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A08218	Epistolæ HN. The principall epistles of HN, which he hath set-foorth through the holy Spirit of Loue and written and sent them most-cheefly; vnto the Louers of ye trueth and his acquaintance. And are by him newly perused, and more-playnly declared. Translated out of Base-Almaine.; Epistolæ HN. English	Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?; Vitell, Christopher, fl. 1555-1579, attributed name.	1575 (1575)	STC 18552; ESTC S112767	230,883	445

to thesame Loue of God the Father and likewyse to the seruice of my Neighbour and that altogether to thesame Loue. 2. But seing the Tymes are now perillous ⁏ my Beloued and that ther are also many Harmes to be feared to ensue / if one shoulde minister the Woord of Lyfe vnto anyman vnforesightfully / Therfore doth it oftentymes seeme perillous vnto vs / to handle to speake or to wryte of the Woord of Lyfe and of his se●ret Clernes / before eueryone that woulde desyre it For it is not euerymans Matter / to comprehend thesame in his Cleernes or Secretnes but a Math. 12.13 c. 1 Cor. 1.2 a Theirs / whose Hearts be b Iohn 6. ● stirred-vp ⁏ by God to a Deuont-meditation of the Woord and his Righteousnes and haue intended Loue and Peace 3. For which Causes / we deale with godly Care / in the Seruice of our Neighbour and are likewyse to consider / what is most-profitable or necessary to be adminis●red vnto eueryone / out of the Seruice of the gracious Woord / to th end that he mought by that meanes ⁏ without doing him any Harme be furthered to the good and vpright Knowledg of the true godly Things / through som Seruice shewed towards him by vs according to that Estrainging wherin he standeth comprehended but cheefly towards those that with feruencie of Heart / desyre or seeke any Information at our Handes 4. And seing that we ⁏ through the Light do beholde the many-maner of Perils in this Matter as that it is hurtfull vnto Many / to reueale the Secretnes of God vnto them / therfore do not we open the Iewels of the Secretnes of God or the Secretnes of all godly Things / vnaduisedly or vnforesightfully / before eueryone 5. And although likewyse / that many are our Freendes / who also nodout woulde gladly knowe the Fulnes of the Instruction of all Things / yet do not wee oftentymes follow their Will for-al-that / in our Seruice which we shewe on them out of Loue but do deale with them / in Longsufferance and with great Carefulnes / c 1. Tess. 2. ● like-vnto a Moother / with her Children for to be seruiceable vnto them in thatt which is most profitable or needfull for them For thatt which the one can abyde / the other cannot and thatt wherby one farethwell and wherthrouh he is amended / therby mought another fare euell and be made worse therthrough 6. NOw mought som man saye One shoulde not of right hyde anything from the Freendes For ther-is sayde for a Prouerbe One ought not to lock-vpp any Bread from the Freendes 7. It is true It shoulde be so indeede / if the Stomacks were eueryone so sounde that they coulde endure the Bread in them or were accustomed to the Taste of Bread 8. But seing now that we do perceaue by Experience / that many Stomacks are not accustomed vnto Bread and for-that-cause growe soone d Iohn 6. offended / through the e 1. Cor 3. a. Heb. 5. b strong Foode of Bread and that Many of them likewyse / haue receaued or taken no Bread into them for a certen-tyme / to a Foode of Lyfe but haue swallowed-in somwhat heere-and-thear / out of the Wildernes / in the Darknes / Therfore are also the Stomacks generally defyled / by the Multytude of strainge Meates and Mens Complexion growen very weake and tender and cannot therfore f Iohn 16. b. 1. Cor. 3. a Heb. 5. b. endure the Bread of the liueing Woord cheefly / because they are nourished-vp with so many-maner of strainge Meates ⁏ in the Darke in the Wildernes By meanes wherof / their Stomacks haue corrupted their right State serueing to the Taste of Bread so that they haue no Hunger nor Lust at-all / to g Num. 21. b the Bread of the liueing Woord· neither-yet any sweete Taste in thesame For their Lust standeth alwayes bent towards thatt wherunto their Tastes are accustomed 9. And thatsame is likewyse the Cause / why the secret Bread of the holy Woord / doth not oftentymes serue for eueryones Stomack 10. For one may fynde many Men / for whom it is much more profitable and better at-the-first / to receaue good Medecine out of the holy Woord / for their vnsounde Stomacks cause then any strong Meate / to th end that their Stomacks mought be cleansed therby· and accustomed vnto Bread agayne 11. Whosoeuer then is com alittle vnto Health and is yet but weake and tender / to him ther serueth nothing-els at the first / but to receaue Hony h 1. Cor. 3. a Heb. ● b. 1. Pet. 1. a and Milke / out of the holy Woord to a Sustayning of him in his Weaknes For he cannot as-yet endure strong Meate 12. But when Strength cometh vnto him and that he can beare the Weaknes of his Neighbour / so doth it then serue him very-well / to receaue of the ●ec●et Bread of the holy Woord / for a Foode of the strong Lyfe / that he may yet growe stronger· and haue the i Iohn 10. a. Lyfe in Fulnes and that nothing may hurt k M●r. 16. b Luk. 10. ● nor lett him for to liue The II. Chap. THis wryte I vnto thee ⁏ my Beloued because thou shouldest not stumble or growe-offended at our Littlenes or Childishnes nor at the Seeming of our Foolishnes / in the Ministration of the holy Woord nor-yet at our mostholy Seruice of Loue / because it is a 1. Cor. 1. b. ● playne· and not according to the Course of the Wisdom of this Worlde· nor of the Scripture-learned 2. Notwithstanding although our Seruice of Loue be playne / yet is it vnto vs / a godly Seruice in the Woord of Lyfe Which Seruice / wee ⁏ out of Courtesie b 2. Cor. 4. a. Tit. 3. a and a good Conscience do minister in the Woord of Lyfe ▪ vnder the Obedience of the Loue to eueryones Welfare and Health of his Soule namely c 1. Cor ▪ 1. b. c vnto all and ouer all those that beleeue theron 3. For truly in all this our mostholy Seruice of Loue / we do not follow-after the Wy●e of the Worlde / in their Wisdom nor-yet the high-bosting Scripture-learned / in their Knowledg nor any Chosen-spiritualtee / in their Holynes nor any taken-on God-seruices / in their Controuersie but we witnes the Wisdom that auayleth before God which seemeth to be a d 1. Cor. ● b Foolishnes before their Eyes / and do make-manifest the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes which God esteemeth which seemeth before the Eyes of the Worlde and before all her Hipocrits fayned Holyons and Scripture-learned / to be e Esa. 15. ● S●p 2. b. 5. ● nothing but Sinne Vnrighteousnes or Seduceing 4. For in all thissame / all Hipocrites fayned Holyons and Wyse or Scripture-learned ones of the Worlde / haue ⁏ through the Bewitching of their Hearts accounted the Darknes / f Esa 5 c. 5● ● 59. b

Children of God and Saincts of Iesu Christ. 7. COm now all likewyse / which ⁏ through your v Rom. 1. c. EPhe. 4. b. ignorant Knowledg or Misunderstanding haue turned-away your selues from thissame x Esa. 16. ● Heb 5. a. Seate of Grace and louely Howse of the Loue of Iesu Christ and from our y Iohn 17 b. 1. Iohn ● a. Communialtee· growen-offended at our Meannes or a 2. Cor 1. c. Simplenes and at the godly Testimonyes of our Sayings· and so made-vp yourselues b ● Tim. ● 3 b. resistant against vs and our good Doctrine and Exercises· seperated yourselues from vs· and growen bitter or wrathfull towards vs / together withall yee that haue mistrusted vs· and c Ioh. 8.10 c. 2 Tess. 2. b. not beleeued the holy Woord of the eternall Trueth ⁏ which wee by Gods Grace / do administer vnder the Obedience of the Loue / but doubted therof· and so for-that-cause ⁏ through som Peruers-conceaueing towards thesame or towards vs refused the d Pro 1. c. d. proffered Grace or kept yourselues ba●h and repent e Eze. 18. d. you for your Sinnes / to your Sainctification and to the Health of your Soules 8. COm likewyse all yee / which ⁏ through any Opinion of the Self-wyseones or through any Good-thinking or Imagination of the Knowledg haue bin f Pro. 18. a. vnregarding towards thissame gracious and godly Seruice of Loue and towards his Requyring / and also yee / which haue heard or read the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ· and shewed no right Obedience as likewyse all yee / which haue ouerreached pourselues in any disorderly g Sap. 14. c. Rom. 1. c. Dealing or false h 2. Pet 2. b. Iudae 1. b. Freedom or in hearing and beleeueing of any i Ier. 23.27 c. vnsent Preachers and so are falne to your k Ier. 7. c. ●8 a. owne Counsayle ⁏ or to the Counsaile of those that stande not submitted to the Howse of the Loue of Iesu Christ nor to his Seruice and Requyring or are Straingers ther-vnto / or yee y t ⁏ through your l Pro. 6.24 d. Negligence or Little-regarding of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue are becom vaynly-mynded / with the wicked Worlde and with the vayne or false m Rom 1. c. 2. Pet. 2. a. Praters / through the Imagination of the Knowledg ؛that false Light Com and n Eccli 7 b. 1 Pet. 5. a. humble you / and let all your Vnderstandings be renewed· and ⁏ to thobtayneing of a good o Ephe. 4. b. Knowledg of Iesu Christ and his Godlynes brought-to-right / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and vnder thesame p 1. Pet. 1. c. d. Obedience / q Eze. 36. ● wash your Bodyes with the pure Water of the Loue and so cleanse your ▪ Hearts from all vngodly Beeing r Esa. 1. c. and wicked Thoughts 9. Com now all hether and s Gal. 6. b. Ephe 5. d. Apo. 2.3 b. neglect not your tyme To-daye becometh the Grace of the Loue of Iesu Christ / proffered yet vnto you all and the Hande reached-forth seruiceablely with thesame to a peaceable t Ephe. 4. d. Col. 3. b. Reconcilement with each-other in Iesu Christ to an Vnitee of Heart with vs / in all Loue. 10. Yea To-daye er-euer the Punishiment of the last Iudgment go-forth ouer all Vngodlyones v Pro. 1. c. Math. 25 d. / to thier Condemnation in the hellish Fyre ye be yet all called and bidden ⁏ euen out of meere Grace x Eqhe. 1.2 a. and harty Loue to the Communialtee of Saincts / which haue thier y 1. Iohn 1. ● felowship with Christ / in the Howse of the Loue of Iesu Christ. and that altogether / to the Preseruation of you all in the Godlynes The Third Chap. COm likewyse all ye People Gouernours / and Subiects Noble / and Vnnoble Ritch / and Poore Wyse / and Simple as also all a Math. 9. b. Men-sinners and Women-sinners Turne you about betymes to b Heb. 5. a. the Mercie-seate / er-euer that ye be quyte and cleane swallowed-vpp by the wicked Worlde or with seducing Babbling / through the false Light· and ouerwhelmed with the Cursse / by the Wrath c Eccli 5. b. Mal. 4 a. Rom 2. a of God 2. Com now all hether and confesse your Sinnes laye-open d Pro. 18. b. Eccli 2. a. the Inwardnes of your Heartes and bring-forth right e Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. Fruits of Repentance and so then suffer yourselues to be f Eze. 36. c. Heb. 10. c. washed with the pure and safe-making Water of the Loue / in the Fonte of g Sap 3. a. Eccli 2. a. Humiliation / To th end that ye may be h Rom. 5.8 a. Heb. 9. c. iustifyed or cleansed from all your Sinnes· receaued into the holy Comunialtee of Loue / to be i Rom. 12. b. Ephe 4. b Fellow-members of the Bodye of Iesu Christ· and byde-standing in holy k Psal. 45. b. Sap. 5 a. Garnishing and not perrish with the wicked Worlde / when-as she now in thissame Daye / is iudged with the Lords mighty Hande 3. Which wicked Worlde / is kept l Pet. 3. b. to the hellish Fyre / till vnto this Daye of Loue / for to condempne thesame for euermore / in thesame Daye of Loue to her eternall Curssing and m Math 25. d. 2. Pet. 3. b. Iudgment of the Fyers Crueltee / together with all those that mayntayne the wicked Worlde as also are affected to thesame and wil not turne them to Repentance 4. Verily in thesame Daye / when-as now all Vngodlyones n Math. 15. d. Tess. 1.2 b. Iudae 1. b. and all Self-wysones with all Vnrepentantones and false Hearts of the Scriptur-learned ⁏ which in their owne Opinion / haue o Math. 24 c. falsly bosted themselues very-stoutly to be Christians do inherit the tirrible p Psal. 13.47 Rom. 2. a. Condemnation / with many Smarts / in the Crueltee of the hel●ish Fyre / Then shall the People of God namely / the whole Comunialtee of the Loue of Iesu Christ and all those that haue turned them penitently from thier Sinnes / to thesame Comunialtee or Family of Loue q Esa. 35.65 c reioyce them in all Loue. and obtayne a perpetuall Rest / r Esa. 32. c. Sap. 3. a. in the euerlasting Lyfe / according to the Promyses of God the Father and his Christ. 5. FOr-that-cause ⁏ O all ye People vppon Earth take-heede to this my Voyce or Calling· to this proffered s Pro. 1. c. Esa. 49. ● Grace· and to my Warning / all yee ⁏ sayth the holy Spirit of Loue which wil remayne preserued and be saued / now in thissame last Daye 6. For after the Daye of Loue inasmuch as it is the last or newest Daye / on t Act. 17. d. the

is all to the Couering of his Craftynes and false Selfnes let it iustifye or cleere itself then / somuch as it will let it transforme his Countenance to be so woful-hearted / as it will let it sobb let it sigh or lament then / somuch as it will let it speake then so sweete or flatteringly / as it will let it testify then his Sight and Hearing / so perfectly as it will let it also be then so vnderstanding or skilfull / touching y e new Birth· the Loue· the Trueth· and y e Secretnes of God or of the heauenly Things / as it will ⁏ if it be not obediently mynded to the Requyring of the gracious Woord and his Seruice So is it doutles all false and nothing but Poyson that it speweth-foorth against the vpright Lyfe of the Soule / wherby to h Iohn 10. a. kill and to spoyle the Peace of the Soule i Rom. 16. b. and to rende y e Concord of the Goodwillingones towwards the Loue. The IIII. Chap. THerfore / O ye young Children / which are borne out of the Seruice of Loue and out of her Spirit / to the God of Lyfe / to the Lande of his Glory / together with ye Disciples and on-coming Men / in the holy Vnderstanding of the gracious Woord of the Lorde / Beware of all sinfull and lying Flesh of Adam and of all Myndes that take-part with thesame a Rom. ●● ● Gal. ● ● Col ● ● or which do excuse defende or alow thesame in his Vanitee and Falshod / To th end that ye do not committ Whordom therwith nor-yet becom spoyled of the Peace / which ye do inherit vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 2. For all sinfull Flesh / dealeth in Couerednes and Craftynes / with his Lyes and Deceit and those that cleaue-vnto thesame and defende or excuse it for anything that is Vpright / b Act. 7. f. are all Traytors and Imaginers-of-euell towards the vpright vncorrupt Good / which cometh-forth or is witnessed out of the Loue / to an Vnitee of Heart / in the Loue. 3. Therfore be mistrustfull towards all sinfull Flesh / as also towards all vnregenerated Men / which turne them away from the Obedience to the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue / beleeue not the Very-best of them / much-lesse / those whom ye knowe to turne-away themselues from vs and our Doctrine vnder the Obedience of the Loue c 1. Iohn 2. ● and to stand-vpp against the Loue and her Seruice and to vse their Hypocrisie / towards the Comunialtee of Saincts in the Loue. For no Flesh ●that is borne of the falne Adam d Psal. 143. a ▪ Rom. 3 ● shal be ●ounde righteous / when it is iudged according to the Trueth 4. For-that-cause let noman com-before mee with any Mynde of the Flesh for to excuse the sinfull Flesh / how lamentable or wofull soeuer it maketh itself or how holy and vnderstanding soeuer it appeereth 5. Oh let noman tell me any good or vertue / of the lying Flesh nor-yet of the vnregenerated Man / which seperateth himself from the Loue and her Seruice but let eueryone take-heede in the Spirit / to the true spirituall e Iohn 3. b. Birth of the Children of God which cometh out of Heauen / to the Beleeuers of the holy Woord of the Spirit of Loue / vnder the Obedience of the Loue which spirituall heauenly Children of God / are full of all Goodnes and Vertue· and of-one-mynde with Vs / to all Concorde in the Seruice of Loue. 6. Therfore f Math. 24. c. Mark 13. c. Luk. 17. c. beleeue no Men of the Earth / which com vnto you out of y t Flesh and Blood of Sinne and are without the Famyly of Loue but beleeue the Men of God / which com vnto you out of the Seruice of Loue and which descend-doune to you g Iohn 1.3 d. 2. Pet. 1. b. 1. Iohn 1. a. from Heauen / who / are Spirit and Lyfe and haue had their Rest in the Bosom of the Almighty Father / till vnto this last Tyme And from thence do they ⁏ in the Obedience of the Loue com agayne now with their God / in Glory h Esa. 3. b. Iude. 1. b for to bring the Iudgment ⁏ with Righteousnes ouer the Worlde 7. Beholde thatsame i Iohn 12. d. Iudgment is now kept against all sinfull Flesh. For Hee which iudgeth righteously / hath sett himself vppon his gloryous Iudgment-seate k Math. 24. d 25. d. 2. Tess. 1. a. Iude. 1. b And all his Saincts com with Him / in great multytudes of Hosts for to possesse the Earth with Righteousnes For it is geeuen vnto them l Math. 11. c. 28 b Lu● 10. d. Iohn ● d by that God / who hath made it all 8. For the Prayer m Apo. 6. b of the Saincts is now hearde and their God cometh to take Vengeance / to a Righteousnes n Psa 96.98 a Apo. 19. a vppon the Earth euen-as is written therof / because that the Will of God the Father / may be don vppon o Math. 6.26 c. the Earth likeas it is in Heauen and that his vpright Beeing with his Saincts / may also beare-swaye thear· the Scripture p Math. 26. f. Luk. 24. e becom fulfilled· and that God may bee all q 1. Cor. 15. ● in all according to the Promyses 9. Beholde Thatt is Gods Glory and the righteous Iudgment of my God Who wil open his Mouth / to speake against thesame lest he com to shame / in his Tongue 10. Therfore shut-too your Mouth / with a Bitt r Psal. 39. a. Luk. 3. a. that ye fall not through your Tongue but s Esa. 30. b. in Stilnes / take-heede vnto God who appeereth and cometh t Iude. 1. b. on the Earth with all his Saincts / in great Glory euen-as is written therof The V. Chap. WHat hath God to doo with you or what careth Hee for your Wayling and Lamenting / O ye flattering Tongues or all yee that wil excuse or defende the Flesh of Sinne For beholde the Lorde shall in thissame Light of the Loue / shame you all in a Psal. 5● a Math. 25. d. his Beholding and his mighty Hande of Iustice / shall stand ouer you / to a Suppressing of you / till that ye be confounded and remayne confounded for euermore 2. True it is I haue heard a mighty Crye with a great Lamentation and Waylling / vppon the Earth / wher-through / I was almost mooued to Compassion But I went alittle neerer to that Howling and Lamenting And lo / when I considered theron It was the Flesh of Sinne / that wayled and lamented excedingly / b Apo. 18. b because that his Worthynes mought be nomore of Value and for that it was nomore esteemed nor coulde gett any Prayse or Honour anymore and that God with his Saincts / did only gett the Glory 3. But when

I vnderstood the Lamenting and Wayling / then was I not mooued to Compassion ouer y e lamenting Flesh of Sinne / as to fauour or defende thesame / in his sinfull Lusts and vnchast Desyres For it was mynded against God / in all his Lamenting and Wayling but my Heart was compassionably-bent with the Godhead For looking-vpon the Falshod and Deceipt of the sinfull Flesh / I hoped to reioyce me in Gods Glory and so myne Affection stood-bent with the God of Lyfe / to th end that his Glory mought breake-thorow / ouer the Darknesses of Men. And I coulde not bemoue the Generation of the euel-willing Men / in their Howling and Weeping because they did not repent For all their Howling and Weeping was / because they mought nomore vse their Vnrighteousnes and their Pleasure of Whordom and Theeuery / according to their owne Will And to leaue thesame / was their Payne and Greef which they suffered 4. Beholde thatt is the Reward of the Vngodly / wherin they now at the last / be punished according to the Woord of our Lord and God For all Vngodlyons shal be punished c Sap. 11.12 ● Apo. 18. ● in their owne Wickednes / wherin they haue liued / according to their owne Lusts. 5. Do ye Vnderstand this well / O ye Lamenters and Defenders of the Sinful-flesh Ye do lament the Flesh greatly / in his Wayling because it fayleth him in his Will or Lusts but ye do not aboue-al / lament the Goodnes of God which hath bin forced to suffer from the begining d Apo. 15. a of the Worlde / for the Resistances cause of the sinfull Flesh. 6. O Ye foolish Lamenters yee which saye to the Flesh and to those which ⁏ according to y e Flesh seeke nothing e Phil 2. ● but their Selfnes Oh how are ye burdened against your owne Myndes and Vnderstandings / and what a matter haue ye to beare to endure or to suffer Oh ye cannot do it and it goeth altogether euell with you doutles / because ye may not vse your Sensualitee and your Lusts / in Freedom Ah cast from you all Burdenings / that com vppon you against the Flesh / as also the Seruice of Loue / which is against you in all your Myndes of the Flesh and take not thosame Burdenings on you but take-heede to the f Sap. 2. ● Lusts of your Flesh and leade your Lyfe according to the maner of the Worlde / for your Peaces cause and so liue in Freedom / concordablely 7. Beholde such things do the Enemyes g Phil. 3. b. of the true Crosse of Christ speake wherwith they shewe how well they are contented that the Man shoulde liue in a false Freedom and in a false Concord and that Christ؛the Goodnes of God the Father shoulde still suffer h Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. 1 Pet. 2. c 4 a and be crucifyed and killed but / to suffer with Him and to be planted into i Rom. 6. a Him / with his lyke Death / for the vpright Lyfes sake wherby to inherite the euerlasting Lyfe with Christ / in the s●conde k Iohn 3. a Rom. 6. a Col. ● b Tit. ● a. Birth from the Death ▪ they wil none of thatt but desyre to liue in the Sinne / l Psal 81. b. Ier 7. c. according to their owne Will or Desyres of the Flesh and to go-on according to their owe Good-thinking 8. Yet do these Lamenters of the Flesh notwithstanding / talke likewyse somtymes / of the Suffering or Crosse of Christ / euenas the Knowledg prefigureth thesame vnto them but to follow-after Christ obediently therin and to be partakers m Rom. 6. a Phil. 3. b. of his Resurrection in themselues / to a new Lyfe of their Mynde / thatt do they forsake / because they seeke their Delyte of Lyfe / n Rom. 16. ● Phil. 3. c. in the Flesh and not in God who is the o Iohn 4. b 2 Cor. 3. b Spirit of Lyfe himself 9. But vnto those that sett all their Consolation of Lyfe vppon God and which p Math. 19. b. ⁏ for the Kingdoms sake of the God of Heauens do circum●ise themselues in the Obeying of the Loue and her Seruice / cometh Saluation Peace and Ioye For the Kingdom of the God of Heauens / cometh vnto them q Apo. 2● ● with Beawty and Glory and it shall with his Heate / cause ▪ all the Beawty of the r Esa. 40. ● ▪ Flowers of the Flesh to wither and so shall make-manifest the liueing Soules of Righteousnes / with their Garnishing / to an euerlasting Tryumph of the Glory of God to his Honour to the Ioye and Peace of his Saincts and to y e s Esa. 65 b. 2. Pet. 3. b Apo. 21. ● Renewing of the Earth with Righteousnes whose growing Beawty / withereth not / vnder the Loue but it remayneth-ouer in the euerlasting Lyfe 10. Beholde my beloued Freendes in the Loue This wryte I vnto you all / for a Warning from the Destruction / to th end that ye may knowe the t Gen. 3.8 Subtiltee of the sinfull Flesh and the Perills of thesame / which are hidden in the Delytes of the Flesh and for that it inought alwayes go-well with you / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and that ye mought not be deceaued by any Straingers v Pro. 6. c. 7. a or Declyners from the Seruice of Loue. The VI. Chap. WHerfore / O ye little and young Children / yee which are borne out of the Loue and be yet Esa. 66. ●●Pet 2. a suckled with the Milke of her Brests for a Foode of Lyfe / in all Sweetnes / Take-heede ⁏ I aduyse you of the Straingers and of the Declyners from the Seruice of Loue Let not the Milke of their Brests b Pro. 5. c. 7. b delyte you that ye suck not the strainge Brests of the adulterous Whoores who are growne with childe in Whordom / through their Vnfaythfulnes Fall and Adultry / wherunto they haue suffered themselues to be prouoked by their crafty Eyes and wicked Thoughts and so do bring-foorth the strainge or c 4. Esd. 6 c. vngodly Seede vppon the Earth / out of the Lust to their owne d Deut. 12. a. Goodthinking 2. Forasmuch then as they do bring-foorth the vnfaythfull and adulterous Seede / out of their adulterous Fruitfulnes / Therfore do they also giue-forth nothing out of their Brests / but Poyson / in steade of Milke 3. Heer of beware ⁏ ye Deerly-beloued that ye do not in-any-wyse suck such Whoores-brests nor receaue any of their Milke / that-ther be no Poyson sucked into your Soules for the which / ye shoulde be constrayned to wade-thorow or suffer many Paynes of Death / er-euer ye coulde be sounde agayne But with submitted Hearts / vnder the Obedience of the Loue / holde yourselues e Math. 10. ● 24. b Heb. 12. a constantly to the single and

Death / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 9. And wee which be in-that-sort planted into Christ / with the like Death / do wayte for Him to com p Rom. 8. b Tit. 2. a with a Gloryousnes of Lyfe / ouer the Death / wherby to make vs ⁏ which suffer with Him alyue q Rom. 6.8 2. Tim. 2. b. with Him likewyse namely in the Appeering of his Coming / to the Renewing of our Lyfe / For to inherite euenso in the Resurrection r Iohn 3. a. Rom. 6. a 1. Cor. 15. e. f Phil 3. b Col. 2. b. out of the seconde Birth from the Death / a sure Confession of the Resurrection of Christ / to our Iustifycation and to raigne with Him for euer in the heauenly Beeing namely / ouer Sinne Death and Hell / and ouer all the Enemyes of the Lyfe And thatt is the Gospel of the Kingdom s Math. 28. c Mar. 16. b Rom. 10. b. Apo. 14. which is published in all the Worlde / now in the last tyme according to the Promyses The V. Chap. FArdermore ⁏ my Beloued thou wrytest vnto me / that the Hell in processe of tyme / vanisheth-away in thee but the Hauen cometh not agayne in the Pl●ace of the Hell In which state as thou wrytest thou canst not well somtymes stand submitted and yet of-right-it ought to be so like-as thou perswadest thyself or rememberest / that thou shouldest haue learned and vnderstood it so of mee 2. For which Cause sake / thou makest an hearty Request vnto me ⁏ by Wryting to informe thee therof and demaundest of me therwith and de●yerest an Answer ther-vpon / how I haue behaued myself in the Passing-ouer or Wading-thorow thesame for that thou moughtest likewyse follow-after mee 3. Veryly I cannot answere thee according to thy Request / how I haue alwayes behaued myself / in the Making-vp of the euell Conscience and erring Ignorance in the Darknesses But to shew-forth a Heb. 10. c Iam. 5. Patience / in our Affliction thatt is profitable and good for vs all and to haue a firme Hope vpon God / in our Tryall or Temptation 4. For veryly / the Tyme cometh and is com / that the Iudgments of the euell Conscience / shall all be seene and knowen / for Darknesses and not for Light· for Lyes / and not for Trueth In like-maner / it shall also be seene and knowen / that the Hell b Sap. 1 b. and Condemnation ⁏ which ryseth out of the vnmeasurable lying Beeing or maketh-vp itself ther-out are all Lyes and corruptible For none of all these euell Things / wherwith the Man is c Sap. 11. b punished in Darknes ⁏ for his Sinnes cause hath God d Sap. 1 b. made Therfore it is all / Death and Lyes / whatsoeuer is not Hee himself neither-yet that Hee hath made For all what God hath made / e Gen. 1 a. Sap. 1 b Eccli 40. a is good and is euerywhitt / Lyfe and Trueth to the Blessing and Ioye of the Man 5. But if-●o-be now that thou doest not knowe or see all these euell Things ⁏ which do tempt or besett the Man to be Lyes and Darknesses / then art thou yet much-to-weake / for one to talke anything with thee of the Trueth and as-yet to-ignorant of the Trueth / for to vnderstand anything therof or to comprehende anything of the Light of Lyfe 6. But seing that these euell Things ⁏ which are all Lyes and Darknes do captiue vs and bewitch our Hearts and that we haue accounted of them to be somwhat / therfore haue they brought vs to Suffering and Greefe and do likewyse seeme vnto vs to be somwhat / so long as we do beleeue the Lyes and Darknesses But in this Tribulation and Heauynes ⁏ in the tyme of our Temptation let vs shewforth f Eccli 2. ● Iam. 5. a Patience / in the Hope of Deliuerance And thatt is it wherof I haue comoned with thee But not so playnly as I do now wryte thesame vnto thee 7. Now for to be altogether deliuered g Iohn ● Rom. 7.8 b or made-free from these euell Thinges / which are risen-vp in thee and haue captiued thee / for that thy Soule may escape the Perills / into the which she is brought / through thy defyled Conscience / So is-ther nothing more profitable or furdersom for thee to the Lyfe / then that thou shouldest forsake the dark Obiect / vnder whom thyne Vnderstanding hath stoode captiue the which thou hast beleeued / to the Wounding of thy Soule and so ⁏ giueing thyne Vnderstanding wholly and altogether h 2. Cor. 10. ● captiue vnder the Obedience of the Loue shouldest only heare beleeue and be obedient to the true vndeceaueable Light and i Pro. 4. a. 5 ▪ a● to the Counsaile and Seruice of the holy Spirit of Loue and so shouldest in thy Spirit / k 2. Pet. 1. c. take-heede to the Light of Grace euenas thesame is now in the last tyme / reuealed vnto vs / in the Woord of Lyfe ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue out of the heauenly Trueth / To th end that thou mayest be renewed in thyne Vnderstanding / to a good Knowledg and so mayest with a good Conscience / clea●e only to the Seruice of Loue hearing nomore nor beleeueing anything / wher-with thou wart before-tyme bewitched in the Knowledg 8. When thou hast forsaken l Math 10.16 c Luk. 9.14 c all thissame / according to this maner wherby to giue eare and credite ⁏ wich an humble Heart to the vncorrupt Loue in her Seruice and to be obedient therunto / so haue then a good regarde vnto the m Math. 24. c 1. Cor. 15. f. 1. Tess. 4. c Noyse or Sounde of thesame Trump namely vnto the Seruice of Loue and vnto the first Entraunce into his Doctrine and Requyring To th end that thou mayest euenso vnderstande in thissame Daye of Loue / the Distinction of this last Trump and what is requyred therby 9 For this Daye or Light of Loue / is the Daye which God hath appoynted or ordayned on the n Act. 17. d. which He wil iudg the Circuite of the Earth / with Righteousnes / because that in thesame mostholy Daye of Loue / it may o Act. 3. c. all be restored agayne / what God hath spoken by the Mouth of all his Prophets / from the Begining of the Worlde 10. In which mostholy Daye of Loue / all Soules ⁏ which in the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue / do p Math. 5 a hunger and thirst after the vpright and pure Beeing of the Loue shall obtayne their Saluation and Health and all Vnderstandings ⁏ which giue themselues captiue ▪ q 2. Cor. 10. ● ther-vnder and which do not harken nor aske after anything-els shal be healed and made-sounde / touching the r Gen. 3 Sap. 16 b But of the destroying Knowledg of Adam and be brought to the Vnderstanding of

that the Foode or the Bread of Lyfe shal be f Math. 24. d ministred and heald-foorth open-ly in Cleernes / vnto eueryone that beleeueth the Woord of the Seruice of Loue and that sheweth faythfull Obedience therunto To the Young Children / g 1. Cor. 3. c. 1 Pet. 2 c. a according to their Youngnes / to the Weake / h Rom. 14.15 a. Gal 5. a. according to thier Weaknes / to the Strong-youngmen / i Heb. 5. b. according to their Abillitee or Strength / and to the Elders / according to their Auncientee or Oldenes 5. Euenthus shall now in thissame Daye of Loue / the right Foode ؛ k Iohn 6. f. the Woord of Lyfe be ministred l Math. 24. c. 2. Timo. 2. b. in the right tyme· also prepared for eueryone / according to his Stomack· and distributed for a Nourishment of his Soule And thissame Bread or Woord of Lyfe that is com-downe out of Heauen / vnto vs Littleones and Elected of God ⁏ for a Foode of Lyfe m Exo. 16. a. Psal. 78. b. Sap. 16. c. Iohn 6. f. shall likewyse be for a Taste of Foode vnto eueryone / according as he would willingly eate 6. Happy are those which now in thissame Daye / haue sounde and strong Stomacks ▪ and can beare the Foode howsoeuer it be prepared or in what maner it is ministred / out of the Woord of Lyfe and can receaue or eate thesame to a Nourishment of their Soules and so can indeuour them n 1. Cor. 14. a. Col. 5. b. to the Loue. 7. Yea thosame ⁏ if they growe vp o Ephe. 4 b. therin obediently / till vnto the Age of the holy and godly Vnderstanding shal be founde the auncient Elders and Fathers in the Family of Loue who also shall vnderstande p Math. 11. c. 13. b. Ephe. 3. a. Col. 1. c. the Secretnes of the Woord· and minister q Math. 24 ▪ b or bring the woord of Lyfe ⁏ out of the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue vnto the Disciples of the Woord / in the right or conuenient tyme / according to eueryones Nature or Estate namely to the Youngones or to the New-borne Babes / r 1. Cor. 3. a. the Milke of the woord / to the Sick or Weakeones / s Rom. 14. a. the Medecinable-broth of the Woord / and to the Youngmen or Strong-ones / t Heb. 5 b. the Bread and strong Foode of the Woord And that altogether / to a Growing-vp v 1. Cor. 13. b. Ephe. 4. b. into the manly Age of Christ. 8 O Ye Beloued according to this Pattern euen-as I do Heere prescribe thesame vnto you in Wryting / see that you indeuour yourselues among each-other in the Loue and haue a good regard vnto thatt which is heald-foorth before you / to a Consolation of your Soules 9. Turne your Hearing therunto and comprehend or cōceaue thesame in your Thoughts and so out of the goodwilling Obedience to the Requyring of the Woord and his Seruice of Loue / learne to knowe in the Spirit of your Inwardnes / the right Oldestone the right Father and the true Sheapherd x 1. Pet. 2. c. or Bisshopp of your Soules / which is the y Iohn 17. b. spirituall Woord of the heauenly Trueth the holy Spirit of Loue the Light or the Daye of Loue z Iohn 14. a. and the euerlasting Lyfe itself / wheron we do witnes and poynt 10. For wee are nomore but a Iohn 1. a. witnesses of the true Beeing of the Loue / which we minister vnto you / and b 1. Cor. 4. ● 2. Cor. 6. a. Ministers of the holy and gracious Woord / for to declare ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue the godly Cleernes and heauenly Ritches of God the Father ⁏ which out of Grace / are appeered and brought vnto vs out of Heauen / by the Father of Light among the Children c Ephe. 3. a. of Men. 11 Which Grace Light or Cleernes ▪ and thosame heauenly Goodes / all they d Ephe. 3. a. 2. Pet. ● a. likewyse do enioye and be Co-partakers therof / which submitt them with vs vnder the Obedience of the Loue and haue their Fellowshipp with our Fellowshipp / in all Loue. The V. Chap. MY intyrely beloued Freendes and Bretheren in the Loue of Iesu Christ Vouchsafe for this tyme / to be content with this my harty Exhortation and small Seruice and ensue or performe first-of-al / thatt which is heald-foorth before you a Math ● a. Luk. 3 13. a A ▪ 2 ● c for a Begining of the christian Lyfe and so then growe-vp ther-out / b Ephe. 4. b. to the Perfection of the christian Lyfe and to the Oldnes of the hol● and godly Vnderstanding and minister you dayly the Woord of Trueth vnto eachother euen-as thesame like-as it is also before sayd is ministred vnto you through the holy Spirit of Loue and as it is yet dayly heald-foorth vnto you 2 Add not any Prudence of Natural-reason therto Defend nor couer not likewyse c Gen. 3. ● Math. 25 ▪ c y e Craftynes of the Flesh / with the Natural-reason as that ye shoulde ⁏ with the Industry of your Good-thinking drawe-awaye d Deut 4.12 d or take-out anything or any Sentence therfrom / tending to an● Pleasure vnto the Desyres of your Flesh but receaue or accept it all e Ephe 6 a Col 5. c. wi●h simple Hearts / to your Edifying and to the f Ier 7. a. 25. a 35. b. Amendment of your Lyfe and Beeing and remember vs alwayes to the Good Wee wil not also forgett the Ministring of the Woord / vnto you all 3. But although ye coulde quyte forgett Vs / yet cannot wee forgett You. For we haue borne you in our Hearts and ye haue druncke g Cant. ● ● Esa. 66. b. of the Milke of our Breasts and eaten of one Bread with vs. 4. Therfore are wee likewyse dayly carefull ouer you like vnto a naturall Moother that alwayes beareth a Care ouer her Children / for to prouide thatt with Dilligence / which is needfull for them 5. If now the naturall Moothers haue such a Care ouer their naturall Children / shall not then the spirituall Moothers / now in these perillous Tymes / beare much-more a godly Care dayly ouer their spirituall Children of Sion / h Esa. 66. a. which they beare to the God of Lyfe / for to bring-them-up in all Health and Godlynes / to their full Age / vnhindered Yes nodout For veryly / the spirituall Procreation and the spirituall or inward Mootherly-loue / doth farr exceede the naturall It is verytrue 6. For-that-cause ⁏ ye Beloued inclyne not to the earthly and i Rom. 6.12 ● corruptible Beeing but suffer yourselues to be nourished and taught by the Seruice of Loue ▪ and through thesame / drawe-away k Rom. 13. b Gal. 5. b. 1. Pet. 2. b. your Myndes

Act. 3. c. what He hath spoken and promysed in the former Tymes namely reward n Math. 25. c. Iohn 5. c. Rom. 2. a. y e Good / their Goodnes / with the Rewarde of all Good / in the euerlasting Lyfe and recompence the Euell / their Euelnes / with the Reward of all Euell / in the euerlasting Death and Condemnacion For the Daye ⁏ wherin eueryone shall receaue o Ier. 17 b. Math. 16. c Rom. 2. a. 14. b. 2. Cor 5. b. Apo. 2. ● his Reward / that he hath deserued doth now spread-foorth itself ouer the whole Worlde and his Cleernes ceasseth not / before all this be accomplished 6. THerfore ⁏ my beloued Hearts in the Loue take-heede to thissame Daye p 1. ●or 15. c f Ephe. 5 b. 1. Tess. 4. b. of the Makeing-alyue from the Death Yea take-heede also sayth the holy Spirit of Loue to the Gospel of the Kingdom / that is now in thissame Daye / published q Math. 24. b in all y e Worlde / for a Witnes of the Resurrection of the Deadd 7. For in this Daye of the Publishing of this Gospel / shall now all the Members of Christ ⁏ which r Eze. 37. a. as Deadones and dismembered Bones / are broken and deuided into many peeces from each-other be ioyned-together ⁏ by that only Man Iesu Christ s Rom ▪ 12. a. 1. Cor. 12 c Ephe. 4. b. 5. c. as one true Body of Christ and Man of God· couered-ouer t Iob. 19 c. Eze 37. a. with Sinowes and Flesh· made-alyue with the liueing v Gen. 2. a. Eze 37. a. Iohn 20. c. Wynde or Breath of Christ· and assembled eueryone into the holy Spirit of Loue wherthrough all wee now likewyse ⁏ x 1. Tess. 4. b. which are remayned-ouer and do beleeue the Coming of Christ and the y 1 Cor. 15. b. Resurrection of the Deadd / and hope theron do ioyne vs to thesame one Man of God / z Ephe. 4. b. in that one Body of Christ. 8. Beholde euenthus is the Man ⁏ which beleeueth in Iesu Christ set-vp Math. 24. ● Act. 1. a. agayne in his former Dignitee / now in thesame Daye of Loue and the Worke of God is declared / that it is euen-lyke as it was in the Beginning One God / and one Man and thatt altogether / in the one Body of Iesu Christ. The IIII. Chap. O Ye Beloued Looke now into this gracious Tyme and consider well theron For the Tyme is now fulfilled and the a Iohn 12. ● Apo. 14. a. Daye of the righteous Iudgment of God / declared among vs In the which / God doth now ⁏ through the Coming of the Kingdom of Christ set-vp the former Kingdom full of all pure Beawty and the falne Man ⁏ who is broken and deuided into many peeces doth He now also ioyne-together / b Ephe. 2. ● 4. b. to the Incorporating to the only Body of Christ. 2. Beholde euenthus doth God bring the Man agayne to his Dignitee namely to the gloryous Maiestee of his leueing God head / wherby to c Num 14. ● Psal. 72. b. Esa 6 a. Aba ● b. 4. a. fill the whole Earth with his Glory and Righteousnes according to the Promyses 3. YEe good-willing Heartes in the Loue / take-heede I beseech you to thatt which I wryte vnto you and exhorte you vnto Be not in-any-case d Pro. 3. a. Rom self-wyse in your owne Conceits but remember and consider / what the Seruice of Loue requyreth of vs / in thissame newe Daye of the Coming of Christ. namely that eueryone shall haue regarde / in whom Christ hath manned himself ▪ and out of whom He shyneth / as a Day-light to the Lighting of the whole Vniuersal-earth with Righteousnes For theare ⁏ in thesame godded Man or e Leuit. 26. b Eze 37. c 43. a. 1 Cor. 3.6 b 2 Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. Habitacion of God is the Maiestee of God and Christ / vnto whom God willeth that eueryone ⁏ which seeketh or desyreth Gods Freendship shall submitt himself and ⁏ in Concord assemble him therunto / to be one Man of God in Iesu Christ / wherby to becom one Heart or Mynde with him / in all Loue. 4. Beholde and consider Heeron and seeke not y e Freendship of this Worlde f Iam. 4. a. wherthrough ye geet the Enimitee of God and the Enimitee of his Saintes 5. Therfore yeeld-ouer yourselues to the Maiestee of God and com all now to the Temple of the liueing God / the g Psal 122. a Esa. 2. a. Ier. 31. a. Zach. 8. c. Howse of his Dwelling / To th end that ye may be all assembled to the h Math 24. d Ephe. 2. c. 4. b one Body of Christ and may heare the Woord of the Lorde ⁏ out of the holy Temple of his Dwelling and doo therafter / for that your i Iohn 15. b. Ioye may be perfect To which Saluacion of Soule and Body / we be all now called and bidden / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 6. According to thesame maner / so consider likewyse on the loueing peaceable Heart / wherin God hath sett his Heart ⁏ full of all Grace and Christ / his holy Spirit ⁏ full of all Loue and assemble you with all your Hearts / k Act. 4. d. to thatsame one Heart and so it shal be one l Ephe. 2. b. God one Man one Heart one Fayth m 1. Cor. 12. a Ephe. 4. a. one Spirit and one true euerlasting Lyfe / to be one true and vpright Righteousnes vppon the Earth according to the Promyses O Yea / that com-to-pas euenso 7. HEer-with / my beloued Freendes ⁏ which loue the Trueth in Christ I do hartely salute you / with a Salutacion of the Loue and a Kisse of Peace n Rom. 16. b. 1. Cor. 16. c Salute you also one-another with thesame Salutacion ▪ namely all yee that are Fellow-companyons of the louely and peaceable Howse of Loue. 8. The Lorde graunte vnto you all / Grace and Mercy / to be incorporated ⁏ with Heart Spirit and Body to the only and true Body of Christ. The Loue of God the Father / take the Victory in all your Heartes Amen Take it to heart The Ende of the Seuententh Epistle The Eightenth Epistle A loueing Exhortation / written and sent vnto an Howsholde / that are ioyned to the Famyly of Loue and agreeable or concordably mynded to the Seruice of the holy Woord of the Spirit of Loue / for to be obedient to the Trueth Beholde / how sweete and louely it is / that Bretheren dwell to gether concordably Psal. 133. How deere or precious is thy Kyndnes ⁏ O God that the Children of Men seeke Protecton vnder the Shadow of thy Wings They shal be satisfyed or filled with the Fattnes or Plenty of thy Howse and thou giuest them drink with the Ryuer or Fountayne of thy Delyte

EPISTOLAE HN. The Principall Epistles of HN / which he hath set-foorth through the holy Spirit of Loue· and written and sent them ⁏ most-cheefly vnto the Louers of y e Trueth and his Acquaintance And are by him newly perused and more-playnly declared Translated out of Base-almaine All Scripture geeuen by the Inspiration of God ▪ is profitable to Teache to Rebuke to Amendment and to Information in Righteousnes for that the Man of God may be perfect prepared to all good vvorkes 2. Timo. 3. No Prophecie in the Scripture / cometh-to-pas by priuate Interpritacion For ther vvas yet neuer any Prophecie brought-forth out of manly VVill but the holy Men of God haue sproken it / being mooued by the holy Goste 2. Pet. 1. Now goeth the Iudgment ouer the World ▪ Now is the Prince of this World cast-out Iohn 12. Now is the Saluation the Power and the Kingdom / becom our Gods and the Might his Christes Apoc. 2. THE PREFACE LYke as an Apotecary doth ⁏ by his apotecaries Arte prepare many-kinde of Medecine● / to the Health of the naturall Bodyes of sick Men and diuers delightfull Tastes and also sundery sweete Sauors of Spices / to the Delighting of the Children of Men Euen so doth likewyse a Man of God / prepare ⁏ by the Wisdom of y e godly Vnderstanding many-kinde of godly Medecines which he ⁏ in the Ministration of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue bringeth vnto the falne Man ⁏ who is captiued thorough the Sinne / with sundry Sicknesses and Infirmities in the Soule to the Health of his Soule ▪ and many sweete Tastes of the spirituall and heauenly Foode to the Refreshing and Delighting of his Mynde and to the great Ioye of his Spirit in y e secret hauenly Goodes Lyke as one may euidently perceaue in the many and sundry-sorts of distinct and groundy Instructions / touching the true Godlynes and euerlasting Ioye in Iesu Christ / which are witnessed and set-forth by HN ؛Gods elected Minister in these his Epistles and in all the Testimonyes of his Wrytings / to a perpetuall Health and Lyfe of the Soule and to the Welfare of the Children of Men. 2. To the which true Godlynes and euerlasting Ioye / all Louers of the Trueth and all hungery and thirstye Soules after the Righteousnes as likewyse all People / be ⁏ by the godly Testimonyes of these Epistles called and bidden to th end to leade them all namely those which vnder the Obedience of the Loue / do beleeue the Godlynes into the Howse of Loue and to nourish and bring-them-vp in all Godlynes 3. For-that-cause / these Epistles are likewyse to a Teaching and Edifying of all Beleeuers of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue and of the Comunialtee or Church of Christ and are also very profitable and seruiceable vnto all Men / to giue an vpright Knowledg Wherunto the Man is created of God and called or bidden through Christ To th end that all those ⁏ which haue a Lust or Will to God and his Righteousnes mought ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue giue themselues vprightly to their Calling through Christ· and so becom godly mynded / according to the Requyring of the holy Scriptures· and well exercised or prepared to all good workes Take it to heart A TABLE Contayning the Matter ⁏ and Redie finding of the begining of eueri-one of these Epistles The First Epistle A Crying-voyce of the holy Spirit of Loue where-with all People are called / to repentance for their Sinnes Fol. 1. The Second Epistle A Short and pithie Instruction contayning the Misterie of the Loue. Fol. 10. The Thirde Epistle A Groundlie Instruction Declaring the difference betwixt God the Father and his Sonne / the Lorde Iesu Christ. Fol. 19. The Fourth Epistle Of the Mediation of Iesu Christ / in the Spirit for a Reconciliation betwixt God / and the Man Fol. 39. The Fifth Epistle A Stirring-vp of the hearte to the Immitation of Christ in the tyme of suffering and affliction Fol. 65. The Sixt Epistle A Groundlie Instruction / and a Difference of the vnderstandings according to the Truith / of the holy Scriptures Fol. 79. The Seuenth Epistle A True Iudgment or Sentence / out of the Seruice of Loue agaynst the false Iudgment out of the fleshe Fol. 137. The Eight Epistle A Distinction of the Submission / and Vnsubmission in the Spirit Fol. 159. The Nineth Epistle Of the Seruices and Ceremonies / of the Christians / and of the vnchristians and of the right and false vce of them Fol. 189. The Tenth Epistle A pure Instruction / howe one shal be obedient to the woorde of Lyfe and Trueth in the Seruice of Loue. Fol. 205. The Eleuenth Epistle A Rebuke and Exhortation seruing to a Reformation / and to a Repentance for their Sinnes vnto all those that thincke them selues to bee wyse and Therfore blaspheame / and iudge falslye our Seruice / and Comunialtie in the Loue also a warning to the Simple Hearts Fol. 223. The Tvvelueth Epistle A Reproouing Instruction / and exhortation ⁏ out of hartie loue to the vnitee of harte / in the Loue. Fol. 251. The Thirteenth Epistle Loueing Informations vnto a Louer of the Trueth which before-tyme had bine a Blaspheamer of the Seruice of the Loue / and of the Ministers ther-of Fol. 265. The Fourteenth Epistle A Breefe Exhortation / vnto a Disciple in the Seruice of the Loue wher-with he is exhorted / to keepe a sharpe watch towards the Spirits / that make-vp themselues in him Fol 287. The Fifteentb Epistle An hartie Exhortation / vnto all Louers of the Trueth To awarning Touching all false Spirits / that make-vp themselues and Iudge falsly agaynst the Trueth Fol. 293. The Sixteenth Epistle An Instructionable Exhortation to the good-willingous whearin is Distinguished the vpright Obedience and the Godlie / and ongodlie beeing Fol. 314. The Seuenteenth Epistle Of the Mans Lordelines / in the beginning of his affall Death and Condamnation and of his restoring agayne vnto his former Lordelines Fol. 337. The Eighteenth Epistle A loueing Exhortation vnto an house-holde / that haue ioyned themselues to the Familie of Loue to be obedient to the Trueth Fol. 352. The Nyneteenth Epistle An hartie Exhortation / to the mooste-zealous good-willing hearts to the Righteousnes also to the Elders and Ministers of the woorde for a warning vnto them of all deceayt that maye chance vnto them / by the an-commers Fol. 365. The Tvventith Epistle Reproouinge of the VVhoordom with good Doctrine / and groundelye Instructions howe one shall turne hym self / to Iesu Christ and the woord of his holie Spirit of Loue and Trueth Fol. 386. FINIS The First Epistle A Crying-voyce of the holy Spirit of Loue / wherwith all People are ⁏ out of meere Grace called and bidden by HN / to the true Repentance for thier Sinnes· to the Entrance into the vpright christian Lyfe· and to the Howse of the Loue of Iesu Christ.

Lyfe / noman can obtayne / that hangeth his Delyte Will and Lyfe· and tyeth or byndeth himself / on the earthly visible or corruptible Beeing But they remayne vaynly-mynded / in y e Darknes of the vnbeleeueing Myndes ▪ whose h Rom. ● ●● Ep●e 4. ●● Hearts are blynded / with the vayne Comfort of this Worlde and of the good-thinking Wyseones For which Ignorances cause / they cannot vnderstāde y e right Grounde of the secret Loue. 9. BVt Saluation and i Luk. ● Pea●e / be vnto all those that are good of Will and that take-heede to the Tyme of k 1. Cor 6. ●● Heb. 12. ●● Grace that giue thier Vnderstanding captiue vnder the Obedience of the Loue and that do euenso with Humble and obedient Hearts / beleeue or trust the Loue in her Seruice 10. Happy are they / whose Deuotion of Heart / God stirreth-vp ther-to· For through the Loue of God the Father / it shall all be l Act. ●● ● restored-agayne / whatsoeuer is estrainged or turned-away from God / from the Begining of the Worlde· and that is wel-mynded to the Conuertion vnto his God / To th end that it may all ⁏ through the Loue stande firme in his vpright Estate / for euer 11. Euenthus it shall all be accomplished in the Loue / whatsoeuer God hath spoken in m Act. 3. ● ▪ tymes-past / by the Mouth of all his holy Prophets For all what is gon-forth n Math. 22. ● ▪ Ma● 12. c. Luk. 10. ●● from God in tymes-past ⁏ euen from Adam / till vnto Christ reacheth to the Loue / Because that the Loue may in the last tyme ⁏ as an euerlasting Remnant growe and blowe and bring-forth her Fruit aboundantly For the Loue / is the Inheritance of the euerlasting Kingdom as an endles safe-makeing Seruice according to the Promyses vnto all and ouer all those that beleeue theron 12. THesame veryly is the o Gen. 12. a. 13. b. 15. a. 17. c. 22. b. Blessing / whic● the God of Heauen hath promysed t● Abraham and his Seede / to the Blessing· o● all Generations of the Earth 13. Of thesame Blessing and vpright Beeing of the Loue / we haue witnessed and set-forth it wryting ⁏ with more and fuller Instruction or larger De●laration in the Glasse of Righteousnes / to th end that eueryone ⁏ which with our Comunialtee / giueth himself to the Loue ▪ and to the Requyring of her Seruice mought be satisfyed in his Vnderstanding And likewyse to the Peace and Ioye of all Louers of the Trueth which are furthersom to the Seruice of Loue / to the Saluation of many Men / Because that euenso ⁏ through p Esa. 32.6 a. b the Loue the Peace may be prepared vppon the Earth / which hath long lyne q Esa. 24. a. waste 13. For the Ende r Rom. 13. b G●l 5. b. ● Timo. 1. a or the Perfection of all Things namely / the Cheef-somme of all Good or all what one can name for Righteousnes and Trueth thatt is the Loue Yea / all what is to be knowen or vnderstood of the godly Things s Cor. 13. a. b. ● Iohn 2. b. 3. b. 4. a. b. thatt is the Loue and her Mistery / is the euerlasting Lyfe The III. Chap. BEholde and consider To that ende hath the Trueth her Flowing-foorth like-as thesame is ymage-lyke or figuratiuely set-foorth or patterned-out ⁏ a Exo. 25. ● c. Act. 7. c. Heb ● a. by Moses in the foremer Example for to drawe it all vnder the Loue / euen as thesame is now likewyse ⁏ by the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ openly and nakedly declared vnto Vs / in the true Beeing But not by Figures Images nor out of the Letter but by the Cleernes and Appeering of the b Mal. 3 a. 4 a Math. 16. c. 24. d. 25. d. Mar. 1● c. 2 Tess. 1. b. Act. 1. b. Apo. 1. a. Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ / in his Glory In which Daye or Cleernes of the Coming of Christ in his Glory / the Resurrection of his c Dan. 12. b. Iohn 5. c. 1. Cor. 15. f. 1. Tess. 4. b. Apo. 20. b. Deadd cometh-to-pas who do also liue with Christ / in Glory / and do keepe the Iudgment with Him / against all Vngodlyones 2. This veryly is the true d Esa. 3. b. Sap. 3. a. Math. 19. c. 1. Cor. 6. a. Iudae 1.6 Coming of Iesu Christ who appeereth and cometh now vnto vs / from the Right-hande of God the Father ⁏ who is almighty to keepe a righteous Iudgment vppon Earth / euen as is written therof 3. In which Righteousnes / the true Loue of God the Father standeth comprehended or grounded and out of thesame Righteousnes / hath the Loue her Seruice vppon the Earth / to a perpetuall Bannishment of all wicked and euel-willing Nature and to an euerlasting Implanting of the Holyones of God / into his Loue / To th end that the Earth may euenso ⁏ through the Loue and her Seruice be renewed· and cleansed from all her Vnrighteousnes 4. But all those that are vnbeleeueing touching the e Rom. 2. a. Trueth· and vngodly or euell of Will / shall also be iudged in thissame Daye / through the Loue and her Seruice 5. Ther shall noman likewyse remayne standing in thesame Iudgment / that resisteth the Loue and dispeth her Seruice For the f Esa. 40. a. 60.62 a. Glory of God is reuealed / through y e Reuealing of y e Coming of Iesu Christ / in the Obedience of the Loue / for that the Earth may be full of the g Num. 14. c. Psal 72. b. Glory of God according to the Promyses / and that all People may walke in the Loue and that the Loue in her Seruice / may euenso ⁏ as a Light of Lyfe flourish for euermore / among the Children of Men and gett the h Col. 3. b. Superioritee in their Hearts / to an euerlasting Thanks-giueing vnto God / for their Saluation of Lyfe in the Peace which ⁏ by Gods Grace is com vnto them vppon the Earth / through the Loue. 6. Thissame euen as we haue heere witnessed and declared it is assuredly the right Mistery of the Loue. It is also the true Laude of the Lorde ▪ and the Tryumph of Christ with all his Saincts / to an euerlasting Establishing of the Promyses of God the Father and that altogether / through the i 1. Cor. 13. Loue and her Seruice Which Loue and her Seruice / shall ⁏ according to the Promyses of God the Father and his Christ continewe from euerlasting to euerlasting It is verytrue The Ende of the second Epistle The Third Epistle A groundly Instruction wherin the Difference betwixt God / the Father and his Sonne / the Lorde Iesus Christ is declared / according to the spirituall and heauenly Vnderstanding Holy Father this is the euerlasting Lyfe That they knowe Thee /

؛his very-like Beeing● in the Man And so hath God made and ordayned euery-thing k Eccli 39. ● ▪ well / through his godly Beeing And l Iohn 1. a. without thatsame Beeing / God hath made nothing that is any what nor ordayned anything / without thesame and thatsame lyke Beeing of his Godhead / m Iohn 1.6 g is his only borne Sonne / Iesus Christ and is the n 1. Cor. 15. c. Col. 1. c. Firstling or the First-borne of all Creatures / whom God hath foreseene therto / o Pro. 8. c. er-euer the Foundation of the Worlde was layde p Heb. 1. a. and to be an Heire of all his Workes 14. Hee is promysed q Iohn 3. b. Rom 8. d. and geuen vnto vs by God the Father ⁏ as a Christ of God for a Lyfe and for a Saluation and is likewyse so r Psal. 19. a. Act. 2.3 c. preached and published to the Worlde But the Worlde hath not beleeued in Him and therfore also s Ihon. 8.9 ● remayneth her Sinne and Death 15. For in noman els but in thatsame only Christ t Iohn 1. is the Lyfe Which Lyfe / is a Light of Men and that Light shyneth in the Darknesses and the Darknesses haue not comprehended it 16. Thatsame is a verytrue Light u Iohn 8. b. which lighteth all Men / through his Coming into this Worlde and He was in the Worlde and the Worlde was made through Him but the Worlde knew Him not 17. He came into his Owne and his Owne receaued Him not But so many as receaued Him / to them gaue He the Power to be Children of God namely Those that beleeued on his Name / which are not borne of Blood nor of the Will of the Flesh nor-yet of the Will of Man / but of God The IIII. Chap. OF this selfsame only-borne Sōne of God the Father / the Prophet Esay doth also witnes a Esa. 9. a A Childe sayth hee is borne vnto vs a Sonne is geeuen vnto vs whose Dominion / is vppon his Shoulders and He is called / Wonderfull Counsayle Power Gyant euerlasting Father a peaceable Prince / Because that his Dominion may be great and no Ende of the Peace / vppon the Seate of Dauid and his Kingdom 2. Him hath likewyse the Prophet Dauid seene in the Spirit and witnessed of Him / that God hath b Psal. 110. a. Heb. 5. b. 7 b sworne ⁏ and it shall not repent Him that Hee is a Preest for euer / after the Order of Melchisedech and He continueth also an High-preest c Heb. 3.10 c ouer the Howse of God / for euer / as d Heb. 8.9 b. a Minister of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes Which Ministration cometh-to-pas in the Spirit / and not in the Letter euen as is written of Him 3. But seing now that the Man is falne-away e Gen. 3. a. Ephe. 4. c. Col 1. ● or estrainged from this vpright Beeing of his God / Therfore hath this Christ؛the true Lambe of God suffered f Phil. 2 a. the Death of the Crosse in the Man Which Lambe of God / was killed g Apo. 5.13 b from the Begining of the Worlde / for the Sinnes cause But seing He is not of the Death but of the liueing Father / the God for euer / therfore is He also rysen h Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24. c. Act. 2. c. 10 c 1. Cor. 15. ● Col. 1. b. agayne and as the i Math. 2● a. Firstling / rysen-vp from the Death k Act. 1. a. 2. c. 10. c. 13. d. 1. Cor. 15. a. Psal. 110. a. and hath shewed himself alyue vnto his Disciples and Beleeuers and set himself at the l 1. Cor. 15. c. Right-hande of God his Father / in the heauenly Beeing bearing the Dominion / till that all his Enemyes be layde vnder his Feete to a Conquering of Sinne and Death / through Fayth 4. THis is that Iesus Christ / which ⁏ like as He was preached before and m Act. 1. 1. Tess. 5. c. 2. Tess. 1. a. shoulde be seene in his Coming is n 2. Cor. 4. a. 2. Timo. 1. b. appeered and com vnto vs / in y e Obedience of the Loue / according to the Scripture Who must possesse the Heauen / o Act. 3. c. till vnto this tyme / wherin all becometh restored agayne / that God hath spoken by the Mouth of all his Prophets / from the Begining of the Worlde 5. Thissame was in tymes-past published in the Worlde / p Mar. 16. b. Luk. 24. f. Act. 1.2 c. for a Gospel or ioyfull Message / to th end y t all those which were burdened with Sinne and captiued with Darknesses / shoulde be baptised or washed q Rom. 6 a. Col. 2. b. in his Death of the Crosse / according to the inwarde Man· and planted into Him r 2 Cor. 4. b ▪ Phi. 3. b. with his like Death / for that all those which beleeued in Him / shoulde be borne-agayne out of thesame Death· and so becom partakers of the s Rom. 6. a. 2. Cor. 4. b. Phil. 3. b. Resurrection of Christ؛the very-like Beeing of God / the Righteousone and that they mought euenso then ⁏ in the Spirit haue their fellowshipp with Christ / t Ephe. 2. a. in the heauenly Beeing / in the Kingdom of God his Father· and so reioyce them in his Coming / in the euerlasting Lyfe 6. Beholde thatt is the vpright v Luk. 1. Ephe. 4. c. Righteousnes and Holynes / which cometh to the Man in the Spirit / through Christ to an euerlasting Reconciling of the Man with God or to an x Iohn 17. c. Ephe. 2. b. Vnitee / betwixt God and the Man / to th end that God may in that sort / be y 1. Cor. 15. c. all in all / according to the Promyses The V. Chap. BVt seing now that thy Questyon is how or in what maner / thesame shall com-to-pas in vs / so can I not omitt / to giue the a full Instruction therof 2. Therfore beholde and consider in thyne Vnderstanding / my Beloued how that now in the last tyme / thesame liueing God ⁏ out of Grace / vndeserued is a 2. Cor. 4. a. 2 Timo 1. b. appeered vnto vs / out of his holy Heauen / and dwelleth b 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. liueth and walketh among Vs ؛the Family of his Loue● And how that Hee and his vpright Righteousnes / is ⁏ by his gracious Woord administred in the Family of Loue and how that likewyse in thesame Administration / c 2. Cor. 10. a. 1. Petr. b. c. the Beleefe and the Obedience to the Requyring of thesame God / is requyred of all Men d Ephe. 4. ● to an Vnitee of Heart with Vs / in all Loue. 3. So consider then whearsoeuer thesame liueing God of Heauen and his Goodnes ⁏ as an vpright Beeing

That is / Theirs which be plāted into Him with the like Death i Rom. 6. a. Col 2. b. and so are baptised or washed in his Death and not Theirs / that remayne without thesame 3. In which Daye of the Gloryfication k Luk. 17. 2. Tess. 1. a. of Christ / in his Coming wee likewyse namely which are incorporated vnto Him / euen as the Scripture sayth shall obtayne the Gloryfication of Christ· and liue and raigne with Him l 1. Cor. 15. 1. Tess. 4. b Apo. 21. a. in Ioye / for euermore It is verytrue 4. IF-so-be now ⁏ thou Beloued that the Lust of thy Heart be sett to liue euerlastingly with Christ and his Holyones / in the louely Being of God the Father ●nd to raigne m Apo. 5. b. vppon the Earth with Righteousnes and if thou wouldest gladly haue thy Fellowship with Christ and his Communialtee of Saincts / with perfect Ioye / So let not then the Crosse of Christ wherin all the Saincts of Christ do follow-after Christ / vnder the Obedience of the Loue be any Stumbling-block or Offence vnto thee n 1. Cor. 1. c. as it is vnto the Worlde and her Wyse and Scripture-learnedones But take-vp o Math. 10. d. 16 c. Math. 8. d. Luk. 9.14 c. thy Crosse That is / Forsake thyself and all Honour and Ritches of this Worlde / for Christ-his sake Beare thou in-that-sort / all Shame Contempt and Blaspheamy / as One that is reiected for an Vnchristian / by those Men that knowe not Christ and therin p 1. Cor. 4. b. 10. d. Phil. 3. b. 1. Tess. 1. a. follow-after Mee euen as I therin do follow-after Christ. 5. If thou now followest-after Christ heerin / with mee and seekest no other Waye vnto thyself ⁏ according to thyne owne Pleasure nor desyerest to go into any other / Then shall wee accorde well with eachother and reioyce vs rightly in the christian Ioye and in the vpright louely Beeing of the Loue. 6. But beware in-any-wyse ⁏ thou Beloued that thou takest no Lyfe on thee / er-euer thou art first q Rom 6. a. 2 Cor. ● b. 2. Timo. 2. b deadd with Christ and that euenso thy Flesh r Gal. 5. c. be crucifyed and killed as also his Lusts and Desyres 7. Take likewyse no Ioye on thee / er-euer thou hast first suffered s Luk. 6. c. Iohn 16. c. Iam. 4. a. Sorrow and Wofulnes or Distresse in y e Flesh of Sinne / for thy Sinnes cause and so in the Obeying of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue / hast s Rom 6. a. Col 2. c. layd-away and buryed the Sinne in the Flesh. 8. Take also no Freedom on thee / er-euer thou hast first ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue continued t Math. 10. a. 24. b. stedfast in the Seruice of the holy Woord of the Spirit of the Loue of Christ ⁏ in all Obedience like a faythfull u Iam. 1. c. Disciple of the Woord and Louer of the Trueth / euen x Math. 19. d. Rom. 6. till vnto the seconde Birth from the Death and so in-that-maner / knowest the Trueth in Christ / So shalt thou then likewyse / be rightly made-free y Iohn 8. d. by the Trueth For thatt Freedom / a Rom. 6. b. 8. a. is the vpright Freedom of all the Children of God and Saincts of Christ. 9. And what Freedoms soeuer be taken-on set-forth and vsed / without this vpright Freedom / are all false Freedoms and do proceede out of the Deuill / b Ioh. 8. ● the Father of Lyes and out of the deuiled fleshly Lusts and Desyres c Rom. 1. ● according to the Imagination of the Knowledg / that false Light 10. Take also no Honour or Dignitee nor Inheritance of the Saincts / on thee as to inherit and to vse anything with the Saincts of God ⁏ much-les / for thyself er-euer thou hast first borne all Dishonour Shame and Contempt Wherin thou art euenso go●-out-of or dead-from / all Dignitee Self-honour and all Takeing-on and fyndest thyself wholly submitted / in the d Math. 19. c. forsakeing of al-things and wel content or satisfyed therin and so in all other things like vnto these 11. O Thou Beloued If-so-be that thou dost wholly giue-ouer thyself heerunto in Christ / vnder the Obedience of the Loue / then shalt thou be wel contented with mee· and likewyse in all what cometh-vppon me and meeteth me by myne Enemyes· or with what Iudgment soeuer Men e Iohn 8. b. 1. Cor. 4. a. do iudg me and our Hearts shall also in one Mynde / with eachother and with all those that loue the Trueth in Christ / becom incorporated to the only and true Beeing of Iesu Christ / euen to be one f Ephe. 2. b. Man of God O Yea That com-to-pas euenso The IIII. Chap. MY Beloued I haue written and sent-ouer thissame vnto thee / out of Good-will to thy Edifying and out of the hearty Loue of my God / wherwith I do loue thee / To th end that it may be a Memoriall vnto thee / of the Suffering Sorrowfulnes and Dispiseing / which all the Electedones of God and Saincts of Christ do passe-thorow / a Act. 14. c. to the Kingdom of God their Father 2. If now therfore thou loue the Wayes of our Lorde Iesu Christ wherin Hee ⁏ in suffering-maner is gon b Luk 24 f. 1. Pet. 2. c. Heb. 6. c. 12 a. before vs and euenso ⁏ preparing c Iohn 14. a. vs the Waye is com into the Kingdom of the God of Heauēs / to his Father / So keepe thou then thissame in thy Remembrance and indeauour thyfelf also / to passe-thorow d Luk. .13 these narrow Wayes / which leade to the Lyfe 3. I hope likewyse to doo euenso and in my Tribulation Sorrow and Affliction / alwayes to think vpon the Goodnes of y e Lorde / and to laude and thanke Him / for y t He is gracious vnto me / in my Weaknes and in my Sinnes 4. HEer-vnto let vs be of e Rom. 12. b. 15. a. 1 Cor. 1. a. Phil. 2.3 b. one-mynde with eachother / and not looke-vpon conceaue nor construe or report anything to the worst / that hapneth vnto me / to th end that we f Num. 11. d. Psal. 106. c. 1. Cor. 10. b. murmur not against the Lorde nor his Ministers nor-yet blaspheame his Holyones / whom He leadeth wonderfully but may liue peaceably and vprightly / in his Grace· and stande g Gen 21. a. Act. 9. b. submitted vnto Him ⁏ so-much as we may to an Obeying of his Will or Requyring 5. But if we be weake and as-yet / altogether feeble or vnable for to accomplish the Righteousnes of God as that we do yet dayly stumble much and fall still often-tymes into Sinne / Yet let vs not h Ier ● a. lye-still in the Sinne nor in-any-wyse

And Israel signifyeth vnto vs / A Gods Lorder or One that lordeth with God or preuayleth 9. According to this-very Name hath God also named his owne Name For like as God named himself after the Name of Abraham and Isaac / his Fathers euenso did He likewyse name himself a God of Israel that is / a God of those that lorde or preuayle with God / vnder whom Esau standeth seruiceably submitted and yet is no Heyre in the Testaments of God 10. Beholde Thissame / which is the second Birth or Procreation after Esau and which ⁏ in his Ouercoming is by God / named Israel is veryly the true and right Howse of Israel And all that be borne ther-out / are the Lambes and Sheepe of the Howse of Israel 11. Veryly thesame Sheepe that is lost or strayed from this Howse vnderstande the Meaning rightly is the Sheepe i Math. 10. ● 18. b. Luk. 15. a. that is sought with earnest Loue / to th end that the Promyses that are made to the Fathers / shoulde be established on thesame For God wil also be a God and Sheapheard of y e lost strayed Sheepe of the Howse of Israel and bringing thesame agayne to his k Esa. 56. a Eze. 37. c. Iohn 10. b Folde / He wil likewyse be a God and a Sheapheard vnto his Seede / euen for euermore 12. And if thou now hast rightly vnderstood thissame / then looke-vpon the whole Generation of Iuda and the Remnant of the People of Iacob and how that thosesame together with the Generations of Men inasmuch as they are estrainged from their right Stock namely from the Fellow-lording with God are the right lost or erring Sheepe of the Howse o● Israel Then agayne looke-vpon the Testament l Esa. 4● 41 c. Ier 30.31.32 33. Eze. 34.35.36.37 of Promyse / that is promysed to the Howse of Israel and to the Howse of Iuda and how God hath sworne vnto them / that Hee is their Heritage also m Deut. 4. c 32. a Psal. 28.47 a how that they all / are Gods Heritage 13. Beholde ⁏ thou Beloued Thesesame / Israel and Iuda that are heere rehearsed vnto thee / are the right Heyres and n Act. 3. c. Children of the Testament in the Promyses of their Fathers wherin God wil establish them / in the last Tyme 14. To which Heritage ⁏ according to the Promyses the Heathen are ⁏ by Gods Grace o ●sa 42. a 49. ● 〈◊〉 1 d. Iohn 8 b. Act 13. c called and bidden / To th end that they ⁏ as Fellow-heyres of the Howse of Israel shoulde liue and raigne with Israel and Israels God / in the true Circumcision / which God hath fe●t or ordayned betwixt Him and Abraham and his Seede / p Gen. 17. a for an euerlasting Couenant and that-ther shoulde be nomore but one God namely among the Iewes and Heathen 15. Beholde this Grace is chaunced to the Heathen howbeit / not as those that are borne of the Howse of Israel but that are called therto by Gods Grace / because that the Heathen shoulde euenso ⁏ by Gods Grace / out of the Beleefe in Iesus Christ be likewyse the Seede of Abraham / in Righteousnes and Holynes q Luk. 1. ●●phe 4. c. that pleaseth God and shoulde possesse the Citizenshipp in Ierusalem / according to the Promyses 16. Lo heer-vnto is the Man ⁏ which is so wholly lost or estrainged from this Dominion with God or Howse of Israel sought and called with earnest Loue / for that he shoulde com to the Heritage of God and Christ which is the Health and Saluation of his Soule as also liue with God and that the God of Israel / shoulde likewyse be his God 17. Consider now / thou Beloued Heer-vppon as I haue rehearsed vnto thee standeth my Sight / touching the lost Sheepe of the Howse of Isarel / that is sought with great Dilligence / by the Lorde and his Ministers / for to bring him r Math. 10. a. 1● b. Lu● 15 a. Iohn 10 b. agayne to his right Sheepefolde The XIIII Chap. MOreouer thou wrytest vnto me / how that thou hadst wel hoped that the whole Worlde shoulde once be cleansed from all her Blyndnes and Ignorance so that the Song Allelu-ia / mought ⁏ with Ioye be soung heere generally 2. Thatsame is still all my Hope and Longing but the a Esa. 65. b. 2 Pet. 3 b. Cleansing of the Worlde and the Reioycing b Apo. 19 a of the godly Men / cometh not to pas according to Mans Good-thinking but according to the Lords Woord and his Promyses / namely / through the Crosse of Christ wherthrough the Man ⁏ in the Cleansing of his Sinnes becometh altogether humbled and abased· and begotten c Iohn ● a. Rom. a. Tit. 3. a agayne or a-newe / out of thesame Death of the Crosse· and made alyue d Rom. 5. ● a. 1. Cor. 15. c. in Christ. 3. For like as the Golde is purifyed in the Furnace of the Golde-smith or thorowly-tryed to fyne Golde / Sap. 3. a. Eccli 2. a. so is the Man likewyse cleansed in the Furnace of the Humiliation of the Crosse of Christ. 4. Out of which Humiliation / the Man cometh to the Obedience of God and Christ of whom he learneth the Humilitee f Math. 11. d. and Meeknes of Heart 5. In which Humilitee and Meeknes of Heart / the Man is blessed and anoynted with the Oyle of Loue That is with the holy Gost / in all Goodnes and Louelynes 6. Beholde this goeth first ouer the Howsholde of God who in their Cleansing from the Sinne / do g Rom. 6. b. 1. Pet. 2. follow-after Christ / in his Death of the Crosse / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and after-that ⁏ in their Makeing-alyue in Iesu Christ cometh the Ende h 1. Cor. 15. c. ouer the Worlde For so hath it pleased God / to cleanse the Worlde i Ephe. 2. b. Col. ● c through the Crosse and to saue the Man according to the Scripture 7. Whosoeuer now therfore taketh k Math. 16. c. Luk. 14. c. his Crosse vppon him / in the Obedience to the gracious Woord and his Requyring also ⁏ in the Beleefe followeth-after Christ؛the Godlynes vnder the Obedience of the Loue and so learneth the Humilitee and the Vertue to the l Math. 11. c. Meeknes / Hee likewyse ouercometh the Worlde and the Saluation cometh vnto him with Ioye 8. And a Man that is altogether cleansed from the Worlde and from all vnprofitable and corruptible Things namely by the Baptisme m Rom. 6. ● Col. 2. b. in the Death of Christ which is the right Fount n T it 3. b. of Regeneration hee singeth in his right tyme ⁏ according to the True●h that o Tob. 13. ● Song / Allelu-ia Which signifyeth vnto vs / Laude the Lorde 9. Beholde thatsame as I haue heere rehearsed vnto thee is my Sight / touching the

and the Seruices of the holy Woord and to shewe Obedience therin ⁏ wherwith the Man is assisted to the godly Knowledg are as though they had no Signifycation which thing I commend not 17. For my Heart hath much-more Affection to those that with Ignorance / do seeke God and his Righteousnes and that shewe Obedience therin / then to those that with Vnderstanding / do estrainge them from God and his Seruice and are strainge and disobedient vnto all Righteousnes / according to the Requyring of the holy Woord of the holy Spirit and Seruice of Loue and so do liue after ther owne Mynde l Ier 7. c. 23. b. 18. b and Good-thinking The XVI Chap. FOr this cause / my Beloued ⁏ as is before sayde and for that I do now fynde Many / which ⁏ according to their owne Good-thinking do liue in all Disobedience / against the Requyring of the holy Woord and which bost them falsly of the Vnderstanding of the spirituall and heauenly Things and so ⁏ ●leaueing-vnto or loueing the Worlde and the corruptible Things· or the Following of the false Libertynes desyre to conuersate or to haue fellowshipp with mee and for more such-like things cause and for that I do neither seeke nor desyre any such matter / I haue indeuoured myself to be conuersant with certen zealous Hearts To th end that I in my Zeale / mought not haue my Course with the Vnwillingones ⁏ which take-on a false Freedom / to seperate themselues from the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue and cleaue to the earthly corruptible Things but with the Good-willingones to the Righteousnes and that the Vnderstanding of the godly Trueth and of the peaceable Loue / mought ⁏ by that Meanes beare-swaye among the Louers of the vpright Vnderstanding / which do loue the Treasures of Wisdom and the Obedience to the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue / aboue Golde and Siluer a P●o. 8. ● Sap. 7 a. and aboue all what is in the Worlde 2. For whosoeuer loueth the Wisdom or the holy Vnderstanding and the Obedience to the Requyring of her Seruice of Loue / aboue all earthly Things / and doth not contemne enuye nor blaspheame anyone / that also laboureth ther-after with Ignorance / To him b Pro. 8 ● Sap. 6 b. 7. ● Math. 7. ● wil likewyse the Wisdom or holy Vnderstanding / appeere But whos● loueth anything aboue the Wisdom / or whoso contemneth and blaspheameth anyman / in his Zeale to the Righteousnes and seperateth himself from him / is not wyse neither shall hee also fynde vnderstande nor inherite the Wisdom For the Wisdom is much-to-noble to-honorable of Lynage c Pro. 8. a. b. Sap 7 a. b. Eccl● 24. b. and to-precious / for to ioyne or shewe herself vnto those / y t do not loue her with all their Hearts / aboue all Things 3. Oh ⁏ alas I fynde too-feawe of those which loue the Wisdom aboue all things But let it go how it will / with the Wysdom and the vpright Righteousnes the Man doth in-any-case take good heede to the earthly Things / which doutles are nomore to be esteemed then as d Phil. 3. b. Dirt / in comparyson to the Preciousnes or Worthynes of the Wisdom and Righteousnes of God 4. Vnderstande now ⁏ thou Beloued wherfore I haue indeuoured myself to haue my Conuersation in Freedom / with those whom thou wel knowest and also with others more namely for the Wisdom and the Righteousnes sake as is before rehearsed and as I wil yet partly rehearse vnto thee / because that thy Heart shoulde in-nowyse doubt that I haue sought or liked anything-els / but the Vertues of the vpright and true inuisible Beeing 5. For in all Things and Dealings that I haue has with them / this hath bin all my Grounde and Intent / for to heare-ouer their Vnderstanding and Wisdom / vnder the Obedience of the Loue· to question with them· and to answere agayne / To th end that we mought therby becom agreeable or concordable e 1 ●or 1. a Phil. 2. a. mynded / in the Loue and in the Vnderstanding and to the vpright Righteousnes / and that we shoulde not take or construe anything of each-other / to the worst but I haue not yet vsed thesame Course among them nor-yet the Speeche that tendeth therunto 6. I haue not yet lykewyse bin in any Communialtee among them / wherby to deale boldly with them But the Lorde do with vs according to his Will and thatt which serueth most vnto Peace and to the Vnitee of Heart in the Loue. 7. O Thou Beloued / Although I haue ⁏ out of Loue submitted myself heerunto among Somme wherby to informe the Louers of the Trueth / to all Vnitee in the Loue and so haue not contemned nor blaspheamed the Outward / Yet am I not therfore outwardly mynded but this do I veryly acknowledg that it is much-more Pleasure vnto mee / to deale with the Loue of the Wisdom and to talke therof / among those that loue the Loue and the Wisdom / because that the Righteousnes appeereth vnto Such then to inherit all the Ritches and Pleasures of this Worlde or to deale among those which loue the earthly Things or their owne Good-thinking / aboue the Wisdom and aboue the Vnitee of Heart in the Loue / and so to dissemble with Men / as though all were inward and heauenly Things that they loue / wher-with they deceaue both themselues and other moe / which heare them and do seduce them from the true Seruices that leade to the Lyfe 8. And like-as thou wrytest / that it is vnpossible for thee to cause thyne Eyes and thy Heart to hope / as to waight for Deliuerance through any outward Things euenso is thesame likewyse vnpossible for mee Yea although it were so that I woulde do it / yet coulde I not For the Light of the heauenly Trueth ⁏ wherwith God hath illuminated f 1. Cor. 4 a. my Heart / out of his holy Heauen is an Against-shyning vnto mee / against thesame But the Ministration of the Good / by the godded Men or Olde-fathers in the Famyly of Loue / is awayes very profitable and a good Preparation to the Deliuering of the Man from his g Rom. 7. c Bandes of the Sinne. and that men haue familyer brotherly Conuersation together to that ende / is also very louely and likewyse greatly edyfying to the Vnitee of Heart in the Loue. 9. Beholde ⁏ thou Beloued like-as I haue heere written vnto thee in naked and bare maner / Euenso standeth my Mynde and I hope not to forsake thesame / till I haue founde or gotten all what I seek-for and desyre among the Louers of the Trueth The Lorde graunt me Mercy and doowith mee / according to his Will Amen Fare-well and behaue thyself vprightly Heere-with I do thee heartly greete In the Lyfe of the Loue most-sweete The Ende of the Sixt Epistle Our Heart / is the

Minde of God most-hie Our Beeing amiable / as the sweete Lillie Our Faithfulnes / Loue / and Trueth vpright ▪ Is Gods Light / Life / and Cleernes bright The Seuenth Epistle A true Iudgment or Sentence / proceeding out of the Seruice of Loue / against the false Iudgment or Sentence / proceeding out of the Flesh. Wherin also certen good Exhortacions and Informations to the vpright Beeing of the Loue / be rehearsed and witnessed Therfore canst thou not excuse thyself ⁏ O Man whosoeuer thou bist that iudgest For wher in thou iudgest another therin condemnest thou thyself Rom. 2. Take-heede to the Tyme and learne Wisdom and holy Vnderstanding for it is better then Golde and Siluer Yea / much worthyer then all costly or precious Stones For therby / the secret Iudgments of the highest God / be vnderstood The First Chapter OUt of the Inclynation of the Loue / I HN do wish a good Peace and Saluation / vnto the Communialtee of Saincts of the Howse of the Loue of Iesu Christ and vnto all good-willing Hearts / that for the Glory of Gods sake / do submit them obediently vnder the Loue and mayntayne her Seruice / to a Esa. 65. b 2. Pet. 3. b Apoc. 21. a. a Renewing of the Earth with Righteousnes / to th end that God may obtayne the Superioritee / with his Loue and vpright Being and that all what God hath spoken in tymes-past b Act 3. c. by y e Mouth of all his holy Prophets and published c Math. 28. d. Mar. 16. b. in y e Worlde / by y e Christ of God / for a Gospel of the Kingdom and as is written therof / may now in the last tyme / be fulfilled d Luk. 18. d. or accomplished / through y e Loue according to the Promyses 2. Happy are all those e Esa. 25.30 b that long after thesame and ⁏ for the Glory of God and his Loues sake do f Math. 10. d. 16. ● Mar. 8. d. Luk. 9 17. d Iohn 12. c. forsake hate and leaue themselues / that God ؛the true Lorder may only haue the Superioritee g 1. Cor. 15. c. and so be all in all and no Flesh to account anything h 1. Cor. 1. d. of itself anymore 3. FOrasmuch then as i 1. Cor. 25. ● 1. Tim 1 b. Mercy is chaunced vnto Mee ⁏ out of Grace through the Loue of God the Father and that the God of Lyfe hath permitted the Light of his Cleernes to shyne in my k 2. Cor. 4. b. Heart / by the Rysing of the Light from on High / wherby to reueale his Glory and to defende his Honour and Beawty / to all vtter Puting-downe of all Glory and Honour of the lying Flesh Therfore cannot I endure to hyde Gods Honour / which only belongeth vnto Him For to that ende is the Seruice of the Woord vnder the Obedience of the Loue / com-foorth l Ephe. 1. b. ⁏ to the Laude and Prayse of the godly Glory for to defende the supreame God in his Honour ⁏ because that all thatt which belongeth vnto Him / may be geeuen agayne vnto Him and be drawen vnder Him and not to excuse any Flesh of Sinne therin nor-yet ⁏ for any Loue of the Fleshes cause to couer any Flesh / in his Shame but to discouer thesame naked and bare namely / all his Whordom m Ier 5. b 7. b 8 14. b 23 c. 1. Tim. 1. b. Adultery Theeuery and Killing or Murdering together with all his false Witnessings and n Esa. 1. a 5. c. 52. a. Mar. 3. Blaspheamy against God and all Gods Holyones 4. For thus sayth the holy Spirit of Loue whose Daye o Esa. 66. b. Mal. 4 a. burneth like a Cresset-of-flameing-fyer against all his Enemyes Looke vpon yourselues and consider of your Vnchastitee and of the Vncleannes and p Eze. 24. b. Math. 15.23 ● Wickednes of your Hearts and what yee all are by Nature / O all thou Flesh that art borne of Adam Wherwithal ⁏ I pray you or by what Kynde of Righteousnes or Vnderstanding of Wisdom / wil ye iudg the vpright Wisdom or the holy Spirit of Loue and accuse his Ministers And wherwith ⁏ I pray you wil ye excuse or defende yourselues / that ye shoulde not all ⁏ how prudent-wyse soeuer ye bee com to Shame before the Iudgment-seate of the Christ of my God which Daye of his Iudgment / doth now breake-thorow and his Coming approcheth q Math. 24. c. like a Morning-starr out of the East or Rysing-of-the-sunne and is seene like y e Lightening / into y e West or Going-downe therof Whose Lighting / maketh-manifest all Flesh of the Darknes ⁏ in his Vncleannes through the Coming of his Beawtyful-cleernes The II. Chap. O All thou Flesh of the falne Adam wherin wilt thou now excuse a Rom. 2. thyself before the righteous Iudg as to be vngilty in anything / wherin thou condemnest another Therfore beholde and consider The Iudgment of God in his Iustice / is sett before thee and thy Sinne or Offence / made naked and bare before thyne Eyes / how that thou art faulty and wrong in euerything not only in thatt which is manifestly euell or wrong b Esa. 64. c. Math. 23. a. b Rom. 10. a 1. Cor. 1. b. c Col. 2. b. ● but also in all thy Wisdom Holynes and Righteousnes 2. Therfore com ye all foorth hether / before the cleere Iudgment or Daye c Math. 25 d. Rom. 14 b. 2. Cor. 5. b. of the Sentence of God make-manifest yourselues eueryone / before his Maiestee and let your inward Nakednes appeere But what auayleth it ther shall none be d Psal. 14.53 a Rom 3. a founde clea●e / No not One righteous but all / full of Spotts and Wrinckles 3. Seing then that all of you ⁏ which are borne of the sinful Flesh of Adam are e Psal 51. a. vncleane and vnrighteous and haue nothing-at-all in your Members / that is like vnto the Beawty of the Bryde of Christ / So doth-ther not then likewyse any Iudgment belong vnto you neither-yet to giue Sentence of the godly Things Or-els do ye think to sitt vppon the Seate of the Iustice of God / with your Iniustice and so to pronounce-foorth the Iudgment Or do ye still think / that yee can iudg right in any Matters Veryly / I vtterly deny it for all sinful Flesh in his Vanitee / is false f Psal 116. b. Rom. 3. a. and lying Therfore it belongeth not to him / to iudg anything but to be iudged himself / by the Iudgment of God / to th end that the Vnrighteous / may receaue the Iudgment of their Vnrighteousnes g Math. 13.25 d Rom. 2. a 2 Tess. 1 a. and the Righteous / the Iudgment of their Righteousnes / Because that it may euenso be witnessed / that God only h Psal 116. b Iohn 3 d. Rom. 3.

for Light and the Light / for Darknes / and grounded all thier Vnderstanding / vppon their Knowledg / in the Darknes and so haue intangled themselues in many-maner of Prudencies / through their owne Knowledg and brought the whole Worlde euery-wheare / into so many erring Blyndnesses in-such-sort that for-that-●au●e / all Vnderstanding of Men / hath corrupted g Gen. 6. ● his Waye euen-like as all Flesh did / in the tyme of Noe. Therfore is also their Destruction com hard-by 5. And seing now that we haue founde-out in the Deede and Trueth / that all manly Vnderstanding hath corrupted his Waye in the Knowledg / So do we likewyse ⁏ through the Light of the eternall Trueth beholde a great Wo and Greefe among Many h Ez● 7. b Luk 19. ●● ● the which is coming euerywhear ouer the Children of Men. And thatt is the great Destruction ouer the manly Generacion / in the Last tyme. 6. For the Destruction hath taken-holde of them and shall make-vp itself to a Destruction among them and fall vppon them all speedely namely because that their noble Vnderstanding / hath forsaken De●t 32. ● the liueing Beeing of God· and intangled itself with so many-kyndes of ignorant Knowledg or Good-thinking so that the Children of Men haue therthrough / plucked k I●● 23. f. g a heauy Burden vppon their owne Necks / to their Destruction Which Burden also / they shall not be able to beare nor accomplish but must perish therin 7. Heerwithal goeth the Man burthened combered and greeued / and cannot fynde the l Math. 11. d Refreshing of his Soule / in the Knowledg of his corrupt Vnderstanding although he notwithstanding seeketh it therin He thinketh to fynde the Lyfe / in the Knowledg of his corrupt Vnderstanding but thesame Knowledg / m Gen 3. a is nothing-els but to a Death and Condemnation vnto him But the Lyfe in the Loue / is the Saluation and Peace 8. Seing now that the Worlde standeth comprehended n 1. Iohn 5. c. in the Destruction of the ignorant Knowledg the which she doth neither see nor marke / so is therfore the Affection of our Heart / ouer all tho●e and vnto all those / which do see or knowe the Destruction ouer themselues and which desyre our Seruice / to theobtayning of a godly Knowledg / wherby to be partakers o 2. Pet ▪ 1. ● of the godly Beeing of the Loue and which seeke their Preseruation with vs / in the Loue. 9. For vnto those afflicted Hearts / do we shewe our Seruice p 2. Cor. ● ● ▪ Tit. 3. a courteously / witnessing vnto them / the Passage to the Lyfe Wherwith we do meete or com-before them with a good Conscience against their corrupt Vnderstanding or euell Conscience and so do reacheout the Hande vnto them / to a Guyding of them into our Comunialtee of Loue and of the good Vnderstanding / To th end that they mought therby / be drawen out of the damnabl● q Esa 47. ● Apo 1● b Plagues of the vnbeleeueing and insensible Worlde· and to an Health in their Soules / wherby to serue and to liue-vnto our r Luk. 1. g God ⁏ with Them concordably / vnder the Obedience of the Loue ⁏ with a cleane or vndefyled Conscience in all Loue / as being free or vnbounde from all Diuisions or Schysmes and vnbewitched from all chosen and counterfeyt God-seruices and false Holynesses The III. Chap. BEholde ⁏ my Beloued this haue I written for the Answering of thy Letter / as meeting with thee and giueing thee to vnderstande therwithal / how erring-blynde the Children of Men are growne in these last Tymes Not only the Worlde / that liueth in Wyldnes and in Bruitish-sort but cheefly / those that haue chosen them som God-seruices Righteousnesses and Holynesses / through the Knowledg of their ●wne corrupt Vnderstanding or haue counterfeited them according to the Prefiguration of the Letter wherthrough Many of them haue made vnto themselues / a wicked and naughty Conscience by the which / they suffer themselues to be iudged / out of the Darknes and so do a Isa. 2. a I●r ● b feare and serue those Gods which they themselues haue made 2. And although they be somtymes rebuked by their euell and darke Conscience / yet be not the Darknesses made-manifest in them for-al-that neither becom they also any Light For they cannot / because that their euell and darke Conscience although it be esteemed for Light and Trueth is Darknes and Lyes itself Therfore it is a certayne Testi●ony / that such a Conscience is vntrue / and doth neither iudg right nor rebuke to Amendment 3. But God b Iohn 1. a. 5. c. 14. a which is the Light and Lyfe itself / is much greater c 1. Iohn 3. c in Power / then the darke Conscience For He himself / doth ⁏ thorough his Light and Seruice of Loue seperate in vs / the Light / d 2. Cor. 4. a from the Darknesses and so e Iohn 17 c. sainctifyeth his Name / in vs and sheweth that He himself / is the Lorde and the right f 2. Tim. 4. b A●● ▪ 10. f and true Iudg / in our Consciences 4. Therfore shoulde not the Man take any Iudgment vpon him / out of his darke Vnderstanding or euell Conscience although the euell Conscience wil seeme to execute the Iudgment / out of the Darknesses But alwayes to long after som better thing and to sett the Comfort of his Hope g Rom. 15. a. vppon thatt which God hath promysed namely vppon the Light of Lyfe / administred in the Seruice of Loue / for that he mought euen so by the God of Lyfe ⁏ h Ephe. 1. a whose Hand-worke he is be accepted and receaued in the Seruice of Loue / to a Nourtering with Righteousnes and so mought ⁏ to his Saluation take-heede to the Rebuke and to the nourterable Information / ministred by the Light namely through the Seruice of the holy Woord / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. For in that sort doth God rebuke and i Pro. 3. b Heb. 12. a nourter euery Sonne / whom He accepteth or receaueth 5. Whatsoeuer then is so rebuked by the k Iohn 3. c Ephe 5. b Light thatt is manifest and whatsoeuer is manifest thatt is Light and we vnderstande or knowe / that the Rebuke by the Day-light of the Righteousnes of God / is very profitable and good for vs / to Amendment and to Saluation 6. For God l Deut 32. d 1. Reg. 2. a Sap. 16 b Tob. 13 a killeth and maketh alyue agayne / because He woulde euenso by his Killing / depryue the m 1 Cor. 15. f 2. Timo 1. b Heb. 2 b Death of her Power 7. He leadeth into Hell n 1. Reg. 2. a Tob. 1● ● and leadeth therout agayne / because He woulde euenso / rende the Kingdom of Hell· and depryue the Hell of

Foolishnes nor of Gods Righteousnes / which is so safe-making in vs / ouer the Sinne nor-yet of the manly Power of God / which is so like-chyldish in vs / ouer the Childishnes 2. But seing that ther are Somme now / which thinck themselues to be e Esa 5. c. Pro. 3. a. Rom. 12. b wyse and so do figure-foorth a Cleernes vnto themselues / according to the Mynde of the Flesh and Imagination of the Knowledg / Therfore haue they stumbled or taken-offence at our Chyldishnes and at the Appeerance of our Foolishnes and turning themselues awaye from vs and falsly reporting som euell matter of vs / behynde our backs they haue shot-out their false Testimonyes and Lyes / against vs and so haue made-manifest their false Hearts / against our chyldish and simple Kyndnes shewed towards them / as that ther is nothing-els in their Hearts / but Backbyting and Traytory and al-maner of Venom f Psal. 14.140 Rom. 3 b. vnder their Tongues and that they ⁏ with their subtill Knowledg are thorowly-mynded to g 1 Timo. 4. a 2 Timo. 3. a seduce those of small Vnderstanding / from our safe-makeing Ministration and to bring them into errour / wherthrough the erring Sheepe becom then scattered or skared frō each-other also rent h Esa. 53. b Eze. 34. Iohn 10. 1. Pet. 2. c. and strangled and not gathered-together ⁏ to a Concord into their right Sheep-folde nor-yet saued 3. Therfore haue not Such nor-yet their euell Nature / any Power nor Vnderstanding to informe the Ignorantones with the safe-makeing Testimonyes of Christ nor to assist the Sinners with the true Vertue and Righteousnes / to a Repentance for their Sinnes wherby to gyde them into y e perfect Righteousnes which God esteemeth / nor to informe the Vnwyseones / with the true Wisdom / nor to poynt the Erringones / i Eze. 34. a. into the right Waye / nor through Loue / to take al-things in Patience / concerning the godly Matters / not-yet to couer k 1. Pet. 4. b. Iam. 5. c. the Multitude of Sinnes that the miserable People mought be holpen-vp out of the Pitt of their Fall and becom l Psal. 34.51 b 147. a. Esa. 57.61 a saued but according to their vnreformed Nature ⁏ like-as it appeereth they are much-more inclyned to reporte euerything to the worst / that meeteth them agaynst their owne Myndes and to rayle-at and blaspheame thesame 4. For-that-cause seing that they in their Contrarynes / are growen wrathfull towards vs / therfore do they likewyse much-rather cry-out in euery Streete and Corner / that Wrong is offered them / and that wee and all simple Hearts / which ⁏ to there Cleansing from the Sinne do cleaue vnto the Doctrine and Concorde of the Seruice of Loue / are wicked / and y ● it is all Wrong Misunderstanding and Foolishnes / wherafter we labour and are zealous and so then m Psal. 10.64 Ier. 11.18 b Sap. 2. b. they knowe how to iudg ieste mock enuye and to speake much euell against vs / and to fome-out and spredd-abrode althings to the worst / that is against their owne Myndes / and with false Bruits / to make their Neighbour ⁏ towards whom they haue conceaued a Mislyking to be reprochfull euerywhere 5. SEing then that I haue respect vnto my God / and how beneficiall loueing faythfull True and n Eze. 1● c. 1. Timo. 1.2 a 1. Pet. 3. a. safe-making / He standeth-mynded / and how He hath illuminated and endowed mee with thesame Loueing-kyndnes in-such-sort / that I for-that-cause haue no regard at-al to y e vayne and false Babling of many People but to the Ministration which is profytable and needfull for y e Man vnto Saluation / Therfore doth Hee also keepe o Psal. 17.63 ● my Soule vnder the Wings of his Loue / because that I shoulde cleaue vnto Him and his Maiestee and be seruiceable vnto all Men / to their Preseruation in the Godlynes and not regarde the Backbyters / that speake Euell of me and mock me / nor the Deryders / that walke in Lightmyndednes / p 2 Pet 2.3 a. Iude. 1. ● according to their owne Desyres and Good-thinking Who do likewyse turne-away themselues from vs and our godly Doctrine· dispise the Dominion of God· as also the q Iohn 17. b. Comminialtee in the Vnitee of Heart / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. Yet do Many of them bost that they for-al-that ⁏ in their false Deedes do stande at concord· cleaue to the Woord of the Lorde and his Loue· and desyre to holde Peace with all Men. 6. It is true they cleaue indeede to their good-thinking Woord and their owne Mynde of Loue neither do they also fall very-soone from thesame and with the Worlde / Many of them are likewyse at concorde and they seeke their Peace nodout / with the Children of the wicked Worlde and with those that are cleaueing to thesame and that giue eare and respect vnto them in them they see no Euell neither do they contende against them nor-yet blaspheame them for they are most-like vnto their owne Heartes 7. But those that haue submitted their Soules vnder the Obedience of the Loue / for Gods Righteousnes cause and which do dayly ⁏ with Christ r 1 Math. 16. d. 2. Cor 4. b. Gal. 6. a. carry the Crosse and Suffering in their Hearts / with them they stande not at concorde neither do they desyre also / to be one Heart and Mynde with them but to contende boldly against them and knowe alwayes how to rehearse much Wrong and Ignorance of them Yea / vpon them they haue dayly all their sight bent s Psal. 41. a. to see if they mought spy-out anything by them or heare anything of them / that were not right in their Eyes or Eares / to th end that they mought then spreadd thesame abroade and bring them to Shame 8. Beholde Thatt is the Nature of all Self-wyseones and Declyners from the Obeying of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue and of all false concordable People and false Hearts / which take vppon them arrogantly out of their vnrenewed Hearts / s Esa. 30. b. Mich. 2.3 to witnes of the godly Matters / for Trueth and to institute or to vse any Seruices 9. Ah consider I pray you / what a false Concorde and what a false Christianitee and false Loue such do carry and what a common Peace / they do all very gladly desire to holde with the wicked Worlde and all Vngodlyones 10. OH ⁏ my beloued Hearts consider well of Such I pray you / how vtterly their Vnderstanding is t Sap. 2. c. Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b corrupted through their good-thinking Knowledg / Wher-through they do also take their occasion to blaspheame our Comunialtee of Saints in the Loue and to defame vs with al-maner of Euell and so ther-vnder ⁏ as in a v Math. ● 23 Showe of som better thing they

couer their owne wicked or euell Hearts 11. Seing then that my God ⁏ who only is the Lorde giueth nothing-els into my Heart / but Wisdom x Sap. 7. ● ● and holy Vnderstanding and sheweth and teacheth me nothing-els but all Dooing-of-good / Therfore cannot I forbeare / through the Nature y 1. Cor 3. a. of his Loue / but I must shewe vnto myne Enemyes / Freendship / for Enimitee and Loue / z Math 5. c. Rom. 12. b. for Hate declare vnto them the Saluaciō and Blessing / for Blaspheamy and Curssing / and figure-foorth before them / the Vniformnes of Heart in the Loue / for the Seperation and so to proffer the Grace of my God / vnto myne Aduersaryes / which do hate blaspheame and cursse me and to reache them the Hande / for to drawe them to the Loue of my Lorde and God and to shewe all Faythfulnes and Loue / towards those that haue smittē me priu●ly or trayterously· spewed-out many Lyes and false Testimonyes / after me· and shewed all Vnfaythfulnes towards me and the Seruice of Loue / informing them a 2. Timo. 2. c 3. b. 4. a. with Rebuke Doctrine and Exhortation / for that they mought b Act. 17. d. repent be set-vpp from their Fall of the Sinne and mought liue with Mee / in the Vnitee of the Loue / wherby to serue c Luk. 1. b. 1. Tess. 1. a. the leueing God and to vse all Concorde and Peace among each-other The III. Chap. FOrasmuch then as the open Rebuke / is alwayes better a Pro. 27. a. then secret Loue the chastenable Information / muchmore blessed / thē for one to smyte anyman priuily and the Seruice of the holy Woord vnder y e Obedience of the Loue / much-more edifying and profitable / then the Backbyting / Therfore is likewyse all my Desyre in our Seruice of Loue / to further b 2. Cor. 13. b. Phil. ● ● thatt which is most-edifying and Most-godly 2. Wherfore ⁏ O ye Resisters of our mostholy Seruice of Loue as also ye ignorant People consider once rightly I pray you / of the Loue and Kyndnes shewed on you / out of our mostholy Seruice of Loue Receaue you my Rebuke and Exhortatiō and take-heede vnto my chastenable c Pro. 4. ● ● Information Com hether and harkē after the right Knowledg and learne d Pro. 1.2 a. 3.4.5 a. Vnderstanding and holy Knowledg and e Eccli 6. c. ●ow your Backs vnder the Rodd of the Lorde For the Strypes or the sharpe Woords of Louers / are much meeter f Psal. 141. ● Pro. 27. ● then the Kisses or the Flattering-woords of Enuyers 3 For-that-cause com now all hether / into the Howse of Informacion g E●cli 6.8 ● Math. 11. c and learne to humble your Hearts vnder the Obedience of the Loue and to open them nakedly before the Elders / To th end that ye may be cleansed from the Wickednes or Euel of your Heartes 4. Suffer yourselues now to be h Deut 1● c. Ier. 4. ● circumcised on the Fore-skinne of your Heartes / in this holy Daye of Loue which is y e Eigth or Newe Daye / to the Renew●ng i Esa. 65.66 c. Ephe 1. b 2. P●t 3. b. Apo. 21. ▪ of the Worlde with Righteousnes and so ▪ through the Light of Loue and his Seruice ⁏ put-awaye the k Ier. 4. a. Fore-skinne namely the Darknesses from your Hearts / Or-els ye shall not com to the Glory of God nor to his Sainctuary For no l Esa. 35.52 ● Eze. 44. ● Vncircumcisedone / shall enter into the Sainctuary of God 5. BVt Many of you do refuse this Grace / which is proffered vnto you and do bitter and harden your Hearts against thesame Therfore is also my Complaynt against you / vnto my God for that ye are yet so vtterly m Ier 6. b. 9. c Act. 7. f vncircumcised on your Eares Lipps and Hearts as likewyse for that ye sett yourselues so presumpteously in Iudgment and wil seeme to iudg Gods n Esa. 30. b. Mich. 2.3 b Matters / out of your vncleane Hearts / according to y e Imagination of your owne Knowledg 6. I woulde aske you / on the behalfe of my Lorde and God / who hath prouoked you therunto or what Spirit hath mooued you to iudg such Matters The Cause I haue cheefly to demaunde of those that conuersate themselues dayly with vs / in Hipocrisie and that shewe towards vs or ours ⁏ in our Beholding a laughing o Psa. 28. a. 37. b. Ier. 9. a. Mouth or fauourable Countenance and in secret / speake all Euell of vs. 7. Ah-beloued speake it out boldly I pray you / yee which are so wyse now p Pro. 3. a. Esa 5. c. Rom. 12. b. in your owne conceites With whose Spirit and with what Toungs / do ye thus smyte vs priuily and slaunder and blaspheame vs behynd our backs / where we haue None to reply against you Out of what Nature haue ye thatsame I pray you Or out of whose Brestes do ye suck such Venom of corrupt Milke And wherout do many of you frame such a false Freedom / that ye haue shewed vs a fayer Face / before our Eyes also haue flattered vs with your Toungs / whilst ye were present / and do now with such a false Heart / mock vs priuily or behynde our backs / among those that do gladly giue eare vnto you and so boldly smyte and blaspheame vs / with your false Spirit and Blaspheamous-toungs No● Vs only q Luk. 10. b. ● Tess. 4. ● 2 pe● 2. b. but also the godly Wisdom and holy Vnderstanding / wherwith God hath ⁏ through his hearty Loue r Ephe. 1 a. 2 pet 1. a endowed vs and so in blaspheaming s Heb. 10. d. the holy Spirit of the Loue of God and Christ / ye dispise the precious Treasures of the spirituall heauenly Ritches as likewyse y e highest Cleernes of God 8. Which gloryous Light or godly Cleernes ⁏ wherin t 2 Cor. 4 ● a the Mosthighest hath comprehended vs / vnder the Obedience of his Loue doth ouershadow or farr exceede all the Lightes of this Worlde Yea all Vnderstandings of this Worlde / v Psa. 37.46 b Esa ●0 b. Aba c. ● b S●ph 1. a. Zach. 2. b. must be dombe before thesame and ●ow them eueryone vnder thesame gloryous Cleernes of God / which is made-manifest vnto vs. And all those that loue the vpright Righteousnes / must saye Thatt Light is verytrue The IIII. Chap. O Ye foolish People Do ye dispise the precious Pearle / because thesame is a Math. ●3 c founde in an earthen Feelde / wherin it was hidden or for that it is by God / layde in an earthen Vessell / b Rom. 9. c. 2 Tess. 2. c. that seemeth before you to be too-dishonourable and for that Hee also / declareth thesame ther-out 2. Do ye dispise the

altogether aboute thee / wher-after men do hunt course or runne For now is the tyme com / that thou shalt be n Mat 24. a. Mar. 15. a. Luk 19.11 b besett assaulted and persecuted ▪ namely / by the Worlde by the Flesh and by all perditionable Lusts and Desyres as likewyse by all deuided Sects and good-thinking Men and by all false Holynesses All these shall spread their Netts before thee / for to drawe thee into thesame 6. All Lightmynded Spirits / also all Scorners and o 1 Timo. 4 a 2 Timo. 3. a. 2. Pet. 2.3 a. Iude. ● b. Mockers / all Fallers-away from the Seruice of Loue / likewyse all those that do make manifest their Craftynes Villany and false vnfaythfull Nature / against the Loue and her Comunialtee / together with all Backbyters and Blaspheamers / that defame vs with much Falshod / shall also runne-after thee for to drawe thee vnder their false Nature 7. Lykewyse all Flatterers Whoores and Knaues Lyers Adulterers and Adulteriees Betrayers Vsurers and Couetousones / also the Idolaters and all those that vse false God-seruices / together with the Killers Theeues and Murderers Yea / all whatsoeuer is false vnfaythfull or deceitfull / shall make-vp himself / for to drawe thee vnto him But make none accounte of any of them all / p Math ▪ 1● b. 2. Timo. 3. a in the tyme of thyne Assaulting Tryall and Tribulacion but praye vnto God q Ma● 6 b. Luk● 11. a. that He wil keepe thee from their perditionable Wayes / wherinto they woulde leade thee 8. THerfore ⁏ O thou precious Man remember now in thy Temptacion / the Suffering and Death of our Lorde Iesu Christ how that Hee hath suffered the Temptacion of the Wicked· and the r Phil. 2. a. Heb. 12. a. contemnable Death of the Crosse / at the Sinners Handes / when the Glory was heald-foorth or proffered vnto Him and so ⁏ after his Ryseing from the Death is com agayne s Luk. 24. c. Act. 1 d 1. Cor 15 c. to his Glory and Dignitee and so hath ⁏ through t Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. his Death of the Crosse conquered the v Oze 13 b. 1. Cor. 15. f. Death and broken their Bandes / x 1 Timo. 1 b Heb. 2. b. that had the Authoritee of Death 9. Thus byde now constantly in the Loue of Iesu Christ and let it not greeue thee ⁏ O thou precious Man to suffer with Christ / wherby to be in like maner in his Suffering or y Rom. 6 a. Phil. 3. b. Death of the Crosse / baptised or z Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. Tit. 3. b. washed with the pure a Iohn 3.7 d. Waters of the Seruice of Loue· and euenso cleansed from the Sinne. For ther is no other Waye / for to bring thee agayne to thy Dignitee 10. Therfore / ponder well now thissame Waye and looke-into the Death of the Crosse of our Lorde Iesu Christ wher-thorow b Iohn 10.14 thou must go and offer-vp vnto the Lorde / thy Gift or Offering / in the Gift c Heb. 9. b. c. or Offering of Iesu Christ if thou wilt com to the Lyfe 11. Be not seduced with any other vayne Babling nor deceaued by the subtill and crafty Tongues nor-yet by Flesh and Blood Inasmuch doutles as Those and all Such / do d Phil. 5. b. mock at the right and true Death of the Crosse of Christ. and do also saye very boldly vnto thee Cast the Crosse ⁏ or the Passe-ouer to the Entrance into the Lyfe / that is taught thee out of the Seruice of Loue from thee and fauour thyself and liue free 12. With these or such-like seduceing Woordes / they steale thy Heart from the Lyfe that proc●edeth out of God and so thou remaynest bounde with the Bandes of Death and e Rom. 1. e. Ephe. 4 6. estrainged from the true Lyfe of the newe Birth in Iesu Christ. From which Death ⁏ that doth alwayes gnawe accuse ▪ and captiue thee thou canst not be released / without the Death or Passe-ouer of the Suffering of Christ. 13. Therfore let noman seduce thee but be thou obedient to the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue and so take-vpp thy Crosse ▪ f Math. 16. d Luk. 9.14 c. 1. Pet. 2. c. 4 a. and follow-after Christ / in his Death and com euenso thorow his Death g Rom. 6. a. to the Renewing of the Lyfe namely / to the newe Birth or Resurrection of Christ from the Death y e which is the true h Rom. 6.8 c Freedom of all the Children of God and Gods vpright Glory in Iesu Christ and in all his Holyones 14 O Ye beloued Hearts / com now all in-that-maner / to the Glory of God the Father and be not afrayde to i Rom. ● b. 2 Timo. 2. b suffer with Christ / in the Holy For by his Suffering in the Holy / He wil make you k 1 Pet. 2. a. Apo. 1. a. 5. b Kings and Priestes vnto his God and Gouernoures vppon Earth / for to beare the Dominion vppon Earth / with y e liueing God and his Righteousnes / to the Treading-downe of the Sinne Death Deuill and Hell / which haue corrupted the Earth / with their Iniquitie and Vngodlynes· and raigned ouer thesame with Vnrighteousnes / To th end that they may l Rom. 6. b. nomore raigne ouer thesame but that God with his Saintes / may raigne vppon the Earth for euermore and that the m Mat. 6. b. Will of God the Father may be don vppon Earth / as in Heauen The Ende of the Eleuenth Epistle The Twelueth Epistle An Information and Loueing Exhortation of Reproofe / written and sent vnto One / out of harty Loue Wher-with he is loued to the Concorde of the Loue and to the Vnitee of Heart in the Obedience of the Loue. O Lorde how kynde and sweete is thy Spirit / in all things Therfore doest thou chasten those measurably / that do erre and exhortest those with Correction / that sinne / because they shoulde hate their Wickednes and beleeue ⁏ O Lorde in thee Sap 12. The First Chapter WIth this my Wryting ⁏ as a Salutacion of the Loue I do hartely ●a●ute thee to the Loue / my beloued Freende and do wish thee to haue obtayned in one Spirit with vs a Math. 11. d. Little and Electedones of God / thesame Cleernes of the true Light / wherwith God y e Father hath shewed Mercie on vs / through his harty Loue. For this Cleernes of the true Light ⁏ b Iohn 17. c. 1. Iohn 1. ● which God hath with Vs / and wee with Him is the Daye of Loue / of his righteous Iudgmet 2. Which Daye is com and declared vnto vs / by the c 2 Timo 1. b. Tit. 2. b. Appeering of the gloryous Coming of the Lorde Iesu Christ who cometh now from the Right-hande of God his Father /

c. Benefite / in what Humiltee and Holynes soeuer it turneth or giueth-ouer c Esa. 58.59 ● Col 2. b. c. itself vnto and that all his Conuersion is nothing-els oftentymes / but an Inclynation to his owne Sensualitee / according to his owne Pleasure / Therfore haue I doutles to consider well theron and to vse a great Circumspection to the things that the Man giueth-foorth of himself and likewyse for to perceaue out of what Grounde of the Heart / the Mans Conuersion or his Mynde to the Good / cometh-to-pas or out of what Intent he calleth Thatt the Good / wherunto he turneth him namely whether y e thesame which he turneth him vnto / do d Rom. 6. b. ● a. 13. b. Gal. 5. b. delyte him according to the Flesh of Sinne and according to his fleshly Will or whether that he turne-away himself from all what is a Delyte vnto the Flesh and so hath a e psal 40. Desyre with all his Heart / to doo the Lordes Will. 4. For-that-cause ⁏ thou Beloued inasmuch now as all s●nfull Flesh is generally ⁏ in his Conuersion so f Gen 6 ● ▪ self-chooseing and is also oftentymes / founde deceitfull therin / Therfore cannot I so simply beleeue nor trust thee / at the first / because y t I may yet perhapps haue som Suspicion / whether that thy Conuersion may proceede out of a g Rom. 8. a. 13. b. Delyte of the Flesh / or no and therfore cannot continue stedfast with thee Notwithstanding / by thy Wryting / I hope the Best of thee 5. But seing that it is all h Pro. 11. b. vnstedfast / whatsoeuer is taken-on out of the Pleasure of the sinfull Flesh / therfore must I needes wryte vnto thee of thesame and of my Mistrust that I haue towards it For doutles I can trust no Flesh of Sinne nor anything that the Man inclyneth-vnto / according to the Mocions or Pleasures of the Flesh / as to thinck that his Humilitee and Lowelynes or Littlenes / is so wholly inclyned to the Loue of God the Father / with an vpright Heart / as his Woordes and Wrytings do import Also / none of those things can perswade me to trust firmly theron / that it shal be found euen so in the Deede 6. Notwithstanding although I do mistrust the Man / according to the Inclynacion of his Flesh and do not so simply beleeue him at the first / yet do I wel vouchsafe vnto him with all my Heart / all the Good wherof he bosteth him Yea I woulde also that he had obtayned such Mercy at the hands of the highest God / as his Woordes do speake-of or as his Wrytings do import 7. But veryly all whatsoeuer is testifyed enterprysed or begonne / out of the Will and Pleasure of the Flesh / without the Spirit of God or without our Mostholy Seruice of Loue. or whatsoeuer is beleeued accepted and deuised / out of anymans Doctrine and Counsayle / that standeth not wholly submitted to the holy Spirit of Loue and his Seruice let it be then in the accomplishing erecting or obeying of what Holynes or Righteousnes soeuer it be therin shall noman ⁏ whosoeuer he be be able to continue stedfast but they must all needes be varyable and com to shame therin 8. For seing it procedeth out of the Flesh of Lyes / i Rom. 7. b. c ▪ 8. a. ● Cor. 3. a. therfore also is not the Power to the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes / with thesame but it is only with the highest God Which God / bringeth or sendeth his Power / k Ephe. 3. b. Phil. 2. b. 3. c Col 1. c. vnto his Beleeuers or Holyones / that heare his Woord and giue-ouer themselues with all their Hearts / vnto Obedience vnder the Spirit of the Loue of Christ and to the mostholy Godseriuce of thesame 9. Vnder which vpright Seruice and godly Righteousnes / God doth not fauour any Flesch as to honour thesame with any fleshly Righteousnes or Holynes / l 1 Cor 1. c. for that it shoulde in nowyse bost itself of his owne Goodnes The II. Chap. SEing then that ther belongeth no Honour to the Flesh of Sinne / therfore doth God likewyse now in his gloryous Daye of y e Coming of Christ bring all sinfull a 1. Cor. 1. c. Flesh to shame ⁏ in the Purpose of his owne Holynes or Righteousnes through the Seruice of his Loue and sheweth that Hee ؛the Lorde is the vpright Righteousnes of the true Lyfe and the Loue itself Which God / permitteth not himself to be approched vnto nor reconciled / in his Righteousnes let it be then by what meanes it wil b Psal ●5 24 a Esa 33. b. Heb. 12. c. but only by his owne vertuous Beeing and godly Nature or Spirit of Loue. 2. But this doth the Flesh dislyke-of for-that-cause also / it hath no pleasure in the God of Heauen nor in his Glory nor-yet in the Iudgment of his Righteousnes For ther-through it fyndeth itself altogether vayne and weake / before God and his Trueth also vtterly c Iob. 9. ● b. c Psal. 126. b. Rom. 3. a. vnrighteous false and lying / in his owne Iudgment 3. And the Flesh or the Wisdom proceding out of the Flesh / doth likewyse growe-offended at the true Light of God ⁏ the which notwithstanding / is Christ / d 1. Iohn 4. c the Sauiour of all the Worlde himself because that all his Fleshes owne-proper Righteousnes e Col. 2. b. c. and self-chosen Holynes and Wisdom / auayleth not with the true Light neither-yet is it esteemed as to make any account therof 4. But seing now that the Flesh of Sinne / woulde so fayne haue Prayse or Honour for his Holynes Wisdom or Righteousnes / therfore doth it seeke thesame among the Children of Men / in diuers maners By which occasion / ther is so many Diuisions of chosen Holynes / growne euerywhear f Rom. 10. a. Gal. 3 a. 4. b Col. 2. b c. in the Worlde or among the Children of Men. 5. But Gods Saints ⁏ which dwell in Heauen shall laugh the Flesh of Sinne to-scorne / with his foolish Bewitching and with all the Hipocrisy of his forged Holynes For the Man hath therthrough forsaken the louely Righteousnes of the vpright Lyfe in the Peace and ⁏ with his owne Righteousnes plucked much Stryfe and Controuersy vppon his owne Neck 6. He hath also lest to giue g Ier. 2. ● Rom. 1. ● to the God of Lyfe his Honour / h Iohn 5. ● that belongeth only vnto Him and hath sought and defended his owne Honour Therfore hath he likewyse dealt with so many Wickednesses and Killings or Murderings By which occasion / he cannot also vnderstande or conceaue any-thing-at-all i Math. 23. Rom. 10. ● of the vpright Righteousnes which auayleth before God which notwithstanding / bringeth-the Loue and the Peace vnto him 7. Seing then that the

Seruice / are not Seruants of Men nor of the Letter like-vnto the earthly Generacion out of the Flesh ⁏ who are h Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b ▪ altogether Straingers and ignorant of Gods heauenly Trueth but i 2. Cor. 3. Ministers of the holy Woord k 2 Cor. 4. 2 Pet. 1. b. and Witnesses of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes 3. And so through Gods true Beeing and his spirituall and heauenly Goodes in l Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 1. b. the which / God hath herited vs / as his beloued Children wee ⁏ which are comprehended in the Comunialtee of Loue and m Ephe. 4. b. Age of the holy Vnderstanding are eueryone / n 1 Pet. 2. a. Apoc. 1. a. 5. b. 20 a. Priestes Kinges or Gods / o Exo. 22. a. Psal. 82. a. Iohn 10 d. and Children of the Most highest / which are not com of the Earth / but of Heauen and p Iohn 1. a. 3. a. borne out of God for to raigne vppon the Earth / with Righteousnes 4. Therfore are wee likewyse / q Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 1. b. God 's Heyres with Christ our Sauiour / in all r Esa 33. a. Ephe. 1 b. 2. a. Col 1. c. 2. a. the Treasures and Ritches of his spirituall and heauenly Goodes / as free borne Children who do all s Ier. 31. d. ●1 Iohn 1 ● Hed 8. b. knowe God / from the Least to the Greatest vnto whom also / God hath ⁏ to a more Aboundance of his· Grace geeuen to t Math. 1● d. 13. b. 1 Cor 2. b. Ephe 3. a. Col. 1. e. vnderstande the Secretnes of his Kingdom and of Christ and his secret Counsayle and Will / To th end that the true and perfect Beeing of God the Father· the Secretnes of the Kingdom of Christ· and the endles Ioye of the heauenly Delytfulnes and of the euerlasting Lyfe / shoulde ⁏ by vs be declared vppon the Earth / now in the last tyme. 5. Beholde thatt is the Brightnes of the vertuous Cleernes / which all the Children of God haue now / through the Loue. It is also the vpright Rest / which God hath v Heb. 4. b. kept or reserued for his Children / for to herite them therin in thissame last Tyme and it is likewyse / the vpright Righteousnes of the heauenly Trueth / against the which / the Worlde can do nothing neither can any Flesh / lett thesame in-any-wyse 6. For all the Darknesses Vnrestfulnes and all the Foolishnesses and Vnrighteousnesses of this Worlde / cannot x Act. 9. b. c. bring-to-nothing / God 's Light Rest nor his Righteousnes and Wisdom / which cometh ritchly and aboundantly vnto vs / through his Loue neither can likewyse all the false God-seruices chosen Holynesses of the Flesh nor the false Heartes of the Scripture-learned / y Mat. 16. c. destroy the vpright God-seruice ⁏ which cometh-to-pas with vs in the Spirit / through the Loue nor-yet our vpright Holynes which God esteemeth 7. Therfore are wee likewyse wel-at-quyet in our God and in the true Beeing of his vndisturbable Power / wherin all Myndes and Thoughtes z Psal. 15.24 ● Esa. 33. b. of pure Hearts / do liue and dwell For those Things wherof we speake and wherwith God illuminateth vs / are not vncertayne to our Consciences The IIII. Chap. WE confesse also out of a good Conscience / before God and before all those that desyre to heare vs in Humilitee that now in thissame Daye / it is altogether the Will and the Precept or Commaundement of God / a Esa 1. b. 55. a Ier. 7. a. c. 18. b. 25. a. 35. b. Eze. 18. c. Math. 3. a. Act 2.17 d that eueryone shoulde turne him from all his Vnrighteousnes and with a penitent Heart / giue his Vnderstanding captiue b 2. Cor. 10. ● vnder the Obedience of the Loue and euenso shoulde ⁏ vnder the Wings of the Loue leade an vpright Lyfe with vs Little and Electedones of God / both before God and Man wherby to inherite and possesse with Christ / for euermore ⁏ like Children c Rom 8. b. Ephe. 1 c. and Heyres of God all the heauenly Ritches of God our Father / through y e Loue. Haue a good regarde therunto 2. VEryly / This is now the Sounde of the last Trumpet d Ioel. 2. a. b. 1. Tess. 4. b. Apo 12. a. and the Trumpets-noyse of the righteous Iudgment of our God / which we do witnes in the Worlde before the Eares of all People and do publish it generally e Mat. 24. d. Apo. 14. b. in the Worlde / vnto all Louers of the Trueth / as a ioyfull Message 3. But if now we be not beleeued heerin / by reason of the Blyndnes of the People or because of their self chosen Holynes but much-rather resisted f Act. 7. f. 2. Pet. 2 b. Iude. 1 b. and blaspheamed / through the Disobedience g psal 95. a. Ier ● e. Heb 3. a. and Hardnes of their Heartes / What doth thatt concerne vs / God 's h Iohn 12. c. Iudgment goeth neuer-the-lesse ouer the Worlde for-al-thatt but to take-heede to thesame Iudgment and to haue a good regarde vnto the Sentences of his righteous Iudgment / thatt veryly doth concerne vs much For now in thissame Daye / it yeeldeth vnto vs eueryone / either the euerlasting Saluacion or the euerlasting Condemnacion 4. But let vs not therfore feare nor be dismayed For the Iudgment of God chauneth to all vs ⁏ Wee / which vnder the Obedience of the Loue / do beleeue Gods Trueth as likewyse all the Saincts of God to an euerlasting Ioye and Saluacion in the eternall Lyfe i Dan. 12. b. Mat. 25. c. Iohn 5. c. Rom. 2 a. but to the Vnbeleeuers and all Vngodlyones together with all erring Spirits or Children of the Deuill / to a perpetuall Condemnacion in the euerlasting Death among whom / the Flame of the hellish Fyre and the k Esa. ●6 c. Mark 9. ● Gnawing of the Worme of the euell Conscience / shall endure / euen for euer and euer It is verytrue 5. BVt though anyman now shoulde beleeue our Testimonyes of the true Spirit of Loue / which we do witnes with Courtesye / before all Consciences of Men and in the Beleefe ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue shoulde be l Iohn 3. d. 6. c. 20. d. 1 Iohn 5 b. saued and shoulde therfore be protected from the last m Apo. 18. a. 20. c. Plagues of the Vngodly or be ridd ther-from / Yet is not thatsame then our Worke nor-yet his that beleeueth n 2. Cor 3. b. but the Worke of our God / in his righteous Iudgment 6. Therfore is the Beleefe / o Rom. 12. a. 1 Cor. 12. a. b Ephe. 2.4 a a Gi●t of God wherwith God sheweth Mercy on vs and so draweth vs out of the Aboundance of our Darknesses / p 1. Pet. 2.

7. b. Sorrow and Amendment be shewed and that men may be of one-mynde with each-other / e Rom. 12. b. 15. a. 1. Cor. 1. a. 2 Cor. 13. b. Phil. 2 a. in the Loue / wherby to liue peaceably in all Loue / to laude and thanke the God of Lyfe / for all his Goodnes / and to giue the Honour only vnto Him 3. Beholde heerunto do all wee ⁏ which stande submitted vnder the Obedience of the Loue / the mostholy God-seruice stand concordably inclyned and in-that-sort ⁏ to the f Iohn 17 d. Ephe. 4 a. Vnitee in the Loue loueingly to receaue into our Armes of the Spirit of Loue / our Enemyes which turne them to the Loue and her Seruice / to a Reconciliation with each-other / To th end that they mought escape g Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. b. the Vengance of God· and be kept from the h Luk. 21. b. Apo. 18. a. Plagues which shall now in thissame Daye / fall vppon all Vngodlyones ؛our Enemyes 4. Thissame is all our Lust and Desyre / for to shewe Mercy likewyse vnto eueryone / out of Loue inasmuch as Mercy is shewed on Vs and not to remember anymās former Sinnes but cheefly towards those / that giue themselues penetently to our Comunialtee vnder the Obedience of the Loue / for to bring-foorth good i Mat 13. a. Luk. ● a. Iohn 15. b Fruits of Lyfe 5. Oh That it mought once com-to-light· and gett the k 1. Cor 3. b. Prehemynence in the Heart of Man / that hath so long-tyme remayned in secret namely the vpright Beeing of the Loue / 6. To thatt God now / l Ephe. 3. b. who hath thesame in his Hande and bringeth it bountifully vnto eueryone that turneth vnto Him / be Laude Honour and Thankes / for euermore Amen 7. This Letter ⁏ thou Beloued with more other Wrytings which thou desyerest / do I sende vnto thee to thy Edifying and my Desyre is / that thou ⁏ through the Goodnes of the Loue of God wilt m 1. Tim. ● b. exercise thyself therin / with an humble Heart and haue a regarde vnto the Trueth for to vnderstande this our holy Mynde rightly Thatt graunte vnto thee / the God of Lyfe and thesame God establish thee in his Loue. Amen The Ende of the Thirtenth Epistle The Fourtenth Epistle A breefe Exhortacion vnto a Disciple in the Seruice of Loue Wherwith he is exhorted ⁏ in the Lande where he dwelt to keepe a sharpe watch towards the Spirits that make-vp themselues in him or that be borne in him And also that he shoulde learne to descerne with good Vnderstanding / the euell Hearbe ⁏ which is destroying and deadly from the good Hearbe of Lyfe and the false Spirits ⁏ which aryse out of the Flesh from the good Spirits / that are of God / to th end that he mought therby growe-vp in the good Beeing of the Loue / without any Harme Ye Beloued Beleeue not euery Spirit but proue the Spirits / Whether they be of God or no 1. Iohn 4. Health and Saluacion be vnto Him / who ⁏ in his Spirit hath intended Loue and Peace / with our Spirit The First Chapter THE God of Heauen who out of his bountefull Mercy / hath herited mee in the a Ephe 4. b Olde-age of the holy Vnderstanding of Christ and in the spirituall b Ephe. 1. b. 2. a. 3. a Col. 1. c 2. a Ritches of his heauenly Goodes / for a good Confession c Math. 10. d. Luk. 12. a. before all Men / that in the Loue / is an vpright Beeing be vnto thee ⁏ my Beloued a Light vnto thy Waye a Lyfe vnto thy Spirit and Mynde and a Cleernes vnto thy Vnderstanding / That thou mayest ⁏ in thissame Daye of his Loue vnderstande ⁏ according to his heauenly Trueth and not according to the Mynde of the Flesh the ouerflowing Vertues and godly Wisdoms / which He hath declared d 2. Cor. 4. a. Ephe 1. b. 3 a. Col. 1. c. and brought vnto vs· also giue-ouer thyself with all thy Heart / to thosame and their Requyring / for to liue therin· and laude and thanke thesame God / in an vpright Beeing Amen 2. O my Beloued I haue a long tyme ⁏ out of a fatherly Heart that I beare towards thee had a greate longing to knowe how it may go with thee / in the Lande where thou dwellest and that for because thou hast neuer written vnto me / how it standeth with thee or wherin thou hast thy Mayntenance or wherby thou liuest 3. For if thou hadst written anything heerof vnto mee / then mought I haue vnderstoode or perceaued therby / Whether that thy young e 1. Cor. 3. a. Heb. 5. d. Manhod / did yet liue or no Whether it were succoured or nourished-vp with the vpright f Math 24. c. Iohn 6. f. Foode of Lyfe and whether that thou also didst in-like-maner growe-vp to the manly Age g Ephe 4. b. in the godly Vnderstanding or-els / whether thou hadst bin choked with any Poyson or deadly Hearbes / that do growe out of thesame Earth where thou dwellest or bin weakened or vtterly dead / in the Lyfe which proceedeth out of God For it is certaynly well knowen vnto mee / that the Earth and all Countryes of the Kingdom-of-the-earth / are h Gen. 3. b. Heb. 6. a. of themselues ⁏ for the Vnrighteousnes cause full of Poyson deadly Hearbes and naughty Fruites 4. SEing then that all Disciples of the Loue that be nourished-vp in the holy Vnderstanding of the Spirit of Loue must passe-thorow many Perills vppon the Earth / which is i Gen. 3. b. 5. c curssed for the Wickednes cause of her Inhabitours / So do I therfore beare so-much-the-more a greate Care for thosame Disciples / thewhyles they are yet young and cannot discerne the deadly Hearbes / k 4 Reg. 4. Math 13 d from the right Foode of Lyfe 5. Wherby nodout ⁏ if they shoulde be suffered to go-on in their Youngnes / according to their owne Goodthinking they woulde rashly or vnforesightfully ⁏ out of their owne Affection or Lust of their Hearts receaue the one or the other of the deadly Hearbes· and swallow them in / in steade of the Foode of Lyfe wherthrough then likewyse / the precious Manhod mought be strangled and such Disciples of the Woord / which ⁏ following their owne Counsayle are vnexpert heerin / mought most lamentably betraye spoyle or kill themselues / and disenherit themselues of the Lyfe that proceedeth out of God 6. Wherfore ⁏ my Beloued inasmuch as it is now a perillous Tyme / to nourish-vp the Youngnes of Vnderstanding / to the vpright Ephe 4. b. Agednes of the holy Vnderstanding / so is this my Exhortation and Counsayle out of the liueing God / vnto thee to thy Preseruacion that thou wilt dayly vse Foresightfulnes m Ephe. 5. b. or dilligent Heede and haue a sharp regarde

vnto the Spirit or inwarde Manhod of thy Mynde Consider or search out what is ingendered or borne thear within thee / as Spirit and spirituall / n Rom 8. a. Gal. 5. b. or as Knowledg and o 1. Iohn 4. a prooue or trye whether y e Spirits and Birthes of the Knowledges ⁏ which be borne in thee be of God or no and do bring the heauenly Powers of the holy Gost and godly Vnderstanding / with them p Rom 8. a. Gal. 5. b. Ephe 5. b. or-els / whether they be false Spirits and deceitfull Knowledges which proceede out of the Flesh / and so do kindle prouoke or mooue thee / with earthly and fleshly Desyres The II. Chap. O Thou Beloued Consider effectually of this Mattier and beleeue not euery Spirit or Imagination of the Knowledg / that presenteth itself vnto thee For many false Spirits and deceitfull Knowledges / a Math 24 a. 1. Iohn 4. a 2. Iohn 1. a. 2. Pet. 2. a. do now go-foorth / for to deceaue all Hearts of Men / that stande mynded on the earthly and fleshly Things 2. For-that-cause haue a Discerning heerin For if the Spirit or the Imaginacion of the Knowledg which is borne or brought-foorth in thee / be spirituall and that thesame do proceede out of the godly Wisdom of the true Light / b Rom. 8. a Gal 5. b. Then wil it veryly be altogether against the Flesh and the Workes of the Flesh. and wil chasten crucify and kill the Flesh c Rom. 13. b. Gal. 5. c. Col. 3. a. 2 Pet. 2. b. with his Lusts and Desyres 3. But if the Spirit and Fruit or the Imaginacion of the Knowledg / be fleshly and that it proceede out of the Wisdom of the Flesh / then wil thesame likewyse make-manifest itself with the Workes of the Flesh / to the Lusts of Errour / d Gal. 6. b. that stretch to Destruction also be vtterly e 2. Timo. 3. a against the Spirit of Godlynes and the Counsayle of the Wisdom and wil likewyse desyre to suppresse and to kill or destroye / all what cometh before her in her Heart and Thoughts / touching the godly Wisdom of the Seruice of Loue. 4. For whearsoeuer the Flesh with his Wisdom or Imaginacion of the Knowledg ؛that false Light hath the Superyoryte / theare is the false Freedom / f Sap. 2.14 b. Cal. 5. b. according to the Lusts and Desyres of the Fleshly Men for to cause the Man to liue euenso in his perdicionable Lusts and Desyres 5. But whearsoeuer the Spirit of the Wisdom of God ؛that true Light getteth the Superyorytee / theare is the vpright Freedom of the spirituall Men vnder g Rom 8. b. whose Power / the Flesh or the naturall Man is subiect and is sustayned therin / to all Seemlynes and Resonablnes 6. BEholde ⁏ my Beloued because I knowe not now how it may go with thee / whear thou dwellest / therfore haue I ⁏ out of harty Loue written this little porcion vnto thee / to th end that thou shouldest alwayes be myndfull of the vpright Beeing of the Loue· and not ⁏ through any deceitfull Meanes / which may com before thee out of the Flesh and his Wisdom neglect the godly Grace / which is com vnto vs in thissame h 1 Timo 4. b 2. Timo 3. a. 2 per. 2. a. perillous Tyme nor estrainge thy self ther-from but to haue the more-dilligent regard ⁏ with all Subiection to the Loue vnto the Seruice of the holy Woord / for to consider with Vnderstanding what an vpright Beeing thesame Seruice requyreth and in what maner or to what an vpright ▪ Effect of the godly Lyfe / all former Seruices ⁏ which are gon-out from God euen hetherto do leade i Math. 22. d. Mark 12. d Rom 13 b. Gal. 5. b 1 Timo. 1. a. to thissame Seruice of Loue. namely for that we shoulde now in this Daye of Loue ⁏ with Fulnes of the holy Gost and with pure Hearts liue vprightly in k Ephe. 1. a. all Loue / according to the Trueth of Christ. 7. If wee now therfore do looke into thissame rightly / thē shall wee likewyse exercise ourselues therin / to all Sainctifycation l 2. Tess ▪ 2. b. 1. Pet. 3. b. in the Spirit according to the Promyses of God the Father and not m 2. Cor. 6. b touch or receaue anything / that mought make our Hearts vncleane· or drawe vs to any false n S●p 14. b. Rom. 1. c. 2. Pet. 2. b. or disordered Freedom 8. Therfore is also myne Exhortacion vnto thee / out of harty Loue / that thou wilt dayly exercise thyself in our mostholy Seruice of Loue ⁏ with all Humilitee o 〈◊〉 1. b. and Obedience in the Feare of the Lorde 9. And if now thou indeuourest thyself heerunto / then shalt thou nodout p Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. 1 Pet 2. a. grow-vp likewyse in all holy Vnderstanding and be well preserued from the false Desyres of the Flesh and from all inconstant Spirits and false Freedoms / which bring the Man to the Disobeying of the Loue and to all Confusion 10. The Lorde vouchsafe to strengthen q Col. 1. b. 2. Tess. 2 b. 1. Pet 5. b. thee in his Righteousnes and to leade thee ⁏ with his Wisdom into all Trueth and vpright Righteousnes Amen 11. Heerwith ⁏ my Beloued I do hartely salute thee in the Loue / wherthrough God hath shewed Mercy on vs and salute me also in thesame Loue / vnto our good Freendes namely all the Acquayntance / that loue the vpright Beeing in Iesu Christ. The Loue of the supreame God / gett the Victory in all your Hearts Amen The Ende of the Fourtenth Epistle The Fiftenth Epistle An harty Exhortaciō vnto all Louers of the Trueth and vnto all those that submitt them vnder the Obedience of the Loue To a Warning of them touching all contrary Sights and false Spirits / which make-vp them selues out of the wicked Worlde / in these last perillous Tymes also iudg falsly / against the Trueth and against the Seruice of Loue and so do bring-in or cause Discord and Offence / contrary to the peaceable Famyly of Loue. I admonish you ⁏ beloued Bretheren that ye wil marke those that cause Discorde and Offence / contrary to the Doctrine which ye haue learned and auoyde from them Rom. 16. The First Chapter THrough the Loue of God the Father / which ⁏ out of Grace is a Rom. 16. ● Eph. 1. a 3. a Col. 1. c. declared vnto vs / by the Reuealing b 2. Timo 1. b of the gloryous Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ / we wish a good Peace and Concorde vnto all Louers of the Trueth / which ⁏ out of an Inclynacion of Loue and of a pure Heart haue their fellowshipp with our Comunialtee vnder the Obedience of the Loue. For They ⁏ yea thosame shal be founde happy For our Comunialtee is

the One vndeuided c Rom. 12. a. Ephe. 4. b. Body of Christ with whom we haue our fellowshipp d 1. Iohn 1. a. with God the Father / the Headd of thesame Christ. 2. To thatt God which ⁏ through the Spirit e 1. Pet. 5. b. of his Loue hath chosen vs to such a Maiestee of his Glory / be Laude Honour f Apo. 4.5 b Prayse and Thanks / for euer Amen 3. BEholde my beloued Freendes in the Loue This Loue of God the Father ⁏ wherin God hath gloryfyed Vs is the bounttyfull Mercy of the highest God with the which He hath taken-pitie on vs now in these last perillous Tymes and elected vs to Saluacion g E●he 4. a. to the Lande of his Glory In which perillous Tymes / al-maner of venimous h Ephe. 4. b. Wyndes false Knowledges deceiptfull Witts contrary Sightes i Math. 24. b. 2. Timo. 4. a 2. Pet. 2. a. with many erring Spirits and all wrong Iudgers or False-sentence-giuers ⁏ to the Hurt of the Soule do flourish 4. Seing then that all false Spirits do now ⁏ in many Controuersies ryse-vp out of the wicked Worlde and out of those Wyscones that cleaue vnto her and do make-vp themselues agaynst the Trueth / for to take k 2. Timo 3. a captiue in their contencious Knowledges ⁏ with their Craftynes and deceitfull Witt those that loue the Trueth / So is-ther likewyse in this perillious Tyme / l 1. Timo. 1. b. greate Grace shewed on vs / against all false Spirits and deuided Knowledges For to that ende haue we obtayned the mostholy Office or Seruice of Loue but not from ourselues nor from Men. but from m Gal. 1. b. Ephe. 3. a ▪ the liueing God himself / by his Woord of Lyfe / because that wee ⁏ like faythfull Ministers of thesame shoulde ⁏ through the Woord of Lyfe warne all goodwilling Hearts ⁏ that loue y e Trueth of Christ of all n Math. 24. b Act. 20. c. false and contencious Spirits of the Knowledg· reache them the Hande seruiceably / with the Woord of Lyfe· and gyde them into our holy Comunialtee vnder the Obedience of the Loue / wherby to drawe them out of the Perills of Destruction which proceed out of the wicked Worlde / that is reserued o 2. Tess. 1. a. 2. Pet. 3. a. vnto Fyre and to defende them therfrom 5. Ouer which wicked Worlde and ouer all Guydes / that ●yse-vp ther-out with their false Spirits and contencious Knowledges and ouer all those that cleaue vnto thesame / the Iudgment of God goeth righteously to the Confusion of them all and p Math. 25. to their Condemnacion in the hellish Fyer For God wil now in his Daye of Loue / condemne the wicked Worlde with all her Wyseones Adherents and Louers 6. Yea assuredly now cometh the Lorde ⁏ out of his holy Heauen q Esa. 29 a. Ec●li 13. b. Luk. 17. Apo. 4. a. 8 a. with Lightenings and Thunders and with a forsible Noyze of Wyndes wherat the Earth shall r Psal. 77 b. Esa. 13. b. Agg. 2. a. feare and tremble and thatsame shall fall vppon all false Spirits and wicked Hearts / to their Destruction Yea now in thissame Daye of Loue / the Lorde wil mooue the s Heb. 12. d. Earth and it shall be forced to quake at his Thunders And so the Lorde wil then make an t Esa 10. c. Ende of all y e Falshod of the Earth 7. For now in thissame Daye of Loue / the v Eccli 16. b. 2. Pet. 3. b. Elements shall melt with the Heate of his Lightening and the Lordes Thunder-boltes shall fall very greeuously vppon the Pate of all arrogāt Heartes Self-wyseones and all false Witnesses Yea all those that be touched therwith / shall nodout make-manifest themselues and let it appeere / that they are touched and are not of the Loues Nature 8. But Saluation and Peace / cometh to the Lowely and Humble of Heart / x Rom. 12. b. 1. ●or 3. b. which are not wyse in themselues but do submitt them humbly vnder the Loue and her Seruice also do take-heede to the Doctrine and Informacion of thesame and indeuour them obediently therunto and do seeke no Pleasure nor Ioye without God and his Seruice of Loue nor-yet in the Worlde nor in the Flesh but only y Esa. 61. b. Luk. 2. c. in God their Saluacion For it shall go-well with them and in the Iudgment of God / they shall obtayne their Preseruacion or Saluacion 9. For in the Iudgment of God when the Thunder-clapps do fall vppon the Arrogant and Self-wyseones / to their Destruction / then shall the holy Spirit of Lyfe / fall vppon the Littleones and the Electedones of God / that haue humbly submitted them vnder the Obedience of the Loue / to their Preseruacion and shal be z Num 11. c. Esa. 44. o. Eze 36 c. Ioel 2 c. Act 2. b. poored-forth vppon them ⁏ with all Louelynes out of the euerlasting Lyfe and heauenly Beeing / a Iohn 4.7 b like floweing Waters of Lyfe and so shall then likewyse / b Ioel. 3. c. Milke and Hony and liueing Water of the holy Spirit of Loue / flowe among them 10. Haue you all a regarde heerunto / ye good-willing Hearts and Louers of the Trueth For Gods Iudgment / c Esa. 11. a. Iohn 7.8 b is not according to the Sight of Mens Eyes nor according to their Knowledg although notwithstanding they do perswade themselues somtymes / that they knowe it well and are assured of the Mattier of it but only according to the Trueth The II. Chap. FOrasmuch then as such a Day-light ⁏ the which is the true Iudgment of God is ⁏ by Gods Grace appeered vnto vs out of Heauen· and the gracious Woord of Lyfe vnder the Obedience of the Loue / geeuen vs to minister in thesame Light / to the Saluacion of the People / Therfore were it also very right and conuenient / that they shoulde giue eare vnto vs therin and that noman shoulde so peruersly looke-into or construe the Workes of the Lorde / which He bringeth to light by vs Little and Electedones of God For veryly / thatt which wee speake and wryte and bring-foorth or set-out ● vnder the Obedience of the Loue to the serueing of all Louers of the Trueth / is not our owne Worke nor-yet our Indighting nor Wryting but the a Ier. 31 d. Ezech. 36. c 1 Cor. 2. a. 2. Tess. 1.2 b. Worke of the Lorde / which He himself wryteth according to his owne Mynd Spirit and Will / and with his owne Finger 2. And whatsoeuerthen the Lorde himself bringeth-foorth / thatt do wee acknowledg to be good and vpright And although it be looked-on and iudged for Ignorance or to be foolish / before the Children of Men or before all those that account themselues wyse / Yet do wee confesse and shewe ther-against / that

Gods Ignorance and his Foolishnes / is b 1. Cor. 1.3 b wyser and procureth more Fruits of Righteousnes vppon the Earth / then all the Ingenious-witt of Mens Prudencie 3. Therfore we regarde not how Men ⁏ out of the Knowledg of their corrupt Vnderstanding do c 1. Cor. 4 a. iudg Vs and the Seruice of Loue / which we minister For it is well knowen vnto vs doutles / that all the Iudgments that the Man ⁏ out of his Ingenious-witt iudgeth of the Wisdom and Workes of God / are false and Lyes d Psal. 116. b. Rom. 3. a. and that God with his Saintes / is only true / in his Iudgment 4. And forasmuch as wee now in thissame Daye of Loue / are appeered before the Iudgment-seate of Christ and do carry the righteous Iudgment of God in our Hearts / therfore can no outlandish Men nor any Estraingedones or Fallers from the Seruice of Loue / iudg vs / although they woulde neuer-so-fayne For how shoulde they ⁏ I pray you be able to iudg vs rightly / inasmuch as they cannot see vs 5. Forasmuch then as they do e Exo. 33. c. Iohn 5.14 b. 1. Iohn 3.4 b not see the liueing God / in the Maiestee of his Glory / therfore can they not likewyse see Vs. For Wee together with all the Holyones of God / do liue and tryumph vniformly with God / in his Glory f Esa. 3. b. Sap. 3. b. Math. 19 c. 25. d. 1. Cor. 6. a. Iude. ● b. and do with Him / iudg the Worlde / with Righteousnes and Trueth / vnder the Obedience of his Loue. 6. Therfore also the Children of Men ⁏ that are without our Comunialtee or without the Famyly of Loue do vnderstande nothing-at-al ⁏ according to their Iudgment of our holy Vnderstanding / which we suck out of the Breastes of the Loue. 7. Veryly / therin do we acknowledg the Goodnes of God towards vs / that none of the foremencioned Men can ether see or iudg vs. But He himself / g 1. Cor. 4. a. the true God of the Liueing ⁏ who is a God with vs iudgeth euery thing by Vs and his heauenly and spirituall Wisdom and we vnderstande that his Iudgment is true 8. If anyman then haue a Lust to doo the Will of the Lorde also to be a Disciple of the Loue / in y e Schoole of Christ and to vnderstande the secret Iudgment of God / let him go-out or seperate his Heart / h 1. Cor. 3. b. from all the Wisdom of the Worlde and so com to our Comunialtee and to the Wisdom that we shall showe him / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 9. He being com to our Comunialtee vnder the Obedience of the Loue / so let him ⁏ for the Loue and her holy Vnderstandings cause forsake i Math. 10. d. 16. c. Mark 8. d. Lud. 9.14 c himself and all his Industry Wisdom and Knowledg and so haue regarde to y e Seruice of Loue / what it requyreth 10. Now when-as he forsaketh himself for the Loues cause and hath wholly geeuen-ouer himself to the Wisdom and to the holy Vnderstanding of the Loue / for to be obedient to thesame and so taketh-heede to the Doctrine of the Loue / in our Schoole of the christian Doctrine not as a Iudg of thesame Doctrine but as a Disciple / which is content to be informed and taught by the Doctrine of the holy Spirit of Loue Then shall he k Math. 13. b. well vnderstande the right Mynde of the Secretnes of the Loue and the secret Iudgment of God as also well perceaue / that God hath distincted and declared euery-thing wysely and vnderstandably / with vs. and shall in-nowyse be able to see nor fynde / that-ther-is any Fault in our Wrytings and Ministracion of the Woord as likewyse very-easely perceaue / that we do apparantly shewe the Submission the Trueth and the Patience / each-one in his right Place and according to his right Order in like-maner / the Beleefe the Loue and euery-thing ⁏ each-one in his whatsoeuer serueth the Man to his Saluacion 11. For how shoulde wee possible shewe anything contrary or vnrightly / out of the Testimonyes of God inasmuch as they stande so cleere and vpright before vs / in our Sight and that God is l Deu. 8 b. Phil 2. b. Ephe. 3. c. Heb 13 c. the Worker and the Bringer-foorth of thosame Testimonyes himself The III. Chap. BVt Albeit now that anyone of the vnrenewed Men / do yet for-the-present-tyme ⁏ by reason of his Ingenious-witt or Blyndnes of Heart looke peruersly into the Loueing-kyndnes of God and the vpright Vnderstanding ⁏ witnessed out of Gods mostholy Seruice of Loue or construe it to the worst / yet is not the Worke of God nor the vpright Vnderstanding ⁏ which we bring-foorth out of God peruerse for-al-that neither-yet is God nor Wee ⁏ his Ministers to be blamed / for such a peruerse Sight but hee which ⁏ out of his peruerse a Math. 5.6 c 18. a. Sight Iudgeth falsly 2. For if the Earth ⁏ which doutles is altogether blynde and ignorant in the Arte or Worke of the Potter do iudg a b Esa. 2● 45 b. Rom. 9. c. Potters Worke wrong / then is it no-dout greatly to be blamed because that it knoweth not the Honorablest / from the Dishonorablest nor the Foremost / from the Hindmost nor-yet any of the Workmasters Tooles For-that-cause also / it knoweth not how to distinct them rightly 3. Euenso is likewyse the earthly Man to be blamed / that iudgeth the Worke of the Lorde peruersly / because that he seeth so purblyndly and therfore he c Esa. 59. a. 2. Pet. 1. b. gropeth or coniectereth after it / like a Blynd-body or-els ⁏ out of the Purblyndnes of his Sight he iudgeth the Hindmost / for the Foremost and the Foremost / for the Hindmost the Wagon / for the Horsses and the Horsses / for y e Wagon and Men / for Trees And so through his Ignorance / he also nameth the Carpenters Tooles contraryly For like as the Sight and Discerning of the Man is peruerse euenso is also his Iudgment 4. Seing then that his Eyes are not cleere and d Ier. 4. a. ● b Math. 6. ● 7. a. Luk. 6. c. 11. d. Act. 7. f. 1. Iohn 2. b that his Eares are thick and that his Body is yet darke and that therfore he beholdeth not the Sunne of Righteousnes neither-yet standeth in thatt Place whear she giueeth her Cleernes but is altogether a Straunger therfrom / Therfore doth he neither knowe nor vnderstand anything-at-all of the Cleernes of the Sunne For-that-cause he cannot also iudg in the Light nor according to the Trueth 5. Now when an illuminated Man ⁏ with the Cleernes of his Eyes seeth into the Trueth of God and that he likewyse witnesseth of the Beawtyfulnes of the Daye-light of y e Sunne also giueth such high Honour and Prayse vnto thesame

/ To th end that thosame Disciples / mought also attayne to the Dayes of their Agednes· and so be nourished-vp ▪ in the godly Wisdom of the Loue to the full Age of the Man Christ. 11. Therfore it is sayde to the Elders / that they shall execute the Iudgment / according to the Trueth p Exo. 21. c. Leuit. 24. b. Deut. 19 c. Math. 5 b. Eye / for Eye Tooth / for Tooth But to the Disciples it is sayde q Math. 7. a. Lu● 6. d. Iudg not and resist r Math. 5. d. Mom 12. b. 1. Tess. 5. b. not also the Wicked 12. Therfore sayth the Age of the Man Christ / to the Disciples s Math. 11. c. Learne of Mee for I am humble and meeke of Heart The V. Chap. TAke this effectually to heart all yee that perswade yourselues / that ye are com to the Age of the Man Christ / by meanes of the Knowledg and looke well into yourselues / whether that yee likewyse / haue in maner as is before sayde bin a Luk. 14. c. Iam. 1. c. Disciples of Christ and are in that sort / com to y e humble and meeke Hearts in Iesu Christ and to his holy Vnderstanding 2. But if it haue not gon so with you / then take not vpon you also / to iudg any godly Matters nor to defende Gods Honour nor-yet to teache anyman but be content to be taught and enformed first yourselues and submitt you euenso b Eccli 6. c. Math 11. c. 1. Pet 5. a. to all Humilitee / vnder the Obedience of y e Loue / for to be rightly taught and so learne of the Loue / the holy Vnderstanding of Iesu Christ. 3. And let not him likewyse that is yet young in this Doctrine of the godly Wisdom / iudg nor reprooue but let him aske and suffer himself to be taught and so c Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. 1. pet 2. a. growe-vpp in the godly Age of Christ to all Strengthening and Increasing of the Peaceable-kingdom in the Loue / So shall he then becom vnderstanding in all godly Things and the Kingdom of Peace shall increase and spread-foorth itself into farr Countryes 4. If wee now do in that maner / growe-vp peaceably in all Loue and Righteousnes / then shall the contencious and deuided d Esa. 21. a. Ier 51. a ▪ Apo. 14.18 a. Kingdom of Babel / be shutt without our Hearts and without our Comunialtee of Loue and we shall beholde the Howse or the Temple of the Lorde / in Heauen / perfectly buylt in all poynts e Amos. 9 d. Mich. 7 b. Agg. 1 a. 2 b Apo. 21. a. and furnished with all his Garnishing and that the Glory or Dignitee and the Teaching-office in the Seruice of Loue / is only the Lords according to the Promyses and not the Mans. 5. HEer-with I do heartely salute you all / yee good-willing Hearts and Louers of the Trueth / with a Salutacion of the Loue and I beseech you take this to heart which I wryte vnto you and therin haue respect to the Loue. For ther-is nothing wyser nor more prudent / then the Loue. 6. Therfore is the Loue in her Follishnes / much godlyer to heare and to beleeue / then all the Wisdom of this Worlde 7. For-that-cause it hath likewyse so pleased God / to bring-foorth his Wisdom / 1. Cor. 1. b. like Foolishnes his holy Vnderstanding like Ignorance and the Foremost / as if it were the Hindmost / before the Worlde and before all her Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones / wherby to confounde the prudent Wyseones and so the out-flowing Woord of the Lorde together with his Seruice of Loue and Gods holy Vnderstanding / to be a g Esa. ● a. 1. Pet. 2. a. Stumbling-stone vnto them wherthrough all Self-wyseones like as in the h Cen. 11. a. Buylding of Babel do intangle and scatter themselues For in-that-sort wil God now in the last tyme / bring his Kingdom vnto his Saints and Electedones and they shall raigne i Apo. 21. b. vppon the Earth 8. But all Self-wyseones and all those that growe offended at the out-flowing Woord of the Lorde and at his Seruice of Loue and wil therfore out of their euell Hearts / contende or dispute against thesame· and make k Rom. 16. c. Deuision together with all those that set-vp themselues against the Loue and her vpright Seruice / God wil shutt without his Kingdom and vtterly roote them out / to th end that the Vniuersal-earth and all what is therin / may be i Esa. 66. c. 2 Pet. 3. b. inhabited vprightly for euermore 9. Farewell and be alwayes of good-cheere in the Loue. The Loue of God the Father / keepe the Victory in all your Hearts Amen Take it to heart The Ende of the Fiftenth Epistle Our Heart / is the Minde of God most-hie Our Beeing amiable / as the sweete Lillie Our Faithfulnes / Loue / and Trueth vpright / Is Gods Light / Life / and Cleernes bright The Sixtenth Epistle An instructionable Exhortacion vnto the Good-willingones / which do wholly giue-ouer themselues to the Obedience of the Loue Wherin the vpright Obedience to the Loue and the godly and vngodly Beeing / is distincted Beloued Breth●ren reioyce you be perfect be of good comfort be of one Mynde and Intent and be peaceable So shall the God of Loue and Peace / be with you 2. Cor. 13. Health and Saluacion be vnto the Comunialtee in the Loue to whom I wish much Happynes in the Lorde The First Chapter TO your Seruice / ye Deerly-beloued I do alwayes ⁏ euen one of harty Loue fynde my self very willingly bent / in all what I maye out of the Power of my God and to wryte often vnto you / greeueth me not / to th end if God vouchsafe thesame / y t ye mought ⁏ through my Seruice vnderstand the Ground of the Loue / to the vpright Saluacion and that God mought establish his holy Name in vs. O Yea / that com-to-pas euenso to the Laude and Prayse of the godly Glory Amen 2. O how happy is hee / that hath the Lorde a Psal. 33. b. 144. b. to be his God or which seeketh and loueth Him with b Ier. 29. b. all his Heart and which desyreth with all his Soule / to cleaue vnto the Vertue / hee shall knowe / that the Wayes of the Lorde / are pure and cleere For the Lorde is Psal. 34. a. freendly vnto all those that loue Him also faythfull and true vnto all those that haue a Delyte and Pleasure in the Wayes of his Loue. 3. But to the Dispisers of his Loue / which do arrogantly contemne blaspheame and resist his Will / He is as Indignacion d Eccli 5. a. and Wrath. For whosoeuer disdayneth the Lorde and his e 2. Cor. 6. a ▪ Grace as also shutteth God and his Woord / f Tob. 6. b. without his Heart

casteth y e Seruice of the holy Woord and the instructionable g Pro 5. c. 15. ● Chastisment / from him and so refuseth the Loue / hee veryly shall likewyse be reiected by the Lorde· and h Apo. 22. b. shute without the louely Beeing of God 4. For seing that God doth now present vs with all Loue / therfore wil Hee likewyse ⁏ in the Obedience of his Loue be loued of Vs agayne 5. Wherfore ⁏ my beloued Children giue-ouer yourselues to the Lorde / with vpright Loue euen as I haue often sayde vnto you and as our Wrytings do mencion in many Places namely i Eccli 6.7 ● 1. pet 5. a. in Humilitee and Lowlynes of Heart / So shall ye taste that the Lorde is freendly The which our Lorde Iesus hath also taught vs / wheare He sayth k Math. 21. c. Learne of Mee For I am humble and meeke of Heart and your Soules shall fynde Rest. 6. Com vnto l Math. 11. c. Mee sayth Hee wit● your Loading or Burden / I wil ease you or take your Burden from you And take you on my Yoke or Burden For my Yoke is sweete and my Burden is lyghte for to beare / sayth the Lorde 7. This is the liueing m 1. Pet 1. c. Woord of Grace / proceeded-out from our Father / the liueing God to the Saluacion of all People namely / those that beleeue in his Name and n 2. Pet. 3. b. wayte for the Coming of his Christ / to their Saluacion 8. Out of thissame Woord of Grace / ther appeereth vnto vs now in the last tyme ⁏ thorough the Reuealing o 2 Timo 1. b of the Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ p Rom. 8. b Ephe. 1. b. the Paune of our godly Inheritance namely / the holy Spirit of Loue / full of all Graces and Amiable-delytfulnesses which Spirit of Loue / is q Iohn 14 c. 25. c. 16. b. the right and true holy Spirit of Christ which proceedeth or cometh from the Father and the Sonne and hath his Flowing-foorth from them 9. The Children of thissame Spirit / which He r 1 Pet 1. a. b bringeth-foorth out of the Loue / are chosen for to possesse the s Esa. 33 a Ephe 1. b 2 a. 3. a. Col 1. c ● a. Treasures and the Inheritance of the Ritches of Christ of the heauenly Father / for euermore The II. Chap. FOrasmuch then ⁏ ye Deerly-beloued as that yee likewyse are now called and bidden to thissame high-worthy Maiestee of God and to be a Rom 8. b Ephe 1. a. Co-heires ⁏ with Christ and his Saints in the Treasures of the heauenly Goodes / therfore take-heede to thissame gracious b Eccli 27. b 2 Cor. 6. a Ephe. 5 b Tyme and c 4. Esd. 2. d. Rom. 12. a. 1 Iohn 2. b 〈◊〉 4. a flye the Shadowes of the wicked and blynde Worlde Loue not her Darknesse in-anywyse but loue the Light of Lyfe / which is healde-foorth vnto you through the Seruice of Loue / to your Saluacion 2. Depart out from the Vncircumcised and let your Hearts d Deut. 10 c. Ier 4. a. be circumcised in thissame New or Eigth Daye / vnder the Obedience of the Loue / that the Foreskinne of the worldly and fleshly Desyres / may be e Esa. 25. a. 2. Cor. 3. b. put-away from your Hearts 3. Therfore let all those pas now / that would drawe you to their Good-thinking or Knowledg or to their chosen f Gal. 3. a. 6. b. Col 2 b. c. Holynes· or allure you to any g Tob. 3. b. Ephe. 4. a ▪ Light-behauiour 4. Endeuour you to enter into the good and vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ euen-as thesame is ministred vnto you out of the Loue and her Seruice and make none account of it / although ye be mocked blaspheamed and contemned / for thesame cause or for your single-mynded Obedience to thesame 5. But against all your ▪ Aduersaryes / h Math 10. d. 16. c. Mar. 8. c. Luk. 9.14 c take vnto you the Crosse of Christ ⁏ the which is Patience or Forbearance / in the Obedience of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue and so j 1 Pet. 2.4 a. follow-after Christ. For in that sort is He gon before vs and hath ⁏ through his Crosse ouercom k Phil 2 a. Col. 1. c. ● his Enemyes 6. To which Ouercoming / yee shall also com ⁏ through Christ if yee ⁏ in the Following of Christ do pos●●sse your Soules l Luk 21. b with Patiēce and had rather ●uffer Cōtempt Reproche and Blaspheaming / with the Children of God / m Heb. 11. c. then to inherite all y e Treasures of this Worlde 7. Therfore ⁏ my beloued Children let it not greeue you / although the n Iohn 15. b. Worlde do hate you or though you be contemned and blaspheamed by her Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones but beholde or consider o H●b 11. c. of the Rewarde of the Children of God 8. For I do acknowledg and testifye vnto you truly ⁏ according to the Grace of the Knowledg that is chaunced vnto mee that it shall now in the last tyme / go-well euerlastingly with all good-willing Hearts which haue a Lust to God and his Righteousnes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and that their Labour in the Lorde / shall p 1. Cor. 15. f. not be founde in vayne 9. But whosoeuer doth wilfully contemne the Lorde and the Righteousnes of his louely Beeing and inclyneth to the Worlde or to his owne Good-thinking / hee shall beare his Iudgment / whosoeuer he bee 10. Inasmuch then ⁏ ye Deerly-beloued as that wee haue now ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue sett our Hope / towards God and our Beleefe / towards his Saluacion / Therfore let vs now likewyse ⁏ through the Seruice of the holy Spirit of Loue take a q Heb. 5. a. cheerfull Passage ⁏ in Iesu Christ to God the Father and to his gloryous and louely Maiestee and not regarde the Temptacions of the wicked Worlde and of our Resisters 11. For happy is hee r Iam ▪ 1. b. that endureth Temptacion and snareth or byndeth nor himself vnto the Euell For therin lyeth the s 4. Esd. 2. c. 2. Timo. 4. a. Iam. 1. b. Apo. 2. b. Victory and the Crowne of Lyfe of the perfect Saluacion 12. But if anyman now be yet weake as that he is yet somtymes drawen-back by the Euell and dismayed or made wauering in his Beleefe and seeth that he is falne ther-thorough / let him stande-vp agayne and suffer himself to be renewed in the Seruice of Loue and praye vnto the Lorde for Strength and Constance / so shall He be gracious vnto him and giue him Strength against his Temptacion For God is almighty 13. For-that-cause let noman iudg or condemne himself t Luk. 6. d. much-les another For although that God do otherwhyles hyde v Esa.

54. a. himself from vs for a certen-tyme / yet is Hee notwithstanding if we wayte vppon Him x Heb. 10. c. Iam. 1. a. in Pacience our Strength at the last and leadeth vs out of all our Distresse For He is an Assister or Helper / to the Little and Lowelyones y Luk. 18. a. if they call vnto Him Night and Daye and hunger and thirst vprightly z Math. 5 a. after the true Righteousnes Yea thosesame veryly / shall He mercifully pitie 14. But not for any Righteousnes a 2. Timo. 1. a Tit. 3. a. that anyman mought haue don O no but for his holy Names sake / to th end that thesame shoulde b Ma● 1. b. Math. 6. ● be hallowed and magnifyed in his Saintes and Electedones / which call vnto Him Night and Daye It is verytrue The III. Chap. THis wryte I vnto you ⁏ ye Deerly-beloued for that ye mought ⁏ with single Hearts be stirred-vp to a good Zeale a Gal. 4. b. towards the good Beeing of the Loue / for to obtayne ⁏ through the Loue a good Increase to the Righteousnes· and ⁏ in the Loue the sweete Deawe and Wynde or Spirit of the holy Beeing of God and so mought ⁏ with vpright Hearts increase in the holy Vnderstanding or growe-vp b Ephe. 4. b. therin / to a godly Age of Christ. 2. Therfore because your Vnderstanding shoulde not be troubled with any deepe-mynded Knowledg I haue also written vnto you in chyldish c 1. Cor. 3. a. Heq. 5. b and playne-maner euen-as my Woords were / when I was with you For the Childishnes and the d 2. Cor. 11. a. single Obedience to the Loue and to the Requyring of her Seruice / in a good Will to the holy Beeing of our Lorde Iesu Christ / is most needfull for vs. 3. And although it seemeth to be a small or simple Wisdom / yet is it a Wisdom that is c Math. 11. c 13. b. secret before all Self-wyse and Good-thinking-ones / for to com therunto 4. Therfore is the simple Wisdom of God ⁏ that is obtayned in the Obeying of the Loue a Wisdom / wherwith the Wyfe the Scripture-learned and the Great-knowers in this Worlde / f Esa. 29. b 1. Cor. 1. b. be made ashamed and caught in their Wysdom 5. For those that seeme to knowe much and all those which perswade themselues that they are wyse / Thosame doutles / knowe nothing-at-al / if they do not knowe nor enter into g Math. 11. c. the Meekenes nor the childish h M●th 1● a ▪ 1. Cor. 14. c Simplicitee in the Lorde Iesu Christ. 6. But whosoeuer hath learned the Meeknes of the louely and simple Lyfe / in y e Schoole of Christ / vnder the Obedience of the Loue / his Wisdom although it seeme to be the leaste doth farr excell i Sap 7. all the worldly Wisdoms and Learnednesses It it verytrue 7. Take heede to it I beseech you and retayne thatt in your Vnderstanding / which I wryte vnto you The IIII. Chap. O Ye good-willing Hearts ⁏ my beloued Children in the Loue In that I wryte this Letter vnto you / therunto hath your Loue and good-willing Obedience occasioned me 2. For when I was last with you hearing your Woords I perceaued that ye stoode a Rom. 12. b. 15. a. 1. ●or 1. a. Phil. 2. a. 3. b. agreeably-mynded together / for to shewe Obedience in all what I mought commaunde you out of the Woord of Grace and his Seruice of Loue. In which your Goodwillingnes and inclyned Mynde to the Obedience of the Loue / my Soule hath greatly reioyced / because I fynde so feawe of thatt Disposition 3. If yee now ⁏ O ye Deerly-beloued be altogether inclyned to the Obaying of the holy Woord / then let thesame likewyse be founde so in the Deede and feare not any thing For in all thissame / b 1. Cor. 7. d. I wil cast no Snare about your Necks like as is happened to Dyuers among you / by Sommein-tymes-past nor laye any Burdens vppon you / c Math. 23. a. which ye shoulde not be able to beare neither-yet requyre anything of you / that I my self woulde not doo but gentlely and courteously euen as God requyreth out of his Loue intreate you and that altogether / vnto Peace and Vnitee with each-other / in God the Father and in his Loue. 4. Therfore harken and take-heede / what I commaunde you d 1. Cor 7. b. howbeit not I / but the Lorde 5· In all your Obedience to the Seruice of Loue / e Pro. 28. b. Eccli 4. c. make-manyfest your whole Heart Myndes and Thoughts· and your Falling into the Sinne / before your Elder and Minister of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue and so discharge yourselues f Rom. 12. a. 13. b. or depart ⁏ with all your Hearts out of all worldly Behauiour Dealing and Abuce and out of all what is created in the Worlde / being vayne and corruptible as g Tob. 3. b. Ephe. 5. a. Light-behauiour Wantonnes vnprofitable Babbling Mocking Prouokeing Rygourousnes Dissimulacion Lying Couetousnes Pryde Self-myndednes and h Ier. 7. c. 11. a 13. b. 18. b. Good-thinking and those things that are lyke vnto these And enter into the euerlasting liueing Vncreatednes the true Good of the godly Perfection take vnto you a constant Disposition and vse decent Woordes among eachother / i Ephe. 4. c. Col 4. a. 1. Pet. 4. b. that are profitable conuenient and serue to edifying also Loueingnes Famylyaritee Openheartednes the Trueth Contentednes and Peaceablenes or Submission 6. In all thissame / loue you one-another to the Good talke dayly of the Trueth and of the Loue / which God doth now in the last tyme ⁏ out of his Grace showe vppon vs. 7. Be you likewyse k Rom. 12. b. constant and humble in your Prayers and pray vnto the Lorde / that He wil strengthen you to his Righteousnes and trust vppon Him He l Eccli 2. b. wil not forsake you 8. To these louely Commaundements of Loue which are the light m Mat. 1● c. 1. Iohn ● a. Burden or the sweete Yoke of Christ and do bring vs to a louely peaceable Beeing wherthrough we haue the Peace in God / with eachother prepare your Soules / for to be obedient therunto For in the Obeying of the Loue / is hidden the Treasure of all Wisdom and the Head-somme of all Righteousnes 9. What is now this Loue / which in her Seruice / requyreth such Obedience mought som man demaunde The Answere 10. The Loue is a verytrue Beeing out of the which / the Beleefe doth growe and blowe and becometh fruitfull therthrough / to bring-foorth the vpright Righteousnes 11. The Loue n 1. Cor. 13. a. is able to doo and to obeye all what God requyreth / in the Seruice of his gracious Woord and likewyse to bring-foorth all what is

godded in the euerlasting liueing Godhead and is vniforme with all what concerneth the Godhead or is of God and inheriteth the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and all the Ritches of Christ of the heauenly Goodes 8. Beholde euenthus doth the holy Gost ⁏ which is the Spirit of Loue confirme the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and the Promyses of God the Father and of Christ and k Iohn 16. b leadeth the godly Man into all Trueth and declareth euery-thing vnto him that is in Heauen and vppon the Earth 9. But whosoeuer hath bin negligent in the l Iohn 6. c. ● Drawing of the Father· and ⁏ through his Ignorance contemned or bin disobedient vnto Him and his Lawe or seruiceable Woord and whoso likewyse hath not taken-heede to the Saluation in Iesu Christ / through the Belee●e● but ⁏ through the Blyndnes m Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b. of the Vnbeleefe resisted or blaspheamed thesame / Hee doth yet in thissame Daye / through the Ministracion of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue ⁏ the which is the Office of the holy Gost fynde Grace and Forgiuenes of Sinnes / if he submitt n 1. Pet. 5. b. Iam. 4. ● himself o Math 3. a. Luk. 3. b. penitently vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 10. But whoso neglecteth him in the holy Spirit of Loue and resisteth and blaspheameth thesame or his mostholy Seruice of the spirituall and heauenly Goodes / p Math. 12. d. Heb. 6.10 c Hee continueth in Indignation and shall neuer q Iohn ● a. see the Kingdom of God ▪ For the Spirit of the Loue of God and Christ or holy Gost ⁏ who is the Perfection of all the Workes of God hath and vseeth his Seruice ⁏ the which is the last Seruice of Grace now in thissame last gracious Tyme or Daye of Loue. After which gracious Daye of Loue / ther-is r Apo. 10. a. no Daye of Grace more for to com but s Heb. 10. c. the righteous Iudgment of God to the Condemnacion t Math. 25. d. of all Vngodlyones / that haue refused the Godlynes through the holy Spirit of Loue and the Ministracion of his godly Testimonyes· and euenso contemned and blaspheamed his most holy Seruice 11. THerfore ⁏ all ye good-willing Hearts take-heede now ⁏ according to the Counsayle of the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue to the Kingdom of God v Luk. 17. c. inwardly within you / To th end that ye may be incorporated to thesame / with your Spirit For thatt is the Righteousnes which auayleth before God 12. But take you good heede of the Kingdom of the Deuill which also sheweth itself inwardly ⁏ before the Eyes and Thoughts / that are earthly x Rom. ● a. and fleshly mynded as a Kingdom of God and deceaueth the Fleshly-myndedones / with his false y Esa. 59. a. Light and ● Good-thinking and with his false z Ier 7. b. Sap. 2. 2. Pet 2. b. I●de 1. b. Freedom / which it bringeth to the Flesh / according to his Fleshly Lusts and Disyres and seduceth the Hearts of Men. The VII Chap. KNowe likewyse thatsame Kingdom of the Deuill / inwardly / according to the Spirit For his Generacion is also inwarde / but not out of any Beeing or Lyfe that is spirituall and heauenly but out of thatt which is nothing and earthly or corruptible and therfore is likewyse the Generacion of thesame / earthly and not heauenly / fleshly / and not spiritually mynded / according to Gods Spirit / therfore doth it also growe offended alwayes / at those things that are against their Myndes or Thoughtes and maketh-vp itself a 2. Tess. 2. against thatt which is of God and of his Seruice of Loue. 2. Thesame Generacion of the Deuill / wil not also stande submitted vnder the Obedience of the Loue nor of the holy Woord but refuseth the Requyring therof / and so wil liue according b Ier. 7 ●● a. 13. b. 18 b to their owne Will and Good-thinking and wrest c 2. Pet. 3. b. and construe the Scripture / according to their false and Fleshly Mynde / and so wil liue vnto themselues and loue themselues / according as the Knowledg imagineth in them 3. Therfore is the Deuill / in his Kingdom although he appeere before all fleshly Myndes / as if he were a d 2 Tess. 2 a. God of Light not els-what but a Nothingnes of the Lye and is likewyse for-that-cause / a e Iohn 8. a. Father of all secreet or inward Wickednes and a Render or Parter-asunder of all Concorde / whearas he is harkened-vnto and beleeued and accepted as good and true 4. Beholde thesame Father of Wickednes ؛the God of the f 2. Cor. 4.2 wicked Worlde and of all Vngodly or impenitent Men is / in all his Beeing / a g 2. Tess. 2. b. Contrary-beeing vnto God ▪ and his Sonne / a Contrary-beeing vnto Christ a Destroyer h Iohn 17. b. 2. Tess. 2. a. a Childe of Wickednes which maketh the Hearts of Men / stout vppon their Knowledg and bringeth also a false Freedom vnto Many / for to sinne boldly and to continue in the worldly Abhomynacions and Foolishnes / with vnaccused Consciences and to make-vp themselues i Dan. 22. a. resistant against the Trueth and the godly Loue of God the holy Father 5. And their Spirit namely of the Father of Wickednes and of his Sonne or Childe of Wickednes is a wicked Spirit k 2. Tess. 2. a. of Lyes which confirmeth the Man ⁏ being in his Vnrepentance and in his Disobedience to the Requyring of the gracious Woord of the Lorde and his Seruice of Loue in the Beeing of Lyes and leadeth him into all Lye and Errour ▪ 6. Thesame false God and Father of Wickednes / doth also ⁏ with his wicked Self-willednes allure l 2. Tess. 2. a. b or drawe vs vnto him / through the priuate Loue of ourselues and whosoeuer doth yeelde himself to be so drawen by him / cometh to his Sonne ؛his Childe or Being of Wickednes the false Christ or m 1 Iohn 2. c 4. a. Antichrist the Destroyer which is the Christ of the wicked Worlde and of all Vngodlyones and worketh in his People an inwarde or n ● Tess. 2. b. secret Wickednes / which they themselues cannot wel perceaue 7. And whōsoeuer then cometh so to the Sonne of the Deuill as also becometh incorporated to thesame Beeing of Wickednes and bydeth therin / hee is quyte and cleane corrupted / in all his Mynde / by the Wickednes and by the priuate Loue of himself and by the Disobedience and Resistance to the Loue and her right Seruice Yea so quyte corrupted / that he is inclyned to nothing-els / in all his Mynde / but to his Self-wilednes and to all Destructionablenes and to destroye the Family of Loue / wherin the liueing God of Heauen

dwelleth liueth and gouerneth / and the Good-willingones to the Obedience of the Requyring of thesame God or to stande against them in euery-behalfe and to drawe them awaye from the single Obedience which they shewe in the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue and to corrupt their Vnderstanding / with the good-thinking Knowledg 8. And whosoeuer then is thus corrupted by the Sonne ؛the Childe o Iohn 17. b. 2 Tess 2 a. of the Deuill and of Wickednes or by his Ministers / vnder the Power and Will of the Deuill and is growen of one-mynde with the wicked and vngodly Nature / for to be plyable to thesame and so is becom enuyous towards the Famyly of Loue / hee is borne a Childe of the Sinne and of the Deuill and an Heyre of the hellish Beeing and of the perpetuall p Math 〈…〉 Condemnacion and annoynted with the wicked Spirit of q 3. Reg. 22. Esa 18 b. 2 Tess 2. Lyes Which Annoynting / is a false Freedom or a false free Mynde and Beeing of the Deuill And thatsame is the false Freedom which the Disobeyers and Resisters of the Loue / do willingly accept-of in their Vnregeneracion and do much sooner and rather inclyne-vnto / then to shewe Repentance for their Sinnes and to submitt them to the Doctrine of the Loue of Iesu Christ. 9. And whosoeuer then taketh vppon him to liue free / being vnregenerat and so in his Vnregeneracion / is annoynted or quyeted with the false Spirit of Lyes or of Good-thinking· taught to the Kingdom of Hell· and made free in vseing all Wickednes and Resistance against the Loue / Hee is likewyse a Fellow-member of the Deuill and of the Wicked Nature or Antichrist wherthrough he is then in that fort / wholly and altogether deuiled with the r Sap. 2. d. Iohn 8. c. Deuill· natured with the wicked Nature of Antichrist· and leadd by the false Spirit of 2. Tess. 2. b. Lyes / into all Falshod and Lyes into all Disobedience to the gracious Woord and into all worldly and vngodly Abhomynations and so inheriteth the Desolation of al horrible Abhomynation And thatsame is the Kingdom of Hell Sap. 1. c. Math. 2● d. 2. Pet. ● ● and of the he●●ish Fyre / wherin all wicked and seduceing Spirits haue their Dwelling and do com-foorth their-out for to seduce 10. BEholde such a wicked Ende and horrible Beeing of the Hell and of the Darknesses ⁏ wher through one inheriteth nothing-els but all Lyes and Wickednes and vseth all Wickednes / in Freedom is looked-into and knowen by all the Children of the holy Spirit of Loue / that thesame is the whole Kingdom of the Deuill himself But by all good-thinking Wyseones and Children of the Flesh and of the wicked Worlde ⁏ who haue a Lust and Desyre to the Iniquitee and Works of the sinfull Flesh it is v Sap. 2 a. Apo. 13. looked-into / as a Light and Kingdom of Pleasure and as a good Freedom for all Disobedient and Vnregeneratedones 11. Take you heede of this wicked Nature / ye Deerly-beloued and keepe your Hearts pure from thesame / through the Woord of Trueth / that is ministred vnto you in the Obedience of the Loue. And although it do make-vp itself in you somtymes / against thesame Woord of Trueth / yet becom not of one-mynde with thesame in-any-wyse but hang your Hearts on the vpright godly Beeing of the Loue and to be obedient to his Requyring and so ⁏ in the Obedience of the Loue ouercom the Euell / x Rom. 12. c. with the good Being of God 12. If now ye do y Eccli 6. c. 1. Pet. 5. a. Iam. 4. a. submitt your Hearts vnder the Obedience of the Loue / with all Humilitee / then shall ye also in thissame perillous Tyme / not be seduced nor deceaued by the wicked Beeing but byde preserued with the Good 13. To your Preseruacion / ye Deerly-beloued ⁏ to th end that ye mought loue the good Beeing and be warned of the Euell so coulde I not omitt to wryte a little vnto you of this Matter also and to set it forth before your Eyes and Eares / Because that ye shoulde ⁏ with a good Vnderstanding vnderstande a right Difference betwixt the godly and vngodly Beeing The Lorde vouchsafe to preserue you all from the Euell and to leade you into all Trueth Amen 14. THis haue I written with Dilligence and feruent Loue and thought good to declare it befor you all / my beloued Freendes in the Loue Especially before all you which haue geeuen-ouer your Hearts and Myndes / with Vs / to all Obedience and Concord in the Loue and her Seruice Whose Soules likewyse I do loue / to the perfect Righteousnes for to liue with you all in the Kingdom of God the Father / in all Loue and Vnitee of Heart euen-as God and his Woord and Seruice of Loue / requyreth thesame of vs To his renowmed Prayse Honour and Glory / and to all our Ioye and Saluacion / in the euerlasting Lyfe 15 Heerwith ⁏ ye good-willing Hearts to the Loue ye be altogether hartely saluted 16. Take-heede I pray you / to thissame freendly a 1. Cor 16 c. 2 Cor. 13. b Kisse wherwith I do imbrace you in the Spirit / to the Vnitee of the Loue and b Ephe. 4. a. walke like loueing Children / in all Loue. 17. Be myndfull lykewyse of these my Woordes and Wrytings and c 1. Timo 4. ● exercise yourselues obediently therin / to all Godlynes / To thendethat I may fynde you alwayes according to the Sence and Mynde of my Souls· and reioyce me euenso with you all ⁏ in the godly Ioye in the euerlasting Lyfe That graunt vs the Lorde / the almighty God Amen The Ende of the Sixtenth Epistle The Seuententh Epistle A groundly Instructiō of the Mans Glory / in the Begining of his Fall Death and Condemnation and of his Restoring into his former Glory agayne Written and sent vnto the Louers of the Trueth / which submitt them with vs / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. Vnder which Obedience of the Loue / all Men are ⁏ now in the last tyme called and bidden to assemble them to one Man of God / in the only and true Body of Iesu Christ to a perfect Glory / both of God and the Man Let vs be vpright in the Loue and growe in all parts / in him which is the Headd / euen CHRIST by whom the whole Body is ioyned together Ephe. 4. b. To those / whose Spirit is one Spirit with Vs in the Loue / be Health and Saluacion The First Chapter THE Cleernes of y e true Light ⁏ which is appeered a Act. 2. a. 2. Cor. 4. a. Col. 1. b. 2 Timo 1. a and com vnto vs from the Right-hande of God the Father / out of the heauenly Trueth ▪ growe and increase more-and-more among you all / my beloued Hearts in the Loue euen till vnto the

the Kingdom of Hell ⁏ as a deadly and damnable Beeing gett a Foorme in the Man and so became the Man and all what was borne of him / h Gen. ● b. Rom. 5. b. 1 Gor 15 c. subiect to the Death and all Destruction and he gott in that maner / the i Ier. 17. a. craftiest Heart / aboue all the Beastes vppon Earth / by which meanes / the whole Worlde is growne so k Eccli 37. ● full of Falshod 8. COnsider well now ⁏ ye goodwilling Hearts what a destructionable Heritage the Generacions of Men haue inherited / through the Knowledg of Adam wherthrough the Man who is created by God / for to be One with God and ought to be One with each-other is falne or growen into so many kyndes of Deuision and Destruction Which Destruction of the harmfull Knowledg / we may now easely perceaue / through the Cleernes of thissame Daye and through the Declaring of the Seruice of Loue / if we haue regarde theron and that cheefly eueryone in himself 9. Now for to bring thissame falne Man ⁏ which is so vtterly corrupted in his Vnderstanding· deadd l ●en 3. d. Sap 1. c. from the Lyfe of God· and estrainged from the Kingdom of the God of Heauens againe to his God / in his vpright Estate / So hath God out of m Iohn 3. b. his Loue euen-as He had promysed / to the Saluacion of the manly Generacion brought-forth a new Mā / according to thesame Likenes or Foorme of his Godhead n Mat. 1. ● Luk. 2. who is called / Iesus Christ which signifyeth vnto vs / the safe-makeing Oyle or Annoynting of the godly Beeing This Man is gon-out o Iohn 13. a. 16. ● from God and hath showed himself vppon Earth 10. He is entered into the Knowledg of Men and hath founde the much knowing Wisdom together with her Scripture-learnednes / false and lying / in all what she knewe 11. This false Knowledg inasmuch as she p 1 Cor 1 b vnderstood not the Trueth of God rightly / by all her Wisdom nor Scripture-learnednes hath Christ q Math 23. rebuked also brought-in a true Knowledg / besydes thesame and taken r 2 Cor 1● a captiue the Knowledg of Men therwith wherthrough God hath euenso ⁏ by his Christ made all the Knowledg or Wisdom of Men / 1. Cor 1.3 c Foolishnes / to th end He woulde in that sort ⁏ in thissame tocoming Daye of his Glory release or make the Man free from all his foolish Knowledg / vnder the Obedience of his Loue. 12 In this like-maner hath Christ don also with the s Math. 12. c. 15. b. 21. d. Sinne and with the false Righteousnes of Men. 13. He is likewyse entered into the Death t Math. 27. of Men and hath also brought-in a Death besydes thesame namely his u Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Crosse to the Makeing-alyue of Men and so hath ⁏ through his Death taken-captiue v 1 Cor. 15. f. the Death of Men / for that He woulde now in the last Daye ⁏ in his Coming-agayne x Rom. 6 ● b 1 Cor 15. c. 2 Cor 4. b. Ephe. 2. a. Col 2. b. rayse-vp the Man from the Death / through his Death of the Crosse· make him alyue through his Spirit of Loue· and bring him to his God / in his vpright Estate 14. Euenso hath He don likewyse with the Deuill Darknes Hell and Condemnacion in whose Bands the Man hath walked and bin so bounde therin / that he coulde not escape the Condemnacion Whose y Oze 1● b. 1. Cor 15 f Apo. 20. b. Power is now ⁏ in thissame Daye of Loue altogether broken· and the Man ⁏ which beleeueth and giueth-eare to the Loue in her Seruice made safe The III. Chap. AND now when Iesus Christ had a Psal 68. b. Ephe. 4. a. taken-captiue the Power and Dominion of all pernicious Things ⁏ which burdened the Man and were destroying and b Psal 8 a. 11. c. 28. b. ● Cor. 15. c Ephe 1. c Heb. 2. a had brought them all vnder him / through his Death of the Crosse / Then did He ryse agayne from the Death / with his Power and Dominion ouer the Destruction and was seene alyue / c Math. 28. b Iohn 20. d. Act 2. c. 10. c 1. Cor. 15 ● by his Freendes and so hath ⁏ through the Declareing of his Resurrection caused his Freendes and Desciples that beleeued in Him / to see and made-knowen vnto them / the obtayning of the Power and Victory / against all the destroying Things wherwith the Man was captiued 2. Now when He had commaunded his Disciples / that they shoulde publish thatt which they had seene heard and learned of Him / for a Gospel in all the Worlde / to the Saluacion of Men / in his Coming-agayne / d Mar. 16. b Luk 24. f. Act. 1. a. Then did He ascende from them / to the Seate of his godly Glory and hath possessed the Heauen and sett himself at the Right-hande of the Maiestee of his God / in the-Heigth From thence hath God ⁏ by thesame Christ poored-out his e Act 2. a. holy Spirit / vppon the Disciples of Christ / which beleeued in Him and obserued his Woord / for to make them vnto Him / a true Comunialtee of his Saintes 3. Beholde euenthus hath God / beholding f Act. 17. d. the Ignorance of Men caused the g Math 3 a. Luk. 3.24 ● Act. 2. d. 3. b vpright Repentance for Sinne / to be published vnto all Men / by these Saintes of God and Christ and to giue them to vnderstand / that He hath sett or appoynted a Daye ⁏ which is the Daye of Loue h Psal. 96 9● ▪ Act. 17. b. on the which He woulde iudg the Circuit of the vniuersall Earth / with Righteousnes / by one Man / in whom He hath concluded it who holdeth-foorth the Beleefe before eueryone inasmuch as God hath raysed Him vp from the Death 4. Forasmuch then as God is true in his Promyses i Luk 1. e g. and doth continually shewe his Mercy on the Generations of Men / to the Establishing of his Promyces / so doth He likewyse declare vnto vs in thissame last Daye of his Loue ⁏ which God hath sett and appoynted for a Daye of his righteous Iudgment how or in what maner his Promyses do stand firme and he accomplished and that God is k Psal. 139. b. Apo. 15. a. wonderfull in all his Workes 5. Seing now then that the last Tyme is com and that this Daye / which God himself hath sett or appoynted of the which was spokē long before is com and declared vnto vs Little and Electedones of God / by the l 2. Timo. 1. ● A●peering of the Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ / So wil God likewyse now in thissame Daye / accomplish all m

Psal. 36. To my good-willing Freendes and Loners of the Trueth / which do with mee / loue the true Beeing in one Spirit of the Loue / be Health and Saluacion The First Chapter AS I haue hearde now ⁏ my goodwilling Freendes to the Loue by our Brother / which hath bin with you / so is the Will and Request of you all vnto mee like as our loueing and faythfull Brother in the Loue / the Father of your Howsholde ⁏ who is com to me with our Brother / for thesame purpose hath also sayde and freendly requested that I woulde once com vnto you / Because that ye mought recreate yourselues alittle with Mee / in the Woord of Lyfe· and from the Bottom of your Hearts / handle and talke of thatt which is com or appeered vnto vs ⁏ out of the heauenly Trueth through the Grace and Power of the Mosthighest 2. Veryly ⁏ ye Beloued All thissame is likewyse my whole Will and Desyre Yea and all my Longing I woulde also very gladly haue com now vnto you / because that I myself likewyse / longed greatly to talke with you by mouth forasmuch as I haue hearde so much of your Good-will and Zeale that ye beare to the Loue and her Seruice The Lorde graunt vnto you eueryone / Grace and Mercy / to continue a Math 10. c. 24. b. Mar. 13. b. stedfast therin / till that the true Light of Loue b 2. Pet. 1. c. com vnto you and ryse-vp in your Hearts / as a Daye of y e perfect Beawty of God 3. But ⁏ ye Beloued as touching my Coming / I shall desyre that ye wil yet haue patience for a whyle I hope to com vnto you shortly / and to talke with you of all things / according to your Request 4. But in that I haue now deferred the tyme / it cometh-to-pas by reason of much Busynes Seruice and Laboure / wherwith I am now laden and which out of great Necessitee I haue first to further and dispatch Therfore hath not the tyme so serued / as to com vnto you now 5. Howbeit because I cannot now com vnto you and yet that all my Will hath bin bent so to doo / yet wil I not for-a●-that forgett you but wil alwayes remember you to the Good and to all thatt wherin your Welfare and Saluacion consisteth 6. For-that-cause ⁏ ye Beloued to th end that yee one-with-another / shoulde be the better content for this tyme / I do wryte this loueing Exhortacion ⁏ with groundly Instructions vnto you to the Edifying and good Informacion of you all With which this my Wryting / my harty Request is vnto you all / that yee ⁏ with Dilligence of your Heartes wil alwayes take-heede and ⁏ with willing Obedience c Pro. 1. a. 2 a 3. a. 4. a. 5. a Eccli 6. d. giue-eare / vnto thatt which is heald-foorth before you ⁏ out of the Loue and out of her Seruice in these last Dayes and perillous Tymes / to your Preseruacion and Saluacion Yea once-more I saye vnto you all / out of harty Loue Take-heed vnto it I pray you and take it effectually to heart and consider of it / d Eccli 6. d. search-throw or measure-ouer likewyse substancially / thatsame Spirit of this true Seruice of Loue. 7. Ponder well the heauenly Sentences / that proceed-out from thesame and prooue the Taste or the Mynde of them rightly For they do open som speciall Matter and wil also in this Tyme / tell or expounde som singuler thing vnto vs. Yea they declare and bring vnto vs / the godly Ritches of Christ and the spirituall Treasures of his heauenly Goodes e Math. 11. d. 13. b. Rom. 16. c. Ephe. 3. a. Col 1. c. which haue bin hidden till vnto thissame Daye / from the Worlde and her Wyseones and from all Eyes of the Flesh. 8. This mercy Seate / in the Mostholy this true Light with his perfect Garnishing of pure Beawty f Apo. 21. and all these costly Ritches of God with the sumptuous Royaltee and godly Tryumph of all the Saints of God and Christ / cometh now vnto vs in Glory for to liue vniforme with thosame for euermore 9. Beholde all these Beawtyes and yet many-thowsand-tymes more then men can vtter with Tongues or wryte with Penn and Incke / be declared and brought vnto vs now in thissame Daye / through the Appeering g 2. Timo. 1. b of the Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ؛the euerlasting and true Woord of the liueing God 10. This euerlasting and true Woord and liueing Breade / h Iohn 6. ● which cometh vnto vs from Heauen / for a Foode of Lyfe vnto all hungry Soules 11. This faythfull Sheapheard / which cometh vnto vs out of the Bosom of his heauenly Father for to seke his erred or lost Sheepe / which are strayed from the i Math 10 a. 15. c. Luk. 19. b. Howse of Ilrael and ⁏ vnder the Obedience of his Loue to bring them agayne k Esa 6 a. Ioan. 10. b. to their right Sheepfolde 12. This true Redeemer / which cometh vnto vs from the gloryous and most souereigne Maiestee of God for an euerlasting Freedom for l Psal. 130. a. Esa. 61 a. Tit. 2. b. to delyuer His / that are healde-captiue namely all those that moorne and suffer Sorrow or Greefe / for their Captiuites cause to the Sinne and because of the Bandes of the Deuell 13. This cleere and true Light of the spirituall Heauen / that cometh vnto vs in all Loue ⁏ as the m Mal 4 a. Sap. 5. a. Sunne of Righteousnes for an eternal-continuing Day-light for to n Esa. 9. a. 42 b 43. a. 49 ● Mat. 4. b. Luk. 1. h. lighten all those / which ⁏ because of the Fruits of Death dwell or walke yet in Darknes and do hope vppon thesame Light 14. This peaceable King o Esa. 9. a. Lorde and Prince / which cometh vnto vs ⁏ with full Power of the almighty God for a good and louely Gouernement namely / ouer all those that submitt them p 1. Pet. 5. a. Iam. 4. a vnder Him and ⁏ in all Obedience of his Loue do loue the Peace for that euerything shoulde be restored q Act. 3. c. agayne / in his right Order 15. This-very Iesus Christ ⁏ who also is the Wisdom of God· the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes· the heauenly Trueth· r Sap 7. c. 2. Cor. 4. a. Col. 1. b. Heb. 1. a. and the true Beeing of God Is now com vnto us in Glory / from the Right-hande of God the almighty Father / out of the heauenly Beeing s Act 10 c. 1. Pet. 4. a. to be a righteous Iudg ouer Liueing and Deadd namely to the Condemnacion of the liueing Vngodlyones and t 1. Cor. 15 c the Resurrection of the dead Righteousones vnto all of vs ⁏ which beleeue in Iesus Christ· and the Safe-makeing in his Loue to the v Rom. 12. ●

the Saluacion the Ioye and the Rest of our Soules with all Gods Saintes / in the euerlasting Lyfe The III. Chap. BEholde and consider ⁏ ye Beloued This is now Gods righteous Iudgment / in thissame Daye of his Loue which is the Newe Daye of the 24. Esd. 6. b. Worlde to-com Yea a Daye / which God himself hath ordayned or appoynted / to the Saluaciō of his Saintes and to the Condemnacion of all Vngodlyones / in the which likewyse / all Saints and Righteousones do reioyce them For vpon thesame / b Act 17. d. the Circuit of the Earth is iudged with Righteousnes according to the Promyses of our God and Father It is verytrue 2. O ye beloued Hearts ⁏ which do with vs / loue the vpright Beeing of Christ haue a good regarde heerunto exercise c 1 Timo 4. b yourselues dayly in the Woord of Trueth / vnder the Obedience of the Loue exhort d 1. Tess. 5 b Heq. 3.10 c. one-another also / to the vpright Beeing of Iesu Christ and strengthen yourselues among eachother / to continue stedfast e Act. 11. c. 13. c. 14. c. in Fayth till vnto the Ende of the Suffering and Stryueing agaynst the sinfull and corrupt Nature For f Math. 10. ● 14. b. Mark 13. b. whosoeuer continueth stedfast till vnto the Ende as is written hee shal be saued 3. With thissame ⁏ for a Recreacion vnto your Hearts cōfort and cherrish yourselues among eachother I hope ouer a little whyle / to com vnto you and to talke with you by Mouth / of all what is ⁏ by Gods Grace g 1. Timo. 1. b committed vnto Mee and is profitable vnto you to Edifycacion For that is doutles the Delyte and all the Desyre of my Heart 4. Heerwith ⁏ ye Beloued with Laude and Thankes-giueing vnto God / for your Zeale and Dilligent-care that ye haue to the Righteousnes of the Loue / I do salute you all very hartely namely euen the whole Howsholde of you as my beloued Bretheren and Sisters in the Loue with a Salutacion and Kisse of Loue. 5. I do also giue Thankes vnto the Lorde / for the Benefites Gifts and Beneuolence / that ye haue sent vnto mee / to an Helpfulnes and Furtherance of the Seruice of Loue. 6. The Lorde giue Strength vnto you all h Ephe. 3. b. Co● 1. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. and strengthen your Spirit / in his Trueth The Loue and the Goodnes of our God and Father / establish you in his louely and true Beeing Amen 7. Salute me hartely likewyse ⁏ with a Salutacion of the Loue vnto all our Freendes and Louers of the Trueth / which are adioyned to the Famyly of Loue and with whom ye haue dayly your Fellowshipp / in the Seruice of Loue. 8. Thatt God / who is the Loue and the euerlasting Lyfe / bring his godly Beeing plentifully vnto you all namely his i Ephe. 1. b. holy Spirit which is the Pawne of our Inheritance And his Loue take the Victory in all your Heaets Amen The Ende of the Eightenth Epistle Our Heart / is the Minde of God most-hie Our Beeing amiable / as the sweete Lillie Our Faithfulnes / Loue / and Trueth vpright / Is Gods Light / Life / and Cleernes bright The Nyntenth Epistle An harty Exhortacion vnto the most-zealous good-willing Hearts to the Righteousnes and vnto the Elders and Ministers of the Woord / in the Comunialtee of the Loue For a Warning vnto them all / of all Deceit that may chaunce vnto them by the new Commers-on to the mostholy Seruice of Loue. Open not your Heart vnto euery Man lest any Falshod be don vnto you by the Strainger Eccli 8.12 If a Freende ioyne vnto thee / prooue him first and beleeue him not ouersoone For ther are many false Freendes which continue not ⁏ as Freendes in the Dayes of Tribulacion but they turne them a-bout to Enimitee for to stryue against thee And if th●n they knowe or remember any shamefull thing by thee / thatt do they vpbrayde thee with-al Ier. 9. Mich. 7. Eccli 6.8.12 Math. 10.24 1 Iohn 4. To the Kingly Seede of the holy Comunialtee vnder the Obedience of the Loue / be Health and Saluacion The First Chapter MY BELOUed Bretheren in the Loue which are groweing-vp vnder the Obedience of the Loue ⁏ in the holy Woord of the euerlasting Trueth to the a Ephe. 4 b. Age of the manly Vnderstanding of Iesus Christ and with whom I haue had my Conuersation in speaking of the Woord b Iohn ● 6 g. 1 Iohn 1. a of Lyfe / which is com and reuealed vnto vs / by Gods Grace wherwith God hath shewed Mercy on vs / according to his Promyses 2. My Exhortacion is hartely vnto you all that ye wil also in my Absence from you / be alwayes c Iohn 15. c. myndfull of the Speeche touching the Godlynes / euen as I haue vsed thesame with you and breake d Act. 2 e. distribute and feede-vpon thesame e Iohn 6. e. Bread of Lyfe ⁏ among eachother that is geeuen vnto vs from Heauen ⁏ by God the heauenly Father and brought vnto you / for a Foode vnto all your Soules And so becom you all feedd with thesame Bread / to an vpright and louely Lyfe in the Loue. 3. Drincke all now f Math. 26. ● Luk. 22. b. 2. Cor. 11. c. out of thissame Cupp of the Loue / full of y e pure Blood of Iesus Christ out of the which / the holy Blood or Lyfe of Christ / is now ⁏ in the Passe-ouer with Christ in his Suffering and Death / till vnto the seconde g Math. 19. ● Rom. 6. a. Birth from the Death geeuen vnto vs to drincke / for a true Testament and euerlasting Forgiuenes of Sinnes and becom now all washed and cleansed ⁏ in your Inwardnes h 1. Pet. 1. a. Heb. 9.10 b c. 12. c. Apo. 7. b. with thesame pure Blood of the Loue of Iesu Christ / the true Testament which shall continue for euer Which Testament / God himself / hath ⁏ as an eternal-continuing Beeing sealed with himself / in the Seruice of his Loue. 4. O my beloued Hearts and Bretheren in the Loue of our Lorde Iesu Christ take-heede in any-wyse i Eccli 4. c. 27. b. Gal. 6. b. to this gracious Tyme and haue a good regarde vnto my Sayings of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ And in euery-poynt / according as I in tymes-past haue talked with you by mouth / of this Passe-ouer with Christ / k Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Col. 2. b. in his Suffering and Death / till vnto the Kingdom of the God of Heauens and of all the Perfection l Apo. 21.2 and Garnishing of thesame Kingdoms Beawty / euē so is likewyse his Foorme / whear it is manifest in all Loue. And according to thesame Foorme or Beeing / see that you all

that seperate themselues with all their Hearts / from the wicked Worlde and from her Abhomynacions and from all those that with their Will / do cleaue l 1. Iohn 2. c. to the wicked Worlde and her Pompe or Pryde Yea although it were their Father / or Moother Husbande / or Wyfe Brother Sister or Children 6. Whosoeuer then do thus as is saydde desyre with vs / to forsake m Math. 10. d 16. e. Luk. 9.14 e. to hate and to leaue all vngodly Beeing / and all the Desyres / according to the Will of the Flesh with all the Lustes of the Eyes and Arrogancie or Pryde of Lyfe / to mortify to forgoe and to n Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. 3 a. kill and bury thesame / in them / to th end to be renewed o Rom. 12. a. Ephe. 4. b. in their Spirit / through the Loue· and incorporated to the true Beeing of God ▪ p Luk. 1. h. Ephe. 4 ● ●ol 3. a. the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes ⁏ the which is Christ himself in his Coming / All those that are so mynded and do proceed-on obediently after thesame / receaue into the Loue and let our fellowshipp bee with such / To th end that we mought euenso eueryone / be planted concordably into the Loue of God the Father / with cleane or pure Hearts· and so leade an vpright and vncorrupt Lyfe ⁏ like loueing Childrē and like Sheepe and Lambes of the Famyly of Loue and like a louely q Iohn 10. b. Flock of Christ vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 7. For-that-cause / To th end that the Temple of the Lorde or the Howse of his Dwelling / may now ⁏ vnder the Obedience of the Loue be purifyed cleansed and renewed / according to the heauenly Trueth r Eze. 37. c. 43. a. and nomore s Esa. 52. defyled by the ▪ Vncleane or Vncircumcised-ones / haue therfore a good regarde ⁏ with a sharp Sight of the Loue for to perceaue what eueryone loueth or seeketh at our handes and wherunto their Hearts are most affected 8. And beware likewyse of the wicked Generacions which carry nothing but Falshod in their Heartes haueing Hony t Psal. 55. c. Psal. 5 a in their Mouth and Poyson v Psal. 140. a. Rom. 3. b. vnder their Tongue as also the Loue / in their Woordes or Speeche and the wicked Nature ⁏ against the Loue in their Heart or Inwardnes The V. Chap. BVt if any man be godly of will or if Any stand-bent to y e meeke-mynded Beeing of the Loue / with all their Sences Desyres and Thoughtes if they loue the Chastitee the patient Long-suffering and the humble Meekmyndednes if they be obedient with all their Heartes / to the a 1. Cor. 11. a. 2. Tess. 2. b. Requyring of the Seruice of Loue / in all Constance if they do willingly heare the chastinable Informacion if they be wel content to be b Pro. 3. b. Heb. 12. b. reprooued for their Vice or Misdemeanure and to be taught and exhorted to all Wel-doing if they wil likewyse good-willingly with vs / beare Shame c Math 5. b. Act. 5. c. Heb. 11. and Contempt in the Flesh / vnder the Obedience of the Loue if they do lay-away from them / d 1. Iohn 2. c. all Pompe and Pryde of the Worlde together with all Vanitee or Foolishnes e Ephe 4 c. Col. 3. a. 1. Pet. 2 a. and all Wrath and Enuy and if they be in this sort / de●yerous hungry and thirsty after the pure or cleane and vncorrupt Beeing of y e Loue In whomsoeuer ye finde this by y e deede and whatsoeuer on-cōing Desciples / do cleaue in that-maner to the Seruice of the Woord / vnder the Obedience of y e Loue / towards all Those / let your Inclynacion be kynde and loueing / to their Saluacion 2. Receaue all such / into your Armes of the Spirit of Loue and accounte them for your Bretheren and Sisters in the Loue as those that stande in your Comunialtee / with a lyke Fayth and none els / Lest ye be Fellow-companyons to the Euel-willingones and Fellow-witnesses to the Craftyones / like vnto all our Aduersaryes 3. For thatt be farre from vs / that wee inasmuch as we haue obtayned or gotten such a gloryous f 2. Cor. 4. a. 1. Iohn 1.3 a. Light of Lyfe and godly Seruice of the holy Woord / through the Loue of God the Father shoulde inclyne ⁏ with the Loue and our godly Seruice to the Vngodly and Impenitentones or to those that are euell of will / for to serue them therwith / according to their Will of the. sinfull Flesh or to feede them in their corrupt Nature and to nourish them vpp therin O no / ye Deerly-beloued The Grace and Mercy / which is chaunced vnto vs ⁏ in the Woord of Lyfe through y e Loue of God y e Father / is farr-to-great Yea we do also esteeme thesame much to-precious and to be more-of-value / then that we shoulde cast the holy Bread of Lyfe which is com and geeuen vnto vs / out of Heauen / as a g Math. 1● ● Foode for the Children of God and for all h Esa. 58. b. Math. 5. a. hungry Soules after the Righteousnes before the Vnbeleeuers the Raueners of their owne Dirt and the Swyne i Math. 7. a. 15 c. and Doggs or shoulde feede and nourish such therwith / as are vngodly wicked and euell of will / according to the maner of the wicked Worlde or those that seeke nothing-els / but Ease k Rom. 16 b. Phil. 3 c. in the Flesh for to feede thesame / according to his Lustes 4. Veryly the Bread of Lyfe is not geeuen vnto them / to the Nourishing of their corrupt Nature For it belongeth only to l Math. 15. c. the Children of Loue and to all those that submitt them obediently to the Seruice of Loue which are godly of will and haue a Lust with all their Hearts / to fulfill m Math. 3. a. all Righteousnes 5. Therfore it is not meete / that the Bread shoulde be taken-away or withholden from the Children / n Math. 7. a. 15. c. and distributed to the Straingers / which are nothing-els but vngodly of will / who tread it downe so shamfully o Math 7. a. vnder their Feete / like vnto Swyne and Doggs which Straingers or Vngodlyones / are also Mockers Theeues Traytors and Murderers of the holy Woord and which do likewyse turne them vnto vs / to our Destruction 6. Wo be vnto them for that they p Iude. 1. b. go in the Waye of Cayne and for the Rewarde or Treasure of Iniquitee / they crucify q Heb. 6. ● and kill in themselues / the holy Woord or the innocent Beeing of God / with their Sensualitee of the Flesh also esteeme it for vncleane r Heb. 10. ● and as a Mockery / and do

⁏ with their false Testimonyes against vs persecute Vs very vehemētly / which do minister the holy Woord or innocent Beeing of God / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 7. Wo be vnto them / that runnfoorth with their foolish Desyres and false Heartes / s 2. Pet 2. b. I●de 2. b after the Workes of the Flesh which are defyled with Darknesses / to th end to liue euenso in all Vncleannes Voluptuous-pleasures Wantōnes and Wickednes and vnto all those that giue Prayse and Honour to the vngodly Beeing and accounte thesame to be a Freendshipp for them ▪ not once careing for this / that they are the Enemyes of God / ther-through 8. Wo be vnto them / that for t Iam. 〈…〉 the Worldes Freendshipp or for the Pleasures cause of the Flesh / becom Gods Enemyes Wher-with they shewe sufficiently / that they are Witnesses of the Craftyones as also Witnesses / that they neither will nor desyre God nor his holy Beeing 9. Beholde the Curssing v Math 25. d. Heb 9.10 c 2 pet 3. a. and the tirrible Iudgment of the Fyres Crueltee / hangeth ouer thē / as a Snare / for their Sinnes cause And thatsame wil fall x Luk. 21. d. heauely vppon the Pate of all Euel-willing and arrogant Highmyndedones 10. Therfore looke into it betymes ⁏ O ye Children of Men what a louely and godly Beeing ye haue forsaken and how ye haue liued in all Vngodlynes and Vnmanlynes and repent / er-euer the seuere Iustice or the Iudgment of God fall vppon you For when thesame ketcheth-holde of you and letteth you see your wicked Deedes / y Sap 5. a b. then shall ye knowe / that the euell Things haue incompassed and caught-holde of you By the which ye shal be z Sap. 12 c Apo. 18. a punished ▪ and not be able to escape the Hande of Dengaunce The VI. Chap. O ye beloued Hearts / which are yet healde or captiued with any vngodly thing / put-away now a Iosu. 1. the Wickednes from you and b Iam. 4. cleanse your Hearts therof Seperate your Myndes and Thoughts / from all what is vayne and corruptible in the Worlde For-sake all thatt / whatsoeuer ioyneth not itself to a godly Lyfe Circumcise yourselues c Deut. 10. b Ier. 4. a. on the Foreskinne of your Hearts and put-away frō your Hearts / all what is vnpure and hath defyled your Hearts Turne you and com ⁏ with naked Hearts d Ier 18. b. 25 a 35. b. Eze 18. d. Ioel. 2. b. to the Lorde your God / vnder the Obedience of his Loue and in thesame Seruice / learne the Sweetnes of Lyfe the Humilitee and Meeknes of Heart and the vpright Vertues 2. For thatt is the cleane or pure Lyfe of Iesu Christ / which cometh vnto vs out of the Loue / through her Seruice / to th end that we shoulde liue vnto God in thesame and laude and prayse Him therin 3. Beholde ⁏ ye Deerly-beloued ther-vnto strecheth our Seruice of Loue which vndeceaueable Seruice / is the mostlouely and holyest Seruice of God / the which / God willeth that it shoulde haue his Minis●ra●ion ouer all the Worlde and that all People shoulde be obedient or subiect to the Loue / in her Seruice For in the Loue is the e Gen. 13. ●● Blessing of all Generacions of the Earth / according to the Promyses 4. Therfore is my E●hortacion and harty Request vnto you all / which are the Auncientest and Most-zealousones in our holy Comunialtee / that ye wil all likewyse haue regarde in that-maner / vnto the Seruice of Loue and euen so accomplish his Requyring 5. And although it be knowen vnto me / that ye do also partly with mee / see into the Difference of thatt wherof I wryte vnto you / yet am I notwithstanding constrayned / to wryte and to present thissame vnto you / To th end that ye shoulde alwayes be myndfull / not to put to-much trust at the first / in the on-coming Disciples / which inclyne vnto vs in the Seruice of Loue as to declare all the Misteryes of God / among them f 1 Cor 2. ● but well among those that are growing-vp with vs obediently / in the holy and godly Testimonyes of the Spirit of Loue / to the g Ephe 4 b Agednes of the holy Vnderstanding and those which we fynde faythfull therin / Because that we may therby ⁏ so much-the-more-certenly and foresightfully minister the mostholy Seruice of Loue ⁏ wherunto God hath stirred-vp and chosen vs to h 1 Cor 14. d. all good Order and Decentnes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. The VII Chap. SEing then that ther are feawe now / that wil a 2. Timo. 4. a endure the godly Doctrine of the Loue / therfore is likewyse all my har●y Exhortacion vnto You / ye Elders and Wyseones ⁏ to whom the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue are committed / for to minister in the Seruice of Loue that yee ⁏ in thesame Seruice wil alwayes keepe a circumspect Watch towardes the vpright and louely Beeing cheefly because of those that com-in besydes the Loue and her Seruice b Rom. 16. 2 Timo 3. a and bring-in Contencion and Breache of the Concorde / with their Knowledg 2. But contende not you with them / aboute any Knowledg but requyre alwayes the Loue and the Obedience vnto her Seruice / to all c Ephe. 4. a. Vnitee of Peace For if anyman knowe the Loue / hee knoweth all what he shoulde knowe and whosoeuer knoweth not the Loue nor is mynded to the Requyring of her Seruice / hee doutles d 1 Cor. ● a. knoweth nothing No nothing-at-al of the godly Wisdom nor can in-any-wyse e Math 11 d 1 Cor 2. b vnderstande the Trueth It is very-true 3. Heerwith ⁏ ye beloued Elders in the holy Vnderstanding my Request and Exhortacion is vnto you all / that ye wil alwayes be myndfull of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue and not leaue-of to f 2 Timo 4. a. rebuke and to exhort still / with Woordes of holy Vnderstanding and with Informacions of Discreation namely those which holde with vs / in the Comunialtee of Loue and are yet loofe or lightmynded of Heart and cheefly g 2 T●●s 3 a those / which walke disorderly / as also y t Vnchastones which wil serue the Flesh / with vncleane Hearts For they marre their Vnderstanding and corrupt their Sences and Memory / with their Fleshly and vnchast Thoughtes 4. Before these holde-foorth the conuenient Orderlynes and exhort them to a h psal ●1 b Math ● a cleane or pure Heart / To th end that they may becom i 2 Cor. 7. a cleansed from all Pollution and Filthynes of the Flesh and so ⁏ growing-vp in the holy Vnderstanding may be founde worthy / that the God of Lyfe may ⁏ in Cleannes and Cleernes or Purenes dwell and walke in

ye not ⁏ thewhyles the h Act. 13. Foode of the godly Lyfe hath bin proffered vnto you / to the Obeying of the holy Woord becom the-more i Num. 11 a. 14·26 c. c. vnlustfull and disobedient to the godly Lyfe and the-more vnthankfull / for the Proffering of the liueing Gifts of God 3. I haue nodout cryed-out so loude vnto you all / that I am almost because ye do so vtterly stopp your Eares / from hearing what the Woord requyreth becom k Psal 38.68 a hoarse· and l Ier. 20. b. weakened in the Sounde of my Voyce And that altogether heerfore euen because ye shoulde vnderstand the Requyring of my Crying· com with mee / into the Doctrine of the vpright Lyfe of Iesu Christ· and so m Iob. 34. a b. Pro. 4. c. harken after the Distinction of my Crying· giue-ouer yourselues n Pro. 3. b 8. to be Disciples of the gracious Woord· shewe o Math. 3. a Act. 3. c. Repentance for your Sinnes· loue with mee / the Lyfe of Rest and Peace / with a p Psal 33 c. Pro. 10. c. Lust to the Righteousnes· haue all your q 1 Pet 3. b. Vnitee of Heart Loue and Sweet-delytfulnes / in the Famyly of Loue / with the Saintes of God and Children of the Loue of Iesu Christ· becom incorporated to the r Ephe. 4. ● Col. 3. b. 2 Pet. 1. a. vpright Righteousnes· and euē so enter into the s Heb. 3.4 c. Rest of the Lorde / with the Children of God and Saintes of Christ. But ⁏ alas I haue yet founde very-feawe of those that haue had their Affection bent heerunto and yet many-feawer / which haue harkened-vnto and beleeued the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue / to that effect or taken-heede to obeye thosame 4. O Ye Childrē or Generacions of s Gen. 3. O●c 6 c. 4 Esd. 3. c 4 c. Adam all yee which liue so boldly in the Vnchastitee t 4. Esd 3. c. Math 13. Luk. 16. of your Whoordom and in your Hipocrisie / against the Requyring of the holy Woord and do not once ⁏ like Disciples of the Woord take-to-heart all our dilligent Seruice shewed on you / wherby to com into the Schoole of the Seruice of Loue and to learne the vpright Righteousnes / v Rom. 12. a. E●he 4. c. to the Renewing of your Heartes and Myndes Remember of fellowship / what ye do all x Math. 22. a. neglet in thissame y Esa. 49 c. 2. Cor. ● a. precious Tyme of Grace how ye keepe yourselues back / agaynst Gods proffered Grace· shut-to and harden z Psal 9● b. Luk 1 ● d. Heb. 2. a. ● a. your Hearts· keepe the Loue of God a 1. Iohn 4 c the Father of the Lorde Iesu Christ and of the holy Gost / quyte out of thesame· and do giue the lightmynded and vngodly Beeing / b 2 Pet. 2. c. d Heb. 6. a. Inde 1. his Roome / to your owne Destruction 5. For beholde and haue regarde on c P●o 2. b. c. Ier. 7. a. your Wayes / all ye Desobeyers and Resisters of the Trueth of God and of his godly Loue / together with all yee that are d Ier 7. c so goodthinking-wyse in yourselues Haue ye not euen hetherto / wholly e P●o. 8 a Ier. 7 c. d. shut-too your Eares / before y e Voyce of the Wisdom of God· refused the proffered Grace of God· and f Eze. 13. a. followed your owne Foolishnes and Good-thinking and heald-foorth or ministred thesame vnto others moe and not the holy Woord of Trueth 6. Are ye not also still runne-back / when ye were g Ier. 7 c 15. b. called forward 7. Haue ye not stil-apace couered yourselues more-and-more in your Hipocrisie ⁏ when ther-was heald-foorth before you / that ye shoulde vncouer yourselues in your h Psal. 36. ● Hipocrisie and confesse and dye from your i Pro 28. b. Eccli 4. b. Rom. 6. Sinnes / and in your Sinnes / tak●n-on more sinfull-Lyfe k 1 Iohn 2. c. mayntayned the wicked Worlde excused the Flesh / in his false and corrupt Nature and committed-whoordom ther-with and bin vnregarding towards the holy Woord l Ier. 2. a. c. of the Grace of God the Father / as if it were an vnneedfull or vnnecessary Thing and so made m 1. Tess. 4. b Heb 10 c. little-reckning-of or debased the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ. 8. OH how vnfitly doth it accorde / that ther should be such Disorderlynes as is rehearsed founde among Any-people / vnto whom the vpright manly Beeing ⁏ euen according to the n Sap. 7 d Col. 1 c. Heb. 1 a very-lyke Beeing of God is dayly presented so naked and euidently and that are o 2 Pet. ● a called and bidden ther-vnto / out of entyre Loue. 9. Yea / yet much-more vnfitly doth it accorde / that thosame do bost them of the Christianitee of the Loue and of the Freedom / because all p 2 pet 1 ● Discreation and Obedience to the holy Woord / ought to be among such al●o the right Knowledg and the humble Thanksgiueing / for that God hath created and chosen the Man to be an q Gen. 1 c 3 a Sap. 2 c Eccli 17. a 2 Cor. 11 a Image or Lykenes of his godly Beeing and for that he ⁏ in his r Gen. 3 a Rom. 1 Eph● 2 b Fall or Estrainging from God is ⁏ by Gods Grace called and bidden agayne to the s Eph. 2 b 4 c Col 1 b 3 a ● pet 1. a Lykenes of God / through Iesus Christ and the holy Spirit of his Loue and that all thesame / is farre from them The III. Chap. FORasmuch now therfore / as that I do perceaue all this Abuce Ignorance and Vnthankfulnes / among Many of you / Oye Children of Men / that bost yourselues of the Christianitee and of the Loue as also of the Freedom and of the Knowledg of the heauenly Things / Shall I a 1 Cor. 11 a then prayse you heerin· account you for right and free Christians or approoue you to be vpright and obedient Disciples or Children of the Famyly of Loue and so laye soft b Eze. 13 c Pillowes vnder your Armes and saye / c Esa. 3 Ier. 6 ye are free wheras ye are yet bounde to the d Iohn ● c Deuill also to the Myndes of the Flesh and to the Imaginacion of your owne Knowledg and that it is all well with you e Esa 3 Ier. 6 c d wheras it is doutles ⁏ in such a State altogether euell and so ⁏ as though my Mynde and Spirit / were agreeable with you f psal 50. c therin suffer you to be leadd with the Bandes of the Deuill and g Sap. 17 a d Chaynes of Darknesse / into Hell and Condemnacion Veryly so woulde it then go euell

growe-offended against it· inclyn-vnto or mayntayne the Euell· and so do seperate themselues from vs Little and Electedones of God and from the Famyly of Loue / shall neuer vnderstande nor inherit the true d 1. Iohn 1. a. Light or Beeing of God nor the spirituall Vnderstanding of the heauenly Goodes of Iesu Christ nor the e Math 13. d. 1. Cor. 2. b Col. 1. c. Secretnes of the heauenly Kingdom of God nor the Fullfilling f Ephe. 1. b. c Col. 1. c. 2. b. of the Righteousnes in Iesu Christ nor-yet the vpright g Iohn 8 d Heb. 4. e Freedom or Rest of the Children of God but shall dye in their Sinnes and be h Esa. 66. d. Math. 25. f. Apo. 21. c. condemned in the hellish Fyre 4. In which hellish Fyre of perpetuall Condemnacion / their i Apo. 16.20 ● 22. c. Heritage shal be the false Light or Beeing of the Deuill and all Bitternes or Maliciousnes of Heart together with all Blyndnes of the false and erring Spirits wherin they shall beholde and inherit nothing-els but all k Esa. 47. ● Wo Calamitee and Misery / as likewyse the euerlasting l Ier. 30. a. 2. Tess. 2. b Death ⁏ which they themselues haue procured and the perpetuall Bannishment m Math. 7. d. 25. f. Apo. 6. b. from the louely Beeing of God 5. From which Abhominations and euell Things / all beleeueing Hearts of the holy Woord of the Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ ⁏ which do submitt them n Esa 6● b. obediently ther-vnder· dye in Christ their Sauiour· and in Patience / hope vpon the Godlynes be o Apo ● 18.20.21 deliuered and kept from all Destruction 6 THerfore take-heede to yourselues / to your Obedience and Godlynes / in the Loue of our God and Father / lest that yee ⁏ remayning without the Body of Christ or Famyly of Loue fall into the foresayde p Esa. 65. b. c. Abhomynations For doutles I haue warned you all sufficiently / of all Abhomynacions Destruction and Condemnacion and cleerly and euidently enough figured-forth before you / y e Preseruacion of you all and wheare thesame is to be obtayned 7. I therfore q Deut. 30. d. Act. 20. f excuse my self this daye before you all ⁏ which heare this my Testimony and refuse to assemble you to the Famyly of Loue or which turne yourselues ther-from of the Condemnacion of you all in thissame Daye of the r Soph. 1. c. ● Tess. 5. 2. Pet. 3. c. righteous Iudgmēt of God / which passeth-out now swiftly ⁏ in this Daye of the Loue ouer the wicked Worlde / to her Condemnacion and in like-maner s Soph. 1 c. d. ouer all those that s M●●h 22. ● refuse the Obedience to the gracious Woord· and to the Requyring of the Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ also are Enemyes to thesame· and mayntayne the wicked Worlde 8. For now in thissame Daye / shall the perpetuall Condemnacion / t Soph. 1 ● 2. Tess. 5. a Apo. 3. fall vnwares vppon all those that remayne without y e Howse of the Lorde and without the Obedience to his Seruice of Loue euen lyke as it came-to-pas with the Vnwillingones to the Trueth of God / in the v Gen. 7. a 19 c. Math. 24. Luk. 17. f Dayes of Noe and of Loth. 9. WHo soeuer now therfore / is ⁏ with a goodwilling Heart adioyned to the Famyly of Loue and which loueth Gods Righteousnes in thissame Daye / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and which desyreth to be kept from the Destruction· and preserued in the Godlynes / Let him x Eccli 18. c Luk 18.21 a 1 Tess. 5 c watch and praye now Night and Daye let him think vpon the ●i●rible y Esa 47 65. c Ier. 30 a Abhomynation that shall fall vppon the Resisters of the Obedience of y e Loue and of her godly Seruice and so let him take-heede z Heb. 2. ● to the godly spirituall and heauenly Goodes / which com vnto the Beleeuers of the holy Woord of the Spirit of y e Loue of Iesu Christ / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and let him a Eccli 6.32 a. Act. 14. c. 1 Cor 3 4 ● esteeme nomore of himself / then he is neither-yet let him seeke any Laude Prayse nor Honour / to b Psal. 14 b. Iohn 7. c. 8. f 1. Cor. 10. ● himself / in all his Wel-dooing / but only to the Lorde and to shewe all Obedience to the Lordes Woord and Will 10 For all the Good that cometh to the Man / c Math. 25. b. Luk. 19. b. from the Lorde ⁏ for to shewe all Good· or alwayes to doo well therthrough therof ther belongeth d 1. Cor 4. b 15. b. 2. Cor. 3. b. 1 Pet. 4. c no Glory Thanks nor Prayse / vnto the Man ⁏ although he dooeth or sheweth thesame Good but only to y e Lorde / of whom he receaueth the Good 11 For what Good or Weldooing can the Man doo I pray you / wherby any Glory Thankes or Prayse / belongeth vnto him / seing that he must receaue all the Good / of the e 1. Cor. 4. b. 15. b. 2. Cor. 3. b Iam. 1. a. Lorde and of his Grace 12 Doth it belong to the Man / to seeke or desyre Thankes and Prayse / because that he receaueth of God ⁏ f 1. Cor. 15. b. through his Fauour and Grace g Ephe. 1. b Wealth / for his Pouertee all Good / for his Euell h Ephe. 1. y e euerlasting Lyfe and Saluacion / for his Deserte of euerlasting Death and Condemnacion and the i 2. Cor. 5. a Spirituall and Heauenly· and the euerlasting Vncorruptiblenes / for the Earthly and Corruptible I think veryly / No. but k 1. Cor. 15. b highworthyly to laude and thanke the God of Lyfe / for his Graces-cause and in no-wyse / to boste or to glory of himself The VII Chap. THerfore looke wel to it / that ye drawe not vnto yourselues / a Esa. 42 b 48. b Ier. 13. c. d Eccli 7.13 b thatt which belongeth to the Lorde But submitt you obediently vnder his holy Woord and Seruice of Loue And so in the Accounting-nothing or Debaseing of yourselues / b Tob. 4. a Psal. 33. a 102.103 a 144. a alwayes laude and prayse the Lorde with Thankesgiueing / for the Grace of his Mercy towards you and for all his Goodnes shewed on you and endure ouercom or suffer-out ⁏ for the Loue of Iesu Christes sake c Eccli 2. a. 1. Cor. 4. c. 1. Pet. 2. c all the Temptacions / wherwith ye be tempted out of the Sinne and out of your owne vncleane or defyled Knowledg and by all the Ministers of Sinne / against d Eccli 2. a Heb. 12. a your Passage towards the good Lyfe of Iesu Christ. 2 For at what tyme soeuer ye