the Sinne ceasseth and to becom borne-anew therout / all vpright Beleeuers receaue â in the Faith of Christ the euerlasting Life It is very-true The IIII. Chapiter In this Chapiter â which dependeth on the former doth HN testifie / that euery Beleeuer of the Woorde / shall shewe-fourth the Loue towardes his Neighbour / when hee transgresseth or ouerreacheth himself in any-thing / wherthorough he staggereth and falleth and that they shall not wax-offended one at another / nether â—et haue any euel Conceauing towardes each-other OH / That â—ee all beleeued aright on the gratious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and through the Ministration of the gratious Woord / sawe rightlie into the a Math. 7. b. small Waye / wher-thorowe yee ought to goe vnto the Life / or are deptours for to passe-thorowe thesame / So could yee not then verelie but be moued with great compassion towardes your Neighbour / which falleth into any Sinne / and not â in anye-case wax-offended at his Fall / nor at his Frailtie but b Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. beare and haue-sufferaunce with him / and infourme him with all Loue Discreetnes like-as if yee sawe any-man fall into the Water / and had such Compassion and Loue towardes him / that yee would rather fall therin with him eauen vp to the Throte â for to helpe him therout then that yee should let him perrish For euenso â to the Preseruation of your Neighbour ought also all your Loue / to be towardes your Neighbour and so to infourme each-other / with Discreetnes / and not to take-â—ffence one at an-other of you / much-lesse to blame one-another / or yet to beare Hate or Enuie / or any Euel-conceauing towardes anyman / ether yet to vpbraide him with his Sinnes / or to construe them to the worst / ether to speake of them behinde him but to lay it all downe vnder the Loue / and to couer it with y â— Loue For the Loue â doubtles c Pro. 10. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. Iam. 5. c. couereth the Multitude of Sinnes 2. Beholde / with such Grace and Discreet-dealing / or with such a beneuolent Heart of Loue â to your Preseruation / in the Beleef of the Woorde / and to the Couering of your Sinnes are yee all presentlie â with the gracious Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue infourmed by the Lorde / and by the Ministers of his Woord / and also loued to the Righteousnes of the Life 3. Seeing then that yee are loued and infourmed in such-sort / by the Lorde / and by the Ministers of his Woord / to the good Life of the vpright Righteousnes and that y â— Seruice of Loue / doth also require the-like of you all / So ought yee not therfore to imagen or conceaue any Euell â in This or in That ouer your Neighbour / nor to vpbraide him with any Euell / to d Rom. 2. a. blame nor to slaunder him / nor yet to spread-fourth his Sinnes among each-other / much-les then among y â— Straungers but to couer alwayes y â— Faultes and Weaknes of your Neighbour / so much as yee are able Yet notwithstanding / let eueryone e Pro. 28. b. Eccli 4. 17. confesse his Sinnes â wherin hee falleth before his Elder in the holie Vnderstanding / and make-manifest before him / all his Dealing and Conuersation and also that the-one do exhort the-other thervnto 4. If yee now see or perceaue / that your Neighbour hath f Gal. 6. a. don-amisse in any-maner of thing or that hee is heerin or therin â touching that which concerneth the outward or inward Righteousnes weake or infirme / and so sinneth against any Righteousnes and that thesame mought be to his Destruction / or to an Estraunging from the Seruice of Loue his Concorde / So shall yee then warne him therof in stilnes / and with the g Leui. 19. b. Eccli 19. b. Math. 18. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. Loue â wherwith the Lorde and his Ministers loue you couer his Sinnes / and h Ephe. 4. b. shewe Mercie towardes him and that altogether / to Concorde and Loue among each-other 5. And euen-thus after such a Patron or Example / shall yee haue your conuersation in y e Loue / with each-other / vnto Godlynes and all the Loue and Goodnes which yee wolde should i Leuit. 19. Rom. 13. chaunce / or be shewed vnto you by your Neighbour / that shall yee likewise shewe alwayes towardes your Neighbour 6. BEholde / Such is the Seruice of Loue / which the right Children and Disciples of the Loue of Iesu Christ / vse among each-other For the k 2. Pet. 1. a. Loue dealeth in such-sort with them and euenso deale also the Elders in their Seruice / with the Communialtie of the Famelie of the Loue of Iesu Christ. For if the Elders in the Seruice of the Loue of Iesu Christ / chaunce to perceaue by anyone of the Communialtie / that hee enterprised any-thing / wherby hee mought be in daunger of his Destruction / or which mought happelie cause him to be estraunged from the Way to the good Life / so are they then very sorrowfull for such-aone / and seeke or vse â through the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue all-maner of Meanes / wherwith they mought so preuent and infourme him / that hee may be preserued from his Destruction and they admonish him so louelie and discreetlie as they are able / or so much as is necessarie for him ther-vnto 7. For they see and perceaue / that if they should let him runne-fourth therin without any warning / and not assist him with reached fourth-hand / that great Infelicitie and Miserie mought then light-vpon him· and the terrible condemnable Beeing catch or fall-ouer him 8. BEholde / eauen-thus with such a Loue / ought wee also to deale and behaue ourselues one towardes another / if wee desire to be right Disciples of the Woorde / and to accomplish the Requiring of the Seruice of Loue. But â oh alas wee perceaue presentlie / among the most part of People / that this Loue for that the Iniquitie hath euery-wheare gotten the Dominion is by Many / vtterlie l Math. 24. a. waxen-colde For if anyman now see or perceaue anything in his Brother / that hee liueth not â in all perfectlie / according to his outwarde Eye / so hath hee then a Lothsonnes in him / and taking-offence at him / hee blaspheameth and accuseth him / and maketh his Sinnes or Transgressing manifest / among other-moe / or-els hee seperateth himself from hym 9. But yee â yee Deerlie-beloued shall not so doo / in the Seruice of the Loue but shall stand redie to helpe your Brother / with all Loue and Resonablenes / and exhort him to Amendment / and take the Burden of his Sinnes vpon you / as your owne Fault or Sinnes and euenso â for to ridde him out
of the Burden of his Sinnes helpe to m Cal. 6. a. beare his Burden Yea / This is the right Loue / whervnto yee are exhorted in the Seruice of Loue and also that yee are deptour â 〈◊〉 shewâ—fourth thesame Loue and such a kinde or beneuolent Heart / towardes one-another of you The V. Chapiter Heer-in declareth HN how the Man shall indeuour himself / against the Assaulting with the Euell and after-that hee expresseth / how the Man â in his Bufreedom or Seruitude of the Sinne shall applie him / for to attaine to the right Freedom which God accepteth / and is inherited of the Children of God WHen-as the Man is assaulied with any Temptation be it then with anything whatsoeuer it be / so groweth hee therthrough to perceaue / how firme / vnmoueable / or stedfast hee standeth comprehended in the Requiring of the gracious Woord and in what Beeing whether it be mutable or immutable hee liueth and walketh 2. If hee then â in his Assaulting haue a right consideration on the gracious Woorde of the holie Spirit of Loue / and on the Seruice of his Requiring / so shall hee then likewise rightlie perceaue and vnderstand / to what-maner of good Beeing that the gracious Woord requireth him / and with his Seruice / biddeth him for to com whervnto hee is also a Gen. 1. c. Sap. 2. c. Eccli 17. a. created by God· and called through Christ and his holie Spirit of Loue. And hauing now seene-into thesame / so shall hee then likewise verelie â in Prayer vnto his God suffer-out y e Assaulting goodwillinglie / and geeue God thankes for his Grace / which Hee â in these last Dayes extendeth on the Children of Men / in that Hee b Ephe. 2. 2. rayseth-vpp vs â which laye vtterlie smothered in the Death and Damnation through his Loue / and calleth vs so graciouslie vnto him / in his godlie Beeing 3. For euenso in the Temptation / the Man can well finde-out / on what Place hee standeth and also perceaue / how farre-wyde hee yeat is from the God of Life· and from his louelie Beeing / which ought to haue his Dominion in him and not / that wicked vngodlie Beeing / which hath raigned ouer him 4. And when now the Man â in his Temptation perceaueth and seeth-into thissame / so shall hee then c Iam. 5. b. shew-fourth Pacience against the Assaulting which so meeteth him / till that hee â in the Obedience of the Woorde haue plucked-on a Stronger / which subdueth the vngodlie Beeing of the Enemies of God / and vtterlie rooteth them out For such a Grace receaue they all which heare and beleeue the gracious Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue / in his Seruice and Requiring / and are obedient to thesame 5. Therfore ought wee not to afflict ourselues with ouer-much heauynes / when-as the Iniquitie is stirred vpp in vs / in the tyme of our Temptation but consider therthrough / how whollie that wee â in the Estraunging from our God haue ben incorporated into the vngodlie Beeing and so then to thanke God / for that Hee â through the seruiceable Woord of his Loue riddeth or leadeth vs Vnworthyons therout / and d Iohn 15. b. Col. 1. a. planteth vs againe in his godlie Beeing / for to bring-fourth the Frutes of Righteousnes 6. When wee now see thus into all thissame / and thanke God for his Grace / so are wee strengthned in our Hope / vnto Pacience and wee e Phil. 3. c. 1. Tess. 1. c. wayte euenso on Him / which is our Saluation / and which also is stronger then wee are / for that wee mought euenso â with Meeknes and stedfast Mindes be implanted into him / so vanquish the Iniquitie with Him For with our owne Power / wee are able to doo nothing against the Iniquitie / as throughlie to vanquish thesame / or vtterlie to destroy it And therfore ought wee alwayes â vnder the Obedience of the Woord to f Esa. 59. c. Rom. 11. d. hope on the Appeering and Coming of that Strongone / which remoueth the vngodlie Beeing from vs / according to the Promises 7. Heere-on may the goodwilling Man to the Righteousnes / take a good courraige / and trust and hope stedfastlie theron For when-as the Man once plucketh-on his Sauiour / which is stronger then the Iniquitie that hath raigned ouer him or held him in subiection / then shall the g Math. 1â— c. Luk. 11. c. Col. 2. b. Stronger / vanquish the Euell â which had plucked vs on foâ— a certen season and keepe the Victorie ther-against Therfore shall our Hope â in all our Assaulting rest alwayes grounded theron / till that Hee becom / which is h Abac. 2. a. Heb. 10. d. for to com / according to the Promises 8. And although now that wee â in our Assaulting feele our Feeblenes against the Iniquitie / yet shall wee not for-all-that / doubt of the Coming of our Saluation but laude and thanke God / and acknowledg that it is meere Grace / that wee so Insee / i Rom. 7. b. 2. Cor. 12. b. feele and perceaue our Weaknes / through the Requiring of the gracious Woord / which alwayes requireth â against the Assaulting to the Iniquitie the vpright Righteousnes of vs And euenso with sighing Heartes / say before God 9. O Lorde / I haue a Lust â euen with my whole Heart to accomplish the Requiring of thy gracious Woord but the Iniquitie wher-into I am incorporated / is k Math. 12. â— Luk. 11. c. stronger then I am and thesame holdeth mee captiue â with Violence against my Will in such-sort / that I â O God cannot accomplish / that which thy Woord requireth Therfore â O God I hope in Pacience / on the Coming of thy Saluation / which shall vtterlie l Rom. 16. c. tread-downe the Iniquitie â in my Minde vnder thy Feete· and take-in and beare the Dominion therouer / for to purifie euenso my Heart â O God to thy Dwelling 10. THerfore / wee ought in all our Fourth-going / to consider well on the Requiring of the Woord For verely / a Man that is vnfree or a m Iohn 8. d. Rom. 6. c. 2. Pet. 2. b. Seruant of the Sinne / ought not to seeke nor-yet take-on any Freedom vnto him / in y â— Sinne for thesame should then be altogether false 11. For although that the Man seeke oftentimes / to be vnbound or made-free from This or That / yet seeketh hee not thesame oftentimes / for ☜ to be than a Seruant or Minister of the Lorde / nor-yet for the Lord-his Righteousnes cause but for to liue at-peace / after his-owne Will· and according to the Mindes of his Fleash And although now the Man doth som-tymes take-on such-thinges to himself / or that hee obtayneth such a false Freedom or Peace / yet is hee notwithstanding not free but much-more a Seruant of hys
owne Mindes and bydeth neuerthelesse in Captiuitie or Bondship 12. When-as wee now see-into all this / according to the Trueth / so ought wee onlie to seeke after the vpright n Iohn â— c. Freedom of the Children of God / which is required out of the Woord of the Lorde And when wee then â at any time perceaue / that wee are not â according to the Requiring of the Lord-his Woord rightlie made-free / but rest yeat bound or owned / on our Mindes or Opinions / So shall wee not then seeke any other thing ther-against / but to becom Seruantes or Ministers of the Lorde / for to serue the Lorde / and to be altogether obedient / to the Requiring of his gracious Woorde and Seruice of Loue. 13. If wee then becom in such-sort o Rom. 6. b. Seruantes or Ministers of the Lorde / so shall the Lorde likewise â in the p Iohn 8. d. Obedience of the Requiring of his Woord bring vnto vs the vpright Freedom of the Children of God Therfore ought wee not to hunt-after any Freedom / according to our owne Mindes but first to applie vs dilligentli â / to the Woorke of the Lorde / and to shewe Obedience vnto the Requiring of his Woord / for to becom euenso Seruantes of the Lorde and not to seeke els-what in the Seruice of his Woord / but to humble vs with whole Heart / vnder the Requiring of his Woorde 14. When wee then are thus the Lord-his Seruantes / so shall the Lorde also â in thesame good-willing Obedience to the Doctrine of his Woord reueale or declare the Trueth of his Christ vnto vs and thesame q Iohn â— Trueth shall make vs rightlie free / and release vs out of all Bondshipping In such-sort / that wee shall then sett ourselues / with all That which is the Lordes â as submitted vnder the Lorde· and vnder the Seruice of his holie Woorde of the godlie Loue / for to liue euenso with all the Children of God and Christ / in the vpright godlie Freedom / and to serue onlie the liuing God / in r Luk. 1. â— vpright Righteousnes and Holynes The VI. Chapiter A cleere Distinction / betweene the Heauenlie and the Earthlie and how that the Immortall / is becom mortall and how it shall putt-on the Immortalitie againe NOman ascendeth vnto Heauen / but hee which a Iohn â— b. Ephe. 4. a. cometh or descendeth from Heauen The which figureth-fourth vnto vs in Cleernes / that the earthlie Fleash and Bloud / cannot ascend to Heauen / in-as-much as it is not of the Heauen / but of the Earth But the holie Beeing of God / which God the Father â out of his holie Heauen hath grounded or setâ— â from the Begining in the Manhod / and is in vs â for our Sinnes cause becom mortall / hath the sure Promises / to risevpp againe in immortall Glorie and that thesame shall reach / from the Man on the Earth / eauen vnto God / in the Heauen / for to make-knowen â out of the Heauen vnto the Man / on the Earth / the heauenlie Goods / and to bring thesame vnto him / out of the Heauen / and therto / the eternall Life 2. And That is it wherof Paule hath also witnessed in tymes-past / wher hee sayth b 1. Cor. 15. f. When the Mortall hath putt-on the Immortalitie / then shall the Death be destroyed in Victorie 3. Verelie / the Mortall â wherof Paule witnesseth is not any Creature of the earthlie Fleash and Bloud but it is the liuing Woord or Beeing of God / which in c Gen. 1. the Begining / was immortall in the Manhod / and is in vs â for our Sinnes cause becom mortall For thatsame â so-long as the Sinne hath the Victorie in vs is in vs / as One dead And although it beareth our Sinnes / and purgeth or maketh vs safe from the Sinne / yet haue wee not so d Esa. 53. b. Act. 8. c. esteemed it but accounted it as if it were nothing The which wee may also right easelie perceaue euenso in vs / so longe as we rest subiect to the Sinne. For if yee seeke in your inward sinfull Manhod / the good and heauenlie Beeing of God / and y e vpright Vertue and Righteousnes / so finde yee not thesame e Rom. 7. c. liuing in you but rather f Gen. 6. c. all Iniquitie / and all wicked Inclinations 4. When wee then see-into thissame / so must wee needes acknowledg / that the heauenlie Beeing of God· and God-his vpright Righteousnes / is becom mortall in vs but yet not for-euer / but for a certen season / till that the Man shew-fourth vpright Frutes g Math. â— Luk. â— of Repentaunce / against his Sinnes and sinfull Lustes / and that God euenso raise-vpp his godlie Beeing / in the Man / and that his Glorie becom great eauen vnto the Heauen 5. Yea / euen than at thesame tyme / shall the Mortall putt-on againe the Immortalitie / and the Death h Esa. 25. b. 1. Cor. 15. c. shall be swallowed-vpp / in Victorie And thatsame heauenlie Beeing of God / shall ascend vnto Heauen / and yet notwithstanding remaine still conformeablie-vnyted with the Man / euenlike as it came from Heauen and the Man shall then likewise bide euerlastinglie / one Soule and one Bodie with thesame / and be alwayes with his Spirit / wher God and his Christ is It is very-true 6. OH / That the Man vnderstoode the vpright Glorie / whervnto hee is i Gen. 1. c. Sap. 1. 2. c. Eccli 17. a. created by God / and also called through Christ so should then all earthlie Thinges be esteemed of him for no worthyer / then if they were Durt Yea / although the whole Earth â eauen vnto the Heauen were couered with Golde / yet were it all no-more / to be compared to the godlie Beeing and his vpright Righteousnes / then an Handfull of Chaffe / to a great Heape of good Wheate 7. Beholde / this costlie heauenlie k 1. Cor. 4. a. Treasure / is hid in the Man / and becometh presentlie raysed-vpp in the Man / in the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue. Thesame becometh now likewise â out of the Seruice of Loue distinctlie declared and expressed among Many and yet how Fewe are-ther that rightlie meditate or seeke-after thesame 8. OH â alas How exceedinglie doth the Man oftentymes afflict himself with sorrowe / for a little Losse of the earthlie thinges / and lameÌ„teth thesame Damaige al-to-much which notwithstanding is no-more worthye / to be compared to the Damaige of the vpright Righteousnes and heauenlie Goods / then the Losse of an Handfull of Chaffe / to the Losse of an hundred Quarters of Wheate But for the most-great Losse â as that hee misseth / and findeth not in him / the vpright Righteousnes· the liuing Woorde of God the Father· and the Mercifulnes of the
vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ hee doth not once lament / or â at lest-wise very-little Oh / what a lamentable Miserie is it / to haue such an Ignoraunce 9. Whilst now therfore the Man is thus ignoraunt / and perceaueth nor knoweth not / his Defection or l Esa. 5â— b. Estraunging from God his Woord / so can not hee likewise â although hee would neuer-so-faine turne him againe rightlie vnto God For like as the good Beeing of God â through the Disobedience to the Woord of God and his Doctrine is becom as dead or mortall in vs / eauen so dead must likewise the Man â through the Obedience to the Woord of God and his Doctrine he with the good Beeing of God / if hee will be m Ephe. â— â— raised-vp with thesame / to the Life of Righteousnes For euenso â in the Death of the olde Man of Sinne doth the good Beeing of God n 2. Cor. 4. b. arise in the Man / and standeth-vpp / to his Glorie / and then likewise with him / the Man Wherin also then the Man inheriteth all spirituall and heauenlie Goods / and therto the eternall Life It is very-ture The VII Chapiter Of the vpright Christian Battaile / against the Enemies of the Life WHen the Man will prepare or indeuour himself to the christian Battaile for to accomplish the Requiring of the gracious Woord and his Doctrine / so shall hee then / in the Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / a Ephe. 6. putt on him the Armour of Christ and let himself be made-fast on the Pacience and all that which dwelleth or is borne in him â that hath also a Lust with him to the Battaile shall hee in like-maner arme therto / eauen as himself and so then pursue b Gen. 14. d. and fall-vpon his Enemies / and vtterlie roote them out 2. When the Man hath now in such-sort â as a goodwilling and valiant Souldier of Iesu Christ orderlie attempted the Battaile / and â in the christian c 2. Tim. 2. â— Battaile vanquished all his Enemies / with the Pacience of Christ so cometh then vnto him the High-priest of Righteousnes like as the High-priest Melchisedech d Gen. 14. d. came vnto Abraham when hee had vanquished his Enemies For in the Vanquishing of our Enemies / ther appeereth vnto vs the e Heb. â— c. High-priest Christ which cometh vnto vs out of the heauenlie Beeing / and bringeth vs the heauenlie Foode of the euerlasting Life / and the Riches of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods 3. Therfore ought wee daylie â in the Battaile of our Temptation to f Math. 16. c. Luk. 9. c. takevp our Crosse / against our Enemies / and to followe-after our Lorde Iesus Christ / in his Passe-ouer / vntill that all our Enemies be destroyed and vanquished / through the Crosse / and that wee euenso haue accomplished the true Godseruice / in the Holie· or ben obedient vnto the Ende / to-wit / euen vnto the Death of the Sinne. 4. For the Obedience of the true Godseruice of Iesu Christ / till vnto the g Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse / is the Vanquishing of the Enemies of the Life / and the Accomplishing of the daylie Godseruice / in the Holie After which Accomplishing of thesame Godseruice / in the Holie / h Heb. 7. â— cometh y e High-priest Christ and appeereth in the Most-holie and erecteth euenso the i 1. Cor. 13. c. Perfection in vs. 5. Beholde / in this Obedience of God the Father â to the Accomplishing of the Godseruice in the Holie is Christ k Heb. 6. 9. b. gon before vs / and hath ben obedient to his Father / euen to the Death namelie / to the l Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse / wherin hee hath found the Purging of the Sinne / to our Safe-making / to th end that wee should m 1. Pet. 2. 4. a followe-after Him / in thesame Way / to the Purging of our Sinnes / for to inherit euenso with him the euerlasting Life 6. Verelie / to shew-fourth thissame Obedience / in the Seruice of the Loue / and to stand â in Lowlynes of Heart submitted vnder the seruiceable Woord of the Lorde / as also to haue a Lust with whole Heart / to doo his Will / is the vpright Wisdom which reacheth to the holie Vnderstanding and thesame is the Wisdom / which ingendreth the Peace in the Righteousnes for the which also n 3. Reg. 3. b. 2. Paâ— 1. b. Salomon prayed 7. Therfore / applie yourselues now obedientlie· to this gracious Woord of the godlie Wisdom / which is presentlie â euen in thissame Day o 1. Pet. 1. b. administred vnto you / and turne not away yourselues in anywise therform / through Vnbeleef / that yee be not vanquished by the Iniquitie· nether-yet whollie lyke vnto y â— Iniquitie / in her Nature For the Vnbeleeuers and Resisters or Blaspheamers of this Woord and Light of Life / together with all such as â according to the Nature of the Iniquitie becom offended therat· or at the Ministers of thesame / shall increase fourth-and-fourth â if they repent not in the Iniquitie / vntill that they be vtterlie p 2. Tim. â— b. deliuered-ouer to the Iniquitie· becom of-one-beeing with thesame· and their Heartes hardened The VIII Chapiter Of the outward and inward World / and of the outward and inward Heauen and how that wee are all called and biddeÌ„ / to the pretious Bewties and Riches of the inward heauenly Beeing and also how that wee ought to shew 〈◊〉 thankfull to the God of Life / for thesame Grace THe whole outwarde World / is very-great and vnmeasurable and how great and vnmeasurable soeuer thesame is / yet is notwithstaÌ„ding the inward World â without comparison much greater / inwardlie in vs. 2. Wee cannot likewise so conceaue in our Thoughtes of the outward Heauen â which incompasseth the whole outward World to be so great glorious and bewtifull / but that the inward Heauen â wherin God Esa. 66. a. Act. 7. f. with his Christ and Holy-gost / and with all his Holyâ—ns / dwelleth and liueth essentiallie is far-away much greater and gloriouser / and much bewtifuller of Cleernes and Garnishing 3. Oh / That the Man could once conceaue or insee / what singuler pure Bewties and Riches of God / are to be beholden and inherited in the true heauenlie Beeing and also perceaued that hee were seduced with the Spirites of Errour which b Ephe. â— a. raigne in the Ayre / and with the Imagination of his Knowledge / therfrom· and so degenerated or estraunged â ther-without touching thesame So were it not then possible that hee could reioyce him / in that case of his Estraunging from thesame / nether yet in any-wise be at-quiet / before that hee were com thervnto againe / or had therwith his communion or
loueth hee the Darknes And That is the Mans n Iohn â— â— Condemnation / when hee loueth the Darknes / more then the Light It is very â–ª true The XI Chapiter A cleere Demonstration / that the Seruice of the Lawe after the Letter / and the Seruice of Christ after the Fleash / haue both one 〈◊〉 Ministration to the Death of y â— Sinne and that then the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / springeth therout IF anye Ministers of the holye Woorde should saye Wee publish the Lawe / and minister and teach thesame / to a Mortifying of the Sinne / and to a Death and Burying of thesame / seeing that thesame Seruice / is the right Priestes-office of the Lawe Or-els if they should saye Wee publish Christ after the Fleash / vnto the Beleeuers of Christ / to an Entraunce â with Christ into a Rom. 6. the lyke Death of his Crosse to-wit / into the Obedience of the Beleef of Christ and to mortifie and burie the Sinne / So is-it both right / and well saide / if the Lawe of the Lorde and his Christ haue a Shape in thesame Minister and it is both one-maner of Seruice / vnto the Beleeuers of y e Woord to a Righteousnes of Life 2. For / to administer Christ after the Fleash / is a Seruice / which also â life-as the Seruice of the Lawe reacheth to b Rom. â— b. the Death of the Sinne and so then fourth / to the Making-aliue of y â— Inward-man of God / in Iesus Christ after the Spirit 3. Therfore saith Peter thus Christ hath suffered for vs / and c 1. Pet. 2. c. left vs such an Example / to th end that wee should followe his Foote-steppes 4. Christ himself saith also Whosoeuer will be my Disciple / let him d Math. 10. 16 Mark. â— Luk. â— 14. forsake himself / and take-vpp his Crosse on him / and followe after mee And That is the right Imitacion of Christ that wee should followe-after him â in the Doctrine of his Requiring obedientlie / euen vnto his e Rom. 6. Death and Burying / and vnto his Resurrection from the Death And This is the Inheriting of the eternall Life / in the heauenlie Beeing / wherin Christ after the Spirit / liueth and triumpheth â with his Father and all his Sainctes perpetuallie 5. Therfore / to th ende that hys Disciples / mought inherit the eternall Life with Him / they must first followe-after Him â in the Fore-going of his Doctrine and Requiring obedientlie / till into his lyke Death / and then euenso out of thesame Death / obtaine the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / and inherit the eternall Life 6. For-that-cause / men ought to consider rightlie / on both these Sayinges / of the Lawe and of Christ after the Fleash For in themselues they haue both / one Minde or Sence and leade both to one Entraunce of the Mortifying and Depriuation of all vngodlie Beeing For all that which goeth-before out of God / before the new Birth in Iesu Christ after the Spirit / and hath his Ministration to the true Righteousnes / doth point or direct the Man to the Death and Laying-away of the Sinne in the Fleash And That is it wherof Paule speaketh / saying The Letter f 2. Cor. 3. â— slayeth namelie / the Ministration of the Lawe after the Letter / or the Ministration of Christ after the Fleash And That is nothing-els / but that the Letter / according to the Requiring of the Lawe / and according to the Requiring of Christ / pointeth and leadeth vs g Rom. 6. to the Death of the Sinne / and withdraweth euenso our Mindes and Thoughtes / from all that which is vngodlie· and vayne and consumeable on the Earth / for that wee mought euenso attaine to the euerlasting Vnconsumeablenes / in the eternall Life / wherin all Vnderstandinges of pure Heartes do liue and dwell 7. BEholde / in such-sort and to such a Fulfilling of the Lawe and the Propheates / is the Seruice of the holie Woorde / in the Letter / with the Letter / and through the Letter For the Ministration of those-same soundeth euenso / and requireth thesame For when-as wee perceaue anything in vs / that tendeth to the Lust of the Sinne / ther-against doth the seruiceable Woord teach vs / to mortifie and burie thatsame for-as-much as the same is his Requiring 8. And when-as wee then do humble ourselues obedientlie / vnder the Lawe or vnder the seruiceable Woord / for to accomplish thesame in his Requiring and to becom euenso â with the Lawe / or with Christ after the Fleash / and with his Faith to Iustification k Rom. 6. implanted into Christ with lyke Death· baptised in his Death· and washed with his Bloud / So cometh-ther then vnto vs / the Spirit of the Lawe / or the Rom. â— b. Making-aliue in Iesuâ— Christ after the Spirit It is very-true The XII Chapiter A cleere Demonstration / that the Man hath not any-Good of himself but receaueth it all of the Lorde and his Grace O Yee goodwilling Heartes to the Seruice of the Loue / suffer-pacientlie and beare-with a Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. each-other in your Weatnes and infourme each-other with the Coadiuuation or Hand-reaching of the seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue. And if any-man chaunce to fall / so help-vpp then each-other againe and hee that bydeth standing / let him laude the Lord / for his Strength For y â— Strength â or the Power so much as thesame remayneth with vs / to the Good / is onlie the Lordes / out of his Grace and not out of our-selues 2. For-that-cause / think or haue alwayes before your Eyes / in your Fourth-going to y â— good Beeing of God / that yee haue receaued all your Lust / Loue / and Stabilitie or Faithfulnes â which yee shewe to the Lorde and his Woord of the Lorde and his Grace 3. For what haue yee â I pray you to serue the Lorde with all / but that yee haue b 1. Par. 19. c. 1. Cor. 4. b. Iam. 1. a. receaued it of the Lorde or the Lorde must first bring thesame vnto you / by his Grace and Mightynes both all that wherwith yee serue your-selues another also 4. Therfore ought the Man alwayes to holde himself â in the Obedience of the seruiceable Woord humble or lowlie of Heart / and also to feare the Lorde continuallie and euenso â in the Feare of the Lorde alwayes to thinke O Lorde How should I out of myself / haue perceaued or knowen my Sinnes / Except that they had ben made-knowen vnto mee / through thy seruiceable Woord / and that it were graunted mee to perceaue them by thy Grace and that thou euenso â through thy Power or Mightynes releasedst mee therfrom For if I â O Lorde haue any Loue to thee
and thy Woord / so haue I then receaued thesame / of thy Grace namelâ—â— / in the c Rom. 10. c. Hearing Crediting of the Ministration of thy Woord For in Mee â through my Consenting to the Sinne ther is nothing-els but all Inclination d Gen. 6. a. Rom. 7. b. to the Destruction And if I â O Lorde remaine standing â in any Righteousnes by thy Woord / so cometh thesame to mee from thy Grace / and from the Power that thou hast geeuen or brought vnto mee 5. For-that-cause trulie / wee must needes alwayes confesse / that wee cannot bring any Good vnto God / nor-yet serue him with anything / but with That which wee haue receaued of Him and his Grace 6. Thissame acknowledged likewise the kinglie Propheat Dauid and the holy Salomon when-as they presented or offered-vpp their Sâ—â—stes or Oblation / before the Lorde / and saide e â— Pâ—â— â—â— c. O Lorde / All thinges com of thee / and that which wee haue receaued at thyne Handes / that haue wee brought againe vnto thee 7. Euen-thus after thesame maner / must the Man also acknowledg / that all what-euer hee geeueth-ouer to the Lorde or bringeth vnto Him / and serueth him with-all / is the Lord-his Good and that hee bringeth againe vnto y e Lorde / that which hee hath receaued of Him 8. But if now the man thinke otherwise / or that hee account thesame / to be his-owne Woorke / so misseth hee the Right / and looketh vpon his owne Dooing â wherthrough hee seeketh Praise or Honour and not vpon the Lordes Grace / for to laude and thanke therin the Lorde / for his Guift 9. But a lowlie Man / which acknowledgeth that all that which is good / and don by Hym as good or wel-don / is the Lord-his Good and Weldooing / as the Guift of the Lorde f 1. Cor. 4. b. which hee hath receaued and euenso thanketh the Lorde / for that which is Hys / and â according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord of the Lorde bringeth-againe vnto the Lorde / that which is Hys / Hee knoweth then himself a-right / how g Apâ— 3. d. poore that hee is / as also of himself / the Most-feeble or Infirmest and that the Lorde onlie / is all in All. And acknowledgeth euenso â in the Beleef to haue receaued all Good and h 2. Cor. 4. b. Strength / at the Lordes Handes 10. And euenso in such a Confessing â that wee are altogether poore and infirme of our-selues will God be gracious vnto vs / and â with his Guiftes bring his Power vnto vs. And when wee then / coÌ„fesse it all to be the Lordes â to-wit / that wee haue receaued all that is good / of the Lord / so shall wee then also haue alwayes â vnder the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue compassion towardes another / which staggereth or falleth / or that is not yeat so altogether perfect and euenso i Rom. 15. d. Gal. 6. â— beare-with and suffer one-another / and help-vpp each-other from the Fall 11. When wee now in such-sort / shew-fourth the Loue one towardes another / so shall then also eueryone be moued to thinke in himself Oh â alas If ther were no Grace nor Loue shewed on mee· nether any Helpe chaunced vnto mee / by the Lord and his Ministers of the Woorde / so should I then doubtles myself / haue still remayned the greatest Sinner / and the Most-weake / among the Children of Men. 12. If wee now doo euen-thus / and deale or behaue ourselues so â in all Grace and Loue towardes each-other / so geeue wee then the Honour onlie vnto God / and not vnto our-selues And the Euell shall likewise euenso be washed-away· and all Offencifenes cleene rooted-out / from among vs and ther shall be nothing that can 1. Pet. â— b. hinder vs / for to haue our conuersation in all Loue and vpright Righteousnes / one with an-other The XIII Chapiter A groundlie Instruction / how wee should be faithfull / to the Lorde and his gracious Woord also geeue-ouer ourselues whollie therto and â with faithfull Heartes cleane vnto thesame A Man which loueth the vpright Righteousnes / cannot applye himself vprightlie thervnto / before that hee haue whollie geeuen-ouer himself / to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / for to be obedient vnto the Woord and is euenso admitte herto / by his Elder in the holie Vnderstanding and Minister of the gracious Woorde / for to becom taught therin 2. And although now all this com thus topasse / or when-as thesame hath in such-sort his Entraunce / so is not the Man then receaued or admitted vnder the gracious Woord of the Lorde / that hee should liue / besides the Doctrine of the Woord / vnto himself or his Goodthinking but that hee should a 2. Cor. 5. b. shewe all Obedience and Faithfulnes / to the Woord / and to the Seruice of his Doctrine or Requiring 3. For when-as the Man is receaued by the gracious Woord / in his Seruice of Loue / for to stand obedient and that hee hath consented thervnto / so hath hee then geeuen-ouer himself and his Fidelitie / to the gracious Woord and to the Seruice of his Requiring / for to doo â through thesame Woorde and his Seruice the Will of the Lorde 4. For euenso in the Coniunction of the Man to the gracious Woord of the Lorde / and to his Seruice of Loue / the Man entreth into the Testament of the Promises of God the Father and so voweth or promiseth himself / before God and his Holyons / that hee will cleaue onlie to the Woord and his Requiring· shewe faithfull Obedience / out of his whole Heart and Minde· and not seperate himself therfrom for-euer nether-yet also to turne his Heart and Minde â at any tyme to anything that the Woorde itself is not or requireth / or that is not one with the Woord but to loue thesame with all his Heart like as a faithfull Espowsed-wife promiseth her Husband / not to loue nor addict herself to any other / nor-yet to depart from him / for any maner of cause 5. Verelie / euen so whollie and altogether ought wee also to cleaue vnto the Woord and to the Seruice of his Requiring in such-sort / that y â— Woord and his Requiring / should be y â— Deerlyest-beloued in our Heartes For at that time â when wee haue turned our Loue so whollie to the Woord and his Requiring ther can no Assaulting indamaige or hinder vs Yea / although ther came an hundred thowsand For wee are so fast-knitt and established with the Loue of our Heart / on the Woord and his Requiring / that they all / are not able to pluck vs from the Woord / nor to make vs consent to any Euell or Vanitie For the Lord the strong God is than our Helper / and b Math. 6. b. Luk. 11.
a. Releasser from all Euell 6. For in like-maner / as a faithfull Espowsed-wife loueth her Husband so intirelie / that all her Heart / Minde / and Delight / is whollie swallowed-vpp in him and to him / and that hee is euenso the Deerlyest-beloued in her Heart Yea / so beloued / that although a thowsand diuers Intisers would go-about to pluck her Loue to them / yet should it be all in vaine For such-a-one â through the Loue which shee hath sett to her Espowsed-husband bideth still faithfull to her Husband / Euen so fast and stable shall wee also holde vs / on the gracious Woord / and on the Requiring of his Seruice of Loue in such-sort / that thesame should be y e Deerlyest-beloued / in our Heartes / to th end that wee euenso â through the Loue mought bide altogether faithfull vnto thesame· and indeuour vs alwayes obedientlie / according to the Requiring of his Seruice of Loue and that thesame mought be all our Lust and Will 7. But / if in the meane time â er-euer wee be so altogether swallowedvpp in the Loue of y â— Woord ther chaunce any c Iob. 5. b. Iam. 1. a. Temptation / by our Paramours â which wee in times-past haue loued to com vnto vs or assault vs / So shall wee then turne-away our Loue altogether from them / and turne thesame whollie and in all / to the Woorde of Grace and exercise ourselues fourth-and-fourth / in his Seruice of Loue and euenso crye and pray vnto God for Helpe / to our d Math. 6. b. Luk. 11. a. Releassing from their Temptation / and from the Euell / whervnto they would seduce vs and so with the Grace and Helpe of the Lorde / to take good-heede / that wee incline not to their Desires / for to commit sinne with them 8. But if they take or lay-holde on vs with Force and Violence / and that then â although wee crye ther cometh not any Power nor Helpe vnto vs / for to withstand them in their Force and Violence â–ª and that they euenso rauish vs against our Will / so are wee giltles of the Transgressing For wee haue cryed / for to be releassed from the Tirannie of the Euell / and ther is no Helpe com vnto vs. Of which giltles Transgressing / the Lawe likewise witnesseth / where it saith A Woman which is violentlie-taken in the Feelde â wher-as ther is not any Helpe and so rauished and although shee haue Deut. 22. d. cryed alowde / yet gotten no Helpe shee shall be giltles of the Transgressing But if shee be in the Howse with any-bodie / and so holdeth her peace / then is shee giltie in the Transgressing of Matrimonie 9. In like-maner also with vs When wee are assaulted with any Temptation / against y e Woord and his Requiring / wher-as ther is well Helpe to be had or coâ—-by / in the Seruice of the Woord / or by the Ministers of thesame / if wee made-manifest our case but wee keepe-scilence therof / and fall to y â— Errour of Adulterie / So do wee then commit synne / and are giltie of the Transgressing For if wee crye not to God nor by his Ministers for Helpe / but keeping-scilence / do synne / and then also not confesse the Sinne but â as much as wee may hide or couer thesame / So are wee verelie Consenters to the Iniquitie / and Adulterers against the Lorde and his holie Woorde 10. But if wee desire not to addict vs to the Lustes nor Temptation to the Iniquitie / nor to doo after her will / so shall wee then alwayes â in all our Assaulting thinke in our Heartes / and also confesse still by the Assaulters / that wee haue no power â contrary to the Requiring of the Woord ouer our owne Bodie / as to geeue-ouer thesame to the Transgressing but that it belongeth onlie vnto the Lorde / to his Seruice Wherof also Paule witnesseth an Example vnto vs / wher hee sayth / that a Woman / hath not f 1. Cor. 7. a. 1. Pet. 3. a. Power of her owne Bodie but the Man / with whom shee is entred into Matrimonie 11. Euenso should wee also haue this alwayes before our Eyes / and acknowledg / that our Bodie / is not Our Bodie â for to doo therwith our owne Will and Lustes but the Lordes / for to vse thesame / to an g 1. Cor. 6. b. Instrument of his seruice / and to all Vprightnes and Equitie and that wee also haue promised and yealded-vpp thesame â to Righteousnes vnto the Lorde and haue not any Power to vse thesame to any-thing els as likewise all whateuer is gouerned vnder our Handes 12. Therfore shall the Man alwayes continew in Prayer / and so in his h Ephe. 6. c. Col. 4. a. Prayer / watch continuallie against all the Assaulting of the Sinne and not esteeme thesame Assaulting ouer-light / although hee somtimes â with little Greef or Trouble hath ben released therfrom 13. For a Man which hath ben assaulted by any Wickednes or Vanitie / and is easelie com-thorowe thesame Assaulting / thinketh then somtimes so-much the lightmindeder I am passed-thorowe the Assaulting or Temptation thus easelie Let it hardelie com-on againe / I knowe wel-enough how to resist and 〈◊〉 from thesame But â oh alas When the Man now begineth in such-sort to trust so-much on himself / that hee meaneth euenso / out of his Prudence or owne Power / to perseuer or bide-stedfast theragainst / so doth the Sinne then vanquish him / easeliest-of-all 14. For when-as the Sinne or the Iniquitie / doth â in such a self-conceited Purpose of his assault him / and that hee perswadeth himself / that it can not indamaige him / so shall hee then verelie finde himself oftentimes in the Assaulting / to be to vnmightie / for to bide-stedfast therin / and euenso want the Grace and Helpe of the Lorde 15. Therfore shall the Man alwayes feare the Lorde / and continew still in i Ephe. 6. c. Col. 4. a. 1. Tess. 5. c. Prayer If it then be well with him / as that the Sinne â with her Assaulting doth not ouercom hym / so shall hee geeue God thankes for his Grace / and euenso thinke and confesse in his Heart 16. O God / the Power of my Stedfastnes â so much as thesame remayneth with mee cometh onlie k 2. Cor. 4. b. from Thee and from thy Grace / and not / from my-self Therfore â O God / full of Grace If that the Assaulting chaunce for to meete with mee againe / so extend thou then alwayes â I beseech thee ouer Mee poore feeble Man / thy Grace and Mercie and be thou thyself alwayes â I beseech thee my Power and Strength / wherby that I may in the euell Daye of my Temptation â as a iust l 2. Tim. 2. â— Souldier resist the Iniquitie· and euenso keepe the Fielde or the
DICTA HN. Documentall Sentences eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN and writen-vp out of the Woordes of his Mouth And are by Him pervsed / and more-distinctlie declared Translated out of Base-almayne God hath graunted mee to speake wiselie and to consider a-right / of the Thinges which hee hath gratiouslie geeuen mee Sap. 7. The Mouth of the Righteous / is exercised in Wisdom and his Toung speaketh the Iudgment Psal. 37. Hys Lippes shall not speake the thing that is vnright nor his Tounge vtter-fourth anye Deceipt Iob. 27. Documentall SenteÌ„ces / eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN and writen-vp out of the Woordes of his Mouth The First Chapiter Ther is demaunded / How-men shall discerneâ— or knowe distinctlie the Perfect / from out of the Vnperfect· and the Seruice of the Perfection / from out of the Seruice of the Vnperfection And thervnto is answered by HN like-aâ— heer-after followeth VNderstand the Minde of the a 1. Cor. 13. c. Perfect and of the Vnperfect· and the Diuersitie of ether-others Seruice / well and rightlie A Man which hath whollie adioyned and geeuen-ouer himself / with all that which is vnder his Might â as a faithfull Disciple to the gratious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and to the Elders of the holie Vnderstanding in the same Woord / for to be obedient thervnto and euenso â in the b Math. 19. d. Mark 8. Luk. 14. Forsaking of himself and of all that which hee hath takeÌ„-on and appropriated vnto him proceedeth-forward and groweth-vp therin obedientlie / till vnto the Perfection and that also the Vnperfect â or That which is in part c 1. Cor. 13. b. ceasseth with him / and so is becom of-one-beeing / with the Loue and her holie Spirit / Such-a-one is then taught / with the seruiceable Woord and through the seruiceable Woorde of the holy Spirit of Loue / to d Math. 13. g. the Kingdom of the God of Heauen and is euenso ledde or brought vnto the euerlasting Perfection / vnto the Kingdom of the God of Heauen Ø›the perfect Bewtie / and vnto the euerlasting Life / the vpright Righteousnes and Holines 2. When now then the obedient and beleeuing Man â through the seruiceable Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue is comprehended of the Perfect· well exercised in the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue· growen-vp to the Elderdom of the godlie VnderstaÌ„ding· and taught to the Kingdom of HeaueÌ„ / So becometh then thesame Man â according to his Elderdom in the godlie Vnderstanding ordayned to a Fellow-minister of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / seeing that the godlie Testimonies haue â at that tyme rightlie e Iohn 7. e. their Outflowing / from the inward Bodie of thesame Man / to the seruiceablenes of Other-moe which are yeat vnperfect 3. And albeit that the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / haue their Outflowing and Ministration / from his inward Bodie â out of the Perfect among the Vnperfectons / So is notwithstanding / thesame Ministration of the seruiceable Testimonies / yeat also f 1. Cor. 1â— vnperfect / by y e Vnperfectons / Because ther is a greater and perfecter Beeing / taught and required or diligentlie laboured-for with thesame / then ther is by the Vnperfectons / among whom the foresaid Testimonies are ministred namelie / the g Iohn 3. a. new Birth in the godlie Loue. Which Loue is h Col. 3. b. the Perfection itself 4. Eauen-thus haue the Seruices of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / their Ministration among the Vnperfectons and do remoue i Ephe. 2. c. the Middelwall / which is betwixt the Perfect and the Vnperfectons and make euenso of Twayne / that it be One. namelye / God and the Man / in one true perfect Beeing of Iesu Christ. 5. And till vnto thesame Perfection / the Seruices are â by the Vnperfectons also vnperfect But by Those / to whom the Perfection cometh / in their Beleef and Obedience of the Woord / the k 1. Cor. 13. b. Vnperfect ceasseth For the Perfect is than / by the Perfectons / a liuing Fountaine / wherout the Waters of Life do flowe / and geeue euenso their Refreashing â to the Releeuing of the thirstie Soules after the Righteousnes out of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue. And the refreashed Partes / assemble them to that one inseperable l Iohn 4. b. Fountaine / full of all liuing Waters / which flowe into the euerlasting Life 6. This liuing Fountaine / full of liuing Waters â wherof wee speake is in her-self / a Perfection without any begining or-yet ending / whervnto the seruiceable Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / do bring-men and wherout all vpright Vertues and Righteousnesses / haue their Originall or Fourth-springing 7. And the perfect Man â wherof wee speake and which is of-one-beeing with the true Perfection / cannot geeue-fourth els-what from him / but all humble and meeke Vertues and Righteousnesses / which flowe out of the Perfection And thesame Outflowinges / are eauen as m Esa. 55. b. Iohn 7. c. a Water-streame / that floweâ—h out of a Fountaine / like as the Fountaine geeueth it fourth 8. Howbeit / the Water which is so flowen-abrode / is not the Fountaine itself but it is an out-flowen Water / which diuideth itself out of y e Fountaine Semblable-wise / so is not that any Perfection / which â to an Instruction Reformation of the Life floweth out of y e Perfectons For all that which a perfect godded Man speaketh witnesseth and teacheth / among the Disciples Beleeuers of the Woord / are all foregoinge Seruices Distributions / proceeding out of the Perfect / wherwithall the vpright n Ephe. 4. c. Righteousnes and Holynes of the Perfection / is expressed and held-fourth before the Disciples and Beleeuers of the Woord / for to leade them euenso â through the seruiceable Woord to the Perfection / wherof ther is spoken / and whervnto ther is poynted in the Knowledg / till vnto the Coming of his Appeering 9. Of the which also Sainct Paule hath witnessed / wher hee saith Our Knowledg o 1. Cor. 13. b. is vnperfect â or as a Peece-woorke as also our Prophecying But when that which is Perfect / is com / then shall that which is Vnperfect / ceasse 10. Therof speaketh also Sainct Peter Wee haue a p 2. Pet. 1. d. sure propheticall Woord / yee doo well / in that yee haue a regard on thesame / as on a Light which shyneth in a darke Corner / till that the Daye be com / and that the Morning-dawne arise in your Heartes 11. In such-sort as a foregoing Light of the sure propheticall Woorde / is also y e seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue / wherwith the Perfection is witnessed and expressed and thatsame Perfection / becometh also seene or perceaued â as in a
Glasse in the seruiceable q 1. Cor. 13. b. 2. Cor. 3. b. Iam. 1. c. Woorde of the holie Spirit of Loue. But in the Appeering of his Coming / in godlye Cleernes / it becometh seene of Those to whom thesame appeereth â in his godlye Cleernes from r 1. Cor. 13. b. Face to Face That is / out of our codeified Minde / into the Minde of the liuing Godhead And That is the true Perfection / which becometh seene and knowen in the Perfection of our inward Manhod / and wherthrough the Loue is made-manifest / and also liued among Men. The Second Chapiter Ther is demaunded / How the Children of Loue or of Godâ— do behaue themselues / and what-maner of Disposition and Nature then are of And thervnto is answered by HN / this Resolution heere-following AS touching this Matier / ther is much found witnessed in the holie a Leuit. 1â— Deut. 6. Mark 12. Luk. 10. Rom. 13. Scripture / and it is also cleerlie testified / in the seruiceable Woorde b 4. Spe. â—2 of the holie Spirit of Loue / that the true Children of God / haue a good Disposition and Nature and that they keepe themselues alwayes therin / vprightlie graciouslie and peaceablie / both before God and Man and that they also are altogether inclyned â before God / and towardes Men for to walke in all Loue / and to shewfourth all Seruiceablenes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and euenso to couer with the Loue / the c Iam. 5. c. 1. Pet. 4. a. Sinnes of their Neighbour / and to inlardge the Loue â to all Edifying and Peace in her Seruice For they are / euen from the Youth vpp of their new Birth / exercised in all Weldooing and Loue. for that cause also / they cannot bring-fourth any-thing-els / but all Good and Loue. 2. For the true holie Spirit of Loue â wherwithall they are sealed leadeth them into all d Iohn 13. 14. 16. 1. Iohn 3. Trueth of the vpright Life and manifesteth euenso in them / the vpright Wooâ—â—es of Loue. And they e 2. Cor. 4. b. beare thesame cosilie Treasure in earthen Vessels / to the Lande and Honour of the almightie God and are euenso of-one-minde with the three godlie Witnesses / that beare-witnes in Heauen 3. Of which three godlie f Iohn 4. Witnesses / the one is the Loue / which is God the Father himself The second Witnes / is the g Iohn 14. 17. Trueth / which is the Woord of God the Father / and IESVS CHRIST himself And the third Witnes / is the holie Spirit of Loue or of God / and of the Trueth of Iesu Christ which is the euerlasting Life / and the Inheritaunce of all spirituall and heauenlie Goods 4. And thatsame euerlasting Life / together with the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / and euerlasting Ioye / becometh reuealed and brought vnto Them that are borne out of God / in the heauenlie Beeing and therthrough / they haue their fellowship with God / the Father / with his Sonne / the Lorde Iesus Christ and with the Holie-gost of Loue / wherout they witnes and declare / the great h Act. 2. Actes of God / and the Saluation of all Men. 5. Those now that knowe thissame / and receaue it in the heauenlie Beeing / their Testimonies are true For they witnes That / which they haue seene in the Godhead / and i 1. Iohn 1. heard in the Heauen And That is the holie Spirit which witnesseth with them for the perfect Godhead / liueth and dwelleth in them 6. For-that-cause also / the Children of Loue or of God / are the true k 1. Cor. 3. b. 2. Cor. 6. c. Heb. 3. a. Temple of the liuing God / wherin God with his Christ and holie Spirit / dwelleth and wherthrough they expresse their good Nature and Beeing / among all Men / euen as ther is saide And in such-sort / the liuing God is their God / and They his l Apo. 21. a. elected People in whose Temple / ther is no Idoll / but alone the liuing God of Israel nether is-ther also any Idolatry-seruice ministred theare but alone the Ministration of Iesu Christ / with the spirituall heauenlie Goods of his holie Spirit of Loue. The Thirde Chapiter A distinct Declaration / how that Hee which beleeueth in Christ / hath the euerlasting life THer is noman that beleeueth rightlie in Christ but Such with whom Christ is remayning or present / or which assemble them to Him and his Doctrine / in his Name / and so becom his Disciples Therfore is all the Faith / that Men â without the Assembling vnto Iesus Christ and his Doctrine assume or take-on of Christ â whether it be then out of the Imagination of the Knowledge· out of the Good-thinking of the Heart· or out of the Text or Letter no Faith in Iesu Christ / that extendeth to the Inheritaunce of Christ / in the eternall Life Nether-yet is-ther also anyman / that preacheth or teacheth the Woord or the Doctrine of Christ but Such as haue first ben obedient Disciples of the Woord and of the Doctrine of Iesu Christ. and euenso â vnder the Obedience of the Loue of Christ are a Math. 13. g. taught to the Kingdom of Heauen and in whom Christ b Gal. 4. c. hath then likewise his Shape 2. For that cause / they all which haue not rightlie beleeued in Iesu Christ / haue missed the eternall Life / as also the liuing Waters / wherof the Scripture maketh-mention / touching the Beleeuers in Christ like-as ther standeth writen Whoso c Iohn 7. c. beleeueth in Mee saith CHRIST as the Scripture saith / from his Bodie shall flowe Riuers of liuing Water Which liuing Waters / serue to the Purging d Ezec. 36. c. of y â— Heart or inward Minde / the which the vnilluminated Scripture-learned and vnsent Preachers / haue neuer out of the Letter â albeit that they testified thesame / and administred it / according to their Goodthinking obtayned or could attaine vnto For inasmuch as they turned them not about to the e Math. 18. childish Simplicitie / so hath also the f 4. Esdr. 1. c. wicked Nature Ø›that Contrary-minde to God remained euer with them 3. But the Woord of the vpright Doctrine of Iesu Christ / that seruiceablie is administred â speakablie or in Letters out of the Loue / and out of the Light of Life / is trulie the vpright and safe-making Water or Doctrine / to the Purging of the beleeuing and obedient Heartes of thesame Woord For Christ the Sauiour / is present in thesame Seruice 4. For-that-cause thesame seruiceable Woord â which is administred speakablie or in Letters / out of the Loue and out of y â— true Light and euerlasting Life is also g 2. Cor. 5. d. Christ after y â— Fleash and so Many as beleeue thesame Woord / and assemble them
obedientlie thervnto / haue their communion with Christ after the Fleash 5. For euenso / among the Beleeuers of the Woorde / the Woorde became Fleash / and h Iohn 1. b. dwelled among them and Iesus Christ was also in such-sort borne vnto them of the Virgin Marie / out of the i Rom. 1. â— 2. Tim. 2. b. Seede of Dauid after the Fleash that is / of the pure Doctrine / out of the Seede of the Loue. which beareth euenso without woo or greef And whosoeuer then receaueth or feedeth-of the outflowen Woord and his Life â beleeuinglie in his Soule / Hee k Iohn 6. eateth trulie the Fleash of Christ drinketh his Bloud and is raysed-vp by Christ / in the last Day / to the eternall Life and becometh euenso in his new Birth / consubstanciated with Christ after the Spirit And Those that l Iohn 3. c. 6. f beleeue euen-so in Christ / haue the eternall Life 6. IF wee now â with whole Heart beleeue thus in Christ and becom m Rom. 6. implanted into Him / so feele wee then also most-trulie / that ChristØ›the Woorde of Life n 1. Pet. 2. d. beareth in vs our Sinnes / and suffereth for our Sinnes cause wherthrough wee also are inclyned for to suffer with Him / and â to the o Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. Burying of our Sinnes to follow-after Him / euen vnto his Buryall and so wee becom Part-takers of the Passion of Christ as also after thesame / of his p Phil. 3. b. Resurrection euerlasting Life 7. In such-sort verelie / wee knowe or vnderstand in the Beleef and Obedience of the Woord / how that the Woord or Christ / q Iohn 1. c. beareth our Sinnes / together with all our Frailtie and Ignoraunce and how that likewise for that cause / the Elders in thesame Woord / take-vpp in Grace or Mercie / all the Sinnes / Weaknes / and Ignoraunce of the Beleeuers of the Woord / and couer thesame with their Loue / vnder the Obedience of the same Woorde and his Doctrine For in such-sort do the Elders and Ministers of the Woord â in their Seruice prepare and kindle the trespas r Ier. 33. â— Offeriâ—g of the Beleeuers of the Woorde / on the Altar in the Holie of Christ â ether Beleef of the Woord to a Burnt-offering of a sweete Sauour / before the Lorde 8. And the Accomplishing of thesame Offering / is the Puriâ—ying of our Heartes / from all sinfull Beeing And thatsame is the true Gods-seruice in the Spirit / wherin wee s 1. Pet. 2. 4. â— followe-after Christ in the like Passion t Rom. 6. a. or Death of his Crosse that is / in his like Contempt or Dispising the which is the true Furnace of Humiliation / wherthrough our Sinnes are consumed-to-nothing 9. When now the Seruice of the Woord and the Obedience of thesame / hath had in such-sort â in the Beleef Crosse of Christ his full Course with vs / so departeth then the v 2. Cor. 3. d. Heb. 10. d. Vayle â which is the Fleash of Christ from our Heartes and Christ after the Spirit / cometh vnto vs in Glorie And Hee is â euen as the right High-priest a x Heb. 3. 4. 7. Minister of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / in vs and wee inherit euenso all thosesame / through Iesus Christ after the Spirit 10. But till vnto thesame Tyme of the Coming of Christ after the Spirit / in his Glorie / so is vnto vs Christ after the Fleash / a Minister of the Circumcision â that is / in the Laying-away of the Synne for Gods Trueth-his cause / and for to establish y Rom. 15. b. the Promises made to the Fathers / and so to procreate in vs â out of the Beleef the euerlasâ—ing and true Heyre / in the Establishing of the Promises of God the Father and also-for that the Seruantship of the Lawe / should be no a Gal. 3. c. Heyre with the Beleeuers 11. And That was the Complaint of Abraham which hee â ereuer hee had a Sonne or an Heyre complayned before the Lorde / that hee had obtayned no b Gen. 15. a. Seede out of the Beleef / and supposed euenso / that his Seruant that is / the Seruantship out of the Lawe should be his Heyre But the Lorde said vnto him Not so / thy Seruant shall not be thyne Heyre but the Sonne which shall be borne out of thee That is / out of the Faith of Abraham 12. But so-long as the Heyre is yeat c â—al 4. a. younge / or first new borne by the Beleeuers of the Woord / and that also the Beleeuers are yeat younge or small in the heauenlie Vnderstanding / by Him and euenso â as goodwilling Seruantes to the Obedience of their Lorde haue a Lust â according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Will of the Lorde / So is-ther not any difference made / betwixt the Heyre and the Seruant but they stand both-alike vnder the Seruices of the gratious Woorde of y â— Lorde â as vnder Tutours till vnto the d Gal. 4. â— appointed Time of the Father In such like-sort is it also with all them / which beleeue the gratious Woord in his Seruice of Loue / and haue a Lust â according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Lord-his Will For as long as the Beleeuers of the Woord / are yeat younge or childish in the Procreation of the Seede of the Promise / that becometh borne in them / out of the Beleef of the Woorde and are not yeat growen-vpp to the e Ephe. 4. b. â—lderdom of the perfect Beeing of the Woord which is the appointed f Gal. 4. a. Time of the Father / ouer all Beleeuers of the Woord so stand they yeat although they beleeue vnder the Ordinaunce of the Lorde or his Woord Not therfore that they should alwayes remaine / as subiect thervnder but vnto the appointed Time / to-wit / til-vnto the manlie Olde-aige in the godlie Vnderstanding of y â— holie Woord / as ther is said That is / till that the Sinnes be subdued and that they euenso â through the Lawe be g Rom. 7. â— Gal. 2. d. dead vnto the Lawe· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauen / and haue attayned â in the Life of the Woord to the appointed Time of the h Ephâ— 4. b. manlie Olde-aige 13. And euenso on the Promise of y â— euerlasting Life â out of the Ministration of the holie gratious Woord vnder the Obedience of the Loue may well all the Beleeuers of y â— Woord â with Ioye / in the Hope of the euerlasting Life geeue-ouer themselues whollie in the i Rom. â— Death of Christ and so let themselues be baptised or wasshed â with the out-flowing safe-making Waters of Christ in the Death of Christ For euenso â in thesame Death
mutual-fellowship / in all vpright Righteousnes and Holynes 4. For the Loue to thesame should be so great / and the Value therof / should be so worthy in the Mans estimation / that hee should c Phil. 3. a. recon or thinke all other outward Thinges â in comparison therof to be but Durt For in itself it is so great· and his Bewties / Riches / and Life / are so many d Rom. 11. d. Ephe. 3. b. and infinite / that it cannot be writen nor spoken-fourth 5. Behold / Heer-to namelie / to this heauenlie Beeing and his vpright Righteousnes / and to the Conformable-vnyting of all his Bewtifulnes and Riches yee are all presentlie â through the seruiceable Woorde of the holie Spirit of Loue called and courteouslie-bidden 6. THerfore / looke now all well to it / that yee account not this proffered Grace / e 2. Cor. 6. a. Heb. 11. b. to be small but heartelie-imbrace thesame that is heald-fourth before you and offered vnto you / and â out of all your Soules and Power indeuour you alwayes ther-after / in all Humilitie and Lowlynes For thesame that is presentlie heald-fourth and offered vnto you / chaunceth to you all out of Grace / through the Mercies of God extended on you For which Grace and Mercies cause so extended on you / it behoueth you all likewise very-well namelie / eueryone to whom these heauenlie Goods / and this euerlasting Life â through the seruiceable Woord of Grace is administred / and that is bidden thervnto alwayes to shewfourth Lowlynes of Heart· and all Thankfulnes to the God of Life and thinke 7. O God / I Vnworthyone / had no-doubt bidden full in all my Corrupt-estate Estraunging from thee / and perseuered in all myne Iniquitie and in the Errour of thesame / if that thou â O Lord haddest not â through the gracious Seruice of thy Loue called Mee therout 8. Therfore must I â O God thanke thee alwayes and for euer / for that thou â through the seruiceable Woorde of thy Grace dost so graciouslie leade mee Vnworthyone ther-out / eauen to the Throne of thy heauenlie Maiestie 9. O God / of all This / the Honour and Praise redoundeth onlie vnto thee For who am I â O Lord that thou electest mee â which surelie am not better then all other Sinners thervnto / and vouchsafest to account mee worthy / to knowe all thissame / and leadest mee thervnto and that ther are yeat so many thowsand Men / vnto whom thou hast not made thissame knowen But â O God this is thy intire f Act. 10. â— Ephe. 3. b. Grace and mercifull Loue / ouer mee poore Synner Therfore â O God haue mercie also â I beseech thee on all Men-synners and Women-synners / which seeke thee with-out thy gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue / and so g Luk. 23. c. Act. 7. f. ignorantlie do erre 10. SEe / in such-amaner shall euery Man â which is stirred-vpp by the Grace of God / to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and that submitteth himself ther-vnder be alwayes humble of Heart and thankfull / before his God / and h Act. 7. f. pray for all Synners / which erre ignorantlie and recon this i Phil. 1. c. for his Sayne / namelie / that hee may passe into the Death / with the Woord of the good Beeing of God / to the Purging of his Sinnes For so shall hee â with the Woord of the good Beeing of God rise-vpp againe from the Death / to the eternall Life The IX Chapiter Of the right Accusation or Chastisement / which cometh vnto the Man / out of the Woord and his Seruice / to Repentaunce for his Sinnes / and to the Amendement of his Life EVeryone ought to take very good-heed / that hee be not slack or sluggish / in the Requiring of the holie Woord and Seruice of Loue / nether-yet holde himself ydle / before that the Light of Life â euen-as thesame is administred with the seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue a Gal. 4. c. haue a liuing Shape in him And till thesame Time / let him holde whollie all his Loue turned onlie thervnto 2. For / to loue anywhat besides the Light of Life and the godlie Vertue / is nothing-els but an vnknoweÌ„ erring Darknes / and a bewitched Sinne the which b Gen. 3 a. b. 2. Tess. 2. a. is an apostated Beeing / and a Seducing from the liuing God and his Righteousnes / wherin all Men c Rom. 7. â— haue ben captiued Of which bewitched Sinne / the gracious Woord doth also accuse or blame eueryone / and calleth them to Repentaunce / to th ende that eueryone should euenso â in his Repentaunce looke vpon his owne Sinnes· and not blame one-another / but exhort each-other to the Good and so inset or consider / that none of all the Children of Men / haue ben lose or free from the Sinne. 3. Therfore shall not the Accusation or d Math. 23. Chastisement / that cometh out of the gracious Woord or Seruice of Loue / be â at anytime cast-back for thesame is vpright But verelie / it is far different from the Accusation or Reproof that proceedeth from the goodthinking Man / or out of anymans corrupt Conscience / through the Knowledg and wherwith also the one Man accuseth or reprehendeth the-other / and exhorteth him not to Repentaunce 4. Verelie / when wee now perceaue in ourselues / that wee haue not rightlie applyed vs / according to the Requiring of the Woord and that wee therfore â through the Woord and his Seruice are chastened or accused / in our Minde / and that our Sinnes or Errours are euenso made-knowen ther-through vnto vs / So shall wee then insee and knowe / how altogether vnlyke of Nature / Beeing / or Disposition / wee yeat are / to the Woord and his Requiring and shall then geeue God thankes / for that ther is graunted vs to see and knowe â thorough the Woord or through the Ministers therof our Vnrighteousnes and Errour 5. And when wee then euenso â through the Woord or the Ministers therof do perceaue or vnderstand our Vnrighteousnes or Errour / so shall wee then â without delay e Math. â— Luk. 3. Act. 2. shewe Repentaunce for thesame / and applye vs â with all Humilitie to the Requiring of the Woord / and say or confesse before God / in our Heartes 6. O God â full of Grace and Trueth How louelie is thy Beeing / and into what a forren Beeing am I yeat incorporated I must euermore thanke thee â O God for that ther is made-knwen vnto mee â with thy Woorde and through thy Woorde and Seruice of Loue all what-euer is contrarie to thy Beeing 7. Oh â alas I was almost becom of-one-mind with the Iniquitie· and seduced â with her Errour from Thee and thy Will But through thy Woord â in his Seruice of Loue
thou lettest mee see / to what an vpright Beeing I f Gen. 1. c. Sap. 2. c. am created / and called-vnto / and to what a forren Beeing / I am fallen and haue inclyned myself 8. WHen now the Man â through the seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue exerciseth himself daylie heerin / and doth euenso / so shall hee then receaue â in all Thankfulnes vnto God the Accusation or Chastening â that cometh vnto him out of the Woord / or thorough the Woord and his Seruice of Loue to Repentaunce for his Shines / and to the Reformation of his Beeing· and not construe thesame to the worst / but take-heede from thence-fourth / that hee sinne not against the Woord / and that hee transgresse g Iohn â— b. not any-more / in that wherin hee hath fallen al-redie The X. Chapiter How one shall hate and leaue the Iniquitie· and not geeue anâ— care nor regarde ether credit vnto her / nor to her Ministers / in their Assaulting and Accusation A Man which hath humbled and geeuen-ouer himself obedientlie / vnder the Woorde of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / shall likewise â euen as a true Disciple of the Woord applye himself with all Dilligence / to the Requiring of the Woord / and with a full Hatred / hate the Iniquitie in such-sort / that hee shall haue a Lust / with all his Heart / to the good Beeing of the vpright Righteousnes· and vtterlie detest or abhorre the Iniquitie and her Ministers / when hee is assaulted by them 2. And although now the Iniquitie â or her Ministers would accuse thesame goodwilling Man / with anything that God nor his Woord requireth / for to burden or snare his Conscience therin Or although the wicked Beeing â for to make him vnbeleeuing to the Fourth-going of the good Life / and to declyne therfrom / or to wauer in his Conscience said inwardlie or outwardlie vnto him Yea / what takest thou vpon thee / for to attayne to the Righteousnes / the which thou art in no-wise able to doo / and wherof also thou hast no Sight nor Vnderstanding for thou art doubtles becom altogether one Bodie and Minde / with the Iniquitie For-that-cause also / thou belongest altogether to the Iniquitie and thesame hath whollie the Dominion ouer thee / to thy Condemnation 3. Howbeit / although such-thinges chaunce vnto the Man / by the Instinction or Perswasion of the Iniquitie / in his Inwardnes / yet shall not the Man therfore / geeue any credit to the Iniquitie or to the wicked Consciences seeing that hee is not of-one-minde with the Iniquitie / nether-yet let himself a 1. Iohâ— â— c. be iudged of his euell Conscience but hee shall geeue somuch the greater credit and regard to the great Grace b 1. Pet. 1. c. and Mercie of God / which God hath brought vnto him / through his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue for therthrough shall the Perswasion of the Iniquitie / vanish-away by him / and perrish or com-to-nought 4. For if the Iniquitie â when-as wee consented vnto her hath obtayned the Victorie in vs / How much-more then shall God with his Grace â which doubtles is much c Math. 12. c. Luk. 11. c. stronger then the Iniquitie preuaile or take the Victorie in vs â in far-more aboundant Power against the Iniquitie â seeing that wee now hate the Iniquitie / and geeue our consent vnto the Good / and through y e Seruice of the Loue / purge d Heb. 9. d. our Consciences from the Iniquitie and euenso prepare and make vs meete / for to inherit his Kingdom and euerlasting Life 5. When the Man now findeth himself in such a Battaile / so shall hee then holde himself fast / in the e Ephe. 6. â— Beleef and Hope of his Saluation / and humble himself alwayes obedientlie / vnder the gracious Woord of the Lord and the Requiring of his Seruice of Loue and also keepe a stedfast Hope on the f Iohn 14. 16. 2. Pet. 1. d. Promises of the Woord For the g Rom. â— a. Hope will not suffer him to com to reproch· but bring the Pacience vnto him / in his Assaulting / to a Releassing of him from his Temptation 6. The Man now standing euen-thus in his Abascing / shall pray continuallie vnto God / and speake â against the Iniquitie and her Perswasions in his Heart No / thou Iniquitie / ther belongeth nothing-at-all vnto thee No / not the smallest Heare of my Head For thou art of h Apo. 17. b. Nothing / and to-nothing shalt thou goe againe / in the Condemnation 7. With such a Beleef in the Pacience / shall wee keepe ourselues against the Assaultinges and Perswasions of the Iniquitie / and speake with our Minde Thoughtes boldlie ther-against / saye â–ª 8. O thou Iniquitie / I belong not vnto thee / that thou shouldest holde mee as thine Owne for thou hast not created mee But the God of the Liuing and of all Righteous / is l Gen. 1. my Creatour â–ª and to him do I belong But in that thou hast gotten the Dominion ouer mee / therto hast k Gen. 3. b. thou begyled mee with thy Falshod / and ha st euenso destroyed mee / and made mee subiect vnto thee But now â through Gods Grace and his Seruice of Loue my Hope resteth on thesame God / my Creatour / that Hee will â against thee take againe the Dominion ouer mee 9. Wherfore should I â O thou Iniquitie think / according to thy Perswasion / that anye-thing should appertaine vnto thee / or that thou shouldest haue any Power for to condemne Mee / through thy Infidelitie / wheras thou art risenvpp â out of the Condemnation euen of Nothing / and ha st euenso l Rom. 7. â— taken captiue myne Heart â with that which is Nothing in thy Bandes Therfore will I altogether submitt mee / vnder God my Creatour / Hee will help mee vp againe / and â through his Woord and Seruice of Loue releasse mee from thy Bandes / and bring thee againe to-nothing / in the Condemnation / like-as thou mast before tyme. 10. BEholde / In such-sort shall the Man applye himself â against the Iniquitie and her Counsaile and Perswasions to the good Beeing of God and haue and vpright Difference / betweene that which is Nothing â or proceedeth out of Nothing and the good Beeing / that proceedeth out of the Fulnes of God / and is administred vnto him For / so much as the Man appropriateth or owneth himself to that which is Nothing or vayne / so much falleth hee away from the good Beeing And so much as hee m Gâ—â— 3. falleth-away from the good Beeing / or estraungeth himself therfrom / so much Iudgment of the Condemnation plucketh hee ouer himself And so much as hee loueth his Goodthinking / and that which is Nothing or vayne / so much
shall wee alwayes indeuour vs heervnto / namelie / to shewe-fourth Pacience in all thinges / and euenso â in maner-of-suffering to waite for the l Act. 1. â— gracious Promises of God the Father 11. If wee now vnder y e Obedience of y e Woord and his Seruice of Loue / haue rightlie perpended or considered the lyke Pacience of Christ so shall wee then likewise let the Woord of the Lorde / in his Seruice of Loue / and in all his Counsell and Doctrine and to shew-fourth therby the goodwilling Obedience / haue the Fore-going with vs. 12. BVt â oh alas ther are so Fewe / which do thus rightlie vnderstand thesame / and yet many fewer / that indeuour themselues in such-sort ther-vnto For / for the most part / the Man is very negligent toward the Counsell and Doctrine of the Woorde / for to shewe Obedience to the Requiring of thesame but hee himself taketh-on much rather the Fore-going vnto him with his owne Will m Col. 2. b. and Election and euenso followeth-after nothing-els but his owne Goodthinking or Opinion 13. But if now wee desire to applye ourselues vprightlie / to the Woord of the Lorde / and to his Seruice of Loue / so shall wee not then deale in such-sort but wee shall first â in the Seruice of the Woord shewe faithfull Obedience Not â verelie after our owne Counsell and Will / nor yet n Deut. 12. b. 29. c. as wee thinke-good â–ª but euen as thesame is set-fourth vnto vs / by the Elders / and Ministers of the Woord And if ther then com vnto vs / in the Obedience of the Woord â according to the Doctrine and Requiring of the Woord any Ioy and Life of Righteousnes and that likewise the Woord / be planted in vs with 〈…〉 Humilitie / so receaueth then the Woord â with his Doctrine / and with our Obedience the Fore-going to the Life / in vs. For in so dooing / and â ther-to geeuing-care vnto the Elders of the holy Vnderstanding / wee do not assume or take-on thesame vnto vs but wee thanke the Lorde for his Grace / and thinke 14. O God / this Ioye / is thy Ioye and thou lettest thesame com vnto Mee / from thy Grace And if thou let thesame remaine with mee â O Lorde so thanke I thee for thesame and if thou take thesame againe from mee / so will I yet neuerthelesse geeue thee thankes Thy p Math. 6. b. 26. c. Luk. 22. c. Will. be don / and not myne For to thy Will â O Lorde I haue a Lust. 15. HOwbeit / if the Sinne oppresse or torment vs or if wee feele in our Inward-parted / any harde Buffettes / or great Sorrowe / yet shall wee not then seeke out of ourselues / to doo thus or so / for to becom released â without the Requiring of the Woorde / or Counsell of the Elders from thesame like as the Man in his taken-on Zeale / oftentimes doth but wee shall sett it all / in the Pacience / and com-thorowe thesame / according to the Counsell of the Elders For / how-much the-more y â— Man seeketh with his owne Counsell / to doo thus or so / or to be released heerthrough or therthrough / so-much the-faster becometh hee bound on his vaine Beeing and Purpose 16. For when-as the Man bindeth himself on his owne Purpose / so bindeth hee himself so-much the-stronger on the Imagination of his Knowledg and laboureth euenso therwith / for to becom free The which cannot com so to-passe but very-well / in the Pacience / and in the Obedience of y â— Woord / euen as ther iâ— saide 17. BVt â oh alas now hath the Man al-to-little mind to this Pacience and Obedience but hee insueth so gladly the Imagination of his Knowledg / which driueth him much-more to doo or-els to resist som-thing / according to his owne Will / for to be there-in dilligent seeing thaâ— the Mindes of his goodthinking Knowledg â without the Requiring of the Woorde are inclyned ther-vnto then to seeke-after the vpright q Ephe. 4. â— Righteousnes and Holynes of the inward Man / which God regardeth / and wherthrough Men mought liue and r Rom. 12. â— Ephe. 4. â— deale-together among each-other vprightlie and peaceablie / in all Concorde and Loue. 18. And heere-through it chaunceth oftentimes / that the Imagination of the Knowledg for that-men therthrough / are driuen to somwhat that hath a 2. Tim. â— â— Shew of Righteousnes is looked-on and beleeued / for an Inspiration or Inspeaking of God and that the Man is driuen to doo thus or so / or-els to resist this or that Wherthrough then also / the Mans Goodthinking and his Câ—l 2. b. Election wherwith the Man seduceth himself / and other-moe which credit him getteth the Foregoing by the Man· and not / the Obedience of the Woord And therfore is the Imagination of his Knowledg / a great Hinderaunce or Lett vnto him / for to com to the vpright Beeing 19. For ther shall noman attaine to the vpright Beeing / but through the Obedience of the Woord / in the Beleef of Iesu Christ and so to v 〈◊〉 5. b. shew-fourth Pacience therin And although that the Man feeleth / that the Sinne oppresseth him â or that the Dryuing of his Minde / tormenteth him / or that hee feele an euell Minde against his good Minde yet shall hee neuerthelesse holde himself on the Pacience / in all Humilitie and Lowlynes of his Heart and Minde / and thinke in his Heart 20. O God! Forasmuch then as it is thy Will and Ordinaunce / that I must be thus purged in the Abaseing· and in the Obedience vnto thy gracious Woord and the Ministers of thesame / so will I therfore â O God geeue-ouer my-self goodwillinglie ther-to Thy Will be don For to doo thy x Psal. 40. b. Heb. 10. b. Will / therto â O God haue I a Lust. 21. When now the Man / standeth so minded to the Lordes Will / and to his Righteousnes and sheweth-fourth Pacience / in Prisonment / in Vexation / in Ioy / in Sorrowe / and in all whatsoeuer chaunceth to meete him / in the Obedience of the Woord and his Seruice of Loue and euenso perseuereth therin stedfastly / So shall hee then well obtaine the vpright Righteousnes / and y 2. Coâ— â— d. liue vprightlie in thesame / both before God and Men. 22. For when-as the Man hath thus â thorough Faith in the lyke Obedience and Pacience of our Lord Iesu Christ / vanquished all his Enemies of the Life then shall likewise verely z Iam. â— b. the Crowne of the eternall Life be brought vnto him / by the Lorde Iesus Christ. 23. Therfore shall wee also daylie â in the Obedience of the Woorde / and in the Following of his Requiring Math. 1â— Luk. 9. take-vpp our Crosse against y â— Euell / vntill such time as the Sinne
be subdued and vtterlie-destroyed / That wee may then euenso bring vnto the Lorde / a Ioyful-offering· and liue with the Lorde euerlastinglie The XV. Chapiter â—her is demaunded / Who be the right Disciples of the Wâ—ord / and after what sort then stand also at what time / that anyone is a right Disciple of the Woord And thervnto is answered by HN and certen Instructions are declared theron / liâ—e as heer-after followeth VErelie / ther are very Fewe / that are right Disciples of the Woord For I say vnto you trulie / that they are not all Disciples of the Woord / which heare the Testimonies of the Woord / nor which reade thesame / and speake therof Nether-yet also com they all into the Schoole of the Loue of Iesu Christ wherin they ought whollie to geeue-ouer themselues / vnto the Woord and his Seruice of Loue for to be instructed by their Elder and Minister of the Woord / to the Requiring and Accomplishing of the Woord· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauen / which speake much good of the Woord As that the Woord and his Doctrine / is right / and that-men are directed and infourmed by thesame / to the Life of Righteousnes But Those which through the Ministration of the Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / are touched â by y â— Lordes Grace in their Inwardnes and to whom it is likewise graunted to see-into or to knowe their Sinnes and their Estraunging from God and his Christ and which also then a Math. 3. Luk. 3. beare-sorrowe for their Sinnes / confesse thesame before their Elder in the holye Vnderstanding / and whollie geeue-ouer themselues â for to be obedient vnto the Doctrine of the Woord and Seruice of Loue and euenso vtterly b 2. Cor. 6. c. depart out of all that which they â in their olde and corrupted Vnderstanding haue liued-in / and seperate themselues therfrom / for c 1. Cor. 4. d. Phil. 3. c. to insue â with all their Heart and Minde the Doctrine of the Woord / and the Ministers of thesame / obedientlie / and that they mought be d Iam. 1. c. Fulfillers of the Woord / and not Hearers alone and so then to perseuer firme therin / till vnto the new e Iohn 3. a. Birth in Iesu Christ which is in vs the Fulfilling of the Woorde· and the vpright Life itself 2. BEholde / Those or Such â which so geeue-ouer themselues whollie / to the Requiring of the gracious Woord / and are admitted thervnto / by their Elder in y â— holie Vnderstanding / and Minister of the gracious Woorde / and perseuer firmlie therin are verely the right Disciples of the Woord and looke-into the Woord a-right / according to his Excellencie And therfore seeing that y â— gracious Woord of the Lorde / is the most-best and worthyest Good they loue thesame aboue all what is on the Earth / or that cleaueth vnto them 3. For verelie / thesame Woorde / which is This-daye administred â through the holie Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ vnto vs / and set-fourth out of the Seruice of Loue / is well worthy to be loued / aboue all what is vpon the Earth / as also for the loues-cause therof / to f Luk. 14. d. forsake all that is vpon the Earth For it is the true Christ which was preached in times-past vnto the World / to Repentaunce / and to a Safe-making of them from their Sinnes / as also to a tocoming righteous Iudge and which is also presentlie com vnto vs â to a Fulfilling of the former Preaching out of Heauen / from y â— Right-hand of God his Father / for to iudg g Act. 10. c. 2. Tim. 4. â— 1. Pet. 4. b. ouer Liuing and Dead / and h Act. 3. to restore it all / what God hath spoken â through the Mouth of his holie Propheates from the Begining of the World hetherto / euen-as ther is writen therof 4. Where now this Woord hath his Incorporating / and floweth-fourth againe seruiceablie from thesame / therin hath Christ his i Gal. 4. c. Shape / liuinglie and the perfect Godhead / in thesame Christ. Out of whom / the Ministration of the Woord cometh vprightlie to passe and they witnes in their Ministration / the appeered Grace that cometh vnto all repentant Sinners / in the Obedience of the Woord / together with the Declaring of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / which they inherit in the euerlasting Life And That is the Daye which God k Act. 17. â— hath appointed / for to iudg in thesame / the Compasse of the Earth with Righteousnes / through his Woord / in whom / Hee hath concluded his Iudgment 5. So many now as ther are / which heare the Testimonies of the Woord / and to whom ther is graunted through the Ministration of those-same / to see-into their Estraunging from Christ and whose Sinnes are made-knowen vnto them / Among those verely / the l Tiâ— 2. b. Grace of the Lorde is appeered and they are euenso stirred-vp through the Woord / to m Act. 2. f. adioyne themselues to the Minister of the Woord / for to be instructed â by him out of the Woord / through the Woord / and in the Woord / to the vpright Frutes of n Math. 3. Luk. â— Repentaunce· taught to the Kingdom of the God of Heauen· and made Heyres in the spirituall and heauenlie Goods 6. But Those to whom the Grace of the Lorde / is in such-sort as ther is saide appeered / and yet will not make-manifest themselues before their Elder in the holie Vnderstanding / and Minister of the gracious Woord / nor shewe any Sorrowe before him / for their Sinnes nor-yet make any Confession therof / for to becom instructed â as Disciples of the Woorde to the right Frutes of Repentaunce but chuse or take-on a Life vnto themselues / according to the Goodthinking of their Knowledg and so knowe then â out of their Knowledg how to prate much of the Woord and Life Verelie / Those that so followe their Goodthinking / are no Disciples of the Woord / nether-yet do they followe the Doctrine of the Ministers of the Woord But they themselues take-on the Foregoing / with their Knowledg and Goodthinking / before the Woord / and wrest and interpret the Woord / according to their Heartes o Deu. 12. â— Goodthinking / and not according to the Requiring of thesame 7. For in dooing so / they followe not the Requiring of the Woord / nor the Doctrine of the Eldest in the Seruice of the Woord and of his Loue but they exalt themselues aboue the Woord and his Seruice and euenso presume to set-vp themselues / to Iudges of the Woord / and to Aduersaries or Invayers against the Ministers of thesame And lay or shutt-vp the Grace of the Lorde â which is appeered vnto them to Repentaunce in their Prison or Subiection / and kill
of his Seruice of Loue / for to bring-fourth the good Frutes b Iohn 15. a. Col. 1. a. of the Woorde And They that doo not / nor-yet will doo or shewe-fourth any such Expressing of Good-willingnes / to the Requiring of the Woord but liue altogether according to y â— Counsell and Will of their c Deut. 12. b. Good-thinking / and turne them away from our Doctrine 4. Whosoeuer then are vtterlye vnwilling to the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / according to the Doctrine and Ordinaunce of the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue and which will not make-manifest themselues and their whole Heart / Dealing / and Inclination / by the Elders in the Familie of Loue / shewe-fourth no Repentaunce for their Sinnes / nor geeue-ouer / nor-yet will geeue-ouer themselues for to be obedient nether-yet do fauour the gracious Woord in his Seruice of Loue / nor stand to maintaine thesame or which holde not themselues stedfastlie / by the gracious Woorde and the Ministers of thesame but make Breach / and bring-in Discord / With all Those â although they wist neuer-so-well to talke much of the Woord and of the Loue yee shall not â as with Fellowe-disciples of y â— Woorde communicate in the Schoole-rule of the christian Ordinaunce of the Familie of Loue Notwithstanding yee maye well exhort them / that they applye themselues to the Obedience of y â— Requiring of the Woorde / and whollie geeue-ouer themselues to the Entraâ—nce of the Doctrine and Requiring of the Seruice of Loue. 5. For so longe as Those which reade or heare our Writinges / do not humble themselues / for to becom implanted obedientlie into the gracious Woord and the Doctrine of his Requiring / d Rom. 12. â— 1. Cor. 1â— c. to Fellowe-members in the Bodie of Iesu Christ. but turne-away themselues therfrom and that also the Entraunce to our Communialtie and Seruice of Loue / taketh-not-effect nor is consented-vnto by them / according to the Requiring of the gracious Woorde / So are These â although they bring-fourth much Knowledge of the Woord / and set-vp a Doctrine of their owne / according to their Heartes Good-thinking not yeat becom any Disciples nor Subiectes of the Woord / nor-yet any Fellowe-members of the Bodie of Christ nor of his Familie of Loue / nether-yet also any Fellowe-bretheren with vs / in the Testamentes of God and the holie Fathers 6. SEeing then that the gracious Woorde / in his Seruice of Loue / is our e Gen. â— b. Pro. â— b. Tree or Stocke of Life / and that yee â which haue geeuen-ouer yourselues to the Requiring of the Woorde / and to the Doctrine of his Seruice are implanted to thesame Tree or Stocke / for to bring-fourth ther-out good Frutes of the Life / So are then also in 〈◊〉 all they that are implanted to thesame Tree â for to bring-fourth ther-out the good Fruteâ— of the Life your Fellowe-braunches f Rom. 11. â— in thesame Tree And not any Other 7. And euenso in that part / yee all which are implanted to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / for to be obedient / are also y â— vpright Members of the onlie Bodie of Christ and vpright Neighbours with each-other / which stand seruiceable one towardes an-other / to Fruitfulnes of the good Frutes of the vpright Life 8. Whosoeuer now therfore are incorporated into thâ— gracious Woord of the Life and his Seruice of Loue / to the Fulfilling of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine / those shall also haue a good Will / to bring-fourth the good g Iohn 15. a. Col. 1. a. Frutes of the Life ther-out / and reioyce them that they finde men seruiceable vnto them therto / and that warne them of the Destruction 9. But verelie / Such as byde without the Entraunce of the first Schoole-rule of y â— christian Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / and euenso adioyne them in Hypocrisie or Couerednes â as with Any-seeking of their Self nes / or of their owne Life or Lust vnto the Woord or Seruice of Loue / and so reade or heare the Testimonies and Writinges of the Woorde and then with their Knowledg / runne off and on / from the Woorde and his Seruice / or-els besydes thesame / go-fourth according to their olde corrupted Vnderstanding or Good-thinking / and haue nether Lust nor Will to y â— Requiring of the Woord and his Seruice / Those shall not be exhorted nor instructed any farder / then to the h Heb. 10. d. Entraunce of the first Schoole-rule of y â— gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue. That is / to make-manifest their whole Heart by their Elder in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ. to shewe-fourth Repentaunce for i Act. 2. f. their Sinnes and to geeue-ouer themselues obedientlie / to the Doctrine Requiring of the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue and euenso to warne them no farder / but of y e DestructioÌ„ / which hangeth ouer Them that byde therwith-out / or turne them away therfrom 10. If they now take thesame Exhortation and Warning to heart / and loue the Godlynes / in the good Life / so shall they then also applye themselues goodwillinglie to y e Entraunce of the k Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. f. first School-rule of the Woord / and let them be implanted â to Obedience into the gracious Woord his Seruice of Loue / for to bring-fourth euenso ther-out / the good Frutes of the Life But if not / so shall they then 〈◊〉 them away therfrom / euenso â through their Disobedience and Vnwillingnes to the Entraunce of the SanctificatioÌ„ of y e Holyons of God prepare themselues to Vessels of the Wrath of God / and l Math. 25. d. plucke or bring vpon themselues y e Sentence of their Condemnation 11. For they that are so goodthinking-wyse by themselues / that they for-that-cause turne them away from vs 〈◊〉 euenso refuse / to becom implanted with vs / 〈◊〉 the gracious Woorde and his Doctrine / Those-same â when one requireth them therto do all commonlie turne them away / from the Seruice of the Woorde / and from Those that require of them / the Obedience of the Woord Yea they becom also â by that meanes farre-worse then before / and are turned-about to Blaspheamers of the Woorde and of the Elders in the Communialtie of the Loue and of m Leui. 10. Num. 16. 2. Tim. 3. â— such take yee good-heede / to th end that yee becom not partakers of their Destruction And if they will not by any-meanes enter â with you at the right Doore n Iohn 10. â— of the Sheepe-folde of Iesu Christ but chuse them an other Way / to breake-in vnto you / or that they likewise turne them away from vs Elders· and from our Ministration of the Woord and Requiring of the
Seruice of Loue / so turne you then also away from them / and let them then hardelie / depart from you For they are not of o Iohn 10. c. the Sheepe of Christ or Familie of his Loue / much-lesse / Pastours or Heardmen of the Sheepe and the gracious Woorde of the Lorde / in his seruiceable flowen-fourth Waters or Documentes / together with the Ministration of those-same / and the Ordinaunce of the Elders according to the Requiring of y â— Woord and his Seruice of Loue / is also vtterly â in all against the Minde of their Opinion / and goodthinking Knowledge For-that-cause also they murmure so-much the-sooner / and wax-offended at the One or at the Other / and so make an occasion / to depart from vs / and to withdrawe them from the Obedience of the Requiring of the Seruice of the Loue of Iesu Christ. 12. Of those / and of such-like / Sainct Iohn hath also spoken in his Epistle p 1. Iohn â— d. They are gon-away from vs / but they were not of vs for had they ben of vs / so should they no-doubt haue bidden by vs but they must becoÌ„ manifest / that they are not of vs. 13. If any man then depart from vs / or turne him away from vs and from the godlie Obedience of the Woord and of the Requiring of his Seruice of Loue or that any-man do cleaue to the Opinion of Those which are declyned from vs and our godlie Doctrine / and euenso becometh an Enemie towardes vs and our Doctrine / or a Blaspheamer / or Betrayer / and so waxeth more-euell against the Good that is shewed on him / or taketh all thesame to the worst / and interpreteth it in the euelst-part / Such-a-one verelie / was neuer rightlie adioyned nor implanted to y â— gracious Woord nor his Seruice of Loue nether is hee also lighted by the Lord nor-yet can hee â out of his malitious Heart / nor out of his goodthinking Knowledg q Ieâ— 8. b. witnes any-thing-at-all of the Trueth of the Life 14. And all Those which haue their Fourth-going with such wicked or of-sundred Mindes / and will â in no-case any better / and so long as they rest of that minde / they are assuredlie not worthy of the Exhortation of Discipline / to their Preseruation· nor of the Warning from their Destruction For / through the Ignoraunce which is yeat in them / and through the Good-thinking which hath captiued them / they will not nether can they by any-meanes suffer / that the Loue or the Mercie should be shewed on them / or that-men should deale graciouslie â to their Attonement with God and his Woorde / nor to Vnitie of the Heart in the Seruice of the Loue towardes them but they frowne and byte at you· or-els they deride and ieast-at you / when-as yee are seruiceable vnto them to the Good and shewe therin their Lust to your Destruction / or their Lust standeth bent / to bring Vs Ø›the Ministers of the Woorde to reproch· and that they mought seduce r Rom. 16. â— and estraunge you from y e Woord / and from the Obedience of his Doctrine 15. But take not yee in any-case offence at any of all those or such-like but suffer or Ephe. 4. c. beare-with them in their Ignoraunce For seeing that they are not entred-in with vs to the Begining of the Christian Life and that they haue not any Lust to the Newe Birth in Iesus Christ nor to the Loue of the holie Spirit / nor-yet humble them obedientlie to the graâ—ious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / so is not surâ—lie their Nature any otherwise 16. Moreouer / iudge them not / nor yet publish-abrode their Sinnes / ouer them for they themselues bring-fourth their owne Iudgment with them And seeing that they are vnwilling to the gracious Woorde and the Doctrine of his Seruice / and resist the Grace of thesame / which is proffered them is a Leading-in to the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / so do they themselues make-manifest sufficientlie / their owne Sinnes and Errours / that they are iustlie giltie of the Condemnation 17. Therfore let noman take-in-hande / to teach such â iâ— their Vnwillingnes to the Kingdom of Heauen or inwarde spirituall Man of God but geeue them ouer or leaue them to the Lorde / and his righteous Iudgment with his Holyons For in thesame Iudgment / eueryone shall â t Math. 25. d. Rom. 14. b. 2. Cor. 5. b. according to his Woorkes or Dooinges receaue his iust Iudgment / and his right Recompence 18. But yee all which are entred with vs into the v Math. 3. 7. Luk. 3. 1â— Act. 3. c. first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / and cleaue vnto the gracious Woord and the Doctrine of his Requiring / with all your Heart / to Obedience / Vse yee among each-other â as concordable Bretheren and Sisters in the Loue of our Lorde Iesu Christ your x 1. Tess. 5. b. Heb. 3. 10. d. Exhortation / to one-an-others Preseruatiō· and your Warning / from one-an-others Destruction y Ephe. 4. â— and growe-vp euenso â— with the Woord / and in the Woord in all Loue and Godlynes and haue not much Prate or Disputation with the Straungers / nor with them that fall-away from the Seruice of Loue / nor with the Vnwillingons and Resisters Let euery-one take this effectuallie to heart The XVII Chapiter Ther is demaunded Which is the Destruction / wherof the Etraungers to the Howsholde or Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / are to be warned and which is also the Destruction / that the Disciples of the Woorde and the vpright Brothers in the Loue of Iesu Christ / are deptours to warne one-an-other of And thervnto is answered by HN and saide VErelie / of the Destruction of ether-other of these Two / wee haue 〈◊〉 3. 1â— 19. 1. Gla. 4. 2. Gla. 7. 21. 3. Gla. â— 4. Gla. 1. c. witnessed and setfourth very-much in all our Writinges / were it but vnderstanded or comprehended a-right Neuerthelesse / seeing that ther is yet presentlie farder demaunded therof / wee will to th ende that eueryone may take the Admonition â in hauing the greater regarde thervnto so-much the more or better to heart vtter or declare-fourth with vncouered Woordes / the principall Head-pointes of both their Destructions 2. The Destruction of the Straungers to the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ wher-through they if one warned them not therof / or if they â when they are warned turne them not about / for to be obedient to the Doctrine and Requiring of the gracious Woord of the Lorde and of his Seruice of Loue should vtterlie perrish / and inherit the eternall Condemnation or Bannishment / is this 3. First / they should all / which holde themselues â—s Straungers vnto the Doctrine and Requiring of the Obedience of the gracious
Woord and of his Seruice of Loue â if one warned them not of their Destruction â—ide alwayes â with their Darknes or b â— Cor. 3. d. Couering of the olde Man vtterlie couered or seperated / from the Face of the liuing God of Heauen and of his Christ which is presentlie in the last time â through God-his Grace appeered vnto vs in naked vncouered Cleernes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue of Iesu Christ· and declared with the Fulnes of his Grace and Mercie and which also / all Disciples of the Woorde â in the c Ephe. 4. c. Laying-away of the Coueringes of the olde Man shall in like-maner beholde naked and vncouered / as d 1. Cor. 13. c. 2. Cor. 3. b. from Face to Face / in the essentiall Cleernes of God and Christ. 4. Secondlie / they should through their herited Birth of the olde Man and of his corrupted Vnderstanding if that they be not borne first / out of the e Iohn 3. â— Water or Doctrine of the gracious Woorde and of his Seruice of Loue / euen vntill the f Rom. 6. b. c. Death and Buryall of Iesu Christ to the Slaying and Burying of the olde Man / and of his corrupted Vnderstanding / Lust / and Desyres and that they be not euenso then borne againe / out of the Spirit of the gracious Woord / euen vnto y â— vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ fall into manifolde Errours and Seducinges / and vtterlie perrish therin 5. Thirdlie / they should also â if they be not whollie withdrawen froÌ„ the Woorkes and Lustes of g Ephe. 4. b. â— the olde Man· and euenso taught prepared to the New Birth in Iesu Christ bide alwayes Members of the Deuell and his vngodlie Beeing â–ª and minded to all Destruction and Errour / and obtaine no h Iohn 13. a. Part nor Inheritaunce in the holie Bodie of our Lorde Iesus Christ nor in the Kingdom i Math. 13. â— of Heauen nor yet likewise in any Treasures of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods 6. Fourthlie / they should if they be not â to the Mortifying and Burying of all vngodlie Beeing implanted k Rom. 6. into the gracious Woord or Bodie of Iesu Christ bide euermore in Errour / with-out the gracious Woorde or Bodie of Iesu Christ and not be driuen or directed any otherwise / then by the Spirites of Errours· and taught by the many-maner l 3. Reg. 22. c. Spirites of Lyes whether it were then to false Spiritualnes / Doctrine / or Religion or-els to the Disorderlynes or Iniquitie of the Worlde and should likewise also for-that-cause-sake / not be able to vnderstand knowe nor obtayne or receaue / the holie Spirit of God and of the Trueth or Christ nor-yet feele or perceaue anythinge-at-all therof nether-yet of the Grace of the Lorde / how large thesame reacheth ouer the Children of Men / or how neere-by it is vnto them 7. Verelie / all these Straungers vnto the Familie and Seruice of the Loue / or Such as go-fourth according to their Good-thinking / stand comprehended or are bewrapped in a great Destruction and whoso maketh thesame knowen vnto them / and so warneth them therof / er-euer y e great Destruction take them cleene awaye and destroye them / in their Errour and Estraunging / hee doth very-well / and sheweth a great Good-deede of Loue and Mercie towardes his Neighbour And if they then conuert them to the gracious Woord of the Lorde / and to the Doctrine of his Seruice make Confession of their Sinnes and m Luk. 13. b. shewe-fourth Repentaunce / So shall then their Soules be wonne to the eternall Life· and to the euerlasting Preseruation in the Godlynes 8. BVt the Destruction / wherof the Disciples of the gracious Woord / and the Brothers and Sisters in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / shall warne one-an-other / is this â–ª 9. If it chaunce that any of the Disciples of the Woord / or of the Bretheren or Sisters in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / should â without the Doctrine or Requiring of the Woord and his Seruice fall into any Good-thinking / or into any-sort of Dealing / contrary to the Doctrine or Requiring of the Woorde and his Seruice whether it were then out of himself / or-els through any Straungers or Offallenons or that they should be assaulted / for to turne them away from the n 2. Cor. 11. â— Singlemindednes of Life which wee haue in the gracious Woord wherin yee are also taught and exercised aright to thesame Singlemindednes so shal-men then warne those of the Destruction / which is witnessed heere-following And if they then take not to heart the Warning for y â— auoyding of their Destruction but turne-away themselues from the Woorde and from the Doctrine of his Seruice / through the Assaulting or Temptation which meeteth them to that effect / and marre or depraue themselues againe in any Good-thinking and Self-wisdom· or in any brutish or worldlie Beeing / and euenso estraunge them from the good Doctrine of the Woord / so should then thesame verelie chaunce vnto them / to a damaigefull Destruction 10. For first / ther should â by that occasion a Couering of the Wrath of God / enter-in betwixt them and God / and the Doctrine of his gracious Woord in such-sort / that they should not be able to heare nor vnderstand / o Esa. 6. c. Math. 13. b. Act. 28. c. what God requireth through his gracious Woord Seruice of Loue. Of this Destruction heer mentioned / shall the Disciples of the Word warne one-an-other to thend that the-lâ—ke com not vpoÌ„ them 11. Secondlie / their Good-thinking or their Pleasure in the Fleash or in the carthlie Thinges / should also estraunge them from the pure Bewtie of the heauenlie Beeing / and so bring them into greater Errour of Destruction / then that wherin they walked before 12. Thirdlie / their Errour should â through their Pleasure in thesame incorporate them againe much faster and stronger â to pernitious Members of the Deuell into the Deuell and his vngodlie Beeing / then they to-fore were incorporated into him 13. One should in like-maner much lesse or worsser / be able to make them to knowe their Errour and Destruction / for to ridde them therout / then in times-past / when-as they yeat stoode in their first Blindnes or Errour 14. Fourthlie / they should also through the Incorporating-againe into the Deuell / and through their Addicting of them to the earthlie consumeable Thinges / be driuen by the wicked Spirit of the good-thinking earthlie fleashlie and deuelish Beeing / in greater Presumption with more Freenes / into the Falshod / against God and his holie Spirit and Seruice of Loue / then hee had driuen them in times-past And that altogether / to cause them to invay or be against the good Doctrine of the Woord and the Ministration of thesame yea /
and to a plucking of the Destruction ouer themselues / and also ouer other moe 15. Thissame is verely the Destruction / of the which all the Disciples of the Woorde and of the Doctrine of his Seruice· and all Bretheren and Sisters in the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / shall warne one-an-other And for that cause â for to bide kept from thesame Destruction let eueryone applye himself so-much the dilligenter to the Doctrine and Requiring of the Woord / and so-much the heartelyer exhort one-an-other to bide stedfast in the Doctrine and Requiring of the Woord / euen to the Ende The XVIII Chapiter Ther is demaunded / how the vpright Bretheren shall behaue themselues / towardes Such as also go-fourth as Bretheren / and haue gotten and read som part of the Writinges of the Familie of the Loue of Iesu Christ / and yet will not make-manifest themselues â for to be incorporated into the Communialtie of thesame Familie of the Loue by the Elders but runne hetheâ—-and-thether with the Writinges or with the Knowledge out of thesame / among the Bretheren / and among other moe / for to teach them / with their Knowledge / or to pluck them to the Knowledge of their Minde And thervnto is answered by HN and sayde VErelye / Then that com-on vnto you / without the Ordinaunce and Requiring of the gracious Woord and of his Seruice of Loue / bring-in nothing-els but Breach / Diuision / and Offence / a Rom. 16. c. besydes the good Doctrine which is taught you to the Entraunce of the vpright Life and also besydes the good Doctrine which becometh yeat daylie taught vnto you / to b Ephe. 4. b. the Growing-vpp in the holie Vnderstanding of the Godlynes of the holie Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ. 2. Oh alas / ouer those wee haue to lament vs very-much for They are the c 2. Gla. 23. b c 4. Gla. 23. c. false Bretheren / which euery-wheare slip-in â with their goodthinking Knowledge besydes the good Doctrine of the gracious Woord and of his vpright Seruice / and enter not in by the right d Iohn 10. Doore of the Sheep-folde / to the Sheepe of Christ or of the Familie of his Loue / nor by the right Entraunce to the e Iohn â— a. New Birth in Iesu Christ but breakâ—-in thorowe som other waye / and euenso seeke their owne priuate Commoditie and the Honour of themselues / at Mens handes / and not the Saluation of Men and for their owne Ease and Peaces cause in the Fleash / they knowe also well how to holde themselues â after y â— Aspect or Pleasing of Men / and according to the Measuring-fourth of their Knowledge as Teachers and f 2. Cor. 11. c. Appostles of the Woord they knowe also somtymes how to prate talke at-large of high heauenlie Mattiers / which yet they haue neuer seene / but haue taken-on such a Knowledge therof to themselues Howbeit / they desire not to make-manifest the Vncleannes of their Heartes / nor-yet â in Repentaunce for their Sinnes to be purged ther-of but they cloke or couer thesame / and yet will neuerthelesse â with their vncleane vngodlie Heartes esteeme themselues to be â—â—â—uall with the Righteous 3. Of which / and ouer which / the vpright Propheates / Teachers / and Appostles of the Woord / haue euer very-sore complayned them / that g Esa. 2â— 56. d. Ier. 14. c. 23. a c. d. 50. b. c. Eze. 13. 34. Oze 4. 5. 9. b Iohn 10. a. Rom. 16. c. 2. Cor. 11. â— 2. Tess. 3. a. b. 2. Tim. 3. a. Tit. 1. c. 2. Pet. 2. a. c. such false Bretheren Teachers / knowe how to breake-in alwayes so subtillie / betweene the vpright Doctrine of the holie Woord and the singlemynded Bretheren yea and also obtaine the greatest Estimation among Manye / and drawe likewise many Vnfaithfull vnto them But they themselues bring therin y â— Sentence of their Punishment with them / wherin both they and such as followe them â in their Errour Fourth-going destroye themselues / like as the holie Propheates and Appostles of the holie Woord / haue figured-fourth and witnessed their Iudgment / Punishment / and Destruction· together with their Falshod and Seducing / in manye Places of the holie Scripture and warned all goodwilling Heartes to the vpright Righteousnes / of them and of such-like· and of their Destruction 4. And wee ourselues also haue mentioned the-like in many of our h 2. Gla. 23. b. 4. Gla. 23. c. Writinges / to th ende that now likewise / in this perrelous Time wherin all Falshod / Seducing / and Deceipt â to the Destruction of Men beareth so great sway eueryone which â vnder the Obedience of the Loue loueth the Righteousnes with vs / should be warned of the Falshod and Deceipt of the false Bretheren· and of Such as take vpon them out of themselues / to administer any Doctrine â besydes the Doctrine of the gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue vnto anyone and also of them / which turne-away themselues from Vs and from the Woorde· and from our mostholie Seruice of the Loue / and can yet neuerthelesse highlie and at large prate of the Woord and the Loue. But they themselues enter not into the Begining of the christian Doctrine of the Seruice of the Woorde· nor into the vpright Beeing of the Loue nether-yet also indeuour them ther-vnto / to passe-thorowe the i Luk. 13. c. small Waye / which leadeth to the Life of the k Ephe. 4. c. vpright Righteousnes 5. And therfore / to th ende that now in this perrelous Time / the right Entraunce to the vpright Righteousnes / mought be the-lightlier knowen· and the Deceipt of the false Bretheren â which enter not into thesame the-better eschewed and that they mought be preserued therfrom / So is presentlie in this Daye â through the gracious Woord and his Seruice of Loue the right l Iohn 10. Doore of the Sheep-folde of the vpright Sheepe or Bretheren of the Familie of Loue / or the right Entraunce to the Newe Birth in Iesu Christ â wher-thorowe all vpright Sheepe / Teachers / and Appostles of the holie Woord do enter-in / to the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and his Loue figured-fourth and expressed distinctlie and nakedlie vnto vs / with-out the which / all Vnbeleeuers of the Woord / and all Hypocrites and false Bretheren / with all false Teachers or Appostles / byde-remayning and haue not any lust / to go thorowe thesame 6. And although they dissembled neuer so-much / as pretending to go therin or ther-thorowe with you / yet can they not â if they in the Obedience of the Requiring of our mostholie Seruice of y â— Loue / loue not with all their Heart the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ perseuer therin to the Ende / that they mought be saued but they turne them away / ether to the right Syde or to the