enjoy my self in the Works of thy Creation 115. And I beseech thee O Eternall God to give me Understanding and Wisdome that I may not abuse or misuse this thy Creation or Creature but only and solely use it for my necessity for the Good of my Neighbour my self and mine 116. Give me I pray thee to be thankfull in all thy Gifts and Benefits that my Reason may not say This is Mine I have purchased it I will possesse it alone I am thereby Noble Glorious and Brave and because of this Honour and Repute accrues unto me all which proceedeth from the Devill and the Heavy Fall of Adam 117. O Dear Lord CHRIST help I pray thee that I may alwayes consider thy Humility Lowlinesse and temporall Poverty and not permit my Mind to lift up it self above the simple poor and needy that my Soul may not break off it self from them that they in their misery may not sigh over me or against me and hinder me in my way to thee 118. But help me that I may Lay my Heart with the simple in the Dust and alwayes acknowledge that I am nothing more then they and that my State and all that belongs to me are thine and that I am a Minister or Servant concerning or as to them 119. O Great HOLY GOD I pray thee set open my inwardnesse to me that I may rightly know what I am Unshut I pray thee in me what became inclosed and shut up in Adam Let me I pray thee see in the Inwardnesse of the Mind and find thy bright Morning-Starre in the Holy Name JESUS which presenteth and offereth it self to us poor Men out of Grace and will dwell in us and powerfully work in us 120. Break thou O LORD the hard door Posts of my receptibility of my own willing that his will may shine forth through me and my Mind may find the Beames of his Love-Fire 121. Kindle thou I pray thee my fiery Life of the Soulish Ground with the Beames of thy Light so that I may endure before thee and stand in thy Sight and so I pray thee poure in thy Love and Meeknesse into my Fire-life that thy Fire-Glance doe not Consume and destroy me in regard of my yet remaining impurity 122. O thou Great Holy God to thee I draw neer now with my Mind viz with thy poured forth Power and Vertue which thou hast formed into an Image of thy Likeness according to thy Working and I give my self to thee again to be thy own 123. Work thou in my Mind as in thy Reflexion or Representation thy â—race how thou wilt and keep my Mind with thy Power as thy Instrument so that IT may neither will nor act without thee Lead thou my Inclination with thy Might and Strength so that I may in and with thee rule over Sinne Death the Devill Hell and the World 124. Seeing thou in the Beginning in my Father Adam hast made me a Ruler over all Creatures and after the terrible Fall hast in JESUS CHRIST brought me thereinto again So that I in JESUS CHRIST should with and in him and He with and through me rule over all his Enemies till they all be laid for a foot-stool under his and my feet therefore I give up to thee my LORD JESUS my whole Mind and Soul and all whatsoever I am Rule thou in me over all my Enemies which are within me and without me 125. Lay thou them for a foot-stool under thy feet and lead my Mind being the Expresse Image of God in Gods Power so that IT may as an Instrument of the Holy Spirit co-will and perform with God the Good Work that thy High Name * Germanice GOTT GOD may become again manifested therein and that my Mind may again come to the Communion of thy Holy Angels whereto thou hast ordained it in the beginning 126. O Great GOD my Mind is indeed a Beame of thy Omnipotency Glory and Skilfulnesse a †Or Play-fellow Companion of the Divine Wisdome and Glory a Hand-maid or Ministresse of the Majesty of the Unity of God a Knoweresse of thy Manifestation or Revelation and a Figure of the Great Name of GOD who hath made the World and all things 127. In its Essence e're it became a Creature stood the formings of thy Willing which Formings thou O Great God hast brought into a Creaturely Creation and set the Noble Mind for a Ruleresse or Governess over it where thou with thy Holy Name in thy Power wouldest thy Self rule through the Mind 128. O GOD the Mind hath in Adam turned it self away from thee and is entered into own receptibility of its own Will and hath made it self Dark Drie Stinging Enimicitious or Hatefull Hungry and Envious and is become a hellish Source Quality or Torment and Abomination before thee like all evill Spirits 129. Which thou O Groat God with thy holiest Name of All JESUS hast turned to thee and new generated to thee again Therefore I give it up to thee willingly into thy sweet presented or offered Grace And therewith forsake my own Will and Nature-Right and give it to thee for thy own LORD JESUS that I may no more Be IT self but that thou mayest be IT according to thy and thy Eternall Fathers good Will and Pleasure that God may be All in All One True Reall Tri-une Substance Father Sonne and Holy Spirit in the Heaven and upon Earth Working and Ruling All in All. AMEN A Prayer on Munday at Noon or Midday to Consider the Quality and Property of the Day and to swing or cast ones self into the right-Noon or Midday of the Inward Moone 's heavenly Substance Concerning the climbing up or Ascending of the Mind 130. O GOD thou Infinite or Endlesse Every where Glancing or Super-Illustrious Eternall every where spread abroad Shining Bright LIGHT thou hast given the Light to the Outward World from the breathing of thy Might through the Beames of thy Light and rulest with the Sun and Moon in all thy Works in this Worlds Substance 131. Thou generatest all and every temporary Life through these Lights All whatsoever hath Breath worketh and Liveth in these Lights and praiseth thee in thy Power ALL Starres take Light and shining from thy shed-forth Light Thou adornest the Earth with fair Hearbs and Blossomes or Flowers through these Lights And Cheerest therein all whatsoever liveth or Groweth 132. And therein shewest to US Men thy Glory So that we know thy Power which is inwardly hidden and see thereby how thou hast made thy Eternall Word and working visible that we should thereby consider thy inward Spirituall Kingdome wherein thou dwellest in secret hiddenly and fillest all thy Creation and thy self workest and doest ALL in ALL. 133. The Heaven together with the Earth recount thy Honour Power and Great Might The Elements are a Reflexion Representation or Object of thy Wisdome where thy Spirit with a Representation or Object Sporteth or Acteth a Scene before thee and all things
and in Love hast Betrothed and Espoused 99. O God HOLY SPIRIT let me walk and Converse in thy Power and let thy Holy Angels which thou hast appointed to me Lead me through JESUS CHRIST Crucified Our Lord Amen A Prayer when a Man will goe about his Work or Labour and Calling or Employment wherein God hath set Every One. 100. ALmighty Eternall God and Loving Father Creatour of Heaven and of Earth thou hast Created ALL Things to thy Prayse and MAN to thy Expresse Image and set him to be a Lord and Ruler of thy Works and hast put all under his hands 101. I poor unworthy sinfull Man consider with my self the heavy Fall of our first Parents whereby thy Curse came upon this Work and upon the Earth and I consider with my self how our first Parents are fallen out of Paradise into this Curse wherein now all of us must swimme in Weariness Toyle Incumberances Cares and Necessities and make our selves weary sick and faint that we may uphold and sustain our Lives till at length we enter again into Dust and Ashes the Substance out of which we are proceeded Where we are to Expect and wait for thy true and reall Promise that thou wilt awaken and raise us up again out of the Dust in the Last Day and form us into the fair Paradisicall Image again 102. This now I consider with my self when I take in hand the Work Calling and Employment wherein thou hast by or through Nature appointed or ordained me and pray thy Great Mercy which thou after this Heavy Fall and Apostacy hast turned towards us again in the Grace of JESUS CHRIST blesse me I pray thee in my Calling State Condition and Employment and turn away thy Curse and Anger from me through the Love of Jesus Christ that the Evill Spirit may not touch or sift me in my Calling and Condition and bring me into Falshood that I may not at all therein hurt deceive betray or wrong my Neighbour with Words or Deedâ— or desire that which I should not 103. Give me I pray thee O Dear LORD a ready Heart and Minde that I may with a Good Conscience without any false or wicked desire also without Pride Covetousness Envy and Anger perform my work and order my Condition according to thy Will and also rest satisfied with thy Grace with what thou givest me and that with the Works and Labour of my hands in my Office Duty State and Condition wherein thou hast set me I may NOT seek my own only to serve my self and my own turn alone but also my Neighbours benefit also may come to help the Miserable and the Impotent also the Weak Blind Simple and needy which are not gifted or furnished with understanding of thy Works of Wonder to manage them 104. Help I pray thee O Loving GOD that I may rightly know my self that I in my State and Condition and Office or Employment am but thy Servant or Minister and that all whatsoever I possesse cometh from thy hand and that I in this World have nothing my own but am only a Pilgrim and Sojournour upon Earth and thou O God the FATHER together with thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST in the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT dost thy self work drive manage and rule all and that all is thine alone and not mine 105. Give me I pray thee rightly to know that all Men are proceeded from One and in that regard that all are my fellow Members Brethren and Sisters as a Tree in its Branches So that I should Love them ALL. 106. As thou O Loving God hast loved us with One only or singular Love in JESUS CHRIST before the Foundation of the World and yet lovest us with the same Love and hast attoned or reconciled us all in one only Love as to thy Anger So O Loving God awaken and stirre up I pray thee also that same Love in ME and kindle my Soul and Mind therewith that I also may with and in THEE in thy Love love all my fellow Members and readily and willingly serve and minister to them That thy Name in us all may be sanctified and thy Will in us be done so that we all in One Love may Eat and Drink thy Blessings 107. And take from us the Evill and the Heavy Guilt viz thy Curse and Anger that the Devils Envy and Covetousnesse may not Spring or flow up in us and introduce us into Vengeance and Malice 108. That we also may heartily love one another and forgive one another our slips failings and infirmities as thou daily forgivest us in thy Love in JESUS CHRIST 109. O LORD prevent I pray thee the suttle Talons of the Devill that he may not Tempt us and bring our evill Inclinations aloft whereby I may be drawn into false or wicked Lusts 110. Deliver me O Dear God from all such Evil through the Bloud and Death of our Lord JESUS CHRIST and give me a Chearfull-Mind to manage thy wonders 111. Help me so that I may Work Will or Act nothing without thy Power bring my Life through thy Wonder-Works and Creature into the Eternall Heavenly working in into the Spirituall hidden Secret World and let me here in thy Works of Wonder increase in Power and Knowledge that also my in ward Ground may grow and increase in thy Wonder-Works in thy Power to the Manifestation or Revelation of the New Jerusalem in us where thou O True GOD wilt work will and be all in all in us 112. Therefore give me I pray thee constantly and continually to know this that I may have it for a token of remembrance to think upon in my Mind and not sinne nor break off my Mind from thee and generate a false or wicked Image which lusteth only after State Pride Covetousness and self-Honour and be Damned with the Evill Spirits but let me be One Spirit and Will with thee and Co-work with thee in the power of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST and of the HOLY SPIRIT Amen A Prayer on Munday at Noon or Midday or whensoever such an attentive Thought stirreth to consider ones State and Condition 113. O God Eternall FATHER I thank thee and praise thee that thou hast appointed and ordained me in this State and Condition that thou hast given me Good Things and meanes for Sustenance and set me among honest vertuous People whom I should serve and Minister to and benefit with my Gifts and hast indued me with Reason and Vnderstanding and Created me a rationall Man so that I know thee and that I am not a Dull Dead foolish ignorant Man who knoweth nothing of thee and thanketh not thee for such benefits But hast Created me from or out of the Light of the World that I may with and in thy Light work or act and live and shewest me all thy Wonders in thy Light 114. I thank thee for this that thou hast created me to thy Expresse Image and set thy Wonders under my hand that I may know them and may
Desire wholly turned it self away from Gods Will and from the divine Light whence the divine ENS of or from the Holy Worlds Substance vanished or disappeared and so now Man thus remained to be only a Monster of Heaven and became with his Seperatour a Beâ—st of all â—easts which from thenceforth ruled in and with all Beasts In whom the Spirit of the World Spiritus Mundi together with the Starres and Elements hath gotten the Dominion 49. Yet now Man runneth and seeketh again his first true Native Country for he standeth in this Property in meer unquietnesse Now he seeketh in one thing suddenly in another and supposeth in this Monster he shall introduce himself into rest and yet runneth on only in the false or wilked awakened beastiall willing which cannot reach or attain Gods willing 50. He runneth only in the false Light of his self-hood which becometh generated in his Imagination with a Monstrous Seperatour which maketh him an Earthly Mind wherein the Constellation hath its operation and hath the whole visible World for his Enemy 51. And standeth as a Rose in a Bush of Thornes which is continually scratched and torn by the Thornes and yet he could not be said to be a Rose if the divine Grace were not come to help him and had not in-spoken it self again into his inward Ground wherein the Love to the New Regeneration is presented or tendered to him 52. Therefore say I it is highly necessary for Man to learn to know what he is before he runneth and seeketh for else his seeking is but a vexation wherewith he vexeth himselfe in a false or wicked Seperatour or Distinguisher and yet can come to no Rest 53. For all those Earthly Wills wherein he thinketh to bring himself into Rest are only a Contrary Will or opposition against God viz the Eternall ONE 54. For * Rom. 9.16 it lyeth not in any ones self Willing going or running faith Saint Paul but in the Mercy viz in the Grace which is in-spoken into him 55. For Man without Grace without God is dead and blind and cannot come to any true Life unlesse the Grace become awakened and revealâ—d or manifested in him 56. Yet aâ—â— in these Earthly willings there can no awakening be effected for they cannot attain the Grace much lesse awaken it therefore must the whole Man in Soul and Mind sink down into the Grace and be a willing of Nothing which desireth Nothing but only the Grace that the Grace in him may become living and overflow drown or overwhelme and mortifie his Will 57. As the Sun breaketh forth in from or out of the Night and changeth the Night into Day so also it is to be understood concerning Man of which Christ saith †Math. 18.3 Except ye Convert and become as Children ye shall not see Gods Kingdome viz. the Divine Seperatour from which all things are Existed 58. For No Knowledge or Skill is right or Fundamentall unlesse it come out of the true divine Science or Root out of the Seperation or Distinction of the divine Speaking whence all things have their Originall 59. If now such Skill and Knowledge would be attained to Exist in Man again then must the divine Seperatour stand in a Substance of its likenesse viz in a divine Ens where the divine Word Speaketh forth therein and the divine Light shineth in that Speaking 60. And then the humane Science which in the beginning existed from the speaking of the Word may in that Light see not only it self but also all other Naturall things according or as to the Seperability or Distinguibility of the Word also may work after a Magicall kind and manner in and with all things after a divine Kind Manner and Property 61. For Man is blind in all the Works of God and hath no apprehension or knowledge unlesse the Breathing or Speaking be revealed or manifested in its inward Ground according to the Kind or Manner of the Speaking out of which all Substances or Things originate 62. All Mans seeking whereby he will find the ground of a thing is blind and is performed only in a Shell or Rind wherewith the the Essence of the Tree is covered 63. But if a true finding would be attained then must the humane Science enter into the property of the Thing and be able to see the Seperatour or Distinguisher thereof 64. Therefore it is the Greatest Toyle and Misery of Man that they all run and seek in blindnesse and begin to seek at the Shell Whereas all things are outwardly figured signifying what they are in their Ens and Substance and the Seperatour of all things hath visibly and formally there represented it self that so Man may know and apprehend the Creatour and Creation or Creature 65. For all Substances are but one only Substance which hath out breathed it self out of it self and made it self distinguishable as also formable and figured And there goeth out of â—hat Impression and Formation one Center out of another as with every Impression and Formation of the Desire 66. Where the seperated and divided Will impresseth or compecteth it self into a particuler and there existeth a Center and in the Center a Seperatour or Distinguisher or Creatour of it self viz a Former of the re-out breathed willing as we see by the Earth that every hearb hath a Seperatour or Distinguisher of its own in it self Which maketh it so and severeth or distinguisheth it into Form 67. And so now if Man viz the Image of God in whom the divine Speaking according to the divine Science or Root is manifest or revealed will search the Creatures whether in the Animate or in the Inanimate viz in the Vegetable or Metalline Then he must before all things attain the Grace of God again that the divine Light may give Light in his Science or Root whereby he may goe through the Naturall Light and so all will become manifest or revealed to him in his Vnderstanding 68. Else he runneth in seeking as a blind Man who speaketh of Colours and yet seeth them not nor knoweth what Colours are This all States and Conditions of the World should Consider that they all run on blindly without the divine Light only in the Sydereall Imagibility in that which the Constellation or Astrum Imageth in Reason 69. For Reason is nothing else but the humane Constellation which is only an Exscript Copy or Modelling of all the Principles It standeth only in an Imagibility and not in the divine Science or Root 70. But if the Divine Light becometh manifest or revealed therein then also beginneth the divine Word out of the Eternall Skill or Knowledge to speak therein And so then is Reason a true house of divine Skill or Knowledge and Revelation and may then well and rightly be made use of But without this it is no more but a Constellation of the visible World 71. Therefore to all Lovers of Arts and Sciences whose Seperatour is an Artist of great Subtilenesse in them
hearts and minds being an infinite Treasury of good and bad we should preserve the Good thoughts which are Gods not our Own and suppress the Evil which are the Devils and ours since the heavy fall of Adam and NOT bring forth the unfruitfull works of Darkness but as learned Scribes of the kingdom of heaven bring forth out of the good treasure of our Hearts Good things both old and new even the words and works which declare us indeed the children of Light which shall be our joyfull fruit and harvest and kingdom of heaven for evermore in Paradise when all our own that is our Evil Thoughts shall perish and we be saved as it were through fire or else our evil thoughts words and works shall be our evil treasure and kingdome of Perdition where our Works shall burn with us for ever also Sixthly It sayes in brief what the Mysterium Magnum or great Mysterie is which is that which is resembled to us in this visible world wherein all things belonging to darkness or light are hidden and manifested in the eternal substantial wisdome in which also all things both evil and good are eternally resident as in ONE world together though they must for ever be invisible incomprehensible and incommunicable the one to the other as Day and Night Heaven and Hell are so the one being the Love and Light the other the Wrath and Fire of the One only Spirit the Wonderfull and Incomprehensible GOD. The SECOND Book contained in this Treatise is the Answer to the 177 Questions called Theosophick because they are of such divine matters as are collected out of the Eternal Ground of the holy Scriptures and belonging to the mysteries of the divine Wisdome whose glimps and footsteps only are hinted at in the Holy Bible There are but Thirteen of these Questions here answered and a piece of the Fifteenth to the fifth verse though in his Preface to that Book the Author sayes they are all at large to be found in his other writings in this but briefly and summarily as if this book had been finished by him though no more then here is printed is yet come to our knowledge In this Treatise especially we may find how in the Eternal Darkness and Light there hath Eternally been a transaction as it were of Wonders and Powers in a real representation and working in each world by it self and in respect of one to the other both conducing to the Eternal infinite Glory and praise of the Unity in Trinity of the Omnipotent Omnipresent God whose Eternal Blessedness had never any Beginning nor ever can have End Herein also we may be helped to understand undeniably how any are a sweet savour to God of life unto life in them that are saved and a savour of Death unto Death in them that Perish though these two things seem very inconsistent with the Divine Unity and Goodness in the appehension of our Mortal Reason The THIRD Book hinteth how the Heavenly and Earthly Mystery may be seen distinctly manifested together in this outward world which is a Looking-Glass of the Eternal Great Mystery wherein both the Heavenly Divine and Hellish wrathfull Mysteries are represented in the visible things of this world which hath had a Beginning and we may thereby be furnished with Skill to go out of the Earthly Corruptible and Hellish Mystery with our souls into the Heavenly and Blessed It also lays down some Grounds of discovering the Times of the Great Separation of Good and Evil and the Manner of it when these Mysteries now visibly mixt shall no more continue so but all that hath been wrought and produced in each of them shall go into and remain in its Eternal Habitation in its own world and then the Creature be quite delivered from Bondage and brought into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God Matt. 25. from the 3◠verse to the en◠When the Goats shall be divided from the Sheep they to the Left hand and these to the Right and to the Goats shall be said Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels and to the Sheep Come ye Blessed of my Father inherite the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Here every one may consider in himself his Inclination Desire Propensity Condition and whole imployment of his Thoughts Words and Actions whether he be a Goat or a Sheep he may in this life transmute and change his desires and then all his powers in Soul and Body will follow with joy that he is a Sheep fit for the Table of the Lord at the great Supper of the Wedding of the Lamb at the Last Day and this pledge of Gods love that Better Part once participated in this Life will be impossible to be taken from him Or else if he continue to be an unruly Goat and will not be changed or renewed in the Spirit of his Mind to be a Meek Lamb of Christ but will remain stubborn wilfull and careless following the Vanity Bent Tendency Liking and Lust of the outward flesh wherein as in a Lodging dwells Sin and the Devil he will be fit only for the Table of Devils and to be tormented with him in his Kingdome in Eternal Damnation This consideration will be very easie to him that reads this Book and exerciseth himself in what is written therein The This is the 27. Book in the Catalogue FOURTH is after the manner of a Common-Prayer-Book in such a Way and Form as that is used in the Lutheran Churches as at the end of the small Germane Bibles are Set Prayers for Every Day in the Week both for Morning and Evening also peeces of Scripture appointed to be read called Epistles and Gospels because most of them were first taken out of the Epistles of the Apostles and the Histories of Christ called the Four Evangelists and those according to the occasion are appropriated to the Dayes of the Year and they have other spiritual Psalms and Hymns made by Luther and other Holy Men The Author also intended this of his for the help of Beginners in the Exercise of Divine Meditations and Prayers out of the deep Treasury of 〈◊〉 knowledge Not to set a form to be unvaried or to tie up others in the use of those only but that their minds might therby be opened to raise its Desires up to God and so get strength to make larger or shorter or other Prayers as the Spirit of God in every one should stirre and move in the Good desires of their souls at all times and upon all occasions continually In this Treatise he had consideration of the Internal Eternal Powers of the Dayes of the week beginning on Munday and ending on Sunday the seventh from thence according to the Seven Forms of the Eternal Nature or the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God he would have expounded in them by way of Medition and Desires the Ten Commandments the Belief and the Lords Prayer as
of the Holy Ghost Effected And how did the bands of the Tongues of the Lords Disciples become unloosed 146. Question How is the difference or distinction of Languages among them to be understood That they have at one instant Spoken all Languages at once in one sence so that People of †Acts 2.5 to the 14. all Nations understood them 147. Question What doth this * Ioel. 2.28 Act. 2.17 18. shedding forth of the Holy Ghost out of Christs Death Resurrection and Ascention to Heaven profit or benefit us How may that be also effected in us 148. Question What is the †Rom. 2.27 29. and 7.6 Litteral Word and the * 2 Cor. 3.6 Living Word Christ in this shedding forth one with the other How became they distinguished seeing all did not hear the Holy Ghost Teach from the Mouth of the Apostles for †Acts 2.13 one sort of them said They are full of sweet Wine these heard indeed Mans-word but not Christ teaching in his * Phil. 3.10 Resurrection 149. Question How doth Christ himself Teach presentially in the Office of Preaching And yet sitteth at the right hand of the Power of God Or among whom doth Christ Teach what is a * John 10.2 Shepherd or Pastour in the Spirit of Christ And a Teacher of the †2 Cor. 3.6 Letter without the Spirit of Christ Each in his Office 150. Question * Math. 18.18 19 20. What is the Office of the Keys Math. 18.18 John 20.22 23. How may they become rightly used Or who is worthy or fit for this Office of the Keys and Capable thereof How i◠this to be understood Whether is Christ himself in the Office or whether is he himself the Office Or whether hath he freely given it to Man so that he may without Christs Spirit forgive Sinnes Or how is it done 151. Question What is Christs Testament together with the †Luke 22.19 20. 1 Cor. 11.20 to the 29. 34. See the Treatise of the Two Testaments of Christ Last Supper with Bread and Wine How is Christ really enjoyed * John 7.51 to the 66. The two Testaments What manner of Flesh and Bloud is it And what is the Mouth to eat it with 152. Question What is the place in Man wherein Christs Flesh and Bloud Continueth as he himself saith †Iohn 6.56 Whosoever eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud he continueth in me and I in him John 6.56 Also * Iohn 6.53 If you doe not eat the Flesh of the Sonne of Man and drink his Bloud then ye have no Life in you John 6.53 153. Question How is Man and how doth he become †Iohn 15.5 The two Testaments a Branch on the Vine Stock of Christ How doth Christ dwell in him and yet sit at the Right Hand of God in Heaven Also how can he sit at the right Hand of God in Man and yet the outward Man not be he 154. Question What manner of Christian is a * 1 Cor. 4.20 Iam. 1.21 22. The two Testaments 1. Ioh. 3.18 Titulary Christian in Name only without or out of Christ who only Comforteth himself and imputeth Christs Merits to himself and yet is unregenerate of the Spirit of Christ and Liveth Beastially Whether also doth he in such working or doing belong unto Christ Or what doth he receive in Christs Supper 155. Question Whether also may Christs †Ioh. 6.56 The two Testaments Flesh and Bloud become enjoyed by Believers without or out of the Testamentory Ordinance and Observation Or how may that be done 156. Question Why hath Christ ordained and instituted this Testament and said So oft as we doe it The two Testaments we should doe it in his remembrance 1 Cor. 11.25 To what profit and benefit is it done with Bread and Wine and not without Or whether may it also become enjoyed or participated without Bread and Wine 157. Question Whether is the true Testamentary enjoyment or participation The two Testaments bound meerly to the Apostolicall practice and Observation Or whether also Men have power or authority to alter and change this Ordinance as is done now adayes 158. Question Whether also is the Testament powerfull in the altered or changed Ordinance or Not 159. Question See the 5. ch concerning the Supper What doe the Learned when they reproach one another about Christs Testaments and the pretious Covenant of Grace And disgrace one another and give one another up to the Devill about it Whether doe they also mannage the Office of Christ whether is that right or wrong whether also is this done as a Minister of Christ Or whom doe they serve thereby 160. Question See the Theosophical Epistle Which is the very Mark of a right Christian upon Earth whereby Men may distinguish him from a Titulary-Christian 161. Question What is properly a Christian within and without How is he a * 1 Cor. 6.19 Temple of the Holy Ghost in which the Kingdome of God is inwardly revealed or Manifested How doth he walk and †Phil. 3.20 converse in Heaven and upon Earth both at once 162. Question What is the * Iohn 4.3 Antichrist upon Earth under Christianity 163. Question What is * Rev. 16.19 and 17.5 and 18.10 to the 22. and 19.20 and 17.1 to the 16. and 19.2 Babell or Babylon the Beast and the Whore in the Apocalips or Revelations 164. Question What is the Ruine of the Beast and how is it Effected that the Seven-headed Beast should become cast into the Abysse 165. Question How doth Christ then take in the Kingdome when this Beast becometh slain 166. Question What is the true New †Mat. 19.28 Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ Is it done in this time or after this Time 167. Question What is the * Rev. 13.14 dying of a True Christian What of him dyeth 168. Question What is the dying of the Wicked in that it is called an †Rev. 20.14 15. Eternal Dying 169. Question Whither goeth the Soul See the 21. Question of the forty Questions of the Soul when it parteth from the Body be it blessed or not 170. Question What are the Doings and Life of Souls See the 22. Question of 40. Questions till the Last Judgement Day 171. Question What is the * Jude 6. John 12.48 Question 30. in the forty Questions Last Judgement or how is it Effected 172. Question How is the †John 11.24 1 Cor. 15.52 in thirty Question Resurrection of the Dead Effected What Riseth again 173. Question How doth * 1 Joh. 2.17 2 Pet. 3.10 13. In the 30. Question this World passe away or vanish And what doth remain thereof afterward 174. Question What shall be after this Worlds Time †1 Cor. 15.24 to the 28. When God shall be all in all when the Dominions shall cease 1 Cor. 15.24 28. 175. Question Question the
3â— and 34. in the 40. Questions What will the Holy or Saints and Damned each of them doe and leave undone 176. Question See the 40. Question Where shall Hell and also the Eternal Habitation of the Holy or Saints be 177. Question What shall be the Eternal * Jude 24. Joy of the Holy or Saints and the Eternal pain or †Rev. 14.11 Torment of the Wicked Or also may there be any alteration Effected A Treatise or Consideration of or Concerning the Divine Revelation or Manifestation Shewing What God Nature and Creature as also Heaven Hell and the World together with all Creatures are Whence all things in Nature have received their Originall And for what God hath Created them and of what profit and Benefit they are Especially of MAN What Adam and Christ is Deduced Through the whole process and Course of the World To the End and into Eternity and set down in 177. Questions for the better Consideration or Meditation upon what Man is out of the right true Theosophick Ground An Exposition of The First Question What is God * oâ— distinct from Nature and Creature Observe The unsearchable God in Himself manifests himself to be known in Nature and Creature All Goodness in Nature is the Manifestation of what he is in himself in his Eternal Love Joy Mercy Meekness Right and Glory of Heaven And all Contrariety Opposition Adversity Misery and Evil in Nature is the Manifestation of his Eternall Wrath Anger Fury Darkness and the Lake of Consuming Fire and Brimstone of Hell which is his Nature in it self separate or distinct from his Love which is God himself And these are knowable and discernable by us in the Love and Anger Light and Darkness Joy and Sorrow Prosperity and Adversity Ease and Pain Pleasure and Torment In this visible World in this Mortall and Transitory Life For the Invisible Things of him that is his Eternall Power and Deity are clearly seen by the Creation of the World to the intent that all should be without Excuse that doe not learn to know him thereby See Rom. 1.19 20. without Nature and Creature in himselfe Note Answer GOd is the Eternall Vnity viz the Immense or unmeasurable Good which hath nothing after it nor before it which can give afford or bring in somewhat to it or that can Move it Without all Inclinations and Properties Which without originall of time in it self is but only ONE viz a meer Clearness Purity or Stilness without Stirring which hath no where any space or place nor needeth any for its habitation 2. But is without the World and in the World equally alike both at once and it is deeper then a Thought can cast it self Yes if one should for an hundred thousand years together speak forth the Numbers of its greatness and depth yet he would not have so much as begun to have expressed its depth for it is the Endlesness or Infinity 3. All whatsoever can be Numbered or Measured is Naturall and * Or Imaginable Imagible but the Unity of God cannot be expressed for it is equally alike through and through all at once And it is therefore called and apprehended to be the Good because it is the Eternal Meeknesse and the highest beneficence or well-doing in the perceptibility or inventibility of Nature and Creature viz the perceptible or inventible sweet Love 4. For the Unity viz the Good floweth forth from it self and introduceth it self with Out-flowing into Willing and Moving 5. There the Unity loveth or throughly inhabiteth the Desiring or Moving and the Desiring or Moving perceiveth the Meekness of the Unity Viz the ground of the Love in the Unity concerning which Moses saith †1 Cor. 8.4 The Lord our God is one only God and no other 6. And the matter is not so as Reason supposeth that God dwelleth only above the Starres without or beyond the Place of this World There is no place prepared for him wherein he dwelleth apart But only his Revelation or Manifestation is distinguishable 7. He is through with and in us and wheresoever he in a Life becometh moveable with his Love there is God in his working Manifest or Revealed That is his Love viz the Unity is there flowing forth desirous and perceptible or inventible there God hath made himself a place viz in the Ground of the Soul in the Eternall IDEA or Object or Representation of the Eternall desiring in the Love wherein the Love willeth and perceiveth or findeth it self as in the Angels and blessed Souls is to be understood The Second Question What is the Abysse of all things where there is no Creature viz the Abyssall Nothing Answer 1. IT is a habitation of Gods Unity For the opening or the Something of the Nothing is GOD himself The Opening is the Unity viz an Eternall Life and desiring a Meer Velleity or Willing Which yet hath nothing that it can desire but only it self therefore is the Will a meer desirous Love-longing Delight viz an Eâ—it of it self to its perceptibility or inventibility 2. The Will is first the Eternall Father of the Bysse or Ground And secondly the perceptibility or inventibility of the Love is the Eternall Sonne which the Will in it self generateth to a perceptible or inventible Love-power And Thirdly the Eâ—it of the desirous perceptible Love is the Spirit of the divine Life 3. And thus is the Eternall Unity a Threefold unmeasurable unbeginning Life Which standeth in meer desiring in conceiving and comprehending and finding of it self and in an Eternall Exit of it self 4. And that which is gone forth from the Will from the Love from the Life the same is the Wisdome of God Viz the Divine Vision Contemplability Joy of the Unity of God where by the Love introduceth it self into Powers Colours Wonders and Vertues Eternally 5. In this Opening Life of the Divine Unity five Clear and Loud-sounding Senses become understood in the perceptibility of the Love of the Life viz A. E. I. O. V. Wherein the divine desiring and working standeth the same bringeth it self into an out-breathing or out-speaking to the divisibility or distinguibility and to the Understanding of the ONE only Trinity whereby the Eternall Life findeth or perceiveth and understandeth it self 6. The Trinity manifesteth or revealeth it self out of the Unity with a Threefold breathing or Speaking so that this Threefold breathing or Speaking after a threefold manner or kind entereth into it self to a self ownnesse And this Threefold Sense is called with its Sensuall Name JEHOVA 7. For the Unity viz the I. goeth into it self into a Threefold Substance which is called IE and that IE is the Father Which bringeth it self with its breathing or speaking Will into HO that is into a Comprehension Formation or Concepâ—ion of the Love And in the HO the Word of all Powers becometh unâ—erstood for it maketh a Circumference or Surrounding of it self viz thâ— Eternall Somewhat or Something Whence the
his Enemies viz * Hebr. 2.14 Over Sinne over Death the Devil and over Hell as the Scripture saith †1 Cor. 15.25 26 54 55 56 57. till these his Enemies which all of them are Enemies of the Kingly and Princeâ—y Throne of MICHAEL because they are become thrust out of it be laid under his feet for a footstool and this Dominion and Imaging in this Throne cease 19. Hereby to those that are OURS and have their Thoughts or Senses and Apprehensions enlightened from God enough is shewen and we intend this in Love It is the highest Gate which God openeth or unlocketh to us for the very Last For those that can understand it but for the Scorners so long as they are such we have not written and we seal it with the Eternall Will so that this shall be understood by no Sâ—orner Amen 20. But how man may understand this depth of the Deity and search all things as St. Paul saith of it that * 1 Cor. 2.10 the Spirit searcheth all things even the Depth of the Deity and that the Rationall Naturall Man in own-self ability apprehendeth Nothing viz the own Will and yet that this is apprehensible in Man understand it as followeth 21. Man ia an Image of the Substance of all Substances a right expresse Image of God according to Love and Anger viz First the Soul is the Eternall Centrall Fire of the own willing for out of that * Note must all Creatures come but not out of the clear purâ— God 22. And Secondly The Spirit of the Sâ—ul is the Centrall Fire of the Light out of the Eternall IDEA broke forth or Sprung from the Power of God and it is Supernaturall whereupon it is also †1 Cor. 6.19 The Temple of the Holy Spirit in which Christ dwelleth and feedeth the Soul with his Flesh and Bloud viz with divine and humane * viz Christus or the Anointing Bâ—lsam in which the Death and the Anger of God is become broken Whereupon then such divine Balsam continueth in the Spirit of the Soul substantially as Christ saith †Joh. 6.56 Whosoever eateth my Flâ—sh and drinketh my Bloud he continueth in me and I in him 23. But Thirdly The outward Body is out of the outward World out of the four Elements and out of the Astrum or Consâ—eâ—â—â—â—â—ons Which outward Dominion ruleth the outward Life after which outward Dominion the Adamicall Soul hath Longed or Lustâ—â— and for the sake thereof is broken off from the Unity of God an◠〈…〉 into the Dominion of this World where the Will in it self â—ecame capâ—â—ve by the DRAGON of Gods Anger and turned into a Monster where the true Spirit disappeared when the Light of God Extinguâ—shed to it and the IDEA became Dumb or Inanimate and Uâ—operative or worklesse 24. Which Spirit the IDEA JESUS viz an Efflux from the divine Unity came to help relieve or assist and introduced the Light of the Love into the poor Soul 25. Now when this Name JESUS which is called Christ when he assumed the Humanity â—ndrew into the poor turned away or apostate Soul and pressed througâ—â—nd through it with the Beames of Gods Unity then became the Eternall IDEA viz the right Spirit in such Balsam of the Love moveable again thus the Light shineth again in the Darkness of the Soul and the NEIN or No becometh united with the IAH where Michael in the Strife standeth against or resisteth the Dragon viz the Name oâ— the Anger in Christ JESU 26. In this Light the Soul seeth again into its â—athers or Native Country which it had at first viz into its originall out of which it is Sprouted fâ—r the Name of GOD is in it and worketh in the Spirit Where it standeth in the viewing or Vision of God and may throughly search out all things yet n t in own-self Motion and willing But when the Name of God in the Moving entereth into it self then it looketh upon the forming of the Wonder-doing NAME it seeth and heareth what God speaketh in it 27. * NOTE No Image like Speaking or discourse but operative in the Understanding as the Prophets have spoken and yet this is incomprehensible to the outward Reason of which Saint Paul saith †Phil. 3.20 Our Conversation is in Heaven and yet saith also That a Thorne or Sting was given him in the Flesh that Sathans Angel or Messenger viz a Source Quality or Torment from the Spirit of Seduction of Lust should buffet him or strike him with fists 28. Understand this rightly thus that a Man seeth such hidden secret Mysteries in the Spirit of * Col. 2.2 3. CHRIST wherein all Treasures of Wisdome Lyo as the Scripture testifieth throughout And thus Men are to unsterstand rightly what the Eternall Councill of God is And then also how Man May come to such Vision or viewing and we have here only shewen the Possibility but the Way or Processe how he may attain thereto we have largely or copiously enough described in the other Books The Thirteenth Question How is the Thrusting out of the Dragon and of the Legions of Lucifer effected Whither is he thrust that he can be without God Seeing God filleth all things Or what is the Foundation of Hell where he dwelleth Answer 1. THe †Rev. 12.9 Thrusting out of the DRAGON was the false Apostate off-turned Image-like Will of the own receptibility in which off-turned Will LUCIFER together with his Angels hath Imaged Figured or Formed himself 2. The Dragon is the hellish Foundation and the rejected or reprobate Spirits are the Naturall Imaged Properties of the Hellish Foundation For when they brake off themselves from the holy Name of God from the Being or Substance of the Unity of God and totally Imaged themselves in the NEIN or No that is in the LYE then they became such 3. The Thrusting out is Effected by or Through the Name of the holy Power of * Lucifers his Throne which he hath had he is with his Legions become thrust out of his Throne that is out of his dwelling or Habitation and became instantly shut or lockt up by the Darknesse and apprehended or captivated by the fierce Wrath of the hellish Foundation 4. Thus he is severed off from Gods Holiness and dwelleth under the Firmament and upon the Earth between Time and Eternity as a Prince of Darkness in the fierce Wrath of God 5. His Princely Dominion is in the highest in severall distinctness as also in the Elements in all Quarters and Places after the Manner and Kind of the Four Elements according to †Of the Spirits their Properties for their Properties are Manifold and they have in all the four Elements Habitations every Generation or Tribe among them in their likenesse 6. Yet Men must rightly understand it thus they have not the Elements in possession according to the Good property of them No but only the out flown fierce Wrath out of the Eternall
viz as to one part to the Commandement with their Will directed into Gods Will as the first Patriarchs and all the honest good People of Israell 96. The other acted with their Hands the Works of the Law and clave with their Will to their poysonous Magia viz to Covetousness and sought nothing Else but the Numbers of the Multiplicity 97. Their Mouth was a Jew and the Heart a Babylonish Whore an Hypocrite and Antichrist with good words and a false covetous Heart 98. And thus in Christendome and with all People and Nations is the Babylonish Whore together with Antichrist sitting and there in one only People two Kingdomes dwell at once and they let themselves not mix in the inward Spirit so that they become one * Dan. 2.43 as Lime and Iron mingle not 99. They doe indeed mingle themselves according to the outward Body But their Spirits are of two sorts of Tribes or Generations as the Prophet Daniel saith Daniel 2. from 40. to the 45. verse 100. Therefore whosoever will know the Antichrist let them seek him only thus they will find him in every House but the worst of all is the Crowned Whore and her God-mothers who elevate her out of the Baptisme of Whoredome that they also may live in Number of the Multiplicity viz the Cryers who lead from the one Will of God into Many Wills that they alone may inherit the Number of the Multiplicity and may stuffe of fatten Earthly Bellies 101. And the other part belonging to the Free-Will of God goeth forth with the Magick Will hereof out of it self into the Liberty viz into the one only incomprehensible Will of God and it standeth * In the Philosophick Globe in the 40. Questions of the Soul turned Backward in the Magick Figure 102. The Life thereof seeketh Bread and goeth forward and its Will is not in the Bread but goeth out of it self out of the seeking into God into one only Number these are the right Children of the Eternall Mâ—gia 103. For Gods Spirit dwelleth in their Will and openeth to them the Eternall Wonders of God and their Lifes Spirit openeth the Wonders of this World and they are free from Babell and the Antichrist though indeed they should sit in the Bosome thereof for the right true Image of God standeth in the Spirit of the willing which becometh generated out of the Spirit of the Soul The Ninth Text. 104. WHereas then there are thus two Magia's in one another so there are also two Magi which manage and drive them viz two Spirits the one is Gods Spirit and the other the Spirit of Reason into which the Devill insinuates himself and in the Spirit of God the Love of the Unity stirreth it self 105. †Note And Man cannot better try and prove himself then by taking serious Consideration To what his Desire and Lust or Longing driveth him The same he hath for a Conductor and its Child he is 106. Neverthelesse he hath Now Might and Strength that he can break and alter that Will for he is Magicall and hath the Might or Ability Yet it must be Sincere or Earnest for he must Tame or subdue the Starry Spirit which ruleth in him Note Note 107. To this belongeth a Temperate sober and quiet Life with continuall giving up into the Will of God for the taming or subduing of the Source or Quality of the Starres there is no Wisdome nor Art needfull but Sobriety or Temperance of Life with continuall going out from the Influxes or * Instigations of Evill in Lusts and Passions Instigations the Elements continually dart into him the seeking of the Starres into the Will 108. Therefore it is not so easie a thing to become a Child of God to that belongeth great Labour and Toyle 109. And yet the Antichrist dares call himself a Child of God but Christ saith * Math. 7.21 22 23. They shall not all come into the Kingdome of Heaven that say LORD LORD and have not we Cast out Devils in thy Name and done great works but he faith to them away from me ye stinking Goats I know you not you have done this out of the false or wicked Magia and are not become known in my Spirit and Will 110. Ye are in your Spirituall Figure Goats Tyrants Covetous Proud Stately Voluptuous ye have brought my Name on to your Tongue but have sacrificed your Heart to the Pleasures and Voluptuousnesse of the Flesh and are generated in the Turba ye must be tryed through the Fire and so Each Kingdome getteth home its Fruit. 111. Therefore ye brave World behold your self in these Writings which have set before you the Eternall Ground and Consider further and deeper concerning it else you will become captivated in your Turba and there you shall with your Substance goe through the Fire of God and whatsoever is †1 Cor. 3.13 14 15. a work without the Will of God that shall remain in the Fire but whatsoever is generated in the Will of God that shall stand to Gods Glory and deeds of Wonder and to the Eternall Joy of the Image of Man 112. Now Consider what thou doest For Babell standeth already in the Flames and beginneth to Burn there is no Quenching or Extinguishing More nor no Remedy or Medicine she is become known to be Evill her Kingdome goeth to the End Hal-le-lu-jah The 8 of May. 1620. The Translation into the Nether-dutch was the second time made 1642. in July out of Three written High-dutch Copies Out of which Nether-dutch this was translated into English Saturday 6. of February 1657 8. Old Stile And compared with a High-dutch Copie The Holy Week Or A PRAYER-BOOK In which is mentioned the true Ground of Right Praying Set forth upon the entreaties and desires of his loving and good Friends for the daily Exercise of True Christianity in their Hearts and Little Church of their Families In the Year 1624. left unfinished By Jacob Behme Teutonicus Philosophus Englished by JOHN SPARROW London Printed by M. S. for Lodowick Lloyd and are to be sold at the Castle in Cornhill 1661. The brief Contents of this Prayer-Book for Every Day in the Week HOw Man should continually consider and call to mind his Employment Office or Duty his State Condition and Conversation wherein God hath set and ordained him and how he should Commit and Commend his Beginning Middle and End of all his Doings to God and Continually work all his Works with and IN God just as the Stock of the Tree generateth its Branches with and IN the power of the Root and bringeth forth its Fruit upon them And how in all his Beginnings he should draw Power and Vertue to his Works out of Gods Fountain or Well-spring and thank his Creatour for all Benefits Together with a hearty Consideration of the Suffering Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ shewing how Man should continually bring his Soules hunger and desire through Christs Death in his Resurrection into
rightly intimate to me and informe me how thou didst pour in thy Holy Name into my Soul and Mind yea it is sprouted forth out of thy Name and thou hast given me authority and power with thy Name to rule over all things That it should flow forth out of my Mouth through thy power and Vertue and rule All Yea I should with my Mouth and Speaking-forth or Expression re-Image and form holy Figures and Images again 192. Even as thou Eternall God hast Imaged and formed All through thy breathing or Speaking forth So thou hast also given thy WORD with thy holy Name into my Soul and Mind that I as a Form and Image of thy Will should also so speak forth viz thy Wonder-deeds 193. That which thou O Great God hast Corporeally and Creaturely Imaged through thy Word I should Image that in thy praise and form it in thy Wisdome and Image or frame no strange Image in my Mouth against thy Creation and Ordinance But continue in thy working and rule over all things with thy Word in my Mouth and Heart as the Scripture testifieth The Word is neer thee viz in thy Mouth and in thy Heart Deut. 30.14 Rom. 10.8 Also the Kingdome of God is inwardly within you Luke 17.22 194. This thy Holy Word wherewith thou hast made Heaven and Earth hast thou given into our Mouth that thou mightest through our Mouth Create or Image thy Praise 195. But after Man had Introduced himself into own-self Lust and had turned his Will away from Thee then he began with his Mouth to Image in thy Word Earthly and Hellish Figures in thy Wrath viz Cursing Swearing Lying Formes false wicked evill serpentine formes to form Wolves Beares Lyons Dogs Cats Adders and Serpents and all manner of poysonous venomous Beasts and to Image or form the Name of God thereinto under the appearance of divine forming and Truth also into false wicked Sorcery Witchcraft and deceit and therewith to cast up or produce and honour strange Images for Gods and introduce and Image thy Name into Images of Idoll Gods 196. All this thou settest before us in this Commandement and requirest of us thy strong or severe righteousness to Image thy Name in Holiness to thy Praise and in thy Praise in Clearness Sincerity and Truth and without thy Will and Co-working to make no form of Our words but willest that we should Co-speak Will and Image with thee upon pain of Eternall Punishment as thy Command clearly soundeth forth Cursed be He that Keepeth not all the Words of this Law Deut. 27.26 197. O Great God! What shall I now here say before thee How innumerable many times doe we bring thy Word and Power in Our Mouths into false or wicked Imaging when we swâ—ar by thy Name and Curse and bring false or wicked Lust thereinto and make a Fair Flattering Hypocriticall Image upon our Lips and sell it to one another for Truth perswading one another to believe it to be so and yet there is inwardly nothing but a Serpent full of Lies and Poyson and so we Image thy Word under a right appearance into a Serpent and Devils Image Also we Curse by it and so generate a living Figure of the Devill and of Hell 198. Also we use thy Holy Name to scornfull reproach and Image our false or wicked Beasts therein all whatsoever we love in the World be it as false or wicked as it will thereinto we Image thy Name and Power with our Mouth Also in swearing wherein we bring thy Might and Power on to the Tongue also into Sorcery or Witchcraft Plagues or Torment and Sicknesses or Diseases Yea we Image it into Hellish Figures with our Mouth Yea Men further bring thy Manifested or Revealed Word and Will for the sake of their Belly and temporall Pleasure and Pride into a strange Image which themselves know NOT Only that the Truth may Continue obscure and that in this strange Image they themselves may be honoured for Gods they make Laws and Commandements for their own Honour Pleasure and Voluptuousness and bind them with the Oath of his Name and yet none keepeth the same in his Heart 199. O God! How much poysonous Anger and Malice of self-revenge doe we bring into thy Name When we reproach and tread upon or oppresse one another in our Proud Stately Mind with thy Name and bring it into Tyrannicall Power and Authority and doe no other with thy Name but as the Apostate Lucifer doth 200. All this thou settest before us in thy Commandement For thou sayest We should not misuse thy Name and this is called misusing when we introduce it into false Expression or speaking forth and * Forming or Figuring Imaging 201. O Great God! What shall I poor miserable sinfull Man say here before thee Thou requirest thy Name from and IN ME in Holiness in thy praise Where shall I bestow all these Devils Images which we poor Men Image in our †This Body of the Outward Flesh and Bloud Sinne-house before thy Countenance They are indeed meer abominations before thee for the sake of which thy Law Curseth me and sentenceth me to Eternall Death 202. O Holy God! I have nothing wherewith I may come before thee but only thy Great †Barmhertzigkeit Mercifulness that thy Holy Word according to thy Most inward Love is become Man and is come to help us viz thy first given Word which hath formed it self in Our Life that it may renew us again and kill all these Devils Images and release and deliver the poor Soul and Mind from such Images of the Serpent 203. For which I thank thee in Eternity and pray thee thou Eternall Shed-abroad Love in the Most Holy Name JESUS Come I beseech thee to help me and bring thy Word that became Man into my Soul and Mind and continue in Me that I may continue in thee 204. Awaken I pray thee in me thy Fire of thy Great Love kindle it O Lord that my Soul and Mind may SEE these Evill Beasts and kill them in thy Power through right and true Repentance That I may Constantly bring and use thy Holy Name JESUS in Me to thy Praise and Thanksgiving and no more generate in thy Word Evill Beasts which belong to thy Judgement 205. O thou living BREATH of God! I give my self wholly and altogether to be thy own work thou in me what thou wilt AMEN The * The 3. according to Luthers Catechisme otherwise the 4. Commandement Third Commandement Consider or Remember the Sabbath Day to Sanctifie it For in Six Dayes the Lord Made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all that in them is and Rested the Seventh Day 206. O DEAR GOD This Commandement Intimateth to me my inward right divine Rest in thy Love and Power that my Will should rest in thee from its own receptibility of its own willing and thou Eternall God wouldest with thy Power work in my Will 207. Thou art the right
and Desire I desire no Comfort from thee in my earthly evill Will but pray thee out of all my power which yet is in me mortifiâ— my Earthly Evill Will and let it no more live before thee For it desireth only hypocrisie dissembling or flattery and own self Love and is never sincerely upright before thee It giveth thee good words and pretendeth Truth and yet is a Constant Lyar before thee 62. Give me only thy Will that I may will nothing without thee Doe thou with thy Will tread down my self evill Will to the ground and let me in thy Power co-will and act with thee 63. O LORD what shall I in my vanity pray for from thee I pray for Nothing from thee but for the dying of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST That thou wouldst put me to Death in his Death and make me living again in his Resurrection in him that I may no more walk or converse according to my Spirits Will in me but in him That I may be his Temple and Dwelling-house that he may lead and conduct me so that without him I may be able to will or doe nothing 64. Unite thou and bind me with him so that I may be a fruitfull Branch on his Vine and bear good Fruit in his Power into thy Promise I sink my self down totally and altogether Be it done unto me according to thy Word and Will Amen A Thanksgiving and Prayer When a Man after such Acting Repentance findeth the divine Power in himself 65. O GOD thou Well-Spring or Fountain of Love and Mercy I glorifie and praise thee in thy Truth and Thank thee in my Heart that thou presentest to me thy Countenance again and lookest upon me unworthy and Miserable Wretch with the Eyes of thy Mercy and givest me a Ray or Beam of Comfort so that my Soul CAN hope on Thee 66. O thou Infinite Love of JESUS CHRIST thou who hast Broken Death in our Humanity and changed Gods Anger into Love to thee I give up my self totally and altogether My Soul Laudeth and honoureth thee It rejoyceth it self in thy Power and Love that thou art so Good and Gracious My Spirit sporteth in thy Power and joyeth it self in thy Truth All thy doing is right and Truth Thou rulest over Sinne and breakest the Power of Death Thou holdest the Might and Power of Hell captive and shewest us the Way of Life 67. None is like thee O LORD Who releasest the Captives out of the Pits and Graves of Death and refreshest the Miserable Thou givest them drink in their Thirst and givest them Water of Eternall Life Thou directest their Feet in right Paths and guidest them with thy Staffe The dry parched Places of the Heart and of the Soul thoâ— fattenest and bedewest with thy Rainy Showers and givest them Water of Mercy 68. Thou makest them living in the Midst of Death and settest them up before thee so that they live before thee Thou thinkest on the Mercy and Covenant which thou hast made with us through thy Bloud and Death and forgivest us our Sinnes 69. Thou pourest into us of thy Power so that we acknowledge thee and givest us Food of the Eternall Life whereby we become quickened and continually hunger and thirst after thee This now my Soul acknowledgeth therefore it praiseth thee and exalteth thee in thy great Might and Glory 70. O thou Well-Spring or Fountain of Divine Sweetnesse comprehend or receive my Soul into thee and fill my Spirit with thy Love and bind me to thy Band that I never more depart from thee Strengthen I pray thee my weak Faith and give me an assured Hope and Confidence 71. Cleanse I pray thee my Heart and Soul and give me Chastity Modesty and Purity in my Conscience that I may be ashamed of Sinne before thy Countenance and depart from it Mortifie I pray thee all Evill Lusts in me that I may cleave unto thee with clean and pure desire and walk in thy Will 72. Keep and Maintain me I pray thee in thy Power and acknowledgement and give me an humble Heart towards thee and my Neighbour so that I may alwayes acknowledge and love thee Help also that I may Love my Neighbour as my self through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. AMEN A Prayer to the Great Fire-burning Love of God shewing how rightly to Pray for it O Thou Holy GOD thou that dwellest in a Light that None can câ—â—â— unto but only the Love of thy Sonne Jesus Christ which thou hast out of meer Grace poured into our Humanity in JESUS Christ Wherewith thou hast loved us poor Men before the foundation of the World And hast through this Love redeemed us from thy fierce Wrath and from the power of Death and of Hell and offerest us now this Love through thy Sonne Jesus Christ in thy Fire-flaming Spirit that we should pray unto thee for it and thou wilt give it unto us 74. I poor unworthy Man acknowledge my self in◠〈…〉 worthy of it But seeing thou hast manifested or revealed 〈…〉 in our assumed Humanity and callest therewith the poor * Luke 19.10 1 Joh. 4.2 3. 2 John 7. lost Sinners And art* Come in the Flesh so that thou wilt seek them in their Sinnes and Miseries and thereby deliver them from Sinne and save them as thy Word teacheth us this Therefore come I upon the invitation of thy Word and receive thy Word and truth in my Heart and Soul and Comprehend it in me as thy Free-Gift and pray thee O thou Fire-flaming Love of God in the Covenant of JESUS CHRIST freely given to us poor thirsty Soules kindle also my poor Soul with this Love that it may attain a New Life and Will and become delivered out of its Prison and Captivity of thy Anger and out of the Jawes of Death 75. O thou fiery Love of God thou who hast in our Humanity broken Death and destroyed Hell and brought forth our Souls victory in Christ through Death Thou who hast at †Acts 2. the holy Pentecost moved in the Apostles Mouths and Hearts in fiery flames and kindled all thy Saints and done thy Miracles or Works of Wonder by them Thou that lovest and preservest the whole World and all thy Creatures To THEE I come and give my self wholly into thee 76. O thou great Fountain of God Open thy self also in the Spirit of my Inwardnesse and kindle also in me the Fire of thy Love so that my Spirit may burn in thy Love and acknowledge and praise thee therein 77. O thou great Holinesse through the Merits of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST through his Bloud and Death I presse in me to thee and give my self up into thy Flame Through his Resurrection and Ascention or going to Heaven I bring my Will into thee and give it up to thee totally and altogether Doe thou with it how thou wilt Doe but deliver it from false or wicked Lust and break its power that it may only look upon thee 78. O thou holy Power
of God thou who movest in and over Heaven and Earth and art NEER unto ALL things pour forth thy self also I pray thee IN me that I may become new born again in thee and Sprout forth in thee and work good Fruits as a Branch on the Vine JESUS CHRIST to thy Eternall Praise and Glory 79. O thou Gate of the Holinesse of God shine I pray thee in thy Temple in my Spirit so that I may walk in thy Light and alwayes praise thee and serve thee in Righteousness and Holinesse as it is pleasing to thee who art ONE Eternall God Father Sonne and Holy Spirit highly praised in Eternity AMEN Now follow the Prayers upon EVERY DAY in the WEEK at Mornings Noones and Evenings shewing how Man should be in Continuall Exercise and Working 80. CHRIST said to his Disciples Watch and Pray that ye fall not into Temptation Math. 26.41 And Saint Peter saith Your Adversary or Accuser the Devill goetâ—â—â—bâ—ut as a Roaring Lyon and seeketh whom he may devoure 〈◊〉 withstand stedfast in the Faith in Prayer and in Hope that your heart may be defended or preserved against such Darts of the Evill one or Wickedness 1 Pet. 5.8 9. A Prayer on MUNDAY A short Prayer and Sigh penetrating to God when a Man waketh Early before he riseth 81. O Living God who hast made Heaven and Earth my Eyes look upon thee and rejoyce at thy Goodnesse that thou art so gracious and hast held thy hand over me in this dark Night and also defended and kept me by thy holy Angels from all hurt and Mischief 82. To thee thou living Source Quality or Fountain I presse and Blesse my self with the Holy Crosse on which thou didst worry Death and brought Life to us again through the Bloud of our Lord JESUS CHRIST in the Name * Of the Cross of of God the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Spirit Amen A Prayer and Thanksgiving when and as Man riseth I Thank thee O God my heavenly Father through JESUS CHRIST thy Dearly beloved Sonne our Lord and Saviour for all Benefits for thy Gracious protection and defence in that thou hast held thy hand over me and preserved me this Night from the Devils Subtlety and Treachery and from all Evill 84. And Commend now my Body and Soul to thee and all that thou hast given me and hast set me therein to be thy Servant or Minister into thy hand Also all my Senses Thoughts and Desires Rule and Govern me I pray thee this Day and all times with thy holy Spirit and lead me in right Paths 85. Giâ—â—â—e thy Word in my heart and teach me thy Truth that I may speak think or doe nothing but that which is right and Truth 86. Defend me from Lying and all evill Wicked Men which walk and converse in Lying and deceit that I may not follow after them but bring forth thy Truth in my heart and walk in right paths 87. Draw thou and put on to my Heart and Soul the Garment of Salvation and the Cloak of Righteousnesse and Purity and wash my heart with the Bloud of the Lamb JESUS CHRIST 88. Let my Eyes behold thy way that I may walk and converse therein Give me thy holy Angell that he may lead and conduct me and protect me from the Devils Suggestions or Representations and false or evill Net that I may not suffer my self to Lust after unrighteousnesse 89. Give me Chast and Modest Eyes that no evill or false Lust awake in me and protect me from Anger and Cursing that I may not misuse thy Name but so walk as is most pleasing and acceptible to thee through JESUS CHRIST thy dearly beloved Sonne our Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer when we dresse our selves and wash O Eternall God by this Garment I call to mind the Garment of Innocency of our first Parents when they needed no such clothing or Garment as this which Earthly Cloathing or Garment took its beginning through Sinne. 91. O Mercifull God thou hast brought us again the fair bright Paradisicall Garment in thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST put it I pray thee on to my Soul seeing the Earthly Body is not worthy of it Till I shall once rise again out of the * Or Ashes Dust of the Earth and then thou wilt totally cloath me upon with the Cloaths or Garment of thy Power and Glory this I believe and hope according to thy Word And as I now wash me with outward Water so O Dear God wash also I pray thee my Heart and Soul with the Bloud of the Lamb JESUS CHRIST that I may be pure and clean before thee and be acceptable to thee as thy Bride and embrace Me in thy Armes as thy dearly beloved Bride whom thou hast Betrothed and Married to thee in the Faith and in the Love 92. O LORD Jesus Christ put on to me I pray thee the Garment of thy Innocency wherein thou in our Garment hast taken upon thee the scorn of ALL Men. 93. Thou hast O Lord JESUS CHRIST laid off from thee our Earthly Cloathes or Garment in thy Suffering and Dying the Souldiers plucked them off from thee and hast offered thy self naked and Bare to thy Eternall Father and hast thereby obtained for us the pure Garment of Innocency which our Father Adam had on him before his fall †Gen. 2.25 when he knew that he was Naked 94. O Dear Lord JESUS Put it on again I pray thee to my poor Soul Thou art indeed therefore come into our Humanity because thou wilt help us and bestow upon us the Garment of thy Power receive I pray thee my Mind into thy Garment that the same may in that Garment enter before God thy Father and pray unto him 95. O Lord JESUS CHRIST I cannot without the Garment of thy Power and Satisfaction come before God My Prayer can not otherwise â—â—tain â—o reach the City or Place of the Deity unlesse thou â—â—â—â—st my Mind and Desire upon with the Victory of thy resuâ—â—â—ction Wherein alone with my Mind I can come to thy â—â—â—â—â—nly Father 96. Therefore now thus I give thee my Mind and Will totally for thy own propriety Cloath thou it Lord JESU with thy Power even as I at present cloath the Body with Earthly Garments and wash thou away all impurity from my Mind 97. As I now wash my Face with Water so wash thou also my Mind inwardly with the Power of thy Grace so that it may be ready and chearfull to behold thee and have a Loathing against all Falshood or Wickednesse and Impurity of Lying Untruth Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Anger and all whatsoever is against God 98. As I now wash with outward Water so O Dear GOD wash thou my Heart and Soul I pray thee also with the Bloud of the Lamb JESUS CHRIST that I may be pure before thee and be acceptible to thee as thy Bride embrace me in thy Armes as thy Beloved Bride which thou in Faith