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A28527 Mercurius Teutonicus, or, A Christian information concerning the last times being divers propheticall passages of the fall of Babel and the new building in Zion / gathered out of the mysticall writings of that famous Germane author, Jacob Behmen, alias, Teutonicus Phylosophus.; Selections. English Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. 1649 (1649) Wing B3409 51,513 57

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unchristian fury and bloud-thirsty minde whereby shee destroys not her opposites onely but her own selfe and even that which shee thinks to better and maintaine Thing whereby men may now see how her whoredome hath been manifold and how the Devill had beset us with manifold Nets and how one whoredome runs in the opposition to another and are malicious bite and slay one another 24. For the Great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the Great Iniquitie wherewith shee is fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her wofull smart and shee speaketh of the childe which she shall bring forth viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny shee uncovereth her faire feature as she is in the Heart Now he that will not know her for him there is no remedy 25. The Revelation saith Goe out from her my people that you may not be partakers of her plagues for shee hath filled her cup full with the Abominations of her whoredome in the Anger of God them shee shall drinke out and thereby be forced to burst her selfe 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her own mouth doth strangle her her own Turba destroyeth her shee cryeth for vengeance and murther upon heresie and yet shee doth it not for God but for her Adulterous Bratt otherwise if shee did it for God shee would enter into his Command and Will of Love where Christ saith Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples 27. The Kingdome of God stands not in any warre or revilings or in an outward shew in delicious dayes herein the children of God are not to be found but in love in patience and hope in faith under the Crosse of Christ there groweth the Church of God to the holy Ternary i. e. a new angelicall man hidden in the old and this is my certain knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zion I say according to my knowledge as the Spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an Ending of the Deceit and Zion shall be found yet onely of the children of faith not in generall as if no wicked man should remaine 29. For the Oppressour shall be a Cause that Zion is borne when men shall see how Babel is an whore then shall many children be found in Zion and seek the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them at the heels and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and exercise their faith and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his Room 30. But the generall Zion appeareth first in greatest misery when Babel breaketh it shall stand desolate and miserable and then the children of Zion shall say How hath the Lord forsaken us come we beseech you let us seeke his face ah let us depart from strife war and contention have we not alas made our Countrey desolate is not all provision spent are we not brethren wherefore do we fight we will enter into one Love and seek the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Strangers and Pilgrims and seek our native Countrey 31. In this Time verily a Zion shall be found and the Heaven shall give its dew and the earth its fatnesse but not in that manner as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Son of Man shall come that there will be faith upon the earth And although the children of Zion shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the times of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end For as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the coming of the Son of Man be as it is written 32. But that the Holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zion I acknowledge and know it for Zion shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne he that would seek it let him seek himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and he shall finde whether Jesus be borne in him 33. If he finds it not let him enter into himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him those he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be manifest in him and he shall be borne with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda f Under the Crosse in disrespect and disesteeme of the world in the dark Stable not in g Not in the outward pleasures of the flesh Jerusalem as Reason faine would have that Christ should be borne in the old Asse the old Asse must be a servant and serve the New Man in Zion c. This wonderfull Prophesie following was written in a Postscript to a Letter dated the 20th of February 1623. 23. THe Tribulation and Destruction of Babel approacheth with exceeding vehement haste The Storme ariseth upon all Coasts There shall be an exceeding Tempest vaine hope deceiveth for the Destruction of the Tree draweth neere which is knowne in the Wonders 24. The a Domestick intestine homebred Fire hurteth its own native Countrey Righteousnesse and Truth are beaten downe Great Sorrow and perplexing Sadnesse doe b Scrue up themselves force themselves up 25. Men shall mourne for an empty ruinous old Cottage which is of no importance to Salvation and they shall be enraged for that Nest wherein Satan hath hatcht his c Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all f●lshood under an holy shew of Religion young 26. The Tower of Babel is found to be without foundation men suppose to hold it up with props but a winde from the Lord overthrows it 27. The hearts and thoughts of men shall be discovered for there cometh a Tryall from the Lord whereby the d T●tular verball hypocrite the Cain-like Christian who perswades himselfe from a blind faith that none is accepted with God but himselfe and such as he is the demure and devout Pharisee but his false bottome will come to light maugre his many words and swords mouth-Christian shall be laid open in his false heart and soule as a reed that is shaken by the winde seeing his heart is wavering now here now there because his false ground is revealed 28. Many shall betray themselves and through hypocrisie ruine both body and goods Hypocrites and mouth-Christians shall quaile for feare when their false foundation shall be discovered 29. The Orientall e The Turk shall turne a true Christian Beast getteth an humane heart and face and ere this cometh to passe it helpeth to teare downe the Tower of Babel with its claws
then we see that they since the Turkes departed from them have been but one People before God in holinesse and righteousnesse with different names 93. And they are the two Sonnes to one whereof the Father said Goe and doe this and he said yea but did it not and to the other also doe this and he said no but did it which doth so highly advance and magnifie the Turkes in the Kingdome of Nature which the blinde Christian world doth not understand 94. Not that we justifie the Turkes and say that they should remaine in their blindnesse no but to the painted Christians wee declare that they are alike with them before God in that they are as blinde in respect of Christs Kingdome as the Turkes as it plainly shews it selfe in that Christendome is full of strife and contention wrangling and jangling about Christs Deity and humanity and abominably prophaneth and hideously unhalloweth the holy Name in his humanity and use it onely for a forme and custome to sweare Covenant and protest also to Idolatry superstition and hypocrisie and are gone from the sword of the holy Spirit unto a bloud-thirsty confounding Sword wherein is nothing but contending and contemning one another and the whole titular Christendome is turned into meere sects and orders where one sect doth despise and brand another for unrighteous and thus they have made of Christendome a meere murthering Den full of blasphemies about Christs person and have bound the Spirit of Christ to the formes and orders of disputation and have set foolish Reason over Christs Kingdome to be a Master or Judge of the understanding or meaning of Gods Spirit in the holy Scriptures and mysteries 95. But ought we to speake so of Christendome and the Turkes as if they were alike Thus we say the Turke is openly an Ishmalite and mocker of Christs humanity and holdeth him not for the Sonne of Man and God too for he understands not the heavenly Ens in the person of Christ 96. But the Sects of Christendome doe indeed cover themselves with Christs Mantle but doe attach him in his humanity and Deity and revile him in his whole person teare and rend one another with words and swords about his person the one will have it this way another that way every one will be Master over his words and spirit and so deride Christ in his members and thereby destroy all brotherly love and are as revolting rebellious and fugitive Ishmaelites as the Turkes and live in their selfish will and serve the Kingdome of Nature in their selfe-hood selfe-interests and pleasure 97. A Christian must be dead with Christ to selfe and be risen againe in Christ and be borne anew of Christ and to have put on Christ that he be a Christian in Christ in the Spirit and heavenly flesh of Christ according to the internall spirituall man 98. But instead hereof men have put on Babel and the Antichrist and doe boast themselves of their Ordinances of the divine orders in the performances of devout duties in lip labour and much prating and in the Stone-houses of Churches and in the Cathedralls and Cloysters of Christendome where indeed they doe counterfeit somewhat of Christ seeing that they there reade the writings which the Apostles left behinde them but afterward with their Preaching for the most part they foist in the Kingdome and Government of Nature with brawling and disputing and spend the time with disputing confuting and contending about Sects and the different mentall Idolls or opinions insomuch that one party is brought wholly to condemne another and the eares and hearts of the hearers are so infected with gall and bitternesse that one Sect wilfully opposeth another and cryes it downe for devillish whence nothing but wars and disdainfull provocations doe arise to the desolating of Countries and Cities 99. Thus they are all alike before God and lie as it were shut up in Hagar in the dead Reason except the true children of God which verily are here and there to be found among all Nations and Sects but wholly simple and despised also covered under Christs Crosse to the Reason-wise-world 100. For like as the foure Elements receive the power or influence of the Sunne into them and in the substance the body yet not the Sunne is seene albeit it worketh therein so also the Spirit of Christ is hid in the children of God but as an hearb springing from the earth doth by the vertue of the Sunne put forth a faire blossome and fruit so likewise Gods children out of their plaine homelinesse or deformity to the lewd world's or prating hypocrites eye In the 27 Chapter of the Three Principles what the Lilly is may be discerned 32. THe Lilly will not be found in strife or warres but in a friendly humble loving Spirit together with good sound * Wall-grounded convincing satisfactory Reason This will grow to the throwing downe Babel and the building up of Zion Reason this will dispell and drive away the smoake of the Devill and flourish in its time Therefore let none thinke that when strife goeth on and he getteth the upper-hand now it is well and right and he that is under and subdued let him not thinke sure I am found to be in the wrong I should now goe to the other opinion or side and helpe that party to prosecute the other no that is not the way such a one is meerly in Babel 33. But let every one enter into himselfe and labour to be a righteous man and feare God and doe right and consider that this his worke shall appeare in Heaven before God and that he standeth every moment before the face of God and that all his works shall follow after him and then the Lilly of God springeth and groweth and the world standeth in its Seculum AMEN Mysterium Magnum Chap. 41. Pag. 326. 43. LOving Brethren be instructed aright the God of Love he will not the death of a poore corrupt and lost man but hath powred forth his best Treasure which he had in himselfe and is himselfe in Grace over all men like as the Sunne doth shine unto the good and evill but the wicked doth corrupt and spoile the * His precious Image Treasure in himselfe and will not receive it but sucketh and taketh in the Ens of the Serpent full of vanity and is baptized with the fire of Gods Anger in the will of selfe 44. But if he went with his own-selfe-will into the death of Christ and desired from the bottome of his heart to die from his selfe and own will in Gods mercy and cast his whole dependance and trust upon God and thought that he had nothing of his Own in this earthly Cottage but that he was onely a servant of God and his Neighbour in all that he possesseth and forsooke in his minde the propriety and selfe-interest he should soone be baptized with the holy Spirit and put on Christ in his will 45. But these mischievous earthly