shee hath given Lawes to it so to propagate it selfe further in the received Government 55. Where then this birth is ascended to the Kingly degree and hath so further sought the Abysse that is the one till it is become a Monarchy that is Empire and there it is climing still and would be onely one alone and not many and though it selfe be in many yet the first Source whence all is generated will rule over all and will be one onely Lord over all Governments 56. And being the same Seeking was one onely Government in the beginning and yet in processe of time hath severed it selfe into many according to the Effences therefore the Multiplicity seekes againe the unity and it is certainly borne in the sixt number of the Crown that is in the fixt thousandt yeare in the figure not at the end 57. But in the houre of the day in which the Creation of the Wonders were finished that is when the Wonders of the Turba are at the End A Lord is borne who shall Governe the whole World yet by many Offices 58. And there the Magistracy that is growne up of it selfe and the Oppressour shall be sought after for the smallest which hath lien under is also run to the limit and even then all things sever themselves for they be at the limit and there can be no stay or calling backe 59. Also the Turba being the wrath is sought by every creature for the same is also with the loathing of the Creature run to the limit and is now manifest namely at the limit in the midst of the number of the Crowne in the sixt thousandt yeare a little above and not under in the day and houre when the Creation was finished in the Mystery and in the Mystery was set as a looking-glasse of Eternitie in the Wonders 60. That is on the sixt day past noon even there the Mystery with the Wonders stand open and it is seene and knowne where then the Purity shall drive out the Turba a Time till the beginning passe into the end and then the Mystery is a Wonder in Figures c. In his consideration upon the Booke of Isaias Steefel he Prophecieth concerning Babel and Zion Pag. 47. thus 104. THat the Author mentioneth that this carnall Babel shall fall and a Fountaine arise in Zion out of the true Jerusalem is truly so and the time is already come about that that break in pieces that is growne up of and to it selfe without divine Order for it hath attained its age and limit the beginning hath found the end the middle shall be manifest against which no fighting or defending availeth but seeing the childe of sin and perdition doth so rage against it it must therefore ruine its own selfe in its rage 105. But if it would enter into the beginning it should then remaine and its Wonder would onely appeare but being it is growne up in pride covetousnesse envy and in all manner of iniquitie and cunning mischiefe for what use shall this evill Beast be it is not fit for the Sacrifice of God also it will not be converted that it might get an humane heart 106. Therefore the Lord doth proclaime that his children must goe out from it for the Lord will terribly shake the earth and overthrow Babel and a Fountaine shall flow out of Zion to refresh the thirsty soule for the miserable shall be refreshed and eat in his own Pasture 107. The Oppressour shall be destroyed yet thou shalt rejoyce a little while for thou art naught from thy youth and onely seekest the Limit in the Wonder as thy beginning was so shall also thy end be he that is blinde will not see this but sleepe till the day dawne 108. Christ said Doest thou thinke that when the Son of Man shall come that he shall finde faith upon the Earth Therefore the time of the end is an evill dreggy Setling and it will not be meet Zion save onely in the sanctified children of Christ for the beginning and the end be just like one another 109. The wonders were in the beginning manifest with the high Tongue and the Signature was h Or highly perfectly knowne This cometh againe at the end but we understand also thereby a good and an evill time when the gates of all the Three Principles shall stand open as wee likewise see this in the beginning by Cain and Abel therefore let every one have a care what he speake teach and write for all things shall be proved by the Highest Tongue 110. But when we speake of the Temple of Christ and of the fountaine flowing out of Zion we doe not meane a place in one Countrey onely for the Temple of Christ is every where wee understand among all tongues and languages Albeit in one place the tongues shall be brought to an higher degree then in another all according to the property of the people according as the Spirit is in man 111. For the Temple of Christ is within us wee must heare Christ teach in us if Christ teach not in us then is all outward i The fine hypocrisie of the mouth lip-labour to no purpose and spoken into the aire 112. Therefore let no man thinke that it will so come to passe that men shall come and perforce teach and drive in the Holy Spirit into men No it is said To day when you heare the voice of the Lord harden not your hearts and eares waite for no other time for this is the time of your visitation 113. Incline your eares and hearts to the Temple of Christ in you cast away your abominations and false will from you and bring your will with earnestnesse through Christ unto the Father and purpose never to enter any more into the iniquity viz. into pride covetousâ—esse envy anger and falshood regard not the highnesse of this world and humble your selves under the hand of the Lord and in love towards the needy c. 129. Loving brethren doe not jest at it and hold it for a fiction it is known in the Sacred Ternary in the pure fountaine out of Zion Let no man waite for a golden time when the holy Spirit shall presse or breath it selfe perforce into the beastiall will of the hardened and obstinate that will onely live in the lust of the flesh O no this cometh not to passe 130. He that will heare the Holy Spirit teach from the mouth of another he must before bring his will into the Holy Spirit even then the Holy Spirit teacheth to him inwardly from the mouth of another This we see on the day of Pentecost in those that heard St. Peter those whose will was bent inward and desired the Kingdome of God in them the Spirit of Christ preached from Peters mouth but those whose spirit was bent into this world the spirit passed over who said the men are drunke that they so speake 131. The time is already that Enoch teacheth and Noah proclaimeth the Deluge there
unchristian fury and bloud-thirsty minde whereby shee destroys not her opposites onely but her own selfe and even that which shee thinks to better and maintaine Thing whereby men may now see how her whoredome hath been manifold and how the Devill had beset us with manifold Nets and how one whoredome runs in the opposition to another and are malicious bite and slay one another 24. For the Great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the Great Iniquitie wherewith shee is fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her wofull smart and shee speaketh of the childe which she shall bring forth viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny shee uncovereth her faire feature as she is in the Heart Now he that will not know her for him there is no remedy 25. The Revelation saith Goe out from her my people that you may not be partakers of her plagues for shee hath filled her cup full with the Abominations of her whoredome in the Anger of God them shee shall drinke out and thereby be forced to burst her selfe 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her own mouth doth strangle her her own Turba destroyeth her shee cryeth for vengeance and murther upon heresie and yet shee doth it not for God but for her Adulterous Bratt otherwise if shee did it for God shee would enter into his Command and Will of Love where Christ saith Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples 27. The Kingdome of God stands not in any warre or revilings or in an outward shew in delicious dayes herein the children of God are not to be found but in love in patience and hope in faith under the Crosse of Christ there groweth the Church of God to the holy Ternary i. e. a new angelicall man hidden in the old and this is my certain knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zion I say according to my knowledge as the Spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an Ending of the Deceit and Zion shall be found yet onely of the children of faith not in generall as if no wicked man should remaine 29. For the Oppressour shall be a Cause that Zion is borne when men shall see how Babel is an whore then shall many children be found in Zion and seek the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them at the heels and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and exercise their faith and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his Room 30. But the generall Zion appeareth first in greatest misery when Babel breaketh it shall stand desolate and miserable and then the children of Zion shall say How hath the Lord forsaken us come we beseech you let us seeke his face ah let us depart from strife war and contention have we not alas made our Countrey desolate is not all provision spent are we not brethren wherefore do we fight we will enter into one Love and seek the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Strangers and Pilgrims and seek our native Countrey 31. In this Time verily a Zion shall be found and the Heaven shall give its dew and the earth its fatnesse but not in that manner as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Son of Man shall come that there will be faith upon the earth And although the children of Zion shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the times of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end For as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the coming of the Son of Man be as it is written 32. But that the Holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zion I acknowledge and know it for Zion shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne he that would seek it let him seek himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and he shall finde whether Jesus be borne in him 33. If he finds it not let him enter into himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him those he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be manifest in him and he shall be borne with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda f Under the Crosse in disrespect and disesteeme of the world in the dark Stable not in g Not in the outward pleasures of the flesh Jerusalem as Reason faine would have that Christ should be borne in the old Asse the old Asse must be a servant and serve the New Man in Zion c. This wonderfull Prophesie following was written in a Postscript to a Letter dated the 20th of February 1623. 23. THe Tribulation and Destruction of Babel approacheth with exceeding vehement haste The Storme ariseth upon all Coasts There shall be an exceeding Tempest vaine hope deceiveth for the Destruction of the Tree draweth neere which is knowne in the Wonders 24. The a Domestick intestine homebred Fire hurteth its own native Countrey Righteousnesse and Truth are beaten downe Great Sorrow and perplexing Sadnesse doe b Scrue up themselves force themselves up 25. Men shall mourne for an empty ruinous old Cottage which is of no importance to Salvation and they shall be enraged for that Nest wherein Satan hath hatcht his c Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all fâ—lshood under an holy shew of Religion young 26. The Tower of Babel is found to be without foundation men suppose to hold it up with props but a winde from the Lord overthrows it 27. The hearts and thoughts of men shall be discovered for there cometh a Tryall from the Lord whereby the d Tâ—tular verball hypocrite the Cain-like Christian who perswades himselfe from a blind faith that none is accepted with God but himselfe and such as he is the demure and devout Pharisee but his false bottome will come to light maugre his many words and swords mouth-Christian shall be laid open in his false heart and soule as a reed that is shaken by the winde seeing his heart is wavering now here now there because his false ground is revealed 28. Many shall betray themselves and through hypocrisie ruine both body and goods Hypocrites and mouth-Christians shall quaile for feare when their false foundation shall be discovered 29. The Orientall e The Turk shall turne a true Christian Beast getteth an humane heart and face and ere this cometh to passe it helpeth to teare downe the Tower of Babel with its claws
under-foot and contend about a childe that never was worse since men were this shall be manifest therefore let no honest man defile himselfe with such contention there is a fire from the Lord therein who will consume it and himselfe reveale the Truth 95. * 3. Prin. Chap. 25. Therefore let this be told you yee Jewes Turkes and other Nations yee need not looke for any other there is no other time at hand but the time of the Lilly and its Signe is the Signe of Elias therefore take heed in what Spirit you live least the fire of anger devoure and consume you it is high time to cast Jezabel with her whoredomes out of the house least you receive the wages of the whore and as you revile one another so you devoure one another Truly if these contentions and selvish courses of oppression and hypocrisie be not suddenly stayed the fire will burne out extreamly upon Babel and then there will be no remedy till the anger of God eat up and consume all whatsoever is in it 96. Therefore let every one enter into himselfe and not speake concerning others laying the blame upon them onely and account them false but looke that he turne himselfe and see that he be not found in the anger of the Devourer else if he should say ha ha looke how Babel burnes then must he also be burnt for he is fuell for that fire and whosoever feeleth a thought in himselfe that doth but wish for the Anger or the heavy judgement of God to destroy others that thought or wish proceedeth from Babel 97. Therefore it is very hard to know Babel every one supposeth that he is not in it and yet the Spirit sheweth me that Babel encompasseth the whole Earth therefore let every one looke to his own wayes and not hunt after covetousnesse for the Oppressour destroyeth it and the Stormer consumeth it No mans wise Counsell helpeth any more all the wisdome of this world is folly for the fire is from the anger of God your wisdome will turne to your hurt and scorn 82. The Spirit declareth that if you doe not leave off this m About your opinions Ceremonies your Wolves in Sheeps-cloathing and your god Mammon Contention you shall have no other Signe given you save the Signe of Elias in fire in zeale for the zeale shall devoure you and your contention must devoure your own selves you must be forced even quite to consume your selves therefore are you not mad are you not Brethren and all in Christ If you did converse in Love what should you need to strive about your Native Countrey in which you dwell O! leave off your Cause is evill in the sight of God and yee are all found to be in Babel be advised the day breaketh how long will you keep company with that Adulterous Whore Arise your Noble Virgin is adorned in her Orient Garment of Pearle Shee weareth a Lilly which is most delightsome become Brethren and shee will adorne you indeed wee have really seen her and in her name wee write c. 25. HEarken all yee who call your selves the Apostles of Christ M. M. Ch. 62. hath Christ sent you to warre and stirre up Contention that you should fight for Temporall goods and outward Might and Glory Is that your Authoritie John 20. when he gave you the sword of the Spirit did he command you to doe so hath he not sent you to declare and proclaime his Peace which he hath brought unto us What will he say when he shall see that your Apostolicall Heart hath put on Armour and that you have stirred up and provoked your worldly Kings and Princes to the sword and warre and have given them free leave out of Christian Liberty shall he finde you thus acting in his Service doe you as the Disciples of Christ 26. Are you not become the Apostles of Gods Anger Whither will you betake your selves with your shame Doe you not see that you are turned perjured treacherous and adulterous to Christ who taught you Peace where is your Christian Virginity Where are your Evangelicall fruits Where is your love and righteousnesse your patience and meeknesse your exhorting to the wayes of Peace and piety love and holinesse with all long suffering and forbearance is not the true and sincere way to the new-birth made onely a darke historicall lip-labour an outward application of a promise how hath the world traced themselves in a Maze of their own phancies and enslaved their noble mindes to your hypocrisie Where is your selfe deniall your powerfull prayer and faith your rendring blessing for cursing praying for persecuting your overcoming evill with good thinke upon your account at the last day and now amend 79. * 40. Quest Qu. 30. HOw will you be able to stand here yee high Schooles and Doctors even all of you who have set up your selves in Christs stead and have so proudly wrangled about Christs Cup also about Christs Doctrine and n Way of worship honour that you have provoked and put on the Princes of your Land who are the Ordinance of God to warre and bloud-shed for a few words sake which you your selves have forged 80. Where is Christs teaching and Spirit of love who said Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples Where is your Love Looke upon your bloudy instigations wherewith you have enticed men to Battle and have led the world astray from love and unanimity 81. Yee have made rents and divisions so that Kings have been at variance and enmity for your pride sake in that you have wrested the words of Christ and have not regarded whether you have had Christs Spirit and will or no and therefore you above all others shall give an heavy account for you have known the will of the Lord and have not done it you have run and thrust your selves into Christs office meerely to get profit favour and honour you have not regarded the Spirit of God therefore the Spirit calleth you Babel a Confusion of all those that live 82. You have set the whole world at odds and whereas you should have taught them love you have taught them contention and strife so that one brother hath hated and persecuted another for your fables sake O! how is the Name of Christ dishonoured for your Contentions sake Whether will you betake your selves and where will you abide when this shall be set before your eyes and the whole world cry wo wo to you 39. * The latter end of the 13. Chap. of his booke call'd The Threefold life YEE great scholastique Rabbies and Masters who have the pre-eminence let it be told you there cometh one hereafter that will baptize you with the fire of Anger because you doe deny his power yee have a very heavy account for Christs Testaments will you not depart from your Consultations and enter into the Temple of Christ then you must be wholly cast away 40. There were very
consuming fire if his wrath be stirred up according to this same property he desireth to consume and devoure all that moveth and enkindleth it selfe therein And from this property God bad Israel fight and smite the Heathens for his Anger was set on fire in them and was as wood cast into the fire which the fire desireth to consume 10. Therefore the wrath of God bad one Nation slay another that it might out of his wrath be taken away otherwise the fire of his Anger would have enkindled it selfe as hapned to the five Kingdomes of Sodom and Gomorra Thus the Wrath of God did satiate it selfe in the life of the wicked which it devoured into it selfe in that they slew one another 11. As it yet now adayes so comes to passe that oftentimes men cry unto God for to give them successe and victory against their enemies that they might murther them but God giveth them not victory therein but the sword of his Anger which they awaken with their prayers and will were they true Men and children of God they would need no warre for the holy Spirit wageth not warre but he onely loveth and giveth peace but according to the property of Anger he consumeth all ungodlinesse and is yet thereby onely blowne or stirred up c. 14. Thus we must understand how the children of the Saints have waged warre against the crew of wicked men and drove them out viz. in the Anger 's Property which managed its sword by them to blot out the Heathen and Generation of Haâ— for Abraham went out with his whole house and People against the Heathen who had carried away Loth his brothers Sonne captive and he smote the Heathen and delivered his brother This was done in the zeale of God which thus delivered his children through the might of his Anger for what conduceth to the wicked for destruction that conduceth to holy men for life and deliverance 15. But that those who will be called Christians who ought in and with Christ to be dead to the Anger and Wrath of God in Christs death doe wage warre they doe it not as Christians but as Heathens no Christian warreth for if he be a Christian then he is dead in and with Christs death to the foure Elements of Gods Anger in Selfe and borne a new man in Christs Spirit of Love who liveth in righteousnesse in love and patience and not to himselfe but to God in Christ 16. For a true Christian leadeth his conversation and will in Heaven in the life and spirit of Christ as St Paul saith Our conversation is in Heaven but when the Christians doe wage warre they doe it from the Heathenish property and not from Christs property for a Christian is not of this world his Kingdome is in heaven and he is dead in Christ to the world according to the new spirituall man in him the Heathen viz. the halfe devillish man who hath his Kingdome in this world who never hath room enough upon the Earth who liveth in the foure Elements of Gods Anger viz. in pride covetousnesse envy and wrath desireth in the Christians to warre fight and kill 17. St. Paul saith Give your members to be weapons of Righteousnesse for why doe men fight for the Kingdome of this world and yet Christ said his Kingdome was not of this world so also his childrens Kingdome in him is not of this world Now then if we give our body and soule for weapons of Gods Anger and seek onely thereby Selfe interests liberties and priviledges of Mammon and slay one another for the Kingdome of this world I thinke we are herein Christians indeed with the mouth but the heart and soule is an heathen and not borne out of Christs Spirit 18. When Abraham had smote the Heathen he desired nothing of the goods which he took but restored to the King of Sodom what the Heathen had taken from him and was onely zealous in the Lord he did not fight for Countrey and Kingdome but to deliver his brother This was a true zeale which the Lord drove in him he did not stand up and fight for Countrey or Citie and albeit he obtained it he desired it not but went againe unto his own place Mysterium Magnum Chap. 51. 44. OUr knowledge must be filled and abound with the Love of Christ that we love one another else knowledge is not at all available if I bring not my knowledge with the Desire into the Love of God wherewith he hath Loved us in Christ and Love my Neighbour in the Love of God in Christ with that Love wherewith God generally Loveth us and Loved us when we were his Enemies then I have not as yet the Love of God dwelling in me 45. But how will he Love his Brother who contemneth him for his knowledge sake whereas yet God Loved us when we knew nothing of his Love If a man hath not this Love of God in him wherewith God Loved us when we knew him not why doth he boast then of Gods Adoption If he be the childe of God then he hath the free Love of God wherewith God Loveth all things if he hath it not he is not then yet capable of the adoption Now then if any one contemneth and condemneth his brother which hath not as yet his knowledge how can he boast of the Love of God wherewith God Loved his Enemies in Christ wherewith Christ prayed for his Enemies Mysterium Magnum Chap. 44. 6. WHen God will punish a Land he first sends them Messengers and exhorts them to repentance and declares unto them his Grace soon after he sends them the Angel of Righteousnesse who tryeth them whether they be capable of the grace that is tendred to them and representeth unto them judgement with threats of their ruine also with denouncing of great warre and plagues that he will blot and root them out if they doe not Returne and Repent and sheweth them by his Messengers the light and way of Righteousnesse and suffers them to run on in the light that is tendred to them till they be weary and glutted and hold it onely for a common thing and an history and againe become a Sodom 7. And then he sends them both Angells together to wit the Angel of Righteousnesse and the Angel of truth and first threatneth them and exhorts them and setteth the judgement before them but when they are wholly a Sodom he leaveth off from the outward Figure and lets them fill up their measure and then it seems as if the Sunne was risen upon their Sodom and now it should be good but even then saith the Angel of truth in his children hasten and goe out the punishment and ruine is at hand 8. Thus wee declare unto thee Babel that God hath already long since sent thee Messengers and with the declaration of the Gospel hath tendred thee his grace and therewith also hath mightily threatned thee with the punishment of thy ruine but thou hast made a