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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28533	Several treatises of Jacob Behme not printed in English before ... : to which are annexed the exposition of the table of the three principles : also an epistle of the knowledge of God, and of all things, and of the true and false light : with a table of the revelation of the divine secret mystery / Englished by John Sparrow.; Selections. English. 1661	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3418; ESTC R21811	234,994	342

Earnest Praying if we would obtain any thing from God a right true Repentance and in-turned Humility For right Praying is a receiving of that which the Soul desireth concerning which Christ saith From henceforth the Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force to themselves Math. 11.12 43. For which cause I will set down a brief Form of a Confession or Preparation how a Man should prepare himselfe when he will bring his short Prayer and Requests before God 44. For he may as well be heard in a short Prayer as with many words if his heart stand right in the presence of God It needeth not long Prayers or many words but only a Beleiving or faithfull repentant Soul which with totall Earnestnesse giveth it self up into the Mercy of God into Gods Compassion For one onely sigh worketh with God if the Will standeth nakedly or purely before God and hath cast away from it the Earthly Garment viz the false or wicked Lust This for an Intimation to the Reader and for a quickening stirring to him 45. For there needeth not to be used just such a Form of Confession but the Holy Spirit will well enough make a Form for him in the heart when the Will in true earnest Sincerity turneth it self to God 46. Only for an Introduction to every one who doth not yet know how a true Prayer should be fitted I will set down this Confession to direct his Soul therewith and I will commit the work of Confession together with the Praying to the Holy Spirit in every Soul which is truly and rightly Earnest He will well enough make for him a Confession and Prayer if any doe but earnestly sincerely and rightly come to the Gate where GOD the LORD in Man Speaketh operatively Then he will find it so A Confession and Right Acting or Working of Repentance before Gods Countenance 47. O Deepest of all Greatest Unsearchable Holy God! Thou who out of meer Grace and Mercy after the terrible apostacy of our first Parents with thy great Love and Mercy in thy Sonne JESUS CHRIST hast manifested thy self in our Humanity and in him hast made an open Gate of Grace again for us poor Men to thy Countenance and abolished Sinne and Death in his Bloud and callest us now to such Grace as a Mercifull God we poor Sinners now should only Convert again and come to thee and thou wilt quicken or refresh us Math. 11.28 48. I poor unworthy sinfull Man come upon the invitation of thy Word and acknowledge to thee that I am not worthy of such Grace which thou offerest us For I Stick in the Slime of Vanity and am Laden with vain Lusts of the Flesh and own-self Will my Sinnes have captivated and obscured me so that I neither tast nor see thy Grace in me also I have no Right Trust or Confidence nor Faith towards thee and have totally given my self up into the vanity of the World and of the Flesh and am compassed about therewith 49. I have defiled my fair bright Garment which thou hast put on to me in the Baptisme with the Lust of the Flesh and lye in the Devils Net captive in thy fierce Wrath. Hell setteth its Jaws wide open against me and my Conscience gnaweth me thy Judgement standeth alwayes before me and the Bands of Death wait upon me 50. I lye in the slime and mire of Sinnes and Vanity so that also I neither know my Sinnes nor can bewail them For they have hidden me from thy Countenance and I have only yet a little sparkle of the living breath in me through thy drawing which desireth thy Grace 51. And I come now before thee with the Lost Sonne and the Publican in the Temple and fly to thy Mercy and pray thee in my weak power through the Bitter Suffering and Dying of my Redeemer JESUS CHRIST whom thou hast Set before thee for a Grace-Throne and offerest us thy Grace through his Satisfaction that thou wouldst receive me yet again for thy Child and Heir in thy Sonne and wouldst awaken for me a right Earnest Repentance also Sorrow and Grief for my former committed Sinnes in my Heart that I may goe out from the wicked way or Conversation and turn my heart totally and altogether to THEE 52. O Great God strengthen I beseech thee my weak Faith in Me rouse my heart I pray thee that it may acknowledge and bewaile my manifold Sinnes Touch thou my poor Soul with thy Power that it may acknowledge it self that it standeth deviated and turned away from thee 53. O thou Breath of the Mercifulnesse of God doe thou draw me to thee through my Redeemer Jesus Christs Death and Resurrection and abolish my Sinnes in his Bloud and Death and make my poor Soul living in his Bloud and wash it clean from its Sinnes that its desire may presse into thee O thou Holy God! and fetch Power out of thy Spring or Fountain of Grace 54. Awake thou I pray thee in me a right hunger and thirst after true Repentance and Sorrow for my former committed Sinnes that I may hate or be at Enmity and angry against them and turn my self to Thee 55. O thou great deep of Mercy I am afar off from thee and cannot reach thee in my weak Power turn thee to me I beseech thee and comprehend my desire into thee and kindle it O Lord that I may tast thy Grace 56. Forgive I pray thee my Trespasses and Sinnes and heal my weaknesse bruise I pray thee my Heart and Soul that I may acknowledge and humble my self before thee Be thou I pray thee my beginning to Conversion and lead me upon the right path that I may walk with thee 57. Give me I pray thee thy holy Spirit in my Soul and Spirit and Sanctifie me in thy Grace As thy beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath engaged to me saying My Father will give the holy Spirit to them that pray unto him for it Luke 11.13 Also Knock and so it will be opened unto you Math. 7.7 Luke 11.9 58. Now come I poor Sinner upon the Invitation of thy Word and take to me thy Saying in my Soul and Heart and will not leave off from thee unless thou blesse me with JACOB 59. And though indeed my Sinnes are many yet thou art God and the Eternall Truth which cannot Lye where thou hast Spoken in the Prophet Isaiah If we Convert and Repent then we shall be snow-white as wool Isai 1.18 60. Upon thy Saying I trust and give my self totally and altogether up to thee and pray thee receive me into Grace and bring me to thy Children who walk in the way of the Living and let me walk with them and enter into thy Commandement give me a true humble and obedient Heart that may alwayes fear before thy Anger and Sinne no more 61. O thou Well-Spring or Fountain of all Grace what shall I say before thee Or why should I flatter my self and comfort my evill Will

or Beggeth Grace and Pardon of him and often times in heart thinketh much otherwise NO but it is a going forth out of our selves that a Man out of all his powers with all whatsoever he is and whatsoever he possesseth give himself up to God 13. Yea with right true Prayer he giveth himself up to God for a Propriety He cometh with the Lost † Luke 15.12 Prodigall Sonne again to the Father into his first Native Country and Inheritance out of which our first Father Adam hath brought him 14. He hath no Naturall right more to the heavenly Goods he hath with Adams going forth lost them all and with the Devils Whoredome consumed them in Vanity Whereupon now he must in great Humility and Faith in true Hope of the promised Grace in his Sonne Jesus Christ come with the Lost Sonne to God and account himself unworthy of all Heavenly Goods by a Naturall right and fall down before God his Eternall Father and pray to him for the promised Mercy in his Sonne Jesus Christ that he will yet receive him again as a hired Day-man and Labourer into his Vine-yard and will yet again give him heavenly Meat and Drink for his Fainting Hungry and Thirsty Soul that he might no more need with the Devils Swine to Eat the Husks of Vanity Lying and Falshood and so perish in unbelief without heavenly Power and Vertue 15. He must set open the Mouth of his hungry and thirsty Soul in his Prayer wide towards the Grace and Mercy of God with hearty sighing and turning into the Grace and totally and altogether give up himself to the Grace of God And then he will instantly hear in his Soul that God will come to meet him with his Grace and give the Grace which he offereth in Jesus Christ into his Soul So that the poor hungry Soul will powerfully and substantially receive in it self whatsoever it desireth and prayeth for from God viz the Flesh and Bloud of Jesus Christ Which is offered or presented to All hungry repenting Soules out of Grace 16. He will rightly find in himself how the Old Father of the Lost Prodigall Sonne cometh to meet the poor Converted Repenting Soul and with his Love falleth about its Neck of its Essence of the Life and embraceth and kisseth it with his Love and taketh it into his Armes and in power saith to it This is my beloved Sonne This is my beloved Soul * Luke 15.24 31. which I had Lost it was dead and is become living again Now slay the Lamb Jesus Christ It shall sit with me in my Power at my Table and Eat with me at my Supper or Meale prepared for me of the true food of my Sonne Jesus Christ and shall Eternally rejoyce it self with me 17. And there will the Seal Ring viz the dear and pretious Testament of the Covenant of God in the Bloud of Jesus Christ be put on to the Soul and will through the Covenant and Sealing be received again for a Childe of God 18. Therefore I say to the Christian Reader that praying is not only a Mouth-work or Lip-labour as a Man cometh before a Lord and beggeth some temporall thing of him or for the forgivenesse of his Guilt God biddeth us to pray not for outward imputed Grace only but for the filiall child-like operative Grace where the Holy Spirit in the Merits of Christ prayeth and beggeth in our selves whereby it maketh the Grace in us powerfull and in such working also overthroweth the Sinne in us and drowneth it in Christs death destroyeth Hell and bringeth forth the Gates of Eternall Life viz the Satisfaction of Christ or his payment of our Debt in us quite through Gods Anger and taketh away the Devils might in us and putteth Christ on to us so that we in the Spirit and Merit of Christ † Rom. 8.15 cry unto the Father of all Mercy and say ABBA loving Father 19. For we have not received a Servile or * Spirit of Bondage flavish Spirit that we should fear ag●in but a filiall or † Spirit of Adoption child like Spirit so that with joyfull heart and with all Confidence we may pray to the Father and he will give it unto us Rom. 8.15 Ephes 3.11 Gal. 4.6 20. For the Giving and Receiving sake God biddeth us to pray and beg as Christ saith My Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that pray and ask him for it Also Ask and so ye shall receive seek and so ye shall find knock and so it will be opened unto you Luke 11.9.13 21. Every Prayer which doth not find and receive is Cold and Luke-warme and sticketh in a hinderance of temporall Earthly things That is the Soul doth not clearly draw near to God It will not totally give it self up to God but hangeth still to Earthly Love which holdeth it captive that it cannot reach the City and Place of God 22. If a Man would pray aright then he must turn himself away from all Creatures and with the Will and Mind clearly come before God It must be in such a Purpose and Earnest Resolution as with the Publican in the Temple and as with the forlorn lost Sonne which came thus to God 23. And though Reason in Flesh and Bloud saith clearly No thou wilt not be heard thy Sinnes are too great or it is not time now stay a while doe first this or that thou shalt have time and opportunity to doe that hereafter Or else saith Why doest thou pray when thou canst not come with thy desire to God Thou receivest no power into thee Let not all this deceive thee The Power i● in the inward Ground in the desire of the Will and worketh with God Doe but stand still and wait upon the Lord it will at last well penetrate through so that thou wilt feel it in thy heart and thank and praise God 24. Whosoever would pray aright and with his desire attain Gods Power and Spirit must forgive all his Enemies heartily and include them together in his Prayer and pray to God that he will convert them also and be reconciled with them in his Love that a Serpent might not continue in his heart which should hold him back and tear the power of the Prayer from the Soul as Christ saith The Devill teareth the Word from their Hearts that they believe not and so become saved Luke 8.12 Also When thou wilt offer thy Gift upon the Altar and there rememberest that thy Brother hath any thing against thee then goe thy way first and reconcile thy self with thy Brother And then come and offer thy Gift Math. 5.23 24. Also in Our Father Forgive us our Debts or Trespasses as we forgive our Debters that trespasse against us Math. 6.12 That the Evill Enemy with the included Hate may not Sift or Tempt us and hinder us and bring us into Doubt 25. God requireth a clear empty and Naked Soul in Prayer And though indeed it be surrounded

of the Seven Properties as to the Soul and the Body And that in the First Man before the Fall the Properties to divisibility and own receptibility stood in like or equall willing and brought all their desires into the Unity of God and so they were a right true Paradise for the Substantiall Spirit together with the Unity of God was manifested or revealed in them and they were to work through all things in Gods Love 10. But the Devill would not endure that to them but deceived the Seven Properties of the Life with false or wicked Lust and perswaded them that it was Good for them and that they would be wise if the Properties every one of them did introduce themselves into own self receptibility according to their kind then would the Spirit tast and apprehend what Evill and Good is But that this cannot subsist in the Unity of God that he did not tell them 11. But when they introduced themselves into their own self Lust or Longing Delight then this Strife Opposition and Contrariety awakened and rose up in them and all the Properties became Image-like in their self-hood Thus the * NOTE Unity viz the Element became divided and rent asunder and in the Strife the Four Elements gat the dominion and so instantly from without the unlikenesse or inequality viz Heat Cold and the Constellations with the Seperability with the working fell into the Body and the fierce Wrath of God according to the dark Worlds Property fell into the Soul whence came to them according to the Soul Terrour Anguish Necessity and Eternal Despair and in the Body awakened and rose up Heat Cold Woe Sickness and the Mortall Life 12. Thus fell the Image of God the whole Man from his Rank and Order or Ordinance and became a Monster and Visard and instantly the awakened Properties began their dominion with Envying Murthering Raging Stabbing or Stinging and Breaking or destroying Out of Love came Pride and own self-Love out of the Desire came Covetousnesse out of Perceptibility came Envy and out of the Fire-Life came a meer poysonous Anger to be thus came the Foundation of Hell in the whole Man to be Manifested or Revealed and Governed in Soul and Body 13. This Hellish Foundation Now is the Spirit of Errour wherein or for which Man must have been Damned if the divine Grace had not Instantly after such falling away or Apostacy in-spoken into him the Serpent-crusher viz the Efflux of the divine Love in the Holy Name JESUS for a New Regeneration 14. Which holy Name in meer Mercy in the highest humility gave it self forth into the humane Soul and Body and assumed the humanity and broke the power of this Devillish Spirit of Errour and killed the I-hood or self-hood or somethingnesse of the Life 's willing and introduced the Properties again into the Likeness or Equality and united them through his Love and brought them into Gods Unity again and there is the true Spirit viz the humane Idea and expresse or reflex Image of God become renewed and filled or satiated with divine Love-Substance and the Humane Soul hath through the Soul and Spirit of Christ in such Love and divine Substance gotten an open Gate to God again 15. This now is pourtrayed in this Table viz what Adam was before the Fall and what he became in the Fall and how he became Redeemed again and what his New birth out of Christs Spirit is And it is delineated and set forth under the word TINCTUR in the seven Properties in what Properties the Soul hath the Center and in what the Spirit and in what the Body for the Reader to consider further of 16. Under that stand the Seven Dayes of the Week signifying that Man is the very same 17. The Table signifieth what Man is from within internally and from without externally both according to the first Good Adam and then according to the perished Corrupt Adam and what he is become again in Christ by which Men may understand how Evill and Good is in Man and from what Property Evill and Good in the Senses or Thoughts and in the Mind originate Sathan 18 With or by the Word Sathan whereby the Spirit of Errour is signified a Creaturall Devill is not understood but the Source or Quality of this Spirit of Errour Christus 19. With or by the Word Christus or Christ is understood the New Man in the Spirit of Christ according to the Inwardnesse 20. The other Spaces are to be understood as in the other Tables wherein a Man may understand the Causes of the Transmutation for the Reader to Consider further of Written in February 1624. Translated into Nether-dutch from the 8 to the 13. of May 1639. and Corrected from severall written Copies And the Translation into English finished the 18. March 1657 ● compared with the Nether-dutch Translation and a High-dutch Copie A Brief Explanation of The Knowledge of GOD and of ALL THINGS Also of the True and False Light together with An annexed Table of the Manifestation or Revelation of the Divine Secret Mysterie By Jacob Behme Teutonicus Philosophus 11. November 1623. Englished by JOHN SPARROW 12. November 1623 in High-dutch the 42. Epistle Page 327. Nether-dutch 20. page 241. English 6. page 83. London Printed by M. S. for Lodowick loyd and are to be sold at the Castle in Cornhill 1661. A Brief Intimation Concerning Knowledge also of the False and True Light To Mr Godfrey Freuden Hammern Dr and Mr John Heusern my Loving and Worthy Friends The Salutation of our Lord Jesus Christ with his Entrance into and Manifestation or Revelation in the Humanity Work in us all with his Love 1. IN Christ much beloved Sirs and Brethren When God by his Grace openeth the right and true understanding so that we can apprehend or know the Expresse Image of God Man what it is according to * 1 Thess 5.23 Body Soul and Spirit Then we apprehend and know that it is the Visible and also the Invisible World viz an Extract of all the Three Principles of the Divine Substance 2. Wherewith the Hidden God through the out-breathing and impression of his seperable or distinguishable Power and Eternall Skill and Knowledge hath represented himself in a visible Image Through which he Formeth and Imageth on the same Substance the Wonders of the out-spoken Word wherein the Word of his Power maketh it self Substantiall 3. And so hath by and with Man represented an Image of his speaking and out-spoken substantiall Word wherein the divine Science or Root with the Seperability or Distinguibility of the Eternall Speaking Lyeth 4. Whence also the Vnderstanding and Skill or Knowledge of all things cometh to be in him so that he can understand the Composition of Nature as also its Dissolution For No Spirit ruleth searcheth or reacheth Deeper then into its Mother out of which it is existed and in the Ground whereof it standeth in its Center 5. As we see by the Creatures of the