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like Gods they are as Gods to themselves for as God made all things for himself to be glorified in them so as much as in them lieth they make all things their own to satisfie and please themselves in them and yet please themselves with a hope that God will forgive them all their sins and that they shall be like God at last And thus when the Serpent had prevailed in his temptations with the woman that they should not surely die but that their eyes should be opened and they should be as Gods knowing good and evil and that the woman saw the Tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eye and a Tree to be desired to make one wise then she took of the fruit thereof and did eat The fruit of the Tree was wilful disobedience she eat she satisfied her self with a desire after the knowledge of good and willingly neglected her obedience to God she knew Gods mind and will what she should do but did not obey God in that she knew to be Gods will that she ought to obey him in but instead of yielding obedience to God in what she knew of God the Serpent telling her that their eyes should be opened that was to see more or better than they did see as much in difference as is between seeing with the eyes as if they were shut and the seeing with them wide open And this must be understood as to the understanding and knowing part in man for none can be so ignorant as to think that the eyes of their bodies were not open before the temptation but it is the eye of the understanding and knowledge that was to be opened by yielding to the temptation to know more of God than they did know of him And by this the woman was carried out to a desire of another knowledge of God and likewise to God than that knowledge of God that God had given to them in the Creation and another likeness of God than that Image of God that he had made them in And by this running out after a desire of a greater measure of the knowledge of God and likeness to God and not to obey God in what they knew to be his will to obey him in Here disobedience that got in the forbidden fruit that was eaten they eat that is they filled and satisfied themselves with a desire of knowledge as a man eats and satisfies himself with meat and did not yield obedience to God according to what they knew of God and so that knowledge of God and likeness to God that they were made in And as they were created so they for a time had obeyed God in that knowledge and in that likeness that they were created in until the time of their disobedience and then by their eating of the forbidden fruit their obedience died in them And so man died in the day he eat of the forbidden fruit he died in his obedience to God his obedience to God died in him he died as to that knowledge that he had of God as being in Gods Image the Image of God that he was made in was dead in him mans body did not die in the day he eat the forbidden fruit nor was mans body that Image of God that he made man in Before mans fall all that he did was done by his being drawn lead or going forth by the Spirit of Jesus in him he knew nothing but God and the doing Gods will and to that state man is again to be restored 1 Cor. 15. 45 47 49. The first Adam was made a living soul this was not the body of Adam that God made of the dust of the ground but it was that which after he had made that body then God breathed into that body the breath of life and man became a living soul which was this first Adam the last Adam was made a quickning spirit The first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the Lord from heaven As we have born the Image of the earthy we shall also have the Image of the heavenly Here the Apostle giveth the description of the two Adams and what they were made the first a living soul the second a quickning spirit And then what they were the first man is of the earth the second man is the Lord from heaven And then he describeth how he and the Saints were in likeness to the first Adam and shall be in likeness to the last Adam and to the first and second man And as we have born the Image of the earthy we shall also bear the Image of the heavenly Not that we do now bear the Image of the heavenly but we shall in time to come also bear the Image of the heavenly that is as certainly as we have born the Image of the earthy so certainly shall we also when the time shall come bear the Image of the heavenly that is as the Apostle and Saints did then experimentally know what it was to bear the Image of the earthy so by faith they did as certainly believe that they should also bear the Image of the heavenly And to that Image that the Apostle spake of that he and the Saints then were in of the first Adam that was made a living soul which was not mans body that was made of the Earth but that of man which was made in the Image and likeness of God I pray take notice man in the creation was not made God he was but made in the Image and likeness of God God is unchangeable and cannot fall God in man did not change it was that in man that was made like God that changed his Image was changeable which is well worth our taking notice of which if we did our experience would tell us the truth of it how Gods Image changes in us And man in the creation was not so made in the Image and likeness of God but that he might change as he did in eating of the forbidden fruit not by the Command of God but contrary to Gods Command To that state of the Saints in this life which was made in the Image of God and so made as it may be changeable by eating of the forbidden fruit doth what I have here already writ for the most part tend unto that as they have born the Image of the earthy and so was the woman that was deceived and in the transgression for the same Apostle saith 1 Tim. 2. 13 14. Adam was first formed then Eve And Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression Adam here cannot be taken for the first man Adam made of the Earth for so he eat of the forbidden fruit as did the woman and was deceived and in the transgression with the woman and for his offence judgment came upon all men to condemnation Rom. 5. 12 verse to the 20 verse But Adam here must be Jesus who was made a quickning Spirit and is Lord from Heaven

And he was first formed the Apostle does not here say made as a Creature but formed he was in the form and likeness of God before the World was and the World was made by him This Adam in man that is Jesus in man was not deceived neither doth this Jesus in man enter into the transgression But Eve so called because she was the Mother of all living she that had her beginning after Adam and was taken out of Adam mark that she was the woman that was deceived and found in the transgression that which was taken out of Adam and was bone of Adam's bone and flesh of Adam's flesh and given to Adam of God to be an Help-meet for Adam this was deceived and was in the transgression Read it within who can in the mystery Christ is compared to the man and the Church to the woman Ephesians the fifth Chapter and the Saints are compared to a woman bringing forth a man child Revelations the 12th Chapter All they that can read it in the mystery in some measure degree or other who knows what it is to have the woman in them saved in Child-bearing that is to know that in man which was deceived and found in the transgression to be again saved in bearing the Child Jesus in bearing and bringing forth in them that which saves from sin and that which saves from sin is that Adam in them that was not deceived that of God in man that never changed but was and is and ever shall be the same and is the quickning Spirit the Lord from Heaven and the heavenly Image that we shall in time bear if we continue in Faith and Charity and Holiness with Sobriety It was Gods promise that the seed of the woman should bruise the Serpents head it was not the woman that was to bruise the Serpents head mark that but the seed of the woman Not mans being drawn forth by the Spirit or the goings or the leadings forth of man by the Spirit of Jesus in man that was in man before the fall that was not to bruise the Serpents head but the seed of the woman was to bruise the Serpents head A Virgin shall conceive and bear a son his name is Emmanuel God in us Mat. 1. 23. The Virgin that knew no man brought forth Jesus the Son of God Luke 1. 34 35. That is the seed that bruises the Serpents head that is that in man that knoweth nothing of man that wherein there is nothing of man joyned to it as is in mans being drawn lead or going out to act by the Spirit of Jesus in him there the Serpents self or a mans own will is ready to bruise the heel of it The feet is the walking or going part of man or upon that which man walks and the heel is the hindermost part of the foot and so it represents the walkings goings or drawings forth of man by the Spirit of Jesus in him which self or a mans own will is ready to bruise the heel of it that is to hurt or hinder the pure operations of the work of the Spirit of Jesus in man but the seed of the woman God in us the Son of God Jesus that saves from sin this bruises the head of the Serpent The head is that part of the body wherein the life and understanding is placed it is the seat of that which makes wise and it is the uppermost part of the Creature And this seed of the woman God in us the Son of God Jesus that saves from sin is that seed which bruises the head of the Serpent in us bruises the head of self or a mans own will in us bruises the life of self or a mans will bruises its wisdom or understanding bruises whatever is uppermost in man God did not promise that the seed of the woman should slay or kill the Serpent so as that there should be no life or motion in the Serpent mark that no there was to be an enmity between them between the woman and the Serpent and between the womans seed and the Serpents seed And although the Serpent had his head bruised by the seed of the woman yet the Serpent should bruise the heel of the womans seed mark that The Serpent was not to bruise the heel of the woman although God put enmity between the Serpent and the woman and between the womans seed and the Serpents seed and so great an enmity that the Serpent was to bruise the heel of the womans seed and the seed of that woman not the woman but the womans seed was to bruise the head of the Serpent Man in his goings forth by the leadings or drawings of the spirit of Jesus in him is not to bruise the Serpents head but it is Jesus in him by whom man is drawn forth to do what he doth in obedience to God it is he it is that seed of the woman that is to bruise the Serpents head so that man must be nothing in bruising the Serpents head but God must be all in the doing thereof And doth not experience teach us the truth thereof do we not find that although God in us Jesus that saves from sin doth bruise the head of the Serpent in us self or mans will wherein the life of the Serpent and its wisdom is placed and what is uppermost in Man is bruised by the seed of the Woman in us yet there remains a life or motion in this Serpents self or mans will that doth bruise the heel of the Womans seed in us that is it hurts or hinders the hindermost part of the pure operations or workings of the seed of the woman in us that is of Jesus in us and it must be this Jesus in us and he alone in us that can bruise the head of the Serpent in us and man must be but an instrument in his hand and not to move therein but as moved by Jesus in him that so God may be all in all to work both to will and to do of his own good pleasure And yet this woman that was deceived and in the transgression shall be saved in Child-bearing in bearing the Child whose name is God in us the Son of God Jesus that saves from sin which is conceived in the pure Virgins seed in man in that in man that knew no man that is that knew nothing of self or the will of man but knew onely the will of God it is that in man that knew nothing of man that is of mans self or will by joyning with it or condescending to it that is the Virgins seed in man which conceived God in us the Son of God Jesus that saves from sin and this Conception of the Virgins seed in us is wrought and brought to pass by the Holy Ghost the power of the highest coming upon us and over-shadowing of us it is the great power of God by the holy Spirit joyning with that seed of God in man that never condescended or

another seed of the Woman and not that seed which knew the will of Man and condescended and joyned with Mans will in the transgression but it is a seed in man that never knew man that is the will of man by joyning with it or condescending to mans will in his disobedience but it ever did and doth oppose the will of man in his disobedience it is a Virgins seed that knew no man And this is as great a mystery to the Wisdom of this World as it was that an outward Virgin that never knew an outward man should bring forth a Son The woman that this Virgins seed shall save is that in man that was lost by the transgression Take notice of this before man transgressed he was drawn and went forth in the doing what he did by the spirit of God in him I hope none will deny that God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living Soul man being thus made alive he was by the drawings of the spirit or the goings or leadings of the spirit of Jesus in him carried out by a principle of love to yield an obedience to God and in and by his transgression he died that is man as to his being drawn going or being led forth by the spirit of Jesus in him in obedience to God in that love that he had to God In the transgression that obedience that he had to God died which he was in before the transgression and drawn led or went forth in that obedience by the spirit of Jesus in him that obedience died that is it died as to mans part as to mans obeying of God and so man was lost as to his love and obedience to God and the woman being saved is the restoring of this love and obedience again in man to God which is done in the Virgins seed in the womans bearing the Child Jesus the Son of God God in us who came to seek and to save that which was lost What is now required of the woman to continue in to be saved in child-bearing that is she is to continue in faith charity holiness and sobriety these all were in Adam before the fall and so man may be said to die in the day that he eat of the forbidden fruit There was faith in Adam before he fell Adam before he fell he believed all that God had said to him to be true and he obeyed God in all that he had commanded him to do and he confessed the truth of what God had spoken to him and of his obedience to God in and by the woman It was the woman that said We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest ye die and this was spoken by the man in the woman as being led or guided by the spirit of Jesus in him to give this answer to the Serpent I pray mark God did make known his Commandment to the man before the woman had a being that is before she had a body separated from mans body man makes no acknowledgement of what God had commanded him to do or of his faith in believing the truth of what God had commanded or of his obedience to God but as he did it in and by the woman it was the woman that acknowledged the Command and their believing of it and their obedience to the Command the acknowledgement of their faith and obedience it was in this that she declared what God had commanded them to do and what he had commanded them not to do and the penalty if they transgressed and then they had not broken Gods Command The Serpent never set upon man to tempt him before he had a woman given to him as an Help-meet but after he had a woman given to him to be an Help-meet for him then he set upon him to tempt him in and by the woman read it in the mystery who can I hope none will own themselves to be so ignorant as to say they believe the Serpent did not tempt the man because the Scripture speaketh of the Woman and the Serpent to have all the discourse in the temptations but yet the Scripture saith that she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat that is at the very same time and instant that the woman eat the husband eat also with her they eat together by which it is clear that the temptation was the same in the husband that it was in the woman but God is pleased to set it forth to be the woman that was tempted the more to make known the mystery of the creating of man and of mans fall and given it the name that the woman was deceived and in the transgression notwithstanding she shall be saved in Child-bearing And as Faith was in Adam before the fall so Charity was in Adam before the fall the height of love was in Adam before he fell there was no love in the heart of man to any creature before the fall mans heart was filled as I may so say with love to God the love of the Creation nor of any Creature was not entred into mans heart before the fall no not to Eve but onely as God had made her an Help-meet for man but he knew her not till after the fall and Holiness was in Adam before the fall as he was made in the Image of God and Sobriety was in man before the fall man had no high thoughts or esteem of himself While man stood stedfast in his faith believing the truth of what God had spoken and his love remained unchangeable and his holiness unblemished and his sobriety unmoved mans heart was like a pleasant and delightful Garden and while mans heart was thus as a garden and all that man did was done by mans being drawn or led or going forth thereunto by the spirit of Jesus in him for who dare say that man before his being tempted did any thing that was not the work of God in him and man in the garden and in his being led drawn or going forth by the spirit of Jesus in him subtilly gets into him and perswades him in the time of his being drawn led or going forth by the spirit of God or Jesus first to question the truth of what God had said and then to a desire to be as Gods Man was in the Image of God before the temptation as God made him and so in that Image he was led or drawn or went forth to do whatsoever he did by the spirit of God in him But subtilly the temptation caused a desire in him to be as Gods and not to be contented to be led drawn or guided by another as he was in that state that God had made him in but

given as Help-meets for the life of Jesus in man When I speak of the Life of Jesus in man I do not mean that eternal Life and Being that gave life and being to all things for that Life and Being the works or actions of man cannot reach unto to do it either good or harm but I mean the Life of Jesus as a Saviour in man as he is sent of the Father and is come into fallen man and is of that eternal Life and being that gave being to all that life of his that was slain in man by sin and is come again into man to be raised up to life and thereby to save man from sin and to bring man to God and into God again from whence man fell by his sin And so as man keeps in obedience to his being drawn or led forth by the Spirit of Jesus in him so he in his obedience being thereunto led or drawn forth by the Spirit of Jesus Christ in him is as an Help-meet for that life of Jesus in him to save him from sin which the woman given to Adam as an Help-meet I believe was a figure of And mans going out of his obedience in the time of the drawings or strivings of the Spirit of Jesus in him is a hurt or hindrance to that Life of Jesus in him that is to that Life that is a saving him from sin And so that which was as an Help-meet is deceived by the subtilty of the Serpents self that in man that yielded obedience to God is deceived in and by its disobedience God's Spirit striving in man to keep him from sin that is God's drawing of man and as man keeps in obedience to those strivings and drawings of the Spirit of God in him so he becomes an Help-meet to the Life of Jesus in him that is to that Life that saves from sin The end of Paul's preaching was to bring men to repent and turn to God and do works meet for repentance Acts 26. 20. And it was Gods Command by the Apostle to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling For it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure Philip. 2. 12 13. Every one is to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling But how are they to work out their own salvation It must be according to the strivings or drawings of the Spirit of God in them to do it For it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure The work is God's but he doth not do it without man working with him and as God chose man to work with him so he makes man as an Help-meet for the Life of Jesus in man to save man from sin as man yields an obedience to the working of God in him but when man goes out of his obedience and yields not obedience to the working of God's Spirit in him then the woman is deceived and found in the transgression While the woman stood in obedience to the strivings or drawings of the Spirit of God in her which strove in her to keep her from yielding to the temptations of the Serpent and caused her to resist the temptations of the Serpent telling him that they might eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden But of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God had said they should not eat of it nor touch it lest ye die While the woman stood thus in obedience to the working of the Spirit of God in her that strove in her to keep her from sinning she was as God wrought it in her an Help-meet for the preserving of the Life of Jesus in her that kept her from sin But while the Spirit of God thus wrought and strove in her she hearkened to the Serpents temptation and went out of her obedience into disobedience then she was deceived and found in the transgression as all men in the state of disobedience are How doth experience teach the truth of this at this very day the subtile Serpent presents to man his temptation The Light the Spirit which is Jesus although in several names yet but one Being God makes known to man that what the Serpent tempts to is a breaking of his Commands and the penalty that follows the breaking of the Command is death This is the striving or drawing of God by his Spirit in man to keep man from sin this was in the woman While man stands in obedience to these strivings or drawings of God in him he is kept from sin and so was the woman And as man is thus an Instrument in Gods hand for God doth not save man from sin without mans joyning condescending or being willing thereunto and although the work be wholly Gods who worketh both to will and to do yet God doth not do this his great work without his Instrument man And as man is an Instrument in Gods hand so God makes him a fit Instrument to do his work withal And so man may be said to be an Help-meet for the work of God in man as a man that hath a work to do makes an Instrument fit to do his work with and so his Instrument is an Help-meet or fit for him to do his work withal God strives or draws in man by his Light his Spirit his Son Jesus to keep man from yielding to the temptation of the Serpent The Serpent also then strives in man and draws in man to yield to his temptation this was the cause of the woman The Serpent in his temptation causeth man to behold a good and pleasantness to be had in the sin in the forbidden Fruit the woman saw that the Tree was good for food and pleasant to the eye When the understanding part in man the knowing part in man beheld a good for food and pleasantness to the eye in what was contrary to the Command of God and that there was so much good and pleasantness in it that he shall thereby have content and full satisfaction as being wise as Gods Then there is a desire in the mind stirred up after the enjoying of it this was the case of the woman when she saw the Tree to be good for food and pleasant to the eye then there was a desire stirred up in her to take thereof to be made wise thereby So when the understanding and knowing part in man looketh out and sees that there is a good a pleasantness a satisfaction and full content in what God hath forbidden man to do and that thereby he shall be made as Gods then a desire gets up in the mind to get the enjoyment thereof that he may be wise as Gods that is that he may know what good what pleasure what satisfaction what content there is to be had in the doing the thing that God hath forbidden to be done And so mans desire is to be wise in that God hath forbidden him to do and to know what

yielded to self in man or to mans will in the temptation but did oppose it and discovered the temptation in man to be contrary to Gods will that is that they should not eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden and told man the danger if he yielded to the temptation that he should die and after man had yielded to the temptation shewed him his nakedness his being stripped or made naked as to that holiness and righteousness that God had made them in and made them serviceable of the justice of God towards them for their transgression which made them afraid of God To this Virgins seed in man that was thus in man before the fall and continued in man after the fall the great power of God by the Holy Ghost joyns with and by this conjunction or joyning together of these two seeds if they may be so call'd that is the seed of God in us the seed of God without us that is the power of God within us and the power of God without us which is all of one kind and nature as is the seed of the man and the seed of the woman here cometh the conception of the Son of God in us Jesus that saves from sin which being born and brought forth in the life cannot sin 1 John 3. 9. Whosoever is horn of God cannot sin because he is born of God it is the birth and bringing forth of the seed of God in us it is that in us cannot sin because it is born of God 1 John 3. 8. He that committeth sin is of the Devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning he that sins or that which is sin is of the Devil for the Devil sinneth from the beginning this beginning is not to be understood from the beginning of time in which God created all things for then all things were very good Gen. 1. 31. They were like God as God is good but from the beginning of the Devil the Devil sinned sin was the first beginning of the Devil and so he or that which commits sin is of the Devil and when sin began to have a being the Devil began to have a being There is but two seeds in man the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent and what is not of the seed of the woman in man which bringeth forth that which is born of God and cannot sin is of the seed of the Serpent in man the Devil that which bringeth forth sin in his own likeness The spirit of Jesus that draweth man forth into obedience to God that cannot sin nor doth it sin but it is that in man that was in the obedience to God that sins as once mans will was in obedience to God but mans will going out of the obedience to God was that which brought forth sin in man The Apostle said 1 Tim. 2. 14 15. that the woman being deceived was in the transgression Notwithstanding that is there is nothing to hinder it but she shall be saved in child-bearing if she continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety If she continued in faith c. which is as much as to say that she was in faith wherein the child Jesus was born John 1. 12. as many as received him to them he gave power to be the sons of God even to them that believed in his Name Ephes 2. 8. By grace we are saved through faith and that not of our selves it is the gift of God By these Scriptures it is plain that Faith is that in man that God as I may so say makes use of for the bringing forth this child Jesus to save us from sin In the bearing of this Child the woman that was deceived and in the transgression is saved if she continue in faith that is in that faith that God purifies the heart with the woman in the transgression she went out of faith out of the believing God into the believing of the Serpent and so her heart was defiled and to save her she must be brought into that faith that purifies her heart and there must not onely be faith which God makes use of for the bringing forth this child Jesus that saves from sin but there must be a continuing in it it must continue to the end And Charity which is the height of Love that must continue in Faith which the Apostle in the first of the Corinthians 13. saith that although they had all Faith and thereby did great things as to remove mountains and other great works as he there mentions yet all was nothing without Charity and Charity he saith is greater than Faith And Holiness must continue with Faith and Charity to be holy that is to be like God 1 Pet. 1. 15 16. As he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy and to all these Sobriety is to be joyned To be sober Rom. 12. 3. that is to have a low and mean essence of our selves Tit. 2. 11 12. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation teacheth them that are saved to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to lively soberly righteously and godlily in this present world These all must and do attend to and with the Child-bearing of the Woman that saves her out of the transgression and where these are wanting or any of them what true marks signs manifestations or knowledge is there that any one can say they have that the child Jesus is born in them and that the woman in them is saved out of the transgression But if it be objected if the woman in the figure or mystery that was deceived and in the transgression be mans being drawn by the spirit or the goings or leadings forth of man by the spirit of Jesus in man then how is God in us or the Son of God or Jesus that saves from sin the seed of this woman that was deceived and in the transgression To that I answer That the Woman was deceived and in the transgression knew man she knew the will of man and condescended and joyned to and with the will of man in the transgression and in so doing the Serpents seed was brought forth disobedience was brought forth which is the seed of the Serpent When God in the Creation made the Creatures on the Earth the seed of what he made was in them and so it may be said of the Serpent when he took his first being in man his seed was in him disobedience was in him and between that seed of disobedience and the seed of the Woman that is that seed of God in man that never condescended to the will of man in his disobedience but stood in obedience to God There is by God put an everlasting enmity between those two seeds and the seed of the Woman that is God in us or the Son of God or Jesus that saves from sin that is

second Adam it is Jesus in them that sinneth not in them and without that Jesus in them they cannot live without sin So then where is the difference between those that believe they cannot live in this body and not sin and yet they believe that Jesus lives in that body and he cannot sin and those that believe that there is a life attainable while this body lives that does not sin but this life that doth not sin is the life of Jesus in them But Adam did not continue in that state that God had made him in the Serpent gets into the garden into mans heart and the first work the Serpents subtile self doth he sets upon man in his faith and brings man first to question the truth of what God had commanded Yea hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden and then to a not believing of what God had said that they should surely die but man believed the Serpent that said they should not surely die although they eat of the fruit that God had forbidden them to eat of Here man by yielding to the temptation lost his faith his faith did not continue in him and then he lost his love that he had to God he was afraid of God and there is no fear in love perfect love casteth out fear and then he lost his holiness the Image of God and also lost his sobriety pride got up in him a desire to be as gods And thus man although he had before his fall Faith Charity Holiness and Sobriety yet he not continuing in them was the cause of the fall and the woman that is saved in Child-bearing must not onely have Faith Charity Holiness and Sobriety as Adam had before his fall but must continue in them so that the saving of the woman is not onely a restoring of that again in man that was lost but a preserving man in that state that he was in before the fall which onely can be done by the power of that Jesus in her that the Devil could not prevail with in his temptations It is the bringing forth of that Child Jesus in man now that is the onely begotten son of God that must keep and preserve man that he is not prevailed with and overcome by the subtile Serpents temptations as Adam was I know there may be much wrought in man and yet the Child Jesus not born nor the woman saved out of the transgression But first to speak something of Jesus as he is the Light to all and a Saviour to some that never heard of Jesus born of the Virgin Mary and crucified by the Jews Christ Jesus as he is the Light John 1. 9 10 11 12 13. so he is the true Light that lightneth every man that comes into the world And so Jesus that saves from sin is in all that cometh into the world that was made by him but they knew him not And when he came to his own his own they received him not But as many as received him to them he gave power to become the sons of God even to them that believed on his Name Which were born not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God John 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have eternal life Jesus the onely begotten son of God as he is the Light so he is given of God to all the world to save them to keep them from perishing and to give them eternal light if they will receive him and believe in him He is a Light in all and to all that have not heard of him by that name of Jesus as born of the Virgin Mary and crucified at Jerusalem and yet have heard of him and knew him that is as there is Serpent bruising the heel of the seed of the woman If they do not then how do they find what God said to be true God said that the Serpent should bruise the heel of the seed of the woman but the begotten son of God in man that cannot sin the seed of God in man that cannot sin neither did it condescend to sin in Adam nor doth it now condescend to sin in any that are restored to that state that Adam was in before the fall And this is that that lives without sin that lives and cannot sin it is Jesus in us the onely begotten son of God And this is that life that Paul speaks of Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ that is dead with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Doth not most of them that profess themselves the sons of God and know any thing of the work of God in their hearts but will own Jesus Christ to be raised from death to life in them and to be alive in them And ask them if they believe that this Jesus Christ that lives in them sins they will answer No he lives in them without sin Then ask them that believe a state of Perfection and living without sin while this body lives what is it in them that does not sin whether it be the first Adam that was deceived and in the transgression that lives without sin in them or whether it be Jesus the second Adam that lives without sin in them They will answer The second Adam it is Jesus in them that sinneth not in them and without that Jesus in them they cannot live without sin So then where is the difference between those that believe they cannot live in this body and not sin and yet they believe that Jesus lives in that body and he cannot sin and those that believe that there is a life attainable while this body lives that does not sin but this life that doth not sin is the life of Jesus in them But Adam did not continue in that state that God had made him in the Serpent gets into the garden into mans heart and the first work the Serpents subtile self doth he sets upon man in his faith and brings man first to question the truth of what God had commanded Yea hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden and then to a not believing of what God had said that they should surely die but man believed the Serpent that said they should not surely die although they eat of the fruit that God had forbidden them to eat of Here man by yielding to the temptation lost his faith his faith did not continue in him and then he lost his love that he had to God he was afraid of God and there is no fear in love perfect love casteth out fear and then he lost his holiness the Image of God and also lost his sobriety pride got up in him

a desire to be as gods And thus man although he had before his fall Faith Charity Holiness and Sobriety yet he not continuing in them was the cause of the fall and the woman that is saved in Child-bearing must not onely have Faith Charity Holiness and Sobriety as Adam had before his fall but must continue in them so that the saving of the woman is not onely a restoring of that again in man that was lost but a preserving man in that state that he was in before the fall which onely can be done by the power of that Jesus in her that the Devil could not prevail with in his temptations It is the bringing forth of that Child Jesus in man now that is the onely begotten son of God that must keep and preserve man that he is not prevailed with and overcome by the subtile Serpents temptations as Adam was I know there may be much wrought in man and yet the Child Jesus not born nor the woman saved out of the transgression But first to speak something of Jesus as he is the Light to all and a Saviour to some that never heard of Jesus born of the Virgin Mary and crucified by the Jews Christ Jesus as he is the Light John 1. 9 10 11 12 13. so he is the true Light that lightneth every man that comes into the world And so Jesus that saves from sin is in all that cometh into the world that was made by him but they knew him not And when he came to his own his own they received him not But as many as received him to them he gave power to become the sons of God even to them that believed on his Name Which were born not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God John 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have eternal life Jesus the onely begotten son of God as he is the Light so he is given of God to all the world to save them to keep them from perishing and to give them eternal light if they will receive him and believe in him He is a Light in all and to all that have not heard of him by that name of Jesus as born of the Virgin Mary and crucified at Jerusalem and yet have heard of him and knew him that is as there is something that is in them that tells them that there is a God or a power above them and this God or power above them ought to be pleased served or obeyed and that as they please serve or obey this God or power that is above them so it will be well or ill with them when this life is ended And so as they yield an obedience to what they thus know of God that God hath made known to them and in them for it is Christ the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world that makes this known in them so they are accepted of God or else condemned in themselves for not yielding obedience to what they know of God their Consciences bearing them witness accusing or excusing them See the truth of this in Romans the first Chapter the 14th verse to the end of the Chapter And the second Chapter the 11th verse to the end And the third Chapter the ninth verse to the end And the ninth Chapter the 25th verse to the end And the 10th Chapter the fifth verse to the end of the Chapter I read in Revel 7. that John heard the number of them that were sealed for the servants of God a hundred forty and four thousand of all the Tribes of the children of Israel of each Tribe twelve thousand Dan who Jacob told should be as a Serpent by the way when he told his sons what should befal them in the last days Gen. 49. 17. There was none sealed of his Tribe but instead of him Manasses is put in a son of Joseph mark that there is none of the Serpents Tribe to be sealed although Dan's Tribe were in the outward Worship of God as were the other Tribes And of the other Tribes but twelve thousand of a Tribe sealed In all but an hundred forty and four thousand which is the number sealed to be the servants of God of those who had the Commandments written in Tables of stones without them and the Law and the Prophets written in Books without them These are they that worship God in outward forms of Worship the number of them that were sealed that were the servants of God is easily to be numbered being one hundred forty and four thousand which is but a very small number to what a man can number And these were all that John heard the number of that were in the outward form of worshipping of God that were sealed to be the servants of God unto whom were committed the Oracles of God Rom. 3. 2. And to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the service of God and the promises whose are the Fathers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came Rom. 9. 4 5. What can all these in the several forms of the worshipping of God say that they have more and yet of all these there is but twelve thousand of a Tribe sealed may I say of an outward form of worship in all but an hundred forty and four thousand that were the servants of God a very small number in comparison of what a man can number and these John did but hear of to be sealed for the Servants of God mark that After this John beheld and lo a great multitude which no man could number of all Nations Kinreds and People and Tongues stood before the Throne and before the Lamb cloathed with white Robes and Palms in their hands and cryed with a loud voice saying Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb. And John was asked what these were which were arrayed in white Robes and whence they came he was not asked what they were that were sealed they were told him before that they were of all the Tribes of the Children of Israel and it was told John These are they which come out of great tribulations and have washed their Robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb therefore they are before the Throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple and he that sitteth on the Throne shall dwell among them John did but hear of the hundred and forty four thousand sealed to be the Servants of God of all the Children of Israel but he beheld and lo that is with a kind of admiration this great multitude that no man could number now amongst men that is looked upon as a more certain knowledge which they behold with their eyes than what they hear with their ears although John might not question the truth that

to worship him they and they onely are the acceptable Worshippers of God and God seeketh for those and onely those to worship him that worship him in spirit and truth It is not the outward places nor the outward form no not at Jerusalem nor the outward Worship commanded to be used there that God seeketh for it is the spiritual Worship done in the truth and in the sincerity of the heart that God seeketh for it is that and that onely that is well-pleasing to him which the outward forms of worshipping is not although never so exactly performed according to the Command of God yet if the Spirit of God which leads and guides into all truth be wanting the outward form is not acceptable to God nor sought for of God nor desired of God And where the Spirit of God is and is the Guide and Leader of them in his Worship although the outward form be wanting yet these are the true Worshippers of God and these are those that God seeketh for to worship him that is those that worship him in his Spirit and in his Truth that is in Jesus and all those that so worship him in the use of outward forms or without the use of outward forms Of all Nations and Kinreds and People and Tongues that worship him in his Spirit and in his Truth in Jesus which saves from sin by which Spirit they are guided and led thereunto to do it in the truth and sincerity of their hearts these are such as God seeketh for to worship him and are acceptable to God And of these John beheld the great multitude that no man could number standing before the Throne and before the Lamb clothed with white Robes and Palms in their hands crying with a loud voice saying Salvation to our God which came out of great tribulations having washed their robes and made them white in the bloud of the Lamb. And John did but hear of a hundred forty and four thousand of all the Tribes of Israel to be sealed for the servants of God And those were they that were in the outward form of Worship which had the Commandments writ in Tables of stone and had the Law and the Prophets written in Books without them and read among them without them every Sabbath-day And had the Oracles of God committed to them and to whom pertain the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises Whose are the Fathers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came And yet of all the Tribes of the outward Israel there was but a hundred forty four thousand sealed for the servants of God I take notice and so I desire the Reader to take notice that the Tribe of Dan was left out there was none sealed of that Tribe that was a Serpent by the way to be the servants of God none of the subtile Serpents Tribe are sealed to be the servants of God And that was the reason why there was no more sealed of all the outward Tribes of outward Israel the Serpents Tribe was not sealed and the Serpents Tribe is those wherein the Serpent and his seed rule in the heart These being left out and not sealed for the servants of God of the Tribes of Israel was the reason there was no more sealed and it is the reason that there is no more sealed of all the Tribes that are in the several outward forms of outward Worship and that is that which makes their number so small that a man may easily number a hundred forty and four thousand And of the Gentiles all Nations and Kinreds and People and Tongues that have not known the subtilty of the Serpent tempting man in the outward forms of worshipping of God and also of those that have known the subtilty of the Serpent tempting them in outward forms of worshipping of God and have known a saving and being delivered out of those temptations of the Serpent by the life of Jesus in them and so are none of the Serpents by the life of Jesus in them and so are none of the Serpents Tribe nor are sufficing themselves nor can suffice themselves in that they are worshipping God in outward forms but are worshipping him in his Spirit and in his Truth that is in Jesus that saves them from sin Of all these that is of those that have not known the subtilty of the Serpent tempting them in outward forms and those that have known the subtilty of the Serpent tempting them in outward forms and have known a being saved and delivered out of his temptations There are a great multitude that no man can number standing before the Throne and before the Lamb clothed with white robes and palms in their hands crying with a loud voice saying Salvation to our God having come out of great tribulations and washed their robes and made them white in the bloud of the Lamb. Thus Jesus is a Light and a Saviour to those that never hear of that Jesus born of the Virgin Mary And now to return again to those that have heard of that Jesus born of the Virgin Mary and profess themselves Christians and have known something of the working of Gods Spirit in them and have known something what it hath been to be drawn or led forth by the Spirit of Jesus in them how far they may go and yet not know the birth of the Child Jesus in them that saves from sin nor the woman that was deceived and in the transgression to be saved out of the transgression by bearing the Child Jesus Man may by Jesus the Light in him be convinced of sin that it is the breaking of Gods Command and of the Judgment of God that is due to man for sin and he may be so far convinced in himself of sin and of Gods judgment for sin as that he may be brought to a repentance and sorrow for his sins and a desire to be kept from sinning and he may pray earnestly that he may be kept from sin and may set upon a reformation and do many things in obedience to God that he knew to be the will of God And this may be done from some stirrings or movings of the Spirit of Jesus in him and yet the Serpent self his own will deceive him in all this as I have experienced And that thus man may from the knowledge that he hath of this or that thing that he does know that in the doing thereof he doth that which is a breaking of the Command of God and for his so breaking of the Command of God Jesus the Light in him that makes known to him the breaking of Gods Command doth likewise make known to him what is due to him for his transgressions that is Death Hell or Damnation which man being afraid of and willing to escape and to escape the punishment that he apprehends to be due to him for his sins this makes him to repent of his sins and

the first being to sin in man which was love in the will and in the desire of man And although we read of many that heard John preach Repentance and came to his Baptism as did Jerusalem and Judea and the Regions round about Jordan many Pharisees and Scribes were baptised of him confessing their sins Mat. 3. yet few of them came to the end of his preaching to know the Ax laid to the root of the Tree to know the love and desire to sin in the heart to be hewn down and cast into the fire to be consumed And this John told them must be in the Baptism of Jesus which his Baptism was a forerunner of which was to baptise with the Holy Ghost and with fire In Jesus's Baptism in the Baptism that saves from sin they were to know the fire of the Holy Ghost to burn and consume the love and desire to sin in them That whereas there was a time in which they had in them a love and a desire to commit sin but dare not commit sin for fear of the punishment that they knew was justly due to them for their sins but if they could have escaped the punishment they would willingly have pleased themselves in the sins And here the Serpent self deceived them they thought there was an enmity in them against sin because they were afraid to commit sin when the enmity was not against sin but against the punishment for sin And so indeed and in truth the enmity that they thought was in them against sin it was in them against God that is against the justice of God and sin in the root sin in the love and the desire to it was alive and sin and they in union and thus the subtile Serpents self and their own wills deceive them under a form of godliness But when they are come to the end of Johns Preaching and Baptism and know what it is to have the axe laid to the root of the tree of sin to the love of sin and to know the hewing down and burning up of the love and desire to sin in them so as if there were no punishment for sin yet would they not sin And why would they not sin it is because of the manifestations or making known of the love of God that is shed abroad in the heart God having made known the freeness of his love to them without any desert from them that while they were sinners and so enemies to God there was love in God to them and he sent his Son to die to reconcile them to himself This begets a love in them to God we love him because he first loved us and now the enmity is not against the punishment as it was when what we did in obedience to God was because we were afraid of Hell if we disobeyed him but the enmity is now against the sin as it offends that God that hath bestowed the riches of his Love upon them And now the Creature if it be drawn aside by the temptations of his own hearts lusts if the Serpent bruise the heel of the seed of the Woman in it as God hath said it should how does it mourn for its offence not because it knows that God as a loving Father will chastize it for its offence it does well know that God will not let offences pass in his Children unchastized but their grief and sorrow is because it hath offended God his loving Father And as to the chastisements of God although in themselves they are tedious but as they come from a loving Father and are for their good so they are pleasing to them as God makes use of them to the bringing forth of the peaceable fruit of Righteousness in them This was Davids case Psal 119. 67. Before he was afflicted he went astray but now he had kept his word and hence is a change wrought in the heart now the sorrow and grief that is in it because sin is committed is not because it is afraid of the punishment as once it was but the sorrow and grief is because a loving God a loving Father is offended by its breaking of his Commands And this change in the heart is wrought by the joyning together the two seeds if I may so call them the seed of God the power of God in man and the seed of God the power of God without man and from hence cometh the Child Jesus that saves from sin in the bearing of which the woman was saved That in man that was deceived and in the transgression is again saved here cometh the restauration of man man being restored again into the Image of love to God that he lost in the fall and into that Image of holiness in obeying God that he lost in the fall and now there is a change wrought in the will man being brought to will what God will and that because it is Gods will and now he does not do Gods will because he knows that if he does it not he shall be punished for his transgressions as once he did when that which put him upon his obedience to God in what he knew to be Gods will that he should do it was that by the doing thereof he might escape that punishment that he knew would be due to him if he did not do Gods will but now there is such a change that if there were no punishment for the transgression yet there is a willingness in him to do Gods will and that because of the love that God hath manifested and made known to him that God loved him when there was an enmity in his heart against God yet God loved him and sent his Son to die to reconcile him to God Rom. 5. 8 9 10. And this begot such a love in the heart to God as that it so changes the will that its desire is not to do its own will but Gods will onely and it is afraid lest its own will that he is so much sensible of that hath so much deceived him should get into the doing of what he is so carried forth to do in obedience to God and so deceive him and bring him again into the transgression that he is afraid of his own will as of a deadly Serpent this is known in some measure degree or other where the Child Jesus is born and the Woman saved out of the transgression they do know the work of the onely begotten Son of God in them and not only to restore that in them that Adam lost in the fall but to preserve and keep them from falling by the temptation as Adam did they knew that in them that the Serpent cannot tempt so as to cause it to sin nor never did nor never will yield to the temptation and that they are not onely the created Sons of God but the begotten Sons of God 1 Pet. 1. 3 23. and that it is that begotten Son of God in them that keeps them from falling by the temptation Herod heard John

A FREE GIFT FREELY Given of God TO HENRY ABBUT And by him freely Given to The Reader Without MONEY or PRICE It was the Complaint of God by the Prophet Jeremiah Jer. 6 13 14. and ch 8. 10 11. That the Prophets and Priests had dealt falsly In that they had healed the hurt of the daughters of his people slightly saying Peace peace where there is no peace Printed in the Year 1684. THE EPISTLE TO The Reader READER I Was never learned in the Schools of men any other Language but the English nor do I well understand many words that is spoken in that Language that come from other Tongues and therefore it cannot be expected that I should place my words in what I write in such an outward Scholar like-way as perhaps I might have done had I been brought up in the outward Schools of Learning To shew outward Wisdom is not the thing I aim at in what I write nor ought it to be my aim if I had it because the things of God that is in the way that God makes use of to restore fallen man again unto himself he will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent 1 Cor. 1. 19. And therefore if I had been learned in that Wisdom I could not in and by that Wisdom experimentally and knowingly have set forth to others the way that God makes use of to restore lost man again unto himself because God hath hid it from the wise and prudent and hath revealed it unto babes for so it seemeth good in the Fathers sight Luke 10. 21. The thing that I aim at in what I write is that the Tallent given to me might not be hid but improved for him that gave it me in my discovering what I by experience know of Mans being made in the Image of God And how Man made a wrong use of that Vnderstanding and Knowledge that God gave to Man in his Creation as made in his Image And how the Serpent self in man at first was and now is tempting Man in that Vnderstanding and Knowledge that God hath given to Man to perswade man to please satisfie and content himself more in what he understands and knows of God than to yield obedience to God according to what he knew of God that he should obey God in God commanded man that he should not eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that is he should not please satisfie and content himself in that he knew God and knew what was God's declared Will that he should do which was good and knew what was God's declared Will that he should not do that was evil he was not to do evil of this Tree man was commanded not to eat of nor to touch the Fruit of it And God commanded man to eat of the Tree of Life which was in the midst of the Garden which was Jesus that in man that saved man from sin that brought forth the Fruit of Obedience unto God according to that understanding and knowledge that God had given to man to obey him in this man was to eat freely of And to declare what I know of Gods love to all fallen men and how he will bring lost man again to himself by chusing them to take up the Cross and follow Jesus When I at first began to write some part hereof I began upon half a sheet of Paper and had no thoughts to write more than what might have been writ upon half a sheet of Paper and that onely concerning what Adam the Woman the Garden the Serpetn the forbidden Fruit the eating of the forbidden Tree and the death that Man died in the day that he eat thereof what these were in the mystery as knowing that no Scripture is of any private interpretation nor had I at first any thoughts of printing But God of whom I earnestly begged to assist me in what I then was moved to write resigning my will wholly up into his will in what I did he hath caused me to exceed that bounds which then I thought to have left onely in writing and what I have writ is according as he was pleased to put into me and move in me to write without observing any outward forms rules or methods in writing as is used by men so to do Are not the Scriptures so written without the observing of outward rules and methods God having herein in what measure he pleased lighted his Candle in me he made known to me that it was not to be put under a Bushel but on a Candlestick that so as an Instrument it may be a light to others And in obedience to God I knowing no other way to do it in to avoid offence but by being at the charge of putting it in print and so thereby to communicate it to my Children Friends and Acquaintance and thereby it may remain as an Instrument in Gods hand to be as an help to shew to others how subtile the Serpents self is in man to draw man into disobedience to God and that under a pretence of profit or gain that man shall get by his disobedience in that thereby he shall become the more like unto God to be as Gods Which subtilty of the Serpent man cannot see but as he comes into the obedience of Jesus the true Light in him and so come to know how God saves man again out of his disobedience and bring man again into himself Which being outwardly printed may outwardly remain when outwardly shall not be Henry Abbut A FREE GIFT Freely given of GOD TO Henry Abbut c. I Do believe there was an Adam a man made by God and out of that man God took a woman and gave her to that man that he had made of whom came all mankind and they lived together as Gods Creatures and for a time obeyed God in all things that he required of them to obey him in but they did not continue in their Obedience but sinned against God and so do all men and women If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 1 John 1. 8. But for their sin they did not die a natural death of the body in that natural day of the week that they first sinned in And had they not sinned I believe they had never died the natural death of the body And I do believe the outward Adam and woman and the outward death are Figures and in a mystery they represent an inward Adam woman and death Adam in the mystery is Jesus the woman in the mystery is mans being drawn by the Spirit or the leadings or goings forth of man by the Spirit of Jesus in man As the woman was taken out of man and given to man to be an Help-meet for him so is man by the drawings of the Spirit or the goings or leadings forth of man by the Spirit of Jesus in man they are taken out of Jesus and

put themselves forth into the doing thereof they having eaten of the forbidden Tree they having done that which they knew God had commanded them not to do And the eyes of their understanding and knowledge being opened they see themselves naked that is that they have sinned against God and that there is judgment due to them from this God that they have offended and that makes them afraid and to passifie the apprehensions that they have in them of the anger of this God which by that understanding and knowledge that they have of him they know to be due to them for their sins And by that understanding and knowledge that they have of God they know that he is good and that it is good to pray to him and to worship and serve him And the subtile Serpent that by his temptations drew them in to eat of the forbidden Tree the doing of what God had forbidden them to do he perswades them that their eyes being opened by that understanding and knowledge that they have of God they of themselves know what is Gods declared will that they should do in praying to him in worshipping and serving of him and that they of themselves can will Gods will to be done and they of themselves can bring up their wills to do Gods will in performing of their Prayers Worship and Service to God And thus the subtile Serpent perswades them that their eyes being opened they are as Gods to know will and to do all of themselves and so of themselves they pray worship and serve God as they call it and are not contented to be as Creatures to know nothing but as they wait upon God to reveal it in them by his Spirit and to will nothing but what God in his will willeth in them and to do nothing but what God by his Spirit led or draw them forth in the doing thereof Although few are so bold or ignorant of God as to confess with their tongues that they of themselves do know Gods declared will that it is good and that they of themselves can will Gods will to be done in them and that they of themselves can bring up their wills to do Gods will in praying to him and in worshipping and serving of him yet by their actions they manifest the truth of what with their tongues they will not confess for by their actions it doth appear that they do all as Gods of themselves in that they do not wait upon God for him to do it in them by the leadings or drawings of his Spirit in them but they yield to the stirrings movings or drawings of their own wills and as their wills lead them out for to do so they go forth in their Prayer Worship and Service to God as they call it It were well if all those that are in the use of Set Forms of Prayers and those that pray in their Families at set times would consider what is the leading stirring moving or drawing Cause of their so praying and to see whether or no they do pray as the Apostle said of himself and the Saints That they knew not what they should pray for as they ought but as the Spirit it self made intercession for them with groanings that cannot be uttered and that their Prayers be performed in Gods Spirit and in truth or else they are not acceptable to God who is a Spirit I so well love all of them whose Lives and Conversations as to the outward are blameless and use those Prayers as a Sacrifice or Offerings to God as to beg of them to have a care that in the use of them the Serpent do not deceive them as he hath deceived me in praying worshipping and serving of God For by experience I do know that what is done in praying worshipping and serving of God that is not done wholly and alone by the Spirit of God in man and man in the doing thereof to be but an Instrument in Gods hand to do his work by And so indeed and in truth it is no other but God the Son in us praying worshipping and serving God the Father that hath begotten us in himself again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead And what Prayer Worship and Service is not thus done in God unto God is not acceptable to God and all other Prayers Worship and Service that hath been done in me and called by me Prayer Worship and Service done to God I do now know and have experienced it to be true that it hath onely been done by the subtilty of the Serpent in me in that understanding and knowledge that I had of God that caused me to have high thoughts of my self and that of my self in that understanding and knowledge I had of God I could pray worship and serve God and was as God to my self that is to will what I knew was Gods will and to do what I knew to be Gods will that I should do that is as to an outward obedience to God And now I do know that all that then I did in obedience to God was done in my own will and for my own self-ends And knowing the danger that I was then in being in the womans deceived state and so in the transgression and so in danger of perishing I cannot but out of love and pity to those that are in that state give them warning for them to have a care that they do not fall into that Quick-sand that lieth so hid in man and as an honest Traveller in the outward Land having fallen into a Quick-sand setteth a mark there that so others may have a care of falling into the same place This being the end of all my making known of what I know of the subtil Serpents self-will in me And further to make it more clearer that it is the work of the Tempter in man as man is in the fallen state to perswade man to have high thoughts that of himself in that understanding and knowledge that he hath of God he can know Gods will and can will Gods will and can do what God would have him to do And if this be not the true state of man in the fall to have the subtile Serpent to be thus in him tempting of him I desire then to know from whence it comes that many now see it to be so hard for man to become a very nothing in the Work of his Salvation that so God may be all in it and man nothing but onely as God makes him an Instrument in his hand But they who are not in some measure come to the knowledge of that in them as to know how hard a thing it is to become a nothing in the working out of their salvation that so God may be all in them in that great work of saving of them to them it is as hard to believe the truth of what I have said concerning the experience that some have seen of the Tempter how

God in true self-denial in being as a nothing in thy self until God send his spirit that quiet into all truth to guide to search to let thee understand something of the great mystery that is in these few words Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil thou wouldst then find that those few words have been much read without and very little understood by the outward Readers within they have read little of them within themselves The forbidden fruit as it was presented in the temptation it was pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make wise the knowing of Gods will and not to do Gods will is the forbidden fruit What God requires of man to obey him in and what man knows to be Gods will that he should obey him in is good but to know Gods will and not to do it is evil that is the knowing of good and evil in the action which is sin To know is very pleasant to the eye because it makes wise and how much is there a desire in man going forth after knowledge that they may be wise because Wisdom is one part of the Essence or Being of God and it is to be like God and so man in the temptation had a desire to be like God as being wise And thus man desired to know more of God than he desired in that knowledge to yield obedience to God in what he knew of God And this is the forbidden fruit to have a desire to be wise like God to know God or the mind and will of God and not to obey God according to what he knew to be Gods will this was Adams fall this was the forbidden fruit which man was not to eat of nor yet to touch it And now man is fallen who can say upon a true examination of himself in the inward parts that he is now judged or condemned for the doing of any thing but for the doing of those things that God hath made known to him that he ought not to do or else he is judged and condemned for the not doing of those things that God hath made known to him to be his will that he ought to do and should do the condemnation is either for doing what we know we ought not to do or for leaving undone what we know that we should do The woman mystically being the figure of mans being drawn by the spirit or the goings or leadings forth of man by the spirit of Jesus in man for as the Lord God took the woman out of Adam so is mans being drawn by the spirit or the goings or leadings forth of man by the spirit of Jesus in man is the work of the Lord God and they are given as Help-meets for the life of Jesus in man that is as Help-meets for that life of Jesus in man that is in him saving of him from sin And as the woman as she was taken out of Adam although she was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh yet she had a distinct and separated body from Adam so in the mystery is to be understood mans being drawn by the spirit of Jesus or the goings or leadings forth of the spirit of Jesus in man although taken out of Jesus in man as the woman was taken out of man to be distinct and separated from Jesus in man and serve for the end the woman was created for to be as an Help-meet for man so man by these drawings of the spirit or the goings or leadings forth of man by the spirit of Jesus in man are as Help-meets for the life of Jesus in man How is the life of Jesus in man refreshed and comforted when there is in man a drawing going or leading forth of the spirit to meditate of Gods goodness or to meditate of some mystery that God is making known to the Soul either what God is or what he hath made man to be or what man was before the fall or what man made himself by the fall or what God hath made man by his redeeming of him or what man shall be in the resurrection or sometimes in praying or speaking or some sudden Vision or breakings out of the manifestations of Gods love in these or other of the drawings leadings or goings forth of man by the Spirit of Jesus in man How is the Life of Jesus in man helped and refreshed that is that Life of Jesus in man that is in him saving of him from sin So as the woman was created to be an Help-meet for Adam so hath God made man by these drawings leadings or goings forth of man by the Spirit of Jesus in man as Help-meets for the Life of Jesus in man as he is in man a saving him from sin Now as I said before as the woman although taken out of Adam and was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh yet she had a distinct and separate body of her self So in the mystery although man by these drawings of the Spirit or goings or leadings forth of man by the Spirit they come from Jesus and are taken out of Jesus in man yet in the mystery they are to be looked upon as a distinct and separate body from Jesus in man as the woman was a distinct and separate body from man Now the Serpents self or a mans own will as separated from God as it is in the fall and so is become a fallen Angel or Spirit and being in the garden of God that is in the heart or inward part of man this presents to the woman that is to man as being drawn of the Spirit or his goings or being led forth by the Spirit of Jesus in man a desire more to know the things of God than to come into the obedience of what God hath by those drawings leadings or goings forth of the Spirit made known to them to obey him in and this is the forbidden Fruit for man to desire to know more of God in those manifestations or enjoyments that he hath received from God by the drawings leadings or goings forth of his Spirit in them than to obey God in what he knew of God or that God doth make known to him of himself in those manifestations or enjoyments that he gives of himself unto man And this desire after knowledge this Serpents self or a mans own will in the fall presents to be very pleasant to the eye of the woman and to be desired to be made wise and by it to be as Gods But these presentations to the woman is to be taken as if man in these drawings goings or leadings forth of the Spirit were distinct and separate from Jesus as the woman was from the man And that is onely to be taken as to that sense or knowledge that the Soul wherein these drawings or goings forth of the Spirit are acted hath of them that is as the Soul or inward part of man does look upon the drawings

but Christ was so far from yielding to the temptation that he called the Devil Satan and bad him get him hence for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Mat. 3. 19. Mark that which tempted Jesus ought to have done him worship and served him onely as being his Lord and God And if the Devil thus set upon him that was God in man is it to be questioned that the Serpent would not nor did not set upon man that was but the Image of God and that in the time when he did what he did by the leadings drawings or going forth of the spirit of God or Jesus in him Jesus the Son of God was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin Heb. 4. 15. If it be objected thou call'st the Serpent subtile self or mans will was there any such thing in Christ to tempt him I desire the Objecter to read and well consider Christs Prayer the night in which he was betrayed and the place where he prayed in it was in a garden John 18. 1. Adam was in a garden when the Serpent tempted him His Prayer was O my Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt Matth. 26. 39. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of bloud falling down to the ground Luke 22. 44. Is it not plain by these Scriptures that there was in Christ a will and desire that the Cup might pass from him but he yielded not to that will and desire but resigned and gave up all to the will of the Father and so he did not sin Is it not plain by these Scriptures that although Christ as man had never sinned never did any thing contrary to the will of the Father and all the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in that body Col. 2. 9. yet what a conflict or striving was their between the will and desire as man and the will and desire as God as he was the son of God the onely begotten son of God What was it else but the strife or conflict between the desire if it were possible to have that Cup pass from him and a will that it might pass from him and a desire and will that was in him that that desire and will that would have the Cup to pass from him should not be satisfied but that the will of the Father should be done whose will it was that he should drink of that Cup Was not this the case of the agony that caused such a sweat that the drops thereof were as great drops of bloud If Christ as man who always had done the will of the Father found it so hard to bring the will to be resigned and given up to the will of the Father Can it be believed by any of those who have known the resurrection of Jesus in them and have known a time when their will and desire have been after what God hath forbidden that it is an easie work in them to have their wills resigned and given up to the will of God in all things They know that it is God that must work in them both to will and to do of his own good pleasure Phil. 2. 13. Jesus as he was the onely begotten son of God so he could not be prevailed with or overcome by the temptation It was the onely begotten son of God in that body born of the Virgin Mary that kept that body from yielding to the temptation mark that and it is the begotten son of God in us and that onely that must and doth keep us from yielding to the temptation Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 1 John 3. 9. God may be said to have two sons one a created son as was Adam Luke 3. 38. and that son although made in Gods Image yet he yielded to the temptation and so sinned The other was a begotten son which is Jesus which is the same with the Divine Nature and was and is God by whom the created son was made and this begotten son cannot sin because the seed of God remaineth in him And the want of a true understanding of these two sons makes that great difference that is amongst those that call themselves the sons of God the one believing they cannot live in this body without sinning the other believes a state of perfection and that such a life is attainable while the outward body hath an outward life That there may be a life or living without sin which is true indeed and it were well if all those that make profession understood what it is to live and not sin and what it is in them that live and do not sin if they did the Controversie between them that believe they shall sin and that they cannot live while the life of this body continues without sin would not be so great as it is Adam the created son of God made in Gods Image and had Faith Charity Holiness and Sobriety he yielded to the temptation and sinned And does not men and women do so now although restored to Adam's created Estate Do they not find the Serpent bruising the heel of the seed of the woman If they do not then how do they find what God said to be true God said that the Serpent should bruise the heel of the seed of the woman but the begotten son of God in man that cannot sin the seed of God in man that cannot sin neither did it condescend to sin in Adam nor doth it now condescend to sin in any that are restored to that state that Adam was in before the fall And this is that that lives without sin that lives and cannot sin it is Jesus in us the onely begotten son of God And this is that life that Paul speaks of Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ that is dead with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Doth not most of them that profess themselves the sons of God and know any thing of the work of God in their hearts but will own Jesus Christ to be raised from death to life in them and to be alive in them And ask them if they believe that this Jesus Christ that lives in them sins they will answer No he lives in them without sin Then ask them that believe a state of Perfection and living without sin while this body lives what is it in them that does not sin whether it be the first Adam that was deceived and in the transgression that lives without sin in them or whether it be Jesus the second Adam that lives without sin in them They will answer The

by the lyes spoken in the Name of the Lord as was pretended by the three old Quakers so called and no sooner did I by the lyes that they had spoken to me begin to question or doubt of the truth of Gods Command in me to speak but there quietly got up in me a disobedience to the Command and when I found in me a motion to speak as formerly I had I did not yield obedience to the motion but went into the disobedience and kept silence as they had desired of me to do and so it cost me my life for soon after a Lion by the way met with me and slew me Jesus as he is the Lamb of God in making known in man and to man the Commands of God what man is to do in obedience to God and so in mans yielding of obedience to the Commands of God he makes known the love of God to man and in man and thus as a Lamb and act in man like a Lamb in innocency so he may be slain yea he is slain in man by his disobedience to God As I have known the slaying of him by my disobedience to the Command of God and as he is thus a Lamb in man and acts the part of a Lamb in man so the same God the same Power that hath sent him as a Jesus to save man to save all men that will believe in him that will yield obedience to what he makes known in them and to them to be the Command of God for them to obey God in so the same God the same Power hath made him Judge both of the Living and of the Dead And so as he is a Judge he is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah and that as a Lion as a Judge I found him soon meeting of me after my disobedience in not obeying the Command of God to speak as he gave me a Command to speak and he slew me he passed the sentence of Condemnation upon me for my disobedience and made me sensible of my disobedience and I knew I had transgressed and I willingly submitted to Gods Chastisement as did the man sent from God when it was told him that for his disobedience that his Carkass should not come to the Sepulchre of his Fathers You do not read in the Scripture that in the least he murmured or reflected upon the Chastisement of God for his disobedience And the passing of this sentence of Condemnation upon me was so great as that I may truly say it slew me that is as to my own apprehensions I was as it were slain in that I did not find any more movings of God in me to speak as I formerly had nor did I find in me any more stirrings or drawings of the spirit of God in me to Meditation Contemplation or musing of God and of his Goodness to me as before my disobedience I often had and was much refreshed and comforted thereby in what God in those Meditations Contemplations or musings of God and his Goodness made known to me of himself in what he was to man as a Creator and a Redeemer and what man was in his Image and likeness as Created and Redeemed nor did I find such fresh manifestations and making known of Gods love to me as before I had done thereby to cause my love to increase to God and although I went to the Meeting and kept it constantly as before yet I found no comfort or refreshment thereby as formerly I had done when I stood in my obedience to God And in this slain state for my disobedience I continued a long time At length the first appearance that I apprehended or took notice of that God stirred or moved in me by his Spirit was the movings or stirrings up of a desire in me to understand the mystery of Adam the Woman the Garden the Serpent the forbidden Fruit and the eating of it and the death that man died in the day he eat thereof And to leave something of it in writing not in print I had no thoughts of any such thing then that others might know what God had made known to me of the subtilty of the Serpent in man and so little did I then think of writing much that I began upon half a sheet of Paper thinking upon that I might write what was Gods will that I should leave in writing but it exceeded the half sheet and came into several sheets And when I thought I had done writing and had tacked the sheets together intending to send them to printing it pleased God to take from me a Child whom I loved as being in the outward body more like me than any Child I had and such was Gods goodness to me although I had a natural affection to her as a Father yet I was so well satisfied with the will of God therein that it was no inward trouble or disturbance to me but I was as if it had not been in having my will resigned and given up into the will of God therein And then God moved and stirred in me to write something of what I knew of denying my self and taking up the Cross and following of Jesus and I did not think therein to have writ so much as would have filled one sheet of Paper not having the least thought as God is my witness of making any the least mention of what I knew of taking up the Cross and following of Jesus when I stood in my obedience to him in speaking what he had given me in command to speak through all the opposing I met with but finding it lay as a duty upon me after I had began to write of self-denial and taking up the Cross and following of Jesus I was then and thereby as my duty required to make known what I knew how the subtile Serpent deceives man in an outward form of Religion perswading them that in that outward form of Religion they are denying of themselves and taking up the Cross and following of Jesus when indeed and in truth they are but a setting up of self in them And I have yielded in doing my duty therein lest through my disobedience therein God might have dealt with me as he did by me for my disobedience in not speaking And if any that shall read what I have herein writ and there shall and does rise in them a spirit to think or to speak that I have not done well in it to make so publick the failings weaknesses infirmities or miscarriages of Friends to me or rather to that of Jesus in me I shall say that by the same Spirit they may upon the same grounds as well think and say that Matthew and Luke did not do well or rather the spirit of God in Matthew and Luke did not do well in making by writing so much more publick the failings weakness infirmities or miscarriages of the Twelve to Jesus as I have done the failings weakness infirmities or miscarriages of others to that which was of Jesus in