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A69592	An apologie concerning perfection being a fundamentall answer and reply upon Esaiah Stiefel his exposition of four texts of the Holy Scripture written in the year 1622 ... / by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.; Vom Irrthum der Secten Esaiae Stiefels und Ezechiel Meths. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3415; ESTC R14771	119,599	158

himself into his Mystery viz into his Rest in the Grave 233. Concerning which David saith He should rest secure for the Lord was set before him in Christ in whose Protection he rested in Christ viz in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant in the Looking-Glasse of Christ which God set before him in the Covenant of the Circumcision and in the Sacrifices as if Christ were therein for he had Promised Christ therein till the fullfilling in the Flesh came 234. Therefore shall not this Authour perswade us That the Earthly Man in Sinne without the breaking of the outward Life doth wholly put on Christ inwardly and outwardly and that the sinfull outward Nature when Man entereth into Repentance doth wholly dye and Christ alone awake or arise and become generated inwardly and outwardly in Man 235. No! Christ is come to heal the Soar which Adam made when he instantly dyed to the Kingdome of Heaven in the Sinne-Bit viz to awaken or raise up the inward Man which disappeared in Adam and new generate it in him in his power and introduce the poore Soul again into a Divine Will and give it the Noble Jewell of the Holy Spirit again 236. And continually Crush or bruise the head of the Anger and falshood of the Old Serpent dwelling with its Will in the outward Flesh also continually slay the earthly Will till the earthly Adam dye altogether consume and enter into its Mystery in which God Created it to the Judgment of God there shall that give its Mystery to the * outward Image again viz the Third Principle and the whole Man as God Created him in Adam shall stand forth in CHRISTS Property and power again and live again in JEHOVA's Light and Power 237. For when Christ hath finished all Then shall he deliver up the Kingdome in the Regeneration to his Father again and God shall be ALL in ALL as he was before the Times of the World 238. The Authour erreth in this that he conceiteth That the Man who turneth himself to CHRIST wholly puts on Christ inwardly and outwardly and becometh wholly CHRIST and that the Nature of the Properties dyeth away There is no ground for this Christs Flesh became conceived in the Power of the Holy Spirit in Maryes Essence but our evill Flesh we receive from Adams sinfull Male or Masculine Seed in the Power or vertue of the two Tinctures of the Man and of the Woman 239. Christ saith That which is born of Flesh is flesh but that which is born of the Spirit that is spirit Flesh and Bloud shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven The Spirit is the Life the Flesh profiteth nothing it shall putrifie or rot and enter into its first Substance 240. The Spirituall Man according to the Kingdome of God which dyed in Adam but in the Repentant Sinner is regenerated in Christ that dwelleth in Heaven as St. Paul saith Our conversation is in Heaven from whence we expect the Saviour CHRIST who is the Life 241. His Mystery wherein the earthly Flesh of Sinne dwelleth that passeth into the beginning and expecteth the Saviour JESUS CHRIST to the Resurrection and Restoration into Life This is my apprehension and knowledge 242. I say rot that a Man in this Flesh is Perfect and doth put on Christ outwardly but the Mystery viz the Quintessence putteth on Christ to the Resurrection of the Dead and the Soul in the heavenly substantiality according to Christs true heavenly Corporeity awakeneth or ariseth as to ITS Substance which it had but dyed in Adam 243. Christ giveth US his Body to Eate and his Bloud to drink but NOT to the Man of Sinne but to the Man in CHRIST new Born to Life viz that from the Divine Worlds Substance to the Paradisicall Man which hath a Heavenly Mouth to partake with 244. For Christ dwelleth in Heaven and feedeth us with his Body and Bloud in the Heaven this Heaven is IN Man and not in the Four Elements as to their Operation but in the pure Element Christ feedeth the Body of his Similitude viz the Soul and the heavenly Part in the New born Man 245. Adam eateth of the four Elements and is fed with evill and good Adam the outward Flesh Man sinneth the inward Man willeth not the Sinne Therefore saith Paul Now if I sinne it is not I that doe it but it is the sinfull Desire which dwelleth in the flesh Now therefore with my Mind I serve God and with the flesh the Law of sinne for I doe that which I would not but if I now doe it it is not I that do it but sinne in the flesh 246. Therefore let the Christian Reader that loveth Truth be warned according to my very good bounden Duty and Love-Will not to esteem himself Perfect and to set himself in the Omnipotent Power or vertue of God in the Omniscience and to say He is without sinne and cannot sinne 247. O alasse the Poor Captive Soul in sinfull flesh can dayly Sinne for The Righteous falleth seaven times a Day Also Before thee no Living Man is Righteous if thou wilt impute sinne and he that saith he hath no sinne is a Lyar saith Saint John 248. This Authour erreth in almost all the highest Articles of Faith I therefore admonish you all wisely to consider Pray to God for understanding and continue in true Resignation and Humility before God and continually pray to God according to the Doctrine of Christ Forgive us our Sinnes 249. This Man will be without Guilt or fault he saith he is dead in Christ to the Guiltinesse and if it were at the best with him yet there lyeth the Guilt still in Adams sinfull flesh which according to Christs Doctrine shall not may not can not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven NOT the Husk of Sinne but the Mysterie shall remain for Ever THus is the true understanding upon the Text 1 Timothy 3. 16. sufficiently explained already also the Expositors erroneous Meaning Discovered but yet I will set down his own words here following for the Reader to Ponder The Second Text. 1 Tim. 3. 16. The Mysterie of Godlinesse is apparently great God is manifested in the Flesh first in Adam The Explainers Exposition 1. WHich Text as also the whole Epistle and ALL Writings of the Holy Apostles and Prophets when they illustrate and speak of the apparent Revelation and great Mystery of God can or may no way with Truth be understood applyed or signified Concerning the First created Adam 2. Seeing God in and with this holy Name the whole holy Trinity the whole Divine fullnesse from the least to the greatest with his holy Divine Saving apparent Revealed Great Mystery was not at all manifested in Adam before the Fall or appeared in him much lesse with his Divine fullnesse hath wrought livingly powerfully and actively IN him or dwelt or been implanted but Once and only in Christ the first

Principle or the Second Person in the Deity 15. When the fair Harmony in Adam became poysoned by the Devill so that the Souls Will-Spirit which should have been wholly resigned into Gods Love-voyce went forth out of GODS Harmony and Tang into the Harmony of the DEVIL and all Evill or Malice then the true Divine Lute-player departed from him For Adams Spirit went out from him 16. Now if Adam had been created and brought forth wholly in Christs Image and had been standing in the Harmony of Christ then were the Image of Eternity which God as this Authour conceiteth Generated in his Love-Mother from Eternity in him destroyed and had suffered it self to be overpowered by the Devill and then were the Devill stronger than God seeing he had destroyed Christs Image 17 O how were it possible that any thing should perish that were brought forth onely and solely out of the Image and will of the Love of God then must GOD perish 18. And though he would say the Body over-loaded or overswayed the Soul yet the Soul was breathed into Man out of the Mouth of God out of the Holy Spirit also it were much that God would Introduce an Earthly Man into the Image of the holinesse of God viz into CHRIST who was generated in the voyce of the Mother of the Love from Eternity out of God as he saith So he would indeed have had Divine holy Substance which the Debill had not been able to Sift 19. I beleeve we shall here leave the Author to his Conceit and must Say That God hath Created Man IN his own Image known of God without Substance into a Substance and Image according to Gods out-spoken and Created Substance as Moses saith To be Lord over all Creatures upon the Earth we shall not dare to set him into the Seat of the Deity 20. The Omniscience of MAN was never at all nor in Eternity ever will be for indeed no Throne Angell is Omniscient but all is indeed under God and a work of his Hands 21. When God manifested himself in and with the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser he said Iohn 3. None goeth to Heaven but the Son of Man who is come from Heaven and who is in Heaven It is an empty or void Point which the Authour mentioneth that Christ hath manifested himselfe in a totall pure Virgin immaculate or without blemish and Sinne. 22. He said he was come from HEAVEN and NOT out of his Image which perished as this Authour conceiteth and yet became Man in Maryes right humane Essence 23. Of which this Authour as is to be observed in his Omniscience and Deity knoweth nothing at all O that he would learn before-hand the Theosophick A. B. C. in the School of the Holy Spirit e're he give himself forth or professeth himself to be holy and Omniscient and were a while under Gods Harmony e're he would himself be Gods Lutenist There is for certain a Luciferian Pride under it 24. Observe loving Brother he cometh in Christs Name and wholly in his person try him Christ is gone to Heaven this is but a confused Man MARY was the daughter of Joachim and Anna according to Flesh Soul and Spirit shut up under the Law of Sinne and under the Fall of Adam and Eve 25. But in HER was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God had promised in Paradise understand in the faded Image of the heavenly substantiality in which Adam dyed to the Kingdom of Heaven that can receive NO Sinne for the Heaven of God is subjected under no Sinne. 26. When Lucifer perished in his Creature the Heaven spewed him out from it self The true Soul of Adam was the Life in the Heavenly Substantiality but when the Souls Will entred into the Earthly Substance viz into Evill and Good into Heat and Cold viz into the Center of Nature after sutlety and cunning then faded his heavenly substance wherein Gods Light shone and Gods Light remained standing in its selfe in its Principle 27. This Gods Love-Will Lamented that its similitude perished and promised Adam the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent out of the Seed of the Woman which had with the Limit or Mark of the Covenant here stuck or set it selfe in MARY 28. Not in the sinfull Flesh of Mary but in the faded Image which JESUS by his entrance would move and move himself in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant and open the CHRIST viz a New Life out of himself and out of this Limit or Mark of the Covenant of Promise in the faded Seed of Mary 29. So that the faded Substance in the power of the moving of JESUS in that this JESUS with his moving moved the divine wisdome and hidden power in it and gave this hidden Seed for a Life might become manifest and in Christ living again who was God and MAN in ONE Person to whom the outward Kingdome of our Flesh in the seed of MARY hung 30. WHEREIN he took upon him our Sins and Infirmities upon his Shoulders and querched them with the bloud of the now present New-borne heavenly Substantiality with the true Womans Seed and drowned the fierce wrath which became manifested in the center of Nature in the Soulish Property together with the disobedient Will and introduced it again into Gods Will. 31. And in this that God moved himselfe in the Seed of Mary in the shut up hiddennesse of the Humanity and manifested himself with his Love and conceived CHRIST in the Faded or disappeared Seed viz the Eternall Life in the still death Therefore is Mary become the blessed of all women 32. For that happened to None that God had moved himself in their right Seed that dyed and disappeared in Adam For here came the first Image again which Adam was in the Creation and God now gave to this Image which could not stand but dyed in Adam this Serpent Crusher or Bruiser out of JESUS or JEHOVA for an assistant that should Help the Soul to over-power the Anger of God and the Devill 33. JESUS hath with this CHRIST which he manifested out of his moving in the Seed of Mary and gave Life to the Seed not received the outward sinfull Seed of Mary into the Deity so that God is become manifested in the outward Seed of Mary 34. This proves it self in Christs Person that he on Earth in form or Shape condition and Outward Conversation and Flesh was like VS for the outward Flesh was mortall wherein he also slew death He took only the Inward Seed viz the disappeared which dyed in Adam wherein Gods Light shined 35. And in the JESU viz in Gods Love and wisdome he manifested the divine power and strength wherewith he would overcome the Anger of the Father and transmute or change IT into the divine Kingdome of Joy 36. But the Soulish and outward Fleshly Seed of Mary Wherein Sinne was hung to the inward disappeared Seed These mix not themselves also they are not

the mixing together men should distinguish from the Will of the Divine Holinesse and from the will of own self Lust 134. Nature willeth the Burning eager Lust viz the Mixture and Gods holinesse willeth the Conjunction of the pure Tinctures in which Conjunction the Divine Center viz a holy fire-sparkle together incorporateth it self in the Substance of the heavens Image in the word of Power and doth not together incarnate it selfe in the Outward Flesh 135. This Authour saith When Christ is born or Generated then the Earthly Man must depart But in this Time Christ is in the Heaven of Man and the Earthly Man upon Earth in his Self hood in the Four Elements 136. This Authour Cryeth out upon the Confusion of others wayes and despiseth other Men gifted from God in their Gifts and yet his whole work is nothing else but a meer confusion of one thing in another the outward World with God the Creature with the Holy Trinity so that no rationall Man at all can see by him the distinction between God and the Creature 137. There never came to my knowledge any writings wherein all things are so wholly spoyled confused and darkned or obscured under long circumlocutions and Glosses as in these that he may under such confusion but present and give forth himselfe for a GOD. 138. That is the whole contents of his meaning that it is no more he that willeth doth speaketh thinketh or purposeth any thing but that God in Christ is it ALL in him the will the deed the speaking understanding thinking begetting of Children eating drinking sleeping waking but then must he also be even the Coughing in him and whatsoever else he doth in any secret place 139. Which is very easily understood by reading in him because he will distinguish Nothing but will be All in all God in Christ which is fit should be signified concerning him that other people might learn to beware of such seeming flourishing Lustre and learn to know themselves inwardly and outwardly what the Creature Man God and Christ are and not so Groundlesly call the cursed world God 140. I write not this to the reproach of the Authour but for the Reader to consider that he may know that he is a Sinner and what his Holinesse in him is for a totall faithfull instruction from my Gifts which in the Grace of the Divine Love have been imparted to me NOw followeth The Third Point of the Fourth Text. The Authours Own Explanation 1. THus now hereupon followeth Thirdly How and after what manner and kind also the Man-God CHRIST cometh and is manifested through the Divine-humane Wife or Woman 2. And how through Christ the first born before all Creatures the most holy expresse Image yes the Self-subsisting Substance of the totall most holy Divine Fullnesse the Triune highly praised living powerfull word of God God himself through whom and for whom all things not only were Created but after the Fall through his holy becoming Man or Incarnation and precious innocent passion dying Resurrection ascention into Heaven and perfect merit were perfectly redeemed or delivered 3. As heretofore is mentioned he hath united the totall faithful Mankind in the Love of his divine voyce to him to his holy Names highest praise and honour for his proper own body and Wife or Woman which he not in an outward Manner prepares to himself creates and makes new but in the inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the World Suddenly after the Fall betrothed in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith and tied it and prepared it for his Eternall Rest 4. In like manner also this most Holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which according to the Testimony of the Holy Scripture was slain from the beginning of the world in all faithfull and Saints with his holy living powerfull richly spirituall word divine substance working willing and perfecting according to the measure of his appearing gifts hath appeared from the beginning of the world 5. And himself hath manifested the true Womans Seed in the Woman or Wife of his Love prepared for himself Against which this self own holy Womans Seed He the highly praised Triune God himself according to the Testimony of the Scripture hath permitted and set the Enmity 6. So that the Satanical Serpents Seed the unfaithfull wicked corrupt world through Satan and his naked outward fleshly sinfull wicked Diabolical matters also evill heart and Lust of the Eye is governed and driven on this his own Self-seed in and together with his own Love and Wife is persecuted derided scorned despised scandalized worryed and put to death As the Testimony of the Holy Scripture truly and cleerly in to all the Saints witnesseth and manifesteth 7. But this Holy Divine Womans Seed in and to the Saints hath after many kinds and wayes appeared as in Adam and Eve after the Fall and after that through Christ the Triune highly praised God himself the promise of the perfect Womans Seed of the Messiah was spoken and pronounced to them the strong Hope Faith and Confidence in this Womans Seed was openly caused to sound forth from them As indeed Eve in this assured Faith mentioned the LORD Messiah saying her first born sonne Cain was the Man of the LORD 8. In Abel this holy Womans Seed and Lamb of God manifested it self in which Faith he also sacrificed to the Lord and caused his holy praise and Thanksgiving to ascend to God the highest Good and thereupon he was slain by the Serpents seed Cain 9. In Enoch the holy Womans seed manifested it self so powerfully that through and with God in the holy Faith the Mother together with the Holy Birth went Bodily into Heaven 10. In Noah this holy Womans seed and living substantiall word of God manifested it self so powerfully with Teaching Preaching Prophesying Reproving and admonishing to Repent Instructing Comforting and Divine Confirmation in and to the building of the Ark pointing at the Future Deluge which holy womans seed also his Faithfull Parents with living voyce at his Birth testified and said this will Comfort us in our Misery 11. This holy Womans seed in Abraham was witnessed by the high divine Majesty from Heaven it self the most holy Triunity which in the outward form of the Persons of Three Men One LORD caused himself to be manifestly heard saying In this thy seed shall all people be blessed understand those which beleeve in him and suffer him to rule them 12. This holy Womans seed was witnessed also by the Triune God Christ Jesus himself in Isaac In Rebecca was manifested in her womb before the Birth both this Holy Womans and also the Serpents seed in which the unbelief and Serpents seed Esau out of the Saw or Swine of Unbelief 13. Which persecuted the Holy Faiths seed of the holy Woman in Rebecca Jacob and beat and