whom he is Libell 81. Moreover the Libell calls me a perjured Shoemaker and in the Pulpit he hath called me a Rascally knave Answer 82. This reproachfull defamation is in all Statutes and Laws of the Empire forbidden upon pain of severe punishment that none should disgrace anothers good Name and honour or should make any defamatory Libell or disgracefull writings He should be the Man to forbid others and doth it himself 83. O Primate I ask you if I had caused such a Libell to be printed against you and had So abominably vilified and disgraced you to what place would you have sent it and condemned it surely to the Gallows and the Authour with it but what shall I say to you even God forgive it you 84. I have sworn an Oath to the Emperour also to the Prince Elector my Gracious Lord as also to the honourable Councill and the City Goerlitz to be true and faithfull in their defence and that I have firmly kept to this very houre and you call me a perjured or forsworn Fellow Rascally Knave I have brought my honour reputation to Goerlitz and you would bereave me of it for a perjured Man is not good enough to be in any bodies company 85. Well now you should and ought to demonstrate that I am such a one and flee with earnest complaint for it to the Magistrate and implore Justice and protection but seeing you oppresse me therefore in the mean time these deaming reproaches shall rest upon your selfe so long till you set before my Eyes my perjury 86. You have studied upon it this Fasting Time how you might bespatter Christs Children in the whole Church or Congregation with Serpents filth so that they are become Reproachers and disgrace me and have not stopped there but moreover caused such defaming Poyson to be printed that they may read it at home and tickle themselves therewith that the Devill indeed may be proudly Courted and Banqueted in state 87. I ask also your selfe is not that a sign of the Antichrist was not this your Office and Ministry that you should this Fasting Time have considered CHRISTS Bitter Passion Dying and Bloud-shedding and represent it well to your Parish Children that they might also have laid it to Heart but you on the Contrary have this Fasting time contrived two Libells and been angry at miserable People so that you have been fain to leave Christs Passion Wounds and Death lying on the Sick-bed and you lay your self by it as an awakened Poyson 88. Thus unworthy have you been before the Eyes of God consider your self a little seriously if men would lay it rightly to heart it might well make ones Haire stand upright for fear and amazement that you possesse the place of God and stand in the stead of the Holy Spirit and yet poure out such poyson upon the poor innocent People and not only here at Goerlitz but you also send your disgracefull writings into strange places and Countreys and poyson them so that they help you to reproach and blaspheme 89. All this is a certain sign of the Antichrist which the Libell would thrust upon me I pray and he curseth me Now judge upon it those that understand with which of US Antichrist dwells Libell 90. O Christ the Holy Spirit hath anointed thee with Oyle more then thy fellowes and hath made thee a Priest But thou Shoemaker the Devill hath desiled thee with Dirt and Dung and made thee a Heretick Answer 91. The Holy Spirit hath anointed Christ and his Children with Gods Oyle of Gladnessâ— and hath introduced that anointing into our Soul so that we beleeve in him and that I take or receive to my Self as a Branch of Christ and have tasted his Anointing powerfully in me which I rejoyce my selfe IN under the Crosse of CHRIST in my bodily Misery 92. But that the Primate saith the Devill hath defiled mewith Dirt and Dung that is true after his manner for that very Dung wherewith the Devill hath defiled me is his reproaching in the Pulpit against me and this Evill dirty Libell wherewith the Antichristian Devill hath defiled me and made me as a Fool before the whole Congregation so that the Ignorant People which have a Mind to it cast such Dirt at me But the Primate thinks it were better to throw Stones at me for then would the Book of Repentance have a riddance out of the way But the remembrance of Steven is still taught at this very day though the High-Priests did Stone him Acts. 7. 57. what God builds no Devill CAN destroy 93. But that he also saith and made thee a Heretick that is also a Ray of Antichrists colours for when Men would persecute the right true Christians and worry burn and kill them then hath Antichrist cryed out they are Hereticks none other Cause Men had to bring against them yet thereupon execution proceeded 94. O how will these Hereticks at the last Judgement day be set before your Eyes when they shall be set in the divine Power with Christ in the Judgement and judge the Antichrist who hath persecuted and killed them what will you then answer to CHRIST and to me when your Libell will burn forth IN your Soul who hath given you authority so to Judge demonstrate it out of the Apostles doctrine There is yet time to ropent before I must through Gods driving summon you before the severe Judgement of Jesus Christ Observe what I say to you I am a Christian in Christ you call Christ in his Member a Heretick and his power Dirt or Dung. 95. The Mercifullnesse of Christ calleth you herewith yet once more to try whether you will repent if Not I will be blamelesse concerning you if you be set in the Judgement you have a great Mountain before you through which you must climb up then if Christ leave you you may well remain Eternally in this Cliffe 96. Observe what is said to you it is well known Hypocrisie availeth nothing it must be earnest sincerity to sinne upon Grace makes a Man uncapable of Grace the hour is neer be perswaded you will have no Such Protector or assistance there as you draw to your self here upon which you relye you must stand before My eyes and give an account for your Malice and reproaching Blasphemy 97. Christ in me and in all the Members of Christ citoth you before the Judgement of Christ what shall I then say to you for all your scandalous blemishes you have put upon me here on Earth I pray you as a fellow Member of my Soul convert yet while the Door of Grace standeth open before the Great Cliffe or Gulfe between me and you be shut Luke 16. 26. 98. It becometh A High-Priest indeed very ill who should bring into his mouth the Divine word of the Love of Christ that instead thereof taketh filth into his mouth and polluteth Christs word which he should teach with filth and spit such filth into the Heart of the
People and poison them as you do for where filth is there is not at all the Holy Spirit in that Mouth but Satan 99. The Christian Church or Congregation should do well to open its eyes and observe what it is Men teach them the punishment of God followeth be perswaded dear Brethren there will shortly come a Time wherein you will well see what I here say Libell 100. CHRIST taught Men the divine Commandements but this fellow teacheth with great earnestnesse the Seduction Answer 101. Where standeth that in my Book that I teach Men the outword Separation shew me that or else it is not so I teach them the Anointing of Jesus Christ with his delicate humanity after a spiritual Kinde IN us according to the inward ground of Faith concerning which CHRIST saith he which Eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud he continueth in me and I in him John 6. 53 54. 102. For THAT is the Temple of the Holy Spirit where Christs Flesh and Bloud continueth in us as Saint Paul saith 1 Cor 6. 16. Also it is the NEW Regeneration wherein the HOLY SPIRIT in us SEARCHETH THE DEPTHS OF THE DEITY 1 Cor 2. 10. It is the out-powred word of the substantiall Divine Love which marryeth and incorporateth it self with our Soul as the whole New Testament teacheth 103. Where it is written Try whether Christ hath gotten a form in you Gal 4. 19. If Christ be to get a form in us then must not that be absent if we are to be a Branch on that Vine of Christ then we must not cleave to an other for none can serve two Masters saith Christ Matth 6. 24. Also My Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him for it when that shall come it will declare me in You Luke 11. John 6. 14. 104. It is not an outward Seduction but an inward Enlightning whence the Soul when it tasteth this Oyle of Joy and Gladnesse cometh into such great rejoycing as is mentioned in my little Book concerning the Noble Sophia which is viz the Substantiall Love of JESUS CHRIST 105. I understand very well that you know not this Noble Sophi a it is no good signe that you deny her and call her an Enthusiast I know her well and have a love to her For she is my Souls dear Bride If I knew her not then surely I would not have suffered so very much for her Love sake srom you and other people 106. Christ saith John 10. Whosoever entereth not through me to the Sheep viz Into the Sheepfold But climbeth in some other way he is a Thief and a Murtherour and but an hireling and is come only with suttlety to rob the sheep of their food and to shear off their wool these belong to the Wolves and have not the Shepheards Crook or Staffe of Christ but the Devills Sheers and must hereafter eternally howl with the Wolves But YE say he that entereth not in through the high Schools or Vniversities he is a Thief and a Murtherour and so you deride the Dore of CHRIST viz the anoynting or Unction of the holy Spirit and will needs have it to be that men must draw the divine knowledge and skill only from the high Schools or Vniversitles and bind and tye up Gods Gifts to ARâ— 107. But Christ teacheth us quite otherwise that this thing is hidden from the wise and prudent and revealed to the seeking and hungry Babes Math. 11. 25. As Mary also saith He thrufleth out the Mighty from their Seat and exalteth the miserable and lowly who are humble in their hearts before him Luke 1. 12. She meaneth not Might and Authority but Spirit and Power 108. O Primate I had much to say to you here but I know not whether it would be well bestowed or no for you would cover your self only with Christs Purple Mantlâ— that you might live according to the Lusts of the flesh you would not become regenerated and dayly dye away from sinne but only comfort your self that it is Christ hath done it 109. But I tell you it will not availe you unless you put on Christs Satisfaction through earnest Ropentance and turning in to grace and become a Branch on the stock of the Vine Christ that Christ in you also doe kill sinne and renew to you your senses thoughts and mind so that you desire to imitate Christ else will your tickling be unavailable and be only an hypocriticall flattering Shew 110. I tell it you in love observe it well I have received it from God so that I know it also the New Testament throughout teacheth you the same I have in my little Book very well signified to you that No man knoweth or understandeth this Noble Sophiah in the feeling or Experimentall Love of JESUS CHRIST unlesse it be given him from God 111. I will not here further cast the pearle under your feet till you are fit and prepared for it in true Repentance if that were done which I would wish then would I have further speech with you about it for now you are not yet worthy of it seeing you contemn it 112. In that regard also is your teaching so cold because you have not this power in you for you yet have not the right Hammer to strike the Clock you cannot yet strike the Clock which awakeneth the poor captive Soul you must use the right Hammer if you would strike the right Hour and awake the Soul out of sleep you have the WORD indeed but the right power is not in you wherewith you should Co work with the Litterall Word it self Therefore said Christ The sheep hear not the voice of the Hireling John 10. 3. for his crying and calling is but meer jugling and a fighting with a shadow He is with his teaching without Gods Hammer but a Jugler a Belly-Hammer an Ear-Hammer aud not a Soul-Hammer 113. This Power which I mean is the Doro to the Sheep you often use with your blaspheming reproaches Satans Hammer under Christs Purple Mantle your Heart is full of Gall and Bitternesse O alas it is Time Repent Libell 114. CHRIST hath directed us to the Word and to the hidden secret Mystery which the Beleeving hearts hold or retain in the Faith but the Shoemaker leads us to head-long Seduction and to Dreams which rob the beleeving hearts of Faith Answer 115. I lead not Men away from the Preached and written Word you do me wrong in that but I say that they should bring along with them the Temple of JESUS CHRIST to the preached or written word viz a Repentant hungry Soul which heareth in its own self Christ which is viz the LIVING Word in the Litterall and preached Word as David saith I will hear what the Lord saith in me Psal 85. 9. And Christ also saith He that is of God heareth Gods word and to the Pharisees he saith therefore you hear not for you are not of God John 8.
64. Those who hitherto have prayed to God and have confessed the peoples Sinnes they have kept back the deserved punishment but you make haste with them out of the Countrey 65. And seeing you call me Prophet but with an evill acceptation for scorn and disgrace therefore I shall tell you what the Lord hath given Me to know viz that the Time is born or come wherein God will require an account of your strife about the Cup of Christ and punish you for it that which you now fear and yet do not Repent THAT will come upon you 66. And thea you shall give an account to God of your reproaching for it will be required of you how you have walked before the Lambs committed to your trust with Good Life and sound Doctrine there you will find a heap of Scorners in that you have made all Erroneuos and Blasphemous and have cast your poyson and reproaching upon them and bespattered them therewith where will you become when Their bloud will be required at your Hands 67. Look but upon your Fruit the whole City reproacheth in respect of your powerings out upon a Lamb of Christ and think in their simplicity they do right in it because you bid them do it where will you abide when this Lamb will at the Last Judgement Day stand before your eyes and your Auditors or Hearers whom you have made Blasphemers shall say behold is not this He whom we once accounted a Fool and made sport in derision of him and accounted his Life a shame how is he now numbred among the Children of Christ and his inheritance among the Saints Owe Fools and unwise have missed the right way Then will all Curse you that you have lead them to such blasphemy and Reproach Wisd 5. O Primate be you warned and admonished by the Life of Our Lord JESUS CHRIST it is time to abstain or else you will then see what hath been here told you 68. You call in your Libell Zu dem Rechten Richter to the Righteous Judge that he should awake and defend the Majesty of God Now if the Judgement should come vpon you seeing you do persecute Christ in his Members it is you your self that have called for the Sword 69. Look I pray upon you own Heart you paint a Mist or Smoak before the Eyes of the Church or Congregation that they should beleeve you that your Libell is right and true why then do you not take the Certainty out of the Printed Book It is likely you have none of them or it doth not relish with you For earnest Sincere Repentance puts the Flesh away assuredly it relisheth not with you but the People that read my little Book and compare it with your Libell they will distinguish us and judge aright 70. Have a Care that the Dirt and Burres which you cast upon me do not remain sticking upon you I will no more remain silent as I have done abstinence were good Peace is a good Country The Second Part in the Libell The Libell saith 71. THe Libell saith The Shoemaker is the Antichrist Answer 72. If I should describe Antichrist I could not demonstrate him Otherwise then that he calleth himself a Christian and covereth himself with Christs Purple-Mantle acknowledgeth and teacheth Christ with the Mouth but his Heart is altogether set against Christ he teacheth one thing and doth another outwardly he calleth himself a Christian and inwardly he is a Serpent he persecuteth Christ in his Members and resisteth the Spirit of Christ he flattereth and playeth the Hypocrite and will be honoured in Christs Name but is inwardly a devouring Wolfe as Christ calleth the Pharisees who sat upon Moses Seat and Managed the Law Matth 7. 15. But Christ said they were from beneath from the Father of this world viz from the Devill John 8. 23 24. 73. Herewith I would not touch or disturb the good Conscience of any but would try the Libeller whether a young Antichrist doth not peep out of the Shell Libell 74. Thou Meek and Gentle Lord CHRIST sayest My word is True and faithfull and thou perjured Shoemaker sayst also My words are true which of them both now shall credit and Faith be given to To THEE thou True and Faithfull Christ or to thee Shoemaker and thy Dung Answer 75. CHRIST is the Word of the Father the way to God the Truth and the Life and whosoever putteth on Christ from his body shall flow streams of Living Water as Christ said John 14. 6. 7. 38. Christ said Whosoever eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud he continueth in Me and I in him John 6. 54. And Saint Paul saith You are the Temple of the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in you 2. Cor 6. 16. Also The Word is neer thee viz in thy Mouth and thy Heart Rom 10. 8. Deut 30. 14. 76. To this Living Word which is become Man I have wholly given up my self to be its own And he my Lord Christ hath given me his Flesh and Bloud in My Faiths Desire and so incorporated tied and united himself with me according to the inward ground of my Soul and Spirit that I am ascertained and stedfastly beleeve that I am in his hand and none can pluck me on thence also none can separate me from the Love of Christ neither Height nor Depth nor Principality nor Power or Authority nor any Creature shall separate me from the Love of Christ 77. He My Saviour hath given to me to be spiritually minded as Saint Paul saith Those whom the Spirit of God driveth they are Gods Children for we have not received a slavish or servile spirit that we should fear again but we have received A Child-like Spirit whereby we cry Abba Dear Father that witnesseth to our Spirits that we are Gods Children if we be Children then we are also Heirs viz Heirs of God and Co-heirs with Christ if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him Rom 8. 14 15 16 17. 78. Therefore say I I have my knowledge Not from Man or through Man but from the Gift of my Saviour Jesus Christ and desire to seduce none from Christ but I shew them sincerely and heartily how they should through true Repentance and Prayer come to Christ my Saviour as my printed little Book teacheth throughout nothing else 79. Why then do you separate me away from Christ and call my words which direct to Christ Dung It is a sign and the way of Repentance which leadeth to Christ stinketh like filth this is the true Colour or Antichrist for the Libeller spits Fy and filth against the Repentance and the very earnest Prayers in my-little Book and calleth it a stink 80. This I offer to the impartiall Reader to consider of whether this Libell of the Primate be not dictated from the Antichristian Spirit seeing he will presse that upon me I offer it that it might be considered and known from
47. also you are not my sheep John 10. 26. 116. This now I intend in my meaning that a Man should have divine Ears viz. a repentant Soul if he will hear Christs voyce be it in the Preaching in Reading or Conference for this hath CHRIST taught us whom I more beleeve then I do all ART whatsoever for the Historicall Faith to tickle and comfort ones self with knowing without power and an earnest sincere will is dead and but a Shell it attaineth not the divine Childship or Filiation it must be earnest sincerity that will do it 117. It is not enough that we go to Church and to the Sacrament and sit there an Houre playing the Hypocrite and hearing a Sermon wherein oftentimes Wheat and Tares are sown together one among another in that you many times reproach and blaspheme No going to Church makes none vertuous or honest unlesse he hear in the Church Gods Word operatively in his Soul for the Lord saith by his Prophets they draw neer to me with their Lips but their Heart is farre from me Ezek 29. 13. 118. Not all that go to Church and say LORD LORD shall 〈◊〉 into the Kingdome of Heaven but they that do the will of my Father in Heaven saith Christ Matth 7. 2. It must not be Historicall beleeving only but bowerfull doing Now if they are to do the Divine will then must the same viz the Spirit of CHRIST work powerfully IN them for Christ saith without ME you can do nothing John 15. 5. 119. Therefore flattering Hypocrisie and Luke-warmnesse availeth not for the true saith is not only an imprinted or imaged figure but it is power Spirit and Life it is a Fire of the Divine word which there burneth and shineth abroad which Co-worketh with God the right and true Faith is the Seat of God on which he sitteth and speaketh 102. Faith is not meer historicall Breath wherewith a Man only comforteth himself and flattereth the Evill Beast full of false and wicked desires No it is a living working Power of God its burning Fire is the fire-flaming Love of God which breakes forth and doth the work 121. Your Preaching is all in vain if CHRIST worketh not through your word in the Hearers but if that must be done then you Must teach them LOVE not Contention disgracing and Contemning you must put the Dung and scorn out of your Mouth not Judge falsely and Blaspheme or reproach for in reproachings SATAN worketh but with a pure soul CHRIST worketh the Reproaching is the ANTICHRIST 122. But that you say I direct Men to Dreams that is worthy of no answer for it is not so this reproaching is also a Signaturo or Sign of Antichrist which thus defileth the children of Christ shew it or it is not true 123. But that you also say My Dreams for such you hold my writings to be do rob the beleeving hearts of FAITH that also is not so but they lead Men from the Historicall Faith from Hypocrisie to the Living Faith which is JESUS CHRIST and do shew them how they should daily dye away from sinne and become new born in Christ and imitate or follow him in Faith and Spirit and become ONE Spirit with Christ 124. Which makes the Devill afraid that Men will no more endure him under Christs Purple Mantle but the time is Born or Come that his Kingdom shall be revealed and brought to scorn which No Primate shall hinder it is so ordained of God Libell 125. CHRIST hath handled weighty Matters but the Shoemaker slight contemptible matters Answer 126. Christ hath brought and shewed us the way to Blessednesse and salvation and the Shoemaker desireth to walk therein but Satan calleth it a slight and contemptible way seeing it is a Crosse-way wherein a Man in this world in misery and humility must follow or imitate Christ for Satan is a Spirit of Pride and therefore he despiseth the Path of Christs Pilgrimage being this way is straight and narrow and pleaseth not the fat Belly and the Eyes that are full of their own Honour and self-hood 127. Christ hath destroyed Satans Kingdom and generated Christianity but the Antichrist hath set himself in Christs Seat and this the Shoemaker revealeth or Manifesteth according to the will of God and that the Primats supposeth to be a slight contemptible matter but when the Houre shall strike but Seaven then it will have been a Good matter Libell 128. Christ Contemned worldly Riches but the Shoemaker desires them Answer 129. CHRIST said Come to me all you who labour and are heavy loaden Math. 11. He made no difference between Rich and Poor which came to him but that the Primate is troubled that a Layick is helped by Rich people that fear God thereby it is likely he supposeth somewhat goeth away from him it belongeth to him alone to converse with the Rich for his own Profit to him belongeth Riches On the contrary they Shoemaker desireth no Great Riches in this world for he is not Proud as men may well see by him Libell 30. Christ led his Life soberly but the Shoemaker useth commonly to be full and drunken Answer 131. CHRIST was indeed Sober but what the Primate layes upon the Shoemaker he is that himselfe Men use sometime to take him from lying drunk under Tables abroad and bring him Home Men may indeed find him ost drunk in one week but the Shoemaker not in Three years 132. This Article he hath wholly taken from his own Conversation Saint Paul saith to the Romans 2. Therefore O Man thou canst not excuse thy self whosoever thou art who judgest for wherein thou Judgest another thou condemnest thy selfe seeing thou dost the same thing which thou judgest for we know that Gods judgement 〈◊〉 just against those that do such things Libell 133. Christ hath abstained from superfluous Laughter but the Shoemaker laughs in all that he speaks Answer 134. Men find not that Christ ever laughed but only rejoyced in Spirit but that the Primate hath imputed Laughter and Phantasticallnesse to the Shoemaker and saith he laugheth at every word that is indeed an open grosse untruth and cannot be made appear neither can any honest faithfull Man say it but that Nature giveth to one to laugh and to be friendly and affable more then to another and maketh of another a Saturnine Soure Grim looked Man that the Primate cannot Mend he should do well to be silent in that if a Man should describe him and his foolish flouts which he oftentimes in his Tiplings and Quaffings gives forth a Man should be constrained to bring out some strange Monsters 135. It seizes upon me with wonder that he is not ashamed being he is an Old Man in whom a Man should seek for wisdome that he dares write such open untruths and foolish flouting Expressions and cause an honest Man of Credit to be oppressed with scorn they are yet worse then a common jeering flouting Jester this Libell is very
like * Marcolphus his filthey scurrilous scoffings who allwayes carrieth filth in his Mouth as this Libell also doth 136. It bringeth but little repute to a Teacher of Christ who should forbid it others and yet doth it himselfe The Shepheards Office will be handsomely served by it none should trust his SOUL to such scoffings he will be deceived this Spirit standard upon the Sand and tottereth to and fro Men may try him now in such scoffings 137. Men may well know the Fowle by his Feathers Christ said That which is within that cometh forth what the Heart is full of that comes out upon the Mouth Also how can you that are evill speak that which is Good Also Can a Man gather Grapes of Thistles or Figs of Thorns A Good Man bringeth Good forth out of the Treasure of his heart and an Evill Man bringeth Evill forth out of the Treasure of his Evill Heart Luke 16. 45. 138. This I give now to the Reader to ponder of what kind of Good Treasure can the Primate have in Heart when he brings forth such wondrous things out of his Heart there must certainly needs stick many strange things therein which he ought indeed to be a little ashamed to bring forth seeing he is the High-Priest but if a Man come to him and but displease him with one word then a Man may hear Satan many times laugh out from him with reproachings and blasphemyes Libell 139. When Christ Taught the People he did it openly but the Shoemaker useth to creep into secret Corners Answer 140. CHRIST was a Teacher sent from God and yet must oftentimes depart from the Pharisees and Scribes learned in the Scriptures and go into the Wildernesse to teach the People when they saw him teach they would sain have killd him and called him a deceiver and maker of uproars and said he had his skill and Doctrine from the Devill and though they saw the wondrous signs or Miracles yet they were so Mad and hardned and supposed Teaching belonged only to them and did to him also as the Primato doth to the Shoemaker they called him a Wine-bibber and Minister or Servant to rich Publicans And John the Baptist preached also in the Wildernesse yes in the Wildernesse was the Gospell of Christ began by John also the Apostles must often for fear of the High-Priests Teach in Corners and Houses as the Acts of the Apostles witnesse 141. But the Shoemaker is no Preacher but he giveth only an account of his Gift and knowledge and speaketh often with Honest Hearts concerning The Way to Christ how we must convert and repent and become new-born for CHRIST saith also thus Where two or Three of you are met together in My Name there am I in the midst among them Matth 18. 10. 142. The Primne should teach us that when we come or meet together we should speak of GOD and of our Salvation and edifie or build up one another in true Love on the Contrary he forbids us this whereby Men may try what spirit he serveth A high Glasse of Wine in his meetings is better liked by him then A hearty blessed Conference concerning the New Birth 143. CHRIST on Earth had no greater Enemies then the High Priests it will be so still at this Day for all Warres and strife come from the High-Priests disputings and reproachings as it is before our Eyes if our Eyes be open to see it but the account is neer at hand Libell 144. Christ desired no Kingly honour but the Shoemaker if he could would be King and God to o Answer 145. CHRIST came upon Earth poor that he might have compassion on us and make us rich in Heaven and like his Dear Angells The Shoemaker also is upon Earth Poor and despised but desireth from CHRIST the Heavenly Kingly Honour and to be like the Angels also he desireth in Christ according to his Inward Faiths Ground to become with and in CHRIST Deified that Christs Deity may dwell and Eternally abide in him and that No Primate shall take away from him Hallelu-jah 146. The Starre is appeared which leadeth tho wise men or Magi to the Babe JESU oppose it how thou wilt O Devill it is in vain here is Body and Life MY Eternall Kingdome with CHRIST and the Holy Angels can none take away from me and if the whole world lay full of such Libells yet I would keep my Kingdome in Christ and tread the Libells under foot and not spare my outward Life for it I know a better Life which Christ my Lord will give me 147. Therefore then be gone thou fair wicked world I ask not after thy Honour Goods nor Money our Conversation is in Heaven with Christ for he is mine and I am his the Enemy shall not part us Hallelu-jah It is fallen it is fallen Babylon the Great City upon Earth and become habitation of all Devills and unclean Spirits Now is the Kingdome of our Christ sing my Soul and rejoyce that the Dragon in THEE is killed and the Life of GOD is brought forth again Nun last zornen Teâ—fell und die Hell Gott's sohn i st worden unser Gesell Let Devills rage and Hell have Indignation The Sonne of God 's become our sweet Companion Libell 148. Christ desired no Title and vain honour but the Shoemaker is brag of his Titles Answer 149. The will of his Father was the Title of CHRIST his honour was in God and he introduced it into our Humanity and exalted our humanity to the right hand of the Power of God that very honour he hath bestowed upon his Christians that they also in him sit at the right hand of the power of God an reign over Sinne Death the Devill Hell and the World THIS high Title also the Shoemaker claims to himself an desireth the highest kingly Title in the victory of our Lord JESUS CHRIST as a Champion over Death and Hell he desireth such a high Title that he may stand in the strife against Death and Hell and that in CHRIST he thinketh to conquer and overcome the whole world to be a King in Christ to rule over all Enimicitious Libells and reproaches of the Primate otherwise he desireth no worldly Titles for the Kingdom of a Christan is not of this world John 15. 19. for Christ saith I have called you out of the world so that you may be where I am John 17. 24. 150. But the Primate doth desire a Title for he hath set his Titles of the High-Priests Office and of his Person in the Libell with GREAT LETTERS that men might see the Richter or JUDGE who hath authority over Christs Children also if one come a little too neer him and did but forget to take of his Hat for fear of him he might well expect-some strange king of Title from him if he were not kickt for his pains Libell 151. CHRIST was satisfied with the Name of a Master but this Fellow will be called
and presents as he supposeth 167. I believe verily that some Old Ruffians have brought him those tydings as Newes concerning Me And the Good Lord hath beleeved it as Gospel and with great earnestnesse written it and so enraged himself at it that he hath thereupon condemned the poor Shoemaker unheard but it would look strangely if Men should ask after the Ground of it and compare this Answer with the Libell 168. It is truly a great Matter for such a Man as you are so to deal with the Truth The City Goerlitz know very well that I for a long time without necessity have come into No Mans House The Tap-houses and Wine-Cellers are at quiet for all me for you have so judged and condemned me that I would willingly come no whither now if I should go to drink in Tap-houses how many hundred of your Flouts should I not get which you have cast among Common-people which are all your Fruits which will follow you you may well rejoyce at them Libell 169. Now if by this thou knowest the Shoemaker as the Lyon by his Paw Wilt thou then read his Books No but Shun them as the filthy Spawn of a Devill and abominable Errour and hold thee close to the Word of God and beware of the Shoemakers Scholars or Disciples whether they be Noble-men or Doctors Taylours Men or Women The LORD CHRIST destroy Satans Instrument and let not THY Word be suppressed or obscured Answer 170. In these words it may well be observed wherefore the Libell hath been written viz that he might bring to nothing and quite root out my writings by these defamatory Reproaches It vexes the Devill that my writings do lay open his Smoak-Hole and therefore it is that he paints me with such colours that NONE should READ me Men might otherwise Repent and so there would be a greater Breach made to his Kingdome 171. But this Devill is so very Grossely vile that he goeth quite Naked the People may easily observe him and learn to know him for men see his Pawes in his disposition and reproachings and that he is altogether a Poysonous venemous or Spitefull Spirit It is now quite an other Time then it hath been Men will not now so suddenly beleeve what every one saith Men will see proof for it why doth he not demonstrate what he sayes out of the printed Book seeing he forbids it to the Congregation of the People such defamatory reproaches are no demonstrations men may well call them Filth and Dung 178. He speaketh of the Lyons Paw by which Men should know the Shoemaker Now it may well be true that men at present may easily see the Lyons Paw in Me how the Lyon with contemning and reproaching hath griped and clawed Me but the Bloud of JESUS CHRIST hath hitherto resisted the Lyon else he had torn the Shoemaker in peeces 173. But that he saith the Shoemakers Doctrine is Filth and Dung therein he calls CHRISTS Mind or Thoughts and Spirit Filth and Dung And that Men should beware of the Shoemakers Scholars or Disciples to that I say I know of No Scholars or Disciples but only of Christian Men where one SOUL is refreshed by an other I have no New Doctrine but only the Old which is to be found in the BIBLE and in the Kingdome of NATURE 174. But that he calls his reproaching Blasphemies GODS WORD which men should hear only from HIM and should so reproach as he doth that I offer to Christian Hearts to consider of what Spirits Childe he is The Third Part in the Libell A Spending Penny on the Way Libell 175. THe City of Goerlitz still driveth thee Shoemaker away and commandeth thee to be gone thither where thy writings are highly Esteemed away quickly and get thee A great way off thou vain Mouth which reproachest and blasphemest GOD and try thou Miserable Man what Mischief is prepared for thee Answer 176. O Primate keep this Spending Penny for your selfe against you go to Heaven I desire nothing from you your vain reproaching Blasphemies will indeed follow after you for a Spending Penny Be not deceived he that standeth let him take heed least he fall Though indeed you persecute Me and intend to Bannish me who knoweth who it is will persecute you so also in a short time 177. The Signatures or signs of it are at hand it is equall that you before hand do to others as afterwards you would it should be done to you for a Punishment but you must fill up your Measure and if you do not Repent then will the Evill Spirits one day sing you a very grievous Song and command you to go away a farre off from the Countenance of God For what you do now at present that you do to CHRIST in his Members and that will He also do to you if you do not quickly convert and Repent Libell 178 Thou art just like Oedipus whom the Earth swallowed up O take heed that the like doth not befall thee also his Shadow did much hurt the People who stood neer him but beleeve me thy Shadow hurteth many of them exceeding much Answer 179. The Shaddow of S t. Peter did the Devill also very much hurt so doth my Shaddow also do hurt only to the Devil so Antichrist its likely you suppose that my shadow might hurt you as to your earthly Life because I make known the imitation or following of Christ and so the people who receive that Doctrine would require of you that you also should live as the Apostles of Christ did and Imitate or follow their example and that relisheth not with you therefore you say my Shadow hurteth some viz the false or wicked Spiritualty or Clergy very Mightily It may not be otherwise it must so come to passe 180. But I know very Many Spiritual Priests or Clergy-Men whom it will NOT hurt but do them much good whose Office of the Ministry is sincerely and earnestly intended by them BUT who can do any thing before the Time which bringeth ALL THINGS to passe 181. If the Primate with his Warning or admonition intend so faithfully then let him leave his reproaching Blasphemies in the PULPIT and only require me to come to him and shew me my Errour if I did but find that he had any thing of Truth against me and would shew me a better way O how I would cheerfully love him and faithfully thank him for it he rejoyceth that he hath but any thing that he CAN reproach 182. AT the beginning after his first reproaching Blasphemy and persecution I bowed and yeelded to him for Six years together and wrote No word further of my works why did not he cease to Reproach who did any thing to him But he could not why Because God had made him a driving Hammer that must drive on the work 183. His reproaching hath become my strength and growth through his Persecution my Pearl is grown he hath pressed it forth and published it himselfe and