Divine power and vertue excelleth the humane therefore is the humane brought forth through the Divine power so that the humane power and vertue giveth it selfe together with the Divine through the Divine power for the humane power and vertue is a perception or invention of the Divine wherein the Divine findeth it selfe in something viz in the formed Substance of the word of power wherein the Divine power loveth it selfe as in its perceptible Substance as the Soule loveth it selfe in its Body 6. Note And thus hath God powred his love through the humane Substance in the humanity of Christ into the Disciples of Christ with the humane Substance in that way and manner as the Sunnes power and vertue in Spiritu Mundi in the Spirit of the World as with the Effluence of the power and vertue of the Starres mingleth it selfe with the Spirituall Brimstone Salt and Oyle in the upper Elements so that it comprehendeth their power and vertue in its Glance and giveth it selfe to them and it the power giveth it selfe into the Sunnes power and vertue and so they worke together whereby the light of Nature is unlocked and with such working give themselves into the Earth Hearbs Trees and all Creatures so that in an Heath or Tree such a vertue doth exist whence the vegeration or budding forth of Creatures doth exist where alwayes in such growing or life a man is to understand 1 an Elementary Substantiall power and vertue and then 2 a super-Elementary Sunney or Solar and Starry or Astrall power and vertue where the Sunney and Sâ—arry with their strong power presse forth with the Elementary 7. Note Now wee see in hearbs and all things that grow out of the Earth when they take hold of and Eate this power and vertue of the Sunne and Starres in them that they doe not rend themselves and make or use a severed Mouth to doe it withall but the Essence of their desire viz even the Naturall Brâ—mstone Salt and Oyle in the Hearb is the Mouth which taketh hold and eateth in it selfe the Influence of the upper Elements of the Sunne and Starres Thus also in like manner it is to be understood concerning Christs Disciples and all other Men they have Eaten and drunk Christs flesh and bloud under Bread and Wine as through a Medium with the â—ssentiall desirous Faiths-Mouth not with a circumscribed creaturely comprehension but with the Faiths desire 8. Note Yet that a Man may rightly understand it he is to know 1 the outward Mouth with its comprehension apprehendeth the outward Elementary Substance Bread and Wine The Mortall tâ—ansitory Substance of Man viz the Grosse Flesh which shall not nor cannot inherite the Kingdome of Heaven Joh. 6.63 1 Cor. 15.50 that apprehendeth and eateth Bread and Wine for Bread and Wine is also an earthly transitory Substance which goeth into the Belly and out from thence againe as all naturall sood Matth 15 17. And 2 the right true Man which was created in Adam which before the beastiall grossenesse was a right Man and Image of the visible World according to its inward Spirituall Ground the same eateth Christs flesh which is even such Spirituall Substantiall flesh with the Essentiall desire Note understand the flesh that he tooke on him in Mary viz our humane but not the outward Ground of the Corporall foure Elements but the Inward holy Element viz the Ground out of which the soure Elements proceed Not Fire Aire Water and Earth but the Eternall pure Element which is a Substance of Paradise which is hidden in the foure Elements understand the Substance of Eternity out of which time is gone forth into a vision Substance that same flesh as a spirituall Mumia out of which Man as to the visible body hath taken its originall in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat which in Adam became blinde as to the Kingdome of Heaven when he went with the desire into the foure Elementary grossenes which fleshly Substance in Christs becoming Man was filled with heavenly living Substance and made living againe Note that is it which the right Adamicall Man eateth which sticketh hidden in the Grosse shell of the foure Elements and in that Substance the right Man Eateth Christs Passion Dying and Death which death of Christ is in his victory become an Eternall Life which Life so risen out of the Death of Christ breaketh our Earthly evill will and is become a Death to our Death which the outward Nature holdeth for a Life 9. Note Note And heere is Christs Passion and Dying put on to Man altogether Essentially a Workingly Effectually Operatively which Lifes-Death of Christ swalloweth up our Death wherein the Body when it heere dyeth according to the foure Elementary Substance resteth and the foure Elementary becometh dust and ashes this same power and vertue of the true humanity resteth in its Principle to the coming againe of the Corporeall Substance 10. But 2 the Soule which is a spirituall fire in its desire as with the true Faiths Mouth eateth the Supernaturall Substantiall Love of the Name JESUS which Name is become a Substantiall Power and vertue viz the Supernaturall Wisdome of God wherein the whole Deity is understood workingly 11. The Soules Mouth eateth of this Holy Substance whereby the Soule is turned into a Love-fire-burning for the Love of Christ giveth Ens and Substance to the Soules Fire the fiery Life of the Soule taketh this Love Substance into its Essence and by this Love-burning the Temple b Or Sophia The Wisdome of God Soph-JAH is againe unlocked viz the Substantiall Holy powerfull-Light the true Spirit which vanished in Adam As a Light goeth forth out of fire so through the Soules-fire another Principle viz the property of the Divine power and vertue goeth forth and in that out-going power and vertue dwelleth the supernaturall unsubstantiall God in Trinity for this is the Divine Principle where God in Man dwelleth worketh and willeth wherein the Divine Light is understood which c Penetrateth diffuseth it selfe through the true Man as fire through Iron 12. Note Understand it aright thus Man standeth in Three Principles viz in Three Beginnings 1 the visible Man is the visible World which is outward and inward viz a transitory and an untransitory viz the Pure Element and the Efflux viz the soure Elements 2 the Grosse Man with outward flesh and bloud is the foure-Elementary Body and the Spirituall Body in the Quintessence or fist Essence is the Holy Element which is hidden in the foure which is neither hot nor cold neither dry nor moist But the Soulish Ground is not the Element it is grounded in the Eternall Word where the fiery Word of the Fathers property hath inbreathed it selfe into the Created body as another Principle of an Eternall Nature 13. Now the Third 3 Supernaturall Ground of Man is the true Spirit understand the Substantiall Light the Substantiall Wisdome which with the Soules breathing in came into Man but yet vanished when
through Gods Imagination and kindling and there the humane introduced Will which hangeth to Earthlinesse is clensed and in the holy Fire purged and ransomed from sinne upon the future fullfilling For the ground out of which this Holy Fire came Manifested it selfe afterwards in Mans Life in the Person of Christ Thus stood the figure in their Sacrifices to shew how the earthly Image of Man should be preserved in the fire of God and how the grossenesse of the Elements should be consumed and out of the Consuming of the fire should goe forth the right true created pure bright spirituall Image in Adam which in the fire of Gods Wrath through this holy fire of the Great Love should be brought into Clarity In which New Image the Great fiery Love would it selfe be the fire of Life that it might no more Imagine falshood With this Faith the first Men before Christs time before Christ manifested himselfe in this incorporated Grace Covenant and became Man were apprehended and taken into the Living Word of God viz into the Grace wherein their Soule came into Divine Rest Note till Christ fullfilled this Type and arose from Death and then hee also with his life and Substance in them viz on their Inward Ground of the Heavenly part which vanished in Adam arose and was manifested and they put on Christ in Soule and Spirit and so now wait for their Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the Third Principle of the visible worlds property viz the formed Outspoken substantiall word of the Resurrection at the Last Day As also it is thus to be understood concerning Christians This Ground of the Holy Fire began with Adam with Abell and Caine when Abell and Caine sacrificed God looked graciously on Abells sacrifice and kindled it with holy Fire and the sweet smell went up before the LORD for the Image or Type of Christ in his Faith stood therein therefore God kindled his Sacrifice with the Holy Fire and it was acceptable before God for it was a Conjunction with the Divine desire But Cains he looked not graciously on for he had not such Faith or beleefe but stood in the perished Adamicall Nature of own Lust and desire and had imprinted or Imaged to himselfe the Kingdome of this world and therefore the Holy Fire would not kindle in his Sacrifice Cain stood in the Figure of the perished Adam after the Fall and Abell stood in the figure of the New Regeneration signifying how Christ would with his Sacrifice goe into Death and die for Man and so the Image of Caine stood neere signifying how Christ was come to seeke the poore falne Man and with his Sacrifice generate him a New But as the vanity of Men gat the upperhand and their Nature became still more Evill and shamefull then was quenched this understanding of the Holy Fire among them till the Flood came upon them and overthrew them which was a Type of the Baptisme signifying how the water of Eternall Life viz Gods Substantiall Meeknesse would drowne and quench that false fiery life of the Soule and how the Soule would grow up out of the Holy Water in the Meeknesse of God to a New Life of Light Now when the time came that God renewed his Covenant with Abraham which Hee had established in Paradise HEE gave him the figure of Christ againe Å¿ With. in the Circumcision and the Holy Fire as is to be seene by the Sacrifices of Abraham Gen. 15. how the Fire came forth between the Parts and how at the same time in a vision terrour and great anguish fell upon him all which signifie the Death of Christ and the transmutation of Soules The Circumcision of the Member of the Humane propagation was a figure signifying How the fleshly Man of Masculine and Feminine seede should be cut off from the Image Created in Adam through the Death of Christ with the Anger of God and through the bloud-shed of Christ be againe brought into the Eternall Virginity therefore must the Masculine Persons be Circumcised on that same Member to signifie the uncleane Birth after a Beastiall Manner which is a u Abomination vanity in the presence of God therefore God set his Grace-Govenant in the figure of Christ on this Member and so set Christ before him whom hee had set up for a throne of Grace that they might walke before him and that his anger might not eate them up Gen. 17. And he sets the figure of Christ forth with his processe neere upon Isaac signifying how the Redemption of Mankinde should be Effected How Gods Love-fire should swallow up into it selfe Gods Wrath-fire in Man and turne it into Love and thereupon gave him the Promise that this promised incorporated Seede which would through the Transmutation in the Fire through the Dying of Vanity grow forth in the Love-fire would be so great as the Starres in Heaven But when the time drew neere that GOD would manifest his Love-fire through his Covenant in the Humanity that the same fire should be kindled in the Humane Life then he brought his Covenant typified with Circumcision into Water-Baptisme and with St John began the Water-Baptisme But saith Reason What is or signifieth the Water-Baptisme What doth God worke thereby Answer As is mentioned above The Soule had so much enraged it selfe with wrath in its properties that thereby it stood in Eternall Death In it was Gods Love-Essence no more manifest wherein it might be able to kindle the Holy Fire of God viz the Holy Life therefore God sent the Holy Baptisme before and set it in the Covenant For when the Word viz the power of the holy Fire became Man and revealed it selfe in Christ then Christ with the holy Fire through the assumed humanity inspake himselfe into his fellow Members according to the Humanity Now if this Inspeaking should take Effect and become Substantiall then must the Divine x Eintauchen Infusion goe before for as soone as the word manifested it selfe in the Humanity then the Meeke Love and Grace in the Covenant did flow forth with this flowing forth of the Divine Love in the Covenant was the Covenant set in the Water-Baptisme Seeing Man was of an Elementary Earthly kinde there must also be an Elementary Medium or Meanes for that purpose wherein the flowing forth of the Divine Love in the Covenant might take hold that a humane Naturall Substance might be in the Middle whereinto the Divine and humane Imagination might Enter and y Eintauchen Infuse it selfe in the humanity for an Ens or kindler wherein the Holy fire might kindle it selfe in the dry soules fire As was done by the Circumcision and in the Sacrifice where the Beastiall fat was a Medium wherein the humane desire in such kindling with the Covenant went to meete God and Gods Imagination went thus to meete the Covenant in Man Thus stood the Holy Fire opposite to the Wrath and Consumed the uncleannesse in the Humane Will that
Altar and inherite the kingdome of God but it shall be consumed with the Essentiall fire of the Earth without the holy Fire of God as Moses must burne the Heifer without the Host so also should and must the Grosse beastiall Man be burnt up without the City of God viz in its owne Principle by that same Nature-fire as it is done before our Eyes But this Earthly Mans Bloud wherein the Astrall soule â—â—veth should be sprinckled upon the Hornes of the Altar which signifieth the right Man created in Adam out of the Limus of the Earth with the right Astrum whose bloud or power shall come againe at the Last Day that same bloud was in Christs humanity with the inclusion of the Heavenly bloud sprinckled upon the hornes of the Altar in his suffering and dying on the i Note Tree of the Crosse for a signe that our bloud after a right humane manner is with Christ come upon Gods Altar and that God in Christ hath therewith Marked us in the Eternall Heavenly Altar 12. But that the other bloud must be powred at the foote of the Altar signifieth that our humane bloud wherein our outward humane life consisteth which here dyeth is in its dying powred out at the foote of the Altar viz into the foure Elements and reserved to the bringing againe of the first true Man that the right life shall be kept at the foote of the Altar that is in its owne Principle as in Mysterio Magno in Spiritu Mundi in the Great Mysterie in the Spirit of the world till God shall purge this Altar of the foure Elements and bring forth againe the same pure vertue and power of the bloud together with the Elements and bring them into the Temperature and so then the humane bloud shall againe come to the Soule according to the property of the Spirituall World 13. For this cause must Moses and Aaron in the figure powre out the Heifers bloud at the foote of the Altar for God had not to doe about the blood of Beasts but he set forth the figure of Mans restoration and signifieth under it that Wee Men according to the outward Grosse Earthly Man were but such Beasts which Grosse beastiall property had swallowed up the true Man into it selfe Thus he signifieth how he would with his power bring againe and new Generate that same inward devoured Ground And as the power and vertue of our Mumia of the oyly property shall be kindled againe through the fire of God as Moses kindled the fatt so shall the power of the inward Ground heere even in the time of this life be kindled with the Divine fire and burne upon Gods Altar which through the Vnction or anointing of the Spirit of God should be done in us Even as Moses kindled the fatt so should also the spirit of Christ kindle our Inward Ground even in this lifes Time And when this comes to be done then should the Heifer viz the beast-Man be slaine that is he should be daily Mortified and with his will and beastiall desire be cast forth without the Host of God for he is but Earth and a Beast and not fit for the Kingdome of Heaven Joh. 6. 14. But the Ram now signifieth the right anointed Man in the humanity of Christ as also our inward Ground which with Christs anointing in us becometh living againe As God through Aarons sons viz through the high Priest would lay the hand of his Anger upon it and slay it that our humane will might be slaine so shall in this slaying the bloud of this Ram viz the right humanity be sprinckled every where upon the Altar of God and the humane will shall be split in pieces and quite forsake the owne will and the Head viz the humane senses or thoughts be kindled with Gods fire Even as Moses kindled the Head of the Ram as also the pieces and the Rump so must also our humanity in Christ be washed with the water of Love and afterwards be sacrificed upon the Altar of God viz on the Tree of the Crosse 15. Note But that the Ram must be kindled with fire Note and be offered to the Lord for a sweet savour to the Lord therein Lyeth the Great Mystery The Ram is the right Man Created in Adam which Christ as the Word or the power of God tooke on him from our Adamicall Humanity in the Body of Mary and signifieth by the Ram that God in Christ would thus anoint our right Adamicall Humanity with the holy anointing Oyle and bring it to God againe 16. But seeing the humane will was departed from God and had brought it selfe into Earthly beastiall Lust therefore should this Ram viz the Humanity of Christ be kindled with Gods fire of Anger for the Anger of God was become manifest in the humanity and therefore God anointed first the humanity with the Spirit of his Love in Christs humanity and afterwards offered this Ram viz the right Adamicall humanity to the fire of God that in the Anointing of the Love-Oyle the anger-fire might be kindled and the anger fire in the anointing of the Love viz through the Oyle of its holy substance be transmuted and wholly turned into a Love burning 17. For our humane soule was become an Anger fire viz an Enmity against God and therefore thus God reconciled it in the Love of its substance That is Gods anger in the humane life was thus econciled for Gods power smelt or thus drew in the fire the humane life againe into the Eternall Word viz into God Gods Anger-fire was the Mouth which received the humane Life againe into it and swallowed up the humane averted will into it selfe 18. But when this Great love had given up it selfe into the humane Life in Christ then was Gods Anger-fire with its devouring in the soules fire turned into meere Love viz wholly into a Love-fire and thus Death in the fire of Gods Anger which holdeth the soule captive with its Impression wherein the soule was a darknesse viz a darke fire was broake open and againe turned into the Light Life 19. And that is it which God with this Sacrifice sets forth in a Type of the Comming of Christ for Moses sayth This was a sweet savour to the Lord Now God doth not savour the beastiall Life for that shall not inherite the Kingdome of God Gods buisines which he had to doe by Moses was not about the Ram and the Heifer but he set forth the humanity under them before him Gods Imagination went into the Humanity in his inspoken Grace-Covenant viz in that inspoken Grace word of Love which stood as a Goale or Limit in Man even unto Mary where it manifested it selfe in the Humanity Into this went Gods Imagination and Mans Imagination went into this Type viz into the Sacrifice in the fire Thus went also the Incorporated Grace-Covenant with Mans Imagination into the Sacrifice of the fire as into the Type signifying how Christ should reconcile Gods
againe It will not make the New-Birth All Strife cometh from hence that Men doe not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the Right hand of God that he is in this world and that the world standeth in Heaven and Heaven in the World and are in one another as Day and Night The Inward Ground of the Word out of which the Foure Elements are sprung is the Heaven viz. a Spirituall World In that Inward Power Christ Ruleth true God and Man through the Outward World For where Christ sayth Matth. 28.18.20 All Power is given to Mee in Heaven and on Earth Also I am with you alwayes till the End of the World Also Hee shall rule over all his Enemies till all his Enemies are laid under him as a footstoole 1 Cor. 15.25 Psal 110.1 This is to be understood of his inward Kingdome where in the inward Power he ruleth over the outward Earthly and also the Hellish For the outward World is sprung out of the inward Spirituall World viz out of Light and Darknesse which fabrick before the Office of Christ stood in the Eternall Creators Office who from Eternity hath wrought or effected light and darknesse viz the Spirituall World which fabrick is flown forth and become visible and brought by God into a Creation wherein Light and Darknesse viz Good and Evill rule one with another where is understood Hell and Paine in the flowing forth of the Eternall Darknesse and the Light of Nature in the flowing forth of the Light and in that where Evill and Good ruleth alike is understood the Kingdome of Nature with hot and cold and all other properties This Dominion hath God given to the Office of Christ that he being both true God and Man should rule over all the Propriety and selfe-willing of this Kingdome where Evill and Good rule one in another As the Sun in the visible World ruleth over Evill and Good and with its light and power and all whatsoever it selfe is is present every where and penetrates into Every Beeing and yet in its Image-like for me doth not pluck away to it selfe with its Efflux but wholly giveth it selfe into Every Beeing and yet ever remaineth whole and nothing of its Beeing goeth away therewith Thus also it is to be understood concerning Christs Person and Office which ruleth in the Inward Spirituall World visibly and in the Outward World Invisibly and throughly penetrateth the Faithfull Mans Soule Spirit and Heart And as fire gloweth through the Iron and as the Sun worketh through and through an Hearb so that the Hearb becometh Solar or filled with the vertue of the Sunne and as it were so converted by the Sunne that it becometh wholly of the Nature of the Sunne so Christ ruleth in the Resigned Will in soule and body over all Evill Inclinations over Satans introduced Lust and Generateth the Man to be a new heavenly Creature and wholly floweth with it selfe into him both as to Divine and humane power so that the Faithfull Man becometh a right branch on his Vine in which God and Man as to that same inward New Birth dwelleth Now herein consist the Testaments of Christ that Hee offereth himselfe to the l Text Glauben Vide Ch. 2. v. 1. on the second side Faith that Hee will give it this Flesh and Bloud and all Grace and Spiritually dwell in Man as the Sun dwelleth in the Plant and maketh the fruit Ripe and m Or supple Tender So in like manner is the poore fallen Earthly Man which perished in Soule and Body againe renewed and wrought out to be a heavenly fruit where in the End onely the Grossnesse of the flesh falleth from him and the Spirit together with the Soule remaineth in Christ and also heere in this Life according to this indwelling power dwelleth in Heaven concerning which St. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven Phil. 3.20 But the Body is in the World and of the Worlds Essence And now as the Heaven penetrateth the World and giveth it Vertue and Power so also Christ throughly penetrateth the outward Man with his inward ruling power and resisteth the vaine Lust of the Earthly Nature Therefore say I none understand any thing of God except God worke it in his Minde and n Or senses Thoughts for all Naturall knowledge is outward in the World and ariseth from its Astrum and runneth on in surmisings doubting whether a thing be so or no But the Spirit of Christ assureth in the Soule and Spirit of his Faithfull and witnesseth in them that they are Gods Children Rom. 8.16 Now how this present Essentiall participation is effected and what the Covenant of Grace between God and Man is both of the Old and New Testament What Baptisme and the Supper of Christ are shall be declared in the following Chapters The Second Chapter Of the Institution of Baptisme what it is who it is that Baptiseth and what is Baptised And how the q Or Baptisme of Water Water-Baptisme is to be understood 1. WHen any will kindle a Fire they must have some substance that will take fire it must be a substance wherein there is an Oyle and Water or it burneth not For if they cast a Stone or the like into the Fire it will not so burne as to come to a r Blazing shining Light so also it is to be understood concerning the Soule When it brake its desire off from Gods Essence of Love and Meeknesse which divine Meeknesse in it was as a Spirituall Oyle and fountaine of Water wherein it s Asswaged or refreshed allayed its fiery source and therein its fire had a shining and Light then it s owne Seperator viz the Naturall Fiat t Text. Impressed Impression compressed it selfe so that by such t Text. Impressed Impression compression its properties became as a hard Stone or as a hungry source of Fire wherein there is indeed great heate and yet cannot come to any kindling of Light as a hard Stone which lyeth in the Fire and yet u Or is not of a light fire is not properly the same with Fire because of the hard t Text. Impressed Impression conpression of the Stone 2. And yet a Man may understand that there is not onely a Hots fire in the perished Soule as a hot burning Fire-source but also a Cold Fire-source wherein Hot and Cold stand in Eternall Strife and x Or opposition Contrary Will as the Cause of the true fire viz a darke fire-source of Anguish wherein there is alwayes a desire of kindling and yet no kindling may be effected because of the strong y Text. Impression Compression And that the Substance of the Oyly and Watery Meeknesse is game and is she up in such a hard indissoluble Death 3. And this is now that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree or fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death 4. Thus the poore Soule
is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne z Text. Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light 5. As a hard Stone is shut up so the Soule was shut up and was out of the good Love-Life a Poyson-Life after that manner as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a horrible poysonous stincking fire source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light The cause is this that they are become Enemies of the Divine Love that the Love is to them a Death of their Evill Will and Essence which would slay their false Life in the twinckling of an Eye if they did but come therein 6. This a Text. Impresseten compressed Substance of the Soule perished as to God and blinde as to God the Great Love of God out of mâ—â—re Grace came againe to help as soone as the Soule together with the Body was thus fallen and spake in or breathed in it selfe againe into the Centre of the Soule viz into the Compressed shut up and vanished Heavenly Ens of the Soule viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which was no more Moveable 7. Into this Soule the Moveable power spake in it selfe againe to be a New Centre and Covenant that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace and in Mans vanished heavenly Ens introduce and Manifest his living Ens viz the Essentiall Word of his Power and Wisdome with the Most high Love viz the Name JESUS out of JEHOVA and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance of the Heavenly part living and growing againe whereof the Soule should Eate and thereby its anxious fire-source would be transmuted and changed into a Love fire 8. This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer that is it now which the Soules of the Holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his promise of the fullfilling that was to come And in this Faith have they sacrificed 9. For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were onely that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of GODS Wrath and how through this inspoken-Grace Ground and Covenant the Soule should be transmuted in the fire of b Or Gods Wrath fire Gods Wrath and changed into a Love fire and how it should enter into the Death and Dying of its self-will with the false Imagination and should burne away the false will in the fire of Wrath and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God goe forth through the fire into a cleare light and so become a New-borne childe that is no more Dark but Light and how the Introduced poyson of the Serpent must sever it selfe therefrom as the smoake severeth it selfe from the Fire and Light so that then the Fire and Light becometh a clearer Glance and no more shut up as in the Wood it lyeth shut up in the Essence 10. This Image Type or Figure they set before them with their Sacrifice and introduced their Imagination thereinto with the inspoken Grace of the seede of the Woman and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Imagination might Forme Mould or Image it selfe in the Figure of Christ that so the spirit of their Will might stand in a c Or Imaging Modelling wherein it might worke in the Grace 11. For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire how HEE would change Gods fire of Wrath in the soules-fire into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death where the Love of God gave up it selfe into this fire be changed into an Angell 12. By this Immodeled Image or Type they pierced with their desire and earnest Prayer to God and Gods Word of Grace also thus had modelled and inspoken it selfe in Men and Now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer and so the desire of Man brought this Image of the Imagination into the Sacrifice and so the Sacrifice was kindled with the Holy fire And it was not a Common fire that they had Note If thou Babell couldest understand this it were well for thee and thou wert delivered from the Fables wherein thou runnest on thy Course 13. This Holy fire consumed their Sacrifice through Gods-Imagination and kindling to signifie how the d Or Animall Image Beastiall Image of Man should be preserved in the fire of God and the grossnesse of the Element be consumed and out of the fires Consuming should goe forth the right true created pure bright Spirituall Image in Adam which through this Great Love shall be preserved and brought through into Clarity by the Fire In which New Image the Love it selfe would be the fire of life that it might no more Imagine and Imprint falshood 14. Note With such an Imagination and Beleefe or Faith the first Men before Christs time before he manifested himselfe in this incorporated Grace-Covenant and became Man were apprehended and taken into the Living Word of God viz into that Grace wherein their Soule came into Divine Rest untill at the fullfilling that Christ fullfilled this processe and arose from Death and then Hee also with his Life and Substance in them viz in their Inward Ground of the Heavenly part which vanished in Adam arose and they have put on Christ as to the Soule and spirituall Substance and so now waite for their Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the Third Principle viz the Outspoken formed Substantiall outward Word with its Spirit of the Resurrection at the Last Day As also it is thus to be understood concerning Christians which here have put on Christ 15. Note This Ground of the Holy Fire began with Adam and Abel When Abel and Cain Sacrificed God looked graciously on Abels Sacrifice for the Image or Type of Christ stood with his Imagination of Faith therein therefore God kindled his Sacrifice with the Holy Fire and it was acceptable before him for it was a Conjunction with the Divine Desire But Cains he looked not graciously on for he had not such Faith or Beleese but stood in the perished Natures owne Lust and Desire and had Imprinted or Imaged to himselfe the Kingdome of this World and therefore the Holy Fire would not kindle in his Image or Type 16. For Cain stood in the Image of the perished Adam as a
right figure of Adam after the Fall and Abell stood in the figure of the New Regeneration viz in Christs figure signifying how Christ would with his Sacrifice goe into Death and so the Image of the perished Adam stood neere Cain signifying how Christ was come to seeke lost Man and to Generate him a New with his Sacrifice 17. But as the vanity of Men gat the upperhand and their Nature became still more Evill and shamefull then was quenched this understanding of the Holy Fire among them till the Flood came upon them and destroyed them which was a Type of the Baptisme signifying how the water of Eternall Life viz Gods Substantiall Meeknesse would drowne and quench that false Fire viz the false life of the Soule and how the Soule would grow up out of the Holy Water in the Meeknesse of God to a New Life of Light 18. But when God renewed his Covenant with Abraham which was Established in Paradise then HEE gave him the figure of Christ againe e With. in the Circumcision signifying how Christ with his heavealy Bloud would cut off Sinne and vanity from our uncleane Birth And therefore the Masculine Persons must be Circumcised in that same Member whereby the Humane propagation is Effected 19. Further he sets before him the Figure of Christ by his Sonne Isaac in calling him to sacrifice and slay his Sonne on the Wood how it would goe with the humane Redemption how Christ would be a Sacrifice in our received humanity and he awakened againe the Holy fire which devoured his sacrifice to signifie how Gods Love-fire would swallow up into it selfe Gods Wrath fire in Man and turne it into Divine Love and thereupon gave him the promise that the seede of his Covenant which would through this Holy Fire through the Transmutation through the dying of vanity grow forth in the Love-fire would be so great and so many as the starres in the firmament Thus would Gods children through the Sacrifice and Death of Christ through this changing grow forth out of the Holy Fire 20. This stood in the Old Testmenâ—t in the figure and the f Reconciliation attonement was done in the Sacrifice through the Holy Fire which fire was an Image of the Wrath of God which would devoure in it selfe the sinnes together with the Soule for the Fathers property in the Wrath was turned into this g Fire-noyse fire-smoak and the Sonnes property in the Love and Meeknesse brought it selfe h Or into in the Wrath for they sacrificed the flesh of Beasts but yet they brought their Imagination and Prayer into the Grace of God and Imaged or Imprinted themselves in the Covenant of the Grace of Love 21. And with this Imaging or Imprinting they entered into the Sacrifice as into the fire of Gods Wrath and Divine Love wherein the attonement was done and so the Wrath-fire of their introduced desire tooke the Earthly vanity and consumed it through the beastiall property of the Sacrifice to signifie that Man outwardly hath assumed to himselfe beastiall Properties and awakened them in him through false Lust 22. Seeing then also such beastiall Properties hung to the Mande of Man viz the Animale soule from the Constellation so that their Prayer and Will were not pure before God therefore Gods Wrath-fire confumed this Beastiall vanity of Man in the Sacrifice through Beastiall Properties and their Immodeled Image or Type of the Grace went with their prayer into the holy Fire and there was the soulish-desire received in that same Holy sire now pierced with the received humane desire through the Fathers Wrath-fire in the Sacrifice 23. And thus the Children of Israel in the Sacrifice and fire were i Aâ—â—â—ned released from their sinnes and vanity in a spirituall manner upon the future fullfilling till Christ would Come and assume our humanity and give up himselfe to God his Father as a Sacrifice into his Wrath-fire and with the manifested Love-source in the Name JESVS turne the Wrath into Love where then the Wrath swallowed up the humane owne Will and Gods Love-will through Christs Love grew forth through Death and through the Wrath and the humanity went through Death into the Eternall Life 24. In this manner was Israel in the Type of Christ through the Covenant of God through the sacrifice and fire after a spirituall manner ransomed from sinnes for Israels Faith went through the Sacrifice into the Covenant of God viz. into the Grace-Attonement of the Womans seede and Gods Imagination went also into his Covenant made with Adam and Abraham and there was a Conjunction and the true attonement in the Covenant was done through the holy fire which holy fire afterwards in Christ manifested it selfe in the humanity and tooke away the Strength from the Poyson of the wrath of God and turned it into Love and brake open the strong Impression of Death in the soule fire and brought the Divine Love and Meeknesse thereinto 25. But when the time drew neere that GOD would manifest his love-Love-fire through his Covenant in the Humanity that the same fire should be kindled in the Humane Life then God reâ—â—wed the Type and with St John began the Water Baptisme and brought his Covenant out of the Circumcision into the Baptisme 26. But saith Reason What is or signifieth Water-Baptisme What doth God thereby also what doth it Effect Answer As is mentioned above The Soule had so hard k Text. Impressed compressed it selfe in its properties in the wrath-full Anger of God that thereby it stood in Eternall Death In it was no divine Love-Ens more manifest or moveable wherein it might be able to kindle the Holy fire of the Love of God and therefore God sent the Baptisme before this holy kindling and set it in the first Covenant For when the Word and the power of the Holy fire became Man and manifested it selfe in Christ then the Holy Word in the Holy fire through the assumed Humanity spake in it selfe into its fellow-Members according to the Humanity 27. Now if this Inspeaking should take Effect in Man and become Substantiall then must the Divine l Eintauchen Soaking or steeping Infusion goe before for as the Word in the Covenant manifested it selfe in the humanity then the meeke Love and Grace in the Covenant did flow forth with this flowing forth of the Divine Love was the Covenant set m Instituted and placed in the Water-Baptisme for seeing Man was Earthly and Elementary there must also be an Elementary Medium or Meanes for that purpose wherein the flowing forth of the Divine Love in the Covenant might take hold that a humane Naturall Substance might be in the middle whereinto the Divine and also the Humane Imagination might enter and Infuse it selfe in the humanity for a new Ens or kindler wherein the Holy Fire might kindle it selfe in the dry soules-fire 28. As was done under Circumcision in the Sacrifices there the Beastiall fat was a Medium wherein by such
kindling the humane desire through the Covenant went to meete God and Gods-Imagination went into the Covenant Thus stood the Holy Fire in the Covenant opposire to the Wrath in the Introduction of the humane desire in the Sacrifice Gods Imagination in his Love-fire went into the Covenant and the Humane Imagination went also through the Sacrifice in the Fire into the Covenant for in the fire was Gods Wrath met opposite where through the humane Imagination must goe into the Covenant and so consume the sinne and uncleannesse in the Humane desire which pierced to God Thus stood in the Covenant the lovâ—r fire met opposite to the humane desire and the same tooke the humane desire in the Wrath-fire to it according to its purity 29. As may be seene by Moses on Mount Sinai where first the Fathers Property in the Covenant out of the Wrath-fire opened it selfe and required Mans Righteousnesse that the same should walke before God in full obedience and purity and in purity draw neere unto him through the Sacrifice in the fire And if not then he would devoure them in the Curse through this Wrath-fire which was an Image Type or shadow signifying how the humane vanity should and must be purged through Gods wrath-fire But in the same wrath-fire stood the love-fire met opposite in the Covenant in the Sacrifice as an Image of Christ and quenched the Wrath-fire so that the soules desire with its prayer and Will could pierce through this wrath-fire into God 30. This Love-fire that stood opposite to the Wrath in the Sacrifice which also the Wrath-fire kindled so that it devoured the Sacrifice that is it which in the limit of the Covenant in the seede of the Woman awakened it selfe with heavenly Substantiality viz with the Essentiall Wisdome and gave it selfe up into our Substance vanished as to God yet heavenly 31. Our substance vanished and shut up in Death was signified by the drie Rod of Aaron which Substance grew in this awakening and introducing of the Heavenly Living Love n Or Substance Essence where Gods Substance became Man in whom the Holy fire could Burne For the Divine Ens which vanished in Adam which grew againe with such kindling was the food of this Love-fire as a Spirituall Holy Oyle wherein the Love-fire could kindle and burne and that same Love-burning was the New Life of the Regeneration 32. But seeing in o By OTHER may be ment other men then the man Christ himselfe OTHER Men there should not be Effected such a supernaturall kindling through the speciall Moving of God but that other Men should all be kindled through this holy fire out of Christ therefore went the Covenant through the Water-Baptisme with the out flowne Grace first into the Heavenly Ens of Man viz into the vanished Substance wherein the Incorporated Paradisicall-Covenant of the Serpent-Destroyer steed and pierced into the same Covenant 33. Yet seeing the Humane Essence which was become Earthly should goe together with such piercing in therefore there must also be such a Medium for it wherein the Humane Essence can take hold for in Gods Holinesse it cannot take hold for the will was rent off from that therefore there must now be a similitude wherein the Imagination of the Humane Nature may take hold 34. For Christ also had this similitude viz the Elements received from us Men that the Divine Imagination might take hold in the Water that so the Divine and humane Imagination together might awaken and kindle the Incorporated Paradisicall-Covenant in that manner as a Glimmering Mother fire or tinder-fire cometh into the wood and Glimmereth 35. After such a manner through the Baptisme was introduced a Divine Mother-fire of the Holy fire a holy and Divine Glimmering fire which destroyed and brake sinne and Death to pieces in the Inwardnesse of Man viz in the vanished heavenly Ens from which the dry withered Tree of the Inward Ground might receive a life againe viz a Spirituall Oyle In which new Spirituall Oyle of the Power of the Divine Light the Love-fire viz the New-Life should burne 36. This is now the Water-Baptisme to which the Holy Ghost in the Inward Ground is the hand which with the flowing forth of the Divine Love out of Christs suffering Death and Resurrection baptiseth with his Victory That is Hee Infuseth Christs Humanity Suffering Death and Resurrection into the Inward Ground and kindleth the Incorporated Paradisicall Covenant with this fire that the dry Rod of Aaron buddeth forth 37. For with this Infusion of the Holy Ghost Christ is bestowed upon Man he is hereby incorporated to Christ and the Heavenly Ens which in Mary assumed our humane Ens with the whole processe of Christ is put on him and imprinted in his even heavenly vanished Ens to a New Life which hath overcome Death 38. As a Tincture tinctureth wholly and throughly penetrateth the Mettle or as fire gloweth quite through the Iron so heere it is to be understood concerning those who are capable of such Infusion as shall further be taught The Second Chapter Of Gods Covenant after the Fall what the Fall of Man is and how God hath bound and united himselfe with him againe What the Circumcision in the old Testament and the Baptisme in the New are WHen any will kindle a Fire they must have some Substance that will take Fire it must be a Substance wherein there is an Oyle and Brimstone or it burneth not For if they cast a Stone or the like into the Fire it will not so burn as to come to a shining light so also it is to be understood concerning the poore Soule When it brake its desire off from Gods Essence of Love and Meeknesse which Essence in the beginning was in it as a Spirituall Oyle and Water and it was as a Spirituall Brimstone wherein the Light of God did burne then it brought it selfe into owne Desire whereby it was shut up as a hard Stone and lost all its Love and Meeknesse and was as a burning Brim-stone-spirit which could not be remedied unlesse the Oyle of Divine Meeknesse and Love did flow into it againe To this flowing into the Humane property there must be a Subject as a Medium or Meanes or o Resemblance or thing of the like nature Antitype whereby it may be done whereinto also the Humane Faith Entered and received the virtue or power through a Medium or Meane This Medium in the Old Testament is the Circumcision together with the Sacrifices and in the New Testament it is the Holy Baptisme and Supper of Christ together with the Word taught whereby the Divine Love and Meeknesse as the right p Balsam orVnction Anointing Oyle of divine power is againe flowen into the * Glauben See Ch. 1. v. 28. on the second side Faith and so the shut Mouth of the soule is received into and comprehended in the Covenant of God and opened againe by the sweet Grace so that it can againe Eate
of the heavenly Manna What signifieth now this Anointing Answer Nothing else but that as Man is Tinctured againe in Soule and Body and so throughly penetrated and healed that he is capable of the Divine Power againe viz of the Divine fire of Love so must his Brimstone Spirit of the Wrathfull fiery Soule perished as to God be remedied againe by the Covenant of God by such an Anointing Oyle As with the Baptisme there is powred into it the Water of the Eternall Life of Divine Meeknesse and in the Supper is powred into it the fire-burning Love in the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ Reason sayth Cannot God forgive Man his sinne without a Medium Answer The Matter was not about forgivenesse The Soule wanted not onely forgivenesse but a New-Birth It had brought it selfe into owne-will and quite broken it selfe off from Gods will whence the Eternall Darknesse existed in it For the source of its Life viz it s own Seperator understand the Cause of its Creaturely Moving and Life had lift up it selfe and the properties of Life were quite gone forth from their Temperature and had brought themselves into a strange burning fire viz into an anguishing heat and cold into Eternall hunger and thirst into Horror and Despaire Where in the Life of the Body and of the Soule all properties were against one another and Man stood in an Eternall dying source Hee was become quite Blinde and Dead as to God and the more he moved himselfe in his owne ability to apprehend God the greater was his anxious source For the poore Soule was by Lust gone into Earthlinesse wherein Satan and the Spirit of Errour had captivated it and made it wholly Monstrous And now the More it sought Rest therein the greater was its Paine And this now is that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death Gen. 2.17 Thus the poore Soule is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne q Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Divine Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light As a hard Stone is shut up so also the Soule was shut up and out of its Good Life there became an Evill Life as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a Horrible poysonous stincking fire-source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light and are an Enemy of all Love and Truth This Compressed blinde Soule-substance and perished as to God the Great Love of God came againe to helpe instantly after that Fall and spake it selfe in againe into the Centre of the Life as a new Covenant viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which Love-source in it was no more Moveable And did set into the Humane perished heavenly Ens his new Grace-Covenant viz the Destroyer of the Serpent that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace introduce thereinto and manifest therein his living Ens viz the Living Word of his Power and Wisdome with the most high Love viz the Name JESUS and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance living and growing againe from whence the Soule should againe Eate of the heavenly Substance whereby its anxious fire-source would againe be changed into a Love fire Of which the dry Rod of Aaron mentioned by Moses which grew againe and bare Almonds was a r Text. Bild Image or Type figure This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer is it now which the Soules of the holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his Promise of the fulfilling that was to Come and in this Faith have they sacrificed For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were only that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of Gods Wrath and how the Soule should through this inspoken Ground of Grace and Covenant in the fire of Gods wrath be changed into a Love-fire how it should Enter into Death and a Dying to its self-will of false Desire how the false will should be burned off from it and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God spring up or goe forth through the fire into a cleere light and so become a new borne childe which is no more dark but light also did live no more in its owne will but in Gods will and how the introduced Serpents-Poyson in this transmutation doth sever it selfe there from in that manner as the smoake severeth it selfe from fire and Light whereas then the fire and Light becometh a cleerer Glance and is no more shut up as it lyeth in the Essence of the Wood shut up Even as the Holy Divine fire of the Soule was through sinne thus also shut up which none could unshut and kindle but only the Love of God in this incorporated Grace-Covenant This Image Type or Figure they set before them with the Sacrifices looking upon the future fulfilling and introduced their Faith with the inspoken Grace of the Womans-seede and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Faith might thus Forme or Mould it selfe in the Figure of Christ that the Spirit of their will might stand in the figure and Image of Christ that their Faith might Work in that incorporated Grace For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire typifying how HEE would change Gods Wrath-fire in the Soule into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death in which the Love of God would Give up it selfe into this Wrath-fire be changed into an Angell By this Immodeled Image or Type with their desire and Earnest prayer they pressed through the Sacrifice to God and Gods Word with the Grace had thus also with the Covenant Modeled it selfe in Men and now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image through the Sacrifice in the Holy fire into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer For God kindled the Sacrifice with the Holy Fire And it was not a Common fire that they had in their Sacrifices though they used wood and Sacrifices thereto yet their fire was not from a stone and a steele but from the highest Tincture of the Paradisicall ground from whence the fire of Life is sprung If Man could understand it and did not so runne on in blindnesse it were well for him and he were delivered from Babell and Fables This holy Fire consumed their Sacrifices
unfoldeth it selfe in every Life and maketh it selfe Seperable according to every Lifes property Note Courteous Reader this is what our Authour blessed in the Spirit of the high knowledge indeed readily began to bring to the easier understanding for the simple but hath not finished it for * Anno. A. †O. 1624. in his Jubilee yeare or 50th yeare of his Age he went according to the Mystery againe into his Grave or Magick and Mentall Principle The Fourth Chapter Of the Outward Water-Baptisme by Mans hand who is worthy to performe such Baptisme and what Baptised Infant doth worthily receive this Baptisme how it goeth with the unworthy hand as also with the unworthy Baptised Infant In this time highly necessary to be considered 1. WHen God established the Testament of his holy Covenant of Grace in Paradise out of the Type and Sacrifices would ordaine the Circumcision into Water-Baptisme then he bringeth forth a Branch out of his Covenant in a humane Manifestation and began the Water-Baptisme thereby As is cleerely to be seene in John the Baptist who was proclaimed by the Angelicall Message or Embassie and moreover of the stock of the high Priests 2 His Incarnation or becoming Man came not from the will of the flesh for his Father Zachary and Mother Elizabeth which were ancient people full of Dayes who were cleerly dead in the fleshly sperme or seede where the ability of Man was cleerly gone The seede of Zachary and Elizabeth was raised up through the moving of the Holy Ghost out of the Paradisicall Grace-Covenant in their now quite vanished Spermatick Property 3. Indeed he came out of the humane Ground but not out of humane ability for the Anointing in the Covenant awakened it so that their sperme above the course and power of Natures owne ability was unlocked which Holy Ghost raised up a seede out of the humane sperme and to that purpose chose a The Seede it in its first beginning 4. But the anointing of John was done in Maries Salute when shee came to old Elizabeth and the divine anointing stirred in her understand in Mary out of Christs Incarnation or becoming Man When Mary full of this anointing saluted Elizabeth then the Incarnation of Christ diffused with the anointing through the salute of Mary in John in the Mothers womb and not onely in John but also in his Mother Elizabeth so that shee was full of this anointing and both the Mothers prophesied in the Spirit of this anointing 5. And this is the Baptisme of John when as he was anointed with the Incarnation of Christ out of Christ and received the Baptisme of the Holy Ghost out of the Covenant in the Mothers womb so that he should be a Forerunner and declarer that the time of the Anointing and fullfilling of the Covenant of God was at hand that God hath introduced his Covenant of the anointing of Grace into the humanity and that the Covenant is become a Man that God will hence forward shed forth his anointing through the humanity of Christ through an Elementary Medium or Meanes that consisteth no more in fire as in the Old Testament but in Love and Meeknesse of Water so that the time of Grace is at hand wherein God hath given his anointing into the humanity 6. And then wee see that God there began no new Covenant but onely a New Ordinance for John suffered himselfe to be Circumcised as also Christ John tooke the power and calling out of the Covenant of the Circumcision out of the Sacrifices of fire and by the command of God brought them into the Water-Baptisme to signifie that hence forward sinne should be drowned by the death of Christ in his Love and Meeknesse and no more burne in the fire as was done by Israel in the Type 7. Moreover wee see by John that he did not yet baptise with the forgivenesse of sinnes but with Repentance viz. with the Spirit of the anointing to Repentance which soundeth through the hearts of Men and prepareth the way for the Spirit of Christ which unlocketh the Doores of Mens hearts and soules that after b Viz. John the Baptist him the King of Glory might enter in at those Opened Gates concerning which David sayth Open the Gates wide for the King of Glory that the King of Glory viz Christ may enter in Psal 24.7.9 And as John witnesseth He baptised with water to Repentance and forgivenesse of sinnes yet he is not Christ but after him cometh he that hath the fan in his hand who will baptise with the fire of the Spirit Luk. 3.16 17. 8. Also wee see in John that he must be the sonne of a Priest who were conversant about Circumcision and Sacrifices he must come out of the Law of the Covenant and suffer himselfe to be Circumcised and put on the Covenant that he might with the Spirit of the Covenant and of Circumcision begin the Water Baptisme viz the Ordinance of Grace and forgivenesse for sinne should be destroyed now no more by fire but by Love which God manifested in the Covenant through Christ it sinne should be drowned and changed by Gods Meeknesse 9. Therefore also God ordained for this destroying of sinnes this meanes of the Water-Baptisme to signifie that sinne should be drowned in the bloud of Christ in his Love and Grace and that Man should henceforth have an open Gate of Grace to God in the Love and Meeknesse so that now with the Repentant sorrow for sinnes with the c The absolution from sinnes forsaking of sinnes he may Enter through this Gate into Grace 10. And wee see heere in John the beginner of the Water-Baptisme what Man is worthy to baptise with this new Grace Covenant viz such a one as also beforehand hath been baptised with this Grace as John was by Christ who was Baptised even in his Mothers womb for flesh and bloud without this anointing cannot Baptise for this Might standeth not in the d Or Power authority of Man but in Christs d Or Power authority 11. Note A Christian in whom is the anointing of Christ baptiseth with the anointing of Christ for the Holy Trinity baptiseth with the Grace-Covenant of the anointing with Christs Incarnation or becoming Man with his suffering death and victory Now will any baptise they must not onely baptise with the Hand and Water-Baptisme but also with the Faith of the anointing 12. An unfaithfull or unbeleeving Baptiser doth no more in this high work of the Baptisme Then the Font-stone or Bason doth which holdeth the water for though he sprinkle or powre water and useth the words of Christ yet he Effecteth nothing therewith but is dumb or dead in the working except the Covenant of Christ worketh and baptiseth he is but meerly a Medium or means like a worklesse inanimate e Or Thing Substance that doth not it selfe work together in this Covenant but onely doth the work in which work God worketh in respect of his Covenant
13. Not so to be understood as if the worke by the unworthy hand were therefore wholly f Or Ineffectuall powerlesse no the Covenant of God g Absenteth or withdraweth severeth not it selfe for the unworthy hands sake which is but a Medium or Means for faithfull Parents which stand in the anointing of this Covenant and have put on the Covenant they have the anointing also in their seede and generate Children out of the property of their bodyes and soules now if they be baptised in body and soule and have put on the anointing of Christ wherefore then not also the Ens of their bodyes if they be the Temples of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in them and eate Christs flesh and drink his bloud so that Christ is in them and they in Christ as Christ sayth Joh. 6.56 Wherefore then not also the fruit of their Bodies For Christ sayth indeed Matth. 7.18 a Good Tree cannot bring forth bad fruit and a bad Tree cannot bring forth Good fruit If the eye of the spirit be light then is the whole body light If the Leven be Holy then is the whole Lump Holy Matth. 6. Rom. 11. 14. John was baptised in the Mothers womb through the Spirit of Christ out of Maries voice as also his mother Elizabeth and wee see cleerly how it came to passe for as Elizabeth heard the Spirit of Mary the Holy Ghost moved in her and also in her fruit alike they received the Baptisme of Christ out of his humanity alike the Mother with the Sonne wherefore then not also now at present in holy Parents in whom the anointing is For such as the Tree is such is also its fruit But the Covenant in the Baptisme is therefore that every one should themselves with their owne will as a particular branch on the Tree and as a life of their owne put on the Covenant of Christ as through the outward Medium or Meanes ordained thereunto 15. Not to understand that a childe of honest anointed Parents which hath attained life though it dye before the Baptisme that it is not in the anointing of Christ It hath indeed put on the anointing of its Parents for it is existed out of their substance out of their baptised soules and bodies substance and onely needeth if it liveth to enter into the Image of the visible Covenant as a life of its owne and with its will give it selfe up into that which it inheriteth from its Parents But seeing a childe understandeth not this therefore the Parents doe it with their Faith and every one of those that are called to that work viz the h Pathen Gossips Witnesses or God-fathers and God-mothers who in their faiths-desire with their Prayer i Transferre or deliver over recommend the childe to the Covenant of Christ and present it in the Covenant of Christ to the Holy Trinity and desire the Covenant to be upon this Childe 16. All these both the Parents and standers by viz the faithfull Baptiser and Witnesses worke with their faith in the property of the Childe and reach out to it with their faith the Covenant of Christ for the will of their Faith taketh the Childes will being without understanding into their faiths desire and so beare the childes will in their will with their anointing into the Covenant of Christ viz before the Holy Trinity 17. When the Baptiser sprinkleth or powreth the water upon the Childe then is his faith together in the water and fastneth it selfe in the words of Christ who sayth Matth 28.19 Goe hence into all the world Baptising all Nations in the Name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Upon Christs command they Baptise Men the Baptiser Baptiseth with the Hand and with Faith and the Parents together with the Witnesses baptise with their Faiths desire with the anointed will they infuse it into Christs Covenant and Christ infuseth himselfe therein with his Bloud Death and Victory viz with the victory of his Death and kindleth the faiths Ens of the Childe with his love fire 18. Thus the Graine of Mustardseed of the love-fire soweth it selfe into the Childes Soules and Bodies Ens as a Glimmering k Hatcher breeder or Ember Mother of Divine Love which Mother afterwards when the childe getteth understanding of its owne is more kindled through Faith Repentance and Prayer and becometh a high shining Light and when afterwards the Mouth of Faith eateth Christs flesh and drinketh his bloud then this holy Mother love-love-fire atteineth holy Oyle to the burning of its Life 19. With the Baptisme is implanted the humanity of Christ according to the holy love-Love-water viz the Water of Eternall Life in which water the holy fire may burne and with the Supper is participated the Holy Tincture in the bloud and flesh of Christ viz the true love-Love-fire burning a spirituall Anointing Oyle out of the divine fire and Light which the water of Love kindleth viz the Baptisme-Covenant And though a Childe be borne of Holy Parents Note and in the Mothers womb be cleerely in this Covenant yet it ought also to put on this Covenant in its owne selfesubsisting person in its owne lifes will for this Cause that in the flesh Sinne and uncleannesse is together propagated and inherited and therefore should it selfe put on this Covenant for it ought and must it selfe with the Covenant of Grace breake the head of the Serpent in the flesh and therefore it ought also it selfe to put on Christ with his victory For Christ now offereth himselfe to it selfe it ought therefore in its owne person to receive him with its owne will and give its owne will up to him 20. For the Baptisme is nothing else but a marriage or Contract with God l Text. auff upon in Christs bloud and Death wherein Christ bindeth himselfe to Man with his victory and Resurrection and placeth Man therein And Man in the Baptisme giveth up his Adamicall averse will to the Death of Christ and desireth to dye to his owne will in the Death of Christ and to rise againe through Christs Resurrection out of Christs Death with and in Christ to a new will and to live and to will with Christ For wee are through the Baptisme with Christs victory planted anew in the Word of God for Man is the Outspoken Imaged Word of God which hath brought his will in Adam from the speaking of God into an owne will and speaking and is become treacherous to the Word of God and with the Baptisme the Imaged Word promiseth and incorporateth it selfe againe with the Eternall Speaking of God that it will speake and will according to God viz Gods righteousnesse and truth 21. The Baptisme is an Oath which Man sweareth m In or into to God when he renounceth the Devill and his Kingdome and giveth up himselfe to God for his proper owne viz for a Temple of God And though a childe understandeth not this yet the Baptiser as also the Parents and Witnesses should
Paschal-Lamb Christ in his Testament all which was a Figure of the New Regeneration signifying how the same should be borne through the right Paschal-Lamb Christ 1 Cor. 5.7 and how the same New Birth would Eate the sweet food of the Divine Grace 4. This is a Powerfull Figure of the terrible Fall in Adam and then in the New Birth or Regeneration in Christ for in Adam the first Birth viz the first Angelicall Life was slaine by Gods Anger and by the Grace-Covenant in Christ was the same brought back againe and spoken or inspired into Adam and Eve thus now the Spirit of God signifieth by this figure of Moses in Aegypt how that same inspoken Grace should be fullfilled with heavenly and divine Substance also how Man should be d Smeared or streaked marked and sprinckled by that Mark viz by the bloud of the Lamb of God and how God would give him the substance of his sweet Love for food whereby the Naturall foulish fire-Life should be againe quickened and attaine a Divine Ens in its Lifes-Essence and thereby be transmuted and changed againe into the Angelicall Image 5. Also wee see this Image very cleerly in the Sacrifices of Israel How they must slay and sacrifice Beasts and burne the Fat For when God gave the Law to Moses that Israel should live in full obedience in the Covenant of this Law then he gave him also the figure shewing how this Law should be fullfilled and how Man should be e Released or reconciled attoned from Sinne and the Anger of God as wee may cleerly see this in the * Levit. 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. third Book of Moses in the Eighth Chapter where the Image of the reconciliation or attonement standeth Where it standeth thus Å¿ Sacrifice And Moses caused an Heifer to be brought for a Sinne-Offering and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head there it was slaine and Moses tooke the bloud and with his finger put it round about upon the homes of the Altar and g Clensed it from sinne clensed the Altar and powred out the bloud at the foote of the Altar and sanctified it so that he made an attonement on it And tooke all the fatt upon the Inwards and the Kall upon the Liver and the two Kidneyes with the fatt on them and burned it upon the Altar But the Heifer with his hide flesh and dung he burnt with fire without the Host as the Lord had commanded him And brought a Weather or Ram for a Burnt Sacrifice and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head and it was slaine there And Moses sprinckled the Bloud round about upon the Altar and clave the Ram in pieces and burnt the head the pieces and the Rump and washed the Inwards and the leggs with water and so burnt the whole Ram upon the Altar this was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour a fire to the Lord as the Lord had commanded him Leviticus 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. 6. This is a true figure of the Sacrifice of Christ with our assumed humanity how he hath offered our humanity through the sacrifice of his body to the Anger of God and how God in this sacrifice hath smelt his sweet love in the Humanity of Christ and reconciled his wrath in the fire 7. The Figure of Christ standeth thus * Levit. 8.10.11.12 When Moses should make this sacrifice he tooke first the anointing Oyle and anointed the h Tabernacle dwelling place and all that was therein and sanctified it and sprinckled therewith seaven times upon the Altar and anointed the Altar and all its implements the Laver with its foote so that it was sanctified and powred the anointing Oyle upon Aarons Head and anointed him so that he was sanctified Moses standeth heere in the figure of God and Aaron standeth in the figure of Christ according to our Humanity and the Heifer standeth in the figure of the earthly perished Adam according to his Beastiall property and the Ram standeth in the figure of the true Man created in Adam shewing how the same should be offered up to God againe in the humanity of Christ Moses anointed Aaron that is God anointed our Humanity in Christ with his highest Love viz with the substantiall Wisdome and Divine substance in the Name JESUS 8. And that is it that Moses first anointed the Tabernacle which signifieth the Body of Mary in which GOD became MAN and therefore the Angel called her the Blessed among all women Luk. 1.28 For God first sanctified the Tabernacle and sprinckled with his anointing oyle of Love upon all the seaven properties of the Naturall Life which life in the humanity of Christ the Altar of Moses signified which God anointed when JESUS assumed Mans Life The Laver with its foote signifieth How God hath anointed the humane Hand or desire in the humanity of Christ with which he should doe wonders The anointed Head of Aaron signifieth how the humanity of Christ viz our humane Science should be anointed with the Holy Ghost 9. This God set forth by Moses in the Type for when Moses had anointed Aaron together with the Tabernacle and the sonnes of Aaron and established the whole buisines then he caused a Heifer to be brought for a sinne-offering which Heifer signified the Grosse Earthly Man impressed through Adams Lust On this Heifer must Aaron and his sonnes lay their hands upon his head which signifieth how God in Christ and then the Priests or Pharisees would lay their hands upon our in Christ assumed Mortall humanity and flay that is put to death our humanity according to this Worlds Substance and how his humane Bloud should be sprinckled round about on the Hornes of the Holy Altar with the finger of God viz as with the laying hold of Gods Anger and how God would thus cleanse his Altar in the Humanity upon which Altar viz the humane Life should holy Sacrifices be offered to God againe 10. But that Moses did burne the fatt of the Liver and Kidneys upon the Altar signifieth that our true Adamicall Man out of the Limus of the Earth according to its right Inward Ground should not be cast away or thrust out from God but be kindled in the fire of Gods Anger with the fire of Love and be offered to God As this then was done in the humanity of Christ when he sacrified our humanity to the Anger of God but yet did introduce it with his Love through Death into Life as out of the fire there springeth up a cleere Light as out of the-fire dying a new Life which consisteth in power and Love 11. But that Moses did burne with fire the Heifer with his hide flesh and Dung without the Host and only sprinckled the bloud of the Heifer upon the hornes of the Altar and kindled the fatt it signifieth that the grosse beastiall body of our flesh with skin and bones shall not come upon Gods
the Soule brought it selfe from the breathing Word into owne Will into the visible Substance with the desire for the Soules fire-Life out of the Fathers property could no more attaine that therefore was this ground vanished as to the Creature and not in God but onely to the Creaturely Soule 14. And when this holy Ground of the soule and body was hidden then was soule and body a dark d Dale or Valley Dangeon sull of Paine and Torment for God was hidden to it and instantly the Principles according to their properties began to qualifie and operate as 1 the Soule according to the Anger property of God the Father which as to the light shining in it was hidden And 2 the outward Body began to qualifie in the foure Elements viz in hot and cold and in all other properties of the Starres power and vertue and every awakened property impressed it selfe into a substance whence the body became grosse hard and beastiall and the true Image of God a Visard and Monster And that is the sinne for the sake of which Gods power and vertue went againe into the Humanity and received the Humanity and overflowed into us againe his divine power and vertue through and in a right Humanity 15. Seeing then Man standeth in Three Principles as an Image according to time and Eternity of the visible and invisible Substance and that Christ true GOD and MAN hath also put on to himselfe the visible and invisible Substance in one undivided Person so also is the participation of his Substance in his Testaments to be understood as that every Principle in Man eateth and drinketh of its likenesse againe viz Note 1 The outward right Adamicall Image out of the Limus of the Earth eateth againe of the same humanity of Christ which he received from Man and 2 The Soule eateth of the Divine love-Love-fire and 3 the Heavenly Divine Substance vanished in Adam eateth of the Substantiall Wisdome and yet wholly unsevered through one onely Faiths Mouth alike But Note 4 The grosse Beast of the Grosse flesh which is but a Huske receiveth onely the outward husk of the Testament viz Bread and Wine and under them the Judgement of God that breaketh and killeth the Lust of the body of this Grossenesse therefore Man should distinguish the body of the LORD and his bloud from the Animall Man that is without Faith which receiveth onely the Judgement under Bread and Wine for as the Mouth is so is also the food in the Mouth 16. Christ sayd Joh. 6. My flesh is the right food and my bloud is the right drink Also I am the Bread that is come from Heaven that Giveth Life to the World Hee that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud he continueth in Mee and I in Him but he that eateth not the flesh of the Sonne of Man he hath no life in him Then the Jewes contended one among another and sayd How can this Man give us his flesh to eate and were offended at this saying But he sayd My words are Spirit and Life Note To signifie that wee should beleeve his words and he that comprehendeth and receiveth his word in himselfe he comprehendeth in himselfe that word which is become flesh and bloud which word is become a true humane Substance and that the Faiths Mouth comprehendeth in it selfe viz the right hunger or desire of the right true humanity after a spirituall way and manner Note As the word of the Divine power is become Man so is it also comprehended by the Faith and is Man in his Members also 17. That same Spirituall Substantiall Word taketh on it our Humanity understand the spirituall humanity and giveth it selfe into the same and worketh and dwelleth therein substantially after a spirituall manner as hee dwelt and wrought in the Body which he received from Mary where Men saw on Him outwardly our flesh and Bloud viz the spirituall Worlds substance and yet in the visible was the invisible substance of which he sayd Joh. 3.13 He was therewith come from Heaven 18. Thus also that same invisible spirituall substance of Christ which hath united and introverted it selfe with our Huâ—â—nity into our Faiths desire in that manner as a spark of fire falleth into Tinder and kindleth the Tinder and consumeth the substance of the Tinder and maketh it altogether fire so also the Substantiall Power and vertue of Christ consumeth in his Tinder viz in the humane spirituall Ground in the Minde e Seâ—ses Thoughts and Will and evill influxes in Thoughts and Will whether they were from the desire of the Earthly flesh or from the Devill and from the Lust of the world cast thereinto yet that same spirituall fire consumeth all for it taketh in the Life of Man and ruleth it 19. It is a Light viz a Spirituall Oyle in the Life of Man wherein the true Spirituall Life viz the soulish Life burneth and without this Spirituall Oyle there is no true Light or Life in Man but onely an Astrall Light and the true soule standeth in the dark Dungeon in its Essence and helpeth it selfe with the Astrall Light of the Sunne in which regard it hath also vaine earthly Desires and Lust in it 20. But that soule which attaineth this Holy anointing Oyle of Christ in it selfe turneth its longing and desires away from the vanity of the World into Gods word and power and is as a new young childe that lyeth in the Mothers womb and suffereth the Mother to nourish it Thus it hangeth to Christs Essence Substance and power and eateth of the Stock of the Vine Christ as the branch eateth of the Stock of the Vine Joh. 15. 21. Reason should understand us right It is not so to be understood that Christ hath with his flesh and bloud with the grosse mortall flesh and bloud introverted himselfe into Man which flesh and bloud is of no profit but is onely as a receptacle or shall of the right spirituall Man Much lesse doth the Divine Substance mingle it selfe with Bread and Wine so that when I behold the blessed Bread and Wine and receive it into the Earthly mortall Mouth I should think that I comprehended Christs flesh and bloud with my fleshly Mouth as I comprehend Bread and Wine therewith 22. No That cannot be Bread and Wine is but a Medium or meanes thereunto even as the Earthly Mouth is a Medium or meanes of the Spirit the Spirituall Faiths Mouth of Man comprehendeth Christs flesh and bloud under Bread and Wine not inherent in Bread and Wine for Bread and Wine changeth not it selfe into Christs flesh and Bloud but it is a meanes thereto ordained which Medium belongeth to the visible Man through which Medium the Invisible giveth it selfe into the Invisible Spirituall Man 23. In Bread and Wine two properties are understood as 1 the Grosse Elementary Earthly Substance that belongeth to the Morâ—all Man and then 2 the power and vertue therein wherein the Tincture of the Bread and the Wine
25 Book 2. Ch. 4. The whole life of a Christian should be continuall Repentance and flying unto Grace and the meere Mercy of God Verse 17.20.21 Book 2. Ch. 4. A right Christian is afraid of all Sinne. Verse 18 Book 2. Ch. 5. None is a Christian but he that desireth to doe his neighbour good Verse 13 Church Churches Book 2. Ch. 4. Faithful Witnesses about Baptisme well ordained by the Christian Church Verse 37 Book 2. Ch. 5. How the Churches are made spirituall Denns of Murther Verse 11 Circumcised Book 1. Ch. 2. The Covenant and the Holy Fire renewed with Abraham and why Masculine Persons must be Circumcised Verse 18 Communion Book 2. Ch. 3. It is not enough to partake of Bread and Wine in the Communion Verse 32 Book 2. Ch. 3. What our purpose must be when wee goe to the Communion Verse 32 Book 2. Ch. 3. How a Christian partaketh of the Communion without Bread and Wine Verse 33 Book 2. Ch. 3. The usefulnesse of the Ordinance of the Communion Verse 33 Book 2. Ch. 4. Wee must desire the same to all our Enemies that wee desire for our selves if wee will worthily goe to the Communion of Saints Verse 21 Contention Book 2. Ch. 5. The Authour sheweth the Contention of the Learned for the Comfort of the simple Verse 1 Covenant Book 1. Ch 2. Why God transferred the Covenant from Circumcision into Baptisme Verse 25 Book 1. Ch 2. Why the Covenant of the Water-Baptisme was first brought into the Heavenly Ens of Man Verse 32 Book 1. Ch 4. The Covenant of Christs Testaments is alwayes powerfull Verse 6 Book 1. Ch 4. The wicked Man in Gods Covenant is a sweet savour unto condemnation Verse 25 Book 1. Ch 4. What it is to a childe that it is begotten of wicked Parents and brought by wicked people to the Covenant also what it is to God Verse 29 Book 1. Ch 4. Why the Covenant of God is made in Christs Bloud and Death Verse 30 Book 1. Ch. 4. Baptisme a Spirituall Substance brought with the Covenant into the VVater Verse 31.32.33 Creature Book 2. Ch 3. VVhat it was that vanished as to the Creature when Man fell Verse 13 Dead Death Book 1 Ch 5. VVhat is baptised to the Resurrection of the Dead or for Dead Verse 38 Book 1 Ch 1. How Christ became Death to Death Verse 24 Book 1 Ch 2. How the Soule dyed the Death was poysoned and came to have an Evill Life How Angells became Devills Verse 3.4.5 Book 1 Ch 3. VVhat it is that is baptised into Death Verse 21 Book 2. Ch. 1. How Death was broke open 18. Ch. 2 verse Verse 13 Book 2. Ch. 3. VVhat it is that is Death to Death which Outward Nature holdeth to be a Life Verse 8.9 Dispute Book 2. Ch. 1. The cause why Men Dispute about Divine things Verse 7.11 12 Book 2. Ch. 1. VVat Men should doe that they need not Dispute about God Verse 14 15 Book 2. Ch. 1. Men should conferre and instruct one another not Dispute Verse 16 Father Book 2. Ch 4. How wee are in the Drawing of the Father Verse 20 Faith Book 1. Ch 2. How the Spirituall Oyle and VVater of the Soule hath flowed into the Faith and made the fallen Soule capable of the New Birth Verse 1.2 Book 1. Ch. 2. In what Faith the Children of God before Christs Incarnation Sacrificed and why they used those Types Verse 8.9.10.11 Book 1. Ch. 4. Parents have power to give up the Childes will to God in their Faith Verse 21 Book 1. Ch. 4. A dangerous thing to Baptise without Faith Verse 35 Book 2. Ch 3. How the Invisible Substance of Christ falleth into our Faith as a sparke into Tinder Verse 18 Book 2. Ch 3. The Substantiall Faith in Man is a Branch on the Vine Christ Verse 28 Book 2. Ch 5. Of Mens crying the true Doctrine and Faith will be taken away from them and yet they have it Verse 10 Fire Book 1. Ch 2. How the Sacrifice was kindled with Holy Fire Verse 12 Book 1. Ch 2. How the understanding of the Holy Fire came to be quenched Verse 17 Book 1. Ch 2. How the Divine Holy Fire was introduced through Baptisme Verse 35 Book 2. Ch 1. Moses had holy Fire for the Sacrifice Verse 20 Flesh Book 1. Ch 1. How Christ giveth us Eternall Life how wee Eate his Flesh and drink his Bloud how he giveth us the water of Eternall Life Verse 28.29 Book 1. Ch. 3. To what in Man Christ giveth his holy Spirituall Flesh for food Verse 6 Book 2. Ch. 1. How there was holy Flesh and holy Bread Verse 23 Book 2. Ch. 2. Of holy Flesh Verse 13 Book 2. Ch. 2. How Christs flesh and bloud is the Sacrifice of the New Testament Verse 6.7 Book 2. Ch. 3. Christ gave his Disciples his Spirituall Flesh and Bloud Verse 1 Book 2. Ch. 3. In what manner wee eate and drink the Flesh and bloud of Christ Verse 6.7 Book 2. Ch. 3. Christs mortall Flesh but the shell of the Spirituall Flesh Verse 21 Book 2. Ch. 3. How Faith alwayes eateth Christs Flesh and bloud without a Medium as well as with it Verse 27.33 Book 2. Ch. 3. VVhy it was so ordained that wee should partake of Christs Flesh and bloud under Bread and VVine Verse 31 Food Book 2. Ch. 2. How Israell did eate blessed Food notwithstanding the Curse Verse 14 Forgivenesse Book 2. Ch. 4. No Forgivenesse of sinnes without Conversion and Resolution to depart from wickednesse Verse 9 Book 2. Ch. 4. What the Forgivenes of sinnes is Verse 10 Book 2. Ch. 4. The Power of Forgivenesse is in Christs internall Ordinance not in the Priest Also of the Bride of Christ Verse 11.12 Formes Book 1. Ch. 1. VVerein the seaven Formes of Nature take their Beginning Verse 6 God Book 1. Ch. 3. VVhat in the Outward VVorlds Substance is called God Verse 1 Book 1. Ch. 3. How with the Minde Paul served God and with the flesh the Law of sinne Verse 23 Book 1. Ch. 3. VVho are called according to the Purpose of God Verse 24 Book 2. Ch. 3. VVhere it is that God dwelleth in Man Verse 11 Grace Book 1. Ch. 1. How Grace the New Covenant came into the Soule to helpe it againe of which Aarons Rod was a Figure Verse 6.7 Book 1. Ch. 4. John declared that the time of Grace the Kingdome of Heaven was at hand Verse 5 Book 2. Ch. 3. Mans Life cannot in its own Power receive the Substance of God but it is given of Grace Verse 29 Book 2. Ch. 4. The true imputed Grace is to live in Christ Verse 16 Book 2. Ch. 4. The whole Life of a Christian should be continuall Repentance and flying unto Grace and the meere mercy of God Verse 17.20.21 Book 2. Ch. 5. The Innate Filiall Grace is the true imputed Grace Verse 14 Ground Book 1. Ch. 1. VVhat searching cannot reach the true Ground whence every Beeing taketh