will be but rashly and in vain attempted is to be above all other things well learned and known for if a man covets to arrive to the highest good then is it expedient that above all other things he first learns rightly to know God then himself Acts 17. for in him we live c. for the learning to know God and ones self that is to know what men we are from whence we have our original to what we were created and how near a kin we are to God is deservedly to be accounted and esteemed of as the highest wisdom without which 't will be most difficult yea impossible for us to attain to the aforesaid happiness But now as to how and where such a knowledge of that highest Celestial good is to be found known or learned Eccl. 24. I am every where c. you must know that it is and ought to be sought after even as the terrestrial Philosophick stone is the which stone is according to its description in one and in two which are to be everywhere found t is in one only and yet in two to this may it be compared the which is no other thing then the eternal Word of God and the holy divine Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as Isaiah 8. Yea to the Law c. in the which the right celestial fundamental Corner-stone is to be Only and Solely sought for and enquired after even as also God the Father at that Glorification made in Mount Tabor doth point with his finger as t were at this his own Word when he saith as in Mark 9 and Luke 9. This is my beloved Son hear him c. Likewise even Christ himself the very essential and eternal Word of God derives this to himself Psalm 119. In John 14. saying I am the way the truth and the life none cometh unto the Father but by me and therefore to the holy divine Scripture or infallible testimonie of the divine Word Isaiah 34. in Isaiah 8. 't is said To the Law and to the testimony And Christ himself that said Corner stone doth in John 5. partly also require it when he saith Search the Scriptures for ye think to have life therein and that is it which testifieth of me Therefore David also in Psal. 119. hath a long time afore confessed this same thing saying I delight O Lord in thy testimonies for they are my Counsellors Thy word O Lord is a Light to my feet I delight more in the way of thy testimonies then in any riches Again I consider thy waies and walk in thy testimonies See Genes 13. Psalm 45. Isaiah 9. 49. Jerem. 32. John 10. 14. Rom. 9. 1 Cor. 5. Moreover as to where and in what place of the holy Scripture Eccles. 24. from the beginning of the world c. the first matter of this heavenly stone or essence is founded and repaired or placed know that it is in many places to and again fundamentally and expresly demonstrated and set before your eyes but especially in Mich. 5. 't is written Whose going forth was from the beginning and from eternity This self same thing also the Corner-stone it self doth also testifie John 8. When the Jews askt him who he was he answered Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning And moreover he thus tells the Jews viz Verily verily I say unto you afore Abraham was I was By which testimonies it doth uncontroulably follow that he had no beginning but had his first Ens from all eternity and that it will so remain without end to all eternity And although that that knowledge consists nowhere but only in the word of God viz. in the Old and New Testament and may from it itself be gotten and obtained yet nevertheless I will declare to such an one as seeks there-after 2 Tim. 3. And whereas thou from thy childhood c. that he must herein use the highest diligence for whosoever doth at the beginning err in that knowledge or miss the right subject then is all the following labour that he bestows thereon vain and fruitless Therefore all those that seek after it ought rightly to prove or try themselves and here rightly to learn in the separation as it were of the word the true Golden apprehension thereof and well and rightly to open the eyes viz. of the mind and soul and accutely or diligently to behold and know it by the internal light 1 John 5. the which God at the beginning enkindled in nature and in our heart Now he that endeavours to obtain that by the externality and corporality only in a literal way without the internal eye and divine light such an one may as soone take Saul for Paul and thencefrom choose and draw in as it were to himself an erroneous way and sinister understanding instead of what is right for even as in this terrene stone according to the description thereof it so happens that t is hidden from many thousands of men So also doth it daily appear the more is the pitty and grief in the knowledge of this Celestial stone it being hidden to the greatest part of mankind the which is not to be imputed to the Word or Letter for as for that it is well and firmly founded but much rather to the eye that is false in man 't is to be imputed only and solely to that Even as also Christ himself in Luke 11. and 1 Cor. 3. saith The eye is the light of the body but if thine eye be evil then also thy whole body is obscure and dark and the Light in thee is made darkness Likewise in Chap. 17. He saith Behold the Kingdom of God is within you By which t is evidently apparent that the knowledge of the Light in man must first of all arise from within and not be brought in from without the which also the holy Scripture doth in many places bear testimony unto The which external object as we may so speak or Letter was written for our weakness sake by the internal Light of grace implanted in and granted unto us by God only for a testimony or witness Mat. 24. even as also the orall or uttered received or apprehended word is to be accounted and esteemed as a stirring up and as a mediate help and promotion thereunto For example Suppose that there is a white and a black table set before thee and it be demanded of thee which of those is white and which black Thou would hardly resolve my Question thus propounded to thee from the bare and mute objects of the said tables if thou hadst not the knowledge of those two divers colours in thee afore John 2. But this I have written unto you concerning those that seduce you for the knowledge thereof doth not arise from those tables which are dumb and dead but ariseth from thy innate understanding and daily exercised knowledge The objects do indeed as we have said afore move or quicken the senses set as 't were an
that if you would bring your work to its effectual power and make your tincture to perfect the other simple mettals then 't is expedient that you put to your first matter and unite therewith a certain other metallick highly dignified body of near affinity to the aforesaid Prima materia and such as is most acceptable and grateful thereunto and you must reduce them into one body Even so is it here in the Theological work of the divine nature of the Son of God if we should well enjoy it and be made partakers thereof 't was behoovful that as it were another mettalline body that is flesh and blood the humanity or the humane nature which also is amongst all the highest dignified creatures of God in the earth the one that is nearest akin is also the most acceptable and the most grateful and besides is created after his nature adjoyned and united it self therewith and consequently 't was fitting that both were reduced and united into a certain undissolvable body But even as t is chiefly to be noted and observed in the aforementioned Philosophical work as we then informed you that even as this common or vulgar body of gold is not in the least agreeable or convenient for that work but because of its imperfection and many other various defects that it is subject unto is unprofitable and is to be accounted of as a dead thing and that likewise for that same reason there must be produced such a body as is clear and pure and without mixture and such as was never falsified by any deceit but is free from all impurity and without defect and what was never as yet debilitated in its eternal Sulphur Even so much less can there be or ought there to be any universal humane nature such as is conceived in sin polluted with original transgression and is daily falsified and defiled with real sins and preternatural infirmities under which all men do generally lie accepted of imputed to and incorporated with the divine essence of the Son of God but only the unmixed pure and perfect humanity void of all sin for if the earthly Adam who was but a creature only was afore the fall without sin and was an holy and perfect man how much more then is that celestial Adam which the only begotten Son of God hath in himself And therefore the celestial eternal fundamental and Corner-stone Jesus Christ according to the description of the Philosophick is and ever will be according to both his natures of a most highly admirable birth and rise and consequently of an unsearchable nature and property According or in relation to his divinity he was from eternity of the alone divine essence of his celestial and eternal Father true God yea the Son of God whose out-going as the Scripture testifies thereof was from the beginning and eternal Mich. 5. Psal. 2. Mat. 16. Col. 1. But as in reference to his humanity he was born in the fulness of time without sin and fault Isa. 53. John 8. according as the Scripture testifies a true and a perfect man with a body and also a soul Mat. 26. so that now he is of an indissolvable personal and God-man essence that is a true God and true man in one only person indissoluble to all eternity and must and ought to be so acknowledged and worshipped as God Omnipotent But yet notwithstanding it could be wished that the eyes of the greater part of the imaginary learned men were better opend and their dark spectacles and their sophistical vizards that hang before them were removed and that at length they might yet once recover their lost sight Luke 10. But especially all the Aristotelians and the sophisticate blind-sighted purblind as 't were in divine works amongst whom there have been so many various and divers disputations even to this very day in divine things too too unchristianlike nor is there any end at all of the manifold distinctions divisions and permixtions concerning the highly venerable Article of the union of natures and community as 't were of Idioms in Christ so well founded in the holy Scriptures 2 Tim. 3. But now if they will not believe God or his divine Word they may yet notwithstanding by the conjunction made of the said Chymicall work as afore-mentioned and by the unition of the two waters viz. of ☿ and ☉ know the essence and be able to feel him as it were with their fingers But alas the highest Scholastick art of their Ethnick or heathenish philosophy so little or meanly founded in the holy Scripture or in Christian Theologie and their fundamentals and Aristotelian precepts of no value or moment about substance and accidents and many other more devices do not at all lead them to the attainment thereof little considering that Tertullian that old man hath not in vain written That these Philosophers are the Patriarchs or chief Fathers of the Hereticks But we conceive it no waies worth our while to discourse more largely of this thing And moreover even as in the Philosophick work that said composition the two essences being conjoyned now together must be placed over the fire and be putrified ground or broken and be well boiled in which putrefaction and boyling there do until it be rendred more then perfect in the mean while manifold and various acts or scenes fall in between and divers colours do shew themselves about which you may find more written in the description of the terrene work Even so this God-man and man-God person Jesus Christ so appointed by God his heavenly Father in this world was cast into the firie furnace of tribulation and was therein well boyled as 't were that is he was encompassed with various troubles reproaches the Cross and tribulation and was changed and transmuted as 't were into various shapes that is he suffered hunger Mat. 4. then presently upon his receiving of baptism and after his devoting himself to the ministry of the preaching the holy divine Word he was by the impulse of the holy Spirit in the desart and there tempted by Satan and must there necessarily undergo with him a triple combate for a testimony and witness to all bought and purchased Christians as having entred upon Christianity and professing the faith of Christ are tempted by the Devil and are by various temptations again sollicited and enticed to a falling off from Christ. Likewise he was wearie in John 4. also he cryed and wept lamentably Luke 19. 41. also he trembled and was sore amazed Mark 14. he combated with death and sweated a sweat of blood was likewise taken and was bound Mat. 26. was smitten on the face by the high Priests servant was mocked derided spit on whipt crowned with thorns condemned to death and then fastned to the Cross which himself carried Joh. 19. betwixt two thieves had Gall and Vinegar given him to drink Psalm 69. and cryed out with a loud voice and commended his Spirit into the hands of God his Father expired
they found both them and the profitable use of them by which they refresht and preserved themselves all their life time This great and admirable mysterie all the ancient Patriarchs truly knew and possest and without doubt it was at the beginning revealed and discovered by God himself to Adam the chiefest or first father of the Fathers and all the Patriarchs received it afterwards as by right of inheritance from Adam himself and by the vertues thereof they obtained bodily health long life and also store of riches Now the aforesaid Gentiles after that they had obtained that Divine and wonderful thing they accompted it as a singular gift of God and as the highest and most secret Art and did likewise perceive that it was according to Divine Providence revealed but to a small part of men and that it is hid from the greatest part of this World On this account they likewise studiously to their utmost kept it concealed in every Age. But yet notwithstanding lest it should wholly vanish again and be forgotten after their decease and being also desirous of the propagation thereof to their Successors and that it might be preserved in the time to come they sowed or planted it therefore in their Books and by this means communicated and left behinde them many most excellent instructions and teachings in their Writings to their most faithfull Disciples but yet notwithstanding they so hid and weaved over as 't were all their Art with such Allegorical words as that even to this day there are but a few to be found that can draw thencefrom a sufficient and sure foundation Now they did thus not in a rash mood but for some weighty Reasons viz. that such as seek for this wisdom may invoke the Almighty in whose hand all things are the more ardently and readier for the obtaining thereof and may after that it is revealed unto them ascribe the honour and glory to GOD alone and give him due thanks and moreover they writ thus lest the most noble Pearls should be cast before Swine For were it made known to the wicked world then it being so full of avarice nothing else would be desired but this thing only and then at length all labour and diligence would be neglected and a dissolute and beast-like life would follow But albeit that the so oft spoken of Philosophers have disputed and discoursed diversly and very much of that most excellent Art and have hinted it for the now said reason and pointed it out under various sundry names and parables and wonderfull strange and sophisticate expressions Yet nevertheless they do by all these borrowed sayings unanimously and with one consent discover and lead unto the One only end and the One only matter that doth appertain unto that Art But yet the Searchers out of that secret matter do most frequently wander and stray from that Art and have thereby transgressed the bounds and limits for in all ages and even to this very day have been found not only common men but also many other excellent men and in worldly wisdom most expert who pant as 't were after that wisdom and such as have bestowed in the search thereof not only great study and diligence but much labour and cost and have much desired the attainment thereof and yet for all this could never arrive thereto much less be made partakers thereof Yea rather very many there have been who fishing with a golden hook have frequently precipitated themseves into irrecoverable losses and have been at last necessitated to abstain from any further search after that wisdom to their great reproach derision Now lest any one should doubt of the fundamental certainty of this Art and haply accompt it according to the manner and custom of this wicked world as a meer fiction and falsity I will therefore setting aside such as are mentioned in the holy Scripture it self orderly reckon up and describe by name the authentick Philosophers together with their successors who truly knew that Art had it and were made partakers thereof and these are viz. Hermes Trismegist Pythagoras Benedictus Jesu Alexander the great Plato Theophrast Avicen Galenus Hippocrates Lucianus Longanus Rasis Archelaus Rupescissa the Author of the Greatet Rosearie Marie the Prophetess Dionysius Zacharius Haly Morien Calid Constantius Serapion Albertus magnus Estrod Arnoldus de villa nova Geber Raymund Lully Roger Bacon Alanus Thomas Aquinas Marcellus Palingenius Some also as lived in our times as Bernard Trevisan Basil Valentine Philippus Theophrastus and many more And likewise without doubt there are some who even at this day are by the grace of God partakers thereof and do even to this day enjoy it with great silence Whereas therefore the now reckoned up Philosophers have truly written of that Supream Magisterie without any deceit and have also learned their demonstration out of the true foundation and right fountain of nature yet notwithstanding there are contrarily many false Philosophers and Deceivers who falsly boast of the knowledge of that art and do in like manner endeavour to teach or Comment upon that art and do basely and wickedly abuse the writings of the aforesaid Philosophers whereby to cover and hide their own deceit and so cast a mist afore mens eyes and thrust their conceptions upon them at their pleasure And therefore it is necessarily expedient that as well the deceived as the deceivers do well consider this following admonition Note O Chymist the form of the letter ♊ in the Greek alphabet and what it points at also t is elsewhere said viz. Remember this Deceive no man under the pretence of right and truth and beware that thou closest not up the day with a mournful tone Likewise Trust not that Chymist that shall distill thy money out of thy Chest therefore be wary and if thou wouldst shun loss derision then also shun such wicked men Follow such only as are of a single ingenuity pious modest and humble it is praise-worthy to be able and to enjoy what is good But now tell me where to find such You must enquire and search for them they are rare and are very scarce this year but thus may you know them they excell the others both in weight substance and workmanship or labour Seeing therefore that there are to be in many places found many faithful and diligent Labourators and Disciples of this secret Philosophical art who would willingly attain thereto in a way true and certain and void of many doubtings or ridles but are notwithstanding so disturbed and involved in errour by those aforesaid wicked men and sophisticating cheaters and by their barkings and pretences that are of no moment insomuch that many are in a doubt what to do whether t is best for them to proceed on in the said art or to go back again Therefore I have intended to produce or publish and explain a few true and rightly founded discoveries concerning that Art And although I judge my self very unworthy and
edge to knowledge but do not at all bestow the knowledge for as for that It must arise from within from a knowledge and discerning understanding of those colours So likewise if any do desire from thee a material external fire or a Light or kindling out of a Pyrite or fire-stone wherein the fire or the light is hidden then t is expedient to make it manifest and extract as 't were out of the stone that same occult and secret fire and not to bring it into the stone the which is to be done by a steel as appertaining hereunto and by it the occult fire in the stone must be excited or stirred up the which fire must notwithstanding be received by a well prepared sutable firing or fewel and so blown up unless you 'l intend to have it vanish and be extinguished The which being so done you shal have a right shining brightsom fire and as long as you preserve and cherish it you may do therewith what you please according to your desire Even so likewise after the same manner is it with that divine Celestial hidden Light in man the which as we have said before doth not come into a man from without but rather proceeds from within outwards Now this may at the beginning be made bright by a true faith in God and then furthermore by mediums as reading hearing preaching and also afterwards by the holy Spirit which Christ hath restored unto us and hath promised to give us John 14. No man comes unto the Father but by me this may I say be enkindled in the obscure and darkish but yet glowing heart which is as 't were a prepared fire and be again rightly breathed on and made shining for in such an heart God will afterwards operate and work In such an ones heart as believes and in that one Light to which none can attain doth he desire to have his abode And although no man ever saw God with his external bodily eyes nor indeed can see him yet nevertheless may he be seen discerned and known by the internal eyes of the heart Moreover although that that clear Light hath sent forth its brightness into the whole world and doth as yet daily enlighten all men without any difference yet for all that the world because of its corrupt and depraved nature cannot or will not rightly see it much less know it and therefore also are there so many erroneous waies and dangerous opinions vented thereabouts The which is in this thing to be well considered of heeded and observed viz. That God hath not in vain and casually placed two eyes and as many ears in the top part of the body for he would thereby hint unto us viz. That t is expedient for a man to learn and give good heed unto a twofold sight and hearing viz. internal and external and by the internal to judge of spiritual things and the external is to perform its part 1 Cor. 2. The which distinction also in the Word of the Spirit and of the Letter is to be most diligently observed for the sake whereof even I also am willing here by way of admonition briefly to discover and in a few words only to the more simple sort whereby they may the better be informed and attain to the better and more commodious or profitable knowledge of the triune stone in which the very top of the thing lies Now even as the matter of the terrene Philosophical stone is of no value or esteem with the world but is rather wholly rejected as it were even so likewise Christ the eternal Word of the Father the most noble and celestial proved triune stone is dis-esteemed by the greater part of men in this world and is as 't were cast out of our sight and indeed to speak the truth there 's almost nothing more unworthy more vile and abject then the saving Word of God it self and therefore in 1 Cor. 3. it is accounted especially by the wise ones of this world for foolishness Nay it is not only so disesteemed and slighted but also condemned as Heretical and cast forth to banishment the which to hear it being so great a blasphemy is to a godly heart the highest grief But however be it as it will t is behoveful that the right believers be thereby tryed and that consequently the afore-mentioned testimonies be yet rightly fulfilled the which also John in his first Chapter testifies saying It viz. the Word was in the world and the world knew it not Likewise he came unto his own propriety and yet was not received by his own Even as also the Corporal and Terrene Water-stone of the Wise men whose vertue and efficacy is unsearchable is in reference to its matter called by the Philosophers by sundry names So likewise that Deity and that only light whose vertue and Omnipotency is in like manner unsearchable hath many various titles and names in the holy Scripture the chiefest of which we shall here orderly reckon up on both hands The stone of the Philosophers is called the most antient the hidden or unknown the natural incomprehensible celestial blessed consecrated stone of the wise men t is also called true without lyes the certainest of things most certain the secret of all secrets a divine vertue and efficacy hidden from fools the highest and the lowest that can be seen under heaven the wonderful Conclusion or knitter up of all Philosophick works t is likewise called a fit and perfect Agreement of all the elements an incorruptible body that can be touched by no element 'T is moreover called a Q. E. a double or twofold and vivifying ☿ which hath in it self a celestial Spirit the healing of all the sick and imperfect mettals the eternal light the highest medicine for all diseases the noble Phoenix the highest and most noble treasure or choicest good of nature the universal triune stone which is by nature conjoyned of three and yet nevertheless is but onely one yea t is generated and ingendred or effected out of one two three four and five Likewise 't is called the Catholick Magnesia or Sperm of the world and by many other such names and Titles as are to be found amongst the Philosophers all which titles may not unfitly be reckoned up and comprehended in the highest and most perfect number viz. a thousand Even as therefore now this terrene Philosophical stone I say hath as in reference to its matter many and divers yea almost a thousand titles as we have said and is therefore now and then called wonderful Even so likewise these and such like other afore-mentioned titles and names may be much rather and that also in the highest degree said or published of God the Omnipotent Good for verily God yea the Word of God his eternal Son is the right eternal precious and tryed corner-fundamental-stone which the builders rejected and banisht Isaiah 28. Psalm 118. Mat. 21. Acts 4. Rom. 9. 1 Pet. 2. He is the true the antient yea
it and at last dyed on the Cross and many other afflictions and tribulations did he necessarily undergo in his life and at his death of which you may read more at large in the holy Evangelists And even as the Philosophers write viz. that that boiling and putrefaction in the afore-mentioned terrene work is usually made and perfected within fourtie daies So are there described and laid down to us in the holy Scripture a description of many and divers miracles that God hath done by that afore-mentioned number as for instance that of the people of Israel's when they aboad in the desart for fourty whole years and had the tryal of a very hard exile Psal. 59. Deut. 8. Likewise Moses his being in Mount Sinai Exod. 34. Also Elias in his flight because of Ahab 1 Kings 19. So Christ in the desart fasted forty daies and as many nights Likewise also he preached on the earth for fourty moneths and performed miracles He lay forty hours in the Sepulchre and fourtie daies between his resurrection from the dead and his ascention into heaven did he walk about and visit his Disciples and shewed himself alive unto them Acts 1. Likewise the City of Hierusalem was destroyed by the Romans and razed to the ground the fortieth year after the ascention of our Lord. But you must here principally note that the Philosophers call that putrefaction because of its black colour Cantic 1. I am black the head of the Crow Even so Christ himself Isa. 53. He had no form nor c. was wholly deformed as to his form and beauty the most vile of all full of griefs and sorrows and also was despised in so much that we even hid our faces because of him and esteemed him as a thing of nought Moreover himself doth likewise in Psalm 22. complain of that thing viz. he was a worm and no man the mocking stock of men and contempt of the People In like manner also this may not unfitly be compared with Christ. viz. As that Putrified body of Sol doth lie for a season like to ashes in the bottom of the glass and dead without any efficacy until by the addition of a stronger heat its soul doth again let down it self drop by drop and by little and little and doth again imbibe the sick and as it were dead body doth moisten it give it to drink and preserve it from a total destruction even so happened it to Christ when he was in the Mount of Olives and upon the Cross and was roasted as it were by the fire of the divine wrath Mat. 26. 27. he complained that he was wholly forsaken by his heavenly Father and yet nevertheless was he alwaies refreshed and strengthened Mark 4. Luke 22. and imbued as 't were and moistened and imbibed with the divine Nectar even as 't is wont to be in the terrene body by a daily airing for and refreshment yea also when in his most holy passion and mediating death his power and strength together with his Spirit was wholly withdrawn from him and he plainly or truly arrived or came to the lower and deepest parts of the earth Acts 1. Ephes. 1. 1 Peter 3. he was notwithstanding even yet conserved refreshed and again lifted or raised up by the vertue and power of the eternal Deity and thereby vivified and glorified Rom. 14. and here 't was that his soul and spirit did first of all procure or bring to pass a perfect true and indissolvable union with his dead body in the Sepulchre and by a most joyful and victorious resurrection and ascention to the heavens was it exalted through our Lord Jesus Christ to the right hand of his Father Mat. 28. Mark 16. with the which body he doth now by the efficacy and vertue of the holy Spirit as being a true God and Man in equal power and glory rule and bear command over all things Psal. 8. and by his most efficacious Word preserves and sustains all things Heb. 1. yea he vivifies all things Acts 17. The which wonderful union and also that divine exaltation cannot be well seen and much less considered of by Angels and men in heaven and on earth yea and under the earth Phil. 2. 1 Pet. 1. without fear and trembling Whose efficacy power and rosey-coloured tincture is able to transmute us imperfect men and sinners even now in body and soul to tinge and more then perfectly to cure and heal us concerning which we shall speak more anon Having now therefore briefly and plainly disclosed to you how viz. the Celestial Fundamental Corner-stone Jesus Christ may be compared with the terrene Philosophical stone of the wise men the matter and preparation whereof is as we have heard a notable type and lively counterpoise as 't were and resemblance of the divine assumption of humane flesh in Christ We therefore likewise judge it necessary that we also behold and learn his efficacy virtue and Tincture as also his fermentation and multiplication in us men who are destitute of efficacy and virtue and are as it were Imperfect mettals And albeit that God created man at the beginning above all his other Creatures and made him a most noble and most perfect Creature yea he made him after his own Image and breathed into him a living Spirit and an Immortal Soul Yet nevertheless after his fall was he transmuted into a deformed contrary and pernicions or mortal shape and form But now to restore again such a most noble Creature to his former brightness or lustre and perfection the Omnipotent God did out of his meer mercy ordain such a medium as his viz. mans restitution might be brought to pass by after the manner following viz. as we have afore said that the more then perfect stone or Tincture after this its perfection is to be in the first place yet further fermented augmented or multiplyed if at leastwise you would obtain its manifold profit and have its efficacy and operation beneficial Even so also Christ that heavenly blessed stone must according to his God-man perfection be yet moreover also further fermented and multiplyed as 't were with us as with his members that is we must be purifyed and united with him by his own saving ticture of a Rosey colour and be prepared and conformed to a pure unfermented and celestial body for as Paul testifies in Rom. 8. he is the first begotten among many brethren yea the first begotten before all other Creatures whatsoever Coloss. 1. by whom all things in Heaven and Earth are created and reconciled with God for if we who are naturally impure mortal and imperfect would be again made pure new-born or regenerate immortal and perfect then verily that cannot be done by any other medium Hebr. 13. then by that celestial fundamental corner stone only Jesus Christ who is alone holy yea the most holy Dan. 9. the new-born raised up and glorifyed heavenly King who both is and eternally remains God and man in one person Likewise even as the