the inheritance of the Lord Let us accuse Him x that is his body and bloud or his Fellowship of Love with all manner of malignity or unjust actions and let us charge him with most wicked things let us destroy or kill him with the most shamefullest sufferings or let him be delivered up to the Iudge to his * slaughter or destruction So remain y we in the Inheritance in the estimation among men that we are pure upright and have right in our cause or demands against him his Communialty of Love 44 Thus we observed in the union with the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ that the wicked hardened hearts against us the Body bloud of Jesus Christ likewise the apostates from the obedience of the Truth did all their endeavour or diligence to have the estimation amongst z men as if they against that Body and bloud of Jesus Christ and against us were * upright and did well therein although they earnestly endevoured wholy to dishonour Jesus Christ and us and to make us detestable before men and likewise that precious pure bloud of Jesus Christ that was to the forgiveness of sinnes d shead for many wherewith we with our bloud are become one bloud to defame as impure before all men so that the same is * despised for unclean among many And as unclean might be poured forth and trampled upon 45 Now when we thus observed the rising up of the wicked and all Hypocrites and enemies of the Godly Life against the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ And beheld that the Body bloud of Jesus Christ wherewith we were become one body and bloud was suffering all that with lowly and meek hearts without resisting so we saw and observed that the same Body and bloud of Jesus Christ in all his suffering and reproach opened a not his mouth even as a Lambe that is led to the slaughter-house and as a sheep that is dumbe before his shearer Where through we also in all our sufferings wherewith we were one Body and bloud with him were wholy moved with his sufferings So that we also in our whole Body and bloud obteined an inclination to suffer with them we found our selves wholy prepared rather to suffer to die with him forasmuch as we knew him righteous then to live in sin with the falshood of the false hearts with the sin of sinners and enemies of the Godly life 46 And thus travelling forth in this-Good-willingness with Jesus Christ b we came on the seventh sixth day to the * accomplishing of the sufferings of Jesus Christ wherein we observed the whole summe of the finishing and fulfilling or satisfaction of Jesus Christ and his Believers unto the true Godliness 47 For in this fulfilling or or accomplishing we perceived in the understanding That all men who will live and reign with the Lord Jesus Christ in his Glory must also c suffer with Christ and then likewise with Christ enter into the Glory of Christ and inherit the same 48 Furthermore wee observed also in this accomplishment to what end this Gospel of the Kingdom is d published in all the World and from thence cometh the accomplishment and fulfilling of e all that is written of Christ and the salvation of man 49 There was also in the same * accomplishment fully revealed and in clearness made manifest * unto us The whole Scripture which testifieth of Christ and of his Sufferings or Passeover and of the upright righteousness of men in Jesus Christ And f how that Christ like as we have heard and seen of him in his sufferings and passed through with him must suffer all these things and so to enter into his Glory and thus g go before all sinful men in to the entrance of the eternal life and the Kingdom of Heavens that they also should follow after him therein and inherit with him the eternal life 50 For Christ h must thus * suffer and accomplish his love to us and so go before us as an * Innocent and that he also by his guiltless sufferings should be an example or patern to all sinful men and thereby to shew unto them that they by reason of their sins are debtors to the same sufferings and as debtors to i follow him therein and to draw unto him all men who are loaden with sins and also to acquit them though his Body and bloud and through his like sufferings from their sins to deliver k them from the bonds of death and to save them and restore or bring them again with him in all upright righteousness and holiness to their God his heavenly Father and to his glory in the kingdom of God and in the everlasting life 51 And that wee might uprightly endeavour us to this aforesaid accomplishment with the Lord Jesus Christ and the * humanity and rightly enter into and inherit the same with the Lord Jesus Christ according to the truth of Jesus Christ and according to the requiring of the obedience of his belief So gave wee up our selves there on the same seventh sixth day of our travelling into a good * custody with the Body and bloud of Jesus Christ which standeth upon the Mount Nebo l on the uppermost height top or firmness from whence we obtein'd the sight of the holy inheritance of God of his living ones 52 And on the same Mount * Nebo there was revealed and made known unto us also m the secret place where the Prophet Jeremian had hid the true Tabernacle and Ark and the true Altar of the Offerings of Incense And the time also was come or accomplished in which the Lord should be merciful unto his people and bring them to his rest 53 And the same good * watchfunless to which we betook our selves on the Mount Nebo was the true n implanting with Christ in his like death and the right implanting with Christ in his like burial 54 Of this implanting with Christ in his like death and of the implanting with Christ in his like burial wee were very firmly embraced 55 At the same instant in the embracing of the implanting with Christ in his like death and burial we offered to the God of Heaven on his Altar of Incense in the Holy of the true Tabernacle our free willing Offering in the Offering * of the High Priest Jesus Christ And o the Offering of the High Priest Jesus Christ kindled or fired our Offering And thus our Offering was a hollowed burnt Offering before the Lord And the Lord Jesus Christ made this our Offering through his Offering acceptable before God his Father and the holy of his Tabernacle was full of sweet perfumes and the p veile opened asunder and the most holiest in his pure and perfect beauty was revealed and Christ also according to
Now goeth ye Iudgment ouer this world now is ye prince of this world cast out Iohn â—2 Now is ye Saluation ye porâ—â—â— and ye Kingdom becom our gods and ye Might his Christs Revet â—2 D. Mirabilia opera Dei Certaine wonderfull Works of God which hapned to H. N. even from his youth and how the God of Heaven hath united himself with him and raised up his gracious Word in him and how he hath chosen and sent him to be a Minister of his gracious Word Published by Tobias a Fellow Elder with H. N. in the Houshold of Love Translated out of Base Almain Now come hither and behold the works of the Lord Ps. 46 66. Know ye that the Lord leadeth his Saints wonderfully Ps. 4. a. And take heed that ye do not despise the works of the Lord lest there come upon you that which is said in the Prophets Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I do a work in your days which you will in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you Hab. 1. a. Acts 13. b. THE PREFACE Tobias with H. N. a fellow Minister of the gracious Word of the Lord wisheth to all lovers of Truth Salvation and Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FOrasmuch as I Tobias a fellow Elder with the Oldest Elders in the Houshold of Love have alwayes been present with H. N. in all what the Lord hath revealed unto him and now in this day of the Love of Iesus Christ am impulsed of the Holy Ghost to declare and to publish among the children of men under the obedience of the love of the Truth of certain wonderful works of God which befell H. N. and us the oldest Elders in the house of Love and that I also know that H. N. Gods chosen Minister and his ministration of the gracious Word of the Lord hath been disorderly rejected and censured with several false judgements by many false hearts and good-thinking wise-ones by many false Christians and unsent Teachers or Preachers and by some unfaithfull and opinionated self-seekers who are turned away from us And that the Godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ published by H. N. were by many disgracefully contemned and reproached as if God had neither chosen nor sent H. N. to be a Minister of his holy and gracious Word and as if the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ were an unclean thing So have I for Gods cause and in regard of the Love which I bear and have to all mens salvation I could not omit to declare to all God-fearing-understandings and Lovers of the Truth That they may believe the Truth understand the Godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love and may be preserved in these dangerous times and to witnesse the Truth before them how and in what manner the Lord the living God of Heaven hath chosen H. N. from his youth to the ministration of his holy and gracious word and hath sent him thereunto in his old age of the holy and godly understanding through the holy Spirit of his Love 2 For the holy Spirit of the Truth of God and of the Love of Iesus Christ was alwayes powerfully abiding upon H. N. in all his ministrations after that the Lord had anointed him a with the same spirit and hath through the same spirit raised and sent him for to declare to all people the true b repentance for their sinnes and to draw and bring in through his ministration of the holy and gracious Word all those that love Gods Truth and the accomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ and hunger and thirst after righteousnesse c to the peaceable Love and his Godly service for the preservation of them all in the Godlinesse that all they which H. N. and our fellowship may have their communion in Iesus Christ and may not be seduced in these dangerous times in which if it were possible the very elect d should be seduced with the unprofitable prating of the false hearts and unsent Teachers or Preachers which alwayes oppose the Truth of God e and blaspheme against the holy Spirit nor through any depraved hearts and Apostates who continually accuse with falshood the true Ministers of the gracious word and endeavour with all their power to abolish the same ministration nor should be kept of or held back from our most holy Service of the gracious word under the obedience of the Love to their condemnation 3 And therefore and for the Truth of Gods cause and for to declare the knowledge that the Promises of God the Father and of the Lord Iesus Christ g be fullfilled and established in the Love So is there also now presently in this same day of the Love in plain words to all understanding and before all good-willing hearts unto the righteousnesse through H. N. testified and published what that very thing which the Gracious Word of the Lord which the Lord now hath raised up according to his Promises doth require of all men 4 And for to witness and publish the truth that the Lord hath chosen and sent H. N. therefore have I through the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ plainly testified and declared the sending of H. N. also certaine wonderfull workes of God which from his youth hapned unto him from the living God That all those which read or hear all the Godly Testimonies of our writings may believe the Truth with a single heart to have a right regard to the true Promises of the Father and of the Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ and of the accomplishing of the same and may hope upon the fulfilling of the requiring of the gracious word and of his service of Love and rightly and in Truth follow and imitate our Lord Iesus Christ in the saving word of his holy Spirit of Love h and might be of one mind with us and our communialtie of the Saints i in the Love of our Lord Iesus k into all unity and peace 5 And likewise that through the same declaration the enemies of H. N. together with all the opposers and reprochers of the Truth and of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ may see and know That they have villified and contemned not onely H. N. a choseu servannt of God but also God the Father the builder of our house of Love and the Lord Iesus Christ our Phisician and Saviour and the holy Ghost the inheritance of our spiritual and heavenly goods l and have pulled upon their own necks the wrath and judgement of their condemnation That they with humble hearts might bring forth real fruits of repentance 6 For it is not unknown or uncertaine to us that H. N. doth testifie out of the Truth of God and his gracious word and that the office of the ministration of the gracious Word is imposed and intrusted to him through m God's grace to administer for the Lord
as he of old had promised to a raise up the same through his holy Prophets and with the same word and out of the same word the Lord b poured upon H. N. his holy Spirit of the of the Love of Jesus Christ 4 With this heavenly glory and out-flowing of the same holy Spirit of the true Love of Jesus Christ upon H. N. the Lord chose him to be a Minister of his holy and gracious word which He the Lord had excited and revealed in him 5 And the Lord prepared or ordained to H. N. for his assistance in the same ministration Daniel Elidad Tobias which continued allwayes with him and assisted him in all his ministration of the the gracious word of the Lord 6 And at that time also through the power of God and impulse of the holy Spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ H. N. was driven in his whole spirit mind for to administer on t of the holy and gracious word and holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ the most holy Office of the Love according to the command of God and to attest and set down in writing the godly truth of God and of Christ and the c upright way of the through-going or Passe-over which reacheth to the npright righteousnesse and to the eternalllife and to publish and express writingly in letters before all eyes of understanding 7 H. N. being thus chosen of the God of life to the ministration of his gracious word and was impulsed by the holy spirit of the Love of Jesus Christ to set * forth the manefestatton of the Truth of God and of the Godlinesse of Jesus Christ and let the Sonnes of men to know their errours that they repenting of their sins d may turn from their errour and sincerely endeavour to keep the truth of God and the godliness of Jesus Christ So he gave himself obediently at that time to that service and work of the Lord and carefully endeavoured to set down all that the Lord revealed and commanded him and that should be most profitable and necessary for the Sonnes of men to their Salvation and Peace and to the entrance of the upright life 8 But in his beginning of the same service and writings the word of the Lord came to him and said H. N. stay thy hand from writing in this place and get thee up and travel out of this land wherein now thou livest that thy soul may be preserved alive in my service and worke and be not devoured by bloud-thirsty men and in thy going out from this land take thy journey Eastward and dwell there till I my selfe by the hand of my Angel bring thee from thence 9 For whilest thou livest there thou shalt apply thy selfe for the most part to be in the land Pietas that thou mayest be diligent there rightly and according to the truth to manifest my honour and Love and to reveal the same to those who are worthy of love 10 For there in the manifesting of mine honour and Love thou shalt testifie and figure forth in writing the godly and heavenly things which I do reveal and make known unto thee and that profitable for the children of men unto Godliness 11 To thee shall also from henceforth many mysteries of my heavenly Kingdome which hitherto have been kept and concealed from the e world and her wise and letter-learned be revealed and made known for to bring the same to light 12 At the time according to the word and command of the Lord H. N. instantly took his journey Eastward and became an Inhabitant in the land of the East and was for the most time iu Pietas even as the Lord had commanded him ae3 And the Lord the God of heaven revealed to him in Pietas many godly mysteries and in these revealed mysteries H. N. excereised himselfe in Gods holy understanding to the serviceable benefit or utility of the children of men and to all their good knowledge of their Salvation and peace in Jesus Christ 14 There were revealed unto him also many wonderfull Acts or Workes of God many of which are testified and brought to light in the writings of H. N. to the knowledge of the upright Godliness in Jesus Christ 15 But in all this which the Lord hath revealed to H. N. he was rejoyced too exceedingly insomuch that he forgot all the sore wayes which he in great sadnesse had passed through 16 And the Lord afflicted him heavily through his enemies for the Lord suffered him to fall into the hands of the wicked his enemies whose ungodly being is the false destruction which hath brought on the Earth death or f mortality namely the Kingdome of the Devil and of hell which God hath not willed that it should be in the Earth but be condemned in the g bottomlesse pit and the everlasting darknesse from whence it also came And that the h Glory of Jesus Christ should be revealed on the earth and raigne over it eternally 17 Yea the same wicked Beeing must be abolished in the condemnaâ—ion at the appearing of Jesus Christ in his glory for that same is the i envious man against God and his righteousnesse and against all that is Godly and * God-service k and wherewith the man practiseth his whoredome and adultery to the disobeying and resisting his God so that thereby the man every where l turneth or inclineth to himselfe and to things which are vaine and unprofitable whereby also the same ungodly being in the false light of the mans disobedient knowledge is become predominant 18 Behold into this Abysse or Depth the Lord let fall his chosen servant H. N and suffered him to tast and feel the condemnation of all ungodly ones in the hellish fire the most horrible perdition and the most ugly abomination of desolation 19 But when now H. N. found himself thus captived in misery wherein hee was sorely vexed by his enemies so there came on him a great and mighty sadnesse and he could find no comfort at all insomuch that by reason of his great heavinesse of mind he wringed his hands and exceedingly bewailed his sinnes and cryed aloud to God and besought him for his Grace and continued therein day and night And in this his misery he composed these Psalmes of mourning and lamentation and did not hide his sinnes and thus calling on and praying to the Lord he spake forth his mourning Psalmes with weeping and lamentation Here follow the Psalmes of H. N. and the declaration of his weeping and praying in his chastisement The Rod and punishment giveth wisdome Pro. 29. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth and delighteth in him as a Father doth in his sonne Pro. 3. Therefore shall the eare which barkeneth to the correction of the Lord dwell among the wise but he that letteth go the chastising Instrâ—ction or turneth away from it he rejecteth his own â—oul Pro. 2. CAAP. VI Psalme I. 1 O My
hath chosen him thereunto from his youth to witness the same Testimonies of the Truth of God And to administer Gods holy and gracious word and to manifest his heavenly works and to declare upon the earth now in these last times under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ Gods Truth and upright being and the acomplishment of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 7 Thus in this election by the living God H. N. hath declared on earth to this present day from the n uncovered face of God and of Christ Gods real Truth and the requiring of his upright righteousnesse together with his righteous Judgement and the fulfilling of the Godlinesse in Iesus Christ 8 Now whether this be believed or not believed however he hath revealed the the same out of Gods true light eternal life in manifest declaration brought it to light in this holy day of the love of God and Christ 9 And the same day of the love of God and of Christ which is come unto us from Gods grace is the newest or last day of which long agoe the Prophets of God and the Evangelists of Iesus Christ have foretold and published and is the day o which God hath appointed or ordained for to judge on the same the whole circuit of the Earth with righâ—eousnesse 10 For on the same day of the Love of God and of Christ p shall all unbelievers and disobedient ones to the gracious Word of the Lord and all evil surmisers towards the Ministers thereof together with all opposers of H. N. and blasphemers of the holy Spirit of the Love of Iesus Christ be q revealed and r judged and according to their works shall receive their reward 11 Therefore take warning by this declaration of mine all ye people which love the truth of Iesus Christ that you in no wise oppose neither the gracious Word of God nor his chosen servant H. N. because God the Father with his Son Iesus Christ dwelleth and liveth perfectly * in H. N. in the heavenly being and hath anointed him with the holy Spirit of God and of s Iesus Christ and that no man without the fellowship of H. N. or without the obedience of the requiring of his doctrine can be brought or gathered to the true living God nor to his Sonne Iesus Christ nor united with the same good being 12 Behold out of a very hearty love which I have to all your preservations in the godlinesse am I presently in this day of the Love impulsed and forced through the holy Spirit of the love of Iesus Christ to make the same known before all your understandings and to declare unto you how the calling H. N. came to passe by the living God and how he was chosen of the same God to Administration of his holy and and gracious word under the obedience of the love of Iesus Christ 13 And also to testifie unto you some mysteries t of the Kingdome of the God of heavens and of the heavenly revelations and workings of God which were revealed and shewed to H. N. by the living God out of his heavenly being even from the youth of H. N. 14 The Lord grant unto you all mercy and his Graee that in the hearing of these Testimonies your hearts may not be offended nor be hardened against the Truth u of the same Testimonies but that yee may hear them humbly receive and accept of them in all thanksgiving to God for his grace be well minded to the holy and gracious word of the Lord and his service of the Love to your preservation in the Godlinesse and may enter into the requiring of the same obediently Amen So be it Take it to heart Certaine wonderfull Workes of God which befel H N. from his youth CHAP. I. IN the eighth year of the age of H. N. in the days of Maximilian the first being made Roman Emperour by vertue or power of the Electoral Princes of the Roman Empire and the German Nation it fell out on an Evening in a Winter season That the Father of H. N. exhorted his Family and instructing them with many words That they should fear God a and to give praise and thanks unto him for the grace he bestowed on man 2 The same time The Lord opened the mouth of the childe H. N. and touched his lips and tongue and with this the childe spake to his Father and said Instruct me O my Father what is that singular Grace bestowed on us for which we ought to give praise and thanks to God 3 When the child had asked this questiof his Father The Father looked on the child and wondered that the child should aske him so earnestly and answearing the child said to him 4 O my sonne doest thou aske what that especial grace is which God hath bestowed on us and for which we are bound to give praise and thanks to him The same you read daily in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and is set forth unto us dayly in the service of the Masse and often also and abundantly is attested by Preaching how that God the Father by reason of Adams sinne whereby we all became the children b of death and damnation caused his deare Sonne Jesus Christ to suffer the ignominious c death on the Crosse and that thus Jesus Christ hath born the sins of Adam satisfied for the same on the Crosse and delivered us from that sinne into which Adam did fall hath reconciled us to his Father d and hath set up again the sincere righteoness and the true e life of Godliness and so all is found and restored againe that was lost by Adam that same is joyned again f made whole which through Adam was broken and wounded And this is that singular Grace which God bestowed on us to the laud and praise of his great Power 5 Then said the child O my Father I doe read indeed of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ and I heare it daily testified in Sermons that God the Father hath bestowed on us his great mercy and that his beloved Sonne Jesus Christ hath suffered the ignominious death of the Crosse by reason of sinne g but I finde not according to Truth that the sinne is amended in us nor that the true righteousness h wherein Adam was created and placed is restored in us or set up again 6 Then said the Father Oh my sonne what I have told you about the grace of God shewed to us through Jesus Christ you need not to doubt of it beleeve the same in simpleness of heart and that it all is come to passe as I have told you 7 Then said the child O my Father I make no question of the mercy of God which is come unto us through Jesus Christ and all that which is preached to us of Christ and his satisfaction for the sinne as that he through the death on the Crosse
thou who art the God of all the world turn thee in mercy to me that the enemy destroy me not and let not thy d wrath abide upon me for ever 8 My sins make me fearful and my transgressions make me timerous to speak of thy righteousness 9 Therefore am I become dumb e as if I had no speech in my mouth 10 I am become ashamed of my self because of the multitude of my sins 11 O God support me under thy rod f and chastising instruction that I forget not thee nor thy law 12 Clense g me O God from my sins from the Heathenship and from all ungodly being 13 O how presumptuous are the despisers the gain-sayers of thy holy Name 14 How long must I O God endure thy reproach and thy adversaries CHAP. XVIII Psalme XIII 1 O How long shall I yet suffer thee thou dissembling nature which hast as it were honey in thy mouth but there under a shootest thou forth thy poison according to the nature of the Serpent 2 Thou allurest forth my soul as to a life of sweetness and embracest me b as with a faithful love 3 Thou walkest before me in shew of a Lambe thy wayes are laid forth as if they led to a peace of good rest 4 Thou risest up as a light unto life and among the impenitent thou art as c a morning star to the uprising of the day 5 The sound of thy voice is delightful d and thy speech seemeth very pleasant 6 But thou art a false nature which drawest the souls of men to thy own propriety or interest and then thou shewest forth thy evil fruits and rulest over them with thy good-thinking knowledge 7 Thou fallest a roaring as a Lion e that would tear in pieces and spewest out thy fiery flames as a Dragon 8 Thou destroyest as a Wolfe and shewest there through thy robbing as a Thief f and so indevourest thee as a Murderer to destroy my soul 9 O God Father thou Almighty Lord how long shall I be set with the wicked and be judged or accused by them How long shall I tast of their poison and endure their false testimonies against me 10 In all my ways where I go they g lay their snares for me and use all subtilty to take h my soul and to bring an accusation against it 11 For in my presence many of them shew as if they were my friends and account me for one of their kindred and brethren 12 O God make their dissimulation to be an abomination to me and make me an enemy to them poure out thy fierce i wrath on them that they may flie farre from me 13 That my soul may seek for her comfort onely in thee and may be delivered from her plagues CHAP. XIX Psalme XIV 1 O Lord take away the a inclination of my own will and purge my heart from the offence 2 Let O Lord no bitter b root grow in me lest envy take possession in my heart 3 But O Lord my God change my being and refresh my miude 4 For the taking on of my own c will plant in me the submission 5 Instead of perversness and bitterness d plant thy nature of the love and the vertuous being 6 That I also O Lord may walk uprightly before thee and shew thy mercy to me that I may tell it forth e continually and forever 7 For I am faln down in sins and there is no comfort in my heart for there is no power in me of rising 8 Therefore O Lord let thy grace shine on me and help those that are weak For I am smitten down even unto Hell 9 And now is my soul afflicted and I must f lament my untimely birth 10 Because I am born upon the earth such a disobedient one to thy truth 11 Therefore O Lord consider that I am g brought forth in sin yet will I love thy goodness but without thee and thy power h I am not able to inherit any thing of thy goodness 12 All the intentions of my own counsel or mind are vain and my own i thoughts meditate nothing but folly 13 There is no strength k nor understanding in me to do good how shall I then O Lord be able rightly to turn unto thee 14 Therefore O Lord consider me and appear unto me in my misery 15 Turn me to thee through thy light l then O Lord am I rightly turned unto thee 16 And give unto me such a portion of faith as I may through thee O Lord conquer the iniquity 17 For I have kept nothing by me neifaith nor spirit whereby I may live 18 For all my portion m which I have received of thy goodness have I spent wasted and consumed upon strangers 19 And now seek I here and there my feeding or food but I finde no comfort â—n my soul among strangers to my satisfaction 20 As I ponder of all this in my heart then sigheth my soul out of great distress 21 Because I perish for hunger and thirst in misery and that there is such abundance of goods in the house of the Lord my Father 22 When I consider this that I of my own accord have wandred from thence then suffereth my soul far greater sorrow 23 Forasmuch now O my God and Father as I have consumed all thy good gifts therefore am I not worthy to be called after thy name 24 But let me find from thee the favour of a stranger and that I may stand in thy favour as one of the meanest of the servants of thy servants and that my sins might be forgiven me 25 For I O Father have dealt more unjustly with thy goods then the n unfaithfull servant which buried his talent in the earth which he received from thee 26 O God I have yet done more unfaithfully with thy goods for I have not done so well as to bury thy goods but have made them away and therewith committed unrighteousness 27 Therefore I am ashamed of my self and desire now O God nothing else from thee but onely thy mercy that thou would'st pardon o mine iniquities and blot out my transgressions 28 And that I may p walk in thy house among the meanest of thy servants and might feed upon a morsel of thy bread 29 But now O Lord I lie down before thee q as a footstool of thy feet and submit to thee in the greatest humiliy of my heart receive mee O God into thy mercy 30 Plant in mine inwardness r thy law and write it in the minde of my thoughts and hide not thy will from me 31 But take away from me the perverse minde and thoughts which are against thee 32 And guide me O Lord in thy truth s in the way in which thou wilt have me to walk 33 And give then O my God and Father such an t heart and
therefore have not shewed the upright obedience to their requirings nor performed the first School-rule of the Christian Doctrine of the Service of my Love yet notwithstanding are well inclined to bring forth upright fruits of repentance to the intent that to every one who will permit himself to be renewed and repenteth the truth of my word may be known And the Whoremongers and impenitent ones or any of the enemies to the house of Love should understand the h of the godly sayings 13 I will yet also reveal unto thee in the land of the living many of my wonderful works and will give thee to understand yet truth many mysteries 14 I will also declare and shew unto thee the appearing of my Glorie the i glorious comming of my Christ and the Resurrection of my Saints among the right believers and obeyers of my word or Christ and also how the right beleevers and obeyers shall be renewed in their k spirit and mind in this same day of l my righteous Iudgement and how the same renewing in the inward man is the true accomplishing of the Priestly Office of my Christ under the obedience of the Beliefe And how also in accomplishing the same The said Priestly Office reacheth into the obedience of my Love to the inheriting of the spiritual heavenly riches of the holy spirit of my Christ 15 And thereupon H. N. praysed and thanked the God of heaven for his great mercy and compassion and for his righteous judgement at the last time And called to the Lord and said 16 O my Lord and God now reveal unto me also which way I shall travel on with thy chosen Saints chiefest Elders in thy Family of Love and with thy holy Testimoâ—ies of our writings to performe thy holy will and to come to thy holy land of which thou hast told me and also that I might doe as thou hast commanded me 17 Then said the Lord to H. N. the same way of the suffering of my Christ and of all my Saints whereiâ— thou now also walkest thou shalt goe on to travel through it and from the same way shalt thou not turne thee m neither to the right hand nor to the left for the same way is the true way n to my holy land of the living where no o manner of building of men are found 18 Therefore travel on in the same even as I have told thee and in the passing over the same take good heed to the doctrine of my truth the true preparation to the entrance of my land of the living For so in the fulfilling of the same way thou shalt find thy selfe in the holy place wherein I the Lord dwell live and raigne eternally 19 Be of good courage in the same way of thy forth-going for in the same way shall nor can any selfishnesse nor humane conceited wisdome or subtiltie follow thee nor by no meanes endamage thee 20 And although they would seemingly travel thorow with thee the same way yet shall they not be able but shall fail therein and become unbelieving and so through their stumbling or dislike turn aside therefrom either to the right hand or the left 21 But whosoever proceedeth in the same p till to the end constantly and faithfully and q forsaketh all for my sake and simply and faithfully in the requiring of the obedience of my service of Love followeth thee will I through my holy and gracious Word and Service of Love lead them rightly into my holy land of the living and not r remember their sins nor their slumbling and falling any more 22 Therefore endevour thee deligently with these my holy-ones which I have set before thee and with the godly testimonies of thy Writings to accomplish more and more the foresaid way of Patience 23 Likewise consult thou not with the flesh or bloud of men nor with any mans craft or subtilty but travel upon the belief or trust of my word till thou with the four and twenty Elders and four chiefest Seraphims be come to the holy place where I shall reveal and shew unto thee my heavenly workings where no t works of man can remain standing 24 For there in my Inheritance of the living will I give thee an heritage for ever And confirm thee also in the Testaments of the holy Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob to the end that thou mayest administer the same Testaments u to the death of the sin and till to the life of the righteousness among the believers of my gracious word and that then all they also may be confirmed in the same Testaments and be made heirs with thee in my hereditary land of the living and so know and understand that my testaments of the holy Fathers are not administred forth of the knowledge of men according to their conceiving but x out of my true being according to the requiring of my gracious word and service of Love 25 That also my Inheritance of the living is not like unto the earthly Inheritance of the dead nor my life and joy to the the earthly life nor to the joy of the earthly man nor my mind and y meaning to the thoughts and meanings and plausible conceiving of men 26 But all these words which the Lord did speak to H. N. he laid up in his heart for to do accordingly and he took himself to his journey according to the requiring of the Word of the Lord with the 24 Elders and the four Seraphims and with the godly testimonies of his Writings 27 And in this our travelling forward into the hereditary land of the living we were seven times seven dayes that is nine and forty dayes 28 And in this our iourney in all these nine and forty dayes we eat z no kind of food or creature which had any breath of life in it self or had received any 29 Neither did we drink in all this same time of our travel any * wine or strong drink for to rejoyce our hearts nor to refresh our minds that we might not forget diligently to apply our selves to our journey CHAP. XXXI In this Chapter is plainly figured forth and declared the true preparation of the believers of the Word to the Passeover of the new birth in Iesus Christ and to become profitable and meer Elders and Ministers of the Word in the houshold of the Love of Iesus Christ 1 NOw the beginning of our journey to the accomplishment over of the way of our passage to the heritable land of the living came thus to passe 2 First of all before we gave up our selves to travel forward * to the service-ablenesse we earnestly endeavoured us willingly and obediently out of intire Love to fulfill the Lords will and all a righteousnesse and remembring the Law of Moses the b servant of the Lord which the Lord commanded him on the mount * Horeb we gave our selves and all