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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

this Heaven wherein God dwells is not manifest in the outward Complexion but only in it self viz. in the second Principle It oft happens that the holiest Souls are in this manner overwhelmed with Sadness and this not without Gods special permission to the end they may be proved and strive the more earnestly after that heavenly Crown of Victory which is given them in this Life as a pledge of their everlasting Felicity For when the Soul takes Heaven as it were by Storm and wins her Crown the Gift of the holy Ghost after a constant persevering stedfastness in the fiery Conflict her Crown of triumph is much more noble and pretious then that which is not obtained till after the bodily Death for the Revelation of Jesus Christ saith To him that overcomes will I give to sit with me upon my Throne as I have overcome and am seated on my Father's Throne Therefore let no man thus tormented with anguish imagin with himself in the assaults of the Complexion that it ●…mes from God's wrath and want of mercy in him which is a meer sancy of his own Complexion in the Stars For we ●…ell see that the vilest ●…atted Swine of the Devil's herd that wallow and bath themselves day and night in the filth of Sin are not so full of Sadness not so assaulted with this kind of Temptations the reason is because they have an outward light in the Complexion wherein they dance before the Devil in an Angels likeness So as long as there is but one little spark of Light glimmering in a man's Heart which ●…s God's Grace and would gladly pertake of Salvation the Door of Gods Grace stands yet open For he who is given over by God whose Sin is come to the full measure he is not at all soli●…ous after God Man or Devil but is stone-blind runs on carelesly in a course of lightness without fear ●…s himself upon a customary practice of some outward Service of God goes a Beast into the Sanctury and com●… again a Beast out there is in him no true divine knowledge but all his Religion is a meer outward Custom and Chimarea of man's Brain which he sets up to himself as an Idol and imbraces it as his Holiness The sorrowful Soul troubles and torments it self because it cannot presently in the point of its des●…re dig up in it self the Fountain o●… the greatest Joy it sighs and bewails its sa●… condition thinks God will have none of it when it cannot palpably feel his presence it sees other men that walk along with it in God's fear that yet are cheer●…ul enough and supposing this cheerfulness of theirs proceeds only from a divin●… Fountain of Love and Light in their Souls is concei●…ed that 〈◊〉 is not accepted with God but rather rejec●…d by him because 〈◊〉 doth no●… presently upon its Conversion which it expected feel in its Heart the like comfortable effects of the refreshing presence of God. Before the time of m●… enlightning it went even thus with me I stood out a hard conflict before I obtained my precious Crown of Victory and then did I first learn out this experimental knowledge th●…t God dwells not in the outward fl●…shly Heart but in the Soul's centre in himself then was I also first aware of it that ' 〈◊〉 God which had laid hold on me and drawn me to him in my first desire which before I was ignorant of thinking the good desire had been my own Property and th●… God was indeed far from me But afterw●…rds I saw him and rejoyced at the unspeakable Grace and Love of God and now write the same for a Caveat that they by no means fain●… or di●…ir when the Comfor●… del●…ys his coming but rather think of that of Davi●… Heaviness may endure for a Night but Joy cometh in the Morning Have a cer●…ain assured con●…idence upon Gods promise and however thy mis-giving Heart say No yet let not this asfright thee For to believe is not to be filled with Joy in the fles●…ly Heart and outwar●… Complexion that the fleshly mind and spirit be so jocond that the very Heart and R●…ins leap fo●… joy this is not Faith but these are only some Love-em●…nations from the holy Ghost within a divine lightning which hath no s●…ability but after a short resplendance disappears For God dwells no●… in the outward Heart or Complexion but in himself in the second centre in the Jewel of the noble Image of God's likeness which is hidden in this outward world Dear Soul think no other when the anxious property of thy Complexion thus kindled by the Stars begins to move but that thou then stands as a Labourer in God's Vineyard thou must not stan●… idle but be working thou dost God ●…herein a great and very considerable piece of Service and t●…y labour is this th●…t thou overcome the Temptation by an unmoveable Faith however no comfort appear in the outward Heart to support it be not deceived 't is not Faith to give a●…nt to what I see and feel but this is Faith to trust the hi●…den Spirit and believe the truth of its words maugre all the Contradictions of blind Nature The Soul that 〈◊〉 lockt up in the dark Chamber of the Melancholy Complexion should not dwell long or scarce at all in Speculations about the wrath of God nor give it self much to solitude but rather spend its time in Godly Conferences For so the matter of those friendly and profitable yielding sufficient entertainment to the working Phansie 't is by this means handsomly diverted from its torturing Cogitations For no deep speculation is in this state prositable for it which seeing it cannot turn it to its health and comfort 't is better let it alone Also the Melancholy Mind should with great care avoid Drunkenness for when the Body thus loads it self with Drink then the earthly power of the Drink taketh the Complexion Chamber totally in then do●… the Soul with the Imagination to its great hurt feed upon the earthly Prop●…rty kindles its Fire therewith and rejoyceth for 〈◊〉 short time in it But when that man becometh sober again after his Drink then stands the poor Soul as most desolate and more then ever forsaken of God for it loses in the overflowing of th●… earthly Property the divine Imagination and Desire for th●… Spirit of God will not have his dwelling in the earthly Imagination I speak it as a most certain ●…ruth which I have 〈◊〉 well grounded knowledge of in the centre of Nature and deepest Principle of Life The Soul must be content to remain in Sorrow for a little time for while it sits contentedly in the House of Mourning it is not in the House of Sin. But alas what is it How soon will it be at liberty from its sorrowful Prison and have the victorious Crown of everlasting Joy set upon in Head O Eternity thy duration is of vast extent What is it for a Soul to be a small moment in sadness

Contents of the other six in which they work as the Life doth in the Flesh also it is a Food of the Fire where the Fire draweth Essence for its sustenance wherein it burneth and the seventh is the Kingdom of the divine Glory Not that the seventh Property is the Tincture but it is the Body of it the Power and Virtue of the Fire and Light is the Tincture in the substantial Body It is especially to be noted that alwayes the first and seventh Properties are accounted for one and the second and sixth also the third and fifth and the fourth is only the dividing mark or bound And yet all seven are but one the last is the Body of the first They are altogether only the manifestation of God according to Love and Anger Eternity and Time. In the Desire is the original of Darkness and in the Fire the eternal Unity is made manifest with the Light in the fiery Nature Out of the fiery Property and the property of the Light the Angels and Souls have their Original The Darkness becometh substantial in it self and the Light becometh also substantial in the fiery Desires these two make two Principles viz. God's anger in the darkness and God's love in the Light each of them worketh in it self and there is only such a difference between them as between Day and Night and yet both of them have but one only ground and the one is alwayes a cause of the other The visible World is the third Principle that is th●… third ground and beginning this is out-breathed out of the inward ground viz. out of both the first Principles and brought into the Nature and ●…orm of a Creature But according to the manifestation of the Trinity of God there are but three Properties of Nature the first is the Desire which belong●…th to God the ●…ather yet it is only a Spirit but in the seventh Property the Desire is substantial The second is the divine Power and Virtue and belongeth to God the Son in the second Property it is only a Spirit but in the sixth it is the substantial Power and Virtue The third belongeth to the holy Ghost and in the beginning of the third Property it is only a fiery Spirit but in the fifth Property the g eat Love is manifested therein Now these are the seven Properties in one only ground and all seven are equally Eternal without beginning none of them can be accounted the first second third or last but are equally Eternal We must represent this in a Typical way that it may be understood how the one is born of the other The ☿ Seven Forms of Spirits mentioned Revelations Chap. 1. 1. Dark World a Similitude of it is a Candle ♄ ☽ I. Harsh desiring will. ☿ ♃ II. Bitter or stinging ♂ ♀ III Anguish till the flash of Fire 2. Fire World a Similitude of it is the Fire of a Candle ☉ IV. Fire dark Fire light Fire 3. Light World a Similitude of it is the Light of a Candle ♀ ♂ V. Light or Love whence the VVater of Eternal Life floweth ♃ ☿ VI. Noise Sound Mercury ☽ ♄ VII Substance or Nature The first Principle The dark World or Fire of Wrath hence God the Father is called an angry zealous ●…eal us God and a con●…ming Fire The second Princple The Light World or Fire of Love hence God the Son the Word the Heart of God is called a loving and merciful God. The third Principle This World of four Elements which is produced out of the two inward VVorlds above said and is a Glass of them wherein Light and Darkness Good and Evil are mixt it is not Eternal but hath a beginning and an end Of God the Father Son and holy Ghost WHen we consider the whole Nature and its Property then we see the Father When we behold 〈◊〉 and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom So many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are incomprehensible to Reason so manisold and various is the Power and ●…Visdom of God the Father If a man would liken the Father to any thing he should liken him to the round Globe of Heaven Thou must not conceive here that the very Power which is in the Father standeth in a peculiar severed part or place in the Father as 〈◊〉 Stars do in Heaven No but the Spirit sheweth that all t●…e Powers in the Father are one in another as one Power VVhen I think with my self what is many hundred thousand Miles above the siary Firmament I find the eternal unchangeable Unity is there the only Eternal God or that only Good which a man cannot express His immensenses●…●…ighth and depth no Creature no not any Angel in Heave●… can search into it But the Angels live in the Power of the Father very meekly and full of Joy and they alwayes sing in the Power of the Father In the Fire God is called an angry God but in the Ligh●… or Love-fire he is called the holy God and in the dark Nature he is not called God. VVe must make distinction each world hath its Principle and Dominion and indeed all is from one eternal Original but it severizeth it self in a twofoid Source a Similitude whereof we have in the Fire and Light where the ●…ire is painful and consuming and the Light meek and giving And yet one were as nothing without the other Of God the Son. YOu must not think that the Son is another God then the Father or that he is without or besides the Father No the Father and Son are not of such a Substance he is eternally in the Father he is the Heart in the Father and the Father generateth him continually from Eternity to Eternity and the Father and Son is one God of an equal Beeing in Power and Omnipotence Now the Heaven and Stars and the whole Deep between the Stars signifie the Father And the seven Planets signifie the seven Spirits of God or the Princes of the Angels among which Lord Lucifer was one before his fali which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the Creation of Angels before the time of this VVorld Now as the Sun standeth in the midst betwixt the Stars ●…nd the Earth enlightning all Powers and is the Light and Heart of all Powers and is all the Joy in this VVorld Even so the Son of God in the Father is the Heart in the Father and shineth in all the Powers of the Father his Power is the moving springing Joy in all the Powers of the Father and shineth in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole VVorld Of God the Holy Ghost THe holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son and is the third self-subsisting Person in the Deity As ●…he Elements in this World go forth from the Sun and Stars and are the moving Spirit which is in every thing in thi●… world So the Holy Ghost is the moving Spirit in the whole Father and

into the Pires Might desiring to domineer in the strong fiery Might Thirdly URIEL is a gracious aimable blessed Prince and King he hath his Name from the flash or going forth of the Light which signifieth rightly God the holy Ghost For as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Light. and formeth figureth and imageth all and reigneth in all such also is the power and gracious aimable blessedness of a Cherubim who is the King and Heart of all his Angels that is when his Angels do but behold him they are all then affected and touched with the Will of their King. These three Kingdoms together contain such a deep as is not of any human number nor can be measured by any thing yet you must know that these three Kingdoms have a beginning and end but that God that hath made these three Kingdoms out of himself is infinite and hath no end And the three Kingdoms are circular round about the Son of God neither of them is further or nearer to the Son of God for the one is equally as near about the Son of God as the other From this Fountain and from all the Powers of the Father goeth forth the Holy Ghost together with the Light and Power of the Son of God in and through all Angelical Kingdoms or Dominions and without beyond and besides all the Angelical Kingdoms which no Angel or man is able to search or dive into Neither have I any purpose to consider of it furthermuch less to write but my Revelation reacheth even into the three Kingdoms like an Angelical Knowledge Here you must know that the Angels are not all of one Quality neither are they equal or alike one to another in Power and Might Indeed every Angel hath the Power of all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits But in every one there is somewhat of one Quality more predominant and strong then another and according to that Quality he is glorified also As the Flowers in the Meadows do every one receive their Colour from their Qualities and are named also according to their Qualities so are the holy Angels also But the King is the Heart of all the Qualities and hath his Court or Residence in the midst or centre like a ●…ountain and as the Sun standeth in the midst among the Planets and is King of the Stars and the Heart of Nature in this World so great also is a Cherubim or King of Angels VVe are not to understand that the holy Angels dwell only above the Stars without the place of this VVorld Indeed they dwell without the Dominion and Source of this world but in the place of this world a●…eit there is no place in Eternity the place of this world and also the place without this world is all one to them VVe men see not Angels and Devils with our Eyes and yet they are about us and among us the reason is because they dwell not in the Source and Dominion of our world VVe understand that evil and good Angels dwell near to one another and yet there is the greatest immense distance between them for the Heaven is in Hell and the Hell is in Heaven and yet the one is not manifest to the other and although the Devil should go many Millions of Miles desir●…ng to enter into Heaven and to see it yet he would be still in Hell and not see it also the Angels see not the Darkness for their sight is meer Light of divine Power and the Devils sight is meer Darkness of God's Anger The like also is to be understood of the Saints and again of the VVicked Their agillity or nimbleness is as swift as the Thoughts of a man yea as the divine Power it self is yet one Angel is mo●…e swift then another and that answerable according to their Quality Now upon the seventh Spirit of God their Foot doth stay which is solid like a Cloud and clear and bright as a Christaline Sea where they walk upward and downward which way soever they please In that seventh Spirit also riseth up the heavenly 〈◊〉 and Colours and whatsoever is apprehensible Antiquity hath represented the Angels in Picture lik●… men with Wings but they have no need of any Wings yet they have Hands and ●…eet as men have but after a heavenly manner and kind At the day of the Resurrection from the dead there will be no difference between Angels and men they will be of one and the same kind of form and our King Christ clearly testifieth the same To whom shall I liken the Angels they are like to little Children that walk in the Fields among the Howers and pluck them and make curious Garland of them they take one another by the Hand and walk together and rejoyce together Here is nothing but a cordial meek and gentle Love. a friendly courteous Discourse a gracious aimable and blessed Society where the one always delighteth to see the other and to honour one another They know of no Malice cunning Subtilty or Deceit but the divine Fruits and pleasant Loveliness is common among them And know that we speak from a true ground and not from conjecture that God created Angels and men to his own Joy. Of the Mystery of the Creation and of the outward World. SEeing the Prince of the Hierarchies when he sate in the heavenly Essence in the Rest did fall and aspired for the centre of the eternal Nature he was cast into the darkness and God by his motion created him another Prince out of this place but without divine understanding for a Ruler in the Essence and that is the Sun. From this place proceeded in the divine motion the seven Properties of Nature understand the Planets which govern the essential Beeing in good and evil in which Essence Lucifer sat and whence he was cast and lost his dominion in the Essence Now observe The Sun hath its own Royal Place to it self and doth not go away from that place where it came to be at first as some suppose that it runneth round about the Globe of the Earth in a Day and a Night and some of the Astrologers also write so Here I shall have Adversaries enough that will be ready to censure me and say Astrologers understand it better wh●…●…ave writ of such matters andthey will look upon this great opening as a Cow looks upon a new Barn-door But that I write otherwise then Astrologers in some things I do it not out of supposition doubting whether it be so or no I dare make no doubt herein neither can any man instruct me herein I have not my Knowledge by study Now this Opinion or Supposition is not right but the Earth roveth or turneth it self about and runeth with the other Planets as in a Wheel round about the Sun Th●… Earth doth not remain staying in one place but runeth round in a Year once about the Sun as the other Planets viz. Venus and Mercury that are next the Sun but Saturn

and Adam made himself Earth and that he is ●…ut can a man make of himself what he will he hath both before him the Fire and the Light Will he be an Angel in the Light then God's Spirit in Christ helpeth him to the Society of the angelical Quire. But will he be a Devil in Fire then God's anger helpeth him into the Abiss to the Devil Now observe further God said to the Serpent the old Devil Seeing tho●… hast done this cursed art thou And to the creaturely Serpent which must now become a creature for the Devil had turned himself into the form of a Serpent therefore must the Serpent also continue to it he said Thou shalt go upon thy Belly and 〈◊〉 Earth Seeing it had seduced man so that he was become ●…arthly therefore should also the Devil's Image be earthly and devour the fierce wrathful Source or Quality viz. Poyson that should now be its Source or Quality And here we are to know that the Devil figured or framed to himself the Serpent's Image from the Constellations and elements through his Imagination so he had great Power till the Lord wholly cursed him and set the dear Name Jesus for a mark or limit o●… seperation and there his great Power was laid Adam was the only man that God created Eve his Wife God would not create Generation was to be out of one only But seeing he fell so that God must make him a Wife then came the Covenant and Promise again upon one only that all should be regenerate and new Born again out of one only viz. out of the second Adam not out of the Virgin Mary but out of Christ the heavenly Adam God set his purpose in Adam's Child and brought his Imagination into the persished Image and impregnated the same with his divine Power and Substantiality and converted the Soul's will out of the Earthliness into God so that thus Mary became impregnated with such a Child as Adam should have been impregnated with Which Self ability could not effect but sunk down int●… Sleep viz. into the Magia where then the VVoman wa●… made out of him which should not have been made 〈◊〉 Adam himself should have impregnated in Venus's Matrix and have generated Magically But seeing that might not be therefore was Alam divided and his own Will of great might and power was broken in him and shut up in Death But now Alam being divided the Man longeth after the Matrix of the Wife and the VVife after the Limbus of the Man The woman hath a watry Tincture and the man a fiery the man soweth Soul and the woman Spirit and both sow Fiesh viz. Sulpher therefore is Man and VVife but one Body and make together a Child And therefore ought to continue together if they once mix VVhosoever mixeth w●…ith another or seperateth from one another they break the Ordinance of Nature and such a one is like the bruite Beasts and considereth not that in the Seed the eternal Tincture lieth wherein the divine Substantiality lieth hid Also that is a work which will follow after man in the Shadow and its Source or Quality will one day be made stirring in the Conscience Of the Soul's original with its Essences Substance and Property THe Soul is a Life awakened out of the Eye of God its original is the Fire and the Fire is its Life Thi●… is the greatest wonder that the Eternity hath wrought that it 〈◊〉 ma●…e the eternal a corporeal Spirit which thing no Sense can find out and it is unfathomable to us For no Spirit can sound it self it seeth well the Deep even into the Abiss but it comprehendeth not its Maker it 〈◊〉 and diveth into him indeed but it knoweth not its own making this is only hidden to it and nothing else therefore 〈◊〉 we are cómmanded to be silent and dive no further The Essences of the Soul came out of the centre of Nature out of the Fire with all For●…s of Nature all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lie in the Soul. All that God hath and ca●… do and th●…t God is in his T●…rnary all this is in the Essence of the Soul as the virtue of a Tree i●… in the T●… that groweth out of it The Substance of the Soul is heavenly created creat●… out of the divine Essentiality yet the Will of it is free eith●… to demerse it self and esteem it self nothing and so eat of the Love of God as a Twig feedeth upon a Tree or to ris●… up in its Fire and be a Tree of it self and eat of that and so get Essentiality viz. a creaturely Body The Property of the first Soul was created according to both Mothers but all Properties lie in it it may awaken and let in what it will and whatsoever it awakneth and le●…h i●… is pleasing to God if its Will b●… in the Love of God in humili●…y and obedience Of the breathing in of the Soul and of its peculiar Fashion and ●…orm EVery Spirit without a Body is empty and knoweth not it self and therefore every Spirit desireth a Body for its Food and for its Habitation Hence the outward Image according to the Spirit of this World with the outward Fiat was conceived and a Body was created out of the Matrix of the Earth a mass or red Earth consisting of Fire and Water The inward man was in Heaven and his Essences wer●… P●…radisical his glance in the inward Eye was Majesty an incorruptible Body which could speak the Language of God and of Angels and the Language of Nature as we see in Adam that he could give Names to all Creatures to every one according to its Essence and Property 〈◊〉 was also in the outward Image and yet knew not the outward Image 〈◊〉 inde●…d the Body hath no knowledge And in this two ●…old Body which was created in the sixt●… Day in the sixth Hour of the Day in the same Hour whic●… Christ was hanged on the Cross after the Body was finished the royal Soul was breathed in from within by the holy Ghost into the Heart in the holy man into its Principle like an awakening of the D●…y A●…d the outward Spirit viz. the Air and the whole outward Principle with the Stars and Elements did cleav●… to the inward and the outward Spirit breathed its Life in the same manner with the Soul through the Nostrils into the Heart into the outward Heart into the earthly Flesh which was not then so earthly The Source of the Wrath insinuated it self with the breathing in viz. with the original of the Soul so that the Soul could not remain God's Image unless it remained in Humility and Obedience and yielding its Will into God's Will or else it were very difficult for a Creature to rule such two Principles as the wrathful and the outward are the outward being also born out of the wrathful Therefore sure its Temptation was not only the biting of an Aple nor di●… it continue only for some few Hours but

kindling They are another thing then Earth man loveth that well and 〈◊〉 it for his Maintenance but he knoweth not its ground and original it is not in vain loved by the Mind it hath a high original if we would consider of it But we are justly silent of it here seeing man without that loveth it too much and thereby withdraweth himself from the Spirit of God One should not love the Body mor●… then the Spirit for the Spirit is its Life this we give you to understand in a Similitude and are silent of the matter with the ground and original thereof But know this that it was given to man for his Sport and Ornament he had it by the right of Nature it was his understanding the outward Bodies for the outward Body with its Tincture and the Metalline Tincture are near a kind When the Tincture of the outward Body was destroyed by the Devils evil longing then the Metalline Tincture hid it self from the human became an enemy to it for it is p●…rer then the perished in the outward Man. Let this be manifest to ●…ou ye seekers of the Metalline Tincture If you would find the Philosophers Stone then apply your selves to the new Birth in Christ else it will be hard for you to apprehend it for it hath a great agreement with the ●…nly Substantiality which if it were released from the fierce wrath would be very well seen It s lustre signifieth somewhat so that if we had 〈◊〉 Eyes we ●…hould well app●…ehend it A collected Appendix ●…or the clearer opening the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THe Beeing of all Beeings is but one only Beeing●… but in its g●…eration it severs it self into two 〈◊〉 viz. 〈◊〉 Light and Darkness into Joy and ●…orrow into ●…vil a●…d Good into Love and Anger into 〈◊〉 and Light and out of these two eternal Begi●…nings or Principles into a third begi●…ning viz. into the Creation to 〈◊〉 own Love play and ●…lody according 〈◊〉 the Property of both eternal 〈◊〉 Death is the bound mark of all whatsoever is temporal whereby the Evil may be destroyed If Gods Anger be omnipotent to destroy then is his Love also omnipotent to preserve if this contrariety were not there would be no Life and there would be no good also no evil for if there were no fierce wrath there would be no moving Thus the Substance of all Substances is a continual working desiring and fulfilling the ●…ire desireth the Light that it may get meekness and substance for its burning or life and the Light desireth the Fire else there would be no Light and it would have neither Power nor Life and they both de●…ire the dark anguish else the Fire and Light would have no Root and all would be a nothing Therefore I say God's Love is as great as his Anger his Fire as great as his Light and his Darkness as great as either of the other it is all alike eternal without be●…inning and it beginneth it self from Eternity with or 〈◊〉 the Darkness and bringeth it self from Eternity to 〈◊〉 darkness into the Source or Quality even into the 〈◊〉 and in the rising up of the ●…ire is the eternal Death ●…here the Darkness and Light seperate themselves each ●…to a Principle in it self and the Light also it self po●…sseth it self one dwelleth in the other unapprehended 〈◊〉 the other there is in ●…ternity no parting asunder ●…hose that dwell in the Darkness see not the Light and ●…hose that dwell in the Light see no Darkness God ●…uld not be manifested or revealed and there would 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nature nor Creature without the darkness Observe now God's anger maketh the dark mind ●…ull of God's Love maketh the Light mind full ●…or ●…hosoever hath to them it will be given But now all ●…andeth in Strife the Light against the ●…arkness an●… the Life against the Death and the ●…eath against the Life But Man is out of the great 〈◊〉 of all Substances and in him is the Strife Dost thou say God can make of me what he will he is ●…mnipotent He maketh of thee what thou wilt his ●…ove is omnipotent and also his Anger that which getteth thee holdeth thee The Wicked is to God a good favour to De●…th and the Saint or Holy is so to ●…he eternal holy Life as thou growest so thou art such Sap as thou drawest into thy self such ●…ruit thou bear●…st It is not 〈◊〉 ●…od will not be mine but thou wilt ●…ot be his and so you are parted But he cannot make himself a Child he goeth onl●… with the Will into the Matrix and then the divine Fiat apprehendeth him and maketh him one indeed he cannot make himself a Devil the hellish Fiat according to the dark world's Property maketh him one wh●… 〈◊〉 doth but give his Will up thereto Therefore ●…ghtly saith the Apostle To whom you give ●…ur selves Ser●… in obedi●… 〈◊〉 Servants you are 〈◊〉 of God's Love 〈◊〉 Anger Here the Apostle speaks of man's ●…ction that man can give up himself and be given up and though indeed of himself he cannot take or receive yet God giveth him the taking or receiving for he hath promised it him We believe a Resurrection of our Bodies which we had here it is not the earthly Body that is the Image which shall live eternally but the Heavenly which the earthly body here holdeth captive in Death but if Christ become born therein then it is no more in death but liveth in Christ and is only covered with the earthly body It is not the Husk viz. the beastial Flesh that shall arise but the Life in the outward Mystery with the wonders that shall be comprised in the holy Element and be united with the Body of Christ even of the new man and in Eternity stand with its wonders in it Seek not Christ's flesh in the four E●…ements in the Spirit of the outward world but in the Root of them viz. in the holy Element a Principle deeper then this world is not absent from the outward body Let no man think it will come to pass that men will come who will teach or compel thé holy Spirit with Authority or Power into men No it is said Today when you hear the Voice of the Lord harden not your ●…earts and Ears Expect not another time for this is the time of your Visitation incline your ●…ars and Hearts into the Temple of Christ in you Let none wait for a golden Time wherein the holy Spirit out of or from the outward Mouth will cry into the har●…d into his beastial VVill who will live only in the Lust of the Elesh O! No that is not to be done The time is already come that Henoch teacheth and Noah declareth the Deludge of Sin. Let none wait for the outward Prophet he appeareth or shineth inwardly in the Spirit the outward man will not know him the right way into the eternal Life is in man VVhoso●…ver will enter in with Sion and praise God in Jerusalem

he 〈◊〉 live and delight in his own self-will and fore-go re●…gnation and if this had come to pass then had the fair ●…nstrument been once again broken and the human melody in God's Love and Deeds of Wonder had ended but Christ said Get thee hence Satan it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him only Then the De●… left him and the Angels came and ministred unto him Christ called the Devil a Prince of this World but 〈◊〉 Devil hath neither the Kingdom of God nor the Kingdom 〈◊〉 this world in possession this world is not his own but he is 〈◊〉 poorest Creature in this world●… and hath only the wraths 〈◊〉 in possession the other profiteth him nothing thus he is the world and also not in the world he thought to be Pri●… and is so in the same property in the Wicked and also in 〈◊〉 Government in the world in the wrath He must lo●…k wh●… Turba Magna is enkindled in the wrath and there 〈◊〉 busie so far as Turba Magna goeth in the wrath fur●… his Courage is cooled Of outward Government and Dominion WHen God blessed Noah through the O●…-spring 〈◊〉 ceeding from the Covenant and bad them be fr●…sui he gave them again the whole World with all its 〈◊〉 in possession and gave them all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Fowls common with no distinction restriction or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only that they should not eat th●…ir Lif●… in the Blood le●…t 〈◊〉 should become monstro●…s in their Li●…e with eating the 〈◊〉 of the Beast God commanded them to rule over all the Beasts and Cr●…tures but in this place ●…e 〈◊〉 them no p●…culiar 〈◊〉 er ruling Power over one ano●… for all domina●…ion 〈◊〉 Rule and Authority wher●… one man rul●…th over anot●… doth a●…ise from or through the order of Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 its Properties according to the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Dominion of the 〈◊〉 under the Constellations or Astru●… The true Image of God hath no other Dominion 〈◊〉 Members then the B●…dy 〈◊〉 in i●…s Members or the 〈◊〉 in its Branches but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the S●…rs ●…our Elements mak●…th 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dominion and Gover●… according to its Mother whence it taketh it rise and 〈◊〉 in it liveth Here ●…ote All War and Cont●…ntion ariseth from ●…ominion of God's anger the Warrior is a Servant of God's anger he is the Ax wherewith the angry Husband-man cuts up the Thorns and Bryars from off his Ground God's anger according to his Fire's property will have it so and not his love And he that suffers himself to be made use of thereto he serveth the anger of God according to the dark and fireworld's desire and property which in the heavy fall of Adam hath manifested it self in the human Property and brought man viz. the angelical Image into an half devilish Vizard and likeness Of human Propagation ALthough honest marryed People beget Children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath no●… this meaning or understanding that the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christ's Spirit driveth on the Imagination The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which ●…indle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz. a vekement des●…re the tenderer the Complexion is the nobler also is the Tincture in its swee●… desire But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus's desire then 〈◊〉 the life kindled so that it is as it were more then half 〈◊〉 with Love-thoughts and yet knoweth not what hath ●…appened to it Must all this be holy then would the secret Whoredoms also be holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust. And though it be at best yet it is a thing that is in all ●…easts it is natural and when men will give it the best ●…nd rightest Name then it is called an Abomination before God's ●…oliness being a thing existed out of Sin through Adam's fall which indeed is born withal under divine pa●…iente seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take ●…any Examples in the holy Scriptures Look upon the people of Israel when God would give them ●…he Law on Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his Voice then he commanded the young People whic●… were loaden with such burning Lusts to abstain from the●… Wives and that pointed not only at the Marriage-work bu●… also at the Imagination Christ therefore be●…ame a Man without the helping or co-working or concurrence of any man or Husband that he might bring us forth out of this ab●…mination before God through 〈◊〉 holy Incarnation or becoming man he became such a V●…rgin like Child with both the Tinctures one in another with ou●… self-love that he might bring our rent in himself in●…o one And this is the Abomination in the Marriage-work th●… the S●…ed is unclean in the conjunction of both t●…e Tincture●… when they are brought together into one indeed it is th●… property of the eternal joyfulness when the Seed goeth fort●… viz. of the highest desiring and fulfilling if that might 〈◊〉 done without abomination then it were ●…oly but the Sulpher in the Seed is an abomination before the Holiness It is not in the power of the Imagination of the Flesh bu●… in the pure Love-desire of C●…astity and Faithfulness whe●… two joyn their Minds together in the Marriage band an●… give up their love and faithfulness one to another to be the●… own and desire to be one Heart and Will there the Spir●… of Christ is the Love band and here now is rightly the thing Increase or multiply and be fruitful The marriage-work according to the outward man 〈◊〉 not holy but according to the inward it is holy in th●… Children of the Saints but not in beastial Vessels 〈◊〉 marriage-work in it self if it be done ordinately is not 〈◊〉 ful for it is driven on by God's officer Nature and bo●… withal under divine patience Of the Serpent that deceived Adam and of all created Things WHen God said Let all sorts of Beasts come fort●… each according to h●…s property or kind th●… came forth Beasts out of every property of Nature as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 manifest in the severation of the 〈◊〉 Kingdoms viz. Ti●… 〈◊〉 Eternity when God moved himself to the Creation for ●…he Devil would domineer over the Love and Meekness of God and put his desire also into the Anger that is into the austeer Might where the poyson-Life ariseth viz. into the Fiat of the wrathful Property out of which Form are proceeded Vipers Serpents Toads and other venomous Worms not that the Devil hath made them that he cannot only as the Desire was in the Impression of the ●…iat such also was the Creature in the evil and good For in those poysonful Beasts the highest Tincture is to be found if they be reduced into an oily Substance and the wrath of Mercury seperated For all

That forgive Sins as fast as men can do them And make Jehovah be beholden to them I 've heard of such what ●…re they would I wist They can make Saints they say of whom they list And being made above the Stars can set them Yea with their own hands make their godds eat them Man I do know 'cause I have heard him vaunt He is an Elf so proud and arrogant That I want words of a sufficient worth To paint his most abhorred Vileness forth Some will be prying though they are forbidden In to those secrets God meant should be hidden So do some Students in Astrology Though they can make a fair Apology And so do those that very vainly try To find out Fortunes by the●…r Palmestry These do presume but much more such as say At th●…s or that time comes the Judgment Day In praying men presume unless they be With every one in Love and Charitie ` Or if in their pet●…tions they desire Such things as are unlawful to require Then those great Masters I presumptuous deem Who of their knowledge do so well esteem They will force others as the Papists do For to allow of their Opinion too Others there are who for because they 've Faith For to believe 't is true the Scripture saith And do observe the outward Worship duly Do think that therein they have pleas d God truly Now these are just as far as th●… other wide For they Gods worship do by halfs divide And for his due which is ●…en all the heart Do dare presume to offer him a part Also in this abominable time It is amongst us now a common Crime To flout and scoff at those which we espy Willing to shake off humane Vanity Who so reviled scorned or mis nam'd As some People which are Quakers term'd That fear God most but 't is no marvel men Presume so much to wrong his Children when As if they feared not his revengeful Rod They can blaspheme and dare to anger God. Now by these words to some men it may seem That I the Quakers have ●…n high esteem Indeed if by that Name you understand Those whom the vulgar Atheists of this Land Do daily term so that is such as are Fore-named here and have the greatest care To know and please their Maker then 't is true I love them well for love to them is due Then it is also a presumptuous act With knowledge to commit a sinful fact Though ne●…er so small for Sins a subtil Elf Into our Souls insinuates it self And it is certain that one Sin though small VVill make an entrance great enough for all In short Presumption 's such a hardning Sin That if it seize the heart and once get in My mind is this 't will ne er be purged thence well No not with all the fears and pangs of Hell So infinit is this f●…r to unfold That should I write and speak till I were old I know that I should leave unspoken then Most of those humors I have seen in man And still confess in him there h●…dden be Thousands of humors more then I can see O MAN I mus'd a while thou wert so prone to sining But 't was thy f●…ult I s●…e from the beginning And as the Lord himself once said so still The imagin●…tions of thy ●…eart is ill That 's one main cause then to presume an Evil. Thou hast the proneness to the Flesh and Devil Then sith thou art so subject unto ●…in Shun all occasions that may draw thee in Thy flesh with labour and with fasting came And 't will not be so ●…ubject unto blame Prevent the Devils B●…its and his Temptations With earnest P●… 〈◊〉 good Meditations So when t●…y God s●…ll see thou hast a will And truly dost desire to 〈◊〉 what 's ill He will except it f●…r his Sons dear sake And the●… more willing and more able m●…ke He 'l make ●…y Soul. ●…re i●… thrice more defil'd As innocent as the new born Child But if thou without c●…re or 〈◊〉 dost lean Unto those Lust of Flesh that are unclean If thou take pleasure and delight to do them Q●…ite giving over t●…y 〈◊〉 unto t●…m They both in Soul and Body too will make the●… So soul a Leper that God will ●…orsake thee Hi●… holy A●…gels and ●…is Saints a●… thee And only Devils make in●…reaty s●…r t●…e Fair Virtue the Shepherd's MISTRISS The Shepherd to his Mistress HAle thou fairest of all Creatures Upon whom the Sun doth shine Model of all rairest Features And Perfections most Divine Thrice all-hale and bl●…d be Those that love and honour thee By thy Beauty I have gained To behold the best Perfections By thy Love I have obtained To enjoy the best aff●…ions And my Tongue to sing thy prai●… Love and Beauty thus doth raise VVhat although in Rustick Shadows I a Shepherds breeding had And confined to these Meadows So in home-spun Russet clad Such as I have now and then Da●…d as much as greater men On this Glass of thy Perfection If that any VVomen pry Let them thereby take direction To 〈◊〉 themselves thereby And if ought amiss they view Let them dress themselves a new Young men may by this acquainted VVith the 〈◊〉 Beauties grow So the counterfeit and paint●… They may shun when them they know But the way all will not find ●…or some Eyes have yet are blind Those that Mistresses are named And for that suspected be Shall not need to be ashamed If they patern take by thee Neither shall their Servant fear Favours openly to wear Thou to no man favour dainest But what 's fitting to bestow Neither Servants entertainest That can ever wanton grow For the more they look on thee Their desires still bettered be I am no Italian lover That will mew thee in a Goal But thy Beauty I discover English-like without a vail If thou may'st be won away Win and wear thee he that may Yet in this thou may'st believe me So indifferent though I seem Death with tortures would not grieve 〈◊〉 More then loss of thy esteem For if Virtue me forsake All a scorn of me will make The MISTRISS of the SHEPHERD NOw while other men complaining Tell their Mistresses disdaining Free from care I write a Story Only of her worth and glory And wh●…le most are most untoward Peevish vain unconstant froward While their best Contentments bring Nought but after sorrowing She those childish humours slighting Hath conditions so delighting And doth so my bliss indeavour As my joy increaseth ever Love she can and doth but so As she will not overthrow Love's content by any Folly Or by Deeds that are unholy Dotingly she ne'er affects Neither willingly neglects Honest love but means doth find With discretion to be kind Goodness more delights her than All the mask of ●…olly can Fond she hateth to appear Though she hold her Friend as dear As her part of Life unspent Or the best of her content If the heat of

of wanton Lust Nor did we then mistrust The poyson in the sweet Our Bodies wrought So close we thought B●…use our Souls should meet But Kissing and imbracing we So long together staid Her touches all enflamed me That I had almost straid My hands presum'd so far they were too bold My Tongue unwisely told How much my Heart was chang'd And Virtue quite was put to flight Or for the time estrang'd Oh what are 〈◊〉 if in our strength We over boldly trust The strongest sorts will yield at length And so our Vir●…s must In me no force of Reason had prevail'd If she had also sail'd But ere I further stray'd She sighing kist my naked Wrist And thus in Tears she said Sweet heart quoth she if in thy Breast Those Virtues real be Which hitherto thou hast profest And I believ'd in thee Thy self and me oh seek not to abuse Whilst thee I thus refuse In ●…tter Flames I frye Yet let us not our true love spot Oh rather let me dye ●…or if thy Heart should fall from good What would become of mine As strong a Passion stirs my Blood As can distemper thine Yet in my Breast this rage I smother would Though it consume me should And my desires ●…tain For where we see Such breaches be They sedom stop again Are we two that have so long Each others Love imbrac't And never did Affection wrong Nor think a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And shall oh shall we now our matchless joy For one poor touch destroy And all content forego Oh no my dear Sweet-heart forbear I will not lose thee so For should we do a deed so base As it can n●…ver be I could no more have seen thy Face Nor wouldst thou look on me I should of all our Passions grow ashamed And blush when thou art named Yea though 〈◊〉 constant wert I being 〈◊〉 A jealous thought Would still torment my Heart What goodly thing do we obtain If I consent to thee Bare Joys we lose and what we gain But common Pleasures be Yea those some say 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 lust inclin'd Drive Love 〈◊〉 of the mind And so much Reason miss That they admire what kind of Fire A chaste Affection is No vulgar bliss I aimed 〈◊〉 When first I heard thee woe I 'll never prise a ma●… for that Which every Groom can doe If that be Love the basest men that be Do love as well as we Who if we bear us well Do pass them as Angels men In glory do excell Whil●… thus she spoke a cruel band Of Passions ceas'd my Soul And what one seemed to command Another did controul Twixt 〈◊〉 and ill I did divided lie But as I 〈◊〉 mine Eye In her me thought I saw Those Virtues 〈◊〉 whose rays div●… First gave 〈◊〉 a Law. With that I felt the blush of shame Into my cheek return And love did with a chaster flame Within my Bosom burn My Soul her light of Reason had renew'd And by those beams I view'd How slily Lust ensnares And all the Fires of ill desires I quenched with my Tears Go wantons now and flout at this My coldness if you list Vain Fools you never knew the bliss That doth in love consist You sigh and weep and labour to enjoy A shade a dream a toy Poor folly you persue And are unblest Since every 〈◊〉 In pleasure equals you You never took so rich conte●… In all your wanton play As this to me hath Pleasure lent That ●…haste she went away For as some Sins which we committed 〈◊〉 Sharp stings behind them leave Whereby we vexed are So ill supprest begetteth rest And Peace without compare The Childs Apology in case of Espousals CHildren owe much I must confess 't is true And a great Debt is to the Parents due But yet my Parents should not be so cruel As to take from me that high priz'd Jewel Of Liberty ●…n choice whereon depends The main contentment that Heaven here lends For if my Parents him I loath should chuse 'T is lawful yea my duty to refuse Else how shall I lead so upright a Life As is enjoyned to the Man and Wife For I do think it is not only meant Children should ask but Parents should consent And that they err their Duty as much breaking In not consent●…ng as they for not sp●…aking Would Parents in this Age have us begin To take by their Eyes our Affections in Who quite forgetting they were ever Young Would have us Children dote with them on Dung. It is imposible it should be thus For we are rul●…d by Love not Love by us Now with what follows thus conclude we do And we have Reason for 't and Conscience too No Parent may his Child 's just sute deny On his bare Will without good reason why Nor he so us'd be disobedient thought If unapproved he take the match he sought The pretious time is short and will away Let us enjoy each other while we may Care thrives Age creepeth on men are but shades Joys lessen Youth decays and Beauty ●…ades New turns come 〈◊〉 the old returneth never If we let our's go past 't is past forever A SONG NOw young man thy Days and thy Glorics appear Like Sun-shine and Blosoms in Spring of the year Thy vigor of Body thy Spirits thy VVit Are perfect and sound and imtroubled yet Now then O now then if safety thou love Mind thou O mind thou thy Maker above Mispend not a Morning so excellent clear Never for ever was Happine●…s here Thy Noon-tide of Life hath but 〈◊〉 delight And Sorrows on Sorrow will follow at Night Now then O now then if safety thou love Mind tho●… O mind thou thy Maker above That strength and those Beauties that grace thee to day To morrow may perish and vanish away Thy VVealth or thy Pleasure s or Friends that now be May waste or deceive or be Traitors to thee No then O now then c. Mind thou O mind thou c. Thy Joynts are yet nimble thy Sinnews unslack And marrow unwasted doth stregthen thy back Thy Youth from Diseases preserveth the Brain And Blood with free passages plumps every Vein Now then O now then c. But trust me it will not forever be so Those Arms that are mighty shall feebler grow Those 〈◊〉 that so proudly 〈◊〉 thee now VVith Age or Diseases will ●…agger and bow Now then O now then c. Then all those rare Features now graceful in thee Shall plowed with times Furrows quite ruin'd be ●…ose Fancies that 〈◊〉 with Dreams of delight ●…ill trouble thy quiet the comfortless night Now then O now then c. Those 〈◊〉 of Hair which thy Youth doth adorn VVill look like the Meads in a winterly Morn And where Red and White intermixed did grow Dall paleness a deadly Complexion will show Now the●… O now then c. Thy Fore-head imperions wher●…on we now view A smoothn●… and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with blew VVill loose that Perfection which Youth now maintains And