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A89685	The first epistle. A crying voice of the holy spirit of love, wherewith all people are out of meer grace, called and bidden by H.N. to the true repentance for their sins, to the entrance into the upright Christian life, and to the house of the love of Jesu Christ.	Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1648 (1648)	Wing N1126; Thomason E1188_5; ESTC R208256	33,456	64

heire of all things and how c 1 Cor. 15. God is all in all Whereupon this present Letter is written by H. N. out of an Inclination of the Love very profitable and needful to the understanding thereof for all those that hope upon God upon Christ and upon their salvation To the end that they may understand which is the right ground of the belief in Iesu Christ where-through one is justified from the Sin for to be in that sort reconciled with God in a new Life according to the Scripture The First Chapter FOrasmuch as I have alwaies found my self willingly bent to doe thee service my beloved Brother so doe I also still find my self ready prepared thereto namely in that wherein I may be serviceable unto thee to a guiding into the holy understanding to the end that thou if God vouchsafe the same mightest through my small Service be a little furthered to the good knowledge in God and his Christ 2. But seeing I am alwaies carefull and do stand in fear to write much of the deepe grounds of the a Rom. 11. secret knowledges of God and Christ so am I alwaies carefull lest that the same if we should write boldly thereof might thrust back any one from us and our godly doctrine or offend him thereby or that any one should desire to glory or to boast therein as in a knowledge of the flesh and not before all things or with his whole heart to be partaker in the spirit b 2 Pet. 1. of the beeing whereof we doe write or witness 3. For albeit that we do know well according to the comprehension of our naturall reason that there is a God a Christ and a holy Ghost and so do talk of them and yet do not through that knowledge believe serve nor love the same God as he is a God and his Christ as he is a Christ and the holy Ghost as he is an holy Ghost nor yet desire to become partakers of his being but to live in a c Rom. 1. Ephes 4. strange being which is none of Gods being and to cleave unto the same so is then the knowledge of the holy secretnesse of God more hurtfull then furdersome unto us For if we know in what forme or being that there is a God and yet doe not honour nor serve him as he is a God but have a lust to the contrary-being unto God then is that same to a d Mat. 25. Luke 12. more grievous condemnation unto us 4. Seeing now that I through the light doe behold these perils so am I likewise carefull therein to write of the secrets of God before many And if thou lookest with me into the perils then know I well that thou wilt not disalow me in my carefulnesse For I have much more delight in the obeying of the requiring of the service of Love and where Gods being light or upright righteousnesse doth even so then rise up in e Esa 58. power in the inward man then where as men doe with speakable words out of the knowledge talke much of the secretnesse of God according to the outward manner 5. Thou also knowest partly my conversation in what sort it was with thee and how fearefully touching many words I have behaved my self with thee shewing thee that the f Mat. 13. secretnesse of the Kingdome of God or Christ consisteth not g 1 Cor. 2 in the multitude of words nor in the riches of the knowledge because that thou shouldest not suffer thy selfe to be bewitched by any man with outward or strange words or sayings of plentifull store of Languages as to let thine heart commit whoredome therewith But that thou mightest have a much more regard unto the power of God and unto the upright righteousnesse that God worketh through the ministration of his gracious word and service of love in the spirit of the inward man to the end for to live uprightly therein with a meek-minded spirit For a meek-minded h Psal 5. Esa 57. Isa 61. Esa 66. spirit which hath his proceeding obediently according to the requiring of the Lords word is very precious and acceptable before God 6. And although that we doe in the same spirit goe on in silence as touching the outward manner and are poore of spirit in Tongues or Languages yet is not for all that the richnesse of the spirituall and heavenly knowledge of God ever the lesse among us but rather the greater and the same and all that which is of God and Christ doe we esteeme very i Iob. 28. Psal 19. Pro. 3. Pro. 8. Sap. 7. precious yea much worthier then all the riches or costly treasures of this world for that same of worthinesse part excelleth it all For which occasion we let our words be few because that the same which we speak may not proceed out of the knowledge but out of the k 1 Cor. 2. power of God and out of the truth of Jesu Christ 7. And in the same speech of the godly things we do also take heed with foresightfulness so much as we may therein of the loose ones of heart to the end that there be not one godly saying of the precious secret wisdome spoken out in vain O! how l Eccl. 14. Eccles 15. Iames 3. happy is he that falleth not in his tongue and whose words m Col. 4. are tempered with salt 8. Now this being omitted I rejoyce me doubtlesse of thee and of the Commonalty that is with thee and I hope to rejoyce me yet more with thee with greater joy by means of the Answer unto me that I have heard from thee as that ye altogether are wel-minded to that which is the beeing it selfe whereof the Scripture witnesseth as personally of God of Christ and of the holy Ghost Which beeing for those that be partakers thereof are the secret Treasures and n Mat. 12. heavenly riches of God whereof the world the rich Scripture learned ones nor the good-thinking wise with all their deep-groundly knowledge do neither know nor understand o Mat. 11. 1 Cor. 2. any thing at all 9. It is true they have the Scripture of the godly witnesses where-through they suppose to be wise and understanding But seeing they give not their understanding captive under the obedience of the Love of Jesu Christ and come p Iohn 5. not even so to the beeing whereof the Scripture speaketh nor yet believe thereon q Iohn 7. as the Scripture saith so is there likewise no light nor truth nor yet spirit nor being of God among them and they also doe neither know nor r Mat. 22. 1 Tim. 1. understand that which they themselves speak thereof 10. But the God of life f Ephes 2. who is rich of mercie hath out of his hearty Love t Ephes 1. Ephes 2. Ephes 3. Col. 1. revealed the beeing of his glory unto us renewed our ignorant understanding under the obedience of his

Love to a spirituall mind of the upright righteousnesse and when we were full of infirmities u Rom. 5. Ephes 2. Col. 1. Col. 2. and dead for the sinnes cause begotten us again out of his Love x Tit. 1. Tit. 3. to a sure hope of his life 11. Seeing then that y Heb. 12. such a cloud of holy dew is by Gods grace appeared in our sight according to the spirit and come from Gods right hand as an heavenly blessing and whereout also the right beeing of God whereof we speak a 2 Cor. 4. ariseth unto us as a light and cleernesse therefore have we although the Scripture witnesseth thereon and that we doe heare many speak thereof more regard unto that which is the upright beeing it selfe wherein our joy standeth then unto that which witnesseth thereon 12. For the same light that shineth now unto us out of the heavenly truth b 1 Ioh 1. is the everlasting life which was with the Father in the beginning and it is c Psal 45. Heb. 1. the Mercie-seat of the godly Majesty which continueth from everlasting to everlasting Even as I likewise have talked with thee of the same when I was last with thee The Second Chapter FOrasmuch then as thy request was unto me at that time to write thee an Instruction of the mediation of Jesu Christ after the Spirit and how the same cometh to passe in us a Rom. 3. 2 Cor. 5. Ephes 2. 1 Iohn 2. 1 Iohn 4. for a reconciliation betwixt God and us and how Christ is b Heb. 1. an heir of all things and how c 1 Cor. 15. God is all in all therefore will I open a little of the same unto thee and I hope also to satisfie thee well with this instruction 2. Inasmuch then as I have partly marked thine Inclination to the holy and spirituall understanding of the upright righteousnesse therefore can I not of natures part omit but must witnesse unto thee of that which thou desirest at my hands also reveale the d Ephes 3. Mysterie of Christ and make known unto thee that which is hidden e Rom. 15. Ephes 1. Eph. 3. Col. 1. before the world and all her wise ones and describe it unto thee in writing accordingly as the Lord illuminateth mine understanding thereto and as it may be profitable for thee to edification 3. There is testified in the Scripture the which according to the spirit is also very true that God is f Iohn 4. 2 Cor. 3. a Spirit and a g 1 Ioh. 1. very true light with whom no darknesses or sins are mingled But seeing that the man is faln h Gen 3. Esa 59. into a strange contrary-beeing unto God and goeth on and liveth therein so is he likewise i Ephes 4. Col. 1. estranged from God and from his light and walketh according to the flesh or outward and according to the requiring and desires of the fore-skin of his uncircumcised heart and not according to the spirit or according to the requireing of the godly-beeing and so he k Psal 82. Ephes 5. walketh in the ungodly-beeing of the darknesses and that same ungodly-beeing of the darknesses hath l Rom. 1. Ephes 4. blinded his heart And that verily is the sin m Esa 59. which separateth the man from his God and it is the n Ephes 2. middle wall as an enmity between God and the man By meanes of which middle wall both God and the man are grown into two parts and are partially minded against each other Yet ought they both God and the man to be o Iohn 17 Ephes 5. one like as it was p Gen. 2. in the beginning 4. Seeing now therfore that they are divided either of them in his own minde q Gal. 5. against each other so is God r Iohn 4. 2 Cor. 3. who is a spirit spirituall and minded to all upright righteousness against the minde of man and the man who is Å¿ Gen. 6. flesh and blood and not yet circumcied t Gen. 10. Ier 4. on the fore-skin of his heart to a laying away of the sin u Rom. 8 is fleshly and ungodly minded against the minde of God 5. Now doth Gods love and mercy extend towards the man as alluring x Iohn 6. and drawing him daily by his gracious word and service of Love and by his Ministers unto him and to his spirituall minde of upright righteousnesse But seeing that the darknesse the sinfull flesh or ungodly beeing is grown between God and man as a fore-skin y Esa 59. Ephes 2. or middle wall and as an enmity and that God is spiritually minded and the uncircumcised man fleshly minded according to the minde of his fore-skin of the sinfull flesh therefore doth not the z Rom. 8. 1 Cor. 3. man understand the spirituall minde of God the father neither yet know the good will of God that loveth him to Salvation and he believeth not God in his word nor service but he believeth the darknesse which hath inclosed him and following those sad lusts a Ephes 4. of error he goeth back and so sinneth daily against the father and that is the sin that is forgiven b Mat. 12. the man in his repentance for the sin because of his ignoance through unbelief The Third Chapter NOw mightest thou demand what spirit or being is this God of whom the Scripture witnesseth or unto whom we ought to turne us in the Spirit the Answer Of the same have we rehearsed in the a Intro 22 Intro 23. Introduction to the holy understanding of the glasse of righteousnesse But now for to come to the knowledge of our selves and to a good knowledge of our God and his righteousnesse so will we to a larger declaring of our understanding touching that whereof we speak and to a distincting of the true light the living God who b Heb. 13. was and is and continueth for ever rehearse and testifie here in this place also of the beeing of the only God 2. This God the living and very true one is the true c Exod. 3. God of Abraham through whom the d Gen. 12. Rom. 4. promises of the mans salvation or blessing doe come to passe in his faith the true God e Mat. 22. of Isaac in whom the f Gen. 21. Heb. 11. promises be inherited and in whom the seed of blessing is named and the true God of g Acts 7. Jacob or Israel in whom the promises of the glory h Numb 14. Esa 40. of God and of the mans salvation or i Ier. 23. Ier. 33. blessing become established and k Luke 1. Gods true righteousnesse this selfe same God l Sap 5. Eccles 24. 1 Pet. 2. Iames 1. is a very true unchangeable light a cleer m Ephe. 1. day and a glistering delightfull beauty 3. This light is the n Ioh. 14. everlasting

The First Epistle A CRYING VOICE of the holy Spirit of Love wherewith all People are out of meer Grace called and bidden by H. N. to the true Repentance for their Sins to the Entrance into the upright Christian Life and to the House of the Love of Jesu Christ Luke 15.7 There shall be more joy in Heaven over one Sinner that repenteth then over ninety and nine just persons that need no Repentance O how lovely are the Feet of the Messengers that publish the Peace preach the Good and witness or declare the Salvation Isa 52.7 Rom. 10.15 Behold I will send mine Angel or Messenger which shall prepare the way or path the Street before me Mal. 3.1 Matth. 11.10 Mark 1.2 Luke 7.27 To day if ye hear his voice then harden not your Hearts that ye bide not without the Rest of the People of God Psal 95.7 8. Heb. 3.15 and 4.7 Printed in the yeer 1648. The First Epistle The First Chapter THis is the Crying or Voice which cometh to passe and is heard now in this present day through the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesu Christ and wherewith all People are by H. N. called and bidden to the Repentance for their sins and to the house of the Love of Jesu Christ the a Isai 32. Heb. 3. Heb. 4. Rest of all the Saints or Children of God And not alone with this Calling but also with all the Scriptures heavenly testimonies and spirituall Voyces of the eternall Truth which are gone forth from the holy Spirit of Love and brought to light by H. N. like as the Holy Ghost hath spoken thereof and warned all people that they in that present day when they hear his voice should in no wise harden b Psal 95. Heb. 3. their hearts namely that they should not refuse c 2 Cor. 6. Heb. 12. nor resist the same proffered Grace but humbly endeavour them thereunto to the end they might enter into the godly Rest which till unto this same day of Love is reserved for the People of God for to rest them therein 2. The most highest hath also after such a long time that He had promised the d Psal 95. Heb. 3. Rest to the people of God yet once more appointed a day on the e Acts 17. which the universall Earth should be judged with Righteousnesse 3. Therefore as the holy Ghost saith f Psal 95. Heb. 3. To day if ye shall heare his voice that is when the time now is fulfilled that the day of Love which the most highest hath appointed to be a Rest for the People of God declareth it self then shall ye heare that yee g Isa 42. Cap. 51. O all ye People are called and bidden to the same Grace and Mercy then harden not your hearts 4. Let every one h 2 Cor. 6. Heb. 12. take heed to this same gracious time that he may live and rest him in this same day from his Works Travell and i Apoc. 14. Labour 5. Seeing then there is yet a Rest k Isa 32. Hebr. 4. at hand for the people of God which is made manifest and inherited in the family of Love and that without the same or without his Service there is nothing but all l Deut. 12. good thinking m Isa 59. tedious travell labour and misery therefore doth not the holy spirit of Love cease this day by his minister H. N. to call and bid all people to the same family of Love n Psal 16. Psal 84. Ecclus 24. Apoc. 21. full of all lovely being and to his safe-making service to the preservation of them all in the godliness and to warn them every one o Isa 13. cap. 30. cap. 47. Dan. 12. Matth. 24. of the Wo and misery of the plagues of good-thinking that shall come upon them that remain without the same or that will not suffer themselvs to be led into the same through the service of the said family of love to the end that they might all now in the service of love and in the obeying of his requiring do upright p Mat. 3. Luke 3 Act. 2. 3. repentance for their Sins and enter into the Rest of the Lord. The Second Chapter BEare sorrow for your sins a Ezek. 18. Matth. 3. and shew upright fruits of Repentance the great b Isai 14. Ioel 2. Obad. 1. day of the Lord is come hard by and will now as a righteous c Ier. 46. Soph. 1 2. judgement of God appear over the whole Earth 2. Let every one now turn him away from the wicked world and from the Abomination of d Dan. 9. Matth. 24. her desolation make his repair hither to the e Isai 2. Mich 4. hill of the love whereon the Lords house is builded that he may be preserved in this same day of the righteous judgement of God 3. Yea turn you hither betimes to the house of the Love of Jesu Christ and to his sake-making service bear sorrow rightly for your sins f Matth 3. Luke 3. Luke 13. Acts 2. and shew forth upright Repentance or amendment for the same O ye strayed people before the day of the Lord fall upon you g Soph. 2. Mal. 4. to the recompencing of your wickednes 4. Come now all hither where the heavenly day light h Isai 60. Sap. 5 the Sun of righteousness shineth and where the waters i Ezek. 36. Apoc. 22. of life flow forth out of the fountain of the living Godhead to the purging of your Sins 5. Let every one now forsake his own word doctrine and taken-on knowledge and also the word doctrine and knowledge of all k Ier. 23.27.29 Ezek 13. Mich. 3. unsent preachers and good thinking wise-ones whereby ye be seduced blinded from the true fruits of Repentance and estranged from the true sanctification of your spirit and mind and come now all to this same l Ier. 29. Ier. 31. Mich 1. sanctuary of God out of the which the Lords living m Isai 2. word is witnessed the true repentance for the Sinne made known and the upright n Ephes 4. Col. 3. righteousness and holiness of Jesu Christ taught where-through ye be brought to the right quieting of your Consciences to the o Mat. 11. health of your souls and to the sanctification or p Rom. 12. Eph. 4. renewing of your spirit and mind 6. For that cause come now all to this same hill q Isai 2. or house of Love and in his out-flowing water r Ezek 13. Ezek. 36. clense and amend or hallow your being under the obedience of the Love of Iesu Christ that your sins may be Å¿ Acts 3. wiped out and ye become led even so into the t Isai 32. Heb. 3. Heb. 4. rest of all the children of God and Saints of Iesu Christ 7. Come now all likewise which through your u Rom. 1. Ephes 4. ignorant knowledge or

his Son Jesu Christ The which also many no doubt doe speak or witnesse in that manner out of the letter and out of the imagination of the good-thinking knowledge but they are wide of it according to the truth But these who h Acts 2. 1 Cor. 2. 1 Iohn 1. witnessed that word out of the spirit and truth have witnessed the grace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesu Christ in the truth of God And yet notwithstanding have confessed no more but one God but have witnessed the wonderfull acts of God shewed on them through Jesus Christ And i Ioel 2. Acts 2. it shall come to passe saith God in the last dayes 8. This grace of salvation that k Luke 1. Luke 2. Acts 2. Acts 3. Acts 4. c. appeared to the Jewes which many of them in that time refused is published to the Heathen l Mat 3. Luke 2. Acts 13. to a Repentance for their sinnes to the end that they should m Iohn 1. believe on the like-beeing of God the Almighty that was appeared unto them and so become partakers likewise of the gifts of the holy Ghost through Jesus Christ out of the fatherly grace and that their fellowship might be one n 1 Ioh. 1. with God the Father and his Sonne Jesu Christ in one manner of faith 9. And to that end was the service of Christ ministred o 2 Cor. 10 under the obedience of faith by the Apostles of Christ to the unbelieving Heathen namely in the word of the preaching of the Disciples and Apostles of Christ to the intent that the same life of righteousnesse that was refused p Acts 3. by the Jewes should be set up among the Heathen through faith and so they sought to confirme the Law among the Heathen through faith and to bring forth the righteousnesse thereby q Rom. 3. Gal. 2. Gal. 3. Phil. 3. that is required by the law The Fifth Chapter BEhold even thus for a a Luke 2. Light and Salvation of the Heathen is this same only out of grace undeserved published unto the Heathen for a Gospel to a mortifying of their vaine understanding b Rom. 1 Rom. 6. Rom 8 1 Cor. 5. 1 Cor. 6. Gal. 5. Gal. 6. and of the corrupt ungodly beeing and to an incorporating to the new man whom the Apostles of Christ did publish namely Christ the like-beeing of God c Luke 1. Ephes 4. in upright righteousnesse and holinesse In whom and in none other standeth the forgivenesse of sinnes 2. These publishers of the holy Word or Gospel of the Kingdome of God seeing now that Jesus Christ had a shape in them as a very true light and life of God and that Gods shape was in Christ where-thorough they likewise were in Christ and God in them have published that word Grace and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesu Christ in the truth 3. But although the Apostles did publish this after this manner yet have they notwithstanding spoken no otherwise then of one God who had shewed his procreation or generation in them as a e Iohn 1. glory of the only-borne Sonne of the Father full of grace and truth namely that God the Father had begotten and declared in them his like f Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 1. life of God out of his life and his like light out of his light 4. Seeing then that they did beare this like-beeing of the God-head in them therefore have they through the same knowne the living God who was their salvation namely through the life of God Jesu Christ being appeared unto them g Ephes 3 in the spirit Where-through they also published the life that is everlasting and so witnessed likewise that those which had h 1 Ioh. 5. not the Son of God could not also have the Father and that they were without i Ephes 2. God in this world For the like-life of God k Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 1. 1 Iohn 5. is the only born Son of God himself And whosoever refused him might not obtain the grace before God For it is so concluded by God for ever that in the Son is the life of salvation l Iohn 10. Iohn 14. and that it shall also be obtained in him 5. This is verily the grace of God the Father which was published in times past unto the children of men under the obedience of Faith and which is also published now in the last time under the obedience of the Love that the life of the living Godhead is appeared upon earth and that through the same the Unity in the Peace with God the Father is to be obtained whereby to m Iohn 8 Iohn 14. Iohn 17. know him in his glory and his uniformeness with the manhood through the Lord Iesus Christ Read Iohn 17. 6. Behold this is the difference with a brief Instruction betwixt God the Father and the Lord Iesus Christ Take it to heart 7. My service to content thee my Beloved vouchfase to take in good part with a regard to the God of the living And this my writing to the answering of thy request have I rehearsed in this manner seeing otherwise no means for to open the understanding of the Godhead of Christ and to content thee or to satisfie thy demand 8. Behold I have here witnessed the mind unto thee in full manner so that in this Instruction so far forth as the Lord n Ephes 1. dothilluminate thine understanding there shall be sufficient to answer thy request And thy intent of heart in the Spirit shall likewise through the beleif of the truth if thou hast a right regard hereunto o Prov. 4. and takest this same to heart be well-minded to our most holy Service of Love The Almighty God lead thee into his Righteousness Amen The End of the Third Epistle The Fourth Epistle A cleer Instruction of the Mediation of Iesu Christ that cometh to passe in the spirit for a Reconciliation betwixt God and the Man Jesus speaketh to his Disciples I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh to the Father but through me John 14.6 If any man enter in through me he shall be faved John 10.9 I am the light of the world who so followeth after me walketh not in darkness but he shall have the light of life Joh. 8.12 If any man will follow after me let him forsake himself and take up his Crosse on him and follow after me Matth. 16.24 Luke 9.23 He that taketh not up his Crosse on him and followeth after me he is not worthy of me or he may not be my Disciple Mat. 10.38 Luke 9.23 There was demanded by a lover of the Truth and an Instruction in writing desired thereupon how the Mediation of Jesu Christ according to the Spirit or spiritually cometh to passe in us to our a Rom. 5. Reconciliation with God the Father and how Christ is an b Heb. 1.