59. a. which seperateth the Man from his God and it is the n Ephe 2 b Middle-wal / as an Enimitee betwixt God and the Man By meanes of which Middle-wall / both God and the Man / are growen into two Parts and are partially-mynded against eaâ—hother Yet ought they both â God and the Man to be o Iohn 17. â—â— Ephe. 5. d One like as it was p Gen. â— â— in the Begining 4. SEing now therfore that they are deuided â either of them in his owne Mynde q Gal. 5. b. against each-other / so is God â r Iohn 4. c. 2 Cor. 3. b. who is a Spirit spirituall and mynded to all vpright Righteousnes / against the Mynde of the Man and the Man â who is s Gen. 6. â— Flesh and Blood· and not yet circumcised t Gen. 10. b. Ier 4. a. 9. c. on the Foreskinne of his Heart / to a Laying-away of the Sinne v Rom. 8. a. is fleshly and vngodly mynded / against the Mynde of God 5. Now doth Gods Loue and Mercie extende towards the Man / as alluring x Iohn â— c. and drawing him dayly â by his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue and by his Ministers vnto Him and to his spirituall Mynde of vpright Righteousnes But seing that the Darknes / the sinfull Flesh or vngodly Beeing / is growen betwixt God and the Man / as a Foreskinne y Esa. 59. â— Ephe. 2. or Middle-wall and as an Enimitee and that God / is spiritually mynded and the vncircumcised Man / fleshly mynded / according to the Mynde of his Foreskinne of the sinfull Flesh / Therfore doth not the z Rom â— 1 Cor â–ª â—â— Man vnderstande the spirituall Mynde of God the Father neither-yet knowe the good Will of God / that loueth him to Saluation and he beleeueth not God in his Woord nor Seruice but he beleeueth the Darknesses which haue inclosed him and following thosesame Lustes a Ephe. 4. b of Errour / he goeth-back and so sinneth dayly against the Father And thatt is the Sinne that is b Math 12. d. forgeeuen the Man / in his Repentance for the Sinne because of his Ignorance / through Vnbeleefe The III. Chap. NOw moughtest thou demaunde What Spirit or Beeing is this God / of whom the Scripture witnesseth or vnto whom / we ought to turne vs in the Spirit the Answer Of thesame haue we rehearsed in the a Intro 22.23 Introduction to the holy Vnderstanding of the Glasse of Righteousnes But now for to com to the Knowledg of ourselues and to a good Knowledg of our God and his Righteousnes / So wil we to a larger Declaring of our Vnderstanding / touching thatt wherof we speake and to a Distincting of the true Light / y e liueing God / who b Heb. 13. a. was and is and continueth for euer rehearse and testifye heere in this place also / of the Beeing of the only God 2. This God Ø›the Liueing and Verytruone is the true c 〈◊〉 3.1 God of Abraham through whom the d 〈◊〉 12. a Rom. 4. a b Promyses of the Mans Saluation or Blessing do com-to-pas / in his Fayth the true God e Math. 22. d. of Isaac in whom the f Gen. 21. b. Heb. â—1 Promyses be inherited and in whom the Seede of Blessing / is named and the true God of g Act. 7. g. Iacob or Israel in whom the Promyses of the Glory h Num. 14. Esa. 40 a. of God and of the Mans Saluation or i Ier 23 33. â— Blessing / becom established· and k Luk. 1. g. Gods true Righteousnes erected This self-same God / l Sap 5. a. Eccli 24. a. 1. Pet. 2. b. Ieam 1. c. is a verytrue vnchaingable Light a cleere m Ephe. 1.4 b. Apo. 21.22 Daye and a glistering delytfull Beawty 3. This Light / is the n Iohn 14 a. euerlasting· Lyfe of the vpright Righteousnes / an ouerflowing o Psal 42. a. Ier. 2. c. Iohn 4. b. Fountayne of liueing Waters / full of Ioye full of all Sweetnes full of Loue and full of Peace / abounding with Plenty of Grace and Mercie 4. This Lyfe / is the p Iohd 1. a. euerlasting firmestanding essenciall Woord / q 1. Cor 2. a. Heb. 4. b. full of Power and Possibillitee 5. This Woord / is the r Iohn 6. g. Ephe. 1.6 4 d. Intro 23. true Spirit with full Power of Sealing or to an euerlasting Establishing of the liueing Godhead / with the Manhod And thatt is vnto the Man / the Certentee of the Trueth / that Hee Ø›thesame God is only s Psal. 116. b. Iohn 3. d. Rom. 3. a. a very true God 6. This Spirit / is t Sap. 7. c. the holy Wisdom and the vpright Vnderstanding / full of all spirituall heauenly Goodes 7. This holy Wisdom and vpright Vnderstanding / is u Eccli 1. â— the Prouidence which foreseeth euery-thing / that is good and discerneth Lyfe and Death / and giueth Knowledg of the Good / x Pro. 2. â— to a Warning from the Euell 8. This Prouidence / is the Will y Sap. 1. b. which willeth that all thatt which is good / shoulde bee and com-to-light 9. In thissame good Will / is z Heb. 11. a. the Beleefe grounded as a sure and firme Confydence / that all thatt which is good and foreseene to the Good / shal be performed or com-to-light the which the good Will desyreth / that all thatt which is good / may bee becom manifest and liue 10. The Beleefe / a 1. Cor. 2. a. Ephe. 1. c. 3. c Phil. 3. c. is the Power as mighty to bring-to-light all Good / ther-through 11. This Power / is the Deede or the Worke of all Good and b Phil 2. b. the Accomplishment of all the Workes of God 12. BEholde Such a Spirit or Beeing / is the true God / of whom the Scripture speaketh and vnto whom the Man ought to turne him For Hee Ø›thesame God is the right Father who â out of himself and through the like Beeing of his Godhead hath made c â—en 1. a. Psal. 3â— a. Iohn 1. a. Ephe. 3. a. all that is anything And all his d Psal. 19. a. â—9 a. 97. a. Rom. 1 c. Workes do testifye of Him / that Hee Ø›thesame God is an euerlasting liueing and true God / To th end that Hee only / shoulde be e Deu. 6.10 b serued honoured and worshiped in all his Workes / as a great gloryous God f Psal. 10.29 b who only is the Lorde and King 13. This euerlasting God seing that He hath made g Pro. 8. b. Iohn 1. â— all that is anything / through his like Beeing for that thesame like Beeing / shoulde he h Heb. 1. â— an Heire in all Things hath also in the Begining / foormed i Gen. â— c. Sap. 2. c. Thatsame
for Light and the Light / for Darknes / and grounded all thier Vnderstanding / vppon their Knowledg / in the Darknes and so haue intangled themselues in many-maner of Prudencies / through their owne Knowledg and brought the whole Worlde euery-wheare / into so many erring Blyndnesses in-such-sort that for-that-â—auâ—e / all Vnderstanding of Men / hath corrupted g Gen. 6. â— his Waye euen-like as all Flesh did / in the tyme of Noe. Therfore is also their Destruction com hard-by 5. And seing now that we haue founde-out in the Deede and Trueth / that all manly Vnderstanding hath corrupted his Waye in the Knowledg / So do we likewyse â through the Light of the eternall Trueth beholde a great Wo and Greefe among Many h Ezâ— 7. b Luk 19. â—â— â— the which is coming euerywhear ouer the Children of Men. And thatt is the great Destruction ouer the manly Generacion / in the Last tyme. 6. For the Destruction hath taken-holde of them and shall make-vp itself to a Destruction among them and fall vppon them all speedely namely because that their noble Vnderstanding / hath forsaken Deâ—t 32. â— the liueing Beeing of God· and intangled itself with so many-kyndes of ignorant Knowledg or Good-thinking so that the Children of Men haue therthrough / plucked k Iâ—â— 23. f. g a heauy Burden vppon their owne Necks / to their Destruction Which Burden also / they shall not be able to beare nor accomplish but must perish therin 7. Heerwithal goeth the Man burthened combered and greeued / and cannot fynde the l Math. 11. d Refreshing of his Soule / in the Knowledg of his corrupt Vnderstanding although he notwithstanding seeketh it therin He thinketh to fynde the Lyfe / in the Knowledg of his corrupt Vnderstanding but thesame Knowledg / m Gen 3. a is nothing-els but to a Death and Condemnation vnto him But the Lyfe in the Loue / is the Saluation and Peace 8. Seing now that the Worlde standeth comprehended n 1. Iohn 5. c. in the Destruction of the ignorant Knowledg the which she doth neither see nor marke / so is therfore the Affection of our Heart / ouer all thoâ—e and vnto all those / which do see or knowe the Destruction ouer themselues and which desyre our Seruice / to theobtayning of a godly Knowledg / wherby to be partakers o 2. Pet â–ª 1. â— of the godly Beeing of the Loue and which seeke their Preseruation with vs / in the Loue. 9. For vnto those afflicted Hearts / do we shewe our Seruice p 2. Cor. â— â— â–ª Tit. 3. a courteously / witnessing vnto them / the Passage to the Lyfe Wherwith we do meete or com-before them with a good Conscience against their corrupt Vnderstanding or euell Conscience and so do reacheout the Hande vnto them / to a Guyding of them into our Comunialtee of Loue and of the good Vnderstanding / To th end that they mought therby / be drawen out of the damnablâ— q Esa 47. â— Apo 1â— b Plagues of the vnbeleeueing and insensible Worlde· and to an Health in their Soules / wherby to serue and to liue-vnto our r Luk. 1. g God â with Them concordably / vnder the Obedience of the Loue â with a cleane or vndefyled Conscience in all Loue / as being free or vnbounde from all Diuisions or Schysmes and vnbewitched from all chosen and counterfeyt God-seruices and false Holynesses The III. Chap. BEholde â my Beloued this haue I written for the Answering of thy Letter / as meeting with thee and giueing thee to vnderstande therwithal / how erring-blynde the Children of Men are growne in these last Tymes Not only the Worlde / that liueth in Wyldnes and in Bruitish-sort but cheefly / those that haue chosen them som God-seruices Righteousnesses and Holynesses / through the Knowledg of their â—wne corrupt Vnderstanding or haue counterfeited them according to the Prefiguration of the Letter wherthrough Many of them haue made vnto themselues / a wicked and naughty Conscience by the which / they suffer themselues to be iudged / out of the Darknes and so do a Isa. 2. a Iâ—r â— b feare and serue those Gods which they themselues haue made 2. And although they be somtymes rebuked by their euell and darke Conscience / yet be not the Darknesses made-manifest in them for-al-that neither becom they also any Light For they cannot / because that their euell and darke Conscience although it be esteemed for Light and Trueth is Darknes and Lyes itself Therfore it is a certayne Testiâ—ony / that such a Conscience is vntrue / and doth neither iudg right nor rebuke to Amendment 3. But God b Iohn 1. a. 5. c. 14. a which is the Light and Lyfe itself / is much greater c 1. Iohn 3. c in Power / then the darke Conscience For He himself / doth â thorough his Light and Seruice of Loue seperate in vs / the Light / d 2. Cor. 4. a from the Darknesses and so e Iohn 17 c. sainctifyeth his Name / in vs and sheweth that He himself / is the Lorde and the right f 2. Tim. 4. b Aâ—â— â–ª 10. f and true Iudg / in our Consciences 4. Therfore shoulde not the Man take any Iudgment vpon him / out of his darke Vnderstanding or euell Conscience although the euell Conscience wil seeme to execute the Iudgment / out of the Darknesses But alwayes to long after som better thing and to sett the Comfort of his Hope g Rom. 15. a. vppon thatt which God hath promysed namely vppon the Light of Lyfe / administred in the Seruice of Loue / for that he mought euen so by the God of Lyfe â h Ephe. 1. a whose Hand-worke he is be accepted and receaued in the Seruice of Loue / to a Nourtering with Righteousnes and so mought â to his Saluation take-heede to the Rebuke and to the nourterable Information / ministred by the Light namely through the Seruice of the holy Woord / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. For in that sort doth God rebuke and i Pro. 3. b Heb. 12. a nourter euery Sonne / whom He accepteth or receaueth 5. Whatsoeuer then is so rebuked by the k Iohn 3. c Ephe 5. b Light thatt is manifest and whatsoeuer is manifest thatt is Light and we vnderstande or knowe / that the Rebuke by the Day-light of the Righteousnes of God / is very profitable and good for vs / to Amendment and to Saluation 6. For God l Deut 32. d 1. Reg. 2. a Sap. 16 b Tob. 13 a killeth and maketh alyue agayne / because He woulde euenso by his Killing / depryue the m 1 Cor. 15. f 2. Timo 1. b Heb. 2 b Death of her Power 7. He leadeth into Hell n 1. Reg. 2. a Tob. 1â— â— and leadeth therout agayne / because He woulde euenso / rende the Kingdom of Hell· and depryue the Hell of
the holy and godly Knowledg / and so shall feele and s 1. Pet. 2. a taste liueingly in the Spirit / the mostholy Beeing of the supreame God The VI. Chap. MOrouer â my Beloued Forasmuch as thou doest now desyre to knowe som larger Instruction at our hands / then thatt which we haue alredy spoken vnto thee / to th end thou mayest com to the simple Trueth and so to be partaker of the a 2. Pet â–ª 1. a. godly Beeing / Therfore do not I desyre also to withholde thesame from thee but to figure it foorth vnto thee in Wryting / according to the Gift of the Grace of God / which is chaunced vnto Mee out of his Light of Lyfe and which is profitable vnto thee to Edification For-that-cause beholde and consider and giue eare b Pro. 4. to the holy Vnderstanding 2. First-of-al / submitt thyself to the outflowed gracious Woord of the Lorde wherby to enter obediently into the Requyring of his Seruice of Loue and so in thy Obeying of the Requyring of thesame Woord and Seruice / take-heede to the Wisdom of the Woord / c Iam. 1. c in the Meeknes of the Loue / in thy Spirit and Mynde For thesame Wisdom / in the Meeknes of the Loue / is much humbler / then all Knowledg of the Good and Euell / much better / d Psal. 19 b Pro. 3. b â— b Sap. 7. a then all Golde and Siluer / and much-more of value / then all precious Stones Whosoeuer fyndeth her / he hath a costly Treasure For the Wisdom in the Meeknes of the Loue / is the principall and euerlasting Good and excelleth it all 3. This Wisdom â seing it is of God e Sap. 7· c Iam. 3. b. is also 〈◊〉 â–ª courteous and freendly For it is the true Christ of God the liueing Woord of the Father and the euerlasting Lyfe 4. Beholde this is the Lyfe that was with God the Father / from the Begining f Gen 1 a. Psal 33. a Pro 8. c Sap. 1. b Iohn 1. a. thorough the which / God hath made all Things and without thesame / God hath made nothing / that is any-what 5. This Lyfe g Iohn 1. d. is for a Light of Men / to th end that the Man shoulde liue the Lyfe / that proceedeth h Rom. 6. a 1 Pet 4. a out of God And this Lyfe is in Vs i Iohn 1. a and we are made through thesame and grounded or sett ther-vppon / as vppon a liueing Woord k Esa. 40. b 1. Pet. 1. c that continueth for euer And to thesame Woord in his Seruice / we be all called and bidden / because that we shoulde euenso through his Seruice / beleeue theron 6. Thissame was in the Worlde also l Iohn 1. b Heb. 1. a and the Worlde was made by thesame but the Worlde knew it not 7. Thissame Woord or Lyfe / doth likewyse beare euery-thing / m Heb 1. a with the Beeing of his Power and maketh the n Ephe. 1. a. Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Himself 8. Beholde by thatsame hath o Gen. 1. â— God made all Things well / in the Begining and ther was nothing made in the Begining / of all that God had made / but it was all good And God did also beholde it all for good 9. And so from the Begining / ther was no euell nor dâ—mnable Thing / with the Lyfe that is of God and this Lyfe was vniforme â as one like Beeing p Gen 1. c Sap. 2. c Eccli 17. a with the Godhead And in Beholding it / ther was no Difference For it was in euery-poynt / godded with God and so in the Begining / ther was nothing-els but one God one Light and one Lyfe 10. Out of this Lyfe / did God bring-foorth the Memory or Vnderstanding q Gen. 1. b â— to be an Help to the Lyfe / to th end that euery-thing shoulde be handled and gouerned well and orderly / by the Memory or Vnderstanding· and by the Lyfe / wher-out God had brought the Memory Therfore did likewyse the Lyfe / inclyne to the Vnderstanding and cleaue vnto her for she was a Light / of his Light and a Lyfe / of his Lyfe Therfore was she also the Most-beawtyfull and the Most-delytfulone to the louely Lyfe 11. Thewhiles that this Vnderstanding / turned-not-out or fel-not-away from the Life but did alwayes stand-firme in the Lyfe / for r Gen. â— b â— an Help to the Lyfe / so was-ther Ioye and Peace with God and the Man and ther was no Diuision or Middle-wall / betwixt God and the Man neither had the Vnderstanding any other Knowledg / but that she liued to the Lyfe and stood obedient / to the Seruice and Welfare of the Lyfe and to the Rest and Peace of all Generations of the Earth 12. Beholde this was the former Kingdom of God / full of all pure Beawty / wherin God â before the Man fel-away from Him was knowen / as a s Iohn 1. b Lorde in his Glory and the t Math. 24. a Act. 1. a Setting-vp of thesame Kingdom agayne / those are the Promyses of God the Father namely to establish thesame / through his Loue and her Seruice / in the last tyme. 13. But when the Memory or Vnderstanding turned-away from the Lyfe taking-vpon-her to knowe somthing / that was not the Lyfe itself nor that stood grounded in the Lyfe neither-yet was for an Help vnto the Lyfe / Then did the Vnderstanding mingle herself with thatt which was nothing or which God had not made and thatt was the Euell / against the Good the Lye / agaynst the Trueth and the Death / against the Lyfe And thus did the Vnderstanding committ Adultry and she was inflamed with the knowing of somthing without the Lyfe And she became subiect to the Vanitee or Thatt which was nothing and then was the Transgression brought-to-pas and the Sinne was in-that-sort brought-forth / v Iohn 6. â— 17 2. Tess. 2. a as a lost Childe of the Deuill and of the Condemnation 14. Beholde euenthus was the Man captiued in his Memory or Vnderstanding / x Rom. 1. c. 2. Cor. 4 a. Ephe. 4. c. with a blynde Knowledg or with an Vnderstanding of the Darknesses which Darknesses are y Iohn 3. â— beloued of the Man· and taken-on for Couerings z Esa 25. a. 2. Cor. â— b. or Aperus to a Couering of the a Gen. 3. a. naked Cleernes of the manly Foorme / which God had created to be b Gen. 1.2 his Image and so â in the Taking-on of the Couerings God was nomore for a Light of Lyfe vnto the Man nor for a Delyte in his Paradise but for a Dryueing-out c Gen 3. from his Face 15. And now when the Man was estrainged from the Beholding of his God / then was the Lyfe also / nomore for a Light to the
the Lyfe t Iohn 1. â— which is for a verytrue Light / vnto all those that beleeue theron 8. Therfore let vs take-heede u 2. Cor. 6. a to the acceptable Tyme / wherin God doth illuminate vs. For in extending Mercy / He x Exo. â—3 b Rom. 9. b. sheweth Mercy on vs and leadeth vs from the Death / y Psa. 56. b. 116. a. to the Lyfe euen to the Sheapherd z 1. Pet. 2. c of our Soules 9. HEer-with â my Beloued I do hartely salute thee / with a Salutation of the Loue and see that thou â with an humble Heart do giue a regarde vnto thatt which I wryte vnto thee and ponder well the Sentences therof For they do poynt thee a Pro. 4. a. to the Lyfe 10 And if thou doest yet desyre larger Instruction at my hands / then wryte ouer vnto me I do alwayes â for the Loues sake proffer myself willingly to doo thee Seruice / in all what I may in the Lorde / to thy Edifying 11. Farewell and sett thy Comfort wholly and altogether / on the Loue. And salute me with a Salutation b Rom. 16. b 1. Cor. 16. c â–ª of the Loue / to the Bretheren and Sisters that are with thee which do submitt them with humble Hearts / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. And the Comunialtee in the Loue / that is heere with Vs / doth likewyse salute you all hartely with the Loue. 12. The Vnitee of Peace c 2. Cor. 13. b. Ephe 4 a. Col. 3. b. be alwayes among you all And the Loue of God the Father / take the Victory in all your Hearts Amen The Ende of the Eigth Epistle The Nynth Epistle Of the Seruices and Ceremonyes of the Christians and of the Vnchristians and of the right and false Vce of them with certen groundly Informations and edifying Instructions Written and sent vnto a Louer of the Trueth / at his Request Exercise thyself in Godlynes For bodely Exercise which stretcheth to the Outward / that concerneth the Nature profiteth little But the God-seruice which stretcheth to the Inward and Spirituall and to the true Godlynes is profitable to all things and hath the Promyse both of this Lyfe and of thatt to com 1. Timo. 4. The First Chapter THe Loue of God the Father â through the Reuealing of the Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ be with thee / my Beloued and a Ephe. 1. b. 3 b. illuminate thy Spirit to a true Knowledg of the Lyfe / in the Spirit / wherby thou mayest â with a right Discerning see-into and knowe liueingly â according to the Spirit the secret b Sap. 9. b Rom. 11. â—2 2 Counsayle and Will of God / To th end that thou mayest iudg c Iohn 7. c according to the Trueth / with a right Iudgment Thaâ—t graunt vs the almighty Lorde / through his Loue. Amen 2. My Beloued Our Fauour out of the Seruice of Loue â to thy Saluation standeth alwayes willingly-bent towards thee for to be seruiceable vnto thee / to thy Edifying and to a good Knowledg of the true Light For that thou mayest be illuminated with the Illumination of the Cleernes of God which â out of the Grace of his Loue is reuealed d Rom. 16. c Ephe. 1.3 a Col. 1. c 2. Tim. 1. b and appeered vnto vs in the Spirit according to the Promyses of God the Father and with Wryting / to reaâ—he thee the Hande to thesame / according to thy Request to a Gyding of thee into our holy Comunialtee / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 3. In which Comunialtee / wee haue our Fellowshipp e 1. Iohn 1. a with God the Father and the Lorde Iesu Christ / in the euerlasting Immortalitee wher-through all f 1 Cor. 15. f Corruption and all g Esa. 25. a. 2 Cor. 3. b. Couerings Middle-walles h Esa 59. a Ephe. 2. b. and i Psal. 146. b Bandes / be taken-awaye wher-in all Patterns Images Shadowes and Figures / do k Col 2. b Heb. 9.10 ceasse and wher-in ther is nothing-els behealde / but the euerlasting l Heb. 12. c vndisturbable Kingdom / full of all Power of God / full of Lyfe Loue and Peace / full of Cleernesses m Math. 24. d 25. d. 2. Tess. 1. a. of all the Holyons and Children of God / and full of all heauenly Treasures n Col. 2. a. and godly Ritches / euen-as God hath in tymes-past / promysed to com in Glory for a righteous Iudgment vppon the Earth 4. O thou Beloued Forasmuch as we haue shewed our Fauour of Loue on thee â with Seruice and Assistance to these heauenly o Ephe. 1. b 2. a. 3. a Col. 1. â— 2. a. Ritches in the eternall Beeing of Immortalitee / So haue we now the second-tyme / receaued Wrytings from thee and haueing perused-ouer and considered of them â so much as we can we do vnderstand therby â according to the Mencioning of thy Wrytings that thy Opinion or Conceaueing standeth towards vs or thou shouldest seeme to haue vnderstood so by Others / that we shoulde not vse the Christian Ceremonyes or shoulde account them to be vnprofitable 5. No â my Beloued we are not so presumptuous / that we shoulde not acknowledg all Gods Ordinances â in their right Foorme or Vâ—e to be good p Eccli 39. c and profitable / being ministred in their due tyme. Yea we esteeme them very worthy and commendable in their Seruice so farr-forth or to such an ende as their Seruice reacheth the which we haue sufficiently witnessed â with sencible Distinction before all Vnderstandings / in the Glasse of Righteousnes 6. But â my Beloued if thy Heart shoulde yet stande captiued vnto anything of thatt which hath had his Fore-going the which also had the Ministration of his q 2. â—or 3 a. Cleernes to the to-coming Daye of the Reuealing of the Coming of Christ that is till that the Refreshing shoulde appeer r Act. 3. c â–ª from the vncouered Face of God / for a gloryous Kingdom of God and for a Ioye and Peace of all the Saincts of God / in the euerlasting Lyfe so consider then / by Whom and out of what Spirit / the Christian-ceremonyes are ministred / by the Illuminated or by the Vnilluminatedones out of the Letter of the Scripture or out of the Woord of Lyfe The II. Chap. SEing now then that many Instituters of Ceremonyes / do minister y e Office of Ceremonyes / out of the Prudence of their owne Vndersâ—anding or out of â—he Knowledg of the Letter / altogether to Controuersie and haue not receaued the Office of their Ministration / through the Woord of Lyfe / Veryly so is likewyse their Office of Ceremonyes / no a Ier. 23. b. 27. a. 29 a. Commaundement of God nor-yet their Seruices / any christian Ceremonyes For those Scriptur-learnedones do setfoorth the Ceremonyes â which they administer for
christian Ceremonyes out of their owne Opinion and b Ier. 23. b. Good-thinking and therfore is also their Office against Gods Commaundement For they are vnmeete to the Seruice of the Lorde / which God esteemeth-of for they knowe not his c Psal. 95. a Sap. 5 a â—eb 3. b. Wayes neither do they knowe the Waye of d Psal. 14. a Psa 59 b Rom. 3. b Peace but they are blynde dumme and deafe / thouching the Lyfe that proceedeth out of God and so in their Seruices / are e Math. 15. b â–ª 23 b Luk â— d Blyndeguydes and do likewyse leade the People into Captiuitee / with the Bandes of their Blyndnes 2. They breake not the f Iohn 6. c. Bread of Lyfe vnto the People they baptise not also in the g Math. 28. b Name of the Father â who is the liueing God nor in the Name of the Sonne of God â who is the true Light and Lyfe of his Father nor-yet in the Name of the holy Gost who is the heritable h Ephe. 1 b Paune of the Godlynes 3. Forasmuch now veryly / as these holy spirituall Ritches are not among them / therfore do they not likewyse keepe i 1. Cor. 11. c the Supper of Christ / according to the Trueth For the Bread k Iohn 6. d from Heauen / is not with them For-that-cause also / they knowe not the Woord of Lyfe nor the Spirit of Agednes l Ephe 4. c. or of the Man Christ nor they m Esa 40. b Sap. 9 b Rom. â—â— â— 1. Cor 2. b vnderstand not his Death n Rom. 6. a Phil. 3. b. nor his Resurrection nor the Counsayle of God nor-yet the Wisdom nor the Christianitee 4. Seing then that they haue not receaued the Bread of Lyfe froâ— Heauen neither are o Ier. 14.23 c sent by God nor by Christ and are Straingers from the secret Counsayle of God and vnderstande p Sap. 9. b 1. Cor â— b. nothing-at-all of the godly Things / How shoulde they then be able rightly to minister the Beginings q Heb. 6. a of the christian Doctrine or the Christian-ceremonyes / wherwith the vpright Righteousnes is requyred 5. Veryly they haue not the louely Feete of the r Esa. 25. b. Nahu 1. b. Rom 10. b Messengers / which com from the Hill of the Lorde they bring also no good Message they publish not the Peace neither do they likewyse make-manifest the Saluation that auayleth before God but they are quyte darkened in their Vnderstanding / through s Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. c. the Blyndnes of their Hearts and through the Vnbeleefe that is in them Therfore are they all likewyse / Ianglers Stryuers and Contenders against one-another / for the Ceremonyes and for the litterall Scriptures cause and do make among each other / Disturbance and captiued Consciences chooseing priuate t Rom. 10. a Col. 2. c. Righteousnesses vnto themselues / according to the Good-thinking of their owne Hearts The III. Chap. FOrasmuch then / as that the Kingdom of Peace / is â out of Grace a Math. 11. c 13. c. 1. Cor. 2. b. Ephe. 1. b. Col. 1. c. reuealed and geeuen Vs to see-into in the Woord of Lyfe / through the Loue of God the Father / Therfore is not the Counsayle of God vnto vs now / to take-in-hand nor to vse anything of thatt which is past / according to Mens Imagination 2. Yet do we well perceaue this / that the former Seruices â at that tyme when they were ministred through the Woord of Lyfe and vsed out of the Trueth were profitable nodout / vnto Saluation and serued for an Hand-reaching b Gal 3. c. Heb. 6. a. 7. b or Gyding-in of the Little or Youngones of Vnderstanding / to the Woord of Lyfe Howbeit / now it is also well knowen vnto vs / that many Scriptur-learnedones do now striue and conteÌ„de their-about / in their good-thingking Knowledg / and vse much Disputing and Arguing about them And thatt woulde not God haue c 1. Cor. 7. b. For we are called vnto Peace 3. If wee then shoulde likewyse bring-in and vse the former Seruices â which are passed-thorow according to the Order and Opinion of the contentious Setters-foorth of Ceremonyes or Scriptur-learnedones and shoulde not declare the Requyring of the right Seruices and Ceremonyes / So shoulde wee haue then to stryue to contende and to dispute with Them 4. But no thatt is not our Seruice Wee haue all our Regard / to note what a louely Beeing in the Peace / the Word of Lyfe holdeth before vs / as a Light and do follow his Commaundement d Iohn 6. d. 1. Tess 4. a and Will and do labour after the attayning to thatt which the Ceremonyes do requyre or thatt wherunto they were ministred in tymes-past / To th end that our Seruice wherunto God hath called vs in these last Dayes / through the e 2. Timo. 1. b Tit. 1. a. Reuealing of the Coming of the Lorde Iesu Christ shoulde not be darkened f 2. Cor. 6. â— with any Intanglement 5. For God woulde not y t anyman shoulde stryue or contende for Seruices nor-yet for Ceremonyes but that eueryone shoulde bow g 1. Pet. 5. a. and submitt himself vnder the Obedience of the Loue / our mostholy God-seruice and shoulde receaue the Administration of the Counsayle of God / for a Lyfe of Saluation follow-after h Pro 4. b. 5 a 2 Timo. 3. b. thesame Counsayle and so shoulde â out of the Beginings of his simple Chyldhod increase in the christian Doctrine or Ministration of the Loue â–ª or grow-vp therin i Ephe. 4. c. to the Age of the Mâ—n Christ that is till that the Loue haue a liueing Foorme in him not looking-about after thatt which is past but haueing regard k Phil. 3. b. vnto thatt which is to com that is to the Inheritance of the Peace / to the Saluation of the Soule 6. But if anyman be mynded heer-against or resteth self-wyse and wil alledg much out of the Scripture / with his darke Vnderstanding / hee shall burthen his owne Conscience intangle his Senses and Thoughts and not fynde the Refreshing of his Mynde nor the l Act. 3. â— Comfort of his Soule The IIII. Chap. FArdermore thou testifyest / that thou vnderstandest not certen Sentences which are rehearsed in the Testimony of the Mediation of Christ and seemest to affirme ther-out / that thatt which the Prophet Esaias a Esa. 7â— 11 hath spoken of Christ / shoulde be only of Christ / that was to com b Math. 1. â— Rom. 1. a. 1. Tim. 2. â— in the Flesh. 2. Thatt is suerly very-right But not as thy Mynd conceaueth it Therfore consider of the Meaning and vnderstand what I wryt vnto thee For this do I testifye vnto thee as a Secret of God that the Woord of Esai / is a liueing Woord
vnderstande / that we do not account the Seruices of the christian Ceremonyes / vnprofitable nor-yet in vayne but do esteeme them of great Value / in their right Vee 3. But veryly the Seruices and Ceremonyes of y e Vnchristians and of y e Straingers / which are a Rom. 1. c Ephe. 4. â— darkened in their Vnderstanding and estrainged from y e Light of Lyfe let them then take-on thosame out of their owne ImaginatioÌ„ or out of their Knowledg which they frame out of the Letter all those do we account vnprofitable and in vayne / Yea for an harmfull Institution and for an arrogant b Ier. 5. b â— a. 14 b. 23 c Presumption against Gods Commaundement The which is an Abhomynation c â—sa 1. b. Luk. 16. b. Tit. 1. b before the Epes of our Lorde and God 4. But the Seruices and Ceremonyes which God esteemeth which be ministred out of his Light and Lyfe / in the Seruice of Loue / according to his owne Commaundement / those are acceptable vnto God and are d Rom. 1. b to the Saluation and Peace of the Beleeuers of y e Woord For the vpright Godlynes and the true Light of Lyfe of the godly Cleernes / is made-manifest in thosame Seruices 5. And although that they â according to the outward Action are not like vnto the Ceremonyes of the contencious and vnilluminated Scriptur-learnedones â wherwith they stryue and contende or be not vsed after that maner / yet are they notwithstanding â before God agreeable to the Seruices and Ceremonyes which God hath willed and commaunded and which auayle before Him 6. Thewhiles then that the Childhod â or the Youngnes of Vnderstanding in the Inheritance of the Lorde / doth e Gal 4. a. yet remayne / so are the Seruices and Ceremonyes which be ministred by the Elders in the holy Vnderstanding â through the Light of Lyfe vnder the Obedience of the Lawe or vnder the Obedience of the Beleefe or vnder the Obedience of the Loue as f Gal 4. a. Tutors and Keepers vnto all Littleones of Vnderstanding wher-through they receaue Assistance till that the Daye com-on vnto them g 2. Pet. 1 c. and that the Light of Lyfe ryse-vp in their Hearts / who as-then haue â thorough the Light of Lyfe and his Seruice of Loue exercised Myndes / for to h Heb. 5. b. discerne â thorough thesame Light the Good and Euell the Lyfe and Death the Preseruation and Destruction and so to be meete to all good Exercises 7. When they now are com to this State / so are they as-then nomore ChildreÌ„ or Littleones-of-vnderstanding / in the holy Vnderstanding to whom the Hande must be reached with Seruices and Ceremonyes and that must be informed or taught to the Enterance into the holy Vnderstanding or to the Beginings i Heb. 5. b. of the christian Lyfe but they are with the Agedones / growen likewyse to be aged Men Elders k 1. Cor. 4. â— Heb 13. b. and Fathers of the Howsholde or Comunialtee in the Loue / who do knowe how to be seruiceable vnto the Little and Weakones l 2. Cor 6. a 1. Pet. 4 b â–ª Heb. 13. b and to go before them with the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue / to all Concord vnder the Obedience of the Loue and to informe the Congregation to the Lyfe and Peace / with thatt which is fordersom vnto them to m 2. Pet. 1. a. the Lyfe and Peace 8. Beholde and consider These are the Seruices and Ceremonyes which God regardeth in his Congregation the which shall continue foreuer in our mostholy Seruice of Loue / to a n Heb 7. b Gyding-in of People to the vpright Righteousnes and Godlynes For o Luk. 1. b the Saluation â–ª and the Peace of the People / in all Loue and Gods p Rom. 1â— c. Will and Counsayle / is made manyfest and knowen therby It is verytrue 9. Heer-with I do hartely salute thee / with a Salutacion of Loue and with thesame Salutacion / salute me also to the Comunialtee that is with thee as likewyse to all those that submitt their Soules vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 10. MOrouer â my Beloued I shoulde haue rehearsed a larger Answere vnto thee / touching certen Things wherof thou wrytest vnto me but I haue had no tyme to accomplish it No I haue scarsly had so much speare tyme / as to wryte this little vnto thee The Cause / our Brother whom we haue sent vnto thee / shall also tell thee by Mouth But if thou bist yet vnsatisfyed in anything then giue him to vnderstand of the Matter and aske his resolusion therof And if thou bist not satisfyed so in thyn Vnderstanding theÌ„ wryte-ouer the Matter vnto mee I proffer myself alwayes â out of an Inclynation of Loue to doo thee Seruice The Loue of God the Father / get the Victory in all your Hearts Amen The Ende of the Nynth Epistle The Tenth Epistle A precious Iuell of pure Instructions and loueing Exhortations / how one shal be obedient to the Woord of Lyfe and Trueth / in the Seruice of Loue· and grow-vp therin / to the Perfection or Age of the manly Beeing of Christ. Let vs now leaue the Doctrine of the Begining of the christian Lyfe and go to Perfection Heb. 6. Harken vnto mee / O ye holy and vertuous Children and bring-foorth Fruit like a Rose planted by the Ryuers-syde and giue a sweete Sauour from you / lyke vnto Libanus Growe and blowe lyke a Rose-garden and giue a Sauour / lyke a Lilly Sing a Song-of-prayse and laude God in all his Workes Eccli 40. To my courteous Freendes / which are comprehended with Vs / in one Light of the Loue / be Health and Saluation The First Chapter ALL my Hearts Wishing is / that it mought in all respects / go well with you eueryone and that ye mought â vnhindered increase in the Godlynes and in the Light of the heauenly Trueth and of the holy Vnderstanding / which is appeered and declared vnto vs out of Grace / through the Loue of God the Father 2 Out of which Light of the godly Cleernes / wee haue now in this last Tyme / receaued a Gal. 1 b. 1. Timo. 1. b such a godly Office / from the eternall and liueing God / through the holy Spirit of his Loue. namely the Seruice of Loue / wherby to minister in thesame Seruice â with the true Light and heauenly Vnderstanding the Mostholy of the true Tabernacle of God / vnto all Louers of the Trueth / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and so to make-manifest vnto them â out of thesame Mostholy b Exo. 25. c. Rom. 3. c. Heb. 5. a. the Mercy-seat with the sundry costly Garnishings of the spirituall and heauenly Ritches 3. Into which Mostholy / the High-preest is gon for to sprinckle euenso out of the Mostholy / the Holy of thesame
most-perfect Cleernes / b Ephe. 3. d. 2. Pet. 1. b. in the Inwardnes of your Hearts / To th end that ye may â through thesame Cleernes see knowe and vnderstand / to what a Noblenes and Kingdom of God of concordable Louelynes / God hath c Gen 1. c. Sap. 2. c. Eccli 17. a created the Man· and chosen and loued thesame Generation like-as our Wrytings â set-foorth by vs / vnder the Obedience of the Loue do sufficiently â with full Instruction shewe the Cleernes of thatt Matter / were it rightly vnderstoode 2. Although â ye Beloued that ye haue often hearde of this Matter by vs or readd therof in our Wrytings and do also partly see-into and knowe thesame / yet am I forced notwithstanding / out of the Heart of Loue â that standeth affected towards all your Hearts / to an Vnitee in the Loue to wryte a little-more vnto you / of the vpright Beeing / wherin the Man was created wher-from he is d Gen. 3. â— Sap. 2. c. falne and wher-vnto he is called agayne / by Christ / to th end to stirr-vp the desyre of your Spirit the-more and to procure all your Will the-more towards the vpright Beeing of the true Light and to the Incorporating e Iohn 15. â— 17. b. to one concordable Man of God / in whom / God with his Christ and with all his Saintes Spirits Prophets and Angels / dwelleth liueeth and tryumpheth with Glory and all Delytfulnes / as a f Rom 14. b. peaceable and g Heb. 12 b. vndisturbable Kingdom To him thesame God / h Ephe 1. b. to the Laude and Prayse of his Glory and to him thesame godded Man / to his perfect Ioye Amen 3. BEholde and consider / ye Beloued In the Begining / i Gen 1. c when God had made al-things well / then was the Lorde / a Lorde of his Kingdom and a God of his Workes Ther was not also in his Kingdom nor-yet in all his Workes / any-more then one God and one Man and they were One and had in all respects / one Kynde Beeing and Nature And so â at thatt tyme God was all what the Man was and the Man all what God was 4. And when God looked vpon the Man / k Gen 1. c. Sap 2 c. Eccli 17. a. whom He had created according to the like Being of his Godhead and with whom He was manned / then looked He vpon himself as thesame Cleernes of his liueing Godhead / vniforme with the Manhod 5. Beholde thus vniforme with the true Beeing of God / was the Man in the Begining and this was all one Beeing / the Man and God And so God behealde l Gen. 1 d. his Worke which He had made / that it was Good 6. And when the Man likewyse behealde his God / with whom he was godded / then sawe he â in thesame Cleernes of his God the noble and pure Cleernes of his Manhod / vniforme with the Godhead and perfect in all Vertues and Beawty â–ª namely according to all the Frome and Beeing of thesame Godhead Lo this was likewyse all One / m Iohn 17 c. Ephe 2 b God and the Man 7. Seing now that These â God and the Man were One / so was-ther likewyse nomore but one Kingdom / in Heauen nor vppon Earth and thatt was the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and the euerlasting Lyfe / which had his perfect Beawty and Cleernes both vppon the Earth and in Heauen / with the Man and in the Man And ther-was nowheare any n Sap. 1. c. Kingdom of Hell nor Death nor-yet any Vnrighteousnes / neither in Heauen nor vppon Earth For God had made all Things good and well / which He had made and also created him nomore but one Man who was as God himself And God blessed this Man and hath sayde vnto him / that he shoulde growe or increase him replenish o Gen. 1. c. the Earth and bring it vnder him 8. Also God gaue no other Customs Rytes Lawes nor Commaundements vnto the Man / in the Begining / but to liue with Ioye and an p Gen. 2. b vncouered Heart / in the naked or vncouered Cleernes of his God and likewyse to walke alwayes naked or vncouered / before Him and that he shoulde euenso beholde all the Workes of God / for good / and not for euell· knowe nothing but Good / and not any Euell· and taste or feele nothing-els but Lyfe / and not any Death· Saluation / and not any Condemnacion The II. Chap. BEholde Thatt woulde God and that thesame shoulde continue in that maner and euerlastingly with the Man / to th end that his Kingdom namely the Man / with the Godhead shoulde â as one only peaceable Kingdom / in all Louelynes beare a â—en â— c. d the Dominion ouer the vniuersall Earth / to the Welfare of all Creatures 2. But as-soone as the Man turned-away the Sight of his Eyes / from his God and looked vppon himself and so turned-vnto and loued himself / theÌ„ perceaued he that he was not altogether the highest Godhead himself· but with the Godhead / a Man also b Gen 3 a. and became tempted to the Knowledg of Good and Euell for to bee ther-through in euery-respect / as God himself 3. When the Man had geeuen-ouer himself ther-vnto· and taken-on such a Fruit / of the Knowledg of Good and Euell / then came Blyndnes ouer him c Gen. 3. a. and he estrainged or seperated himself from the louely Cleernes of his God By meanes wherof / he coulde not endure the Woord or the Voyce of his God· nor appeere before Him / with his naked Manhod but was d Gen. 3. b. ashamed before God / of his naked Manhod 4. He coulde not also beholde nor conceaue any other Light or Cleernes / but thatt which he framed to himself / out of the Knowledg of Good and Euell or euen-as thesame Knowledg imagined it in him The which was all Ignorance and Darknes and was alwayes to a more Leading-awaye or Estrainging of the Man from his God who is the c Iohn 1. a 8. b. 9. â— 12. â— euerlasting Light and the true Wisdom 5. He fealt likewyse no other Lyfe of Righteousnes nor Peace or Rest in his Conscience / but thatt which he himself forged and tooke-on out of the Knowledg of Good and Euell The which was all wrong and nothing but Sinne Death and Vnrestfulnes 6. He knew not also any other God Kingdom of Heauens nor Saluacion / but such as he prefigured vnto himself / through thesame forenamed Knowledg / which the Man himself had taken-on The which was nothing-els / but the Deuill himself· the Kingdom of Hell· and the euerlasting Condemnacion f Sap. 1. â— whom / God woulde not that they shoulde bee vppon the Earth 7. And euenthus did the Darknes and the Deuill Ø› g Iohn â— c. the Father of Lyes as also
Act. 3. c. what He hath spoken and promysed in the former Tymes namely reward n Math. 25. c. Iohn 5. c. Rom. 2. a. y e Good / their Goodnes / with the Rewarde of all Good / in the euerlasting Lyfe and recompence the Euell / their Euelnes / with the Reward of all Euell / in the euerlasting Death and Condemnacion For the Daye â wherin eueryone shall receaue o Ier. 17 b. Math. 16. c Rom. 2. a. 14. b. 2. Cor 5. b. Apo. 2. â— his Reward / that he hath deserued doth now spread-foorth itself ouer the whole Worlde and his Cleernes ceasseth not / before all this be accomplished 6. THerfore â my beloued Hearts in the Loue take-heede to thissame Daye p 1. â—or 15. c f Ephe. 5 b. 1. Tess. 4. b. of the Makeing-alyue from the Death Yea take-heede also sayth the holy Spirit of Loue to the Gospel of the Kingdom / that is now in thissame Daye / published q Math. 24. b in all y e Worlde / for a Witnes of the Resurrection of the Deadd 7. For in this Daye of the Publishing of this Gospel / shall now all the Members of Christ â which r Eze. 37. a. as Deadones and dismembered Bones / are broken and deuided into many peeces from each-other be ioyned-together â by that only Man Iesu Christ s Rom â–ª 12. a. 1. Cor. 12 c Ephe. 4. b. 5. c. as one true Body of Christ and Man of God· couered-ouer t Iob. 19 c. Eze 37. a. with Sinowes and Flesh· made-alyue with the liueing v Gen. 2. a. Eze 37. a. Iohn 20. c. Wynde or Breath of Christ· and assembled eueryone into the holy Spirit of Loue wherthrough all wee now likewyse â x 1. Tess. 4. b. which are remayned-ouer and do beleeue the Coming of Christ and the y 1 Cor. 15. b. Resurrection of the Deadd / and hope theron do ioyne vs to thesame one Man of God / z Ephe. 4. b. in that one Body of Christ. 8. Beholde euenthus is the Man â which beleeueth in Iesu Christ set-vp Math. 24. â— Act. 1. a. agayne in his former Dignitee / now in thesame Daye of Loue and the Worke of God is declared / that it is euen-lyke as it was in the Beginning One God / and one Man and thatt altogether / in the one Body of Iesu Christ. The IIII. Chap. O Ye Beloued Looke now into this gracious Tyme and consider well theron For the Tyme is now fulfilled and the a Iohn 12. â— Apo. 14. a. Daye of the righteous Iudgment of God / declared among vs In the which / God doth now â through the Coming of the Kingdom of Christ set-vp the former Kingdom full of all pure Beawty and the falne Man â who is broken and deuided into many peeces doth He now also ioyne-together / b Ephe. 2. â— 4. b. to the Incorporating to the only Body of Christ. 2. Beholde euenthus doth God bring the Man agayne to his Dignitee namely to the gloryous Maiestee of his leueing God head / wherby to c Num 14. â— Psal. 72. b. Esa 6 a. Aba â— b. 4. a. fill the whole Earth with his Glory and Righteousnes according to the Promyses 3. YEe good-willing Heartes in the Loue / take-heede I beseech you to thatt which I wryte vnto you and exhorte you vnto Be not in-any-case d Pro. 3. a. Rom self-wyse in your owne Conceits but remember and consider / what the Seruice of Loue requyreth of vs / in thissame newe Daye of the Coming of Christ. namely that eueryone shall haue regarde / in whom Christ hath manned himself â–ª and out of whom He shyneth / as a Day-light to the Lighting of the whole Vniuersal-earth with Righteousnes For theare â in thesame godded Man or e Leuit. 26. b Eze 37. c 43. a. 1 Cor. 3.6 b 2 Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. Habitacion of God is the Maiestee of God and Christ / vnto whom God willeth that eueryone â which seeketh or desyreth Gods Freendship shall submitt himself and â in Concord assemble him therunto / to be one Man of God in Iesu Christ / wherby to becom one Heart or Mynde with him / in all Loue. 4. Beholde and consider Heeron and seeke not y e Freendship of this Worlde f Iam. 4. a. wherthrough ye geet the Enimitee of God and the Enimitee of his Saintes 5. Therfore yeeld-ouer yourselues to the Maiestee of God and com all now to the Temple of the liueing God / the g Psal 122. a Esa. 2. a. Ier. 31. a. Zach. 8. c. Howse of his Dwelling / To th end that ye may be all assembled to the h Math 24. d Ephe. 2. c. 4. b one Body of Christ and may heare the Woord of the Lorde â out of the holy Temple of his Dwelling and doo therafter / for that your i Iohn 15. b. Ioye may be perfect To which Saluacion of Soule and Body / we be all now called and bidden / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 6. According to thesame maner / so consider likewyse on the loueing peaceable Heart / wherin God hath sett his Heart â full of all Grace and Christ / his holy Spirit â full of all Loue and assemble you with all your Hearts / k Act. 4. d. to thatsame one Heart and so it shal be one l Ephe. 2. b. God one Man one Heart one Fayth m 1. Cor. 12. a Ephe. 4. a. one Spirit and one true euerlasting Lyfe / to be one true and vpright Righteousnes vppon the Earth according to the Promyses O Yea / that com-to-pas euenso 7. HEer-with / my beloued Freendes â which loue the Trueth in Christ I do hartely salute you / with a Salutacion of the Loue and a Kisse of Peace n Rom. 16. b. 1. Cor. 16. c Salute you also one-another with thesame Salutacion â–ª namely all yee that are Fellow-companyons of the louely and peaceable Howse of Loue. 8. The Lorde graunte vnto you all / Grace and Mercy / to be incorporated â with Heart Spirit and Body to the only and true Body of Christ. The Loue of God the Father / take the Victory in all your Heartes Amen Take it to heart The Ende of the Seuententh Epistle The Eightenth Epistle A loueing Exhortation / written and sent vnto an Howsholde / that are ioyned to the Famyly of Loue and agreeable or concordably mynded to the Seruice of the holy Woord of the Spirit of Loue / for to be obedient to the Trueth Beholde / how sweete and louely it is / that Bretheren dwell to gether concordably Psal. 133. How deere or precious is thy Kyndnes â O God that the Children of Men seeke Protecton vnder the Shadow of thy Wings They shal be satisfyed or filled with the Fattnes or Plenty of thy Howse and thou giuest them drink with the Ryuer or Fountayne of thy Delyte
growe-offended against it· inclyn-vnto or mayntayne the Euell· and so do seperate themselues from vs Little and Electedones of God and from the Famyly of Loue / shall neuer vnderstande nor inherit the true d 1. Iohn 1. a. Light or Beeing of God nor the spirituall Vnderstanding of the heauenly Goodes of Iesu Christ nor the e Math 13. d. 1. Cor. 2. b Col. 1. c. Secretnes of the heauenly Kingdom of God nor the Fullfilling f Ephe. 1. b. c Col. 1. c. 2. b. of the Righteousnes in Iesu Christ nor-yet the vpright g Iohn 8 d Heb. 4. e Freedom or Rest of the Children of God but shall dye in their Sinnes and be h Esa. 66. d. Math. 25. f. Apo. 21. c. condemned in the hellish Fyre 4. In which hellish Fyre of perpetuall Condemnacion / their i Apo. 16.20 â— 22. c. Heritage shal be the false Light or Beeing of the Deuill and all Bitternes or Maliciousnes of Heart together with all Blyndnes of the false and erring Spirits wherin they shall beholde and inherit nothing-els but all k Esa. 47. â— Wo Calamitee and Misery / as likewyse the euerlasting l Ier. 30. a. 2. Tess. 2. b Death â which they themselues haue procured and the perpetuall Bannishment m Math. 7. d. 25. f. Apo. 6. b. from the louely Beeing of God 5. From which Abhominations and euell Things / all beleeueing Hearts of the holy Woord of the Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ â which do submitt them n Esa 6â— b. obediently ther-vnder· dye in Christ their Sauiour· and in Patience / hope vpon the Godlynes be o Apo â— 18.20.21 deliuered and kept from all Destruction 6 THerfore take-heede to yourselues / to your Obedience and Godlynes / in the Loue of our God and Father / lest that yee â remayning without the Body of Christ or Famyly of Loue fall into the foresayde p Esa. 65. b. c. Abhomynations For doutles I haue warned you all sufficiently / of all Abhomynacions Destruction and Condemnacion and cleerly and euidently enough figured-forth before you / y e Preseruacion of you all and wheare thesame is to be obtayned 7. I therfore q Deut. 30. d. Act. 20. f excuse my self this daye before you all â which heare this my Testimony and refuse to assemble you to the Famyly of Loue or which turne yourselues ther-from of the Condemnacion of you all in thissame Daye of the r Soph. 1. c. â— Tess. 5. 2. Pet. 3. c. righteous IudgmeÌ„t of God / which passeth-out now swiftly â in this Daye of the Loue ouer the wicked Worlde / to her Condemnacion and in like-maner s Soph. 1 c. d. ouer all those that s Mâ—â—h 22. â— refuse the Obedience to the gracious Woord· and to the Requyring of the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ also are Enemyes to thesame· and mayntayne the wicked Worlde 8. For now in thissame Daye / shall the perpetuall Condemnacion / t Soph. 1 â— 2. Tess. 5. a Apo. 3. fall vnwares vppon all those that remayne without y e Howse of the Lorde and without the Obedience to his Seruice of Loue euen lyke as it came-to-pas with the Vnwillingones to the Trueth of God / in the v Gen. 7. a 19 c. Math. 24. Luk. 17. f Dayes of Noe and of Loth. 9. WHo soeuer now therfore / is â with a goodwilling Heart adioyned to the Famyly of Loue and which loueth Gods Righteousnes in thissame Daye / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and which desyreth to be kept from the Destruction· and preserued in the Godlynes / Let him x Eccli 18. c Luk 18.21 a 1 Tess. 5 c watch and praye now Night and Daye let him think vpon the â—iâ—rible y Esa 47 65. c Ier. 30 a Abhomynation that shall fall vppon the Resisters of the Obedience of y e Loue and of her godly Seruice and so let him take-heede z Heb. 2. â— to the godly spirituall and heauenly Goodes / which com vnto the Beleeuers of the holy Woord of the Spirit of y e Loue of Iesu Christ / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and let him a Eccli 6.32 a. Act. 14. c. 1 Cor 3 4 â— esteeme nomore of himself / then he is neither-yet let him seeke any Laude Prayse nor Honour / to b Psal. 14 b. Iohn 7. c. 8. f 1. Cor. 10. â— himself / in all his Wel-dooing / but only to the Lorde and to shewe all Obedience to the Lordes Woord and Will 10 For all the Good that cometh to the Man / c Math. 25. b. Luk. 19. b. from the Lorde â for to shewe all Good· or alwayes to doo well therthrough therof ther belongeth d 1. Cor 4. b 15. b. 2. Cor. 3. b. 1 Pet. 4. c no Glory Thanks nor Prayse / vnto the Man â although he dooeth or sheweth thesame Good but only to y e Lorde / of whom he receaueth the Good 11 For what Good or Weldooing can the Man doo I pray you / wherby any Glory Thankes or Prayse / belongeth vnto him / seing that he must receaue all the Good / of the e 1. Cor. 4. b. 15. b. 2. Cor. 3. b Iam. 1. a. Lorde and of his Grace 12 Doth it belong to the Man / to seeke or desyre Thankes and Prayse / because that he receaueth of God â f 1. Cor. 15. b. through his Fauour and Grace g Ephe. 1. b Wealth / for his Pouertee all Good / for his Euell h Ephe. 1. y e euerlasting Lyfe and Saluacion / for his Deserte of euerlasting Death and Condemnacion and the i 2. Cor. 5. a Spirituall and Heauenly· and the euerlasting Vncorruptiblenes / for the Earthly and Corruptible I think veryly / No. but k 1. Cor. 15. b highworthyly to laude and thanke the God of Lyfe / for his Graces-cause and in no-wyse / to boste or to glory of himself The VII Chap. THerfore looke wel to it / that ye drawe not vnto yourselues / a Esa. 42 b 48. b Ier. 13. c. d Eccli 7.13 b thatt which belongeth to the Lorde But submitt you obediently vnder his holy Woord and Seruice of Loue And so in the Accounting-nothing or Debaseing of yourselues / b Tob. 4. a Psal. 33. a 102.103 a 144. a alwayes laude and prayse the Lorde with Thankesgiueing / for the Grace of his Mercy towards you and for all his Goodnes shewed on you and endure ouercom or suffer-out â for the Loue of Iesu Christes sake c Eccli 2. a. 1. Cor. 4. c. 1. Pet. 2. c all the Temptacions / wherwith ye be tempted out of the Sinne and out of your owne vncleane or defyled Knowledg and by all the Ministers of Sinne / against d Eccli 2. a Heb. 12. a your Passage towards the good Lyfe of Iesu Christ. 2 For at what tyme soeuer ye
which the whole Earth shal be iudged with Righteousnes ther shall no v Apo. 10. a. Daye of Grace appeere anymore vppon the Earth but a seuere or harde x Heb. 10. c. Pet. 3. b. Iudgment ouer all Vngodlyones as is before sayde Take it to heart The Ende of the first Epistle The Second Epistle Ashort and pithy Instruction of the Mistery of the Loue. Labour for Loue Earnestly couet spirituall Gifts but cheefly / that ye may prophecye 1. Cor. 14. The Ende of the Commaundement and the Cheef-summe of Fayth / is Loue with a pure Heart and with a good Conscience and with vnfayned Fayth 1. Timo. 1. Ther was demaunded· and an Instruction requyred ther-vpon in Wryting / which is the Secretnes or Mistery of the Loue. And ther-vpon is answered by HN / in Wryting â according to the Declaration of the spirituall and heauenly Trueth this Instruction Heer-following Hee that hath Eares to heare / * Math. 13. a. Luk. 8. a. b. Apo. â— a. 3. a. let him heare Hee that hath Wisdom / let him conceiue Vnderstanding The First Chapter WIth whom shall I a Pâ—o. 8. â— speake sayth the Wisdom that shall vnderstande my Woordes 2. To whom shall I reueale the Mistery of the Loue / that shall conceaue or knowe it 3. Who are those that giue-eare vnto my Doctrine and haue founde my Wayes 4. Who hath marked whear my Dwelling is and followed-after Mee / in my Out-going and In-going 5. Who hath borne y e Contempt Blaspheamy and Shame / with Mee when I laye in the b Pro. 1. a. Esa. 59. b. Streete / whear the People shaked their Heades at c Psal 22. a. 109. c. Mee as at a d Esa. 53. a. Sap. 2. b. filthy thing / that is worthy to be cast-awaye / and as madd and frantick Men / ranne ouer Mee with Feete 6. Who hath had his Pleasure in Mee / when I was so e Esa. 53. a. Sap. 2. b. filthy and so lothsom to looke-vppon or to beholde / before all Wisdom of the Flesh and of the Vnrepentantones 7. Who hath denyed f Math. 10. â— 16. c. Mark 1. d. Luk. 9.14 c â–ª himself and is â for the Loues sake gon-out-of Himself with Mee / when I did â in the Loue requyre the Mans Saluation and was condempned to y e Death g Math. 26.27 Mar. 15. Luk. 22. Iohn 1â— â—â— of the Crosse· and killed with thesame Death / by the Wyseones of the Earth / as a Dispised-one or an Outcast vppon the Earth 8. Who hath borne such a Death h Rom. 6. a phil 2. a of the Crosse with Mee / in all Shame Dispiscing Blaspheaming and wicked Defamation / and shewed Patience therin / euen vnto the Death 9. Who hath suffered himself to be buryed in the Hart of the Earth with Mee / like One that is deadd 10. Who hath beleeued my Ryseing i Iob. 19. c. Dan 12. b. 1. Cor. 15. b. c 1. Tess. 4. b. from the Death or trusted theron / for to ryse also with Mee / with his Bodye 11. Who hath seene myne k Math. 16. b. Luk 24. f. Act. 1. a. Ascension to God my Father / vnto his Right-hande in y e heauenly Beeing and wayted my Coming l Esa. 25.30 b Mich. 7. b. Phil. 3. d. from thence / to a Righteousnes vppon the Earth 12. Who hath marked that I liue and raigne with m Eccli 24 b. God / and that my Greatnes is more then n 3. Reg. 8. c. â— Paâ— 2.6 b. all Heauens can comprehende whear also no o 1. Cor. 2. b. earthly Vnderstanding· nor all whatsoeuer is borne out of the earthly Blood / can knowe Mee 13· ANd if now ther be anyman that is passed-thorow all these things with Mee or that doth now presently / go-thorow this narrow p 4. Esd. 7. a. Math. 7. b. Luk. 13. Waye with Mee / to the Lyfe / Hee shall vnderstande and knowe the Misterye of the Loue. 14. Hee shall likewyse taste and feele the Pèrfection of all Goodnes and approch to the Loue / in her vertuous Nature and becom of one-beeing therwith 15. Beholde and consider / Thatt is the Grounde of the holy and godly Vnderstanding / touching the Mistery or Secretnes of the vpright Loue. The II. Chap. DYe lustfull Soules to the Mistery of Loue gather out the a 4. Esd. 8. â— Mynde and search no farder For doutles y e Loue suffereth not herself to be approched-vnto vnderstoode nor knowen / neither for this nor thatt / nor through any-maner of Cause let it be by what Meanes soeuer it wil nor thorough any-maner of Mynde or Will but only / by her owne vertuous Nature and louley Beeing / as through herself or through her Seruice For shee Ø›the euerlasting Good excelleth it all farr-away 2. Also / she receaueth nothing of anyman but Shee herself â out of her almighty and vertuous Nature and Spirit is a plentifull Distributrix of her owne aboundant Ritches / as an infinite flowing Ryuer of all godly Goodes alwayes b Gen. 2. b. refreshing the Paradise of the Lorde 3. The Loue is herself / a Nourice vnto her Children and a sure Bande / vnto all those that are incorporated to the euerlasting Lyfe and a mighty Strength which is able to suffer and to endure c 1. Cor. 13. a. althings 4. The Loue is also an d Exo. 3. â— 19. b. 20. b. holy Mountayne the which noman being vnhallowed or vnprepared / may touch or com-neere For whosoeuer toucheth thesame Mountayne / and is not of her Part to him is she a consumeing Fyre â–ª Whose burning Heate e â—sa 33. b. noman can endure / but he which is of her lyke Nature or Seede Whoso resisteth her and submitteth not himself vnder Her and her Seruice / Hee shal be broken and battered to-peeces / like f Psal. 2. â— Esa. 30. b. Ier. 1â— a. â—9 b. a Potters Vessell 5. THe Loue in her Seruice / is an Originall or Begining of all good and vpright Lyfe For through her Seruice / She draweth the Myndes and Thoughts of the Heart away from all that is vayne corruptible and euell 6. She vnbyndeth or looseth the euerlasting Perfection for to com into the Lyfe of the eternall Vncreatednes / in the Kingdom of the God of Heauens / full of all pure Beawty / wherin all earthly and corrupt selfmynded Thoughts / do ceasse / and whear the corruptible Mortalitee / is not beholden 7. For in the Loue / is nothing-els but all Good and Lyfe as also the heauenly and endles Kingdom of Iesu Christ / in full vndisturbable Power / wherin the Myndes of the pure Hearts do dwell free without care or feare / with all g Esa. 35.51 a. Apo. 21. a. Glory and Ioye and with christian Tryumph 8. Which Freedom of the Children of God / which Fulnes of the godly Delytes and of the godly
the very-like Beeing of God and the Image of his Glory / as a fellow-partaker-of or being-lyke-vnto the godly Nature and Kynde Through which like Beeing of God / God would be knowen euerlastingly in the Man / as a true God 3. Heer-through was God in the Begining â as a Light of Lyfe of one-substance with the manly Creatures And out of his like Beeing in the manly Creatures / God c Gen. 2. c. brought-forth the Memory for a good and holy Vnderstanding / Because that his lyke Beeing shoulde not be alone in the manly Creatures but that the Memory shoulde â in all good and holy Vnderstanding be an Helpe d Glas. 1â— â–ª or Ayde to the like Beeing of the Godhead in the manly Creatures / to all Peace and Concord and to all Loue and Welfare vppon Earth 4. BEholde according to all Lyke-resemblance / euen-as God is a very-true c Iohn 1. a. 1. Iohn 1. â— Light and euerlasting Lyfe / so is also his like Beeing / a true Light and euerlasting Lyfe / in the manly Creatures â that are comprehended in the vpright Estate of their manly Beeing and in Christ in such like-maner also in them / the Memory / that God hath brought-forth out of his like Beeing Which Memory / in thosame manly Creatures namely being in their right Estate is likewyse a Light / of the true Light and a Lyfe / of the true Lyfe and that altogether / to Peace and Righteousnes vppon Earth 5. This / in the foremer Kingdom / was Gods Glory in his manly Creatures / whom He had chosen to himself / to th end that they shoulde f 1. Pet. 3. b. inhabite the Earth with Righteousnes and that euenso ther-through / the Highest God â as a liueing and true God and his holy Beeing and vertuous Nature / shoulde â as-well vppon Earth / as in Heauen be knowen for euermore / in the Spirit of the manly Creatures and haue his Shape in them and so liue in them 6. BEholde Thatsame true and like Beeing of God which is flowed or borne out of the eternall and liueing Godhead / is the First-borne g 1. Cor. 15. c. Gol. 1. b. of all Creatures and is the true and liueing Christ of God which cannot be h Psal 16. b. Act 2. d. 13. d corrupted but He continueth alwayes i Psal 9. a. and euerlastingly For He is y e k Iohn 3. b. Rom. 1. a. only-borne Sonne of God and a very-true l Iohn 1.14 â— Light and eternall Lyfe for euermore / like vnto his Father 7. Heer-from hath the Man turned him and seene and tasted the Corruption But so hath not the Christ of God For Gods very-like Beeing Ø›the true Christ of God m Ephe. 4. Col. 3. is the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes / which is euerlasting and n Sap. â— b. immortall / also vndestroyable vnchaingable and vncorruptible But the Vnrighteousnes / is the Obteyning of Death and of the Corruption Which Corruption or deadly Mortalitee / o Gen 3. a. Rom. 5. b. 1 Cor. 15. c. the Man hath taken-on and ther-through / hath horne the Contrary-beeing to God Ø› p Sap. 2. c. Iohn 8. c. that Antichrist / the like Beeing of the Deuill and so is dreeuen from the Beholding of God / q Gen. 3. c. without the Ritches of the godly Goodes and hath lost the Mercy-seate of his Saluation 8. Which Saluation of the Mercy-seate / is r Gen. 12.22 â— Act. 3. c. Gal 3. a. couenanted and promysed agayne â by the God of Lyfe vnto Abraham and his Seede And through thatsame / the Blessing of all Generations of the Earth After which Saluation / many s Math. 13. b Luk. 10. c. 1. Pet. 1. b. Kings and Prophets haue sought and inquyred / which they saw-into a farr-of / as coming but they coulde not attayne vnto it â–ª but haue witnessed and prophecied therof / that thesame shoulde be inherited in all Loue â–ª Peace and vpright Righteousnes / in the last tyme. The IIII. Chap. THis Grace of Saluation and this like Beeing of God / which became vnknowen through Adam did in tymes-past appeere in Israel / out a Math. 1. c. Luk. 1. g. 2. a. of the Howse of Dauid of the Trybe of Iuda like as God had promysed b Psal. 58. g. Esa. 9. a Ier. 23.30 â— Dan. 9. c. through the Lawe and the Mouth of all his Prophets and He is published c Act. 2. d. 3. b c. 13. d. to the whole Generation of Israel / to be their King Sauiour and Messias and that God had shewed the Mercy d Luk. 1. f. g. on them for to help-vpp Isarel his Seruant And so at thesame tyme / God was merci-full vnto his chosen People and hath not for gotten his Couenant / euen-as He had promysed to Abraham and his Seede 2. Euenthus veryly was this like Beeing of God / the true Christ and only-borne Sonne of God from eternitee / borne of the e Luk. 2. a. Rom. 1. a. Seede of Dauid according to the Flesh / to be a Sauiour to the Generation of Israel / for to set-vpp Israel in his Righteousnes But certen of the Wyse and Scriptur-lernedones after y e Lawe / f Math. 12. c 15. a. 21. c. d. 27. c. Act. 2. c. 3. d. haue neither beleeued nor receaued thesame Iesus Christ according to the Flesh but haue withstood Him and refused both Him and his Requyring g Math. 23. d. and not alowed of Him but haue delyuered Him ouer vnto the Heathen / h Math. 27. to the Death of the Crosse. 3. Yea / so farr is the vnregenerated man differing from the Mynde of God â although he be wyse prudent or vnderstanding in the Knowledg and Scriptur-learnednes that he â for his owne Wisdoms cause doth vnderstand i Math. 11 c. 1. Cor. 2. c. nothing-at-al of the Mynde of God nor of the Seting-vpp of Israel â–ª neither-yet can he attayne therunto / with his owne Wisdom like as it hath also com-to-pas with the Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones of the Lawe And this Christ of God k Luk. 24. c. Act. 3. b. 17. a hath bin forced to suffer Yea / from the l Apo. 13. a. Begining of the Worlde forth for the Wisdom of the Flesh and the Sinnes cause And it went with Him / m Math. 26. c Luk. 22. as was written therof and He was killed on the Earth / with the contemnable n Sap. 2. c. Math. 27. Death of the Crosse and buryed in the Heart of the Earth 4. SEing now that it was vnpossible / that the Death coulde holde Him or that He shoulde see the o Psal 16 a Act. 2 13 d Corruption / to a Consumation â–ª therfore is He rysen agayne p Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24 c Act 2. c 10 â— 1 Cor. 15 a from the Death / for a perpetuall Conquering of the
Ø›his very-like Beeingâ— in the Man And so hath God made and ordayned euery-thing k Eccli 39. â— â–ª well / through his godly Beeing And l Iohn 1. a. without thatsame Beeing / God hath made nothing that is any what nor ordayned anything / without thesame and thatsame lyke Beeing of his Godhead / m Iohn 1.6 g is his only borne Sonne / Iesus Christ and is the n 1. Cor. 15. c. Col. 1. c. Firstling or the First-borne of all Creatures / whom God hath foreseene therto / o Pro. 8. c. er-euer the Foundation of the Worlde was layde p Heb. 1. a. and to be an Heire of all his Workes 14. Hee is promysed q Iohn 3. b. Rom 8. d. and geuen vnto vs by God the Father â as a Christ of God for a Lyfe and for a Saluation and is likewyse so r Psal. 19. a. Act. 2.3 c. preached and published to the Worlde But the Worlde hath not beleeued in Him and therfore also s Ihon. 8.9 â— remayneth her Sinne and Death 15. For in noman els but in thatsame only Christ t Iohn 1. is the Lyfe Which Lyfe / is a Light of Men and that Light shyneth in the Darknesses and the Darknesses haue not comprehended it 16. Thatsame is a verytrue Light u Iohn 8. b. which lighteth all Men / through his Coming into this Worlde and He was in the Worlde and the Worlde was made through Him but the Worlde knew Him not 17. He came into his Owne and his Owne receaued Him not But so many as receaued Him / to them gaue He the Power to be Children of God namely Those that beleeued on his Name / which are not borne of Blood nor of the Will of the Flesh nor-yet of the Will of Man / but of God The IIII. Chap. OF this selfsame only-borne SoÌ„ne of God the Father / the Prophet Esay doth also witnes a Esa. 9. a A Childe sayth hee is borne vnto vs a Sonne is geeuen vnto vs whose Dominion / is vppon his Shoulders and He is called / Wonderfull Counsayle Power Gyant euerlasting Father a peaceable Prince / Because that his Dominion may be great and no Ende of the Peace / vppon the Seate of Dauid and his Kingdom 2. Him hath likewyse the Prophet Dauid seene in the Spirit and witnessed of Him / that God hath b Psal. 110. a. Heb. 5. b. 7 b sworne â and it shall not repent Him that Hee is a Preest for euer / after the Order of Melchisedech and He continueth also an High-preest c Heb. 3.10 c ouer the Howse of God / for euer / as d Heb. 8.9 b. a Minister of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes Which Ministration cometh-to-pas in the Spirit / and not in the Letter euen as is written of Him 3. But seing now that the Man is falne-away e Gen. 3. a. Ephe. 4. c. Col 1. â— or estrainged from this vpright Beeing of his God / Therfore hath this ChristØ›the true Lambe of God suffered f Phil. 2 a. the Death of the Crosse in the Man Which Lambe of God / was killed g Apo. 5.13 b from the Begining of the Worlde / for the Sinnes cause But seing He is not of the Death but of the liueing Father / the God for euer / therfore is He also rysen h Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24. c. Act. 2. c. 10 c 1. Cor. 15. â— Col. 1. b. agayne and as the i Math. 2â— a. Firstling / rysen-vp from the Death k Act. 1. a. 2. c. 10. c. 13. d. 1. Cor. 15. a. Psal. 110. a. and hath shewed himself alyue vnto his Disciples and Beleeuers and set himself at the l 1. Cor. 15. c. Right-hande of God his Father / in the heauenly Beeing bearing the Dominion / till that all his Enemyes be layde vnder his Feete to a Conquering of Sinne and Death / through Fayth 4. THis is that Iesus Christ / which â like as He was preached before and m Act. 1. 1. Tess. 5. c. 2. Tess. 1. a. shoulde be seene in his Coming is n 2. Cor. 4. a. 2. Timo. 1. b. appeered and com vnto vs / in y e Obedience of the Loue / according to the Scripture Who must possesse the Heauen / o Act. 3. c. till vnto this tyme / wherin all becometh restored agayne / that God hath spoken by the Mouth of all his Prophets / from the Begining of the Worlde 5. Thissame was in tymes-past published in the Worlde / p Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24. f. Act. 1.2 c. for a Gospel or ioyfull Message / to th end y t all those which were burdened with Sinne and captiued with Darknesses / shoulde be baptised or washed q Rom. 6 a. Col. 2. b. in his Death of the Crosse / according to the inwarde Man· and planted into Him r 2 Cor. 4. b â–ª Phi. 3. b. with his like Death / for that all those which beleeued in Him / shoulde be borne-agayne out of thesame Death· and so becom partakers of the s Rom. 6. a. 2. Cor. 4. b. Phil. 3. b. Resurrection of ChristØ›the very-like Beeing of God / the Righteousone and that they mought euenso then â in the Spirit haue their fellowshipp with Christ / t Ephe. 2. a. in the heauenly Beeing / in the Kingdom of God his Father· and so reioyce them in his Coming / in the euerlasting Lyfe 6. Beholde thatt is the vpright v Luk. 1. Ephe. 4. c. Righteousnes and Holynes / which cometh to the Man in the Spirit / through Christ to an euerlasting Reconciling of the Man with God or to an x Iohn 17. c. Ephe. 2. b. Vnitee / betwixt God and the Man / to th end that God may in that sort / be y 1. Cor. 15. c. all in all / according to the Promyses The V. Chap. BVt seing now that thy Questyon is how or in what maner / thesame shall com-to-pas in vs / so can I not omitt / to giue the a full Instruction therof 2. Therfore beholde and consider in thyne Vnderstanding / my Beloued how that now in the last tyme / thesame liueing God â out of Grace / vndeserued is a 2. Cor. 4. a. 2 Timo 1. b. appeered vnto vs / out of his holy Heauen / and dwelleth b 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. liueth and walketh among Vs Ø›the Family of his Loueâ— And how that Hee and his vpright Righteousnes / is â by his gracious Woord administred in the Family of Loue and how that likewyse in thesame Administration / c 2. Cor. 10. a. 1. Petr. b. c. the Beleefe and the Obedience to the Requyring of thesame God / is requyred of all Men d Ephe. 4. â— to an Vnitee of Heart with Vs / in all Loue. 3. So consider then whearsoeuer thesame liueing God of Heauen and his Goodnes â as an vpright Beeing
his Father and maketh his p Iohn 14 c â–ª Apo. â—1 a. Dwelling in vs. 12. Euenthus veryly with Patience doth Christ com before the Man â for his q Rom. â— a. 2. Cor. 12. â— Heb 5. â— Ignorance and Weaknes cause in the Ministration of the gracious Woord of God his Father and in thesame Patience / Hee â through his Seruice of Loue draweth the Man away from all that is vngodly and vnreasonable and wherunto he is bounde or wherwith he is bewitched / according to his earthly and manly Mynde 13. Beholde in this sort doth Christ â in the Obeying of the Requyring of the Seruice of his Loue r Oze 13. b. Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 15. f. Timo. 1. b. Heb. 2. b. 1 Iohn 3. b. breake all the Bandes of the Deuill and of the Self-myndednes of the Flesh and bringeth the beleeueing and obedient Man / to his spirituall and heauenly Mynde of the vpright Righteousnes according to the Mynde of God his Father and euenso â as the s 1. Tim. 2. a. Heb. 9. b. true Mediatour / to our Reconcilment with God the Father He putteth-away the t Esa. 59. a. Ephe. 2. b. Middle-wall betwixt God and Vs and procureth the Man / that he vniteth him with a good Will / with the Godhead u Iohn 17. c. and God / to an Vniting with the Manhod 14. BEholde and haue a good regard heerunto / my Beloued for euenthus as is rehearsed is x Rom. 5. a. the Peace and Reconciliation with God the Father / prepared for vs through Christ and so He maketh of Two / y Ephe. 2. b. that they be One. Namely the Godhead and the Manhod 15. But in the meane tyme that we do suffer with a Rom. 8. b. 2 Cor. 4. b. Phil. 3. b. 2. Timo. 2 b Christ / for the Sinnes cause and do dayly take our b Math. 16. c. Luk. 14. c. Crosse vppon vs / with Him / So do-ther yet dayly nodout / many Temptations meet with vs / through the Vnbeleefe of the earthly Man and we do stumble or fall and do sinne also yet somtymes / by reason of our Ignorance and Weaknes Which Sinne we do not then committ in the Father / but c Math. 12. d. in the Sonne But if we be good of Will and continue stedfast therin / then is the Sinne d Act. 10. â—â— forgeeuen vs / through his Name 16. For inasmuch as He himself beareth in vs our Sinnes / therfore hath He e Heb. 5. a. Compassion with our Weaknes and suffereth likewyse with vs / in the Beleefe till that all the Contrary-beeing that is agaynst the vpright Beeing of God the Father / be ouercom through the Beleefe / in the Like-suffering with Christ / f Rom. 6. a. Phil 2. a. of the Death of the Crosse and that Christ with his Father / haue gotten g 1 Cor. 15. c. the Dominion against the Sinne. Which Crosse or Suffering of Christ / is the Alter of the Offering of Christ / h Heb. 9. b. c. 10. a. b. in the Holy wheron our Sinnes be offered-vpp / through the Offering of Christ / as a Sinne-offering Death-offering and Debt-offering Through which Offering of Christ â wherin we do obediently follow-after i 1. Pet. 2. Him / till vnto the second Birth from the Death we be k 2. Cor. 3. b. Ephe 1. a. 2. b Col. b. Heb. 9. b. â— sprinckled with his Blood of the true Testament to the Forgiuenes of Sinnes and to an euerlasting Reconcilment with God the Father / through Fayth and thatsame is the Fulfilling of the true God-seruice in the Holy 17. Through which Fulfilling of the foregoing Seruice in the Holy / the godly Vnderstanding l 1. Cor. 13. b. Ephe. 4. b. of the true Age of the manly Beeing of Iesu Christ / is inherited by vs· m 2. Cor. 3. b the Vayle before the Mostholy / put-away from vs· and the n Esa. 16. c. Heb. 1. b. 5. a. Mercie-seate / vncouered and declared vnto vs and likewyse all the costly o Col 2. a. Ritches of the vpright spirituall and heauenly Goodes / in the verytrue Mostholy 18. When-as we now are thus renewed p Rom. 12. a. Ephe. 1. b. in Iesu Christ / through Fayth· also com to thesame q Ephe. 4. b. Age of the Man Christ· and becom one Body with Iesu Christ / so is God the Father then likewyse / r EPhe. 2. b one-substance or manned with vs / through Christ and s 1. Cor. 15. c. is all in all and we haue the t 2. Cor. 1. c. Paune of his Inheritance namely the holy Gost / wherwith we be grounded sealed and established u Ephe. 3. d. in God / through Iesus Christ. And all thatt godly Beeing â euenas we haue witnessed before of God the Father doth then liue substancially in vs and so we haue our x 1. Iohn 1. â— Fellowshipp with God the Father and with his Sonne Ø›the Lorde Iesu Christ in the euerlasting Lyfe wherin our Ioye is perfect 19. BEholde Thatt is the true Ioyfulnes with Christ / which we do inherit in the Kingdom of God his Father and do knowe nomore of the Sinne. For in that we are deadd / y Rom. 6. b. that are we deadd vnto the Sinne. and in that we liue / that liue we vnto God / in Iesu Christ and so haue a good and quyet Conscience / through Iesus Christ / in his Dominion ouer the Sinne and Death 20. Which Dominion of Christ and z Luk. 16 c. Kingdom of God / is as-then com inwardly into vs and it is with vs in all poyntes / one God / in one Beeing namely / the Father the Sonne the holy Gost / with the Manhod / in all Loue. And thatt is the Lyfe and Peace and the * Gen. 21. a Rom. 4. b. Gal. 3. b. c. Seede of Promyse to the Bleessing of all Generations of the Earth The VI. Chap. MY Beloued Thissame euenas I haue heere witnessed vnto thee is the right Mediation of Iesu Christ / inwardly in vs to our Safe-making and Reconciliation a Rom. 3. c. 2. Cor. 5. c. Col. 1. c. 1. Iohn 2. b. with God the Father wherthrough also Christ is an b Heb. 1. a. Heyre of all Things and God / all c 1. Cor. 15. c in all It is verytrue 2. And with this Instruction out of the heauenly Trueth / do I hartely salute thee in the Lorde d Ephe. 4. a. to an Vnitee of Heart in y e Loue and looke thou with spirituall Eyes of a pure Heart / into the Grounde of thatt wherof I wryte vnto thee / To th end that thou mayst comprehende the secret Vnderstanding of the spirituall and holy Knowledg / wherof I wryte vnto thee and let thyne Vnderstanding awake / to the Loue and to her Seruice 5. I
thyself altogether vnto his Will 3. Choose not also any perticuler thing in Gods Workes But looke that thou stand d 2. Cor. 12. b. contented in all the Workes of God For e Deut. 10. b Act. 10. c. Rom. 2. c. God respecteth not anyman but He worketh all things f Psal. 114.135 according to his owne Pleasure 4. If-so-be now that thou holde thyself quyet in the Workes of God and therto / indeuourest thy self to g 4. Esd. 7. a. Math. 7. b. passe-thorow the strayt h 1. Cor. 4. b. 2. Cor. 4. b. 6. a. 11. c. d Waye with all the Saincts of Christ / in Shame Blaspheamy and Contempt / and therin â following after Christ dayly takest-vp thy i Math 16. c. Luk. 14. c. Crosse â in the Obedience to the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue till vnto the second Birth k Rom. 6. a. Ephe. 2. a. Col. 1. c. 2. b from the Death / So shalt thou then likewyse wel knowe and vnderstande / l 2. Cor. 3.4 a that the Power for to accomplish the Righteousnes of God / is not the Mans· but â so much as it remayneth with vs only the Lordes 5. For / for his owne sake and for the Prayse of his holy Name / He wil not m 2. Pet. 3. a. forslowe himself to performe his Worke / to our Saluation / to th end that He may establish his Promyses in vs / if we stand plyable vnto Him with submitted Hearts 6. But not for our Workes cause â–ª for that no Flesh n 1. Cor. 1. c. Ephe. â— a. shoulde bost itself but for his owne cause and for his holy Names sake / because that Hee Ø›the great and almighty God and his o Math. 6. b. holy Name / shoulde be hallowed and praysed in his Workes 7. Wherfore Because now that no Flesh of Adam or of the earthly Man / p Psal 14.53 a. Rom. 3. b. hath any Vnderstanding of the Works of God / I can therfore talke very little of thosesame / with the Children of Men but must stretch-out my Heart vnto my God and speake before Him 8. O God of deepe and vnsearchable Wysdom Who hath euer bin q Esa. 40. b. Sap. 9. b. Rom. 11. b. thy Counsayler or geeuen thee to knowe before / r Esa. 45. Rom. 9. c. worke this thus or so 9. Art not thou thesame which thou art the God of Abraham and his Seede / which was from eternitee and remayneth a liueing and true God for euermore Who also worketh euery Thing without Respect of Persons or Counsayle of anyman For thy Will goeth-forth / according to thy Pleasure and thy Worke s Sap. 11. d. Rom. 9. c. can noman withstande 10. Therfore must I laude thee / O my God For thou hast brought my Soule t Psal. 30. a. 50. b 86. b 116. a. out of the Deapth of Hell and kept me / when I was in the Extremitee u Psal. 18.116 of Death 11. O my God seing thou hast hetherto / kept me from the Destruction / so let not thy Grace now likewyse depart from me although I be a Loathsomnes and x Psal. 31. b. 44. b. 79. a. 88. a. 1. Cor. 4 b. Reproach before many Men but holde me alwayes by y Psal. 10â— a. thy Right-hande hande and z Psal. 119. d. teache me through thy Lawe / for that myne Enemyes â which make-vp themselues against me / for to destroy me may depart from me and make knowen vnto them / that thou hast chosen Mee to be an Instrument for thy Worke. 12. When-as now â O my God myne Enemyes do perceaue that thou dost teache and gouerne me And that it is thy Worke / which thou â to th end to performe it hast begonne with me / Then shall they wel vnderstand / that thou â O Lorde art my God â–ª and I / the a Ephe. 2. b Worke and Instrument of thy Hande which thou hast accepted vnto thee / for to accomplish thy Will 13. Now â O Lorde leade me on-forward into b Psal. 5. a. thy Righteousnes / that I â through thy Grace shewed on me may prayse thy holy Name· and highly laude and thanke thee / in thy Righteousnes 14. For truly / the Vngodly c Psal. 14. a. 53. a. Rom. 3. b. knowe thee not the Dispisers and Blaspheamers / fynde not thy Dwelling the Sencles and Self-wyseones / aske not after Thee O God in the d Psal. 6. a. â—8 b. 115. b. Esa. 32 b. Death / men do not remember thee thy Song-of-prayse / is not soung in the Hell the Hipocrites or fayned Holyones nor-yet the false Hearts and Scripture-learnedones â which blaspheame and contemne thy holy e Heb. 10. c. Spirit and Seruice of Loue or murmur ther-against seeke not thy Grace neither do any of all those likewyse / which iustifye or account themselues faythfull / â—om to be a Foote-bench vnder thy Feete 15. Seing then that all these are Straingers vnto thy Righteousnes and Holynes / therfore art thou also â O my God only holy only righteous and only true 16. Therfore â O my God giue thy Spirit into my Inwardnes f Psal. 51. b. create in mee / an vpright Heart / that is louely before thee and that walketh vnfalsly and giue likewyse thy Woord alwayes into my Mouth / so may I then prayse thee / before all those that loue thy Trueth also declare thy Righteousnes and magnifye thy Name For otherwyse â O God it is all nothing before thee The III. Chap. BEholde â thou Beloued / Shewing-forth Patience / in this my Distresse Wofulnes and Sorrow and in Prayer and Supplication vnto my God in a Rom. 6 a â— Cor 4. b. 2. Cor. 4. b. 6. a. 11. c. Dying-from and Forbearing all sinfull Beeing in Death Suffering Shame Blaspheamy and in all Contempt with manâ— false Bruits and in many Conflicts or Stryueings against all the Temptation of the Sinne / I do dayly follow-after the crucifyed Christ / my Lorde and Sauiour / who is gon before mee and all his Saincts / in thesame contemptible b Sap. 2. b. Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse / y â— which is reiected by the Worlde and by all her Wyse and Scripture-learnedones c Esa. 53. â— Sap. 2. c. and dispised as a Foolishnes 2. In which Death of Christ / we must all be baptised or washed and euenso â drinking the d Math. 20. c. Cupp with Christ becom e Rom. 6. â— a Gal. 3. c. incorporated vnto Christ / if we shall ryse with Christ / in the Godlynes or be f Iohn 6. d. raysed-vp and made-alyue by Him in the last Daye / as g Rom 12. â— Ephe. 5. d. a Fellow-member of his Body For in Hym that sheweth Patience therin ther shall be seene / that Christ is h Ephe. 5. c. his Bodyes Sauiour
the Kingdom of Hell â as a deadly and damnable Beeing gett a Foorme in the Man and so became the Man and all what was borne of him / h Gen. â— b. Rom. 5. b. 1 Gor 15 c. subiect to the Death and all Destruction and he gott in that maner / the i Ier. 17. a. craftiest Heart / aboue all the Beastes vppon Earth / by which meanes / the whole Worlde is growne so k Eccli 37. â— full of Falshod 8. COnsider well now â ye goodwilling Hearts what a destructionable Heritage the Generacions of Men haue inherited / through the Knowledg of Adam wherthrough the Man who is created by God / for to be One with God and ought to be One with each-other is falne or growen into so many kyndes of Deuision and Destruction Which Destruction of the harmfull Knowledg / we may now easely perceaue / through the Cleernes of thissame Daye and through the Declaring of the Seruice of Loue / if we haue regarde theron and that cheefly eueryone in himself 9. Now for to bring thissame falne Man â which is so vtterly corrupted in his Vnderstanding· deadd l â—en 3. d. Sap 1. c. from the Lyfe of God· and estrainged from the Kingdom of the God of Heauens againe to his God / in his vpright Estate / So hath God out of m Iohn 3. b. his Loue euen-as He had promysed / to the Saluacion of the manly Generacion brought-forth a new MaÌ„ / according to thesame Likenes or Foorme of his Godhead n Mat. 1. â— Luk. 2. who is called / Iesus Christ which signifyeth vnto vs / the safe-makeing Oyle or Annoynting of the godly Beeing This Man is gon-out o Iohn 13. a. 16. â— from God and hath showed himself vppon Earth 10. He is entered into the Knowledg of Men and hath founde the much knowing Wisdom together with her Scripture-learnednes / false and lying / in all what she knewe 11. This false Knowledg inasmuch as she p 1 Cor 1 b vnderstood not the Trueth of God rightly / by all her Wisdom nor Scripture-learnednes hath Christ q Math 23. rebuked also brought-in a true Knowledg / besydes thesame and taken r 2 Cor 1â— a captiue the Knowledg of Men therwith wherthrough God hath euenso â by his Christ made all the Knowledg or Wisdom of Men / 1. Cor 1.3 c Foolishnes / to th end He woulde in that sort â in thissame tocoming Daye of his Glory release or make the Man free from all his foolish Knowledg / vnder the Obedience of his Loue. 12 In this like-maner hath Christ don also with the s Math. 12. c. 15. b. 21. d. Sinne and with the false Righteousnes of Men. 13. He is likewyse entered into the Death t Math. 27. of Men and hath also brought-in a Death besydes thesame namely his u Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse to the Makeing-alyue of Men and so hath â through his Death taken-captiue v 1 Cor. 15. f. the Death of Men / for that He woulde now in the last Daye â in his Coming-agayne x Rom. 6 â— b 1 Cor 15. c. 2 Cor 4. b. Ephe. 2. a. Col 2. b. rayse-vp the Man from the Death / through his Death of the Crosse· make him alyue through his Spirit of Loue· and bring him to his God / in his vpright Estate 14. Euenso hath He don likewyse with the Deuill Darknes Hell and Condemnacion in whose Bands the Man hath walked and bin so bounde therin / that he coulde not escape the Condemnacion Whose y Oze 1â— b. 1. Cor 15 f Apo. 20. b. Power is now â in thissame Daye of Loue altogether broken· and the Man â which beleeueth and giueth-eare to the Loue in her Seruice made safe The III. Chap. AND now when Iesus Christ had a Psal 68. b. Ephe. 4. a. taken-captiue the Power and Dominion of all pernicious Things â which burdened the Man and were destroying and b Psal 8 a. 11. c. 28. b. â— Cor. 15. c Ephe 1. c Heb. 2. a had brought them all vnder him / through his Death of the Crosse / Then did He ryse agayne from the Death / with his Power and Dominion ouer the Destruction and was seene alyue / c Math. 28. b Iohn 20. d. Act 2. c. 10. c 1. Cor. 15 â— by his Freendes and so hath â through the Declareing of his Resurrection caused his Freendes and Desciples that beleeued in Him / to see and made-knowen vnto them / the obtayning of the Power and Victory / against all the destroying Things wherwith the Man was captiued 2. Now when He had commaunded his Disciples / that they shoulde publish thatt which they had seene heard and learned of Him / for a Gospel in all the Worlde / to the Saluacion of Men / in his Coming-agayne / d Mar. 16. b Luk 24. f. Act. 1. a. Then did He ascende from them / to the Seate of his godly Glory and hath possessed the Heauen and sett himself at the Right-hande of the Maiestee of his God / in the-Heigth From thence hath God â by thesame Christ poored-out his e Act 2. a. holy Spirit / vppon the Disciples of Christ / which beleeued in Him and obserued his Woord / for to make them vnto Him / a true Comunialtee of his Saintes 3. Beholde euenthus hath God / beholding f Act. 17. d. the Ignorance of Men caused the g Math 3 a. Luk. 3.24 â— Act. 2. d. 3. b vpright Repentance for Sinne / to be published vnto all Men / by these Saintes of God and Christ and to giue them to vnderstand / that He hath sett or appoynted a Daye â which is the Daye of Loue h Psal. 96 9â— â–ª Act. 17. b. on the which He woulde iudg the Circuit of the vniuersall Earth / with Righteousnes / by one Man / in whom He hath concluded it who holdeth-foorth the Beleefe before eueryone inasmuch as God hath raysed Him vp from the Death 4. Forasmuch then as God is true in his Promyses i Luk 1. e g. and doth continually shewe his Mercy on the Generations of Men / to the Establishing of his Promyces / so doth He likewyse declare vnto vs in thissame last Daye of his Loue â which God hath sett and appoynted for a Daye of his righteous Iudgment how or in what maner his Promyses do stand firme and he accomplished and that God is k Psal. 139. b. Apo. 15. a. wonderfull in all his Workes 5. Seing now then that the last Tyme is com and that this Daye / which God himself hath sett or appoynted of the which was spokeÌ„ long before is com and declared vnto vs Little and Electedones of God / by the l 2. Timo. 1. â— Aâ—peering of the Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ / So wil God likewyse now in thissame Daye / accomplish all m
the Saluacion the Ioye and the Rest of our Soules with all Gods Saintes / in the euerlasting Lyfe The III. Chap. BEholde and consider â ye Beloued This is now Gods righteous Iudgment / in thissame Daye of his Loue which is the Newe Daye of the 24. Esd. 6. b. Worlde to-com Yea a Daye / which God himself hath ordayned or appoynted / to the SaluacioÌ„ of his Saintes and to the Condemnacion of all Vngodlyones / in the which likewyse / all Saints and Righteousones do reioyce them For vpon thesame / b Act 17. d. the Circuit of the Earth is iudged with Righteousnes according to the Promyses of our God and Father It is verytrue 2. O ye beloued Hearts â which do with vs / loue the vpright Beeing of Christ haue a good regarde heerunto exercise c 1 Timo 4. b yourselues dayly in the Woord of Trueth / vnder the Obedience of the Loue exhort d 1. Tess. 5 b Heq. 3.10 c. one-another also / to the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and strengthen yourselues among eachother / to continue stedfast e Act. 11. c. 13. c. 14. c. in Fayth till vnto the Ende of the Suffering and Stryueing agaynst the sinfull and corrupt Nature For f Math. 10. â— 14. b. Mark 13. b. whosoeuer continueth stedfast till vnto the Ende as is written hee shal be saued 3. With thissame â for a Recreacion vnto your Hearts coÌ„fort and cherrish yourselues among eachother I hope ouer a little whyle / to com vnto you and to talke with you by Mouth / of all what is â by Gods Grace g 1. Timo. 1. b committed vnto Mee and is profitable vnto you to Edifycacion For that is doutles the Delyte and all the Desyre of my Heart 4. Heerwith â ye Beloued with Laude and Thankes-giueing vnto God / for your Zeale and Dilligent-care that ye haue to the Righteousnes of the Loue / I do salute you all very hartely namely euen the whole Howsholde of you as my beloued Bretheren and Sisters in the Loue with a Salutacion and Kisse of Loue. 5. I do also giue Thankes vnto the Lorde / for the Benefites Gifts and Beneuolence / that ye haue sent vnto mee / to an Helpfulnes and Furtherance of the Seruice of Loue. 6. The Lorde giue Strength vnto you all h Ephe. 3. b. Coâ— 1. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. and strengthen your Spirit / in his Trueth The Loue and the Goodnes of our God and Father / establish you in his louely and true Beeing Amen 7. Salute me hartely likewyse â with a Salutacion of the Loue vnto all our Freendes and Louers of the Trueth / which are adioyned to the Famyly of Loue and with whom ye haue dayly your Fellowshipp / in the Seruice of Loue. 8. Thatt God / who is the Loue and the euerlasting Lyfe / bring his godly Beeing plentifully vnto you all namely his i Ephe. 1. b. holy Spirit which is the Pawne of our Inheritance And his Loue take the Victory in all your Heaets Amen The Ende of the Eightenth Epistle Our Heart / is the Minde of God most-hie Our Beeing amiable / as the sweete Lillie Our Faithfulnes / Loue / and Trueth vpright / Is Gods Light / Life / and Cleernes bright The Nyntenth Epistle An harty Exhortacion vnto the most-zealous good-willing Hearts to the Righteousnes and vnto the Elders and Ministers of the Woord / in the Comunialtee of the Loue For a Warning vnto them all / of all Deceit that may chaunce vnto them by the new Commers-on to the mostholy Seruice of Loue. Open not your Heart vnto euery Man lest any Falshod be don vnto you by the Strainger Eccli 8.12 If a Freende ioyne vnto thee / prooue him first and beleeue him not ouersoone For ther are many false Freendes which continue not â as Freendes in the Dayes of Tribulacion but they turne them a-bout to Enimitee for to stryue against thee And if thâ—n they knowe or remember any shamefull thing by thee / thatt do they vpbrayde thee with-al Ier. 9. Mich. 7. Eccli 6.8.12 Math. 10.24 1 Iohn 4. To the Kingly Seede of the holy Comunialtee vnder the Obedience of the Loue / be Health and Saluacion The First Chapter MY BELOUed Bretheren in the Loue which are groweing-vp vnder the Obedience of the Loue â in the holy Woord of the euerlasting Trueth to the a Ephe. 4 b. Age of the manly Vnderstanding of Iesus Christ and with whom I haue had my Conuersation in speaking of the Woord b Iohn â— 6 g. 1 Iohn 1. a of Lyfe / which is com and reuealed vnto vs / by Gods Grace wherwith God hath shewed Mercy on vs / according to his Promyses 2. My Exhortacion is hartely vnto you all that ye wil also in my Absence from you / be alwayes c Iohn 15. c. myndfull of the Speeche touching the Godlynes / euen as I haue vsed thesame with you and breake d Act. 2 e. distribute and feede-vpon thesame e Iohn 6. e. Bread of Lyfe â among eachother that is geeuen vnto vs from Heauen â by God the heauenly Father and brought vnto you / for a Foode vnto all your Soules And so becom you all feedd with thesame Bread / to an vpright and louely Lyfe in the Loue. 3. Drincke all now f Math. 26. â— Luk. 22. b. 2. Cor. 11. c. out of thissame Cupp of the Loue / full of y e pure Blood of Iesus Christ out of the which / the holy Blood or Lyfe of Christ / is now â in the Passe-ouer with Christ in his Suffering and Death / till vnto the seconde g Math. 19. â— Rom. 6. a. Birth from the Death geeuen vnto vs to drincke / for a true Testament and euerlasting Forgiuenes of Sinnes and becom now all washed and cleansed â in your Inwardnes h 1. Pet. 1. a. Heb. 9.10 b c. 12. c. Apo. 7. b. with thesame pure Blood of the Loue of Iesu Christ / the true Testament which shall continue for euer Which Testament / God himself / hath â as an eternal-continuing Beeing sealed with himself / in the Seruice of his Loue. 4. O my beloued Hearts and Bretheren in the Loue of our Lorde Iesu Christ take-heede in any-wyse i Eccli 4. c. 27. b. Gal. 6. b. to this gracious Tyme and haue a good regarde vnto my Sayings of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ And in euery-poynt / according as I in tymes-past haue talked with you by mouth / of this Passe-ouer with Christ / k Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Col. 2. b. in his Suffering and Death / till vnto the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and of all the Perfection l Apo. 21.2 and Garnishing of thesame Kingdoms Beawty / eueÌ„ so is likewyse his Foorme / whear it is manifest in all Loue. And according to thesame Foorme or Beeing / see that you all