Love-longing oâ— Delight goeth forth Whose Exit is the Spirit which comprehendeth conceiveth or formeth it self into V A For the V is the Spirit viz the Exit and A is the Wisdome wherein the Spirit Comprehendeth or formeth it self into a working Life 8. And then is this Threefold breathing or Speaking Life in it self â IAH For the incomprehended Longing Delight is the * Or Circumference Or Eternall ☉ viz the AVGE or Eye of the one onely Seeing a pure or clear Seeing And the IAH is the Threefold Entrance of it self that is to the perceptibility or inventibility of the desiring which openeth it self through the Eternall Breathing or Speaking 9. The Opening viz the property in the Sense of the perceptible or inventible opening is called ADONAI And it is Six Powers out of which the Great Mystery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mysterium Magnum that is the High Name * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tetragrammaton floweth out of which ALL Substances the visible and invisible are flowen forth and come into form and Images 10. In the Word †〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ADONAI that is in these Six Powers doe lye the Six Properties of the Eternall Nature that is of the Naturall Life out of which the Angels and Souls according to to the inwardnesse of their IDEA are flowen sorth together with the Six Dayes of the Creation of this World Which with the Seeing Life which imageth it self in the Midst of the Substance like the †The Eye the Circumference the heart of God ☉ became shut in for the quiet Rest wherein the Six Powers stand and Rest in the Still Love that is in the Eternall Unity And yet with their own Self-working without ceasing doe will and go forth 11. And that is * Sol. ☉ ☉ the Seventh Day in which God rested from all his Works and Eternally doth rest that is the Six Powers viz First the Desirousnesse Secondly the Mobility Thirdly the Perceptibility Fourthly the Fire or Life Fifthly the Light or the Love Sixtly the Sound or Distinguibility or Understanding doe rest in that from whence they doe exist viz in the ☉ in the place of God wherein the Eternall Love is signified viz the Unity or the somewhat of the Unity which is the Eternal Sabbath of all things from the Good Substance 12. Thus we understand First that the Eternall Nothing without all beginning is a clear pure * Or Glimmering like a Looking-Glass shining viz the Eye of the Eternall Seeing For in the fame viz in the Nothing all things doe see And being the Somewhat is existed from this Seeing therefore the Nothing viz the Eternall Unity seeth through ALL unhindered 13. And Secondly we understand further That God himself is the Seeing and the Finding of the Nothing And it is therefore called a Nothing though clearly it is GOD himself because that it is incomprehensible and inexpressible or Ineffable The Third Question What is Gods Love and Anger How is he an angry Jealous or Zealous God Seeing he himself is the unchangeable Love How may Love and Anger be ONE only Thing Answer 1. THough we may here be hard to be understood by the Reader Yet he may understand all in the divine Power and Calling upon God if it be in right earnest sincerity with him 2. The Reader must know that all things consist in IAH and NEIN in †Yea and Nay 2 Cor. 1.18 19 20. Affirmation and Negation Yes and No. be it Divine Diabolicall Earthly or whatsoever can be Named 3. The ONE viz the IAH is meer Power and Life and it is the Truth of God or GOD himself This would in it self be unknowable or unapprehensible and in it would be no Joy nor triumphant exultation nor perceptibility or inventibility without the NEIN or No. 4. The NEIN or No is an Object or representation of the IAH or of the Truth that the Truth may be manifest and that there be somewhat wherein a Contrary is and whatsoever can be Loved wherein the Eternall Love is working perceptible and desirous 5. And yet we cannot say that the IAH is separated from the NEIN or No and are TWO things one besides the other But they are only ONE thing and yet sever themselves into two * Or Principia beginnings and make two †Or Contra. Centers wherein each of them worketh and willeth in it self 6. As the Day in the Night and the Night in the Day are two Centers and yet unsevered but only with the Will and Desire they are severed For they have a twofold Fire in them As first the Day the Heat unclosing and the second the Night the Cold inclosing and yet this together but One Fire and neither of them both without the other would be Manifest or Working 7. For the Cold is the Root of the Heat and the Heat is the Cause that the Cold is perceptible Without these two which yet stand continually in Strife all things would be a Nothing and would stand still without Moving 8. Thus also is to be apprehended concerning the Eternall Unity of the Divine Power If the Eternall Will did not it self flow forth from it self and introduce it self into receptibility then there would be no form nor distinction but all Powers would be nothing else but one only Power Also then there could not possibly be any Knowledge or Vnderstanding for the Understanding ariseth in the distinguibility of the Multiplicity where one Property seeth proveth or tryeth and willeth the other In like manner also the Joy standeth therein 9. And yet if there must exist a receptibility then there must be an own desire to the perceptibility of it self viz a self-will to the receptibility which is not not willeth like unto the one only Will for the one only Will willeth nothing Else but the one only Good which it self is it willeth no other then it self in the likeness 10. But the out-flowen Will willeth the unlikeness that it may be distinguished from the likeness and be its own Somewhat that there may be somewhat which the Eternall Seeing can see and perceive or find 11. And out of the own Will existeth the NEIN or No. For it bringeth it self into ownness that is into the receptibility of it Self It willeth to be Somewhat and likeneth not it self to the Unity 12. For the Unity is an Out-flowing IAH which Eternally standeth thus in the Speaking or Breathing forth of it self and it is an unperceptibility or uninventibility for it hath nothing wherein it may find it self but only in the receptibility of the departed Will viz in the NEIN or No which is an Object or * Or Reflex-Image Representation of the IAH wherein the IAH becometh Manifest or Revealed and wherein it hath somewhat that it can desire 13. For the ONE hath nothing in it self that it can desire unlesse it DOUBLETH it self so that it becometh TWO Also it cannot find or perceive it self in
Sabbath in which all my Powers should work in an Eternall Rest and be and continue holy in THEE O alas indeed it was the True Paradise wherein thou didst set our first Parents that they should Sanctifie thy Sabbath viz thy in dwelling operative power that is rightly Love and bring no strange Lust of false or wicked desire thereinto and not darken or obscure this Holy Sabbath of thy in-dwelling Power with own desire and not bring the Serpents Lust or Falshood and Wickedness thereinto but Will Work and Live with THEE that thou alone in ME be the working willing and doing 208. O Dear God indeed thou settest before me in this Commandement the Figure wherein I see thy Ordinance and Will thou requirest the ability from me that I should live in the Ordinance in thy Will as thou hast Created me in Adam but my Father Adam hath turned his Will from thee and introduced it into own Lust and Desire and brought such Paradisicall working in thy Rest into a fiery enimicitious proud stately covetous Envious and Angry working 209. And hath unhallowed or prophaned thine and his Sabbath and brought the Serpents false or wicked working and willing thereinto For which things sake thou hast thrust him forth out of such Rest and Paradisicall working and Cursed his false or wicked working For while it worketh with the Devill and Hell and runneth on in meer unquietness it is so long even an Enmity against thy Holy Sabbath 210. Thou settest before us in this Commandement how thou hast wrought all things in the Six Properties of the Eternall Nature as the First I. the Desirousnesse the Second II. the Mobility the Third III. the Perceptibility the Fourth IV. the Fire or Life the Fift V. the Light or Love the Sixt VI. the Understanding or Knowledge of the Power But yet hast introduced it into the Seventh VII Property viz into thy Substantiall Unity and Rest wherein all thy Works should Rest in thy Working Love wherein thou wouldst work with thy Love Which then was the right Paradise upon Earth in the Elements wherein thy Shed-abroad Love had the Vpper dominion in ALL. 211. But the Devill and Man hath destroyed this and for that cause hast thou righteous God Cursed the working of the own false or wicked Will and withdrawn thy Sabbath from it so that now All things stand in meer Unquietness Misery Lamentation Necessity Stinging Breaking Murther Killing and Contrary Willing 212. This hath my Father Adam devolved upon me by Inheritance so that I now work and run on in thy Anger and Continually Break and Unhallow or Prophane thy Sabbath in me and Misuse thy Name which hath together with my Life given it self into my working and willing 213. But since Man is become blind as to this Knowledge therefore thou hast in thy Commandement set before him a Figure and Form signifying to or for what thou hast Created him and in what Order or Ordinance he stood and requirest of him that he should in such Form or Ordinance sanctifie thy Sabbath and on the Seventh Day stand still from all his working to signifie that THOU art the Sabbath in whom all things Rest 214. Also therewith thou settest before us the Eternall REST wherein All and Every thing which is flowed to the Eternall and out of the Eternall should rest in thy Sabbath and hast set thy Curse and Anger against whatsoever keepeth not thy Order or Ordinance and doth not rest on thy Sabbath in THEE and alone worketh with thee 215. O Eternall God! What shall I now here say before thee My Conscience witnesseth against me that we doe not rightly sanctifie thy Sabbath For Men therein exercise all wicked voluptuous vain and disorderly Life It is unhallowed or prophaned with vain pomp and voluptuousnesse of the Flesh wherein the Devill in thy Anger worketh in MANY and keepeth his Sabbath of Contrary Sports Actions or Scenes 216. We suffer our selves to be called and Invited by thy Word and hold the sound which we hear to be thy Sabbath but the Soul and the Mind is not regarded we passe by as the Deaf that hear not THY Voyce 217. Thou callest us into thy Sabbath but the Soul hath turned it self away from thee and worketh in own willing in the Lust of the Devill and rests contented with the Name that it is thy Sabbath but it will not hold still to thee and turn its Eares and desire to THEE that thou mayst work in it 218. The Devill hath introduced his Sabbath into Mankind and so blinded them that they know thy Sabbath no more for which cause thou hast also thrust our Father Adam and our Mother Eve out of thy holy Sabbath and yet hast introduced thy SABBATH in the Name JESUS into the Humanity again that it should work in us again and we in it which destroyeth the Devils Sabbath of Falshood Lying and Vanity and hath brought us the Paradise again that we should now turn to thee and receive this Sabbath and give our selves totally up into the working of thy Grace and so thou wilt O Eternall God in JESUS CHRIST erect a NEW Sabbath in us again and make an abode or habitation in us and sanctifie again thy Imaged Word viz our Minde and Soul and set it in the Eternall Sabbath viz in the Rest of thy Unity 219. O Eternall God! I give up my Soul and Mind to thee into thy Holy and New Sabbath JESUS CHRIST and direct all my Power Willing and Thoughts towards thee take and lead me I pray thee into thy New Sabbath for I cannot in my own power attain it if thou bringest not me thereinto 220. But since thou hast in thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST bidden me to come and thou wilt quicken or refresh me Math. 11.28 Therefore I come upon thy inviting Word to thy Eternall Supper of thy Eternall Covenant in CHRIST JESUS and pray thee to sanctifie my poor Soul in the Sabbath of thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST and introduce it therein into the Eternall Rest and give it again the food of thy true Sabbath viz his holy Flesh and Bloud that my Soul may again sanctifie thy Sabath and that thou alone mayst work in it as in thy very expresse reflex Image 221. Doe thou break in me I pray thee the Devils Sabbath and false or wicked working and give me an Obedient Heart that continually hungereth after thy Sabbath And let thy Word in me keep the Sabbath that my Soul may hear what thou in thy working Speakest in me that it may be Obedient to thee and that I may set ALL my Trust and Confidence in thee 222. O thou Eternall Love of JESUS CHRIST How Glorious is thy Sabbath in the Soul when it turneth it Self to thee so that thou penetratest and presseth through it with thy sweet Love wherein the Paradise becometh unshut to it again 223. Let my Soul I pray thee continue Eternally in thy Sabbath build up I pray thee in me again thy New
and in Love hast Betrothed and Espoused 99. O God HOLY SPIRIT let me walk and Converse in thy Power and let thy Holy Angels which thou hast appointed to me Lead me through JESUS CHRIST Crucified Our Lord Amen A Prayer when a Man will goe about his Work or Labour and Calling or Employment wherein God hath set Every One. 100. ALmighty Eternall God and Loving Father Creatour of Heaven and of Earth thou hast Created ALL Things to thy Prayse and MAN to thy Expresse Image and set him to be a Lord and Ruler of thy Works and hast put all under his hands 101. I poor unworthy sinfull Man consider with my self the heavy Fall of our first Parents whereby thy Curse came upon this Work and upon the Earth and I consider with my self how our first Parents are fallen out of Paradise into this Curse wherein now all of us must swimme in Weariness Toyle Incumberances Cares and Necessities and make our selves weary sick and faint that we may uphold and sustain our Lives till at length we enter again into Dust and Ashes the Substance out of which we are proceeded Where we are to Expect and wait for thy true and reall Promise that thou wilt awaken and raise us up again out of the Dust in the Last Day and form us into the fair Paradisicall Image again 102. This now I consider with my self when I take in hand the Work Calling and Employment wherein thou hast by or through Nature appointed or ordained me and pray thy Great Mercy which thou after this Heavy Fall and Apostacy hast turned towards us again in the Grace of JESUS CHRIST blesse me I pray thee in my Calling State Condition and Employment and turn away thy Curse and Anger from me through the Love of Jesus Christ that the Evill Spirit may not touch or sift me in my Calling and Condition and bring me into Falshood that I may not at all therein hurt deceive betray or wrong my Neighbour with Words or Deedâ— or desire that which I should not 103. Give me I pray thee O Dear LORD a ready Heart and Minde that I may with a Good Conscience without any false or wicked desire also without Pride Covetousness Envy and Anger perform my work and order my Condition according to thy Will and also rest satisfied with thy Grace with what thou givest me and that with the Works and Labour of my hands in my Office Duty State and Condition wherein thou hast set me I may NOT seek my own only to serve my self and my own turn alone but also my Neighbours benefit also may come to help the Miserable and the Impotent also the Weak Blind Simple and needy which are not gifted or furnished with understanding of thy Works of Wonder to manage them 104. Help I pray thee O Loving GOD that I may rightly know my self that I in my State and Condition and Office or Employment am but thy Servant or Minister and that all whatsoever I possesse cometh from thy hand and that I in this World have nothing my own but am only a Pilgrim and Sojournour upon Earth and thou O God the FATHER together with thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST in the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT dost thy self work drive manage and rule all and that all is thine alone and not mine 105. Give me I pray thee rightly to know that all Men are proceeded from One and in that regard that all are my fellow Members Brethren and Sisters as a Tree in its Branches So that I should Love them ALL. 106. As thou O Loving God hast loved us with One only or singular Love in JESUS CHRIST before the Foundation of the World and yet lovest us with the same Love and hast attoned or reconciled us all in one only Love as to thy Anger So O Loving God awaken and stirre up I pray thee also that same Love in ME and kindle my Soul and Mind therewith that I also may with and in THEE in thy Love love all my fellow Members and readily and willingly serve and minister to them That thy Name in us all may be sanctified and thy Will in us be done so that we all in One Love may Eat and Drink thy Blessings 107. And take from us the Evill and the Heavy Guilt viz thy Curse and Anger that the Devils Envy and Covetousnesse may not Spring or flow up in us and introduce us into Vengeance and Malice 108. That we also may heartily love one another and forgive one another our slips failings and infirmities as thou daily forgivest us in thy Love in JESUS CHRIST 109. O LORD prevent I pray thee the suttle Talons of the Devill that he may not Tempt us and bring our evill Inclinations aloft whereby I may be drawn into false or wicked Lusts 110. Deliver me O Dear God from all such Evil through the Bloud and Death of our Lord JESUS CHRIST and give me a Chearfull-Mind to manage thy wonders 111. Help me so that I may Work Will or Act nothing without thy Power bring my Life through thy Wonder-Works and Creature into the Eternall Heavenly working in into the Spirituall hidden Secret World and let me here in thy Works of Wonder increase in Power and Knowledge that also my in ward Ground may grow and increase in thy Wonder-Works in thy Power to the Manifestation or Revelation of the New Jerusalem in us where thou O True GOD wilt work will and be all in all in us 112. Therefore give me I pray thee constantly and continually to know this that I may have it for a token of remembrance to think upon in my Mind and not sinne nor break off my Mind from thee and generate a false or wicked Image which lusteth only after State Pride Covetousness and self-Honour and be Damned with the Evill Spirits but let me be One Spirit and Will with thee and Co-work with thee in the power of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST and of the HOLY SPIRIT Amen A Prayer on Munday at Noon or Midday or whensoever such an attentive Thought stirreth to consider ones State and Condition 113. O God Eternall FATHER I thank thee and praise thee that thou hast appointed and ordained me in this State and Condition that thou hast given me Good Things and meanes for Sustenance and set me among honest vertuous People whom I should serve and Minister to and benefit with my Gifts and hast indued me with Reason and Vnderstanding and Created me a rationall Man so that I know thee and that I am not a Dull Dead foolish ignorant Man who knoweth nothing of thee and thanketh not thee for such benefits But hast Created me from or out of the Light of the World that I may with and in thy Light work or act and live and shewest me all thy Wonders in thy Light 114. I thank thee for this that thou hast created me to thy Expresse Image and set thy Wonders under my hand that I may know them and may
28. Question What are the Principles in the Spirit of this World Of the Superiour and Inferiour Substance 29. Question What is the Sperme or Seed of the Generation of all Things 30. Question What is the distinction or difference of thâ— Sperme or Seed between the Metals Stones and Vegetables viz Hearbs Trees and Mineral Earths 31. Question How is the Conjunction of the Feminine and Masculine Kind Effected whence their Seed and growing exist 32. Question What is the Tincture in the Spermatick Kind or Species whence the Growing and Lustre Exist 33. Question Out of what are all Creatures of the Mortall Life become Sprouted and Created 34. Question What was the Archaeus and Separator of their Kind or Species and Property which hath formed and still at this day doth form them 35. Question What are the Six dayes work of the Creation and the Sabbath 36. Question What is the difference or distinction of the Mortall Creatures And what is their Chaos wherein every Generation or Species liveth and wherein they are become distinguished one from another 37. Question To what End and wherefore did the Mortall Creatures come to be 38. Question Out of what * Gen. 2.7 to the 22. as to the Body did Man become Created 39. Question What was * the breathing in whence Man is become a living Soul 40. Question What is the Immortal Life in Man viz the Soul And what is the Spirit of Man and the outward Life in this World in him 41. Question What is the Idea or Expresse reflex * Gen. 1.26 Image of God in Man wherein God worketh and dwelleth 42. Question What was †See the 40. Questions of the Soul Quest 39. 40. Also Myster Magnum ch 25. ver 16. And the 14. Epistle ver 14. quere the Epistle in English Paradise wherein God Created Man Is it alterable and a Creature Or doth it stand in the Eternal Ground 43. Question Why did God in the Beginning Create but ONE Man And not instantly a Man and Wife at once as other Species are 44. Question Whether was the first Man in such a habit of Condition Created to Eternal Life or to change or alteration 45. Question What manner of Image was Adam before his Eve in what Form and Condition was he when he was neither Man nor Wife but both 46. Question Whether had Adam before his Eve Gen. 2. from the 7. to the 22. also Masculine Members and such Bones Stomack Guts Entrails Teeth and also such things as we now have 47. Question If Adam also had been thus as we are now How was it possible that he should stand in such a Manner in impassibility and incorruptibility 48. Question Had Adams Eating and Drinking been after a Paradisicall Manner without care and necessity or want if he had stood out the Tryall or Proba 49. Question Whether also should Adam have Eaten such Fruit in Paradise as the Heavenly Food after this Time shall be Or whereinto should he have Eaten Where should that have remained Or what would have become of it Seeing all Substances of this World are earthly and transitory and he only was an Eternall Heavenly Image and needed not the Vanity 50. Question Whether also did The four Elements govern Adam in his Innocency or but ONE only in the Equality of the four Elements also whether did he feel Heat and Cold before he fell 51. Question Whether also should any thing have been able to kill him or destroy him 52. Question What should Adams State and Condition upon Earth have been What should he have done if he had Continued in Paradise 53. Question What was the Earth with its Fruits before the Curse when it was called Paradise Gen. 3.17 54. Question Whether also should it have been possible that the propagation should be effected without Man and Wife being * Luk. 20 3â—.36 in the Resurrection from the Dead they shall be neither Man nor Wife but as the Angels of God in Heaven Math. 22.30 55. Question How should it have been possible that a Man and Wife should have remained Eternally Or whether would God have altered and changed this Creature Man Seeing in the Eternall Life they shall be like the Angels Whether also Adam in the beginning became Created in that very angelicall Imaging or in another Imaging that shall rise again and live Eternally 56. Question What were the Trees in Paradise which were †Gen. 2.9 amiable to behold and good to be eaten of 57. Question What was * Gen. 2.9 the Tree of Life and also the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evill each in its Power Essence and Property 58. Question Wherefore did God Create these Trees seeing he knew well that Man would lay hold on them and so hurt himself thereby 59. Question Why did God †Gen. 2.17 forbid Man these Tree What iâ— the Cause thereof 60. Question Why should Man * Gen. 1.26 rule over all the living Creatures or Beast of the Earth how should that have been and to what End 61. Question Why did God say †Gen. 2.18 It is not good for Man to be alone whereas yet in the beginning * Gen. 1.31 he beheld all his Works that he had made and said they are very Good But concerning Man only he said It is not good that this Man should be alone why was it not Good 62. Question Why did †Gen. 2.21 to the 24. God suffer or cause a deep Sleep to fall upon Adam when he built or framed a Wife out of his Rib What doth that Signifie 63. Question How became the Wife or Woman made out of Adam What doth the Rib out of his Side signifie out of which God made the Wife or Woman as Moses writeth 64. Question Whether also did Eve receive a Soul and Spirit from Adams Soul and Spirit or a New strange One especially and severally given from God 65. Question How was the dividing of Adam into the Wife or Woman effected 66. Question Why * Gen. 2.23 did Adam take his Eve instantly to him and say That she was his Flesh How could he know her 67. Question What was the Serpent on the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill which seduced Eve Gen. 3.1 68. Question Why did the Serpent perswade Eve and Not Adam to Lust after the Fruit What was the Fruit on which they both did Eat Death 69. Question What was the Sinne Gen. 3.6 and how is it become a Sinne So that it is Enmity against God 70. Question Why did not God hinder that See the Answer to the 9. Question that it should not be done or Committed Seeing he had †Gen. 2.17 forbidden it to them 71. Question How * Gen. 3.7 did Adam's and Eye 's Eyes become opened so that they saw that they were Naked which they did not know before 72. Question What was * Gen. 3.8 Adam and Eves Shame that they hid
themselves by the Trees of Paradise Whence came the Fear and the Terrour 73. Question How did Adam and Eve in the Fall really †Gen. 3.3 dye away from the Kingdome of Heaven and Paradise and yet lived Naturally as to this World 74. Question What was * Gen. 3.8 See the Mysterium Magnum chap. 33. ver 11. to the 16. Three Principles chap. 17. ver 91. the Voice of God in the Word when the Day became Cool How did God call Adam again How is that to be understood 75. Question What is †Gen. 3.15 the Seed of the Woman or Wife and the Crushing or treading upon the Serpent what did God speak or breath into them again was it only an Outward Promising or an * Jam. 1.21 incorporating of the Operative or Effectual Grace 76. Question What is the †Gen. 3.17 See Myster Magnum ch 25. ver 38. Three Principles chap. 20. ver 40. Curse of the Earth And what is Effected thereby 77. Question How did Adam and Eve become * Gen. 3.24 thrust out of Paradise into this World And what was the Cherubine with the Naked Sword before Paradise 78. Question Why did the †Gen. 4.8 See the Three Principles ch 20. ver 45. and 84. first Man born of Woman become a Murtherer 79. Question What was * Gen. 4.3 4. Cain and Abels Sacrifice Mysterium Magnum ch 26. ver 44. Wherefore did they Offer Sacrifice What did they thereby Effect 80. Question Why was Cains Murther Committed because of the Sacrifice what was the Ground of that Mysterium Magnum ch 27. ver 41. And what Manner of Type or prefiguration are these two Brothers 81. Question In what Grace did the first World Mysterium Magnum ch 28. ver 4. to the 25. without Law become saved What was their Justification 82. Question Whether did Cain become Damned in respect of his sinnes Mysterium Magnum ch 29. ver 57 54. What was his doubting or despairing of Grace 83. Question Why did †Gen. 4.15 Mysterium Magnum ch 29. God Make a Mark upon Cain And say Whosoever slayeth Cain his blood shall be avenged sevenfold 84. Question Wherefore * Gen. 4 2◠said Lamech one of Cains posterity to his Wives Zilla and Ada Lamech shall be avenged Seventy times Seven times what doth that signifie 85. Question What was the †Gen. 6. from 1. to the 8. Greatest Sinne of the first World 86. Question * Gen. 5.22 23 24. Hebr. 11.5 Luke 9.30 31. See the 35. Question in the forty Questions of the Soul What it the Enochien Life Where hath Enoch remained or what hath become of him as also Moses and Elias 87. Question †Gen. 7.10 Mysterium Magnum ch 34. ver 37. What did the Deluge or Floud for Sinne signifie 88. Question What signifieth * Gen. 9.21 22 25. Noahs Drunkenness Upon which he Cursed his Sonne Ham 89. Question What is †Gen. 11.2 4 9. Mysterium Magnum ch 35. and 36. the Tower at Babell and wherefore did the Languages there become altered or changed 90. Question What was the Covenant of * Gen. 17.5 ◠Abraham concerning the Blessing together with the Circumcision What doth that signifie 91. Question What manner of Figure is †Gen. 19.13.24.25 Mysterium Magnum ch 43. the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha How was that Effected 92. Question Wherefore did * Gen. 19.26 Mysterium Magnum ch 44. ver 28 c. Lots Wife become a Pillar of Salt How is that to be understood 93. Question Wherefore did †Gen. 19. from 30. to the 38. Mysterium Magnum ch 44. ver 3. and 36 c. Lots Daughters lye with their Father And beforehand made him drunk that they might be impregnate or with childe of their Father Whence two mighty Nations existed What doth this Figure signifie 94. Question What * Exod. 2.3 to the 10. doth Moses's figure signifie that he must be taken out of the Lake of Water and be preserved for so great an Office 95. Question Why did †Exod. 3.2 Acts 7.30 the Lord appear to Moses in the Bush after a Fire-flaming manner when he Elected and Chose him 96. Question * Exod. 7. ch to the 13. Out of what Power did Moses do his Wonders before Pharaoh What doth this Figure signifie 97. Question What manner of Figure is †Exod. 13. the bringing forth of the Children of Israel out of Egypt 98. Question Why * Exod. 24.18 ch 34.28 Deut. 9.9 must Moses remain forty dayes upon Mount Sinai when God gave him the Law 99. Question What is †Rom. 13.9 10. the Law in one Totall Summe 100. Question What were the * Heb. 9. c. Sacrifices of Moses How did Sinne become over thrown and reconciled through these Sacrifices 101. Question What is the ground of the Propheticall Prophesying By what Knowledge and Spirit did * 2. Pet. 1.19.20 21. the Prophets in the Old Testament Prophesie 102. Question What is †John 1.41 Christ of whom the Prophets in the Old Testament Prophesied 103. Question What was * Mal. 4.6 Luke 1.13 15 16 24 36 63. John the Baptist the Fore-runner of Christ 104. Question What †Luke 1.26 27. manner of Virgin was Mary in which God became Man ere She became impregnate or with Childe 105. Question * Luke 1.27 Wherefore must Mary beforehand be betrothed to old Joseph ere She became impregnate of the Holy Ghost 106. Question How is God viz the word †Iohn 1.14 become Flesh What hath he assumed from Man 107. Question Wherefore would * Math. 1.21 23. Luke 1.31 God become Man Could he not forgive Man his Sinnes without becoming Man 108. Question How was the Uniting of the Deity and Humanity in this becoming Man 109. Question How did Christ become born of Mary to this World without prejudice to her * Isai 7.14 Math. 1.23 Virginity How could She after the Birth remain still a Virgin 110. Question Why did Christ Converse †Luke 3.23 thirty yeares upon Earth before he entred upon his Office Why did * Luke 2.52 He increase in Age and Grace with God and Man Seeing he is God himself and needeth no encreasing 111. Question Why †Mark 1.9 did Christ suffer himself to be Baptised by John with Water whereas he himself was both the Baptisme and Baptiser which should baptise with the Holy Ghost 112. Question Wherefore must Christ * Math. 4.2 after his Baptisme be forty dayes Tempted in the Wilderness What is that that a God-Man should be Tempted And why must the Devil Tempt him before he †Math. 4.1 and 23. Iohn 2.11 began his Works of Wonder or Miracles 113. Question How * Iohn 3.13 was Christ in Heaven and also on Earth both at once 114. Question Why did Christ upon Earth †Math. 13.34
praise thee and rejoyce themselves and are Glad IN thy Power 134. Above all this hast thou O Great God made my Mind a Knoweresse and Companion or Play-fellow of thy Wisdome that I should praise thee therein and help to promote and Manage thy Wonder Works Thou hast had thy good Pleasure therein that thou hast subjected such power under me and hast given me to work in all things and Made ALL to be my own 135. O Great God in CHRIST JESUS where is now my Might and Glory It is indeed blind obscure and dark bring me again I pray thee into my place of thy Creation that I may become seeing again in this Light and know thy Wonders Lighten thou I pray thee again my Outward Sun and Moon-Light that I in the outward Substance may learn to know thy Inward Power 136. O thou Infinite Endlesse Every where lightening Light of the Great HIDDENNESSE give me I pray thee thy Beames of thy hidden Glory that I in my Light may see the Light of thy Shining 137. O thou Fire and Light of the Great INWARDNESSE take pitty and have mercy upon my Misery and help me out of this obscure darksome house wherein I am captived 138. Give me I pray thee a true knowledge again of thy Substance to which thou hast in the beginning Imaged Formed or Framed the Mind in Nature and hast ordained or appointed the same to the willing of thy Figures and Creation 139. Bring me I pray thee again in CHRIST my Saviour into my Glory which I had and though indeed the Body in this Time is not worthy of it seeing it is become a stinking Carkasse yet through shine or enlighten I pray thee my Noble MIND being thy Expresse Image and let it in CHRIST my Saviour dwell in Heaven in the Communion and Fellowship of thy Holy Angels 140. Place thou it in the Noon or Midday of thy Wonders for which thou hast Imaged Formed or Framed it and Rule thou O Lord JESUS CHRIST as with thy Inheritance therewith over All things and help me that I may be humble and that I may not assume or usurp to my self what thou doest but may look after Thee and that my desire may praise thee and Continually live in thy Harmonie and without thee may desire NOT to begin or Doe any thing 141. O LORD thou holiest LIGHT of all let my Mind I pray thee dwell in thy Courts that it may from thy Glance which floweth forth from thee rejoyce it self and Eternally no more depart from thee but bring it again to the Communion and Society of the holy Angels whereto thou hast ordained or appointed it 142. O holy Name IMMANUEL IT is thine doe thou therewith what thou wilt AMEN A Prayer on Munday towards Evening to Consider the Toylsomnesse of the Labour of our hands in the Curse of Gods Anger Concerning the Climbing down or descending of the MIND 143. O GOD how miserable full of Affliction Sorrow Cumberance and Care is our Life Time full of Anguish and Tribulation when we suppose we stand upright and would rejoyce in the work of our hands then thou over-cloudest or over shadowest us with thy fierie Wrath and makest us that we are anxious and troubled 144. We run up and down and trouble our selves and there is none that pursueth or hunteth us but only thy Anger in Our Calamity and Corruption We consume our dayes as * Psal 90.9 a Tale that is told as a Discourse which will vanish so passe our Dayes away and we are alwayes in unquietness and disturbance Unstable is our Conversation We relie upon our own Arme and cleave to the work of our Hands and trust NOT totally to thee therefore thou lettest us go away in our Anxiety Perplexity and Torment 145. We never Consider that thou O God THY self doest and workest ALL for no Breath can without Thee stirre it self NOT the least Spile of Grasse without Thee can Crown the Earth 146. All this we see and yet build upon our Nothingnesse upon our handy-work and trust not thee aright 147. We gather together and enjoy it not A Stranger followeth who also vexeth and perplexeth himself THEREIN with Vanity and there is no Number or End of the Misery which we promote and Manage 148. O GOD Consider I pray thee our Toyle and Misery and turn thy Anger and Curse away from us and let us run to thy Limit or Goale again that we may come again into our Inheritance and rejoyce our selves in thy Wonders 149. Look I pray thee on the Anxiety of our Minds and the Contrivance of our Will and consider that we lie shut up in the substance of Dust 150. Release us we pray thee and raise us up O LORD And bring us home again For we are in a strange Country with a strange Mother which very much Scourgeth us in thy fierce Wrath and letteth us run on in very hunger and want of thy sweet Food 151. We must with the Lost Prodigall Sonne eat the Husks of Vanity our Garment is grown old and full of Reproach and we stand in great shame before thy Holiness the driver of thy Anger leadeth us captive when we suppose we have apprehended thee then thou hidest thy Countenance from us and lettest us faint and Fail 152. All this our own Will effecteth in that we turn our selves away from thee into Vanity and desire only transitory Matters we swimme with our Lust therein as the Fish in the Water and say alwaies to our Soul it hath no need or want Whereas yet we stand upon the Abysse of Hell and the fierce wrathfull Death expecteth us every Moment We walk all towards the Night and run towards our Graves as a swift Messenger runneth his Journey 153. O Lord JESU Continue we pray thee with and in us and teach us to Consider that our outward Life upon which we so much trust runneth towards the Evening and to its End So that it is very soon done with us And teach us to walk the right way Be thou I pray thee with us on the Path of this Pilgrimage and lead us home to thee 154. When our Night draweth neer and that Death setteth its Jawes so wide open after our Flesh and outward Life and swalloweth us up into it self and grindeth us to powder like Ashes Then take us we pray thee into thy Power and let us be as sweetest Bread in the Essence of thy out flown or out-breathed words of thy Mouth 155. Help I pray thee my DEAR GOD that I may continually think on this that My outward Life continually every Moment goeth on towards the Evening towards Dirt and Dung That I alwayes come neerer and neerer to the Night of Earth that the Course of my Life is only a Course to the Grave where the * Job 19.26 Wormes will Consume me 156. O LORD Whatsoever is here an abomination to me into the very Jawes thereof I must fall and give my self up to it
for ITS Food And where then remaineth my Lust and Pleasure of Earthly things which I exercise here in the World If all will become a reproach to me why doe I lift up my self in Temporall LUST seeing it cannot release me from the Reproach Wherefore doth my Soul vex it self and is in anguish and panteth after ITS Enemy which leadeth it to the Dark night 157. O GOD teach me I pray thee to apprehend this that I may turn my Heart from the Toylsomeness of the Works of this World to THEE and not hold Death to be my Life so that I may Live in Continuall Repentance and that my Mind may throw or demerse it self to or into THEE and may work with Thee so that also my right Flesh created in Adam may be Sanctified and out of the Dust may be brought to the MIND again 158. Release me I pray thee from the Grosse Husk of the Earthly Flesh whereinto the Devill hath brought his Poyson which is of no profit in thy Kingdome John 6. and generate in me again the heavenly Spirituall Body wherein is the Immortality and wherein no evill or false or wicked LUST may exist any more and let me in CHRIST JESU Rest in thee till the Glorious Coming again and Revelation or Manifestation of thy Glory AMEN A Prayer when Man in the Evening ceaseth from his Work and would goe to Sleep 159. O GOD thou Father of ALL GOOD I thank thee through JESUS CHRIST thy Dear Sonne our LORD and Saviour For all thy Benefits that thou hast graciously protected me this day from all evill and hurt and now I commend to thee my Work into thy disposing and fly with my Mind to thee and give my self up wholly and altogether into thy Holy working 160. Work thou I pray thee now this Night and alwaies with thy Grace-power in me and break in me the vain desire of false or evill working wherein thy Curse and fierce Wrath in my Flesh desireth to co-work as also the Devils introduced Lust which stirreth up my whole Mind to Lust of vanity Destroy THESE O Dear God! with thy Power and kindle up in me the Fire of thy pure Love and overthrow the false wicked LUST of Impurity and Vncleanness 161. Withstand thou all evill Influences of the Constellations or Astrum and the Kindled Elements and let me rest in thy Power that my Mind may NOT be introduced into false or wicked Desires and Inclinations 162. O GREAT Holy God into thy Grace and Mercifulness I plunge my self wholly and altogether I pray thee let thy Good Angel be with me that he may keep off the fierie Streames or Darts of wickednesse that I may rest securely in thy Power through JESUS CHRIST our LORD Amen A Prayer when we undresse and lie down to Rest 163. O MERCIFULL GOD I pray thee doe thou in me draw or pull off the false or wicked Garment of the Serpent which my Father Adam and my Mother Eve have drawn on to me through their false Lust Wherein my poor Soul is cloathed with thy Anger and standeth in shame before thy holy Angels 164. I pray thee strip thou my Mind and Soul Naked that my Mind may become undressed from such a Garment and may stand clearly before thy Countenance but I pray thee yet cloath thou it with thy Power and with the Garment of the humanity of JESUS CHRIST that it may converse again with the Holy Angels before THEE 165. O Dear Lord JESUS CHRIST I give up my Soul and Mind altogether barely and Nakedly to Thee draw thou off from me the impure Garment Wherein I stand in Great Shame before Gods Holiness But I pray thee cloath thou me with thy Victory and set me before thy Father again as a New born Child which thou hast washed in thy Bloud and whose evill Will THOU hast put to death in thy Death and in thy Resurrection hast new regenerated 166. And kindle in this New Birth thy Light that I may walk in the Light and be and Continue a Branch in thee AMEN A Thanksgiving of the Repentant Soul for the bitter Passion and Dying of JESUS CHRIST 167. O Most deep LOVE of God in CHRIST JESU I give thee Praise and Thanks that thou hast delivered me out of the Fire Source or Quality of Torment or painfulness and hast given thy self with thy Love and Grace into my Fire-Source or Quality and changeâ— me into a Love-fire and divine Light 168. Thou hast put thy Power and Might into my Essence in Body and Soul and given thy self to me for my own Yea thou hast purchased my self with thy Grace through the Treasure of thy most pretious Bloud for thy own for which I thank thee in Eternity 169. And I pray thee thou Eternall shed-forth LOVE In the Most Holy Name JESUS bring me I pray thee when I shall have dyed away here from the Temporall Death again into My first Native Country in which my Father Adam in his Innocency dwelt even in to PARADISE and bury my Body and Soul in the divine Rest 170. In the mean while Grant that I may daily enter into Repentance and into the going out from my Earthly Will and also continue so stedfastly the whole time of my Life THEREIN and that I may bear much Good fruit in THAT Condition Till thou introducest me into the Rest in my right Native Country in the true Land of Promise wherein the Milk and Honey of the divine Power floweth AMEN Here End the Authours Meditations and Prayers for Munday Ten Commandements for TUESDAY A Prayer Concerning Gods Righteousness also his strong or Severe Commandement and Law what God requires of us and how the same may become fulfilled Deduced from and Through the Ten Commandements And Creed or Faith and set forth Confession and Prayer-wise An Earnest Looking-Glasse well to be Considered The First Commandement God said upon Mount Sinai to Israel I am the Lord thy God c. thou shalt have no other Gods besides me Exod. 1.2 Deut. 5.6 7. Also Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God from thy whole Heart from thy whole Soul and from thy whole Mind Deut. 6.5 Math. 22.37 The Confession 171. O Great HOLY GOD thou hast Made Man out of the Limus or Extract of the Earth wherein Paradise sprung forth viz thy Holy Power a Glorious powerfull and fair bright Body without distemper and without fragility a Likeness or Equality of the Elements 172. And hast in-breathed into him out of thy Power the Inward Psychicall or Soulish and outward Elementary Life from the power of thy inward divine Working and Knowledge or Skill viz the Great Name of * Germanice GOTTES GOD and hast given him a Will of his own that he may be an Image according to thy Wonder-deed Might and Glory and rule over all thy Creatures of this World also thou hast given him the outward Life of all Operation or Working with the Inward Soulish Life through which thou rulest the