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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28524	The first apologie to Balthazar Tylcken being an answer of the authour concerning his book the Aurora, opposed by an enemicitious pasquil or opprobrious libel, this answer written anno 1621 / by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.; Erste Schutz-Schrift wieder Balthasar Tilken. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3406; ESTC R14771	88,477	106

and Elements Through Dying the outward Substance of the source or quality becometh broken off and then the Image of God appeareth or shineth 336. Understand it right Christ had in Mary assumed all the Three Principles on to himself but in Divine Order or Ordinance not mixed as Adam did who introduced the outward Kingdome through the Imagination into the Inward into the Soul Fire whence the Light extinguished 337. He had on himself that is on to the Limit or Mark of the Living Covenant assumed on to the Living Substantiality the Souls Essence viz the first Principle and then the Essence of the Image of the Second Principle and then the outward Kingdome the Third Principle for he should be Lord of All. 338. He became after the End of Four Months a living Soul which now stood in the Image but the Deity was in the Image the Center which neither receives Addition or Diminution the Divine Substantiality also receives neither Addition nor Diminution it becometh neither lesse nor bigger only it hath manifested or revealed it self in the Humane Image and generated it to Life 339. Thus in Maryes Conception in her Seed a Living Essence arose no more shut up in Death not a sinfull One for where Gods Light shineth forth there is no sin within Sin originateth in that place where Gods Light shineth Not but where it shineth there is meer Love and Mecknesse 340. The Heart of God was the Ce●●● in the Person of Christ the Essences were with the Moving of the ●●ity sanctified and Enlightened understand according to the Second Principle for the Divine and humane Essence became Flesh and Bloud and became a Man One only Person 341. The outward Kingdome hung to the inward but the inward had now in this Person the Dominion the outward was Servant therefore saith the Scripture he took upon him the Forme of a Servant that he might release us from Servitude or Bondage 342. Thus I say What Christ is according to our humane Image and according to the Soul therein he is a Creature like us assumed from us but what he is according to the Deity and according to the Divine Substantiality with that he is above Nature and higher then the Heaven and is as to that no Creature but GOD himself 343. But his Divine Substance is IN his Creature viz in the Humanity manifest he is according to the Humanity such a person as Adam was before his Imagination and Fall he is the second Adam 344. The First Adam should possesse the Kingly Seate but seeing he stood not therefore God generated to himself another or second Adam out of the First Now if he had not been Naturall then he had been unlike the first Image also he had not been the Sonne of Man as the Libeller supposeth 345. Had he not had a Naturall Soul then he had not in the Person had all the Three Principles What should he then have committed into the Hands of his Father at that present when he dyed on the Crosse or what had suffered on the Tree of the Crosse if he had not been Naturall 346. When he was risen from the Dead he shewed himself to his Disciples and said Behold me a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as yo see me have Why then doth the Libeller say that it is I that would make Christ according to his holy immaculate humanity Naturall I am not the first that make him Naturall He is my Brother and the sonne of Man therefore he must needs be Naturall yes the very Angells are Naturall 347. But That he saith I have written that he became a Man in the Wilde viz in the Outward Birth that is NOT true The Text in my writing saith thus and he wrestled in his humane Body in the Power of the Light in the wilde Nature Hath he not in Hell and on the Tree of the Crosse wrestled with Gods Anger Hath he not Dyed and taken away from our Wilde Nature the sting of Death 348. The Libeller saith Christ is not from Adam's Naturall Seed if that were true then he is not the sonne of Man then hath not God assumed the humanity Naturally the Word is indeed become Flesh and is it not become Flesh in the Humanity Then let the Libeller Tell me how Christ came to be the sonne of Man or where remaines our Salvation or Redemption the Resurrection of our Flesh 349. Is Christ not in our Flesh then he will not awaken or raiseus up What doth his Wounds help me if they are in stronge Flesh Hath not the blinde Libeller seen that in my whole Book I have distinguished the Earthly and the Heavenly Man What need he mix himself in the Magick understanding and find fault with that of which he hath no knowledge understanding or Ground let him read my Book of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ he would find more then he can fathom 350. But that he will say that Christ is become Man in the promised Seed and Not in Adam's and Abraham's What is that Seed You see that very Promised Seed hath breathed it self into the Humanity and God and Man is become ONE Person 351. He saith Christ viz the Eternall Word hath assumed the Seed of the pure holy Virgin Elected to it from Eternity which dyed away from Nature and was totally blessed in God viz the fore-mentioned Seed of Abraham Tell me Libeller Who is that Virgin that hath dyed away from Nature then she must be a Monster without a Soul without Flesh and Bloud and No Man-kind 352. What need God assume to himself heavenly Seed into his Substance was not his Substance for certain on him from Eternity What doth that help us But that he is Entered into our humanity and awakened or raised up our in Death inclosed Seed and make it Living againe that I rejoyce at that I may truly say that my Flesh suteth at the Right hand in the Power of God 353. If Christ hath assumed to himself any other Seed then my Inward Man is how then can my inward Man Eat his Flesh and Drink his Bloud 354. Sir Libeller Erre not God will not suffer himself nor his children to be mocked we suppose easily that you are altogether blind still in the Mystery of God you know nothing of the inward Man much lesse of the New Regeneration learne first rightly to understand the Principles and the Center of Nature before you Judge you will needs be one taught of God or Learned in God and yet know not one Letter in THAT Schoole 355. By Nature you understand only the outward Kingdome what kinde of Nature then hath the Soul I suppose here your Art will know nothing of it you know Nothing of the inward Man which is the similitude of God and yet will Judge you understand not what God is and yet you will Judge Gods Children you are justly to be condemned in this 356. You bring places of Scripture and

out of the Divine substantiality into the Earthly into the Stars and four Elements 213. Thus the Image became Earthly and fell among the Murtherours who smote it and wounded it and left it lying half dead thus Adam went out of Jerusalem toward Jericho as Christ said 214. The Stars and Elements put on to the Body the fierce wrathfull earthly Cloaths or Garments of their Essence and substantiality and the Dark-world gave to the souls fire also its fierce wrathfull severe or earnest and stern source or quality and now the Souls fire burned in that fierce wrathfull property and so God and the Kingdome of Heaven was Lost for the Divine Image disappeared or vanished and the Earthly began to appear the Outward Fiat gat the predominancy 215. As soon as Adam was overcome by the Spirit of this World then he fell into sleep viz. into the outward Magia which signifieth or resembleth Death for the outward Kingdome hath beginning and End and must break off from the Inward THAT is its Death for the outward Life goeth again into its Mother out of which it is proceeded viz into the Mystery of the Stars and Elements and the Inward Life of the Soul continueth in the Dark world viz in the Eternall Nature whence it is Originated 216. Therefore the Regeneration from or out of the Heart of God is necessary for us that the Dark Souls fire shut up in the fierce Wrath and Anger might conceive or receive Divine substantiality againe that its Light might shine again 217. And THAT is it which I wrote in my BOOK That all was shut up in the Anger Till the Prince of Light out of the Heart of God came and became a Man in Nature and wrestled in the Power of the Light in the Wild Nature 218. By Nature the Author understood the Eternall Soulish Nature the Center of Nature which in the Soul after the Image became Earthly became Wilde and Strange as to the Divine World 219. And Adam and all his Children must needs have continued Eternally in the wild Nature and in the Anger and fierce wrath of God if the Prince of Light out of Gods Heart had not come and put upon the Souls Fire Divine Substantiality that is the Garment or Body of Angels again if Gods Word or Heart it selfe had not become Man Here follow the Pasquils or Libellers Suppositions 220. Now the Libeller sets it down thus and he understand the Authour will thereby make CHRIST as to his Innocent or Immaculate Holy Pure Humanity Naturall and thereby prepare an Entrance and way for his Seduction from God to Nature and Creature especially and because as a Beaten and Expert Spirit he knoweth that this Tree of Life will hence forward discover his Root out of which he is grown but hath hitherto been covered with Earth and will put an End to that his Secret Mystery whereby he may bring to the people a Root which bears Gall and Wormwood and still seduce many from Christ and catch them in his Net 221. The Scripture saith of our wild humane Nature thus That we are all by Nature the children of wrath And the Naturall Man perceiveth not that which is of the Spirit Is Christ become a Man in the wild Nature then he was by Nature vaine or corruptible as all other Men. And how then hath he revealed the Mystery of God of which the Naturall Man knoweth and understandeth Nothing could he pay our Debts and offer an acceptible sacrifice for us and reconcile us to the Father 222. With these sayings this Spirit obscureth the distinction between the heavenly pure and the Earthly perished Corrupt impure Birth and Nature Also between the Womans Seed and the Serpents Abraham's and Adam's Seed and will frame for us A Naturall Christ in whom is Good and Evill Light and Darknesse Yes and No and set our Salvation on a Gog. But the Scripture discovereth his falshood and Groundlesnesse and faith That not all Abraham's Seed are also therefore Children but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called and not in Adam Cain Ishmael and Esau The Children of the Promise are accounted for the Seed 223. He saith not through the Seeds as through many but as through One through thy Seed which is Christ out of which viz out of the Eternall incorruptible Seed the Living Word of God all Children of the Promise are born as the Dew out of the Morning 224. For as his Children are not born of Bloud nor of the Will of the Flesh nor of the Will of Man but of God So also according to his Humane Flesh he cannot be born of Adam's Naturall but of Abraham's promised Seed which he himself is nor be of less Discent and Honour then his children are seeing they all come from ONE both that which sanctifieth and they that are sanctified 225. Which Seed is not a Naturall Adamicall but a Supernaturall Heavenly Seed wherein God and Man is united God in Man and Man in God out of which Mary as a Daughter of the Promise even according to her Flesh must aforehand be born e're Christ had assumed his body in her as the Holy Apostle saith cleerly that Christ proceeded from the Father according to the Flesh to whom belonged the Filiation the Glory of the Covewant the Law the Oracles Ordinances or Worship of God and the Promise which Promise belongeth Not to Abraham's Naturall but to Abraham's Seed of Faith Hitherto the Libeller 226. Are not these high inducing Vaunting Speeches How should a simple Man be otherwise then lead blindfold by them who would say he doth the Authour wrong But hearken Libeller you will not with this Description yet by a great deal lay bare the Root of the Covered Tree as you suppose you yet understand Nothing thereof much lesse the Authour's Mind and Thoughts only you falsifie and pervert it with a strange understanding 227. Are you not a false Expositor then tell me where stands it written in my Book that Christ became a man in this Worlds wild Nature that he was begotten of proceeded from Sinful Seed as thou explainest the meaning of the Authour to be so and settest down a heap of contradictory senslesse meanings and shamefully and reproachfully cryest out upon him for a Devil very blindly contrary to his meaning and understanding 228. Art thou he that must Judge me then learn first the Authour's Mind and Sence My Text saith Till the Prince of Light came out of the Heart of God and became a man in Nature it is not in the Wilde Nature but it is And wrestled in his humane Body in the Power of the Divine Light in the Wild Nature 229. The Question is What is the Wilde Nature wherein the Prince of Light out of the Heart of God wrestled in the Humanity Is it earthly Flesh Or the source or quality of the Starres and Four Elements No For the Sake of that the Prince

at the End of the 40. Question of the soule and here at the End of this Book so that now all his workes are printed in the English Tongue Judg not according to the appearance but read weigh examine and Judg righteous Judgment Or rather Judg not that we be not Judged which was one of the precepts of CHRIST and the Apostle Paul sayes If we would Judg our Selves we should not be Judged Judgment is the Mentall framing or denouncing of the sentence and severity of the Consuming fire of Gods wrath what in Reallity any one is capable of and will certainly receive at the Last day which to doe upon others whom we cannot know so well as we doe our selves doth awaken that fiery wrath in our selves which ought not to be for if the Eternall Fire which is in our hearts and soules be kindled against a Person that is not lyable by his Guilt if it burne not him it may and will burne Our selves but if we kindle that fire of Indignation against our selves as justly and deservedly we may it will consume Self-Love and all the Dark matter of our Sonles and so change it into Light as fire doth Iron and then the Eternall fire will have no Fewell to kindle upon in us now or at the Last Day but we shall be able to dwell with Everlasting Burnings as the Light doth in the Fire having Judged and Condemned our selves for we shall walke in righteousness and speake in uprightness we shall despise the Gaine of Deceits and shake our hands from holding of Bribes and stop our Ears from hearing of Bloud and shut our Eyes from seeing of Evill and then we shall dwell on High our Defence shall be the Munition of the Everlasting Rock of Ages For a close I offer a Similitude of the Manner how the last Judgment will be effected to be Considered of All Seeds sown will come up the same that they were sown whether Good wheate or weedes this Life time is the sowing of Thoughts words and Actions in our Spirits soules and Bodyes whatsoever is retained and Nourished growes up in our Lives and Conversations the other Dies be it the Good or the Bad and the power is fixed in the fruit of what Growes in us here and at the time of the Last Harvest the Seed will present its Fruit ready and all will appeare in the Effect what hath been suppressed what hath been cherished if good it is well with us if Bad we are fit Fewell for the Eternall Fire If our Desires which are the sprouting of our seede be infected with liking the Evill or disliking the Good when the Flower or Fruit comes to appear we shall see the Effect apparently in One Moment of what was hiddenly in the Seede from the first being of the Thought word or work in us Thus every Heart may Judg of it selfe in this Life and amend in time but however then they will be layd Open to the Eyes of our Selves and All Others as the FLOWER in one instant shewes the effect of all the vertues and powers that lay hid in the Seed though they were really there before as when we sowe it may be we Expect Rare Tulips or whatsoever flower is most excellent when it is full blown it appears either of a pale dead wan Colour or of a Dull and distorted shape or figure or else of Orient strong various exact Colours and delightful Figures which shewes it sucked in and nourished it self with barren cold juice of the Earth or drew in the Infection of the Aire and Evil influences or Else the strong fat warme Sap of a fertile Soyle and the Good Influences of the Stars of Heaven Our Soule hath in it the Seede of Gods Image planted and sown in the Inward word of the Heart it springs up in Good Thoughts which Image is righteousness and Holiness and will shine far brighter then the Sun But if we suffer vices and Evill thoughts to possess our Hearts our Image will be darke and that will forme us into ugly deformed Beasts or Devills and we shall no more appeare in the right Colours figures formes beauty and brightness but be as the Blackness of Darkness in anguish and Torment thence sorth and for Evermore As when we have a Sickness our beauty decayeth the Blood is corrupt lookes pale yellow and sometimes Black by the distemper of the Feaver which disturbes the whole constitution of a Man so that the Light of the Sun Garden Pictures Musick or any thing that delights us most in health is Irksom to us then Darkness the Night and Sleepe doth most affect us but then also the Fire of the Disease in the Corruption of our Mortall Body of Flesh troubles us within and the most pleasing Thoughts we have had doe much molest us which shewes that the inward Corruption and the wrath of God hath gotten a life in Our Bodyes so also if it get a life in our Soules it is much more grievous even to Eternity which will manifest it selfe in the Judgment when all the Good that now allayeth the Evill in us shall be separated distinct apart by it selfe and will be the life of all Misery which is the second or Never Dying Death On the otherside Health in this Life giveth alacrity beauty and pleasantness which is a true Embleme of the health in the Soule that shall make it full of Joy and blisse If the matter that is growne in it here be good and Holy we should be able to Endure the sharpest Cold as a refreshment and the Greatest heate Would be our life as Shadrach Meshach and Abednego walked in the Hot fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar and a Haire of their Head was not singed nor the smell of fire upon their Cloathes the Heavenly substance was but the more effectual and delightful to them by that Fire though heat seaven Times hotter then formerly it use to be whereas those that cast them in in whom the Love of God had not Gotten a Life were slaine by the Flame that caught hold of them by this we may collect the great power of the Inward Heavenly Substance Also of the Hellish Fire in their Effects at the Great Day But then Gods brightness in all Things will be Joyned to himself and his holy ones will enjoy it in their Measures but the Darkness and filth of Corruption will remaine with the Devill and his Angels and so the SEPERATION wil be undeniably of like to its Like when the unquenchable Fire shall swallow up the Drosse Chaffe and Weedes and the Light receive that which is pure solid sweete and good Wheate and retaine it for Evermore When I consider how long have known more then some others the inevitable danger of loving my Sinfulness together with my careless negligence in my endeavours to forsake it and in that regard how short I come of the precise Judging of my selfe and of the amendment might be