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 /
leaft / and com not to the true Beeing of Iesu Christ â wherin notwithstanding the vpright Knowledge of the Misterie of God and of the heauenlie Kingdom / together with the spirituall and heauenlie Goods are obtayned or purchased that they mought inherit thesame / in their Spirit and Minde 7. For-that-cause wee tell you yeat presentlie / like-as wee haue also tolke you heere-to-fore / that yee shall at no time haue any regarde nor geeue-care to Anyone of them all / that indeuour them not / nor yet will indeuour them / to the Entraunce of the m Math. 3. Luk. 3. first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine· nor to the n Iohn 3. New Birth in Iesu Christ nor-yet to Such as bide not stedfast therin / to Faithfulnes· nether-yet account them for vpright Bretheren / much-lesse then / for Teachers or Ministers of the Woord For they that make not manifest themselues / before their Elder in the holie Vnderstanding of the gracious Woord / nor confesse the Errour of their former Life and Vnderstanding / before him / nor yet doo nor shewe-fourth any Repentaunce for their Sinnes / haue not any good in their minde / whether they acknowledg it or acknowledg it not 8. If they then appeere not or make not manifest themselues in that place / wher the Sunne Ø›the heauenlie Day-light shyneth / and where the o Iohn 7. d. Fountaine of the safe-making Water floweth / and euenso holde not themselues stedfastlie / by the cleere Shyning of the heauenlie Day-light· nor by the daylie Out-flowing of the safe-making Water / nor becom daylie refreashed and washed with the outflowing healthsom Waters / till that they â in their Spirit and Minde be borne-anew / out of the holie p Iohn 3. â— Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ but / before they haue attayned to thesame Time / runne-away with som flowen-fourth Water / and that they suppose euenso to byde couered / in their inwarde filthye and stinking q Ieâ— 2. c. Poole or Pit / or-yet to purge themselues / without the pure Water that floweth out of our Pitcher· and from our Bodie / So shall it not then verelie auayle them / to the Life of Righteousnes· nor the vncleane stinking Poole of their Inwardnes / becom so purged / nether-yet shall their Inwardnes be any sweete Sauour / before the God of Heauen / to his Habitation 9. And the flowen-fourth Waters / which they haue seperated from their Streame· and taken-on to themselues a false Iudgment ther-out / shall also â seeing that they themselues are seperated from the Fountaine and from her daylie outflowing Water-streame wax drye by them or becom of no force and they themselues shall also â as dead r Iudae â— Trees or broken-off s Rom. 11. d. Braunches wither or fade-away and their poluted Bowels shall be eaten-away by the vncleane fretting Wormes / and they shall â at the last finde themselues profitable to no vse / but for the t Esa. 26. b. Math. 3. 7. b. Iohn 15. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Fire 10. Therfore â O yee Adioynedons and Incorporatedons to the Woord yee shall not holde you v Math. 18. c. 1. Cor. 5. b. 2. Tess. 3. b. common / with such Straungers and Declyners from the Seruice of Loue / for to eate daylie with them â at your Table the holie x Iohn 6. d. Act. 2. f. Bread which is brought â from the Right-hand of God the Father vnto you â to the Life of your Soules out of Heauen but breake distribute and eate thesame among each-other But-yet holde not yourselues therfore as y 2. Tess. 3. b. Enemies against them but exhort them to the Entraunce of the vpright Brotherhod / to th ende â if the Lorde graunted thesame that they mought â to Life becom saued· and preserued from their Destruction 11. And euenso / in it-all that chaunceth vnto you / beare in no-wise any Enimitie to anyone but shewe alwayes / in your Brotherlie-loue â which yee haue among each-other also the z 2. Pet. 1. b. common Loue / towardes all them which ignorantlie erre / and yet notwithstanding / by you or besydes you / loue the Righteousnes and exhort them euenso to the Beleef of the gracious Woorde / and that they in the Beleef / applye them repentantlie to the Entraunce of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the gracious Woord and of his Seruice of Loue. 12. And with all them that applye them thervnto and doo euenso / and perseuer therin / yee shall holde you common and also eate or feede-of the Bread a Iohn 6. c. Act. 2. f. to Life / with them and so all b Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. growe-vpp with each-other / in the Godlynes of the gracious Woord and of his holie Spirit of Loue / till vnto the Olde-age of the holie and godlie Vnderstanding and becom you then euenso strengthned with the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and c Ephe. â— c. repleanished with the Fulnes of his holie Spirit of Loue. O Yea That com-to-passe euenso A gracious Calling / wherwith all People are called and courteouslie-bidden â through HN to the gracious Woorde and Supper of the Lorde / and to the Mercie-seate of the Loue of the Maiestie of God COm hether to the gracious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / O all yee People Spirituall and Worldlie / Maiestrates and Subiectes / Noble and Vnnoble / Ritch and Poore / Wise and Simple / together with all Sectuaries and Setters-fourth of Religion and likewise also / all Men-sinners and Women-sinners / how horrible Sinnes or Iniquitie / soeuer yee haue committed or liued-in 2. Com yee all presentlie / and doo a Math. 3. Luk. 3. vpright Frutes of Repentaunce for yee are all presentlie â to vpright Repentaunce bidden to the Supper of the Lorde / where the Bread-of-life of Iesu Christ â which is com from Heauen is eaten and where also the pure b Math. 26. c. Luk. 22. b. 1. Cor. 11. c. Bloud of our Lorde Iesu Christ is droâ—â—ken / out of the Cupp or Passion of Christ· â—â—d shed-fourth for Manye / to the Remission of Sinnes 3. Com now all / and turne you to this Mercie-seate of the Loue of the holie Spirit of Iesu Christ and obtaine the Forgeeuenes of your Sinnes Put-away presentlie the c Deut. 10. d. Fore-skinne froÌ„ your Heartes / and receaue in the Spirit of your Minde / a cleere Sight of the vpright Righteousnes before God and Men. 4. Com hether also to this gracious Seruice of the Loue / all yee d Math. 5. â— hungrie and thirstie Soules after the Righteousnes / together with all yee which loue the Peace Com and perfourme â vnder the Obedience of the Loue your giltie Offering and Godseruice / in the e Rom. 6. Heb. 10. 13. c. true Offering and Godseruice of our Lorde Iesu Christ and haue your communion with the Sainctes of God / in all Loue. Take it to heart CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER HN.
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
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
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
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