Prophets and Holyones haue also witnessed God dwelleth not in Tabernacles or Temples q Act. 7.17 â— that are made with Mens Handes but in the Worke of his owne Hande For looke into the matter 16. Wherin hath God â I pray thee euer had a Pleasure to dwell â for to be aswell vppon Earth as in Heauen r Leuit 26 Pro. 8. d. 2. Cor. 6 b Apo. 21. a but in the Man whom He himself hath made And to what Temple or Tabernacle hath He had a Lust to haue it cleansed from the Idoles· and from all vngodly Beeing but to the Man / wherby to be God and the Lorde alone / in him 17. Consider Are not these the s Esa. 4â— a 6â— 61. b 62. a 2. Pet 3. b. Apo. 21. â— Promyses / that God wil inhabite the Earth â or the Man of the Earth in Righteousnes 18. Yea euen in the Man / wil Hee â through his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue distinct and deuid-a sunder / the Earthly / from the Heauenly / To th end that euenso in the Mans Inwardnes / Thatt which is of God / may com to t Eccle. 12. â— God / in the heauenly Beeing and the Earthly / to his earthly Beeing And He himself Ø›the God of Heauen v Esa. 60. â— c Apo. 2â— â— wil in this sort haue his Dwelling 〈◊〉 in the Mans Inwardnes / with his godly Beeing and shyne in him euerlastingly with his Cleernes / as a Day-light from Heauen and euenso lighten the Earth with Righteousnes And thatt is the Newe Heauen x Esa. 65.66 b 2 Pet. 3. b. Apo. 21. a and the Newe Earth / in which the Righteousnes dwelleth and they are now coming to all Beleeuers of Christ / which do submitt them obediently vnder the Loue and her Seruice / to the Cleansing from their Sinnes according to the Promyses The XI Chap. THou wrytest moreouer boldly vnto me / that thou hast no God whom thou needest still to feare y t He shoulde vse Rygorousnes with thee neither doest thou also â as thou wrytest desyre to haue any such Lorde 2. I knowe not wel what I shall saye heervpon but my Conceaueing is / that thou vnderstandest not rightly the Feare of God nor-yet his Rygorousnes nor his Kyndnes 3. For / to feare God / a Psal. 111. b. Pro. 1. a. 9. b Eccli 1. b is a costly Treasure / because that therout springeth the holy Wisdom For the Feare of God b Pro. 16. a Eccli 7. c dryueth-out the Sinne. 4. She is a Worke full of all Vertue / a Foresightfulnes / to a good Protection from the Destruction and begetteth in the Man / a good Vnderstanding / to a Guyding-in of him to the vpright Lyfe 5. But to knowe and to loue God in his godly Nature and Beeing / c Sap. 15. a thatt is perfect Righteousnes and this Perfection in the Loue / d 1 Iohn 4. b dryueth-out Feare wherthrough the Man doth euenso then / fulfill the Requyring of the Lawe of Moses and of the Fayth of Iesu Christ and loueth God with all his Heart and all Men as himself 6. Therfore ther-is likewyse no Feare of God anymore needfull to such a Man / which hath inherited the Perfection in the Loue. For God dwelleth in him and thesame Gods Spirit e Iohn 16. b. leadeth him into all Trueth and declareth all things vnto him 7. The Man now being a Dwelling for God / in all his Inwardnes f 1. Cor. 3.6 b 2 Cor. 6. b. â in whom / God with his Christ and Spirit / liueth and worketh he hath no cause to be afrayde of God nor of his Rygorousnes For g Col. 3 b the Loue is the Bande of their Vnitee namely the Godhead with the Manhod Therfore also the Man needeth not to feare For all his Nature Beeing and Disposition / is like vnto God himself / who suffereth his h Math. 5. d. Sunne of Righteousnes to shyne ouer Good and Badd 8. And if now it be so with thee likewyse then hast thou wonne the Crowne i 4. Esd 2. c. Iam 1. a. Apo. 2. b. of Lyfe and all Ignorance is swallowed-vp in thee 9. But now it appeereth by thy Woords â according to the sounde of thy wryting that thou art not yet com heerunto For thou desyrest yet Releasment from thy former Ignorance and wishest that it had his Going-vnder in thee or that it were quyt out of thee that thou moughtest then reioyce thee aright 10. Thou Beloued looke once rightly into thyself and let thy Bosting be accordingly For consider So long as the Man beholdeth his Ignorance and his Enemyes / which do raigne ouer him besydes God and his Doctrine or Requyring / so is it meete doutles / that the Man shoulde feare God· inclyne vnto Him and his Requyring· and submitt him obediently vnder the Ministration of his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue / to th end that God may be his Headd k Psa 27 47. a 96. a b 97. a 99. a. and King· and his Protecter and Helper / against his Enemyes and that his Enemyes mought euenso â thorough the Power of his God go-vnder or com-to-nothing and that l Math. 25. d. God only mought â with his Wisdom or Vnderstanding heare the Dominion in him or obtayne thesame against them The XII Chap. FArdermore / thou sayest â by thy wryting that thou must yet suffer thy Brother Esau seing he is still to-mighty for thee 2. I knowe not whether I do well vnderstande thy Mynde in this Matter / or no / because that thou hast heer-to-fore written so franckly vnto me / of thy Deliuerance and Freedom And yet now thou wrytest of the Power of Esau / ouer thee and that thou must yet suffer him / seing he is to-mighty for thee 3. Ah â Beloued looke rightly into the matter I pray thee / whether the Procreation of Esau and Iacob / be also com-to-pas with thee / according to the Trueth For I saye vnto thee veryly With whomsoeuer Esau and Iacob are brought-foorth out of Isaac / the Sâ—ede of Promyse / thear cannot Esau doo anything against Iacob For Iacob is much-to-prudent for him 4. Howbeit whear Esau and Iacob are not brought-foorth / thear are they not present likewyse and the Man also is vtterly vnacquaynted with the Vnderstanding therof For-that-cause ther is likewyse no Power vsed with him / neither by Esau nor-yet by Iacob but they are all vayne Things / whatsoeuer he perswadeth himself to knowe or to feele therof 5. For both these namely Esau and Iacob are of one Father a Gen. 25. â— and of one Moother and are also conceaued both at-once in their Moothers Wombe But the Birth â wherin they make-manifest themselues and seperate themselues asunder cometh-to-pas / the One before the Other of the which now Esau hath the Fore-going and after-that / Iacob / who is made b Gen.
holy Vnderstanding is the first or fore-going Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine / in the Famyly of Loue / wherin / all good-willing Hearts to the Righteousnes and all vpright Beleeuers of the holy and gracious Woord / do shewe by the Deede / that they do i Math 22. c Iohn 24. loue the Lorde Iesus Christ with all their Hearts / and haue a good Will Lust or Desyre / to k Math 16. c Luâ— 9.14 â— follow-after Him with faythfull Hearts and for-that-cause / haue a Lust â with good-willing Hearts to fulfill or to accomplish y e Requyring of the Obedience of the first or fore-going Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine in the Seruice and Famyly of Loue / wherby to l Ephe. 4. c growe-vp out of the nethermost Place â or out of the Turning-about to be like obedient m Math 18 a 19. b. Mar. 9.10 Children to becom right Elders in the godly Vnderstanding 12. BEholde â ye Deerly-beloued if now ye wil n Math 16 c follow-after the Lorde Iesu Christ duly and rightly / with perfect whole Hearts and o Col. 1 a 1 Pet 2. a. growe-vp in the godly Vnderstanding / according to the Trueth / then submitt yourselues obediently vnder the holy Woord of Grace and so then p Math. 16. â— Mat. 8. d. Luk. 9 14. c follow-after Iesus Christ / according to the Counsayle and Doctrine of his holy Spirit of Loue. 13. And if ye woulde gladly be delyuered q Math. 6. b. Luk. 12. g. from the Euell· incorporated to the Lorde Iesu Christ or one-substance r 2. Pet. 1. a. with Him· and so partakers with Christ â in the Kingdom of the God of Heauens of the spirituall Vnderstanding s Eâ—a 45. a. Matth. 11 d and heauenly Goodes â for to minister them rightly / and inherit y e euerlasting Lyfe / Then take this my good Doctrine t Pro. 1.2 3. Math. 19. â— Maâ— 10 c. Luk. 8. c. and godly Counsayle of the Wisdom / to heart and apply yourselues at the first therunto / in all Obedience and Faythfulnes The V. Chap. NOw when ye haue applyed yourselues heerunto· geeuen all a 1 Pâ—r. 29. c Psal 24.88 a thatt ouer â in the Seruice of Loue vnto the Lorde and his holy Woord Ø› Iesu Christ which belongeth vnto Him â to a Preseruacion in Righteousnes or sett it submitted ther-vnder and vowed and promysed your Fayth and Loue / vnto Iesu Christ / b 2. Cor. 11. a your right Lorde or Husbande / So think then also vpon nothing-els / but c Deut 6.10 a with all your Hearts / to loue your Lorde or Husbande to whom ye haue geuen-ouer your Fayth and whole Heart / for to loue Him only and bounde or marryed yourselues vnto Him / in all Faythfulnes and to shewe all Faythfulnes and d 1. Reg. 15. c. Obedience towards Him in such-sort / that it may be a e Psal. 40 a. Rom. 12. a. 1. Pâ—t 2. Delyte vnto you with all your Hearts / to doo all his Will and to follow-after Him in his Wayes 2. But first-of-al / in the f Ier. â—â— Circumcision of your Hearts â through the g Eccli 1. â— â— 19 â— Feare of God to the h â—eâ— â—2 â— Laying-away of the Sinne in the Flesh â–ª or of all i 1 Pet â— 2 vngodly Beeing and of the heathenâ—â— Misâ—urtour 3. Secondly â through y e Fayth of Iesu Christ â–ª in his Death of the Crosse or Suffering / to the Killing k Rom 〈…〉 b. Col 2. b. and Burying of the Sinne or of all vngodly Beeing 4. Thirdly â through the Loue of the holy Spirit of Iesu Christ in the second l Iohn â—â— Rom. â—â— b T it b Birth from the Death or the Resurrection of Iesu Christ / m Rom â—â—â— to the Righteousnes of Lyfe and n Rom â—â— 1 Ephâ— â— c. Renewing of your Spirits and Myndes 5. And so foorth-on vnto o Act â— a. â— the heauenly Beeing / at the Right-hande of God his heauenly Father from whence He doth now â in this Daye of his righteous Iudgment ouer p Math 1â—â— 2 â— g â—â— d. Act. 1â— f Iude â—â— Quick and Deadd appeere q â— Tess 4 d. and com vnto vs / in Power and Glory / with the many Thowsandes of his Saincts and with the aboundant Treasures r Col 2 a. or Ritches of his spirituall and heauenly Goodes / for to s Matth. 24 â— 25. d. assemble vs â–ª as Fellow-members of his Body vnto Him and his Saints / in the euerlasting Lyfe to the Inheriting of his holy t Heb. 4. c Rest and of all his spirituall and heauenly Goodes 6. FOr-that-cause â my beloued Heartes follow-after v Math 16. c 1. Pet. 2. c our Lorde Iesus Christ in such-a-maner euen like as I do heere figure-foorth thesame before you and apply you euenso at the first / to the first Schoole-rule or x Heb. 5. c. Begining of the christian Doctrine and of the godly Lyfe / in the Famyly of Loue. 7. Exercise yourselues first-of-al / thorowly and faythfully therin And so in the Following of Iesu Christ â in the Takeing-vp y Math. 16. c Mar 8. d. Luk 9. d. or Beareing of your Crosse / against all the Enemyes of the vpright Lyfe of Christ z 2 Pet. 2 c. Heb. 10. c. and Blaspheamers of the holy Spirit of Loue growe you vpp out of thesame / to the perfect a Ephe. 4. c. Age of the manly Beeing of Iesu Christ / and of his holy spirituall and heauenly Vnderstanding That is till that Iesus ChristØ›the true High-preeste / b psal 110. Heb 5 b. after the order of Melchisedech com vnto you from the c Heb. 1. b. Right-hande of God his Father and hath â with his holy Spirit of Loue and heauenly Goodes gotten d 2. Cor. 4. b. Gal. 2. d. 4. c. a liueing Shape in you· and herited you in his spirituall and heauenly e Col 2. a. Goodes and that likewyse thosame heauenly Goodes / do flowe agayne from your Bodyes / like f Iohn â— 7 d Floods of liueing Waters to the Refreshing of all thirsty Soules after the Righteousnes And so becom vpright Elders in the holy and godly Vnderstanding and Ministers of the holy Woord The VI. Chap. TAke it effectually to heart / which I wryte vnto you and thatt wherunto a Pro 1.2.4 â— I do exhorte you For it is the Lordes Woord and his Will / to your Preseruacion in the Godlynes 2. Also refuse not to assemble you with vs to the Famyly of Loue wher-vnto ye be called / by Gods Grace / to your Preseruacion in the Godlynes· and requyred on the Lordes-behalf / for to fulfill b Math. 5. c all Righteousnes 3. For I saye vnto you veryly / that all those which refuse c Math. 22. â— thesame·
be tempted / for to drawe you awaye â e Heb. 12. a. inticeingly from the Obedience of the Loue of God the Father and from the vpright and louely Beeing of Iesu Christ and that they wil in that sort / procure your consent to the Sinne or to her Ministers / then holde you fast or f Eccli 2. a Heb. 12. a constant in-any-wyse / in the Beleefe of your Saluacion and in Patience / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and shrinke not back / That yee â in the Growing-vp to the vpright Beeing of the Loue becom not lead-awaye neither to the one g Pro. 4. c. syde nor to the other but may â in the Beleefe and h 1. Tess. 5. b. Hope of your Saluacion or Delyuerance from the Euell and in the Passing-thorow the Patience / to the good Beeing of Iesu Christ growe i Ephe. 3. b. c. strong and becom still more stronger and euenthus â in the Course of your Patience / k Heb. 10.12 vnder the Obedience of the Loue walke in all Faythfulnes Loue and l Phil. 4. a. Equitee / among all Men. 3. Beware likewyse of m Exo. 23 a Eccli 7. b Ephe. 4. d. Lying one to another and of all harmfull Speeche-of-reproche and n Tit. 3. a. 1. Pet 3. c keepe your Tongues from o Eccli 23. a 27. b. Math. 5. c. Curssing For that which ye speake p Eccli 10. b priuily in eachothers Eare â in reproch and curssing maner / with Backbyting of another shall not com-to-pas so simply / without Lyes and y e q Sap. 1. b. Mouth that lyeth / killeth the Soule 4. Follow alwayes the r Iob. 12. b. Counsayle of the Elders and Wyse in the Seruice of Loue. and s Eccli 8. â— d. Heb. 13. d submitt you obedienly vnder the Woord of their Doctrine and confesse vnto them / t Eccli 4 d. what is hidden· and becometh spoken among you / in secret / Then shall ye becom v Iob. 12.32 a Eccli 6 8. b wyse and shall euenso â in your Obedience out of the Doctrine of the Elders / first learne yourselues / er-euer ye teache another first help yourselues / x Math. 7. a er-euer ye help another first rebuke y Rom. 2. a and iudg yourselues / er-euer ye rebuke and iudg another and shall fynde z 2. Cor. 11. g. Grace / in such tyme when-as others â which iudg and deale falsly / and blaspheame cursse backbyte and belye their Neighbour shal be punished 5. Therfore do nothing without a Eccli 32. d Counsayle / so shall it not repent you / after the Deede 6. Blaspheame nor resist not also b Rom. 13 a the Gouernours nor the c Eccli 8. b Preesies / in their Office but shewe them d Rom. 13 b. 1. Tim. 5. c. Honour and Obedience and for the Peaces cause / obserue all the Ordinances of the Lande 7 Indeuour not your selues likewyse / to deale with your Neighbour / in anything that is e Tob. 4. c. Math. 7. b Vniust nor hinder not also the Straingers f Exo. 23. b. in any-case 8. Offende not the Little g Math. 18. b. Rom. 14 d. 1. Cor. 8. d. or Smipleones of vnderstanding nor charge not the Weake / with any Burthens 9. Set not the Sight of your Eyes vpon any Flesh nor vpon any Outward-thing wherby to procure your lust towards anything h Exo. 20. c Pro 6 c. Eccli 18 d 25. d therof / to any Desyre for yourselues / Lest that your Hearts be kindled and defyled â with Lust of Whoordom towards thesame But set all your Sight Vnderstanding and Memory / i Pro. 3. a. Math. 22. towards the Lorde your God and towards the godly Testimonyes of his holy Spirit of Loue. 10. Let al your Lusts Desyres and Delytes be set towards their Beawty k Pro. 3. a. 4. â— b. 5. a. b and Louelynes in the Spirit / Then shall ye not be subdued vnto Whoordom 11. Haue likewyse â in all your Sight â—ealing and Walking the holy l Tob. 4. a. Pro. 1. b Feare of God before your Eyes But beware that your Feare of God / be m Sap. 1. a. no Hipocrisye and serue not God / n Eccil 2.3 d with a false Heart 12. Take-heed alwayes of the Whoordom o Tob. 4. b. 1. Cor. 6. a. 1. Tess. 4. a and remember that ye are not dettâ—â—s to serue the Whoordom nor the Vnchastitee but only the Lorde your God / in all p 1. Tess. 4. b â–ª Purenes of Heart 13 Remember also / that vnder the Obedience of the Loue / ye are called to the Godlynes in Iesu Christ / for to showe all q Phil. 4. b. 1. Tess. 4· c. Tit. 3. a. Edifying and good Order and all Righteousnes Loue and Peace / among all People and so through all Wel-dooing and good Conuersation / to stopp r 1. Pet. 2. b. the Mouth of the Gaynspeakers and Blaspheamers of the Famyly of Loue and of all those that do belye and defame vs with al-maner of Falshod and â through all Goodnes to winne the Louers of the Trueth and Righteousnes / to the Famyly of Loue / To th end that all those which loue the Trueth in Iesu Christ and which hunger and thirst after s Math. 5. a the Righteousnes / mought â through the holy and gracious Woord which God hath t Ier. 23. raysed-vp vnto vs Little and Electedones of God / according to his Promyses be delyuered from their Sinnes and becom saued 14. BEholde â ye Deerly-beloued This is our vpright Grounde of Fayth in Iesu Christ. and also our vndeceaueable Seruice of Loue / euen like as we be taught and informed / in the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue. 15 Therfore â my beloued Heartes in the Loue follow not in-any-wyse / your owne v Deut. 12 a Eccli 18. d. 25. d. Good-thinking Lustes and Desyres / nor-yet your Imaginacion of the Knowledg but haue a right regarde / what the holy and gracious x Deut. 4. a. b Iam. 1. b. Woord of the Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ â vnder the Obedience of the Loue requyreth and indeuour you therunto / So shall ye then growe-vp well and vprightly according to the Trueth / in the Sainctification of Iesu Christ and in the spirituall and y Col. 1. a. b â— heauenly Vnderstandings· walke in all godly Loue Peace and Ioye· and inherit the z Math. 19. d. 25. d. Rom. 6. d. euerlasting Lyfe It is verytrue The Ende of the twentith Epistle Take it to heart CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER HN. Our Heart / is the Minde of God most-hie Our Beeing amiable / as the sweete Lillie Our Faithfulnes / Loue / and Trueth vpright â–ª Is Gods Light / Life / and Cleernes bright â–ª
EPISTOLAE HN. The Principall Epistles of HN / which he hath set-foorth through the holy Spirit of Loue· and written and sent them â 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 â–ª 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 â–ª 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 â by his apotecaries Arte prepare many-kinde of Medecineâ— / 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 â by the Wisdom of y e godly Vnderstanding many-kinde of godly Medecines which he â in the Ministration of the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue bringeth vnto the falne Man â who is captiued thorough the Sinne / with sundry Sicknesses and Infirmities in the Soule to the Health of his Soule â–ª 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 Ø›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 â 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 â which haue a Lust or Will to God and his Righteousnes mought â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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.
desyre likewyse of thee / that the Comunialte which is with thee / may also reade this Letter and salute them all in my behalf / e Rom. 16. b. 2. Cor. 13. b. with a Salutacion of the Loue. And if ther be any among you / that are acquaynted with Any-people / whom they knowe to seeke God with Heart or that are no vndiscreet Blaspheamers but stande wel-mynded to the Vnitee of Heart in the Loue / let them also freely reade-ouer this Wryting and loue alwayes the Vnitee of Heart in the Loue to an Increasing of the holy Knowledg and reioyce you among each-other in the Loue / through the spirituall f Ephe. 1. a. heauenly Goodes which do com vnto vs in the Spirit / out of the godly Loue. 4. The Loue of God the Father / g Col. 3. b. gett the Victory in all your Hearts Amen 5. Pray for me / that the Lord wil strengthen me in my Spirit / with his Loue / To th end that I may be strengthened in Him / without Feare and so may stand-fast against all mynâ— Enemyes and that the Concord of Peace may be prepared vppon Earth / through the Loue and her Seruice according to the Promyses The Ende of the Fowrth 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 Fift Epistle A Stirring-vp of the Heart to the Immitation or Following of Christ / in the Suffering of his Crosse Written and sent by HN in the tyme of his Suffering and Affliction / vnto his Freende Wherwith he informeth him / with Vnderstanding and Woordes of Humilitee / because that he shoulde not growe-offended in any thing· but alwayes hope on the Goodnes of the Lorde My Freends hast thou â O Lorde put farr from me thou hast made me loathsom vnto them I lye captiued and cannot com-foorth Myne Eye is sadd with Misery Lorde / I call dayly vnto thee and I stretch-out my Hande to thee Psal. 88. Health and Saluation / be vnto thee my Freende whom I loue to the Righteousnes The First Chapter FOrasmuch â thou Beloued as I haue had certeÌ„ Woordes with thee / touching myne AfflictioÌ„ and Wofulnes of Heart in the Spirit and touching the a Psal. 18. a. 2. Tess. 2. a. Breaking-thorow the sinfull Beeing / for to com to the Kingdom of God and that thou as farr as I coulde perceaue hadst little Sight or Discerning therof and that me thought also / that thou â vp reason of myne Affliction didst more estrainge thyself from me / then gett an Hearty-affection towards me / So is therfore my Spirit becom inclyned to wryte a little vnto thee Wherwith I do shewe / that I rest still in hope that God woulde lighten thyne Heart a little / with the holy Light of his godly Beeing b Ephe. 1. c. and graunt thee to see or to discerne / the right Meaning of my Wordes that I haue spoken with thee 2. For I am very certayne and sure of this / if the Lorde open the Doore of Vnderstanding vnto thee â wherby to see-into the vpright godly Beeing / c Gal. 4. a. Ephe. 4. a. Apo. 21. a. that ought to haue a liueing Foorme in vs that thou likewyse / shalt knowe thesame wheruÌ„to I am inclyned with Desyre and with all my Heart and after the which / I â in the Hope do carry a Zeale or apply my Dilligence / for to obteyne thesame of the God of the Liueing if Hee Ø›the Almighty vouchsafe the Grace vnto Mee Vnworthyone 3. But now am I in many Mens Eyes â as also haply in thyne very ougly and loathsom and therfore d 1. Câ—â— 4. b. contemnable and reiectable with Many But all this cometh vppon mee / because that I am so exceeding weake e Psal. 6. a. 2. Cor. 12. b Apo. 3. c. and feeble and of myne-owne-part / haue no Righteousnes with me nor any Esteemation / according to the outward Man of the Flesh. 4. ALthough â my Beloued that I seeme thus loathsom as also of myne-owne-part / am so altogether weake and voyde of strength and am contemned by all Goodthinking-wyseones false Setters-forth-of-religion and Hipocrites· and defamed f 2. Cor. 6. â— by them / with many false Bruits / Yet wonder not thou neither be offended at thesame as y t thou shouldest therfore turne thy Heart from the Seruice of Loue and from Mee 5. For truly / in that all this cometh-vppon me or in that I am a little whyle g Psal. 8. â— forsaken by the Power of my God and do fynde myself â of myne-owne-part h 2. Cor. 3. â—2 so vnmighty to the Righteousnes of God and am contemned blaspheamed and falsly defamed or accused by Many / it hapneth because that I shoulde not in-any-wyse be stout in my Heart· nor boast myself vppon myne owne Knowledg and Workes nor-yet vppon any i Tess. 2. a. Gal. 1. b. Prayse or Comendation of Men· but highly esteeme of the Grace of God / to th end that the Lorde â and not I mought euen so haue k Psal. 114 b. all Laude Honour and Prayse For Hee only is the Lorde to whom only / all Honour doth likewyse appertayne 6. FOr-that-cause / be not thou offended at the Workes of God / with his Saincts nor-yet at the Contempt which I suffer and beare at the handes of many false Hearts and good-thinking Wyseones and Scriptur-learned But note that the Lorde l Psal 4 a. leadeth his Holyones wonderfully and how that God m Psal. 129. b. Apo. 15. a. is wonderfull in his Workes 7. For n 1 Reg. 2. a. Psal. 113. a. Luk. 2. f. He maketh ritch and poore agayne and then He maketh ritch agayne / because that men shoulde euenso knowe his Ritches rightly and loue them according to their Value 8. He bringeth the Man into a wyde o Psal. 18. c. 31. a. 119. c. Roome and agayne into great Straightnes and Contempt and out of the Straightnes and Contempt / into a wyde Roome agayne / because y t he shoulde rightly knowe his wyde Roome· and liue therin vprightly The II. Chap. THis wryte I vnto thee out of hearty Loue / my Beloued / for that thou shouldest not be discouraged in any thing nor offended in mee neither-yet dismayed in thy Heart in any-wyse / because of my Mysery and Contempt which I do endure or suffer in the like a Rom. 6 a. Phil. 3. b. Death of the Crosse of Christ wherin I follow-after b Math. 16. c. 1. Pet. 2. c. 4. a Christ. But trust firmly vpon him that is the only God 2. Therfore let not thy Heart be mooued for any-maner of thing that thou seest or hearest outwardly but submitt thyself â c 1. Pet. 5. b. with all Humilitee vnder the mighty Hande of God and giue-ouer
and the Seruices of the holy Woord and to shewe Obedience therin â 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 â as is before sayde and for that I do now fynde Many / which â 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 â â—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 â 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 â 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 Pâ—o. 8. â— 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 â— Sap. 6 b. 7. â— Math. 7. â— wil likewyse the Wisdom or holy Vnderstanding / appeere But whosâ— 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. Ecclâ— 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 â 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 â 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 â—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 â 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 â 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 â 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
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 â–ª 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. â— 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 â–ª 1â— b. 2. Timo. 3. a in the tyme of thyne Assaulting Tryall and Tribulacion but praye vnto God q Maâ— 6 b. Lukâ— 11. a. that He wil keepe thee from their perditionable Wayes / wherinto they woulde leade thee 8. THerfore â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 procâ—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 â that doth alwayes gnawe accuse â–ª 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 â–ª 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. â— 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 â O Lorde in thee Sap 12. The First Chapter WIth this my Wryting â as a Salutacion of the Loue I do hartely â—aâ—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 â b Iohn 17. c. 1. Iohn 1. â— 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 /
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 â 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 Ø›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 Ø›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 â my Beloued because I knowe not now how it may go with thee / whear thou dwellest / therfore haue I â 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 â 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 â 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 â–ª Effect of the godly Lyfe / all former Seruices â 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 â 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 / theÌ„ shall wee likewyse exercise ourselues therin / to all Sainctifycation l 2. Tess â–ª 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 Sâ—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 â 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 â with his Wisdom into all Trueth and vpright Righteousnes Amen 11. Heerwith â 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 ExhortacioÌ„ 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 â 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 â out of Grace is a Rom. 16. â— 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 â 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 â yea thosame shal be founde happy For our Comunialtee is
casteth y e Seruice of the holy Woord and the instructionable g Pro 5. c. 15. â— 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 â in the Obedience of his Loue be loued of Vs agayne 5. Wherfore â 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 â— 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 witâ— 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 â 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 â— a. Treasures and the Inheritance of the Ritches of Christ of the heauenly Father / for euermore The II. Chap. FOrasmuch then â 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 â 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 â–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 â–ª Aduersaryes / h Math 10. d. 16. c. Mar. 8. c. Luk. 9.14 c take vnto you the Crosse of Christ â 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 â through his Crosse ouercom k Phil 2 a. Col. 1. c. â— his Enemyes 6. To which Ouercoming / yee shall also com â through Christ if yee â in the Following of Christ do posâ—â—sse your Soules l Luk 21. b with PatieÌ„ce and had rather â—uffer CoÌ„tempt Reproche and Blaspheaming / with the Children of God / m Heb. 11. c. then to inherite all y e Treasures of this Worlde 7. Therfore â 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 Hâ—b 11. c. of the Rewarde of the Children of God 8. For I do acknowledg and testifye vnto you truly â 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 â ye Deerly-beloued as that wee haue now â vnder the Obedience of the Loue sett our Hope / towards God and our Beleefe / towards his Saluacion / Therfore let vs now likewyse â through the Seruice of the holy Spirit of Loue take a q Heb. 5. a. cheerfull Passage â 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 â–ª 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.
childish Simplicitee / with all their Hearts 2. But wheare we haue founde it with Many as that the on-coming Disciples / do â with all their Hearts c 1. Pet. 5. a. Iam. 4. a. submitt them obediently vnder the Loue and her Seruice· turne them wholly and altogether about / to the childish Simplicitee· willingly d Pro. 3.4.5 a. Eccl. 6. c heare and follow the Counsayle of the Elders / in the Seruice of the Woord / vnder the Obedience of the Loue· and that their Hearts becom euenso vncouered or manyfest before vs· and so do neither seeke nor desyre anything-els / but to liue with vs in the vertuous Nature of the Loue Let vs highly laude and thanke God the Lorde / for such On-commers and for such vpright Disciples of the Woord and Louers of Vertue 3. For verryly such a Man / who doth in that sort â in the gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue seeke and intende the Nature of God / with all his Heart although he were yet laden with many Sinnes is a e Iohn 1. c. right Isralite a Sonne or Daughter of Abraham f Iohn â— â— Rom. 9. a. Col. 3. c. through Fayth â–ª according to the Promyses 4. But all what refuseth the Loue or whatsoeuer turneth vnto vs with a false and vnrepenting Heart and all what is not inclyned â with an humble Heart to the Seruice of the holy Woord / vnder the Obedience of the Loue all what conuersateth with vs / in Couerednes of Heart together with all that which doth not with whole Heart / turne itself g Gal. 5. b. 6. â— Col. 3. a. quyte and cleane awaye from all h Ier. 7. b. Good-thinking Wickednes and i Tob 3. b. Ephe. 5. a. Lightmyndednes / and from all fleshly Lustes and Desyres and all those / which â in the Desyres of their Flesh in the Lust k 1. Iohn 2. b of their Eyes and in the Pryde of Lyfe do not forsake themselues· take not vp l Math. 16 c. Luk 9.14 c their Crosse against thosame· loue not the vertuous Nature of the Loue â which is pure and peaceable with all their Heartes· nor confesse m Pro 28. b. Eccli 4. c. their Sinnes / which make-vp themselues against thesame / in their Flesh / and do not sigh n Math. 5. a. 2. Cor. 7. b. lament nor moorne ther-ouer but go-on arrogantly and carelesly with ympenitent Heartes / like those that shewe no Sorrow nor Amendment touching the Sinne and so do make no Difference betwixt the Freendshipp with the Worlde / and the Freendshipp with the Famyly of Loue All thosesame / seeke nothing-els but their Selfnes and thatt which concerneth the Flesh / o Phil. 2. c. and not the Lorde nor the Righteousnes of his gracious Woord 5. And such p Deut. 9. o. Ier. 4. b. Act 7. f. Vncircumcised of Heart which also are vncircumcised of Lippes and Toung Yea such goodthinking Spirits q 2. Timo. 3. 2. Pet 2. b. Iude. 1. b. and fleshly Myndedones / which com to vs with couered and disobedient Heartes / and do seeke loue nor desyre nothing-els / but to serue their owne Sensualitee according to the Flesh / together with all those which neither will nor desyre anything-els / but to follow their Lustes and their Owne-myndes-delyte Thosame do not you in anywyse accept in that state â as in Vnrepentance for Bretheren in the Famyly of Loue but let the Elders and Ministers of the Seruice of Loue / be against them therin and r Leuiâ— 19. b. Eccli 17. exhort them to som better thing or informe them with a better Loue to the righteous Beeing hoping if the Lorde vouchsafe thesame / that they mought once be mooued vnto Repentance for their Sinnes 6. Forthatcause reiect them not s 2. Tess. 3 b. nor hate not anyone / what Sinners soeuer they bee but t 1. Tess. 5. b. Heb. 3.10 c exhort you still one-another to Amendment and carry alwayes an Heart of Loue / for to drawe the strayed Sinners out of their Sinnes and to leade them v Pro. 3.4 b. into the Path of the vpright Lyfe / to th end that they mought obtayne a godly Lyfe / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. The IIII. Chap. BEholde and consider This is the right Seruice of Loue / which we are debtors â—o shewe vnto the Sinners and vnto all strayed a Iam. 5. b. Men / to their Saluation and not to hate to reuyle nor to blaspheame anyone / nor-also to keepe-in-mynde and to vpbrayde anyman with his Sinnes or Errours / neither-yet to reiect or to seperate anyman from vs / that giueth-eare to the chastinable Informacion 2. Forasmuch then as the Loue doth make-manifest herself so vprightly and loueingly / in her Seruice and hath no pleasure in those b 1. Cor. 13 a. that deale falsly but with her Seruice / informeth eueryone with all Discreetnes and Courtesye / by the Ministers of her holy and gracious Woord / So doth she likewyse deale generally after thesame maner â in her Seruice by the Ministers of her Seruice and passing in-that-sort / thorow c Eccli 24. â— all Nations of People / she draweth all those vnto her / that are of her Nature or Beeing and all those likewyse that loue her and haue turned all their Lust towards her and her Seruice 3. Therfore â my beloued Hearts vse likewyse â with the Loue and her Seruice a Difference betwixt those that are good of will / or euell of will and accept none for Disciples of the Woord much-les account them for Brothers or Sisters in the Loue which wil liue d Deut. 12. a. Ier. 7 b. according to their owne Good-thinking or e Sap 2.14 b. Rom. 1. c. Brutishnes and are f 2 Timo. 3. a disobedient to the Woord of Lyfe in his Seruice / yet much-lesse / those which make g Rom. 16. c Deuision and do resist the Concord in the Loue and her Seruice 4. Keepe a good watch in-any-wyse towards the Seperatedones which do alwayes bring-in much Questioning and Contencion about the Knowledg / and do not first-of-all / giue themselues to the Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue nor to h Pro. 28. Math. 3. b. Luk 3 b. confesse their Sinnes / according to the Requyring of thesame Seruice and to repent ther-fore / wherby to com to a cleane Heart and to a louely Beeing or pure Spirit Which louely Beeing / is the Head-somme of all Wisdom and Knowledg Haue a sharpe regarde heer-vnto / for that the Kingdom of Loue may increase in all Concord and be spread-abroade 5. Therfore let not your Hearts stande-affected vnto Any / but those that seeke i Ephe. 4. a. Vnitee Loueingnes and Peaceablenes among vs / for to liue therin / with vpright single Heartes and so are wel-mynded with vs / to the k Eze â—8 Reformacion of Sinne as likewyse to those /
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 â–ª p Luk. 1. h. Ephe. 4 â— â—ol 3. a. the vpright Righteousnes and Holynes â 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 â like loueing ChildreÌ„ 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 â 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 â–ª Vncleane or Vncircumcised-ones / haue therfore a good regarde â 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 â 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 / deâ—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-coÌ„ing 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 â 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 â 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. 1â— â— 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. â— 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. â— and as a Mockery / and do
k Iohn 14 c Apo 21. â— them and so mought â through the godly Beeing be meete to vtter-foorth and to publish the Glory of God / to the l â—phe 1 a Laude of his Maiestee and also to be seruiceable vnto their Neighboure / to thatsame Beeing / that it may all go vprightly m 1 Cor 14 d in his Course 5. Beholde thus dooing / we shall be founde n Math. 24. c 1 Cor 4 a faythfull Ministers of God also faythfull Ministers of the holy Woord which do further the Saluacion or Welfare of Men. For after that maner â as is before sayde shall the Loue alwayes continue fruitfull among vs in her Seruice / out of pure Nature and God shall sainctify his great and gloryous Name in vs· seale vs therwith to be his People· and accept vs o Ier 31. a. 2 Cor 6 b for his beloued Sonnes and Daughters also p Esa 66. b playe and dandle with vs / as with his beloued Children and keepe vs / q Psal 17 a Zach 2 a as the Apple of his Eye And He shall leade and nourish vs vp in his Pasture / like r Eze 34 b Iohn 1â— a Sheepe and Lambes 6. All our Course-of-lyfe shal be in Loue and Peace Faythfulnes s Zach 8 a b and Trueth shal be seruiceable vnto vs. Righteousnes and Holynes t Esa 58 b shal be alwayes in our Beholding and God shall alwayes go-before vs / as a Light He shal be an euerlasting King and Sheapheard vnto vs and the Loueingnes in the Peace / shall alwayes be among vs and haue no Ende according to the Promyses 7. Let all our Lyfe and all our Course-of-dealing / be heerin / my beloued Hearts ye louely Comunialtee of Saints in the Loue. For you â ye louely faythfull Comunialtee of Loue hath God chosen to be a kingly Seede vppon the Earth / according to his Promyses / for to bring-foorth by you / the Light of Lyfe / out of the heauenly Trueth to the Blessing of all Generacions of the Earth according to the Promyses 8. Take-heede v 2 Cor 6 â— Gal 6 a now all to thissame Tyme of Grace Be watchfull in y e Spirit x Esa 60 a Rom 13 b Ephe 5. â— and stand-vp in the Righteousnes The Loue of God the Father and the Glory of Christ in his Coming / take the Victory in all your Hearts Amen The Ende of the Nyntenth Epistle The Twentith Epistle A Chastising and Reproofe of Whoordom / with sondry good Lessons Informacions and groundly Instructions / how the Man shall giue-ouer himself to Iesus Christ and to the Woord of his holy Spirit of Loue and Trueth· forsake and leaue himself and all what he hath / for the Loue of Iesu Christ-his sake· and follow-after and only cleaue-vnto Iesus Christ and the Woord of his holy Spirit of Loue· and shewe all Obedience Loue and Faythfulnes / to thesame Woord Thus sath the Lorde IESVS CHRIST If any man com to Mee / and hateth not his Father Mother Wyfe Children Bretheren Sisters and also his owne Lyfe That is Whosoeuer doth not â for y e Loue of Iesus Christes sake forsake and leaue all wher-vnto he is bounde or wher-vnto he hath sett his owne Affection and Will of his Heart / without the Requyring of the holy Woord of Iesu Christ and his holy Spirit of Loue and beareth or taketh not his Crosse on him / and Followeth-after Mee / cannot be my Desciple Math. 10.16 Mark 8. Luk. 9.14 The First Chapter THIS IS THE Woord of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ / which HN hath witnessed â vnder the Obedience of the Loue against the Whooring of the Generacion of Men 2. O Thou Generacion of Men / How long shall I sett a psal 108 a Cant 7. c. my Loue on thee / without being loued agayne and my b 2 Cor 11 a Faythfulnes / without being shewed Faythfulnes agayne 3. When wilt thou â I pray thee turne thyself away from thy Whoordom and turne thee â—ightly â c Ier 3 a with a faythfull Heart to thy d Oâ—e 2 a 2 Cor â—1 a right Husbande 4. I haue â sayth the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ sett all my e pro 2 c Loue towards thee / O thou Generacion of Men. But seing that I am not loued by thee agayne and do perceaue / that thou whoorest with thyne owne Imaginacion f Deut 12 a of the Knowledg and with almaner of Spirits and g Ier 2 d Eze 16 b. c. Rom 1 c elementish or naturall Things and doest not sett thy Loue and Faythfulnes / h Ier 2. d. firmly to my Loue and Faythfulnes â which I shewe towards thee to an vpright Obeying of the holy Woord / Therfore doth my Heart â for Loues-cause suffer somuch-the-greater Sorrow and I must also be captiued the-more with i 2 Cor 1â— a Mistrustfulnes towards thee 5. OH / alas Must not I alwayes â like vnto an Husband towards an k Ier 2 d 3 a 2 Cor 12. a whoorish Wyfe haue a mistrustfull Eye towards the Man which bosteth him of the Loue and of the Knowledg of the spirituall and heauenly Things and yet committeth whoordom with l Ier 2 d. Eze 16. b â— Iud. 1 b strainge Spirits / without the Famyle of Loue m 2. Cor. 11 a and not suffer thesame Mistrust to be taken-away or denyed me / before I fynde that the Man do bynde or betroth himself â with a faythfull Heart vnto the holy Woord of Grace and his Spirit of Loue and doth with an n Deut. 16. b. obedient Heart / vtterly forsake all his Whoordom whether it be with Flesh or Spirit· with any-maner of o Eze 16. b Imaginacion of the Knowledg· or with anything that is Outward or Inward· or with anything of p psal 49. c Gods Sayings and euen so goeth-thorow the Waye to the Lyfe / according to the Requyring of the holy Woord 6. Oh! How is my Heart thus greeued / by reason of greate Loue. and so perplexed / through great Mistrustfulnes 7. For like as a valyant Champyon / hath sett all his Loue and Hearts-lust towards an whoorish Wyfe and bounde it vnto her / to the intent to with-drawe her from her Whoordom and to drawe her with her Loue / into his Loue / to be an vpright Maryed-wyfe vnto him and can obtayne no Looking-on nor Harkening-vnto â or very-little at her handes and so for great Loue / suffereth such sore Greefe in his Heart and is so exceedingly combered / that he cannot at any-tyme take any rest / for shewing his Loue still towards her Euenso am I in-like-maner swallowed-vp in Loue / toward the Generacion of Men for to withdrawe thesame from his Whoordom which doth now committ-whoordom with so many-maner of Knowledges and strainge and erring q 3 Reg 22. d. Esa 18 b
with you all 2. For / in thatt state and so long as ye do liue in your owne Wisdom / and haue not â with your Loue Myndes and Thoughts altogether intended the vpright h Matth. 32 â— Righteousnes of Iesu ChristØ›that godly Beeing of the Loue for to be all in all i 2 pet 1 a incorporated into thesame obediently and to liue-vnto and to k Deut. 6.10 d Math. 4. â— 22. d â–ª serue only the liueing God / So is all your Freedom Loue Myndes and Thoughts / and all your Appeasment of Heart which yee yourselues haue taken-on / proceeded out of the Flesh of Sinne and l Iohn 8. â— â–ª out of the Deuill Ø›the Father of Lyes wher-through the Man still hunteth-after and loueth nothing-els but his owne Destruction 3. BUt seing now that my Loue / proceedeth out of Gods Nature or Beeing and stretcheth to all Preseruacion in the Godlynes and loueth you all therunto / so cannot I â out of y e Nature of thesame Loue m pro. 27. a Iohn 1. c omitt / but I must needes figure-foorth or describe before your Eyes / your Contrarynes and Destruction 4. For I saye vnto you verely if ye com not into the Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue and so stande submitted to the Woord of the holy Spirit of Loue / to shewe Obedience / and be not n Rom. 12. a Ephe. 4. c chainged out of your eartâ—ly Loue o Rom. 6.7 Gall. 5.6 a of the Flesh / into the godly Loue of the holy Spirit of Iesu Christ nor becom vpright of Heart as also becom not incorporated to p Ephe. 3 c d 2 pet 1. a. the true Beeing of God and Christ / with your inwared Man· nor walke neither-yet be founde in all q Ephe. 4. a phil 4. a Equitee and Loueingnes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue but do in that sort â without the good Beeing apply yourselues vnto much Knowledg of high heauenly Things and to talke therof / So is-it all doutles false and Lyes / whatsoeuer ye speake and proceedeth altogether out of the r Iohn 8. e Deuill who hath 3. Reg 22. c 2 Cor. 11. c appeered vnto you / like an Angell of the heauenly Light and so hath bewitched and seduced your earthly and fleshly Hearts wherthrough ye do â in a false s Esa. 59. b. Light and false Freedom or false t Esa. 3. Appeasment of Heart proceed-on and walke in all v Ier. 8 b Arrogant-stoutnes / against the u Math. 11. b Humilitee Obedience and vpright x Iohn 8. c Freedom / which God requyreth by his holy Spirit of Loue. 5. Through which Proceeding in the false Light of the Deuill and in the false Freedom of the Flesh and in the bewitched Subtil-prudence of the y Rom 8. a b. Iam. 3 d. earthly and fleshly Myndes or false Spirits / ye shall fynde yourselues at the last / z Math. 7. d. 24. d. Luk. 13. f vtterly seperated or estrainged from the louely Beeing and Face of God· and â with all your high Vnderstandings heauenly Knowledges and wel-appeased Freedoms be-wrapped in all Confusednes Bitternes and Maliciousnes of Heart / and in the hellish a Sap. 5 a. Math. 25. d. Condemnacion 6. AH-beloued tell me I pray you / how your Heart and Mynde and al your Nature and Beeing / is setled in your high or heauenly Knowledges and wel-appeased Freedoms 7 Veryly if ye stande b Pro. 2. d. 2 Cor. 11. c Phil. 2. b. not simply and peaceably grounded therwith / in the vpright and godly Beeing of the Loue / according to the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue and that ye are not yet com into the first Schoole-rule c Heb. 6. a of the christian Doctrine / vnder the Obedience of the Loue nor haue obediently performed it That is to saye / if ye do not in the Schoole or Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / dye-from all your contrary and corrupt Nature / in the Passing-thorow d Rom. 6. a Col. 2. b. the Death of Christ nor-yet out of the second Birth e Iohn 3. a. Rom. 6. a b from the Death / be not renewed in your Spirit and Mynde â in all vpright f Ephe. 4 c Righteousnes and Holynes by y e g 2. Cor. 4. b. phil 3. b. c. ResurrectioÌ„ of Iesu Christ but / being vnrenewed or â without the holy Woord of the Spirit of Loue haue of yourselues â with your olde h Ephe. 4. c corrupt Nature taken-on som high Knowledges or wel-appeased Freedoms / Then must ye nodout acknowledg / that all your high Knowledges profouÌ„de Understandings and Freedoms / are false / and are brought-foorth out of the i Iohn 8. c 2. Cor. 11 c 1 Iohn 3. b Iam. 3. c. Deuill and out of his false Light and that also ye are not worthy / in thesame false and corrupt Nature â if ye desyre to continue therin to beare the Name of a Man much-les / the Name of the Children of God or of the Loue. 8. Therfore ye shoulde of right be ashamed / all you vncleane Hearts / for that ye stande not obediently submitted to y e Woord of the Trueth of God and of the holy Spirit of Loue / to the k Rom. 12. â—â— Ephe 4. c Renewing and Cleansing of your Spirits and Myndes / and for that ye shoulde suffer yourselues â being in your wicked and corrupt or disobedient Nature to be called Men or l Luk. 16. d â— 1. Iohn 3. b Children of God and Members of the Loue or of the holy Spirit of Iesu Christ / and so shoulde â in all m Luk. 18. d Rom. 2 Disobedience grow-vp to be a Blaspheamy or Reproche to the God of Lyfe and his Christ. 9. Yea be ashamed of thatsame / ye vncleane Hearts which do so shamefully n Heb. 10. c contemne the pure and holy Testimonyes of God / and defyle or accounte them vncleane / with your polluted Knowledges and deale so disorderly with Gods o Num. 23.24 psal 49. Sayings / as with an Whoore. 10. AH consider I pray you and remember / that-ther can be no right Obedience towards God / taught nor requyred / by the Disobeyers of the holy Woord· nothing cleansed / by the p Eccli 34. a Uncleane· no Trueth spokeÌ„ / by the Lyers· nor-yet any vpright Freedom liued / by the Unfree nor by the Seperated-ones from the holy Woord of the Spirit of Loue. 11. Forasmuch then as thesame is true How wil yee then I pray you / cleanse yourselues or q Eccli 34. a. another / with your vncleane Beeing and publish the r Psal. 49. c. Lords Good and his Rytes / with your vncleane Lipps and take his Couenante in your lying Mouth if yee yourselues do s Psal. 49. c d Pro. 1. c. hate the Chastisment of the Lorde and cast his
which the whole Earth shal be iudged with Righteousnes ther shall no v Apo. 10. a. Daye of Grace appeere anymore vppon the Earth but a seuere or harde x Heb. 10. c. Pet. 3. b. Iudgment ouer all Vngodlyones as is before sayde Take it to heart The Ende of the first Epistle The Second Epistle Ashort and pithy Instruction of the Mistery of the Loue. Labour for Loue Earnestly couet spirituall Gifts but cheefly / that ye may prophecye 1. Cor. 14. The Ende of the Commaundement and the Cheef-summe of Fayth / is Loue with a pure Heart and with a good Conscience and with vnfayned Fayth 1. Timo. 1. Ther was demaunded· and an Instruction requyred ther-vpon in Wryting / which is the Secretnes or Mistery of the Loue. And ther-vpon is answered by HN / in Wryting â according to the Declaration of the spirituall and heauenly Trueth this Instruction Heer-following Hee that hath Eares to heare / * Math. 13. a. Luk. 8. a. b. Apo. â— a. 3. a. let him heare Hee that hath Wisdom / let him conceiue Vnderstanding The First Chapter WIth whom shall I a Pâ—o. 8. â— speake sayth the Wisdom that shall vnderstande my Woordes 2. To whom shall I reueale the Mistery of the Loue / that shall conceaue or knowe it 3. Who are those that giue-eare vnto my Doctrine and haue founde my Wayes 4. Who hath marked whear my Dwelling is and followed-after Mee / in my Out-going and In-going 5. Who hath borne y e Contempt Blaspheamy and Shame / with Mee when I laye in the b Pro. 1. a. Esa. 59. b. Streete / whear the People shaked their Heades at c Psal 22. a. 109. c. Mee as at a d Esa. 53. a. Sap. 2. b. filthy thing / that is worthy to be cast-awaye / and as madd and frantick Men / ranne ouer Mee with Feete 6. Who hath had his Pleasure in Mee / when I was so e Esa. 53. a. Sap. 2. b. filthy and so lothsom to looke-vppon or to beholde / before all Wisdom of the Flesh and of the Vnrepentantones 7. Who hath denyed f Math. 10. â— 16. c. Mark 1. d. Luk. 9.14 c â–ª himself and is â for the Loues sake gon-out-of Himself with Mee / when I did â in the Loue requyre the Mans Saluation and was condempned to y e Death g Math. 26.27 Mar. 15. Luk. 22. Iohn 1â— â—â— of the Crosse· and killed with thesame Death / by the Wyseones of the Earth / as a Dispised-one or an Outcast vppon the Earth 8. Who hath borne such a Death h Rom. 6. a phil 2. a of the Crosse with Mee / in all Shame Dispiscing Blaspheaming and wicked Defamation / and shewed Patience therin / euen vnto the Death 9. Who hath suffered himself to be buryed in the Hart of the Earth with Mee / like One that is deadd 10. Who hath beleeued my Ryseing i Iob. 19. c. Dan 12. b. 1. Cor. 15. b. c 1. Tess. 4. b. from the Death or trusted theron / for to ryse also with Mee / with his Bodye 11. Who hath seene myne k Math. 16. b. Luk 24. f. Act. 1. a. Ascension to God my Father / vnto his Right-hande in y e heauenly Beeing and wayted my Coming l Esa. 25.30 b Mich. 7. b. Phil. 3. d. from thence / to a Righteousnes vppon the Earth 12. Who hath marked that I liue and raigne with m Eccli 24 b. God / and that my Greatnes is more then n 3. Reg. 8. c. â— Paâ— 2.6 b. all Heauens can comprehende whear also no o 1. Cor. 2. b. earthly Vnderstanding· nor all whatsoeuer is borne out of the earthly Blood / can knowe Mee 13· ANd if now ther be anyman that is passed-thorow all these things with Mee or that doth now presently / go-thorow this narrow p 4. Esd. 7. a. Math. 7. b. Luk. 13. Waye with Mee / to the Lyfe / Hee shall vnderstande and knowe the Misterye of the Loue. 14. Hee shall likewyse taste and feele the Pèrfection of all Goodnes and approch to the Loue / in her vertuous Nature and becom of one-beeing therwith 15. Beholde and consider / Thatt is the Grounde of the holy and godly Vnderstanding / touching the Mistery or Secretnes of the vpright Loue. The II. Chap. DYe lustfull Soules to the Mistery of Loue gather out the a 4. Esd. 8. â— Mynde and search no farder For doutles y e Loue suffereth not herself to be approched-vnto vnderstoode nor knowen / neither for this nor thatt / nor through any-maner of Cause let it be by what Meanes soeuer it wil nor thorough any-maner of Mynde or Will but only / by her owne vertuous Nature and louley Beeing / as through herself or through her Seruice For shee Ø›the euerlasting Good excelleth it all farr-away 2. Also / she receaueth nothing of anyman but Shee herself â out of her almighty and vertuous Nature and Spirit is a plentifull Distributrix of her owne aboundant Ritches / as an infinite flowing Ryuer of all godly Goodes alwayes b Gen. 2. b. refreshing the Paradise of the Lorde 3. The Loue is herself / a Nourice vnto her Children and a sure Bande / vnto all those that are incorporated to the euerlasting Lyfe and a mighty Strength which is able to suffer and to endure c 1. Cor. 13. a. althings 4. The Loue is also an d Exo. 3. â— 19. b. 20. b. holy Mountayne the which noman being vnhallowed or vnprepared / may touch or com-neere For whosoeuer toucheth thesame Mountayne / and is not of her Part to him is she a consumeing Fyre â–ª Whose burning Heate e â—sa 33. b. noman can endure / but he which is of her lyke Nature or Seede Whoso resisteth her and submitteth not himself vnder Her and her Seruice / Hee shal be broken and battered to-peeces / like f Psal. 2. â— Esa. 30. b. Ier. 1â— a. â—9 b. a Potters Vessell 5. THe Loue in her Seruice / is an Originall or Begining of all good and vpright Lyfe For through her Seruice / She draweth the Myndes and Thoughts of the Heart away from all that is vayne corruptible and euell 6. She vnbyndeth or looseth the euerlasting Perfection for to com into the Lyfe of the eternall Vncreatednes / in the Kingdom of the God of Heauens / full of all pure Beawty / wherin all earthly and corrupt selfmynded Thoughts / do ceasse / and whear the corruptible Mortalitee / is not beholden 7. For in the Loue / is nothing-els but all Good and Lyfe as also the heauenly and endles Kingdom of Iesu Christ / in full vndisturbable Power / wherin the Myndes of the pure Hearts do dwell free without care or feare / with all g Esa. 35.51 a. Apo. 21. a. Glory and Ioye and with christian Tryumph 8. Which Freedom of the Children of God / which Fulnes of the godly Delytes and of the godly
b. is the only-borne Sonne of God himself And whosoeuer refused Him / mought not obtayne the Grace before God For it is so concluded by God for euer / that in the Sonne / is the Lyfe of Saluation l Iohn 10.14 a. and that it shall also be obtayned in Him 5. THis is veryly the Grace of God the Father â which was published in tymes-past / vnto the Children of Men / vnder the Obedience of Fayth and which is also published now in the last tyme / vnder the Obedience of the Loue that the Lyfe of the liueing Godhead / is appeered vppon Earth and that â through thesame the Vnitee in the Peace with God the Father / is to be obtayned / wherby to m Iohn 8. c 14. b. 17. b. knowe Him / in his Glory and his Vniformnes with the Manhod / through the Lorde Iesus Christ. Reade Iohn 17. 6. Beholde This is the Difference â with a breefe Instruction betwixt God the Father / and the Lorde Iesus Christ. Take it to heart 7. MY Seruice / to content thee â my Beloued vouchsafe to take in good part / with a Regard to y e God of the Liueing And this my Wryting â to the Answering of thy Request haue I reharsed in this maner seing other wyse no Meane / for to open the Vnderstanding of the Godhead of Christ and to content thee or to satisfy thy Demaunde 8. Beholde I haue heere witnessed y e Mynde vnto thee / in Ful maner so that in this Instruction â so far-forth as the Lorde n Ephe. 1. c. do illuminate thyne Vnderstanding ther shal be sufficient / to answer thy Request And thy Intent of Heart in the Spirit / shall likewyse through the Beleefe of the Trueth â if thou hast a right regarde heerunto o Pro 4. a and takest thissame to heart be wel-mynded to our mostholy Seruice of Loue. The almighty God leade the into his Righteousnes Amen The Ende of the Third Epistle The Fowrth Epistle A cleere Instruction of the Mediation of Iesu Christ that cometh-to-pas in the Spirit / for a Reconciliation betwixt God and the Man Iesus speaketh to his Disciples I am the Waye the Trueth and the Lyfe Noman cometh to the Father / but thorow Mee Iohn 14. a. If any man enter in thorow Mee â–ª hee shal be saued Iohn 10 b. I am the Light of the Worlde Whoso followeth after Mee / walketh not in Darknes but he shall haue the Light of Lyfe Iohn 8. b. If any man wil follow-after Mee let him forsake himself and take-vp his Crosse on him / and follow after Mee Math. 16. c. Luk. 9 c. He that taketh not vp his Crosse on him and followeth after Mee hee is not worthy of Mee or he may not be my Disciple Math. 10. d. Luk. 14. c Ther was demaunded by a Louer of the Trueth and an Instruction in wryting / desyred theruppon / how the Mediation of Iesu Christ â according to the Spirit or spiritually cometh-to-pas in vs / a Rom. â— a. b. to our Reconciliation with God the Father and how Christ is an b Heb. 1. a Heire of all Things and how c 1. Cor. 15. c. God is all in all Wher-vpon this present Letter is written by HN / out of an Inclynation of the Loue very profitable and needfull to the Vnderstanding therof / for all those that hope vpon God· vpon Christ· and vpon their Saluation / To th end that they may vnderstand which is the right Grounde of the Beleefe in Iesu Christ / wherthrough one is iustifyed from the Sinne / for to be in-that-sort / reconciled with God in a newe Lyfe according to the Scripture The First Chap. FOrasmuch as I haue alwayes founde my self willingly-bent to do thee Seruice / my beloued Brother so do I also still fynde my self redy-prepared therto namely in thatt wherin I may be seruiceable vnto thee / to a Guyding into the holy Vnderstanding / To th end y t thou â if God vouchsafe thesame moughtest â through my small Seruice be a little furthered to the good Knowledg in God and his Christ. 2. But seing I am alwayes carefull and do stand in feare to wryte much of the deepe Groundes of the a Rom. 11. â— â–ª secret Knowledges of God and Christ / so am I alwayes carefull / lest that thesame if we should wryte boldly therof mought thrust-back anyone from Vs and our godly Doctrine or offende him therby or that anyone shoulde desyre to glory or to boste therin / as in a Knowledg of the Flesh. and not before althings or with his whole Heart / to be partaker in the Spirit / b 2 Pet. 1. a. of the Beeing wherof we do wryte or witnes 3. For albeit that we do knowe well â according to the Comprehention of our Natural-reason that ther is a God a Christ and a holy Gost / and so do talke of Them and yet do not â through that Knowledg beleeue serue nor loue thesame God / as He is a God and his Christ / as He is a Christ and the holy Gost / as He is an holy Gost / nor-yet desyre to becom partakers of his Beeing but to liue in a c Rom. 1. â— Ephe. 4. b. strainge Beeing / which is none of Gods Beeing and to cleaue-vnto thesame / So is then the Knowledg of the holy Secretnes of God / more hurtfull then furdersom vnto vs. For if we knowe in what Foorme or Beeing / that ther is a God and yet do not honour nor serue Him / as He is a God but haue a Lust to the Contrary-beeing vnto God / Then is thatsame to a d Mat. 25. c. Luk. 12. c more-greeuous Condemnation vnto vs. 4. SEing now that I â through the Light do beholde these Perills / so am I likewyse carefull therin / to wryte of the Secrets of God / before Many And if thou lookest with me into the Perils / then knowe I well / that thou wilt not disalow me in my Carefulnes For I haue much-more delyte in the Obeying of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue / and whear Gods Beeing Light or vpright Righteousnes / doth euenso then ryse-vp in Esa. 58. b. Power / in the inward Man / then whear as men do with Speakable-woords â out of the Knowledg talke much of the Secretnes of God / according to the outward Maner 5. Thou also knowest partly my Conuersation / in what sort it was with thee and how fearfully touching many Woords / I haue behaued myself with thee shewing thee / that the f Math. 13. Secretnes of the Kingdom of God or Christ / consisteth not g 1 Cor. 2 a. in the Multitude of Woords nor in the Ritches of the Knowledg / Because that thou shouldest not suffer thyself to be bewitched by Anyman with outward or strainge Woords or Sayings of plentiful-store of Languages / as to let thyne Heart committ Whordom therwith But
doubt in the Grace of God nor-yet iudg or condemne ourselues i 1. Iohn 3. c. by the euell Conscience but with penitent Hearts / ryse-vp agayne out of the Fall of the Sinne so oft as it chanceth / and coÌ„fesse our k Psal. 6. a. 32.38 a. Pro. 28. a. Sinnes and Weaknes and pray vnto God / that He wil be our Strength and so confesseing our Vnablenes and Weaknes / in our Assaulting or Temptation let vs still continue in l Rom. 12. b 1. Tess. 5. c. Prayer / till that the Lorde leade vs ther-out and m Math. 6. b. deliuer vs from the euell and contrary beeing that is against Him Thatt graunt vs the Lorde / who liueth for euermore Amen 6. HEer-with-al â thou Beloued I committ thee to the Lorde and pray thou for Mee likeas I also do still remember thee / in my Prayers Fear-well and behaue thyself valyantly The Lorde giue thee Health in Soule and Bodye 7. My Salutation in the Loue / is alwayes vnto thee and vnto all those that loue the Trueth in Christ. 8. The Lorde which is the n Iohn 1. a. 8. b. 9. a. 12. c Light of the Trueth o 1. Iohn 4. a. the Loue and the p Ioh. 1.14 a. euerlasting Lyfe itself / nourish vs all vpp in his Righteousnes Amen The Ende of the Fift Epistle The Sixt Epistle A groundly Instruction and a Distinction of Vnderstandings / according to the Trueth of the holy Scriptures Wher-with HN answereth a Letter written vnto hym Beholde I wil vtter-foorth my Spirit vnto you and cause you to vnderstand my Woord Pro. 1. I wil not hyde the Secrets of God from you â–ª but search-out the Wisdom / from the begining of Generations and wil giue her foorth apparantly to be knowen and not keepe scilence of the Trueth Sap. 6. God hath graunted me to speake wysely and to think right / of those Things that He hath graciously geeuen Mee Sap. 7. The First Chapter THe God of Heauen â which is Israels God and liueth for euer be a Light a Esa. 6â— c. Apo. â—2 a. and Lyfe of the Trueth vnto thee and a Wisdom and Foresightfulnes to thy Vnderstanding / my Beloued / to th end that the right Distinction of the Lyfe b Eccli â—5 a. and of the Death / may be knowen vnto thee and that thou mayest euenso â with a cleere Sight looke-into the Preseruation of Men / in thissame horrible and daingerous Tyme 2. In which horrible c 1 Tim. 4. a. 2. Tim. 3. a. 2. Pet 2. a. 3. a. and daingerous Tyme / all Errours Misunderstandings and all Spirits of the false Light / do now exceedingly beare-swaye Wherthrough ther-is now also verytruly knowen vnto mee / the manyfolde Ignoraunce and the ignorant Confidence of the Children of Men / vpon the vayne or vnprofitable Wisdom and how vtterly the Vnderstanding of Man / hath corrupted d Gen. 6. a. his Waye / in the Knowledg The Ende of which corrupt ignorant Knowledg â which is an Horrour to think vpon is com before the Lorde 3. Seing then that all manly Vnderstanding is so vtterly corrupted / with so many-maner of false Knowledges / therfore is-ther likewyse nothing but all Wo and Misery at-hande For therfore is the Wisdom hidden· the true Light / darkened· e Esa. 5. d. 8. b 13. b. 24. c Ezech. 32. a. Ioel. 2. b. 3. b Math. 24 c. and the Moone of Vnderstanding / couered but the strainge Lights â which are deuided against eachother are becom many 4. Which strainge Lights or Starrs of the darke f Math. 24. c. Apo. 6. b Heauen / do now fall by many Multitudes vppon the Earth namely euen after that maner / g Esa. 34. a. as the Figgs do fall vppon the Earth / when their Stock or Tree is shaken or mooued by y e Wynde and each strainge Light / walketh in his owne Light 5. But now when h Esa. 60. Apo. 22. the Light of the Lambe / spreadeth-foorth itself â with his cleere Heauen ouer the Earth and that the Sunne shyneth out of the Heigth / then do men nomore see the Starrs of the darke HeaueÌ„ / vppon the Earth neither do they giue anymore Schimmering of Cleernes vppon the Earth For the Light of the cleere Heauen / is much to forcible for them all / with his Light and Cleernes and doth farr excell them eueryone / in Cleernes 6. Now â thatt being omitted I wil â in breefe-maner answer thy Letter / like-as thou doest Request / euen according to thatt Sight wherwith I looke into it Consider thou on the Mynde of the Vnderstanding The II. Chap. THou wrytest vnto me / that thy desyre and Longing hath bin to talke with me by Woord-of-mouth and that partly / because ther was a Man at thy Howse / that shoulde seeme to haue tolde thee wonderful-things of Mee That is to saye / that I was quitt of thaâ—t which is Myne and had geeuen it all ouer and that I â acknowledging all thesame to be as Dirt sought Grace Help and Comfort / in the Outward-things and desyred to be subiect ther-vnto â–ª The which â as thou wrytest was an Admiration vnto thee and that thou couldest not beleeue it 2. Thou Beloued looke rightly into the Trueth of this Matter For whear no Distinction is witnessed / as that one distincteth not the Things wherof he speaketh / with Sensiblenes of Woords but speaketh them foorth only with Boasting and Pryde and out of Partiaâ—â—tee or Dispyte / So is theare likewyse / the right Difference hardly to be conceaued / by those that heare thesame 3. It is true nodout / that it hath gon wonderfully with Mee For thatt which is happened vnto mee / is also wonderfull to myself a Psal. 118. c. in myne owne Eyes But to be quitt of all thatt which was Myne â which was myne owne / and not the Lordes and had captiued me / after thatt haue I doutles had a great Longing and haue alwayes â seing I haue loued the Righteousnes bent my self goodwillingly / to giue-ouer b Math. 16. b. 19. c. and to forsake it all / so farr-foorth as I coulde knowe it· and obtayne the Grace before God therto but not the holy Vnderstanding / which is com vnto me out of the liueing Godhead / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. Of the which as I suppose hee happly that hath tolde thee of this Matter / hath not distinctly vnderstood the Grounde therof / in his Secretnes and therfore hath not tolde thesame rightly vnto thee but as his good-thinking Mynde did iudg it / according to his owne Conceaueing 4. Because of this wrong Iudgment and of the false Reporte I am partly constrayned to witnes thatsame apparantly vnto thee / which is happened vnto mee and do confesse before thee and before all those that loue the Trueth / that I â from that Tyme-foorth that I sought Gods Righteousnes
2. b. Math. 27. mocked contemned and killed by the Children of the wicked Worlde and by her Wyse and Scriptur-learnedones woulde God â according to his Promyses and the Affirmation of his Prophets that the Man shoulde carry r 1. Cor. 15. c or beare / to his owne Blessing and to the Honour of God and to the Prayse of his holy Name And not the Sinne / s Sap. 2. c. Iohn 3. â— that very-like Beeing of the Diuell 12. With which vngodly or lyke Beeing of the Diuell and also with Offenciuenes and wicked Imaginations / many Men do runne-on and so do suppose â through their corrupt Vnderstanding and vngodly Beeing to be saued for-al-that â–ª they do likewyse comfort t Ier 8 â— themselues with Lyes and saye / Christ hath performed it all and so they continue going-on in v Ier. 4. â— â— a. their Sinnes and Abhominations or wicked Imaginations 13. AH beloued Consider I pray thee / of such a great Misunderstanding / that is flatt against all the Preaching of the holy Gospel of Christ. For the Scripture of the holy Gospel mentioneth and witnesseth cleerly vnto vs / that Christ is obediently gon-before u Phil. 2. a. 1. Pet. 2.4 â— vs / in the Death of the Crosse / to th end that wee likewyse shoulde follow-after Christ therin / to y e Mortifying x Col. 2. or to a Consumeing of our Sinnes and of all vngodly Beeing the which is the true Burnt-offering as also shoulde be incorporated vnto Him / with his lyke y Rom 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Death and euenso to the Establishing of the gloryous Name of God â according to his Promyses shoulde becom saued Theron likewyse do all Gods Prophets witnes 14. And if thou doest consider rightly from the Begining of the Promyses of God / till vnto their Ende or Fulfilling in the Saluation / Then shalt thou perceaue / that we be informed and taught with the Promyses of God and with the Figures z Rom. 3.4 Gal. 3.4 Heb 7.8.9.10 and Seruices of the Lawe / to the Fayth of Iesu Christ and the Seruice therof and to the Requyring of the Preaching of the holy Gospel And so foorth from the Seruice of the Fayth of Christ and of the holy Gospel / till vnto the a Iohan. 13. d. 14. c. 15. b Loue and her Seruice And thesame is the Perfection b Rom. 13. b. 1. Cor. 13. a. Gal. 5. b. Col. 3. b. 1. Timo. 1. a and the Establishing or Fulfilling of the Promyses of God and Christ. 15. Therfore is the Seruice of Loue / the Very-last and Most-holy / wherin c Math. 22. d. it is all fulfilled / whatsoeuer is written of the Righteousnes of the Lawe and of Christ and his Beleeuers For in the Loue and in her Children / God d Apo. 21. is all in all and the Kingdom of the God of Heauens with his Glory 16. BEholde This true Beeing of God the Father like as is sayde therof is the Stone that is layde in Sion / e Esa. 28. b Act. 4. b. 1. Pet. 2. a. for to trust vpon it wherof ther is also written f Esa. 59 c. Rom. 11. â— He shall com out of Sion / which shall put-awaye the vngodly Beeing from Iacob 17. And thatt is the seconde Testament â the which is the gracious Woord g Ier. 31. d. Rom. 11. e. Heb. 8.10 b that is promysed to the Howse of Israel and to the Howse of Iuda / in the last tyme For then shall the Punishment for their Sinnes / be ended and their Sinnes shall God nomore remember For in thatt Daye â h Iohn 12. d. wherin the Sonne of Man is exalted shall y e Sonne of Man drawe it all vnto Him seing that the Inheritance doutles appertayneth vnto Him 18. In this-self-same â which is the very-likie and true Beeing of God the Father standeth the Blotting-out i Act. 4. b 10 c Heb. 1. a and Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Fayth euen as is written of Him 19. To be incorporated vnto Him with the Spirit / is veryly the right Satisfaction of the Sonne of Promyse / the right k Heb. 5. â— Heyre of all godly Goodes 20. Of Him hath likewyse Esaias witnessed / whear he sayth l Esa 9. c. A Childe or an Heyre 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 for that his Dominion may be great and no â—nde of the Peace / vppon the Seate of Dauid and his Kingdom 21. Him hath God sett to be an Heyre ouer all Things Through Whom / He hath also made the Worlde and He maketh the Cleansing of our Sinnes / through Himself and euenthus standeth his Satisfaction according to the Promyses like-as is written of Him and not according to Mans Good-thinking or Imagination The VII Chap. THou wrytest likewyse vnto mee / that it is wel knowen vnto mee / that God hath created all Things / each-one according to his Kynde in â—uch-sort that all Creatures haue their Nature or Kynde / wherin they liue / and cannot transgresse / and that thou doest also half cal-to-mynde / that thou hast heard it so of mee 2. It is true / that all Creatures are created a Gen. â— according to their Kynde and that each-one hath his Ordinance / according to his Kynde which â of Natures-part it cannot transgresse 3. Whatsoeuer now is incorporated vnto his owne Nature and is not turned ther-out nor estrainged ther-from but bydeth ther-in / thatt liueth then in his vpright â— Nature Beeing and Kynde / wherin it is created and wherto it is ordayned or foreseene of God 4. COnsider â thou Beloued God hath created all earthly Creatures and ioyned each-one to his lyke / according to his Nature and Kynde 5. After thesame maner also / the Creature of the Manhod but the inward Man / hath God created to Himself and ordayned him to be a b Leui. 26. b Ier. 31. â— Iohn 14. c. Apo. 21. â— Dwelling for his Glory 6. And God woulde not that this inward Man / shoulde be subiect to the outward created or to the vayne Things nor cleaue vnto them to a Bondage / to th end that the great Name of the almighty God / shoulde alwayes and euerlastingly byde sealed and stand-fast in the inward Man 7. God hath likewyse foormed the c Gen 1. c. Sap. 2 c very-like Beeing of his inuisible and liueing Godhead / in the inward Man / because that the Man shoulde liue according to the Requyring of his vpright Beeing to the Laude and Prayse of his godly Maiestee 8. Beholde and vnderstande Thissame Beeing of God and Christ / is the Mans Nature and Kynde / according to the inward Man / wherunto he is created by God· and chosen through Iesus Christ as also ordayned
Cleansing of the Worlde and the Reioyceing of the Righteous / in the last tyme. But howsoeuer the Lorde appoynteth it / let it so content vs in any-wyse The XV. Chap. ACcording to thy Request â thou Beloued I haue heere â as in breef-maner written a little vnto thee / how my Mynde standeth or how I am mynded 2. I knowe not also any Light a Iohn 1. â— of Lyfe / but the b 2. Cor. 4. â— Col. 1. b. Heb. 1. â— inuisible true Beeing / the gloryous and louely Lyfe of the liueing Godhead wher-vppon likewyse my Hope standeth euen-as wee haue also talked therof in tymes-past 3. I seeke not likewyse neither haue sought since that tyme forth / that we spake last together any Saluation of the Soule / in any Outward-thing but â through the Beleefe in Iesu Christ and through the Loue and her Seruice I withdrawe my Mynde from all what is outward and which is drawing me to Corruption 4. Heer-vnto doth my Soule bende itself / so much as I may in the Lorde and I do loue the inuisible Beeing of God / to th end that my inward Mynde should in nowyse stand bounde to the vayne Creatednes but that my Spirit mought euenso / liue in the Spirit of the true and liueing Beeing namely / according to the Nature of Christ c Iohn 13. d. 15. b 1. Iohn 3. c. who directeth or poynteth vs vnto the Loue Ø›the vnchaingable Godhead 5. But thatt Seruice which hath his Miniâ—tration to thesame Loue / for the Saluations sake of Men and requyreth all Orderlynes and Reasonablenes / wil I not dispise nor-yet in any-case forsake but wil â so much as the Lorde enableth me therto further mayntayne and minister thesame to the Saluation of Men / inasmuch as the Lorde hath chosen Mee ther-vnto 6. Oh / that God woulde graunt / that the Seruice of Loue mought flourish without Hinderance and that euenso the right Vnderstanding of the Wisdom mought com-to-light / vnder the Obedience of the Loue For to the louely Lyfe in the Loue / d Gen 1.2 Sap. 1. b. 2. c is the Man created like as is witnessed and administred out of the Seruice of Loue and therfore is also my Soule inclyned to thesame Seruice / to th end that e Ephe. 4. â— the Vnite of Heart mought be in y e Loue / among all Louers of the Trueth 7. Beholde yet at this present / thus standeth my Mynde and I likewyse knowe not yet any better neither haue I also mett with any better 8. BVt it seemeth now â by thy Wryting as though thou hast heard by Somme / that I shoulde be outwardly mynded as are Somme whom thou namest vnto mee O No / thou Beloued My Heart Mynde and Being standeth not grounded vppon any outward Thing / neither do I also desyre to cleaue-vnto and to vse anything that is Outward / which leadeth-away f Rom. 1. â— Heb. 3. b. from the liueing God and his Righteousnes 9. But though I now â for the Vnitees sake in the Loue shoulde conuersate myself with Somme that were yet outwardly mynded or did yet sett their Confidence vppon any Flesh / yet doth not their weake Grounde concerne mee But I haue for-that-cause / a lyke-loue towards them / when they cannot attayne vnto the inuisible Trueth any farder and desyre to haue Conuersation peaceably with Mee / and yet for-al-that I do not contemne the Outward 10. I woulde also willingly leaue them free in their weake Grounde / if I mought by-that-meanes / conuersate myself in the Vnitee of the Loue / with those that are zealous to the good Beeing or that are Louers of Vertue of Wisdom and of Vnderstanding let them be then / whosoeuer or of what Grounde of Fayth and Opinion soeuer they bee if the Loue g Col 3. b. were our Bande and Concord· and that we conuersated ourselues with each-other therin as also woulde willingly heare one-another / through Loue and that-ther were in-that-sort a good Inclynation to the Trueth / among vs all / Then shoulde the right Vnderstanding com-to-light nodout and the vayne Vnderstanding together with all euell Imaginations and Blaspheamings vanish-away of themselues or consume to nothing 11. For to deale in the Loue / with such as are adioyned to the Loue / were more acceptable vnto mee also much-more delytfull and ioyfull / then with those that haue no Lust â–ª Will nor Desyre to the good Beeing of the Loue and wil in-that-maner conuersate themselues with mee 12. For though anyone of the goodwilling Hearts / shoulde â by reason of his small Vnderstanding trust yet vpon som Outward-thing yet if he haue a Lust to God and his Righteousnes and is no Blaspheamer nor Contemner towards another / then cometh thatt Vanitee to an Ende doutles / in the Vnderstanding Therfore men ought not to contemne anyone for the outward Seruices or Ordinances cause 13. For it is much better and much-more acceptable before God / to loue the good Beeing / through som Outward-thing / then to cleaue vnto the Worlde or to the vayne and vnprofitable Things / through the Affection to the Worldly outward Things the h Eccli 15. b. Rom. 1. c Ephe. 4. c. which nodout is altogether strainge from God and his Trueth and therfore likewyse ther-are Many now / which dispyse the outward Seruices or Ordinances· speaking much Reproche of euery-one· also blaspheaming and with Falshod defameing the Ministers therof but in that they bynde their Hearts vnto their owne Creatures or vnto som other outward Things / thatt wil they not once consider 14. And thesame Estrainging from God and his Trueth â through the Affection to the worldly and outward Things do we now â alas fynde among many Men / who do also very franckly bost themselues / that they are not snared by any Man nor with outward Seruices or Ceremonyes and so do perswade themselues / that therfore they are not outwardly mynded i Gal. 4. a. Col 2. c. like those that seeke Righteousnes in outward Things 15. Yeas assuredly and yet much-more and worse For they suffer themselues to be captiued k Rom 1. c. Ephe. 2. a 4. c. with the earthly Things of this Worlde and â their Hearts growing vayne therthrough and turning-away themselues from the Lust to the Guyding into the Righteousnes they hang their Vnderstanding and Mynde on thosesame and on their owne Good-thinking so that they for-that-cause / do vtterly lose all Lust or Zeale to the vpright Beeing of God and becom cleaueing to the earthly corruptible Things and euenso do quyt corrupt their Vnderstanding 16. Seing then that they are corrupted in their Vnderstanding / therfore seeke they likewyse â according to their owne Pleasures to liue to the corruptible Things / for a Recreation of their Hearts and in no-wyse desyre to be leadd into the true Lyfe / through Gods Ordinance For the godly Things are as deadd vnto them
vertuous Nature which floweth out of the Loue and her Seruice / as an vncorrupt Milke For with the Loue and her Seruice / ther-is nothing false f 1. Cor. 13. b. euell nor wicked / neither-yet anything deadly nor condemnable but the Fulnes of Lyfe and Peace And whosoeuer is in the Loue and standeth submitted to her Seruice / to shewe Obedience / in him ther-is no Euell Wickednes nor Craftynes 4. But if anyman do imagine any Wickednes or Euell therof and that the Wickednes doth euenso gett place in his Heart / against the Loue and her Seruice / Hee veryly is an Adulterer g Math. 5. â— and committeth Adultry with the Euell against the pure Wedlock of the vpright Loue. 5. Thosame Adulterers and Adultrisses / must beare h Gal. 6. â— their owne Burden or Fault / for their Adultry and Whordom and be afflicted with Greefs / in thosame Workes of their Whordom till that they do acknowledg and confesse their Fault / in the Comunialtee of Saincts / among the Children of Loue and so do submitt them vnder the Obedience of the Loue / to a i Rom. 6.12 a Ephe. 4. e. Renewing of their Hearts or Spirits / To th end that they may euenso be washed and puryfyed / through the Floodd or k Iohn 3 a Tit. 3. a. Water-fountayne of the Loue / to the Forgiuenes of their Sinnes· and turned-about in their Spirit / to be innocent Children / that imagine neither Euell nor Craftynes And whosoeuer then turneth him about in that sort l Math. 18.19 b Mark 10. b. to him cometh the Kingdom of Heauens and the euerlasting Lyfe 6. Therfore let our Conuersation m Eph 4. a. b be vpright in the Loue and let noman knowe nor imagine any Euell nor any Guyle or Wickednes but becom in that maner altogether playne or innocent n 1. Cor. 14. c in Euell / so shal-ther no Euell nor Deceit be founde among you 7. Growe-vp in o 2 Pet 3. c the Vertue and in the godly Wisdom and becom prudent and vnderstanding therin â–ª as also Men and Elders with graye Heare For among those that are growne olde or aged therin / p Eccli 8.9 is the Wisdom and the Concordablenes with the Elders in the holy Vnderstanding Therfore be ye alwayes agreably q Rom. 12. b. â—5 a 1. Cor. 1. a 2. Cor. 12. b. Phil. 2. a. mynded to all Vnitee of Heart in the Loue and take ye all therin your Delyte of Lyfe 8. Also couer not r Pro. 28. b. your Hearts before the Elders in the Famyly of Loue and let noman deale priuily in anything nor hyde anything in secret but let eueryone make-manifest himself as he is and of all what God hath foreseene s Gen. 1. c. 9. a 1. Tim. 4. a. for good and vpright / from the Begining and is edifying towards the Righteousnes / let noman be ashamed / in the Comuniattee of Saincts / whose Hearts stande submitted vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 9. But let not any Contention t Ephe. 4.5 a. 1. Pet. 2. a. â— â— Euell Subtiltee to Wickednes nor any Deceit or Craftynes / be harkened-vnto by you but let it all be layd-doune among you / vnder the Loue. And the Loue of God the Father / get the Victory in that sort in all your Hearts Amen The VII Chap. THese Testymonyes euen-as they are reuealed vnto me in Heauen / by the holy Spirit of Loue / according to the Sentence of the righteous Iudgment haue I â out of inclyned Loue written to the Seruice of you all / my beloued Hearts and to a Declaring of y e righteous Iudgment / wherby to reueale and make-knowen before you all / that no Flesh of the falne Adam / is vngilty a Iob. 4. b 9 a 2â— a Psal. 143. a. before God neither-yet hath it any right in his Iudgment / To th end that it may all becom submitted vnder the Loue and her Seruice and that it may all euenso â thorough the Loue and her Seruice be b Esa. 65 b. 2 Pet. â— b renewed according to Gods Trueth / to an vpright Knowledg and Vnderstanding and to the Amendment and Makeing-wholl of all thatt which is marred or made-euell and that likewyse through the Loue and her Seruice / all Offenciuenes or Euel-conceaueing of the Flesh / mought be c Ephe 4. c. Col. 3. b. layd-doune· and all thatt which is of God and Christ / restored or brought-to-right and that all People mought â through the Loue and her Seruice acknowledg the Goodnes of God and his Merry to an euerlasting godly Tryumph of our God and to the Blessing of all Generations of the Earth according to the Promyses made to the Fathers 2. HEer-with I do salute you eueryone / with a Salutacion of the Loue yee which haue your fellowshipp with vs / to the Obedience in the Loue and euenso with Exhortacion to the Good / salute you all one-another likewyse / with a Salutacion of the Loue. 3. Receaue one-another in-like-maner / with Lessons and Exhortacions to the Loue and her Concord and let your Hearts be set-at-quyet / through the Loue and think vpon no other Righteousnes nor Holynes / but vpon thatt which is requyred by the Seruice of Loue and which bringeth all Loue with it And all whatsoeuer ye doo and leaue all d 1. Gor. 10 d. 16. b Col 3. b. thatsame / doo and leaue / in the Name of the Loue or for the Loues sake 4. Heer-vnto / becom you all agreeably mynded as loueing Children in the Loue / then can-ther no Discord nor any Euell nor Offenciuenes / gett any place among you But your Course-of-lyfe shal be in the Loue and in Peace and God shall be with you and ye shall vnderstand e Math. 13. the Iudgments of God and their Secrets And noman shal be able to spoyle you of the right Freedom / which we haue in the Loue of Iesu Christ. With which Lyfe of the vpright Beeing of the Loue / God hath shewed Mercy on vs / to the end that we shoulde liue loueingly sweetheartedly and peaceably therin / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. To the which God of Loue only / belongeth f 1. Tim. â— b. 6. b. the Honour and all Laude and Prayse for euermore Amen The Ende of the Seuenth Epistle The Eigth Epistle A cleere Distinction of the Submission and Vnsubmission in the Spirit With certen groundly Informations and Instructions SeÌ„t vnto a Louer of the Trueth / at his hearty Request Very profitable and seruiceable / to the Knowledg of the Godlynes Beholde how that I haue not laboured for myself only but also for those that desyre Information Ecclesi 33. Heer-with be vnto the my Beloued LW / Health and Saluation The First Chapter FOrasmuch as Mercy is chaunced vnto mee / thorough the Loue of God the Father / therfore is also my Spirit inclyned
Tabernacle and to cleanse and sainctify c Heb. 9. a. b. it all with his Blood the which is the newe or true TestameÌ„t / d Math. 26. c. Mar. 14 c. Luk. 22. b. to y â— Forgiuenes of Sinnes namely vnto all those which do follow-after Christ / e Heb. 10. c in the Holy and be planted in to him / f Rom. 6. a Phil. 3. b. with his like Death The which is the true Offering for the Sinne â through Christ which is acceptable vnto God the Father / as a sweete g Rom 12. a Phil. 4. b. 1 Pet. 2 a. Sauour wher-through all the Beleeuers of Iesu Christ / do inherite â in the seconde h Iohn 3. a. Tit 3. a. Birth from the Death the heauenly Ritches of God and Christ / in the Mostholy 4. But these spirituall Ritches of the heauenly Goodes and of the Mostholy of the true Tabernacle of God / were not hetherto / made knowen vnto the worlde i Rom. 16. c. Ephe 3 a Col. 2. c. like-as God doth now in thissame Daye of his Loue / disclose make-knowen and bring thâ—same aboundantly vnto Vs Ø›his elected Holyones Yea for Vs wee which â vnder the Obedience of the Loue be planted into Christ / with a lyke k Rom. 6. a. Phil. 3. b. Death of Christ and â through the l 2 Tim. 1 b. Appeering of his Coming begotten out of thesame Death / m Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 2. a. Col. 2 b. to be Children of God hath God kept and left thosame spirituall Ritches of the heauenly Goodes / for an heritable Kingdom / n Heb. 4. b. to th end He woulde euen so â through his Loue bring Vs to his Rest and establish Vs therin 5. Which vnspeakable o Apo. 21. a. Kingdom â full of all Louelynes and Lyfe ' and full of all gorgyous Beawty was prepared p Math 25. d. 1. Cor. 2. b. from the Begining / for an euerlasting Rest and Peace / for all those that loue God / for to herit them â as Gods beloued q Rom. 8 b. Children and Heires of his Kingdom in thesame / now in the last tyme according to the Promyses 6. And with thosame Holyones and Elect of God / God r Act. 17. d. Iude. 1. b. wil now in thissame Daye / execut his righteous Iudgment / against all Vngodlyones of the wicked worlde / which haue not s Math 22. a. 23. c Luk 14.19 b lyked of Him and against all those which wil shewe no t Rom. 2. a. Repentance for their Sinnes / accordding to the Requyring of his gracious Woord / for that they may be rooted-out· and condemned in y e hellish Fyre / v Math. 25. d. which is prepared for the Deuill and all his Seruants For the Condemnation in the hellish Fyre / x Apo. 21. a. is the Heritage of all Vngodlyones and vnhappy Men which contemne God and his Seruice of Loue and refuse the y Pro. 1. c. proffered Grace of the Lorde and the Requyring of his gracious Woord The II. Chap. FOrasmuch then â ye Beloued as that wee â through Gods Mercy / out of his bountifull Grace are delyuered from the horrible and a Apo. 18.20 tirrible Condemnation of the Vngodly / in our Obeying of the Requyring of the gracious Woord of the Lorde and his Seruice of Loue and haue attayned to thissame precious b 2. Cor. 6. a. Tyme of godly Grace towards all Deuout-people / which loue Gods Righteousnes and that the c Heb 12. c. Apo â–ª 12 21 a Kingdom of God the heauenly Father and the true Beeing of his loue / hath shyned about Vs / as a Power of God / Therfore haue not wee also bin negligent nor slothfull in thissame Daye of the Grace of our Illumination / for to further the Good but haue indeuoured ourselues with great Dilligence / for to serue eueryone with our godly Illumination and to reache them the Hande toward the peaceable and godly Lyfe and toward the holy d Heb 4. a. Rest of all the Children of God namely all those whom God mooueth into our Waye and which desyre Assistance at our hands / to thesame Rest of the godly Lyfe· and to the Cleernes of the Mostholy of the true Tabâ—rnacle of God 2. Beholde From this Mostholy Ø›the true Perfection of the Righteousnes of God the e Esa 25. b 2. Cor 3. b. Vayle the which is the f Heb. 10. c Flesh of Christ is now in thissame Daye / put-away among vs / through the Death and Suffering of Christ / g Heb. 10. c. in the Holy wherin we are followed-after Christ / with the lyke Death h Rom. 6. a. Phil. 3. d. and Suffering and all his Holynesses and Garnishings / nakedly disclosed vnto vs / out of thesame / to th end that wee â which are dead with Christ i Rom. 6.8 b. Phil. â— b. Col. 2. b. 3. a and risen agayne with Him from the Death in heauenly Ioye shoulde likewyse walke with Christ / in thesame k Iohn â—2 c. Light of the Mostholy â with naked Hearts before God â or in the Presence of the vncouered Face of our God and heauenly Father in l Ephe. â— a. b. all Loue. 3. Haue a good regard heerunto / O ye beloued and good-willing Hearts For to such a godly Ende and to be m Iohn 15. a. Ephe. 3. b incorporated â with Spirit and Mynde to the God of Lyfe and his Christ / therto stretcheth our mostholy Seruice vnder the Obedience of y e Loue or therto hath it his Ministration among the Children of Men / To th end that they mought all now â vnder the Obedience of the Loue be incorporated to n Iohn 15.17 Christ and so o Act. 3. d. restored agayne to thatt wherunto they are chosen of God and called by Christ. 4. To thesame God which hath prepared all this for vs / through his Loue· and chosen vs to such a gloryous Maiestee / p 1. Timo. â— c be Laâ—de Honour and Thanks / for euermore Amen 5. HEer-with-al I giue you to vnderstand â ye Beloued that I haue read-ouer the Letter / written by you vnto our Fellow-brother wherout I do note many Woords of godly Matters Through the which / I do also greatly reioyce me and do giue God Thanks q Ephe 1. c. Phil 1. a Col 1 a. 1. Tess 1. a. â— Tess. 1. a. for his Grace extended towards you and for your Dilligence which ye bestowe one-towards-another / in thatt wherin we are seruiceable vnto you and wherunto we exhort you Wher-through we do likewyse perceaue / that our Seruice and Labour shewed on you / is not bestowed in vayne 6. We do also exhort all the Commers-on to the Famyly of Loue and all those that deale or conuersate themselues with you in the Woord / y t they likewyse wil loue the
couer their owne wicked or euell Hearts 11. Seing then that my God â who only is the Lorde giueth nothing-els into my Heart / but Wisdom x Sap. 7. â— â— 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 SaluacioÌ„ 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 smitteÌ„ me priuâ—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 / theÌ„ 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. â— â— thatt which is most-edifying and Most-godly 2. Wherfore â 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 ExhortatioÌ„ and take-heede vnto my chastenable c Pro. 4. â— â— Information Com hether and harkeÌ„ after the right Knowledg and learne d Pro. 1.2 a. 3.4.5 a. Vnderstanding and holy Knowledg and e Eccli 6. c. â—ow your Backs vnder the Rodd of the Lorde For the Strypes or the sharpe Woords of Louers / are much meeter f Psal. 141. â— Pro. 27. â— then the Kisses or the Flattering-woords of Enuyers 3 For-that-cause com now all hether / into the Howse of Informacion g Eâ—cli 6.8 â— 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 1â— c. Ier. 4. â— circumcised on the Fore-skinne of your Heartes / in this holy Daye of Loue which is y e Eigth or Newe Daye / to the Renewâ—ng i Esa. 65.66 c. Ephe 1. b 2. Pâ—t 3. b. Apo. 21. â–ª of the Worlde with Righteousnes and so â–ª through the Light of Loue and his Seruice â 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 â— Eze. 44. â— 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 â 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 Noâ— Vs only q Luk. 10. b. â— Tess. 4. â— 2 peâ— 2. b. but also the godly Wisdom and holy Vnderstanding / wherwith God hath â 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 â wherin t 2 Cor. 4 â— 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 â—0 b. Aba c. â— b Sâ—ph 1. a. Zach. 2. b. must be dombe before thesame and â—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. â—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
/ in our Seruice of Loue but do / out of the Cleernes of God â g 2. Cor. 4. a. which hath shyned about vs shewe vnto eueryone sufficiently / in Plentiful-store of Instructions were it rightly vnderstoode the h 4 Esa. â— a. Mat 7. b Luk. 13. c. Waye or Course that leadeth to the Lâ—fe wherof thou wilâ— seeme to saye much with Misunderstanding / as being vnexpert in the Matter 7. But if now it be vnknowen or to-darke before anyman as that our Gospel â which we publish vnder the Obedience of the Loue / out of the highest Cleernes of God / i 2. Cor. 3. b. from the vncouered Face of Christ be to-couered or to-secret for him / k 2 Cor. 4. a Then veryly is it hidden to those / which with the vnbeleeueing Mynde of this Worlde / do not beleeue nor vnderstande the Trueth of God also before all those / which perswade l Pro. 3 b. Esa. â— c. themselues that they 〈◊〉 wyse and for-that-cause / are not subiect to the sincere Doctrine of the Loue. The III. Chap. FOrasmuch now then / as that the Seruice of Gods Loue / is â by Gods Grace com vnto Mee and comitted a Gal. 1. d. 1. Timo 1. b vnto me to minister / wherby to declare vnto the Man / with good Instruction â through thesame Seruice the true Tabernacle or Temple of the Lorde â b Leuit 26 b Eze 37.43 a. Apo. 21 a wherin God wil dwell liue and walke and the true God-seruice in thesame namely for to distinct the Forefrunt of the true Tabernacle of God â wherin the vpright Circumcision cometh-to-pas / which is c Ier. 4. a. Rom 2. c. Phil. 3. a. Col. 2. b. according to the Requyring of the Obedience of the Lawe of the Lorde from the Heaâ—thenshipp or Vncircumcision the Holy â wherein the vpright Baptisme cometh-to-pas / which is d Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. according to the Requyring of the Obedience of the Fayth of Iesu Christ from the Forefrunt and the Mostholy â wherin the vpright Fulfilling e Heb. 9.10 b. and Establishing of the Promyses cometh-to-pas / which is according to the Requyring of the Obedience of the Loue of the holy Gost from the Holy as also eachones Seruice Office and Order / So am I likewyse obediently inclyned therto / to th end to shewe euenso vnto the Man / the true God-seruice in the Spirit / which he oweth vnto God and which is profitable to his Saluation 2. But first-of-al / the Man ought to take-heede what the gracious Seruice of Loue and of the holy and gracious Woord requyreth of him / in his Heathenshipp or Vncircumcision / to his Saluacion For by thesame Seruice of the gracious Woord in the Vncircumcision / God calleth or requyreth the Man â with his true Promyses of Saluacion and assured Graunt of eternall Lyfe out of the f Gen. 22. a. Heathenshipp or Vncircumcision / to the Good-willingnes to the Entrance into his Sainctuary and so then the Man if he becom good-willing to the Obeying of the Calling of y e Lorde and hath a regarde vnto y e gracious g 2 Pet. 1. c. Woord is drawen or leadd out of the Heathenshipp / into the Forefrunt of the true Sainctuary or Tabernacle of God and to the Departure out of the Sinne and to the Entrance into the godly Lyfe And thesame Departure out of the Heathenshipp and Entrance into the Sainctuary / is the Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woorde / in the Heathenshipp or Vncircumcision 3. But the Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woord / in the Forefrunt or Entrance into the godly Lyfe is the h Rom. 2. c. Phil. 3. a. Col. 2. b. Circumcision of the Heart / in the Feare of God namely i Col. 2. b. the Laying-away of the Sinne in the Flesh. Which Forefrunts Entrance â and to shewe Obedience therin / according to the Lawe of the Lorde is the right k Math. 7. b. Luk. 13. c. Waye and the first Stepp / that leadeth the Man â out of the Heathenshipp to the Entrance into the Sainctuary of God and into the godly Lyfe of Christ. And so out of the Forefrunt of the Tabernacle of God and the Seruice of thesame / the Man is leadd into the true Holy of the Tabernacle of God or vpright Beleefe of Iesu Christ. 4. The Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woord in the Holy or Beleefe of Iesu Christ / is the Putting-on or l Iohn 6. f. Receaueing of the Body of Iesu Chrst and so to dye vnto the Sinne / m 1 Pet. 2. c. 4. a. in the Following of Christ in his Death of the Crosse and n Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. euenso to be baptised in thesame Death of Christ and to drinke his Blood / out of thesame o Luk. 22. Cupp / to the Forgiueing and Burying of the Sinne and to shewe Obedience and to continue p Math. 10. c. 24. b. stedfast therin â according to the Woord of Iesu Christ till vnto the q Iohn 3. a. Rom. 6. a. seconde Birth from the Death And thatt is the right r Math. 19. d. 26 c Passe-ouer with Christ / vnto his Resurrection and it is the right Fulfilling of the dayly Offering and God-seruice in the Holy / to an euerlasting s Heb. 10. b. Forgiuenes and Burying of the Sinne and to an euerlasting t Rom. 5. a. Heb. 9. b. Reconcilment with God the Father 5. Which vpright Offering and his Fulfilling in the Following of Christ in the holy and so to lay-away and to buâ—y the Sinne / through the Death of the Crosse of Christ as to be planted into Christ / with the like Death in the Holy or to be baptised v Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. in-that-maner / in his Death the Man oweth vnto God the Father For thatt is the right x Rom. 3. c. Ephe 1. â— Heb. 9.6 Forgiuenes of Sinnes the true Conquering of the Death the godly Iustifycation y Rom. 8. a Heb. 9.10 b. and the Satisfaction of Christ with the Manhod / through his Suffering and Death of the Crosse wherthrough the Vayle z Math. 27. betwixt the Holy and y e Mostholy / is put-away from the Man And so he is leadd out of the Holy of the Tabernacle of God and his Seruice of the true Offering / into the Mostholy of the Tabernacle of God or into y e vpright a 1. Cor. 13. b Col. 3. b. Loue of God the Father namely into the Perfection or Accomplishment of all the Workes of God and into the Fulnes of all y e spirituall and heauenly Goodes 6. But the Seruice or the Requyring of the holy Woord in the Mostholy namely in the Loue of God the Father or Perfection of all the Workes of God is / to declare the true Resurrection with Christ and to
publish thesame for a Gospel or ioyfull Message of the Kingdom of God and Christ and that the euerlasting Lyfe / is to be inherited b Eph. 1.2 â— Col. 1.2.3 a therin as also y e spirituall and heauenly Goodes of Christ and of his Father / in the heauenly Beeing And thatt is the true Seting-vp of the Perfection and the Declaring of the Kingdom of the God of Heauens / in his Glory for a righteous Iudgment of God vppon the Earth 7. In thesame Mostholy and to shewe Obedience therin / according to the true Beeing of the holy Spirit of Loue or to liue c Iohn 17. d. vniforme with God and Christ obediently / is the Declaring of the d Math 24. a. 25. d 2. Tess. 2. Tit. 2. b. gloryous and true Coming of our Lorde Iesu Christ / from the Right-hande of God the Father / in the Resurrection of the Righteous and the great e Esa. 2. c. 13. â— Ier 46. Mal. 4. 2. Pet. 3. b. and tirrible Daye of the Lorde / of the righteous Iudgment 8. Seing now that thesame Howse of the Lorde or this true Tabernacle of God â wherin God together with all his Saincts / wil dwell for euermore is declared vnto mee â in his Glory and with the Fulnes of the Ritches of his Garnishing in the Seruice of Loue· and thesame Seruice committed f Eph. 3. a. vnto me to minister / out of the heauenly Trueth / So do not I also desyre anything-els God is my Witnes but to assist thee â if thou bist good-willing to the Loue and likewyse eueryone / to thesame Seruice / To th end that the Seruice of Loue mought be furthered and spread-abroade among all People / to their Saluacion and to the Peace and Vnitee of Heart· the g Ephe. 2. b. 2. Pet. 2. a. Apo. â—1 â— Howse of Loue or the Tabernacle of the Lorde and his vpright Seruice / declared euerywheare· and so all Fayle and Discord / layd-downe or taken-away / among the Louers of the Trueth and that we mought concordably together â vnder the Obedience of the Loue take-heede-vnto and declare the foremencioned h â— â—oâ— 1. â— Phil 3. c. Tiâ— â— b. Daye of the Coming of the Lorde Iesu Christ and the Resurrection of the righteous Dead-ones to an euerlasting Tryumph of the Glory of God ouer vs according to the Promyses The IIII. Chap. BEholde â my Beloued to this Vnitee of Heart in the Loue and to assemble thee with Vs / to thesame gloryous Maiestee of God Ø›the Mostholy of his true Tabernacle art thou likewyse loued / out of Grace vndeserued And this write I also vnto thee / out of harty Loue for to assist thee to this Louelynes of God and to the Comunialtee of his Saintes / for that our Fellowshipp mought be one with each-other / in the Concord a Iohn 17. b. 1. Iohn 1. a. of the Loue. 2. O thou Beloued b 2. Cor. 6 a. disdayne not this proffered Grace / which is presented vnto thee / to an Vnitee of Heart For veryly / if thou doest â vnder the Obedience of the Loue c Pro. 1.2 â–ª 3. a. 4. a. 5. a. Eccli 6. c. giue-eare with vs Littleones and Elected of God / to the Woord of Trueth and submittest thyself therunder / Then shalt thou also with vs Little and Simpleones / vnderstande d Mat. 11. d. 13. b. and inherite the secret Treasures and heauenly Ritches But in-nowyse without our Comunialtee of Loue. 3. For in our Comunialtee of Loue / ther is vncouered e 1. Cor. 2. c. 2. Cor 4 a. opened and aboundantly brought vnto vs / out of Gods Grace â for an euerlasting Heritage of God the Fulnes of the Wisdom of God f Ephe. 1. b. Col. 1 c. 2. a and the perfect Vnderstanding of the holy Spirit of Christ. and not vnto any that are without thesame 4. Which Secrets of God â with ther full Cleernes God hath geeuen vnto Vs before any other / as his elected Saints g Rom. 16 c. Eph â— a. 3. â— Col. 1. c. 2. Timo. 1. b and beloued Children / To th end that thesame heauenly Trueth and thesame Saluacion in Christ / shoulde â now in the last tyme be declared by vs / h Esa. 49. a. 60. a 66. b. Act. 9. b. 13. a. Rom. 1. a. among all People to the Laude and Prayse of the Glory of God and of his holy Name 5. To thesame God of Glory / who hath prepared such a great Name vnto himself / in the last tyme· and â through his Loue chosen vs to the holy Vnderstanding / for to lighten many Mens Vnderstanding / be Laude Honour and Thanks / for euermore Amen 6. Heerwithall / thou Beloued â wherwith thou art bidden and assisted to our holy Comunialtee of Loue I commit thee to the Lorde and his Grace and salute me â with a Salutation of Loue vnto all thyne Acquayntance / that are wel-mynded to the Loue and to the Obeying of her Seruice The Goodnes of the supreame God / be with you all Amen The Ende of the Twelueth 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 Thirtenth Epistle Loueing Informacions vnto a Louer of the Trueth / which before-tyme was a Blaspheamer of the Seruice of Loue and the Ministers therof and afterward â with great Sorrow for his Sinne turned him to thesame Seruice / for to shewe Obedience therin Ther shal be a Ioye in Heauen and before the Angels of God / ouer one Sinner that repenteth Luk. 15. To him whose Soule loueth my Soule / in all Loue / be Health and Saluation The First Chapter FOrasmuch â thou Beloued as I haue receaued thy Salutacion and Wryting / written vnto mee wherin thou doest expresse / y t thou hast wholly turned thy self to y e Good / with all thy Sences and Thoughts and art wel-mynded with Mee / to the a Ephe. 4. a. Vnitee of Heart in the Loue to the Peace and to the Righteousnes So haue I indeuoured me with Dilligence of my Heart / for to perceaue to what ende thy Mynde and Intent mought stretch in thissame or which is the Cheefest-thing that thou seekest or intendest therwith 2. If-so-be now that I do fynde in the Deede and Trueth / that thy whole Heart Intent and Mynde / doth as thou wrytest stande-mynded with Mee / to the Loue / that euerlasting and inuisible heauenly Good Then wil I not also be mistrustfull towards thee nor-yet conceaue otherwyse of thee / then thou wrytest but wil hope all good of thee 3. But forasmuch now as that almost all Flesh of the earthly Manhod is captiued with secret Craftynes / which itself oftentymes seeth not also / that it seeketh in althings / himself or his owne b Phil. 2.
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 Ø›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. 2â— d. 2. Pet. â— â— and of the heâ—â—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 â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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. â— 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 â 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 InstructioÌ„ 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 â 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 â 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 â–ª growe and increase more-and-more among you all / my beloued Hearts in the Loue euen till vnto the
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 â— 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. â— Wo Calamitee and Misery / as likewyse the euerlasting l Ier. 30. a. 2. Tess. 2. b Death â 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 â which do submitt them n Esa 6â— b. obediently ther-vnder· dye in Christ their Sauiour· and in Patience / hope vpon the Godlynes be o Apo â— 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 â 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 â 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. â— Tess. 5. 2. Pet. 3. c. righteous IudgmeÌ„t of God / which passeth-out now swiftly â 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 Mâ—â—h 22. â— 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 â— 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 â 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 â—iâ—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. â— 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 â— 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. â— 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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