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A76955	Of Christs testaments, viz: baptisme and the Supper. Written in two bookes. The 1. of holy Baptisme, how it is to be understood in the ground thereof, and why a Christian should be baptised. The 2. of the holy supper of the Lord Christ, what it is, with the benefit and effects of it, and how the same may be worthily participated of. And how these are to be understood, both according to the Old and New Testament. Set forth from the true theosophicall ground, through the three principles of the divine revelation, and presented to the children of God for the information of their understandings. / Written in the yeare of Christ 1624. by Jacob Behm of Old Seidenberg alias Teutonicus Philosophus. And Englished by John Sparrovv, barrister of the Inner Temple London.; Von Christi Testamenten. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1652 (1652)	Wing B3412; Thomason E665_4; ESTC R14724	100,767	137

Paschal-Lamb Christ in his Testament all which was a Figure of the New Regeneration signifying how the same should be borne through the right Paschal-Lamb Christ 1 Cor. 5.7 and how the same New Birth would Eate the sweet food of the Divine Grace 4. This is a Powerfull Figure of the terrible Fall in Adam and then in the New Birth or Regeneration in Christ for in Adam the first Birth viz the first Angelicall Life was slaine by Gods Anger and by the Grace-Covenant in Christ was the same brought back againe and spoken or inspired into Adam and Eve thus now the Spirit of God signifieth by this figure of Moses in Aegypt how that same inspoken Grace should be fullfilled with heavenly and divine Substance also how Man should be d Smeared or streaked marked and sprinckled by that Mark viz by the bloud of the Lamb of God and how God would give him the substance of his sweet Love for food whereby the Naturall foulish fire-Life should be againe quickened and attaine a Divine Ens in its Lifes-Essence and thereby be transmuted and changed againe into the Angelicall Image 5. Also wee see this Image very cleerly in the Sacrifices of Israel How they must slay and sacrifice Beasts and burne the Fat For when God gave the Law to Moses that Israel should live in full obedience in the Covenant of this Law then he gave him also the figure shewing how this Law should be fullfilled and how Man should be e Released or reconciled attoned from Sinne and the Anger of God as wee may cleerly see this in the * Levit. 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. third Book of Moses in the Eighth Chapter where the Image of the reconciliation or attonement standeth Where it standeth thus Å¿ Sacrifice And Moses caused an Heifer to be brought for a Sinne-Offering and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head there it was slaine and Moses tooke the bloud and with his finger put it round about upon the homes of the Altar and g Clensed it from sinne clensed the Altar and powred out the bloud at the foote of the Altar and sanctified it so that he made an attonement on it And tooke all the fatt upon the Inwards and the Kall upon the Liver and the two Kidneyes with the fatt on them and burned it upon the Altar But the Heifer with his hide flesh and dung he burnt with fire without the Host as the Lord had commanded him And brought a Weather or Ram for a Burnt Sacrifice and Aaron with his Sonnes layd their hands upon his head and it was slaine there And Moses sprinckled the Bloud round about upon the Altar and clave the Ram in pieces and burnt the head the pieces and the Rump and washed the Inwards and the leggs with water and so burnt the whole Ram upon the Altar this was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour a fire to the Lord as the Lord had commanded him Leviticus 8.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. 6. This is a true figure of the Sacrifice of Christ with our assumed humanity how he hath offered our humanity through the sacrifice of his body to the Anger of God and how God in this sacrifice hath smelt his sweet love in the Humanity of Christ and reconciled his wrath in the fire 7. The Figure of Christ standeth thus * Levit. 8.10.11.12 When Moses should make this sacrifice he tooke first the anointing Oyle and anointed the h Tabernacle dwelling place and all that was therein and sanctified it and sprinckled therewith seaven times upon the Altar and anointed the Altar and all its implements the Laver with its foote so that it was sanctified and powred the anointing Oyle upon Aarons Head and anointed him so that he was sanctified Moses standeth heere in the figure of God and Aaron standeth in the figure of Christ according to our Humanity and the Heifer standeth in the figure of the earthly perished Adam according to his Beastiall property and the Ram standeth in the figure of the true Man created in Adam shewing how the same should be offered up to God againe in the humanity of Christ Moses anointed Aaron that is God anointed our Humanity in Christ with his highest Love viz with the substantiall Wisdome and Divine substance in the Name JESUS 8. And that is it that Moses first anointed the Tabernacle which signifieth the Body of Mary in which GOD became MAN and therefore the Angel called her the Blessed among all women Luk. 1.28 For God first sanctified the Tabernacle and sprinckled with his anointing oyle of Love upon all the seaven properties of the Naturall Life which life in the humanity of Christ the Altar of Moses signified which God anointed when JESUS assumed Mans Life The Laver with its foote signifieth How God hath anointed the humane Hand or desire in the humanity of Christ with which he should doe wonders The anointed Head of Aaron signifieth how the humanity of Christ viz our humane Science should be anointed with the Holy Ghost 9. This God set forth by Moses in the Type for when Moses had anointed Aaron together with the Tabernacle and the sonnes of Aaron and established the whole buisines then he caused a Heifer to be brought for a sinne-offering which Heifer signified the Grosse Earthly Man impressed through Adams Lust On this Heifer must Aaron and his sonnes lay their hands upon his head which signifieth how God in Christ and then the Priests or Pharisees would lay their hands upon our in Christ assumed Mortall humanity and flay that is put to death our humanity according to this Worlds Substance and how his humane Bloud should be sprinckled round about on the Hornes of the Holy Altar with the finger of God viz as with the laying hold of Gods Anger and how God would thus cleanse his Altar in the Humanity upon which Altar viz the humane Life should holy Sacrifices be offered to God againe 10. But that Moses did burne the fatt of the Liver and Kidneys upon the Altar signifieth that our true Adamicall Man out of the Limus of the Earth according to its right Inward Ground should not be cast away or thrust out from God but be kindled in the fire of Gods Anger with the fire of Love and be offered to God As this then was done in the humanity of Christ when he sacrified our humanity to the Anger of God but yet did introduce it with his Love through Death into Life as out of the fire there springeth up a cleere Light as out of the-fire dying a new Life which consisteth in power and Love 11. But that Moses did burne with fire the Heifer with his hide flesh and Dung without the Host and only sprinckled the bloud of the Heifer upon the hornes of the Altar and kindled the fatt it signifieth that the grosse beastiall body of our flesh with skin and bones shall not come upon Gods

kindling the humane desire through the Covenant went to meete God and Gods-Imagination went into the Covenant Thus stood the Holy Fire in the Covenant opposire to the Wrath in the Introduction of the humane desire in the Sacrifice Gods Imagination in his Love-fire went into the Covenant and the Humane Imagination went also through the Sacrifice in the Fire into the Covenant for in the fire was Gods Wrath met opposite where through the humane Imagination must goe into the Covenant and so consume the sinne and uncleannesse in the Humane desire which pierced to God Thus stood in the Covenant the lov●r fire met opposite to the humane desire and the same tooke the humane desire in the Wrath-fire to it according to its purity 29. As may be seene by Moses on Mount Sinai where first the Fathers Property in the Covenant out of the Wrath-fire opened it selfe and required Mans Righteousnesse that the same should walke before God in full obedience and purity and in purity draw neere unto him through the Sacrifice in the fire And if not then he would devoure them in the Curse through this Wrath-fire which was an Image Type or shadow signifying how the humane vanity should and must be purged through Gods wrath-fire But in the same wrath-fire stood the love-fire met opposite in the Covenant in the Sacrifice as an Image of Christ and quenched the Wrath-fire so that the soules desire with its prayer and Will could pierce through this wrath-fire into God 30. This Love-fire that stood opposite to the Wrath in the Sacrifice which also the Wrath-fire kindled so that it devoured the Sacrifice that is it which in the limit of the Covenant in the seede of the Woman awakened it selfe with heavenly Substantiality viz with the Essentiall Wisdome and gave it selfe up into our Substance vanished as to God yet heavenly 31. Our substance vanished and shut up in Death was signified by the drie Rod of Aaron which Substance grew in this awakening and introducing of the Heavenly Living Love n Or Substance Essence where Gods Substance became Man in whom the Holy fire could Burne For the Divine Ens which vanished in Adam which grew againe with such kindling was the food of this Love-fire as a Spirituall Holy Oyle wherein the Love-fire could kindle and burne and that same Love-burning was the New Life of the Regeneration 32. But seeing in o By OTHER may be ment other men then the man Christ himselfe OTHER Men there should not be Effected such a supernaturall kindling through the speciall Moving of God but that other Men should all be kindled through this holy fire out of Christ therefore went the Covenant through the Water-Baptisme with the out flowne Grace first into the Heavenly Ens of Man viz into the vanished Substance wherein the Incorporated Paradisicall-Covenant of the Serpent-Destroyer steed and pierced into the same Covenant 33. Yet seeing the Humane Essence which was become Earthly should goe together with such piercing in therefore there must also be such a Medium for it wherein the Humane Essence can take hold for in Gods Holinesse it cannot take hold for the will was rent off from that therefore there must now be a similitude wherein the Imagination of the Humane Nature may take hold 34. For Christ also had this similitude viz the Elements received from us Men that the Divine Imagination might take hold in the Water that so the Divine and humane Imagination together might awaken and kindle the Incorporated Paradisicall-Covenant in that manner as a Glimmering Mother fire or tinder-fire cometh into the wood and Glimmereth 35. After such a manner through the Baptisme was introduced a Divine Mother-fire of the Holy fire a holy and Divine Glimmering fire which destroyed and brake sinne and Death to pieces in the Inwardnesse of Man viz in the vanished heavenly Ens from which the dry withered Tree of the Inward Ground might receive a life againe viz a Spirituall Oyle In which new Spirituall Oyle of the Power of the Divine Light the Love-fire viz the New-Life should burne 36. This is now the Water-Baptisme to which the Holy Ghost in the Inward Ground is the hand which with the flowing forth of the Divine Love out of Christs suffering Death and Resurrection baptiseth with his Victory That is Hee Infuseth Christs Humanity Suffering Death and Resurrection into the Inward Ground and kindleth the Incorporated Paradisicall Covenant with this fire that the dry Rod of Aaron buddeth forth 37. For with this Infusion of the Holy Ghost Christ is bestowed upon Man he is hereby incorporated to Christ and the Heavenly Ens which in Mary assumed our humane Ens with the whole processe of Christ is put on him and imprinted in his even heavenly vanished Ens to a New Life which hath overcome Death 38. As a Tincture tinctureth wholly and throughly penetrateth the Mettle or as fire gloweth quite through the Iron so heere it is to be understood concerning those who are capable of such Infusion as shall further be taught The Second Chapter Of Gods Covenant after the Fall what the Fall of Man is and how God hath bound and united himselfe with him againe What the Circumcision in the old Testament and the Baptisme in the New are WHen any will kindle a Fire they must have some Substance that will take Fire it must be a Substance wherein there is an Oyle and Brimstone or it burneth not For if they cast a Stone or the like into the Fire it will not so burn as to come to a shining light so also it is to be understood concerning the poore Soule When it brake its desire off from Gods Essence of Love and Meeknesse which Essence in the beginning was in it as a Spirituall Oyle and Water and it was as a Spirituall Brimstone wherein the Light of God did burne then it brought it selfe into owne Desire whereby it was shut up as a hard Stone and lost all its Love and Meeknesse and was as a burning Brim-stone-spirit which could not be remedied unlesse the Oyle of Divine Meeknesse and Love did flow into it againe To this flowing into the Humane property there must be a Subject as a Medium or Meanes or o Resemblance or thing of the like nature Antitype whereby it may be done whereinto also the Humane Faith Entered and received the virtue or power through a Medium or Meane This Medium in the Old Testament is the Circumcision together with the Sacrifices and in the New Testament it is the Holy Baptisme and Supper of Christ together with the Word taught whereby the Divine Love and Meeknesse as the right p Balsam orVnction Anointing Oyle of divine power is againe flowen into the * Glauben See Ch. 1. v. 28. on the second side Faith and so the shut Mouth of the soule is received into and comprehended in the Covenant of God and opened againe by the sweet Grace so that it can againe Eate

of the heavenly Manna What signifieth now this Anointing Answer Nothing else but that as Man is Tinctured againe in Soule and Body and so throughly penetrated and healed that he is capable of the Divine Power againe viz of the Divine fire of Love so must his Brimstone Spirit of the Wrathfull fiery Soule perished as to God be remedied againe by the Covenant of God by such an Anointing Oyle As with the Baptisme there is powred into it the Water of the Eternall Life of Divine Meeknesse and in the Supper is powred into it the fire-burning Love in the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ Reason sayth Cannot God forgive Man his sinne without a Medium Answer The Matter was not about forgivenesse The Soule wanted not onely forgivenesse but a New-Birth It had brought it selfe into owne-will and quite broken it selfe off from Gods will whence the Eternall Darknesse existed in it For the source of its Life viz it s own Seperator understand the Cause of its Creaturely Moving and Life had lift up it selfe and the properties of Life were quite gone forth from their Temperature and had brought themselves into a strange burning fire viz into an anguishing heat and cold into Eternall hunger and thirst into Horror and Despaire Where in the Life of the Body and of the Soule all properties were against one another and Man stood in an Eternall dying source Hee was become quite Blinde and Dead as to God and the more he moved himselfe in his owne ability to apprehend God the greater was his anxious source For the poore Soule was by Lust gone into Earthlinesse wherein Satan and the Spirit of Errour had captivated it and made it wholly Monstrous And now the More it sought Rest therein the greater was its Paine And this now is that which God said to Adam The Day when thou shalt Eate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt die the Death Gen. 2.17 Thus the poore Soule is poysoned through false Imagination and through its owne q Impression compression of its desire is come to be such a hungry fire-source which is onely a shutting in of the true Life and a Ground of Darknesse a source of Enmity and Contrariety wherein there is no more any true Divine Ens wherein the Life might bring it selfe into Light As a hard Stone is shut up so also the Soule was shut up and out of its Good Life there became an Evill Life as out of Angells there became Devills which now also are of such a Horrible poysonous stincking fire-source in their Essence and cannot attaine the kindling of the Light and are an Enemy of all Love and Truth This Compressed blinde Soule-substance and perished as to God the Great Love of God came againe to helpe instantly after that Fall and spake it selfe in againe into the Centre of the Life as a new Covenant viz into the source of Meeknesse which it had which Love-source in it was no more Moveable And did set into the Humane perished heavenly Ens his new Grace-Covenant viz the Destroyer of the Serpent that God would in the fullnesse of Time in this inspoken voyce of Grace introduce thereinto and manifest therein his living Ens viz the Living Word of his Power and Wisdome with the most high Love viz the Name JESUS and therewith make the vanished Essence or Substance living and growing againe from whence the Soule should againe Eate of the heavenly Substance whereby its anxious fire-source would againe be changed into a Love fire Of which the dry Rod of Aaron mentioned by Moses which grew againe and bare Almonds was a r Text. Bild Image or Type figure This inspoken Grace-word of the Serpent-Destroyer is it now which the Soules of the holy Children of God before the Incarnation of Christ have kindled that they beleeved God and his Promise of the fulfilling that was to Come and in this Faith have they sacrificed For their Sacrifices especially of the first Fathers after Adam were only that they represented an Image or Figure how the Soule should be sacrificed in the fire of Gods Wrath and how the Soule should through this inspoken Ground of Grace and Covenant in the fire of Gods wrath be changed into a Love-fire how it should Enter into Death and a Dying to its self-will of false Desire how the false will should be burned off from it and in the power of this inspoken Grace of the Love and Meeknesse of God spring up or goe forth through the fire into a cleere light and so become a new borne childe which is no more dark but light also did live no more in its owne will but in Gods will and how the introduced Serpents-Poyson in this transmutation doth sever it selfe there from in that manner as the smoake severeth it selfe from fire and Light whereas then the fire and Light becometh a cleerer Glance and is no more shut up as it lyeth in the Essence of the Wood shut up Even as the Holy Divine fire of the Soule was through sinne thus also shut up which none could unshut and kindle but only the Love of God in this incorporated Grace-Covenant This Image Type or Figure they set before them with the Sacrifices looking upon the future fulfilling and introduced their Faith with the inspoken Grace of the Womans-seede and Serpent-Destroyer that so their Faith might thus Forme or Mould it selfe in the Figure of Christ that the Spirit of their will might stand in the figure and Image of Christ that their Faith might Work in that incorporated Grace For without Substance no working can be therefore they Imagined or typified to themselves the Regeneration with the Sacrifices by fire and formed or Imaged in them the Serpent-Destroyer in the fire typifying how HEE would change Gods Wrath-fire in the Soule into a Light and Love-fire and how the Enmity would sever it selfe from the Soule and how the Soule should through Christs Death in which the Love of God would Give up it selfe into this Wrath-fire be changed into an Angell By this Immodeled Image or Type with their desire and Earnest prayer they pressed through the Sacrifice to God and Gods Word with the Grace had thus also with the Covenant Modeled it selfe in Men and now there was a Conjunction between God and Man for the Humane desire went with this Image through the Sacrifice in the Holy fire into God and Gods Love-desire went into this Image of the Serpent-Destroyer For God kindled the Sacrifice with the Holy Fire And it was not a Common fire that they had in their Sacrifices though they used wood and Sacrifices thereto yet their fire was not from a stone and a steele but from the highest Tincture of the Paradisicall ground from whence the fire of Life is sprung If Man could understand it and did not so runne on in blindnesse it were well for him and he were delivered from Babell and Fables This holy Fire consumed their Sacrifices

it might pierce to God By Moses on Mount Sinai wee see this Image also where first the Fathers Property in the Fire manifested it selfe and required Mans full obedience to live before God in Holinesse and draw neere to him in purity through the Sacrifice If not then would he devoure them in the Curse through this fire Which also was an Image Type or Shadow signifying how the humane vanity should and must be purged through Gods Wrath-fire But Israel could not through the fire come to salvation and the Love of God and through Moses goe into the Promised Land but through Joshua and Christ Therefore God brought his Heavenly Substance with his Covenant into the Water-Baptisme that there might be a tolerable Medium whereby he might introduce his Love-Essence into our vanished also heavenly Substance wherein the Holy fire might kindle it selfe againe Even therefore because the humane Essence was become Earthly that Man might beare or endure it for there must be such a Medium wherein the humane Essence can take hold for in Gods Holinesse without a Medium it cannot take hold the will was rent off from it Therefore God became Man that he might cause to flow in us his Deity with the humanity that we might comprehend or take hold of him also that the Divine Imagination might introduce and awaken it selfe in Man and co-worke with the humane Imagination and therefore he assumed the humanity that he might work in us with the Deity through the Humanity Thus with the Water-Baptisme was a Glimmering Mother holy-fire imprinted in Gods Love for a Subject or Object of Divine Imagination and working whereby Death according to the Inwardnesse of Man would be broken to Pieces and a new life spring forth As fire in wood beginneth to Glimmer so was this Infusion or Baptising an z Or Vnction Anointing of the Holy Spirit for a new Lifes Oyle wherein the Divine Light might kindle it selfe This is now the Ground of the Water-Baptisme to which the Holy Ghost in the inward Ground is the hand which with the flowing forth of the Divine Love out of Christs suffering death and resurrection baptiseth with his victory That is Hee Infuseth Christs humanity suffering Death and resurrection into Man and kindleth the incorporated Paradisicall Covenant with this fire that the dry Rod of Aaron cometh to Bud forth againe For with this Infusion of the Holy Ghost Christ is bestowed upon Man he is hereby incorporated to Christ and the heavenly Ens which in Mary assumed our humane Ens with the whole processe of Christ is put on and imprinted in him to a new Life As a Tincture tinctureth the Mettle or as fire gloweth through the Iron so here also it is to be understood concerning those that are capable of this Infusion as it followeth further The Third Chapter A Briefer and more fundamentall Instruction how Man is Baptised by the Holy Ghost with Christs Suffering Death and Resurrection in Body and Soule 1. WHen God would introduce his Covenant with the Circumcision into the Water-Baptisme then the Word of the Inspoken Grace wherein the Holy Fire of God was First before hand became a Man and assumed first beforehand the Womans seede as our soule and humanity that he might baptise us with the Living Covenant which was become a Man 2. For the Body of Man to which the Baptisme was necessary was out of the Elements and now if it should be Baptised the Covenant must first beforehand give it selfe into an Elementary Medium as in the Humanity of Christ and Sanctifie that Medium that Man might through this Medium be baptised 3. For it was not to be done onely for the Heavenly Substance of Man which vanished in Adam in which the Covenant in Paradise incorporated it selfe that it alone should be baptised No but also for the Soule and for the Body out of the Limus of the Earth 4. The whole Man needed the Baptisme All the Three Principles of all the Three worlds in Man must be baptised viz The first Principle is the Eternall Nature viz the true Soules Life that came out of the Word of the Inspeaking into the Body The Second Principle is the true Eternall Spirit viz the Holy Power of the Light and Love which I call in this little Booke the heavenly vanished Ens and Substance in Adam wherein Adam vanished viz the Soules will departed out from it The Third Principle is the Astrall Animall Soule Ex Spiritu Mundi out of the Spirit of the World with its Body out of the Limus of the Earth viz the whole outward visible Man 5. This Threefold Man was wholly fallen for as the Divine Light in the Spirit of the Second Principle went out he was quite blinde as to God and dead as to Paradise In this must a Divine Love Ens be Infused againe in which Love Ens the Divine fire and Light might againe kindle to a new Life but if this must be done then must the Holy Fire first beforehand manifest it selfe with the Covenant in the Threefold Humanity as in Christs Humanity that Gods Spirit might baptise us out of with and through this threefold Humanity that Each Principle in us might be baptized with its like or similitude For the Holy Ghost Baptizeth through Christ to the forgivenesse of Sinnes 6. The Holy Fire of the Divine Power in Christ Baptiseth his Temple in us which the Holy fire viz the Divine life in us would possesse viz the vanished Ens of the Heavenly worlds Substance the Spirit of understanding or of Power viz the Second Principle or Angelicall Body out of the Angelicall worlds Substance to which Substance Christ afterwards giveth his most holy spirituall flesh for food in which he himselfe dwelleth This Divine Love in the Holy fire baptiseth this Spirit for it is an Ens of the Holy fire wherein it burneth or liveth And the first Principle viz the fiery Soule out of the Divine Science of the seperable speaking word out of the Fathers Property is baptised with the fiery Spirit of the Fathers Property as with the fire burning Love 7. Thus to be understood The Soule is of the Fathers Property and in this Baptisme with his Infusion into the Soule he giveth it to the Son in his Love-fire The Fathers Property in the fire taketh hold on the Soule first with the Law of Nature with his Strickt Righteousnesse with the Eternall Birth of the fire-Ground whereby the hard p Impression Compressed Dead Soule in that Infusion of the fire is moveable and its hard p Impression Compression of the false Magnetick Desire is broken in sunder and opened in that manner as a Man strikes up fire 8. Thus now the Divine Light of the Great Love is in the Opened Name JESUS out of JEHOVA in the Centre of the Fathers fire When the Fathers fire unlocketh the fiery Soule then the light of the Divine Love can shine into it and Introduce the Love Ens

although the Baptisme may be performed without such Persons through the Parents and the Baptisers Earnestnesse and prayer yet the Christian Church hath so ordained that living Witnesses should be present which with their prayer attend this Earnestnesse and it was well ordained but it is come to such a Misuse that it were many times better that such children of Infidelity were not present for the Devill belongeth not to this work Now if the Devill have the chiefe Dominion in a Man what is then such a Man profitable at it As is mentioned before The Funt-stone or Bason and the unfaithfull Stander-by is one as good as the other but that the Proud Man is a hinderance to others 38. The Baptisme is a substantiall working not a meere signe or z Or signification symbole of the Testament of Christ The Holy Ghost baptiseth the Soule and the Spirit from Christs bloud and Death with his victory and the Holy Element of the spirituall Water baptiseth the Body of the foure Elements to the Resurrection of the Dead and baptiseth the Serpents Ens and awakened introduced Poyson to dye or for Dead 39. It is a substantiall working Infusion of the Covenant of God therefore if the Infant baptised should worthily receive it there must be Earnestnesse A Christian who is a Christian in Christ Note in whom Christ worketh liveth and * Text. Ist dwelleth he should Baptise for he must enter into this Sheepfold by the Doore of Christ viz through Christs Spirit and not climbe up otherwhere else he is a Theefe and a Murtherer and cometh onely that he may robbe and steale the honour of Christ Note and deceive Men he should be A true Shepheard and not a hireling Heere availeth no babling and making a shew but there must be Earnestnesse for it is an Earnestnesse with God All Jangling and disputation about this work is an unprofitable thing and moreover hurtfull Men should lay hould of it with Earnestnesse and follow the Command of Christ and beleeve what Christ hath sayd 40. There belongeth no more to this work but Faith and Water and Earnest Prayer in true Repentance with such a Will that one Man would helpe to release another from Death the Devill and Hell and help to introduce him with himselfe into the Kingdome of God that is the whole processe that belongeth heereunto Every one that is a true Christian in Christ Note is worthy to be a Stander by and present at this work but he that is not such a one is unworthy whether he be Baptiser or Stander-by one as well as the other there is no respect of Persons with God In Christ wee are ONE Hee is the Stock wee are the Branches Hee worketh his work through his fellow Members as the Stock of the Tree generateth its fruit through its Twiggs and Branches The Stock useth no strange Tree for its Twigges so also Christ onely useth his Members to his work of his fruit The End of this first little Booke Concerning The Holy Baptisme The Second Booke Concerning The Holy Supper of our Lord Jesus Christ What kinde of Participation it is and how that is to be understood Also concerning the Contention of the Learned about Christs Cup what they doe about it also what is to be held concerning it Wherein Babell the Great City upon Earth with her forme and Wonders together with the Antichrist standeth quite naked and manifest To the Comfort of the simple Children of Jesus Christ and to the building up of the true Christian Religion in this confused troublesome Time All very Earnestly and sincerely discovered from the knowledge of the Great Mystery LONDON Printed by M. S. and are to be sold by H. B. at the Castle in Cornhill 1652. 1 COR. 11.28 Let a Man Examine himselfe and so let him Eate of this Bread and Drink of this Cup. An Intimation or Instruction to the READER THough indeed I heere dive and search sublimely and Deepe and set it downe very cleerely yet the Reader must be told thus much that without the Spirit of God it will be a Mystery to him and not apprehended Therefore let every one looke well to it what he judgeth that he fall not into the Judgement of God and be captivated by his owne Turba and that his owne Reason distract him this I say meaning well and give it to the Reader to Ponder in his Minde JACOB BEHM of Old Seidenberg The Contents of the Chapters in this Second little Booke Concerning the Holy Supper of Jesus Christ 1. OF the Ground of the Old Testament how this Testament was cleerly in the Type among the Jewes 2. Of the Supper of the New Testament how the Type is come into Essence or Substance 3. How the Disciples did eate and drinke the flesh and bloud of Christ 4. Of the difference in the Participation of it what the wicked receive with this Testament and how a Man should so prepare himselfe that he may be truly worthy 5. Of the Contention and Strife in the high Schooles or Universities about Christs Testaments how that Strife that hath filled the face of the Earth is a vaine and very hurtfull thing and ariseth in the Anger of God from the Devills desire and will whereby all brotherly Love and unity is destroyed the highly pretious Name of GOD blasphemed and the Holy GHOST in his Divine Wonders is Judged and despised by Reason The First Chapter Of the Ground of the Old Testament how this Testament was cleerly in the Type among the Jewes 1. WHen God sent Moses to Pharao and commanded him to let the Children of Israel goe into the Wildernesse and sacrifice to him and Pharao would not doe it then God sent great Plagues and punishments upon him and lastly the a Stifling destroying Angel which slew all the first-borne in Egypt and there he commanded Israel the Passeover or to slay and eate the Paschal-Lamb viz a Lamb of a yeare old and besprinkle the Doores and upper Poasts with the Bloud thereof that the slaying anger should there b Passe by passe over and kill none in the House Exod. 2.12 2. Which was a Type of the New-Testament shewing how the Poasts and Doores of our Life should be sprinckled with the Bloud of the Lamb Christ that Gods Anger in soule and body may not swallow us up into his wrath And as they must Eate up that Lamb wholly or quite and leave nothing over so would the Lamb Christ give himselfe in his Testament wholly for food to his Christendome and not divided and would besprinkle the Poasts of our Life with his Bloud of Love that the destroying Angel in Gods Anger might not take hold of us and slay us 3. Also wee have an Image or similitude thereof in the Vnleavened Cakes which they must Bake and Eate shewing that they should through this Paschal-Lambs Figure which signified Christ be a New and sweet c Dowe Lump when they should eate the right

anger in the humanity 20. And thus was the humane will in the Type of Christ ransomed in the fire for the Incorporated Grace-Covenant went with the humane desire in their prayer which through this Sacrifice in the fire pressed into God together into the fire of the Sacrifice and reconciled that is destroyed the Earthly Beastiall property of the humane will in the fire with the Love For with the fire God formed an Image before him as a substance in which fire substance Gods fire Imaged it selfe and reconciled the Elementary fire in Man his Eternall Love-fire savoured the humane will through the incorporated Grace through that Medium of the fire for Moses had holy fire wherewith he kindled the Sacrifice 21. Thus was the Elementary fire of Man reconciled in the Holy Fire and yet must a Beastiall Medium viz Beasts flesh come into the Holy fire of Moses seeing Man was become Beastiall that the beastiall kinde be burned away in the Holy fire through the Fathers anger-fire and that Gods Love-fire might kindle the humane soule-fire in its introduced desire in the Sacrifice and so Gods desire in the Word smelt Mans desire through the fire for in the fire the Beastiall vanity of Mans will burnt away in the anger-fire and so then the cleere humane will pressed into Gods Love-fire as a sweet savour for the incorporated Paradisicall inspoken Grace pressed with the cleere will of Man into God 22. And that is it which Moses sayth It was a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the Lord For God desired to smell nothing there but onely Mans will viz the humane Life which before the times of the world was in the Word of God indeed without Creature but yet in power which was inbreathed to the Created Image That same did God smell through the Sacrifice in the Ens of Christ viz through the inspoken Grace and reconciled the averted will through the Grace in the Fire so that the humane will became divine againe and brought 1 the humane Lifes fire and 2 Gods Love fire into one fire as into one lifes burning and that was a right Sacrifice of Reconciliation or sinne-offering when sinne was offered to the fire of Gods anger to be consumed 23. And thus also the beastiall flesh which they offered and eare afterwards was sanctified to Man for Gods Imagination in the Covenant went thereinto therefore Moses calleth it Holy Flesh also Holy Bread such was the Shew bread sam 21.6 Matth. 12.4 All which stood in the Type signifying How that same incorporated power of the Grace-Covenant would manifest it selfe with Heavenly Substance in Christ and give it for food of the humane soule viz to the soules fire in which food the soules-fire should be turned into a Love-fire 24. For in the Old Testament this sweet Grace Covenant gave it selfe into the Sacrifice of the fiery soules desire for sood as to the Soules Mouth in the fire For the Soule viz the Soulish Faiths Mouth did in the Sacrifice of fire eate of this sweet Grace not in the Substance but in the power upon the fullfilling that was to come till the power was manifested in the flesh But their Body did under it eate of the blessed bread and flesh Note wherein also the power of the Grace viz the Imagination of the Covenant was Thus the Jewes did eate Christs flesh and drank his bloud in the Grace Ens in the power in the Type where the power was not yet flesh and bloud but yet that same word of Grace which afterwards became Man was therein 25. But when the time came and was fulfilled that the same incorporated Word of Grace which received their Soule in the faiths-desire in the fiery Essence became Man then it gave it selfe to this faiths Mouth viz of the fiery soulish Essence according to the Divine and humane property for food Of which wee will heere following write more at large and set downe the true Ground how Christs flesh and bloud it to be eaten and drunk not out of a Conceit or Opinion but out of the Ground of the Scripture and true certaine knowledge through Gods Grace The Second Chapter Of the Supper of the New Testament how the Type is come into Substance 1. WHen the time was fullfilled that this Grace-Covenant should manifest it selfe and assume the Humanity with Soule and Body then the Type ceased For the Anger-fire of God in the Soule and in the flesh of Man was together a Or Immodeled imprinted in the Substantiall Word viz in the Divine Ens which Divine Ens out of the Divine power assumed also the Divine Ens of Adam which vanished as to the Kingdome of Heaven viz to the Holy Working Fire when the Soule Imaged it selfe into Earthlinesse and made it living that is burning in it selfe againe through the Holy Fire where then the Divine Sacrifice in the fire was manifested in the Humanity 2. For the Soule was of the Fathers property according to his fires might and was become a meere fire of Anger This the Father gave to the Sonne as to the Manifested Grace-Covenant and brought the Fathers Anger-fire in the Soule into the Sonnes Love fire so that the Fathers anger-fire and the Sonnes Love fire in the humane Substance stood in one Ground the Love-fire became Substantiall that is a heavenly flesh and gave it selfe to the anger-fire of the Father in the humane Lifes property for food to a fire-burning after the manner as a Man putteth a pleasant Oyly Balsam to a fire and then the fire in its burning giveth forth out of it selfe a pleasant smell and vertue out of this Balsam Oyle 3. Thus the Father now smelt this pleasant savour in the Humanity in the Soules fire which savour he formerly smelt in the Sacrifice in the Type for Christ was now the right high Priest which offered to God his Father the acceptable Sacrifice of the sweet savour in the Humanity and reconciled the Anger in the Humanity The Altar of God upon which Moses sacrificed was now in the Humanity of Christ who offered up to God the sweet humanity out of the heavenly Ens with the Adamicall humanity into his Anger-fire which burned in the Adamicall humanity Sinne in the Adamicall flesh was destroyed through the sweet heavenly flesh viz through the Substantiall Word of Love through JESUS viz Gods greatest Sweetnesse 4. God brought the Sacrifice of Moses viz the reconciliation in fire into the humanity and made of Moses Christ viz the right high Priest who with his holy bloud besprinckled the Altar viz the fire Life as Moses did with the bloud of Beasts in the Type 5. And we see this Eminently in the Supper of Christ which when at last he would enter into his sufferings and kill sinne in our humanity with the substantiall Love fire in his bloud then at last he Eate the Paschall Lamb with his Disciples for he had given himselfe up into the Type with his Grace-Covenant

with the heavenly flesh and would fullfill the Type with the flesh of Love and bring forth the Adamicall humanity through Death viz through Gods Anger through the inclosure of the Adamicall Life into Gods Love-fire and breake open the Prison of Death 6. So now in the Type of the Paschal-Lamb he began the New Testament viz the fullfilling of these Types and lead his Disciples to the Sacrifice of the New Testament viz to the Altar of God in his flesh and bloud that they should eate the fullfilling of the Old Testament in the Sacrifice of the New Testament for he brought the Old Testament viz the figure into the New viz into his flesh and bloud which was the Sacrifice of reconciliation for the sinnes of the World and gave them the b Or Reconciliation attonement in his flesh to Eate and in his bloud to drink 7 For the reconcillation should be no more done in fire where the Fathers anger burnt away the vanity in Mans Faith but it should be done in the Love-fire in the flesh of Christ they should now with their faiths desire viz with the fiery lifes Mouth of the soule eate and drink the reconciliation with Christs flesh and bloud No more with Faith in the Type but in Substance no more in power without Substance but with Substantiall Divine and humane power wherein the humanity of Christ himselfe should be the Paschal Lamb Not Deity without Humanity but Deity and Humanity alike 8. For the Paschal-Lamb must be eaten quite up and so also he would not give them onely a piece of his humanity but Note gave himselfe to them wholly and altogether into their soules fire-mouth viz into the Faiths-desire The soules fiery Mouth was now the fire of God which devoured the Sacrifice as common fire devoureth Oyle and giveth a cleere light out of its consuming Thus also Christ gave to his Disciples viz to their faiths desire understand to the fiery Mouth of the Soule as to the true Life his heavenly Body and his heavenly Bloud in that manner and way as the heavenly Ens in the limit of the Covenant gave it selfe into Mary into the vanished Ens and became one Person wholly undivided 9. Note He gave his whole heavenly humanity to them into their Adamicall Humanity understand to the Paradisicall Ground for every Life desireth an Ens of its likenesse viz every fire desireth an Ens for its burning which is like that fire 10. The foolish fire-life was become dark through the Impression of Death and therefore needed a light Ens out of the Divine Light as a Substance of Light as a holy anointing Oyle wherein the dark painfull Soules fire changeth it selfe into a Light and Love-desire This now conceived upon Christs Altar viz out of Christs humanity the Substantiall Love viz the Substantiall Wisdome of God that same fire in this Substance was the Name and the power JESUS viz Gods greatest holinesse which changeth the Soules fire into a Light whence Christ said Hee was the Light of the world Joh. 8.12 For in his power hath the Soule againe attained eyes of Divine Light so that it beholdeth God againe 11. And as a Man giveth Oyle to common fire out of which ariseth a Light so in like manner is to be understood concerning the dark Soules fire which receiveth into it selfe Christs heavenly Ens of the Divine Substantiall Love in this Testament and kindleth againe the vanished even heavenly Ens in Adam and burneth in its likenesse wherein the Kingdome of Heaven viz the City of God is againe unlocked where the Divine Light in that same unlocked Paradisicall Ground shineth againe which is the City of God in Man where the Holy Ghost dwelleth of which Christ saith Hee that Eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud he continueth in Mee and I in him Joh. 6.56 12. In this Paradisicall unlocked Ground Christ viz the Divine Love Ens continneth dwelling in the Light for the power in the Light is the Divine Ens viz the Supernaturall heavenly flesh a Tincture of Life which Tincture tinctureth the Soule and giveth the heavenly fire-Glance to the Soules-fire But yet that a Man may rightly understand it The Soule is the Fathers fire which receiveth into it selfe viz into its fiery desire the Sonnes Substantiall Love viz the holy Love-fire which hath turned it selfe into the humane Tincture viz into flesh and bloud understand into that same humane Lifes power Thus is the changing of the Soules Will Effected 13. Thus wee see first this figure in Moseses Sacrifice of reconciliation that the Soule viz the Faiths desire of the Soule brought it selfe into the Sacrifice as into a Substance and with the Substance went into the fire where the reconciliation through fire was made in the introduced Covenant of the Love-fire in that manner and way as the Substantiall Love of Christ should give it selfe up into the Soules-fire wherein Gods anger did burne for food and reconciliation Secondly wee see also by Moses not onely how the Soule is ransomed from sinne through fire and with the Love in the Covenant became fed with the holy fire of Grace but they blessed also the bread and flesh through the reconciliation of the Grace-Covenant and did eate the same viz the holy bread and flesh as God also commanded them 14. Which signifieth the Orall eating and drinking of the Substantiall Grace where not onely the Soule is fed but Note also the right Adamicall Man which shall arise from Death againe for the Earth was cursed through Mans sinne and Man must from the Curse of Gods anger Eate of the Earthly fruit but with this Sacrifice and blessing of the Covenant God erecteth now a new blessing so that Israel did eate of Blessed food againe where the Grace pressed through the Curse againe as the Sunne presseth and penetrateth through Water 15. All which was a Type of the Testament of Christ which would not onely feed the Soule with Substantiall fiery Love But Note also the right Adamicall Body and that when he would ordaine his New Testament under Bread and Wine signified how the inward Grace of Love would presse through the outward Man as the Sunne penetrateth through the Water or as fire penetrateth through Iron 16. And by the Orall eating and drinking of his New Testament is signified the Paschal Lamb in the Old Testament where the Grace-Covenant of the Divine blessing gave it selfe into a visible Elementary Substance viz into a Medium wherein the humane Body received the Grace And it points at the New Testament where Christ viz the Substantiall Grace would with his Love with the power of his flesh and bloud of Divine and humane property give himselfe into his fellow-Members the Christians through an Elementary Medium of blessed Bread and Wine for-foode and drink where-through the accursed Body out of the Limus of the Earth which hath eaten the Curse into it selfe is blessed againe 17. This wee see cleerly by the Last Supper