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A43281	The paradoxal discourses of F.M. Van Helmont concerning the macrocosm and microcosm, or, The greater and lesser world and their union set down in writing by J.B. and now published.; Paradoxale discoursen ofte ongemeene meeningen van de groote en kleyne wereld en speciaal van de wederkeeringe der menschelijke zielen. English	Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.; J. B.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1393; ESTC R9542	180,034	376

Scripture as may be seen Prov. 1. 6. and Chap. 25. 2. Eccles. Syr. 39. 1. Math. 13. 34. 35. 1 Cor. 13. 12. Even because the outward man hath onely an outward understanding and therefore can onely understand the outward and not the inward 1 Cor. 2. 14. 15. And therefore the Scripture was written in this Parabolical way that we from thence might take occasion to pass from the outward into the inward from the Body and Letter into the Spirit and by this means become Spiritual I have many years since communicated and discoursed the Contents of this Appendix to persons of several perswasions to try whether the same would be received and put in practice amongst any of them but they all with one accord told me that the same was impracticable and impossible forasmuch as none would be able to return an answer to all the questions which in case this way were introduced would be propounded and therefore must needs be the cause of numberless contests and disputes By which answer of theirs they tacitly acknowledge that they keep the Door fast lock'd which leads to the Steps of Wisdom Without any further considering whether it be likely that our Saviour or his Disciples could leave us any Commands but what were possible to be obeyed and put in practice c. Wherefore notwithstanding these discouragements and in hope that what hath not been done hitherto may be done and put in practice hereafter I have here briefly set down the same together with a short Introduction concerning the Education and Instruction of Children As also added Christ's Hundred Commandments of which by the constant use the Children may have them as it were engrafted in them by the careful and loving Mothers direction to read and write them over daily instead of their Horn and Coppy Books that so they may serve them all their Lives time for their true guides Which practice the Lord grant may tend to his most Holy Names Praise Honour and Glory CHRIST's Hundred Commandments c. 1. JEsus said unto him it is written again Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Mat. 4. 7. And Jesus answering said unto him it is said Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Luke 4. 12. 2. Then saith Jesus unto him get thee hence Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Mat. 4. 10. And Jesus answered and said unto him get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Luke 4. 8. 3. And said unto them that sold Doves Take these things hence make not my Fathers House a House of merchandize John 2. 16. 4. Marvel not that I said unto thee Thou must be born again John 3. 7. 5. But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him John 4. 23. 6. And saying the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand Repent ye and believe the Gospel Mark 1. 15. 7. Afterwards Jesus findeth him in the Temple and said unto him Behold thou art made whole Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 5. 14. 8. Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testifie of me John 5. 39. 9. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven Mat. 5. 16. 10. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the Judgement and whosoever shall say unto his brother Racha shall be in danger of the Council but whosoever shall say Thou Fool shall be in danger of Hell fire Mat. 5. 22. 11. But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery already with her in his heart And if they right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into Hell And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into Hell Mat. 5. 28 c. 12. But I say unto you That whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to commit Adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth Adultery Mat. 5. 32. 13. But I say unto you Swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is God's Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Footstool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy head because thou canst not make one hair black or white But let your communcation be Yea yea and Nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of Evil Mat. 5. 34 c. 14. But I say unto you That ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also And if any man sue thee at the Law and take away thy cloak let him have thy coat also And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile go with him twain Mat. 5. 39. Luke 6. 27 29. 15. Give to him that asketh thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away Mat. 5. 42. Luke 6. 30. 16. But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 44 c. Luke 6. 27 35. 17. Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect Mat. 5. 48. Luke 6. 35. 18. Take heed that you do not your alms before men to be seen of them otherwise ye have on reward of your Father which is in Heaven Therefore when thou dost thine alms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the Hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men Verily I say unto you they have their reward But when thou dost alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does Mat. 6. 1 c. 19. And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the Hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men Verily I say unto you they have their reward But thou when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and when thou hast shut the door Pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Mat. 6. 5 6. 20. But when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the Heathen do for they think they shall be heard for

Is it not therefore more rational for us to conceive that the Soul of a Child prae-exists in its Parents and takes its original from them and they being sinners do intangle their children in their sin by which means they get a share in their guilt and punishment And may not we in this way often be informed of the sin by the punishment and learn the sins of Parents and Forefathers by the punishments inflicted on their Children As if we should suppose a wild Apple-tree that hath two main boughs should have one of them cut off and that a twig taken from the same should be grafted upon the stump from whence the bough was cut off this ingrafted twig now brings forth good fruit and the oftner it is grafted the better because each grafting being a suffering or dying doth advance it to a better Life whereas on the contrary the branches of the other bough continue as they were because being without suffering or dying it cannot be advanced to a new Life And may not we with truth infer that for this very reason that passage of Gods visiting the Parents upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation was inserted into the second Commandment 19 Q. If any one here should object that forasmuch as the punishment of sin continues onely to the third and fourth Generation as in which the utmost farthing is paid of which our Saviour speaks Matth. 5. 26. and Matth. 18. 23 24 c. but the reward of love and obedience to God is promised to thousands there seems to be no equallity or proportion betwen the rewards and punishments of God May we not answer this Objection thus First we ought well to mind that both of them are bounded within a certain number And again that Gods rewards always exceed his punishing to the glory and magnifying of his Mercy and Goodness which by far exceeds his Severity and Vengeance In the third place that sin is a falling off from God downwards which in a short time comes to its end whereas the recovery and bringing again to God doth still mount upwards and ascend higher and higher to Infinity because the Divine Glory hath neither end nor limit and that still nearer and nearer approaches are made to God in all Eternity Lastly for that wickedness must and shall have an end because there can be no Eternal or Infinite Will Wherefore the punishment of wicked men is not to be looked upon as that whereby the Creature should still become worse and worse but as it is in order to the changing of it from Evil to good for that when the evil is transchanged the Good then begins to work upwards by innumerable steps of ascension towards God though it can never reach so high as to reach his Being or Essence forasmuch as it is impossible that a Creature should become God but must therefore continue to mount upwards and continually attain to more and greater degrees of Glory For is not every Creature of God Infinite Or at least Indefinite so as no end or bound can be assigned to the increase and out-working of its power Forasmuch as it is a piece or part of man who is made out of all Creatures and is the end of them Seeing then that man was created in the Image of God and that no end or bound is in God must it not follow that this creature Man and in him all other Creatures must still work upwards and advance in good to the utmost degree of possible perfection without all end or bounds For God works without ceasing in the Creature through Christ as our Saviour witnesseth John 5. 17. My Father worketh hitherto and I work also 20 Q. Notwithstanding that many other places of the Old Testament might be alledged for confirmation of this Doctrine of the Revolution of Humane Souls yet for brevity we shall pass them by and betake our selves to the New Testament but there is yet one remarkable passage Ezek. 16. 55. which we cannot pass by without some observation The Query is then that seeing the Lord there speaks thus When thy Sisters Sodom and her Daughters shall return to their former estate and Samaria and her Daughters shall return to their former estate then thou also and thy Daughters shall return to your former estate The question I say is how it is possible for Sodom Samaria and Jerusalem to return to their former estate without their living again in this world in flesh and body as they did formerly And whether this could be brought about any other way than by being born again the common way into this world 21 Q. We turn now to the New Testament in which we find as clear and express testimonies of the Spirit of God in Christ and his Disciples concerning the Truth and importance of this Doctrine of the Revolution or return of Souls as in the old we shall onely take a short view of some of the said places because in the 200 Queries they have been more largely handled The Question is then how these following Texts of Scripture Matth. 7. 2. Luke 6. 37 38. Mark 4. 24. may be reconciled viz. With what measure you mete it shall be measured to you again And Rev. 13. 10. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity he that killeth with the sword shall be killed with the sword Now how can these words be fulfilled when we see that many of those who have used violence and unrighteousness committed Murther and Mansslaughter led others into captivity and the like do notwithstanding all this die upon their beds or how can the just Vengeance of God be satisfied upon them if they be not to return again into this World there to receive a due reward and punishment for their misdeeds which in a former life or lives they have committed and for which they have not been punished but are yet accountable and therefore must make restoration payment and satisfaction 22 Q. Moreover when our Saviour saith Mat. 23. 35 36. That upon You speaking to the Jews may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar Verily I say unto you that all these shall come upon this Generation How shall we understand this or how can it be supposed that that generation should have killed Abel Zachary and all the Prophets In like manner how shall we clear the 39th v. of the same Chapter viz. that they to whom Christ there speaks should not see him from thenceforth until they should say Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord In case this be not admitted as a necessary consequence from these words that the Souls of the men of that generation had before been in bodies upon the Earth and then committed these Murthers and shed the foresaid righteous blood And likewise that the same persons must appear