The first Chapiter.

THIS is the A Sounde of the Voyce of the true Spirit of Loue: wher­with the Lorde visiteth the Wickednes of the People vpon Earth / To thende y^t it mought becom fulfilled, which the Lorde hath spokē through his holie Propheates. like-as ther standeth writen: The Lorde Esa. 26. c. Mich. 1. a. shall go-fourth out of his Dwellinge / and visit the Wickednes of the Inhabiters of the Earth: in such-sort / that the Earth also shall disclose the Apoc. 18. c. Bloud which shee hath swallowed-vpp / and not hyde thesame any lenger.

2. THe Lorde ؛the God of Heauen (punctel) moued Mee, in his Minde ⁏or Spi­rit;: his Powre incōpassed Mee, with a Russhing-noyse: and the Glorie of y^e same God of Heauen, became great in my Spirit of his Loue: in such-wise / that y^e great Cleernes of God whollye inuironed Mee / and shone rounde-about­mee. Wher-through the Sight of myne Eyes, be­came cleerer then Chrystall. and myne Vnderstan­ding, [Page] brighter then the Sunne: in such-sort / that I insawe with myne Eyes, the great Ezech. 18. c. 2. Pet. 3. b. Long-suffering of God. and how lardge thesame extended ouer the Children of Men: and perceaued ⁏with myne Vn­derstandinge; the Breakinge-fourth of the Esa. 13. a. Amos. 5. h. Ioel. 2. a. b. Soph. 1. b. greate Daye of the righteous Iudgment of God vpon the Earth: with which Breaking-fourth of the-same great Daye, God wil also now in the last tyme ⁏as a Nahum. 1. a. Reuenger against all his Enemies; make-vpp himself and appeere / and Act. 17. d. iudg the vniuersall Earth with Righteousnes / accordinge to his Promises.

3. I insawe also / that God will powre-fourth his B Wrath and Indignation, ouer all them that haue not ⁏to their Rom. 2. a. Amendement; taken-heede vnto hys Loue / Grace / & Long-sufferinge · but, in the Mercy of God / and in the Time of Grace ⁏when-as the Mercy was proffered vnto them; Pro. 1. c. refused thesame: and eauenso ⁏bydinge sluggish towardes the Will of the Lorde; loued and ensued the worldlie Foo­lishnes / Malitiousnes / and Self-mindednes / as also the Infidelitie of the Good-thinking-wise, more then the Saluation of God.

4. In all thissame ⁏wherwith the Lorde so moo­ued Mee, in his Minde; I tooke good-heede ⁏in myne Vnderstandinge; what the Lord-his Mea­ning and Will was: and wher-to or to what-ma­ner of Seruice, the Lorde mooued my Minde.

5. When I then perceaued or vnderstoode it / so was the Lord-his Meaning and Will vnto Mee / eauen-such, as his Beeinge ⁏or Essence; spake vnto Mee. For the Beeing of God gaue-fourth hys Sounde and Voyce: and spake vnto Mee H [...] [Page 4] ⁏through his Spirit of Loue; all these Woordes / and sayde:

6. GO now out / and byde alwayes in C Mee: and ⁏Mal. 3. 2. going-before with thy Ser­uice, er-euer the Cleernes of the great Daye of my righteous Iudgment do com; let the Sounde of y^e Voyce of my gratious Woorde passe-fourth, ouer the vniuersall Earth. Shewe all People, my Will: declare my Lawes / Ordinaunces / or Institutions, to the Vnunderstandingones: forbeare not any len­ger the Transgressinge of Men: nether wynke thou hence-fourth at the Offences of any People: but make-manifest their Esa. 58. a. Vnrighteousnes vnto them: and correct or reprooue them, for all their Igno­raunce / Blockishnes / Self-seeking / and Hypocrisie / and for all their Lying-imagination of the Know­ledg / wherwith they geeue-fourth themselues before thee, as-though I approoued their cause: in which dooinge, they all make-manifest their false Righte­ousnes before Mee / and bringe their Filthynes be­fore my Face / makinge themselues eauenso Esa. 1. b. Amos. 5. [...]. to an Abhomination before myne Eyes.

7. Let also the Slothfull / Pro. 6. a. 24 and all such as go-on so negligentlie [namely / such as followe-after the Fasshion and Beeinge of the wicked Worlde / Ier. 7. 6. 11. a. 13. b. 18. b. Zach. 7. b. or their Good-thinking / and consider not on the Ser­uice and Requiring of my holy & gratious Woord ⁏that passeth-fourth vnder the Obedience of my Loue; nor haue any regarde therto] knowe and vn­derstand, that they all are Esa. 1. b. Amos. 5. c. Luk. 16. b. Tit. 1. b. an Abhomination and a Lothso [...]es, before myne Eyes. and that I can­not [Page] away with them / To thend that they all ⁏tho­rough thy Seruice out of my Loue; may turne them vprightlie Esa. 55. a. ser. 3. a. b., to Mee & my Loue · Ezec. 17. d. Ioel. 2. c. Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. repent them for their Sinnes · and be 2. Pet. 3. b. preserued, in the Cleernes of the Daye of my righteous Iudgment.

8. NOw / bowing myself in all Obedience to D my God / I went-fourth: and bidde also alwayes in the Lorde / eauen as the Lorde had com­maunded mee. And my Spirit being mooued tho­rough Gods Powre, I gaue-fourth [...]e Sounde of the Voyce of the gratious Woorde of the Lorde / like as I had also done in tymes-past.

9. And eauenso ⁏out of the Loue of my God and Christ; became the gratious Woorde of the Lorde ⁏in liuing Powre; out of the lyuing God, in sharpe Reprouinge / Chastisinge & Nourteringe ⁏as with Documentes, to the Putting-away and Mortify­inge of the Sinne of Death; / and also in Gentle­dealinge or Healpfulnes to Saluation ⁏as with sweete Esa. 55. a. Iohn. 4. b. 7. d Apo. 22. b. Waters, to the Raysing-vpp of the Righ­teousnes of Life; Iohn. 4. b. 7. d flowing from my Body: and the Sounde of thesame Voyce, inlarged itself wyde-a­brode, vpon the Earth.

10. Haue a good regarde therfore ⁏O yee Chil­drē of Men; vnto that which becometh This-day ⁏out of the gratious Woord of the Lorde & his ho­ly Spirit of Loue; spoken & expressed vnto you: and hardē Psal. [...]. b. Heb. 3. b. not your Heartes, in any-case. but Ier. 7. a. 18. b. 25 a. 35. b. amend your Beeinge / To thend that yee may enter ⁏with the Children of God; into the Esa. 32. [...]. Heb. 3. b. 4. b. Rest of the Lorde.

The seconde Chap.

[Page 5]ONce Children of Men / yee Chil­dren A Gen. 3. a. Esa. 1. a. [...]9. b. Rom. 5. b. of Defection ⁏which will not beleeue nor vnderstand God-his Trueth · geeue any Pro. 1. c. Ier. 7. c. [...]are to the Lord-his Will · nor fol­lowe-after the Doctrine and Instructiō of the gra­tious Woorde and his holy Spirit of Loue; how can I ⁏in any-case; suffer you any lenger, then I haue suffered you? Seeing that the Lorde hymself will not forbeare you any lenger, in your Vnwil­lingnes to his Righteousnes.

2. Thus-longe haue I, with the Rom. 2. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Longsuffer­inge of the Lorde / beheld and considered-it also with Longsufferinge, what maner of Wayes it mought be / that yee all loued to walke in: and whether also any-man loued / or desired to enter obedientlye, into the Pro. 3. b. 4. b. Math. 3. a. Mark. 1. a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. d. 3. c. Entraunce or first Schoole-rule to the Waye of Life and Peace / in such-sort as thesame becometh administred ⁏vnder the Obedience of the Loue; ac­cording to the Trueth of God.

3. Thus-longe haue I ben conuersant ⁏in stil­nes; with many of you. and ben by you, like as one that can well abyde to looke-on the Wickednes of Men / and yet not correct or reproue thesame. But in all thissame, my Spirit hath ben greatlie Ier. 9. a. 14. b. Lam. 1. b. [...]. b. bour­dened with greefe · and ⁏with much heauy-cheere; very wofull and sorrowfull for you all, O yee Chil­dren of Men.

4. For, vewinge the whole Face of the Earth / I B beheld & noted directlie, the exceeding Distraught­nes and 4. Esdr. 14. [...]. Math. 24. b. Iniquitie of the peruerse World. and the manifolde Dan. 9. c. 11. Mark. 13. b. Abhominations of Desolation, wher­with shee hath brought herself into a most confused­estate: [Page] also the many & manifolde Esa. 5. c. Rom. 1. c. 12. 1. Cor. 1. b. Self-wisdoms / Chosen-holynesses Col. 2. a. 2. Tim. 3. a. / and false God-seruices or Re­ligions of Men / which they haue taken-on vnto them, out of the Scripturely-learnednes / and Imagination of the Knowledge · and made or deuyded themselues ⁏ther-through; into manye Sectes / Dissentions Mat. 24. a. 1. Cor. 1. b. 3. a Gal. 5. c. Iam. 3. b. / and Schysmes or Diuisions.

5. I Haue moreouer, marked ⁏with Longsuffe­ring; the Fourth-going of all such as bost them of the Loue / and perswade thēselues, that they cleaue vnto the Loue and the Wisdom / Whether that ther were any better-thing loued by them, then by the Worlde: and whether also, that they appro­ched anye neerer to the Trueth of God / and to the vpright Beeing of the Loue, then the Wyse of the Worlde and Scripture-learned.

6. I haue also for-that-cause, walked louelye a­mong certen of them / and behaued myself 2; Cor. 5. b. Tit. 3. a. very gen­tlelye with them: hopinge eauenso, that the true Feare Pro. 1. a. Eccli. 1. a. b. c. 2. b. of God / the Psal. 40. a. Lust to the good and vpright Beeing / the vpright Mat. 24. b. Zeale to the Righteousnes / and the Concorde Ezec. 11. b. 1. Cor. 1. a. Ephe. 4. a. of Heart in the Loue, shoulde haue ben found among them / more then among the worldly Wyse and Scripture-learned.

7. BVt ⁏alas; like as the Worlde / together C with her Wyse and Scripture-learned, are darkned or Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b. blinded in Heart / and deaff in the Vnderstanding (which comprehend not Sap. 1. a. Math. 11. c. [...]. Cor. 2. b. the good Beeinge of the Loue / nor-yet consider on any of all that which God ⁏through the Spirit of his Loue; requireth: but haue alwayes a Lust to themselues / and cleaue-vnto the Couetousnes / the Volupteous­nes [Page 6] of the Fleash / and the Self-wysdom, which se­duceth them) eauenso I haue founde many of you ⁏yea / almost all, which make-bost of the Loue / and talke much therof; to stand in such-like case: and also aduisedlie marked, that yee ⁏vnder the Pretence or Colour of the Howse or Seruice of Loue; haue ta­ken-on to your-selues, the 2. Pet. 2. b. Iudae. 1. b. Volupteousnes of the Fleash ⁏according to the maner of the World; to be your freedom · and your owne Ier. 7. c. 11. a. 18. b. Thoughtes of the Goodthinking, according to the Imagination of y^e Knowledg (like vnto many vnilluminated 1. Cor. 1. b. Scrip­ture-learned and Goodthinkinge-wyse) to be your Wysdom: and haue no regarde to the godly Life of the gratious Woorde / nor to the Pro. 1. c. Counsell of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Loue / nether-yet humble you obedientlye to the Loue & her Seruice. And yet notwithstandinge ⁏when one asketh you, whether yee haue adioyned you to the Loue / or are minded to continewe with a good will, by thesame; yee answer & say expresslie: O yea: Wee will cleaue vnto the Loue / and not forsake thesame in any-case.

8. Howbeit / yee couer ther-withall, your false D Desires / and also the Lustes of your Fleash, wher­in yee Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b. 2. Pet. 2. b. Iudae. 1. b. liue and walke: and remayne eauenso with­out the Obedience of the holie Woorde / and of the Requiringe of his Seruice of Loue / and byde also bounde or owned to yourselues / and to your owne Counsell and Will: and com not to the Trueth of God / which floweth-fourth seruiceablelie, out of the Loue / for to be obedient ⁏as right Iohn. 8. b. Iam. 1. b. Disciples of the Woord; vnto thesame.

9. But verely / after such a maner, yee are ⁏tow­ardes [Page] the gratious Woorde of the Lorde / and his Seruice of Loue; Psal. 50. e. Ier. 2 d. 3. a. Oze. 4. 5. a. eauen like-vnto an Whoore, which after her heartes Good-thinkinge ⁏to a Clo­king of her Whordom; chuseth an Husbande / and coupleth herself in mariaige vnto him / for that shee mought bost her as a Maried-wife. and vnder such a Couering / & Bosting that shee hath an Husband, committeth her Whordom / Seeing that yee in like maner without Christ / and against Christ ⁏although yee make great boast of him; commit Whoordom / and deale nor walke not accordinge to the Doctrine or Requiringe of Christ.

10. For which your couered or cloked Whoor­doms-cause and vnrighteous Walkinge, the Lorde hath mooued my Minde. and commaunded mee, to figure-fourth your Whordom & Ier. 7. a. b. vnrighteous Wayes before you / also to Esa. 58. a. reproue you therof / and to exhorte you to Amendement: and to warne you eauenso of the Destruction / that is for to com vpon the Vngodly, in the righteous Iudgment of God.

11. O Thou whoorish Nature! Be ashamed ⁏I say; presentlie before the Lorde / and before the Seate Esa. 16. b. Mat. 25. d. of his Maiestie, wherout Hee de­clareth his vpright Righteousnes / that thou bost­est thee so of Christ, the gratious Woord of the Fa­ther ⁏ [...]. Cor. 11. a. as of thy Husband; and of the louelie Nature of his Loue: and yet ⁏whilst thou so doest; holdest thine Heart common or of-one-beeing with the An­tichrist / with the wicked World / and with the Self­wisdomes of her Sectuaries & Scripture-learned. Peruse and ponder now well the Esa. [...]9. b. Falshod of thyne Heart / and consider thoroughlie, all thy Couetous­nes / [Page 7] Ier. 7. a. 9. a. Theeuerie / Self-seeking & Whordom, which thou hast committed against Christ and his Loue.

12. O Yee Children of Men: When yee now E haue once perceaued and cleerlye seene ⁏in your Inwardnes; into all thissame whoorish Na­ture of your vnrighteous Walking / thē withdrawe you first-of-all therfrom Ier. 2. d. 3. a. / and turne you to the Goodnes of our Lorde Iesu Christ / and Ezec. 18. d. 33 repent you: and let yourselues eauenso ⁏vnder the Obedi­ence of the holye and gratious Woord / and of his Seruice of Loue; becom Eph. 4. c. chaunged to an vpright Beeing of Christ / and taught / Pio. 1. a. 4. a. instructed / and coun selled (as singleminded Math. 18. a. 1. Cor. 14. [...]. Children / which wholly geeue-ouer themselues obedientlie, vnder the Tuiti­on or Custody of their Mother) by the Elders in the holy Vnderstandinge of the Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ: and eauenso ⁏in all Obedience of y^e Loue of Iesu Christ; becom fostered and trayned­vp, in the godly Wisdom of y^e holy Vnderstanding.

13. Heer-to applye you first-of-all, with faithfull Heartes: and com then eauenso to the louelye Ephe. 4. b. and true Beeing of the Loue of Iesu Christ / and to the vpright Iohn. 8. d. Freedom of the Children of God.

The thirde Chap.

O Yee Children of the Gen. 3. a. Esa. 1. a. 59. b. Rom. 5. b. defectinge or A offallinge Beeinge ⁏which saye that yee cleaue vnto Christ and his Loue: and vn­der such a Bosting, commit your Whor­dom; to you is my Crye and Callinge. For I la­ment and bewaile very-much your Ier. [...]. d. Oze. 4. [...]. Vnfaithfulnes / [Page] and all your Faynednes / wherwith yee thinke to co­uer you, before Mee.

2. But no ⁏beloued; no: Yee cannot byde-coue­red before Mee / nor before the Face of my God: but yee must all ⁏in thissame Daye of the Loue; becom manifest, before the Maiestie of God / and Rom. 14. b. [...]. Cor. 5. b. before the Seate of the Iudgment of Christ.

3. For although yee dissemble with Mee: and how craftelye soeuer yee couer or fayne you before Mee / yet are neuertheles 1. Cor. 4. a. all the Counselles and Falshods of your Heartes, manifest before Mee / and so-much the more naked and bare, Psal. 44. a. Heb. 4. b. before the Eyes of my Heart and Spirit.

4. For so longe as your Heartes stande not sub­mitted goodwillinglie, to the Heart and Spirit of my God: nor are wholly geeuen-ouer ⁏to [...]. Pet. 1. b. Iam. 1. b. obedient Disciples of the Woord; vnto y^e gratious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / Go can I also, through the true Iohn. 1. a. 3. b Light ⁏wherin God hath glorified or tho­roughly-lighted mee; right-well perceaue / see / and note / that all your Mindes and Thoughtes, are not mynded with the Heart and Spirit of my God / nor with the Requiringe of the gratious Woorde / and of his Seruice of Loue / but ⁏ther-against; min­gled with wicked Gen. 6. a. 8. c Eccli. 17. 18. b Inclinations or Affections.

5. SEeinge now then that I ⁏through the B Light of my God; do cleerlie see-into all your pernicious ether corrupted Nature / and wick­ed Inclinations: and gladlie vouchsafe you all ⁏out of the vpright Beeing of my God; that which were better (To thende that ⁏vnder the Obedience of y^e Loue; ther mought be founde by you all, an vpright [Page 8] Beeing Ephe. 4. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. of the Loue of Iesu Christ) So cannot I of natures-part / nor of the 2. Cor. 5. b. Nature of the Loues­part ⁏which driueth mee therto; alwayes keepe-sci­lence: but must ⁏euen out of Loue; witnes vnto you the Esa. 13. b. 47. b Mat. 24. b. 1. Tim. 4. a. 2. Tim. 3. a 2. Pet. 2. a. Perrels of Destruction / which haue bewrapped and incompassed you.

6. For-that-cause I admoni [...]h you this-day, of the Destruction: and fore-tell you (as truly as the Lorde liueth) if yee indeuour not yourselues to the Obedience of the Requiring of y^e gratious Woord and 1. Iohn [...]. b. 4. c. of his Seruice of Loue / for to becom vpright of Heart: to feare the God of Life: to loue the Ver­tues of the louelye Beeinge of the Loue: to liue vp­rightlie ⁏Rom. 12. a. 2. Cor. 12. a. b Eph. 4. b. 1. Iohn. 1. a. in the Communialtie of the Loue; with all the Holions of God / and to deale or behaue your selues Zach. 7. b. 8. a. b. faithfullie with them: and so to becom whol lie godded with God Iohn. 17. c. and his Christ · or Iohn. 15. b. Ephe. 3. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. incor­porated to that same godly Beeinge: but seeke your­selues / or anye other thinge in or by the gratious Woord and his Seruice of Loue: or-els take vnto yourselues a good-thinkinge Woorde / and falslye vsurpe the Seruice of Loue / and boast you therof: and eauenso holde your Heartes common or of-one­beeing, with the 1. Iohn. 2. b. worldly Beeing & Fasshion / and with the false Heartes of the seditious Scripture­learned / So will it thē assuredlie go-euell with you, in this Daye of the Loue of the righteous Iudg­ment Esa. 13. 47. b. Math. 25. d. of God: Yea much Math. 11. b. worsse, then with the worldlie Ignorant / which haue not heard any bet­ter, then the Maner or Rite of the Worlde / or of the seditious and sectuarish Scripture-learnednes.

7. For vnto you all (which presentlye ⁏in thys­same C [Page] Day of the Loue; heare the Voyce or Sounde of the Spirit of Loue) the good Beeing of the Loue becometh expresslie set-fourth / and the Life of the vp­right Righteousnes, figuredout before your Eyes: and to thesame also, yee all are Math. 11. e. Ephe. 1. a. 4. a. [...]. Pet. 1. a. called and intirelie­bidden. and the Hande reached-fourth vnto you, to your assisting therin / To thend that yee should all, with goodwilling Heartes, wholly geeue-ouer your selues ⁏vnder the Obedience of the Loue; ther vnto. and so enter-in to the Way or Entraunce to y^e same.

8. BVt verelie / if yee now ⁏in all this 2. Tess. 2. b. Loue & Mercifulnes, which this-day chaunceth or becometh brought vnto you, through the Spirit of Loue; will not geeue-eare to the Voyce or Testi­monye Ier. 25. b. 29. of the gratious Woorde · nor learne ⁏in y^e Seruice of Loue; the Math. 11. c. Humilitie of Heart / nor the Meekmindednes of Spirit · ne-yet once laude nor thanke the God of Life, for such an appeered Tit. 2. b. Grace. but Pro. 1. c. refuse the proffered Grace / and turne you away therfrom: keepe-off thesame from your Heartes: runne-on lightmindedly, with your takē-on Know­ledg: haue no regarde at-all to the Wysdom of the Loue: nor endeuour you to attaine to the Righte­ousnes of the vpright Beeing of the Loue: and ea­uenso ⁏Psal. 95. b. Heb. 3. b. hardeninge your Heartes; followe-after your owne Ier. 7. c. 18. b. 44. a. b. Good-thinkinge / So thinke well then heeron / and consider it aduisedlie ⁏O yee Self-min­dedones / and goodthinking Wyse; that yee ⁏wit [...] such Peruertednes of your goodthinking Heartes; shall beed Esa. 59. b. Ephe. 4. b. estraunged from God and his Trueth wax-colde towardes the right Loue · and altoge­ther vnwillinge, for to geeue-ouer your Heartes [Page 9] in the Seruice of Loue:

9. Yea, that God will also for that cause (seeinge D that yee are so Pro. 24. d. Math. 25. b▪ slothfull to the Seruice of his Loue / and to all what God ⁏in this his holie Daye; requi reth) Apo. 3. b. spewe you out of his Mouth. and not let you taste his louelie Beeinge · nor finde the Heb. 4. b. Rest of his Holyones: but will let your Heartes rest­blinded from his vpright Light · and your Time / Dayes / and Yeares, passe-awaye or Sap. 5. b. Esa. 13. b. 47. b Mal. 4. a. perrish ⁏with the Vngodlie; in Ignoraunce and Darknes.

10. O Yee Pro. 6. a. 24 d Math. 25. b. Sluggish to the Will of the highest God / yee Phil. 2. c. Seekers of your owne Selfnes, in the Seruice of the Loue / and yee all which are so wise or Esa. 5. c. knowledgfull in your owne conceit / and ⁏without the Counsell of the holie Spi­rit of Loue; Pro. 1. c. followe and ensue your owne Coun­sell: iett-on with stiffe Esa. 3. b. Neckes: and eauenso pre­sumpteous-boldlie, Sap. 1. b. 2. a. hunte-after your owne De­struction / How longe will yee yeat ⁏through your Disobedience; bring Sorrowe and Care vpon mee / and paine mee so with angwish in my Heart?

11. How longe will yee yeat followe your owne Counsell: and cast behinde you the Counsell of the Wisedome?

12. Oh / I feare, that yee will not ceasse from do­inge your owne Will / vntill that the Destruction haue vtterlie swallowed you vp: & that yee shall not find any more time of conuerting, to Heb. 12. b. Amendement.

13. HOw are yee ⁏for-shame; thus cold / and how E slowlie com yee forward, to the Seruice of the Loue? How bide yee thus alwayes so very-chil­dish or 2. Tim. 3. a. Heb. 5. b. little-of-vnderstandinge, in the Knowledg [Page] of the Entraunce to the first Schoole-rule of y^t chris­tiā Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / and of the hea­uenlie Trueth? I haue ⁏doubtles; held-fourth or expressed all Good before you. and euidentlie figu­red-fourth the vpright Beeing of the Loue / and the Entraunce to thesame, amōg you. Through which Seruice ⁏so extended on you; all my Hope hath ben, that I should haue reioyeed mee with you ⁏in Eph. 4. b. Col. 1. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. the Growing-vpp in the godlie Vnderstanding of the vpright Beeing of the Loue; as with louing Childrē of the Kingdom / in the godlie Beeing of the Loue. 14. But / alas (the which greeueth my Heart ful­sore) Now that yee begin to ware aged or olde in the Vnderstanding / and ought ⁏of-right; to be Heb. 5. b. El­ders in the holie Vnderstanding, I finde that ma­ny of you growe not vp in the Eph. 4. b. Oldnes of the holie Vnderstandinge of the gratious Woord or Christ ⁏according to the vpright Beeing of the Requiring of his Seruice of Loue; but in your owne or self­framed Vnderstanding / or destroying Gen. 3. a. 1. Cor. 8. a. Knowledg / and yeat daylie increase therin / and not in the Sap. 1. a. 7. b. Iam. 3. b. Wis dom of the Loue, that godlie Vnderstandinge.

The IIII. Chap.

OH! Wheare shall I once fynde A such, as take-to-heart y^e gratious Woord and the Instruction of his Seruice of Loue / or his Con̄sell Deu. 6. a. 11. b. 32. e. Pro. 4. a. of y^e Wisdome / and cauenso ⁏with singleminded Sap. 1. a. Heartes; followe-af­ter thesame obedientlie? For I finde by experience, that the most Part of People ⁏which make a 2. Tim. [...]. a. shewe, [Page 10] as-though they turned them to the Loue or to the Seruice of thesame; turne them not Ier. 3. a. b. aright, to the Loue and her Seruice.

2. For that cause / such shewe plainlie their Vn­faithfulnes: and, in turninge them awaye from the Requiringe of the Loue, it becometh manifest (in the Bringing-fourth or Spreading-abrode of their owne Counsell / Lust / and Will / which they take vn­to them, through the Imagination of their Know­ledg) that they are vtterlie estraunged from the gra­tious Woord of the Lorde / and frō his Requiring / and turned towardes their owne Woord & Will.

3. For ther are very-fewe to be found, that geue ouer themselues heerto. namelye / to Math. 16. c. forsake their Self-wisdome or Imagination of the Knowledge / and to liue obedientlie 1. Reg. 15. b. 1. Pet. 1. b., accordinge to the Counsell and Doctrine of the Testimonies of the holie Spi­rit of Loue. But almost all ⁏and especiallie, they that refuse the Loue and the Requiring of her Ser­uice; sett themselues to Iudgment / for to Ier. 13. d. iudg with their owne Woord and Imaginatiō of the Know­ledge, Gods gratious 1. Iohn. 3. b. 4. c. Woorde and the Esa. 30. a. b. Seruice of his holie Spirit of Loue / as also the Elders in thesame Seruice.

4. Yea / many thinke also in their Heartes / that they will looke-well heerto / that they be not in anye wise seduced or deceaued, by the Loue ⁏which 1. Iohn. 4. a. ne­uerthelesse is God himself; / nor by the Spirit of Loue ⁏which is the true Godlynes of Iesu Christ; / nor by the Dayed-elder in thesame Spirit / which witnesseth the vpright Beeinge of the Loue and her Spirit.

[Page]5. BEholde / such a Circumspection will they B almost all occupie or vse / supposing eauen­so ⁏accordinge to their Good-thinkinge or owne Knowledge; to enter into the Life: and (although they are not regenerated in the Obedience of the Loue of Iesu Christ / Sap. 1. a. Math. 11. c. 13 1. Cor. 2. b. nor yet vnderstand y^e Workes of God / nor the Misterie of his Kingdom) to be more prudent and vnderstanding with their Know­ledge, then God himself / and his Spirit of Loue.

6. Which Spirit hath now in thissame Daye ⁏through the Mercie of God and his elected Mi­nister; made manifest the secreat Treasures of God / and the godlie and spirituall Eph. 3. b. Col. 1. c. [...]. Tim. 1. b. Riches of the heauē ­lie Goods, so distinctlie & nakedlie / and also brought thesame so aboundantlie and liberallie vnto vs / in the Obedience of the Requiringe of his Seruice of Loue (wherout also wee declare-fourth thesame a­gaine, among the Children of Men) that the Sim­plest or Verie-least among the Vnderstandingones (if hee considered theron) mought right easelie vn­derstand / that thissame our Ministration of the holie Woorde in the Seruice of Loue, is Gods Woorking / and not the Mans. and that thesame Spirit and such an holie Vnderstandinge Math. 16. b. as is witnessed and declared out of the same Ministratiō, proceeded not out of any Fleash nor earthlie Vnder­standing · but out of the liuing God: and that-men also (without conceauing any Euel-opinion therof) ought to be obedient to thatsame Spirit, in the Re­quiringe of his holie Woord and Seruice vnder the Obedience of the Loue.

7. Howbeit / many will not consider heeron: but C [Page 11] they turne them almost all, to their owne Iam. 3. b. Vnder­standinge out of the Wisdome of the Fleash / and Scripture-learnednes or Imaginatiō of y^e Know­ledg / wherin they intangle / disturbe or disquiet them selues among each-other: and com not Eph. 1. b. 4. b 2. Tim. 3. 2. to the Vn­derstanding, wherunto they are called or required / and wherin they mought vnderstand the Minde or Intent of the Woorkes of God.

8. OVt of these ignorant Vnderstandinges ⁏accordinge to the Imagination of the Knowledge; very-manie make-vpp themselues pre­sentlie / which iudge the Administration of the grati­ous Woord of the holie Spirit of Loue, out of their ignorant and vnilluminated Vnderstandinges: and running-fourth eauenso ⁏with their Iudgmentes; heere-and-theare, they knowe nor vnderstand not themselues, what they iudge therof.

9. For the One murmureth heere / and will haue it Thus after his Minde: the Other murmureth theare / and will haue it So after his Minde. The One hath seene or marked This in it / that is vn­right in his Eyes. The Other hath hearde That therof / or-els cōceaued and imagined to himself ther out, som straunge or absurde Matier / that soundeth vnto him ⁏in his Eares and in his Thoughtes; as vnright or Errour.

10. HEer-with now / and with such-like (as ther D is mentioned) certen haue so much to do / and to talke-of / that they for-that-cause (through the great Toyle and Busines which they incomber themselues withall ther-about) becom so vtterlie blinded in their Heartes / that they ⁏by no-meanes; [Page] can consider on the singleminded 1. Reg. 15. b. 1. Pet. 1. b. Obedience which the gratious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue re­quireth: nor-yet on the aboundant Treasures and Riches Math. 13. b. Col. 2. a. of God / which ⁏out of y^e heauenlie Truth; becom Eph. 3. a. Col. 1. c. reuealed ⁏by God-his Grace; so ritchlie and liberallie vnto vs, in the Seruice of Loue · and ⁏tho­rough the holie Spirit of Loue; brought vnto vs, to Saluation.

11. They haue likewise not once any regard, what an vpright and louelie godlie Eph. 4. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. Beeing, the gratious Woord bringeth ⁏in the Obedience of his Seruice of Loue; vnto his Beleeuers.

12. Also they vnderstand not Math. 16. a. the Time, which is now present and at-hande: in which, the Ending of the peruerse 2. Pet. 3. b. World / and the Appeering of Math. 24. 25 Luk. 17. c. Act. 1. b. the Cominge of our Lorde Iesu Christ / and the Esa. 26. c. Iohn. 5. c. 1. Cor. 15. c. 1. Tess. 4. b. Re­surrection of his Holyones, cometh-to-passe.

The V. Chap.

OH! Is it not a verne lamentable A case / that I haue Eccli. 24. d. 2. Cor. 11. c. laboured thus-longe ⁏with such a Feruentie and Diligence; in the Misterie of the Woorkes of God, out of the godlie Powers / among the Childrē of Men · and geeuē-abrode thesame Misterie of the Workes of God vnto them ⁏with so full Resolution; to their Saluation (for to declare therby Gods Trueth vpon the Earth) so openlie and cleerlie · dealt or ben conuersant in the trauell of the godlie Testimonies of the true Light, amonge so many · and also com­muned or spoken thus-longe ⁏pea, so often and ma­ny-times; [Page 12] with them, of the Math. 13. b. Luk. 8. a. Misterie of the King­dom of the God of Heauens: And that I yeat find so fewe, which ⁏with all their Heart; geeue-ouer themselues goodwillinglie ⁏to obedient 1. Pet. 1. b. Iam. 1. b. Disciples; vnto the gratious Woord of Life and Trueth / and to his Seruice of Loue / or that humble them ⁏accor ding to the Requiring of the Woord / and Pro. 1. c. Coun­sell of the Wisdom; aright ther-vnder. For almost they all Phil. 2. c. seeke themselues: and not the Lorde. and cauenso, hearinge and beleeuinge themselues, Ier. 18. b. 23. c they followe-after their owne Will and Vnderstanding. and not the Lordes / nor his gratious Woordes.

2. Seeing then that they heare / beleeue / and wit­nes so gladlie, their owne Woorde: and followe or ensue so gladlie, their owne Counsell / Wisdom / and Will / so will they also verie gladlie and willinglie, submit themselues ther-vnder: also gladlie geeue them ouer / and be obedient, to thesame. Ier. 7. c. 11. [...]. 13. b. but not to the grations Woord of Life or of y^e Spirit of Loue. Yea, such an absurde and preposterous Dealing, a­gainst the gratious Woord of Life or of the Spirit of Loue, is vsed oftētimes much more by them which men haue in estimation / and count to haue Vnder­standing, then by the Little & Singlemindedones.

3. OH / How much and manye-times is it B mentioned in our Writinges, that the Lorde detesteth / and is whollie minded against Esa. 3. b. 30. a Rom. 1. c. 8. a. 11. b. 1. Cor. 1. b. all Pryde of the Fleash / against all the Wisdomes of the earthlie or fleashlie Men / and against all their Industrie / Subtil-pregnantie / Knowledge / and Counsell: and how little becometh it takē to Heart: or how little thinketh and considereth the Man / [Page] that hee (touching Gods Causes) ought to holde himself Psal. 37. b. Esa. 30. b. still, in his Wisdome / Industrie / Vnder­standing / or Knowledg / vntill that hee were endow­ed and illuminated ⁏in his Spirit; through the O­bediēce of the Requiring of the seruiceable Woord, with the eternall and liuinge 1. Iohn. 1. a. Woorde of God the Father · and Ioh. 15 a. 17. c Eph. 3. b. 1. Pet. 1. a. incorporated to the vpright and loue­lie Beeing of the Loue of Iesu Christ.

4. Whilst then that the Man is so vnmindfull of this / and bringeth-fourth alwayes so presumpte­ous-boldlie ⁏out of his good-thinking Prudentie or Industrie / and out of the Imaginatiō of his Know ledge; his owne Woorde / Counsell / and Will, so much and manifoldlie: witnesseth-fourth thesame for Trueth: and eauenso, accordinge to his manlie Wisdom ⁏out of the Minde of his Fleash; goeth­on therwith: and (because hee thinketh that hys cause is right) will nor desireth not anythinge-els / So must I other-whiles, let the Man alone or suf fer him to go-fourth therin for a season / waiting whē hee will com to a better Minde. and beholde with Longsufferinge, how it will go with him.

5. Therfore / for the Peaces cause (to thend that C I wolde not contend with anyman) I keepe often scilence among Manye / and let-passe ⁏in my Paci­ence and Longsufferinge; all false Witnessinges a­gainst mee: and eauēso abide-wayting for the right time Eccle. 3. a., wherin the gratious Woorde of Trueth / and the Discipline or Chastising-erudition mought be gladlie harkened-vnto and beleeued of the Man / for to refourme the Man eauenso ⁏in cōuenient time; with Longsufferinge / and to preuent him, with the [Page 13] vpright Wisdom and holie Vnderstanding / if hap­pelie hee mought by that meanes, be founde worthie of the Grace, that the Lorde wolde open vnto him the Doore of y^e vpright Eph. 1. [...]. Vnderstanding / and geue him yet-once to vnderstand, that hee ought to keepe­scilence / and becom vtterlie dombe in himself: and first-of-all, to harken vnto the vpright seruiceable Woord of the holie Vnderstandinge ⁏that cometh fourth Esa. 2. [...]. Mich. 4. [...]. out of the holie Ierusalem / and leadeth-in vnto the Godlines;: to shew-fourth vpright Frutes of Repentaunce: to geeue-ouer himself ⁏for to becom obedient; ther vnto: and eauenso to becom Eph. 4. b. taught obedientlie, in the vpright Wisdome of the louelie Beeinge / and in the holie Vnderstandinge of the Godlines: and so then to testifie therof.

6. OH / that the Man gaue him to stilnes: also had regard, with diligence and fer­uentie ⁏and that Math. 11. c. in humble-maner; to the Seruice of the gratious Woord vnder the Obedience of the Loue: and desired to doo the Psal. 40. a. Act. 9. a. Will of the Lorde! So should hee then verelye learne well to note or perceaue, wherin the Lorde hath placed his Heart / Beeing / and Minde: and wherin Hee hath decla­red or reuealed him-self / together with his Light / Woord / Spirit / and Trueth. and that it is also whollye the Will of the Lorde / that-men Esa. 42. a. Math. 3. b. 17. should heare & beleeue his Woord / Spirit / and Trueth, therout: and that-men ought also to assemble them ⁏as obedient Iohn. [...]. d. 1. Pet. 1. b. Iam. 1. b. Disciples of the Woord; ther-vnto.

7. If now the Man once marked and vnder­stoode thissame a-right / so should hee then also ve­rely (if hee had a Psal. 40. a. Act. 9. a. Lust to doo y^e Will of the Lorde) [Page] endeuour himself ⁏with good-will; ther-to / and ea­uenso becom assembled ther-with: turne his Hear­ing to thesame: and ⁏out of the Sound of the Wit­nessinges of thesame; Pro. 4. a. take-to-heart the Wisdom of Instruction: and eauenso ⁏growing-vpp therin, to the Eph. 4. b. Olde-aige of the Man Christ; learne ther­out to speake rightlie the holie Sap. 1. 2. a▪ Vnderstandinge of the godlie Wisedom.

8. For verelie / the true Ierusalem (which in D times-past, descended ⁏in sumpteous and gorgeous Garnishinge; Apo. 21. [...]. from Heauen / and where-out the Woorde of the Lorde is Esa. 2. a. 65. b Ier. 31. d. Mich. 4. a. promised to go-fourth) is risen-vpp therin, with his glisteringe Cleernes. In which Ierusalem, the holie Hill of Sion (wher out the Lawe of the Lorde is promised to go-fourth / and wheron the Leui▪ 26. b. 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 12. a. 15 a. 21. a. Temple / Tabernacle / or Howse of God is buylded) becometh exalted aboue Esa. 2. a. Mich. 4. a. all Hilles · and manifested to a Nourice of the Chil­dren of Ierusalem.

9. And thatsame heauenlie State / with all what is of-one-beeing therwith, is verelie the Luk. 17. c. Rom. 14. b. peaceable Kingdom and Mercye-seate of all Beleeuers in Christ / the which is ⁏from the Grace of God; com vnto Vs, now in the Esa. 16. b. Heb. 5. a. last time / accordinge to the Promises.

10. In which vndisturbable and fast-stablished Kingdom ⁏Rom. 14. b. Apo. 12. b. that is com vnto vs, full of Peace / and full of all spirituall and heauenlie Goods; all holie Soules and godlie Vnderstandinges, do Esa. 35. b. 51. b. 60. b. 61. a 65. b. 66. c. Ier. 23. a. 31. d [...]3. b. liue and inhabit ⁏with all Triumph / Glorie and christian Ioye; free and without any Feare: and ther-vnto also all Men ⁏that are good of will for to assemble [Page 14] them therto; are called and louinglie-bidden.

11. OH / that the Man vnderstoode thissame E aright Deu. 32. d. Esa. 48. b.! So should hee then assuredlie ⁏with all Good-willingnes of his Heart; Heb. [...]. a. humble himself before the Throne of Grace / and soueraigne Maiestie of God: take-heede vnto the Woorde of the Lord therout: heare / beleeue / and goodwilling­lie obey thesame: honour / laude / praise and thanke thatsame God, which hath prepared all this for vs / which also liueth from euerlasting to euerlastinge Apo. 4. b. 7. b / and sitteth vpon the Seate of his Maiestie: and spread-abrode ⁏euery-wheare; the great Actes and Wonderful-woorkes of God: as also reioyce him with great Ioye / for that such a Throne of Grace and Sauing-health, is now ⁏in these last perrelous times; appeered / com / and declared ⁏Apo. 21. a. out of the heauenlie Beeing; vpon the Earth, vnto the Chil­dren of Men, Luk. 2. d. which hope on God and on the Comfort of his Saluation: and that also ther-tho­rough, the Math. 6. b. Luk. 11. a. Will of the Lorde is accomplisshed on Earth, as in Heauen.

The VI. Chap.

O Yee Children of Men / consider­well A now heeron / and haue a good regard therto / and take thesame yet-once effectu­allie Deu. 4 a. Pro. 4. a. to Heart. namelie / how that pre­sentlie, out of thissame Throne of Grace (which is appeered and com vnto vs, now in the last time, in the Mostholie of the true Tabernacle of God ⁏to an euerlasting Stoole of Grace; Apo. 21. a. vpon the Earth) [Page] the Glorie of the Lorde becometh made manifest · and his Esa. [...] a. Mich. 4. a. Lawe / Woord / and Will ⁏accordinge to his godlie Trueth; expresslie witnessed.

2. For that cause / haue now a distinct Diuersi­tie, in whom Gods Spirit and hys Woorde is reuealed or manifested / and in whom that it is yeat vnreuealed.

3. For consider: Wheare God / with his Christ and Spirit, hath his Iohn. 14. b. 17. c. Apo. 21. a. Dwellinge in anyone / and bringeth fourth his secreat Treasures of the heauē ­lie Goods therout / Eauen-theare is then trulie his Wisdome Sap. 1. a. 7. b. to be founde: and also the Counsell of God, accordinge to the Trueth. and not by the☞ Straungers / nor by the Disobedient vnto the Woord / nor yet by the Goodthinking-wise / which seperate them from Vs and our godlie Doctrine / nether yet by Them, whose Spirit is not ⁏in the Conformitie-of-beeing with Vs; Iohn. 3. a. Rom. 8. a. begotten or borne out of God · but ⁏in the Seperation against Vs; out of the Fleash of the earthlie Beeinge. Haue a good respect heer-vnto.

4. O Yee earthlie Generations (you meane B I, yee earthlie vngodded Men) that ex­alte and preferre your Ier. 23. 27. b. owne Woorde ⁏which not­withstanding is meere Lyes; so highlie / and heare and beleeue thesame so gladlie: also alwayes desire to followe-after your owne Counsell ⁏which not­withstanding is a meere Seducing and Deceit; and to be obedient ther vnto: and will eauenso, out of your Darknes ⁏which is doubtles nothing els, but the curssed Kingdom of Apo. 17. a. Hell / and the Possession or Habitation of all Deuels and wicked Spirites [Page 15] itself; iudge so gladlie the Light of Gods Trueth / and the Children of Light: Ah ⁏beloued; consider yet once, in what Beeing and Nature yee are com­prehended: and then iudge, from whence your Woord and Spirit is or hath his Originall, wher with yee will iudg & speake-fourth Esa. 30. a. b. Ier. 11. c. the diuine Ma­tiers: and from whence also yee fett your Counsell / which yee ⁏without God-his Counsell, wherwith Wee are of-one-beeing; so earnestlie ensue or follow after, 2. Pet. 2. b. Iudae. 1. b. according to your owne Minde of y^e Fleash: and wher-out likewise yee execute the Iudgment, with the which yee iudge the Testimonies of the Light / and the Children of the Loue or of God.

5. Beholde / heerin now / and according to this maner, pronounce-fourth boldlie the Iudgment Iohn. 8. b. 1. Cor. 11. a. o­uer your selues / and geeue-testimonie of your owne selues, what yee yourselues ⁏in your Disobedience to the Requiringe of the Woord; are / or may be [...]oned for. as likewise of your owne Woorde, which yee speake ther-out: For I commit therin the matier vnto yourselues for to iudge.

6. O Yee Children of Men / Seeing that yee C iudg another / and all thinges, so gladlie or willinglye / so iudg now once also yourselues. Ah ⁏beloued; doo ⁏I praye you; eauenso: for I haue now geeuē the matier into your owne handes for to iudge.

7. Thus looke well rightlie into yourselues / and then pronounce-fourth ⁏Iohn. 8. b. 1. Cor. 11. a. according to the Trueth; the Iudgment or Sentence ouer yourselues / what yee yourselues all are, according to your inward Man: And trulye / when yee once beginne to see [Page] aright into yourselues / then shall yee for-certē finde in yourselues / that yee are not minded according to God-his Nature or Beeinge · but according to the Nature of a corrupted / and earthlie, consumable, or mortall Man. and that your Woorde and Spirit / and all your Will and Counsell, 1. Cor. 2. b. Iam. 3. b. is out of the Fleash of Sinne / Iohn. 8. e. and out of the Lyes of Darknes.

8. For, so longe as yee yeat liue in the Rom. 8. a. 13 1. Pet. 4. a. Fleash of Sinne / and that yee are not ⁏through the Doc­trine of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ; restored · nether prepared to the New Birth in Iesu Christ, in your Spirit and Vnderstandinge / nor yet humble you ther-vnto: and that yee are not Math. 13. [...]. taught ⁏with the Admi­nistration of the gratious Woord vnder the Obe­dience of the Loue; to the Kingdom of the God of Heauens / or that thesame is not com vnto you ⁏in your Obedience vnto the Woord and Seruice of Loue; Apo. 12. a. b. 21. a. in your Spirit: and that yee eauenso direct the Course or Fourth-going of your Life, without the Seruice of the Loue and his Requiring / So is then doubtles, all your Woord / Spirit & Coun­sell ⁏proceding out of y^e Imaginatiō of your Know­ledge Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 2. b. Iam. 3. b.; no otherwise minded, but earthlie / diuelish & fleashly: and yee haue not any Sight nor Know­ledg at-all, of God-his Matiers or Causes / nor of the Kingdom of God / according to the heauenlie Trueth. It is very-true.

The VII. Chap.

[Page 16]HArken / harken: Psal. 37. b. Esa. 30. b. Holde you still be­fore A the Seate of Gods Maiestie / O yee Children of Men: and geeue-eare diligent­lie. For ther cometh now fourth from the­same Seate, Psal. 18. b. Apo. 4. a. Lightninges / Thonders / and Voy­ees. Yea eauen-now the Lorde letteth hymself be hearde vpon the Earth: and hee, the highest God ⁏which sitteth vpon his Seate / and liueth for euer and euer Esa. 26. c. Mich. 1. a.; speaketh now out of his holie Dwellinge.

2. Haue now therfore a good regarde vnto the articular Vnfoldinge or distinct Definition of the­same Sounde of the Voyce of the Lorde. For thus saith y^e Lorde / or in this maner soundeth his Voice:

3. YOur owne Woorde ⁏O yee Children of Men; is the Ier. 7. a. b. 8. b. 9. a. 14. b. 23. b. 27. b. Ezec. 13. b. Lye, which seduceth you.

4. Your owne Vnderstandinge, is the destroy­ing and corrupt Knowledge: wherthrough yee ⁏in your Iudging; misse the Right and the Trueth: and for that cause beare a false Pro. 11. a. 20. Mich. 6. b. Ballaunce.

5. Your owne forcast or Conceauinge / Will / and Counsell, is the Falshod of your Mind / which begyleth you: in such sort / that your Steppes ⁏by that occasion; cannot be vpright before Mee, saith the Lorde.

6. Your owne Beeing or false Minde of Dark­nes, is the Apo. 2. b. 17. a. b. Kingdom of Hell / to a Math. 12. [...]. Luk. 11. c. Dwellinge for all Diuels and false Spirites: wherthrough yee ⁏with Faynednes and Coueringes of shame / and with manie-maner of Selfmindednes; are helde­captiue Rom. 7. c. or brought in subiection: Yea / so captiued / that it is very painfull and combersom vnto you, to make manifest yourselues ⁏vncoueredlie or nakedlie; [Page] before the Seate of my glorious Maiestie: and for that cause also, yee obtaine Apo. 3. b. little Lust and Loue to the Kingdom of Heauen [the which is the vpright Beeing and Minde of the euerlasting & 1. Pet. 2. a. vnchaung­able Light] wherin I (saith the Lorde) Leui. 26. b. 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. liue and dwell, as an eternall and liuinge God.

7. BEholde (saith the Lorde) to liue Iohn. 14. b. and B dwell in all your Inwardnes, with this­same Light and Cleernes / that is my Mat. 6. 22. d. Righteous­nes / and also the Righteousnes of my godlie King­dom.☞ But heer-out (saith the Lorde) yee thrust Mee / and keepe Mee off daylie, with your owne Woorde and Will: and bide eauenso with your fleashlie Will, alwayes diueled / and diuelishlie min­ded: and thinke very little, that I haue loued you so intirelie from the beginninge · Ier. 7. a. b. Iohn. 14. b. Apo. 21. a. and chosen you to an Howse for my Dwelling. To which Glorious­lordlynes with Mee, yee cannot com / so longe as yee refuse the Obedience of my gratious Woorde / and Heb. 10. [...] dispise my Spirit of Loue: and so harken to yourselues / and passe-fourth after the Direction of your owne Iudgment.

8. O Yee Children of Men (saith the Lord) consider and cal-to-mind yet-once, what yee all haue ben thus longe / and yeat are / so long as yee haue hearde and beleeued yourselues: or whylst that yee yeat dailie do heare and beleeue yourselues / and bide Eph. 4. b. e [...]raunged from my Seruice of Loue and vpright Beeinge.

9. And if yee now desire to come-againe vnto Mee · and to your vpright Beeinge & State / then [...]eare nor beleeue not yourselues any-lenger: but [Page 17] heare and beleeue my Iohn. 5. c. 8. [...] Woorde / that ⁏in my Ser­uice of Loue; floweth-fourth out of my Mouth.

10. Submitt you Eccli. 7. b. 1. Pet. 5. a. ther vnder / and doo accord­ing to my Counsell (saith the Lorde) So shall yee then com to right againe / also enioye my Goodnes / and inherit all my Treasures Math. 13. b Col. 2. a. and Riches.

11. O Yee Children of Men (saith the Lord):C Wherfore will yee thus bide so gladlie by yourselues / seeing yee are alwaies so-much decea­ued with yourselues? For by yourselues yee finde nothing-els but Iere. 7. b. 9. a Iohn. 8. c. Lyes and Esa. 5. d. 9. b. Darknes / wher-tho­rough yee deuide / intangle / and destroy yourselues.

12. But by Mee / and by my Woord and Ser­uice of Loue, yee finde the true Beeing of my Dwel­linge / together with the Trueth / the Wisdome / and all good Counsell, to your Preseruation: also the Light of Life / Eccli. 24. c. the louelie Beeing of the Loue / and the euerlasting Life, to your Ioye and Felicitie.

13. Forthatcause ⁏to your Preseruatiō; take now good-heede to the gratious Ier. 31. d. Woord / that I presēt­lie in thissame Daye ⁏through my holie Spirit and Seruice of Loue; Esa. 2. a. 26. c. Mich. 1. a. 4. [...] let to be heard / and set-fourth be­fore you, out of the Tabernacle of my Dwellinge.

14. And eauenso, for my Loues cause (saith the Lorde) wherwith I haue alwayes loued you / Math. 16. c Luk. 9. c. 14. c. for­sake now yourselues / and all your owne Woorde / Will / and Counsell: and heare and beleeue onlie my Woord / that floweth ⁏out of my holie Spirit and Seruice of Loue; from Mee. For otherwise, yee cannot come to my Dwellinge.D

15. THerfore Esa. 2. a. Mich. 4. a. Zach. 8. b. com now all vnto Mee (saith the Lorde) and assemble you all to the [Page] Howse of my Dwellinge. namelie / to the Howse of my Loue / wherout I let my Esa. 2. a. 26. a Woorde be hearde / and wherin I haue the Seate of my Maiestie.

16. Com now all hether / and (for my Loues cause) Math. 16. c forsake whollie Yourselues / or your owne Life / and all what yee yourselues / & for your owne selues cause, haue takēon. And all what is Mine Psa. 24. a. 146 / or what belongeth to Mee / that bringe vnto Mee: and laye it all downe before the 1. Par. 30. [...] Act. 5. a. Feete of my Ma­iestie / eauen the Howse of my Loue: and acknow­ledg, that it is all my Psa. 24. a. 50 Proprietee or Very-owne.

17. WHen yee now haue done all this (saith the Lorde) then plant all your Heartes, in the onlie Heart of my gratious Woorde and ho­lie Spirit of Loue / To thend that yee all mought be­com Iohn. 17. [...]. Act. 4. d. one Heart / Beeing / or Minde, in Mee: and that I likewise ⁏with my gratious Woord and ho­lie Spirit of Loue; maye eauenso dwell / Iohn. 14. b. 2. Cor. 6. b. Apoc. 21. a liue / and walke, in you all.

18. For therto trulie, the Seruice of my Loue stretcheth / which I now in the last time, extende so gratiouslie on you: and eauen therto, I haue also loued and elected you all, O yee Generations of Men / To thend that yee all ⁏through the Seruice of my Loue; mought be assembled againe ⁏in my godlie Beeinge; vnto Mee / and haue Loue and Peace amonge each-other.E

19. Wherfore / seeing now that this is the last Time Ioel. 2. c. Act 2. b. of Grace / in which (saith the Lorde) I let my Voice go-fourth (to thende that eueryone may com to my Rest) so Psal. 95. b. Heb. 3. b. 4. b. harden not in anye-case this-daye ⁏in the Hearinge of my Voice; [Page 18] your Heartes / that yee bide not with-out this my holie Rest, which is published vnto you / and wher­vnto yee are courteouslie-bidden: But becom tur­ned-about thervnto in your Hearte and Minde / and, for to enter into thesame / so gather you now all together vnto my Howse of Loue / and to my holie Tabernacle or Man of God Iere. 31. d. Ezechi. 37. [...] / wherin I ⁏as a glorious God; with my perfect God head ⁏as with my Christ, at my right Hande / and with my holie Spirit of Loue, my true Beeinge; do liue / dwell / and walke: and wherin wee ⁏as one true Deitie; haue reuealed and Iohn. 13. d. 17. a. glorified Vs / To thend that yee all now, may becom consubstantiated or conforma­blie-vnited ⁏as one Man of God; in Mee / and in­herit my Rest, with all the Children of God.

20. For verelie I saie vnto you (saith the Lorde) Whosoeuer now in thissame Daie of my Loue, as­sembleth him not to my Howse / nor becometh ⁏with his Heart; graffed Rom. 11. [...]. or planted into my Heart / He shall not enter into my Heb. 4. b. Rest / nor yet for-euermore inherit ne inhabit with my Children of Peace, the worthie pleasant Lande / which I haue promised vn­to them / and Math. 25. d prepared for them, from the Begin­inge of the World: nether yet obtaine ⁏ether in this time / or in any time to com; any Grace of Saluati­on / Life of Peace / nor true Loue: nor yet becō 2. Pet. 1. a. one Beeinge, with my godlie Nature: but all Such ⁏which so bide with-out Mee / and my holie Howse or Communialtie of Loue; shall be Iere. 17. a. 22. a. b. 25. a. b. Sapi. 17. a. b scattered-abrode and brought to confusion · and bounde ⁏Math. 25. d 2. Pet. 2. a. with the Bandes of Darknes; in the horrible Destruction. and so bide 2. Tess. 1. b. estraunged from the Light of my loue­lie [Page] Face, for euer and euer.

21. O Yee Children of Men (saith the Lorde)F Harden Psal. 95 b. Heb. 3. b. not in anycase your Heartes, in the Hearing of the Voice of my Spirit, in the Ser­uice of my Loue: but com now all to this my Esa. 12. 55. a. Apo. 21. a. 22. Foun­taine of Life: and refreash Ezechi. 36. c. Heb. 10. c. your Heart and Minde in thesame / and in her outflowinge Waters: For thesame Waters which flowe therout, Ioh. 4. b. 7. d. Apo. 21. a. 22. are my safe­makinge Waters of Life / to the Satisfyinge of all thirstie Soules after the Righteousnes: and those­same are also to the Health of all them that drinke therof.

22. O how louelie is my Fountaine / and how sweete are my Waters, which flowe-fourth ther­out. namelie / vnto all them that loue Mee / and vn­derstand, Esa. 42. a. 1. Pet. 2. a. that I am frindlie! Therfore Esa. 55. a. Apoc. 22. b. come now all vnto Mee / saith the Lorde.

23. Leaue now the Frindshippe of the wick­ed Worlde ⁏Iam. 4. a. which is an vtter Enymitie vnto God · and full of all maner of Iniquitie; and make your Frindshippe with Mee. For I am in no case churlish / Esa. 42. a. cruell / horrible nor destroyinge / like as the wicked Worlde is: but I am louelie / grati­ous / peaceable / and benefitiall / or safe-making / To thende that my Dominion maye eauenso ⁏through my louelie and vpright Righteousnes; increase itself or Esa. 9. a. Mal. 1. 3. a. becom great, now Ioel. 2. c. Act. 2. b. in the last time. and that ther be no Ende of the Peace, from this time fourth for euerm [...]re / To thende that I maye doo eauenso, that Esa. 32. 42. a. Ier. 23. a. 33. b which is right, on the Earth: and execute Righteousnes, amonge the People. For all Hea­then ⁏which turne their Heartes vnto God;Esa. 42 a. 51 a attend [Page] on these my Institutions / which com-fourth out of the Seruice of my Loue / saith the Lorde.

The VIII. Chap.

BEholde and consider / and haue a A good regarde heeron ⁏O yee beloued and goodwillinge Heartes; what an Hearte / Lust / and LoueIohn. 3. c., God hath turned or borne towardes vs all / for to ridde and leade vs all, now in these last Amos. 5. b. Mich. 2. a. Math. 24. c. perrelous times ⁏through his Seruice of Loue; out of the Abhominations of the peruerse Worlde: and so to bringe vs ⁏with our will; to the Maiestie Esa. 13. c. 60 a Ierem. 3. b. of his Glorie / To thend that wee should now in the last time ⁏through his Loue / and through the 1. Tim. 2. a Heb. 9. b. Mediatour, his Christ; becom surelie saued · liue Luk. 1. g. Ephe. 1. a. 4. c. ⁏alwaies and for euer; vprightlie / louelie / and peaceablie ⁏in thesame Godhead; with each-other · and so 2. Pet. 3. b. inhabit the World ⁏accordinge to the Pro­mises of God the Father; in Righteousnes, for euermore.

2. Therfore [namelie / for thissame Loues cause, which Iohn. 3. b. God is extendinge so gratiouslie on vs] turne now your Loue likewise to thesame God of Life / and Eccli. 7. b. submitt you all vnder the Obedience of his Loue.

3. O Yee Deerlie-beloued (yee all ⁏meane I; which saye and professe that yee loue the Trueth) stande in feare before the great glorious God / and applie you not to anye other thinge, then that which is according to his Will. esteeme right­reuerc [...]tlie Psal. 19. b. his Woorde. haue a singuler regarde [Page] to the Lawe of his Doctrine: and ⁏with whole Heart; respect well thissame proffered 2. Cor. 6. a. Heb. 12. b. Grace / which ⁏through the gratious Woord of the Lorde; becometh expressed or heald-fourth before you, vn­der the Obedience of his Loue.B

4. Which Woord of Grace and Life, God hath geeuen in my Mouth · Esa. 49. a 51. b 59. c. Iere. 1. a. 31. d. Heb. 8. 10. b writen thesame ⁏together with the Lawe of his Commaundementes; in my Heart Minde and Thoughtes · and chosen Mee to be his Minister / for to administer now in the last time ⁏vnder the Obedience of his Loue; Ierem. 33. b the­same gratious Woorde / to declare his Trueth / and to sett-vpp his most-holie Seruice of Loue, tho­rough the Beleefe / Num. 14. c. To thende that the whole Worlde may becom full of the Glorie of God / ac­cordinge to the Promises.

5. FOr-that-cause com now all hether / and re­fuse not the Lorde: but geeue-ouer your­selues / and all what yee haue ⁏Psa. 24. a. 50 that is the Lordes; goodwillinglie vnto the Lorde and his Woorde, to your Preseruation. Com now all / and laye­downe yourselues / and all what belongeth vnto the Lorde, before the Seate of his Maiestie.

6. Respect well now thissame 2. Cor. 6. a [...]al. 6. b. Heb. 12. b. Time of Grace / er-euer the Eccli. 5. a Rom. 2. a. Wrath of God / and his Indignation, fall vpon all Vngodlie: and haue a diligent regarde in-time, what the Seruice of Loue requireth.

7. HOwbeit / if yee do Pro. 1. c. refuse thissame Loue of God the Father: and with-holde from the Lorde, that which belongeth vnto him: not feare thesame glorious God: cast his Woorde / Lawe / & Will Esa. 5. c. [...] ▪ [...]. 7. c. behinde you: not regarde the heartie Mer­cyfulnes [Page 20] of his Loue, which hee sheweth so liberallie on vs: forsake the Communialtie of Holyons vnder the Obedience of the Loue / and refuse to assemble you vnto thesame: and eauenso cleaue much-rather with the Vngodlie, vnto the wicked World: becom puffed-vp in pompe / and lightminded of Heart: and eauenso followe-after ⁏accordinge to your Lustes and Goodthinkinge; your owne Freedom / Ier. 7. a. b. 9. a Rom. 1. c. d. 1. Pet. 4. a. 2. Pet. 2. b. Iudae. 1. b. Will / and Counsell / So will God then also turne-away his Loue from you. and not let you tast the louelie Beeing of his Loue (which Hee now in the Ioel. 2. c. Act. 2. b. last time, bringeth vnto his elected Holyones ⁏which submitt them vnder his Loue; to an eternall Esa. 32. c. Sap. 3. a. 5. a. Heb. 3. b. 4. a. Rest of the Godlines) nor inherit thesame for euermore: but yee shall Iohn. 8. c. dye in your Sinnes / and beforced to beare your Condemnation Mat. 11. b. 25 Heb. 10. c. and Punishment, more then the Children of the peruerse or wicked World / to whom this Grace hath not ben proffered.

8. Yee shall likewise dailie ⁏the longer the more; C waxe-blinded Rom. 1. [...]. from the Waye of Life: becom in­corporated to the wicked and malitious Beeinge of the Vngodlie: and ende your Dayes and Time, in Vngodlynes: and eauenso, the Number of your Yeares shall then perish or waste-awaye, with the Vngodlie: and your Ende shall be Mal. 4. a. Sap. 3. b. Eccli. 21. b. horrible.

9. For like as it shall go with all Vngodlie / ea­uenso shall yee also becom Psal. 37. c. 5 [...] Pro. 2. c. rooted-out ⁏in Indig­nation; from the Lande of the Liuinge · and con­demned in the Math. 25. d. 2. Pet. 3. a. Fire of Hell. And I ⁏which am the Lordes; cannot likewise ⁏of the holie Natures-part of my God; be moued with any Remorse of Pitie or Compassion towardes you.

[Page]10. For that be farre from the Minde of my Soule / that I should sett myne Affectiō of y^e Loue, towardes any such as loue not God nor his Lawe. but bide by their 1. Cor. 1. b. 8. a. owne Knowledg / and are vngod­lie of Will: Be hee then what hee is, Frinde / or Straunger.

11. But Psal. 112. a. 128. a. Eccli. 1. b. 34. blessed are they to the Lorde / and belo­ued in my Heart, which feare the Lorde: also cleaue obedientlie ⁏in the Seruice of Loue; with humble Heartes, vnto the holie Woorde of the Spirit of Loue / and are godlie of Will. Yea / my Minde standeth goodwilling towardes all Such / eauen to all Grace and Mercie: Be hee then what hee is, Frinde / or Straunger.

The IX. Chap.

BVt now / if ⁏happelie; certen of the A goodwillinge Heartes to the Loue, shoulde take these our fore-spoken Sayinges, som­what heauelie or greeuouslie to minde / and saye ther vpon: Because wee are not altogether per­fect, Yee / nor the Lorde, haue not ⁏peraduenture; a­nye Good-pleasure in vs: and wee shall also ⁏possi­blie; for our Imperfections cause (seeinge that wee yeat daylie stumble / fall / and sinne very-much) pe­rish with the wicked Worlde and all Vngodlie.

2. O Yee Beloued / and all yee goodwillinge Heartes, which are goodwillinge to the Obedience of the Witnessinges of the holie Spirit of Loue / but are yeat to younge Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. and to weake, to enter into the Perfection: These forespoken sharpe [Page 21] Sayinges / Reproouinges / and Punishmentes, are not spoken to such as humble themselues obedi­entlie to the gratious Woorde and his Seruice of Loue / for to doo the Lord-his Will: nor yet to the Good-willingones vnto the same Obedience Rom. 7. b. (al­though they are yeat younge and weake, in the Ac­complishing of the Perfectiō): but to the Euel-wil­ling / and to all them that ⁏with peruerse Sap. 1. a. Though­tes and false or deceitfull Intentes; enter-in so fals­lie 1. Iohn. 2. besydes vs / and meane or purpose in no wise the Loue. but in all, themselues: and eauenso ⁏with their Esa. 59. b. Iere. 9. a. Sapi. 1. a. malitious Heartes and peruerse Thoughtes; fal-awaye againe from vs: also sclaunder or 2. Pet. 2. b. Iudae. 1. b. blas­pheame the holie Woord and our vpright and god­lie Seruice of the Loue: and so spewe-fourth their Falshod ⁏with many Lyes; ouer vs.

3. Beholde / ouer this Esa. 1. a. wicked and venemous Nature, passeth-fourth the Iudgment of God Pro. 1. c. Esa. 13. b. Sap. 12. a. Heb. 10. c. and his Punishment, to the Condemnation of the same wicked Nature.

4. FOr that cause ⁏O yee goodwilling Hartes; B sett-apart such Thoughtes (as that God and the Spirit of his Loue / or his Holyones, should not ⁏for your Weaknes cause; haue any Good-ple­sure in you) in anye-case farre from you: but re­member (as it is also very-true) and looke into the same accordinge to the Trueth / that the Grace of God the Father / and the Mercyfulnes of his Loue, preuayleth or taketh-in the Preheminence Esai. [...]3. c. Rom. 5. b. e. aboun­dantlie, by or in the Beleeuers of the Woorde: and that God and the Spirit of his Loue, is Rom. 2. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Longsuf­feringe towardes all Good-wyllingones, which [Page] humble them vnder the Obedience of his Loue: al­so Heb. 2. c. 5. a. beareth them in all their Weaknes: and Iere. 31. f. for­geeueth daylye all their Synnes / To thende that they should eauenso enioy his Comfort · and growe­vpp ⁏with cheerfull Heartes or good Courraige; so­much the goodwillinger in the Obedience Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. of the gratious Woorde / and so go-on or prease-fourth vnto 1. Pet. 5. b. Phil. 3. b. Heb. 6. a. the Perfection.

5. For consider and looke-into it once aright: If the Sinne ⁏whil [...]t it was yeat night; haue Rom. 5. c. preuay­led in vs: How much more then shall the Grace and Mercie of God, to the obtayninge of the Righte­ousnes (Seeinge that now ⁏to the Saluation of Men; Rom. 13. b the Daye, against the Night / and the Loue with her safe-makinge Seruice, against the Sinne and Condemnatiō, is entred-in) preuaile or take the preheminence ouer vs? namelie / ouer all them that are Luc. 2. b. good of will / and that submitt / or whollie geue­ouer themselues, with all their Heart ⁏for to be Deut. 30. a. 1. Reg. 15. b o­bedient vnto the holie Woorde; vnder the Loue: and expresse eauenso ⁏in the Geeuinge-ouer of their Heart; that they haue not any Will to the Rom. 6. b. c Sinne or that which is Sap. 14. c. Rom. 1. c. vnright / nor yet to the Rom. 13. b Ephe. 2. a. 5. a Darknes­ses of the wicked Worlde: but haue turned all their Lust to the Righteousnes / for to Ioh. S. b. 12 d 1. Ioh. 1. a. 2. b walke vprightlie ⁏with the Communialtie of the Loue; in the Light of y^e louelie Beeing of God. For God hath no plea­sure Ezechi. 18. d 1. Tim. 2. a. 2. Pet. 3. a. in the Perishing of Sinners: but his Pleasure is, that they should all conuert vnto Him / Act. 17. d. repent them for their Sinnes / & liue in his Righteousnes.

6. FOr-that-cause / O yee Feeble-minded of C Heart / and all yee Infirme or Weake, [Page 22] which loue the vpright Life / Permitt not anye euell Surmysinges to take-effect in you / nor yet geeue­place to the Vnbeleef / wherby you mought be plue­ked-away from the God of Life / and frō the Howse or Communialtie of the Holyones of his Loue: but in all thinges wherin your Memorie or Vnder­standing mought chaunce to be mooued, applye al­waies Pro. 4. a. your Mindes and Thoughtes, to the In­struction of the Wisedome / and to the Doctrine of the holie Vnderstanding of the Spirit of Loue: and submit Eccli. 6. a. eauenso your whole Memorie or Vnder­standinge / with all your Mindes and Thoughtes, to the Vertues of the Godlines / for to followe-after thesame, in all Obedience of the holie Woord / and to becom olde Ezech. 4. b. and vnderstandinge therin / To the­ende that yee ⁏in the Youngnes of your Vnderstā ­dinge; seduce or deceaue not yourselues, with any straunge and Sap. 4. b. Eccli. 3. c. vnprofitable Thoughtes.

7. But yee shall alwayes ⁏in your Youngnes & Weaknes let the Geeuing-ouer of your Heart / or your Goodwillingnes to the Loue / and to the Obe­dience of the Requiring of her Seruice, Eecli. 4. 17. c. appeere or becom expressed, before the Eccli. 6. 7. d. [...]. b. 9. e. Elders of the holie Vn­derstanding in the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue. and not ⁏at the first; the Perfection. For verely / it is not in your power, at the first ⁏in the time of your Youngnes and Weaknes; to bring­fourth the Perfection.

The X. Chap.

[Page]SEcue diligent eare heerto / and vn­derstand A well the Woordes of my Voice / O yee Nouises in our hol [...]e Communial­tie or Famelie of Loue ⁏wherin God him­self dwelleth and walketh; and yee all which are yeat younge [...] Cor. 3. a. Heb. 5. b 6. a. in the holie Vnderstandinge · and weake in the Accomplishinge of the vpright Righteousnes: Consider and note once aright, which is your first Schoole-rule / or the Beginninge of the christian Doctrine, in our vpright Seruice of the godly Loue. Namely / that yee first-of-all, turne you about from the Esa. 1. c. 55. a Ier. 7. c. 18. b. 25. b. 35. a. Iniquitie / and from all vngodlie Beeing: vt­terlie forsake all the Ezech. 14. a. Math. 24. b. Abhominations of the wicked World: and ⁏with all your Heart; 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 18. depart ther­from: and eauenso, humble and whollie geeue-ouer your-selues vnder Iohn. 13. e. 15. b. 1. Iohn. 3. 4. b the Obedience of the Loue / for to becom as singleminded 1. Cor. 14. b. 2. Cor. 11. a. 1. Pet. 1. b. 2. a and obedient Children / by whom no Deceit / nor anye Lust or Will vnto subtiltie or craftynes / nor any Fainednes or Dub­blenes of Heart / nor-yet any Vnfaithfulnes, is to be founde: but which daylie ⁏in the 2. Cor. 6. b. 7. a. Apo. 18. a. Departinge from the Iniquitie / and in the Increasinge Ephe. 4. b. or Growinge-vpp in the good Beeinge of the Loue; make-manifest themselues, with naked or vncouered Heartes, before the Seate of the Maiestie Pro. 28. d. Eccli. 4. c. 17. Rom. 14. a. 1. Cor. 5. a. of God. and eauenso ⁏in the Confessinge of their Sinnes; sigh Luk. 6. c. Iam. 4. a. and complaine ouer all their pernitious or cor­rupt Nature and wicked Lustes and Thoughtes, which make-vpp themselues in them / and whertho­rough also they yeat somtimes stumble and fall.

2. Beholde ⁏yee Deerlie-beloued; enter first into thissame small 4. Esdr. 7. a. Math. 7. b. Waye: For thesame bringeth or [Page 23] reacheth to the Perfection.

3. VErelie / to such goodwillinge Heartes / B which enter eauenso ⁏accordinge to the Trueth; into thesame small Luk. 13. c. Waye, that leadeth vnto Life: and to all such as applie them thervnto, God hath Ezech. 18. [...] Eccli. 12. a. a Good-pleasure: and the Spirit of my Minde standeth also inclined ⁏to all Goodnes and Mercie; ouer those-same / Because they do ⁏in such an humble Submission; plainlie expresse, that they feare God: Psal. 37. a. c Amos. 5. b. hate the Iniquitie with her euell Af­fectes or Inclination / and ⁏against those-same; are good Luk. 2. b. Rom. 2. a. of will towardes God & his Mat. 7. b. 22. Ephe. 1. a. 4. c Righteousnes.

4. But wheare as now such a good Will and Geeuing-ouer of the Heart, is not found / in those I haue no Confidence, that they meane or purpose in any-wise the true Loue: nor yet that they haue any Lust or Will, to liue in the good Beeinge of God: nether-yet also that the vpright Loue and Trueth, is sought / loued or desired by them.

5. For all Such, as haue not any good Will / Lust / nor Desire, to the good Beeinge of God (but liue according to their owne Selfmindednes / Rom. 1. c. Eph. 4. b. 1. Pet. 4. a. 2. Pet. 2. b. and according to the Sensualitie / Will and Pleasure of their Fleash) nor yet desire to enter obedientlie, into the singlemynded good Will, Ezech. 18. d. accordinge to the Pleasure of God / and the Requiring of his Worde and Seruice of Loue (in which Seruice, all Coue­ringes and Bewitchinges of the Heart / and all Darknesses and earthlie lyinge Mindes, become layed-off Esa. 25. a. 2. Cor. 3. b. 4. or are put-away) ne-yet to be brought, out of the earthlie, lying, and couered Beeing / to the Beholding of the vncouered Face of God & Christ, [Page] in the Spirit: nor to God-his Esa. 2. a. Mich. 4. a. Hill of the heauenly Sanctuarie: nor to the Esa. 60. b. Apo. 21. b. 22. mostholie Illuminatinge from an High ؛the most-soueraigne 1. Cor. 4. a. Heb. 4. a. Maiestie of God (punctel) / Thosesame are not meete, to enter into Gods Sanctuarie / nor to liue in his good Beeinge.

6. All such then (as is aforesaide) that haue not any minde heervnto: but Pro. 1. e. Hob. 12. c. refuse thissame Grace and Loue of God the Father ⁏which is appeered / louinglye-graunted / and also brought, vnto Vs Littleones / and God-his Elect, out of many Thow sandes in this World; and dispise thesame / or make vpp themselues ther-against / Those cannot I ve­relie, account or esteeme for anye Communialtie of Loue / nor for any Holyones of God or Christ / nor yet for any such as haue any Good in their minde.

7. All such Vnbeleeuers and Resisters of the C Loue and her Seruice, may be right-easelie knowne by Math. 7. b. 12 their wicked Deedes and Inclination. For such false Heartes (let them cloke or hide themselues how they will) do all make themselues 2. Tim. 3. a. 1. Iohn. 2. c. manifest, that they all ⁏against the Trueth / and against the Spirit or Mind of the supreame God; are or stand, with the peruerse Worlde ⁏which is worthie of the Fire of Math. 13. c. 25. d. 2. Pet. 3. b. Hell / and of the euerlasting Condemnation: altogether earthlie and Iohn. [...]. c. Iam. 3. b. diuelishlie minded. They will also ⁏with their earthlie Vnderstandinge / and fleashlie Minde; alwayes surmount or beare-sway aboue the Wisedom of the Loue.

8 AH / Consider yet-once ⁏yee Beloued; whether that it accorded-well or were consonant, that the Heauen should lye vnder / or on the lowest place · and the Earth driue or lie-swaying therouer. [Page 24] Verelie / much-lesse accordeth it / or it is farre more absurde, that God-his Minde of the 4. Esd. 6. c. 7. heauenlie Trueth / the holie Vnderstandinge / and the Wise­dome or the Beeinge of the godlie Loue, should lye beneath / or ⁏as depressed; al-vnder · and y^e Mindes of the earthlie and diuelish Lyingnes / and the Self­will of the earthlie Man / with the Wisdome of the Fleash, raigne or beare-sway therouer.

9. Therfore be now ashamed ⁏O yee Children of the Fleash / which presentlie are so Esa. 5. c. goodthinking­wise; that your Heartes / Will / and Thoughtes, stande so Esa. 59. a. peruerslie minded against the God of Life and his Trueth / and against the Requiringe and Ordinaunce of his Seruice of Loue: and that yee will alwayes ⁏with your Knowledge and fleashlie Mindes; beare-swaye aboue the holie Spirit of Loue and his godlie Testimonies · and ⁏according to the Imagination of your Knowledge; raigne o­uer his Wisdome.

10. OH / I cannot wonder sufficientlie, at D thissame Blindnes of Men (which not­withstandinge ⁏through the false Esa. 59. b. Light; looke so highlie or are so farre seeinge, in their Knowledge). and especiallie / that the Man is ⁏in all; so Deu. 32. c. voide of vnderstanding / that hee alwayes ⁏according to the Insight of his Knowledge; cleaueth-vnto and lo­ueth the Basest, for the Best / the Vnpurest, for the Bewtifullest / the Consumeable, for the Euerlasting / and the Earthlie, for ⁏or insteed-of; the Heauenlie.

11. O ignorant & blockish earthlie Man! How grose art thou become of Vnderstanding / that thou [...] like Esau; sellest or geeuest-ouer thy Gen. 25. d. Heb. 12. b. Birth-right, [Page] for any-thinge wherafter thou sufferest thee to lust: and eauenso losest the Blessinge of Isaac / and the Inheritaunce of the heauenlie Bewtie?

12. Yea / ther is yeat one thinge, that maketh mee exceedinglie and much-more to wonder. namelie / that manye good-thinkinge Spirites or earthlye Men, are now waxen so presumpteous-bolde / and arrogant of Heart / that they ⁏with a fleashlie Gen. 3. b. Esa. 1. a. and wicked Nature / and lying Beeinge / and with their vnrenewed or vngodded Heartes; busie themselues or take vpon them, Esa. 30. b. to iudge the godlie Matiers / and the Sentences of the holie Scriptures.

13. PHy on thee ⁏thou wicked Nature of the earthlie Man; which art so impudent or arrogant, that thou sparest not ⁏with thy earthlie Knowledge; to sett thy-self Rom. 2. a. to Iudgment / for to geeue-sentence of the godlie Matiers: and dost not ⁏first-of-all; iudge thyself / and what thou art.

14. If therfore thou ceasse not from thy wicked Workes / and from thy Iudging of God-his Ma­tiers (which doubtles thou 1. Cor. 2. b. vnderstandest not / and forthatcause also iudgest those-same falslie) nor yet beare anye Sorrowe for thesame / nor Ezec. 18. c. d. Luc. 13. a. repent thee therof: but bide boldlie by thy false Iudgmentes / So will then verelie the Woord of the Cursse (yea all the Deute. 27. c. 28. c. d. Cursses which stande writen in the Booke of the Lawe of the Lorde) proceede and be executed against thee, now in thissame Daye of the Loue of the righteous Iudgmēt of God / to thy vtter Roo­ting-out and Math. 25. d eternall Condemnation.

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[Page 25] [...]Thou false Esa. 1. a. c. d. Seede / thou adoulte­rous A Generation of the earthlie Man: Thou which hast inhabited the Earth, with Vnrighteousnes · iudged it falslie, with thy Lyes · Esa. 1. c. 59. a Ier. 5. c. 22. b. Eze. 22. a. d. seduced the Simple · oppressed the Littleones · murdered the Holyones of God · and spilt or shead the vngiltie & innocent or simple Bloud, vpon the Earth / Looke to it, what will now com vpon thee: and how that the Day of thy Iob. 18. a. b. 20. a. b. c. 21. b. c. d. Re­wardinge ⁏wherin all thy Wickednes shall be re­compensed thee; is Ioel. 2. a. [...]oph. 1. b. harde-at-hande / yea, euen in the Doore.

2. Yea / all the Destruction that is fore-spoken (according to the mentioninge of the Scriptures) to com vpō thee / will now ⁏in thissame Day; Esa. 13. b. 24. a. b. 34. a. b. ler. 7. d. 19. a b Mal. 4. a. with much Calamitie / Angwish and Smart, fall vpon thee. And I HN ⁏on the behalfe of all the Holy­ones of God and Christ / which thou hast 4. Esdr. 15. a. Math. 23. d. Apo. 6. b. 19. [...] murdered without iust cause, eauen from the Beginning vntill thissame Day; will also waige the Lawe with thee: and paint-out or figure-fourth thy Wicked-actes, before thine Eyes.

3. Yea / I will ⁏with the Power of my God; be vpon thy necke: also require E [...]e. 3. a. b. 34. b. at thy hande, the Bloud of all the Innocent or Vngiltie: and tra­uerse the matier or waige the Lawe with thee, whe­ther thy cause be right or wronge / before the true Iudgment of my God.

4. I will not ceasse nor keepe-scilence ⁏through B the Spirit of Iesu Christ my Sauiour; before the Iudgment of God Rom. 14. b. 2. Cor. 5. b. / and the Iudgment-seate of Christ ⁏with 4. Esdr▪ 16. [...] Accusation against thee, for all thy [Page] Vnrighteousnes and Falshod; vntill such time as thy Dominion be brought-downe · thy Memoriall vtterlie Psal. 34. b. 109. b. rootedout from the Earth · and thy Por­tion had for thee, in the Apo. 19. c. [...]0. b. 21. a. Bottomles-pitt / which is prepared for Thee and all wicked Spirites.

5. Yea / from hence-fourth, in the Brekinge-tho­rowe of this Daie of the Loue ⁏which Day is the tocominge 1. Cor. 15. [...]. Immortalitie; nether thy Ware or Marchandice / nor yet thy deadlie Venim, out of the false Selfwisdom of the Fleash ⁏wherwith thou hast vsed and practised thy Deceit vpon the Earth / and forne so longe thy Dominion; shall be Apo. 18. b. of va­lue anye-more.

6. For now in thissame Da [...]e ⁏O thou deceitfull Seede; thou shalt becom taken-awaie or Psal. 37. a. Pro. 2. c. rooted­out from the Earth / and buryed in the Psal. 9. b. Esa. 14. b. Hell: where thy Death / and the Burninge of thy Condemnati­on, shall Esa. 66. c. Math. 25. d. endure for euer and euer: the which is thy Portion and thine Inheritaunce.

7. O Thou Broode Apo. 12. b. 23. a. b. 16. b. of the venemous Dra­gon (yea, of the Deuell / and of the earth­lie lyinge Generation) which art begotten of the Seede of the Serpent and viperous Generation / and hast alwaies ben a false and wicked Eze. 16. b. Apo. 17. a. b. [...]8. a. b. Whoore, vpon the Earth: Ah / com now fourth / and let it ap­peere before the righteous Iudgment of God / wher in thou of rightes-part, shouldest execute the Iudg­ment / and beare the Dominion or haue the prehemi­nence, on the Earth.

8. Beholde / I geeue thee to vnderstande / and protest against thee, before the Iudgment of God / that all thy Matiers / Iudgmēt / and Affaires, are [Page 26] [...]tterlie vnright / or that thou errest greatlie in them all: and hast alwaies dealt ⁏as an Ier. 2. 6. 3. a. Eze. 16. b. Apo. 17. a. b. 18. a. b. adoulterous Harlot; falslie and vnfaithfullie, vpon the Earth.

9. If-case now thou haue right in thy cause / then C iustifie or cleere thyself now, before the Righteous­nes of Christ & his Holyones. Therfore com now & appeere by the Iohn. 3 b. 1. Cor. 4. a. [...]ph. 5. b. Light of Loue / or by the Daye of Christ / and beholde thyself once ⁏by the Light; how defiled thou art with thy Ier. 13. c. Oze. 2. b. Apo. 17. a. Whordom: and whe­ther also ther be any Right or Equitie by thee, con­formable to the vpright Being of y^e Bride of Christ.

10. Com-on now / and let mee heare & see / Whe­ther thou art able to excuse or cleere thyself by any­meanes, that thou hast right in thy cause · or anye Inheritaūce with Christ / ether Conformitie with the holie Rom. 12. a. 1. Cor. 12. a Ephe 4. b. 5. [...] Apoc. 21. a Church or Bride of Christ. But what shall be the sequell / Trulie thou Iohn. 3. c. Ephe. 5. b. thyself shalt not choose but acknowledg by the Light / that thou art false · and a meere Straunger vnto Christ and his Church: and that thou likewise hast iudged falslie, in all thy Iudgment · and alwayes dealt or walk­ed wickedlie: that thou also art worthie Apoc. 17. b of the e­uerlasting Condemnation / and that it appertaineth or belongeth not vnto thee, to haue or beare anye Dominion vpon the Earth.

11. But if thou refuse to com by the Light / and wilt yet notwithstāding excuse or go-about to cleere thyself, before all Eyes of the Fleash Esa. 58 a. / as-though thou haddest right in thy cause / and maintaine that thou art the 2. Cor. 11. a Apoc. 21. a Bride or Church of Christ: and that thou hast not dealt as an adoulterous Whore · but faithfullie, as an vpright Maried-wife / So will I [Page] then, out of my Ielousie which I beare ouer thee (O thou false Nature Esa. 1. a. Iohn. 8. c. / thou lying and vnfaithfull earthlie Man / which art consubstantiated / or an in­corporated Bodie, with the Antichrist) cause thee to appeere before the Priestes or Elders of the holie Vnderstandinge: and make thee to drinke-out ⁏ac­cording to the Lawe of the Lord; Num. 5. b. c. this Cupp of the bitter curssed Water of my Ielousie: yea / Ier. 25. b. c. 49. b. [...]. 9. a. thesame shalt thou be constrained to drinke / To thende that it may eauenso therby becom manifest and knowen, Whether thou art an adoulterous Whoore / or the vpright & faithfull Maried-wife of y^e Man Christ.D

12. For verelie / li [...]e as the Ielousie of an Hus­bande standeth ouer his Wife / that shee dealeth not faithfullie / but as an adoulterous Whoore / Eauē ­so standeth also my Ielousie ouer thee, thou earth­lie Man ⁏which wilt 2. Cor. 11. a. be the Espoused-wife of the Man Christ / or vauntest and geeuest-fourth thy­self for thesame; and also ouer all such / as ⁏with the Spirit of the earthlie and Iohn. 8. c. diuelish Beeing; bost them to be the Maried-wife of Christ / or of his Spirit of Loue.

13. FOr-that-cause / if thou now account not thy self, for an Whoore: but esteemes [...] thee for the faithfull Espoused-wife of Christ: and that my ielous Conceauing cannot stand otherwise towardes thee, but that thou art a presumpteous Whoore / which dissembleth or playeth-the-hipo­crite with Christ / and coueredly Ier. 2. d. 3. a. [...]ze. 16. c. d. Oze. 4. b. 5. a. committeth-whor­dom: & yet neuerthelesse wilt be iudged, as a faith­full Espoused-wife of Christ / So shalt thou then presentlie, be constrained to drinke this bitter N [...]m. 5 c. d. curss­ed [Page 27] Water of my Ielousie · and to beare the Curss­inge of an adoulterous Whoore / or of an vnfaith­full Wife.

14. But if now thou be faithfull / and the vpright Espoused-wife of Christ / thē feare not to drinke these bitter Waters, for any Destructiō that can chaunce vnto thee therout / or endamaige thee therby. For the vpright Maried-wyfe or Bryde of the Man Christ [namelie / the faithfull Rom. 12. a. 1. Cor. 12. a. b. Eph. 4. b. 5. c. Communialtie of the Holyones of God / or the Fellowe-members of Christ] hath ben constrayned in times-past ⁏by her Aduersaries; to drinke such-like: and the bitter Wa­ters haue not hurt or endamaiged Her.

15. But trulie, as for thee ⁏O thou corrupt Na­ture of the earthlie Man; thou shalt in thy vaine­glorious Bosting ⁏that thou art the right Espoused­wife of Christ; he found a Lyer · and as a wicked, mischeuous, and Apo. 17. a. b 18. a. b. false Whoore: and, through these bitter curssed Waters, thy Hippes or Thighes shall rot / and thy Num. 5. [...] Wombe breake: and so shalt thou then becom made-manifest in thy whoorish Nature.

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BEHolde / Heer-to thou must needes A com / and it shall now also fall vpon thee / O thou vnfaithfull Seede / Esa. 1. a. Iohn. 8. c. thou earthlie and lying Man / which hast at all tymes dealt or behaued-thee hypocritically and Ier. 6. c. 7. a. b 9. a. falselie, against God the Father ⁏by his Seruice of y^e Lawe; against Christ, the Sauiour ⁏by his Seruice of the Beleef; and against the Holie-gost ⁏by his Seruice [Page] of the Loue;. and eauenso vaunted or geeuen-fourth thyself, to be the Communiastie of Holyones / or Rom. 12. a. 1. Cor. 12. a. Eph. 4. b. 5. c. the Coioyned-bodye of the Bodye of Christ, a [...]-ouer the vniuersall Earth. But thou shalt presentlie be for­ced to beare thy iust Sentence-of-iudgment & Ac­cusation / As that thou art false / and ⁏against the pure 2. Cor. 11. a. Apo. 21. a. Bryde / Church / or Coioyned-bodie of Christ; a poluted or Apo. 17. a. b. 18. a. b. defiled Whoore: and that thou art worthie of the eternall Condemnation Math. 25. d. [...]. Per. 3. a. and Fire of Hell.

2. And although thou woldest neuer-so-faine co­uer thee, with thy Hipocrisie · and geeue-fourth thy self ⁏in this Daye of the Loue; as faithfull and vp­right / yet shalt thou not be able so to do. For heere auaileth now no-lenger any Hipocrisie or Couered­nes: nether-yet likewise shall anyman knowe how to couer himself, before thissame Light of the Loue: but they must all now becom Iohn. 3. b. 1. Cor. 4. a. Eph. 5. b. apparantlie-mani­fested ⁏euen thesame that they are; by thesame Light.

3. WHosoeuer now therfore is earthlie min­ded B / false and couered of heart / and de­sireth to continew therin / His Nature shall now right-soone bee seene or perceaued. For the Light of this Daie, 1. Iohn. 2. a. shineth now so perfect-bright & cleere / that no Vngodlie / nor any Hipocrites or false Hear tes (let them thē holde themselues so presumpteous on their false Righteousnes, as they will) shall a­ny-way be able Mal. 3. a. Apo. 6. b. to endure or bide-standinge, in thissame Daie of the righteous Iudgment of God.

4. But / whosoeuer is heauenlie minded / and vp­right of heart: humbleth himself ⁏with a goodwil­ling Heart; vnder the Loue and her Seruice: who [...] ­lie [Page 28] geeueth-ouer himself, vnder the Maiestie of God: and cauenso ⁏without any peruerse Sap. 1. a. Thoughtes; loueth the vpright and godlie Beeinge / By such-a­one thesame shall likewise certenlie appeere / and ⁏in y^e Expressing of his Deede; be verie-well perceaued.

5. For to those-same vpright Heartes ⁏which walke 1. Pet. 1. b. obedientlie, in the Doctrine of the gratious Woord and Seruice of Loue / and shewe all Faith­fulnes thervnto; it is graunted to vnderstād in their Spirit ⁏accordinge to the heauenlie Trueth of the vpright Beeinge; Math. 13. b. the Misterie of the Kingdom of the God of Heauens: wherthrough they make-ma­nifest the Powers of the Holie-gost / and the Testi­monies of his liuinge Waters / Iohn. 4. b. 7. which flowe ⁏at that time; from the Bodie of their Spirit / and reach [...]auen vnto the euerlasting Life.

6. But the Straungers ⁏which walke with-out the Famelie of Loue / or deale falslie therwith; Math. 22. a. Luk. 14. b. tast not the louelie Beeing of the spirituall and heauenlie Goods. For they vnderstand nor Esa. 6. a. Act. 28. c. knowe not the­same any otherwise, but according to an earthly and fleashlie Beeinge: For earthlie and fleashlie are [...]ll their Mindes and Thoughtes.

7. BVt ⁏alas; this cannot an earthlie Man C ⁏which trulie is alwayes nothinge Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 2. b. but fleashlie minded; comprehend nor vnderstand: yet will hee neuerthelesse alwayes go-on, with his ly­inge, earthlie, and fleashlie Mindes / and iudge ea­uenso the spirituall and heauenlie Vnderstandinges therout. For-that-cause hee cannot haue any Lust nor beare any Loue, towardes the True / Spiritu­all / and Heauenlie. but well, towardes the Lyinge / [Page] Earthlie / and Fleashlie: wherout hee likewise (as it is right-well to be perceaued) bringeth-fourth no­thing-els, but the Gal. 5. c. Woorkes of the Fleash and of the lyinge Beeinge.

8. But a spirituall Man Rom. 8. b. is clothed with the Spirit of God and the Trueth: For that cause hee is also according to the Trueth, spirituallie minded. His Fourth-goinge and the Lust of his Woorkes, is ⁏in all; to the Gal. 5. c. 6. b. Fruites of the holie Gost / for to bringe-fourth thosesame out of the Spirit of God / and so to publish or declare-fourth the Kingdom of God / and his Righteousnes.

9. For hee knoweth ⁏out of the secreat Misterie of the Kingdom of God; how to discerne and dis­tinct the spirituall Goods, according to the heauen­lie Trueth / or holie Leui. 10. b. Vnderstandinge: to-weet / that hee sheweth & declareth an expresse Difference, be­twixt the Math. 13. f. Iohn. 3. d. Earthlie / and the Heauenlie / and betwixt the Lying / and the True: the which, to all earthlie vnregenerated Men ⁏with all their Industrie and Prudentie; is a thinge Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 2. b. vnpossible.

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SEeing now that Gods Wonder­ful-woorkes / A the Spirit of his Power / & the Math. 13. b. Misterie of his Kingdom of Heauen, is Sap. 1. a. Math. 11. c. knowen and vnderstanded, onlie of the heauenlie & spirituall Man / So hath not an earth­lie and fleashlie Man ⁏out of his naturall & scripture learned Vnderstandinge; anye Sight nor Know­ledg Rom 8. a. [...]. Cor. 2. b. at-all therof: Yea / hee is so vtterlie voide of [Page 29] thesame, that hee cannot vnderstande the smallest Title therof · much-lesse thē, expound or interpreate thesame ⁏according to the Trueth; vnto an other.

2. But hee may well heare witnessed therof ⁏ac­cordinge to y^e manlie maner; through the seruice­able or writen Woorde / and also speake-fourth thesame againe afterwardes. but through himself / or out of his owne Vnderstanding, hee 1. Cor. 2. b. vnderstan­deth not anythinge at-all of thesame, accordinge to the Trueth: but it is all couered and Math. 13. b. Luk 8. a. 2. Cor. 4. a. secreat before him / or in Similitudes / Images / Figures / and Parables. For that cause, hee cannot likewise ⁏out of his owne Wisdom; once conceaue / nor Sap. 9. b. compre­hend in his Knowledge, what thesame ⁏accordinge to the Trueth; is, in the godlie Beeinge.

3. If hee therfore will iudge / speake-fourth / and B interprete anythinge therof, according to the Ima­ginatiō of his owne Knowledg / So is it all ⁏doubt­les; false and Lyes, what hee both conceaueth and also speaketh therof. wherout it becometh knowen, that a fleashlie Man ⁏out of his naturall Vnder­standing; 1. Cor. 1. 2. b. knoweth not anything at-all of the Spi­rit of God: and that it is all Foolishnes, what hee iudgeth or speaketh therof.

4. Verelie / therfore they all do erre very much / that iudge, according to their Vnderstandinge ⁏out of the earthlie Beeinge / or out of the Fleash or Let­ter; God-his Trueth ⁏which is heauenlie and spiri­tuall; and his Wonderful-actes (whether it be ofh Esa. 41. c. 48. that which is passed · or of that which is present · or of that which is to come) or take vpon them to dis­cusse thesame. and will teach / instruct or order the [Page] ignorant People, according to their Iudgment.

5. For verelie / Gods Trueth / and his Workes ⁏which Hee worketh not through any fleashlie Vn­derstanding. but,Math. 12. c. Luk. 11. b. through the Power of his Spi­rit / out of his holie Heauen; are farre aboue all Vn­derstandinges of the Fleash. Yea / not anyone of all the Children of Men, can ⁏through his naturall Vnderstandinge out of Bloud; Sap. 1. [...]. 9. b [...]. Cor. 2. b. comprehend nor vnderstand thesame / nor yet finde-out the grounde therof.

6. Therfore suerlie, God-his Trueth / the excel­lent Bewtie of his heauenlie Kingdō / and his god­lie and heauenlie Woorkes, are Math. 11. c. [...]. b. Act. [...]8. c. vnknowen vnto all Fleash / and vnto all fleashlie earthlie Men: But it is geeuen vnto the Children of the Kingdom ؛the Communialtie of the Loue (punctel) to vnderstande the se­creat Misterie therof.

7. IT is likewise ⁏verelie; a great Follie, vpon C the Earth / yea a presumpteous and arro­gant Enterprise or Dealinge ⁏which is also vtterlie without all Equitie and resonable Vnderstanding; that the earthlie and fleashlie Men, sett themselues to Iudgment / for to iudge ⁏out of their naturall Comprehending and Industrie / or out of their scrip turelie Learnednes, according to the Fleash; the spi­rituall Trueth of God / and God-his heauenlye Wonderfull-actes, wherof ther is not anything at­all Math. 11. [...]. [...]3. geeuen them to vnderstande: wherin they all ⁏with their Vnderstandinges; runne to an Ende: Yea / they com so to an Ende or growe to such an ex­igent therin / that they knowe not oftētimes Mich. 7. a. Luk. 21. c., where to catch or take-holde-of thesame againe.

[Page 30]8. But many are heerin very Esa. 30. b. arrogantlie-min­ded. For / when-as they ⁏with their Vnderstand­ing; are runne-to-an-ende, in the godlie Matiers: to-weet, that they haue not nor cannot comprehend nor vnderstand thosesame aright / Yet perseuer they notwithstanding searching ther-after: and, prosecu­tinge or ensuinge thesame with their Imagination of Rom. 1. c. the Knowledge / they will neuerthelesse alwayes be iudged to haue right. Yea / they wolde much-ra­ther, iudge Moses / the Propheates of God / toge­ther with the Appostles of Christ / and God-his elec­ted Minister HN, to erre or misse the right / then that they wolde ⁏by anye meanes; confesse and ac­knowledge, that they ⁏in the Imagination of their Knowledge concerninge the godlie Matiers; are ignorant and lyinge.

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O Yee blinde People / yee arrogant,A distraught, earthlie Men / and all yee sub­till or pregnant Self-wise of the Fleash / together with all yee false Heartes of the Scripture-learned / yee Gen. 4. a. Iudae. 1. [...]. Cainish Ceremonie-mini­sters / and yee Persecuters and Murderers of the Abelish vpright Heartes: Wherfore Esa. 14. [...]. exalte yee yourselues so arrogantlie, against the high-excellent Maiestie of God / and his righteous Iudgment? Consider and looke yet-once into it, what yee haue done.

2. Oh ⁏alas; yee haue ⁏the which will now fal­out [...]ainfullie or sharplie against you; set yourselues [Page] ⁏with your false Nature; 'to Iudgment: iudgedEsa. 30. b. God-his Causes ⁏out of your Lyes; altogether fals lie: seduced the Simple: beleeued your owne Iudg ment, which is vnright and false / and borne-domi­nion therwith, ouer the Earth: Also ben Iohn. 8. c. Rom. 2. a. 2. Tess. 2. b. vnbelee­uinge of God, in his Trueth · and resisting of the Loue: and cauenso ⁏with your false Iudgmentes; falslie Sap. 2. b. [...]ani. 13. c. accused or defamed the vpright Heartes / as men worthie to be rooted-out from the Earth.

3. FOr-that-cause / let yourselues now be coun­sailed, by the Wisedom / and looke bytimes into all your Ignoraunces / and let it all fal-awaye from you / or geeue it-all ouer, wherin yee haue sup­posed to be wise or vnderstandinge: and [...]. 1 [...]. d. [...]. 2. c. Math. [...]. [...]. Act. [...]. d. 3. [...]. shewe­fourth Repentaunce for your Sinnes / vnder the Obedience of the Loue of Iesu Christ.

4. For verelie / when yee looke ⁏accordi [...]ge to the Trueth; into your-selues / and all that yee haue done / So shall yee not choose but perceaue and acknowledg / that yee haue Sap. 5. a. 9. b. not vnderstoode / know­en / nor iudged the earthlie and natural. Thinges ⁏which yee haue passed-thorowe / and are yeat daylie a passing-thorowe; trulie or aright.

5. SEeinge then that yee haue not ben able B to vnderstande nor iudge rightlie those thinges, which ⁏accordinge to the earthlie Beeinge; are like vnto you / and wher-about yee daylie haue­to-doo: How should yee then ⁏O yee blockish & igno­rant earthlie Men; be able to vnderstāde or iudge y^e heauenlie or spirituall Thinges, which are Sap. 9. b. Math. 11. c. [...]. b. secreat or hiddē before you / and which yee haue neuer scene / nor are passed-thorowe them? But, for your owne [Page 31] Honours sake Iohn. 12. c. ⁏which yee seeke at the handes of the vnregenerated Men / and more esteeme and couet then the Honour of God; many of you will not ac­knowledg thesame / nor yet confesse your Blindnes.

6. Yee Iere. 6. b. 8. a Eze. 13. b. comforte yourselues apace with Lyes: and prouoke eauenso God-his righteous Iudgment to come vpon you. In which Iudae. 1 b. Iudgment, it becom­eth nowe discouered vnto you / and yee are let 1. Cor. 4. a to see / or it becometh made-knowen vnto you, in your Heartes / that yee all ⁏which are of the Earth / and haue resisted the Trueth of the Life; haue spokē pre­sumpteouslie against the Lorde · dispised the Loue, in her louelie Nature and vpright Seruice · Heb. 10. c. and blaspheamed the Spirit of Loue, which is the true Holie-gost.

7. BEholde / it shall now in thissame Day Act. 17. d. 1. Cor. 4 a. Iudae. 1. b. of the righteous Iudgment of God ⁏wher­through all false Iudgmentes / and Vnrighteous­nesses becom made-manifest; be geeuen vnto you to see-into or plainlie to perceaue, all this your Fals­hod / or horrible Iniquitie. And the Recompence for thesame, shall likewise ⁏O yee false earthlie Men; fall vpon you, Esa. 13. a. b. Sap. 5. a. Luk. 21. c. with much Affliction / Distresse / Miserie / and Woe, in all your Heartes.

8. If yee now then ⁏perceauinge well all your C Falshod / and in the time of your Affliction and Di­stresse; laye not yourselues prostrate ⁏to a Psal. 110. a. 1. Cor. 15. c. Bench for the Lorde-his Feete; before the Seate of the Maiestie of God: but will needes ⁏with your false Iudgmentes and Vnrighteousnes; beare the Do­minion, against God and his Maiestie / So shall yee yet neuerthelesse (whether it be then with your [Page] will / or against your will) be troden-downe ⁏as the Enemies of God; Psal. 91. b. Rom. 16. b. with the Feete of the Sainctes · and laide vnder the Feete of the Lorde.

9. For our God ؛the Lorde of Hostes (punctel) cometh presentlie Esa. 3. b. Math. 25. d. 2 Iudae. 1. b. to Iudgment: and will plainlie shewe and make-knowen, the Howse of his Dwellinge. namelie / that the Heauen and the Heauenlie-man, is his Esa. 66. a. Act. 6. [...]. Seate · and the Earth and the Earthlie­man, the Bench of his Feete / Eauen as the Lorde hath spoken thesame in times-passed, through the Mouth of his holie Propheates.

The XV. Chap.

O Yee goodwillinge Heartes / which A haue now in these last perilous tymes,Amos. 5. b. Mich. 2. a. Math. 24. c. adioyned yourselues ⁏with a good Will; vnder the Obedience of the Loue, with Vs Littleones and Electedones of God / Consider well presentlie on the Straungers, which haue no­thing-els in their minde but Psal. 10. a. 52 a. 56. a. 58. a. 120. a. subtiltie & guyle. and also on all Such as com-in with all Phil. 3. c. Self-seekinge · with their fleashlie Rom. 1. e. Lustes and Desires · and with their Goodthinking Iere. 7. c. 1. Cor. 1. b. / and Selfwisdom, besydes our holie Communialtie of the Loue / and then at-the­last ⁏when as they are aware that the gratious Woord is against or contrarie-to their Selfseeking and Goodthinking; seperate them againe from Vs / and from the Woord and Requiringe of the Ser­uice of Loue: Yea / consider well what a Nature / Beeing or Disposition they shewe-fourth / and how that they ⁏to y^e Renting Rom. 16. [...]. & Diuiding of our Com­munialtie [Page 32] of the Loue; make-vpp themselues against Vs and our godlie Doctrine / So shall yee then finde-out in the Deede and Trueth / that all such do m [...]ke manifest themselues ⁏with their Self-wisdom and Ier. 7. c. 9 b. 11. a. 13. b. Goodthinkinge-knowledge; to be contrarie­minded, against the holie Woorde of the Spirit of Loue / and also turne them away from the true Obe­dience of the Requiringe of his Seruice.

2. FOr that cause, take now good-heede and B beware of all them, that ⁏with their Self­wisdom or Imaginatiō of the Knowledg; Rom. 16. b. besydes the Doctrine of the Godlynes ⁏which is taught you through the Spirit of Loue; institute or bringe-in ⁏according to the Self-seekinge of the Fleash; their straunge or forged Doctrines / and false Dealinges (Wher-with they breede Diuision and cause Of­fence): And seperate you from Such-persons. But abide stedfastlie grounded in our mostholie Eph. 3. b. 2. Tim. 1. 3. b. Beleef of the Loue of Christ / Math. 10. c. 24. Heb. 12. a. and perseuer therin, eauen to the Ende: That is / till vnto the louelie Beeinge of the Godlynes.

3. Turne not asyde ⁏in any case; to any forrein Beeing, with-out the Loue: fall not awaye likewise from the Seruice of the Loue, for the Ignorantons cause, which make oftentimes ⁏by reason of their dis­orderlynes; Discorde and Offence: and for-that­cause also, they must (as the Matier or Case requi­reth) be Gal. 6. a. 2. Tim. 2. c. 4. punished / chastised / and instructed: Also becom not sluggish nor careles, with the Pro. 6. a. 24. Slouth­ful-persons: but ⁏with Diligence and Lust of your Heart vnto the vpright Math. 22. d. Eph. 1. a. 4. [...]. Righteousnes and Holy­nes; submit you alwayes obedientlie and humblie, [Page] vnder the godlie Testimonies of the holie Spirit o [...] Loue / vntill that the gratious Woorde & his Loue be planted in you, [...]. 1. c. with Meekmindednes: the which is the Saluation of your Soules / and the Establishing of the Promises of God the Father.

4. For in thesame vpright Beeinge, God will bringe vnto you all his Treasures / Math. 13. b. Col. 2. a. and heauenlie Goods. also all Peace Iohn. 10. c. / and the euerlasting Life, aboundantlie. It is verytrue.

5. O Yee Holyones of God ⁏thou louelie Cō ­munialtie C of the Loue; feare not: but be now of good cheere vpon the Earth, against all your Enemies. For beholde / Esa. 35. a. your God con [...]th to be auendged on all your Enemies / for to l [...]ye them ⁏that they may be troden-downe; vnder the Feete of your Lord & Sauiour Iesus Christ. and eauenso ⁏in your Math. 1 [...]. d. Iohn. 3. a. second Birth, out of the holie Spirit of the Loue of Iesu Christ; to transporte or yeald-ouer the Iudgment and Dominion ⁏vpon the Earth; vn­to you and your Sauiour, Iesus Christ / To the­end that yee with Him and Hee with you and your Sauiour, Iesus Christ / & with his holie Spirit, should ⁏frō hence-fourth, world-without-end; raigne with Apo. 5. b. 22. Righteousnes, vpon the Earth · and Esa. 3. b. Sap. 3. a. Iudae. 1. b. iudge thesame with Equitie / according to the Promises.

The XVI. Chap.

MAke you to the flight / Esa. 52. a. Make you A to the Flight: Yea, get you now all out of the Waye / yee Enemies of the Lorde and his Seruice of Loue: and geeue the [Page 33] Lorde ⁏with his Holyones; Esa. 40. a. 57. b. 62. b. his Roome. Yet shall yee not escape the Vengeaunce of God.

2. For the Lorde cometh-fourth now in Migh­tie-power, with his righteous Iudgment, vpon the Earth / for to purge thesame of all her Weedes: Yea eauen-now ⁏in the right Math. 13. e. Time of Haruest; the Lorde cometh Math. 24. d. 25. d. / with his Aungels / for to roote-out all Weedes, from-off the Earth.

3. O God / Apoc. 14. b. smyte now in with thy Sickle / and begin eauenso ⁏with thy Aungels; to reape the whole Earth. For the Weede is becom rype 4. Esd. 4. d., vpon the Earth / and his Eares are thorough drye. For that cause roote thesame now cleene out: for wher-to / or to what profite, hath it hys place ⁏a­mong y^e good Wheate; vpon the Earth? forasmuch as ther is not any Good to be looked-for therout.

4. BEholde / the Math. 13. b. Weede, is the manifold­sort B of Lyes, against the Trueth of God / the manymaner of Iniqui [...]ies, against the Righte­ousnes of Christ / and the vnmeasurable Vngodli­nes of all Vngodlye, against the Godlynes / and against the true Beeing of the holye Spirit of Loue / which are all worthye Apoc. 19. a., to be rooted-out from the Earth · and condemned in the Math. 13. c. 25. d. 2. Pet. 3. b. hellish Fyre.

5. For / for thissame Weedes cause, Gen. 3 b. Heb. 6. a. the Earth hath ben thus-long curssed · and the good Wheate [...] which the ignorant Reapers haue also iudged to be the Weede / and worthy to be rootedout / or could not oftentymes discerne the one from the other; Math. 13. a. Luk. 8. a. op­pressed or kept-vnder.

6. THerfore the Lorde cometh now, Math. 13. d. 24. b. c. in the Ende of the Worlde / and maketh a plaine [Page] Difference / and a right Discerninge, betwixt the Weede and the good Wheate. Yea / the Lorde hath made-vpp hymself / and hee cometh now ⁏in the right or due tyme; Esa. 66. b. Mal. 4. a. 2. Tess. 1. a. with the Heate of his burning Fyre / for to consume ⁏with his Fyre; all the W [...]edes / and to emptie or disbourden the Earth therof / To thend that shee mought com againe to her Blessinge / and vpright Fruitfulnes: Psal. 18. a. Ier. 10. b. Nahu. 1. a. Math. 24. d. Luk. 21. b. 2. Pet. 3. b. Wher-through the Earth is now moued / the Heauens troubled / the Elementes melt with Heate / and the Token of the Cominge of the Sonne of Man, appeereth in the Heauen.

7. With which Rumour or Russhinge-noyse C of the Power of God / and his Holyones, Math. 24. d. 1. Cor. 15. f. 1 Tess. 4. b. the last Trompett doth also presentlie geeue-fourth her Sounde: Through whose Blast of her vehement Sounde / and through the Appeeringe of the Com­inge of Christ, Dan. 12. b. Iohn. 5. c. 1. Cor. 15. b. 1. Tess. 4. b. the Dead stand-vpp or aryse vnto the Iudgment of God: In such-sort / that Daniell ؛the holie Propheat (punctel) is also rysen-vpp Dan. 12. c. in his part / for to execute now in the last tyme ⁏or Endinge of the Worlde; the Iudgment ⁏with God and his Righteousones; Esa. 3. b. Iude 1. b. vpon the Earth / against all Vn­godlie / To thende that they all ⁏together with the Woorkes of their Vngodlynes; mought now be­come rooted-out and condemned / Like-as there is writen therof:

8. REioyce now in thissame Daye, Apoc. 18. c. all yee holie Prophtates / Aungels / and Apo­stles. For this is the Deut. 5. a. Nahu. 1. a. Daye of the Vengeaunce of our Lorde and God / for to reuenge the Bloudde of his Holyones Math. 23. d. Apoc. 16. a. / that the Sinners haue spilt or shead vpō the Earth / and for to declare or reueale his [Page 34] Holyones againe gloriouslie, vpon the Earth / To thende that they mought 2. Pet. 3. [...]. inhabit thesame peacea­blie, in all Loue / and raigne therouer or Apo. 5. b. 22▪ iudge the­same with Righteousnes / from hence-fourth world­without-ende.

The XVII. Chap.

O All yee Pro. 6. a. 24. d. Math. 25. [...]. Sluggish and Slothfull / A which haue walked thus-longe very vn­lustelie ⁏as-though yee had ben drowsye­of-sleape; in the Seruice of the Loue · and had very little Loue vnto God-his Righteousnes: Yea / which haue ben so ouer-careles or negligent / that yee haue not taken the Seruice of y^e Loue / and the vpright Righteousnes of thesame, anything-at­all to Heart: in such-wyse / that ⁏by that occasion; your Fielde (whilst yee haue ben so slothfull) is wax­en barren of the good Corne · and your Vyne-yarde likewise, of the good Wyne / Pro. 24. d. and are ouergrowen with Nettels and Thistles / Becom yet now once awaked Rom. 13. b. Eph. 5. b. / and make your Way or Steppes speedie / for to enter into the Life of the vpright and louelie Beeing of the Loue / er-euer the Doore of the louelie Kingdome and Paradice of the Lorde (whilst yee com-forwardes so sluggishlie and drowselie) Math. 25. [...]. be locked or shut-to.

2. For beholde / Eze. 7. a. the Ende cometh (yea / the Ende cometh swiftlie on) and the last Time is now at-hande. After which Apo. 10. [...]. Time, ther shall not be a­nye Saluation of the Life / nor Health of Soules, more to be obtayned.

[Page]3. O Yee foolish People / which are now so sluggish: Cal-to-minde the foolish Vir­gins / how they neglected their time, Math. 25. a. for to gather or prepare-them Oyle in their Vessels: and how that they for that cause (when the time appeered or was come, that euerie-one ⁏which had Oyle and Light, in his Vessell or Lampe; should enter-in with the Bridegroome) must bide with-out the louelie Kingdom of the Bridegroome.

4. VErelie / in thissame Daye of the Loue / of B the true Bridegroomes Cominge, it will also go in such-like-sort with you all ⁏yee foolish and sluggish People; which followe so incessantly your owne Counsell / Will / and Fredom Rom. 1. c. Eph. 4. b. 1. Pet. 4. [...]. 2. Pet. 2. b., accordinge to your Minde of the Fleash: and haue no regarde to the Sanctification in the Spirit / wherin the god­lie Oyle becometh brought vnto vs.

5. Therfore looke now to it bytimes / and take good-heede, vnto the 1. Tess. 4. a. 2. Tess. 2. b. Sanctification in the Spi­rit / or vnto an vpright Beeinge and Minde / To thende that the lyke happen not vnto you, as chaun­ced to the foolish Virgins.

6. BEholde / Heb. 3. a. 10. presentlie in thissame Day, yee are yeat all warned. Respect-well ther­fore thissame Pro. 6. a. 2. Cor. 6. a. Gal. 6. b. Heb. 12. b. Tyme of Grace / whylst ther is yeat Grace and Comfort at-hande / and to be obtayned: and haue a diligent regarde vnto the Seruice of Loue. and what thesame requireth.

7. Verelie / It requireth not This nor That / accordinge to the Fleash of the worldlie Dealinge / nor accordinge to the Dealinge of the false Heartes and vnregenerated Hypocrites. but, Eph. 4. b. an vpright [Page 35] Beeing in the Loue of Iesu Christ: That is / to be­com Luk. 1. g. releassed frō all Ownednes or Selfnes · and hallowed Rom. 12. a. 1. Tess. 4. a. & iustified, in the Spirit of our Minde, through Iesus Christ and his Seruice of Loue.

8. Whosoeuer then ⁏in all Obedience of the Re­quiring of the gratious Woord and of his Seruice of Loue; doth ⁏in such sort; respect-well or take good heede vnto thesame / Hee shall also be Iohn. 14. [...]. loued of God the Father / of the Lorde Iesu Christ / and of the ho­lie Gost. Yea / they shall com to him / and make a godlie Dwellinge with him.

9. HEer-vnto geue you now all whollie ouer / C and turne all your Vnderstanding to the godlie Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue: and be ea­uenso Deu. 30. a. obedient vnto the holie Woord of the Spi­rit of Loue, in his Requiringe / To thende that yee all, maye now in thissame Daye of Loue ⁏in which Christ cometh vnto vs; with the holie Oile or An­nointing of y^e holie Spirit of Christ, 1. Tess. 4. d. meete Christ ؛the vpright Bridegrome (punctel) in his Coming · and liue and triumph Apo. 7. b. 2 [...]. a. 22. [...]. euerlastinglie, with Him and all his Holyones, in the Kingdom of God his Father.

10. For I saye vnto you verelie: Whosoeuer now ⁏in thissame Daye of Loue; bideth slouthfull & careles, towardes the vpright louelie Beeinge: and eauenso estraungeth his Heart, from the Ministra­tion of the Elders in the Seruice of Loue / ether hol­deth it common or of-one-beeing with the consuma­ble Rom. 1 [...]. a. 1. Cor. 7. d. Beeing of the peruerse World / Hee shall not be annointed with the holie Oile of the holie Spirit of Christ / nor with his louelie Nature · nor yet let-in ⁏with the sanctified Holyones of God / or Cōmuni­altie [Page] of Loue; to the Heb. 3. b. 4. b Rest of the peaceable King­dom: but be Apo. 21. 22. b shutt ther-without, with the wicked Worlde / and with all Self-wise and Vngodlie.

11. THerfore remember now bytimes (yee all which are now ⁏in thissame Day; so sloth full or sluggish, towardes the Seruice & Entraunce of the vpright Beeinge of God · and so self-wise a­gainst the holie Spirit and the Requiringe of his Seruice of Loue) what a Miserie and Sap. 5. a. Painful­greefe it will be for you to beholde / when-as all the Holyones of God shall gather them together ⁏in the Perfection of the Loue; Math. 24. d. Luk. 21. c. from the fowre Endes of the Earth, to a Kingdom of God. and that yee shall finde yourselues shutt ther-without.

12. Verelie / then will it fal-out to-late for many,D to gather or prepare them ⁏out of the Ministration of the proffered Grace; the godlie Oyle / or holie Annointing of the Spirit of Loue, in their Vessels.

13. WHosoeuer now therfore respecteth not the right Eccle. 3. a. Pro. 6. a. Gal. 6. b. Time of Grace / and of the Fruitfulnes of the good Seed / that hee, in the Har­uest ⁏or Fulnes of the Time; may get his Math. 13. d. Barnes full of good Corne: but is careles / and Pro. 6. a. 18. a. slouthfull towardes the Entraunce of the Requiringe of the gratious Woorde and of his Seruice of Loue / Hee shall likewise haue lacke of Pro. 20. a. Amos. 8. b. Corne [namelie / of the Fruites of the Woorde]. and then afterwardes (when hee findeth himself poore & Luk. 15. b. Apo. 3. b emptie / and seeth well, that y^e Holyones of God, are filled with great store of Goods) be constrained to bewaile his case with Sap. [...]. a. Luk. 1 [...]. [...]. greeuous Miserie / and shall not finde any­more meete or conuenient time, for to gather any­thinge. [Page 36] but ⁏out of Doubtfulnes; fall into Sap. [...]. a. Luk. 21. [...]. great Dispaire. and eauenso ⁏in Gnawinge or Torment of his Heart / and in Wringinge of his Handes; greatlie lament the time which hee hath neglected and misspent / and which also is not to be recouered againe / and rufullie bewaile his Condemnation and Miserie, for euer and euer.

The XVIII. Chap.

[...]Oofe to it bytimes / and Ier. 7. a. 18. b. 25. a. 35. b. amende A your Beeinge / O yee Children of Men: and take mine Admonitiō to heart. Make not ⁏in anycase; light account of the tocō ­inge Greefe-of-minde, which shall fall / and is also alredie fallen ypon Esa. 13. a. Luk. 21. c. the Vngodlie, with much Ca­lamitie and Miserie: but endeuour you ⁏with good willinge Heartes; to enter into the Deu. 4▪ a. 30. 1. Pet. 1. b. Obedience of the Requiringe of the gratious Woord / and of his Seruice of Loue / Ere-euer that thatsame Miserie ⁏wherof ther is tolde you; fall likewise vpon you.

2. Be Math 24. c. Luk. 21. d. wakefull now therfore / and keepe alwaies a sharpe or diligent Watch, against all your Ene­mies. namelie / against all the Mindes & Though­tes / which make them vp in you, out of the Fleash of Sinne / and wolde eauenso ⁏contrarie to the Coun­sell / Will / and Doctrine of the holie Spirit and of his Seruice of Loue; plucke or allure you Rom. 6. b. e. Gal. 5. b. after the Pleasure of the Fleash.

3. BEhold / I tell it you / and heartelie exhort you / euen out of all the Loue of my Heart and Spirit: Harken not to them: beleeue nor fol­lowe [Page] not their Will or Counsell: but ⁏against all your owne Mindes and Thoughtes of the Fleash / and against all your corrupted Nature / Lust / and Desires; geeue or applie you whollie to the Deu. 30. a. 1. Pet. 1. b. Obe­dience of the Requiringe of the gratious Woorde and of his holie Spirit of Loue / So shall yee then assuredlie, out of thesame Obedience ⁏Rom. 6. a. in maner of sufferinge; finde an other Nature and Beeinge by you, which shall shewe itself much vprighter and louelyer / then that which yee haue had out of the Will or Selfmindednes of the Fleash. For, doing eauen-so / yee shall ⁏through the Obedience of the Requiringe of the gratious Woorde and of his Seruice of Loue; becom Iohn. 15. a. Rom. 11. c. Eph. 3. b. incorporated to the loue­lie Iohn. 17. c. [...]. Pet. 1. a. Nature of God / and to the euer-lastinge peace­able Beeinge of the holie Spirit of Loue.

4. If yee now heare and vnderstand all thissame well / that the holie Spirit saith vnto you all, out of B the Seruice of his Loue / So consider then with di­ligence / what a Deu. 30. b. Life of Righteousnes is required of you: and geeue or endeuour you vnto thesame. I haue ⁏for-certen; tolde it you plainlie enough / and tell it you yeat againe / To thend that yee may well vnderstand it aright. namelie / that yee should in­cline and geeue-ouer all your Inwardnes, to the Requiring of the gratious Woord and of his Ser­uice of Loue / for to becom Iohn. 15. a. 17 Eph. 3. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. incorporated ⁏through the Obedience of the Requiring of thesame Woord and of his Seruice; to the vpright and louelie Bee­inge of the Loue / To thende that God in you / and yee in God · and so-fourth yee all ⁏amonge each-o­ther; mought liue peaceablie, in all Loue.

[Page 37]5. But ⁏alas; although yee heare and vnder­stand all thesame / yet do manye of you neuertheles, refuse the Rom. [...]. a. Goodnes of the Lorde: and followe al­most all, your Ier. 7. c. 9. b. goodthinkinge Knowledge.

6. AH-beloued / Wherfore refuse yee thus the good Beeinge? Wherfore do yee ⁏tho­rough your good-thinkinge Knowledge; alwayes holde yourselues thus backe? And wherfore take yee not the Matier ⁏which is to the Preseruation and Saluation of you all; with whole Minde, to heart / for that yee mought enter obedientlie, into the true Heb. 5. b. 6. a Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the Seruice of Loue / and Eph. 4. a. Col. 1. b. growe-vpp ⁏accordinge to the Requiringe of thesame; in the godlie Vnder­standinge? Iudge it now yourselues / Whether that thesame, whervnto I exhorte you out of the right Seruice of Loue, be not the vpright Life and louelie Beeinge of the Loue / Gen. 1. c. 2. a Sap. 1. b. 2. c. Eccli. 17. d. whervnto the Man is created and Eph. 1. a. chosen / for to liue therin.

7. For consider I pray you: Is not the vpright and louelie Eccli. 24. c. 1. Cor. 13. a. Beeinge of the Loue ⁏whervnto I ex­horte and demonstrate you; much decenter / vpright­er / and peaceabler, then your owne Beeinge of the Fleash Rom. 1. c. d. / and the wicked Beeinge of the peruerse Worlde?

8. Seeinge now that yee ⁏in your owne Consci­ence; C cannot choose but acknowledge / that the loue­lie, vpright, and peaceable Beeinge of the Loue, is the Mostbest: and that thesame bringeth the vp­right Esa. 32. c. Sap. 3. a. Apo. 21. a. Rest vnto the Man / So is it trulie a great wonder vnto mee, why yee do not then ⁏with more Diligence and Feruentie; loue and secke-after the­same: [Page] and that certen turne them away so lightlie, from the Doctrine stretchinge ther-vnto.

9. HOw are yee thus lingeringe or holding­back of yourselues / that yee com-forward so slowlie / for to enter obedientlie, into the first En­traunce Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. d. 3. c. of the Requiring of the gratious Worde / and whollie to geeue-ouer yourselues to the Most­best / and so to go-fourth therin Eph. 4. b. Phil. 3. b. Heb. 6 a., till vnto the good Beeinge of the Perfection? O take-holde yet-once of a goodwilling Minde / and purpose ⁏with a good will; not to 3. Reg. 18. c. halte any lenger on both sydes: but let all your Thoughtes stretch heere-to: namelie / to cleaue ⁏obedientlie; vnto the good Beeinge of the Loue, with all your Heart and Minde. and obedi­entlie to followe-after the Seruice of the Woord, in his Requiringe / vntill that yee be growen-vpp to the Eph. 4. d. perfect Olde-aige of the holie and godlie Vn­derstandinge · and Eph. 3. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. incorporated ⁏with Spirit / Hearte / Minde / and Soule; to the good Beeinge of the Loue.

The XIX. Chap.

O All yee Eccli. 33. b. People ⁏which heare this­day,A the Voice or Testimonie of the Spi­rit of Loue; Pro. [...]. a. take this effectuallie to heart: incline all your Mindes and Vnderstan­dinges to the holie Woorde of Trueth: and haue eauenso your Ioye ⁏in all Col. 3. [...]. Thankes-geeuinge to the Lorde; amonge each-other.

2. But let not your Ioye and Thankes-gee­uinge to the Lorde, [...]e in the fleashlie 1. Pet. [...]. b. [...] Volupteous­nes / [Page 38] nor in the Ioye of the peruerse Worlde: but reioyce you ⁏with Thankes-geeuinge to the Lorde; in the great Psal. 96. a. 9 [...] 103. a 145 a. Grace and Mercie, which is appeered and com vnto vs ⁏now in the last time; vnder the Obedience of the Loue: To-w [...]et / for that wee ⁏tho­rough the Rom. 12 [...]. Eph. 4. c. Renewinge of our Spirit and Minde; obtaine to becom Children of God / in the Obedience of the Loue of God the Father: Rom. 8. b. also Coheyres with Christ, in the spirituall Riches of God / or hea­uenlie Goods: and to liue Apo. [...]. b. 2 [...]. a. 22. a. euerlastinglie with God ⁏as his chosen holyones; in his holie Esa. 32. c. Sap. 3. a. Heb. 3. b. 4. b. Rest / and in his louelie Nature or Beeinge.

3. BEholde / heere-to ⁏as to a Kingdome of God full of all louelie Beeinge; hath God chosen Vs: and Math▪ 25. b. prepared from the Begin­ing, for Vs / and for all Esa. 60. a. Eze. 1. a. 3. a. 1. Pet. 2. a. beleeuing Heathen ⁏which assemble them through Iesus Christ, vnto his Peo ple; thissame Kingdom of his vpright and louelie Beeinge / which wee now inherit in thissame Daye of his Loue / To thend that now ⁏in the Very-last; the Scripture / and all what God hath spoken, tho­rough his holie Propheates / and what is writen of Christ, should also ⁏in Vs / and with Vs; become fulfilled Luk. 24. c. / to the Honour or Glorie of God / and to our Ioye: like as ther standeth writen:

4. Be glad / and Deu. 32. c. Rom. 15. b. reioyce yee Heathen, with his B People: For the Lorde will reuenge the Bloud of his Seruauntes, Apo. 19. a. on his Enemies · and be fauou­rable to the Lande of his People.

5. The Vprightones or Sap. 3. [...]. Beleeuers, shall be o­bedient ⁏in the Loue; vnto the Lorde / and iudge the People.

[Page]6. They shall receaue a Sap. 5. b. glorious Kingdom / and a bewtifull Crowne, at the Lord-his Hande.

7. They are a Eccli. 3. a. Congregation of Righteous­ones: and their Exercise, is Obedience and Loue.

8. They shall Sap. 3. a. Math. 13. c. shyne like as the Sunne / in their Fathers Kingdom.

9. The Lambe of God Apo. 5. b. hath redeemed them with his Bloud / out of all Generations & People: and hath made them Kinges and Priestes, vnto God: and they shall raigne vpon the Earth.

10. They are a Apo. 21. a. Tabernacle of God, amonge Men: God will dwell with them / and they shall be his People: and Hee ⁏God himself with them; will be their God.

11. SEe / this is ⁏assuredlie; the heartie Mer­cifulnes of God ouer vs, now in the last time / To thende that now ⁏in the last time; Esa. 40. a. the Glorious-lordlynes of God, should ⁏in Vs; becom manifested or declared / and the Scripture fulfilled.

12. Yea / this is the Rewarde or Recompence C of Iesu Christ / vnto vs Littleones and God-his Elect, in the last time: To-weet, that wee are made ⁏through the gratious Woorde of the Lorde, in his Seruice of Loue / and through the Apo. 1. 5. b. Bloud of the pure and vndefiled Lambe; Kinges vnto God · and Priestes or Elders in the holie Vnderstandinge / For that wee should now in these last Dayes ⁏Math. 24. c. 1. Cor. 4. a. as faithfull Sainctes of God and vpright Elders in the holie Vnderstandinge of the Testimonies of the holie Spirit of Loue; Sap. 3. a. Apo. 5. 22. a. raigne vpon the Earth, in Righteousnes · and ⁏vnder the Obedience of the Loue; Esa. 3. b. Sap. 3. a. iudge the Worlde with Equitie / according [Page 39] to the Esa. 3. b. 32. [...] 42. a. Ier. 23. a. 33. b Act. 17. d. 1. Cor. 6. a. Iudae. 1. b. Propheatyinge of the holie Propheates and Appostles of Christ / and of the Holie-goste.

13. HEer-in ⁏yee Deerlie-beloued; reioyce you now All, with Laude and Thankes-ge­uing vnto God: Psal. 96. a. 98 99. a. 103. a. 145. a. and praise highworthelie his ho­lie Name. Not onlie for the Bountiful-actes of God, extended on you: but also, that presentlie ⁏in thissame Daye; his holie Spirit of Loue, is Ioel. 2. c. Act. 2. a pow­red-fourth so aboundantlie, ouer Vs and in Vs. and that the true Doctrine to thesame holie Spirit, is likewise ⁏as a Iohn. 4. b. 7. d. liuinge and safe-makinge Water; flowinge-fourth out of Vs / to the Saluation or Safe-makinge of all Beleeuers of the gratious Woorde: and that eauenso ⁏to Righteousnes vp­on the Earth; the Scripture becometh fulfilled. namelie / by all the Beleeuers / which now humble themselues goodwillinglie and faithfullie, vnder the Loue / take to heart the Woorde of Trueth / and growe-vpp obedientlie therin Eph. 4. b. till vnto the Olde­aige of the Man Christ.

14. WHosoeuer now therfore ⁏vnder the Obe­dience D of the Loue; hath a good regarde vnto the holie Woorde of Trueth, that is admini­stred out of the holie Spirit of Loue / and exerciseth him therin, for to be obedient vnto his Requiring: and eauenso ⁏to that effect; fourthereth or becometh healpfull vnto the Seruice of Loue / Hee shall like­wise according to the Trueth, enioye & be partaker of all the Bountiful-actes which God extendeth on Vs ؛his chosen Holyones (punctel): and also euidentlie see / how that Christ ؛the Righteousone (punctel) appeereth pre­sentlie Math. [...]4. d. Luk. 17. 21. [...]. in Glorie / and becometh Psal. 68. d. wonderfull in all [Page] his Beleeuers: and that also ⁏through the-same Christ and his Holyones; the vniuersall Act. 17. d. Earth, shall ⁏in this Daye of the Loue, which God himself hath appointed or ordayned; be iudged with Equi­tie · and purged from all his Vnrighteousnes: and that all y^e Sainctes of God [namelie / the Cōmuni­altie of y^e Loue] shall inhabit thesame with [...]. Pet 3. b. Righ­teousnes · and raigne with Faithfulnes & Trueth / from hence-fourth, worlde-with-out-ende. Amen. This shall all assuredly, com eauenso to passe: and in his time be founde eauen-thus.

15. HEer-with-all ⁏Once beloued and obedient Children / and all yee constant Faithful-ones, in this our vpright Seruice of Loue; my heartie Exhortation and Desire is, vnto you All / that yee will take thissame effectuallie to Heart. and not seeke nor desire anythinge-els, with your Will and Minde / but that the Loue of Iesu Christ ⁏with her verteous Nature and vpright Beeinge; may obtaine a Gal. [...]. [...]. [...]. 3. b. Shape in you. and that the Ser­uice of thesame Loue, may also ⁏therto; be fourther­ed or assisted amonge all People / To thentent that thesame Seruice, may in all Trueth and Loue ⁏to the Welfare and Saluation of all Men; obtaine the Preheminence · and ⁏to Concorde & Loue in Iesu Christ; prosperouslie flourish, o­uer the vniuersall Earth. That graunt vs the Lorde ؛the al­mightie God (punctel) through his Loue. Amen. HN.