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A69596	An apology or defence for the requisite refuting of the shamefull, disgracefull writings and horrible libell against the book of true repentance and of true resignation which Gregory Rickter, Primate of Goerlits, hath spread abroad against it in open print answered in the year of Christ 1624, 10 Aprill / by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.; Schutz-Rede wieder Gregorium Richter. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3415; ESTC R14771	30,310	42

People and poison them as you do for where filth is there is not at all the Holy Spirit in that Mouth but Satan 99. The Christian Church or Congregation should do well to open its eyes and observe what it is Men teach them the punishment of God followeth be perswaded dear Brethren there will shortly come a Time wherein you will well see what I here say Libell 100. CHRIST taught Men the divine Commandements but this fellow teacheth with great earnestnesse the Seduction Answer 101. Where standeth that in my Book that I teach Men the outword Separation shew me that or else it is not so I teach them the Anointing of Jesus Christ with his delicate humanity after a spiritual Kinde IN us according to the inward ground of Faith concerning which CHRIST saith he which Eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud he continueth in me and I in him John 6. 53 54. 102. For THAT is the Temple of the Holy Spirit where Christs Flesh and Bloud continueth in us as Saint Paul saith 1 Cor 6. 16. Also it is the NEW Regeneration wherein the HOLY SPIRIT in us SEARCHETH THE DEPTHS OF THE DEITY 1 Cor 2. 10. It is the out-powred word of the substantiall Divine Love which marryeth and incorporateth it self with our Soul as the whole New Testament teacheth 103. Where it is written Try whether Christ hath gotten a form in you Gal 4. 19. If Christ be to get a form in us then must not that be absent if we are to be a Branch on that Vine of Christ then we must not cleave to an other for none can serve two Masters saith Christ Matth 6. 24. Also My Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him for it when that shall come it will declare me in You Luke 11. John 6. 14. 104. It is not an outward Seduction but an inward Enlightning whence the Soul when it tasteth this Oyle of Joy and Gladnesse cometh into such great rejoycing as is mentioned in my little Book concerning the Noble Sophia which is viz the Substantiall Love of JESUS CHRIST 105. I understand very well that you know not this Noble Sophi a it is no good signe that you deny her and call her an Enthusiast I know her well and have a love to her For she is my Souls dear Bride If I knew her not then surely I would not have suffered so very much for her Love sake srom you and other people 106. Christ saith John 10. Whosoever entereth not through me to the Sheep viz Into the Sheepfold But climbeth in some other way he is a Thief and a Murtherour and but an hireling and is come only with suttlety to rob the sheep of their food and to shear off their wool these belong to the Wolves and have not the Shepheards Crook or Staffe of Christ but the Devills Sheers and must hereafter eternally howl with the Wolves But YE say he that entereth not in through the high Schools or Vniversities he is a Thief and a Murtherour and so you deride the Dore of CHRIST viz the anoynting or Unction of the holy Spirit and will needs have it to be that men must draw the divine knowledge and skill only from the high Schools or Vniversitles and bind and tye up Gods Gifts to AR● 107. But Christ teacheth us quite otherwise that this thing is hidden from the wise and prudent and revealed to the seeking and hungry Babes Math. 11. 25. As Mary also saith He thrufleth out the Mighty from their Seat and exalteth the miserable and lowly who are humble in their hearts before him Luke 1. 12. She meaneth not Might and Authority but Spirit and Power 108. O Primate I had much to say to you here but I know not whether it would be well bestowed or no for you would cover your self only with Christs Purple Mantl● that you might live according to the Lusts of the flesh you would not become regenerated and dayly dye away from sinne but only comfort your self that it is Christ hath done it 109. But I tell you it will not availe you unless you put on Christs Satisfaction through earnest Ropentance and turning in to grace and become a Branch on the stock of the Vine Christ that Christ in you also doe kill sinne and renew to you your senses thoughts and mind so that you desire to imitate Christ else will your tickling be unavailable and be only an hypocriticall flattering Shew 110. I tell it you in love observe it well I have received it from God so that I know it also the New Testament throughout teacheth you the same I have in my little Book very well signified to you that No man knoweth or understandeth this Noble Sophiah in the feeling or Experimentall Love of JESUS CHRIST unlesse it be given him from God 111. I will not here further cast the pearle under your feet till you are fit and prepared for it in true Repentance if that were done which I would wish then would I have further speech with you about it for now you are not yet worthy of it seeing you contemn it 112. In that regard also is your teaching so cold because you have not this power in you for you yet have not the right Hammer to strike the Clock you cannot yet strike the Clock which awakeneth the poor captive Soul you must use the right Hammer if you would strike the right Hour and awake the Soul out of sleep you have the WORD indeed but the right power is not in you wherewith you should Co work with the Litterall Word it self Therefore said Christ The sheep hear not the voice of the Hireling John 10. 3. for his crying and calling is but meer jugling and a fighting with a shadow He is with his teaching without Gods Hammer but a Jugler a Belly-Hammer an Ear-Hammer aud not a Soul-Hammer 113. This Power which I mean is the Doro to the Sheep you often use with your blaspheming reproaches Satans Hammer under Christs Purple Mantle your Heart is full of Gall and Bitternesse O alas it is Time Repent Libell 114. CHRIST hath directed us to the Word and to the hidden secret Mystery which the Beleeving hearts hold or retain in the Faith but the Shoemaker leads us to head-long Seduction and to Dreams which rob the beleeving hearts of Faith Answer 115. I lead not Men away from the Preached and written Word you do me wrong in that but I say that they should bring along with them the Temple of JESUS CHRIST to the preached or written word viz a Repentant hungry Soul which heareth in its own self Christ which is viz the LIVING Word in the Litterall and preached Word as David saith I will hear what the Lord saith in me Psal 85. 9. And Christ also saith He that is of God heareth Gods word and to the Pharisees he saith therefore you hear not for you are not of God John 8.

shall see visions Joel 2. 28. also at that time I will pour out my Spirit upon servants and hand-mayds why will you hinder the Spirit of the Lord 47. If you see any of them then you say he is the Devill and put reproachfull blasphemous names upon him and cry out Men should baneish him from City and Country pray shew in your banishing your Christian Heart 48. Are you Christs Shepheard where is your Love wherewith Christ hath loved us and wherewith we should also Love one another John 13. Doth the Scripture bid you drive out and hunt any into Misery without hearing of any Cause what doth it say to you If thou seest that thy Brother is a Heathen then go to him and admonish him in private if he yeeldeth to thee then hast thou wonne thy Brother if not then take one or two with thee if he yeeldeth not then shew it to the Congregation if he hear not the Congregation then account him as a Heathen and Publican Matth 18. 15. Not hunt him out and reproach and condemn him unheard as you have done to me 49. You have set your self in a Judgement that doth not belong to you read I pray the Epistles of Saint Paul to Titus and Timothy How a Bishop ought to be and then you will find that you have not a right Bishops Heart 50. Why do you reprove my Book Morning Rednesse or Aurora seeing you do not understand it also it is not written for the Pulpit or that it should come among the People I have written it for my selfe for a Memoriall to me with such words as at that time I could understand what is that to THEE why have you published it and leant it to other People None had known of it if you had not mentioned and divulged it in the Pulpit and lent it abroad 51. Thou supposest thou wilt stop and hinder these writings and yet thou thy self art he that furtherest them None would have known any things of me and of MY writittings if THOU thy self hadst not proclaimed them and lent them out 52. Afterward the Learned enquired for them they have all had none so ill thoughts of them as you have Men may indeed find as Learned People among them as you are surely it is not you alone that have studied also a Man may find more fear of God in many of them who read these writings and account them Good then in you which you demonstrate by this Libell and by your whole Life 53. But all the works of God must serve him God hath used you for an Instrument of this Publication of them which God hath given me to know therefore have I patiently a long time born upon me your unjust reproachings and disgracings wherein yet no true word hath been elfe I would have answered you long agoe 54. You liken my Book of Repentance to the Heresie of Arrius and say that the Eastern Countryes for the sake of that are punished with horrible darknesse and if men do not wholly root out my writings and hunt me therewith out of the Countrey then it would go just so with us also 55. Tell me I pray whether also Lying and Sinne be from the Devill or no shew me the Opinion of Arrius in my little Prayer-Book there is indeed more Devotion and divine power in the words of that little book then is yet at this time come into your heart which a Man may observe by your injurious persecution in that you would wholly root out the Authour for his divine Gifts sake had you the power I should not live one jot longer 56. Christ said Be ye Mercifull as your Heavenly Father is Mercifull forgive and you shall be forgiven Luke 6. 36. Also Blessed are the Mercifull for they shall obtain Mercy Also Blessed are the Peaceable for they shall be called the Children of God Matth 5. 7. 9. Where is your Mercifullness and peacefull Heart do but once put away the Serpents poyson from it and Sease from reproaching and forcing untruth upon me that I may acknowledge you that you are a Christian in the Meeknesse of Christ 57. Hearken Herr Primarius Lord Primate do you know wherefore God took from the Eastern Countreys the Candlestick as he threatens in the Revelations It was for the sake of the Contention Pride and State of the Learned in that they were only Mouth Christians and sought only their Belly God and earthly Lucifer and covered the Antichrist with Christ Purple Mantle and contended about Opinihns they forsork the Holy Spirit in Power and set themselves in Christs stead they were but contenders and disputes and their Aime was only at honour and respect 58. These things the Eastern Countreys looked upon and saw that in such Contention Gods Love was not and in that respect they began to doubt concerning the Faith and seeing the Learned did but contend and one part acknowledged Christ and the other part denied him and run on to meer IMAGES and Opinions wherein none saw conformity to the other then the Potentates thought with themselves who knoweth how it is with the Priests contention whether there be any thing in IT or no 59. Then came forth Mahumet and taught the ONE only God without Trinity to whom the people fell away when they saw that therein there was no strife in respect of the TRINITY for they had enough of strife 60. Also God permitted it to be so because in their Contention they did only blaspheme CHRIST then he took the Candlestick away and so they became Mahumetans and began to warre and dispute with bloud and Sword and drave out the Titulary and Mouth-Christians and God suffered it that they might no more contend about Christs honour seeing Christ honour is only Humility and Love 61. Behold and consider well how are you the Learned at present marked or characterized howiis it concerning Christs Kingdome among you see and compare the Times of Arrianisme and the strife of the Learned in respect of the Religion of your Times and your Contention which you have had along time 62. Shew me the true Christ in Love and meeknesse in all your Books of controversie or Contention are they not meer libellous papers and reproachfull slanders and evill affections wherein every one cryeth out Heresie Here is Christ there is Christ behold he is in the Wildernesse in the Chamber in the Field Also in the Supper in the Baptisme and in Confession and the other say No he is not there it is only a Remembrance and send forth such blasphemies reproaches and disgracings about Christs Cup Office and Person as was done in the time of Arrius 63. Therefore you are now your own Prophet and threaten darknesse to your selfe it may very well befall you and unlesse you be altogether blind you may see it before your eyes yet you had rather contend and reproach Gods children yes wholly thrust from you CHRIST in his Members then repent

whom he is Libell 81. Moreover the Libell calls me a perjured Shoemaker and in the Pulpit he hath called me a Rascally knave Answer 82. This reproachfull defamation is in all Statutes and Laws of the Empire forbidden upon pain of severe punishment that none should disgrace anothers good Name and honour or should make any defamatory Libell or disgracefull writings He should be the Man to forbid others and doth it himself 83. O Primate I ask you if I had caused such a Libell to be printed against you and had So abominably vilified and disgraced you to what place would you have sent it and condemned it surely to the Gallows and the Authour with it but what shall I say to you even God forgive it you 84. I have sworn an Oath to the Emperour also to the Prince Elector my Gracious Lord as also to the honourable Councill and the City Goerlitz to be true and faithfull in their defence and that I have firmly kept to this very houre and you call me a perjured or forsworn Fellow Rascally Knave I have brought my honour reputation to Goerlitz and you would bereave me of it for a perjured Man is not good enough to be in any bodies company 85. Well now you should and ought to demonstrate that I am such a one and flee with earnest complaint for it to the Magistrate and implore Justice and protection but seeing you oppresse me therefore in the mean time these deaming reproaches shall rest upon your selfe so long till you set before my Eyes my perjury 86. You have studied upon it this Fasting Time how you might bespatter Christs Children in the whole Church or Congregation with Serpents filth so that they are become Reproachers and disgrace me and have not stopped there but moreover caused such defaming Poyson to be printed that they may read it at home and tickle themselves therewith that the Devill indeed may be proudly Courted and Banqueted in state 87. I ask also your selfe is not that a sign of the Antichrist was not this your Office and Ministry that you should this Fasting Time have considered CHRISTS Bitter Passion Dying and Bloud-shedding and represent it well to your Parish Children that they might also have laid it to Heart but you on the Contrary have this Fasting time contrived two Libells and been angry at miserable People so that you have been fain to leave Christs Passion Wounds and Death lying on the Sick-bed and you lay your self by it as an awakened Poyson 88. Thus unworthy have you been before the Eyes of God consider your self a little seriously if men would lay it rightly to heart it might well make ones Haire stand upright for fear and amazement that you possesse the place of God and stand in the stead of the Holy Spirit and yet poure out such poyson upon the poor innocent People and not only here at Goerlitz but you also send your disgracefull writings into strange places and Countreys and poyson them so that they help you to reproach and blaspheme 89. All this is a certain sign of the Antichrist which the Libell would thrust upon me I pray and he curseth me Now judge upon it those that understand with which of US Antichrist dwells Libell 90. O Christ the Holy Spirit hath anointed thee with Oyle more then thy fellowes and hath made thee a Priest But thou Shoemaker the Devill hath desiled thee with Dirt and Dung and made thee a Heretick Answer 91. The Holy Spirit hath anointed Christ and his Children with Gods Oyle of Gladness● and hath introduced that anointing into our Soul so that we beleeve in him and that I take or receive to my Self as a Branch of Christ and have tasted his Anointing powerfully in me which I rejoyce my selfe IN under the Crosse of CHRIST in my bodily Misery 92. But that the Primate saith the Devill hath defiled mewith Dirt and Dung that is true after his manner for that very Dung wherewith the Devill hath defiled me is his reproaching in the Pulpit against me and this Evill dirty Libell wherewith the Antichristian Devill hath defiled me and made me as a Fool before the whole Congregation so that the Ignorant People which have a Mind to it cast such Dirt at me But the Primate thinks it were better to throw Stones at me for then would the Book of Repentance have a riddance out of the way But the remembrance of Steven is still taught at this very day though the High-Priests did Stone him Acts. 7. 57. what God builds no Devill CAN destroy 93. But that he also saith and made thee a Heretick that is also a Ray of Antichrists colours for when Men would persecute the right true Christians and worry burn and kill them then hath Antichrist cryed out they are Hereticks none other Cause Men had to bring against them yet thereupon execution proceeded 94. O how will these Hereticks at the last Judgement day be set before your Eyes when they shall be set in the divine Power with Christ in the Judgement and judge the Antichrist who hath persecuted and killed them what will you then answer to CHRIST and to me when your Libell will burn forth IN your Soul who hath given you authority so to Judge demonstrate it out of the Apostles doctrine There is yet time to ropent before I must through Gods driving summon you before the severe Judgement of Jesus Christ Observe what I say to you I am a Christian in Christ you call Christ in his Member a Heretick and his power Dirt or Dung. 95. The Mercifullnesse of Christ calleth you herewith yet once more to try whether you will repent if Not I will be blamelesse concerning you if you be set in the Judgement you have a great Mountain before you through which you must climb up then if Christ leave you you may well remain Eternally in this Cliffe 96. Observe what is said to you it is well known Hypocrisie availeth nothing it must be earnest sincerity to sinne upon Grace makes a Man uncapable of Grace the hour is neer be perswaded you will have no Such Protector or assistance there as you draw to your self here upon which you relye you must stand before My eyes and give an account for your Malice and reproaching Blasphemy 97. Christ in me and in all the Members of Christ citoth you before the Judgement of Christ what shall I then say to you for all your scandalous blemishes you have put upon me here on Earth I pray you as a fellow Member of my Soul convert yet while the Door of Grace standeth open before the Great Cliffe or Gulfe between me and you be shut Luke 16. 26. 98. It becometh A High-Priest indeed very ill who should bring into his mouth the Divine word of the Love of Christ that instead thereof taketh filth into his mouth and polluteth Christs word which he should teach with filth and spit such filth into the Heart of the

47. also you are not my sheep John 10. 26. 116. This now I intend in my meaning that a Man should have divine Ears viz. a repentant Soul if he will hear Christs voyce be it in the Preaching in Reading or Conference for this hath CHRIST taught us whom I more beleeve then I do all ART whatsoever for the Historicall Faith to tickle and comfort ones self with knowing without power and an earnest sincere will is dead and but a Shell it attaineth not the divine Childship or Filiation it must be earnest sincerity that will do it 117. It is not enough that we go to Church and to the Sacrament and sit there an Houre playing the Hypocrite and hearing a Sermon wherein oftentimes Wheat and Tares are sown together one among another in that you many times reproach and blaspheme No going to Church makes none vertuous or honest unlesse he hear in the Church Gods Word operatively in his Soul for the Lord saith by his Prophets they draw neer to me with their Lips but their Heart is farre from me Ezek 29. 13. 118. Not all that go to Church and say LORD LORD shall 〈◊〉 into the Kingdome of Heaven but they that do the will of my Father in Heaven saith Christ Matth 7. 2. It must not be Historicall beleeving only but bowerfull doing Now if they are to do the Divine will then must the same viz the Spirit of CHRIST work powerfully IN them for Christ saith without ME you can do nothing John 15. 5. 119. Therefore flattering Hypocrisie and Luke-warmnesse availeth not for the true saith is not only an imprinted or imaged figure but it is power Spirit and Life it is a Fire of the Divine word which there burneth and shineth abroad which Co-worketh with God the right and true Faith is the Seat of God on which he sitteth and speaketh 102. Faith is not meer historicall Breath wherewith a Man only comforteth himself and flattereth the Evill Beast full of false and wicked desires No it is a living working Power of God its burning Fire is the fire-flaming Love of God which breakes forth and doth the work 121. Your Preaching is all in vain if CHRIST worketh not through your word in the Hearers but if that must be done then you Must teach them LOVE not Contention disgracing and Contemning you must put the Dung and scorn out of your Mouth not Judge falsely and Blaspheme or reproach for in reproachings SATAN worketh but with a pure soul CHRIST worketh the Reproaching is the ANTICHRIST 122. But that you say I direct Men to Dreams that is worthy of no answer for it is not so this reproaching is also a Signaturo or Sign of Antichrist which thus defileth the children of Christ shew it or it is not true 123. But that you also say My Dreams for such you hold my writings to be do rob the beleeving hearts of FAITH that also is not so but they lead Men from the Historicall Faith from Hypocrisie to the Living Faith which is JESUS CHRIST and do shew them how they should daily dye away from sinne and become new born in Christ and imitate or follow him in Faith and Spirit and become ONE Spirit with Christ 124. Which makes the Devill afraid that Men will no more endure him under Christs Purple Mantle but the time is Born or Come that his Kingdom shall be revealed and brought to scorn which No Primate shall hinder it is so ordained of God Libell 125. CHRIST hath handled weighty Matters but the Shoemaker slight contemptible matters Answer 126. Christ hath brought and shewed us the way to Blessednesse and salvation and the Shoemaker desireth to walk therein but Satan calleth it a slight and contemptible way seeing it is a Crosse-way wherein a Man in this world in misery and humility must follow or imitate Christ for Satan is a Spirit of Pride and therefore he despiseth the Path of Christs Pilgrimage being this way is straight and narrow and pleaseth not the fat Belly and the Eyes that are full of their own Honour and self-hood 127. Christ hath destroyed Satans Kingdom and generated Christianity but the Antichrist hath set himself in Christs Seat and this the Shoemaker revealeth or Manifesteth according to the will of God and that the Primats supposeth to be a slight contemptible matter but when the Houre shall strike but Seaven then it will have been a Good matter Libell 128. Christ Contemned worldly Riches but the Shoemaker desires them Answer 129. CHRIST said Come to me all you who labour and are heavy loaden Math. 11. He made no difference between Rich and Poor which came to him but that the Primate is troubled that a Layick is helped by Rich people that fear God thereby it is likely he supposeth somewhat goeth away from him it belongeth to him alone to converse with the Rich for his own Profit to him belongeth Riches On the contrary they Shoemaker desireth no Great Riches in this world for he is not Proud as men may well see by him Libell 30. Christ led his Life soberly but the Shoemaker useth commonly to be full and drunken Answer 131. CHRIST was indeed Sober but what the Primate layes upon the Shoemaker he is that himselfe Men use sometime to take him from lying drunk under Tables abroad and bring him Home Men may indeed find him ost drunk in one week but the Shoemaker not in Three years 132. This Article he hath wholly taken from his own Conversation Saint Paul saith to the Romans 2. Therefore O Man thou canst not excuse thy self whosoever thou art who judgest for wherein thou Judgest another thou condemnest thy selfe seeing thou dost the same thing which thou judgest for we know that Gods judgement 〈◊〉 just against those that do such things Libell 133. Christ hath abstained from superfluous Laughter but the Shoemaker laughs in all that he speaks Answer 134. Men find not that Christ ever laughed but only rejoyced in Spirit but that the Primate hath imputed Laughter and Phantasticallnesse to the Shoemaker and saith he laugheth at every word that is indeed an open grosse untruth and cannot be made appear neither can any honest faithfull Man say it but that Nature giveth to one to laugh and to be friendly and affable more then to another and maketh of another a Saturnine Soure Grim looked Man that the Primate cannot Mend he should do well to be silent in that if a Man should describe him and his foolish flouts which he oftentimes in his Tiplings and Quaffings gives forth a Man should be constrained to bring out some strange Monsters 135. It seizes upon me with wonder that he is not ashamed being he is an Old Man in whom a Man should seek for wisdome that he dares write such open untruths and foolish flouting Expressions and cause an honest Man of Credit to be oppressed with scorn they are yet worse then a common jeering flouting Jester this Libell is very