Now goeth ye Iudgment ouer this world now is ye prince of this world cast out Iohn â—2 Now is ye Saluation ye porâ—â—â— and ye Kingdom becom our gods and ye Might his Christs Revet â—2 D. Mirabilia opera Dei Certaine wonderfull Works of God which hapned to H. N. even from his youth and how the God of Heaven hath united himself with him and raised up his gracious Word in him and how he hath chosen and sent him to be a Minister of his gracious Word Published by Tobias a Fellow Elder with H. N. in the Houshold of Love Translated out of Base Almain Now come hither and behold the works of the Lord Ps. 46 66. Know ye that the Lord leadeth his Saints wonderfully Ps. 4. a. And take heed that ye do not despise the works of the Lord lest there come upon you that which is said in the Prophets Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I do a work in your days which you will in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you Hab. 1. a. Acts 13. b. THE PREFACE Tobias with H. N. a fellow Minister of the gracious Word of the Lord wisheth to all lovers of Truth Salvation and Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FOrasmuch as I Tobias a fellow Elder with the Oldest Elders in the Houshold of Love have alwayes been present with H. N. in all what the Lord hath revealed unto him and now in this day of the Love of Iesus Christ am impulsed of the Holy Ghost to declare and to publish among the children of men under the obedience of the love of the Truth of certain wonderful works of God which befell H. N. and us the oldest Elders in the house of Love and that I also know that H. N. Gods chosen Minister and his ministration of the gracious Word of the Lord hath been disorderly rejected and censured with several false judgements by many false hearts and good-thinking wise-ones by many false Christians and unsent Teachers or Preachers and by some unfaithfull and opinionated self-seekers who are turned away from us And that the Godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ published by H. N. were by many disgracefully contemned and reproached as if God had neither chosen nor sent H. N. to be a Minister of his holy and gracious Word and as if the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ were an unclean thing So have I for Gods cause and in regard of the Love which I bear and have to all mens salvation I could not omit to declare to all God-fearing-understandings and Lovers of the Truth That they may believe the Truth understand the Godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love and may be preserved in these dangerous times and to witnesse the Truth before them how and in what manner the Lord the living God of Heaven hath chosen H. N. from his youth to the ministration of his holy and gracious word and hath sent him thereunto in his old age of the holy and godly understanding through the holy Spirit of his Love 2 For the holy Spirit of the Truth of God and of the Love of Iesus Christ was alwayes powerfully abiding upon H. N. in all his ministrations after that the Lord had anointed him a with the same spirit and hath through the same spirit raised and sent him for to declare to all people the true b repentance for their sinnes and to draw and bring in through his ministration of the holy and gracious Word all those that love Gods Truth and the accomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ and hunger and thirst after righteousnesse c to the peaceable Love and his Godly service for the preservation of them all in the Godlinesse that all they which H. N. and our fellowship may have their communion in Iesus Christ and may not be seduced in these dangerous times in which if it were possible the very elect d should be seduced with the unprofitable prating of the false hearts and unsent Teachers or Preachers which alwayes oppose the Truth of God e and blaspheme against the holy Spirit nor through any depraved hearts and Apostates who continually accuse with falshood the true Ministers of the gracious word and endeavour with all their power to abolish the same ministration nor should be kept of or held back from our most holy Service of the gracious word under the obedience of the Love to their condemnation 3 And therefore and for the Truth of Gods cause and for to declare the knowledge that the Promises of God the Father and of the Lord Iesus Christ g be fullfilled and established in the Love So is there also now presently in this same day of the Love in plain words to all understanding and before all good-willing hearts unto the righteousnesse through H. N. testified and published what that very thing which the Gracious Word of the Lord which the Lord now hath raised up according to his Promises doth require of all men 4 And for to witness and publish the truth that the Lord hath chosen and sent H. N. therefore have I through the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ plainly testified and declared the sending of H. N. also certaine wonderfull workes of God which from his youth hapned unto him from the living God That all those which read or hear all the Godly Testimonies of our writings may believe the Truth with a single heart to have a right regard to the true Promises of the Father and of the Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ and of the accomplishing of the same and may hope upon the fulfilling of the requiring of the gracious word and of his service of Love and rightly and in Truth follow and imitate our Lord Iesus Christ in the saving word of his holy Spirit of Love h and might be of one mind with us and our communialtie of the Saints i in the Love of our Lord Iesus k into all unity and peace 5 And likewise that through the same declaration the enemies of H. N. together with all the opposers and reprochers of the Truth and of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ may see and know That they have villified and contemned not onely H. N. a choseu servannt of God but also God the Father the builder of our house of Love and the Lord Iesus Christ our Phisician and Saviour and the holy Ghost the inheritance of our spiritual and heavenly goods l and have pulled upon their own necks the wrath and judgement of their condemnation That they with humble hearts might bring forth real fruits of repentance 6 For it is not unknown or uncertaine to us that H. N. doth testifie out of the Truth of God and his gracious word and that the office of the ministration of the gracious Word is imposed and intrusted to him through m God's grace to administer for the Lord
hath chosen him thereunto from his youth to witness the same Testimonies of the Truth of God And to administer Gods holy and gracious word and to manifest his heavenly works and to declare upon the earth now in these last times under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ Gods Truth and upright being and the acomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 7 Thus in this election by the living God H. N. hath declared on earth to this present day from the n uncovered face of God and of Christ Gods real Truth and the requiring of his upright righteousnesse together with his righteous Judgement and the fulfilling of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 8 Now whether this be believed or not believed however he hath revealed the the same out of Gods true light eternal life in manifest declaration brought it to light in this holy day of the love of God and Christ 9 And the same day of the love of God and of Christ which is come unto us from Gods grace is the newest or last day of which long agoe the Prophets of God and the Evangelists of Iesus Christ have foretold and published and is the day o which God hath appointed or ordained for to judge on the same the whole circuit of the Earth with righâ—eousnesse 10 For on the same day of the Love of God and of Christ p shall all unbelievers and disobedient ones to the gracious Word of the Lord and all evil surmisers towards the Ministers thereof together with all opposers of H. N. and blasphemers of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ be q revealed and r judged and according to their works shall receive their reward 11 Therefore take warning by this declaration of mine all ye people which love the truth of Iesus Christ that you in no wise oppose neither the gracious Word of God nor his chosen servant H. N. because God the Father with his Son Iesus Christ dwelleth and liveth perfectly * in H. N. in the heavenly being and hath anointed him with the holy Spirit of God and of s Iesus Christ and that no man without the fellowship of H. N. or without the obedience of the requiring of his doctrine can be brought or gathered to the true living God nor to his Sonne Iesus Christ nor united with the same good being 12 Behold out of a very hearty love which I have to all your preservations in the godlinesse am I presently in this day of the Love impulsed and forced through the holy Spirit of the love of Iesus Christ to make the same known before all your understandings and to declare unto you how the calling H. N. came to passe by the living God and how he was chosen of the same God to Administration of his holy and and gracious word under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ 13 And also to testifie unto you some mysteries t of the Kingdome of the God of heavens and of the heavenly revelations and workings of God which were revealed and shewed to H. N. by the living God out of his heavenly being even from the youth of H. N. 14 The Lord grant unto you all mercy and his Graee that in the hearing of these Testimonies your hearts may not be offended nor be hardened against the Truth u of the same Testimonies but that yee may hear them humbly receive and accept of them in all thanksgiving to God for his grace be well minded to the holy and gracious word of the Lord and his service of the Love to your preservation in the Godlinesse and may enter into the requiring of the same obediently Amen So be it Take it to heart Certaine wonderfull Workes of God which befel H N. from his youth CHAP. I. IN the eighth year of the age of H. N. in the days of Maximilian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation it fell out on an Evening in a Winter season That the Father of H. N. exhorted his Family and instructing them with many words That they should fear God a and to give praise and thanks unto him for the grace he bestowed on man 2 The same time The Lord opened the mouth of the childe H. N. and touched his lips and tongue and with this the childe spake to his Father and said Instruct me O my Father what is that singular Grace bestowed on us for which we ought to give praise and thanks to God 3 When the child had asked this questiof his Father The Father looked on the child and wondered that the child should aske him so earnestly and answearing the child said to him 4 O my sonne doest thou aske what that especial grace is which God hath bestowed on us and for which we are bound to give praise and thanks to him The same you read daily in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and is set forth unto us dayly in the service of the Masse and often also and abundantly is attested by Preaching how that God the Father by reason of Adams sinne whereby we all became the children b of death and damnation caused his deare Sonne Jesus Christ to suffer the ignominious c death on the Crosse and that thus Jesus Christ hath born the sins of Adam satisfied for the same on the Crosse and delivered us from that sinne into which Adam did fall hath reconciled us to his Father d and hath set up again the sincere righteoness and the true e life of Godliness and so all is found and restored againe that was lost by Adam that same is joyned again f made whole which through Adam was broken and wounded And this is that singular Grace which God bestowed on us to the laud and praise of his great Power 5 Then said the child O my Father I doe read indeed of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and I heare it daily testified in Sermons that God the Father hath bestowed on us his great mercy and that his beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath suffered the ignominious death of the Crosse by reason of sinne g but I finde not according to Truth that the sinne is amended in us nor that the true righteousness h wherein Adam was created and placed is restored in us or set up again 6 Then said the Father Oh my sonne what I have told you about the grace of God shewed to us through Jesus Christ you need not to doubt of it beleeve the same in simpleness of heart and that it all is come to passe as I have told you 7 Then said the child O my Father I make no question of the mercy of God which is come unto us through Jesus Christ and all that which is preached to us of Christ and his satisfaction for the sinne as that he through the death on the Crosse
the envious heart of the Letter-learned who h betrayed and killed Christ and his Witnesses 6 These wicked Generations of the said wicked Fathers have not rested to i accomplish the most horrid wickedness of their Fathers but with their envious hearts have they with great diligence endevoured to resist the godly Testimonies of God and his commiserating mercy together with the love of the holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and Gods elect Servant with all false testimonies lyes and reproach So that they are most fearfully faln against Gods commiserating grace which he on the earth to the commiseration of all men through his elect Minister H. N. hath testified and published and gainst the Love of the holy Spirit of Jesus Christ into all blasphemie of God and into contempt of his Truth 7 These said false hearts likewise with the children of the Devil or the false Christians of the Devils School have also with all manner of wickedness defamed H. N. who yet was no mans enemy nor contemned any man in particular for his religion but heartily wished to all Religion urgers that they might have the true light of life in the Lanthorn of their Service hath loved all people to the godliness in Jesus Christ and behaved himself courteously to all men in all upright conversation have also secretly exclaimed against him to the Magistrate when hee was not there present for a Seducer and Malefaor when he was not heard or not at all speaking with him although he yet walked openly very falsly accused him and have also contrived a matter or charge very cunningly with all subtilty against Law and all Christian Ordinances to the end that H. N. through their accusation and clamour might by the Magistrate be prosecuted or rooted out And thereunto tâ—â— Magistrate condescended CHAP. XXVII 1 BUt at the same time in the nine and fiftieth year of the age of H. N. in the time of Maximillian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation then sought the Magistrate where H. N. dwelled in the East through the false relations of the enemies of H. N. and through the false slanders which they had spoken against him among the people to lye in wait for H. N. for to lay him fast in Prison And so with the consent of the same aforesaid Magistrate was H. N. in the same Land where he dwelled very vehemently persecuted And many ambushes were laid for him for to bring him into prison But the Lord smote them all with a great blindness who were his enemies and persecuted him insomuch that they could by no means apprehend H. N. 2 Now when the Officers of the said Magistrate had used all their diligence to bring H. N into their hands then the Lord manifested his mercy and assistance to him carried him by the hand of his b Angels openly before the eyes of his persecutors away from that land without hurt And no man knew him or could finde out which way he travelled 3 Now when H. N. for the upright a righteousness of God and the Godliness of Jesus Christ and because that he attested and published the same under the obedience of the Love was thus through persecution driven away through the hand of the Lord he travelled away before the eyes of his persecutors notwithstanding they writ very earnestly after him to several places and his enemies made very diligent search after him to find him out nevertheless he kept on in his journey in the way of Patience towards another land which the Lord shewed him and wherein it should be more quiet and peaceable for him to inhabit 4 He was sometime also in his journey through his persecutors and through all false aspersions and undecent contumelies which were cast after him much perplexed and bnrthened and that for the most part because those which were Letter-learned and did seem to be so wise And to whom he had shewed all love and friendship were yet so ignorant blind and misunderstanding that they envied him and unadvisedly resisted the d Truth of God and shamefully despised the fulfilling of the godliness in Jesus Christ and undecently reproched the e holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ and also persecuted him with wicked hearts of f lying slanderous lips whom they had most cause to love for as much as hee shewed all love and all ministrations to the Godliness in full explanation to them 5 And so in his travelling and sadness H. N. took unto him to read the Psalms of David especially that Psalm which the holy Prophet David the anointed of the Lord had formerly spoken when g Saul after the good Spirit of the Lord was departed and was much disquieted with an evil spirit from the Lord persecuted him and sought to take away his life and when he was betrayed by h Doeg the Edomire and first he made his preface to the Lord and said 6 O Lord God heavenly Father how perverse and wicked of heart have the i wise of the World alwayes been who do not fear thee O God with an humble heart nor walk uprightly before thee 7 And how imbittered k and hardned of heart and how bloud-thirsty in their spirits and minds have alwayes been the Letter-learned and also the urgers of ceremonial Services who have not O God believed thee in the Word of thy holy Prophets nor been obedient thereunto And also all those who forsake the Doctrine of thy dear Son Jesus Christ and l his humility and meekness and have not learned the upright righteousness to the cleansing of their hearts but framed and chose to themselves out of the letter counterfeit ceremonial services and invented holinesses and have neither known nor received m the holy anointing of thy holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ 8 For like as Saul n with his evil and restless spirit envyed and persecuted thine anointed David who walked uprightly and without deceit before thee and like as the false hearts of the Letter-learned have despised belyed reproached and with falshood defamed and persecuted as evil doers and seducers thy o holy Prophets and thy p deare sonne thine anointed Jesus and his q witnesses and had an intention to root them out Even so O God this wicked Generation of the same wicked seed and nature of the aforesaid false-hearts have persecuted reproached and belyed me H. N. thy chosen servant because O God I love all people to the Godlinesse in Jesus Christ And attest and set forth before them thy commiserating Grace and Love and the upright righteousnesse r and holinesse of thy beloved Sonne Jesus Christ out of thy holy and gracious Word and Spirit of Love and call and invite them all thereunto And they have resisted and s reproached also thy holy Spirit whom thou now in these last times hast sent to declare
the inheritance of the Lord Let us accuse Him x that is his body and bloud or his Fellowship of Love with all manner of malignity or unjust actions and let us charge him with most wicked things let us destroy or kill him with the most shamefullest sufferings or let him be delivered up to the Iudge to his * slaughter or destruction So remain y we in the Inheritance in the estimation among men that we are pure upright and have right in our cause or demands against him his Communialty of Love 44 Thus we observed in the union with the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ that the wicked hardened hearts against us the Body bloud of Jesus Christ likewise the apostates from the obedience of the Truth did all their endeavour or diligence to have the estimation amongst z men as if they against that Body and bloud of Jesus Christ and against us were * upright and did well therein although they earnestly endevoured wholy to dishonour Jesus Christ and us and to make us detestable before men and likewise that precious pure bloud of Jesus Christ that was to the forgiveness of sinnes d shead for many wherewith we with our bloud are become one bloud to defame as impure before all men so that the same is * despised for unclean among many And as unclean might be poured forth and trampled upon 45 Now when we thus observed the rising up of the wicked and all Hypocrites and enemies of the Godly Life against the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ And beheld that the Body bloud of Jesus Christ wherewith we were become one body and bloud was suffering all that with lowly and meek hearts without resisting so we saw and observed that the same Body and bloud of Jesus Christ in all his suffering and reproach opened a not his mouth even as a Lambe that is led to the slaughter-house and as a sheep that is dumbe before his shearer Where through we also in all our sufferings wherewith we were one Body and bloud with him were wholy moved with his sufferings So that we also in our whole Body and bloud obteined an inclination to suffer with them we found our selves wholy prepared rather to suffer to die with him forasmuch as we knew him righteous then to live in sin with the falshood of the false hearts with the sin of sinners and enemies of the Godly life 46 And thus travelling forth in this-Good-willingness with Jesus Christ b we came on the seventh sixth day to the * accomplishing of the sufferings of Jesus Christ wherein we observed the whole summe of the finishing and fulfilling or satisfaction of Jesus Christ and his Believers unto the true Godliness 47 For in this fulfilling or or accomplishing we perceived in the understanding That all men who will live and reign with the Lord Jesus Christ in his Glory must also c suffer with Christ and then likewise with Christ enter into the Glory of Christ and inherit the same 48 Furthermore wee observed also in this accomplishment to what end this Gospel of the Kingdom is d published in all the World and from thence cometh the accomplishment and fulfilling of e all that is written of Christ and the salvation of man 49 There was also in the same * accomplishment fully revealed and in clearness made manifest * unto us The whole Scripture which testifieth of Christ and of his Sufferings or Passeover and of the upright righteousness of men in Jesus Christ And f how that Christ like as we have heard and seen of him in his sufferings and passed through with him must suffer all these things and so to enter into his Glory and thus g go before all sinful men in to the entrance of the eternal life and the Kingdom of Heavens that they also should follow after him therein and inherit with him the eternal life 50 For Christ h must thus * suffer and accomplish his love to us and so go before us as an * Innocent and that he also by his guiltless sufferings should be an example or patern to all sinful men and thereby to shew unto them that they by reason of their sins are debtors to the same sufferings and as debtors to i follow him therein and to draw unto him all men who are loaden with sins and also to acquit them though his Body and bloud and through his like sufferings from their sins to deliver k them from the bonds of death and to save them and restore or bring them again with him in all upright righteousness and holiness to their God his heavenly Father and to his glory in the kingdom of God and in the everlasting life 51 And that wee might uprightly endeavour us to this aforesaid accomplishment with the Lord Jesus Christ and the * humanity and rightly enter into and inherit the same with the Lord Jesus Christ according to the truth of Jesus Christ and according to the requiring of the obedience of his belief So gave wee up our selves there on the same seventh sixth day of our travelling into a good * custody with the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ which standeth upon the Mount Nebo l on the uppermost height top or firmness from whence we obtein'd the sight of the holy inheritance of God of his living ones 52 And on the same Mount * Nebo there was revealed and made known unto us also m the secret place where the Prophet Jeremian had hid the true Tabernacle and Ark and the true Altar of the Offerings of Incense And the time also was come or accomplished in which the Lord should be merciful unto his people and bring them to his rest 53 And the same good * watchfunless to which we betook our selves on the Mount Nebo was the true n implanting with Christ in his like death and the right implanting with Christ in his like burial 54 Of this implanting with Christ in his like death and of the implanting with Christ in his like burial wee were very firmly embraced 55 At the same instant in the embracing of the implanting with Christ in his like death and burial we offered to the God of Heaven on his Altar of Incense in the Holy of the true Tabernacle our free willing Offering in the Offering * of the High Priest Jesus Christ And o the Offering of the High Priest Jesus Christ kindled or fired our Offering And thus our Offering was a hollowed burnt Offering before the Lord And the Lord Jesus Christ made this our Offering through his Offering acceptable before God his Father and the holy of his Tabernacle was full of sweet perfumes and the p veile opened asunder and the most holiest in his pure and perfect beauty was revealed and Christ also according to
as he of old had promised to a raise up the same through his holy Prophets and with the same word and out of the same word the Lord b poured upon H. N. his holy Spirit of the of the Love of Jesus Christ 4 With this heavenly glory and out-flowing of the same holy Spirit of the true Love of Jesus Christ upon H. N. the Lord chose him to be a Minister of his holy and gracious word which He the Lord had excited and revealed in him 5 And the Lord prepared or ordained to H. N. for his assistance in the same ministration Daniel Elidad Tobias which continued allwayes with him and assisted him in all his ministration of the the gracious word of the Lord 6 And at that time also through the power of God and impulse of the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ H. N. was driven in his whole spirit mind for to administer on t of the holy and gracious word and holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ the most holy Office of the Love according to the command of God and to attest and set down in writing the godly truth of God and of Christ and the c upright way of the through-going or Passe-over which reacheth to the npright righteousnesse and to the eternalllife and to publish and express writingly in letters before all eyes of understanding 7 H. N. being thus chosen of the God of life to the ministration of his gracious word and was impulsed by the holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ to set * forth the manefestatton of the Truth of God and of the Godlinesse of Jesus Christ and let the Sonnes of men to know their errours that they repenting of their sins d may turn from their errour and sincerely endeavour to keep the truth of God and the godliness of Jesus Christ So he gave himself obediently at that time to that service and work of the Lord and carefully endeavoured to set down all that the Lord revealed and commanded him and that should be most profitable and necessary for the Sonnes of men to their Salvation and Peace and to the entrance of the upright life 8 But in his beginning of the same service and writings the word of the Lord came to him and said H. N. stay thy hand from writing in this place and get thee up and travel out of this land wherein now thou livest that thy soul may be preserved alive in my service and worke and be not devoured by bloud-thirsty men and in thy going out from this land take thy journey Eastward and dwell there till I my selfe by the hand of my Angel bring thee from thence 9 For whilest thou livest there thou shalt apply thy selfe for the most part to be in the land Pietas that thou mayest be diligent there rightly and according to the truth to manifest my honour and Love and to reveal the same to those who are worthy of love 10 For there in the manifesting of mine honour and Love thou shalt testifie and figure forth in writing the godly and heavenly things which I do reveal and make known unto thee and that profitable for the children of men unto Godliness 11 To thee shall also from henceforth many mysteries of my heavenly Kingdome which hitherto have been kept and concealed from the e world and her wise and letter-learned be revealed and made known for to bring the same to light 12 At the time according to the word and command of the Lord H. N. instantly took his journey Eastward and became an Inhabitant in the land of the East and was for the most time iu Pietas even as the Lord had commanded him ae3 And the Lord the God of heaven revealed to him in Pietas many godly mysteries and in these revealed mysteries H. N. excereised himselfe in Gods holy understanding to the serviceable benefit or utility of the children of men and to all their good knowledge of their Salvation and peace in Jesus Christ 14 There were revealed unto him also many wonderfull Acts or Workes of God many of which are testified and brought to light in the writings of H. N. to the knowledge of the upright Godliness in Jesus Christ 15 But in all this which the Lord hath revealed to H. N. he was rejoyced too exceedingly insomuch that he forgot all the sore wayes which he in great sadnesse had passed through 16 And the Lord afflicted him heavily through his enemies for the Lord suffered him to fall into the hands of the wicked his enemies whose ungodly being is the false destruction which hath brought on the Earth death or f mortality namely the Kingdome of the Devil and of hell which God hath not willed that it should be in the Earth but be condemned in the g bottomlesse pit and the everlasting darknesse from whence it also came And that the h Glory of Jesus Christ should be revealed on the earth and raigne over it eternally 17 Yea the same wicked Beeing must be abolished in the condemnaâ—ion at the appearing of Jesus Christ in his glory for that same is the i envious man against God and his righteousnesse and against all that is Godly and * God-service k and wherewith the man practiseth his whoredome and adultery to the disobeying and resisting his God so that thereby the man every where l turneth or inclineth to himselfe and to things which are vaine and unprofitable whereby also the same ungodly being in the false light of the mans disobedient knowledge is become predominant 18 Behold into this Abysse or Depth the Lord let fall his chosen servant H. N and suffered him to tast and feel the condemnation of all ungodly ones in the hellish fire the most horrible perdition and the most ugly abomination of desolation 19 But when now H. N. found himself thus captived in misery wherein hee was sorely vexed by his enemies so there came on him a great and mighty sadnesse and he could find no comfort at all insomuch that by reason of his great heavinesse of mind he wringed his hands and exceedingly bewailed his sinnes and cryed aloud to God and besought him for his Grace and continued therein day and night And in this his misery he composed these Psalmes of mourning and lamentation and did not hide his sinnes and thus calling on and praying to the Lord he spake forth his mourning Psalmes with weeping and lamentation Here follow the Psalmes of H. N. and the declaration of his weeping and praying in his chastisement The Rod and punishment giveth wisdome Pro. 29. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth and delighteth in him as a Father doth in his sonne Pro. 3. Therefore shall the eare which barkeneth to the correction of the Lord dwell among the wise but he that letteth go the chastising Instrâ—ction or turneth away from it he rejecteth his own â—oul Pro. 2. CAAP. VI Psalme I. 1 O My
i peace of his Kingdome shall have no end 10 Behold this is the spiritual Kingdome of Christ the heavenly King for ever Allelu-ja Allelu-ja CHAP. XXV Psalme XV 1 WHerefore O yee souls a shout now in your God for joy and let your mind rejoyce in his Salvation 2 From whom you were turned away and are turned to him againe 3 Behold that is the stone b which saveth you the eternal God of Israel who the hath made heaven and earth 4 His anointing is at his right hand out of his spirit of Salvation commeth faithfulnesse and Truth unto us 5 That which he hath smitten and wounded he hath c healed and made whole againe 6 He can d kill and make alive again he leadeth into hell and bringeth thence again 7 He thrusteth away and condemneth as it were in cursing he calleth to him againe in blessing as his best â—e loved 8 He bringeth dovâ— to dust earth and ashes He exalteth e again above all Cedar trees 9 He suffereth to fall into sorrow as if it were nothing and as if he esteemâ—d it not 10 He maketh it glad again aâ—d esteemeth it more precious then Gold Silver and and precious Stones 11 Where is their such a God f as the God of Israel which moveth or overspreadeth above all Heavens 12 He hath founded the earth upon his Word g the Firmament is comprehended in him 13 Sun and Moon stand obedient to his commandment all hearts of the living hath he in his hand 14 He h doth all what ever he pleaseth he respecteth i no man neither wise nor simple 15 When he ariseth all must stoop to him and fear his mighty hand 16 He chastiseth or rebuketh for a certain time k but his goodness l endureth for ever 17 Praise him all ye Kings and m all ye Counsellors in the Land fear his Majesty all ye people 18 Hee that worketh Wonders among the Heathens and taketh a delight in his Elect. 19 He hath a pleasure in the house of Israel that he may plant the Generation of Jacob in righteousness 20 He will not n for ever be angry with his people their punishment shall not alwayes indure 21 He punisheth them for their sins he saveth and justifieth them for his holy Name sake 22 Hee will not forget his Covenant that o he hath made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob 23 He will not forsake his mercy which he hath promised by his Servants and Prophets 24 Yet once again will hee move the Earth p and gather his people together q from all ends of the Earth and be r gracious unto them 25 A new s covenant he will establish with them he will give them a new name t the everlasting free ones the redeemed of the Lord 26 To whom the Law of the Lord his Statutes and Rites shall no more stand written in Tables of stone 27 But God will write them in their hearts in the innermost u of their minds in the ground of faith after the manner of Father Abraham 28 Rejoyce yee then that have been rejected among all heathen 29 x Clap then with your hands and dance then with your feet 30 Make then your songs of joy at Sion sing then Allelu-ja y in all the streets and lanes of Jerusalem 31 Then cast from you the mourning garment for that is the end of your shame and contempt 32 Then put on z the ornaments of joy sing play and a praise the Lord in triumphing 33 Play upon Harpes upon Lutes upon Cymballs Flutes Tabors Uialls and upon all manner of Instruments with strings 34 For then will God be your King your head and onely Shepherd 35 No b sinne shall any more destroy you no Prophets shall any more seduce you 36 Then shall you all c know the Lord your God as also his Statutes and Ordinances 37 Hope now thereon O Israel the same shall come unto you all yee children of Jacob Allelu-ja Allelu-ja Amen 38 Give perpetual thanks to the great God of Israel for besides him there is d no other God CHAP. XXVI THus hath the Lord who forsaketh not a Elect likewise not forsaken his chosen servant H. N. in his misery lamentation aâ—d prayers For like as he bringeth his own even into the death and b maketh alive againe carrieth into hell and bringeth from thence againe permits the c enemy to carry away into captivity and againe delivereth them out of the hands and captivity of their enemies and exalteth or honoureth them among his living ones So likewise the Lord delivered H. N. out of his misery and out of the bonds of his enemies and brought him also with Gladnesse with his children of the Kingdome againe to his most holy being which is full of all pure beauty and heavenly riches and revealed unto him the whole Tabernacle of his Sanctuary and the requiring of the service thereof 2 And H. N. praised and thanked the most highest for the abundance of his mercy because that he replenished him with all fulnesse of his godly understanding and H. N. diligently endeavoured himselfe againe to the obedience of his Service And the Lord revealed all things to him in the understanding that was needful for the children of men to know for their salvation 3 And so in all these things that were revealed and given him to understand from the Lord hee was very zealous and diligent out of the revelation of God to set down in writing the godly understanding and the right knowledge thereof Also for to describe the godly Testimonies as far as the Lord revealed unto him and might be profitable to the children of men and to declare to the lovers of the Truth and before all understadding according to the true Being of Jesus Christ and his holy Spirit of Love to publish the same in writing And he hath done the same and through the help of God in some measure accomplished it 4 But after that this ministration of the same godly Testimonies had had their forth-going thus for some years through H. N. in writing and Printed Letters So were there some Writings of the same godly Testimonies come into the hands of Whoremongers into the hands of Traitors and into the hands of self-conceited wise ones also into the hands of the generation of Cain and of the false hearts of the Letter-learned whose d fore-fathers persecuted Christ and his Witnesses accused him falsly and killed him 5 Which wicked generation of false hearts have dealt most shamefully with the Writings of H. N. and the same testimonies of God and have also out of their evil deeds manifested e the wickedness of their hearts and that the good nature of Christ dwelleth not in them f but the false nature of Cain who murthered his brother Abel also the evil spirit of g Saul who persecuted the holy Prophet David and
my heart to wisdome and found her pure in all things and I joyned in all things and I joyned my heart with her even from the beginning 21 Therefore shall I not be forsaken for my heart exceedingly longeth after her And therefore also have I obtained a good Treasure 22 For the Lord hath given me through her a new tongue that I with her should praise him 23 Come hither to me ye that are unlearned and assemble you to me in the house of instructioâ— and what you want that may ye learn if your souls be very thirsty after it 24 Behold I have opened my mouth teach therefore come now and buy wisdome for your selves forasmuch as ye can have her without money and bow your necks under her yoke and be instructed for she is now found neer at hand 25 Look on me how I have had for a little time labour and trouble and have found a great comfort 26 Therefore embrace the doctrine of wisdom as a great treasure and keep her as a great heap of gold 27 Rejoyce in the great mercy of God and be not ashamed to praise him 28 Do what is commanded you whilst ye have time and he will well recompence you in his time CHAP. XXX 1 IN the 65 year of the age of H N. in the 12th moneth of the yeer in time of Maximilian the second was made Roman Emperor by the power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the Gâ—rman Nation the Word of Lord came to H. N. and said 2 H. N. Arise and be diligent to perform thy journey towards the land which will be convenient peaceable for thee to dwell in and conceal thy self very carefully from thy despisers and keep thy self apart for a time from thine acquaintance and friends according to the â—lesh especially from those with whom thou hast outwardly most friendship 3 But from thy despisers and from the lascivious whoremongers from all slanderous Traitors accusers and false censurers of the testimonies of the holy Spirit of my Love together also from all impenitent ones which have heard the same testimonies and do not obediently take to heart to the reforming of their lives the requiring of my holy and gracious word but have their conversation with the light-minded and mockers and with the enemies of my house of Love and from all perjured and unfaithful ones which will not repent Thou shalt as much as possible thou mayest wholy and altogether separate And shalt keep thy self altogether separated from such so long as they do not obediently humble themselves under my gracious word and ministration of Love and bear not sorrow for their sins neither confess nor repent And so proceed in thy journey till thou commest to another land that I will shew thee which is full of blessing which I have prepared from the beginning for my a chosen ones with abundance of all my riches to b a land of rest and peace 4 In which land it will be very convenient and peaceable for thee to dwell in all those which love my gracious word and service of Love unto Obedience and bring forth sincere fruits of repentance likewise all those which desire to assemble with thee to the gracious Throne of my Majesty have faithful hearts and do mind righteousness and Love will indeed willingly follow thee and be joyned to the requiring of my Testimonies and obedience for to become c one in their heart and minde in me 5 They shall likewise for to come into the same land and there to have their walking in thy fellowship willingly heare and believe the out-flowing words of thy mouth or of the Elders in the houshold of Love and will obediently perform the requiring thereof 6 Therefore thy journey also and the way of thy Passeover to the same land as a preparation to the d new birth in Jesus Christ shall continually be kept in remembrance and plainly declared shewed and proposed to the lovers of the Truth and the upright Righteousness and he thus passed through by the On-comming Elders to the end that all those who are inclined to the new birth in Jesus Christ and desire to have their fellowship with thee and with the Elders of the houshold of Love pass through the same way of preparation to the entrance of the e same good Land and to the new Birth in Jesus Christ uprightly and obediently with an upright understanding of the Truth and that they might be assembled to thee and thy heart and mind in my hereditary land of rest and of peace And should not erre through their good thinking opinion nor yet suppose themto be therein before they be gone through the same way of the Passeover and in any wise not deceive themselves 7 And when thou thus separatest thy self for an example or glass to all good willing hearts unto the righteousneâ—s from thy kindred after the flesh for a time and be takest thee to the journey then shalt thou not â—eparate thy self nor by no means esteem thy self severed or disjoyned from the Ancients thy fellow Elders in the Family of Love nor from the faithfull ones but take advise keep friendship and all loveliness with them even to eternity For of them shall travel with thee 24 and they shall be called unto me * Nazaraeans f 8 Further there shall travel with thee four of the chiefest Seraphims in the houshold of Love who shall alwayes be about and with you to the preservation of you all 9 Behold with these four and twenty Elders and the four chiefest Seraphims which I have ordained or joyned to thee shalt thou travel forwards till that thou commest into mine holy land of the living g where there are no buildings of men 10 Thou shalt also out of all the testimonies of thy Writings which thou hast published take of each one with thee and bring it with thee into the holy land of the living For there shalt thou with the said Elders through the light of my wisdome renew all the said testimonies of thy Writings to make them more plain to the understanding and also testifie the same in fuller explanation and write them again more distinctly 11 For the Whoremongers and the Adulterous generation as also the earthly and fleshly minded and the enemies of my houshold of Love have out of the testimonies of thy former Writings judged many sentences very unjustly to their own seducing therefore shalt thou now renew them all in a more plain declaration and bring forth and publish the same to the wel-willers of my Love 12 There shall also be renewed to all those with the same declared testimonies to the upright knowledge of the requiring of my word service of Love and of the entrance to the upright life namely unto such who out of a good intention apply them to the testimonies of thy Writings and have not rightly understood nor observed the requiring thereof and
that was in our power wholly over as a free willing offering to the Lord and his gracious word and committed our heart and mind to obedience unto the same gracious word and his requiring And preparing our c soules for assaulting we prayed the Lord which dwelleth in the heavens 3 And this with willing hearts we undertook our journey forward like as the Lord had said to us And travelled the the first six dayes upon the assurance or promises of the Lord with cheerfull minds and we had in all these six dayes of our travel no kind of griefe nor assaulting and we came on the first sixth day to the view of the upright Righteousnesse as to the Glasse of the same Righteousnesse In which Glass is represented unto us d the upright Righteousnesse before God and man unto which the man was created e from the beginning and is in his estranging from God called and invited thereto through Jesus Christ 4 In the same Glasse was also represented to us the unrighteousnesse or sinne f whereby the children of men estrange themselves and turn away from God and his truth deal deceitfully one with another 5 There was also figured forth unto us the right confession of sinnes and g the upright fruits of repentance which all sinfull men ought to bring forth And also earnestly to endeavour themselves in reforming their liues unto the upright righteousnesse 6 Now when all this was thus represented unto us we were very earnestly carefull to have a right regard on the upright righteousness also of the upright fruits of repentance and amendment of life That we might keep all that in our hearts unto a fruitfull life in the same upright righteousnesse 7 And therefore that we might alwayes uprightly endeavour our selves to all this so gave we our selves continually thereto into a good watchfulness namely into the h true Beliefe and Hope to the Righteousnesse and into the i bewailing and confessing of sinnes unto an amendment of life 8 And being in all friendship received by the Belief and Hope to the Righteousnesse and by the contrition for and Confession of sinnes to the amendment of life and endevoring and wholly submitting our selves to their will and requiring we rested with them the first seventh day 9 The first day thereafter next to the first seventh day we travelled forward on our way and rested us not in all the other six dayes of our journey to do our work and diligence And to inable us uprightly in the Beliefe and Hope to the Righteousnesse and in the Bewailing and Confessing of the sinnes to the amendment of life to excercise our selves in the understanding and to be instructed and taught in all these uprightly and according to the Truth And so we came on the second sixth day to the Teaching of the Righteousnesse In which Teaching we were fundamentally taught and rightly instructed in the upright righteousnes and in the Belief and Hope to the same and in the upright bewailing and confessing of sins to the ameÌ„dment of life 10 And that we might rightly and obediently endevour us to the same doctrine and instruction so thereupon gave we our selves continually to a good * observation namely into k the Delight to do the will of God and in the Freewilling obedience 11 Being most friendly received of the Delight to do Gods will and of the Free-willing obedience and endeavouring and wholly giving over our selves to their will and requiring we rested with them the second seaventh day 12 On the first day followinng next to the second seventh day we went on in our journey and we rested us not in all the third six dayes to do our worke or endeavour and with diligence to excercise our selves in the delight to do the will of God and in the Free willing obedience and to performe or to accomplish l all righteousnesse even as we were instructed and taught by the Elders in the doctrine of Righteousnesse 13 In which exercising in the delight to do the will of God and in the free willing obedience to accomplish all Righteousnesse we were in all the three six dayes of our travel strongly m assailed with divers manner of false humane * desires for to doe the will of the flesh and with all selfe willed obedience * for to performe mens opiniated or good conceited Righteousnesse And so wholly to withdraw us from the delight to doe the will of God and from the willing obedience to accomplish all Righteousnesse and from the doctrine and instruction of the Elders in the Godly understanding unto the upright Righteousnesse 14 For we did in all these third six dayes of our journey all our best indeavour and earnestnesse to overcome the assailing of the averse desires against the desire to do the will of God and the disobedience against Gods requiring together with the false selfe will'd obedience and with the free-willing obedience unto Gods requiring to be preserved there from n And humbly praying to the Lord for it we came on the third sixth day to the right Fasting and Praying In which Fasting o and Praying we observed how that men through the right o Fasting and Praying and through the constant or earnest willingnesse to the good life delivered from all false lusts or desires and from all selfe-willed inclinations to p serve the Lord alone in his upright Righteousnesse and holinesse 15 And that we might uprightly endeavour thereunto and overcome all that which is against the will of the Lord and his Righteousnesse And with the will of the Lord and his Righteousnesse obtaine the upper hand there against we gave our selves continually into a good observation namely unto the q fasting and forbearance of all that the flesh lusted after and that which the man selfishly conceived and into the hunger r and thirst after the Righteoâ—snesse 16 And being in all friendship admitted by the fasting and abstaining from all that the flesh desired and the man selfishly conceived and the hunger and thirst after Righteousnesse and earnestly endeavouring and wholly submitting us to their will and requiring we rested with them on the third seventh day 17 The first day to it next the third seventh day we travelled on our way and rested us not in all the fourth six dayes of our journey to performe our labour or industry and with all our diligence to fall and abstaine from all that the flesh and the mans good conceiving lusted after and became also very hungry and thirsty after the Righteousness for to obtaine the same and that it might everlastingly remaine stedfast upon the s earth 18 In which fasting and absteining hungring and thirsting wee were in all the fourth six dayes of our travelling most vehemently assailed or temptedâ— with all manner of things which the flesh lusted after and which the man conceived to be good and wherein hee loved his own life
gracious Word in its doctrine and obediently enter into its requiring and they shall all through the good exercising in my * Ordinances be nourished up unto my upright righteousness and unto my Love and be brought in unto the peace of my Christ 17 And like as I have in former times through my servant Moses r upon the Mount Horeb given to my people good Ordinances and * Exercises which extend and bring in to my Christ and to his belief of the salvation from their sins so will I now at the last time through thee H. N. from the moūt s Sion give to the welaffected ones to my righteousnes good Ordinances and godly Exercises which * extend bring into me to my Love upright righteousness to the peace of my Christ to the renewing of their lives minds and into this my kingdom of Heaven unto the inheriting of all these my spiritual and heavenly treasures and my upright lovely being in the same kingdom and everlasting life as also that I may raign now at this last time everlastingly with my people in the righteousness t over the whole World unto all unity and peace on earth and to a blessing of all the Generations of the earth according to my promises 4 Seeing then I now declare on earth though my Love and through the service and the good exercise thereof the upright righteousness of my Lawes the true faith of my Christ and the upright being of my holy Spirit Therefore it is my will and command that all people on earth shall obey the requiring of my Love and her services likewise the good Ordinances and Exercises thereof and live therein 15 For all those who live and walk obediently in the service and ordinance of my Love the same are truly the right Disciples u of my gracious word and service of Love also my first-born in my Covenant or Testament of the holy Fathers 16 For thus in their obedience the doctrines and services of the Priestly Office of my Love shall be unto them a foregoing testament which bringeth them to my new y true Testament that is to the new life of the mind of God which is full of Love and full of all spiritual heavenly riches ☜ and all they who are led therein shall be to me my second born in the new Covenant of the holy Spirit of my Love in the heavenly being as I have in former times in the accomplishing of my fore-going Testaments and Priestly Offices brought to my people the same new Covenant to the end that all now in this last or newest day z be restored or established under the obedience of my Love which I from the beginning of the World have spoken wrought and required and my word work and will continueth on the earth unchangeably for ever and ever a even as it is in the Heaven and also that for ever and ever through the Ministers and Priests of my Famlly of Love The Disciples of my gracious Word with the Testimonies of my holy Spirit of Love may be b preserved and susteined to the Godly life c taught to the kingdome of Heavens and brought up to Elders in all Godly wisdom and holy understanding 17 And therefore will I here through thee H. N. set * up my most holy Priestly Office of Love will also declare the same over the World through its Ministery under the obedience of my Love to an everlasting d Priestly Office of the holy Spirit of my Christ for renewing of life in my love in them all through my love to them who are implanted into my Christ with his e like death and burial or are fal◠asleep in him 18 In the same Priestly Office will I also under the obedience of my Love be merciful to all penitent sinners also to those who submit themselves to the Family of my Love That they may all now rejoyce themselves in this day of my divine glory appear with my Christ in Glory and shew forth my praise and wonderful great works 19 Furthermore I will declare and make known unto thee and to all them who * humble themselves under my Love and Priestly Office that the same Priestly Office of my Love which I will here presently set up with thee is the eternal fast-standing Kingly Priesthood f of my holy Spirit and the everlasting peaceable g kingdom of my Christ which shall never be destroyed or moved neither shall it fall to any other but shall of it self and by it self remain in my truth everlastinly 20 Whoever resisteth the same Priesthood of my holy Spirit of Love in his office and requiring the same if he do not repent shall procure the judgement of h the curse the eternal i separation from the beholding of my face But my Grace and mercy k shall be alwayes and for ever upon all men who through the same Priestood and its office under the obedience of my Love turn themselves to me and repent them of their sins 21 Again the Word of the Lord came to H. N. and to us the Elders and said Seeing I my self with all that which concerneth my * Godhead and the judgament of my Righteousness have fully united with thee H. N. and with the Elders Thereshall ye also and all they who are born of you and your doctrine shall judg uprightly out of my righteous judgment according to the Truth 22 And all what ye out of the same my judgment curse separate and condemne l shall be accursed separated and into the Hell condemned And all what ye bless or give a benediction unto shall be also blessed in the Heavens 23 Therefore all whatever shall continue in your doctrine shall be m one heart and mind with you in my Godhead but what separateth it self from you and your doctrine shall likewise be separated from me and my Grace find no way to the eternal life but shall die in hisn sin and also be estranged from me everlastingly 24 But all those who through you and your doctrine and turned to me and also are o taught to the kingdom of my heavenly being shall inherit the spiritual and heavenly riches of my kingdom and p thereunto the eternal life 25 At the same time when we thus heard the Word of the Lord and had well understood all his sayings and were assembled with Christ our Saviour to the Majesty of God and were entered into his Glory and also in the presence of the Lord beheld and and inherited the peace q beauties and riches of God all our hearts were fully delighted and made glad And so with joyful hearts we lauded praised the most High in his holy Land of the Living and the four Seraphins gave r all Honour Laud and Praise unto him who liveth therein from Everlasting unto Everlasting 26 After this our Thanksgiving and
the Truth of thy Christ 9 Therefore must I now also with thy Prophet David take up a speech against miâ—e enemies and persecutors and utter forth the same against their wicked deeds And will O God abase my selfe before thee t glory in thee and thy Goodnesse Supplicate and pray unto thee and give thanks and praise to thee O God for all the Goodnesse which thou O heavenly Father hast bestowed on me H. N. thy chosen servant 10 And thereupon when H. N. had spoken these words before the eares of the most high then he began this speech against his enemies out of the Psalme of David and said CHAP. XXVIII 1 OYe a Tyrants why do ye boast because ye can do mischief whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily 2 Your tongues follow mischief and with lyes ye cut as a sharp Razor 3 Ye rathhr speak evil then good and rather falshood then truth 4 Ye willingly speak all that tendeth to destruction with false tongues 5 Therefore will God also confound and totally consume you remove you out of his Tent or Tabernacle and root you out of the land of the living 6 And the righteous shall see it and fear and laugh at you and say 7 Behold b these are the men that held not God for their comfort but trusted onely in their c great riches and were mighty to do mischief 8 But I shall continue as a green Olive tree in the house of God for I trust in the goodness of God constantly and for ever 9 I thank thee O God for ever for thou art able to do it I will relie on thy Name for therein have thy Saints joy 10 Help d me O God through thy Name and let me have justice through thy power 11 Hear O God my prayers hearken to the voice of my mouth 12 Proud men set themselves against me and Tyrants lay wait for my soul and have not God before their eyes 13 Behold God standeth by me the Lord supporteth my soul 14 He will reward the wickedness of mine Enemies e cast them out through thy faithfulness 15 Then will I O Lord bring unto to thee an offering of joy and thank thy name because it is so comfortable 16 For thou delivereâ—â— me out of all my misery so that mine eyes see their desire on my enemies 17 Deliver me f my God from mine enemies and protect mee from them that set themselves against me 18 Deliver me from the evil doers and help me from the bloud-thirsty 19 For behold Lord they lie in wait for my soul the strong ones gathered themselves against me without any crime or mâ—â—deed of mine 20 Their g doctrine is meer sin they persevere in their pride they preach meere curses gain-sayings and detractions 21 They think to extinguish him that is simple h and are diligent to lye give fair words but they curse in their hearts 22 But my soul waiteth upon God alone for he is my hope 23 For they have opened their i wicked and false mouthes against me and speak against me with false tongues 24 They speak every where poisonously against me and fight without a cause 25 Because I love them therefore are they against me but I do pray 26 They requite me evil for good and hatred for love 27 Lord O God k heare my voice in my complaint preserve my life from my cruel enemies 28 Hide me from the gatherings of the wicked from the multitude of evil doers 29 Which whet their tongues as a sword they aime with their poisonous words as with arrows 30 Secretly l to shoot at the upright hâ—shly they shoot at them without fear 31 They are bold in their evil attempts and say how that they will lay snares and say who can see it 32 They invent deceit and keep it secretly they are destroyers and exercise falshood subtily 33 But God will suddenly shoot them that woe shall come upon them their own tongues shall overthrow them and he that beholds them shall deride them 34 And all men that see it shall say God hath done this and shall perceive that it is his work 35 But the Righteous shall rejoyce in the Lord and trust in him and all upright hearts shall glory thereat CHAP. XXIX 1 I Thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour 2 I praise thy Name that thou art my helper and protector 3 For thou hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snares of false treacherous tongues and lying lips and thou haâ—â— helped me against mine enemies 4 And according to thine abundant mercy thou hast delivered me from the roaring of them which would devoure me and out of the hands of such as sought after my life out of many sorrows which had surrounded me and out of the middest of the fire that I should not be therein consumed 5 Also out of the depth of Hell and from the false praters and lyers and also hast delivered me from the King or Magistrate and from the unrighteous judgement of false tongues 6 I was neer to death and my life was almost going down to Hell for I was compassed about on every side and there was no man to help me 7 I hoped indeed for the help of man and behold there was none 8 Then I remembred O Lord thy mercy and how thou hast helped constantly Thou deliverest all those which wait upon thee and releasest them out of the hands of the heathen or uncircumcised 9 Against their fierceness I prayed unto God and intreated for deliverance from death and called to the Lord my Father and Ruler that he would not forsake me in my trouble for the proud have lifted up themselves and when I had no hope 10 I will praise thy Name continually and I honour and give thanks unto thee for my prayer is heard and thou hast delivered me from the destruction and from all evil 12 Therefore will I O Lord thank and praise thee and extol or magnifie thy Name 12 When I was yet but young and before any errors took hold to seduce me I very earnestly sought for wisdom in my prayer 13 I went therefore into the Temple and here even until the last and she was unto me an early ripe Grape 14 My heart rejoyced in the wisdome and I went presently in her way and thus from my youth I sought after her 15 I hearkned and inclined my ears after her and took her to me or united me with her 16 Then found I much wisdome and through her I increase greatly and praised him who gave me wisdome 17 I was resolved to do accordingly and to endeavour carefully after the good and I was not there at ashamed 18 I wrested there after with all my heart and was diligent to do accordingly 19 I lifted up my hands to Heaven and my soul was enlightned through the wisdome that I knew my follishness 20 I ordered