born of God before all creatures 3. Which revealed great Mistery with the whole Divine fullnesse afterwards in its appointed Time in the assuming of our humane Body and Soul Flesh and Bloud in the Flesh of Christ became knowne and Manifested whence this Text according to your Scripture signification in Eternity cannot be severed or the first secluded from the Created Adam but the second viz the Justification in the Spirit following according to your Meaning is to be understood only in Christ but both belong only and alone to the Regeneration of Christ and of ALL his holy Members in the flesh 4. As indeed according to your visible Explanation in the Letter not only the flesh of the Created Adam but the whole Person Body and Soul the Totall Soul-Man which is created in the Naturall Life hath sinned and through the Fall come into Eternall Perdition 5. Whence the Justification and Regeneration through God the Lord who is the Spirit in Christ yea Christ the highly praised God himself is appropriated to all the faithfull and Elect new Creatures and Imaged or Represented and United in the Faith 6. Through which highly praised Triune God CHRIST JESUS the Expresse Image of the totall holy perfect Divine Triunity all Elect rightly Beleeving in with and through himself are GLORIFIED in his Expresse Image and brought from one Glory to another as by him the Lord and Triune God himself who is the Lord the Spirit 7. As really the Justification cannot be applyed and explained concerning God and Christ without the Regeneration and union of Body and Soul of the whole humane visible and palpable Person who is the Eternal Righteousness it self but concerning the converted and redeemed whole humane Person in ONE Body concerning Body and Soul and not concerning the Flesh alone which without Soul and the inbreathed breath of God is nothing but Dust and Ashes according to the Testimony of Scripture in Many places and Texts Thus far Esaiah Stiefel My Answer upon this 1. LEt the Christian Reader but look this Author Rightly into his heart and consider what he seeks under this description where he saith God hath created ALL things in Christ as also created and made Man visible in him but wholly without divine manifestation and knowledge so that God with his Mystery in the least was not manifested in Adam whereas yet the Spirit of God did breath into him the living Breath whence Man became a living Soul 2. Also how this Authour speaks quite against himselfe for he acknowledgeth in many places That God did breath into Man a powerfull living Spirit-Life out of the Divine understanding and Mouth in which Man was the Image of God 3. Now if the Spirit of God did breath into him his Breath viz the living understanding Soul how then was not God manifested in Man But he must do it for another cause that thereby he might give forth or professe himself wholly altogether to be God for he sets it down thus That God Created and made Adam visible in Christ and not further manifested himself in Adam but only in Christ and so Created Adam onely to and for the Naturall Life and he understandeth properly under it only that he should or must Fall For if he had no Divine knowledge and if God had never been manifested in him then the Devill might easily have got the Game of him 4. This Authour understandeth it thus that God might have cause to bring forth the hidden Treasure of the Divine wisdome the Second Time in Christ and manifest himself in Christ in the Humane Property and new Regenerate Man totally in the Treasure of his Divine wisdome so that Man is wholly Christ out of which he frameth to himself such a thought that HE himself is Christ 5. And this must help him to it and be the ground and Corner stone thereof That God did Create and make Man visible the First Time in Christ and is now the Second Time wholly new generated in Christ 6. From this now it followeth seeing Christ manifested himself the Second time in the Flesh and manifested the Soul and Body of Man in him with the WHOLE fullnesse of the Deity that MAN is TOTALLY God and Christ and so HE cannot fail of his purpose 7. For if in CHRIST he be come to be visible as to this world in Adam and that Christ as God the second time manifest himself wholly in him with the fulnesse of the Deity inwardly and outwardly in the totall humane Property so that God and Man is totally one then it cannot fail him but that Man must be God 8 Now understand this Authours confusednesse or intricacy First he saith God Created and made Man manifest in his Image that is in Christs Eternall Image which is the Authours Corner-stone but altogether erroneous and not right CHRIST in JEHOVA in IESU from Eternity was no Image of the Deity and even NO Christ The first begotten or born of the Father before all Creatures from Eternity is Gods Heart Voyce Word or Manifestation of the Divine Mouth the Scripture understandeth no other Image 9. The Man Adam became not created and manifested in Christs Image but in his own Image which God had seen from Eternity in his wisdome in the out-spoken word he can shew us no other 10. God created Man in his Image and to the Image of God it stands not written of Christ but of God to the Image he became created to substance and IN the Image he became created in his own Image from Eternity known by the Spirit of God 11. Not to A God but to a Similitude of God as Moses saith God Created Man according to his Similitude Also Let us make Man a Similitude according to us that the Spirit of God may behold it self in a Similitude and might Melodise with himself 12. And therefore he breathed into him the Breath out of his Sound of all his Substance out of all the THREE Principles viz a Tang and Voyce of his Instrument viz a Harmony of God upon which the Spirit of God would melodise and take pleasure in the Tang of the out-spoken Mercury or Word in the Humane Sound and with this Instrument Govern all whatsoever is and liveth in the world and so manifest himself in this humane Sound in Mans voyce and ride upon the wings of Mans Spirit as David saith The Lord rideth upon the wings of the Wind. 13. In this respect his Corner-stone upon which he buildeth is erroneous and not rightly understood If Adam had continued in Gods Harmony there had needed no Christ in Man for the Power of the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser to be the Christ was hidden in the Word of Gods voyce and manifested in no Image 14. God also took not his Love to himself for a wife in that he would generate an Image to himself He himself generateth the Love the Love is IESUS or IEHOVA viz the Second
sundred but as God dwelleth in the world and yet the World is not God a Principle severeth them and as God with his Anger dwelleth in the Creature and yet also in the hiddennesse with the Love among the Anger and yet the Anger receiveth not the Love 37. For I can say that God dwelleth with the Love in the Devil but the Devil cannot receive it the Love is his Enemy as the water is the Fires Enemy and yet the Fire dwelleth in the Originall in the water so God dwelleth in all things but the thing is not capable of his Love so also the Earthly Seed of Mary wherein Sinne was was not capable of the Deity but it hung as another Principle to the Inward Seed in which God manifested himself 38. The Inner Man which now became Christ THAT took our Sinne upon it self and hung the Body upon which he had Laid Mans Sinne on the Crosse as a Curse of God For there hung the first Adam which God cursed for the sake of Sinne on the Crosse with the curse of Sinne and dyed to Sinne on the Crosse and in his dying he shed the Bloud of the holy man in Christ into the Mystery of the Soul and of the Outward Man wherein Death was 39. For the holy Bloud was conceived in the Holy Spirit and was immortall it was conceived IN the water of the Eternall Life in the Tincture of Gods Light in his sweet Love and had resolved it self into and appropriated it self with the Bloud of the disappeared Image 40. Now when this Bloud fell together into Death then Death Trembled before this holy Eternall Life the Anger trembled before the Love and fell in its Poyson and Fierce wrath which held us captive into its dying according to the kinde of the fierce wrath 41. And yet there is no dying or ceasing to be understood but it went in the terrour of the Love up in the divine Kingdome of joy as a Light becometh shining out of an anxious hot Source or Quality where all anxiety taketh an End 42. The Fierce wrath which before was evill and angry that was now the cause of the great Fiery Love and Kingdome of Ioy for nothing must passe Away in Man he must remain as God created him in Adam but he must again be transmuted into that very Image into that very resigned will and be obedient to God 43. For the Scripture saith The Son of God Christ became obedient to the Father even to the Death on the Tree of the Crosse so wholly must also our humane will be broken in Christs death and the Anger in HIS Bloud be Transmuted into the Love 44. And that is it which David saith Thou wilt not let thy Holy ONE see Corruption or Consumption Now when he shed his holy Bloud in the true Image of God in Christ then became the Poyson of the Anger in Adams Flesh Soul and Spirit sanctified and transmuted into Love and the Devils Den of Robbery wholly destroyed 45. There enmity ceased and God became IMMANUEL Man with God and God with Man for here Adams Flesh became Tinctured prepared for the Resurrection for Death brake in the Eternall New-born Life of CHRIST out of JESU 46. And here the Gate of Death viz the Eternall Darknesse in Mans Body and Soul became broken open and the Cherubine with the Sword which did cut off the humane Life from the Light of Nature was taken away and the fountain began to flow out of Sion viz out of Christs Spring in the whole Man so that man could now henceforth drink of the Water of the Holy Element and Eat ex verbo Domini of the Word of the Lord. 47. Thus now we are to consider our Imitation of or following after him we cannot say that we can do what God in JESU did through CHRIST in breaking the way for us No WE can NOT shed heavenly Bloud and transmute the Anger of God into Love else if that were any way possible then we must also as a Curse be Nailed to the CROSSE and though that should be yet our inward Man is not exalted into the degree of Christ to be wholly like him 48 For JESUS viz the totall fullnesse of the Deity dwelleth in CHRIST without Measure and in him viz in his Mother MARY was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God blessed in Paradise into THAT God looked and through it Gods Imagination entered in through the Jewish Sacrifices 49. God brake death in peeces only through him but we must introduce our Imagination and desire into him that our Tinder of the faded Image in him may begin to glimmer or Glow in the Spirit and power of Christ which apprehendeth the true hunger of the right Faith wherewith Man through the glowing or glimmering Tinder which if it be sincere and earnest at length becometh a shining Light of God in JESUS can break the Power of Sinne in the Flesh and keep it in subjection as a Churlish unruly evill Dog which can NOT altogether be freed from ITS Malignity or Malice till it break wholly and altogether 50. That the Shell into which the Devil hath introduced his Imagination and had his Den of Robbery therein be altogether dissipated that there be no more life therein and then so soon as the outward Man dyeth that the Soul be freed of the Evill Beast THEN it hath the open Gate in its beloved Image in which Christ hath opened himself with the Divine Love-Fire 51. And then is the Union already there the Bride cheereth her Bridegroom viz the Noble Virgin in the Love of Christ being awakened again which taketh the Soul viz its loving Bridegroom and Man or Husband into her Arms of the Divine desire and what is there done I have no Pen to write it with It is more than humane or Natural to write that 52. What Gods Love and sweetnesse is which the converted Man if he enter into his Father again and acknowledge himself a Swineheard and bewayle his by past Sinnes and seeketh the Fathers Grace and Favour experienceth when Christ his Bridegroom sets upon him the Virgin-like Garland or Crown where the Pearl of the divine reception of Grace at first becometh sown 53. What Joy the Virgin hath when it obtaineth Life again and receiveth its Bridegroom Christ how very amiably and blessedly it presents it self towards the soul and comprehendeth the soul viz its Man or Husband in its Love at which indeed Soul and Body tremble in Joy 54. Which those only know who have been Guests in this Place and this Authour who in the Letter will be PERFECT and new-born only and meerly with a litteral skill and knowledge it is likely hath yet never experienced and scarce tasted the Supper of Christ 55. Seeing he is but a Litteral Saint and a Contender and moreover a high-minded despiser of the children of Christ in their unlike Gifts and his holiness is confined meerly within
alwayes by the Serpents seed the unfaithfull wicked world slain persecuted despised scorned and put to Death in which regard also the Death of all Saints was before the Lord very highly dearly and preciously Esteemed 13. So he hath also in his divine fullnesse and perfect Seed and word of God the pure faithfull womans and Virgins Sonne God and Man in one Person the right Seed Sonne and Word of God of the perfect faithful Flesh and Bloud the totall persecution enmity hatred and envy of the abominable Satanicall Serpents Seed of the wofull Devill substantially united in all unfaithfull unrepentant children of the world hath taken upon him for the sake of the redemption of all the faithfull of his body and holy woman 14. And through his innocent suffering and dying hath paid the penalty and debt of all the Sinnes of the world on his most holy body and woman reconciled it with the Deity in himself overthrown all Enmity between God and Man and in and according to this his most holy totall or UNIVERSALL Redemption through his guiltlesse Crosse with and in divine union through God and out of the infancy to a perfect Man presented himself to his totall holy Church or Congregation 15. In and with which he now according to his most holy prediction Hosea 2. I will Espouse my selfe with thee in Eternity I will betroth my self with thee in Grace and Mercy Yes in the Faith I will unite and bind my self with thee with this his holy unreproveable undefiled Church and perfect Bride and most holy Sulamith Canticles Reconcileth and espouseth in Eternity 16. In which he now according to his own most holy revelation of himself here upon Earth Esaiah 9. The Eternal Father in an undivided Person God and Man ONE Eternall Generatour TRIUNE God and Lord yes ALL in ALL his beloved totall perfect Bride his holy body and woman wherein he Eternally generateth his holy Seed his holy Word Will Work and Performance substantially livingly and powerfully 17. And to his Eternall praise laud and honour in this his holy Church holy Jerusalem and perfect City of the perfect appearing divine Peace which is kept in Heaven but now on Earth in this ending ceasing Last time of the world manifesteth himself in the Eternall Unity of his body and woman the undefiled untransitory unfadable Inheritance 18. And the receiving his holy kingdom and Dominion according to the Testimony of the Holy Scripture Dan 7. under the whole Heaven in his Saints his united woman and Eternally ruling it to be openly proclaimed 19. The Bride the Woman of all faithfull Flesh and Bloud according to the Testimony of the Scripture Revelations 22. hath called Come LORD JESU the Bridegroom and Man Christ appeareth and saith in the unity of his Wife or Woman Here I am Here I am Here will I dwell this is my Rest Eternally 20. Here thou wilt with the beloved woman of all faithfull Flesh and Bloud in divine unity of thy Man with this Scripture Explanation for further holy consideration in and with thy united Bridegroom according to thy desire for Love and divine will acknowledge and receive this 21. In which the Triune highly praised Sonne and Word of God the fullnesse of the Deity generated from Eternity the most holy seed of the Woman from the beginning of the World after the Fall of Adam and Eve as also the regenerated new faithfull flesh and bloud the woman in that which is in Part and perfect holy substance is discovered to thee and manifested to the Eternall and in Eternall unchangeable Union 22. NOT Tinctured according to the Cabalisticall Theophrasticall Roso-Crucian kind and transmuted out of the unfaithfull Substance into the Faithfull 23. But according to the Testimony of the Scripture a New Birth not out of the old sinfull Substance but in the Center and inward Heart in the Love of the divine voyce a new beginning a New Heart a New Flesh and Bloud a New faithfull Person as to Body and Soul a Faith not born out of the unbeleef but out of God 24. A Body a Woman a Man an unity of the Woman a Seed a faithfull visible good Substance of God A Christ a Lord a God a Spirit Substantially opperatively livingly powerfully and actively the self-subsisting Eternall ONE onely blessednesse or salvation an undefiled unfadable untransitory inheritance reserved in Heaven 25. But now in this Last Time revealed or manifested to all over all through all and in all faithfull with himself the Triune Eternall God an Eternall REST and holy City and habitation of the highest of all and lowest of All in Heaven and upon Earth which is and is called in All Eternall Eternity according to the Testimony of Scripture of Ezekiel the last Chapter A Wedding City Here is the LORD Psal 48. 1 2. Very greatly and highly to be praised is The Mountain SION the fair Branch with which the whole Land is Comforted Yours alwayes willingly A. V. E. Esaiah Stiefell HEre followeth My Answer upon this Fourth Point of the Fourth Text. 1. T Fourth Point I would even leave unexplained if it were produced by the Authour in a right understanding but he jumbleth all together and sticketh his erroneous meaning therein and maketh much more a Confusion of it then a right explanation But seeing I have explained the contents of it above almost in every particular I will therefore only expound the chief matters and extract the Erroneous Opinions out of his Confusion for the sake of the Reader 2. Concerning the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ concerning which the Authour here mentioneth That the Seed of the Holy Trinity in the Totall divine Substance is become Man or Incarnate in the Totall Holy Perfect totally united with the Deity virgin MARY and hath taken HER Flesh and Soul upon him and so made MARY the Genetrix of God viz the holy word of God as he writeth and that MARY was before new born in the Faith e er she was impregnate or with Childe with the Saviour 3. This needs yet a sharper explanation and exposition and it had stood this Master in hand that will needs be Perfect and Omniscient to have unsolded this Mystery and not to have confused it so that a man cannot know what he understandeth thereby but only that a Man may see his secret in sown Grain or Seed spring up therein 4. He will not herewith satisfie the seeking Mind which enquireth after the Ground and lead him into the Center of Nature he must put on other Stieffeln or Bootes if he will ride with Christs Spirit over Death and Hell and say how Gods Anger is quenched Death broken to peeces and the Devills Kingdome IN Man destroyed 5. His explanation is much more erroneous and an obscuring the understanding of the seeking Mind than an Expounding He hâ—nteth some high Points concerning the manner of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and produceth none 6.
himself into his Mystery viz into his Rest in the Grave 233. Concerning which David saith He should rest secure for the Lord was set before him in Christ in whose Protection he rested in Christ viz in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant in the Looking-Glasse of Christ which God set before him in the Covenant of the Circumcision and in the Sacrifices as if Christ were therein for he had Promised Christ therein till the fullfilling in the Flesh came 234. Therefore shall not this Authour perswade us That the Earthly Man in Sinne without the breaking of the outward Life doth wholly put on Christ inwardly and outwardly and that the sinfull outward Nature when Man entereth into Repentance doth wholly dye and Christ alone awake or arise and become generated inwardly and outwardly in Man 235. No! Christ is come to heal the Soar which Adam made when he instantly dyed to the Kingdome of Heaven in the Sinne-Bit viz to awaken or raise up the inward Man which disappeared in Adam and new generate it in him in his power and introduce the poore Soul again into a Divine Will and give it the Noble Jewell of the Holy Spirit again 236. And continually Crush or bruise the head of the Anger and falshood of the Old Serpent dwelling with its Will in the outward Flesh also continually slay the earthly Will till the earthly Adam dye altogether consume and enter into its Mystery in which God Created it to the Judgment of God there shall that give its Mystery to the * outward Image again viz the Third Principle and the whole Man as God Created him in Adam shall stand forth in CHRISTS Property and power again and live again in JEHOVA's Light and Power 237. For when Christ hath finished all Then shall he deliver up the Kingdome in the Regeneration to his Father again and God shall be ALL in ALL as he was before the Times of the World 238. The Authour erreth in this that he conceiteth That the Man who turneth himself to CHRIST wholly puts on Christ inwardly and outwardly and becometh wholly CHRIST and that the Nature of the Properties dyeth away There is no ground for this Christs Flesh became conceived in the Power of the Holy Spirit in Maryes Essence but our evill Flesh we receive from Adams sinfull Male or Masculine Seed in the Power or vertue of the two Tinctures of the Man and of the Woman 239. Christ saith That which is born of Flesh is flesh but that which is born of the Spirit that is spirit Flesh and Bloud shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven The Spirit is the Life the Flesh profiteth nothing it shall putrifie or rot and enter into its first Substance 240. The Spirituall Man according to the Kingdome of God which dyed in Adam but in the Repentant Sinner is regenerated in Christ that dwelleth in Heaven as St. Paul saith Our conversation is in Heaven from whence we expect the Saviour CHRIST who is the Life 241. His Mystery wherein the earthly Flesh of Sinne dwelleth that passeth into the beginning and expecteth the Saviour JESUS CHRIST to the Resurrection and Restoration into Life This is my apprehension and knowledge 242. I say rot that a Man in this Flesh is Perfect and doth put on Christ outwardly but the Mystery viz the Quintessence putteth on Christ to the Resurrection of the Dead and the Soul in the heavenly substantiality according to Christs true heavenly Corporeity awakeneth or ariseth as to ITS Substance which it had but dyed in Adam 243. Christ giveth US his Body to Eate and his Bloud to drink but NOT to the Man of Sinne but to the Man in CHRIST new Born to Life viz that from the Divine Worlds Substance to the Paradisicall Man which hath a Heavenly Mouth to partake with 244. For Christ dwelleth in Heaven and feedeth us with his Body and Bloud in the Heaven this Heaven is IN Man and not in the Four Elements as to their Operation but in the pure Element Christ feedeth the Body of his Similitude viz the Soul and the heavenly Part in the New born Man 245. Adam eateth of the four Elements and is fed with evill and good Adam the outward Flesh Man sinneth the inward Man willeth not the Sinne Therefore saith Paul Now if I sinne it is not I that doe it but it is the sinfull Desire which dwelleth in the flesh Now therefore with my Mind I serve God and with the flesh the Law of sinne for I doe that which I would not but if I now doe it it is not I that do it but sinne in the flesh 246. Therefore let the Christian Reader that loveth Truth be warned according to my very good bounden Duty and Love-Will not to esteem himself Perfect and to set himself in the Omnipotent Power or vertue of God in the Omniscience and to say He is without sinne and cannot sinne 247. O alasse the Poor Captive Soul in sinfull flesh can dayly Sinne for The Righteous falleth seaven times a Day Also Before thee no Living Man is Righteous if thou wilt impute sinne and he that saith he hath no sinne is a Lyar saith Saint John 248. This Authour erreth in almost all the highest Articles of Faith I therefore admonish you all wisely to consider Pray to God for understanding and continue in true Resignation and Humility before God and continually pray to God according to the Doctrine of Christ Forgive us our Sinnes 249. This Man will be without Guilt or fault he saith he is dead in Christ to the Guiltinesse and if it were at the best with him yet there lyeth the Guilt still in Adams sinfull flesh which according to Christs Doctrine shall not may not can not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven NOT the Husk of Sinne but the Mysterie shall remain for Ever THus is the true understanding upon the Text 1 Timothy 3. 16. sufficiently explained already also the Expositors erroneous Meaning Discovered but yet I will set down his own words here following for the Reader to Ponder The Second Text. 1 Tim. 3. 16. The Mysterie of Godlinesse is apparently great God is manifested in the Flesh first in Adam The Explainers Exposition 1. WHich Text as also the whole Epistle and ALL Writings of the Holy Apostles and Prophets when they illustrate and speak of the apparent Revelation and great Mystery of God can or may no way with Truth be understood applyed or signified Concerning the First created Adam 2. Seeing God in and with this holy Name the whole holy Trinity the whole Divine fullnesse from the least to the greatest with his holy Divine Saving apparent Revealed Great Mystery was not at all manifested in Adam before the Fall or appeared in him much lesse with his Divine fullnesse hath wrought livingly powerfully and actively IN him or dwelt or been implanted but Once and only in Christ the first
Principle or the Second Person in the Deity 15. When the fair Harmony in Adam became poysoned by the Devill so that the Souls will-Will-Spirit which should have been wholly resigned into Gods Love-voyce went forth out of GODS Harmony and Tang into the Harmony of the DEVIL and all Evill or Malice then the true Divine Lute-player departed from him For Adams Spirit went out from him 16. Now if Adam had been created and brought forth wholly in Christs Image and had been standing in the Harmony of Christ then were the Image of Eternity which God as this Authour conceiteth Generated in his Love-Mother from Eternity in him destroyed and had suffered it self to be overpowered by the Devill and then were the Devill stronger than God seeing he had destroyed Christs Image 17 O how were it possible that any thing should perish that were brought forth onely and solely out of the Image and will of the Love of God then must GOD perish 18. And though he would say the Body over-loaded or overswayed the Soul yet the Soul was breathed into Man out of the Mouth of God out of the Holy Spirit also it were much that God would Introduce an Earthly Man into the Image of the holinesse of God viz into CHRIST who was generated in the voyce of the Mother of the Love from Eternity out of God as he saith So he would indeed have had Divine holy Substance which the Debill had not been able to Sift 19. I beleeve we shall here leave the Author to his Conceit and must Say That God hath Created Man IN his own Image known of God without Substance into a Substance and Image according to Gods out-spoken and Created Substance as Moses saith To be Lord over all Creatures upon the Earth we shall not dare to set him into the Seat of the Deity 20. The Omniscience of MAN was never at all nor in Eternity ever will be for indeed no Throne Angell is Omniscient but all is indeed under God and a work of his Hands 21. When God manifested himself in and with the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser he said Iohn 3. None goeth to Heaven but the Son of Man who is come from Heaven and who is in Heaven It is an empty or void Point which the Authour mentioneth that Christ hath manifested himselfe in a totall pure Virgin immaculate or without blemish and Sinne. 22. He said he was come from HEAVEN and NOT out of his Image which perished as this Authour conceiteth and yet became Man in Maryes right humane Essence 23. Of which this Authour as is to be observed in his Omniscience and Deity knoweth nothing at all O that he would learn before-hand the Theosophick A. B. C. in the School of the Holy Spirit e're he give himself forth or professeth himself to be holy and Omniscient and were a while under Gods Harmony e're he would himself be Gods Lutenist There is for certain a Luciferian Pride under it 24. Observe loving Brother he cometh in Christs Name and wholly in his person try him Christ is gone to Heaven this is but a confused Man MARY was the daughter of Joachim and Anna according to Flesh Soul and Spirit shut up under the Law of Sinne and under the Fall of Adam and Eve 25. But in HER was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God had promised in Paradise understand in the faded Image of the heavenly substantiality in which Adam dyed to the Kingdom of Heaven that can receive NO Sinne for the Heaven of God is subjected under no Sinne. 26. When Lucifer perished in his Creature the Heaven spewed him out from it self The true Soul of Adam was the Life in the Heavenly Substantiality but when the Souls Will entred into the Earthly Substance viz into Evill and Good into Heat and Cold viz into the Center of Nature after sutlety and cunning then faded his heavenly substance wherein Gods Light shone and Gods Light remained standing in its selfe in its Principle 27. This Gods Love-Will Lamented that its similitude perished and promised Adam the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent out of the Seed of the Woman which had with the Limit or Mark of the Covenant here stuck or set it selfe in MARY 28. Not in the sinfull Flesh of Mary but in the faded Image which JESUS by his entrance would move and move himself in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant and open the CHRIST viz a New Life out of himself and out of this Limit or Mark of the Covenant of Promise in the faded Seed of Mary 29. So that the faded Substance in the power of the moving of JESUS in that this JESUS with his moving moved the divine wisdome and hidden power in it and gave this hidden Seed for a Life might become manifest and in Christ living again who was God and MAN in ONE Person to whom the outward Kingdome of our Flesh in the seed of MARY hung 30. WHEREIN he took upon him our Sins and Infirmities upon his Shoulders and querched them with the bloud of the now present New-borne heavenly Substantiality with the true Womans Seed and drowned the fierce wrath which became manifested in the center of Nature in the Soulish Property together with the disobedient Will and introduced it again into Gods Will. 31. And in this that God moved himselfe in the Seed of Mary in the shut up hiddennesse of the Humanity and manifested himself with his Love and conceived CHRIST in the Faded or disappeared Seed viz the Eternall Life in the still death Therefore is Mary become the blessed of all women 32. For that happened to None that God had moved himself in their right Seed that dyed and disappeared in Adam For here came the first Image again which Adam was in the Creation and God now gave to this Image which could not stand but dyed in Adam this Serpent Crusher or Bruiser out of JESUS or JEHOVA for an assistant that should Help the Soul to over-power the Anger of God and the Devill 33. JESUS hath with this CHRIST which he manifested out of his moving in the Seed of Mary and gave Life to the Seed not received the outward sinfull Seed of Mary into the Deity so that God is become manifested in the outward Seed of Mary 34. This proves it self in Christs Person that he on Earth in form or Shape condition and Outward Conversation and Flesh was like VS for the outward Flesh was mortall wherein he also slew death He took only the Inward Seed viz the disappeared which dyed in Adam wherein Gods Light shined 35. And in the JESU viz in Gods Love and wisdome he manifested the divine power and strength wherewith he would overcome the Anger of the Father and transmute or change IT into the divine Kingdome of Joy 36. But the Soulish and outward Fleshly Seed of Mary Wherein Sinne was hung to the inward disappeared Seed These mix not themselves also they are not
wise true and reall One and with all Divine perfect Vertues and Names ONE holy Church of GOD together and every person in the same one Christ one Man of God one holy unblameable wise Just One. 29. To the highest Praise of the Triune highly Praised God CHRIST JESUS who in them over them through them and to all in a Personall Manner with his most holy Name and seed is the Will accomplishment senses thoughts works and Life speech and all in all substantially visibly palpably inwardly and outwardly and to Eternall Times remaineth undivided and unalterably and hath and keepeth the Dominion 30. Not only in Heaven at the right hand of God but also in the Vnion with all the faithfull together and in and to every true faithfull person of Man and Woman kind is called and in Eternity remaineth here upon Earth one God one Christ who Ruleth from one End of the Heaven and from one End of the Earth to the other 31. And in such eternal stedfastnesse remaineth one eternal Lord in all over all through all and to all substantially and in Eternity is for ever esteemed so and in and with himself is honoured praised Magnified one Man-God one God-Man or one Humane Good God one Divine Good Man one Christ one Body one Soul Hitherto the Explainer HEreupon followeth my Answer and Explanation highly to be considered by the Reader 1. FIrst as concerning the Text Isaiah 54. 5. Which this Authour explaineth he hath much more confused it and brought it altogether out of a right and orderly understanding into a confused unintelligible matter thing or Substance and hath altogether confounded the Eternall birth of the holy Trinity wholly with the Creature 2. His intent is to search out the Birth or Geniture and Originall of all things or Substances he hath demersed himself into the Birth or Geniture of the Deity and highly elevated himself and set himself up to be totally like God and made himself a God and yet understandeth as little of it as the Cow doth of the Bell which it carryeth about her Neck only it heareth it sound and Ring 3. Secondly He involves all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures in the perdition of Man and will have them all regenerated and Redeemed again in Christ and maketh a Lamentable forced desolation of the right understanding by confounding one thing with another 4. Thirdly He totally and altogether confoundeth the Distinction between God and the Creature and forceth them together into one contrary to all Reason and Truth and setteth the earthly Man if he but beleeve totally with his mortall Substance in the Deity and giveth him full power or authority in Heaven and Earth quite contrary to the Ground of the holy Scripture and also contrary to visible or apparent things or Substances 5. He will be rule overpower know and understand all in all yes God himself and yet he understandeth not the Ground of a Fly in its Essence and Substance much lesse the Divine and uncreaturely and maketh a confused Wheel like a Drunkennesse 6. And if such flattering hypocrisie should once become totally beleeved then were the greatest Antichrist of all born or generated which setteth it self in the Seat or Throne of God and very audaciously giveth forth himself for GOD and presenteth his own great holiness without blemish in immortality 7. Quite contrary to the visible or apparent ground of all Truth and totally hideth the Man of Sinne in the Anger of God and maketh of him-a-dear Sonne of God in his outward Flesh and thus bringeth us so totally out of the true understanding that we should not understand how and in what manner Christ becometh generated or born IN us what the Heavenly and Earthly Man is 8. He will perswade us we are both inwardly and outwardly totally perfect holy and without all Blemish and Sinne we should but beleeve and then the naturall outward sinfull Man dyeth and becometh wholly and altogether changed into Christs Person so that Man here in this Time upon Earth is as he saith wholly and altogether Christ who in Heaven sitteth at the right hand of God and is on Earth a totall perfect God-Man inwardly and outwardly without defect 9. And there is nothing more wanting but that the poor Sinner who would faine repent and beleeve fall down before THIS great holy God which he himself will BE and worship him that he may receive him to Grace into this HIS Holinesse 10. For HE will needs be the Christ in ALL in Divine Omnipotence and Substance and distinguisheth not at all what God Christ and Man is what the Creature Humanity and God are in him Flesh and Spirit is all one moreover Mortality and Immortality 11. Yet I would very fain see him to know whether he be otherwise then other Men I have not all my Life long heard any tell of any such wonderfull Man in the World not in any History read of such a Wonder And if that be true which he saith then he must according to the Tenure of the Scripture shine seaven times brighter then the SUN and other Men and Living Creatures would be struck blind before him because of his Great Holinesse and Clarity or Brightnesse 12. But if he should say Men can not see that in him as indeed he doth neither hath any Man on Earth seen it in him or in any other Man especially being Heat and Cold as also Pain and Sicknesse take hold of him and that he continually cloatheth himself with the Cloathing of Beasts he sleepeth and waketh useth Earthly Food and Drink in the Curse of God and which is much more liveth in repreaching and cursing of honest people that love God 13. In that regard we yet very strongly doubt of his perfect holinesse and doe not hold his confusednesse for Gods Voyce out of Gods Holy Substance especially since we see that he yet understandeth nothing of the Divine and Naturall Birth or Geniture and eternall Revelation or Manifestation of all things or Substances how one originateth out of another and yet thus elevateth himself without Divine knowledge out of a meer litterall Conceit which yet he perverteth and styeth aloft without Wings before they are feathered 14. But seeing it is a subtile extravagant Errour wherewith likely honest hearts fearing God in Innocency might be seduced without sufficient searching into this extravagancy therefore I would have the Reader who loveth the Truth informed of this almost quite hidden Errour and will a little unfold the same that men may see the high insuperably superlative sence as he supposeth and therewithall a little to open the true ground which hath better Testimony and also agreeth with that which is visible or apparent 15. Not at all to contend with this confused Wheel and to defame him but for the sake of Christs Children whom Christ hath Redeemed with his Bloud to try whether many will not become better discerning and would learn to distinguish such an Errour and get a
more assured certainty 16. At the Beginning he maketh a great Speech or Sermon signifying how He will Answer out of Christ the Triune God out of Gods Mouth and Heart out of all Saints men should hearken to it and look upon it as Gods infallible Word 17. This now is sufficiently explained above that it is groundlesse and that to speak in such a manner is ineffectuall also it doth not become any Angel or Man so to speak 18. But concerning the Text Isa 54. 5. The Explanation thereof is very sufficiently made before yet for the Readers sake I will set down somewhat more 19. The Prophet saith He who hath made Thee is thy Man or Husband The Lord of Hoasts is his Name and thy Redeemer the Holy One in Israel who is called the God of all things 20. The Prophet speaketh here in his own understanding not of a Man or Husband but by way of Similitude in like manner as the Seed to Man lyeth in the Man or Husband from which Man becometh manifested So all yes all whatsoever is manifested lay in the Eternall Man or Husband viz in the Generatour of all things or Substances 21. But especially of mans Life which he hath breathed into the Created Image according to the Similitude of his Substantiality and out of all his out-breathed Substance as John saith The Life of Man was in HIM 22. And yet in this we are not so to think as if the inbreathed Life or Substance of Man were only and solely the Spirit of God in Divine Holinesse and Omnipotency No else if that were perished as it came to passe then God were perished but each Life of each Creature becometh given to the Creature out of the Originall of its Substance 23. So the Substance of Man is given forth out of the Three Principles viz out of the Eternity and out of the Time viz out of the Substance and Source or Quality of Darknesse which containeth in it Nature viz Sulphur Mercurius and Sal. 24. As to the First Part and Principle Spirituall as a Regiment or Dominion and Source or Quality out of which Substance cometh to be and as to the Second Part according to the outward World corporeall in the first Principle fiery and in the Third Principle out of the dark impression Earthly and Four Elementary and sydereall from the Sun and Stars And from the Second Principle from the Light and Power of that out-breathed or generated Substance Heavenly Holy and Oyly viz from the pure Element and divine indwelling also Paradisicall in Power and Highnesse 25. In this created Images Substance out of Three Principles viz out of the out-spoken Substance of all things or Substances hath the eternall Spirit of God extracted the Originall of this whole Substance which is a Spirit out of all the Three Principles out of and through the Substance and made it a Ruler and Life of the Substance viz a Living Soul 26. That is A fire-Fire-spirit out of the First Principle with the Root of the first Impression to the manifestation of the Deity and in standing in the Darknesse and in the Center of the first Fire of the eternall Nature with the first Life in generating in the seaven properties out of which ALL Substances are existed 27. THAT is the true Fire-Soul out of the Fathers property wherein God calleth himself a Strong Zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming Fire but is not knowne or manifested in the Light of God but is only the CAUSE of the Kingdome of Joy 28. And in the dark Root viz in the first Impression viz in the true Center of the Creature is the Originall of Sinne viz of the Evill if that property in the Creature becometh manifested then is that Life a life in the fierce wrath and Anger of God and an Enmity of the Love and Meeknesse 29. And Secondly the Spirit of God hath inbreathed into him the Originall of the Substance of the Second Principle viz the Life out of which the heavenly Substance in the desire of Love becometh generated out of and through that very Substance in which Life the Soul is the true Image and Similitude of God and an Angell in the Kingdome of God 30. Which Life Adam squandered away and lived only in the dark fiery and Earthly part which Life God hath manifested out of JESUS viz out of the greatest depth of humility in CHRIST out of himself again in Man 31. Thirdly Gods Spirit hath inbreathed into him the Aire viz the Soul of the outward earthly Substance out of and through the earthly Flesh as viz a Life of the Flesh of the Earthlinesse which Life should be subjected to the holy and stand hidden in him as a help and Instrument in equall agreement of Heat and Cold and neither of them be in the Dominion but the holy Life of the Second Principle in the Sonne should Rule The Sulphur and Mercurius should Rule in a holy power viz in a Quintessence in the pure Element then the Paradise had continued manifest 32. Understand us aright thus the Man or Husband who hath spoken or expressed this fore-mentioned Substance out of himself hath Created Man out of this his generated corporeall Substance The Prophet meaneth THAT where he saith He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband 33. For in him lyeth ALL viz as a Seed in the Man or Husband out of his Exhalation or out-breathing a Seed became manifested First the Three Principles and out of the Three Principles the Creature 34. The Second Clause of the Verse The LORD of Hoasts is his Name This the Prophet of God understandeth concerning the Eternall Substance of God without besides or beyond all Nature and Creature and without besides or beyond the Principles as the eternall Will of the Free Longing Lust or Delight manifesteth it self in the Abysse 35. Which at this place or in this Birth or Generating is NOT said to be THREE fold but ONE only GOD who riseth up in himself and goeth forth out of himself in a Spirituall Manner and manifesteth himself through the Center of his Fire with the Light and the Power of the Love desire in the Transmutation of the Fire into the Light 36. Which Birth or Geniture and manifestation manifesteth out of the Fire the Divine Sound Power and Understanding after the Manner of the Five Senses as a peculiar Life a Life of Love and this Life is called the Second Person of the Deity viz the Second Principle of the Divine Substance 37. Wherein the Abysse viz the eternall Nothing in the stillnesse of the Will manifesteth it self through the Fire in the Light and maketh the Fire to be the Kingdome of Joy and this Birth or Geniture is called the First Born of the Father of all Genetrixes through which the Father hath generated and Created all things to the Light Whatsoever is out of or from the Inward Spirituall Eternall and then out of or from the outward Nature
entered into Spirit and Substance and here is God rightly understood in TRINITY 38. Viz The Father in the First Originall from Eternity in the Fiery and dark Substance and yet is no Substance but spirit out of which Substance the Impression of Nature viz an inward eternall Spirituall Sulphur Mercurius and Sal of all Power originateth also the originall of all Creaturely Life which is generated out of the Eternity viz Angells and Souls and the Spirits of the Third Principle in the out-birth of the Inward viz all earthly Creatures 39. And in the Second Principle wherein the Light Power and understanding with the Love-Will becometh generated out of the Eternall Father HE is rightly called God For the Father is in the Light viz in the Sonne in his Eternall first Birth or Geniture Manifested in the Love 40. And here he is called Mercifull and in that the Free Will of the Anger entereth through the Transmutation of the Pain into Love and Joy he is called JEHOVAH and with that Longing Delight of the Relish or tast of the penetrating through he is called JESUS as the Spirit in the Language of Nature giveth us sufficiently to know and the Tincture of the Fire and Lights Glance giveth in the Properties the Colour viz a Manifesteresse of the Power 41. Thirdly the Exit of the Power viz the true Life viz the Eye of God in the Father of the Fire and in the Father of the Light in the First Born is the out-going Sound viz a Flame of the fiery Love-desire a Formour of the Eternall Will a Blower up of the Fire and constant kindler of the Light of the Love viz of its own Substance out-going from the Father of the Fire and Light as a Constant Exhalation or out-breathing wherein the Father generateth forth the Sonne out of himself Thus the Spirit viz the POWER of the Sound or Word in the out-breathing goeth forth and that is now the God JEHOVA in the Trinity 42. Fourthly That which is out-breathed which the Father in the Sonne through the Sound of the Word or Voyce breatheth forth out of the Spirit is the Eternall Wisdome and Omnisciency for therein becometh Manifest whatsoever God is in his Deep 43. The Wisdome is Gods Manifestation and the Holy Spirits Corporeity the Body of the Holy Trinity and this whole Name in one Eternall Substance manifesteth it self through the Wisdome and is called the LORD of Hoasts or Lord ZEBAOTH 44. We have no other Language to Expresse this with only the Spirit of God in Man in its own Principle which searcheth the depths of the Deity that understandeth it in it self but we stammer childishly thereof so far as the outward Tongue or Language is able to lift up it self and commit this here to every Soul in its Apprehension for here is no Beginning nor End neither place nor Limit but the Manifestation of the Abysse in a Bysse or Ground 45. But as concerning the words or that clause of the verse which the Prophet annexes And thy Redeemer the Holy one in Israell who is called the God of all the would 46. With these words the Prophet looketh distinctly forward upon CHRIST and divideth these words from the First saying and thy Redeemer and therewith looked upon the humane Misery viz. upon the Second MAN who should new regenerate us in himself and Redeem us from the Anger of God 1 John 5 That the same should then be called the God of all the World 47. The Prophet sets it down first He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband and afterward he sets it down thus and thy Redeemer the holy One in Israel 48. The First Man viz the Creator he calleth Lord of Hoasts or Zeboath and the Second he calleth the Redeemer and holy One in Israel who is called the God of all the World Understand out of the Zebaoth cometh the Name to the Redeemer THAT he is called the God of all the World and this Name ariseth in the JESU with the Moving of JEHOVA 49. Viz CHRIST became manifested out of JESU in the Limit of the Covenant as a God and Judge of all the World To whom the Father hath given the Judgment of the World 50. Therefore the Expositour shall not perswade me to set the Second Man viz the Redeemer in Israel in the Creation For the Prophet saith He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband the Lord of Hoasts or Zebaoth is his Name and thy Redeemer and the holy One in Israel whom the Lord of Hoasts or Zebaoth manifested to Man for Redemption and gave to him for Regeneration he is called the God of all the World 51. For therefore hath God manifested him that he should seperate the Evill and the Good as a GOD of all things or Substances of this World for all Prophets have prophesied concerning THIS God CHRIST that he should be manifested and generated in the Flesh out of the Eternall Originall of the Word of the Divine holy Voyce 52. And therefore this Author shall not perswade me to set him as Creatour of all things or Substances For when the World was created then was he hidden in the Word of the Divine Power the World is become created through the Word out of which Christ is generated or Born Joh. 3. 53. For John saith in the Beginning was the WORD he doth not say CHRIST but all things were made by it and without it was nothing made that was made and though indeed all which is spoken of the Word may also be spoken of Christ yet men should distinguish that men might know what God and the person of Christ are and the Office of each of them 54. This Author Cooketh or Minceth all together that Men cannot understand what the Office and Substance of each of them is and how the Originall of the Word and of the Person of Christ should be distinguished and what God and Creature is 55. He wrongfully concludeth the CREATION in Christ he should conclude the END of the World in Christ and not the BEGINNING though indeed Christ was from the Word in Eternity yet he was not called CHRIST but JEHOVAH or JESUS 56. And for Mans and this Worlds sake JESUS hath manifested the CHRIST out of himself and that in the Time and not from Eternity as a high Priest and King of Men who is a Prince of God 57. We ought not to speak otherwise of him for he hath in this World spoken no otherwise of himself and ascribed all Power to his Father For he said indeed he was come forth from God and come into the World and that was indeed done in Time and not from Eternity 58. Though indeed he was in the Eternall Divine Birth or Geniture yet he hath only in Time manifested himself out of God in the World and not in the Creation of all things or Substances 59. Thus also CHRIST is NOT the Saviour and Redeemer of the Angels
and the Mouth Fall on and doth the work of the false or Evill desire 36. Then standeth Christ in his tender humanity in the inward Holy Body and reproveth the outward Man presseth upon him and taketh his power from him and setteth him before the Eyes in the Mind that it is abomination and Sinne and driveth him again to the unloading of that which the desire of the Flesh hath loaden upon him viz to abstinence and Repentance 37. Which is nothing else but a going again out of the Abomination and then the wrought Abomination remaineth to the Anger of God and to the Devill for food that is ITS refreshing but the Mystery of Man becometh Free again in it self 38. But as the Fowler watcheth the Fowles so the Devill watcheth upon the Soul so soon as it gazeth a little upon him then he bringeth his Imagination into it and stirreth the desire of the Flesh and then beginneth the Devills Dance again with whom Christ must fight without ceasing 39. But if he be not yet born and manifested in Man in the Heavenly Substantiality so that the fair Image standeth yet disappearing and without Life As in Truth with MOST it is so then know this That IMMANUEL viz the Spirit which in Paradise promised it self to Adam Eve and went to meet them in their Light of Life and called them saying Where art thou Adam in the Light of Life of the Soul and did set it self towards them with great desire and now continually calleth the soul saying it should incline and turn it self to GOD. 40. Then will JESUS manifest himself in the faded or disappeared Image and Generate CHRIST viz a New Life in the heavenly Substantiality and that is the true drawing of the Father whereof Christ speaketh saying None cometh to me except the Father draw him the Father draweth the Soul that it should enter into Gods Love and Mercy 41. And if it entereth in then is JESUS CHRIST a true Man in the faded disappeared Substance and possesseth the Gates of the Deep and of those saith Christ My Lambs shall none pluck out of my hands for if HE be born then may the Devill rage and rave and throw the BODY as it were to the ground yet then the Saviour standeth in the Battle and draweth the whole Man continually again out of the misery and raiseth him up before him that man runneth continually again to Repentance of his abominations heaped on him from the Devill and unloadeth himself of them again 42. But concerning the Conception of Children That a right true Regenerate Christian Man should beget his Children totally Holy without Guilt as this Authour conceiteth that is Babell and a great Errour which the Serpent introduceth under which it will cover it self that a Man might not know the Kitling it would fain be called Holy Men have a long time called it the Black slick Evill Devill and now it would once fain be called also Christ and a God but the Most high hath discovered it so that we see and know it and would have you Christianly warned 43. Every Tree and Vegetable bringeth forth fruit out of it selfe as the Plant is but know this That the spirit of Nature presseth so hard together into the power out of which the branch groweth that the branch oftentimes becometh evill withered yea altogether a dry rotten Branch 44. THUS it is with Man that which is sown that groweth but Gods Anger through the Devils Imagination especially when he observeth that the outward Constellation of the Starres in the Elements is evill presseth it self often in therewith so that honest Parents beget evill Children and on the contrary also many times evill Parents beget honest Children as experience maketh it apparent before our Eyes 45. And to that End CHRIST hath commanded us the Infant Baptisme to baptize the Child in the Name of the Holy Trinity then he will thus in this his Covenant be powerfull and with his power kindle again the poor captive Tinder and take the Serpents Poyson away out of the Light of Life so that the divine drawing standeth open 46. Then the introduced Poyson remaineth IN the outward Flesh which will afterwards be broken in CHRIST and the Gates out and in stand open to Man and then it is as it is written To whom you give your selves as Servants in Obedience his servants ye are whether of Sinne to Death or of the Obedience of God to Righteousnesse 47. The Soul hath free-will to go OUT and IN but it can NOT generate it self in Christ it must only go out of its own Evill Will and enter into Gods Mercy Then CHRISTS Spirit which in JESU stood presented to the Soul in the Light of Life taketh it in his Armes of the desire and Sprouteth in its desire in the faded disappeared Substantiality forth from the pure Element of Heaven as a New Life out of Death and that is CHRIST Man and God 48. Readers let me perswade you iry it goe with it into the Holy Scripture try it inwardly and outwardly and learn the Truth out of Christs Spirit then you will put no belief in him but we have seen it in Ternario Sancto in the holy Ternary and know what we write 49. But I am a Childe whose understanding hangeth at the Breasts of my Mother and have no authority and NO understanding unlesse what my Mother giveth me I lye in imbecillity as a dying Man but the most high raiseth me up in his Breath so that I go according to his Wind. 50. But I warn you Christianly that you would understand the zeal to the welfare of your own Souls I have wages enough If I attain your Breath and may Sprout up IN you and may give you my Life what should I give you more take the present and lay it well to Heart 51. Not in opinion only but introduce it into the Breath of God and try it in Body and Soul and take the cleernesse thereof let affections go they are not the Pearl but set for the shame of a sinner that the Evill and Malice might cease and not pride it self in FLESH take only the pure Oyle for healing the rest taketh not hold of the Souls Wounds but only the wounds in the outward Man I pray the Reader not to interpret this otherwise then as it hath its true Ground 52. Now as to what the Authour saith concerning the Good Divine Wife or Woman which doth not exist from Adams sinfull Flesh and evill Lust which conceiveth and generateth the Holy Man which is CHRIST God and Man THAT I also beleeve it is true But his understanding is erroneous in that he understandeth it to be out of the outward Man and will have a totall transmutation of the outward into the inward in this world 53. The Good Wife or Woman is the Heavenly Image viz the second Principle which dyed in Adam in that very faded or
disappeared Substance the Father of all Things or Substances striketh up the sparkle of his divine power and if it be so that the Soul also in the drawing of the Father hungreth after it the sparkle beginneth to glimmer 54. And is first small as a grain of Mustard-seed as Christ saith and if the Soul persevereth and introduceth ITS Will and hunger continually into THAT Glimmering Tinder then he bloweth the Holy Fire up in its desire so that it glimmereth very much whence the soul getteth great hunger 55. Now if it be so that the Soul casteth away its self-hood and desireth totally to cast away the fals-hood or wickednesse of the Devill and in earnest strife with earnest Prayer and giving up it self enter into the Love-Fire then the Love-fire apprehendeth the Souls Desire and one Fire becometh kindled in the other for the Soul is the Fathers Fire and the sown Love-Fire is the Sonnes-Fire 56. And now cometh the lost Sonne viz the soul again into the Fathers Love and the Great Joy in Heaven beginneth so that the Angels rejoyce more than at Ninety Nine righteous that need no Repentance 57. And at this Place in this conjunction the Noble Virgin viz the Good Wife or Woman taketh its Bridegroom the Soul again into the Triumph of the Divine Kingdome of Joy and giveth its Bridegroom the Garland of Pearles 58. Not totally for its own propriety of its substance No there are Two Principles God remaineth God in himselfe but the Divine Light bringeth the virgins-Virgins-Spirit out of the Love-fire into the Souls-Fire and kindleth the Souls-Fire also so that the Virgins-Light shineth IN its Bridegroom viz the SOULS Light 59. And here is Christ in the Wifes or Womans seed become Man viz in the second Principle out of Gods Light-and-Love-world and what is here done and what kind of Joy is at this Espousall and Wedding we have no words to write but I wish the Lover of Christ may experiment it For the outward Naturall Man beleeveth US not unlesse himself hath been at this wedding which is kept both in Heaven and on Earth sufficiently to be understood by those that are OURS 60. But know this As Fire blazeth through Iron whence the Iron is a meer Fire-Source or of a fiery Quality and yet remaineth in it selfe in its Substance Iron as well at one time as at another and is never Fire in its own self-property and yet is Fire But the Fires Might standeth not in the Iron but it giveth only its Nature to it as an Instrument or a Body wherein the Fire blazeth 61. Thus understand us also as to GOD and the CREATURE The Fire when it blazeth in the Iron signifieth the Soul when it is kindled in Gods Light and the Light and the Shining of the Fire signifieth the Holy Fire and the Virgin the Power of the Light is the Pearly-Garland whereof I write in my writings THAT the Virgin giveth not to the Fire-Soul viz to the Originall of the Fire to be ITS own 62. But it sets the same upon it and presseth the same into its heart but it cannot comprehend it as its proper owne as the Fire cannot comprehend the Light and yet the Light shineth out of the Fire the Fire hath another Source or Quality then the Light the Fire is Father and the Light is Sonne and yet they make two Principles one IN another 63. Thus know That the Creature is not God it remaineth Eternally under God but God blazeth through it with his desire of the Love-Fire viz with his Light and shining and that very Light the Soul viz the Man reteineth so long for its own as the Will remaineth in Gods Light 64. But if it enter again in its own propriety viz in the Center of its originall in its own Might out of the Resignation into selfhood then the Virgin taketh away this Pearly-Garland from the Soul for the Soul viz its Bride-groom is run away from its Spouse Christ viz from its Love-fire and become perjured 65. Then goeth the Soul in the outward Flesh into the Devils Net in the dark restraint and seeketh its own Place and rest but findeth nothing but the Beastiall Pleasure of the Flesh with which it Pampereth it self 66. But the Noble Virgin calleth it continually to return again if it come again then it is well and readily received but the first wedding is not kept again there is indeed a glorious welcome but not like the first Espousall we speak as we know 67. But if the Bridegroom viz the Soul cometh not again then Christ taketh its Garland which he gave the Virgin for a Life again from it then it remaineth in ITS Nothing without Source or Quality as disappeared or faded and Eternally not perceptible nor visible to the Soul 68. And the Soul remaineth in its anxiety if the Soare be in it at the End of the outward Body in that regard it standeth in Eternall shame and scorn that it hath lost ITS Kingly Crown and is driven out from the Kingdom of God as an Evill doer or as a perjured Person from its most beloved Bride and Virgin 69. Further also know this that Gods Light suffereth NOT it self to be sowen forth abroad into the Flesh the Mother or Tinder to the Light is indeed sown but standing within IN its Principle the outward world is not God nor will it in Eternity be called God but only a Substance wherein God manifesteth himself viz a †Similitude of the Holy Divine Heavenly Substance in which God worketh 70. When a Woman is impregnate from a Man and generateth a Childe THAT although likely it cometh from holy Parents is not Wholly CHRIST from within and without as this Authour conceiteth without ground of Truth out of his obscurity 71. CHRIST viz the WORD is indeed a glimmering Mother or Tinder according to the Property of the true Image which is propagated in all Men as a possibility but NOT in the outward Flesh in this worlds Substance but in the second Principle and the Soulish Property is in the first Principle each dwelling in it selfe 72. Therefore hath Christ instituted the Baptisme and Espoused himself with the Mother or Tinder to Souls with this Covenant that though the Mother or Tinder did not come to a burning Light and that the Child should dye even in its Mothers Body or Womb yet neverthelesse the Soul would be in Christs Arms in which he would kindle HIS Light 73. And though holy Parents beget Children if I did look upon them I would not say here standeth or goeth in this Child Christ it is wholly Christ HE is indeed IN the Childe but in his own Principle and in the Childs Property as a Glimmering Mother or Tinder on the Band of Christ but the Soul of the Childe is also on the Band of the Fathers anger in the property wherein Adams Soul hath broken it self off from God 74. The Properties of the Soul stand not in
He mentioneth that MARY was totally sanctified and Perfect before CHRIST was conceived Now if the Faith could have attained and have discovered the Perfection and Totally have new Generated Man that he had been united with and in God in Body and Soul in Totall perfect holinesse then Christ had come in vain 7. And his suffering and Death had not been profitable to us if the FAITH could have broken the Anger of God also Death and Hell and have appeased the Angry Father and have quite taken away the abomination in the vanity of the Flesh 8. Also if CHRIST viz the Word of God had totally inwardly and outwardly taken to himself a holy and perfect Body and Soul upon Earth wherein had he broken Death And in WHAT Body had he taken on himselfe the SINNES of All Men And in what Body then hath he dyed to Sinne WHAT Body became a Curse on the Crosse 9. If it had been only the holy Perfect Body then would Gods holinesse have made it selfe a Curse and our Restitution had been only a Sacrifice which might well have been done in the Faith or through the Judaicall Sacrifice O it must needs be an Evill God who will not suffer himself to be appeased unlesse he revenge himself upon his Perfect holy Substance 10. Else why should he lay all SINNE upon one holy perfect Man and cause his fierce wrath to be shewn upon him and so Revenge himself such an understanding this giveth if we say Mary was in the Faith in flesh and bloud in body and soul totally perfect and totally united with the Holy Divine Substance 11. But seeing the Omniscient Authour here spoiles his breath therefore we will here in part a little blow up our sparkle and unfold the Mystery better 12. King David said In Sin was I born and in Sin did my Mother conceive me and this David it is out of whom MARY was born viz out of the Seed of David of the Seed of Joachim her father and Anna her Mother 13. Now if MARY had attained in the Faith the highest Perfection why not also David and the Patriarchs in whom was the Holy Ghost as well as in MARY 14. And though this Authour indeed determines that they were totally Holy and Perfect yet their Sinne and Mortallity moreover their Infirme life in Sicknesse Care perplexity and necessity will not permit that in which they all lived in the Curse and abomination in the vanity of the Earthly Flesh which abomination in their dying was first broken and ceased as to them 15. In the Abomination of the vanity there is not by far any totall perfection but Sinne and Death as David witnesseth of himselfe as also all the Patriarchs 16. But concerning MARY and CHRIST this is the true understanding MARY was the Limit of the Covenant of God in Paradise instituted after the Fall That Covenant stood in the true Image which faded or disappeared in Adam when he manifested or revealed the vanity in his outward Flesh 17. Concerning which God said The day that thou shalt eat of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill viz of the vanity thou shalt dye the Death which also instantly came to passe he dyed to the divine world and awakened to the Earthly world in the vanity 18. For the Soul viz the true Life of the heavenly substantiality entered with its Desire into the Abomination then the Divine Light departed from the Image of the heavenly Substantiality and now it stood in Death as a Nothing and this true Image it is which God from Eternity hath beheld with his holy Spirit in the wisdome but without Substance which he created into Substance that is brought Substance into this Image from the Three Principles 19. But when the Spirit of the Three Principles viz the true Soul went from its Eternall Image of the purity into the Abomination of vanity viz into the Earthly Substance and awakened the same in the Forms of Nature and manifested it in the Flesh then the fair Image disappeared and stood again in the hiddennesse at its Eternall Limit without knowledge and perception of the Earthly Adam in Abomination 20. But seeing Gods purpose was that this fair Similitude of God should stand Eternally before him in Substance as a beloved Scene of his Joy and a Similitude of the Eternall Substance and Spirit therefore he promised to move himselfe yet once and with his highest Love and Humility viz in the Center of the sweet Love in the word of his Sound to manifest the Image in Substance again 21. Now in MARY lay the disappeared Substance in the Covenant this was the dry Rod of Aaron which grew again in One Night and bare Almonds as is to be read in Moses 22. Now when the Angel came to MARY and brought her the Message that she should be impregnate with Child and generate or bear the Saviour of the World though indeed she wondered how it should come to passe yet she said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord let it be done as thou hast sayd that is she gave up her will and desire into Gods will he should doe what he would 23. And in this Point hath the Center of the voyce of God according to the deepest Love of the hiddenness of God in the Image of the disappeared substance with the Introduction of the divine heavenly substance of the Paradise and Element and all whatsoever the Deity in the Holiness containeth manifested it selfe in the Natural seede of MARY 24. Understand in the seede of MARY of her spirit and Flesh wherein lay the soules and bodyes Essence viz in Venus'es Matrix in the womans seede as it was promised in Paradise also to Abraham and to David 25. Now understand us aright what the cleere Deity hath received to it selfe not Marys sinfull Seede in which death became broken on the Crosse indeede it had received it to it selfe but in another Principle 26. The pure Holy Deity was alwayes from Eternity in Eternity surrounded with the substance of the Heaven in the inward viz. with the Holy substance that very holy substance hath the voyce of the holy Deity with the Moving of the Word introduced into Marys disappeared Substance understand into the Seede of Mary and united it selfe with Maryes substance in the Covenant of God 27. For John the 3. he sayth None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man who is come from Heaven also I am gone forth and Come out from God into this world Now the cleere Deity needes no coming for it is in all places before hand it needeth only to Manifest it selfe to or in the â—â—ace and all whatsoever cometh that is substance but God in his Trinity is a spirit without substance as to what he is solely in the Deity 28. Therefore when God would move and Manifest himself in his Covenant in Maryes heavenly disappeared substance then came he with the substance and manifested himself
from the Fire and Light 71. And Man viz the Image of God should not be such a Calfe as not to know and learn to understand his Fathers house nor should he indeed forbid THAT as this Authour doth in his Explanation to whom that God would give a better apprehension is my hearty wish and desire 72. Concerning Mans Originall Moses telleth us God said Let us make Man an Image of us which may rule over all that is upon the Earth c. And saith further God Created man in his Image yes to the Image of God Created he him 73. This now is very rightly spoken but the Explainer is here a Wrester or Perverter and understandeth it not Whereas yet he accounteth he hath spoken out of the voice of the Holy Trinity and giveth forth his matters for totally Divine without blemish but to this time yet he hath not heard the divine voyce nor apprehended it in the Sound but only the voyce of the out-spoken Word in Evill and Good in his own Reason and Self-hood Saint Paul saith Man was foreseen or elected in Christ before the Foundation of the world was laid In this lyeth the Kernell before the times of this world the Modell of Man was known in the Eternall wisdome as an out-breathing of the Word from the Fire and Light as a Form in the Divine wisdom but stood in No Creature or Image but after a Magick-kind as an Image appeareth to One in a Dream which is without Substance 75. Thus is the Appearance in the Universall out-breathed out-spoken-substance in the Spirit of God which hath known all things according to every ones property viz according to the Anger of the Fires property in the Darknesse and in the Light in the Love 76. For the Flash of the Creation out of the Great-Mystery was seen in the wisdom in Evill and Good according to the property of BOTH Desires as an Eternall Contrary 77. The Anger viz the Dark-world hath in its desire seen the Image or similitude of God and so also hath the Love in its free longing delights desire Not that the property of the Love plungeth it self into the Anger and beholdeth it in the Anger but each property IN it selfe 78. Therein hath the Spirit of God which eternally goeth forth out of the Fathers Fire and Light known the Fall in the Anger of God so that when this Image of the Figure of God should become created into a living substance it would be also drawn by the fierce wrath and loose its Glory 79. Here in this Place hath the CHRISTUS or Christ in the Name JESUS as a will to the CHRISTUS set it self towards the Similitude of God and given the Will thereinto out of the JESU into the Created humanity to be a Christus or SAVIOUR 80. And in this Will was created the Similitude of God MAN in the Time viz on the Sixt day of the Creation into an Image out of a Masse or Extract of all the Creation of this worlds Substance as also out of the heavenly worlds substance 81. Out of the out-breathed or out-spoken Substance of the Eternall Word and become formed in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat according to the Similitude of the Eternall Mystery and the Eternall birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity into an Image 82. Into which God the Father through the Word or Divine Sound with his Spirit hath introduced the Spirit of Life out of all the Three Principles viz out of the Fire-Light-and outward-World 83. Viz First The Fire-Spirit of the First Principle out of the Eternity out of the Fathers Property which is the true Soul 84. And Secondly the Lights Source or Quality and Spirit out of the voyce of the Love which is the Noble Image of the Deity each standing in its own Principle and governing its world 85. Thirdly The Spirit-Aire in like manner inbreathed from without into his Nostrills 86. So that Man is a living Spirit of all the Three Principles according to the Similitude of God as God himself is all in all but with the true Deity viz with the Good is known or comprehended by nothing but by his Similitude viz whatsoever is generated out of the GOOD and standeth therein 87. Now understand me aright As God in his Light in the Holy Light world shineth through ALL and tinctureth all and bringeth it from the Fiery Property into the power of the Joyfulnesse and with the same power also presseth through the outward world through all things and giveth all things power and life 88. And yet the Substance IN which God worketh is not called God though it hath a working from the out-breathed Mystery in it self in which the Vegetative or growing Life standeth viz a Sulphury and Mercuriall seething which in the Salt of the power becometh Corporeal viz an own self Fiat or Generating like an Impression according to the Property of the Eternall Spirituall Mystery as a Manifestation or Revelation thereof 89. Thus also was the Similitude of God Man in his innate station and thus from God Created out of the Substance of all Substances into an Image according to the Substance of all Substances and that even in his understand in Mans Image which was known from Eternity in the wisdom viz in the Glimps of the out-breathed shining of the Divine Revelation or Manifestation in that kind and manner as the Spirit of God hath seen all things in his wisdome from Eternity 90. This Image was not a Substance but a will to a Substance which with its root and originall stood in the Name JESU viz in the Humility of God where it introduced it self out of the Fire into the Light viz into the Good 91. And in this Place although it is no place where the Meek Love-Will goeth forth out of the Property of the Fathers Fire into the Light and Joyfulnesse or kingdome of Joy and compriseth and includeth in it self an own self Center of the Will and desire Originateth from Eternity the Name of the SONNE of God viz the first born of the Father from Eternity before all Creatures and here is called the Fathers Heart and Love and out of this Love goeth the Holy Spirit forth from the Father and the Sonne and is the Fathers Love-Flame 92. Understand us thus In that very Will which is out-breathed or out-spoken out of the Holy Name JEHOVA or JESUS out of the Speaking Eternall Word of the Father into the wisdome of God as a Glance of the knowledge or Representation of the Spirit like a Looking-Glasse was man created into an Image out of the heavenly and earthly Elementary Substance out of the out-breathed substance of Eternity and out of the Substance of Time standing one in another as the Eternity standeth in the Time and neither is the other and yet not divided asunder but only as through a Principle 93. The Substance of Eternity is the pure Element in which the vegetative
or growing Life is a Paradise and the substance of Time are the four Elements in which the Constellations make a seething and Life viz an Earthly Mortall Paradise 94. For the earthly seething hath its Originall in the Mystery where the Fires and Lights Property divideth it self into two Principles each in it self and therefore it is Evill and Good out breathed out of Gods Love and Anger 95. And that out-breathed Property God moved in the beginning of Time and introduced it into a Desire which hath thus generated Earth and Stones in the Desire of the Impression according to the property of the Dark Fire and Light World and Sulphur Mercury and Sal were the properties of that desire and in that regard those very Properties are the Life of all Elementary Substances or Things 96. And understand us aright In these Properties we have the Oyle in all Things that is the Similitude of the heavenly Lights Property from the Good Out of this Substance hath the Outward Body out of the Third Principle been comprehended in the word Fiat and in the Second Principle in the Angelicall World hath the Pure Element been comprehended in the Paradisicall Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the Power 97. That was now the Body which God Created in his Image and Likenesse understand in the Humane Image which God hath seene from Eternity in his out-breathed Glimps of the Wisdome in the Looking-Glasse 98. In which Looking-Glasse he impressed the Substance out of the two Principles in the word Fiat and Created it into an Image and introduced or in-breathed the out-breathed Sound or Voyce of his Word out of all the Three Principles to be a Soul and Spirit to be a Life understanding and Regiment or Dominion out of the Sound of his Mouth viz a Fire Light and Aire Spirit both out of the Eternity and Time that was the Image of God Of his Regiment or Dominion 99. AS the Light is the Regiment or Dominion in all or every Life and that very Light of Life burneth and shineth out of the Oyle of the Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the power as no understanding Person can deny so in the Inward Man which was Created out of the Second Principle viz out of the pure Element burned the pure Paradisicall Sulphur and Mercury and in that pure Fire-burning or Life totally without blemish shone Gods true Light 100. For the Name JESUS had incorporated it self together in the Image of the Eternity as a future CHRIST which would become a Saviour to Man and out of the dying of the Anger generate him anew againe in the pure Sulphur of the divine and Paradisicall Power 101. Understand this aright The pure Element in the Holy Sulphur pressed through and through the Outward Man and took the Four Elements into its power Heat and Cold were in the Flesh not manifest they were indeed in the Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the Body But while Gods Light shone therein they were in equall accord so that neither of them might be manifested above the other 102. For All the desires in the Mercury viz in the Cold and Hot Fire-wheel stood in the Light and were wholly enlightened through and through and their desire was a Paradise of Joyfulnesse or the Kingdome of Joy No enmity of Nature was manifest in them 103. Just as God the Father is called a fierce wrathfull zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming Fire and indeed he is so in these properties But in his Light in the Love-desire viz in his first begotten from Eternity which is his Beloved Heart none of them doe become manifested or revealed 104. According to this Heart he calleth himself GOD for he is in this the GOOD and according to the Fire he calleth himself Anger and according to the Desire to the Fire-Life as to the Revelation or Manifestation of the Generating where the free Longing delight introduceth it self out of the Nothing into Somthing viz into an Impression of the Desire he maketh the Nature and the dark World out of which Properties Sulphur Mercury and Sal exist 105. As in our Book of the Signature of things concerning the Originall and Marking of the signification of all things or Substances is expressed largely highly and intelligibly To which for the Readers better understanding he is referred and here I will let it passe in brief Concerning the Fall of Man 106. THe Will-spirit of the Soul out of the Fires Property hath listed up it self into the Earthly desire where Evill and Good were in the Center of the hiddennesse under the Paradisicall source or quality one among another but in equall accord and introduced it self into a desire of Evill and Good to manifest the same in it self 107. Moreover the Devill gave it cause to doe so who introduced his desire or Imagination into the evill part viz into the fierce wrathfull fiery Mercury in its property wherein the Poyson and Anger-Life standeth whence the poyson-Life began to hunger after the Similitude of its property 108. Then came the Commandement of God and said to the Soul eat not of the Tree of Vegetation of the knowledge of Good and Evill else thou dyest to the holy divine Life in the pure Sulphur and Element of the Substance and the day that thou wilt eate thereof thou wilt dye the Death 109. For in the poysonous Mercury according to the property of the Fathers Anger was the dying Life which before was not manifested or revealed but through the Devills Imagination became stirred and introduced into the Desire of the Similitude 110. Thus know that we have truly and highly apprehended that the Tree of Temptation is grown up through this power of the hunger after the apprehension of Evill and Good to know it but yet a man can NOT say that it was ANOTHER Tree or Vegetable then the rest only the Earthly Source or quality in Evill and Good was manifested or revealed in it 111. In the other Trees and Vegetables the holy paradisicall Mercury pressed through all and the Properties were in equall accord and the evill of Heat and Cold was not manifested but in this Tree the properties of Heate and Cold in the poysonous earthly Mercury were manifested 112. Which the hunger of the Soul caused For the Soul was a Sparkle out of the great Omnipotency of God whence Christ said to us If it would be born or generated of God again in the Faith then it might say to the Mountaine lift thy self up and cast thy self into the Sea and it would be done 113. How then would it not when it stood in the strong Might of God be able to bring forth the Properties in the Tree 114. To which the Devill in the Serpents Property laid it self and perswaded Eve that she should be Wish if she did eat of Evill and Good 115. Which hereafter shall be explained in the Question how The Woman cometh from the Man and the Man from the
Woman 116. And by the Fall we are to understand nothing else but that the Earthly property which before stood as it were swallowed up in the Paradise manifested it self in the Souls Desire whence Heat Cold and the poyson Life of all Contrariety and Opposition took or gat the Dominion in the Body and the fair or bright heavenly and Paradisicall Image disappeared 117. For the Soul as a Fire-Life generated out of the Fathers Property went out from the Element of Paradise into the Four Elements and there the Paradisicall Sulphur in the holy Element lost its Life and the Substance disappeared 118. And that was a dying of Paradise the Soul dyed to Gods Light and went into its self-hood into its own propriety It would be a self-Lord to know Good and Evill and Live in both it dyed to God and awakened upon the Earthly World and lived to the Will of the Devill viz to the stern Anger of God in meer Anxiety Lamentation Misery Toyle and necessity as we poor Children of Eve now see and Feel in us 119. But here I am to informe the Reader concerning the perfect Creation of Man and what the errour and insufficient understanding in the Expositour of the Poynts of Conclusion is in this place as was above mentioned 120. I say the same as he saith in this That MAN in his Image viz in Gods Image was Created wholly perfect to Eternall Life in Paradise I say also to the Image of God it is true as to BOTH For in the Eternall Image which was only a shining or Looking-glasse of the Image in the Name and in the Eternall Birth or Geniture of JESUS or JEHOVA was the Image of the Three Principles Created and Created to the Image or Similitude according to the Three Worlds as an Image of Gods Substance of all Substances out of and in ALL things or Substances 121. But as God Ruleth over and in All and no THING is God for in his Gloriousnesse he is as a Nothing and yet is the Life in all so should this Image stand in the Resigned Life of God as an Instrument of God in which the Spirit of God doth what HE will 122. He Created him not a Lord but a Servant a Lute or Instrument of Musick I cannot say that Man was Created out of the Divine Voyce and out of the Center of the Heart of God as this Author very wrongfully puts himself into the Holy Trinity 123. No No an Instrument is not the Master the Master cannot make an Instrument wholly like himself God cannot make another God wholly like himself Out of his Eternall Mystery indeed he can make to himself an Image according to his Likenesse for a Sport of Joy as a Master of Musick doth an Instrument which yet maketh such a Melody as the Master will but such another Master as himself is he maketh not but only of or out of himself 124. Therefore seeing God is a Spirit and no Substance also not Nature therefore Man is not God but his Life is sounded forth out of Gods Life yet understand out of the THREE Principles 125. Not that the Life is God himself else if it should fall and become a Devill as Lucifer did then had God become a Devill 126. The humane Life is the out-spoken Word in which the speaking Word inhabiteth either in Evill or Good as the Out-spoken Word draweth a Property out of Gods Harmony or Concord into it self As a people are such a God they have also in them and yet it is but the ONE only but he manifesteth himself in ALL and every Life according to the Lifes Desire in good or evill 127. First Therefore the strife or Controversie between me and that Authour is this That he casts or Confounds all one in another and giveth forth no right or Direct Understanding and sets himself so finely as a Creature in the holy Trinity in the first Born or begotten before all Creatures Therefore he concludeth the Creation in the CHRIST But he erreth he should conclude it in JESU or JEHOVAH in the Eternall Word of the Father as Saint John doth in the First Chapter 128. He should make for me no Woman of the Genetrix of God wherein Christ is borne or generated from Eternity but he should say out of or according to the Scripture that the Father generateth the Word and that the Word is the Voyce of God and the Second Person in the Deity and that the Holy Spirit goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 129. It is not Supposition or an Opinion that will doe it and to set himself up therein as a Fair Bride which yet sticketh full of Sinnes and evill affections but to humble ones self before God and be submissive to him and not say Here is the Lord viz the Voyce of the holy Trinity out of Gods Heart sounding No that we will not grant to this Authour He should continue in the Harmony and hear what kind of Note the Lord in the Tang of the Harmony bringeth forth in the Creature as the Lord Soundeth 130. And though it had been at the Best that likely the glimps of the Holy Spirit had permitted it self in his Harmony of his Tone to be heard yet he should say Lord I am an unprofitable Servant Thou dost what thou wilt 131. Not say I will and shall speak to you out of Gods Heart out of the Voyce of the Holy Trinity that hath no Angel or Prophet done but they have all of them only said that the LORD had laid his Word in them to make known to them the Word of the Lord For the Prophet saith only Thus saith the LORD he accounteth himself only an Instrument to whom is commanded what he shall speak 132. He saith not I am the Woman the Bride of the Voyce of God I will speak in and out of Gods Heart My Sound is Gods Voyce but he beareth Gods Sound in his own humane Voyce and the Spirit of God soundeth only in the humane Voyce when and how he will which Man should not assume to himself as his proper own but stand before him in fear and trembling and lend his humane Voyce for an Instrument Not say I have aforehand apprehended what the Spirit of God will speak unlesse he have an expresse Command by word of Mouth 133. The Name JESUS which in the Humanity is also become CHRIST that standeth within in the Holy Trinity It standeth in its own Principle in the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity and not in the Power or Authority of the Creature 134. Yet Christ saith If I Witnesse concerning my Self my Witnesse is nothing but it is my Father in me that witnesseth concerning me that I am come forth from God I am proceeded forth from God and come into the World again I leave the World and goe to the Father 135. He saith not I that is in my humane self-hood am the Voyce of God I speak
as God in and with God but he said The Words which I speak are the Fathers who dwelleth in Me that is in the humane self-hood I doe as the Father Commandeth Me. 136. Men should alwayes distinguish the Humanity and the Deity and the humane Will from Gods Will for No man can attain Gods Mind or Sence Thoughts and Will in Self-hood Man seeth after or behind the Spirit of God even Moses could not see Gods Face or Countenance he must see after or Behind him When he did see him he saw but the Lords Track or footsteps How then will this Man speak in with and through God and though the Lord do speak through him yet he knoweth it not till he see and know his Footsteps 137. It is therefore a vain enterprise or rashnesse which beside is not sufficiently grounded It is only intricate Confusion he will not be Nature and yet in Man there can be no divine knowledge without Nature 138. Nature is Gods Revelation or Manifestation the humane Spirit is or is from the Eternall Nature understand the Soul and the outward Spirit is or is from the Outward Nature and yet they are not two Spirits but they stand in one another in Three Degrees after the kind of the Three Principles 139. And yet all Three are only the out-spoken or expressed Word of God the speaking remaineth Eternally dwelling in it Selfe this expressed or Out-spoken Word may give it self up into Love and Anger BOTH are therein it CAN alter or Change it self in the source or quality but the speaking Word which dwelleth in it self IN the Out-spoken or expressed CAN NOT alter it self for it standeth in the Eternall Birth or Geniture it is generated and is become continually generated from Eternity in Eternity 140. Man hath it not IN self-hood but IN the free Resignation God becometh generated in him Man hath Originall God hath none God is as to Man as a Nothing Man is the Nothings somewhat therefore now the somewhat can not comprehend the Nothing 141. Therefore beware dear Brethren make not Gods Dear Redeemed Children to Erre and to become their own self-Idol-Gods it is an abomination in the presence of God 142. We are indeed his beloved Children but begotten out of the Somwhat we are not the Nothing without or besides all source or quality and Nature let every one feel in his Bosome and consider what he is and not think that he is wholly like God or GOD himself 143. We are indeed the Manifestation of God viz the Instrument of his Harmony We are his Pipe through which he Pipeth Now there are Three sorts of Pipers in us which Pipe in the Pipe viz The Three sorts of Properties of the Spirit of Life out of all the Three Principles 144. When now will the Pipe know when Gods Love-Will will Pipe or when his Anger-Will will Pipe Must it not as a Pipe give the Mercury to Good and Evill It findeth it indeed when Gods Love-Will Pipeth but before-hand it knoweth it not 145. Thus this Authour should not say He can Pipe out of the Sound of the Holy Trinity for we understand his Sound that the Tang soundeth out of his Self-hood not out of Gods Love Voyce while himself will be the Piper we hear his Tone only as a humane Tone CHRIST will not receive the honour in the self-hood therefore much lesse doth it become us 146. Secondly That the Authour saith God hath created all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures IN Christ this hath no Ground it is very erroneous and ill applyed therefore it shall be here better explained and given forth for the better understanding of the Reader that he may know how to speak distinctly concerning Christ and concerning the Eternall Word of God 147. It is not set down for a reproach to the Authour but for a Direction to the Reader of his writings that he may not be Lead astray in his writings Moreover only out of a true Christian Love desire towards all that Love God also not thereby to lift up my selfe and to flye aloft over this Author but to give forth that understanding that God hath given me out of Grace written for Good Friends upon their frequent desires and importunity 148. Thirdly That the Authour mentioneth that he will Speak and Act through and out of the Omnisciency that a very childe may well understand what he meaneth thereby and that he is not Omniscient else he had known that I would better explain it He hath no more in his knowledge than a Creature hath but if he hath that which he boasteth of then let him tell what shall be done to Morrow and next day and what shall be done at all times to the End of the World 149. It is written in the Evangelists that the Son of Man according to his assumed humanity knoweth not the END of the World and that this knowledge is only in God how then will this Man be Omniscient 150. And though he should say he will know it in Christ yet I say no he must see after or behinde the Spirit of Christ which is Omniscient what and when THAT will know in him 151. He is not a Knower of every thing therefore he is not sufficiently grounded but is as a mixt confusion he sets himself wrongfully in the seat of God for he liveth yet in Evill and Good and is Mortall which time will shew forth 152. Fourthly But that he also saith he will answer out of all the holy Members of Christs Body they are almost all against him in their Gifts how then will he speak out of their Spirit It is a vile confusion he hath not all Mens Gifts but only his own 153. I am also a Member of Christ but do not see that he answereth out of me In deed he hath borrowed from me but he answers not out of my Mind thoughts or apprehension I would he would let his borrowing alone and did not make Confusion in my Gifts that he might there by boast himself It would become him better 154. Fifthly Though indeed he saith He will do this for the salvation sake of all the Faithfull Beleevers yet it is not enough perceptible to me that he seeketh such a thing only seeing he sets himself in Christs Seat and somewhat else may lye behind the green Leaf 155. Seeing he saith God hath brought forth to Light all things whether they be Heavenly or Earthly in Christ and cloatheth himselfe wholly in Christs Might and Omniscience therefore it is very considerable to me especially seeing he ascribes immortality to himself that I should therefore follow and observe Christs Words viz If any should come and say he is Christ we should not beleeve it till he demonstrate it in Power 156. Sixthly Also if he be the Omnisciency of the Holy Trinity he needs no Litterall Testimony or demonstration he may shew his Omniscience in Divine power as Christ did and
then I may better comply with him therein 157. Seaventhly But that he saith God was not manifested or revealed in the First Adam He First manifested himself in CHRIST with the Deity in the Humane property and so casts away wholly the first Created Man in his Nature and bringeth a totall new and other Man forth out of Christ which is not at all the First which is wholly wrong and erroneous and he should demonstrate it by the Holy Scripture or else we will not grant it to this New Bride 158. For although the first Man fell wholly into Sinne as to Body and Soul yet we should Consider what Sinne Is viz this is Sinne that he departed or went out from the Order or Ordinance wherein God Created him 159. He went out of the Free Resignation in which the Name JESUS in the Divine Light was Manifested in him and manifested in the Flesh the Anger of God so that it began to qualifie or operate and took in wholly the Life in the Flesh of the three Principles For the Souls Will went forth from the Resignation from the JEHOVA or JESUS and so the Substance also disappeared wherein JEHOVA was 160. Thus the Outward Earthly body became accursed that is the through-pressing power JEHOVA which before made Paradise in the Flesh that departed from the Flesh into it self and so came the Death and dying into the Flesh 161. For the Eternall Life stood in JEHOVA viz in the Name JESU wherein man was foreseen before the time of the world that it would manifest it self again in the Humane Soul and make the disappeared Image of the Divine Substantiality living again and receive that into it self and would be the CHRIST therein Else it must follow that the sinfull Soul were become wholly rejected or cast away 162. If the Originall of the Regenerate Man were wholly strange what would become of Job's word where he saith I shall see God in this my Flesh and my Eyes and not a stranger shall see HIM 163. No strange Man it is that shall arise from the Dead but only that which God Created in Adam in his Image in which God himself took mercy and compassion on him again and for that purpose moved the Name JESUS in the humane property which assumed the Womans Seed on him and therein quenched the Anger of God in the Soul in the Fathers Property with Heavenly Bloud and became a Pestilence to the Devils Poyson in the Soulish Property and a sting of Death to Death so that Death must dye in his Death 164. For JESUS with the CHRIST brought the Life out of Death and Anger it is written He is made unto us Righteousnesse and Redemption understand the CHRIST but he which hath been from Eternity in Eternall full or Equall Omnipotency and the Creation of all things he cannot be made to be Righteousnesse for he is himself the Creator but this CHRIST is out of JESU or JEHOVA whose out-going is from Eternity become in our Flesh made to be Righteousnesse and Redemption from the Anger of God 165. Now that which is made beginneth it self in the Making indeed out of the Eternall for the Soul hath introduced it self into Time viz into self-hood but CHRIST who out of the Eternity out of the JESU became born in the Humane Property he brought it again into himselfe into the Eternity out of the Time viz forth out of the corrupt or perished Source or Quality of the Mercury 166. CHRIST was not in the Person from Eternity but in the Power in the Name JESU he was from Eternity in the same co-equall Substance with God and this strange Bride shall not perswade us that God was not manifested in Adam Indeed not in CHRIST but in JESU whose Exit was from Eternity 167. The Soul went forth out of JESU into own selfe-will but God took mercy and compassion on it and promised yet once to move himselfe in Man with the Name JESU and in Man to generate the CHRIST out of Gods and Mans Substance 168. NOT out of Sinfull Flesh from the Outward world but out of the Divine Flesh which in Adam when he entred into the outward Earthly disappeared and dyed so that the outward only hung to him 169. For in the Outward Flesh was the Death in THAT should Christ break death in Peeces and New Generate in him the Whole Man as God Created him not introduce a strange one but to heal the broken Reed 170. As a Grain of Seed is sown into the Earth out of which a fair Stalk groweth with many fruits where the Essence of the Grain giveth forth that Stalk and the Shell or Husk only dyeth so also in Man the husk of Sinne only dyeth the humane Essence in the Name JESUS in the CHRIST which became manifested in Man becometh that very CHRIST not the King or the Stock but a little Twig or Branch out of that very Stock 171. Therefore this Man cannot perswade us except he demonstrate it to us that CHRIST the Expresse Image of God out of the Stock of the Love his Mother was generated from Eternity and was an Expresse Image of God 172. But in this he was the Expresse Image of God from Eternity viz in the Figure of Man in which Figure God Created Man with beginning and Creature there the Image of the similitude became known in God and even in the Name JESU which in this Looking-Glasse of the Expresse Image in the power of JESUS would become a CHRIST 173. The Life of Christ began it self with the second Moving when God moved himself according to his Heart in the Humane Property in the Eternall seen similitude of God in the JESUS and gat the Name of CHRIST as a Saviour or healer of the Sore and not from Eternity 174. For the similitude of God which was Seen in Gods wisdome from Eternity and known in the JEHOVA wherein God created Man that was before the Times of the world without Life and Substance and was only a Looking-Glasse of the Image wherein God saw himself how he might be in an Image 175. But when JEHOVA moved himself in this Image and Similitude then God manifested his Life in this Looking-Glasse in humane Property then was CHRIST conceived and generated or born for according to the Humanity he is called CHRIST not according to the Deity before all Creatures 176. According to the Deity he is called the Eternall Word of the Father for it is written The Word became Flesh Not Christ became Flesh Christ is that simple Servant of which God saith in Esaiah Who is so simple as my servant He became the Servant of God by whom God brake death in Peeces and destroyed Hell 177. This Christ is ascended up to Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God as a Prince of God and beareth the Eternall Name of God which is there called JESUS or JEHOVA 178. He is the High Priest
the Letter and doth but talk Historically and hath not yet attained the Spirit of Christ to the Revelation or Manifestation thereof 56. As his reproaches and disgracefull writings many whereof he hath sent abroad sufficiently prove that no true Love-Spirit is generated in him and that it is not Christ inwardly and outwardly but Adoms Pride and State together with a conceit or supposition which perswadeth IT selfe that it is Christ and seduceth the innocent Hearts 57. Therefore I would have the Reader Christianly warned and in Love not to account himself Holy Perfect and immortall for though likely it is so that the Prodigal lost Son cometh to the Father and that his Father receiveth him again with Joy and putteth on him a new Garment and putteth the Seal-Ring in Christs Death on to the hand of his Soul 58. Yet is the Garment only put on to the Virgin that it should as a Noble Ministresse or Maid of Honour to its Bridegroom the Soul draw the Soul thereinto that it may give its Love thereinto and continually break the head of the old Serpent viz the Evill Will 59. For the Womans Seed should break the Serpents head that is the Noble Virgin in Christs Life and power awaken and rise again be New born to Life that should change the Souls viz the fire-Fire-Spirits Evill Will with its Love and turn the Anger of the Fire and Poyson into a Love hunger and with-stand or oppose the hunger desire of the Flesh in false or evill Lust Till the Flesh falleth away or deceaseth 60. And then the Mystery of the Flesh viz the Sulphur Mercurius and Sal falleth into the Eternall Mystery out of which it was created in the Beginning viz into the Word Fiat the Four Elements dye and consume and the Quintessentia or Fifth Essence passeth into the Mystery of God into the Fiat to the Holy Resurrection of the Flesh according to the tenure of our Christian-Faith which is true 61. So that then the whole Image shall again be in one and as at the beginning as God created it to his Image and no otherwise neither more nor lesse Gods purpose must stand he created Man to be in the PARADISE into which he shall go again and eternally remain therein 62. But the Wicked whom the Anger devoureth they are Eternally bereaved of their Noble Virgin-like Image which dyed in Adam and get instead thereof on to the Soul an Image of the fierce wrathfull dark worlds Substance according to their here temporall hunger which they had in their malicious wicked pleasure and voluptuousnesse 63. As also Lucifer hath lost his fair bright Angels Image and now appeareth in the Figure or Shape of an abominable Worm and Beast for he hath given himselfe up into the Center he can figure or shape to himself an Image HOW he will 64. For he thirsted after that also that he might be a self Lord of his own and Maker of his form or shape Adam also did almost aim at that but in the outward Principle the might or power is NOT though the Serpent perswaded Eve that she should be wise and know all things but it came not to passe The Third Text. Now followeth the Text. Esaiah 54. 5. He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband the Lord of Hosts is his Name and thy Redeemer the Holy One in Israel who is called the God of All the World Hereupon followeth the Explainers Exposition to the Sender of these Texts 1. THis Text you mention therefore that you may receive the explanation thereof how it is and what kind of thing is the union of Christ the Man or Husband and highly praised Triune God whose Name is called the LORD of Hosts and the Redeemer of the Wife or Woman and the Holy One in Israel who is called the God of all the world and also what kind of thing is his Wife or Woman and united whole humane Person of all the Called Elected truly faithfull Christians both of Masculine and Feminine Sex 2. Thereupon with Christ the Triune highly praised God and Eternall Endlesse unchangeable most holy Wisdome and Truth this is sent you in writing for a visible or evident manifestation or Revelation and palpable confirmation to the truly faithfull desirous hearts with Christ the Triune highly praised God to be perfectly united and to remain in all Eternity inseparably united to the highest praise of the Triune highly praised God this is in and with Christ for a holy consideration here set down and pourtrayed before your Eyes 3. And First as to what belongs and concerns the Man or Husband CHRIST the Triune highly praised LORD of Hosts and Redeemer of all Mankind but especially of the Faithfull and the Holy Ones in Israel that is of all the truly Faithfull even their Lord and the God of all the World And therein to speak of I. First His Birth and Originall II. Secondly His Substance what he is according to his first Birth before all Creatures III. Thirdly What the Action and operation of his first Birth was yet before the Fall of Man IV. Fourthly What he became after the Fall of Man and IS henceforth now and to Eternal Times and remaineth so unchangeably 4. Hereupon now followeth this holy Divine or Deicall instruction First As concerning the Holy Birth original and out-going from Eternity in Eternity of this holy Man or Husband he is from Eternity generated or Born out of the Triune Eternal highest Good the Eternall God and Father through this Triune highest Eternall Good the Triune highly praised God himself with through and out of his most holy self-subsisting substance 5. And begotten to the most holy expresse Image Glance and shining most holy Substantial Glory of the Totall Divine fullnesse of the Totally most holy Triune Divine Substance before all Created and uncreated things 6. Secondly As concerning this holy Mans or Husbands substance what he is according to his first Birth before all Creatures it shall be signified and mentioned that according to the information to the first Question he is totally like the Triune Generator and Father of the whole Triune perfect substance out of which he hath Generated from Eternity this his Tri-une Sonne of his whole perfect Substance and remaineth in with and through the same in Eternall unseparable Triunity wholly perfect 7. Chiefly and Principally as to what the most holy and most Glorious in the most holy Triune totall Divine in Eternity inseparable fullnesse of the Deity is and remaineth from Eternity in Eternity therein unchangeably and unaltered to the highest praise and Eternall honour thereof 8. There is and shall be from Eternity in Eternity Three found to be therein whence also the whole Divine fullness is called a Triune Divine Substance yes the Totall holy Triune GOD himself 9. I. One of them is called the Paternall Substance the Father the Generator the Power of the Triune Totally perfect Divine or Deicall
substance 10. II. One other is called the filial substance the Sonne the Birth the Word Speech the in-and-out-speaking Substance of the Paternal Substance of the Father the Generator of the Power of the Triune Total Perfect Deity 11. III. One the Third is called the Spiritual Living Substance the Spirit the Life the Exit in and out of the Paternal Filial Substance Power Word or powerfull word of the Triune Total fulnesse of the Father and of the Sonne or in the Father and the Sonne the totall holy Spirit and Eternall Life in Power and Word Father and Sonne of the whole Triune Deity 12. And this most holy Triune Deity Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Holy Spirit are and remain from Eternity in Eternity undividably ONE before in and after the Birth one only GOD and one only LORD over all through all and in all that set their faith and trust in Divine working and dominion therein 13. And this Triune God Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Spirit in Eternal UNITY hath generated to himself the Medium of his most holy Substance from Eternity the Word to his Sonne and Glance of his totall divine fulnesse and begotten him to his most holy Triune Deity 's highest praise and honour 14. And presented it to the most holy Glorious Throne Glance and Expresse Image of his Total holy Divine Triune Fulnesse and invincible confirmation in the Love of the Divine Fulnesse which the Triune highly praised God hath trusted with him and his Paternal Substance in and with the Word and Spirit in Eternal Eternity for a Wife and Mother of his own Triune Substance of his Sonne and Word from Eternity in Eternity in and with himselfe 15. And united to the Eternall Genetrix and betrothed or promised to in and with this most holy Triune Divine Substance to an unity this from Eternity most holy Birth of God CHRIST JESUS The Triune highly praised God is all that himself which to the Total Deity to its highest praise and honour is ascribed and appropriated from Eternity also remaineth peculiarly so in it self to its Eternal stability 16. Viz the Eternal Substantial Eternal stedfast unalterable Love Righteousnesse Wisdome Truth Mercifulnesse Humility Patience Long-suffering Holinesse Purity Innocency and in brief all vertues of the Deity which through the Power Word and Spirit the most holy Triune God from Eternity in Eternity may or can be expressed 17. Yes all whatsoever may be called good and profitable and serviceable in Heaven and Earth and be apprehended with or by the Triune God that is this most holy birth of God self-subsistingly Substantially from Eternity in all Eternity 18. Now Thirdly what this most holy Triune Divine Births acting and working was before the Fall of Man the Holy Scripture witnesseth thereof in many places here and there that through this most holy Triune Birth of God CHRIST JESUS not only all Creatures Heaven and Earth and all that liveth and moveth therein was made and is proceeded But that this most holy Triune Birth of God is also in it self Co-Creatour Generator Bringer forth Worker yes himself in the Creating was the Will and operative substantial self-subsisting Deed yes all in all so that he was not only the Creator Eternal Father and Generator of all Creatures whatsoever they may be called but also of Angels and Men. 19. Now Fourthly what this Holy Eternall Birth and Sonne of God the whole Fullnesse of the Deity came to be after the Fall of Man and is henceforth now and to Eternal Times and remaineth to be unchangeably the Testimony of the Holy Scripture mentioneth in several places very much 20. That this Eternal Divine Triune Birth and Sonne of the Triune Deity to the Comfort of whole Mankinde to the Redemption and Renovation of the same after their horrible Fall losing of all their Glory received and inbreathed from God in his holy breath and renewing regenerating and changing out of the Dead damnable Substance of Sathan into the Holy unfadable immaculate untransitory Inheritance of the Eternall God and most holy Glorious Eternally enduring Life and Substance of Eternal Happinesse or Salvation 21. Not only of fallen Man through the Anger and just Curse of God for Sinnes sake thrown into Eternal Pain and Torment but also of all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures which are set and ordained by the Lord for the service of the Created Man in his Innocency in which respect they also after the Fall of Man for the same Mans sake by the Anger and Curse of God were come and brought into an unstedfast troublesome miserable pittifull state and changeable sorrowful perishable transitory Substance or thing 22. For the Comfort and Salvation of all these and the restoring of the losse of all the Glory and Holinesse this Sonne of God Eternally Born out of God out of meer Grace and Mercy in the Love of the Divine Voyce wherewith this Triune God loved the whole world with all its Generations or births not only hath foretold and promised to Man and the aforesaid heavenly and Earthly Creatures first for a Redeemer through this Triune Deity 23. But also hath livingly substantially operatively and actively in the Regeneration and assuming of the Humane Flesh and Bloud in the Body or womb of the Virgin MARY God and Man in one person visibly palpably and substantially here upon Earth Regenerated and presented 24. As then this Triune highly praised Sonne of God and Man in one holy Visible and palpable Person hath rescued and redeemed not only whole Mankind all truly faithfull Men wholly perfect through this his holy Incarnation or becoming Man innocent suffering and dying Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven from all sinnes and the totall Satanicall Diabolicall and Mortall Substance 25. But also all Called Elected truly Faithfull who from their hearts trust and beleeve in this Redeemer as or according to their Redemption from all sinne unrighteousnesse Death Devill and Hell and the treacherous World the Lust of the Eyes and of the flesh and with their whole Person yes with every true Beleever especially among Men and Women Kind wholly Espoused with himself his totall most Holy Perfect divine substance in the Unity of the Humane Body and Soul 26. Hath united and betrothed himself and bound himself to an unseperable UNION in Eternity in the Love so that this whole truly faithfull Mankind in Generall and every Man and Woman kind in Particular in speciall he himself calleth his own Divine Substance and full or entire Love which before in Vnbeleef was not his of Substance and his Love 27. So that now this Elect truly faithfull holy Church together and also every person in particular in with and through this most holy espousall and uniting with Christ the Triune highly praised God are NOT two severall Persons two Substances and two Loves 28. But through with and in the most holy Union ONE good holy Divine unblameable Eternall stedfast Substance one Divine one Christian one
Humane Wife or Woman IV. And Fourthly How also this Feminine Man or Masculine Wife or Woman One in Eternity cometh out of the Divine Humane Eternity Unity and hath its Eternall beginning in God without End and without ceasing keepeth it in Eternity with and in God in Eternall Unity The First Point Of the Fourth Text. I. 1. NOw concerning the divine Good wife or woman which cometh from Christ her only Lord Husband or Man and God and hath her original out of him according to a Divine humane Manner that is a faithfull Body and Soul or the faithful Souls Body in indivisible unceaseable Unity 2. Not begotten out of the perished Substance of the fallen Adam and naked fleshly Lust and perdition of the whole Substance of the fallen Man and proceeded to the Light and become visible but through Christ the Triune divine Substance generated from Eternity 3. It is a totall New through Faith prepared Divine good Man in Body and Soul yes out of Christ the expresse Image of the Totall holy Divine Triune good Substance yes proceedded forth through himself and in the world become manifested to the Faith and in the Faith visibly apparently corporeally and palpably A True Good Divine Holy Faithful Visible and Comprehensible to all the truly Faithfull 4. But to the unfaithfull wicked perished in Sinne persevering Adamical world an Invisible Incomprehensible Man participating of all good holy divine Properties in and with Christ the Triune highly praised God the Husband or Man in Eternal undivisible Unity operatively and substantially and according to his own kind and property a visible holy truly faithful divine good MAN Here followeth my answer upon this first Point together with an Explanation of the right understanding 1. JAcob Behme saith we would fain see a cleer demonstration in the outward visible operative comprehensible substance since it hath not yet proved it self in any Man since Adams Fall and yet this Man speaketh of a visible palpable operative substance which is totally divine Perfect and without blemish of Sinne which worketh meer holy unblameable works in Gods Love-will 2. But seeing the Holy Scripture speaketh in No place of such a thing that such a one hath been after the Fall who hath been born totally Holy without blemish but without difference all are concluded under Sinne as it is written They are all Sinners and want the Glory which they should have with God 3. And yet this man giveth himselfe forth That he is so totally and altogether God in Christ and the Glorious Antitype of this New Bride of Christ and yet likewise no Man can say that hath been present with him that he is any otherwise then all other sinfull Men are 4. And therefore from his giving forth we are not at all assured but desire that he would powerfully and effectually shew it in himself that Men might with truth see that God hath done some speciall thing in him that it is so as he saith but seeing we yet all of us find our selves in no such Perfection and cannot say so of our fleshly Birth or Geniture for we should be found as Lyars before God if we did come before him and say we were come holy and totally righteous from our Mothers womb and if he should prove us and find us faulty then he would not suffer it to avail us 5. In Our Father CHRIST teacheth us we should pray to God and say Lead us not into Temptation for if he should tempt us we should not be found pure and it might well be as Isaiah saith From the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot there is no soundnesse in thee but meer wounds botches and putrified sores which cannot be healed 6. Also Christ had in vain taught his Disciples to pray Forgive us our Trespasses IF they had had none Also men find from the beginning of the world in the Old and New Testament how very often honest people have begotten evill children thus without doubt the possibility hath yet been with none that they have begotten Children meerly out of CHRIST like this Authour I would fain see his Wife Children whether they have another skin on since they are so Holy 7. I have been told how partly they are finely uncircumcised but if their Holinesse were hidden from us then that were good counsell and advice that Men should keep them by themselves that they might not mixe with the sinfull children of Adam but get children among themselves only and raise up a NEW World 8. Then men might justly call that People SION and a marriage State and say Here is the Lord but since it sheweth not it self yet in the work in power and Life therefore we are not yet sufficiently assured of this Bride for a good discourse or Romance without Life doth not assure us 9. But that he saith Men can NOT see the Holy People that is very wonderfully spoken For was not Christ himself AFTER his Resurrection in the Flesh SEEN Shall we then beleeve without the power of the proof seeing it is without the Ground of the Scripture therefore it will be very hard to perswade us 10. Who will assure us this when Saint Paul saith If an Angell from Heaven should command bring another Gospel then he brought let him be accursed and he neverthelesse in his Epistle hath concluded all under Sinne and hath spoken of a twofold Man that If he sinneth yet he doth it Not but the Sinne in the Flesh doth it Also with the Flesh he serveth the Law of Sinne and with the will out of Christ he serveth God 11. And Saint Peter saith It is signified unto me that I must lay off this Earthly Tabernacle Therefore we cannot be assured of this totall holy Perfection upon Earth Outwardly and Inwardly in the totall humane Substance without feeling Experience 12. And though this Man speaketh plainly SO of himself yet we beleeve him not unlesse he assureth us of it in Power for it might probably be only an Imagination and not in Deed or in Substance and then we were very silly people that we should without ground and assurance so proudly present our self before God as if we had NO Guiltinesse I suppose it would be fine humility before God for a stinking loathsome Sinner to present himself before God and say I am Holy and am GOD himself in Divine Omnipotency I cannot Erre nor Sinne. 13. Dear Brethren look to it it is not farre from this nor is much wanting that a new Antichrist is generated or Born Germany hath certainly with its security caused it in that men live so securely or carelesly under Christs Purple-Mantle and tickle our selves with Christs sufferings and do but only fatten or 〈◊〉 the Man of Sinne under it and this is a certain Image of humane security and negligence in that we boast we are good Christians 14. And say we are Christs Children and moreover Holy and will
be distinguished from other People therefore God sheweth us in this Image that we stand with the Mouth trimmed and adorned before him but the Spirit is a false or wicked Man As this Authour saith We should call our selves Holy and deny the Earthly Name and firmly beleeve we are NO Sinners but God in Christ born Totally Holy 15. And when this seeming Holy World existeth then is the knowledge or acknowledgement of Sinne totally Dead and although God should blame us yet would the flattering Hypocrite Murmure against God and say he did him wrong and then is the enmity against God generated and Sinne totally blind 16. No Man would know more of Sinne and though likely we were totally sinfull before God yet then is the time of which Christ said Dost thou suppose that when the Sonne of Man shall COME that he shall find FAITH on the Earth there would be NO Faith in Power but only meer Faith of a History so that we will not beleeve if any should charge us as guilty of Sinne thus there would be a fine secure negligent or carelesse SION like Life 17. Whatsoever we did then it were all Good there would be accounted no Sinne in the world none would be said to have sinned Christ must do all and though many were very Theeves yet no MAGISTRACY or Government would be usefull for CHRIST ruleth all in all 18. Where there is no Sinne there is also no punishment then also men would need no Superiour to Judge for every one judgeth himselfe and whatsoever he doth that doth God through him which indeed would run contrary to the Angellicall Government and against the Government of the Inward and Outward Nature 19. I admonish all Readers of His writings very sincerely from a true heart as a brother for our eternall salvations sake diligently and well to ponder and consider what is hidden under this giving forth the bring Holy and how the Devill thinketh to take us with a New 〈◊〉 seeing he perceiveth that his smoak-hole shall be manifested 20. Therefore will he now drive us wholly forth from the acknowledgement of Sinner that we should be wholly secure or negligent and understand no Sinne more and supposeth that we in our present evill life which we have shall finely learn to cover our selves With Christs Purple Mantle and introduce us totally into security and carelesness and so keep us from the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Sinnes and entrap or take US all 21. But dear Brethren observe and convert or turn away from security and acknowledge your selves to be the lost and returning Sonne to the Father and say continually you have shamefully spent your inheritance and that the Father hath received you again for his Sonne he hath done it of Grace and Favour 22. Be not proud again say not to the Father divide the inheritance between us continue only in humility under the servitude of a Sonne as CHRIST hath set before us in his Similitudes or Parables if God will effect any thing New with us he will well manifest it with power we suppose words without demonstration are too little in so high a matter whereon salvation and blessednesse depends 23. But therewith I set before the Reader the true ground what Adam and Christ are in ONE Person and which Man is without Sinne therefore Mark this which followeth 24. The Kingly Prophet of God David Was a man after Gods own Heart as the Scripture testifieth of him in whom was the Spirit of God and he prophesied of Christ but he said In Sinne was I born in Sinne did my Mother conceive me which also manifested it self in him so that he had neer the Spiritual Man also a sinfull Man IN him which was a Murtherour and an Adulterour as the like may be seen in the Patriarchs 25. But who will now say of David that he was not holy Seeing he was a Man after Gods Heart who also will say that his Murther and Adultery was without Sinne The Man that in David was a Prophet THAT was no Sinner but that which was a Murtherer was a Sinner and yet it was but one only MAN in one Person but in two Properties viz one Heavenly and one Earthly 26. The Spirit of God speaketh of things to COME and of CHRIST concerning the Heavenly Property and the fleshly desire into which the Devill introduced his desire speaketh out of the Earthly Property out of the Earthly cursed Life viz out of the Murther and Vnchastity 27. In ALL men lyeth the Heavenly Image which disappeared in Adam but it liveth in one and in another it is Vnlively That Heavenly Image viz the second Principle is that out of which CHRIST was conceived and born out of JESUS 28. For God is in all places but not Manifest in all things but if he manifesteth himself in the disappeared Substance then is Christ born who dwelleth in his Principle and the Earthly Man of the Earthly part in the Curse of God dwelleth in its own Principle in it self 29. The Spirit of Christ dwelleth in the inward Substance of the disappeared Image from the Divine worlds Substance that dyed in Adam and the Elementary Spirit dwelleth in the Four-Elementary Flesh 30. The Spirit of Christ hath Spiritual Flesh for it taketh the Spiritual Flesh which dyed in Adam on again for a Body and Maketh it living THAT is in its Flesh holy but the outward Spirit of the four Elements in the Earthly Flesh is longing after falshood and wickednesse and bringeth its Lust against the Inward Man for the Devil sifteth it 31. And that is it which the Scripture saith The Flesh lusteth against the Spirit understand against the inward Divine Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh And God said to the Serpent in the Outward Flesh of Adam I will put Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and of the Serpent 32. The Inward Spirituall Flesh is Heavenly the Devill cannot possesse that for if the Soul forsake that and go out from it then is THAT vanished or disappeared and as a Nothing In the wicked it is as a Nothing 32. But when the wicked turneth himself to God and turneth the Will of the Soul to God then is Christ out of the disappeared Seed born a Man and is set before the Devill in the outward Flesh for a Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent which hindreth and breaketh the Will of the evill Flesh so that Sinne is NOT committed 34. And THEN there is a constant Enmity Christ Governeth in his Heavenly Flesh through the outward and striketh the Outward Lust to the Ground then cometh the Anger of God in the Center of the Soul and will also have its fierce wrathfull Government and the Devill with the false or wicked Lust crouds himself thereinto 35. And the Elementary Spirit hungers constantly after its Mother the Elements and then the Devill bringeth the Lust aloft and wheeleth the desire about then the Hand
Equall Concordance as God created the First Soul they stand in the Elevation in the Multiplicity of the Wills and not in One Will in the Multiplicity of the Wills is the Turba for one Will is the Enmity of the other and they cannot be broken for their originall is out of the Eternity from the Center of Nature 75. Vnlesse Gods Light kindle it self in them then they become in the Light transmated into One Will and then the Enmity and contrary will in the Center of the Life of the soul ceaseth also then the outward-Life in the Child is together inthe Flesh of perdition and is subject to Death 76. For as the Properties in the Souls Life are in strife and Contrariety so also are the Properties of the outward Life for in Adam all went forth out of the equall concordance and now one kindleth the other and the strife between heat and cold also Evill and Good continueth so long as the OUTWARD Life continueth 77. Therefore it is a wrong Exposition of the Author where he saith Holy Faithfull Parents generate altogether CHRIST yes that Christ himself is the work of Humane Propagation which a Cow would almost laugh at to see its like in the outward Man so that he doth more foolishly than a Beast Christ dwelleth in Heaven in his own Principle and the outward Man upon Earth in his own Principle 78. The holy good wise or woman whereof he speaketh much without sufficient understanding generateth not the outward Beastial Man of the Four Elements but the Inward of the pure Element God driveth not on the work of humane propagation HE hath given it to MAN into his own will in Christ God drave it on but without humane Concurrence out of his own Predestinate purpose 79 Now if this Authour can generate children without Man then we will beleeve him that God hath begotten a Christ-Child out of him or out of his Wife if without Man she is impregnate from Gods word 80. But he will fail in that Adam hath squandered this power as we have expressed concerning it at large in the Book of the Three Principles also in the Book of the Threefold Life as also in the first Part of the Incarnation of Christ 81. The Conjunction of the Seeds is cleerly in strife and contrary Will and in the strife and contrary Will is the Life in the Childe manifest and not in the Slime but in the Anguish in the choaked Bloud The beginning of Life in a Childe is a DYING of the Masculine and Feminine Tincture of the Seed and out of this dying goeth a new own Life up 82. As the Light shineth from the Candle so we are to conceive in like manner that the Man and Wife only sowe the BODY of the Lifes Candle out of which the Life in the dying viz in the anguish-Fire in the choaking of the first Bloud wherein the Childe becometh Man is generated not as a dying of Consumption but in the anguish of the dying Source or Quality the First Principle viz the true Fire-Soul in its Principle becometh manifest 83. It is not conceiting will do it but understanding the Center of Nature how a Life originateth not only to say Christ and God doth a thing but to know WHAT God Christ and Man is each in IT self 84. Man must understand the Principles and not with Historicall conceit with Literall knowledge and confound one thing in another such a Master as this Authour will needs be viz a God that is Omniscient he should before-hand know very well and not so sottishly with such loud cry come and draw up without Ground and understanding 85. Men know also well that the Holy Woman or Wife viz the Virginity is from God but it hath not the might of Generating It is in Adam with the Wife Eve squandered it cannot generate more unlesse the Generatour viz CHRIST were before-hand generated in it and then it generateth the Soul its Bridegroom otherwise in the WILL that is it transmuteth it into ITS Love and setteth Christs Garland or Crown of victory upon it NOw followeth The Second Point of the Fourth Text The Explainers own Words 1. BUt how and in what measure manner and kind She from her God and Man CHRIST JESU goeth cometh is Created or Made and prepared hence now the Triune God and Lord signifieth in the Testimony of Holy Scripture for the better and cleerer knowledge of the holy Marriage-state and wonderful divine Union of Man and Wife in one Flesh for a Type and Looking-Glasse giveth therein through the Divine knowledge and wisdom to acknowledge and consider 2. How and in what measure manner and kind the holy woman or wife and faithfull humane visible Flesh and Bloud under the Masculine and Feminine Sex from CHRIST the Triune highly praised God her Man or Husband proceeded was made and prepared 3. And as true Christian honest faithful marryed people whom God joyneth together for here I speak not of those marryed people who highly esteem outward bravery riches honourable familyes and outward Name whom the Lust of the Flesh and of the Eye in this world bringeth together and causeth to marry yes truly faithful Christian Marryed people who many times never saw one another with their eyes 4. As all truly faithful Christian People will to the highest praise of God in their hearts with God the Triune Eternal Truth and Seal give Testimony with me that oftentimes very wonderfully and strangely their whole person altogether unknowing are brought together and joyned by the Triune God JESUS CHRIST 5. In that the LORD giveth and incorporateth in the Masculine heart his holy Love towards the Feminine Image which before as it often cometh to passe he never saw much lesse found any desire after such a One at any time which in her presenteth the holy divine Love and voyce with all manner of friendly richly amiable words and works towards the feminine Image accordingly 6. And by all manner of outward Modesty and Chast Service or Ministry and Conversation without ceasing in care day and night is diligent in and doth not give over till through the divine good power and working it presseth into the midst and Center of the feminine heart and with its powerful burning operation it Imageth to it self the Masculine person and bindeth with it self the very divine Good Holy Chaste Love 7. In both which Christian hearts this Triune divine fire-burning Love in the holy Divine working reception and growing doth not cease till it bring both these Masculine and Feminine Persons into one 8. So that they through this powerfull working in the Love are one Heart one Soul one Body one Flesh and Bloud as indeed in the Love of the Divine voyce each calleth or nameth the other his own heart Soul and undivided own propriety 9. And then in this Chast Divine richly amiable working through the divine power in holy and not unchast fleshly mixture and
marryed people might learn to distinguish the holy in the Love from the beastiall and learn in this work to remain Modest Chast and Temperate before God and Man 11. And not as a burning Lustfull Bull to which brutish work this Authour openeth a wide Door while he calleth it totally holy and so at last in his holy giving forth All shame would be extinguished 12. Whereas yet the understanding and also Nature testifieth that an Abomination hangeth to it which is not quite holy before God in respect that also Nature it self together with the Soul is ashamed of it which ought well to be considered and how the poor Soul which appeareth by the Eyes is ashamed before its Bridegroome CHRIST that it now after the Fall must propagate it self after such a Beastiall Manner like other Beasts 13. For this cause I will unfold it that marryed people may learn to know themselves and that this Authour might not make them So totally blind and they live in abomination before God as Beasts without any knowledg thereof unlesse for this I would not particularly oppose him in this Article for holy people should get also holy children which yet miserably often faileth as is apparent to our Eyes 14. We know what Moses saith That God said Let us make Man an Image that is like us He saith not TWO Images but ONE Image that is like us 15. God is according to the Fire and Light but ONE substance viz according to the Fires and Lights Tincture in the Eternall Nature he is also but ONE substance And that he is and is called Father and Sonne yet he is therein also but ONE substance 16. But manifested in TWO Principles viz with the stern Fire-world according to the Fathers Property and according to the Light and Love-world in the Sonnes Property And yet is but ONE only substance undivided but ONE God as Fire and Light is ONE 17. Thus he hath also created his Image Man according to his similitude out of his out-spoken substance out of ALL into ONE substance into one only Image and also inbreathed the Spirit of all the THREE Principles into ONE only Spirit 18. All the Three worlds viz The Eternall dark cold fiery viz the Eternall Nature as also the Eternall Light fiery together with the substance thereof viz the pure Element and therein the Paradise for also the outward Four Elementary and Syderiall world with its substance were in this created Image but One in like or Equall Concord or agreement 19. Man was and is the Inward and outward world the Inward World is the Heaven wherein God dwelleth thus was Man upon Earth in Heaven the Inward and outward was ONE the Inward manifested it self in the outward viz God in the Time the Outward is the Time that was in Man swallowed up in the Eternity but it was manifested in it self not totally for the Dominion but for the wonder of the Dominion of the Divine World 20. The Outward World knew it selfe not in the Time but it wrought in it selfe as an Instrument of the Master The outward Sulphur and Mercury of the Body were manifested in the power of the inward Spirituall Sulphur and Mercury The Tinctures of both were manifested in one another as One the Spirit wrought through the Time and that was a Paradise where neither heat nor cold might be manifested 21. The Life of Both worlds viz the Heavenly Holy in the Pure Element and also the outward in the Four Elements were but One only Life and that was a Similitude according to God viz an Expresse Image 22. For God dwelleth in the Time and the Time is not manifested in him but before him as a similitude it is IN him in the dominion all one The Time is servant and his work it liveth in it self but God is the Life of Time But in comprehensible to Time the Time ruleth not in God but it is in him as an Instrument wherewith he ruleth and maketh or worketh 23. But now understand us concerning the Soul The Soul is not out of the Temporary or Time-Nature the Time-Nature is but its dwelling-house even as an Instrument with which it maketh or worketh It hath in it self the Center to the Fire and Light world and out of the Center it became inbreathed into Adam by the Holy Spirit in the Moving of the Father out of the Three Principles 24. And this is its Fall and Sinne that it hath through its mighty desire manifested the Properties of the Dark World in the Center of the Eternall Nature which was done through Imagination in that it introduced its Lust into the Instrument of Time viz into the Outward world 25. And would try how it relished when the Equality of agreement went forth or away one from another so that Evill and good were Manifested each in it self it lusted to eat of the relish of both and thereby be omniscient and suttle as Lucifer in like manner so perished who lusted after the dark Center in the Fire-birth and awakened that in his desire that so the like concordance or equall agreement in him might be Manifested in an awakening of all Properties whence Lust and falshood or wickednesse existed to him 26. For if the Lifes forms viz the Forms of the Eternall Nature were manifest every One in it self then there is a great Enmity for every one will rule every One hath its own will and if this were not then there would be neither perceptibility nor finding but an Eternall stillnesse 27. But now the Lifes formes should not be manifested in the qualifying or operating each pressing forth but instanding in equall agreement like a Tuned Lute and the Spirit which was brought forth out of this equall agreement by Gods Spirit was also in equall agreement viz the Spirit of the Soule as the Aire out of the Fire that should enter into the Sound of God and strengthen it self in the power of the Light and with that very power strike the Cittron of the Lifes forms 28. But that it did not but it entered into own will and reached after the Center of the Lifes forms and awakened the same it would it SELF be GOD and made it self a dark Devill according to the first impression in the Fiat of its Property out of which in this world are evill poysonous worms and beasts come to be according to the outward Impression and that is the reall Fall of the Devill as also of Adam 29. But that we may render it better intelligible concerning Adam as also concerning his Wise Adam was a totall entire Image of God when God had created him then he was Man and Wife and yet neither of them but a modest Virgin in the Similitude of God 30. He had the Fires Matrix and also the Lights Matrix out of which through the Element water becometh generated through the dying in the Fire He had the Fires and Lights Desire in him viz the Mother of the Love
and of the Anger according to the Principles 31. The Life stood in a Conjunction of continuall inward joyfull desire of one in another the Fire loved the Light viz its meekning and beneficence and the Light loved the Fire viz its Life and Father as God the Father loveth his Sonne and the Sonne the Father in such a Manner or Property 32. And in such Love-Desire viz according to Fire and Light in which desire also the dark impression with its hunger hath intermixed it self God hath generated Substance The impression in the Desire is his Fiat which he leadeth with the voyce of his Fire and Light viz his making or working 33. Thus also in his Image Man was the Fire Mitrix and the Lights desire in great richly Joyfull Eternall Conjunction or as I may somewhat explaine it when TWO desires meet together as a great richly amiable relish and the Impression viz the Fiat maketh this Conjunction hard or loud sounding as the Tone of a word wherein the cleer founding richly joyfull Life standeth in the Feeling Tasting Smelling Seeing and Hearing as an amiable manifestation of the Eternall stillnesse 34. And as this is to be known concerning the Spirit-Life so also in the Flesh-Life for what the Spirit in the Three Principles is in it self In Word and Power that the Flesh in it self is in the Substance thereof 35. The Flesh hath the Tincture of the Fire and Light in it self to such a Glorious Conjunction and relish and the Fiat viz the Impression is also the Middle or Means of the desire in the Flesh and maketh the relish substantial whence vegetation or growing existeth 36. Yet now Adam was but ONE and standing in such great Glory as a totall Similitude according to God in Operation Life and generating as God had generated all things out of his UNITY 37. And in the FLAT which was in all things he had created to himself his Image according to the Property that is nothing else but in the impression of the Fiat in that Conjunction he manifested that very Lust or Longing delight with the Impression Now if Adams Soul in its self hood had entred with its Spirit into the word of the Holy power of God and had not awakened the self hood in the Fiat and had strengthned it self in Gods holy power in the desire viz in the Impression 38. THEN had the Impression viz the Fiat again formed a Similitude in Spirit and Substance in it selfe THEN might Adam have generated magically after a divine manner as God generated the Creature and set it forth VISIBLY 39. For the Matrix of the possibility was in him but when the Souls will viz the out-going Spirit brake it selfe off from Gods power and went into the Fiat into its Center into own Lust to tast evill and good and went out of the Resignation into self-hood then went also the Conjunction in the flesh into such a desire and hungred after the Mother out of which it was created and the hunger was just in such a Propertie as it was in the Spirit 40. And with this hunger of the Spirit and of the Flesh was the vanity in the Center manifested through the FIAT For the Fiat impressed the desire so that the vanity in the substance of the Flesh came and was manifested then all was done concerning the fair Image for the vanity loved it selfe it would not enter into Gods Love viz into the Holy power also it could not for God receiveth NOT that for a Childe 41. Now when this was done God saw the Fall as indeed he had known it before and in that regard he saw and fore-saw Man in the Center of his Heart in the Love Desire determining to move himself in the Center of his Love in the Humane Image and to set the CHRIST in JESUS or out of JESUS viz the greatest humility out of God in this Middle between God and the Creature 42. Then said God in himself as Moses saith It is not good that this man should be alone for he had cleerly lost the divine Might to generate Magically out of himself through ONE We will make a fellow Companion or Help to be about him 43. He Adam could now not generate Magically for he was cleerly passed into the Lust of self-hood had he kept GOD for a Help then he had been able but seeing he could not therefore said God It is not good in the beginning it was good indeed but in the Lust it was not good 44. For in God alone standeth the ability out of which Adam was gone with the lust into self-hood for the Fathers Anger turned it self together in the Fiat aloft and would be Creaturely whence the Lust after Evill and good existed viz after darknesse Fire and Light and the substance of all these 45. And now when the Verbum Fiat the Word Fiat stood in Adam in the desire and impressed the Property in the Lust into a substance of its Similitude then appeared the Magicall Image viz the Similitude according to Adam in the Spirit but the ability of the Creature was gone for it stood in the self hood then sunk the self-hood down in unability 46. Now then said Moses And God suffered a deep sleep to fall upon him seeing he was gone from God into the self-hood therefore God let him fall into unability viz into sleep he let it be done that he fell into unability for in the self-hood he was in the Fires-might even become a Devill and so was not able but he slept and this Sleep is CHRISTS Rest in the Grave 47. Dear Brethren observe it well it is become highly known not in Conjecture and Conceit but in Terrario sancto in the Holy Ternary according to Gods Counsell and Will 48. The Sleep signifieth Death viz a destruction of this outward Dominion for as the outward World in its self-hood and Dominion cannot stand Eternally but must go again into the beginning into the Eternall divine Dominion and totally break to pieces in its self-hood and be purged and tried through Gods Fire 49. So must also the Outward Mystery of Man in the self-hood break to peeces and enter again into the Magick Image into Gods Willing Working and Living 50. And understand us here right The Woman viz Venus'es Matrix from the Light Aire and Water out of Adams Essence became in Adams Sleep viz in the unability impressed in the Fiat as a Mother to the Propagation wherein the Fire in the Property of the Love-Desire viz in the Center of the Transmutation of the Fire into Light became comprehended in the Fiat 51. But the awakened vanity in the desire of the Fiat in the own self-hood of the Souls will was cleerly stirring and manifested in the Lust the Magick Birth was lost therefore God through the Fiat took a Rib in Adams side according to the Impression of the power of Adams Soul and Spirit in the Sulphur Mercury and
Sal and manifested that in Venus'es Matrix 52. Understand from Adam was taken his faire Rose garden of the great Lust Desire or Pleasure of the Kingdom of Joy viz the Lights Tincture according to the Property of the Love-desire And according to the bodily substance the Property of the Spirituall Water which in the Love-desire becometh generated through the Fire and is the Fires or Souls-Spirits greatest refreshment in which the Fire-spirit had impregnated it self in Substance and generated its Similitude viz in the Love-desire 53. This Venus Mother became figured into a Wife or Woman and in Adam remained the Fires Mother which continually introduceth its hunger into the Venus Mother in like manner also the Venus Mother into the Fires Mother viz into its Father and Man or Husband which giveth it Essence and Life 54. In which Conjunction the PERFECTION of the Kingdom of Joy standeth and the fulfilling of the desire which should damp and hold Captive the Lust of Vanity out of the Center of the Impression according to the dark worlds property and onely refresh it self in the Love viz in the Kingdome of Joy 55. This Love-sport or Scene of both the Tinctures of Fire and Light were divided in Adam in his Sleep for God parted them in the Fiat and here Adam lost his chast Love-sport and his Virginity which CHRIST brought to him again and in the place of his Rib for a Wife where he became broken must Longinus'es Spear enter and the Regenerate Virgin-like bloud must Tincture this Breach and heal and make it whole again and quench the wrath which was in the Breach 56. Thus we understand what the Woman or Wife is viz A halfe Adam Adam hath in the Superiour might the first Principle and Eve the second In Adams part the vanity became first manifest viz in the Center to the Fire 57. Which Fires-desire entered into the Venus desire and in the Lust became manifested in the Substance in which the propagation was therefore God in Paradise promised to enter again into the Seed of the Woman and with the new generated Love-desire to break the Head of the Serpents desire which was existed out of the Center to the Fire-Life 58. That is to overcome IT with the great Love to go it self into the abomination viz into the Womans Seed which the abomination in Venus'es Matrix hath poysoned and introduced into false or wicked Lust and to break that very will which against Gods holinesse and purity went into own self and turn it again into the Love-desire 59. And here when Adam was divided and the Divine might or power slept he together with his Wife with his Pleasure-Garden was ordained into the outward Life for the divine understanding was in him faded 60. For he was gone forth from the Divine Love-Fire with his desire into the self-hood after the vanity viz after the Manifestation of Nature after Art and much knowing THAT he gat also but he lost thereby the knowledge of the DIVINE Kingdome of Joy 61. He was yet indeed in Paradise with his Eve when the Spirit of the outward World awakened to him but in the Lust of the vanity together with his Eve to which the Devill afterwards gave him more cause at the Tree of Temptation as is above mentioned 62. Adam Slept in the Divine world and awaked to the outward world and with the Earthly Eating of the Tree of Temptation which was Evill and good the vanity in the Substance of the Flesh fully awaked for there began the Properties of the abomination in the Center of Nature to qualifie or opperate as a seething 63. Now was Heat and Cold moreover bitter sweet and sowre and all whatsoever is manifested in the Dominion of the Starres and the Elements manifested also in him The Sulphur and Mercury became manifest and stirring in vanity of the Poyson-Life of which now the Souls Spirit in Adam and Eve was ashamed when they saw that they in their self-hood stood in such misery and that Heat and Cold pressed upon them 64. And when God called them again with the voyce of Grace Adam said I am naked and am afraid But God said who hath told thee that thou art naked hast thou not eaten of the Tree which I forbad thee and he said the Woman gave me and I did eat and the Woman said the Serpent beguiled me 65. Here now lyeth the whole forementioned matter or Substance how it came to passe for the Lust stood in Adam and was in the Love-Desire in the Fiat become introduced into Substance in which Adam had the Birth standing that was divided from him and now began that very abomination of false or wicked Desire in the Woman to lust and raised fully the whole work up to Sinne and abomination against Gods holinesse 66. And this is the very abomination before God that the Lifes Forms are gone out from the equall agreement every one into the Manifestation of IT self whence in the Life contention viz rising up of Pride as also Covetousnesse Envy Anger and false or wicked suttlety existeth 67. So that every Forme knoweth it self in the self-hood and is Manifest to it self whence Man viz the Flesh in this opposite Strife is introduced into Sicknesse woe pain and corruption 68. For in the equall agreement NO Corruption can be for all Wills of the Lifes Forms are but One only Substance they goe in one equall harmony every property is the good relish and love-desire to the other but in the inequality or disagreement there is meer Enmity not at all willing in its property to hear see smell tast and feel 69. In these Five Senses standeth the Enmity of the Life wherein there is nothing but meer strife in respect of the inequality or disagreement and disharmony which the sound viz the Voyce of God receiveth not or suffereth not to come into it self unlesse the multiplicity of the Wills let their right or propriety goe and sink down again totally in resignation into Gods Mercy 70. As Christ saith Vnlesse ye convert and become as Children which know of no falshood or wickednesse ye shall not not inherite the Kingdome of Heaven Also ye must be born anew That is this Will of falshood and vanity must totally break and a new spring forth which willeth the falshood or wickednesse no more else there is no blessednesse or Salvation 71. And therefore must the Flesh totally Dye and corrupt wherein the abomination and the vanity lyeth in the Substance and goe again to the Limit where it originally existed in Adam to a new Revelation or Manifestation 72. Now we are to weigh the Propagation of Man the humane body is become earthly for the vanity out of which the earth became generated is awakened in it and hath swallowed up the holy heavenly Substance into it self 73. For the true Love-Spirit departed in the Curse of the Earth from Man when the vanity awakened then God Cursed the Earth
the Fiat viz in the hunger of the desire Material and originateth out of the power of the Flesh and of the Spirit both of the Man and of the Woman 93. In the Man the Spirit is fiery that soweth the Fiery Tincture in the Woman the Spirit is watery according to the Light that soweth the Spirits Tincture in the Inward Kingdome the Image of the faded Substantiality and in the outward the Aires property out of the abomination of the Earthlinesse 94. Her seed is in the outward totally Cagastrish or drossy but if She be Holy then it is in the Inward according to the saded Image Iliastrish that is halfe Paradisicall for it beareth the Rose-Garden wherein God became Man it beareth according to the second Principle the house of PARADISE but in the Outward Principle it beareth the Childe of the existed abomination out of Adams Lust and in the Third Principle viz in the Earthlinesse it beareth the Dying viz the Death and Earthlinesse 95. The Man beareth in his Seed in the first Principle the Fire-world viz the Fathers Property out of which the Father manifesteth his Sonne viz his Love viz Venus'es Matrix that is the second Principles Property in him but in his Seed not manifested but only as a Glimmering Tinder or Mother so far as he is holy and in the Third Principle he beareth in the Sulphur and Mercury in his Seed the awakened Anger of God in which the abomination against God existed and became Manifested in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Womans Property 96. These Properties become with the Seeds of Man and Woman in the Conjunction brought into ONE there the TWO Tinctures receive one another in great Joyfulnesse as it is found by experience when the Seed goeth forth How the Tincture lifteth up it self in Joy whence mans Life is moved as a Joyfull aspect enough understood by those that are OURS 97. And the Two Tinctures espouse themselves thus instantly in the Sulphur of the Seed into One and awaken the Mercury viz the Work-master of the Life so that he laboureth in the Seed and awakeneth the Lifes forms in the Sulphur 98. And if the Mercury be not potent enough then it draweth the Mothers Menstruum to it self and bringeth it into the Seed of the Conjunction then it maketh the Seed in Menstruo to be FLESH in which yet there is a materiall poyson and the great abomination against the holynesse and purity as is sufficiently understood by all Lovers of Mysteries what kind of poyson lyeth in the Menstruum which desttoyeth and poysoneth any tender plant of the Earth as is undenyable 99. Now in this Menstruum and poyson is the Seed come to be Flesh and both the Tinctures are therein and have their nourishment from their Substance and the true Life in Soul and Spirit existeth out of THAT 100. Where now in this is the totall holinesse without blemish according to this Authour Let him shew it me here and then I will esteem him for the Bride of Christ as he will needs be so in his outward Flesh 101. The Scripture saith Man is sown in dishonour but riseth up in power Here is understood the second Principle in which the Word of Life standeth together in that Espousall but not in the Evill sinfull Flesh which is full of kindled affections and false or wicked desires 102. But if the Seed be of wicked Parents then is the Mother Tinder in the second Principle not stirring but if the Parents be Holy then is the Seed manifested in the Threefold Life viz in the Threefold Essence but if not then is the Divine Mother or Tinder not Manifested according to the Love-power but onely according to the Anger and according to the outward world 103. And though it be so that honest marryed people beget children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath NOT this meaning or understanding That the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christs Spirit driveth on the Imagination as this Author supposeth Indeed the Noble Soul is ashamed of it 104. The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which kindle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz a vehement desire the tenderer the Complexion is the Nobler also is the Tincture in its sweet desire 105. But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus'es desire then is the Life kindled so that it is as it were more than halfe Mad with Love Thoughts and yet knoweth not what is happened to it 106. Must all this now be holy then would the Secret WHOREDOMES where oftentimes one vehemently and fierily loveth anothers Wife and in like manner one Woman anothers husband and so is shot with this Dart be also Holy also when two young persons look upon one another whence instantly Venus shooteth with her fiery Dart then must that also be Holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust 107. And though it be at the best yet it is a thing that is in all Beasts it is Naturall Men find some Beasts that are even ashamed of it wherein it appeareth that Nature it self is ashamed of it and when men will give it the best and rightest name then it is called an abomination before Gods holinesse being a thing existed out of Sinne through Adams-Fall which indeed is boarn with all under divine patience seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take many Examples in the Holy Scripture 108. Look upon the people Israel when God would give them the Law at Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his voyce then he commanded the Young People which were loaden with such burning Lust to abstain from their WIVES and that pointed not only at the Marriage work but also at the * Imagination 109. When David came to Nob to the Priest Abimelech and there was no Bread but the Holy Bread the Priest said to David if the young Men had abstained from Women then would he give to them and David said the Women were left these Three dayes 110. Herein Men have a very cleer example that even the People of David ought not to eat of the holy Bread if they had touched Women then were they unclean and David had shut up the Women therefore from the Young Men that they should not be Made unclean with the Women through burning and Lust for they were in the warres that they should not be an abomination before God and so God suffer them to fall in Battell 111. And Saint Paul saith 1 Corinth 7. 5. concerning Marryed persons That they should not depart one from another unlesse it be with both their consent that they may apply themselves unto Prayer Saint Paul meaneth that Men should FORBEAR the Marriage work when they will Repent viz enter into true sorrow with Prayer before God It is just
such an Example as that of Moses and David 112. Therefore a Man cannot say that the Spirit of Christ promoteth it and driveth it on and intoduceth it self into the burning or ardent Imagination Christ therefore became a Man without the help or Co-working or concurrence of any Man or Husband that he might bring us forth out of this abomination before God through his holy Incarnation or Becoming Man he became such a Virgin-like Child with both the Tinctures one in another with own self-Love that he might bring our Rent in himself into ONE 113. And this is the abomination in the Marriage work that the Seed is unclean in the Conjunction of both the Tinctures when they are brought together into One it is the Property of the Eternall Joyfullnesse viz of the highest desiring and fulfilling if that might be done without abomination THEN it were holy 114. But the Sulphur of the Seed is an abomination before the Holinesse The Elevation of the Naturall Lifes Forms where the Forms of Nature lift up themselves in self-hood they lye in the Seeds and are kindled in Gods Anger viz in the abomination of the dark world through the Devils Imagination 115. Therefore this impure Sulphur out of which the Tinctures in the Fire Life viz in the Fiery Tincture become generated is an abomination before Gods holinesse and therefore must also this Sulphur with the abomination totally corrupt or break in peeces and go again into the beginning of the Creation 116. And though it be so that the Word of the LORD Verbum Domini intermixeth it self together in the Holy People that is done according to the inward Man where the Divine Sparkle is propagated in the Image of God in the Heavenly Substantiality 117. For the Word of the Deity in the Spirit of Christ dwelleth in Heaven and the right true Image created from the Divine worlds Substance which in Adam dyed and faded is the Heaven's Substance into which NO abomination CAN Enter for the Holy Spirit receiveth not that 118. The Spirit of Christ possesseth and manifesteth it selfe in HIS Tents and not in the beastial Conjunction of the Abominations of Sinne It is not in the power of the Imagination of the Flesh but in the pure Love-desire of Chastity and Faithfullnesse where TWO joyn their Minds together in the Marriage Band and give up their Love and faithfullnesse one to another to be their own and desire to be ONE Heart and Will 119. There the Spirit of Christ is the Love-band and here now is rightly that thing Increase or Multiply and be fruitfull God said to Adam and Eve they should multiply themselves in their Marriage Band. 120. He saith not HE would do it with the promised Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent but he gave them the power of the Naturall Man but the Holy Spiritual Birth or Geniture he promoteth in his own Principle and not in the perished corrupt Flesh not in the Imagination of Lust which is more Beastiall than truly Humane 121. Indeed he bringeth holy children together but by the means of his Officer Nature how he will have it but the marriage work according to the outward Man is not Holy but according to the inward it is holy in the children of the Saints and Not in Beastiall Vessels 122. But that this Authour sets it down That through this Conjunction of Man and Wife in their Lust-desire the Evill Properties and Lust of the Flesh are separated asunder and totally sanctified in the Spirit of Christ the Love-Spirit of Christ mixeth it self in their Imagination and driveth on all Abominations and worketh in the Imagination this Lust of the Man and Woman and sanctifieth the Imagination and the Seed sinne dyeth and a totall holy child becometh conceived viz a Christ little Child or Infant that is without blemish and Sinne moreover God and Man outwardly and inwardly 123. And this he speaketh as one that understandeth nothing of the Mystery of CHRIST and takes upon him freely as a Saint of his own making a self elected one without power who knoweth not his beastial abomination and Filth 124. He will make Christ to be OUTWARDLY and yet Christ himself saith His Kingdom was not of this World after his appointed work was accomplished he went to Heaven and in the Heaven which is IN us he dwelleth with us and worketh in that very Heaven in us and not at all in the Beastial Man in the fleshly birth in which Death is 125. It is a meer fiction whereby young people which are very eager and fiery in Venus'es desire are made altogether wanton and Luxurious when it is so finely pourtrayed before them that their desire and Lust is Christs driving and that it is the Spirit of Christ which would mix it selfe and beget Children 126. When he conversed upon the Earth HE never desired to mixe himself but only in the Spirit in the Soul and in the Image of God will he then now mixe himself in the beastial outward Work we have NO testimony for that 127. In David was also the Spirit of God should therefore the Spirit of God have mixed it self in his outward whoredom and have driven on the work of the outward Imagination towards Bathsheba the Wife of Vriah whom he murthered then God would have had the whoredome to have been 128. No! God punished David for that very fact therefore men should not say the Spirit of Christ mixeth it self in the Center of the Imagination of fleshly Lust and sanctifieth the outward Seed it is altogether false 129. He sanctifieth his Tabernacles which he possesseth he indeed openeth and shutteth in the work of the Life so that the Mercury viz the Work master cannot many times bring his work to Life and also many times bringeth it to Life according to Gods will as in many times to be seen among the Saints of Old especially in the Line of Christ but men should distinguish the outward from the Inward 130. The Marriage work in it self if it Be done Ordinately is not sinfull for it is driven on by Gods Officer Nature and boarn withall under divine patience 131. God sets before him the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ his Sonne as among the Jewes the Sacrifices which God set before him in the Covenant through the future Humanity and reconciled himself in the Covenant that the Anger might not burn in the humane Abomination 132. Thus also in the outward Marriage work God sets before him the true Image which lyeth shut up in our Seed in Christ his Sonne and entereth in the working power into the Substance of that Image of the Heavenly Substantiality as a Glimmering Mother or Tinder of divine Property and herein lyeth the holinesse of the holy marryed peoples Children 133. But in the outward Flesh as also in the Soul the Abomination of Sinne cleaveth to them and so NO child is born into the world without Sinne The will to the outward work of
the Holy Trinity hath been hidden to all Creatures and yet is through the second moving of the Deity as a holy sweet Love-Sun become manifested 15. I must not say that in the Person CHRIST viz in the Man according to his humanity according to that part which he hath on him from us Men from our Body and Soul that is on to the Deity on to the Divine Substantiality or Heavenly Corporeity taken on to him That the Creature is ceased and taken up or that the Creature Soul and Body from us Men is unmeasurable 16. No for such a One is not our Eternall High Priest which I could never more see in the Form of Man for the Men when he went to Heaven said Ye shall SEE this JESUS come again as he is Ascended 17. Only the Deity in him and the Christ understand the divine property together with the Heavenly divine substantiality wherewith he saith John 3. 13. He was come from Heaven THIS is uncreaturely and yet IN every Man as an own Sun yet only in one point which shineth forth out of the fountain of this Sun indeed from no place or space but the place of this holy revelation or Manifestation is in ALL Men the Center of the Originall 18. This SUN is in all Men but this Sun is not revealed or manifested in all Men but only in the Desire to the Point which is CHRIST which point is JESUS out of JEHOVA 19. But concerning the Holy woman or wife which this Authour mentioneth which is holy and PERFECT wherein the Man CHRIST becometh generated needeth also a farre other Explanation 20. And though he sets down the Holy Christianity to be the woman or wife which I blame not yet a Man must not speak that concerning the outward Earthly Man for the Earthly Man is not Christs Spouse or Wife but the inward Spiritual which faded or disappeared in Adam the Heavenly which Christ as viz the Holy SUN vivifieth 21. But this Authours writing is altogether Contradictory and runnes counter against it selfe for here in this Point he writeth of this Spouse or Woman and Body thus which he NOT outwardly prepareth createth and maketh new but in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the world instantly after the Fall in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith espouseth betrotheth and uniteth to himself and prepareth it for his Eternall Rest In like manner also this holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which was slain from the beginning of the world IN all Faithfull and Saints according to the Testimony of the Scripture 22. Before this Authour hath set down in another place that if CHRIST became manifest or revealed in Man then Nature falleth Totally away Now he sets it down that CHRIST in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart hath from the beginning of the world espoused and united himself with the Saints in the Faith which indeed were true if he did not speak it concerning the Man CHRIST but concerning the Promised CHRIST in the Covenant which first in Time fulfilled the Covenant 23. For Not CHRIST the Man who in the Time in the Limit of the Covenant manifested or revealed himselfe was slain in the Holy Patriarchs but the Children of Faith in whom the Covenant became manifested 24. CHRIST hath once given and offered up his holy Life in the sweet Love to his Father into his Anger which was manifested in the Humane Property and with the Love broken the Anger to pieces He hath not dyed in ALL the Saints from Adam to this time and suffered himself to be slain and put to death Only the Children of the Faith of the Covenant have suffered themselves to be put to death according to the MAN of SINNE that the word of Life in the Covenant in them might put on the new promised Life which would manifest it self in the Covenant with the future Sun of the New Life in the Spirit of the Covenant 25. So that when Christ would manifest himself in the Covenant in the Flesh he also in that Covenant which had manifested it selfe in them would be manifested in them with the divine Substantiality viz with Christs heavenly Flesh 26. For even after the Resurrection of Christ when he had assumed the Humanity and slain death it was not CHRIST that dyed any more in his Members in the Christians or was slain but Adam in Christs Death that Christs Spirit in the Soul and the holy Man might Live When Christ becometh born then should the Man of Sinne continually Dye till at last when the Outward body departeth it WHOLLY ceaseth 27. But if Christ the Lamb of God were become slain in the Old Patriarchs then the reconciliation was performed IN them and then it cometh not solely and onely from the Sonne of MARY 28. Abel was NOT the Lamb of God which was slain for Sinne Christ dyed not in Abel but in the BODY which he received from MARY 29. Abel and all the Martyrs dyed as to their own Bodies for the sake of the Covenant which opened it self in them they were slain and dyed as to their sinfull Adamicall Body and not as to the Holy Body which was shut up in the Covenant which Christ when he would manifest himself in the Covenant would manifest it to be an Eternall Life and holy Flesh in which he would dwell and be the power and Life thereof 30. When the Holy Scripture saith CHRIST was slain in the Saints then it understandeth then Members of the Body of CHRIST according to Christs humanity which HE the Christ assumed It understandeth not the Triune God that should suffer it selfe to be slain from the beginning of the world for doubtlesse God cannot dye That which dyeth is only the Body of Christs Members according to the humane Creature and not according to the Spirit of Christ 31. The Spirit of Christ hath therefore manifested it self in the Humanity and slain Death in his assumed Body that the Gates of Life in us should be opened for if I be murthered for the sake of Christs Name and the Testimony thereof then doth not Christ dye in me but Adam dyeth in Christs death and Christ in my dying becometh first rightly manifested 32. My dying is Christs Resurrection in ME for I dye away to the sinfull self-hood or Nothingnesse and live to the Resignation in the Spirit of Christ 33. Therefore this is a voyd and groundlesse thing that this Authour writeth that the Man Christ the Innocent Lamb of God God himself which from the beginning of the world according to the Testimony of the Scripture was slain in all the Saints and faithfull c. 34. The Triune God is not from the beginning of the world slain in his Saints the Scripture saith not so but the Faithfull Men were slain for Christs sake and NOT the Triune Christ IN them
the Name JESUS is the holy divine Life viz the Divine Seed out of the word of the Deity the Womans Seed is his assumed Substance 81. And therefore HE is called the Womans Seed because he is from the woman viz from the heavenly Virginity which faded or disappeared in Adam and as to another part from the outward worlds substance in which the Name JESUS viz Gods seed destroyed or brake in peeces Death and Gods Anger 82. The womans Seed is a totall humane Seed from Soul and Body but it must be rightly understood as to THAT Seed wherein Adam might have generated Magically if his Longing or Lust had not plunged it self into vanity Evill and Good and awakened the Abomination as is before mentioned and here following in the Fourth Point 83. Now if I will in this place speak so highly of the divine Womans Seed then I must distinguish Gods and the Womans Seed and must rightly shew How Gods Seed viz the Name JESUS out of the word of the divine Sound or Life hath united it self with the womans Seed and given up it self into ONE Person which is called CHRIST 84. The Name JESUS is the anointing of the Womans Seed and in the anointing he is called CHRIST the Sonne of God the Seed of the Woman hath a given power and the Seed of the Woman is under or beneath God as the Body is beneath the Soule but the Name JESUS is the Giver 85. This Authour mixeth ALL TOGETHER and that for TWO Causes one is because himself doth not rightly understand it the other because he may advance all humane things and give forth himselfe onely for CHRIST viz for the Divine power and Omniscience and therefore he rejecteth all ART and PRAYER it self and calleth it a Forgotten thing as if it were without power or powerlesse and did not attain that which is Eternall 86. He will needs perswade us that the Womans Seed CHRIST God and Man is according to BOTH Natures totally ONE and that will HE Himself be But the humane Nature continueth indeed Eternally beneath the Diety though it is not devided for all that yet the Substance is not AS the Spirit 87. God with or by creating Man hath not created to himselfe a GOD which is of his own Substance but an Image of a Similitude according to himself viz a Manifestation of his unsearchable divine Substance in which he manifesteth himself to his own Joy of himself and Deeds of WONDER 88. And hath given to Man again to seek and to reveal or manifest the wonders of God in THIS worlds substance to his viz man 's own Joy delight and longing pleasure that God might be praised known and acknowledged in ALL works and Substances or THINGS HEre followeth The Authour Esaiah Stiefel's Fourth Point of the Fourth Text. 1. HItherto hath been Mentioned How Christ the Triune highly praised God and Man the holy Seed the living substantiall powerfull word of God hath appeared according to Measure from the beginning of the world in all the Saints his wife or woman and been manifested in the Eyes and Hearts of the Faithfull 2. Hereupon now it is rightly acknowledged by all the Called Elect truly faithfull Christians that this most holy womans Seed the Eternall Birth of God before all Creatures the Triune highly praised Sonne and living totally substantiall powerfull word of God and most holy Seed of the totall fullnesse of the Triune Deity 3. In the holy body and woman or wife of God the pure chast undefiled Virgin MARY humane Nature yet through and in the FAITH of the New-and re-generated holy pure flesh and bloud in unity hath taken to himself the pure humane Body and Soul to the undivided Eternall union and united it 4. And hath been generated and Manifested in and out of the faithfull Love and Wife or Spouse or Woman of God the Holy Virgin Mary a little infant and visible holy Creature the Sonne of God and Man in ONE Person 5. And as the greatest and least yes the totall fullnesse of the Divine Substance in the kingdome of Heaven from the least to the greatest here upon Earth in the Flesh of the least of all and most despised and unworthy generated in the Holy divine Unity such a Man and little childe which is equally in the Most high highnesse of all the great Triune GOD and LORD 6. This Perfect holy Seed and Word of God in one holy pure undefiled Person God and Man in the union of the woman Body and Soul through the Faith out of God and this his holy Seed regenerated viz the right Bridegroom which hath united and taken to himself the Bride of all faithfull good divine holy Flesh and Bloud in his holy humane Person 7. Concerning which the faithful witnesse John the Baptist and Fore-runner of Christ mentioneth this He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroome 8. In this perfect totall divine totall humane holy substance in one Person hath this Triune God and Man CHRIST JESUS delivered his wife or woman of his Body yes faithfull Body and Soul to and in a Masculine and Feminine Person who from the beginning to the end of the World have put their FAITH and trust in him in this his holy becoming Man or Incarnation from all Sinne Death Devil Hell world and ALL worldly Lust of the Flesh and of the Eye temporal and Eternal Damnation through his holy Passion dying and bloud shedding 9. And through his Innocent Death hath rescued from the Guilty Death and sinfull will and out of the shameful Kingdome of the abominable Satan Thief Lyar and Murtherour and set us in his own kingdome of Glory with himself to the Eternall Endlesse Joy and holy peace out of the Eternal Satanical sadnesse misery anguish necessity disquietnesse hatred envy and enmity of the mischievous Devils yes set us in the Eternal rest and blessednesse or Salvation 10. Now as this Perfect Triune Seed and word of God the totall fullnesse of the Deity in visible union of the Humane yet faithfull Nature a little Infant hath been and appeared which according to the testimony of the Scripture like other faithful Children grew to visible palpable greatnesse and was received to wisdom Age and Grace or favour with God and faithfull Men. 11. Which also the most holy high divine Triune Majesty exalted in and to himself from hours dayes and years in his visible Holy Person Gloriously and also at last here upon Earth visibly through his holy innocent Suffering and Dying Joyful Resurrection and Ascention made PERFECT and himself presented for a perfect Man or Husband of his totall Bride all the faithfull Holy Flesh and Bloud of his totall Church or Congregation in holy undivided Eternall Unity 12. And as he was from the beginning of the world in all Saints his Woman or Wife and faithfull Flesh and Bloud viz a child and Sonne of God of the Faithfull Flesh and Bloud of his womans Seed
in Christs death and put on HIS Resurrection out of the GRAVE That the Man which dyeth according to Flesh in the Limit which God hath set or appointed viz at the Last DAY should ARISE out of Christs Death 79. He hath given us his Death and Buriall for a REST where the OUTWARD Body resteth from the working of vanity as in a meek soft Sleep 80. But what this Authour sets down concerning the opposition of the totall fleshly Man that the Earthly Man which he calleth the Serpents Seed despiseth contemneth derideth and persecuteth Christ in his Members and continually crucifieth and putteth them to death together with Christ that is so and cannot otherwise be 81. For when Christ is become born then the Man of Sinne in his self-hood MUST dye the Faithfull Man becometh himself an Enemy of his own Sinnes in the Flesh the Faithfull Man according to the Heavenly Substance is indeed yea undeniably the Bride of CHRIST in whom Christ dwelleth that I contradict not 82. But that this Authour sets it down that Christ was born a poor despised Infant in the highest Lowlinesse out of MARY and yet was equall in the Height of the Triune God and LORD there he should better explain it and shew wherein he is the Triune God and LORD 83. Not according to the Creature viz according to our Flesh and Soul which is Eternally under or beneath God but according to his Divine and according to the Heavenly Substantiality and Corporeity wherewith he came from Heaven and took our Substance upon him 84. The divine Substance is unmeasurable BOTH according to Spirit and Corporeall Substance but our humane Substance is measurable to our humane Substance the Power or Authority is given but to the divine nothing CAN be given 85. God will judge the humanity through the voyce of the humanity of Christ so that the humanity of Christ according to our humanity is the Instrument to do it with Not that our humanity in Christs Person and Creature hath the power or authority out of it self 86. It is a given power or authority from the Father As Christ himselfe saith ALL Power or Authority in Heaven and upon Earth is given me of my Father Matth 28. Not to the self-hood of the Creature that the Creature is as Omnipotent and self powerfull as GOD but that the CREATURE is the Instrument whereby the Spirit of God will Judge and separate ALL things 87. The Spirit of the Holy Trinity IN the Creature is the will and the Creature is the Instrument of performance as through a cleer visible open Image and Substance seeing God hath manifested himself through the Creature therefore through the Creature also he produceth a Manifested or revealed authority or power and Dominion 18. As an Artist fitteth an Instrument of Musick and himself strikes or playes upon it that it may sound and give melody to him SUCH as he would sain HEAR Thus also in like manner the Creature is Gods Instrument upon which God striketh or playeth and hath introduced his own sound out of the divine voyce into this Creaturely Lute which soundeth and Melodizeth to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will 89. This Lute doth not play upon it self for CHRIST saith also All whatsoever the Sonne seeth the Father do that the Sonne doth also And the word which I speak to you is not mine but the Fathers who dwelleth in me Also I and the Father are One but the Father is greater than I. 90. The Father is the Eternall Beginning and the Sonne is the Eternall Begun viz the Manifestation of that Spirit which is called Father and the Holy Spirit is that which the Father through the Sonne Manifesteth with the Eternall outspoken wisdome out of the sound which the Father with the Sonne Generateth 91. The Sonne is the Fathers sound or word and the Creature is the cleer or Loud manifested word through which the Father in the Eternall Generating of his holy word soundeth or speaketh 〈◊〉 hear the Creature viz the voyce of the Person CHRIST then I hear what the Father in his holy sound in the exit of his Holy Spirit manifesteth and expresseth in and with the Creature 92. Here it is not called beloved Woman or Wife with or as to the Creature but Gods Image Gods Manifestation Gods manifest Dominion Gods own Doing or self-acting viz the invisible and incomprehensible acting through a visible comprehensible image and Substance of his own propriety 93. For without God there is Nothing HE alone is ALL but all whatsoever is perceptible or comprehensible that is only an Image of the Invisible Divine Substance wherewith the Invisible hath Manifested or revealed it self 94. Therefore the Creature should NOT say of it self that it self is any thing but introduce its ability into THAT out of which it is originated that it may be the Omniscient Gods work and play or Melody in his Love that it may do what he will and SO God be ALL in ALL. 95. And if God will do any thing through his Creature and manifest his will then speaketh not the Creature from or of it self but saith Thus saith the LORD thus hath the Lord spoken this is the Command of the Lord and not esteem it self at all to be the speaking Word or divine Sound also not say with this outward Body that the outward Body is espoused with Gods Holinesse as this Authour sets it down 96. The inward Man is indeed together with or in Gods Harmony through which God soundeth and Singeth and is a Wedding-Place or City of God but all whatsoever is Creaturely is tinder or beneath that which hath made the Creature The Creature is Gods Artifice or workmanship which he hath made through his wisdome for it is the Nature it standeth in the Principle viz in a Beginning but God standeth in NONE God is without all Beginning his desire maketh Beginning 97. But what this Authour saith concerning the woman of Faithfull Flesh and Bloud is not spoken plain enough to be understood For Flesh and Bloud beleeveth not but the Spirit Flesh and Bloud is a House of the Spirit 98. And what he also setteth down concerning the Man CHRIST who is in the Marriage with the Woman cannot at all be spoken of the outward Flesh and Bloud of this Life time for Christ is himself the Woman and the Man God and Man 99. Of the Inward Man it may WELL be spoken that is in the Marriage with Christ but the Outward is in the Marriage with the Outward World and with the vanity and Sinne as also with Death and Corruptibility weaknesse sicknesse and Misery THAT is called Eve and not the Marriage City of God in Gods holinesse as this Authour saith it is 100. But a waste Tabernacle wherein the Spirit is perished understand the Outward Spirit which dwelleth in Flesh and Bloud not that we would or should DESPISE the Spirit viz the Soul of the Great