and beggarly minde as he thought it to be so he covered this meek and lowly spirit with his lofty high mindednesse and so the divine gentle and holy nature is in hell under this filthy covering and this is the covering upon God and Man and is the partition wall betwixt them and so man hath made the Devill god and lord of all and hath given all that was given him into his hands so God in man is in the Devils power and he reigns as King and Lord of all in this first world or creation that is fallen into the Devills hards by mans will that gave it him for God gave man himself and all and man delivered and gave or sold him to the Devill for nature in the first creation is a Judas that is raised up to destruction and is the son of perdition that sells the innocent life in him and afterward he hangs and destroyes himselfe and puts himselfe wholly into the Devils hands and in the end of time when the man is weary of this wicked world with all his soule and minde and will wholly returne all into the hands of God againe hee takes all upon him with his mighty power and sword that stands in justice hands and redeems himselfe and the man out of the Devils hands for he comes to redeem himselfe the lost sheep of the house of Israel which was lost and hid in man and covered with mans sinnes Now this holy and mighty power taketh all upon him for he becomes our first borne Esau Adam or Edome and will bee our first world that is fallen and will suffer with us and for us as if he had dore all out sinnes for when be hath our man of sinne on him he gives the humanity power to indure this justice of the death of God for his sinnes and this sword of justice and Gods death doth destroy death and this death or sword of God that frights and feares the man is the beginning of the wisdome of God in him to destroy sinne for the man in his first appearance destroyed the Lambe of God or good and then he and the Devill the wisdome of the flesh rule all in all in him till the man is weary of himselfe and desires this death of God to helpe him and this death of God is his backe parts that made Moses face to shine for the wrath anger and frownes of God which is his backe parts is better for the man then the Devills face or smiles and Gods death is better for the man then the Devills life and his hell better then his heaven for it is better to be in the house of mourning then to heare the song of fools though man in his off fallen estate thinks it not so but this death and mortality of God which is his backe parts doth make our face shine for no man shall see his face live nor shall or can we see his face glorious countenance and cheerfull smiles till our man of sinne is destroyed and rooted out and we returne to our dust as we were before and in silence with God againe and so this death and mortality of God which iâ— his angry frowns and the wrath of the Lambe that takes away the sinnes of our wicked world is entered into our Esau or Adam which is the vessells of wrath prepared for destruction and is become our flesh which is dead in sinnes and trespasses and this death of God doth destroy us which is death for this Esau with the death and wrath of God is a hunter and doth kill meat or venison for his fathers supper which venison is the wilde and heathenish brutiall man whose death shall reconcile us to God againe for in the fifth of the Rom. he saith that we are reconciled to God by the death of Christ which death hath mortified us and killed our man of sinne so this death hath given us power by his death to destroy kill and mortifie ourselves for this Christ after the flesh or death was it that lay under our earthly beeing and said that he was a worme and no man and that the great Bulls of Bashan gaped upon him to devoure him which was our sinnes and that the great water floods and seas of our sinnes run over him and he lay still and the man of sin thought that he had been asleepe or dead and did not see their evill workes but he made this darknesse or darke man his hiding place and so he saw and heard all his evill workes for he saith I create light and I create darknesse that is that I set forth my selfe which is light and I set forth man which is darknesse and he regards not me nor my light because his deeds are evill and so I am hid in his darknesse but when the man is weary of himselfe then he seeketh for mee and hath need of mee though he thought I did not heare nor see him before then he runs to me and cryeth and saith arise O Lord in mee and thy enemies which is my sinnes shall be scattered and rooted out in me so this death or flesh of God which is death destroyesman which is death in God in becomming his death or his flesh for in becomming the man of sinne he destroyes man which is sinne and evill of himselfe without this power of the holy Godhead which holy power he hath given to the man to arraigne himselfe before himselfe and to condemne himselfe in himselfe and to execute himselfe and so make an end of the whole man of sinne and so he becomes dead and buried with this power of the holy Godhead for it is better be dead with God and to be at rest with him then to be alive with the Devill and to be in torment in his hell for this death of God is death to the sinne which sinne is death and shall raise us up into everlasting immortality and ravishing joyes of minde for hee saith that that which never eye saw nor care heard nor ever entred into the heart of wicked man in his first creation is now revealed to them that love him and those that are of the new borne creature and the second creation that love him and are the men of God who are ruled and governed by him for he saith that the troubles and sufferings which wee endure in the crucifying the man of sin in the former world is not worthy of that joy and sweet consolation that we shall receive and shall be given to us that hath tasted of the death of Christ and hath gone through his sufferings with him into the second world that is full of joy for this end of Esau or Edom is the end of the first creation and the vessell of wrath that hath ordained himselfe to destruction and God foreknew that he would doe all these things to himselfe and gave him all in his hand that hee should not complaine and say he was tyed from any thing so that he was
bringeth forth their owne kinde in Man for every affection thought and inclination hath its owne seed in it selfe and doth produce its own fruit out of us which is good in their owne kinde and the appearance of these things in us is the third day in man with its evening and morning for the evening and morning maketh the whole day And God said let there be light in the firmament which light is the Son and glory of God and Man Christ Jesus and is the light which distinguishes or discovers the mindes both of God and Man to each other and the Moon that is in this distinction that rules the night or the darke Man is the instruction and the good advises that the Sunne or true day light shineth through them to the Man and all the starres in this firmament are the lights of Gods graces that is severall to the Man to enlighten his darke heart that hee might see the glorious Son through these gimmering lights for his dark eyes is not able at the first to behold the glorious Sonne but by degrees the holy God brings him to it so these holy lights in the Man are the fourth day with his evening and morning And God said let the waters bring forth fowle and fishes which waters are the flowing sea of thy minde and the fowle or birds are the flying fantasies that flye about the heaven of our souls and the fishes are thy delightfull thoughts that swim up and downe in thy minde and all these are proper selves with their seeds and are very good in their owne kinde and are usefull for the Man and for his pleasure and delight and this is the fifth day in man with its evening and morning And God said let the Earth bring forth all beasts and creeping things which beasts is the passions of thy minde some of which thou maiest use and eat of and some thou must keep under and not eat of as the Hare which is thy fearfull passions and the Swine which is thy voluptuous appetite and the birds and fishes which will not be orderly thou must keep under and not taste of for we must reigne and keep our phantasies that is the ravenous and destructive birds hood winkt that they may not see nor goe beyond their limits to disturbe the soule with their disorderlinesse for David did kill a Lion and a Bear and fought with Goliah and killed him which Lion is thy strong unruly appetite and the Beare is thy unorderly and bloody selfe will and the Goliah is that evill or divell that is thy unreasonablenesse that raileth against thy God or good which is thy reasonablenesse Now these thoughts and phantasies unruly passions appetites and unreasonablenesse must be kept under and ruled or else they will disturbe and destroy thy soul but kept under ruled and ordered are usefull to the Man but this keeping them under is death to them for they are mad and cruell let loose and keeps the soule and reason in all subjection so that no good shall appeare in the soule but they will destroy it for these beasts birds and fishes will destroy and devoure all the rest of the peaceable beasts birds and fishes as the dove or thy innocencie or meek lambe or peaceablenesse and all those peaceable creatures that would be at rest in thee and please thee and give thee rest for Sampson killed that Lion that came roaring upon him that was his strong and ravening appetite that would have devoured him so he saith afterward when he had overcome his ravening appetite there came sweetnes out thereof where with he was refreshed for he saith out of the eater came meat and out of the strong came sweetnesse so that appetite that would have devoured him keepst under and set upon the love or desire of goodnesse was meat and sweetnesse to him And God and Man said let us make or set forth our image which is male and female that is true righteousnesse holinesse and purenesse that should rule over these birds beasts fishes and all creeping things that moveth in the world of Man and they give them names according to their natures and qualities that they see in them so this is the sixth day in Man with its evening and morning and all things is good in their kinde So the rest of Gods discovering or creating things is that holy rest and dwelling of God and good in the Man for he hath shewed Man all things and he discovers himselfe the last which is the best and holy rest and peace of things and is the Sabbath or seventh day with its evening and morning the holy rest in man which hee should have kept for ever and never have lost or broken this rest is the holy Godhead or breath of life that is given to the Man and is light of his light and the life of his life or breath of his breath for Man without God is dead and his life and breath is death without the life and breath of God So God gave himselfe into the hands of Man to see what he would doe with him for he loveth the Man as himselfe Now when the Man seeth that God hath given all things in his owne power then comes the subtilest beast that is in the earth of Man to intice or allure the Man and to be master of all in him and to rule all things and this beast is the wisdome of the flesh or the wisdome of the darke man which is sensuall and devillish and now the Man or female having her will and beeing free having all things in her possession by the free gift love of God to her desires to rule by her will and wisdome and to let God alone and forsake his counsell and wisdom rule by herself and wisdome which is blind sensuall and evill and this is her guide and she will be her own God to do her will lusts and desires and she in blindenesse wil distinguish between good and evill who knowes nothing at all but by the light of Gods grace and goodnesse in her which she hath forsaken and is ruled by her owne selfe and wisdome that calls good evill and evill good and so it is all lies and falshood which the Man is ruled by and so he is lost and damned from God and goodnesse and is joyned to a lie and deceitfulnesse and hath made God taste of her deceitfulnesse by her forsaking him for shee that is his wife hath forsaken him which is her mate and yoak fellow and so he is lost and hidden from her and is under her earthly man of sin which is in hell for that which should be uppermost is undermost which is God and that which should bee undermost is uppermost for all thy brutiall passions and beastly appetites which should bee keept undermost and ruled is uppermost and they rule and governe thee and all things in thee for they keep God and goodnesse under them and will not let them appeare
be as great as God himselfe before his time and so his pride threw him downe into the most lowest world which is the diabolicall so that his body is now the body of sinne death and all wickednesse and besides he hath pulled downe the divine and most holy world upon him as a judge with wrath and violent fire and so hee standeth still over him till the man desire to come forth againe out of the diabolicall world and returne with humility true repentance and reall sorrow for his sin and then the divine and most holy world doth worke this true reall death in mans heart and descendeth into the hell of his heart that is into the lowest parts of his earth where the wrath of God is and there pacifieth this wrathfull Iudge or God with his humility and true sorrow for sinne by which sorrow and humility he crucifies and destroyes all sinne out of the man and then he raiseth him out of the lowest world into the divinest and most holy world and this world is the second creation that God maketh in man and is himselfe which he createth in him for in his comming he first humbleth and then exalteth the man for the divine and most holy world in his comming downe into hell or the most lowest world to the man to save him doth appeare in humility and lowlinesse of spirit very meeke and gentle enduring patiently all that the law would have him suffer and so teacheth and incorporateth this humility and lowlinesse of spirit into the man that hath learned God so that they twain are made one spirit and this is the new creation of which David speaketh saying Create in me a cleane heart O God and renue a right spirit in mee this is that poore humble meek soule that lyeth in the dust and seeth no help which shall be â—â—ised up from thence to dignity and shall sit with Princes which is to sit with the most highest God and he is the barren that shall beare and bring forth the holy Godhead or divine life out of him Now O man mayest thou see how great the love of God is to thee therefore forsake all worlds for his sake because he loveth thee so deerly and look upon all things through his spirituall and holy eyes and then shalt thou see things cleerly and as they are and not esteem of any thing above it selfe nor above its owne deserving Wherefore wee must looke into the Scripture with those holy eyes or else we shall see nothing aright or as it is Now to looke upon all the histories of the Prophets Judges and Kings without those divine and holy eyes where through we see the holy mystery of the same it will appeare very strange to us and contrary to nature and reason as for example that of Bilaams Asse speaking to him and Nebuchadnezzar being turned to a Beast to eat grasse with the Oxen till the dew of heaven had wet him seven times and the fiery furnace spoken of in Daniell in which the three children were cast wherein they had no hurt nor so much as their cloaths burned and the great Image of brasse iron and clay which is also spoken of in Daniell with many other mysteries which setteth forth the creation fall and restauration of man by the whole worke of the law together with his new creation so that the whole history of the Scripture rightly understood tendeth to those things but are illustrated and set forth many and divers wayes therefore this worke of man is wonderfull and would make an eternall discourse in the minde of man to expresse himselfe And the history of David that he did kill a Lion and a Beare and did kill Goliah is the whole worke of the law to destroy the Devill and sin out of the man also he complaineth sometimes that he is in the lowest hell and in a deepe pit and that he is a worme and no man and that he is in the deep waters and the raging seas run over him so that in all this he carries a double death which is to kill and be killed for the whole worke of the law is to kill and bee killed therefore the law or David cannot build a house for God to dwell in for he saith that David or the law is a man of blood and that he should pull down all buildings of sin and destroy the enemies of the Lord and prepare timber and stones hewed and cut for the house of the Lord that there might bee no noise of the hammer or of the worke mans tools for the law of the Lord hews cuts and prepares us for the house of the Lord before we are or can be set in that there should be no noise of hammer or worke mans tooles hewing or cutting which hewing or cutting is the wounds of conscience making a true sorrow and mourning for sinne and when we are prepared and made living stones and a spirituall house Christ being the head and corner stone that upholdeth this house and holy building and this whole house is covered within and without with pure gold that is with a most pure holy and glorious life then the most holy and wise Solomon the wisdome of the Godhead the sonne of David or the law enters in this most glorious house that shineth with his most bright and glorious rayes and there he worships and adores this great and most holy Godhead and there was and is continuall songs of Hallelujah praise and thanksgiving to him that liveth for evermore and without this house is the middle court where the peace offerings that was and is offered up to this most holy God and was and is the fulfilling of the law by obedience in killing the man of sinne the which doth pacifie and reconcile us to God againe that we may enter the Temple with this holy and wise Solomon to worship and sing praises to the most glorious and most holy God O that it were so well with all the soules of men and that it were so come to passe in them then were they happy but till then most unhappy Now to understand these buildings of the Temple and house of the Lord as a history with all these glorious externall things how that there were galleries and chambers and in those roomes pictures of Angels and Cherubins and that they did uphold the Arke and Alter and that the same should bee covered within and without with pure gold and that the stones must be hewed and prepared before they were set in that there should be no noise of the hammer or workmans toole what is that to thee O man to read the history of these things for all externall buildings must perish with the using and thou never the better for it but looke thou into the mystery thereof because it concernes thy selfe for this building is thee and God joyned together and is the rocke Christ Jesus that living stone disallowed of men but chosen of God and yee as living