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The heart opened to Christ Jesus. Translated out of High Dutch for the good of all men.
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Knowledg and our Mystery yea this is the most precious Way and Means of Salvation which now towards the End shall be shewn to all Men in the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which shall be preached in all the world for a witness and then shall the End come Mat. 24.14 Finally this is our only true and saving Religion Faith and Confession before God and all the Elect Angels and Men according to which we are Children viz. Children of God fellow-children with the only begotten Son of God and Children of the Spirit Our glory is not in Paul Cephas or Apollo no We are Children and not Men Fools in this world and not wise men Babes and not great and deep-learned Masters Doctors and Rabbies to such the Promise is given and not unto the prudent wise and learned of this world No but it is hid from them and revealed unto Babes viz. who the Father and the Son is Ye humane learned among all Sects do nor know Christ for ye know not Love for unto him that loveth he will reveal himself Therefore whosoever among you seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise We must all turn back again and become Children otherwise the Kingdom of God comes not nor appeareth in us nor we come into it Ye can convert no man to Christ unless ye your selves first turn back and become like Children We must begin from below and not from above otherwise we shall fall Therefore it is the lowly and humble which the Lord looks upon both in Heaven and on Earth And thus let us humble our selves in our selves submiting our selves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt us in due time leaving all other things to him for he will order all things for the Best CHAP. IX Wherein Mans true Conversion consisteth and which way to attain it NOw what shall we say further Beloved Brethren in the Lord seeing there is a very great Alteration at hand Is there any Sect at all that can serve our turn or avail us any thing at all No for all such mind is humane and carnal and not the mind of the Spirit and therefore not known of God How then Whatsoever is of humane mind must fall of and in it self for it is not the mind of the Spirit nor is it the mind of Christ that we be of Paul Cephas and Apollo but that we be divine This is both the mind of Christ and of his Apostles of which the Apostles themselves witness and say We have the mind of Christ But what is that mind of Christ To speak thereof simply as Children It is to be at unity in Love of one mind in knowledg and of one spirit in Christ Moreover what is our belief and opinion of this Mind This viz. that if all shall become Christians whether they be Heathens Turks or Jews c. let them be called in humane mind and manner what they will I say if we all shall turn and be converted to God and become one Flock and have one Shepherd then all these Superstitious Idolatrous and old Adamical names must down be forgotten and rooted out that the Name of the Lord only may be named known and confessed by every mouth tongue and heart of Man for it is written Unto me all knees shall bow saith the Lord and not unto Baal for I will root out the names of Baalim and unto me every tongue and mouth shall confess that I am the Lord and I will not give mine Honor to any other nor my praise unto Idols True it is that the time is coming and at hand that all the world shall be converted to the Lord for when the Lord hath accomplished his Determination and poured forth his fierce Anger and Indignation upon all the world then he shall turn to the people a pure language and cause to be preached to them with amiable lips that they may all call on the Name of the Lord to serve him with one consent Zeph. 3.8 9. Therefore God punisheth one Sect by another and with another so that they amongst themselves know not what they do being ignorant of the Councel of the Lord not observing that the Lord hath gathered them together as upon a threshing floor that he may thresh them with all manner of plagues and then shall he satisfie his Anger and cool the fire of his Jealousie Zeph. 3.8 And when the time of the Gentiles is thus accomplished and their fulness come in then the Lord shall have mercy upon the whole House of Israel again and call them by an Everlasting Gospel He shall gather them and bring them back again out of all Countries and bring them home into the Land which he hath sworn unto their fathers with an everlasting Oath and Covenant and together with the whole seed of Abraham he shall convert all Gentiles unto Himself and thus restore the Kingdom of Israel to Everlasting Glory Then the Lord shall appear glorious in his coming and renew and regenerate the whole Creation and then we shall know the exceeding Virtue of the blessed Birth of our Saviour and great God Jesus Christ which hitherto in his Mystery hath been hid from the wise learned and prudent of this world until this day of the Revelation in which the whole World and Creation receiveth its Conception from above through the Revelation of Jesus Christ the Son of the Man in Heaven in his day by the preaching of the Everlasting Gospel After which Conception the whole World shall then also bring forth the Child of Righteousness in the Regeneration and Renovation of all things in a new Creation and Creature where all that is old shall fade like an old garment be clothed with Salvation and Righteousness for the Wedding of the Lamb in the Paradice of God Therefore all ye that love the Mystical Wisdom be assured that the time is come in which all things must be made manifest reproved and judged by the Light The time of the seventh Trumpet is come in which the Temple of the Lord shall rightly be known opened and seen and in it the Ark of his Covenant The Kingdoms of this World shall all all all be destroyed and shall belong peculiarly to Christ and to his Saints Satan the Dragon and wicked one together with the Beast which hitherto and as yet no man knoweth but those that have the Spirit of Prophecy shall be cast down shut and sealed up in the Pit or Abyss for ever Hallelujah Now when the time of the Manifestation cometh being also now already then we shall plainly discern and acknowledg that hitherto we have been but children in knowledg even carnally minded in the knowledg of Christ in all our wit wisdom learning and Scholership we shall then hear spoken and preached far far otherwise of the afore-named seven Points then hitherto we have heard for then verily Men shall speak with new tongues of the great
himself to the right way of God to walk in the paths of Holiness Man must order and behave himself aright after the conduct and instruction of Moses who is Christ in the new Birth and Conversion Him always in the way we must carefully observe and look upon at his right hand and never set our eyes from him whatsoever he doth and taketh in hand in this life Therefore he must also leave the old Adam in Egypt that is hate and deny himself and on the contrary turn all his love to God in Christ and wholy yield and submit himself in an humble resignation to the Spirit of God and his good Government Now if he thus both within and without with a wholy converted Heart be yielded up and resigned unto God according to his Will and in his Love is desirous of nothing more then God then he walketh in the way at the right hand being no more his own self or an adherent of base and wicked Egypt but having quite left and abandoned the flesh pots is desirous through Christ to become one Spirit with God according to the desire of the Soul and likewise longeth with delight for Perfection that he may enter again into the first Image after which in the Begining he was created of God CHAP. III. Even as God is the Being of all Beings and the Life of all living so also must every one that meaneth to inherit Salvation become like unto him in Christ ALL the care and matter is how Man according to the Image of God may be transplanted again out of this temporary into the Eternal Kingdom of Joy Therefore according as the Man doth form and figure himself in this life under the government and domiminion of the Starry or Sydereal Spirit in such form and figure he also transplanteth and presenteth himself after this life unto Eternity Namely either into one principle of the Abyss or else into the other of the Divine Love and eternal Joy with God and his holy Angels Originally and in the Creation Man was created like unto God and became his Image that he according to that should be a Lord and Soveraign over the world which that he might better perform he was placed and ordained in Paradice with such an Heavenly and uniform body as was wanting in nothing that any way could be necessary to this excellent and glorious Performance Yea as a father and a son are one with another so was Man like unto God and had the perfect wisdom to govern all things aright according to the Will of God in his Image both within and without himself viz. all things so far as it belonged to him and was subject to temporary nature He had not gotten any frail body unless purposely he had thrown himself into this fragillity thus he was uniform with God according to his Image In which uniformity yet this difference is to be observed viz. God is and abideth the Creator and the Father Man is the Creature and childe God hath no time but is Eternal having nothing either afore or after himself But Man hath a Beginning and is comprehended by the Incomprehensible God There is nothing that God hath received but he hath and is all in Himself But man hath received all things from God and hath nothing of his own God needeth neither Angel nor Heaven nor world nor place nor time But Man can neither live nor be without God These differences shew plainly and sufficiently How man ought to live aright according to the properties of the Image both in this time and hereafter in Eternity viz. we must be his onely with Will Heart Soul Understanding and Being and no others besides neither our own but look meerly and onely upon Him by whom we are created and after our fall so dearly bought and redeemed besides whom we must choose or desire nothing seeing without him we be nothing and can do nothing as Christ saith But who so taketh delight in himself loveth himself seeketh and findeth himself he committeth two great and horrible Evils For first He thereby becometh a proud Thief in seeking the preeminence in Gods Being and Dominion arrogating it unto himself as if he were of Himself as God is which he likewise in secret esteemeth himself to be and will needs be equal with God Secondly He becometh also thereby a Murtherer in killing himself so miserably by falling off from God upon himself that is falling off from the Being upon his own nothing and making himself a reproach to him of whom he hath received his Being and Breath seeing that God had also therefore formed him after his won Image that he should not eat of the Tree of Knowledg of Good and Evil for God is the right hand and he himself the left hand viz. the Creature which afore was nothing Man should keep the Properties of the Image suffering the Will of God to work and do all things in him Man should be the Tool wherewith God should do all things But the desire to know Good and Evil is that horrible Fall whereby he is cast out of the Image of God and that is the right Serpent of Sin which so extreamly hath deceived us perswading us to eat of this forbidden fruit O what a lamentable state and condition is it that we thereby are fallen so deep far from the Image of God and the holy life of Paradice into the uttermost bestial Kingdom and Government of the Starry or Sydereal Spirit Yet it is an infinite and unspeakable Mercy that the Son of God Christ Jesus our Lord would not leave nor forsake us in this extream both temporal and eternal Perdition of our Soul but with his deep Humiliation c. brought back again his beloved Creature into its Principium and Heavenly Kingdom into Paradice opening the Blessed Gate to the former Image lest we in any thing should be wanting Therefore if so be we will enter again into the first and blessed estate of our Souls viz. of Eternal Image and Salvation then we must return back again from and out of the base and bestial Life of our sinful flesh and enter into the living and Heavenly Birth becoming like to Christ in all thins according to his love wherewith he hath loved us and thus with Christ wholy yielding our selves up to God in a perfect and humble resignation forgetting and denying our selves and hating our own life seeing that we our selves are our chiefest and worst enemies and all this to the end that we may attain to Christ Perfection according to the restored Image of his Love Psal 17.15 Not suffering our selves to be drawn back or hindered by any thing in the world CHAP. IV. Of Mans true Perfection in Christ and in the Love IT is a most dangerous and pernitious Doctrine whereby true Christianity most mightily is hindered when many give forth and teach against God Christ Jesus himself and his Holy word and Gospel that it is Impossible for a Man