THe whileſt I thus beheld this ſtate of deſolation, and pittied the ſame ſo exceedingly, and lamented there over before the moſt high, ſo heard I a mighty3 King 19. Act. 1. a. ſound or noiſe proceeding out of heaven, and it ruſhed like a tempeſtuous wind, with great force over the earth, in ſuch wiſe that the earth was afraid, and quaked by reaſon thereof. And many which lay and ſlept under the earthEz. 37. Dan. 12. b. 4 Eſd. 3. d. Ioh. 5. c. 1 Cor. 15. f. 1 Theſ. 4. l. awaked, ſome to everlaſting life, ſome to perpetual contempt and reproach.

2. Now I marvelled greatly at this viſion and ſaid, O God, howIſa. 17. a Rom. 11. wonderful and incomprehenſible are thy works before all underſtanding of the fleſh!

3. Behold this miraculous work • come to paſs among us upon earth; becauſe that the Prophecie ſhould be fulfilledDan. 12. that was ſaid unto Daniel the Prophet in times paſt, come to paſs in theſe laſt times.

4. And I looked and behold Daniel who (according to the word of the Lord) had reſted a long time, even until this ſame laſt time,Dan. 12. ſtood up and appeared and came unto me, in his part and office, for to keep and execute the judgement againſt the abominations of deſolation which were grown up on the earth. And the Propheſies which (according to the word of the Lord) had remainedDa. 12. b. ſealed to all unto this laſt time, were opened, and their myſteries revealed in clearneſs.

5. And through this Revelation and opening or declaring of the Propheſies, I was greatly afraid. For inaſmuch as I ſaw no righteouſneſs of God to have the upper hand upon the earth. But that the iniquity, did4 Eſd. 14, 15. a. Math. 24. lord or bear rule generally, and Reigned on the earth, therefore was greatly perplexed, and altogether feeble and comfortleſs in my ſelf, fearing leaſt that I ſhould periſh with all the ungodly of the wicked world, for the manifold iniquities cauſe, which I beheld ſo to abound over the whole earth.

6. For through the opening of the Propheſies that were ſealed too, there was revealed unto me, that all thoſe that dwelt upon earth, were departed away or eſtrangedPſa. 14. a Rom. 3. b. from the living God and his truth. And moreover before theIſa. 29. b. opening of the Propheſies that were ſealed up, no man upon earth, how prudent or wiſe ſoever he was, had any underſtanding in God, nor yet had learned or underſtood any of Gods holy knowledge.

7. This ſame ſeemed before me very terrible, yea even to be a very horrible thing to look into, becauſe that the miſunderſtanding, or the ignorance touching the Being of God, and the ungodlyneſs had ſo multiplyed it ſelf upon earth; therefore was I very exceedingly afraid, and became marvellous faint-hearted and ſtrengthleſs; And I continued lamenting greatly over the ſame, and grew likewiſe altogether comfortleſs in my ſelf.

8. Now in the time while I was grown thus utterly void of comfort in my lamentation that I made, becauſe of the great wrong that I ſaw upon the earth, ſo did there appear in my ſightDan. 8, 9, 10. the Angel Gabriel, and he came unto me, but he continued not with me ſtill in my ſight.

9. But ſo long as he was with me, and that I beheld him, I was comforted by him; but when he departed from me, and that I ſaw him not, then had I no reſt, peace, or comfort in my ſoul: Alſo no people on earth could comfort me, ſaving only Gabriel.

10. For when he came unto me and talked with me, I was of good chear. And if Gabriel had not ſtrengthened or comforted me, then could I not have remained alive. For there was ſhewed unto me, both fearful and wonderful things: the like whereof I had never ſeen or heard before.

11. For the dead aroſe out ofEze. 37. Math. 27. the grave, and lived. And the ungodly made manifeſt their own condemnation through their unrighteouſneſs wherein they had lived unrighteouſly, and they deſcended into theApo. 9. a 20. b. bottomleſs pit to their condemnation for evermore.

12. I beheld the miſery of the ungodly, but I could have no compaſſion to the extending of any remorſe or pitty towards them,Apo. 18. c but rather rejoyced me for their infelicity and condemnations cauſe. For they were well worthyAp 16 a of the ſame, becauſe of their wickedneſs.

13. I alſo rejoyced me greatly1 Cor. 15. c. Apo. 20. a. in the Reſurrection of the righteous, becauſe I ſaw they roſe up ſo gloriouſly from death, and went into the everlaſting life: And for that their domination was with God and the Lamb; for I ſaw that they were both worthy of that, and likewiſe to Reign upon the earth.

14. With theſe Righteous ones, after that they were riſen, have I ſpoken, and eaten and drunk with them;Dan. 12. b Sapl. 3. a. Math. 13. c. their bodies gliſtred like the clearneſs of the Sun: And they have ſpoken ſecret things with me, namely of the myſticalneſs of God, of the Kingdom of heaven, of the true reſurrection of the Godly men, of their joy in the everlaſting life: And of the purging of the earth in the judgement of the dreadful Almighty God which cometh over all ungodlyJude 1. Being or nature.

15. The which Almighty God hath more made up him ſelf, and coming over the earth, he comethMal 3. a. with righteouſneſs (like as the ſame God hath ſpoken thereof by his ſervants the Prophets in times paſt) for to ſave his people, to the end that thoſe which are worthy of the Life, might live for evermore, and ſo may reign everlaſtingly uponApoc. 5.16, 18, 19, 20. the earth in all love: Alſo for to damn thoſe in the everlaſting death which are not his people: who for their wickedneſs cauſe are worthy of damnation and of death; To the end they may no longer reign upon the earth, with their unrighteouſneſs: But that they might be baniſhed or put away from the earth, and damned and buried in the hell, and that the bottomleſs Pit may even ſo with them be ſhut up, and their condemnation to endure for ever and ever.

WHen as I now beheld, ſuch a calamity of the deadly or damnable eſtate, hanging over the children of men for their ſins cauſe: and that ſuch a dreadful judgementHeb. 10. c of the Fires vehement cruelty, was coming unto them, to a ſuppreſſion of the enemies of God: And that ſuch an unfortunate ſtate of miſery (the which the Lord hath alſo let me ſee, taſte and feel) hung over their heads; Then was I ſore grieved and afflicted in my heart, in ſuch ſort that I became exceedingly diſmayed or uncaſed, and could well have vouchſafed, that there had been no man upon the earth, becauſe of the wo and grief which I ſaw coming over them for their ſins cauſe.

2. But that which did moſt of all grieve my heart, was this, that I perceived that all thoſe that were born upon earth out of blood, are out of their earthly birth, inclined toGen. 6.8. d. Pſal. 51 a. nothing elſe but iniquity: and with their unrighteouſneſs are minded to deſtruction. That their laſt is bent to nothing elſe but unto error; that they alſo are utterly ignorant in all Godly things: and that they therefore (if they become not in their underſtanding recovered, through the Love and her ſervice, or renewedIoh. 3. a Rom. 12. c Eph. 4. c. or born again in their Spirit) cannot eſcape the ſevere Judgement of God.

3. When I thus beheld the ſame according to the truth, that it was ſo utterly unknown unto all people of the earth, and that they did every one follow after the ſelf wiſdom of the fleſh to their condemnation, then was I much more grieved in my mind, and I bowed down my ſelf before the Majeſtie of God who is in heaven and ſaid;

4. O Lord God of heaven, Thou that art a God of the living, full of Grace and all goodneſs, and haſtSapi. 1. b. created all, whatſoever is any thing, becauſe it ſhould be, and that it might go well with the ſame: Seeing now thou haſt made up thy ſelf for to judge theAct. 17 d circuit of the earth with righteouſneſs; ſo be therefore gracious I beſeech thee, toIob 14. b. Pſal. 138. a. the work of thine own hands, to the end there may now in the laſt time, ſome ſouls remain over upon the earth, and thatIſa. 10. c. Rom 9. c. the remnant O God might be ſaved

5. Shew O God, thy mercie upon us, through thy bountiful Love Remember alſo that we all of us, out of our earthly births arePſa. 14. a. Rom. 3. b. an ignorant people, void of underſtanding, and by nature are clean contrary-minded unto thy wiſdom, and declining therefrom: And have no luſt or affection towards thy information, nor any pleaſure in the word of thy ſervants, which preſent or hold forth thy ſalvation unto us, under the obedience of thy Love, but we do all out of our earthly birth ſtand affected towards our ſelves, and do moſt gladly give ear to our ſelves and our own wiſdom of the fleſh, which floweth of our ſelf minded and fleſhly heart.

6. That is verily the ſin and the rebelliouſneſs or reſiſtance committed againſt thee O God, by all ſpirits of unregenerated men, and the contraryneſs againſt thee of all ſelfwiſe and good-thinking Scripture-learned ones.

7. Therefore O God rebuke and nurture us with thy Law or Ordinance, and with the Doctrine of thy Commandments, and humble our hearts to the obeying of thy holy gracious Word and ſervice of Love, that we may be reformed of our wicked or contrary nature, and become underſtanding acco • ding to the Law or Doctrine of thy Commandments whereby we may O God accompliſh thy will.

8. RebukePſal 6.38. a. Ier. 10. c. us not in thy wrath, and chaſten us not in thy diſpleaſure: but ſhake out the ſame over the ungodly, which are alwayes O God againſt thee, and like or allow not of thee.

9. Deſtroy us not ſo utterly all alike, that the the great horror of deſolation come not over us all to our deſtruction, but that there may yet a remnant find Grace before thee; And that they (even like as in the former timeGen. 6, 7, 8. of Noah) may now alſo in theſe laſt perilous times, remain preſerved.

BEhold the whileſt I ſtill lamented on this faſhion, the Angel Gabriel appeared unto me again, whom I had in my ſight before, and he ſtrengthened my mind: For I was grown almoſt paſt recoverie, by reaſon of my feebleneſs and faintheartedneſs.

2. Then when my heart was a little refreſhed, then was it ſaid unto me: Ariſe, and be of good chear; for thou haſt found grace before God the moſt highſt, to declare his ſalvation to the children of men, and alſo for to witneſs under the obedience of the Love,4 Glaſ. 33. unto the people upon the earth, the true God-ſervice which God regardeth, to the end that all thoſe which believe on the Love, and ſubmit themſelves thereunder, may be ſaved, and that thoſe likewiſe which refuſe the ſame, alſo withſtand the Love, and allow not of her ſervice, may juſtly receive their judgement unto condemnation.

3. Therefore turn now thy face again to the true remnant, namely to the Love, which is the moſt holy, which is kept and remained over, in heaven for an everlaſting reconcilement, touching the ſins of thoſe people which convert and ſubmit them under the Love: The true moſt holy, through which moſt holy of the living Tabernacle of God, (namely, in his ſervice miniſtred under the obedience of Love) the holy and the fore-front ſhallDan. 8. b be conſecrated and cleanſed again, the daily offering in the holy erected,Iſa 44.60, 61, 62, 65, 66. Ier. 33.30, 31, 33. Bar. 5. Eze. 36.37. Jeruſalem builded and Sion comforted.

4. The whole Iſrael ſhall likewiſe find Grace before the Lord, and obtain the ſalvation alſo come again to his Land of inheritance and reſt, and the ſalvation ſhall be made manifeſt unto all people; To the end that the whole world might not be accurſed, like as Sodom and Gomorah; Iſ. 1.10. c Rom. 9. c. but that there might yet a remnant be ſaved, and remain preſerved, even as the Lord hath ſpoken in times paſt.

5. When as now I had underſtood theſe things, I rejoyced me greatly, and my heart became glad, through the bountiful and entire love of God the Father, touching his great grace and mercie, to be ſhewed in the laſt time. Becauſe his rebuke and chaſtiſement endurethPſal. 30. a Iſa. 54. a. 4 Mic. 7. b but for a ſeaſon, which cometh to an end: And for that his love, grace and mercy continueth for ever. And in thatDeut. 4. d he forgetteth not his Covenant whichGe. 12.13 17.22, 26. he hath made with Abraham, Iſaac and Iacob, for to gather, and to ſet up through his Love, his choſen people, Iſrael like as in times paſt, he hath promiſed and aſſured unto their Fathers, byLuk. 1. g the mouth of his holy Prophets.

6. With that I turned my face again to the moſt holy, and behold that ſame remained undefiled and was notIer. 17. b, Lam. 5. b brought in deſolation. For Iſraels God who is a God of life, had hidden the ſame in heaven. And the heathen or uncircumciſed, which are captivated with manifold ignorances and errors, have not been therein at all; forIſa. 52. a Eze. 44. a no uncircumciſed one can come or enter into the ſame ſanctuary, nor behold his beauty, but it is reſerved and kept in ſtore for the Lords people Iſrael.

7. Yea the ſame coſtly Treaſures, the Riches of God, the moſt precious and moſt pure beauty hath God kept for Iſrael, to their ſalvation andIſa 60, 61. Ier. 31, 33. Eze. 36, 37. joy in the laſt times, to the end to reveal the ſalvation of life,Act. 12, a out of the heavenly being or eſſential eſtate.

8. In which moſt holy there are likewiſe remained over all the precious riches of God the Father, the unſpeakable Treaſure, which far ſurmounteth all manner of garniſhing of beauty, namelyExo 25. c Rom. 3. c Heb. 5 a the mercy ſeat prepared with the fine Gold; (which Seat continueth ſtanding for ever unmoveable) moreover theEx. 25, 26. Apo. 12 a. Ark of witneſs, wherein the Law of the Lord lieth, even as heDeut. 9. b. hath written the ſame with his own Finger, (which continueth for ever unbroken, unchangeable) And theEx. 16. a Pſal. 68. Sapi 16. c Ioh. 6. d. heavenly bread of life, even as God himſelf hath given the ſame from heaven unto his people to a ſatisfying their hunger, the which doth not conſume or waſt away, but remaineth ever uncorruptible for evermore, for a witneſs unto poſterities that their fore-fathers were fed out of heaven with the ſame bread: There are yet in the ſame moſt holy, the manifold coſtly veſſels, of the moſt holy riches, every one of the moſt fine Gold. All theſe were ſtill remained over, in their perfect beauty, and not one of them was polluted or defiled.

9. But this ſumptuous garniſhing and all theſe riches of the Godly heavenly beauty, have been hidden a long time, for the wickedneſs cauſe of the uncircumciſed, and they muſt alſo (inaſmuch as the iniquity grew on, even till4 Eſd. 5, a 14. b. 15. a. Math. 24. b ſhe was come to her full height, and had gotten the upper hand) neceſſarily remain hidden, becauſe they ſhould in the more beautious and glorious manner come to light and be revealed again, in the laſt time, namely when the iniquity of the uncircumciſed is even to her utter ending approached or come neer at hand.

10. Which iniquity ſhall now fall and periſh, through the revealing of theſe heavenly beauties; for God will with his Arm or ſtrength, and with the Arm of his Saints, and with all his ſumptuous garniſh, get the upper hand.

11. Wherewith he alſo ſheweth the juſt judgement of his Juſtice or righteouſneſs. ForIer. 30. the ungodly ſhall no more bear the dominion. And all whatſoever ſubmitteth not it ſelf under the Love, nor ſtandeth ſerviceable thereunto, ſhall be rooted out, that they corrupt none, or marr the earrh, any more.

12. But the Love ſhall flouriſh1 Cor. 15 everlaſtingly in her ſervice, becauſe that the Lords people Iſrael, which he himſelf hath choſen for hisDeut. 4. c 32. a Iſa. 19. c Ier. 51. c. own heritage, as likewiſe all good willing ones, which ſtand ſubmitted under the obedience of the Love, may be comforted: and ſo may behold everlaſtingly, the goodneſs or loving kindneſs of God his Father extended through his love: which bountiful goodneſs, the God of life hath foreſeen to accompliſh upon his people, even as he in times paſt hath ſpoken the ſame by Moſes his ſervant, and by the mouth of his holy Prophets.

ALthough now that the Levites, the Prieſts, the Prophets or Preachers, and alſo the people are all fallen or eſtranged from the true God-ſervice, and that the daily offering hath ceaſed for a long time, and the holy of the Tabernacle of God layn utterly waſte, with abominations of deſolation, yetIer 17. b Lam. 5 b is the moſt holy notwithſtanding remained over pure and unſpotted, and the high PrieſtHeb. 5 b 7. b 8 a 9 c which continueth a Prieſt for ever, is alſo found faithful and true, for he hath ſtill remained ſtedfaſt, in his mercy ſeat in the moſt holy.

2. They are all ſhrunk awayPſa. 14. a 53. a. Rom. 3. b. and changed themſelves, there is not one remained ſtanding, or righteous, but are all turned away, either to the right or to the left ſide, and many by reaſon of their ignorance, have born the ſtrange yoakes of the beautified God ſervices.

3. But this everlaſting Prieſt remaineth ſtedfaſt like a ſtony Rock, whoſe feat endureth fromPſa. 45. a Heb. 1. a. everlaſting to everlaſting, as a perpetual Saviour, to an eternal curing or reconcilement, for the ſins of his people; for his God hath annointed him to be an high Prieſt and a true Mediator betwixt God and man, and toHe. 7.8. a 9. a. b. c. be an everlaſting Miniſter, of the ſpiritual and heavenly goodneſs, to the end he might ſave the poor and miſerable man, who through ſins or offences lieth be wrapped in the death, and to make him alive through him: and to ſet him up againRom 8. b out of the death.

4. In which ſpiritual and heavenly ſervice, miniſtred under the obedience of the Love, the holy becometh conſecrated again by the ſame high Prieſt, namely1 Pet. 1 •• Heb. 9 b. the ſprinkling of his own blood for an everlaſting Teſtament, and ſo it is all waſhed and ſanctified or cleanſed through his blood.

5, That verily is the Goſpel of the Kingdom of God and Chriſt, and the New Teſtament,Mar. 16. b Apo. 14. a. that ſame was alſo publiſhed in times paſt, for an everlaſting forgiveneſs of ſins unto all thoſe that believe thereon.

6. Behold this high Prieſt is the life everlaſting, which was with the Father of life in the beginning, and is revealed unto us in the heaven, (namely in the boſom of his Father) and weIoh. 1. b. do behold his glory, even a glory as the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

7. We do witneſs alſo, that he is the true Meſſiah, or Chriſt, which was preached in the World in times paſt, and likewiſe publiſhed of him in his coming,Iſa. 9 a. Luk. 1. d. that he ſhould be a King or Prince over the houſe of Jacob for ever: of whoſe Kingdom alſo there ſhall be no end.

8. He is a Saviour to all people that believe on him: And theAct. 4.10. c. ſalvation is, or cometh only by him, and by none other, neither in heaven, nor yet upon the earth; for he isRom. 8 10. Iſa. 13. a. b. 1 Pet. 2. c. the end or the accompliſhment of the Law, upon whom all the Prophets of God have witneſſed from the beginning of the world, and he cometh in glory like as is written of him.

9. He it isIſ. 13. a. b 1 Per. 2. c. which ſuffereth for our ſins cauſe in the holy, and beareth our ſins, and ſo hath likeIoh. 10. b a faithful Shepherd, given over himſelf in the ſame holy to be an offering for the ſin, whereby1 Pe. 4. a to draw and arm us to the ſame mind, and ſo we to offer up our ſins through the daily offering in the holy, and to burn the ſame upon his holy Altar; The which is his croſs or patience in the holy.

10. So even thus doth Chriſt through himſelf (namely throughRom. 9. a Eph. 2. a. Col. 1 c. 2. b. the incorporating us into his death of the Croſs) prepare the life and peace for us, making us free, and waſhingHeb. 10. c. us from the evil conſcience. And ſo we obtain through him in that manner, a free entrance into the holy, for to accompliſh the God-ſervice in the holy, & to inherit the abundant riches of God the Father, and the everlaſting life: The which cometh unto us plentifully, and appeareth in cleerneſs, if that we for our parts, doMat. 16. c Luk. 9.14. c daily take up our Croſs with Chriſt, follow after him in the holy, and ſo becomeRom. 6 a baptized in his death,Rom. 4.5.8. a. to be an offering for the ſin, whereby to beCol. 2. b. juſtified from the ſin, through Faith, & that meerly by Grace, & not by Works.

11. Behold ſuch a manner of offering, and daily God-ſervice in the holy, is no doubt very convenient for us to uſe and perform. For ſo then, namely in the performance of the daily offering or God-ſervice in the holy, there appeareth or cometh to us in the ſpirit, the ſpiritual high Prieſt or Chriſt, according to the Spirit, who is not of this earth, neither of fleſh and blood, but of the heavenly God-head; & the ſame highHeb. 7, 8, 9, 10. Prieſt, is alſo very needful for us, becauſe he is faithful, and remaineth for ever.

12. Whoſe ſervice or high Prieſts office, is not outward according to the manner of the foregoing ſervice of the Elders, adminiſtred among the unregenerate or unrenwed men, as in the letter, and with the letter, or with ſpeakable words, but his ſervice cometh to paſs in the new birth of the inward ſpiritual and heavenly man.Heb. 7, 8, 9, 10. with the miniſtration of the ſpiritual and heavenly goods, according to the ſpiritual and heavenly Prieſt-office,

13. And to that end, (namely to bring men to the new birth of the inward ſpiritual heavenly man) have the outward miniſtrations of the Elders, the foregoing with the man,Gal 3. c. 4, 5 a under the which, he to the training up of him in all good nurture and order, is kept and taught, even unto the new birth in Jeſus Chriſt: through the which, he doth then likewiſe live, and walk inLuk. 1. g. all upright righteouſneſs, both inwardly before God, and outwardly among men: and to ſuch an uprightIoh. 3. a. Titus 3. b. birth, or the outward ſervices or adminiſtrations of the Godly teſtimonies of the holy Spirit of Love, a foregoing office, or2 Co. 3. a light unto the man, which witneſſeth, declareth and holdeth forth the godlineſs unto him as in a Glaſs. And ſo then the man, if he believe the requiring of the fore-going ſervice, and deſire to ſtand obedient thereunto, becometh prepared thereby to the ſame godlineſs, and taught to the Kingdom of heaven. And that is the ſame miniſtration, whichGal 3 c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. reacheth to the ſpiritual and true being in Jeſus Chriſt. And it is the upright Prieſts office, of the Elders of the holy underſtanding, which in its office or ſervice, hath the foregoing to theIoh. 3. a. 1 Cor. 4. b. Gal. 4. b. new birth in Jeſus Chriſt, as is already ſaid; which ſervices are all witneſſes and directions, unto the very true and ſpiritual office in the Spirit: And although the ſame ſervices, being miniſtred in the letter, and through the letter or ſerviceable word, do bring2 Co. 3. b a great illumination, and clearneſs, unto the unilluminated ones, yet are thoſe ſame for all that no more but a ſerviceable ſhaddow, proceeding from the ſpiritual and heavenly ſervice of the great glory and cleerneſs of Chriſt, in the inward being and form.

14. For Chriſt according to the Spirit hathHeb. 3.8.9. a. an higher function, or office, or a more excellent ſervice, and a greater ligh • or clearneſs, then hath all fleſh and blood, writing, letters, or ſpeakable words. For he is a Miniſter, or an high Prieſt in the Spirit,Heb. 8 a. 9. a. b. c. as a Miniſter of the ſpiritual and heavenly goods, as is before ſaid. For he himſelf is theHeb 1. a. right heir, in all the riches of God his eternal and Almighty Father.

15. Behold this high Prieſt is ſpirit and life, the trueIſa. 9. a▪ King and a faithful Lord, a peaceable prince: And not this or that without us: But heAct. 17. c is in us all which believe on him according to the truth: And we all which abide ſtedfaſt in the faith, have the life through him, who is neither unfaithful, nor falling away like unto a man. For he doth not ſhrink nor fall away either from us, or from his Father, but through the LoveMat. 28. c Ioh. 14 b. continueth with us, and with his Father for ever.

16. Alſo he is not changeable, in his office or miniſtration, like as are the children of men: who do one while ſetup one thing for an obedience, or for a God-ſervice, and that altogether without the ſervice of Chriſt and his Love; and then again ſome other thing, which directeth not to the true life of Chriſt, nor unto the upright being of his Love.

17. But his ſervice, will, and commandement, is both now preſently, and at all times, like as it was in the beginning, and it ſhall ſo remain unchangeable for evermore. For his Commandment, Will, and Precept, isDa. 6.10 Math 22. d Ioh 15 b. 1 Tim. 1. a nothing elſe but the love and the life of godlineſs: And that is the old commandment from the beginning:Ioh. 2. a And it is the new commandment, as being for to come, or for to be made manifeſt in this ſame laſt time, in the obedience of the requiring of the ſervice of Love.

18. Therefore ſeeing now that this high Prieſt, which is inviſible, but yet is known in the ſpirit, hath ſuch an unchangeable commandment or ſervice among us, in the miniſtration of the ſervice of his Love: So ſtandeth he likewiſe firm and immovable towards us in the ſame ſervice, to an everlaſting reconcilement for our ſins, as a true1 Tim. 2 a Heb. 9. b mediator betwixt God and us.

19. He himſelf alſo is partaker with us in ſuffering, touchingHeb. 2. b 5. a. our griefs, and purgeth us in his ſervice of Love, through himſelf, and through none other, or any other ſervices.

20. Therefore hath God likewiſe ſworn unto him,Pſa. 100. Heb. 7. c. and it ſhall not repent him) that he ſhall continue a Prieſt for ever. TheyPſa. 102. Iſa. 51. a. Heb. 1. b ſhall all become old, and become changed like a garment. ButPſal. 45 Heb. 1. a. his ſeat (as is aforeſaid) endureth and continueth from everlaſting to everlaſting: it is very true.

FOraſmuch now as that that God which dwelleth in the heavens, is through his bountiful Love, a revealing of the holy things unto us, out of an heavenly revelation in his ſervice of Love; therefore have we the more aſſured confidence on the ſame ſervice of Love: which very true ſervice is now in the laſt time come unto us for to miniſter, to a bleſſing and ſalvation of thoſe men, which are good of will, to the end that they ſhould all aſſemble them thereto. For the love in her ſervice, is theMat. 24. Luk. 17. d. bait or prey whereunto the Eagles ſhall reſort and aſſemble, and that to a unity in one band of the Love.

2. For it ſhall now, whatſoever in the Love loveth the peace and the righteouſneſs, aſſemble or come to the ſervice of the Love, and concordably incline them unto the ſame; for it is unpoſſible that it ſhould bide back: but that in thoſe dayes it ſhall all (namely, all whatſoever loveth righteouſneſs, and hath intended peace and love) joyn it ſelf to one, and not refuſe to have or uſe the unity in the Love with us.

3. Seeing that all my longing ſtandeth towards the ſame, therefore hath my heart ſeldom any reſt, by reaſon of my longing towards the ſame and for that the godly Baite (namely the right and true ſervice of Love) might have his miniſtration and declaring everywhere, whereby all Eagles, which hunger and thiriſt thereafter, might aſſemble them thereto. For thereunto doubtleſs, ſhall all thoſe which love or ſtand affected unto righteouſneſs, become aſſembled and comprehended, or knit in one Band of the Love with us.

4. They ſhall alſo give themſelves thereunto good-willingly, if they do but hear of ſuch an aſſembling, and unity in the Love, and that ſee into, know and Credit the ſame, let them be whereſoever they are, or whoſoever they be, whether the Jews, Chriſtians or Mahometans, heathen or of what generations, nations, ſects, factions, or religions ſoever they be; they ſhall all mutually, for the righteouſneſs and peaces cauſe, ſubmit themſelves with us under the Love. Becauſe that they might every one be incorporated to the uprightRo. 11. b ſtock of life, to the laud andEph. 1. b. praiſe of the glory of the living God.

5 Which glory of God, God hath prepared for himſelf now in the laſt time in the ſervice of his love, to the ſpreading abroad of his great name,Mal. 1. b for that his holy name may be known and magnified univerſally.

6. Before, or in the preſence of which ſervice of Love,Pſal. 31. b all blaſphemous tongues muſt become dumb, all wickedneſs grow aſhamed, and all pride ſubmit it ſelf, to the end that all that feareth God, loveth his Promiſes and hopeth thereon, may allow of or conſent unto the office or ſervice of Love, and aſſemble them to the Concord of our commonalty.

7. For the ſervice of love only ſhall flouriſh, under the which likewiſe all underſtanding ſhall to an obeying of the requiring of the ſaid ſervice of Love, give it ſelf2 Cor. 10. a. captive to an unity of peace, and to an incorporating unto the vertues in all Love.

8. Through which diſcerning, of the upright and true ſe vice, and of the aſſembling of the upright hearts to the ſame, I have figured forth, or witneſſed with theſe preſent writings and teſtimonies, the true Tabernacle of God, and his ſervices miniſtred under the obedience of the Love of Jeſus Chriſt, according to the life, (even as the ſame is by Gods grace revealed unto me) becauſe that we might all of us, according to the ſpirit come to thatRom. 12. a one manner of God-ſervice ofLuk. 1. g. upright righteouſneſs, which God • egardeth: alſo that all people which according to the ſpirit areEph. 2 4. ſtrangers and ignorant touching the true God and his ſervice, might look into the ſame, alſo come to1 Tim. 2 a. the knowledge of the truth, and be converted to the Love and her ſervice, whereby to walk in all love,Eph. 4. a. as children of peace, and as peaceable brethren.

9. But not in miſnurter and diſorderlineſs, according to the manner of the uncircumciſed heathen, nor in contention through ſelf-wiſdom, or Scripture-learnedneſs, nor yet in diſputing concerning the circumciſion or baptiſm, but in all diſcreetneſs and orderlyneſs of the upright life, according to the true circumciſion,Ier. 4 a Rom. 2. c Phil 3. a Col. 2. b. which cometh to paſs in the heart (the which is in laying away of the ſin in the fleſh) and according to the true baptiſm of theMath. 3. b Rom. 6. a Col. 2. b. holy Ghoſt, which cometh to paſs in the ſpirit, in a new life, of the true minde, full of all Love.

10. Therefore reſpect now well the upright Judgement in your hearts. For all hearts ſhall now in this laſt timeLuk. 2. d become manifeſt.

11. There ſhall alſo be found but one manner of heathen-ſhip, foreskin or uncircumciſion. And all hearts of the heathen or uncircumciſed, being without Jeruſalem, and Gods ſanctuary, and without the commonalty of Iſrael, or of Chriſt, (let them then hold what God-ſervices they will) ſhall through the foreskin of the ſinful fleſh, appear manifeſtly to be uncircumciſed, and to ſtand captivated with the diſobedient knowledgeIſa. 52. a Eze. 44 b. Of ſuch uncircumciſed ones there ſhall not one come into the ſanctuary.

12. In like manner, there ſhall alſo be found but one manner of circumciſion, Baptiſm,Iſa. 56. a Eze. 37. c. Ioh. 10. b and houſe of Iſrael or Chriſt; and all the Saints or holy ones of God, that are of the houſe of Iſrael or Chriſt, ſhall walk under the obedience of the Love, and have their fellowſhip with us within Jeruſalem, theApo. 21. a holy City of God from heaven.

13. And the ſame likewiſe ſhall be one manner of Tabernacle of God, or houſe of the Lord, wherein Gods light,Apo. 21. c Iſa. 60. yea he himſelf ſhineth as a light and cleerneſs unto his people Iſrael, becauſe that they all may even free without anguiſh, and without fear walk peaceably in his light.

14. From whoſe heartsIſa. 25 a 2 Cor. 3 b the foreskin of the ſinful fleſh, and of the diſobedient darkneſſes ſhall be put away; for the light that ariſeth over Jeruſalem, according to the promiſes,Iſ. 60 a. c ſhall ſhine about them all. Whereunto likewiſe all people that have a luſt to Iſraels God, and to his Law, ſtatutes and rights,Iſa. 2. a 11. b. 13. c. Mich. 4. a Zach. 8 c. ſhall be aſſembled, and offer or bring unto the glorious God in his holy Tabernacle, oblations and gifts,Iſ 5, 6. a Ier. 33. c Eze. 20 a Mal. 1 b. 3. c. Rom 12. a which are acceptable unto him, according to the ſame manner, like as in times paſt, God hath ſhewed and commanded the ſame unto Moſes his ſervant.

15. Which holy Tabernacle of God with his fore-front, holy, and moſt holy, together with his God-ſervices, of the Levitical Prieſts and ſacrifices, and the ſervice of the high Prieſts office, God hath in times paſt, ſet forth figuratively unto the people of Iſrael byEx. 25, 26, 27▪ 35, 40. the ſervice of Moſes and Aaron, or figured forth the ſame as ſhadows of the true being or ſubſtance of the ſpiritual or heavenly goods, which were revealed or ſhewed unto Moſes, to the endExo. 19, 20 a. Deut. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Pſal. 50. b. Jer. 7. c. Zach. 7. a. b. that they ſhould never more forget the being of the ſame, but continually remember it, and in the obedience of the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, ſhould wax zealous, and proceed on after the ſame.

BUT when the people of Iſrael did cleave or incline with their hearts wholly to the Figures, Images or ſhadows, and accepted and uſed the ſame for the upright God-ſervice it ſelf, in ſuch ſort as though God required the Images or ſhadows, and that they were not chiefly and above all inclined to the upright being of Chriſt it ſelf, which yet notwithſtanding God requireth thereby (wherein alſo the Figures, Images and Shadows do point) therefore hath God liked or allowed of none of their ſervices,Pſal 50, 51. b. Iſa. 1. b. 59. c. 66. a. Ier. 6.7. c. Mic. 6. a Zach. 7. a Mal. 1. a neither have they likewiſe pleaſed him, but have rather been unto him a loathſomneſs, and an utter miſliking.

2. Therefore hath God alſo had no luſt or pleaſure unto ſuch people, becauſe they ſerved the Images and Figures, and not their Lord their God only according to the truth, like as it ſtandeth commanded in the Law of the Lord, and is required by the Figures.

3. Which abuſe towards the Images and Shadows, God hath oftentimes rebuked, and witneſſed unto them by the mouth of his holy Prophets,Eze. 14. a Zac. 14. a that they ſhould turn them unto the Lord their God, from thoſe ſame Images, and thoſe their abominations, whom they ſerved with the delight of their hearts, againſt the requiring of the Law.

4. Even thus hath God many times, by his ſervants the Prophets, required the fruits of the Law, and the outward form and obſervation thereof, which many could not diſtinct or divide aſunder.

5. But ſeeing they were bewitched with the Images and Figures, and blinded by them, through their ignorance (which blindneſs was the uncircumciſion of the heart) ſo have they by that occaſion looked into, or eſteemed the ſervices of the Images or Figures to be Gods requiring, or to be the true God-ſervice it ſelf, and have accounted Gods Prophets, that pointed upon the very truth, or verity it ſelf which was required, to3 Ki. 22. c Ier. 8. a. 20: a 26. b. 32. a▪ be falſe, and many times have put them2 Par. 29. c. Math. 23. d to death.

6. Although they ſuppoſed themſelves now to be Gods ſervants, or to uſe and maintain the true God-ſervice: yet were they notwithſtanding in that their falſe uſe, the very right Idol-ſervices, obſerving the God-ſervices falſly.

7. Even ſo goeth it likewiſe with all thoſe which look into, or eſteem the outward God-ſervices, or the outward obedience, for the true being or real ſubſtance it ſelf, alſo do adminſter the ſame in that manner, and ſo go on therewith, and do not through thoſe ſame, or by their means turn them in the Spirit unto Almighty God.

8. Seeing now that the God of life doth not require the Images, Shadows, or Figures by the Law, but that which is the living, being or ſubſtance it ſelf; therefore hath he alſo at the laſt, out of the grace of his Love, which continueth for ever, revealedAct 2. a the true being through his Chriſt, unto his people Iſrael, like as the ſame was required by the Law, and by the Images, Figures, and Shadows, ſhewing cleerly and plainly thereby what is his will, even as he had in times paſt, through the ſervices and his Prophets both required it, and alſo as being to come, promiſed the ſame. In which time of the heavenly Revelation, and of the ſpiritual birth or generation of God, according to the Spirit, many in Iſrael rejoyced them.

9. Seeing now, that the reſurrection of the dead was come to the houſe of Iſrael, as that God raiſed up unto them his Chriſt,Act. 2 d. 3. b 10. c. 13. d 1 Cor. 15. as the firſtling riſen from death, therefore did many in thoſe dayes hope upon the comfort of Iſrael, orAct. 1. their reſtoring and ſetting up, even as God had fore-ſpoken the ſame by his ProphetEzek. 37. Ezekiel.

10. But the God of their Fathers, who forſaketh not his people Iſrael, neither forgetteth the ſame Covenant thatDeut. 4. Luk. 1. g. he made with their Fathers, hath preſerved or kept in his own ſecretneſs the time of his wonderful Works, and the mercy towards the dead of the houſe of Iſrael.

11. For in thoſe dayes many in Iſrael underſtood not the wonderful Works of God, nor yet the Grace towards ſalvation, that was opened or come unto them; But they became blinded, or eſtranged from the ſame and knew or underſtood not in what manner the reſtoring or ſetting up of Iſrael was to come to paſs; For God had ſtayed or reſerved the ſame reſtoring, becauſe he would in the laſt time, through the ſame, makeMal. 1. a his holy name known, glorious, and renowned among all the heathen, or people, according to the Promiſes, and ſo toIſa. 11. b Luk. 2. d reveal to his people Iſrael his Love, the Banner of true Righteouſneſs.

FOR which cauſe ſake, the grace of ſalvation, which was opened or come unto them from out of God, and theIoh. 1. a 1 Ioh. 1. a light and life, which was the Father, and which was revealed in Iſrael for a Chriſt of God, was publiſhed, or preached unto all people, for a witneſs of the reſurrection of the dead, and for a Goſpel, or a joyful Meſſage of the Kingdom. And moreover the Kingdom of the God of heaven became manifeſt in Iſrael, and was witneſſed both among them, and at Ieruſalem: as namely that that which they heard and ſaw, whenas the fiftieth day was fulfilled, were the wonderful Works of God, whereof Ioel the Prophet had ſpoken before,Ioel 2. c Act. 2. and it ſhall come to paſs ſaith God in the laſt dayes, when the end of theLuk. 21. ſuppreſſion of Ieruſalem is come, and the fulneſs of the heathen is come in or performed,Iſa 59. c Rom. 17. becauſe that all Iſrael in that ſort become ſaved, according to the Promiſes.

2. Wherein God now ſheweth, that he is not forgetful of his Covenant as he hathGen. 12, 13, 15, 17, 21, 22. made the ſame with Abraham, Iſaac and Iacob, and that he is a God of Abraham, and the God of his ſeed for evermore; Through whom he hath in times paſt made known his holy name, and will alſo in the laſt time make it known therethrough, according to the Promiſes. And they ſhall effectually perceive thatDeut. 3. d Iſa. 43, 44, 45, 48. he the God of Iſrael is only the Lord, and that beſides him there is no God more and that all heathen that fear not the ſame God, nor yet do learn to keep his Laws, Statutes, and Ri • es, are an ignorant people, without underſtanding, even as hitherto it hath appeared, among many multitudes of people or heathen, who through their own wiſdom (how ingenious and through-lighted or cleer of underſtanding ſoever they have been) have1 Cor. 1. b. not known or underſtood Gods holy wiſdom.

3. Therefore hath it pleaſed God toIſa. 29. 1 Cor. 1. b ſhame the world in her wiſdom to incompaſs or go beyond all choſen religions, in their ſelf-framed holyneſs, and to ſave his people through himſelf, becauſe he would eſtabliſh them all in his Love, to become a Temple for his holy dwelling: In the which1 Cor 3. Heb. 1. a God doth behold his beſt beloved whom he hath alwayes loved from the beginning; namely the very2 Cor. 4. Col. 1. b like being of his God-head, the which the God of life hath formed in the man from the beginning.

4. But alaſs this ſame is unknown unto many, or they are by reaſonGen. 3. a. of their fall and eſtranging from God, ſo covered with the darkneſſes, that they cannot, according to the ſpirit of the inward man, behold the being, or real form of their God. But when as the man, through the hearing and believing of the gracious word turneth him in the ſpirit2 Cor. 3. b. 4. a unto God, then becometh the fore-skin of his fleſh, or the covering of the ſin put off from his heart. ForIoh. 4 b 8. c. 14. a. God is a Spirit, a Light, or a Life, and is not otherwiſe known and beheld, but in his own ſpirit, light and life.

5. Now when the man turneth him (as aforeſaid) thereunto, under the obedience of his gracious Word, and ſervice of Love, the ſame like being cometh unto him in the ſpirit; thenEph. 5. b is the Image of God raiſed up in him, and awakened unto him in the ſpirit.

6. That ſame verily is the life, whereof the Kingly Prophet David hath ſpoken in time paſt, where he ſaith,Pſa. 17. b I will behold thy face in righteouſneſs, I will be ſatisfied when thine Image awaketh.

7. When the man turneth himſelf in the ſpirit,Eze 18 d. Ioel 2. b. unto God, as alſo humbleth himſelf with all his heart, to the holy and gracious Word, and is good of will to the obeying of the requiring of his ſervice of Love, then appeareth to him the difference between theLev. 10. b Eze. 44. c holy and unholy.

8. Now when the man turneth himſelf away from the unholy of the uncircumciſed hearts, and turneth him obediently to the holy, or to Gods ſanctuary of all God-fearing and circumciſed hearts, and wholly gives himſelf to enter into the ſame, and that ſoPro. 1. a Eccl. 1. b. 2. a the fear of the higheſt God gets a ſhape in him; then doth the right departing out from all heatheniſhneſs, and the entrance into the forefront of the true Tabernacle of God come to paſs even there with the ſame man. For he goeth out of the uncircumciſion into the circumciſion of theIer. 4 a foreskin of his heart: and receiveth in that ſort, through the ſervice of the holy and gracious Word, Gods Covenant of circumciſion in the fleſh.

9. In which ſervice of the holy and gracious Word, miniſtred in the fear of God, the fore-skin or covering of the darkneſſes wherewith all heathen are covered or grown uncircumciſed,The true fore-front of the holy and true Tabernacle of God, is the turning unto God in the fear of God, and ſo through the ſervice of the holy and gracious word, to ſeparate ones ſelf from all heatheniſh miſnurture, or to turn away or circumciſe ones heart from all wickedneſs, which fore-front in his ſervice, is the upright circumciſion, which maketh the right difference between the holy and unholy, and betwixt the circumciſed ones, the Lords people, and the uncircumciſed, or heathen. isIſa. 25. 2 Cor. 3. put off. The which is the laying away of the2 Pet. 2.4. a. Heb. 12. a ſin in the fleſh, whereby to ſhew due obedience, according to the Law of the Lord, namely to fear God uprightly, to deſire the good with fervency of heart, and to circumciſe or purge the heart, and all whatſoever is manly. The which isRom. 2. Phil. 3. Col. 2. b the true circumciſion that God regardeth

10. Finally that ſame is the fore-front of the true Tabernacle of God: and the right differenceLev. 10. b Eze. 44. betwixt the circumciſed, and the uncircumciſed heathen. Betwixt thoſe that fear God, and are good of will, and thoſe that fear not God, and are evil of will, andJer. 7. c. 11. a. 13, 18. ſo live according to the ſenſuality or ſelf-mindedneſs of their own deſires, or according to all manner of light-mindedneſs; as that are without rule, looſe, unbridled, or wilde of heart, and do neither love nor obtain any wiſdom, nor any holy knowledge; whoſe hearts take hold of nothing elſe but all manner of filthineſs.

11. But through the fearProv. 1. a Eccl. 1. c. 2. a of God, by means of the circumciſion of the heart, through the good will, the man cometh to the godly wiſdom, and holy knowledge, and ſo the fear of God driveth him to turn awayRom. 8. a from the ſin. And then proceeding forward, even to the holy he becometh juſtified from the ſin through the Faith, in the daily takingLu. 9 14. c up of his Croſs, in like ſuffering with Chriſt, till untoRo. 6. a. 8. b. the death of the ſin, which is the daily offering in the holy.

12. But now when the man is turnedEccl. 2. a unto God with a good will, in Godly fear, and under the obedience of the Love is coupled or joyned to a Commonalty of the Saints of God, then is he departed out of the heathenſhip, and hath at that time his converſation or fellowſhip with the adminiſtration and diſcipline of the holy Word, miniſtred betwixt the fore-front and the Altar of the holy offering, till that his offering and gift be (through Faith) begun or taken in hand, in the holy for a burnt offering; through which burning of the offering upon the holy Altar of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt in the holy,Iſa. 57. b Eph. 2. b the Peace betwixt the man and God the Father is prepared.

BUT for as much as this true God-ſervice in the holy, is not yet (according to the inward man in the ſpirit) known unto every one, nor underſtood according to the truth, and we do find many young and little ones of underſtanding, many feeble and weak ones, and many uncertain conſciences: all which notwithſtanding do ſtand bent and well-minded, with a good will towards the Love, and towards the holy underſtanding. So is therefore the life of righteouſneſs evidently witneſſed unto them out of the ſervice of Love, which teſtimonies of the truth, are likewiſe adminiſtred unto them through Doctrines, ſpeakable words, or with writing, (namely, unto thoſe that have turned from the heathenſhip, and ſo endeavour them to the obeying of the word and his ſervice, and which do fear God) with which ſervice, there is required of them, the obedience to the Love of the Father,Gal 3. c 4. a. Heb. 7. b. to a ſuſtaining of them, whereout ſome better thing is yet to be hoped for.

2. That ſame is verily the daily God-ſervice, which is well pleaſing unto the Lord, and the upright Ceremonies, which be miniſtred before the Lord, unto the God-fearing hearts, by the Miniſters of the holy word.

3. Which Miniſters with the ſame ſervice of the gracious and holy word, is the Levitical Prieſts office, wherethrough the ſlain-offering is prepared beforeJer. 33. b the Lord, among the little-ones, and ſinners, who bear ſorrow and grief for the ſins cauſe; alſo the burnt-offering is begun, and daily uſed, & the meat offering likewiſe kindled and offered up.

4. Which ſervice likewiſe of the Levitical Prieſts office alwayes ſtands or continues before the Lord, in the ſervice of his Love, as a mutual aſſiſtance and ſtrengthening for the little or weak ones: and that altogether in the Love to the ſerviceableneſs of the Congregations, for the ſins of the ignorant.

5. Which ſervice of the Levitical Prieſts office, God would not have required, if the man had not fallen into the ſin, but had ſtill walked uprightly in the light of God.

6. But foraſmuch as it hath not gone ſo with the man, therefore hath God, even of neceſſity, added the ſame ſervice unto his promiſes, for to inform therewith the unilluminated ones, the infirm, weak, and young ones, or little ones of underſtanding, who do yet oftentimes ſin, and are of little growth in Faith, and ſo to aſſiſt and ſerve them therewith for a certain time, betwixt the fore-front and the Altar, for an entrance unto them in the holy, & to bring unto the high or great God of heaven,Pſa. 11. d Iſa 56 a Mal. 1. b Rom. 11. a ſuch an offering as is delightful unto him.

7 Even thus become they all converted or turned away from the ſin, and ſuccoured or trayned up under the ſervice of the Love, to theLuk. 1. g Eph. 1. a knowledge of the upright life of the Juſt, to the end, that they may all become one, even as of one mindIoh. 17 c in the Love.

8. Now when one doth know the ſame life, according to ſuch an upright ſervice and nature of the Love, and is grown believing towards the ſame, then is there revealed and brought in the ſpirit unto the Believers, the boldneſs to enter into the holy, for to accompliſh the ſervice of God, and his requiring in the holy, like as God is requiring the ſame accompliſhment by the Law and the Prophets, and by the ſervice of the Elders in the holy underſtanding, which accompliſhment in the holy, is our offering in the offering of Chriſt, through hisHe. 9. b.c blood, which prepareth for us a new and living way.

9, Behold that is the true God-ſervice, through Chriſt in the holy, which is now by Gods grace opened and brought unto us, to the end to ſet up the righteouſneſs in the ſame through Faith, which is required by the Law and Ordinance of the Lord. For whatſoever isRom 8. a unpoſſible for the Law to do through works, that ſame is accompliſhed in Chriſt through Faith: whereby Chriſt is in that manner the accompliſhment of the Law: and erecteth the upright righteouſneſs among his Believers, and eſtabliſheth them in the ſame.

10. Therefore Chriſt is no breaker, but a fulfiller of the Law: forMat. 3. b Chriſt came not to make void, or break the Law and the Prophets, but to perform them, becauſe the righteouſneſs that is of value before God, may be made manifeſt through his light, to an everlaſting eſtabliſhment of the promiſes of God made unto the Fathers, whereby to waſh and cleanſe the man from his ſpotted orHeb. 9. b evil conſcience, that he might laud God with peace and joy.

11. But this daily God-ſervice betwixt the front and the Altar in the holy which is prepared and miniſtred by the ſervice of the holy and gracious Word, and by the Prieſts office out of Levy, or by the Elders in the holy underſtanding, is the ſervice which God hath added to hisRom. 4. b 5. c. 7. a. Promiſes made unto Abraham, to a ſtrengthening of the belief extending to the Promiſes; Becauſe the man ſhould with a good courage in the good and godly life of righteouſneſs, among the Elders in the holy underſtanding,Eph. 1. b 1 Pet. 2. a grow up therein to an eſtabliſhing of the Promiſes of God the Father.

12. In ſuch manner doubtleſs is the ſame ſervice of the holy Word, which is adminiſtred by the Elders in the holy underſtanding under the obedience of the Love, very profitable and furtherſome for the good-willingneſs, the while theyGal. 4. a. are yet little or young in the godly underſtanding: And for thoſe that like unto children, ſtand ſimply ſubmitted under the Love, to the end that no man ſhould err, through any ignorance, nor tye his heart to the imagination of his own ſpirit, but only have regard unto the ſervice of Love, to the obeying his requiring until that the daily God-ſervice in the holy be begun with him, and have his full courſe with him; Alſo till the true2 Pet. 2. b light come unto him, and the day likewiſe appear from on high, or as a cleerneſs of the morning ſtar ariſe in his heart, and that the everlaſtingIoh. 1. a life be come unto him in the ſpirit, according to the truth, and have2 Cor. 4. Gal. 4. b a ſhape in him, as a Kingdom of God or of Chriſt, which is the upright being, or real form it ſelf, full of all Love.

13. Till unto this ſame day (namely till that the light of life, as a true being, an upright righteouſneſs, be come unto the man) doth the daily God-ſervice for the ſins cauſe endure in the holy; ſo long alſo1 Co. 3. b remaineth the vail before the moſt holy, namely till the holy be performed, or miniſtred in his full courſe of miniſtration, with upright daily oblations, which are acceptable unto God.

14. But this daily offering, or gift which the man is Debtor to offer, in the holy, or that wherein God hath a pleaſure, is not alone the outward; for God hathPſ. 40.50. never willed nor required the ſame without the good will of the heart.

15. Therefore it is a ſpiritual offering, proceeding out ofPſal. 11. c Iſa. 57.66. a lowly and humble heart, and the beginning of the ſame upright offering ſoundeth even thus, in every man that is good-willing towards God, and towards his righteouſneſs,

16. O God I come, and have a luſt toPſa. 40. a Heb. 10. a do thy will.

17. Now when the man findeth himſelf thus minded, and deſireth to enter into the ſervice of Love, and his requiring, in this ſort is his heart prepared and altogether become willing toMat. 16. c Luk 9.14. c take up his Croſs, and obediently to follow after the1 Pet. 2. c crucified and killed Jeſus Chriſt, in the belief, under the obedience of his love, till unto his death, (even the death of the Croſs)Rom. 6. Col. 2. b. and to be baptized into the ſame death, whereby to enter even ſo into the life, out of the deadly ſin,Ioh. 3. a Rom. 6.8. b 2 Cor. 4. through the ſecond birth, from death. Wherethrough he is likewiſe made free,The true holy, of the holy and true Tabernacle of God, is the belief tending to the mortifying of the ſin, in the after following of Chriſt, till unto the ſecond birth from the death, (the which is the willing obedience of the belief) which holy and his ſervice, or obedience in the belief, wherein the death of the ſin cometh to paſs, is the very true holy, and the right difference between the moſt holy and the fore-front. or delivered from all chooſing of this or that according to his own will or pleaſure, ſaying with his whole heart;

18. O GOD,Act. 9 a WHAT wilt thou have me to do?

19. Behold in ſuch a mind, intent or inclination to the obedience of the belief, and to continueEccl. 2. a Math. 24. • ſtedfaſt therein till unto the death, and to the new birth from the death, conſiſteth the mans converſion to his God: and he becometh ſo clean turned about from his ſelfneſs, that he is like untoMat. 18. a 1 Pet. 2. a a new born babe, that hath no manner of ſelf-wiſdom or ſelf-willedneſs, but that liveth only that life that is given and brought unto him by God. In ſuch a manner is the man meet alſo to come into the KingdomIoh. 3 a of God, to enter thereinto.

20. But behold, with ſuch a heart and mind cometh the man unto theDeut. 6.10. b. 1 King. 15. true obedience, which God regardeth: And ſo through Faith he goeth out of all deadly corruption or perdition, and cometh into the life of his God, in the everlaſting immortality, in all Love: and is filled with all fulneſs of the holy Ghoſt,Rom. 8. b and inherriteth with Chriſt, all the treaſures & riches of God, and ofIſa. 33. a Col. 2. a the ſpiritual and heavenly goods: Thoſe verily are the promiſes of God the Father through Jeſus Chriſt, to the bleſſing of all the generations of the earth.

21. By this means, as is ſaid, the man cometh again to his ſoundneſs, and to hisIoh. 8. d precious freedom, whereuntoGen. 1. c Sap. 2. c Eccleſ. 17. a God hath created him from the beginning: as being unbound, or untyed from all vain and unprofitable things.

NOW when as the ſervice of the offering in the holy hath once had his full courſe, with ſuch a good will as is aforeſaid: and the debt-offering, ſin-offering, and death-offering, is all through the like-ſuffering of Chriſt, accompliſhed on the Altar, through the belief; thenIſa. 25 a Math. 27. 2 Cor. 3. b doth the vail, as opening aſunder, divide it ſelf from before the moſt holy: and ſo there is then diſcovered in the moſt holy, the mercy-ſeat, the Ark of witneſs, and the heavenly bread, with many coſtly treaſures pertaining to the moſt holy Sanctuary; and all that ſanctified likewiſe that is in the holy, with theHe. 9, 10. ſprinkling of the blood of Jeſus Chriſt the high Prieſt, for an everlaſting forgiveneſs of ſins.

2. That verily is the New Teſtament of the grace of God, touching the ſins of the people, even as God hath promiſed the ſame to the houſe of Iſrael, and to the houſe of Judah, for a ſtedfaſt and continuing Teſtament.

3. This high Prieſt over the houſe of God, is the old antient one in the holy and godly underſtanding, and is theCol. 1. firſt born of all creatures,Rom. 6 a Phil. 2. a who was ſlain with the death of the Croſs, and hath ſuffered in the holy, for the ſins cauſe: and is1 Cor. 15. c Col. 1. b as the firſtling riſen from the death, where-through he hath prepared the everlaſting life for all his Believers, which follow after him in the holyMat 16. c Rom 6. a 1 Pet. 2. till unto the death of his Croſs.

4. He himſelf verily is the Light and Life that is everlaſting, which wasIoh. 1. a Pſal. 210 a with the Father from the beginning, and is at the right hand of theHeb. 1. a Almighty, in the heavenly being or eſtate, who alſo as high Prieſt, entreth into the moſt holy, maketh alive his believers, fromRom. 8. b 1 Cor. 15. b Eph. 2. a. b Col. 1.2 b the death andEze. 36. c Iſa. 44. a Ioel 2. c Act. 2. b poureth forth the holy ſpirit of his love abundantly over them,The true, moſt holy of the holy and true Tabernacle of God, is the Love, the everlaſting life, and the perfection, from which moſt holy in his ſervice (that is in the making alive from the death, in the pouring out of the holy Ghoſt, and in miniſtring of the ſpiritual and heavenly good) the vale is put away, whereby to inherit the everlaſting life of God in his cleerneſs, in the ſame ſervice miniſtred under the obedience of the Love of the holy Ghoſt, which moſt holy in his ſervice, maketh right difference betwixt the living and the dead; for in that ſame ſervice doth the reſurrection of the righteous life from the death, come to paſs or is wrought; and that is the joy of life, proceeding out of the heavenly being in the Kingdom of God the Father, with Chriſt in the everlaſting life. to an everlaſting bleſſing; and that is the perfection of all that which goeth before, and the moſt holy of the true Tabernacle of God and Chriſt.

5. This high Prieſt in the moſt holy, (namely in the Love, the everlaſting life, and the perfection) is a KingPſa. 110. Heb. 5. a. b. c 7. c. 8. a and Prieſt for ever, according to the order of Melchizedeck, as an everlaſting Saviour unto to his people to their eternal reconciliation with God the Father, and he himſelf doth through himſelf, herit them, or make them heirs in the everlaſting life; and that is the eſtabliſhing of the true Teſtament, which continueth firm for ever before God the Father.

6. For through the light of the ſame Teſtament, is Gods Law, Ordinance, or Doctrine,Pſa. 40. a Iſa. 51. a Ier. 31. d Heb. 8.10. planted in the hearts of the Believers: and given unto them in their minds: And God remembreth no more of all their former ſins, and that is the eſtabliſhing of the promiſes of God the Father and of the belief of Jeſus Chriſt.

7. Among thoſe children of the New Teſtament, or holy Goſpel, the vail isIſa. 25. a 2 Cor 3. b put away from the moſt holy, and the precious garniſhings of the ſpiritual and heavenly goods, declared and brought unto them, as an everlaſting heritage of God and Chriſt: and they (namely) the children of the New Teſtament, be taught in that ſort to the Kingdom of God, and made heirs in the everlaſting life,Ro. 12. b Eph 4. a Col. 3. b 1 Pet. 3 a and have nor uſe any thing but Love, Peace and Unity one with other, and a good conſcience in Jeſus Chriſt through the holy Ghoſt, the Love of God the Father, which GodRom. 5. a Tit. 3. b hath poured abundantly into their hearts.

8. BeholdApo. 12 a that is the true Jeruſalem, which deſcended from heaven, and alſo the moſt holy of the true Tabernacle of God, which is prepared of God from everlaſting, and which by Gods grace is come unto us in this ſame laſt time: In the which Sion is eſtabliſhed,Iſa. 2. a Mich. 4. a out of the which the Law and the word of the Lord proceedeth:Iſa. 1 c Zach. 8. c And unto the which all people, which have a luſt toward God, ſhall aſſemble them, and rejoyce them therein, according to the Promiſes: For it is the Fountain of life full of all vertues, and the undiſturbableDan. 2. Kingdom full of all Love, peace and godlineſs, wherein that ſongApo. 19. a Allelu-jah, is ſung for an everlaſting ſong of laud unto God.

9 Behold this Kingdom full of all pure beauty, full of light and life, and full of all delightfulneſs and riches of God the Father and of Chriſt, hath been long hidden and unknown for the ſins cauſe of the people, by reaſon of which ſin, the children of men have not beheld this glorious cleerneſs, neither can they endure the beholding of the ſame delightful cleerneſs.

10 Becauſe now of this blindneſs of the darkneſs which hath covered the earth & becauſe of the unwillingneſs of the manly generation: therefore hath the eter. rich bountiful God been forced to reſerve or keep ſecret, all thoſe things in the holy and heavenly be • ng:Eph. 1. b which riches of God the Father, are now notwithſtanding coming unto all good willing ones, which love the peace for an everlaſting heritage, according to the Promiſes.

11. With which beauty of the heavenly riches of God, God is now in the laſt time a drawing of us all unto him, to wit all we which are good-willing towards him and his righteouſneſs, and which for the peaces cauſe do ſubmit our ſelves under the Love, whereby to make known unto us through his Love, and through the declaring of his heavenly riches, his holy will, to an health to the earth, and to the honour and glory of God: and verily now in the laſt times, to a joy and peace, in all love; to the end to prepare in that manner, under the obedience of the Love an everlaſting peace upon earth, according to the Promiſes.

12. ThereforeDeu. 32. a rejoyce you ye heavens and earth, which hope upon God: For beholdIſa. 62. the ſalvation of God is now come that it may be revealed, to thePſa. 112. a Eph. 1. b Heb. 1. b renewing of all things that are waxen old: forIſa. 61 66 2 Pet. 3 b Apo 21. a the new heaven, and the new earth, wherein righteouſneſs dwelleth, and which perpetually continue before God, upon which men have waited according to the Promiſes, do now come with triumph in glory.

13. In which very ſame time,Iſa 28. a the Lord will be a lovely crown and glorious garland unto his people that remain over: and a ſpirit of equity unto thoſe that ſet in Judgement, and a ſtrength unto thoſe which come again from the battle to the gates.

14. Even thus verily in thoſe daies ſhall God perform all good towards Iſrael, and eſtabliſh among them, all what he hath promiſed and covenanted to them in times paſt, by the mouth of his Prophets.

15. For the chaſtiſement executed for the ſins cauſe over the Lords people, and over the miſerable and comfortleſs ones, overIſa. 54. a whom all tempeſts do happen or come, ſhall ceaſe: and they ſhall revive all beauty, peace and delightfulneſs, and bePſal. 45 a 1 Ioh. 2 c annointed with the oyl or ointment of joy; for the Scripture, the Law, and the Prophets ſhall be fulfilled and not broken: and it ſhall come to paſs over the world, and alſo over the Lords people, even as it is written thereof: The Lord grant us mercy and lead us into his wayes, Amen.

HEre have we figured forth unto you, ye dearly beloved, a certain circle: In the which we have deſcribed unto you in writing, and figuratively ſet forth, both the way of the heathenſhip, or of the uncircumciſed ones,Mat. 7. b Luk. 13. c which leadeth or reacheth to the everlaſting death and condemnation, (whoſe death, being or eſtate, is the ſtrange being, before or in the ſight of the Lords people Iſrael) As alſo contrary wiſe, the ſimple and plain way,4 Eſd. 7 a Math. 7. of the good-willing hearts to the righteouſneſs, which leadeth to the entrance of the true Tabernacle of God in the ſpirit, and reacheth to the everlaſting life.

Pſal. 4 a2. If the man now have by Gods grace, gotten a good will to enter into the upright way, directing to the everlaſting life then muſt he with his heart,Iſa 51 b 2 Cor 6 b Apo. 18 a depart out of the heathenſhip or uncircumciſion, and out of the ſtraying being or nature, yea from all what is not any being of God, alſo ſeparate himſelf from the darkneſs, and turn himIſa 55. a Ier 18.25. a 35. b Ezek 18 d. Ioel 2. b to the Lord his God, namely to the God of life theIoh 1. true light, full of light and life, who hath created both him and all what is an thing,Luk. 1.2. b. c. likewiſe fear the ſame living God; and circumciſe his heart fromDeu. 10. b. 30 a all manner of darkneſs, namely from all abominations of deſolation, which do ſeparate the man from the living God.

3. See or annoint your eyes with eye-ſalve, that ye may ſee,Deu 1 • . b. Ier. 4. a circumciſe your ſelves, or put away the foreskin of your hearts, and continue not ſtiff-necked, for that ye may rightly underſtand and know the true life, which is a life unto you, and may live therein.

4. For even therefore, becauſe that the life might now in the ſame day, through ourDeu 30. b Eccleſ. 25. a moſt holy ſervlce of the Love, be underſtood from the death, and the light known from the darkneſs; So have we out of the Love to the righteouſneſs, deſcribed and figuratively ſet forth, even in the moſt evident manner, here in the ſame Circle, both theſe wayes, both of death and of the life, and all the ends whereunto each one hath his paſſage or courſe. The which the inward man entreth into, or liveth there, whether itExo. 18. Rom. 6.8. a be then the deadly ſins, extending to the eternal death, or elſe the righteouſneſs to the everlaſting life.

5. Hereunto next adjoyning, followeth the Figurative deſcription or declaration of the inward Tabernacle of God, according to the ſpirit, after the which we do treat at length in large manner of both theſe natures, which do bring in either the death or the life; and we have likewiſe ſignified or marked out by writing, the names both of the confuſed and of the Godly being or nature. Take it to heart, for it yieldeth to every one of us, either the death or the life.

THE true fore-front of the houſe of God, or of the true TabernacleDeu. 10. c Eccleſ. 1.26. is the fear of the living God, ſerving to a turning away from the ſin, and from all heatheniſh fooliſhneſs. Through whoſe ſervice, and through the obedience of the requiring thereof, the man becometh circumciſed in his heart, inHeb. 12. a 1 Pet. 24. a the laying away of the ſin in the fleſh, and to the obtaining of the knowledge of the truth of God, entreth into the way of peace.

2. For the ſame circumciſion of thePhi. 3. a Col. 2 b heart, is the true circumciſion which cometh to paſs in the ſpirit, and not in the letter, whoſe praiſe is not of man, but of God, Rom. 2. c.

3. ThereforeIer. 4 a circumciſe the foreskin of your hearts, and be not hence forth ſtiffnecked any longer, Deut. 10.8.

4. PloughEze. 10. b upon the new, and ſow not among the thorns; circumciſe you unto the Lord, and put away the foreskin of your hearts ye men of Judah, and ye people at Jeruſalem, Jer. 4. a.

5. There ſhall noneIſa. 52. Ioel. 3. come into the Lords ſanctuary that hath an uncircumciſed heart, and an uncircumciſed fleſh Eze. 44. b.

6. Therefore ſhall the Lord thy God circumciſe thy heart, and the heart of thy ſeed,Deu. 10. c Math. 22. that thou maiſt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy ſoul, that thou mayeſt live. Deut. 30.

7. If thouDeu. 10 c Iſa. 19 b wilt turn thee O Iſrael, then turn uno me, ſaith the Lord; and if thou wilt put awayJer. 15. b Zach 1. a Mal. 3. a thine abominations from before my face, then ſhalt thou not be driven out, but then ſhalt thou without hypocriſie, ſwear rightly and holily, (as true as the Lord liveth) and the heathen ſhall be bleſſed in him, and make their boaſt of him, Ier. 4. a.

8. Thou ſhalt fear the Lord thy GodMat. 4 b Luk. 4. a him ſhalt thou ſerve, him ſhalt thou cleave unto or depend upon, and ſwear by his name, he is thy praiſe and thy God: Deut. 6. a. 10. b

9. Behold the Heaven, and the Heaven of all Heavens, and the earth, and all what is therein, thatPſal 24. a Ier. 27 a is the Lords your God, O Iſrael and Iudah, Deut. 4. d yet hath he had notwithſtanding a luſt only to your Fathers, and loved them, and choſen their ſeed after them, namely you above all people, Deut. 10 b.

10. O all ye people, fear the ſame God, for he is that God which hath createdGen. 1. a Ioh. 1. a all whatſoever is any thing; for truly all heatheniſh bewitching is nothing but fooliſhneſs: Their wiſdom and Laws are meer error,Iſa. 44. a Ier. 10. a their Gods and God-ſervices are vain and unprofitable.

11. Therefore there is no God but Iſraels God, whoſe God-ſervices, Wiſdom, Ordinances, Statutes and Rights are alone upright, holy, and true, Deut. 4. a.

12. Happy is he that hath the ſame God to bePſa. 33. b 144. b his God, or which ſeeketh him with all his heart, Deut. 4. c. 30. a. Ier. 29. b. Sap. 1. a.

THE true holy of the houſe of God or of the true Tabernacle isRom. 5. a the belief of Chriſt unto Juſtification: through whoſe ſervice, and the obedience unto the requiring thereof, the man if he have a luſt with all his heart,Pſa. 40. a Heb. 10. a to do the Lords will, becometh Juſtified from the ſin. Alſo the way of his courſe of walking, preparedIſa. 40 a 57. b. to be an even path before the Lord. And the truth of God extending to the everlaſting life revealed unto him in the ſpirit.

2. Behold the Lord ſendeth forth hisMal. 3. a Math. 11. b Angel or Meſſenger, who in his ſervice prepareth the wayMath. 4 a Luk 1. b before him, and he goeth before, in the ſpirit or power of Elias, that he may turn the hearts of the Fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their Fathers, and the unbelievers to the prudence of the juſt, whereby to prepare an upright people for the Lord.

3. How delightful are the feet of the • o 10 b meſſengers that publiſh the peace from the mountains, preach a good Meſſage, and reveal the ſalvation? Iſa. 51. Nahum 2.

4. Leave off from the evil, and learn to do good: labour after that which is right and help the oppreſſed, Iſa. 1. b.

5. Let the ungodly leave off from his waiesEze. 18 33. b. and the evil doer from his imaginations, and turn him to the Lord, ſo ſhall he be merciful unto him, Iſa. 55. a.

6. Let every one turn him away from his wicked wayes, and amend his being or life, and ſo do that which is right, Ier. 7. a.

7. If the ungodly will turn him from all the ſins that he hath done, &c. Then ſhall he live and not dye; for the Lord deſireth not theEze. 33. b Sap. 1. b death of a ſinner, but much rather that he ſhould turn him and live, Eze. 18. d.

8. Repent now and amend you, that your ſins may be put out, Act. 3. b.

9. Lay away from you now,1 Pet. 1. b 4. a. according to the former walking the old man, which deſtroyeth through the luſt of error,Ro. 12. a and renew you in the ſpirit of your mind, and put ye on the new man which is formed like unto God, in upright righteouſneſs and holyneſs, Epheſ. 4. c.

10. But before all things, take hold of the Shield of Faith, with the which we may quench out all the fiery darts of the wicked enemy, Eph. 6. b.

11. Hold faſt what thou haſt, that no man bereave or take away thy Crown from thee, Apo. 3. b.

12. Whoſoever continueth ſteadfaſt unto the end, he ſhall be ſaved, Math. 24. b.

13. The Meſſenger or voice of the Angel, which crieth in the heart, Prepareſa. 40. a the way of the Lord, is the ſerviceable miniſtration of the gracious word of the Lord, which the Lord willeth to be miniſtred unto the man beforeAct. 3.17. c. his revealing of his great day. By which means in the grace and mercy of the Lord.Rom. 10. the belief, that very true holy, and theHeb. 10 b boldneſs to enter into the ſame, is prepared to ſerve the man to an accompliſhing of the ſervice in the ſaid holy: whereby the true fore-going ſervice might likewiſe be miniſtred unto the Believers in their converſion unto God, and in their doingMath. 3. upright fruits of repentance. Alſo to killRom 6. a Col. 2. b and bury the ſame, under the obedience of the belief. And through the baptiſing or waſhingRom. 6. a Col. 1 b in the death of Chriſt, to juſtifie the believing man from the ſin.

14. And ſo then after that, in fulfilling or accompliſhing the ſame fore-going ſervice, cometh theMat. 19. c Ioh. 3. b new birth from the death, through the annointing by our Saviour, who doth quite and clean take away or blot out theHeb 9. ſins of his people: and ſo in his ſpiritual office or heavenly miniſtration, ſerveth themHeb. 8. with the ſpiritual and heavenly goods, and leadeth them into the everlaſting life, and ſo bringeth the perfection unto them, or ſetteth up the ſame in them, and asHeb. 7, 8, 9. a chief Prieſt, declareth hisIſa. 27. a Math. 27. higheſt ſalvation unto them, in the moſt holy, (namely in the Love, which is the holy-Ghoſt) where through the vail betwixt the holy and the moſt holy, andIſa. 59. a Eph. 2. b Col. 2. a the portion betwixt God and the man departeth away, and of twoEph. 2. b. is made one, to wit the man and God.

15. That verily is the everlaſtingRom. 3. a 2 Cor. 5. c Col. 1. b Ioh. 2. a 4. b reconcilement of the man before his God: and ſo he cometh again to the ſeat of grace, and into the true light of the2 Cor. 3. b. 4. a clear ſhining of God, and into the everlaſting life, with thankſgiving and jo • ; the which is theIſa. 60. a Apo. 21. a true riſing of the light and life out of the high heaven in the ſpirit.

THE true vale before the moſt holy of the true Sanctuary of the Tabernacle of God,Heb 10. c is the fleſh of Chriſt, the which is before the cleerneſs of his uncovered naked being or ſubſtance, and before his ſpiritual and heavenly goods, andMat. 27. 2 Cor 3. b it departeth away therefrom, or openeth it ſelf aſunder, when the foregoing ſervice in theHeb 9 c holy is accompliſhed.

2. For the vail before the moſt holy cleerneſs of the Godly being of Jeſus Chriſt, and before his ſpiritual and heavenly goods, departeth not away from before the cleerneſs of the moſt holyHeb. 7, 8, 9.10. unleſs that the former God ſervice in the holy, have firſt his full courſe: the which is the accompliſhment of the daily God-ſervice in the holy; in theMat. 16. Luk. 9. c taking up of our Croſs, in the willing obedience to the belief, for to continue therein obediently, tillMat. 10.2 • . unto the end, that is till unto theRom. 6. a Phil. 2. b. death of the Croſs.

3. Which death of the Croſs of Chriſt, and to be implanted or incorporated into Chriſt, with the ſame like death, and ſoRom. 6. a Col. 2. b. baptiſed or waſhed into his death, is verily theMath. 28. Mar. 16 b upright Baptiſm unto ſalvation, wherein the man is rightly baptiſed or waſhed, according to the truth of the holy Scriptures; and ſo thenRom. 6. a out of the ſame death regenerateIoh. 3. b or born again, as a new Creature in Jeſus Chriſt.

4. For that the ſameTit. 3 b 1 Pet. 3. c baptiſm is the right font of regeneration, ſerving to the waſhing away of the ſin, wherethrough the believing man, who doth with Chriſt according to the fleſh, lay away, mortifie andRom. 6. a Col. 2. c. 3. a bury the ſin in the fleſh, is made alive again with Chriſt; and alſo according to the ſpirit, in uprightLuk 14. Eph. 1. a. 4. b righteouſneſs and holyneſs, and ſo through the ſecond birth, from the death, or the reſurrection of Chriſt, he becometh holy and altogether renewed in the ſpirit of his inward mind, and theAct. 2. b. holy Ghoſt poured upon him, in whom Chriſt alſo with the cleerneſs of his Godly being getteth2 Cor. 4. a Gal. 4. a a ſhape or form.

5. And that ſame verily, is1 Co. 13. b. 2 Cor. 3. b the cleerneſs of the true being, and of the holy ſpirit of Jeſus Chriſt, where through one beholdeth and inheriteth in the ſpirit the Love in her vertuous nature, that moſt holy, as likewiſe the fulneſs of the riches of God the Father, in the heavenly being or eſſential form.

6. Behold and conſider, that is the trueIoh. 11. c reſurrection from the death according to the Scripture,Ioh. 17. a through the which the living God of heaven and his Chriſt is known according to the Spirit and Truth.

7, It is true, the1 Cor. 15. c. ſame is ſown in the mortality, and it riſeth up in the immortality: And God giveth it a body after his own pleaſure, and that of the ſeed of his own body.

8. See that is the everlaſting life, againſt the death. And theEze. 13. b 1 Cor. 15. f Heb. 2. b conqueſt or victory againſt the Hell, and againſt all the enemies of the life, whereby all thoſe that follow after Chriſt, have or poſſeſs that life, andIoh. 10. b that in fulneſs.

9. That is verily theHeb. 3.4. a. Reſt of life, which God hath reſerved or kept, and is left in ſtore for the children of God, as a perpetual inheritance in the laſt time, according to the Promiſes.

THE true moſt holy of the inward Tabernacle or Sanctuary of God, is the Love; for thatRom. 13. Col. 3. b is the perfection,Rom. 6. a the incorporating into God in the ſpirit, theIoh. 17. everlaſting life,Col. 2. b and the fulneſs of all the riches of God.

2. If one now be notIoh. 1. a born anew, then can he not ſee the Kingdom of God, Ioh. 3.

3. Therefore if there be a new1 Pet. 2. a Gal. 6. c creature in Chriſt, then is the oldIſa. 43. c Apo. 21. periſhed or worn out; behold it is all become new, but that altogether of God, whoCol. 1. b hath reconciled us with himſelf through Jeſus Chriſt, 2 Cor. 5.

4. The Lord our Almighty God hath gottenApo 12. the Kingdom; let us rejoyce and be glad, and giveIoh. 9. him the honour: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his bride hath made her ready, and it is granted unto her to cloath her ſelf with white gliſtering ſilk, and the ſilk is the Juſtification of the Saints, Apo. 19.

5. The Members or Commonalty of the body of Chriſt in the love, which areAct. 2. Rom 8. b Eph. 1.4. c ſealed with Chriſt, in the true being, through the ſpirit of Love, isApo. 21. a living Tabernacle of God, wherein God liveth and worketh: In the which the fore-front, the holy and the moſt holy, is revealed or made known according to the ſpirit.

6. In which true Tabernacle of God alſo theDeut. 32. ſong of Moſes the ſervant of God, and the ſong of the Lamb is ſung, and it ſoundeth even thus.

7. Great and wonderful are thy Works Lord,Ier. 10. a thou Almighty God; righteous and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints; Lord, who ſhould not fear thee, and praiſe thy name? for thou onlyLevit. 19. art holy, Apo. 15.

8. Conſider now, how that the mans knowledge is but1 Cor. 13 a peicework, or a thing unperfect, the which among thoſe that do yet remain divided or as broken off is alſo divided, or as a thing broken off from the incorporating to the Love, the very perfect being or ſubſtance: In like manner is alſo the prophecying: yet are they both, namely the knowledge and the prophecying, ſerviceable unto the man in the fore-going ſervice, before the true being; and do witneſs unto him,Mat. 13. b Luk. 8. a as in a ſecret word, the cleerneſs of the Love or of the true being

TO the end now that all underſtandings might be ſatisfied, and that the Books of the myſtery, (namely the diſcerning into the being of God, or the holy of his Saints, and the diſcerning into the Devils being, or the abomination of deſolation of his wicked members) mightApo. 5. a not ſtill continue ſhut: Therefore will we, out of an inclination to the Love, diſcover, ſhew, or witneſs out of that ſight which we have in the truth, ſo much as we can, and perceive to be profitable, the beings and properties of them both, whereby we may alſo reveal the ſecret treaſure of the Devil,Apo. 9 12, 13, 16, 17. and the Dragon, or the Beaſt of the bottomleſs Pit, that falſe Prophet which hath ſeduced the whole world, and made her drunken with his unchaſtity, ſo to diſcloſe or diſplay in evident manner before the eyes of all people, that falſe and ungodly nature. And nakedly or apparently to ſhew, wherein he hath covered or hid himſelf hitherto in the world, with deceit and falſhood; And with what manner of form or property of his wicked members, he hath dwelt in the hearts and minds of men.

2. Wherethrough the man hath in ſo divers manners committed whoredom and AdulteryIer. 2. d 3. a. Eze. 16. c Eze. 4.5. a againſt his God, and ſo through the bewitching of his mind, wit, and thoughts, hath ſerved theAp. 9.13, 14, 16, 17. beaſt of the bottomleſs pit, honoured the Devil, and worſhipped the Dragon, even in that place, where he ſhouldDeut. 4.6. b Mat. 4 b. ſerve and honour his God only; by reaſon whereof, it is grown everywhere full of abominations of deſolation: the whichMat. 24. b 2 Theſ. 20. hath gotten and poſſeſſeth the holy place, like as the Prophet Daniel • an. 9. c hath ſpoken thereof, with which horrible faſhion or monſtrous diſpoſition of the enemies of God, the whole world is governed,Apo. 14. a 18. a. b and therein are all heathen drowned or overwhelmed.

3. Even thus hath the wicked corrupt nature, who laboureth to deſtroy it all, a long time held forth his own book, or his own wiſdom, as a book of life or conſolation before the man, for a delight or pleaſure unto him, and hath taken him captive, or bound him under the ſame, which book are the bands of the Devil, and the1 Pet. 2. a Apo. 20 a chains of darkneſs.

4. Therefore is the Lamb killedApo. 5.13. a. b from the beginning, and thruſt out of his Kingdom, and the ſtrangers have poſſeſſed hisPſa 78 a heritage with unrighteouſneſs: laid his Kingdom waſt with their abominations: trodden down the living book of the Lamb with feet: not willing or allowing that the man ſhould look into, read or live the ſame.

5. See in that manner is the mans upright underſtanding, of the truth ſtolen away from him, and he is turned into a corrupt or falſe underſtanding and into a lying being or eſtate: and the ſtrangers who through their falſhod have poſſeſſed the heritage of the Lamb, have alſo comforted the man, with a vain and falſe comfort: becauſe that the book of the Lamb might alwayes continue ſhut, and the ſeals thereof never to be opened;Apo 5 a for when as his ſeals be once opened,Apo. 6. b 20. b then cometh forth the Judgement according to the truth.

6. Now when the ſeals of the book of the Lamb be opened, and that the ſame book is read, then become the names of the Saints manifeſt, which are written in the Book of the Lamb: and through the Lamb, and the Saints illumination or brightneſs, there becometh likewiſe ſeen and known the great and manifold deceit of the wicked enemy, that Adverſary unto God.

7. Through which light of the Lamb, the enemy of God muſt loſe and leave the ſeat of his poſſeſſion: even thus is then his peace taken away from the earth; and he himſelf as a deſtroyer rejected on the earth, for to be deſtroyed, which hath eretimes corrupted and deſtroyed the earth.

8. Therethrough now cometh the killing upon earth, and the murthering among all ungodly ones, in ſuch ſort that through their impugning or reſiſtance againſt the Lamb, their puniſhment cometh over themſelves, and they fall to be many dead bodies upon the earth.

9. See in ſuch manner do then the KingdomsApo. 12 a of the world become the Lords, and his Chriſts, who ſhall raign for ever and ever: before whom all Elders or wiſdoms do fall down, and worſhip him which liveth for ever and ever: witneſſing and ſaying unto him,Apo 4. b Lord, thou art worthy to receive praiſe, honour and power; for thou haſt created every thing; and for thine own ſake, they have their being, and were created.

10. For ſeeing now, that Gods Judgement is • oh. 8. b acccording to the truth, and not according to the judgement of men, therefore do we find very truly, according to the truth, That Gods ſecret mind and judgement is far different from the mind and judgement of men.

11. Therefore it is in no wiſe poſſible for any man to know,1 Cor. 2. b or underſtand the truth, except that he ſhould firſt of all be or ſtand grounded therein according to the ſpirit: and that the truth as a light of life, repugning or ſtriving againſt his lyes, were riſen up unto him in his obeying of the requiring of the ſervice of Love: For in that ſort do we attain to know the truth from the lye, the life from the death, and the ſin from the righteouſneſs: Becauſe that we ſhould rightly or according to the truth, hate or reject that which is worthy to be hated or rejected; and according to the truth in like manner love that which is worthy to be loved: And ſo then might with a good underſtanding, come toEph. 4 b the knowledge of the right commonalty of Saints, whoſe names are written in theApo. 5.20, 21. b living Book of the Lamb.

12. Which Book of the Lamb, the myſticalneſs of God ſhall not alwayes remain ſhut, but his ſeals ſhall be opened, and the book being full of writing both without and within, ſhall likewiſe be read to a comfort of life, and to a perpetual Godlyneſs, unto all thoſe whoſe names are written in the Book of the Lamb, whoſe bodies are killed even like unto the Lamb: andApo. 6. b their blood cryeth vengeance in the height, upon thoſe that dwell upon the earth, unto whom the recompence thereof ſhall be made by God and the Lamb.

13. For although the Lamb be killed, yet ſhall he notwithſtanding condemn the living ungodly ones, and raiſe up thoſe that are hisEze 37. b Dan. 12 b Ioh 5. c 1 Cor. 15. f from the death out of the grave, and make them Lordly and glorious with himſelf over all his enemies, namely through his righteous judgement, to theMat. 25. c 2 Pet. 3 b condemnation of all ungodly ones, to the end that they may be rooted out, andApo. 18 a that it may be recompenced again even as they have done unto the Saints of God.

14. Even thus now from henceforth be reputed for a praiſe or an advancement, unto all that are his, whereby to keep the judgement againſt every one which hath brought forth ungodlyneſs, judged Gods truth falſly, and ſhewed no repentance; and to exhalt and garniſh his Saints above all what is upon the earth: forApo 5 b 1 Pet 1. b the Lamb hath bought them with his blood, out of all generations, people, and nations: He hath made them Kings and Prieſts unto God, and they ſhall raign upon the earth, and triumph in joy everlaſtingly with the Lamb; for they ſhall live for ever, and not dye any more.

15. And that ſame is the everlaſting life, which was preached in the world in times paſt, to the end that men ſhould believe on the ſame; And which alſo cometh unto us in the laſt time, in the reſurrection of the righteous dead ones.

THerefore give ear, O all ye that live upon the earth, conſider of the words of wiſdom, ye children of men. For the life, to the end that ye may live, is now publiſhed unto you likewiſe as well as unto the peopleGen. 6.18, 19. Exo. 3, 4. Deut. 3. in times paſt, becauſe that ye may ſhew repentance, aſſemble you with us, to the mercy ſeat of the love of Jeſus Chriſt, and enterHeb. 3.4. a. into the reſt which is reſerved for the children of God, inaſmuch as the entrance into the reſt of the Lord, and of his children or Saints of Jeſus Chriſt, cometh to paſs and is to be enjoyed now in the laſt time according to the Promiſes.

2. Therefore give ear attentively, that ye may once underſtand whereunto ye are created; and turn you to the ſame, if ye will remain preſerved, and not bide loſt for ever.

3. Apply your hearts unto the good, that ye may live, and not be buried in hell everlaſtlnglyPſa 55. Apo. 21, 22. with the ungodly.

4. Shew upright fruits of repentance, that ye may ſerve theDeut. 6. b Lord your God only, and walk in all love like children of peace. And halt no longer, neither3 Kin. 18. on the one ſide nor on the other.

5. For although that ye which covet after knowledge, do daily read many Scriptures or writings, whereout ye do alſo gather ſome ſentences, or get a certain kind of knowledge therethrough, wherein ye think to rejoyce your ſelves: Yet is not the ſame the life for all that; for it is neither the Scripture, nor yet the knowledge thereof,1 Cor. 8. that maketh us righteous, but the life of Jeſus Chriſt, wrought through the belief or faith.

6. For that ſame life isDeut. 30. Rom. 10. the word of God the Father, and the very true light, wherein we ſtand grounded, or whereon we are ſet for to believe the ſame, becauſe that we ſhould live, and notDeut. 5. Prov. 4 c turn or ſhrink therefrom with our mind, wits, memory or thoughts, neither to the right ſide nor to the left.

7. If ſo be now that ye ſtand not minded hereunto, as in tending to live in the Love, and to ſtand upright therein: to what end then do ye aſſemble together; and to what end do ye read the Scriptures? For if ye read the Scripture only for the knowledge ſake, and reſt unbelieving unto the life whereof the1 Ioh. 5. Scripture witneſſeth, then do ye3 Kl. 18. halt on both ſides, and break the bond of wedlock, and go a whoring with that which is not the life, namely that ye cleave unto that which ye neither are grounded in, nor created unto by God, neither yet called through Jeſus Chriſt, nor alſo through his ſervice of Love, miniſtred now in the laſt time.

8. But if ye will perform the Scriptures counſel, then follow the Scriptures counſel, Turn you to the life and to his ſervice of Love; And in the obedience of the requiring of the life of Jeſus Chriſt, and of his ſervice of Love, behold in the ſpirit your own being or eſtate; And conſider there inwardly in your ſelves, whether that your memory, wits, ſenſes, and thoughts, do in all their courſe or proceedings, ſtand minded to the true life of Jeſus Chriſt, and not run out after this or after that, for to go a whoring after that which is not the life it ſelf; and alſo whether that they being without the life, are bound or tyed unto any other thing that is not the life: And likewiſe whether they have or gather all their knowledge, wiſdom and underſtanding only out of the l fe of Jeſus Chriſt, and out of his love, and ſo do neither know, diſcern or underſtand any thing without the Life, and without his upright Love. For behold to ſuch a concord hath God joyned together the thoughts and the life.

9. This doubtleſs was the life of the man inGen. 1. b Joh. 1. a the beginning, for that the man ſhould live in peace and joy, and in all upright Love; and ſhould not know nor take on any thing without the ſame, but live only therein and not dye.

10. If ſo be now that the man knew nothing without the ſame forementioned life, nor took on any thing beſides the ſame whereon to tye his heart, wits, and thoughts or underſtanding: Then ſhould he know, taſte, and feel nothing elſe but all good. Alſo walk in all Love, Concord and Peace, and ſo haveGen. 1.2. b the whole earth in ſubjection under him: and govern uprightly to the life, all whatſoever is upon the earth, according to the commandment or word of the Lord.

11. For that ſame is the life, and the freedom of the manly generation, for the which many creatures do ſigh and long there-after; which upright freedom of the children of God, doth now come unto us, according to the Promiſes, becauſe that all manly creatures might aſſemble them with us to the ſame: rejoyce them with Godly joy in the ſame, and live in all truth and upright righteouſneſs.

12. Behold the ſame was unto the man in the beginningGen 2. a Phil. 3. b 4 Eſd. 8. f Apoc. 2. a a Tree of life, in the middſt of the Paradiſe of the Lord, for that he ſhould live, and thatSapl. 1. b it ſhould go well with all that which God had created.

13. But now when the man would know the good and the evil, and had eaten of the ſame tree, thenGen. 3 a taſted he both the life and the death, the which God had forbidden him, becauſe he ſhould not eat, nor taſt of any other thing, but of the good (that is of the life) and not feel any evil or death: but ſhould live unto his God in the life, for thatSap. 1. b it might go well both with himſelf, and alſo with all what God had created.

14. Whatſoever now therefore is taken on beſides the ſame good or life whereon we do witneſs, that is the evil, the death, or the deſtruction, the which God hath not willed that it ſhould be upon the earth, for that the man might ſtand perfected from all evil and deſtruction.

15. But now hath the man through that ſame, prepared to himſelf the driving forth out of the Paradiſe of God, and cauſed the peace to ceaſe upon the earth: alſo brought himſelf, and all what is upon the earth, intoGen. 3. b much calamity and miſery; and is utterly eſtranged from the way directing to the Tree of life, and ſo is taken captive in all kind of deadly and damnable fruits.

16. That verily is the knowledge of the good and evil, which he himſelf hath taken on: andDan. 9. Math. 24. 2 Theſ 2. it is the confuſed abomination which ſtandeth in the holy place, whereout all violence, calamity and grief is come upon the earth.

17. If the man now willEzek 14. a turn himſelf away from all the abominations of the wicked world, and humble him rightly under the Love and her ſervice, then ſhall he likewiſe through the adminiſtration of the holy word of the Lord, and his requiring, have his regard unto the inward upright life, whereon the word pointeth, (for that is Gods living being or ſubſtance it ſelf) and he ſhall alſo according to the requiring of the word, try or examine himſelf diligently in his inwardneſs, whether he can perceive, yet ſtill remaining there, any ungodly or deadly being, which is not the life, or that ſerveth not the life unto the life, but whichEph. 4. b is minded to deſtruction through the luſts of error.

18. So long then as the deſtruction, beſides th preſervation of the life, is looked neto, or eſteemed of by the man: and that likewiſe the death beſides the life, the evil beſides the good, and the bondage beſides the freedom, is known, taſted and felt: ſo ſhall the man in his obedience to the requiring of the word of the Lord, dailyMat. 10. d 16. c Mark. 8. Luk 9 14. take up his Croſs on him, with the life die the death or the evil, and bury the ſame according to the word of the Lord, and ſo ſhall he by means of following the life in his like behaviour orRo. 6. a Phil 3. b death of the Croſs, become planted into the ſame good life, who ſuffereth the death of the Croſs by the evil.

19. Out of which dying of the death, or of the evil (which death hath brought the death unto the life, and hath had the dominion over the ſame) the life riſeth up again, and cometh gloriouſly in Lordly manner, againſt all his enemies.

20. Even thus now, through the riſing up, or reſurrection of the upright life, out of the ſecond birth from the death the man alſo is raiſed upRo. 6. a from the death, (or born again out of the death) for that he might live, and not dye any more.

21. Upon which reſurrection of the dead, according to the Scripture, all Believers of the life do likewiſe hope and long thereafter; for the life ſhall ſwallow upEze. 13. 1 Cor. 15. the death in victory, in all his Believers, which be incorporated or planted into him, and ſo bring his enemy under him according to the Promiſes.

22. For all what is not the true life, that is againſt the true life: and whatſoever is againſt the true life, that is the death and the enmity unto the true life, is alſo an enimy unto God, and to the Lamb; which enmity is minded neither according to the true being or nature of God, nor of the Lamb, nor yet according to the upright righteouſneſs of the true life; which true being of God and of the Lamb, together with the upright righteouſneſs of the true life, ye may behold in the endleſsApo. 5.20. b book of the Lamb, which is full of writing, both without and within written with the finger of God: and it is the everlaſting life, whereon we do witneſs.

THen when as thou, O thou precious man, haſt looked into both theſe Natures, Books and writings inwardly according to the ſpirit, namely the ſtraying being of the wicked world, and the good being of God from eternity: which good being is theApo. 20, 21. b book of the Lamb, written by the God of life: beſides the which, the ſtraying being which deſtroyeth through the luſts of error is come in place, and written by the Devil (the Father of death) So judge then with the truth, which of them it is, that ought to have the ſuperiority or preheminence in us: for the od of life vouchſafeth unto us nothing elſe but all God, life, love, and peace.

2. Therefore let us be agreeably minded with the ſame good being of God, and Love the good being: for wherefore do ye receive and take unto you the deſtruction? and why will ye in perditional manner periſh in miſery and in unreſtfulneſs▪ O ye children of men, turn you to theDeu. 30. c life with humble hearts, and in like manner to the Love that ye may live.

3. Awake up I pray thee, O thou precious man; for behold death and life,Deut 3. b Eccleſ. 15. c Ier. 21. a evil and good, deſtruction and preſervation, damnation and ſalvation; the old wicked world in the which all wickedneſs dwelleth: and theIſa. 61. b 1 Pet. 3. b Apo. 21. a new good world in the which all love, peace and righteouſneſs dwelleth, is held forth or preſented unto thee, and figured out before thine eyes: therefore chooſe or incline thou now unto that which thou ſeeſt or knowſt to be Gods righteouſneſs, extending to the laud and praiſe of his glory; and apply thy ſelf to live only the ſame, thatDeut. 6. a o. b Math. 4. thou mayeſt ſerve and live unto the Lord thy God only.

4. If ſo be now therefore that any one do look into or eſteem the being of the Devil, the treaſury of iniquity,Sap. 2 4.14. b Rom. 1. c 2. a. and the form or faſhion of the wicked world, to be an upright life, tending to the praiſe and glory of God: and if it be the ſame whereunto God hath created the man, to have that raign over him, then let him incline and ſtick unto it, and ſerve the ſame only: and let him ſeparate himſelf from all what is contrary thereunto, and accompany him with thoſe that are of one mind with the iniquity, or with the wicked world, that he may beare or receive either his ſalvation or condemnation, with thoſe that are his own members, which are agreeably-minded with each other, and let him2 King. 18. c halt no longer on both ſides, nor feign nor diſſemble before the upright Love which is held forth and proffered unto him.

5. But if now any man do look into or eſteem the Being of God, or Treaſure of vertue, to be the ſalvation of men, tending to the land and praiſe of the godly glory, and ſo underſtandeth or perceiveth thatGen. 2. c Sap. 2. c Eccleſ. 17. a God hath created the man to that end that the ſame ſhould raign over him: So let him then likewiſe ſubmit himſelf obediently under the Love, and incline or cleave wholly to the ſame good being, even with a fervent good will, that he may ſerve the ſame only,Deut. 6. a 10. b. 30. a and live only unto the eternal God.

6. For to that purpoſe is the ſervice of the word, both by writing and by ſpeech, under the obedience of the Love adminiſtred unto men, to aſſiſt them to the life of God, and to the eternal truth, becauſe they ſhould live in the ſame truth and life, as in a Treaſure of vertue: and that altogether in a lively meek minded being or nature; but not to the end to catch, to ſnare, nor to bring any one into bondage therewith, or to2 Cor. 1. c 1 Pet. 1. a raign over his faith; O no, but in him free or at liberty, to yield to the obedience of the Love, and to the Luk. 1. g Eph. 1. a righteouſneſs of Faith, becauſe the righteouſneſs of Faith which God eſteemeth of, might by that means be ſet up in the belief under the obedience of the Love. And that the peace might appear upon the earth according to the Promiſes.

7. For that cauſe, to the end that the life of the eternal truth might be manifeſt, and that the mans underſtanding might be planted into the ſame life, therefore do we through our ſervice of the holy word, as by an inclination of the Love, take2 Cor. 10. a captive all underſtandings under the obedience of the Love.

8. To that end (namely for the Love and the good lifes ſake) ſhall men alſo hear and believe the ſervice of the holy and gracious word, adminiſtred under the Love. But with their ſpirits theyIſa 53. 2 Cor. 6. b ſhall depart out of the evil, or that which is perditionable, and enter into the vertue of the life.

9. For the outward writings or ſpeakable words, which be teſtified or miniſtred unto the man, out of the inclination of the Love to do him ſervice and ſtretch to the incorporating of him into the vertuous nature, are all figurings forth of the upright righteouſneſs and godly word, who in their ſervice do go before the man, and guide him to the living book of the Lamb, which lieth hidden inApo. 12. a the Ark of witneſs, namely within our hearts and conſciences; for there inwardly in the ſpirit, is the life of God formed, or written according to the truth.

10. And that ſame life of God is theApo. 5. a book which John ſaw in his Revelation, which was full of writing both without and within, and which alſo was ſhut or made faſt with ſeven ſeals, for which books ſake John wept, becauſe there was none found worthy, neither in heaven nor upon the earth, to open, to read, nor to look into the ſame book.

11. Howbeit in the midſt among the Elders or wiſe, there ſtood a Lamb in manner as though it was killed: and he took the book unto him, and all propheſies teſtified of him with triumph and joy, ſaying, ThouApo. 5. d art worthy to receive the book, and to open his ſeals: for thou being killed, haſt bought us with thy blood.

12. John hath alſo heard a voice of many Angels,Dan. 7. b Apo. 5. b whoſe number is many thouſands of thouſands, ſaying with a mighty great voice, the the Lamb that was killed, is worthy to receive power, riches, wiſdom, ſtrength, honour, praiſe, and bleſſing.

13. Behold this living book of the Lamb, is a book of ſpirit and life, and 2 Cor. 3. a not a book of the ſinful fleſh and death; for it is theEph. 5. c Apo. 14. commonalty of the Lamb in the ſpirit.

14. Which Lamb is the living being of God it ſelf; the which was driven toIſa. 53. b 1 Pet. 2. a ſuffer: and the book of life occaſioned to be ſhutApo. 5. a with ſeven ſeals, becauſe of the great Dragon, which is theApo. 12. murderly beaſt, namely the ſelf wiſdom of the fleſh, untoDan. 7. Apo 11.13. a whom power hath been permitted to kill the Saints of God; but the ſame power is now even in the uttermoſt or laſt time,Apo. 17.19, 20. b taken away from her; for God ſhoweth his power and dominion againſt the ſame, in the reſtoring or ſetting up again of his Saints,Eze. 37. Dan. 12. Apo. 2. whom he raiſeth from the death.

15. Verily now it ſhall no longer prevail with the Dragon, how murderly ſoever the beaſt be, neither ſhall her Kingdom which is full of abominations proſper any longer: for herApo. 18. ſins are aſcended up, even unto heaven; and now ſhall her deſcending or fall be even into the bottomleſs pit.

16. For the ſelf-wiſdom, or ſelf-mind of the fleſh, which hath exalted her ſelf very high, againſt the Lamb, even as though ſhe were Gods wiſdom,Apo. 5.13. b hath killed the Lamb from the beginning of the world and likewiſe his members theApo. 6.12 b 16. a innocent guiltleſs blood, and ſo for a time hath gotten the upper hand upon the earth; but now muſt ſhe fall and go under: whereas contrarywiſe the Saints of God ſhallApo. raign for ever according to the Promiſes.

SEing now that the Saints of God haveApo 6.12, 13, 16. ſuffered with the Lamb for a certain time, and have been killed upon the earth, therefore is the book of the beaſt moſt loved and read everywhere, &Apo. 17. b 18. a men have lived according thereto; but foraſmuch as it is all now made manifeſt, through the1 Cor. 4. a light or day of the Lord, ſo becometh the book of the Apo. 18, 19, 20. beaſt to be found a falſe book, full of deceit and ſubtile falſhood, whereunto alſo all falſe men, all wicked hearts of the Scripture-learned ones, and all falſe ſetters forth, and preferrers of religion, have their luſt and affection bent.

2. For of all the names of her felfneſs or private holyneſs, and of all her falſe hearts and Scripture-learned ones, together with all the nature of the heatheniſh diſtraughtneſs who do every one even joyntly with each other, ſerve and worſhip the beaſt; there is notApo. 13.17. a. 20, 21. b one written in the living book of the Lamb; for the names of the people that ſerve and worſhip the beaſt, (whereby the Dragon hath had the dominion) are 2 Pet. 2. all names of darkneſs, and of the good thinking wiſe, and diſobedient ones, and are all likewiſe1 Ti. 4 a ſpirits of errour, as being all one, and of one manner of ſubſtance, according to one manner of nature.

3. That ſame verily is the cord or chain of darkneſs, or the band of the Devil, wherein all good thinking wiſe ones, and falſe hearts which do neither fear the living God of Iſrael, nor ſtand obedient to his requiring, are captived or caught, bewitched therewith, tyed thereunto, and2 Pet. 2. a. b. Apo. 20. b led with the ſame, even into Hell; the which is the everlaſting death and damnation: from the which God hath willed that the man ſhould keep himſelf, and ſerve only the living God; thatEze 18. d he might not dye, but that it might everlaſtingly go well with him, and that he might live.

4. The names of the people of the evil & wicked world,The wicked world with her ſervants and fellow-companions. who are written in the book of the Dragon, that murderly beaſt, are theſe, envy, diviſion, contention or diſcord, high-mindedneſs or pride, ſubtilty, deceit, craftineſs, unquietneſs, cruelty, arrogancy, diſorderlyneſs, maſterfulneſs, miſchieveouſly diſpoſed violence, honour or vain-glory, ſtubbornneſs, reſiſtance unto Gods nature in all diſobedience, wrathfulneſs, preſumptuous boldneſs, churliſhneſs, bitterneſs, maliciouſneſs, commotion or uproar, treachery, ſtriving, fighting, perſecuting, lying, war or battle, vexing or troubling, curſing, ſwearing, deſtroying, ſpoyling, oppreſſing, killing, murdering, diſhoneſt dealing, unreaſonableneſs or injuſtice, gluttony, unchaſtity, who • edom, adultery, knavery, buggery, thievery, unprofitable ſearching, high vain boaſting, ambition, diſſembling, hypocriſie, Sectuariſhneſs, framed or choſen holyneſs, idolatry, falſe God ſervices, falſe Laws, blaſphemy, ſelf-wiſdom, ſwelling in minde, curiouſneſs, ſelf-mindedneſs, unadviſedneſs, mens commandments, giving credit to the imaginations of the good thinking in the ſpirit, unbelief to the gracious word of the Lord, deſpair, doubtfulneſs, accuſing, ignorance, bondage of the heart to ſomething without the nature or being of God, vain comfort, ſlothfulneſs, mens fear, covetouſneſs, niggardlyneſs, undiſcreetneſs, ſcoffing, or mocking, diſ-favour, ſelf-Love.

5. There is yet moreoverRom 1. d 1 Pet. 2. a back-biting or evil reporting of others, whereby to make them ſeem odious and contemptible before the people, and to cauſe themſelves to be had in favour and well-liked of.

6. Behold, ſuch a nature hath the partial Back b ter, who doth yet oftentimes for all that, greatly bewitch the people with his abominations, as with a ſhow of holyneſs: which witchcraft is full of fooliſhneſs, and is an unprofitable deluſion, even like as are all vain games alſo, table-playing maskings or mummeries, &c. and are alſo unedifying, even like as are all mannerEph. 5 a of rude, light behaviour, diſorderly toying, and unſeemly jeſting: all which likewiſe are names of the people of the wicked world; furthermore there is alſo death, darkneſs, falſe ſpirits, devil, hell and condemnation, &c.

7. Theſe and ſuch like are the abominations before God, and the pernitious miſchief, to a deſtruction over the children of men; and for one to yield or apply his heart hereunto, is the falling off, and the turning away from God.

8. That is finally the perverſe and wicked nature,Deut. 32. a. c. which hath corrupted every thing, and ſtoln from the man, and quite defaced in him the mind of his God, and corrupted his underſtanding, through the affection born to the knowledge of good and evil; by which manner the noble underſtanding of man is become bewitched with the abundant lying being, in ſuch ſort that the man can very little underſtandDeut, 32. Iſa. 44. Ier. 5.8. a or comprehend; for it entreth too too little into the conſideration of his heart, for to come rightly to the converſion, or turning again to his God; for be continueth even generally, cleaving faſt, and depending with his heart upon one thing or other that is not God; becauſe he doth not quite and clean forſake the Idols and their ſervices, nor thruſt nor chaſe them out of the Temple of his inward mind: But ſtands affected either to this or to that, according to the imagination of his own underſtanding: and ſo ſerveth the God-ſervice, or God himſelf falſly.

9. That ſame is it verily which God hath oftentimes rebuked by the mouth of his Prophets,Iſa 1 b 28. b. 29. 57. b. 58. a. 59. a. b. Ier 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Eze. 5, 6. Amos 1. b Mich. 6. a becauſe that the people of Iſrael, (when they would ſeem to turn them, and to uſe God-ſervices) did alwayes incline their hearts towards one thing or another that was not God: and ſerved that which God never commanded or required.

10. Therefore hath God alſo in times paſt, witneſſed unto them by the Prophet Jeremiah, (which mind of God remaineth perpetually; for thus ſaith the Lord as an everlaſting continuing word,)

11. O Iſrael,Ier. 4 a. if thou wilt turn thee, then turn thee unto me, ſaith the Lord: And if thou wilt put away thy abominations from before my face, then ſhalt thou not be caſt out: At that time ſhalt thou ſwear uprightly, and holily without hypocriſie, (as true as the Lord liveth) and the heathen ſhall be bleſſed in the Lord, and make their boaſt of him.

BUT if any one now ſhould determine in his heart, to turn him unto God, to cleave unto the Love, and to enter into the Kingdom of God; and yet for all that doth with his will, hold his heart tyed unto any thing of all the abominations above named, he doubtleſs cannot come to the Kingdom of God, nor be perfectly incorporated to the being of the righteous ſpirit, and of the Love, neither yet can his name be writtenApo. 5. b in the living book of the Lamb, with the commonalty of the Love, which Book is in the right hand of him▪ that liveth from everlaſting to everlaſting; which commonalty of the Love (whoſe names are written in the living book of the Lamb) is very lovely, delightful and peaceable, and with them alſo is our fellowſhip, through the Love of God the Father, and by reaſon of his mercy ſhewed on us.

2. And with the ſame commonalty, all thoſe likewiſe have their fellowſhip, which do humble themſelves with us, under the Love and her ſervice: and through the ſervice of Love, do hear, believe, and ſtand obedient to the holy Doctrine and godly information, (whereby to become underſtanding through the wiſdom and holy knowledge thereof) and ſo do intirely love, exerciſe and aſſiſt the ſame ſervice of Love, for that it might be ſpread abroad generally among many.

3 Howbeit, not according to every ones ſelf-mindedneſs, or drift of his own mind, as in a Love towards himſelf, according to his own proper knowledge,Deu 12. a or good-thinking, but to come to one manner of obedience, under the true Love of God the Father; and that altogether to anEph. 1. a unity in the peace; alſo not with any diviſion of heart, but for to become of one mind with each other through the Love: to the endIſa. 57. b Luk. 10. a that the peace, in that ſort might be prepared, concordable upon the earth, under the obedience of the Love, according to the Promiſes, and that all our names might be written in the book of the Lamb: and that we might be partakers of the being or nature of the ſame commonalty of Saints, whoſe names are written in that ſame Book, and might have our fellowſhip with the Lamb and his Saints.

4. Unto which Book of life, and his holy writings, we do humble our ſelves under the Love and her requiring, and ſo do learn of the Love the true humility, andMath. 11. c meekneſs of heart, according to the wiſdom of all thoſe whoſe names are written in the living book of the Lamb, in as much as their wiſdom only is delightful unto the God of life.

The new good world, with her ſervants and fellow-companions.5. For in that ſame Book of the Lamb, (whereunto all our hope and longing ſtandeth) that it might even with fervent affection and good-willingneſs of heart be looked into and be read by many, there is written and found therein,Gal. 5. c Eph. 4 a Col. 3. b 1 Pet. 3. b Love, peace, joy, Gods will or Law, heavenly truth, faith, righteouſneſs, meekneſs, gentelneſs, friendlyneſs, long ſuffering, patience, fear of the higheſt God, underſtanding and wiſdom.

6. All theſe forementioned Saints have a luſt even with whole heart for to procure and prepare all thoſe which love the good life, and the everlaſting truth, unto the Love, for that they might every one become aſſembled together under the Love; and it might even ſo both inwardly and outwardly go well with all people which live under the Love, and that altogether in unpartial love.

7. Which upright commonalty of Saints, is not inclined to raign over one another, but to ſtand ſerviceable one towards another; and alſo towards all thoſe which ſubmit themſelves with them under the obedience of the Love, becauſe that the holy underſtanding, and the knowledge of every good exerciſe, might asEph. 2. c 1 Pet. 2. a a perfect good building, come to light, or be made manifeſt under the obedience of the love.

8. Behold ſuch a nature and upright ſervice of unpartial love, have all thoſe, whoſe names are written in the living book of the Lamb: which ſervice ſtretcheth not to a renting and ſcattering, like as the falſe ſervices, according to the nature of the hearts of the ſelf-love, do ſtretch and have their drift thereunto, who do ſerve and live only unto themſelves, in a private mind of ſelf-love. O no; for the children of the upright Love do neither rend nor ſcatter, but gather together.

9. Alſo they ſeek not1 Cor. 10. c their ſelf-neſs, but much rather that every one might be nouriſhed and fed out of the Love and her ſervice, for to become a commodable Kingdom of the Love, and that the one may ſerve the other to that effect; for that is might go well with every one, and that altogether in the Love, and in the peace of Jeſus Chriſt.

10. Furthermore there is written in the ſame book of the Lamb foreſightfulneſs, quietneſs, natural equity, lowlyneſs of heart, conſtancy,2 Pet. 1 a diſcreetneſs, meaſurableneſs, orderlyneſs, contentedneſs, open-heartedneſs, ſimplicity, juſtneſs or uprightneſs, good-willingneſs,Mat. 5. a 1 Tim. 1. a purity of heart, clean conſcience, honeſty, civility or modeſty, obedience, concord, ſtedfaſtneſs, kind-heartedneſs,Phil. 4. a helpfulneſs, ſerviceableneſs to the vertue, peaceable converſation, Gods praiſe, laud, glory, eternal life, and heavenly delightfulneſs, &c.

11. Now for to have our fellowſhip with the ſame commonalty of the upright Saints of God,Ge. 1.2. b thereunto doubtleſs was the man created from the beginning, becauſe that ſuch a precious excellency, and ſuch a Kingly Crown of delightful beauty ſhould have the dominion over him.

12. For thoſe ſame and all they which are like unto them of nature and diſpoſition, their names verily are every one written in the living Book of the Lamb, who do neither worſhip, honour, or ſerve theApo. 13. a Dragon, or the high-minded beaſt: for the name of the moſt high God is written upon them, which God only they doApo. 7. b. 21, 22. a ſerve, honour, and worſhip from everlaſting to everlaſting: they ſtand all likewiſe as lights of life, in the beholding of God their Father.

13. Behold that ſame holy people of God or Chriſt, (or ſuch like) is theIſa. 64. a houſe of Iſrael,Eph. 2. b. the Citizen-ſhip of Jeruſalem, and the family of Love, and they are every one likewiſe the trueIſa. 66. b children of Sion, where the God of life hath his holy Tabernacle, in whomLev. 16. 2 Cor. 6. b he dwelleth, liveth, and walketh: And they ſhall be the Lords people for ever and ever. And he himſelf, God with them will be their God, andApo. 21. a wipe away all tears from their eyes, and will put awayIſa. 61. a their contempt from them; they ſhall alſo ſerve the ſtrange nations no more, but only the Lord their God.

14. They have doubtleſs been conſtrained a long time to ſuffer with the Lamb, for the wickedneſs and ignorances cauſe of the people, but nowBaruch 5. b doth the Lord bring them again with joy, that they may rejoyce them in the holy Iſrael, even as it beſeemeth the children of light to do, who do rejoyce them only in their God.

15. This verily is the bleſſing, which was publiſhed and affirmed unto all generations of the earth, according to the Promiſes; for that they might be all ſaved, through the Love of God the Father: which bleſſing and ſalvation they do all now obtain, if they do believe the word of truth, and ſtand good of will, and humble them under the Love and her ſervice.

BEhold and conſider ye dearly beloved, both theſe forms, natures or beings, which are here figured or ſet forth unto you, before your eyes, even according to the life: namely theIſa. 1 a Apo. 9.12.13. a. murderly ſeed of the high-minded beaſt, or the names of the people that are her members, which do raign in the perditionable world, which is full of blood-guiltyneſs of the innocents; and alſo the names of the people of Iſrael, or houſe of Love, the high commendable ſeed of theApo. 7. a. b 14, 15, 19. a benignity or loving kindneſs of the Lamb; the which hath even hitherto,Apo. 6 b. kept and born the patience with the Lamb becauſe of the wicked.

2. Verily the houſe of Iſrael, or the commonalty of the Love, the elected Saints of God, do follow after Chriſt their King, evenRo. 6. a. c unto their death, and alſo to the life: for they do in like manner bear the croſs of the Lamb, and therein keep the word of his patience: They likewiſe, even according to the obedience of the Lamb, do ſhew a faithful obedience,Phil. 2 a till unto the death; (namely unto the death of the Croſs) whereby to obtain the dominion with the Lamb over the ſin, death, hell, condemnation, and the world, to the end they might in like manner, through the Lamb, and the death of his croſs, keep the victory againſt1 Cor. 15. f all their enemies.

3. With which Saints of the lovely and upright being, theIſa. 60, 61, 62. 2 Pet. 3. b now coming or new world, ſhall alſo be inhabited in a perfect delight of God, in all Love, inEph. 4 a unity of peace, and in upright righteouſneſs and holyneſs which God eſteemeth of: But the ungodly ſhall periſh or weare away out of the Land of the living, for that the Land may be inhabited in reſt and peace, and with triumph and joy for evermore, to the laud and praiſe of the glory of God according to the Promiſes.

4. Therefore O all ye people, look now into both theſe forms, natures and beings: and chooſe either the one or the other of them, whom ye will incline unto, whether it beDeut. 30. Ier. 21. a Eccleſ. 15. the death or the life, the Devil or God, the old wicked world, or the new upright world, and then cleave only to the ſame, to the end that ye may ſever your ſelves accordingly, and ſo expreſs thereby with whom ye do hold or ſtand agreeably minded, or what ye do love,3 Kin. 18. and halt no longer on both ſides.

5. If therefore you will incline or cleave to the Lamb, or that ye look into or eſteem his being to become a godly being, then love the ſame with a ſingle and humble heart, ſtanding ſubmitted to rhe Love, and ſo depart out of the death, into the life: put your truſt in God, in your proceeding on to the ſame life,Ioh. 5. c Rom. 6.8. b and ſtand firm in the hope of your ſalvation.

6. But if ye be yet young or weak and unable for to live in the good, or if ye be yet over-maſtered by the evil, againſt your will, for God is both reaſonable and courteous: and if the man be of a good will, then doth God require no more, but that the man will ſtill remain ſtedfaſt in the ſame good will: for unto ſuch a good willing man, doth hePhil. 1.2. b bring his power and ſtrength, for that the man ſhould with the ſame obtain through Faith, and that in a ſuffering manner, the righteouſneſs againſt the ſin.

7. Therefore poſſeſs your ſouls withLuk. 21. c patience, reſt believing, and continue in the hope; and ye ſhall aſſuredly, in the patience evidently perceive, that the evil waxeth weak, and that your ſoul ſhall be ſound or whole.

8. Shew or let it alwayes appear what ye love; namely the good or the evil, for look what one hunteth after, that he catcheth: and whatſoever one loveth, of that he is willing to hear ſome ſpeech or tydings, and he is deſirous alſo to be with the ſame for no man would willingly be ſeparated from his beſt beloved: therefore judge your own ſelves now, and look rightly into your ſelves according to the truth, to note what ye love, and with what ye would willingly be, and have your fellowſhip, namelyPſal. 8. b with the good being of God, or with the pernitious and naughty Being of the wicked and deceitful world.

9. If now therefore ye love and ſtand inclined unto the good being:Pſa. 34.13. d Amos 5 b then forſake the evil or ungodly being and ſeparate your ſelves quite and clean with all your will,Iſa. 52. 2 Cor. 6. Apo. 18. from the evil or iniquity, departing out of the ſame, from day to day, and be patient in the hope, till that all the ungodly being do go under and periſh, or conſume to nothing in you.

10. This is our Croſs, whichMath. 10. d. 16. c Luk 9.14 we ought daily to take up, in the belief: And ſo in that manner to follow after the vertue of the godlyneſs: Alſo to love the wiſdom and the Information, and not reject the chaſtiſementProv. 3 b Heb. 12. a or correction of the Lord, that meeteth with us, the whileſt our hearts are yet captivated with the ſin andEph. 4. b blindneſs.

11. Behold even ſuch (according as of meer Love we have teſtified herein) is the right way to the God of life, and to his righteouſneſs, from the whichPſal. 14. Sap. 5. Rom. 2. b the man is departed and eſtranged: In which way the man being in his eſtranging from his God, is byEph. 2. a Gods grace called and bidden to come again unto his God, through the belief or confidence in God, touching the ſalvation; to the end he ſhould according to the truth, know his God in the life, and ſo might worſhipDeut. 4. a 10. b Math. 4. c and ſerve him only, whichPſa. 14 b Acts 14. Apo. 14. hath made heaven and earth, the Sea and the water Fountains: through whoſe power the elements be moved; and out of whom the upright wiſdom of the wiſe, the true light of the illuminated ones, and the reſurrection of the righteous life ſpringeth, which God is alſo the perfection, the Love,Ioh. 17. c 1 Ioh. 4. b or the true being or eſſential power it ſelf, unto whom only appertaineth all praiſe, laud, honour for evermore, Amen.