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A08217	Dicta HN. Documentall sentences eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN, and writen-vp out of the woordes of his mouth. And are by him perused, and more-distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne.	Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?; Vitell, Christopher, fl. 1555-1579.	1574 (1574)	STC 18551; ESTC S119960	50,857	97

owne Mindes and bydeth neuerthelesse in Captiuitie or Bondship 12. When-as wee now see-into all this / according to the Trueth / so ought wee onlie to seeke after the vpright n Iohn ● c. Freedom of the Children of God / which is required out of the Woord of the Lorde And when wee then ⁏ at any time perceaue / that wee are not ⁏ according to the Requiring of the Lord-his Woord rightlie made-free / but rest yeat bound or owned / on our Mindes or Opinions / So shall wee not then seeke any other thing ther-against / but to becom Seruantes or Ministers of the Lorde / for to serue the Lorde / and to be altogether obedient / to the Requiring of his gracious Woorde and Seruice of Loue. 13. If wee then becom in such-sort o Rom. 6. b. Seruantes or Ministers of the Lorde / so shall the Lorde likewise ⁏ in the p Iohn 8. d. Obedience of the Requiring of his Woord bring vnto vs the vpright Freedom of the Children of God Therfore ought wee not to hunt-after any Freedom / according to our owne Mindes but first to applie vs dilligentli ⁏ / to the Woorke of the Lorde / and to shewe Obedience vnto the Requiring of his Woord / for to becom euenso Seruantes of the Lorde and not to seeke els-what in the Seruice of his Woord / but to humble vs with whole Heart / vnder the Requiring of his Woorde 14. When wee then are thus the Lord-his Seruantes / so shall the Lorde also ⁏ in thesame good-willing Obedience to the Doctrine of his Woord reueale or declare the Trueth of his Christ vnto vs and thesame q Iohn ● Trueth shall make vs rightlie free / and release vs out of all Bondshipping In such-sort / that wee shall then sett ourselues / with all That which is the Lordes ⁏ as submitted vnder the Lorde· and vnder the Seruice of his holie Woorde of the godlie Loue / for to liue euenso with all the Children of God and Christ / in the vpright godlie Freedom / and to serue onlie the liuing God / in r Luk. 1. ● vpright Righteousnes and Holynes The VI. Chapiter A cleere Distinction / betweene the Heauenlie and the Earthlie and how that the Immortall / is becom mortall and how it shall putt-on the Immortalitie againe NOman ascendeth vnto Heauen / but hee which a Iohn ● b. Ephe. 4. a. cometh or descendeth from Heauen The which figureth-fourth vnto vs in Cleernes / that the earthlie Fleash and Bloud / cannot ascend to Heauen / in-as-much as it is not of the Heauen / but of the Earth But the holie Beeing of God / which God the Father ⁏ out of his holie Heauen hath grounded or set● ⁏ from the Begining in the Manhod / and is in vs ⁏ for our Sinnes cause becom mortall / hath the sure Promises / to risevpp againe in immortall Glorie and that thesame shall reach / from the Man on the Earth / eauen vnto God / in the Heauen / for to make-knowen ⁏ out of the Heauen vnto the Man / on the Earth / the heauenlie Goods / and to bring thesame vnto him / out of the Heauen / and therto / the eternall Life 2. And That is it wherof Paule hath also witnessed in tymes-past / wher hee sayth b 1. Cor. 15. f. When the Mortall hath putt-on the Immortalitie / then shall the Death be destroyed in Victorie 3. Verelie / the Mortall ⁏ wherof Paule witnesseth is not any Creature of the earthlie Fleash and Bloud but it is the liuing Woord or Beeing of God / which in c Gen. 1. the Begining / was immortall in the Manhod / and is in vs ⁏ for our Sinnes cause becom mortall For thatsame ⁏ so-long as the Sinne hath the Victorie in vs is in vs / as One dead And although it beareth our Sinnes / and purgeth or maketh vs safe from the Sinne / yet haue wee not so d Esa. 53. b. Act. 8. c. esteemed it but accounted it as if it were nothing The which wee may also right easelie perceaue euenso in vs / so longe as we rest subiect to the Sinne. For if yee seeke in your inward sinfull Manhod / the good and heauenlie Beeing of God / and y e vpright Vertue and Righteousnes / so finde yee not thesame e Rom. 7. c. liuing in you but rather f Gen. 6. c. all Iniquitie / and all wicked Inclinations 4. When wee then see-into thissame / so must wee needes acknowledg / that the heauenlie Beeing of God· and God-his vpright Righteousnes / is becom mortall in vs but yet not for-euer / but for a certen season / till that the Man shew-fourth vpright Frutes g Math. ● Luk. ● of Repentaunce / against his Sinnes and sinfull Lustes / and that God euenso raise-vpp his godlie Beeing / in the Man / and that his Glorie becom great eauen vnto the Heauen 5. Yea / euen than at thesame tyme / shall the Mortall putt-on againe the Immortalitie / and the Death h Esa. 25. b. 1. Cor. 15. c. shall be swallowed-vpp / in Victorie And thatsame heauenlie Beeing of God / shall ascend vnto Heauen / and yet notwithstanding remaine still conformeablie-vnyted with the Man / euenlike as it came from Heauen and the Man shall then likewise bide euerlastinglie / one Soule and one Bodie with thesame / and be alwayes with his Spirit / wher God and his Christ is It is very-true 6. OH / That the Man vnderstoode the vpright Glorie / whervnto hee is i Gen. 1. c. Sap. 1. 2. c. Eccli 17. a. created by God / and also called through Christ so should then all earthlie Thinges be esteemed of him for no worthyer / then if they were Durt Yea / although the whole Earth ⁏ eauen vnto the Heauen were couered with Golde / yet were it all no-more / to be compared to the godlie Beeing and his vpright Righteousnes / then an Handfull of Chaffe / to a great Heape of good Wheate 7. Beholde / this costlie heauenlie k 1. Cor. 4. a. Treasure / is hid in the Man / and becometh presentlie raysed-vpp in the Man / in the Obedience of the Seruice of Loue. Thesame becometh now likewise ⁏ out of the Seruice of Loue distinctlie declared and expressed among Many and yet how Fewe are-ther that rightlie meditate or seeke-after thesame 8. OH ⁏ alas How exceedinglie doth the Man oftentymes afflict himself with sorrowe / for a little Losse of the earthlie thinges / and lamēteth thesame Damaige al-to-much which notwithstanding is no-more worthye / to be compared to the Damaige of the vpright Righteousnes and heauenlie Goods / then the Losse of an Handfull of Chaffe / to the Losse of an hundred Quarters of Wheate But for the most-great Losse ⁏ as that hee misseth / and findeth not in him / the vpright Righteousnes· the liuing Woorde of God the Father· and the Mercifulnes of the

DICTA HN. Documentall Sentences eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN and writen-vp out of the Woordes of his Mouth And are by Him pervsed / and more-distinctlie declared Translated out of Base-almayne God hath graunted mee to speake wiselie and to consider a-right / of the Thinges which hee hath gratiouslie geeuen mee Sap. 7. The Mouth of the Righteous / is exercised in Wisdom and his Toung speaketh the Iudgment Psal. 37. Hys Lippes shall not speake the thing that is vnright nor his Tounge vtter-fourth anye Deceipt Iob. 27. Documentall Sentēces / eauen-as those-same were spoken-fourth by HN and writen-vp out of the Woordes of his Mouth The First Chapiter Ther is demaunded / How-men shall discerne● or knowe distinctlie the Perfect / from out of the Vnperfect· and the Seruice of the Perfection / from out of the Seruice of the Vnperfection And thervnto is answered by HN like-a● heer-after followeth VNderstand the Minde of the a 1. Cor. 13. c. Perfect and of the Vnperfect· and the Diuersitie of ether-others Seruice / well and rightlie A Man which hath whollie adioyned and geeuen-ouer himself / with all that which is vnder his Might ⁏ as a faithfull Disciple to the gratious Woord and his Seruice of Loue / and to the Elders of the holie Vnderstanding in the same Woord / for to be obedient thervnto and euenso ⁏ in the b Math. 19. d. Mark 8. Luk. 14. Forsaking of himself and of all that which hee hath takē-on and appropriated vnto him proceedeth-forward and groweth-vp therin obedientlie / till vnto the Perfection and that also the Vnperfect ⁏ or That which is in part c 1. Cor. 13. b. ceasseth with him / and so is becom of-one-beeing / with the Loue and her holie Spirit / Such-a-one is then taught / with the seruiceable Woord and through the seruiceable Woorde of the holy Spirit of Loue / to d Math. 13. g. the Kingdom of the God of Heauen and is euenso ledde or brought vnto the euerlasting Perfection / vnto the Kingdom of the God of Heauen ؛the perfect Bewtie / and vnto the euerlasting Life / the vpright Righteousnes and Holines 2. When now then the obedient and beleeuing Man ⁏ through the seruiceable Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue is comprehended of the Perfect· well exercised in the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue· growen-vp to the Elderdom of the godlie Vnderstāding· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauē / So becometh then thesame Man ⁏ according to his Elderdom in the godlie Vnderstanding ordayned to a Fellow-minister of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / seeing that the godlie Testimonies haue ⁏ at that tyme rightlie e Iohn 7. e. their Outflowing / from the inward Bodie of thesame Man / to the seruiceablenes of Other-moe which are yeat vnperfect 3. And albeit that the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / haue their Outflowing and Ministration / from his inward Bodie ⁏ out of the Perfect among the Vnperfectons / So is notwithstanding / thesame Ministration of the seruiceable Testimonies / yeat also f 1. Cor. 1● vnperfect / by y e Vnperfectons / Because ther is a greater and perfecter Beeing / taught and required or diligentlie laboured-for with thesame / then ther is by the Vnperfectons / among whom the foresaid Testimonies are ministred namelie / the g Iohn 3. a. new Birth in the godlie Loue. Which Loue is h Col. 3. b. the Perfection itself 4. Eauen-thus haue the Seruices of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / their Ministration among the Vnperfectons and do remoue i Ephe. 2. c. the Middelwall / which is betwixt the Perfect and the Vnperfectons and make euenso of Twayne / that it be One. namelye / God and the Man / in one true perfect Beeing of Iesu Christ. 5. And till vnto thesame Perfection / the Seruices are ⁏ by the Vnperfectons also vnperfect But by Those / to whom the Perfection cometh / in their Beleef and Obedience of the Woord / the k 1. Cor. 13. b. Vnperfect ceasseth For the Perfect is than / by the Perfectons / a liuing Fountaine / wherout the Waters of Life do flowe / and geeue euenso their Refreashing ⁏ to the Releeuing of the thirstie Soules after the Righteousnes out of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue. And the refreashed Partes / assemble them to that one inseperable l Iohn 4. b. Fountaine / full of all liuing Waters / which flowe into the euerlasting Life 6. This liuing Fountaine / full of liuing Waters ⁏ wherof wee speake is in her-self / a Perfection without any begining or-yet ending / whervnto the seruiceable Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue / do bring-men and wherout all vpright Vertues and Righteousnesses / haue their Originall or Fourth-springing 7. And the perfect Man ⁏ wherof wee speake and which is of-one-beeing with the true Perfection / cannot geeue-fourth els-what from him / but all humble and meeke Vertues and Righteousnesses / which flowe out of the Perfection And thesame Outflowinges / are eauen as m Esa. 55. b. Iohn 7. c. a Water-streame / that flowe●h out of a Fountaine / like as the Fountaine geeueth it fourth 8. Howbeit / the Water which is so flowen-abrode / is not the Fountaine itself but it is an out-flowen Water / which diuideth itself out of y e Fountaine Semblable-wise / so is not that any Perfection / which ⁏ to an Instruction Reformation of the Life floweth out of y e Perfectons For all that which a perfect godded Man speaketh witnesseth and teacheth / among the Disciples Beleeuers of the Woord / are all foregoinge Seruices Distributions / proceeding out of the Perfect / wherwithall the vpright n Ephe. 4. c. Righteousnes and Holynes of the Perfection / is expressed and held-fourth before the Disciples and Beleeuers of the Woord / for to leade them euenso ⁏ through the seruiceable Woord to the Perfection / wherof ther is spoken / and whervnto ther is poynted in the Knowledg / till vnto the Coming of his Appeering 9. Of the which also Sainct Paule hath witnessed / wher hee saith Our Knowledg o 1. Cor. 13. b. is vnperfect ⁏ or as a Peece-woorke as also our Prophecying But when that which is Perfect / is com / then shall that which is Vnperfect / ceasse 10. Therof speaketh also Sainct Peter Wee haue a p 2. Pet. 1. d. sure propheticall Woord / yee doo well / in that yee haue a regard on thesame / as on a Light which shyneth in a darke Corner / till that the Daye be com / and that the Morning-dawne arise in your Heartes 11. In such-sort as a foregoing Light of the sure propheticall Woorde / is also y e seruiceable Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue / wherwith the Perfection is witnessed and expressed and thatsame Perfection / becometh also seene or perceaued ⁏ as in a

obedientlie thervnto / haue their communion with Christ after the Fleash 5. For euenso / among the Beleeuers of the Woorde / the Woorde became Fleash / and h Iohn 1. b. dwelled among them and Iesus Christ was also in such-sort borne vnto them of the Virgin Marie / out of the i Rom. 1. ● 2. Tim. 2. b. Seede of Dauid after the Fleash that is / of the pure Doctrine / out of the Seede of the Loue. which beareth euenso without woo or greef And whosoeuer then receaueth or feedeth-of the outflowen Woord and his Life ⁏ beleeuinglie in his Soule / Hee k Iohn 6. eateth trulie the Fleash of Christ drinketh his Bloud and is raysed-vp by Christ / in the last Day / to the eternall Life and becometh euenso in his new Birth / consubstanciated with Christ after the Spirit And Those that l Iohn 3. c. 6. f beleeue euen-so in Christ / haue the eternall Life 6. IF wee now ⁏ with whole Heart beleeue thus in Christ and becom m Rom. 6. implanted into Him / so feele wee then also most-trulie / that Christ؛the Woorde of Life n 1. Pet. 2. d. beareth in vs our Sinnes / and suffereth for our Sinnes cause wherthrough wee also are inclyned for to suffer with Him / and ⁏ to the o Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. Burying of our Sinnes to follow-after Him / euen vnto his Buryall and so wee becom Part-takers of the Passion of Christ as also after thesame / of his p Phil. 3. b. Resurrection euerlasting Life 7. In such-sort verelie / wee knowe or vnderstand in the Beleef and Obedience of the Woord / how that the Woord or Christ / q Iohn 1. c. beareth our Sinnes / together with all our Frailtie and Ignoraunce and how that likewise for that cause / the Elders in thesame Woord / take-vpp in Grace or Mercie / all the Sinnes / Weaknes / and Ignoraunce of the Beleeuers of the Woord / and couer thesame with their Loue / vnder the Obedience of the same Woorde and his Doctrine For in such-sort do the Elders and Ministers of the Woord ⁏ in their Seruice prepare and kindle the trespas r Ier. 33. ● Offeri●g of the Beleeuers of the Woorde / on the Altar in the Holie of Christ ⁏ ether Beleef of the Woord to a Burnt-offering of a sweete Sauour / before the Lorde 8. And the Accomplishing of thesame Offering / is the Puri●ying of our Heartes / from all sinfull Beeing And thatsame is the true Gods-seruice in the Spirit / wherin wee s 1. Pet. 2. 4. ● followe-after Christ in the like Passion t Rom. 6. a. or Death of his Crosse that is / in his like Contempt or Dispising the which is the true Furnace of Humiliation / wherthrough our Sinnes are consumed-to-nothing 9. When now the Seruice of the Woord and the Obedience of thesame / hath had in such-sort ⁏ in the Beleef Crosse of Christ his full Course with vs / so departeth then the v 2. Cor. 3. d. Heb. 10. d. Vayle ⁏ which is the Fleash of Christ from our Heartes and Christ after the Spirit / cometh vnto vs in Glorie And Hee is ⁏ euen as the right High-priest a x Heb. 3. 4. 7. Minister of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods / in vs and wee inherit euenso all thosesame / through Iesus Christ after the Spirit 10. But till vnto thesame Tyme of the Coming of Christ after the Spirit / in his Glorie / so is vnto vs Christ after the Fleash / a Minister of the Circumcision ⁏ that is / in the Laying-away of the Synne for Gods Trueth-his cause / and for to establish y Rom. 15. b. the Promises made to the Fathers / and so to procreate in vs ⁏ out of the Beleef the euerlas●ing and true Heyre / in the Establishing of the Promises of God the Father and also-for that the Seruantship of the Lawe / should be no a Gal. 3. c. Heyre with the Beleeuers 11. And That was the Complaint of Abraham which hee ⁏ ereuer hee had a Sonne or an Heyre complayned before the Lorde / that hee had obtayned no b Gen. 15. a. Seede out of the Beleef / and supposed euenso / that his Seruant that is / the Seruantship out of the Lawe should be his Heyre But the Lorde said vnto him Not so / thy Seruant shall not be thyne Heyre but the Sonne which shall be borne out of thee That is / out of the Faith of Abraham 12. But so-long as the Heyre is yeat c ●al 4. a. younge / or first new borne by the Beleeuers of the Woord / and that also the Beleeuers are yeat younge or small in the heauenlie Vnderstanding / by Him and euenso ⁏ as goodwilling Seruantes to the Obedience of their Lorde haue a Lust ⁏ according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Will of the Lorde / So is-ther not any difference made / betwixt the Heyre and the Seruant but they stand both-alike vnder the Seruices of the gratious Woorde of y ● Lorde ⁏ as vnder Tutours till vnto the d Gal. 4. ● appointed Time of the Father In such like-sort is it also with all them / which beleeue the gratious Woord in his Seruice of Loue / and haue a Lust ⁏ according to the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord to doo the Lord-his Will For as long as the Beleeuers of the Woord / are yeat younge or childish in the Procreation of the Seede of the Promise / that becometh borne in them / out of the Beleef of the Woorde and are not yeat growen-vpp to the e Ephe. 4. b. ●lderdom of the perfect Beeing of the Woord which is the appointed f Gal. 4. a. Time of the Father / ouer all Beleeuers of the Woord so stand they yeat although they beleeue vnder the Ordinaunce of the Lorde or his Woord Not therfore that they should alwayes remaine / as subiect thervnder but vnto the appointed Time / to-wit / til-vnto the manlie Olde-aige in the godlie Vnderstanding of y ● holie Woord / as ther is said That is / till that the Sinnes be subdued and that they euenso ⁏ through the Lawe be g Rom. 7. ● Gal. 2. d. dead vnto the Lawe· and taught to the Kingdom of Heauen / and haue attayned ⁏ in the Life of the Woord to the appointed Time of the h Eph● 4. b. manlie Olde-aige 13. And euenso on the Promise of y ● euerlasting Life ⁏ out of the Ministration of the holie gratious Woord vnder the Obedience of the Loue may well all the Beleeuers of y ● Woord ⁏ with Ioye / in the Hope of the euerlasting Life geeue-ouer themselues whollie in the i Rom. ● Death of Christ and so let themselues be baptised or wasshed ⁏ with the out-flowing safe-making Waters of Christ in the Death of Christ For euenso ⁏ in thesame Death