of the Love which Book is in the right hand of him that liveth from everlasting to everlasting which commonalty of the Love whose names are written in the living book of the Lamb is very lovely delightful and peaceable and with them also is our fellowship through the Love of God the Father and by reason of his mercy shewed on us 2. And with the same commonalty all those likewise have their fellowship which do humble themselves with us under the Love and her service and through the service of Love do hear believe and stand obedient to the holy Doctrine and godly information whereby to become understanding through the wisdom and holy knowledge thereof and so do intirely love exercise and assist the same service of Love for that it might be spread abroad generally among many 3 Howbeit not according to every ones self-mindedness or drift of his own mind as in a Love towards himself according to his own proper knowledge (b) Deu 12. a or good-thinking but to come to one manner of obedience under the true Love of God the Father and that altogether to an (c) Eph. 1. a unity in the peace also not with any division of heart but for to become of one mind with each other through the Love to the end (d) Isa 57. b Luk. 10. a that the peace in that sort might be prepared concordable upon the earth under the obedience of the Love according to the Promises and that all our names might be written in the book of the Lamb and that we might be partakers of the being or nature of the same commonalty of Saints whose names are written in that same Book and might have our fellowship with the Lamb and his Saints 4. Unto which Book of life and his holy writings we do humble our selves under the Love and her requiring and so do learn of the Love the true humility and (e) Math. 11. c meekness of heart according to the wisdom of all those whose names are written in the living book of the Lamb in as much as their wisdom only is delightful unto the God of life The new good world with her servants and fellow-companions 5. For in that same Book of the Lamb whereunto all our hope and longing standeth that it might even with fervent affection and good-willingness of heart be looked into and be read by many there is written and found therein (f) Gal. 5. c Eph. 4 a Col. 3. b 1 Pet. 3. b Love peace joy Gods will or Law heavenly truth faith righteousness meekness gentelness friendlyness long suffering patience fear of the highest God understanding and wisdom 6. All these forementioned Saints have a lust even with whole heart for to procure and prepare all those which love the good life and the everlasting truth unto the Love for that they might every one become assembled together under the Love and it might even so both inwardly and outwardly go well with all people which live under the Love and that altogether in unpartial love 7. Which upright commonalty of Saints is not inclined to raign over one another but to stand serviceable one towards another and also towards all those which submit themselves with them under the obedience of the Love because that the holy understanding and the knowledge of every good exercise might as (i) Eph. 2. c 1 Pet. 2. a a perfect good building come to light or be made manifest under the obedience of the love 8. Behold such a nature and upright service of unpartial love have all those whose names are written in the living book of the Lamb which service stretcheth not to a renting and scattering like as the false services according to the nature of the hearts of the self-love do stretch and have their drift thereunto who do serve and live only unto themselves in a private mind of self-love O no for the children of the upright Love do neither rend nor scatter but gather together 9. Also they seek not (k) 1 Cor. 10. c their self-ness but much rather that every one might be nourished and fed out of the Love and her service for to become a commodable Kingdom of the Love and that the one may serve the other to that effect for that is might go well with every one and that altogether in the Love and in the peace of Jesus Christ 10. Furthermore there is written in the same book of the Lamb foresightfulness quietness natural equity lowlyness of heart constancy (l) 2 Pet. 1 a discreetness measurableness orderlyness contentedness open-heartedness simplicity justness or uprightness good-willingness (m) Mat. 5. a 1 Tim. 1. a purity of heart clean conscience honesty civility or modesty obedience concord stedfastness kind-heartedness (n) Phil. 4. a helpfulness serviceableness to the vertue peaceable conversation Gods praise laud glory eternal life and heavenly delightfulness c. 11. Now for to have our fellowship with the same commonalty of the upright Saints of God (o) Ge. 1.2 b thereunto doubtless was the man created from the beginning because that such a precious excellency and such a Kingly Crown of delightful beauty should have the dominion over him 12. For those same and all they which are like unto them of nature and disposition their names verily are every one written in the living Book of the Lamb who do neither worship honour or serve the (p) Apo. 13. a Dragon or the high-minded beast for the name of the most high God is written upon them which God only they do (q) Apo. 7. b. 21 22. a serve honour and worship from everlasting to everlasting they stand all likewise as lights of life in the beholding of God their Father 13. Behold that same holy people of God or Christ or such like is the (r) Isa 64. a house of Israel (s) Eph. 2. b. the Citizen-ship of Jerusalem and the family of Love and they are every one likewise the true (t) Isa 66. b children of Sion where the God of life hath his holy Tabernacle in whom (u) Lev. 16. 2 Cor. 6. b he dwelleth liveth and walketh And they shall be the Lords people for ever and ever And he himself God with
whereon they boast so highly and that they knew their misery then would they also out of meer necessity cry (y) Psa 130. a unto God for his grace that they might come again to the life of Godlyness 41. Now O Lord and God be mindful of us extend thy mercy over us (z) Tob. 3. a and revenge thee not on us for our sins cause 42. Remember not (a) Psa 79. a O God our offences and ignorance but remember (b) Ps 103 b we are dust and remaining without thy being are nothing (c) Gen. 3. Eccl. 10. b 17. d but earth and ashes for all our beauty or self-chosen wisdom or righteousness (d) Isa 40 a. 1 Pet. 1. c must wither away like unto the flowers or grass of the field And all whatsoever is not of thy being must be consumed and brought to nothing in (e) Eccl. 1. a the Furnace of humiliation or abasing wherein our tryal cometh to pass but thy righteousness word will and (f) Psa 33. a 119. 2. Isa 40.4 b wisdom continueth for ever 43. O Lord thou Almighty God which art the Father procreator or begetter of all generations shew thy mercy upon thine own handy-work namely on those that labour daily to do thy will 44. Open unto us with thy light (g) Psa 13. a the eyes of our spirit and shew thy grace on us we blind people who yet notwithstanding have eyes unstop unto us with thy understanding the ears of our inwardness even of us deaf people who yet notwithstanding have ears to (h) Isa 6. Math. 13. Acts 28. the end that we may rightly hear thy word believe the same and understand and obey it according to thy truth and turn about or (i) 4 Kin. 22 Eze. 11.18.36 mollifie the hardness of our hearts with thy meekness that we may humbly and obediently with all good-willingness turn us rightly unto thee and to the Love of Christ and be saved And may (k) Ioh. 17. c also become one with thy holy word like as thou thy self O God art one with the same wheteby the (l) Num. 14. c world may become full of thy glory and that thy Christ may appear and bear sway over all in all and with all and that we all may be one in thee and may (m) Ioh. 17. b know in the truth that thou only art a very true God for to that end because the world should know and understand the same hast thou sent thy Christ 45. Now O God strengthen thereunto the office of thy Love for that all those which hope on thee and love thy righteousness may be drawn into one (n) Col. 3. b band of Love and that thou mightest be the head over us all as a God and King over all power and Lordship and that we all from (o) Ier. 31. Heb. 8. b the least even unto the greatest may know and acknowledge thee according to the Promises 46. Therefore is likewise our flight for refuge O God only unto thee and unto the requiring of thy service of Love whereby to find grace at thy hands that thou mayest raign over us and for (p) Par. 36. that cause do we daily bow the knees of our hearts before thee and pray and make supplication unto thee in the spirit O God be thou gracious and merciful unto us 47. Be thou our Shepheard King and Prince and remember Lord thy Covenant and (q) Isa 64. a b Sanctuary that hath a long time lain waft and been spoiled 48. Awake O Lord (r) Psa 35. c with thy spirit over us for all the comfort of man is vain (s) Psal 62.118.146 a Ier. 17. a all confidence and stay on Princes is nothing in it self (t) Isa 4. b the Prophets seduce and deceive (u) Ier. 5.8.23 27 29. the Seers do fail in the right the worldly wise and Scripture-learned do preach lyes The Priests do deal with false God-services the Judges give Sentence even as the Princes do require it (x) Isa 1. c Ier. 5. Eze. 22. Ioh. 3. the world is replenished with traytorie the common people do deal with crafty deceipts unto the poor and miserable people there happeneth wrong and violence everywhere and the Lands are full of innocent blood-guiltyness 49. Therefore look down O God look down and sanctifie thy great name and teach us thy Law Statutes and Rights that they may all know that they be but men and that thou O Lord art God only unto whom also (y) 1 Tim 1. b all honour praise and laud doth only belong and appertain 50. Wherefore should the (z) Psal 50.47 heathen still blaspheme thy Sanctuary and why should our enemies with the Arrogancy of their minds and vain perswasions say that thou O God art with them and minded according to their will boasting themselves in arrogancy that their ingenious wit and prudence shall keep the upper hand or prevail 51. O God hast not thou from the beginning foreseen thy Christ to be a head (a) Eph 1.3 b and Father over all and in all and elected him thereunto before the foundation of the world was laid yea to that end also thou (b) Ioh. 3. d hast loved him (c) Mat. 11. c Luk. 10. c and given him all what is thine for that (d) Isa 9. a Luk. 1. d he might possess the seat of his Father David and be a King over the house of Jacob for evermore 52. Is not he also ordained to be a restoring to the house of Israel (e) Ro. 15. a whereby to establish the Promises made to their Fathers hath not he likewise called and bidden the heathen thereunto (f) Isa 57. Luk. 2. Eph. 2. b Is not the peace published through Christ Hath not he in holyness of heart loved faithfulness (g) Psa 81. Hos 2. c and truth hath not he also taught (h) Mat. 11.18 a humility and meekness of heart Have not his Messengers preached and published the Love to (i) 1 Co. 13. a Col. 3. b be a bond of perfection But oh where is all this where shall men find the same 53. O God prepare the hearts of the people unto lowlyness that they may stand submitted to the Love in all humility and may love the coming (k) Matth. 24.25 d 1 Cor. 1 a of thy Christ in his glory by whom the (l) Tit. 2. b Acts 17. d universal earth shall be judged with righteousness who likewise shall disturb or trouble all authority and power and bring it under his obedience and then resign or yield up the (m) 1 Cor. 12. c Kingdom all power and dominion unto thee O Almighty God that thou mayest be all in all 54. O God put this into the hearts of all Governors or Magistrates to look into and consider of and illuminate all Kings Princes Lords and Potentates or Rulers with thy godly wisdom that they may fear
4. b a shape in him as a Kingdom of God or of Christ which is the upright being or real form it self full of all Love 13. Till unto this same day namely till that the light of life as a true being an upright righteousness be come unto the man doth the daily God-service for the sins cause endure in the holy so long also (r) 1 Co. 3. b remaineth the vail before the most holy namely till the holy be performed or ministred in his full course of ministration with upright daily oblations which are acceptable unto God 14. But this daily offering or gift which the man is Debtor to offer in the holy or that wherein God hath a pleasure is not alone the outward for God hath (s) Ps 40.50 never willed nor required the same without the good will of the heart 15. Therefore it is a spiritual offering proceeding out of (t) Psal 11. c Isa 57.66 a lowly and humble heart and the beginning of the same upright offering soundeth even thus in every man that is good-willing towards God and towards his righteousness 16. O God I come and have a lust to (u) Psa 40. a Heb. 10. a do thy will 17. Now when the man findeth himself thus minded and desireth to enter into the service of Love and his requiring in this sort is his heart prepared and altogether become willing to (x) Mat. 16. c Luk 9.14 c take up his Cross and obediently to follow after the (y) 1 Pet. 2. c crucified and killed Jesus Christ in the belief under the obedience of his love till unto his death even the death of the Cross (z) Rom. 6. Col. 2. b. and to be baptized into the same death whereby to enter even so into the life out of the deadly sin (a) Ioh. 3. a Rom. 6.8 b 2 Cor. 4. through the second birth from death Wherethrough he is likewise made free The true holy of the holy and true Tabernacle of God is the belief tending to the mortifying of the sin in the after following of Christ till unto the second birth from the death the which is the willing obedience of the belief which holy and his service or obedience in the belief wherein the death of the sin cometh to pass is the very true holy and the right difference between the most holy and the fore-front or delivered from all choosing of this or that according to his own will or pleasure saying with his whole heart 18. O GOD (b) Act. 9 a WHAT wilt thou have me to do 19. Behold in such a mind intent or inclination to the obedience of the belief and to continue (c) Eccl. 2. a Math. 24. â— stedfast therein till unto the death and to the new birth from the death consisteth the mans conversion to his God and he becometh so clean turned about from his selfness that he is like unto (d) Mat. 18. a 1 Pet. 2. a a new born babe that hath no manner of self-wisdom or self-willedness but that liveth only that life that is given and brought unto him by God In such a manner is the man meet also to come into the Kingdom (e) Ioh. 3 a of God to enter thereinto 20. But behold with such a heart and mind cometh the man unto the (f) Deut. 6.10 b. 1 King 15. true obedience which God regardeth And so through Faith he goeth out of all deadly corruption or perdition and cometh into the life of his God in the everlasting immortality in all Love and is filled with all fulness of the holy Ghost (g) Rom. 8. b and inherriteth with Christ all the treasures riches of God and of (h) Isa 33. a Col. 2. a the spiritual and heavenly goods Those verily are the promises of God the Father through Jesus Christ to the blessing of all the generations of the earth 21. By this means as is said the man cometh again to his soundness and to his (i) Ioh. 8. d precious freedom whereunto (k) Gen. 1. c Sap. 2. c Eccles 17. a God hath created him from the beginning as being unbound or untyed from all vain and unprofitable things The tenth Chapter NOW when as the service of the offering in the holy hath once had his full course with such a good will as is aforesaid and the debt-offering sin-offering and death-offering is all through the like-suffering of Christ accomplished on the Altar through the belief then (a) Isa 25 a Math. 27. 2 Cor. 3. b doth the vail as opening asunder divide it self from before the most holy and so there is then discovered in the most holy the mercy-seat the Ark of witness and the heavenly bread with many costly treasures pertaining to the most holy Sanctuary and all that sanctified likewise that is in the holy with the (b) He. 9 10. sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ the high Priest for an everlasting forgiveness of sins 2. That verily is the New Testament of the grace of God touching the sins of the people even as God hath promised the same to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah for a stedfast and continuing Testament 3. This high Priest over the house of God is the old antient one in the holy and godly understanding and is the (d) Col. 1. first born of all creatures (e) Rom. 6 a Phil. 2. a who was slain with the death of the Cross and hath suffered in the holy for the sins cause and is (f) 1 Cor. 15. c Col. 1. b as the firstling risen from the death where-through he hath prepared the everlasting life for all his Believers which follow after him in the holy (g) Mat 16. c Rom 6. a 1 Pet. 2. till unto the death of his Cross 4. He himself verily is the Light and Life that is everlasting which was (h) Ioh. 1. a Psal 210 a with the Father from the beginning and is at the right hand of the (i) Heb. 1. a Almighty in the heavenly being or estate who also as high Priest entreth into the most holy maketh alive his believers from (k) Rom. 8. b 1 Cor. 15. b Eph. 2. a. b Col. 1.2 b the death and (l) Eze. 36. c Isa 44. a Ioel 2. c Act. 2. b poureth forth the holy spirit of his love abundantly over them The true most holy of the holy and true Tabernacle of God is the Love the everlasting life and the perfection from which most holy in his service that is in the making alive from the death in the pouring out of the holy Ghost and in ministring of the spiritual and heavenly good the vale is put away whereby to inherit the everlasting life of God in his cleerness in the same service ministred under the obedience of the Love of the holy Ghost which most holy in his service maketh right difference betwixt the living and the dead