the sin whereby (p) 1 Pe. 4. a to draw and arm us to the same mind and so we to offer up our sins through the daily offering in the holy and to burn the same upon his holy Altar The which is his cross or patience in the holy 10. So even thus doth Christ through himself namely through (q) Rom. 9. a Eph. 2. a. Col. 1 c. 2. b. the incorporating us into his death of the Cross prepare the life and peace for us making us free and washing (r) Heb. 10. c. us from the evil conscience And so we obtain through him in that manner a free entrance into the holy for to accomplish the God-service in the holy to inherit the abundant riches of God the Father and the everlasting life The which cometh unto us plentifully and appeareth in cleerness if that we for our parts do (t) Mat. 16. c Luk. 9.14 c daily take up our Cross with Christ follow after him in the holy and so become (u) Rom. 6 a baptized in his death Rom. 4.5.8 a. to be an offering for the sin whereby to be (x) Col. 2. b. justified from the sin through Faith that meerly by Grace not by Works 11. Behold such a manner of offering and daily God-service in the holy is no doubt very convenient for us to use and perform For so then namely in the performance of the daily offering or God-service in the holy there appeareth or cometh to us in the spirit the spiritual high Priest or Christ according to the Spirit who is not of this earth neither of flesh and blood but of the heavenly God-head the same high (y) Heb. 7 8 9 10. Priest is also very needful for us because he is faithful and remaineth for ever 12. Whose service or high Priests office is not outward according to the manner of the foregoing service of the Elders administred among the unregenerate or unrenwed men as in the letter and with the letter or with speakable words but his service cometh to pass in the new birth of the inward spiritual and heavenly man (z) Heb. 7 8 9 10. with the ministration of the spiritual and heavenly goods according to the spiritual and heavenly Priest-office 13. And to that end namely to bring men to the new birth of the inward spiritual heavenly man have the outward ministrations of the Elders the foregoing with the man (a) Gal 3. c. 4 5 a under the which he to the training up of him in all good nurture and order is kept and taught even unto the new birth in Jesus Christ through the which he doth then likewise live and walk in (b) Luk. 1. g. all upright righteousness both inwardly before God and outwardly among men and to such an upright (c) Ioh. 3. a. Titus 3. b. birth or the outward services or administrations of the Godly testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love a foregoing office or (d) 2 Co. 3. a light unto the man which witnesseth declareth and holdeth forth the godliness unto him as in a Glass And so then the man if he believe the requiring of the fore-going service and desire to stand obedient thereunto becometh prepared thereby to the same godliness and taught to the Kingdom of heaven And that is the same ministration which (e) Gal 3 c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. reacheth to the spiritual and true being in Jesus Christ And it is the upright Priests office of the Elders of the holy understanding which in its office or service hath the foregoing to the (f) Ioh. 3. a. 1 Cor. 4. b. Gal. 4. b. new birth in Jesus Christ as is already said which services are all witnesses and directions unto the very true and spiritual office in the Spirit And although the same services being ministred in the letter and through the letter or serviceable word do bring (g) 2 Co. 3. b a great illumination and clearness unto the unilluminated ones yet are those same for all that no more but a serviceable shaddow proceeding from the spiritual and heavenly service of the great glory and cleerness of Christ in the inward being and form 14. For Christ according to the Spirit hath (h) Heb. 3.8.9 a. an higher function or office or a more excellent service and a greater lighâ— or clearness then hath all flesh and blood writing letters or speakable words For he is a Minister or an high Priest in the Spirit (i) Heb. 8 a. 9. a. b. c. as a Minister of the spiritual and heavenly goods as is before said For he himself is the (k) Heb 1. a. right heir in all the riches of God his eternal and Almighty Father 15. Behold this high Priest is spirit and life the true (l) Isa 9. a King and a faithful Lord a peaceable prince And not this or that without us But he (m) Act. 17. c is in us all which believe on him according to the truth And we all which abide stedfast in the faith have the life through him who is neither unfaithful nor falling away like unto a man For he doth not shrink nor fall away either from us or from his Father but through the Love (n) Mat. 28. c Ioh. 14 b. continueth with us and with his Father for ever 16. Also he is not changeable in his office or ministration like as are the children of men who do one while setup one thing for an obedience or for a God-service and that altogether without the service of Christ and his Love and then again some other thing which directeth not to the true life of Christ nor unto the upright being of his Love 17. But his service will and commandement is both now presently and at all times like as it was in the beginning and it shall so remain unchangeable for evermore For his Commandment Will and Precept is (o) Da. 6.10 Math 22. d Ioh 15 b. 1 Tim. 1. a nothing else but the love and the life of godliness And that is the old commandment from the beginning (p) Ioh. 2. a And it is the new commandment as being for to come or for to be made manifest in this same last time in the obedience of the requiring of the service of Love 18. Therefore seeing now that this high Priest which is invisible but yet is known in the spirit hath such an unchangeable commandment or service among us in the ministration of the service of his Love So standeth he likewise firm and immovable towards us in the same service to an everlasting reconcilement for our sins as a true (q) 1 Tim. 2 a Heb. 9. b mediator betwixt God and us 19. He himself also is partaker with us in suffering touching (r) Heb. 2. b 5. a. our griefs and purgeth us in his service of Love through himself and through none other or any other services 20. Therefore hath God likewise sworn unto
the heathenship and hath at that time his conversation or fellowship with the administration and discipline of the holy Word ministred betwixt the fore-front and the Altar of the holy offering till that his offering and gift be through Faith begun or taken in hand in the holy for a burnt offering through which burning of the offering upon the holy Altar of the Lord Jesus Christ in the holy (g) Isa 57. b Eph. 2. b the Peace betwixt the man and God the Father is prepared The ninth Chapter BUT for as much as this true God-service in the holy is not yet according to the inward man in the spirit known unto every one nor understood according to the truth and we do find many young and little ones of understanding many feeble and weak ones and many uncertain consciences all which notwithstanding do stand bent and well-minded with a good will towards the Love and towards the holy understanding So is therefore the life of righteousness evidently witnessed unto them out of the service of Love which testimonies of the truth are likewise administred unto them through Doctrines speakable words or with writing namely unto those that have turned from the heathenship and so endeavour them to the obeying of the word and his service and which do fear God with which service there is required of them the obedience to the Love of the Father (a) Gal 3. c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. to a sustaining of them whereout some better thing is yet to be hoped for 2. That same is verily the daily God-service which is well pleasing unto the Lord and the upright Ceremonies which be ministred before the Lord unto the God-fearing hearts by the Ministers of the holy word 3. Which Ministers with the same service of the gracious and holy word is the Levitical Priests office wherethrough the slain-offering is prepared before (b) Jer. 33. b the Lord among the little-ones and sinners who bear sorrow and grief for the sins cause also the burnt-offering is begun and daily used the meat offering likewise kindled and offered up 4. Which service likewise of the Levitical Priests office alwayes stands or continues before the Lord in the service of his Love as a mutual assistance and strengthening for the little or weak ones and that altogether in the Love to the serviceableness of the Congregations for the sins of the ignorant 5. Which service of the Levitical Priests office God would not have required if the man had not fallen into the sin but had still walked uprightly in the light of God 6. But forasmuch as it hath not gone so with the man therefore hath God even of necessity added the same service unto his promises for to inform therewith the unilluminated ones the infirm weak and young ones or little ones of understanding who do yet oftentimes sin and are of little growth in Faith and so to assist and serve them therewith for a certain time betwixt the fore-front and the Altar for an entrance unto them in the holy to bring unto the high or great God of heaven (d) Psa 11. d Isa 56 a Mal. 1. b Rom. 11. a such an offering as is delightful unto him 7 Even thus become they all converted or turned away from the sin and succoured or trayned up under the service of the Love to the (e) Luk. 1. g Eph. 1. a knowledge of the upright life of the Just to the end that they may all become one even as of one mind (f) Ioh. 17 c in the Love 8. Now when one doth know the same life according to such an upright service and nature of the Love and is grown believing towards the same then is there revealed and brought in the spirit unto the Believers the boldness to enter into the holy for to accomplish the service of God and his requiring in the holy like as God is requiring the same accomplishment by the Law and the Prophets and by the service of the Elders in the holy understanding which accomplishment in the holy is our offering in the offering of Christ through his (g) He. 9. b. c blood which prepareth for us a new and living way 9 Behold that is the true God-service through Christ in the holy which is now by Gods grace opened and brought unto us to the end to set up the righteousness in the same through Faith which is required by the Law and Ordinance of the Lord. For whatsoever is (h) Rom 8. a unpossible for the Law to do through works that same is accomplished in Christ through Faith whereby Christ is in that manner the accomplishment of the Law and erecteth the upright righteousness among his Believers and establisheth them in the same 10. Therefore Christ is no breaker but a fulfiller of the Law for (i) Mat. 3. b Christ came not to make void or break the Law and the Prophets but to perform them because the righteousness that is of value before God may be made manifest through his light to an everlasting establishment of the promises of God made unto the Fathers whereby to wash and cleanse the man from his spotted or (k) Heb. 9. b evil conscience that he might laud God with peace and joy 11. But this daily God-service betwixt the front and the Altar in the holy which is prepared and ministred by the service of the holy and gracious Word and by the Priests office out of Levy or by the Elders in the holy understanding is the service which God hath added to his (l) Rom. 4. b 5. c. 7. a. Promises made unto Abraham to a strengthening of the belief extending to the Promises Because the man should with a good courage in the good and godly life of righteousness among the Elders in the holy understanding (m) Eph. 1. b 1 Pet. 2. a grow up therein to an establishing of the Promises of God the Father 12. In such manner doubtless is the same service of the holy Word which is administred by the Elders in the holy understanding under the obedience of the Love very profitable and furthersome for the good-willingness the while they (n) Gal. 4. a. are yet little or young in the godly understanding And for those that like unto children stand simply submitted under the Love to the end that no man should err through any ignorance nor tye his heart to the imagination of his own spirit but only have regard unto the service of Love to the obeying his requiring until that the daily God-service in the holy be begun with him and have his full course with him Also till the true (o) 2 Pet. 2. b light come unto him and the day likewise appear from on high or as a cleerness of the morning star arise in his heart and that the everlasting (p) Ioh. 1. a life be come unto him in the spirit according to the truth and have (q) 2 Cor. 4. Gal.
openeth it self asunder when the foregoing service in the (e) Heb 9 c holy is accomplished 2. For the vail before the most holy cleerness of the Godly being of Jesus Christ and before his spiritual and heavenly goods departeth not away from before the cleerness of the most holy (d) Heb. 7 8 9.10 unless that the former God service in the holy have first his full course the which is the accomplishment of the daily God-service in the holy in the (e) Mat. 16. Luk. 9. c taking up of our Cross in the willing obedience to the belief for to continue therein obediently till (f) Mat. 10 2â— unto the end that is till unto the (g) Rom. 6. a Phil. 2. b. death of the Cross 3. Which death of the Cross of Christ and to be implanted or incorporated into Christ with the same like death and so (h) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. b. baptised or washed into his death is verily the (i) Math. 28. Mar. 16 b upright Baptism unto salvation wherein the man is rightly baptised or washed according to the truth of the holy Scriptures and so then (k) Rom. 6. a out of the same death regenerate (l) Ioh. 3. b or born again as a new Creature in Jesus Christ 4. For that the same (m) Tit. 3 b 1 Pet. 3. c baptism is the right font of regeneration serving to the washing away of the sin wherethrough the believing man who doth with Christ according to the flesh lay away mortifie and (n) Rom. 6. a Col. 2. c. 3. a bury the sin in the flesh is made alive again with Christ and also according to the spirit in upright (o) Luk 14. Eph. 1. a. 4. b righteousness and holyness and so through the second birth from the death or the resurrection of Christ he becometh holy and altogether renewed in the spirit of his inward mind and the (p) Act. 2. b. holy Ghost poured upon him in whom Christ also with the cleerness of his Godly being getteth (q) 2 Cor. 4. a Gal. 4. a a shape or form By the high priest Iesus Christ the new and liuing way is prepared for us through the â—imple that is to say his flesh Heb 10 5. And that same verily is (r) 1 Co. 13. b. 2 Cor. 3. b the cleerness of the true being and of the holy spirit of Jesus Christ where through one beholdeth and inheriteth in the spirit the Love in her vertuous nature that most holy as likewise the fulness of the riches of God the Father in the heavenly being or essential form 6. Behold and consider that is the true (s) Ioh. 11. c resurrection from the death according to the Scripture (t) Ioh. 17. a through the which the living God of heaven and his Christ is known according to the Spirit and Truth 7 It is true the (u) 1 Cor. 15. c. same is sown in the mortality and it riseth up in the immortality And God giveth it a body after his own pleasure and that of the seed of his own body 8. See that is the everlasting life against the death And the (x) Eze. 13. b 1 Cor. 15. f Heb. 2. b conquest or victory against the Hell and against all the enemies of the life whereby all those that follow after Christ have or possess that life and (y) Ioh. 10. b that in fulness 9. That is verily the (z) Heb. 3.4 a. Rest of life which God hath reserved or kept and is left in store for the children of God as a perpetual inheritance in the last time according to the Promises The fifteenth Chapter THE true most holy of the inward Tabernacle or Sanctuary of God is the Love for that (a) Rom. 13. Col. 3. b is the perfection (b) Rom. 6. a the incorporating into God in the spirit the (c) Ioh. 17. everlasting life (d) Col. 2. b and the fulness of all the riches of God 2. If one now be not (e) Ioh. 1. a born anew then can he not see the Kingdom of God Ioh. 3. 3. Therefore if there be a new (f) 1 Pet. 2. a Gal. 6. c creature in Christ then is the old (g) Isa 43. c Apo. 21. perished or worn out behold it is all become new but that altogether of God who (h) Col. 1. b hath reconciled us with himself through Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 5. 4. The Lord our Almighty God hath gotten (i) Apo 12. the Kingdom let us rejoyce and be glad and give (k) Ioh. 9. him the honour for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his bride hath made her ready and it is granted unto her to cloath her self with white glistering silk and the silk is the Justification of the Saints Apo. 19. 5. The Members or Commonalty of the body of Christ in the love which are (l) Act. 2. Rom 8. b Eph. 1.4 c sealed with Christ in the true being through the spirit of Love is (m) Apo. 21. a living Tabernacle of God wherein God liveth and worketh In the which the fore-front the holy and the most holy is revealed or made known according to the spirit 6. In which true Tabernacle of God also the (n) Deut. 32. song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb is sung and it soundeth even thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 EMÌ„ANVEL God and Man Loue The everlasting life the perfection in the service of the holy gratious word vnder the obedienâ— of the Love God with the man is vnited the man with the God head namely in the everlasting mind being all with God 〈◊〉 christ it is of one being with the man all what is manly be it the being will mind is then minded w th the God head so it is all one God the man one being one will one thought or spirit one hart one everlasting life Behold here the tabernacle of God is in men hee shall live in them they shal be his people hâ—e himselfe shal be with them for he is their God Apoca 21 the Kingdom of God shall not cvm with outward shew men shall not say Behold here or there it is for behold the Kingdom of God is inwardly in you Luke 17 this saith the Truth of God who loveth mee he shall keepe my words and my father shall love him and wee shall come to him and make an habitation in him John 14 7. Great and wonderful are thy Works Lord (o) Ier. 10. a thou Almighty God righteous and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Lord who should not fear thee and praise thy name for thou only (p) Levit. 19. art holy Apo. 15. 8. Consider now how that the mans knowledge is but (q) 1 Cor. 13 a peice-work or a thing unperfect the which among those that do yet remain divided or as broken off is
to the truth know his God in the life and so might worship (z) Deut. 4. a 10. b Math. 4. c and serve him only which (a) Psa 14 b Acts 14. Apo. 14. hath made heaven and earth the Sea and the water Fountains through whose power the elements be moved and out of whom the upright wisdom of the wise the true light of the illuminated ones and the resurrection of the righteous life springeth which God is also the perfection the Love (b) Ioh. 17. c 1 Ioh. 4. b or the true being or essential power it self unto whom only appertaineth all praise laud honour for evermore Amen Take it to heart A PRAYER OF H. N. Even as he hath prayed the same unto Almighty God through the holy spirit of love according to the estate and representation of the fallen man corrupt and earthly weak man O God who livest for ever thou which in times past wast a comfort to the sorrowful in their affliction laid on them through the dominion of the violent power of Pharaoh and didst (a) Exo. 3. 12 13 14. Psa 78. b. f lead thy people out of the power of his afflictions delivering them from the hand of those that cruelly raigned over them and didst shew how that thou wert a Judge over thy flock which thou hadst chosen to thy self making known unto them (b) Ex. 20.34 Deut. 5.10.30 what thy will was and didst set up among them the banner of righteousness namely (c) Ex 35.40 the Tabernacle of thy Sanctuary and madest thy holy habitation amongst them and didst not suffer them to want any thing according as thou hadst said unto their Fathers and promised unto them by the mouth of thy holy Prophets 2. And unto the heathen which knew not thy holy name thou (d) Isa 11 13. Ro. 9 11.15 hast also in times past shewed thy mercy according to the Covenant of thy holy Promises which thou hadst made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob. 3. Now therefore O God comfort comfort us likewise in our miseries for thy (e) Isa 38. b holy names sake for when thou makest up thy self to raign over thine enemies then must they all be affraid and bow down themselves before the Authority and power of thy Almightyness 4. But we O God are well worthy of thy chastisement (f) Deu. 27.28 Dan. 9. for our sins cause for in all these thy former works proceeded out of the entire or hearty mercifulness of thy love borne towards us we have shewed our selves to be an unthankful people declining from thy word of life and like an ungodly people have estranged our selves from thy truth walking in error (g) Rom. 1. c according to the mind of our own delight and been ignorant in that thing thy will requireth 5. But now O Lord which art the God of all the world (h) Psal 106. Ier. 14. Lam 3. Dan. 9. we acknowledge and confess our own offences and also the falling away of our Fathers and seeking daily for thy wayes we do enquire what thy will is 6. Wherefore O God remember now thy mercy like as in times past and thy Covenant which thou hast made with thy people in times past and turn thee again unto us that thou mayest be known among all people as an eternal true God of life and of righteousness 7. O how often is my heart grieved because that there is neither (i) Hos 4. faithfulness nor love or at least wise very little anywhere to be found and for that the righteousness is so utterly turned back (k) Isa 59. b or refused in all places 8. Oh what a number of diseased (l) Isa 1. a and wounded ones are there and how many are there that do now mourn yea suffer grief and wofulness or anguish because (m 4 Esd 5.14 15. Math 24. b. the iniquity raigneth so exceedingly and for that the number of the upright and faithful ones are so few 9. Oh how long shall my soul rest in longing after that whereunto my heart hath a lust and whereunto it is drawn or inflamed with fervent affection 10. Oh where abideth now the (n) Is 60 61. Mal. 4. a rising up of thy glory O thou pure love of God the Father wherein all peace truth faithfulness and righteousness standeth comprehended 11. I have seen thee afar off and also neer by (o) Cant. 4.5 thou hast peirced me through with the bright beams of thy upright righteousness and amiable delightfulness but my soul suffereth so much the more grief for my spirit cannot be satisfied so long as thou only hast not the upper hand or dominion over us and that we do not with our mind approach or draw neer unto thee essentially nor become incorporated wholly or in every part unto thy being and substance 12. For we find by experience that without thee O pure Love there is no bread of satisfying (p) Isa 41.45 Ier. 14. a nor any water of refreshing because all delectable sweetness is contained in thee 13. In thee is milk and hony wine and (q) Hos 2. Ioel 2. oyl also riches joy and life 14. In thee are likewise (r) Isa 33. Ephes 3. Col. 2. all treasures of wisdom the holy knowledge of the secretness of God and the mysterie of the Christ of God for Christ is at thy right hand as a living salvation for all those that come unto thee 15. Whosoever also seeketh Christ without thee (s) Joh. 7. d he shall not find him and whosoever hath not thee he hath neither Law of righteousness nor yet Christ 16. Therefore art thou likewise O Love the (t) Ioh. 13 14 15. 1 Tim. 1. 1 Ioh. 4. band of perfection wherein all salvation consisteth and the last sign or token of the true righteousness wherein all Gods Prophets have witnessed 17. Also no man cometh (u) Ioh. 6.9 unto Christ except thou draw him for thou O Love art the fountain of all vertue 18. But who are those that love thee thou allurest all men doubtless but who yieldeth himself to be drawn by thee thou (x) Apo 3. c knockest daily but who letteth thee in (y) Prov 1. c Isa 65 66. a thou callest indeed but who heareth thee thou sayest 19. Come hither to this (z) Isa 55. water all ye that are thirsty ye which have no mony come buy both wine and milk Come buy that ye may have to eat of free-cost and not for money nor ware Wherefore bestow ye your money for that which feedeth not and your labour for that which any way satisfies not Hearken unto me so shall ye eat of the best and your soul shall have a delight in the fatness or plenty incline your ears hitherward and come unto me hearken so shall your soul be healed 20. O God who thinketh upon this that thy Promises are that we should be assembled unto thee in the Love (a) Ioh. 17.
7. Yea the same costly Treasures the Riches of God the most precious and most pure beauty hath God kept for Israel to their salvation and (l) Isa 60 61. Ier. 31 33. Eze. 36 37. joy in the last times to the end to reveal the salvation of life (m) Act. 12 a out of the heavenly being or essential estate 8. In which most holy there are likewise remained over all the precious riches of God the Father the unspeakable Treasure which far surmounteth all manner of garnishing of beauty namely (n) Exo 25. c Rom. 3. c Heb. 5 a the mercy seat prepared with the fine Gold which Seat continueth standing for ever unmoveable moreover the (o) Ex. 25 26. Apo. 12 a. Ark of witness wherein the Law of the Lord lieth even as he (p) Deut. 9. b. hath written the same with his own Finger which continueth for ever unbroken unchangeable And the (q) Ex. 16. a Psal 68. Sapi 16. c Ioh. 6. d. heavenly bread of life even as God himself hath given the same from heaven unto his people to a satisfying their hunger the which doth not consume or wast away but remaineth ever uncorruptible for evermore for a witness unto posterities that their fore-fathers were fed out of heaven with the same bread There are yet in the same most holy the manifold costly vessels of the most holy riches every one of the most fine Gold All these were still remained over in their perfect beauty and not one of them was polluted or defiled 9. But this sumptuous garnishing and all these riches of the Godly heavenly beauty have been hidden a long time for the wickedness cause of the uncircumcised and they must also inasmuch as the iniquity grew on even till (r) 4 Esd 5 a 14. b. 15. a. Math. 24. b she was come to her full height and had gotten the upper hand necessarily remain hidden because they should in the more beautious and glorious manner come to light and be revealed again in the last time namely when the iniquity of the uncircumcised is even to her utter ending approached or come neer at hand 10. Which iniquity shall now fall and perish through the revealing of these heavenly beauties for God will with his Arm or strength and with the Arm of his Saints and with all his sumptuous garnish get the upper hand 11. Wherewith he also sheweth the just judgement of his Justice or righteousness For (s) Ier. 30. the ungodly shall no more bear the dominion And all whatsoever submitteth not it self under the Love nor standeth serviceable thereunto shall be rooted out that they corrupt none or marr the earrh any more 12. But the Love shall flourish (t) 1 Cor. 15 everlastingly in her service because that the Lords people Israel which he himself hath chosen for his (u) Deut. 4. c 32. a Isa 19. c Ier. 51. c. own heritage as likewise all good willing ones which stand submitted under the obedience of the Love may be comforted and so may behold everlastingly the goodness or loving kindness of God his Father extended through his love which bountiful goodness the God of life hath foreseen to accomplish upon his people even as he in times past hath spoken the same by Moses his servant and by the mouth of his holy Prophets The fifth Chapter ALthough now that the Levites the Priests the Prophets or Preachers and also the people are all fallen or estranged from the true God-service and that the daily offering hath ceased for a long time and the holy of the Tabernacle of God layn utterly waste with abominations of desolation yet (a) Ier 17. b Lam. 5 b is the most holy notwithstanding remained over pure and unspotted and the high Priest (b) Heb. 5 b 7. b 8 a 9 c which continueth a Priest for ever is also found faithful and true for he hath still remained stedfast in his mercy seat in the most holy 2. They are all shrunk away (c) Psa 14. a 53. a. Rom. 3. b. and changed themselves there is not one remained standing or righteous but are all turned away either to the right or to the left side and many by reason of their ignorance have born the strange yoakes of the beautified God services 3. But this everlasting Priest remaineth stedfast like a stony Rock whose feat endureth from (d) Psa 45. a Heb. 1. a. everlasting to everlasting as a perpetual Saviour to an eternal curing or reconcilement for the sins of his people for his God hath annointed him to be an high Priest and a true Mediator betwixt God and man and to (e) He. 7.8 a 9. a. b. c. be an everlasting Minister of the spiritual and heavenly goodness to the end he might save the poor and miserable man who through sins or offences lieth be wrapped in the death and to make him alive through him and to set him up again (f) Rom 8. b out of the death 4. In which spiritual and heavenly service ministred under the obedience of the Love the holy becometh consecrated again by the same high Priest namely (g) 1 Pet. 1â—â— Heb. 9 b. the sprinkling of his own blood for an everlasting Testament and so it is all washed and sanctified or cleansed through his blood 5 That verily is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and Christ and the New Testament (h) Mar. 16. b Apo. 14. a. that same was also published in times past for an everlasting forgiveness of sins unto all those that believe thereon 6. Behold this high Priest is the life everlasting which was with the Father of life in the beginning and is revealed unto us in the heaven namely in the bosom of his Father and we (i) Ioh. 1. b. do behold his glory even a glory as the only born Son of the Father full of grace and truth 7. We do witness also that he is the true Messiah or Christ which was preached in the World in times past and likewise published of him in his coming (k) Isa 9 a. Luk. 1. d. that he should be a King or Prince over the house of Jacob for ever of whose Kingdom also there shall be no end 8. He is a Saviour to all people that believe on him And the (l) Act. 4.10 c. salvation is or cometh only by him and by none other neither in heaven nor yet upon the earth for he is (m) Rom. 8 10. Isa 13. a. b. 1 Pet. 2. c. the end or the accomplishment of the Law upon whom all the Prophets of God have witnessed from the beginning of the world and he cometh in glory like as is written of him 9. He it is (n) Is 13. a. b 1 Per. 2. c. which suffereth for our sins cause in the holy and beareth our sins and so hath like (o) Ioh. 10. b a faithful Shepherd given over himself in the same holy to be an offering for
the man should live in peace and joy and in all upright Love and should not know nor take on any thing without the same but live only therein and not dye 10. If so be now that the man knew nothing without the same forementioned life nor took on any thing besides the same whereon to tye his heart wits and thoughts or understanding Then should he know taste and feel nothing else but all good Also walk in all Love Concord and Peace and so have (m) Gen. 1.2 b the whole earth in subjection under him and govern uprightly to the life all whatsoever is upon the earth according to the commandment or word of the Lord. 11. For that same is the life and the freedom of the manly generation for the which many creatures do sigh and long there-after which upright freedom of the children of God doth now come unto us according to the Promises because that all manly creatures might assemble them with us to the same rejoyce them with Godly joy in the same and live in all truth and upright righteousness 12. Behold the same was unto the man in the beginning (o) Gen 2. a Phil. 3. b 4 Esd 8. f Apoc. 2. a a Tree of life in the middst of the Paradise of the Lord for that he should live and that (p) Sapl 1. b it should go well with all that which God had created 13. But now when the man would know the good and the evil and had eaten of the same tree then (q) Gen. 3 a tasted he both the life and the death the which God had forbidden him because he should not eat nor tast of any other thing but of the good that is of the life and not feel any evil or death but should live unto his God in the life for that (r) Sap. 1. b it might go well both with himself and also with all what God had created 14. Whatsoever now therefore is taken on besides the same good or life whereon we do witness that is the evil the death or the destruction the which God hath not willed that it should be upon the earth for that the man might stand perfected from all evil and destruction 15. But now hath the man through that same prepared to himself the driving forth out of the Paradise of God and caused the peace to cease upon the earth also brought himself and all what is upon the earth into (s) Gen. 3. b much calamity and misery and is utterly estranged from the way directing to the Tree of life and so is taken captive in all kind of deadly and damnable fruits 16. That verily is the knowledge of the good and evil which he himself hath taken on and (t) Dan. 9. Math. 24. 2 Thes 2. it is the confused abomination which standeth in the holy place whereout all violence calamity and grief is come upon the earth 17. If the man now will (u) Ezek 14. a turn himself away from all the abominations of the wicked world and humble him rightly under the Love and her service then shall he likewise through the administration of the holy word of the Lord and his requiring have his regard unto the inward upright life whereon the word pointeth for that is Gods living being or substance it self and he shall also according to the requiring of the word try or examine himself diligently in his inwardness whether he can perceive yet still remaining there any ungodly or deadly being which is not the life or that serveth not the life unto the life but which (x) Eph. 4. b is minded to destruction through the lusts of error 18. So long then as the destruction besides th preservation of the life is looked neto or esteemed of by the man and that likewise the death besides the life the evil besides the good and the bondage besides the freedom is known tasted and felt so shall the man in his obedience to the requiring of the word of the Lord daily (y) Mat. 10. d 16. c Mark. 8. Luk 9 14. take up his Cross on him with the life die the death or the evil and bury the same according to the word of the Lord and so shall he by means of following the life in his like behaviour or (z) Ro. 6. a Phil 3. b death of the Cross become planted into the same good life who suffereth the death of the Cross by the evil 19. Out of which dying of the death or of the evil which death hath brought the death unto the life and hath had the dominion over the same the life riseth up again and cometh gloriously in Lordly manner against all his enemies 20. Even thus now through the rising up or resurrection of the upright life out of the second birth from the death the man also is raised up (a) Ro. 6. a from the death or born again out of the death for that he might live and not dye any more 21. Upon which resurrection of the dead according to the Scripture all Believers of the life do likewise hope and long thereafter for the life shall swallow up (b) Eze. 13. 1 Cor. 15. the death in victory in all his Believers which be incorporated or planted into him and so bring his enemy under him according to the Promises 22. For all what is not the true life that is against the true life and whatsoever is against the true life that is the death and the enmity unto the true life is also an enimy unto God and to the Lamb which enmity is minded neither according to the true being or nature of God nor of the Lamb nor yet according to the upright righteousness of the true life which true being of God and of the Lamb together with the upright righteousness of the true life ye may behold in the endless (c) Apo. 5.20 b book of the Lamb which is full of writing both without and within written with the finger of God and it is the everlasting life whereon we do witness The eighteenth Chapter THen when as thou O thou precious man hast looked into both these Natures Books and writings inwardly according to the spirit namely the straying being of the wicked world and the good being of God from eternity which good being is the (a) Apo. 20 21. b book of the Lamb written by the God of life besides the which the straying being which destroyeth through the lusts of error is come in place and written by the Devil the Father of death So judge then with the truth which of them it is that ought to have the superiority or preheminence in us for the od of life vouchsafeth unto us nothing else but all God life love and peace 2. Therefore let us be agreeably minded with the same good being of God and Love the good being for wherefore do ye receive and take unto you the destruction and why will ye in perditional manner perish
them will be their God and (x) Apo. 21. a wipe away all tears from their eyes and will put away (y) Isa 61. a their contempt from them they shall also serve the strange nations no more but only the Lord their God 14. They have doubtless been constrained a long time to suffer with the Lamb for the wickedness and ignorances cause of the people but now (z) Baruch 5. b doth the Lord bring them again with joy that they may rejoyce them in the holy Israel even as it beseemeth the children of light to do who do rejoyce them only in their God 15. This verily is the blessing which was published and affirmed unto all generations of the earth according to the Promises for that they might be all saved through the Love of God the Father which blessing and salvation they do all now obtain if they do believe the word of truth and stand good of will and humble them under the Love and her service The one and twentieth Chapter BEhold and consider ye dearly beloved both these forms natures or beings which are here figured or set forth unto you before your eyes even according to the life namely the (a) Isa 1 a Apo. 9.12.13 a. murderly seed of the high-minded beast or the names of the people that are her members which do raign in the perditionable world which is full of blood-guiltyness of the innocents and also the names of the people of Israel or house of Love the high commendable seed of the (b) Apo. 7. a. b 14 15 19. a benignity or loving kindness of the Lamb the which hath even hitherto (c) Apo. 6 b. kept and born the patience with the Lamb because of the wicked 2. Verily the house of Israel or the commonalty of the Love the elected Saints of God do follow after Christ their King even (d) Ro. 6. a. c unto their death and also to the life for they do in like manner bear the cross of the Lamb and therein keep the word of his patience They likewise even according to the obedience of the Lamb do shew a faithful obedience (e) Phil. 2 a till unto the death namely unto the death of the Cross whereby to obtain the dominion with the Lamb over the sin death hell condemnation and the world to the end they might in like manner through the Lamb and the death of his cross keep the victory against (f) 1 Cor. 15. f all their enemies 3. With which Saints of the lovely and upright being the (g) Isa 60 61 62. 2 Pet. 3. b now coming or new world shall also be inhabited in a perfect delight of God in all Love in (h) Eph. 4 a unity of peace and in upright righteousness and holyness which God esteemeth of But the ungodly shall perish or weare away out of the Land of the living for that the Land may be inhabited in rest and peace and with triumph and joy for evermore to the laud and praise of the glory of God according to the Promises 4. Therefore O all ye people look now into both these forms natures and beings and choose either the one or the other of them whom ye will incline unto whether it be (i) Deut. 30. Ier. 21. a Eccles 15. the death or the life the Devil or God the old wicked world or the new upright world and then cleave only to the same to the end that ye may sever your selves accordingly and so express thereby with whom ye do hold or stand agreeably minded or what ye do love (k) 3 Kin. 18. and halt no longer on both sides 5. If therefore you will incline or cleave to the Lamb or that ye look into or esteem his being to become a godly being then love the same with a single and humble heart standing submitted to rhe Love and so depart out of the death into the life put your trust in God in your proceeding on to the same life (l) Ioh. 5. c Rom. 6.8 b and stand firm in the hope of your salvation 6. But if ye be yet young or weak and unable for to live in the good or if ye be yet over-mastered by the evil against your will for God is both reasonable and courteous and if the man be of a good will then doth God require no more but that the man will still remain stedfast in the same good will for unto such a good willing man doth he (m) Phil. 1.2 b bring his power and strength for that the man should with the same obtain through Faith and that in a suffering manner the righteousness against the sin 7. Therefore possess your souls with (n) Luk. 21. c patience rest believing and continue in the hope and ye shall assuredly in the patience evidently perceive that the evil waxeth weak and that your soul shall be sound or whole 8. Shew or let it alwayes appear what ye love namely the good or the evil for look what one hunteth after that he catcheth and whatsoever one loveth of that he is willing to hear some speech or tydings and he is desirous also to be with the same for no man would willingly be separated from his best beloved therefore judge your own selves now and look rightly into your selves according to the truth to note what ye love and with what ye would willingly be and have your fellowship namely (o) Psal 8. b with the good being of God or with the pernitious and naughty Being of the wicked and deceitful world 9. If now therefore ye love and stand inclined unto the good being (p) Psa 34.13 d Amos 5 b then forsake the evil or ungodly being and separate your selves quite and clean with all your will (q) Isa 52. 2 Cor. 6. Apo. 18. from the evil or iniquity departing out of the same from day to day and be patient in the hope till that all the ungodly being do go under and perish or consume to nothing in you 10. This is our Cross which (s) Math. 10. d. 16. c Luk 9.14 we ought daily to take up in the belief And so in that manner to follow after the vertue of the godlyness Also to love the wisdom and the Information and not reject the chastisement (t) Prov. 3 b Heb. 12. a or correction of the Lord that meeteth with us the whilest our hearts are yet captivated with the sin and (u) Eph. 4. b blindness 11. Behold even such according as of meer Love we have testified herein is the right way to the God of life and to his righteousness from the which (x) Psal 14. Sap. 5. Rom. 2. b the man is departed and estranged In which way the man being in his estranging from his God is by (y) Eph. 2. a Gods grace called and bidden to come again unto his God through the belief or confidence in God touching the salvation to the end he should according
whereon they boast so highly and that they knew their misery then would they also out of meer necessity cry (y) Psa 130. a unto God for his grace that they might come again to the life of Godlyness 41. Now O Lord and God be mindful of us extend thy mercy over us (z) Tob. 3. a and revenge thee not on us for our sins cause 42. Remember not (a) Psa 79. a O God our offences and ignorance but remember (b) Ps 103 b we are dust and remaining without thy being are nothing (c) Gen. 3. Eccl. 10. b 17. d but earth and ashes for all our beauty or self-chosen wisdom or righteousness (d) Isa 40 a. 1 Pet. 1. c must wither away like unto the flowers or grass of the field And all whatsoever is not of thy being must be consumed and brought to nothing in (e) Eccl. 1. a the Furnace of humiliation or abasing wherein our tryal cometh to pass but thy righteousness word will and (f) Psa 33. a 119. 2. Isa 40.4 b wisdom continueth for ever 43. O Lord thou Almighty God which art the Father procreator or begetter of all generations shew thy mercy upon thine own handy-work namely on those that labour daily to do thy will 44. Open unto us with thy light (g) Psa 13. a the eyes of our spirit and shew thy grace on us we blind people who yet notwithstanding have eyes unstop unto us with thy understanding the ears of our inwardness even of us deaf people who yet notwithstanding have ears to (h) Isa 6. Math. 13. Acts 28. the end that we may rightly hear thy word believe the same and understand and obey it according to thy truth and turn about or (i) 4 Kin. 22 Eze. 11.18.36 mollifie the hardness of our hearts with thy meekness that we may humbly and obediently with all good-willingness turn us rightly unto thee and to the Love of Christ and be saved And may (k) Ioh. 17. c also become one with thy holy word like as thou thy self O God art one with the same wheteby the (l) Num. 14. c world may become full of thy glory and that thy Christ may appear and bear sway over all in all and with all and that we all may be one in thee and may (m) Ioh. 17. b know in the truth that thou only art a very true God for to that end because the world should know and understand the same hast thou sent thy Christ 45. Now O God strengthen thereunto the office of thy Love for that all those which hope on thee and love thy righteousness may be drawn into one (n) Col. 3. b band of Love and that thou mightest be the head over us all as a God and King over all power and Lordship and that we all from (o) Ier. 31. Heb. 8. b the least even unto the greatest may know and acknowledge thee according to the Promises 46. Therefore is likewise our flight for refuge O God only unto thee and unto the requiring of thy service of Love whereby to find grace at thy hands that thou mayest raign over us and for (p) Par. 36. that cause do we daily bow the knees of our hearts before thee and pray and make supplication unto thee in the spirit O God be thou gracious and merciful unto us 47. Be thou our Shepheard King and Prince and remember Lord thy Covenant and (q) Isa 64. a b Sanctuary that hath a long time lain waft and been spoiled 48. Awake O Lord (r) Psa 35. c with thy spirit over us for all the comfort of man is vain (s) Psal 62.118.146 a Ier. 17. a all confidence and stay on Princes is nothing in it self (t) Isa 4. b the Prophets seduce and deceive (u) Ier. 5.8.23 27 29. the Seers do fail in the right the worldly wise and Scripture-learned do preach lyes The Priests do deal with false God-services the Judges give Sentence even as the Princes do require it (x) Isa 1. c Ier. 5. Eze. 22. Ioh. 3. the world is replenished with traytorie the common people do deal with crafty deceipts unto the poor and miserable people there happeneth wrong and violence everywhere and the Lands are full of innocent blood-guiltyness 49. Therefore look down O God look down and sanctifie thy great name and teach us thy Law Statutes and Rights that they may all know that they be but men and that thou O Lord art God only unto whom also (y) 1 Tim 1. b all honour praise and laud doth only belong and appertain 50. Wherefore should the (z) Psal 50.47 heathen still blaspheme thy Sanctuary and why should our enemies with the Arrogancy of their minds and vain perswasions say that thou O God art with them and minded according to their will boasting themselves in arrogancy that their ingenious wit and prudence shall keep the upper hand or prevail 51. O God hast not thou from the beginning foreseen thy Christ to be a head (a) Eph 1.3 b and Father over all and in all and elected him thereunto before the foundation of the world was laid yea to that end also thou (b) Ioh. 3. d hast loved him (c) Mat. 11. c Luk. 10. c and given him all what is thine for that (d) Isa 9. a Luk. 1. d he might possess the seat of his Father David and be a King over the house of Jacob for evermore 52. Is not he also ordained to be a restoring to the house of Israel (e) Ro. 15. a whereby to establish the Promises made to their Fathers hath not he likewise called and bidden the heathen thereunto (f) Isa 57. Luk. 2. Eph. 2. b Is not the peace published through Christ Hath not he in holyness of heart loved faithfulness (g) Psa 81. Hos 2. c and truth hath not he also taught (h) Mat. 11.18 a humility and meekness of heart Have not his Messengers preached and published the Love to (i) 1 Co. 13. a Col. 3. b be a bond of perfection But oh where is all this where shall men find the same 53. O God prepare the hearts of the people unto lowlyness that they may stand submitted to the Love in all humility and may love the coming (k) Matth. 24.25 d 1 Cor. 1 a of thy Christ in his glory by whom the (l) Tit. 2. b Acts 17. d universal earth shall be judged with righteousness who likewise shall disturb or trouble all authority and power and bring it under his obedience and then resign or yield up the (m) 1 Cor. 12. c Kingdom all power and dominion unto thee O Almighty God that thou mayest be all in all 54. O God put this into the hearts of all Governors or Magistrates to look into and consider of and illuminate all Kings Princes Lords and Potentates or Rulers with thy godly wisdom that they may fear