formes for as the Genetrix is so is also the will-spirit out of the Genetrix 193. Thus understand also concerning Mans Soule which is also a Magick-fire-source or quality out of the Eternall Center out of the Eternall Nature for after God created the body out of the Substantiality then he introduced the Spirit out of all the Three Principles thereinto He should be a similitude and Image of God understand according to and out of all the Three Worlds viz out of the Eternall Fires Nature and out of the Lights Nature and then out of this outward worlds Nature wherein the outward Man liveth 194. For God breathed into him the Living Breath and then Man became a living soul Now what can God breath other out of himself then himself for God is the substance of all substances but all is not called or known to be God He calleth himself a GOD only according to his Heart according to the property of the Light world viz according to the Love and Meeknesse according to the second Principle 195. God breathed into the Created Image the Spirit out of all the Three Worlds viz that is to say Himself viz the Eternall beginninglesse Magick fire-source or quality out of all formes of the Eternall Nature that is the first Principle and it is the property of the Father who according to Nature calleth himself an Angry Zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming fire 196. And then the Center of the Light as a Sparkle out of his Heart out of which the Divine Will goeth forth which appropriateth or uniteth it self to God againe and Imagineth according to its Mother viz according to Gods Love and Meeknesse That is the Second Principle wherein the Angelicall world consisteth 197. And Thirdly the Spirit-Aire with the Spirit of this outward world out of the Starres and Elements viz the Third Principle Thus Man became an Entire Totall Image according to God out of all the Three Worlds An Image of God wherein God dwelleth wherein God beheld found and manifested or revealed himself 198. Now the Eternall Word was his Law of his spirituall Nature that this introduced and in-breathed spirit of Man should introduce its Imagination into no other source or quality but only into Gods Love and Meeknesse It should eate only of the Divine Substantiality and drink the water of the Eternall Life and then its Body had Continued Paradisicall 199. The Body had paradisicall fruit to Eate which grew for it IN all fruits The outward Body of this world was in the source or quality of the Light world as it were swallowed up and yet it was there As the Light swalloweth up the Darknesse and holdeth it captive in it self and yet the Darknesse remaineth but in the Light is not Manifested 200. So also should the outward 〈◊〉 of this world as also the inward source or quality of the Fire out of the first Principle stand hidden in the Paradisicall Substantiality and source or quality and Man should bring his life and will into the Paradisicall source or quality 201. He should set or put his Spirits Imagination into the Heart of God viz into the Lights Center and then had the Soul continually eaten of the Lights Substantiality understand the soulish Fire had conceived or received the divine source or quality into it self and had burned forth in the divine source or quality viz in Love and Meeknesse 202. Through that burning or Life would the divine Substance have been introduced into the outward Body viz heavenly Fesh and the Holy Body would have stood in the Tincture of the second Principle and the outward Dominion of the Outward World would have stood hidden in the Inward World and have been manifested in the Outward 203. Such a Body also was created in the Beginning viz out of the inward Substantiality of the pure Element which is manifested in Paradise and an outward Body of or from the Foure Elements which stood manifested in the outward World but the inward should leade the Dominion and hold the outward as it were swallowed up as the Light doth the Darknesse 204. Understand each Principle should stand free and barely in it self and set or put its Imagination or Desire into God and then would Gods light have filled all in All and the Earnest severe Fire-source or quality of the first Principle viz the Eternall Nature of the Dark World as also the outward Nature and source or quality of the Starres and Elements would not have been manifested 205. Man would have lived in the Divine Love source or quality and would have continued Immortall and incorruptible no sicknesse neither want necessity nor Death would have touched him 206. Therefore now if such a desire is to be in Man out of which the Will-Spirit should barely be inclined or directed into God then must Divine Substantiality needs be in the Souls Fire out of which such a Will-Spirit might exist 207. For out of no Earthly source or quality nor out of the Dark Worlds source or quality doth any divine desire exist Earthlinesse knoweth nothing of God also the Dark World hath no Divine Love or Desire in it self 208. Whereby we know that we according to the second Principle viz according to the Paradisicall Angelicall World have had flesh and bloud out of the heavenly Essence and Substantiality which was the right Body of the Soul and therein stood the Image of Heaven 209. And the Spirit 〈◊〉 the Magick-Fire of the Soul which shined in the power of the 〈◊〉 was the true similitude of God according to the Trinity of GOD the Image wherein God dwelleth and wherewith God manifesteth himselfe For that very Spirit is like all Angells in Substance and Beeing of which Christ faith Math. 22. 30. That in the Resurrection they are like the Angells of God 210. When God had created Adam he then stood in the Paradisicall World viz in the Image of God but God knowing how he with his Noble Jewell between the Inward Dark World and then also the outward Elementary World stood fast bound to BOTH therefore he gave to the Souls Nature the Law and Cormandment and said Thou shalt not eate of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill for on what Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the Death that is dye away from the Divine World and in THEE will the Dark World and then also the Outward world become manifested and get the Dominion in THEE 211. As also then it was so done when Adam began and set or put his Desire and Imagination into the Outward World then the souls fire did Eat of the forbidden Fruit and brought the Earthly source or quality and the substantiality of this World into his Noble Image into the Paradisicall Angelicall World 212. He brought the earthly source or quality and substance into the Pure Elementary Flesh which was created out of the Divine substantiality so his light extinguished that is he went with his will-spirit
it is yet in it self not Nature but ruleth as a mighty potent Spirit IN Nature 172. Thus in this Type or Resemblance is understood the Divine Substance and also the Eternall Naturér out of which Desire and Substance is become generated the Third Principle viz this outward visible World and become Created in the beginning into a Substantiall Beeing together with all Creatures 173. For from the Eternall Mother is the beginning or inceptive Mother come to be for where there is nothing there nothing comes to be but where ever somewhat hath come to be there it is come to be out of the Eternall which hath been without beginning and it is the Eternalls Similitude Image Substance and Propriety and yet we cannot say that it is sundred from the Eternall but it is distinguished the one world is in the other and each possesseth it self 174. God is in Every thing or Substance but every thing doth not comprehend him That only comprehendeth him that is gone forth out of his Eternall Substance understand that is of his Substance that doth stand in HIM For God dwelleth not is the Out-birth of the outward Nature but in the inward in himself 175. God indeed is himself ALL but all is not called and acknowledged to be God in respect of the difference of the source or quality Nature is not God but God is manifested or revealed through Nature God is understood alone in the Eternall Light according to the second Center viz. in the Liberty and yet is not severed asunder from the Eternall Nature 176. For if a shining is to be then there must be fire and yet also there is shining of fire without or besides the Liberty which the divine world signifieth 177. The Glance or Lustre of the Fire signifieth God the Father and the Formes to Fire signifie the Eternall Nature and the power of the Light signifieth the Heart of God viz the true Deity for it produceth another or second Center of another source or quality then the fire viz a Love-Desire and Meeknesse 178. And the Out going Spirit out of the Glance of the Fire into the power of the Light out of the Lights Substance drunk in by the Fire viz out of the Love and Meeknesse signiffeth to us rightly the Holy Ghost which continually goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne into the Divine power and Substamiality as the Aire from the Fire and Light and ruleth in the Lights Substantiality 179. The outward world is througly a similitude of the Inward for the Inward hath manifested or revealed it self with or by the outward whereby a Man may understand what the Invisible God in the hidden Mystery is 180. Man ought not to think that God is somewhat absent from any thing or space or place for he filleth ALL but in his own Principle viz in the Middlemost World which he himself is 181. And now when the Invisible God once moved himself according to the Eternall Magia viz in the Eternall Nature-Desire he generated to himself in his wisdome his likenesse out of the properties of all the Three worlds and out of Every Essence and property created Creatures and figures 182. For the Work-Master viz his Spirit was in all things or substances viz. in the Divine Light world Angells and pure spirits understand out of the Eternall Nature viz out of the Eternall Fires and Lights property out of Divine Substantiality 183. For a Spirit hath the Eternall Center of Nature in it self if it be an Eternall Spirit it hath all formes to Nature viz of the dark world and also of the Light world in it self for it is proceeded out of Gods Mouth it is Nature else it were no manifested or revealed Spirit with or among the Spirits 184. Out of the Eternall Nature God hath manifested or revealed his wisdome for in the Essence viz in the divine wisdome hath the Substance of the Spirits and Creatures been from Eternity but with the Moving of God the Father it passed into a formed Creation according to the property of the Essence in Verbo Fiat in the Word Fiat in the word of Power and therefore were the Angells called Flames of fire but throughly Enlightned with the Light of God 185. The Light of God dwelleth in their fire-flames so that the fire-source or quality is nor manifested or revealed in them but if it become manifested then they have lost the divine Substantiality out of which the fires Glance Existeth and that Spirit standeth barely and nakedly in the Dark world as is done by the Devills 186. A Spirit proceeding out of Nature is a Magick Fire source or quality and is desirous of substance or of the Substantiality of its forme the desire maketh substance and bringeth that substance into its Imagination that is the Magick fires viz the Spirits Corporeity whence the Spirit is called a Creature Also that Substantiality is the Spirits Food whereof the fire liveth or burneth 187. Here now is understood the Devills and also Mans fall for according to the Eternall Nature they are both out of one Originall the Devill was an Angell and should have set his Imagination in the Light of God viz in Love and Meeknesse in the Divine Substantiality and then he had conceived divine Substantiality in his Imagination and his light had continued shining his Magick fire-source or quality had eaten of Gods Meeknesse and then also had the fire-source or quality burned in such an Essence and property and then he had Continued an Angel 188. But he turned himself back into the Center after the Mother of the Genetrix and set his Imagination to goe after the formes to Nature and would needs rule terribly in the might of the Fire he contemned the Meeknesse viz the Second Principle and would domineere over God 189. What he now desired that he received also into his fiery Desire viz the Substantiality of the fiarce wrath out of the formes of the Dark world out of his own Center Thus now is that Substantiality the food of his Spirits Fire and his Fire-source or quality standeth in a dark fierce wrathfull Essence and can conceive no desire more in the Meeknesse viz in Gods substance 190. Thus he is a Devill and dwelleth in the Center of the Darknesse viz in the formes to Nature for his Light is extinguished he can not kindle that againe it shineth no more out from his Essence neither can his Imagination any more reach or attaine it and he continueth a sierce wrathfull fire-source or quality in the Darknesse and eateth of the dark Substantiality and standeth in another Principle 191. The Word Fiat Verbum Fiat which figureth his forme or Image in him is the Mother of the Dark world viz the sterne formes to Nature according to every Spirits property as the source or quality in the Center is so is also the Will-Spirit 192. Now then the light being withdrawne he can frame no other will then his mother is in her
like a Beast and is not the Noble Image which is saded and disappeared in Death which is created out of heavenly substantiality 578. But that thou wilt not allow me this that in Man understand in the Third Principle a humane Image according to the Angelicall World out of the Heavenly substantiality hath stood in the Inward yet I say that Gods Spirit that in the Second Principle goeth forth out of the First viz out of the Souls Fire of the Father into the Second out of the Love and Light Fire into the Sonne was never at all without substance for it is the Driver forth of the Divine power and substantiality 579. Hath now the Light and Spirit of God been in Man viz in Adam then also hath Gods substantiality been therein For no Fire burneth in Gods Love unlesse it have DIVINE substantiality 580. Therefore saith Christ Whosoever eateth NOT the Flesh of the Son of Man he hath no part in HIM He understandeth the Corporeity of his unmeasurable Eternall Divine Substantiality in the Water of the Eternall Life and in the Tincture of the Power out of the Fire and Light in the Glance or Lustre of the Divine Wisdome out of the Words Body 581. Now if Adam hath been a totall sumilitude according to God then he must not only have had Earthly Substance for his Body if the Soul had had only Earthly source or quality to Eat then it had not had the prohibition but it had also the Corporeity of the Second Principle out of the Heavenly Substantiality that was the right Angelicall Image which became created in the Fiat of the Word 582. But the Outward Fiat according to the Outward Principle Created the Outward Man and God the Holy Spirit breathed himself thereinto according to the source or quality and property of all the Three Principles into the outward Image according to its outward Property viz the Spirit of the Great World Majoris Mundi of the outward World and the Angelicall Divine World according to the Love of Gods Heart and according to the Eternall Nature viz according to the Fire-World viz according to the Fathers Property the right Soulish viz the Center of the whole Man 583. In Brief what is it that Men should make many words Man was a Totall similitude according to God according to all the Three Worlds and their Properties and that he must be againe or must be a hunger-hunger-Spirit in the Dark World 584. What he maketh of himself that he is He standeth here in the Field or Soyle either there groweth out of him an Herb on Gods Table or an Herb in Gods fierce Wrath what kind of Essence so ever he will bring in the growing according to the relish of that it will also get a Mouth for it will eat either of the Love or of the Anger 585. The matter is not about the high knowledge only but about the tast or relish that any becometh the Bread of God which God Eateth It lyeth little in the knowing but all in the DOING it must be DOING the Evill Branches must be Cut off that good Wine may grow 586. We should not judge and condemn one another for the knowledge sake The Plow-Man knoweth lesse then the Doctor but he goeth many times before the Doctor into the kingdome of Heaven let us fall upon DOING that we may get Divine Essence into our Sprout let us reach after the LOVE and then we have ALL. 587. MY high Knowledge maketh me not happy or saved for I know not my self it is not Mine but Gods Spirit knoweth it self in ME he allures Me therewith to himself when he departeth or withdraweth then I know Nothing 588. I have not my knowledge at all from Man why should I then long contend with Man about it no Man can either give it me or take it away from me 589. I deal foolishly in that I Strive with thee for thou canst take nothing from me but it is done for the sake of other people which through thy Mouth abuse my knowledge else I would for thy Cursings and Judgings not lift up a Finger 590. Thou shoudst Converse in Love as a Christian if thou wouldst be Gods childe but if thou Judgest thy brother into Hell-Fire for the sake of his Gift what will become of thee how doest thou know what is befallen him that he runneth on thus How dost thou know upon what Branch or Roote God hath ingrasted him Thou wert not at all by when he did sow the Spirit of his Wisdome 591. You say it is from the Devill and there was Joy in Heaven in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary especially in the Fathers Nature when this Seed was sowne I would NOT give the little Graine that was sowen into me for all this worlds good It is more deare to me than Heaven and Earth and thou treadest it underfoote do but see what manner of Angel thou art 592. Thou writest much and if thou shouldst goe with thy writings to the Center there would be no body at home thou gatherest many Texts of Scripture together which in themselves are GOOD that thou mightst settle a framed Opinion concerning that thou knowest no Ground for 593. Thou canst not bring the Opinion into the Center and then bring it out againe there is no Spirit of Depth in thee but collected Matter from others Mouthes and thy own Mouth understandeth it not 594. But I write what I my self understand and what I can bring into the Ground of the Center 595. Art thou a Master then shew thy self one give me a writing concerning the Center of the Eternall and also of the outward Nature let it be seen what thou canst do prove it in the Light of Nature and not from a strange Mouth Speak from your own knowledge and then I will Answer thee 566. Let thy contemining alone and do thou direct it to the honour of God and make if serve the profit and salvation of Man that it may be a Sprour upon Gods Table and I will Answer thee that thou wilt Wonder and if thou meanest piously wilt highly rejoyce thou wouldst neither seek nor find any Devill in Me. 597. There is a great earnestnesse in me to seek my Eternall kingdome in God God hath not promised me a Scorpion instead of an Egge he would not give me to the Devill when I prayed so earnestly to him for his Holy Spirit 598. The Devill sets not upon a Man a spirituall high Triumphant Crowne or Garland of Victory in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary when a Man Fights against him He hath none of THAT which hath been done to this Spirit which thou callest a Devill and whence its knowledge proceeded 599. I write not for my own Fame which is in God but to Teach Men what they may expect from God if they will but come to the Ring or Lists of this Earnest Fight unlesse the outward voluptuousnesse in soft pleasure of the Flesh
at the End of the 40. Question of the soule and here at the End of this Book so that now all his workes are printed in the English Tongue Judg not according to the appearance but read weigh examine and Judg righteous Judgment Or rather Judg not that we be not Judged which was one of the precepts of CHRIST and the Apostle Paul sayes If we would Judg our Selves we should not be Judged Judgment is the Mentall framing or denouncing of the sentence and severity of the Consuming fire of Gods wrath what in Reallity any one is capable of and will certainly receive at the Last day which to doe upon others whom we cannot know so well as we doe our selves doth awaken that fiery wrath in our selves which ought not to be for if the Eternall Fire which is in our hearts and soules be kindled against a Person that is not lyable by his Guilt if it burne not him it may and will burne Our selves but if we kindle that fire of Indignation against our selves as justly and deservedly we may it will consume Self-Love and all the Dark matter of our Sonles and so change it into Light as fire doth Iron and then the Eternall fire will have no Fewell to kindle upon in us now or at the Last Day but we shall be able to dwell with Everlasting Burnings as the Light doth in the Fire having Judged and Condemned our selves for we shall walke in righteousness and speake in uprightness we shall despise the Gaine of Deceits and shake our hands from holding of Bribes and stop our Ears from hearing of Bloud and shut our Eyes from seeing of Evill and then we shall dwell on High our Defence shall be the Munition of the Everlasting Rock of Ages For a close I offer a Similitude of the Manner how the last Judgment will be effected to be Considered of All Seeds sown will come up the same that they were sown whether Good wheate or weedes this Life time is the sowing of Thoughts words and Actions in our Spirits soules and Bodyes whatsoever is retained and Nourished growes up in our Lives and Conversations the other Dies be it the Good or the Bad and the power is fixed in the fruit of what Growes in us here and at the time of the Last Harvest the Seed will present its Fruit ready and all will appeare in the Effect what hath been suppressed what hath been cherished if good it is well with us if Bad we are fit Fewell for the Eternall Fire If our Desires which are the sprouting of our seede be infected with liking the Evill or disliking the Good when the Flower or Fruit comes to appear we shall see the Effect apparently in One Moment of what was hiddenly in the Seede from the first being of the Thought word or work in us Thus every Heart may Judg of it selfe in this Life and amend in time but however then they will be layd Open to the Eyes of our Selves and All Others as the FLOWER in one instant shewes the effect of all the vertues and powers that lay hid in the Seed though they were really there before as when we sowe it may be we Expect Rare Tulips or whatsoever flower is most excellent when it is full blown it appears either of a pale dead wan Colour or of a Dull and distorted shape or figure or else of Orient strong various exact Colours and delightful Figures which shewes it sucked in and nourished it self with barren cold juice of the Earth or drew in the Infection of the Aire and Evil influences or Else the strong fat warme Sap of a fertile Soyle and the Good Influences of the Stars of Heaven Our Soule hath in it the Seede of Gods Image planted and sown in the Inward word of the Heart it springs up in Good Thoughts which Image is righteousness and Holiness and will shine far brighter then the Sun But if we suffer vices and Evill thoughts to possess our Hearts our Image will be darke and that will forme us into ugly deformed Beasts or Devills and we shall no more appeare in the right Colours figures formes beauty and brightness but be as the Blackness of Darkness in anguish and Torment thence sorth and for Evermore As when we have a Sickness our beauty decayeth the Blood is corrupt lookes pale yellow and sometimes Black by the distemper of the Feaver which disturbes the whole constitution of a Man so that the Light of the Sun Garden Pictures Musick or any thing that delights us most in health is Irksom to us then Darkness the Night and Sleepe doth most affect us but then also the Fire of the Disease in the Corruption of our Mortall Body of Flesh troubles us within and the most pleasing Thoughts we have had doe much molest us which shewes that the inward Corruption and the wrath of God hath gotten a life in Our Bodyes so also if it get a life in our Soules it is much more grievous even to Eternity which will manifest it selfe in the Judgment when all the Good that now allayeth the Evill in us shall be separated distinct apart by it selfe and will be the life of all Misery which is the second or Never Dying Death On the otherside Health in this Life giveth alacrity beauty and pleasantness which is a true Embleme of the health in the Soule that shall make it full of Joy and blisse If the matter that is growne in it here be good and Holy we should be able to Endure the sharpest Cold as a refreshment and the Greatest heate Would be our life as Shadrach Meshach and Abednego walked in the Hot fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar and a Haire of their Head was not singed nor the smell of fire upon their Cloathes the Heavenly substance was but the more effectual and delightful to them by that Fire though heat seaven Times hotter then formerly it use to be whereas those that cast them in in whom the Love of God had not Gotten a Life were slaine by the Flame that caught hold of them by this we may collect the great power of the Inward Heavenly Substance Also of the Hellish Fire in their Effects at the Great Day But then Gods brightness in all Things will be Joyned to himself and his holy ones will enjoy it in their Measures but the Darkness and filth of Corruption will remaine with the Devill and his Angels and so the SEPERATION wil be undeniably of like to its Like when the unquenchable Fire shall swallow up the Drosse Chaffe and Weedes and the Light receive that which is pure solid sweete and good Wheate and retaine it for Evermore When I consider how long have known more then some others the inevitable danger of loving my Sinfulness together with my careless negligence in my endeavours to forsake it and in that regard how short I come of the precise Judging of my selfe and of the amendment might be
is the True Ground and Apostolick Foundation 16. His reproaching and contempt giveth me and My Conscience no stumbling block but it rejoyceth me that I shall suffer reproach and contempt for the sake of the Deare Name of JESUS CHRIST and I account it as sent from God and an Exercise of Faith 17. For our Saviour CHRIST left us this at last that when they would persecute contemne despise reproach us and speak all manner of Evill of us for his Name sake if it be false that we should then rejoyce and be glad For if they have called the Master of the House Beelzebub what will they may they not doe concerning them of his Houshold the Disciple is not better then his Master 18. In Persecution the Crosse and Tribulation we shall Enter into the Kingdome of God The Crosse Driveth us on to Consider that we should continually Cruefie our Corrupt perished Man and give our selves up continually into the Love of God in Christ that the New Man in us may arise grow and Live in God 19. Also I Desire not to rage against the Writer of this Libel or to contemne him but to answer for my self against his Malicious charge against me for he treateth therein against God and the Love of our Neighbour also against his own Conscience in that he layes to my charge and falsly wresteth my Writings which he himself doth not understand therefore he judgeth his own Heart seeing he knoweth nothing of me and yet pronounceth me a Devill 20. Surely that I should write concerning my self as if I were a Great Master of the Scriptures or Arts and Sciences of the Schools or Universities of this World that is NOT so I am a poor simple Man and have my Skill and high knowledg not from Art or from Reason neither have I sought so Great Art but from my Youth up have sought only the salvation of my Soul how I might inherit and possesse the Kingdome of God 21. But after I found in me a powerfull Opposition viz. the Driving in Flesh and Bloud and the Mighty strife between the Womans and the Serpents Seed I then once set my self so hard in strife against the Serpents Seed and my own Corrupt Nature yet through the assistance of God that I supposed I should overcome and break that innate evill Will and Inclination and unite my self to the Love of God in Christ to hide my self in the Heart or Bosome of God from the terrible Tempest of the Anger of God and the fierce wrath of the Devill that Gods Spirit might rule Drive and Lead me 22. I purposed to keep my self as Dead in my innate forme and Condition till the Spirit gat a form in me and that I laid hold on him that I might lead my Life through and in Him 23. Also I purposed to Will nothing but what I apprehended in his Will and Light he should be my Will and Deed which indeed was not possible for me to Doe and yet I stood in the Earnest purpose and resolution and in very earnest strife and Battle against my self 24. And what thereupon came to pass none may well know but God and my ownsoul for I would rather lose my Life then Depart from that 25. Thus I wrestled in Gods assistance a good space of Time for the victorious Garland or Crowne of Victory which I afterwards with the breaking open of the Gate of the Deep in the Center of Nature attained with very great Joy whereupon in my soul a Wonderfull Light Sprung up which was strange to the wild Nature 26. Wherein I first apprehended what God and Man was and what God had to Doe with Man Which I never understood before neither did seek in such a way but as a Child that hangeth to its Mother and longeth after her so did my soul after this Light but with no knowledge beforehand what should or would come to passe but as as a simple Child 27. I little understood the high Articles of Faith before only after the Manner of poor Lay people much lesse Did I understand Nature till the Light in the eternall Nature began to shine to me whence I became so very much Delighted and ravished that I began and would needs write downe my knowledge for a Memoriall 28. For the Spirit picrced through and through like Lightning and saw into the Ground of the Eternity or as a Tempest passeth on what it Driveth that it Driveth so it went in me I began to write as a Child at Schoole and I wrote thus in my apprehension and zealous Driving continually on and on and only for my self 29. I supposed all my life Long not to be knowne thereby to any Man but minded to keep it by me all my Life long for a Memoriall though indeed it was continually given to me to write of Things to Come as if it were for Many as if it were a work laid upon me which I must undergoe 30. I found mightile the will of the New kindled Light-spirit but my soul was to it and in it as a Child without understanding It went thus into its Mothers Garden of Roses and Did as a Servant in Obedience and all was given me after a Magicall Manner to set it Down in Paper 31. For I wrote only my Mind sense or Thoughts as I understood in the Deep and made no Exposition upon it for I supposed not that it should come to be read by other I would keep it for my self else if I had knowne that it should have been read abroad I would have written more clearly 32. Also the Labour of my Spirit in it and with it was a continuall Exercise wherein my soul Dived the longer the deeper into the Mystery of the Eternall Nature as a Schollar which goeth to School and strenuously execiseth himself 33. For the Spirit of the Light loved my Soul exceedingly as the impartiall Reader will see therein how the Spirit hath exercised it self and repeated many things very often and ever Deeper and Cleerer from one step to another it was the right Jacobs Ladder upon which my soul climbed up through Gods Will whom it also pleased so to exercise me and to bring me into the Heavenly School into the Holy Ternary 34 Concerning which the Libeller knows Nothing as his reproachfull writings testifie that he understandeth nothing therein but writeth like a History from the School of this World which I leave to its owne worth but he boasteth unjustly of Enlightened Eyes seeing he useth them for a reproach against the Children of God 35. Now this is THAT Book which I wrote in my Childhood when I was but an A. B. C. Schollar which the Libeller takes upon him to Judge But it was taken away from me by Satans Suttlety who thought to make merry with it so that I knew not of it in Three Years where it was I supposed it was quite gone a great while before 36. Moreover I was bereaved
in Gods representing 293. For in God that which is done and past and that which is to come is all one And therefore was the New Regeneration out of Christ reckoned or imputed to the Children of the Covenant as iif they stood already in the New Body of Christ as if Christ had already drowned the Anger with his bloud-shedding and that the Life were already become Generated out of Death againe 294. For that very Life out of the Limit or Mark stood in Gods Imagination and with the Promise in Paradise it set it self therein that very Life was Promised to Abraham that it should be awakened againe in his seed Not in a strange seed as the Libeller conceiteth but in the seed of the Noble Image which out of the Heavenly Substantiality out of the Second Principle was together given to Adam for a Body 295. And yet with the Entrance of the Soul into the Earthlynesse was become shut up in the still Death as in the Nothing and that should againe sprout out of Death and therein rise againe and be borne A New Man in holinesse innocency and Righteousnesse it should againe be put on to the Soul 296. Understand it highly and aright The Life of God in the Covenant of the Limit or Mark which in Mary assumed the humanity that very Life must from Christ enter into us understand into our disappeared Image shut up in Death That is the Graine that is sowen into the Dead disappeared Substantiality that draweth that humane Essence again to it and becometh again the Life of that Image 297. Thus the Noble Lilly Twig or Branch groweth up which first is small as a Graine of Mustard-seed as Christ saith and afterwards becometh as large as a Bay Tree That is the True New Regeneration out of Christ 298. My Libeller put you other Eyes into your Bride and look upon the Old Testament and the Covenant of Promise with or as to Adam and Abraham rightly doe not imbitter the Scripture and drag it not about by the Haire of the head in a strange understanding Your Meaning or Opinion Obscureth the Noble Lilly or Branch which now should sprout or Grow out of the Mother or Roote much more then it doth serve to the promoting of its growth 299. If you would Judge in this Mystery then must you be born againe in Christ you must see out of Christs Eyes if you would apprehend the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum but if you were born of Christ then you would not be a Mote Judger but a loving Brother 300. Christ bids you not condemne but meekly to converse and friendly Instruct not to wrangle or scoffe or pronounce Men to be in the Jawes of the Devill My friend you are yet very blinde concerning the kingdome of Christ I will rightly shew you the Doore of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ as it is given to me from the Grace of God in the Love of Christ 301. Not through my understanding but in my resignation in Christ from Christs Spirit From Christs Spirit have I conceived or received the knowledge the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum I have not studied in your Schoole I have knowne nothing of that neither have I sought it in that way I sought only Gods Heart and more is come to me then I sought or understood 302. Therefore if you would be brother in Christ put your Bucks-hornes off and then we may see one another with right Eyes and a modest Mind and instruct one another in the Feare of God 303. Such Surlynesse and Scorne is Babel the Mother of Tyranny and Great spirituall whoredom whence Warres and Strise is arisen at all times your Libell is only a Bloudy provocation and a scoffing an unseemly puffed up Pride a Cainish property goe out from it if you would see the richly Amiable countenance of Christ in the Holy Ternary in Ternario Sancto if you would see the Wonder-Branch of the hidden LILLY which at present Sprouteth out of the Roote of the Tree 304 If you would grow and sprout with the Noble Lilly Branch out of the Old Tree you must bring an humble Heart and so you must stand in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ if you would grow spring or sprout and speak out of or from God 305. For None know any thing of God but only the Spirit of Christ which is in God the Some in the Bosome of the Father searcheth out in our spirit even the Depths of the Deity Our spirit must stand in the Spirit of Christ if we we would understand the Divine Mysterie 306. It is not enough for Men to put together or collect a heap of Scripture Texts and Make an Opinion and Meaning out of them no my Friend Opinion doth it not but the Living Word where the Heart experienceth the certainty therein Consisteth Faith in the Holy Spirit 307. In Opinions there is meere Doubting whether it be right or not Out of Opinions is the Antichrist Generated If we would speak of God then we must speak from or out of the Spirit of Christ which alone knoweth what God is or else we are very Lyars 308. Christs Spirit must speak out of us of the Divine Mysterie else we speak out of the Babel of Confusion Christ is in our right humane Essence understand in Adams Essence become Man not in the Essence of the Starres and Elements but in the Essence of the One Element through which before the fall Paradise grew or sprouted in Adam 309. When the Angel Gabriel came to Mary he Saluted her and sayd Haile Graciously Amiable the Lord is with Thee Thou blessed of all Women thou shalt be impregnate in thy Body and beare a sonne whose name thou shalt call JESUS 310. Here it hath not that understanding as the Libeller Explaines it that Mary was borne out of God before-hand Ere Christ in her became Man No Christ is the first from the Dead he first kindled the Life in Death only the Limit or Mark stood in Mary that was the Blessing For in the Limit or Mark was the Living Word and the Spirit of God Surrounded and Cloathed with the Noble Virgin of the Wisdome of God in the Divine Substantiality 311. When the Angel sayd thou shalt be impregnate in thy Body And shee the Virgin Mary thereupon said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord be it done unto me as thou hast said then the Life in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant viz the Heart of God moved in Maryes in Death included Essence That word was cloathed or surrounded with divine Substantiality out of the Water of Eternall Life generated out of the Meeknesse of the Light of the Majesty of God 312. And in that Substantiality was the Tincture out of the Fire and Light of God which is the Glance or Lustre and Ornament of the Substantiality 313. And in the Tincture was the Chast
390. He should not feigne to himself wayes to the Kingdome of Heaven and make Opinions as the Autichristian Church doth for in the Opinion he runs of himself yet It lyeth not in any Man 's going or running but in a lowly humble Penitent Heart which goeth forth from sinne those God hath Mercy on for it lyeth in Gods Mercy 391. When Man converteth and goeth forth from sinne then he becometh IN Gods Mercy Elected to be a Child of God then the Spirit of Christ draweth him to the Father Christ saith None cometh unto Me except my Heavenly Father draw him 392. Now he draweth not the wicked Will THAT the Devill and the Dark world draweth only Man hath Free will if he cast his Will into Righteousnesse into God then the Spirit of God comprehendeth his Will and bringeth it in Ternarium Sanctum into the Holy Ternary and there the Noble Graine becometh sowne in the Will and then beginneth the Drawing of the Father to the Regeneration 393. God hardeneth no Man but the Dark world in the Devils Imagination and Inchantment they harden Man viz the Souls-Fire they are a Door shut against the Light 394. Though indeed the Scripture saith God hath Mercy on whom he will and hardeneth whom he will yet it hath not that understanding as if God would not hear the Poor Sinner For Christ saith come all to me that are weary and heavy laden I will refresh you Also I am come to call sinners to Repentance Also The Son of Man is come not to Judge the World but that he might save the World He that runneth in his own conceit hardeneth himself for he will needs be Christ 395. Gods hardening is when he letteth one run on whither he will God knoweth his very well why should a Man pour Oyle into those wounds to which it is poyson the Soar will be but the Larger 396. Who will help him who himself will NOT Or shall Men cast Pearls before Swing If a man lets the free-will goe whither it will then it cometh into its Fathers Native Country out of which it is gone forth why doth Man lend the Devill his heart that he may introduce an Evill Will or Desire thereinto A good Tree bringeth forth good fruit 397. Why did Adam bring his Imagination into the Serpents Poyson into Pride of Multiplicity into the wonder of the fierce wrathfull Nature He had the Command not to do it why was he disobedient who compelled him Even the Lust or Longing which came from the Devil and therefore is HE Guilty of Mans Fall 398. He must indeed stand in the Temptation to try into which World he would give up himself all the Three Worlds drew him each had him on a Band there he should shew his valour as a Prince he was free 399. But that he was overcome by the Outward World that the Devill caused by his Infection as still at this very day he teareth many a little Sprout from the Tree Therefore Man should not be secure also not rely on or be of himself but continually give up himself into Gods Mercy 400. He can not better wrestle with the Devill then when he casts himself into Gods Mercy then he relyes not on or is not of himself but he is Gods the Devill may dance in his Smoak Hole how he will a Man can not hinder him of that only let him not give his Will to the Devill as Adam did Number II. Page 18. 401. THe Pasquil or Libeller begins here again to Reprehend but he perverteth the Authour's Mind and Sense quite and cleane and casts Gall into it where it stands written thus 402. But they that became generated or born in the Light of Nature and of the Spirit and upon Earth never rightly knew the Tree of Life but were growne in ITS Power which hath overshadowed ALL Men upon Earth as indeed many Heathen and People and Infants they were also taken up in that very power wherein they were Growne and their Spirit became cloathed therewith and they sung the Song of their Power Now thus saith the Libeller 403. And as this Spirit determines of a Naturall Christ so will he also have the knowledg of him to be Naturall and from that though they knew not the Tree of Life in Spirit and in Truth might attaine Eternall Life Externally as if there were more wayes then One to it Thus far the Libeller Answer 404. Is not the Libeller sent that he should Judg the People Tongues and Languages and shall he not Judge the Child in the Mothers body or Womb also the deaf and blind which are born Deaf especially the Heathen and Turks he letteth none of these into Heaven for he hath the Keyes of Peter O thou miserable Blindnesse how many will enter into the Kingdome of God before thee 405. Is not the Father in the Sonne and the Sonne in the Father and the Holy Spirit in them both Now if the Heathen People are without understanding Zealous for the Living God and yet have not the knowledge of Christ among them and know nothing thereof but with a totall earnest sincerity Desire the Love and Mercy of God will God then cast them all away because they have not Christs Name 406. He that apprehendeth the ONE only living God he hath apprehended the Holy Trinity The Publican in the Temple knew not how to say any thing else but only this O God be Gracious to me poor Sinner If now a Turk or Heathen should come in such a Manner with sincere earnest Supplication and Repentance and yet knew nothing of the Kingdome of Christ Sir Libeller wouldst not thou admit him to the Mercy of God 407. How doe you know what God would do for you or what have you given to him that he hath of Grace bestowed his Sonne upon you may he not then also receive Turks and Heathens to Grace especially little Children Hearken thou blind Libeller thou understandest not the Authour 's saying 408. My Text saith Those who were become Born or generated in the Light of Nature and of the Spirit The Light of the Eternall Nature is the Heart of God the Light of the Majesty of God and the Spirit from or out of the Light is the Holy Spirit with this Description the New Birth 409. Now if a man be generated or born out of THAT then it is well and good for he is born of God there will be many people thus born in God which knew nothing of the Name of Christ viz How God is become Man or Incarnate 410. Doth now the blind Libeller understand Nothing then I suppose the Devill hath blinded him See further But those that were grown in ITS Power understand in the Power of the Tree of Christ they were received Doest thou here understand the Naturall Growth with or as to Flesh and Bloud then thou art blind indeed 411. Doe you not see my Text saith Those
is the Seperation between Gods Name and Natures Name also between the Love-source or quality and the Naturall fierce wraths source or quality 495. In the Fire exist Two Principles viz Two Magia's Two desirous Wills viz the Lights and the Fires 496. The Light is a desire of Love Meeknesse and Substantiality and that is in the Eternity called God The Light is the Majesty the Lights desire is the Other or second Center or the Heart of God the Substantiality is Gods Substance it is the Water source or quality or the Spirit of the Eternall Joys Life 497. And the Fire maketh in the Water-source or quality the Tincture or Life so that Gods Substantiality is a Life That very Lights Substantiality is the Words or Hearts Cerporeity wherein the Great Mystery of the Will of the Abysse viz the Wisdome becometh Manifest 498. And the Fire is another Principle then the Light it hath a fierce wrathfull stinging consuming Desire climing up in Might and Pomp it willeth to consume and swallow up all into it self it is a cause of the Covetousnesse its Bitternesse is a Cause of the Envy for it is the sting of Death and Anger 499. And here goe back into the Formes to Fire and then thou wilt find the Dark World and the hellish fierce Wrath and in the Fire GODS Anger which the Light viz his Heart holdeth captive in the Love-Source or Quality and allayeth or meekeneth the Fires fierce-Wrath 500. For the Water of the Eternall Life generated or born out of the Meeknesse viz Gods Substantiality maketh out of the Divine Fire-source or quality another source or quality viz the climibing up of the Divine Joys Kingdome The Fire-source or quality must only be a cause of the Life and of the Light as also of the Spirit and of the Joys Kingdome 501. And heare the Name God severeth it self in the Trinity viz In the First Center to Nature viz the Eternall Will of the Fiat which in the Fire is a sterne severe zealous Substance and in the Light the cause of the Joys Kingdome and of the Spirit of Life That is the Father of all Substances also of his Sonnes viz of the second Centers of the Love-desires 502. And The Other or second Center of the power of the Light is his Sonne or Heart and maketh in himself and in the Father the Second Principle viz the Angelicall World that is our right Fathers or Native Country which Christ brought into US againe 503. And The Spirit going forth from the Fire in the Light is the Third Person in the Light in the Love and the Joy-source or quality He is called God the Holy Spirit understand according to the Sonnes Center and according to the Fires Center he is called The Anger-Spirit of the Father 504. In the Dark World HE is the Life of the Hellish source or quality out of all Formes to Nature In the Fire HE is the Flame of the fierce wrathfull Anger of God the Father and in the Light HE is the flame of the Great Love of God He is the right Life of God and is also the Life of all the Three Principles of all the Three Worlds in each World according to its property and is only knowne or acknowledged and rightly called God the Holy Spirit according to the Love viz according to property of the Sonne of God Else he is called the Spirit of the Nature of all things or Substances 505. Seeing we here goe so deep we will therefore shew you somewhat more out of true Love and not out of a Desire so totally to reproach you because of your unskilfulnesse or ignorance for we know you better then you do your selfe and though we are zealous over you yet it should be understood heartily as a reproofe of your high climbed stately proud Will over the Spirit of God from which I have my knowledge 506. Consider of the Principle of Fire and see how the Dead ariseth and how he dieth Behold the Fire is a great hungry desire after Substance and if it cannot have that then it extinguisheth 507. Here consider the Great desire of the Father after the Sonne viz. of the first Principle after the second how the Father thus in great desire loveth the Sonne for he is his life else were the Fathers Life a dry fainting hunger like the Devills and the Dark World for the Fire burneth not without the Substance of the Water-Spirit 508. Here consider what befell the Devill when he lost Gods Love and Meeknesse then he remained to be a dry hunger in the fierce Wrath of the Eternall Nature thus it goeth also with the Soul of Man for they originate all alike out of the Eternall Nature 509. Now see further what in the Center of the Fire is the Possibility and Substance you understand now that the fierce wrathfull Fire-source must have Substance and that the Fire-source or quality it self longeth after Substance and if the Fire get the Substance or the Substantiality of the Water-source or quality into it self then the Fire consumeth that Substantiality and then is the dying of the Substantiality for the Substantiality goeth againe into the Still Eternity without besides or beyond Nature viz into the Nothing 510. And you see rightly that yet there is no Dying but the Light goeth forth out of that very Death out of the Consumtibility forth and the Light is then first the power of the understanding and of the Thoughts or Senses Thus Death ariseth out of the Fire-Life viz into another World viz into the Eternall Nothing into the Liberty without besides or beyond Nature 511. And you see now that the Light dwelleth in the Fire without Source Quality or Torment and knoweth nothing of the fierce wrath of the Fire for it is in its Essence a Love Desire Thus have I written that the Deity viz. Gods Center knew nothing of the fall of the fierce wrathfull Devills but the first Principle know it viz the Father according to the Fires Nature and according to the Desire and according to the hunger in the Dark world 512. Here consider beloved Men and brethren in Christ what the suffering and dying of CHRIST as also OUR Dying is How our Soul must in Christs Death be introduced into the Center of the Hell of Gods Anger into the Principle of Gods Fire and go quite through the source or quality of the consumptibility into the other World viz into the Liberty into the Center of the Love of God 513. For Adam's Soul had turned it self out and was Dead to the Light in the Substantiality and therefore the second Adam brought the Soul againe into the Fire viz into Gods Anger-source or quality and kindled the Light againe in Death and there the Light shone againe in the Darknesse That was Death to Death and a Pestilence to the Anger viz to Hell 514. The Soul was gone forth out of the Liberty of God into the Nature of this World viz
Devill that the Libeller perverts as one that understandeth nothing of my Writings or else of meere Malice Did he not see how I have described with all Circumstances that Gods Heart or Love went not into the Devill for he the Devill would not himself have it now where the Will it self willeth not there is an Eternall Death 536. The Will-Spirit was indeed in the Originall out of Gods Nature but when it demersed it self into the Center to hide it self from the Light of God then remained fierce wrathfulnesse IN fierce wrathfulnesse With what now should resistance be made it was now in its most Originall MOTHER 537. Should Gods Love goe into the Hellish Fire that is not to be should God in his Wrath strive against it it sate already in the Hellish Fire Had not fierce Wrath striven with fierce Wrath then had not Gods Anger yet moved in the place of this World 538. Consider but the Earth thou wilt well finde it thou blinde World with all thy Texts of Scripture which thou hast produced thou wilt not put one word in my Book back from its place only that thou settest a strange vizard upon me that the people might not know me which I esteem not for I am to YOU a very strange Man 539. Thou canst not in thy Hood look me in the Face thou must put off thy skinne if thou wilt see the Spirit of the Mystery Thou understandest Not what thou writest against me thou discoursest not concerning my apprehension and that maketh that thou seest somewhat that is strange thou wilt not see that it is the Roote of the Tree Thou wilt sooner leap into Hell as Lucifer did e're thou touchest one little twig thereof 540. Thou runnest againe into thy Center towards Babel and settest upon an Academy out of which Opinons and the Greatest Babel is growne out of which all Strife hath followed where Men have contended about Words about the Shell and let the Kernell lye but hearken friend tell but TEN and thou wilt find it by Experience 541. God hath Elected ALL of us in ONE Soul and in ONE Spirituall Body to be his Children God hath not breathed into Adam TWO Spirits but One only which is the Spirit of all the Three Principles of all Three Worlds viz a Fire-Light-and-Aire-Spirit 542. Adam should have managed his Dominion with the Light-Spirit then would the Fire-source or quality have been hidden in its Principle and have stood in great joy it had burned only in it self 543. Thus also the Spirit of this World that should also have stood only in it self and have been manifest in this World and the Fire and also the Outward World should have stood as if were swollowed up into the Light and have been manifest only in it self all desires should have been set in the Light and then the Light had shined in all Essences and desires and had filled all as in ONE Will. 544. But when the Will of the Center viz the Fiery Will which is called the Soul went into the Earthly kingdome and Imagined after Evill and Good then it received also the same then its Light Extinguished and it remained in its Mother a dark dry hunger and must help it self with the Spirit of this World as with a Sun-Light 545. Therefore it comes to passe that many times when a Man goeth in the dark he is astonished and terrified and alwayes afraid somewhat should lay hold on him that is the feare of the Soul whèn it perceiveth it self to be without the Light of the Sun in a dark Dungeon it is afraid of Gods fierce Wrath in the Center and of the Devills that dwell in the Darknesse 546. Since then the Divine Light is Extinguished in the Soul therefore Mans Life and Spirit at present without the New Birth standeth in two Regiments or Dominions viz in the Souls Fire it is the Dominion of Gods Anger and of the fierce Wrath as the Fires property is 547. And according to the Spirit of this World it is Evill and Good according to the Sun and according to the Constellation of the Outward Starry and Elementary Spirit it is alwayes according to its Constellation which stood in its Birth as also hath stood in its Conception As that it is at all times aspected with the Conjunction of the Constellatison with the Imagination of the Constellation so is also the outward Will-Spirit unlesse it be that the Soul doe attaine the Divine Light againe in the New Birth and then the Soul constraineth the outward Spirit with the power of the Light and leadeth it captive 548. My Libeller your conceit deceiveth you I know of no more but ONE only Spirit according to the Property of ALL THREE Worlds which is in Man and when the Light Extinguisheth then it is in TWO Properties that which receiveth the Light of God that is Elected to be a childe of God 549. Now it lyeth indeed in Man that he should seek and desire it for Christ saith Knock and it will be opened unto you seek and you will finde Ask and you will receive Your Father will give the Holy Spirit to him that asketh for it Also There is no sonne that asketh for an Egge and the Father giveth him a Scorpion God willeth that all Men be saved 550. Where now remaines in these words and Promises the predestinate purpose of God to the Hardening or where are the Two Spirits whereof God loveth the one and hardeneth the other We have indeed All but One only Soul and that is free it may frame its Will in Gods Love or Anger into which soever it casteth it self with its desire there it is 551. It cometh to passe many times that a Soul hath demersed it self with its Will-Spirit into Gods Anger into the Dark World in its fierce Wrath to all Devills with its sinnes and yet many in the time of this world goe out againe and convert and God receiveth them to Grace He hardeneth them not 552. Have you not an Example in the Prodigali lost sonne who had consumed all his righteousnesse of his Fathers Inheritance with the Devills Swine and was become a Swinheard What the Father did with him when he came againe how he fell about hu neck and kissed him and said This is my beloved sonne whom I had lost he was dead and is become living it is likely thou wilt say God drew him else he had not come 553. The Soul is Free God draweth every one who incline towards him when it entereth into him then it is Elected to the Light World so long as the Will remaineth in the fierce Wrath in the Dark World covered with the Outward so long God willeth it not and it is not drawne but when it inclineth it self towards Gods Face and doth but a little Imagine into Gods Love then the Divine Life becometh stirring 554. Understand the Word is become Man or Incarnate and standeth in the
the Father of the House Beelzebub what will they doe to those of his Houshold faith Christ When they persecute you and hate you for my Names sake then doe you rejoyce for great is your Reward in the Kingdome of Heaven 620. Men say an Enemies Mouth never speaks Good there is nothing so Evill but some men make it worse My Book is not Evill it meddles with none only thou makest it Evill thou expoundest it in an Evill sence and my sence was right and Good when I made it 621. Thou fayest there is an evill spirit in me if there were a good spirit in thee then thou wouldst make the Evill to be Good and wouldst not pervert all 622. Gods Spirit seeketh only Good he contends with none he Loveth Man and where he is in a Man there he driveth on to Love and Humility towards his Neighbour he Teacheth and instructeth Gently and Meekly he lifts not up the Horns also he comes not with Thunder and Ligntning as the Anger in the Fathers Nature upon Mount Sinai and with Elias did but with a still meek Voyce as at the day of Pentecost 623. God hath in Christ regenerated us in the Love not in his fires property that we should meet together one with another with a Modest and amiable condiscention and behaviour in a friendly Will and intention and heartily admonish one another as brethren 624. We should help up the weak and erroneous and friendly instruct them in the way and not from the narrow path plunge them into the Water or else cast them into Gods Anger in Hell-fire as the Libeller doth where he saith Hell Fire is thine 625. Christ saith Whosoever saith unto his Brother thou Fool he is guilty of Hell Fire or Raiha he is guilty of a Councill what is he worthy or guilty of who calleth his Brother a Devill and judgeth or condemneth him to Hell fire O Man Consider thy self convert from such uncouth Paths 626. We have indeed here is this valley of Misery before hand in the way of our Pilgrimage a very small narrow Bridge into Gods Kingdome why should we our selves first throw one another down doth one goe astray then let the other shew him the way let us deal one by another as Brethren 627. We all are born blind now then if sight be afforded us of Grace why then doth not one Brother afford Eyes to the Other Every one seeth as God hath favourably afforded him according as sight is given to him why will one brother hate the other for the sake of that because he knoweth not what the Lord hath given to him 628. O how Miserable is this Time of Ours how the Devill hunteth for us with Snares and Nets so that one Brother reproacheth dispiseth contemneth and slayeth the Other that he may captivate us in Gods Anger How doth he not afford us the high honour which he had but lost it with Pride 629. Dear Brethren beware of Pride especially those that are generated out of much Learning Knowledge it is the Pride of Reason and it is Mans worst Enemy it hath set up nothing but Wars and contemning of others 630. Syrach saith The higher thou art the humblyer behave thy self Pride goeth before a Fall Our Reason-knowledge is folly if Gods Spirit in us kindle not the knowledge if I knew all Scriptures outwardly and had not the Spirit of understanding what were my knowledge other then a Conceit 631. That is not Divine knowledge that any confirm an Opinion with many Texts of Scripture collected and put together for every Text hath its proper understanding in the place it standeth according to the Matter treated of oftentimes it signifieth much otherwise then the purpose it is drawn by one for to HIS Opinion 632. The Right knowledge standeth in this where any will Judge there his knowledge in him should be confirmed from the Spirit of God it must goe forth from the Center and not from a strange Mouth 633. Or dost thou suppose that Gods Spirit hath ceased to speak or that it is Dead so that the Spirit which moveth in Gods seeing dare not say any more Thus saith the Lord. 634. The Spirit sheweth it what it should speak only it bewares and defends it self from the intermixture of the Spirit of this World and from the Imagination of the Devill that the right humane will spirit which goeth forth out of the souls fire into the Light be not infected with its Malignity or Curse 635. There is no better Medicine or Antidote then the Desire of Love and the Humility so long as it goeth on and judgeth in Love and Humility in the seeing of the Divine Power so long is his Word GODS WORD for it is approved by the Spirit of God it goeth upon the wings of the Wind in the pure humane will-spirit as David saith The Lord Rideth upon the Wings of the Wind. 636. You find by no Prophet or Apostle that any hath spoken from anothers Mouth but from his own Gift somtime the Spirit hath brought in a Text and thereby cleered other Scriptures but the Maine Matter hath been set downe out of his own Spirit and Mouth 637. Who hath prohibited us that we should not dare to speak out of the Gifts of our Spirit but that we should only speak with a strange Mouth from our Spirit as the Libeller would have it 638. Who hath made a Law that a man should take away the Speech from the Spirit and change it into another Forme but even the Antichrist who hath set himself to be Lord over Gods Spirit and hath changed the Mouth of the holy Children into his Colour and Will 639. Indeed the High Apostles have not commanded it but they said Keep in Remembrance JESUS CHRIST who dyed for us and rose againe and did bid us Teach and Preach that they have barred up the Spirit of no Man or commanded his Tongue to be altogether changed into THEIR Words They have all of them indeed spoken together every one out of his own Tongue and yet out of ONE Spirit which was CHRISTS 640. We have still at this very Day the very SAME Spirit if so be we are born or generated out of HIM dare it not then now speak what is Necessary at this Time what is the Cause that the Center of the Holy Trinity Manifesteth or Revealeth it selfe even Mens Seeking their Desiring 641. Men strive now about the Person of Christ about Gods Election and Men raise Wars and reproaches about it and that Gods Love will have no more to be and he will rather manifest or reveale himself that Men should yet see what he doth and so goe out from strise about Gods Will into a right Apostolick life and no more contend about the knowledge as is done hitherto for a long time in Babel 642. But that now thus a simple Mouth must speak such great Things and NOT one highly Learned Ask