holy Vnderstanding is the first or fore-going Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine / in the Famyly of Loue / wherin / all good-willing Hearts to the Righteousnes and all vpright Beleeuers of the holy and gracious Woord / do shewe by the Deede / that they do i Math 22. c Iohn 24. loue the Lorde Iesus Christ with all their Hearts / and haue a good Will Lust or Desyre / to k Math 16. c Luâ— 9.14 â— follow-after Him with faythfull Hearts and for-that-cause / haue a Lust â with good-willing Hearts to fulfill or to accomplish y e Requyring of the Obedience of the first or fore-going Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine in the Seruice and Famyly of Loue / wherby to l Ephe. 4. c growe-vp out of the nethermost Place â or out of the Turning-about to be like obedient m Math 18 a 19. b. Mar. 9.10 Children to becom right Elders in the godly Vnderstanding 12. BEholde â ye Deerly-beloued if now ye wil n Math 16 c follow-after the Lorde Iesu Christ duly and rightly / with perfect whole Hearts and o Col. 1 a 1 Pet 2. a. growe-vp in the godly Vnderstanding / according to the Trueth / then submitt yourselues obediently vnder the holy Woord of Grace and so then p Math. 16. â— Mat. 8. d. Luk. 9 14. c follow-after Iesus Christ / according to the Counsayle and Doctrine of his holy Spirit of Loue. 13. And if ye woulde gladly be delyuered q Math. 6. b. Luk. 12. g. from the Euell· incorporated to the Lorde Iesu Christ or one-substance r 2. Pet. 1. a. with Him· and so partakers with Christ â in the Kingdom of the God of Heauens of the spirituall Vnderstanding s Eâ—a 45. a. Matth. 11 d and heauenly Goodes â for to minister them rightly / and inherit y e euerlasting Lyfe / Then take this my good Doctrine t Pro. 1.2 3. Math. 19. â— Maâ— 10 c. Luk. 8. c. and godly Counsayle of the Wisdom / to heart and apply yourselues at the first therunto / in all Obedience and Faythfulnes The V. Chap. NOw when ye haue applyed yourselues heerunto· geeuen all a 1 Pâ—r. 29. c Psal 24.88 a thatt ouer â in the Seruice of Loue vnto the Lorde and his holy Woord Ø› Iesu Christ which belongeth vnto Him â to a Preseruacion in Righteousnes or sett it submitted ther-vnder and vowed and promysed your Fayth and Loue / vnto Iesu Christ / b 2. Cor. 11. a your right Lorde or Husbande / So think then also vpon nothing-els / but c Deut 6.10 a with all your Hearts / to loue your Lorde or Husbande to whom ye haue geuen-ouer your Fayth and whole Heart / for to loue Him only and bounde or marryed yourselues vnto Him / in all Faythfulnes and to shewe all Faythfulnes and d 1. Reg. 15. c. Obedience towards Him in such-sort / that it may be a e Psal. 40 a. Rom. 12. a. 1. Pâ—t 2. Delyte vnto you with all your Hearts / to doo all his Will and to follow-after Him in his Wayes 2. But first-of-al / in the f Ier. â—â— Circumcision of your Hearts â through the g Eccli 1. â— â— 19 â— Feare of God to the h â—eâ— â—2 â— Laying-away of the Sinne in the Flesh â–ª or of all i 1 Pet â— 2 vngodly Beeing and of the heathenâ—â— Misâ—urtour 3. Secondly â through y e Fayth of Iesu Christ â–ª in his Death of the Crosse or Suffering / to the Killing k Rom 〈…〉 b. Col 2. b. and Burying of the Sinne or of all vngodly Beeing 4. Thirdly â through the Loue of the holy Spirit of Iesu Christ in the second l Iohn â—â— Rom. â—â— b T it b Birth from the Death or the Resurrection of Iesu Christ / m Rom â—â—â— to the Righteousnes of Lyfe and n Rom â—â— 1 Ephâ— â— c. Renewing of your Spirits and Myndes 5. And so foorth-on vnto o Act â— a. â— the heauenly Beeing / at the Right-hande of God his heauenly Father from whence He doth now â in this Daye of his righteous Iudgment ouer p Math 1â—â— 2 â— g â—â— d. Act. 1â— f Iude â—â— Quick and Deadd appeere q â— Tess 4 d. and com vnto vs / in Power and Glory / with the many Thowsandes of his Saincts and with the aboundant Treasures r Col 2 a. or Ritches of his spirituall and heauenly Goodes / for to s Matth. 24 â— 25. d. assemble vs â–ª as Fellow-members of his Body vnto Him and his Saints / in the euerlasting Lyfe to the Inheriting of his holy t Heb. 4. c Rest and of all his spirituall and heauenly Goodes 6. FOr-that-cause â my beloued Heartes follow-after v Math 16. c 1. Pet. 2. c our Lorde Iesus Christ in such-a-maner euen like as I do heere figure-foorth thesame before you and apply you euenso at the first / to the first Schoole-rule or x Heb. 5. c. Begining of the christian Doctrine and of the godly Lyfe / in the Famyly of Loue. 7. Exercise yourselues first-of-al / thorowly and faythfully therin And so in the Following of Iesu Christ â in the Takeing-vp y Math. 16. c Mar 8. d. Luk 9. d. or Beareing of your Crosse / against all the Enemyes of the vpright Lyfe of Christ z 2 Pet. 2 c. Heb. 10. c. and Blaspheamers of the holy Spirit of Loue growe you vpp out of thesame / to the perfect a Ephe. 4. c. Age of the manly Beeing of Iesu Christ / and of his holy spirituall and heauenly Vnderstanding That is till that Iesus ChristØ›the true High-preeste / b psal 110. Heb 5 b. after the order of Melchisedech com vnto you from the c Heb. 1. b. Right-hande of God his Father and hath â with his holy Spirit of Loue and heauenly Goodes gotten d 2. Cor. 4. b. Gal. 2. d. 4. c. a liueing Shape in you· and herited you in his spirituall and heauenly e Col 2. a. Goodes and that likewyse thosame heauenly Goodes / do flowe agayne from your Bodyes / like f Iohn â— 7 d Floods of liueing Waters to the Refreshing of all thirsty Soules after the Righteousnes And so becom vpright Elders in the holy and godly Vnderstanding and Ministers of the holy Woord The VI. Chap. TAke it effectually to heart / which I wryte vnto you and thatt wherunto a Pro 1.2.4 â— I do exhorte you For it is the Lordes Woord and his Will / to your Preseruacion in the Godlynes 2. Also refuse not to assemble you with vs to the Famyly of Loue wher-vnto ye be called / by Gods Grace / to your Preseruacion in the Godlynes· and requyred on the Lordes-behalf / for to fulfill b Math. 5. c all Righteousnes 3. For I saye vnto you veryly / that all those which refuse c Math. 22. â— thesame·
vnderstande namely a Rom. 1. a. 1 Cor. 1. a. 2. Cor. 1. a. Gal. 1. Ephe. 1. God our Father and the Lorde Iesu Christ. And that in certen Places / Christ â in steed of the Sonne is also vttered-forth for a Father and God 2. Forasmuch as thy Vnderstanding supposed that ther-was nomore but b Deut. 32. d. Esa. 44. a. 4â— b. 46. b. 1. Cor. 8. a. One God as it is also true therfore was thy Demaunde thus vnto mee / wherof thou requyredst an Answer in Wryting Seing now that ther-is nomore but One God / wherfore is He then pronouced-forth in two-maner of States The which seemeth â according to the sounde of the Scripture as though the Apostles published Two Gods 3. Veryly the Difference of this Matter â wherof thou desyerest the Instruction could not likewyse c Iohn 6. d. c. 7. c. 8. b. c. certen Iewes in tymes-past conceaue according to their Vnderstanding out of the Flesh / Yea thesame is yet also rightly vnderstood of Feawe Yet do many perswade them selues notwithstanding â because that they in historical-maner / are mynded after the New-testament that they haue thorowly-well conceaued the Vnderstanding of this Mattier and do for-that-cause perswade themselues / that they do farr exceede and excell the Iewes supposeing that they haue the Fayth and the Saluation and that the Iewes remayne by the Workes of the Lawe Now this passed-ouer we wil proceede to further the Intent of our Matter 4. VEryly as we haue spoken before / of God / the Father / and the Lorde / Iesu Christ these are hard things before the Man / for to search-out the Vnderstanding of them / in his Knowledg if he do not knowe God and Christ and the true Righteousnes of the godly Beeing / in Himself / but imagineth of God and Christ / without Him / and so goeth-on according to his owne Good-thinking / without the Administration of the true Light and his Loue. Yea it is d Math. 11. c. 13 b. 19. c. Iohn 14. â— vnpossible â after that maner to vnderstand the right Mynde cleerly And although likewyse / He woulde search-out all the Knowledg of the Worlde yet is it all in vayne / for to vnderstande thesame 5. Although the Man shoulde imagine of thesame Mynde / in the deepest-grounde of his Reason yet can he not doutles â with any-maner of Prudence of the Flesh conceaue that Vnderstanding For it is an Vnderstanding / e Esa. 57.66 b Sap 1 a. Math. 11. d. that ryseth not vpp in the Knowledg· but to the Lowely and Poore of Spirit â–ª namely in the Beleefe of the holy and gracious Woord / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 6. For God / the Father the Lorde / Iesus Christ nor-yet the true Light of the godly Wysdom / shall f Sap. 1. a. â— Cor. 2. b. not be knowen / out of the Blood or Will of Man nor out of any deepe Searching with the Knowledg For God is a g Iohn 4 c. Spirit a verytrue Light h Iohn 1. a. 8. b. 9. a. 11. c. 12. c. 14. a. and an euerlasting Lyfe which God also / is not knowen â–ª seene nor vnderstood / but in his owne Spirit and in his true Light and godly Beeing 7. SEing then that the only God / is 1. Iohn 1. a. a verytrue Light / that no Darknesses do knowe nor beholde and is not to be knowen nor behealde / but in his k Psal. 36. Light / therfore is not Hee knowen likewyse / but by Those that do Heare and beleeue his gracious Woord and that submitt them obediently l Iohn â— d. vnder the Requyring of thesame Woord and Will and so do carry the Image m 1. Cor. 15. c Ephe. 4. c. of his godly Beeing or do beholde thesame n 2. Pet. 1. c. in their Spirit / as a Pattern of God and hope theron / through Fayth And the Spirit of thosesame obedient Humbleones / is the Spirit that giueth respect to the seruiceable Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue / to th end to be o Ioh. 15.17 â— Ephe. 3. c. incorporated to the lyke Beeing of God namely the Brightnes of the Cleernes of the godly Beeing / the vpright Righteousnes p Ephe. 4. c. and Holynes that God esteemeth and then to knowe God the Father and his Sonne Iesu Christ / rightly and according to the Trueth / and to vnderstand the q Iohn 17. a. Math. 13. b. Secretnes of the Kingdom of God and Christ. 8. But seing now that the Man is gon-back or falne-away r Gen. 3. a. Deut. 32. c. from his God and from this pure Beawty and Cleernes of the godly Beeing· and s Rom. 1. c. Ephe 4. b. estrainged from the Vnderstanding of the Wysdom of Iesu Christ / therfore is he also becom disinherited of this Cleernes or Brightnes of the godly Light / and hath neither knowen the Father nor his Sonne Ø›the Lorde Iesus Christ By meanes of which Estrainginâ— / He hath not borne or carryed in his Spirit / t 1. Cor. 15. g. Ephe. 4. c. the Image or Like-being of his God â–ª namely / Iesus Christ / to which effect / the Gospel u Math. 28. d. Mar. 16. b or ioyfull Message / is published wherby to bring the Man agayne to Christ and to establish him in Him But x Gen. 3. â— the Man is â vp the Self-wisdom of the Flesh and by his owne Opinion quyt lead-away from the vpright Mynde or Vnderstanding of the Gospel and from the Incorporating or Establishing in Iesu Christ / and brought to the Corruption and hath â with Smart and Calamitee borne the vngodly Beeing or the Contrary-nature vnto his God / y Sap. 1. b. to the which / he is neither created nor called 9. This Contrary-nature vnto God or Darknes / hath captiued z Mar 6. f. 8. b Rom 1. c. â— Cor 4. a. his Sences and Thoughts and stolne-away his Heart and Vnderstanding / so that he can conceaue or vnderstand very-little / of the true Light or Christ of God and that only / because he is so vtterly estrainged * Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1.3 from the Beeing of God and hath grounded him on the Knowledg The III. Chap. NOw for to discouer the Mynde a-little / How or in what Beeing or Foorme / the Woord â God our Father and the Lorde Iesus Christ is witnessed by the Apostles of Christ / So must I rehearse a-little of Adam / to what ende he was created / wherby men may vnderstand the Intent / wher-to Christ is preached 2. WHen the almighty God â who is full of Wisdom and Righteousnes had finished a Gen. 1. a Heauen and Earth and all their Garnishing / then did He also create Him a Man / b Gen. 1. c. 2. a. Sap 3. a. Eccli 17. a. according to the Likenes of his Godhead / who shoulde carry or beare
k Iohn 14 c Apo 21. â— them and so mought â through the godly Beeing be meete to vtter-foorth and to publish the Glory of God / to the l â—phe 1 a Laude of his Maiestee and also to be seruiceable vnto their Neighboure / to thatsame Beeing / that it may all go vprightly m 1 Cor 14 d in his Course 5. Beholde thus dooing / we shall be founde n Math. 24. c 1 Cor 4 a faythfull Ministers of God also faythfull Ministers of the holy Woord which do further the Saluacion or Welfare of Men. For after that maner â as is before sayde shall the Loue alwayes continue fruitfull among vs in her Seruice / out of pure Nature and God shall sainctify his great and gloryous Name in vs· seale vs therwith to be his People· and accept vs o Ier 31. a. 2 Cor 6 b for his beloued Sonnes and Daughters also p Esa 66. b playe and dandle with vs / as with his beloued Children and keepe vs / q Psal 17 a Zach 2 a as the Apple of his Eye And He shall leade and nourish vs vp in his Pasture / like r Eze 34 b Iohn 1â— a Sheepe and Lambes 6. All our Course-of-lyfe shal be in Loue and Peace Faythfulnes s Zach 8 a b and Trueth shal be seruiceable vnto vs. Righteousnes and Holynes t Esa 58 b shal be alwayes in our Beholding and God shall alwayes go-before vs / as a Light He shal be an euerlasting King and Sheapheard vnto vs and the Loueingnes in the Peace / shall alwayes be among vs and haue no Ende according to the Promyses 7. Let all our Lyfe and all our Course-of-dealing / be heerin / my beloued Hearts ye louely Comunialtee of Saints in the Loue. For you â ye louely faythfull Comunialtee of Loue hath God chosen to be a kingly Seede vppon the Earth / according to his Promyses / for to bring-foorth by you / the Light of Lyfe / out of the heauenly Trueth to the Blessing of all Generacions of the Earth according to the Promyses 8. Take-heede v 2 Cor 6 â— Gal 6 a now all to thissame Tyme of Grace Be watchfull in y e Spirit x Esa 60 a Rom 13 b Ephe 5. â— and stand-vp in the Righteousnes The Loue of God the Father and the Glory of Christ in his Coming / take the Victory in all your Hearts Amen The Ende of the Nyntenth Epistle The Twentith Epistle A Chastising and Reproofe of Whoordom / with sondry good Lessons Informacions and groundly Instructions / how the Man shall giue-ouer himself to Iesus Christ and to the Woord of his holy Spirit of Loue and Trueth· forsake and leaue himself and all what he hath / for the Loue of Iesu Christ-his sake· and follow-after and only cleaue-vnto Iesus Christ and the Woord of his holy Spirit of Loue· and shewe all Obedience Loue and Faythfulnes / to thesame Woord Thus sath the Lorde IESVS CHRIST If any man com to Mee / and hateth not his Father Mother Wyfe Children Bretheren Sisters and also his owne Lyfe That is Whosoeuer doth not â for y e Loue of Iesus Christes sake forsake and leaue all wher-vnto he is bounde or wher-vnto he hath sett his owne Affection and Will of his Heart / without the Requyring of the holy Woord of Iesu Christ and his holy Spirit of Loue and beareth or taketh not his Crosse on him / and Followeth-after Mee / cannot be my Desciple Math. 10.16 Mark 8. Luk. 9.14 The First Chapter THIS IS THE Woord of the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ / which HN hath witnessed â vnder the Obedience of the Loue against the Whooring of the Generacion of Men 2. O Thou Generacion of Men / How long shall I sett a psal 108 a Cant 7. c. my Loue on thee / without being loued agayne and my b 2 Cor 11 a Faythfulnes / without being shewed Faythfulnes agayne 3. When wilt thou â I pray thee turne thyself away from thy Whoordom and turne thee â—ightly â c Ier 3 a with a faythfull Heart to thy d Oâ—e 2 a 2 Cor â—1 a right Husbande 4. I haue â sayth the holy Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ sett all my e pro 2 c Loue towards thee / O thou Generacion of Men. But seing that I am not loued by thee agayne and do perceaue / that thou whoorest with thyne owne Imaginacion f Deut 12 a of the Knowledg and with almaner of Spirits and g Ier 2 d Eze 16 b. c. Rom 1 c elementish or naturall Things and doest not sett thy Loue and Faythfulnes / h Ier 2. d. firmly to my Loue and Faythfulnes â which I shewe towards thee to an vpright Obeying of the holy Woord / Therfore doth my Heart â for Loues-cause suffer somuch-the-greater Sorrow and I must also be captiued the-more with i 2 Cor 1â— a Mistrustfulnes towards thee 5. OH / alas Must not I alwayes â like vnto an Husband towards an k Ier 2 d 3 a 2 Cor 12. a whoorish Wyfe haue a mistrustfull Eye towards the Man which bosteth him of the Loue and of the Knowledg of the spirituall and heauenly Things and yet committeth whoordom with l Ier 2 d. Eze 16. b â— Iud. 1 b strainge Spirits / without the Famyle of Loue m 2. Cor. 11 a and not suffer thesame Mistrust to be taken-away or denyed me / before I fynde that the Man do bynde or betroth himself â with a faythfull Heart vnto the holy Woord of Grace and his Spirit of Loue and doth with an n Deut. 16. b. obedient Heart / vtterly forsake all his Whoordom whether it be with Flesh or Spirit· with any-maner of o Eze 16. b Imaginacion of the Knowledg· or with anything that is Outward or Inward· or with anything of p psal 49. c Gods Sayings and euen so goeth-thorow the Waye to the Lyfe / according to the Requyring of the holy Woord 6. Oh! How is my Heart thus greeued / by reason of greate Loue. and so perplexed / through great Mistrustfulnes 7. For like as a valyant Champyon / hath sett all his Loue and Hearts-lust towards an whoorish Wyfe and bounde it vnto her / to the intent to with-drawe her from her Whoordom and to drawe her with her Loue / into his Loue / to be an vpright Maryed-wyfe vnto him and can obtayne no Looking-on nor Harkening-vnto â or very-little at her handes and so for great Loue / suffereth such sore Greefe in his Heart and is so exceedingly combered / that he cannot at any-tyme take any rest / for shewing his Loue still towards her Euenso am I in-like-maner swallowed-vp in Loue / toward the Generacion of Men for to withdrawe thesame from his Whoordom which doth now committ-whoordom with so many-maner of Knowledges and strainge and erring q 3 Reg 22. d. Esa 18 b
be tempted / for to drawe you awaye â e Heb. 12. a. inticeingly from the Obedience of the Loue of God the Father and from the vpright and louely Beeing of Iesu Christ and that they wil in that sort / procure your consent to the Sinne or to her Ministers / then holde you fast or f Eccli 2. a Heb. 12. a constant in-any-wyse / in the Beleefe of your Saluacion and in Patience / vnder the Obedience of the Loue and shrinke not back / That yee â in the Growing-vp to the vpright Beeing of the Loue becom not lead-awaye neither to the one g Pro. 4. c. syde nor to the other but may â in the Beleefe and h 1. Tess. 5. b. Hope of your Saluacion or Delyuerance from the Euell and in the Passing-thorow the Patience / to the good Beeing of Iesu Christ growe i Ephe. 3. b. c. strong and becom still more stronger and euenthus â in the Course of your Patience / k Heb. 10.12 vnder the Obedience of the Loue walke in all Faythfulnes Loue and l Phil. 4. a. Equitee / among all Men. 3. Beware likewyse of m Exo. 23 a Eccli 7. b Ephe. 4. d. Lying one to another and of all harmfull Speeche-of-reproche and n Tit. 3. a. 1. Pet 3. c keepe your Tongues from o Eccli 23. a 27. b. Math. 5. c. Curssing For that which ye speake p Eccli 10. b priuily in eachothers Eare â in reproch and curssing maner / with Backbyting of another shall not com-to-pas so simply / without Lyes and y e q Sap. 1. b. Mouth that lyeth / killeth the Soule 4. Follow alwayes the r Iob. 12. b. Counsayle of the Elders and Wyse in the Seruice of Loue. and s Eccli 8. â— d. Heb. 13. d submitt you obedienly vnder the Woord of their Doctrine and confesse vnto them / t Eccli 4 d. what is hidden· and becometh spoken among you / in secret / Then shall ye becom v Iob. 12.32 a Eccli 6 8. b wyse and shall euenso â in your Obedience out of the Doctrine of the Elders / first learne yourselues / er-euer ye teache another first help yourselues / x Math. 7. a er-euer ye help another first rebuke y Rom. 2. a and iudg yourselues / er-euer ye rebuke and iudg another and shall fynde z 2. Cor. 11. g. Grace / in such tyme when-as others â which iudg and deale falsly / and blaspheame cursse backbyte and belye their Neighbour shal be punished 5. Therfore do nothing without a Eccli 32. d Counsayle / so shall it not repent you / after the Deede 6. Blaspheame nor resist not also b Rom. 13 a the Gouernours nor the c Eccli 8. b Preesies / in their Office but shewe them d Rom. 13 b. 1. Tim. 5. c. Honour and Obedience and for the Peaces cause / obserue all the Ordinances of the Lande 7 Indeuour not your selues likewyse / to deale with your Neighbour / in anything that is e Tob. 4. c. Math. 7. b Vniust nor hinder not also the Straingers f Exo. 23. b. in any-case 8. Offende not the Little g Math. 18. b. Rom. 14 d. 1. Cor. 8. d. or Smipleones of vnderstanding nor charge not the Weake / with any Burthens 9. Set not the Sight of your Eyes vpon any Flesh nor vpon any Outward-thing wherby to procure your lust towards anything h Exo. 20. c Pro 6 c. Eccli 18 d 25. d therof / to any Desyre for yourselues / Lest that your Hearts be kindled and defyled â with Lust of Whoordom towards thesame But set all your Sight Vnderstanding and Memory / i Pro. 3. a. Math. 22. towards the Lorde your God and towards the godly Testimonyes of his holy Spirit of Loue. 10. Let al your Lusts Desyres and Delytes be set towards their Beawty k Pro. 3. a. 4. â— b. 5. a. b and Louelynes in the Spirit / Then shall ye not be subdued vnto Whoordom 11. Haue likewyse â in all your Sight â—ealing and Walking the holy l Tob. 4. a. Pro. 1. b Feare of God before your Eyes But beware that your Feare of God / be m Sap. 1. a. no Hipocrisye and serue not God / n Eccil 2.3 d with a false Heart 12. Take-heed alwayes of the Whoordom o Tob. 4. b. 1. Cor. 6. a. 1. Tess. 4. a and remember that ye are not dettâ—â—s to serue the Whoordom nor the Vnchastitee but only the Lorde your God / in all p 1. Tess. 4. b â–ª Purenes of Heart 13 Remember also / that vnder the Obedience of the Loue / ye are called to the Godlynes in Iesu Christ / for to showe all q Phil. 4. b. 1. Tess. 4· c. Tit. 3. a. Edifying and good Order and all Righteousnes Loue and Peace / among all People and so through all Wel-dooing and good Conuersation / to stopp r 1. Pet. 2. b. the Mouth of the Gaynspeakers and Blaspheamers of the Famyly of Loue and of all those that do belye and defame vs with al-maner of Falshod and â through all Goodnes to winne the Louers of the Trueth and Righteousnes / to the Famyly of Loue / To th end that all those which loue the Trueth in Iesu Christ and which hunger and thirst after s Math. 5. a the Righteousnes / mought â through the holy and gracious Woord which God hath t Ier. 23. raysed-vp vnto vs Little and Electedones of God / according to his Promyses be delyuered from their Sinnes and becom saued 14. BEholde â ye Deerly-beloued This is our vpright Grounde of Fayth in Iesu Christ. and also our vndeceaueable Seruice of Loue / euen like as we be taught and informed / in the godly Testimonyes of the holy Spirit of Loue. 15 Therfore â my beloued Heartes in the Loue follow not in-any-wyse / your owne v Deut. 12 a Eccli 18. d. 25. d. Good-thinking Lustes and Desyres / nor-yet your Imaginacion of the Knowledg but haue a right regarde / what the holy and gracious x Deut. 4. a. b Iam. 1. b. Woord of the Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ â vnder the Obedience of the Loue requyreth and indeuour you therunto / So shall ye then growe-vp well and vprightly according to the Trueth / in the Sainctification of Iesu Christ and in the spirituall and y Col. 1. a. b â— heauenly Vnderstandings· walke in all godly Loue Peace and Ioye· and inherit the z Math. 19. d. 25. d. Rom. 6. d. euerlasting Lyfe It is verytrue The Ende of the twentith Epistle Take it to heart CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER HN. Our Heart / is the Minde of God most-hie Our Beeing amiable / as the sweete Lillie Our Faithfulnes / Loue / and Trueth vpright â–ª Is Gods Light / Life / and Cleernes bright â–ª
Sinne and Death / through his Death of the Crosse / and hath made himself manifest vnto his Freendes / that loued Him and were his Disciples and renewing them in the Woord of his Doctrine / He q Luk. 24 c shewed them â through his Suffering and Death of the Crosse the Victory r 1 Cor. 15 g. against the Sinne Death Deuill and Hell 5. Now when-as these his Disciples were renewed and established in the Woord of his Doctrine· and armed s 1 Pet 4 a with thesame Mynde of the Suffering of Iesu Christ / t Mar 16. b Luk 24 f Act 1. a then was He taken-vp from them to the Right-hande of God his Father / in the heauenly Beeing From thence hath He comforted his Disciples and comprysed his Shape in them / out of the heauenly Beeing powring-foorth v Act. 1 â— 2 â— his holy Spirit into them as a newe and true x Apo. 21 a Ierusalem which is not prepared by Men / but by God like a garnished Bryde for her Husbande And euenthus became God the Father / thorough his only-borne Sonne Ø› Christ of one-substance agayne y Act â— with the manly Creatures And to that ende also because that all manly Creatures / shoulde â through Christ be z Iohn 17 c one-substance with God the Father / is Christ preached And in such a State doth God requyre to haue his People or the Congregation of Iesu Christ. 6. BEholde These Disciples of Iesu Christ â who through Christ / were sealed with the holy a Act. 2. a Rom 8 b 2 Cor 5 a Spirit of Christ / from the Right-hande of God· b Math. 13. f taught to the Kingdom of the God of Heauens· and established in God the Father and in the Lorde Iesu Christ were the right Christians / not out of the Letter or Flesh / c Math. 26. c. Luk. 22 c Iohn 6. f. 1 Cor. 11. c wherwith they had bin serued till vnto the Coming of thesame Clernes of Christ but out of the Power of God / d Luk 24. c Act 1. a. 2. a 1 Cor. 2 a b in the Spirit and did beare euenthus e 2. Cor. 4. a a costly Treasure / in earthen Vessels namely the very-like Beeing of God the Almighty 7. Which Beeing of God / f 2. Cor. 4. a. Phil. 2. a. Col. 1. b. Heb 1. a is the true Christ himself / according to the Spirit with whom they had their Fellowship And through Him â seing He was One with God their g 1. Iohn 1. a. Fellowship was also with God the Father Wherby they vsed that Woord God our Father and the LordeØ›his Sonne Iesu Christ. The which also Many nodout / do speake or witnes in-that-maner / out of the Letter and out of the Imagination of the good-thinking Knowledg but they are wyde of it / according to the Trueth But These â who h Act 2.3 1 Cor 2 a b 1 Iohn 1. a. witnessed that Woord / out of the Spirit and Trueth haue witnessed the Grace from God the Father and from the Lorde Iesu Christ / in the Trueth of God And yet notwithstanding / haue confessed nomore but one God but haue witnessed the Wonderful-acts of God / shewed on them through Iesus Christ. And i Ioel 2. d. Act. 2 â–ª b. it shall com-to-pas â sayeth God in the last Dayes 8. THis Grace of Saluation / that was k Luk. 1. f. g 2. a b. c Act. 2.3.4 c. apeered to the Iewes â which Many of them in that tyme refused is published to the Heathen / l Math. 3. a. Luk. 2. d Act. 13. c to a Repentance for their Sinnes / to th end that they shoulde m Iohn 1. c. beleeue on the like Beeing of God the Almighty / that was appeered vnto them· and so becom partakers likewyse of the Gifts of the holy Gost â through Iesus Christ out of the fatherly Grace and that their Fellowship mought be one n 1. Iohn 1. a. with God the Father and his Sonne Iesu Christ / in one-maner of Fayth 9. And to that ende was the Seruice of Christ ministred o 2 Cor. 10. a vnder y e Obedience of Fayth â by the Apostles of Christ to the vnbeleeueing Heathen namely in the Woord of the Preaching of the Disciples and Apostles of Christ / To the intent that thesame Lyfe of Righteousnes â that was refused p Act. 3. c. by the Iewes shoulde be set-vpp among y e Heathen / through Fayth and so they sought to confirme y e Lawe among y e Heathen / through Fayth and to bring forth the Righteousnes ther-by / q Rom. 3. c. Gal. 2 b. 3 b Phil. 3. b. that is requyred by y e Lawe The V. Chap. BEholde euenthus / for a a Luk. 2. â— Light and Saluation of the Heathen / is thissame â only out of Grace / vndeserued published vnto the Heathen / for a Gospel / to a Mortifying of their vayne Vnderstanding b Rom 1.6.8 1 Cor 5.6 Gal. 5 6. and of the corrupt vngodly Beeing and to an Incorporating to the newe Man whom the Apostles of Christ did publish namely ChristØ›the Like-beeing of God c Luk. 1. g. Ephe. 4. c. in vpright Righteousnes and Holynes In whom â and in none Other standeth d Act. 4.10 c the Forgiuenes of Sinnes 2. These Publishers of the holy Woord or Gospel of the Kingdom of God seing now that Iesus Christ had a Shape in them / as a verytrue Light and Lyfe of God and that Gods Shape / was in Christ wher-thorough they lykewyse were in Christ â–ª and God in them haue published that Woord Ø› Grace and Peace from â—od our Father and y e Lorde Iesu Christ in the Trueth 3. But although the Apostles did publih this after-this-maner / yet haue they notwithstanding / spoken no otherwyse then of One God / who had shewed his Procreation or Generation in them / as a e Iohn 1. c Glory of the only-borne Sonne of y e Father / full of Grace and Trueth namely that God the Father had begotten and declared in them / his like f Iohn 1. a 1. Iohn 1. a Lyfe of God / out of his Lyfe and his like Light / out of his Light 4. Seing then that they did beare this like Beeing of the Godhead / in them / therfore haue they â through thesame knowen the liueing God / who was their Saluation namely through the Lyfe of God / Iesu Christ being appeered vnto them g Ephe. 3. â— in the Spirit Wherthrough they also published the Lyfe that is euerlasting and so witnessed likewyse that Those which had h â— Iohn 5. b. not the Sonne of God / coulde not also haue the Father / and that they were without i Ephe. 2 b. God / in this Worlde For the like Lyfe of God / k Iohn 1. a 1 Iohn 1. a 5
b. is the only-borne Sonne of God himself And whosoeuer refused Him / mought not obtayne the Grace before God For it is so concluded by God for euer / that in the Sonne / is the Lyfe of Saluation l Iohn 10.14 a. and that it shall also be obtayned in Him 5. THis is veryly the Grace of God the Father â which was published in tymes-past / vnto the Children of Men / vnder the Obedience of Fayth and which is also published now in the last tyme / vnder the Obedience of the Loue that the Lyfe of the liueing Godhead / is appeered vppon Earth and that â through thesame the Vnitee in the Peace with God the Father / is to be obtayned / wherby to m Iohn 8. c 14. b. 17. b. knowe Him / in his Glory and his Vniformnes with the Manhod / through the Lorde Iesus Christ. Reade Iohn 17. 6. Beholde This is the Difference â with a breefe Instruction betwixt God the Father / and the Lorde Iesus Christ. Take it to heart 7. MY Seruice / to content thee â my Beloued vouchsafe to take in good part / with a Regard to y e God of the Liueing And this my Wryting â to the Answering of thy Request haue I reharsed in this maner seing other wyse no Meane / for to open the Vnderstanding of the Godhead of Christ and to content thee or to satisfy thy Demaunde 8. Beholde I haue heere witnessed y e Mynde vnto thee / in Ful maner so that in this Instruction â so far-forth as the Lorde n Ephe. 1. c. do illuminate thyne Vnderstanding ther shal be sufficient / to answer thy Request And thy Intent of Heart in the Spirit / shall likewyse through the Beleefe of the Trueth â if thou hast a right regarde heerunto o Pro 4. a and takest thissame to heart be wel-mynded to our mostholy Seruice of Loue. The almighty God leade the into his Righteousnes Amen The Ende of the Third Epistle The Fowrth Epistle A cleere Instruction of the Mediation of Iesu Christ that cometh-to-pas in the Spirit / for a Reconciliation betwixt God and the Man Iesus speaketh to his Disciples I am the Waye the Trueth and the Lyfe Noman cometh to the Father / but thorow Mee Iohn 14. a. If any man enter in thorow Mee â–ª hee shal be saued Iohn 10 b. I am the Light of the Worlde Whoso followeth after Mee / walketh not in Darknes but he shall haue the Light of Lyfe Iohn 8. b. If any man wil follow-after Mee let him forsake himself and take-vp his Crosse on him / and follow after Mee Math. 16. c. Luk. 9 c. He that taketh not vp his Crosse on him and followeth after Mee hee is not worthy of Mee or he may not be my Disciple Math. 10. d. Luk. 14. c Ther was demaunded by a Louer of the Trueth and an Instruction in wryting / desyred theruppon / how the Mediation of Iesu Christ â according to the Spirit or spiritually cometh-to-pas in vs / a Rom. â— a. b. to our Reconciliation with God the Father and how Christ is an b Heb. 1. a Heire of all Things and how c 1. Cor. 15. c. God is all in all Wher-vpon this present Letter is written by HN / out of an Inclynation of the Loue very profitable and needfull to the Vnderstanding therof / for all those that hope vpon God· vpon Christ· and vpon their Saluation / To th end that they may vnderstand which is the right Grounde of the Beleefe in Iesu Christ / wherthrough one is iustifyed from the Sinne / for to be in-that-sort / reconciled with God in a newe Lyfe according to the Scripture The First Chap. FOrasmuch as I haue alwayes founde my self willingly-bent to do thee Seruice / my beloued Brother so do I also still fynde my self redy-prepared therto namely in thatt wherin I may be seruiceable vnto thee / to a Guyding into the holy Vnderstanding / To th end y t thou â if God vouchsafe thesame moughtest â through my small Seruice be a little furthered to the good Knowledg in God and his Christ. 2. But seing I am alwayes carefull and do stand in feare to wryte much of the deepe Groundes of the a Rom. 11. â— â–ª secret Knowledges of God and Christ / so am I alwayes carefull / lest that thesame if we should wryte boldly therof mought thrust-back anyone from Vs and our godly Doctrine or offende him therby or that anyone shoulde desyre to glory or to boste therin / as in a Knowledg of the Flesh. and not before althings or with his whole Heart / to be partaker in the Spirit / b 2 Pet. 1. a. of the Beeing wherof we do wryte or witnes 3. For albeit that we do knowe well â according to the Comprehention of our Natural-reason that ther is a God a Christ and a holy Gost / and so do talke of Them and yet do not â through that Knowledg beleeue serue nor loue thesame God / as He is a God and his Christ / as He is a Christ and the holy Gost / as He is an holy Gost / nor-yet desyre to becom partakers of his Beeing but to liue in a c Rom. 1. â— Ephe. 4. b. strainge Beeing / which is none of Gods Beeing and to cleaue-vnto thesame / So is then the Knowledg of the holy Secretnes of God / more hurtfull then furdersom vnto vs. For if we knowe in what Foorme or Beeing / that ther is a God and yet do not honour nor serue Him / as He is a God but haue a Lust to the Contrary-beeing vnto God / Then is thatsame to a d Mat. 25. c. Luk. 12. c more-greeuous Condemnation vnto vs. 4. SEing now that I â through the Light do beholde these Perills / so am I likewyse carefull therin / to wryte of the Secrets of God / before Many And if thou lookest with me into the Perils / then knowe I well / that thou wilt not disalow me in my Carefulnes For I haue much-more delyte in the Obeying of the Requyring of the Seruice of Loue / and whear Gods Beeing Light or vpright Righteousnes / doth euenso then ryse-vp in Esa. 58. b. Power / in the inward Man / then whear as men do with Speakable-woords â out of the Knowledg talke much of the Secretnes of God / according to the outward Maner 5. Thou also knowest partly my Conuersation / in what sort it was with thee and how fearfully touching many Woords / I haue behaued myself with thee shewing thee / that the f Math. 13. Secretnes of the Kingdom of God or Christ / consisteth not g 1 Cor. 2 a. in the Multitude of Woords nor in the Ritches of the Knowledg / Because that thou shouldest not suffer thyself to be bewitched by Anyman with outward or strainge Woords or Sayings of plentiful-store of Languages / as to let thyne Heart committ Whordom therwith But
Prophets and Holyones haue also witnessed God dwelleth not in Tabernacles or Temples q Act. 7.17 â— that are made with Mens Handes but in the Worke of his owne Hande For looke into the matter 16. Wherin hath God â I pray thee euer had a Pleasure to dwell â for to be aswell vppon Earth as in Heauen r Leuit 26 Pro. 8. d. 2. Cor. 6 b Apo. 21. a but in the Man whom He himself hath made And to what Temple or Tabernacle hath He had a Lust to haue it cleansed from the Idoles· and from all vngodly Beeing but to the Man / wherby to be God and the Lorde alone / in him 17. Consider Are not these the s Esa. 4â— a 6â— 61. b 62. a 2. Pet 3. b. Apo. 21. â— Promyses / that God wil inhabite the Earth â or the Man of the Earth in Righteousnes 18. Yea euen in the Man / wil Hee â through his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue distinct and deuid-a sunder / the Earthly / from the Heauenly / To th end that euenso in the Mans Inwardnes / Thatt which is of God / may com to t Eccle. 12. â— God / in the heauenly Beeing and the Earthly / to his earthly Beeing And He himself Ø›the God of Heauen v Esa. 60. â— c Apo. 2â— â— wil in this sort haue his Dwelling 〈◊〉 in the Mans Inwardnes / with his godly Beeing and shyne in him euerlastingly with his Cleernes / as a Day-light from Heauen and euenso lighten the Earth with Righteousnes And thatt is the Newe Heauen x Esa. 65.66 b 2 Pet. 3. b. Apo. 21. a and the Newe Earth / in which the Righteousnes dwelleth and they are now coming to all Beleeuers of Christ / which do submitt them obediently vnder the Loue and her Seruice / to the Cleansing from their Sinnes according to the Promyses The XI Chap. THou wrytest moreouer boldly vnto me / that thou hast no God whom thou needest still to feare y t He shoulde vse Rygorousnes with thee neither doest thou also â as thou wrytest desyre to haue any such Lorde 2. I knowe not wel what I shall saye heervpon but my Conceaueing is / that thou vnderstandest not rightly the Feare of God nor-yet his Rygorousnes nor his Kyndnes 3. For / to feare God / a Psal. 111. b. Pro. 1. a. 9. b Eccli 1. b is a costly Treasure / because that therout springeth the holy Wisdom For the Feare of God b Pro. 16. a Eccli 7. c dryueth-out the Sinne. 4. She is a Worke full of all Vertue / a Foresightfulnes / to a good Protection from the Destruction and begetteth in the Man / a good Vnderstanding / to a Guyding-in of him to the vpright Lyfe 5. But to knowe and to loue God in his godly Nature and Beeing / c Sap. 15. a thatt is perfect Righteousnes and this Perfection in the Loue / d 1 Iohn 4. b dryueth-out Feare wherthrough the Man doth euenso then / fulfill the Requyring of the Lawe of Moses and of the Fayth of Iesu Christ and loueth God with all his Heart and all Men as himself 6. Therfore ther-is likewyse no Feare of God anymore needfull to such a Man / which hath inherited the Perfection in the Loue. For God dwelleth in him and thesame Gods Spirit e Iohn 16. b. leadeth him into all Trueth and declareth all things vnto him 7. The Man now being a Dwelling for God / in all his Inwardnes f 1. Cor. 3.6 b 2 Cor. 6. b. â in whom / God with his Christ and Spirit / liueth and worketh he hath no cause to be afrayde of God nor of his Rygorousnes For g Col. 3 b the Loue is the Bande of their Vnitee namely the Godhead with the Manhod Therfore also the Man needeth not to feare For all his Nature Beeing and Disposition / is like vnto God himself / who suffereth his h Math. 5. d. Sunne of Righteousnes to shyne ouer Good and Badd 8. And if now it be so with thee likewyse then hast thou wonne the Crowne i 4. Esd 2. c. Iam 1. a. Apo. 2. b. of Lyfe and all Ignorance is swallowed-vp in thee 9. But now it appeereth by thy Woords â according to the sounde of thy wryting that thou art not yet com heerunto For thou desyrest yet Releasment from thy former Ignorance and wishest that it had his Going-vnder in thee or that it were quyt out of thee that thou moughtest then reioyce thee aright 10. Thou Beloued looke once rightly into thyself and let thy Bosting be accordingly For consider So long as the Man beholdeth his Ignorance and his Enemyes / which do raigne ouer him besydes God and his Doctrine or Requyring / so is it meete doutles / that the Man shoulde feare God· inclyne vnto Him and his Requyring· and submitt him obediently vnder the Ministration of his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue / to th end that God may be his Headd k Psa 27 47. a 96. a b 97. a 99. a. and King· and his Protecter and Helper / against his Enemyes and that his Enemyes mought euenso â thorough the Power of his God go-vnder or com-to-nothing and that l Math. 25. d. God only mought â with his Wisdom or Vnderstanding heare the Dominion in him or obtayne thesame against them The XII Chap. FArdermore / thou sayest â by thy wryting that thou must yet suffer thy Brother Esau seing he is still to-mighty for thee 2. I knowe not whether I do well vnderstande thy Mynde in this Matter / or no / because that thou hast heer-to-fore written so franckly vnto me / of thy Deliuerance and Freedom And yet now thou wrytest of the Power of Esau / ouer thee and that thou must yet suffer him / seing he is to-mighty for thee 3. Ah â Beloued looke rightly into the matter I pray thee / whether the Procreation of Esau and Iacob / be also com-to-pas with thee / according to the Trueth For I saye vnto thee veryly With whomsoeuer Esau and Iacob are brought-foorth out of Isaac / the Sâ—ede of Promyse / thear cannot Esau doo anything against Iacob For Iacob is much-to-prudent for him 4. Howbeit whear Esau and Iacob are not brought-foorth / thear are they not present likewyse and the Man also is vtterly vnacquaynted with the Vnderstanding therof For-that-cause ther is likewyse no Power vsed with him / neither by Esau nor-yet by Iacob but they are all vayne Things / whatsoeuer he perswadeth himself to knowe or to feele therof 5. For both these namely Esau and Iacob are of one Father a Gen. 25. â— and of one Moother and are also conceaued both at-once in their Moothers Wombe But the Birth â wherin they make-manifest themselues and seperate themselues asunder cometh-to-pas / the One before the Other of the which now Esau hath the Fore-going and after-that / Iacob / who is made b Gen.
seruiceable to the Peace and Vnitee of Heart in the Loue For by her almighty and vertuous Nature / she begetteth o Rom. 13. a. Gal. 5. b. 1. Timo. 1. a. or bringeth-foorth the perfect Righteousnes of the Beleefe of Christ. 12. The p Iohn 4.7 d Water of Lyfe that floweth from her Body / is the vpright Doctrine in the Wisdom wherwith she q Gen. 2. b. watereth the whole Paradise of the Lorde and refresheth his Planting 13. Her Fruit which the Righteous do bring-foorth out of her Doctrine / r Gen 2. a. Pro. 3. b. 4. Esd 8. f. Apo 2. a. is a Tree of Lyfe whose Leaues do s Psal. 1. a. Ier 17. a. Ezâ— 47. b. Apo. 22 a. not wither neither is her Rooting-out founde Of which Loue and the Seruice of her Doctrine / we haue rehearsed more-at-large in the t 3. Glas 31. c d. Glasse of Righteousnes 14. The Lorde bring vs all to thesame vpright Beeing of the Loue / To th end that we may enioye the Fruiâ—s of the heauenly Kyndnes / in all Loue. Amen The V. Chap. MOreouer â my beloued Freendes in the Loue of Iesu Christ I must yet wryte a little-more vnto you and disclose or declare vnto you / the two-maner of Kingdoms namely of God and of the Deuill which do make-manifest themselues in our Inwardnes as spirituall or inuisible / Because that yee may also learne to knowe them with Distinction / according to the Spirit / wherby you may with an vpright Discerning when they make-manifest themselues against eachother / in you cleaue vnto thatt â with your Spirit which is godly heauenly and true / and which saueth you and may forsake and leaue thatt / which is deuilish deceitfull and false / and which bringeth to the Condemnacion 2. For-that-cause inasmuch as it is Spirit / a Iohn 3. â— that condemneth and saueth vs / therfore haue now a regarde with good Discerning / vnto Spirit and Spirits and learne to knowe those well / b Iohn 4. a. that are of God and true and those that are deuillish and false or lying 3. But if ye wil descerne them rightly according to the Trueth / then becom first-of-all circumcised to the Lorde / c Deut. 10. â— Ier. 4. a. Col. 2 b. on the Fore-skinne of your Hearts the which is the Laying-away of the Flesh of Sinne and so then becom d Rom. 8. a. spiritually mynded / in all your Vnderstanding of the godly Knowledges and continue stedfast in the Obedience to the Woord / till vnto y e seconde Birth like-as ye be taught by the Seruice of Loue / according to the Trueth of Christ. 4. If-so-be now that ye continue in the Woord of the Loue of Iesu Christ and do not turne-away neither to the left nor to the right syde / e Iohan. â— d. then shall ye knowe the Trueth and the Trueth shall make you free 5. Therfore giue-eare now and vnderstande / what the Spirit of Loue and Trueth sayth 6. Knowe in your Spirit â O ye goodwilling Hearts to the Righteousnes how that God Ø›the true Father is f Iam 1. c. an euerlasting vnchaingable Spirit a stedfast Power a g Gen. 1. a. Creator of Heauen and Earth and of euerything that shall continue for euer h Heb. 1. a. also an Vpholder of his Workes / with the i Sap. 7 c. Woord of his Beeing a cleere Light and liueing Fountayne wherout all Vertues and Righteousnesses do flowe 7. Euenthus according to thesame like Beeing of God the Father / so knowe likewyse â according to the Spirit his Sonne / our Lorde Iesus Christ k Gen. 1. a. Psal 33. a. Pro 8 c. through whom / God hath made all his Workes and He is out of God the Father published vnto vs â by the l Rom 10. a. 1 Pet. 1. c. Woord of Preaching of the holy Gospel m Iohn 1. a. to be a true Light / that lighteth all Men through the Coming of his Appeering and is set-before vs / for an euerlasting Sauiour n Math. 1. c. Rom 3. c. 2. Cor. 5. b. Col. 1. c. â— Iohn 2.4 b and a Reconciler for our Sinnes namely for all those Sinnes o Math. 12. d. Luk. 12. b. that are committed against the Father and the Sonne 8. Knowe also the holy Gost p Iohn 14. c. 15. c. â—6 b. which cometh vnto vs / out of the Father and the Sonne â as a Spirit of Trueth and Loue in the Obeying of the Woord of God and Christ which establisheth vs therin and declareth the Kingdom of the God of Heauens vnto vs and in what Foorme and Beeing / that the Father and the Sonne and the holy Gost / is one true God 9. Beholde thatt is veryly the true Kingdom of God / q Luk â–ª 17. c. inwardly with in vs and his Righteousnes is / that the Man shoulde â with his Spirit be incorporated to thesame Godhead and liue therin for euer The VI. Chap. VNderstand now according to the Trueth â ye Deerly-beloued which is the Kingdom of God and his Righteousnes / a Math. 6. d that we ought first or before-al / to seeke 2. But seing that the Man doth now generally / seeke the Kingdom of God and his Righteousnes / contraryly and not rightly b Ier. 19 d. Iohn 7 d. and for-that-cause cannot fynde thesame / through his owne Vnderstanding / Therfore hath the Goodnes of God / looked vpon our Ignorance and declared his Kingdom and the Righteousnes therof / vnto Vs / through his Loue. 3. To which Kingdom of God and his Righteousnes / and godly Maiestee of the euerlasting spirituall and heauenly Beeing / and to all his Holynes Beawty Ritches and to his euer-liueing Ioyfulnes / Wee be all now called and bidden / by the holy Spirit of the Loue of God the Father / to the Preseruacion of vs all / in thissame last and perillous Tyme For Hee / thesame God Ø›y e Father the Sonne the holy Gost presenteth vs now with his Loue and wil c Leui. 26. b. Eze. 37. c. 2. Gor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. â— dwell liue and worke in vs. Let eueryone take-heede to thissame gracious Tyme 4. The Father draweth d Iohn 6. â— â–ª g or allureth vs to him / by his gracious Woord and Seruice of Loue and whosoeuer yeeldeth himself to be drawen by the Father / cometh to the Sonne / the out-flowen gracious Woord of the Father 5. And whosoeuer cometh to the Sonne and e Iohn 3.6 c. beleeueing Him / remayneth f Iohn 8 1â— a in Him / He saueth 6. And Whom the Sonne saueth / g Iohn 3.6 f. hee hath the euerlasting Lyfe and is h Act. 1. a. 2. b. annoynted with the holy Gost. 7. And whosoeuer is annoynted with the holy Gost / hee is established i Rom. 8. b. Ephe. 1. b. c. â—ol 1. b. â— or altogether
Act. 3. c. what He hath spoken and promysed in the former Tymes namely reward n Math. 25. c. Iohn 5. c. Rom. 2. a. y e Good / their Goodnes / with the Rewarde of all Good / in the euerlasting Lyfe and recompence the Euell / their Euelnes / with the Reward of all Euell / in the euerlasting Death and Condemnacion For the Daye â wherin eueryone shall receaue o Ier. 17 b. Math. 16. c Rom. 2. a. 14. b. 2. Cor 5. b. Apo. 2. â— his Reward / that he hath deserued doth now spread-foorth itself ouer the whole Worlde and his Cleernes ceasseth not / before all this be accomplished 6. THerfore â my beloued Hearts in the Loue take-heede to thissame Daye p 1. â—or 15. c f Ephe. 5 b. 1. Tess. 4. b. of the Makeing-alyue from the Death Yea take-heede also sayth the holy Spirit of Loue to the Gospel of the Kingdom / that is now in thissame Daye / published q Math. 24. b in all y e Worlde / for a Witnes of the Resurrection of the Deadd 7. For in this Daye of the Publishing of this Gospel / shall now all the Members of Christ â which r Eze. 37. a. as Deadones and dismembered Bones / are broken and deuided into many peeces from each-other be ioyned-together â by that only Man Iesu Christ s Rom â–ª 12. a. 1. Cor. 12 c Ephe. 4. b. 5. c. as one true Body of Christ and Man of God· couered-ouer t Iob. 19 c. Eze 37. a. with Sinowes and Flesh· made-alyue with the liueing v Gen. 2. a. Eze 37. a. Iohn 20. c. Wynde or Breath of Christ· and assembled eueryone into the holy Spirit of Loue wherthrough all wee now likewyse â x 1. Tess. 4. b. which are remayned-ouer and do beleeue the Coming of Christ and the y 1 Cor. 15. b. Resurrection of the Deadd / and hope theron do ioyne vs to thesame one Man of God / z Ephe. 4. b. in that one Body of Christ. 8. Beholde euenthus is the Man â which beleeueth in Iesu Christ set-vp Math. 24. â— Act. 1. a. agayne in his former Dignitee / now in thesame Daye of Loue and the Worke of God is declared / that it is euen-lyke as it was in the Beginning One God / and one Man and thatt altogether / in the one Body of Iesu Christ. The IIII. Chap. O Ye Beloued Looke now into this gracious Tyme and consider well theron For the Tyme is now fulfilled and the a Iohn 12. â— Apo. 14. a. Daye of the righteous Iudgment of God / declared among vs In the which / God doth now â through the Coming of the Kingdom of Christ set-vp the former Kingdom full of all pure Beawty and the falne Man â who is broken and deuided into many peeces doth He now also ioyne-together / b Ephe. 2. â— 4. b. to the Incorporating to the only Body of Christ. 2. Beholde euenthus doth God bring the Man agayne to his Dignitee namely to the gloryous Maiestee of his leueing God head / wherby to c Num 14. â— Psal. 72. b. Esa 6 a. Aba â— b. 4. a. fill the whole Earth with his Glory and Righteousnes according to the Promyses 3. YEe good-willing Heartes in the Loue / take-heede I beseech you to thatt which I wryte vnto you and exhorte you vnto Be not in-any-case d Pro. 3. a. Rom self-wyse in your owne Conceits but remember and consider / what the Seruice of Loue requyreth of vs / in thissame newe Daye of the Coming of Christ. namely that eueryone shall haue regarde / in whom Christ hath manned himself â–ª and out of whom He shyneth / as a Day-light to the Lighting of the whole Vniuersal-earth with Righteousnes For theare â in thesame godded Man or e Leuit. 26. b Eze 37. c 43. a. 1 Cor. 3.6 b 2 Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. Habitacion of God is the Maiestee of God and Christ / vnto whom God willeth that eueryone â which seeketh or desyreth Gods Freendship shall submitt himself and â in Concord assemble him therunto / to be one Man of God in Iesu Christ / wherby to becom one Heart or Mynde with him / in all Loue. 4. Beholde and consider Heeron and seeke not y e Freendship of this Worlde f Iam. 4. a. wherthrough ye geet the Enimitee of God and the Enimitee of his Saintes 5. Therfore yeeld-ouer yourselues to the Maiestee of God and com all now to the Temple of the liueing God / the g Psal 122. a Esa. 2. a. Ier. 31. a. Zach. 8. c. Howse of his Dwelling / To th end that ye may be all assembled to the h Math 24. d Ephe. 2. c. 4. b one Body of Christ and may heare the Woord of the Lorde â out of the holy Temple of his Dwelling and doo therafter / for that your i Iohn 15. b. Ioye may be perfect To which Saluacion of Soule and Body / we be all now called and bidden / vnder the Obedience of the Loue. 6. According to thesame maner / so consider likewyse on the loueing peaceable Heart / wherin God hath sett his Heart â full of all Grace and Christ / his holy Spirit â full of all Loue and assemble you with all your Hearts / k Act. 4. d. to thatsame one Heart and so it shal be one l Ephe. 2. b. God one Man one Heart one Fayth m 1. Cor. 12. a Ephe. 4. a. one Spirit and one true euerlasting Lyfe / to be one true and vpright Righteousnes vppon the Earth according to the Promyses O Yea / that com-to-pas euenso 7. HEer-with / my beloued Freendes â which loue the Trueth in Christ I do hartely salute you / with a Salutacion of the Loue and a Kisse of Peace n Rom. 16. b. 1. Cor. 16. c Salute you also one-another with thesame Salutacion â–ª namely all yee that are Fellow-companyons of the louely and peaceable Howse of Loue. 8. The Lorde graunte vnto you all / Grace and Mercy / to be incorporated â with Heart Spirit and Body to the only and true Body of Christ. The Loue of God the Father / take the Victory in all your Heartes Amen Take it to heart The Ende of the Seuententh Epistle The Eightenth Epistle A loueing Exhortation / written and sent vnto an Howsholde / that are ioyned to the Famyly of Loue and agreeable or concordably mynded to the Seruice of the holy Woord of the Spirit of Loue / for to be obedient to the Trueth Beholde / how sweete and louely it is / that Bretheren dwell to gether concordably Psal. 133. How deere or precious is thy Kyndnes â O God that the Children of Men seeke Protecton vnder the Shadow of thy Wings They shal be satisfyed or filled with the Fattnes or Plenty of thy Howse and thou giuest them drink with the Ryuer or Fountayne of thy Delyte