DICTA HN. Documentall Sentences: even-as thosesame were spoken-fourth by HN, and writen-up out of the Words of his Mouth. And are by Him perused /and more-distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne. God hath granted me to speak wisely, and to consider aright /of the Things which he hath graciously geeven me. Sap. 7. The Mouth of the Righteous /is exercised in Wisdom, and his Tongue speaketh the judgement. Psal. 37. His Lips shall not speak the thing that is unright, nor his Tongue utter-fourth any Deceit. job. 27. Documentall Sentences /even-as thosesame were spoken-fourth by HN, and writen-up out of the Words of his Mouth. The First Chapter. There is demanded /How-men shall discerne● or know distinctly; the Perfect /from out of the Vnperfect· and the Service of the Perfection /from out of the Service of the Vnperfection. And thereunto is answered by HN, like-a● hereafter followeth. Understand the Mind of the a 1. Cor. 13. c. Perfect and of the Vnperfect· and the Diversity of ether-others Service /well and rightly: A Man which hath wholly adjoined and given-over himself /with all that which is under his Might ⁏ as a faithful Disciple; to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /and to the Elders of the holy Understanding in the same Word /for to be obedient thereunto: and evenso ⁏ in the b Math. 19 d. Mark. 8. Luk. 14. Forsaking of himself and of all that which he hath taken-on and appropriated unto him; proceedeth-forward and groweth-up therein obedientlie /till unto the Perfection: and that also the Unperfect ⁏ or That which is in part; c 1. Cor. 13. b. ceaseth with him /and so is become of-one-beeing /with the Love and her holy Spirit /Such-a-one is then taught /with the serviceable Word and through the serviceable Word of the holy Spirit of Love /to d Math. 13. g. the Kingdom of the God of Heaven: and is evenso led or brought unto the everlasting Perfection /unto the Kingdom of the God of Heaven ؛the perfect Beauty; /and unto the everlasting Life /the upright Righteousness and Holiness. 2. When now then the obedient and believing Man ⁏ through the serviceable Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love; is comprehended of the Perfect· well exercised in the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love· grown-up to the Elderdom of the godly Vnderstanding· and taught to the Kingdom of Heaven /So becometh then thesame Man ⁏ according to his Elderdom in the godly Understanding; ordained to a Fellow-minister of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love /seeing that the godly Testimonies have ⁏ at that time; rightly e john. 7. e. their Outflowing /from the inward Body of thesame Man /to the serviceableness of Other-moe which are yeat unperfect. 3. And albeit that the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love /have their Outflowing and Ministration /from his inward Body ⁏ out of the Perfect; among the Vnperfectons /So is notwithstanding /thesame Ministration of the serviceable Testimonies /yeat also f 1. Cor. 1●. unperfect /by the Vnperfectons /Because there is a greater and perfecter Being /taught and required or diligently laboured-for with thesame /then there is by the Vnperfectons/ among whom the foresaid Testimonies are ministered: namely /the g john. 3. a. new Birth in the godly love. Which Love is h Col. 3. b. the Perfection itself. 4. even-thus have the Services of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love /their Ministration among the Vnperfectons: and do remove i Ephe. 2. c. the Middelwall /which is betwixt the Perfect and the Vnperfectons: and make evenso of Twain /that it be One. namely /God and the Man /in one true perfect Being of jesus Christ. 5. And till unto thesame Perfection /the Services are ⁏ by the Vnperfectons; also unperfect. But by Those /to whom the Perfection cometh /in their Belief and Obedience of the Word /the k 1. Cor. 13. b. Unperfect ceaseth. For the Perfect is than /by the Perfectons /a living Fountain /whereout the Waters of Life do flow /and give evenso their Refreashing ⁏ to the Relieving of the thirsty Souls after the Righteousness; out of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of love. And the refreashed Parts /assemble them to that one inseparable l john. 4. b. Fountain /full of all living Waters /which flow into the everlasting Life. 6. This living Fountain /full of living Waters ⁏ whereof we speak; is in herself /a Perfection without any beginning or-yet ending /whereunto the serviceable Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love /do bring-men: and whereout all upright Virtues and Righteousnesses /have their Original or Fourth-springing. 7. And the perfect Man ⁏ whereof we speak; and which is of-one-beeing with the true Perfection /cannot give-forth els-what from him /but all humble and meek Virtues and Righteousnesses /which flow out of the Perfection. And thesame Outflowinge /are even as m Esa. 55. b. john. 7. c. a Water-streame /that flowe●h out of a Fountain /like as the Fountain giveth it fourth. 8. Howbeit /the Water which is so flowen-abrode /is not the Fountain itself: but it is an outflowen Water /which divideth itself out of the Fountain: Semblable-wise /so is not that any Perfection /which ⁏ to an Instruction & Reformation of the Life; floweth out of the Perfectons. For all that which a perfect godded Man speaketh, witnesseth, and teacheth /among the Disciples & Believers of the Word /are all foregoing Services & Distributions /proceeding out of the Perfect /wherewithal the upright n Ephe. 4. c. Righteousness and Holiness of the Perfection /is expressed and held-fourth before the Disciples and Believers of the Word /for to lead them evenso ⁏ through the serviceable Word; to the Perfection /whereof there is spoken /and whereunto there is pointed in the Knowledge /till unto the Coming of his Appearing. 9 Of the which also Saint Paul hath witnessed /where he saith: Our Knowledge o 1. Cor. 13. b. is unperfect ⁏ or as a Peece-woorke;: as also our Prophesying. But when that which is Perfect /is come /then shall that which is Unperfect /cease. 10. Thereof speaketh also Saint Peter: We have a p 2. Pet. 1. d. sure prophetical Word/ & ye do well /in that ye have a regard on thesame /as on a Light which shineth in a dark Corner /till that the Day be come /and that the Morning-dawne arise in your Hearts. 11. In such-sort as a foregoing Light of the sure prophetical Word /is also the serviceable Word of the holy Spirit of Love /wherewith the Perfection is witnessed and expressed: and thatsame Perfection /becometh also seen or perceived ⁏ as in a Glass; in the serviceable q 1. Cor. 13. b. 2. Cor. 3. b. jam. 1. c. Word of the holy Spirit of love. But in the Appearing of his Coming /in godly clearness /it becometh seen of Those to whom thesame appeareth ⁏ in his godly clearness; from r 1. Cor. 13. b. Face to Face. That is /out of our codeified Mind /into the Mind of the living Godhead. And That is the true Perfection /which becometh seen and known in the Perfection of our inward Manhood /and wherethrough the Love is made-manifest /and also lived among Men. The Second Chapter. There is demanded /How the Children of Love or of God● do behave themselves /and what-maner of Disposition and Nature then are of. And thereunto is answered by HN /this Resolution heere-following. AS touching this Matter /there is much found witnessed in the holy a Leuit. 1●. Deut. 6. Mark. 12. Luk. 10. Rom. 13. Scripture /and it is also cleerlie testified /in the serviceable Word b 4. Spe. ●2. of the holy Spirit of Love /that the true Children of God /have a good Disposition and Nature: and that they keep themselves always therein /uprightly, graciously, and peaceably /both before God and Man: and that they also are altogether inclined ⁏ before God /and towards Men; for to walk in all Love /and to shewfourth all serviceableness /under the Obedience of the Love: and evenso to cover with the Love /the c jam. 5. c. 1. Pet. 4. a. Sins of their Neighbour /and to inlardge the Love ⁏ to all Edifying and Peace; in her Service: For they are /even from the Youth up of their new Birth /exercised in all Weldooing and love. for that cause also /they cannot bring-fourth any-thing-els /but all Good and love. 2. For the true holy Spirit of Love ⁏ wherewithal they are sealed; leadeth them into all d john. 13. 14. 16. 1. john. 3. Truth of the upright Life: and manifesteth evenso in them /the upright Woo●●es of love. And they e 2. Cor. 4. b. bear thesame cosilie Treasure in earthen Vessels /to the Land and Honour of the almighty God: and are evenso of-one-minde with the three godly Witnesses /that beare-witnes in Heaven. 3. Of which three godly f john. 4. Witnesses /the one is the Love /which is God the Father himself. The second Witness /is the g john. 14. 17. Truth /which is the Word of God the Father /and JESUS CHRIST himself. And the third Witness /is the holy Spirit of Love or of God /and of the Truth of jesus Christ, which is the everlasting Life /and the Inheritance of all spiritual and heavenly Goods. 4. And thatsame everlasting Life /together with the spiritual and heavenly Goods /and everlasting joy /becometh revealed and brought unto Them that are borne out of God /in the heavenly Being: and therethrough /they have their fellowship with God /the Father /with his Son /the Lord jesus Christ, and with the holy-ghost of Love /whereout they witness and declare /the great h Act. 2. Acts of God /and the Salvation of all Men. 5. Those now that know thissame /and receive it in the heavenly Being /their Testimonies are true. For they witness That /which they have seen in the Godhead /and i 1. john. 1. heard in the Heaven. And That is the holy Spirit which witnesseth with them: for the perfect Godhead /liveth and dwelleth in them. 6. For-that-cause also /the Children of Love or of God /are the true k 1. Cor. 3. b. 2. Cor. 6. c. Heb. 3. a. Temple of the living God /wherein God with his Christ and holy Spirit /dwelleth: and wherethrough they express their good Nature and Being /among all Men /even as there is said. And in such-sort /the living God is their God /and They his l Apo. 21. a. elected People: in whose Temple /there is no Idol /but alone the living God of Israel: neither is-ther also any Idolatry-seruice ministered there. but alone the Ministration of jesus Christ /with the spiritual heavenly Goods of his holy Spirit of love. The third Chapter. A distinct Declaration /how that He which believeth in Christ /hath the everlasting life. there is noman that believeth rightly in Christ, but Such with whom Christ is remaining or present /or which assemble them to Him and his Doctrine /in his Name /and so become his Disciples. (Therefore is all the Faith /that Men ⁏ without the Assembling unto jesus Christ and his Doctrine; assume or take-on of Christ ⁏ whither it be then out of the Imagination of the Knowledge· out of the Goodthinking of the Heart· or out of the Text or Letter; no Faith in jesus Christ /that extendeth to the Inheritance of Christ /in the eternal Life.) Nether-yet is-ther also anyman /that preacheth or teacheth the Word or the Doctrine of Christ, but Such as have first been obedient Disciples of the Word and of the Doctrine of jesus Christ. and evenso ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love of Christ; are a Math. 13. g. taught to the Kingdom of Heaven: and in whom Christ b Gal. 4. c. hath then likewise his Shape. 2. For that cause /they all which have not rightly believed in jesus Christ /have miss the eternal Life /as also the living Waters /whereof the Scripture maketh-mention /touching the Believers in Christ, like-as there standeth written: Whoso c john. 7. c. believeth in Me (saith CHRIST) as the Scripture saith /from his Body shall flow Rivers of living Water. Which living Waters /serve to the Purging d Ezec. 36. c. of the Heart or inward Mind /the which the unilluminated Scripture-learned and unsent Preachers /have never out of the Letter ⁏ albeit that they testified thesame /and administered it /according to their good-thinking; obtained or could attain unto. For inasmuch as they turned them not about to the e Math. 18. childish Simplicity /so hath also the f 4. Esdr. 1. c. wicked Nature ؛that Contrary-minde to God; remained ever with them. 3. But the Word of the upright Doctrine of jesus Christ /that serviceably is administered ⁏ speakablie or in Letters; out of the Love /and out of the Light of Life /is truly the upright and safemaking Water or Doctrine /to the Purging of the believing and obedient Hearts of thesame Word: For Christ the Saviour /is present in thesame Service. 4. For-that-cause thesame serviceable Word ⁏ which is administered speakablie or in Letters /out of the Love and out of the true Light and everlasting Life; is also g 2. Cor. 5. d. Christ after the Flesh: and so Many as believe thesame Word /and assemble them obedientlie thereunto /have their communion with Christ after the Flesh. 5. For evenso /among the Believers of the Word /the Word become Flesh /and h john. 1. b. dwelled among them: and jesus Christ was also in such-sort borne unto them of the Virgin Marie /out of the i Rom. 1. ●. 2. Tim. 2. b. Seed of David after the Flesh [that is /of the pure Doctrine /out of the Seed of the love. which beareth evenso without woe or grief:] And whosoever then receiveth or feedeth-of the outflowen Word and his Life ⁏ beleevinglie; in his Soul /He k john. 6. eateth truly the Flesh of Christ, & drinketh his Blood: and is raysed-up by Christ /in the last Day /to the eternal Life: and becometh evenso in his new Birth /consubstanciated with Christ after the Spirit. And Those that l john. 3. c. 6. f believe even-so in Christ /have the eternal Life. 6. IF we now ⁏ with whole Heart; believe thus in Christ, and become m Rom. 6. implanted into Him /so feel we then also most-trulie /that Christ؛the Word of Life; n 1. Pet. 2. d. beareth in us our Sins /and suffereth for our sins cause: wherethrough we also are inclined for to suffer with Him /and ⁏ to the o Rom. 6. a. Col. 2. b. Burying of our Sins; to follow-after Him /even unto his Burial: and so we become Partakers of the Passion of Christ, as also after thesame /of his p Phil. 3. b. Resurrection & everlasting Life. 7. In such-sort verily /we know or understand in the Belief and Obedience of the Word /how that the Word or Christ/ q john. 1. c. beareth our Sins /together with all our Frailty and Ignorance: and how that likewise for that cause /the Elders in thesame Word /take-up in Grace or Mercy /all the Sins /Weakness /and Ignorance of the Believers of the Word /and cover thesame with their Love /under the Obedience of the same Word and his Doctrine. For in such-sort do the Elders and Ministers of the Word ⁏ in their Service prepare and kindle the trespass r jer. 33. ●. Offering of the Believers of the Word /on the Altar in the Holy of Christ ⁏ either Belief of the Word; to a Burnt-offering of a sweet Savour /before the Lord. 8. And the Accomplishing of thesame Offering /is the Purifying of our Hearts /from all sinful Being. And thatsame is the true Gods-seruice in the Spirit /wherein we s 1. Pet. 2. 4. ●. followe-after Christ in the like Passion t Rom. 6. a. or Death of his Cross [that is /in his like Contempt or Despising] the which is the true Furnace of Humiliation /wherethrough our Sins are consumed-to-nothing. 9 When now the Service of the Word and the Obedience of thesame /hath had in such-sort ⁏ in the Belief & Cross of Christ; his full Course with us /so departeth then the v 2. Cor. 3. d. Heb. 10. d. Veil ⁏ which is the Flesh of Christ; from our Hearts: and Christ after the Spirit /cometh unto us in Glory: And He is ⁏ even as the right High-priest; a x Heb. 3. 4. 7. Minister of the spiritual and heavenly Goods /in us: and we inherit evenso all those-same /through jesus Christ after the Spirit. 10. But till unto thesame Time of the Coming of Christ after the Spirit /in his Glory /so is unto us Christ after the Flesh /a Minister of the Circumcision ⁏ that is /in the Laying-away of the Sin; for God's Trueth-his cause /and for to establish y Rom. 15. b. the Promises made to the Fathers /and so to procreate in us ⁏ out of the Belief; the everlasting and true Heir /in the Establishing of the Promises of God the Father: and also-for that the Seruantship of the Law /should be no a Gal. 3. c. Heir with the Believers. 11. And That was the Complaint of Abraham, which he ⁏ erever he had a Son or an Heir; complained before the Lord /that he had obtained no b Gen. 15. a. Seed out of the Belief /and supposed evenso /that his Servant [that is /the Seruantship out of the Law] should be his Heir. But the Lord said unto him: Not so /thy Servant shall not be thine Heir. but the Son which shall be borne out of thee: That is /out of the Faith of Abraham. 12. But so-long as the Heir is yeat c ●al. 4. a. young /or first new borne by the Believers of the Word /and that also the Believers are yeat young or small in the heavenly Understanding /by Him: and evenso ⁏ as good-willing Servants to the Obedience of their Lord; have a Lust ⁏ according to the Requiring of the serviceable Word; to do the Will of the Lord /So is-ther not any difference made /betwixt the Heir and the Servant: but they stand both-alike under the Services of the gracious Word of the Lord ⁏ as under Tutors; till unto the d Gal. 4. ●. appointed Time of the Father. In such like-sort is it also with all them /which believe the gracious Word in his Service of Love /and have a Lust ⁏ according to the Requiring of the serviceable Word; to do the Lord-his William. For as long as the Believers of the Word /are yeat young or childish in the Procreation of the Seed of the Promise /that becometh borne in them /out of the Belief of the Word: and are not yeat grown-up to the e Ephe. 4. b. ●lderdom of the perfect Being of the Word [which is the appointed f Gal. 4. a. Time of the Father /over all Believers of the Word] so stand they yeat (although they believe) under the Ordinance of the Lord or his Word. Not therefore that they should always remain /as subject thereunder. but unto the appointed Time /to-wit /till-unto the manly Olde-aige in the godly Understanding of the holy Word /as there is said: That is /till that the Sins be subdued. and that they evenso ⁏ through the Law; be g Rom. 7. ●. Gal. 2. d. dead unto the Lawe· and taught to the Kingdom of Heaven /and have attained ⁏ in the Life of the Word; to the appointed Time of the h Eph●. 4. b. manly Olde-aige. 13. And evenso on the Promise of the everlasting Life ⁏ out of the Ministration of the holy & gracious Word under the Obedience of the Love; may well all the Believers of the Word ⁏ with joy /in the Hope of the everlasting Life; give-over themselves wholly in the i Rom. ●. Death of Christ: and so let themselves be baptized or washed ⁏ with the outflowing safemaking Waters of Christ; in the Death of Christ: For evenso ⁏ in thesame Death; the Sin ceaseth: and to become borne-anew ther-out /all upright Believers receive ⁏ in the Faith of Christ; the everlasting Life. It is very-true. The four Chapter. In this Chapter ⁏ which dependeth on the former; doth HN testify /that every Believer of the Word /shall shewe-fourth the Love towards his Neighbour /when he transgresseth or overreacheth himself in anything /wherthorough he staggereth and falleth: and that they shall not wax-offended one at another /neither ●et have any evil conceiving towards each-other. O /That ●ee all believed aright on the gracious Word and his Service of Love /and through the Ministration of the gracious Word /saw rightly into the a Math. 7. b. small Way /wher-thorowe ye aught to go unto the Life /or are deptours for to passe-thorowe thesame /So could ye not then verily but be moved with great compassion towards your Neighbour /which falleth into any Sin /and not ⁏ in anye-case; wax-offended at his Fall /nor at his Frailty: but b Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. bear and have-sufferaunce with him /and inform him with all Love & Discreetnes: like-as if ye saw anyman fall into the Water /and had such Compassion and Love towards him /that ye would rather fall therein with him even up to the Throat ⁏ for to help him thereout; then that ye should let him perish. For evenso ⁏ to the Preservation of your Neighbour; aught also all your Love /to be towards your Neighbour: and so to inform each-other /with Discreetnes /and not to take-●ffence one at another of you /much less to blame one-another /or yet to bear Hate or Envy /or any Euel-conceaving towards anyman /either yet to upbraid him with his Sins /or to construe them to the worst /either to speak of them behind him: but to lay it all down under the Love /and to cover it with y● Love: For the Love ⁏ doubtless; c Pro. 10. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. jam. 5. c. covereth the Multitude of Sins. 2. Behold /with such Grace and Discreet-dealing /or with such a benevolent Heart of Love ⁏ to your Preservation /in the Belief of the Word/ and to the Covering of your Sins; are ye all presently ⁏ with the gracious Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love; informed by the Lord /and by the Ministers of his Word /and also loved to the Righteousness of the Life. 3. Seeing then that ye are loved and informed in such-sort /by the Lord /and by the Ministers of his Word /to the good Life of the upright Righteousness: and that the Service of Love /doth also require the-like of you all /So aught ye not therefore to imagen or conceive any Evil ⁏ in This or in That; over your Neighbour /nor to upbraid him with any Evil /to d Rom. 2. a. blame nor to slander him /nor yet to spread-fourth his Sins among each-other /much-les then among the Strangers: but to cover always the Faults and Weakness of your Neighbour /so much as ye are able. Yet notwithstanding /let everyone e Pro. 28. b. Eccli. 4. 17. confess his Sins ⁏ wherein he falleth; before his Elder in the holy Understanding /and make-manifest before him /all his Dealing and Conversation: and also that the-one do exhort the-other thereunto. 4. If ye now see or perceive /that your Neighbour hath f Gal. 6. a. don-amisse in any-maner of thing: or that he is herein or therein ⁏ touching that which concerneth the outward or inward Righteousness; weak or infirm /and so sinneth against any Righteousness: and that thesame might be to his Destruction /or to an Estraunging from the Service of Love & his Concord /So shall ye then warn him thereof in stillness /and with the g Levi. 19 b. Eccli. 19 b. Math. 18. b. 1. Pet. 4. b. Love ⁏ wherewith the Lord and his Ministers love you; cover his Sins /and h Ephe. 4. b. show Mercy towards him: and that altogether /to Concord and Love among each-other. 5. And even-thus after such a Patron or Example /shall ye have your conversation in the Love /with each-other /unto Godliness: and all the Love and Goodness which ye would should i Leuit. 19 Rom. 13. chance /or be showed unto you by your Neighbour /that shall ye likewise show always towards your Neighbour. 6. Behold /Such is the Service of Love /which the right Children and Disciples of the Love of jesus Christ /use among each-other. For the k 2. Pet. 1. a. Love dealeth in such-sort with them: and evenso deal also the Elders in their Service /with the Communialty of the Family of the Love of jesus Christ. For if the Elders in the Service of the Love of jesus Christ /chance to perceive by anyone of the Communialty /that he enterprised anything /whereby he might be in danger of his Destruction /or which might happily 'cause him to be estranged from the Way to the good Life /so are they then very sorrowful for such-aone /and seek or use ⁏ through the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love; all-maner of Means /wherewith they might so prevent and inform him /that he may be preserved from his Destruction: and they admonish him so lovely and discreetly as they are able /or so much as is necessary for him thereunto. 7. For they see and perceive /that if they should let him runne-fourth therein without any warning /and not assist him with reached fourth-hand /that great Infelicity and Misery might then light-upon him· and the terrible condemnable Being catch or fall-over him. 8. Behold /even-thus with such a Love/ aught we also to deal and behave ourselves one towards another /if we desire to be right Disciples of the Word /and to accomplish the Requiring of the Service of love. But ⁏ o alas; we perceive presently /among the most part of People /that this Love (for that the Iniquity hath everywhere gotten the Dominion) is by Many /utterly l Math. 24. a. waxen-colde: For if anyman now see or perceive anything in his Brother /that he liveth not ⁏ in all; perfectly /according to his outward Eye /so hath he then a Lothsonnes in him /and taking-offence at him /he blaspheameth and accuseth him /and maketh his Sins or Transgressing manifest /among other-moe /or-els he separateth himself from him. 9 But ye ⁏ ye dearly-beloved; shall not so do /in the Service of the Love: but shall stand ready to help your Brother /with all Love and Resonablenes /and exhort him to Amendment /and take the Burden of his Sins upon you /as your own Fault or Sins: and evenso ⁏ for to rid him out of the Burden of his Sins; help to m Cal. 6. a. bear his Burden. Yea /This is the right Love /whereunto ye are exhorted in the Service of Love: and also that ye are deptour ⁏ 〈◊〉 shew●fourth thesame Love and such a kind or benevolent Heart /towards one-another of you. The V Chapter. Herein declareth HN, how the Man shall endeavour himself /against the Assaulting with the Evil: and after-that he expresseth /how the Man ⁏ in his Bufreedom or Servitude of the Sin; shall apply him /for to attain to the right Freedom which God accepteth /and is inherited of the Children of God. whenas the Man is assaulied with any Temptation (be it then with anything whatsoever it be) /so groweth he therethrough to perceive /how firm /unmovable /or steadfast he standeth comprehended in the Requiring of the gracious Word: and in what Being (whither it be mutable or immutable) he liveth and walketh. 2. If he then ⁏ in his Assaulting; have a right consideration on the gracious Word of the holy Spirit of Love /and on the Service of his Requiring /so shall he then likewise rightly perceive and understand /to what-maner of good Being that the gracious Word requireth him /and with his Service /biddeth him for to come (whereunto he is also a Gen. 1. c. Sap. 2. c. Eccli. 17. a. created by God· and called through Christ and his holy Spirit of Love.) And having now seene-into thesame /so shall he then likewise verily ⁏ in Prayer unto his God; suffer-out the Assaulting goodwillinglie /and give God thanks for his Grace /which He ⁏ in these last Days; extendeth on the Children of Men /in that He b Ephe. 2. 2. rayseth-upp us ⁏ which lay utterly smothered in the Death and Damnation; through his Love /and calleth us so graciously unto him /in his godly Being. 3. For evenso in the Temptation /the Man can well finde-out /on what Place he standeth: and also perceive /how farre-wyde he yeat is from the God of Life· and from his lovely Being /which aught to have his Dominion in him. and not /that wicked ungodly Being /which hath reigned over him. 4. And when now the Man ⁏ in his Temptation; perceiveth and seeth-into thissame /so shall he then c jam. 5. b. shew-fourth Patience against the Assaulting which so meeteth him /till that he ⁏ in the Obedience of the Word; have plucked-on a Stronger /which subdueth the ungodly Being of the Enemies of God /and utterly rooteth them out: For such a Grace receive they all which hear and believe the gracious Word of the holy Spirit of Love /in his Service and Requiring /and are obedient to thesame. 5. Therefore aught we not to afflict ourselves with overmuch heaviness /whenas the Iniquity is stirred up in us /in the time of our Temptation. but consider therethrough /how wholly that we ⁏ in the Estraunging from our God; have been incorporated into the ungodly Being: and so then to thank God /for that He ⁏ through the serviceable Word of his Love; riddeth or leadeth us Vnworthyons thereout /and d john. 15. b. Col. 1. a. planteth us again in his godly Being /for to bring-fourth the Fruits of Righteousness. 6. When we now see thus into all thissame /and thank God for his Grace /so are we strengthened in our Hope /unto Patience: and we e Phil. 3. c. 1. Tess. 1. c. wait evenso on Him /which is our Salvation /and which also is stronger then we are /for that we might evenso ⁏ with Meekness and steadfast Minds; be implanted into him/ & so vanquish the Iniquity with Him. For with our own Power /we are able to do nothing against the Iniquity /as throughly to vanquish thesame /or utterly to destroy it. And therefore aught we always ⁏ under the Obedience of the Word; to f Esa. 59 c. Rom. 11. d. hope on the Appearing and Coming of that Strongone /which removeth the ungodly Being from us /according to the Promises. 7. Hereon may the good-willing Man to the Righteousness /take a good courraige /and trust and hope steadfastly thereon. For whenas the Man once plucketh-on his Saviour /which is stronger then the Iniquity that hath reigned over him or held him in subjection /then shall the g Math. 1●. c. Luk. 11. c. Col. 2. b. Stronger /vanquish the Evil ⁏ which had plucked us on fo● a certain season; and keep the Victory ther-against. Therefore shall our Hope ⁏ in all our Assaulting; rest always grounded thereon /till that He become /which is h Abac. 2. a. Heb. 10. d. for to come /according to the Promises. 8. And although now that we ⁏ in our Assaulting; feel our Feebleness against the Iniquity /yet shall we not for-all-that /doubt of the Coming of our Salvation: but laud and thank God /and acknowledge that it is mere Grace /that we so Insee/ i Rom. 7. b. 2. Cor. 12. b. feel and perceive our Weakness /through the Requiring of the gracious Word /which always requireth ⁏ against the Assaulting to the Iniquity; the upright Righteousness of us: And evenso with sighing Hearts /say before God: 9 O Lord /I have a Lust ⁏ even with my whole Heart; to accomplish the Requiring of thy gracious Word: but the Iniquity whereinto I am incorporated /is k Math. 12. ●. Luk. 11. c. stronger then I am: and thesame holdeth me captive ⁏ with Violence; against my Will: in such-sort /that I ⁏ O God; cannot accomplish /that which thy Word requireth. Therefore ⁏ O God; I hope in Patience /on the Coming of thy Salvation /which shall utterly l Rom. 16. c. tread-downe the Iniquity ⁏ in my Mind; under thy Feete· and take-in and bear the Dominion thereover /for to purify evenso my Heart ⁏ O God; to thy Dwelling. 10. Therefore /we aught in all our Fourth-going/ to consider well on the Requiring of the Word. For verily /a Man that is unfree or a m john. 8. d. Rom. 6. c. 2. Pet. 2. b. Servant of the Sin /aught not to seek nor-yet take-on any Freedom unto him /in the Sin: for thesame should then be altogether false. 11. For although that the Man seek oftentimes /to be unbound or made-free from This or That /yet seeketh he not thesame oftentimes /for ☜ to be than a Servant or Minister of the Lord /nor-yet for the Lord-his Righteousness cause: but for to live at-peace /after his-owne Will· and according to the Minds of his Flesh. And although now the Man doth sometimes take-on such-thinges to himself /or that he obtaineth such a false Freedom or Peace /yet is he notwithstanding not free. but much-more a Servant of his own Minds: and bideth nevertheless in Captivity or Bondship. 12. whenas we now see-into all this /according to the Truth /so aught we only to seek after the upright n john. ●. c. Freedom of the Children of God /which is required out of the Word of the Lord. And when we then ⁏ at any time; perceive /that we are not ⁏ according to the Requiring of the Lord-his Word; rightly made-free /but rest yeat bound or owned /on our Minds or Opinions /So shall we not then seek any other thing ther-against /but to become Servants or Ministers of the Lord /for to serve the Lord /and to be altogether obedient /to the Requiring of his gracious Word and Service of love. 13. If we then become in such-sort o Rom. 6. b. Servants or Ministers of the Lord /so shall the Lord likewise ⁏ in the p john. 8. d. Obedience of the Requiring of his Word; bring unto us the upright Freedom of the Children of God. Therefore aught we not to hunt-after any Freedom /according to our own Minds: but first to apply us dilligentli ⁏ /to the Work of the Lord /and to show Obedience unto the Requiring of his Word /for to become evenso Servants of the Lord: and not to seek els-what in the Service of his Word /but to humble us with whole Heart /under the Requiring of his Word. 14. When we then are thus the Lord-his Servants /so shall the Lord also ⁏ in thesame goodwilling Obedience to the Doctrine of his Word; reveal or declare the Truth of his Christ unto us: and thesame q john. ●. Truth shall make us rightly free /and release us out of all Bondshipping: In such-sort /that we shall then set ourselves /with all That which is the Lords ⁏ as submitted; under the Lorde· and under the Service of his holy Word of the godly Love /for to live evenso with all the Children of God and Christ /in the upright godly Freedom /and to serve only the living God /in r Luk. 1. ●. upright Righteousness and Holiness. The VI Chapter. A clear Distinction /between the Heavenly and the Earthly: and how that the Immortal /is become mortal: and how it shall putt-on the Immortality again. NOman ascendeth unto Heaven/ but he which a john. ●. b. Ephe. 4. a. cometh or descendeth from Heaven. The which figureth-fourth unto us in clearness /that the earthly Flesh and Blood /cannot ascend to Heaven /in-as-much as it is not of the Heaven /but of the Earth. But the holy Being of God /which God the Father ⁏ out of his holy Heaven; hath grounded or set● ⁏ from the Beginning; in the Manhood /and is in us ⁏ for our sins cause; become mortal /hath the sure Promises /to riseupp again in immortal Glory: and that thesame shall reach /from the Man on the Earth /even unto God /in the Heaven /for to make-knowen ⁏ out of the Heaven; unto the Man /on the Earth /the heavenly Goods /and to bring thesame unto him /out of the Heaven /and thereto /the eternal Life. 2. And That is it whereof Paul hath also witnessed in times-past /where he saith: b 1. Cor. 15. f. When the Mortal hath putt-on the Immortality /then shall the Death be destroyed in Victory. 3. Verily /the Mortal ⁏ whereof Paul witnesseth; is not any Creature of the earthly Flesh and Blood: but it is the living Word or Being of God /which in c Gen. 1. the Beginning /was immortal in the Manhood /and is in us ⁏ for our sins cause; become mortal. For thatsame ⁏ so-long as the Sin hath the Victory in us; is in us /as One dead: And although it beareth our Sins /and purgeth or maketh us safe from the Sin /yet have we not so d Esa. 53. b. Act. 8. c. esteemed it. but accounted it as if it were nothing. The which we may also right easily perceive evenso in us /so long as we rest subject to the sin.. For if ye seek in your inward sinful Manhood /the good and heavenly Being of God /and the upright Virtue and Righteousness /so find ye not thesame e Rom. 7. c. living in you. but rather f Gen. 6. c. all Iniquity /and all wicked Inclinations. 4. When we then see-into thissame /so must we needs acknowledge /that the heavenly Being of God· and God-his upright Righteousness /is become mortal in us: but yet not forever /but for a certain season /till that the Man shew-fourth upright Fruits g Math. ●. Luk. ●. of Repentance /against his Sins and sinful Lusts /and that God evenso raiseupp his godly Being /in the Man /and that his Glory become great even unto the Heaven. 5. Yea /even than at thesame time /shall the Mortal putt-on again the Immortality /and the Death h Esa. 25. b. 1. Cor. 15. c. shall be swallowed-up /in Victory. And thatsame heavenly Being of God /shall ascend unto Heaven /and yet notwithstanding remain still conformeablie-unyted with the Man /evenlike as it come from Heaven: and the Man shall then likewise bide everlastingly /one Soul and one Body with thesame /and be always with his Spirit /where God and his Christ is. It is very-true. 6. O /That the Man understood the upright Glory /whereunto he is i Gen. 1. c. Sap. 1. 2. c. Eccli. 17. a. created by God /and also called through Christ! so should then all earthly Things be esteemed of him for no worthier /then if they were Dirt. Yea /although the whole Earth ⁏ even unto the Heaven; were covered with Gold /yet were it all no-more /to be compared to the godly Being and his upright Righteousness /then an Handful of Chaff /to a great Heap of good Wheat. 7. Behold /this costly heavenly k 1. Cor. 4. a. Treasure/ is hid in the Man /and becometh presently raysedupp in the Man /in the Obedience of the Service of love. Thesame becometh now likewise ⁏ out of the Service of Love; distinctly declared and expressed among Many: and yet how Few are-ther that rightly meditate or seeke-after thesame. 8. O ⁏ alas; How exceedingly doth the Man oftentimes afflict himself with sorrow /for a little Loss of the earthly things /and lamenteth thesame Damaige al-to-much [which notwithstanding is no-more worthy /to be compared to the Damaige of the upright Righteousness and heavenly Goods /then the Loss of an Handful of Chaff /to the Loss of an hundred Quarters of Wheat.] But for the most-great Loss ⁏ as that he misseth /and findeth not in him /the upright Righteousnes·s the living Word of God the Father· and the Mercifulness of the upright Being of jesus Christ; he doth not once lament /or ⁏ at lest-wise; very-little! O /what a lamentable Misery is it /to have such an Ignorance! 9 Whilst now therefore the Man is thus ignorant /and perceiveth nor knoweth not /his Defection or l Esa. 5●. b. Estraunging from God & his Word /so can not he likewise ⁏ although he would never-so-faine; turn him again rightly unto God. For like as the good Being of God ⁏ through the Disobedience to the Word of God and his Doctrine; is become as dead or mortal in us /even so dead must likewise the Man ⁏ through the Obedience to the Word of God and his Doctrine; he with the good Being of God /if he will be m Ephe. ●. ●. raised-up with thesame /to the Life of Righteousness. For evenso ⁏ in the Death of the old Man of Sin; doth the good Being of God n 2. Cor. 4. b. arise in the Man /and standeth-upp /to his Glory /and then likewise with him /the Man. Wherein also then the Man inheriteth all spiritual and heavenly Goods /and thereto the eternal Life. It is very-ture. The VII. Chapter. Of the upright Christian Battle /against the Enemies of the Life. WHen the Man will prepare or endeavour himself to the christian Battle, for to accomplish the Requiring of the gracious Word and his Doctrine /so shall he then /in the Doctrine of the Service of Love/ a Ephe. 6. put on him the Armour of Christ, and let himself be made-fast on the Patience: and all that which dwelleth or is borne in him ⁏ that hath also a Lust with him to the Battle; shall he in like-maner arm thereto /even as himself: and so then pursue b Gen. 14. d. and fall-upon his Enemies /and utterly root them out. 2. When the Man hath now in such-sort ⁏ as a good-willing and valiant Soldier of jesus Christ; orderly attempted the Battle /and ⁏ in the christian c 2. Tim. 2. ●. Battle; vanquished all his Enemies /with the Patience of Christ, so cometh then unto him the High-priest of Righteousness (like as the High-priest Melchisedech, d Gen. 14. d. come unto Abraham, when he had vanquished his Enemies:) For in the Vanquishing of our Enemies /there appeareth unto us the e Heb. ●. c. High-priest Christ, which cometh unto us out of the heavenly Being /and bringeth us the heavenly Food of the everlasting Life /and the Riches of the spiritual and heavenly Goods. 3. Therefore aught we daily ⁏ in the Battle of our Temptation; to f Math. 16. c. Luk. 9 c. takeup our Cross /against our Enemies /and to followe-after our Lord jesus Christ /in his passover /until that all our Enemies be destroyed and vanquished /through the Cross /and that we evenso have accomplished the true godservice /in the Holie· or ben obedient unto the End /to-wit /even unto the Death of the sin.. 4. For the Obedience of the true godservice of jesus Christ /till unto the g Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Cross /is the Vanquishing of the Enemies of the Life /and the Accomplishing of the daily godservice /in the Holy. After which Accomplishing of thesame godservice /in the Holy/ h Heb. 7. ●. cometh the High-priest Christ, and appeareth in the most-holy: and erecteth evenso the i 1. Cor. 13. c. Perfection in us. 5. Behold /in this Obedience of God the Father ⁏ to the Accomplishing of the godservice in the Holy; is Christ k Heb. 6. 9 b. gone before us /and hath been obedient to his Father /even to the Death. namely /to the l Rom. 6. a. Phil. 2. a. Death of the Cross /wherein he hath found the Purging of the Sin /to our safemaking /to th'end that we should m 1. Pet. 2. 4. a followe-after Him/ in thesame Way /to the Purging of our Sins /for to inherit evenso with him, the everlasting Life. 6. Verily /to shew-fourth thissame Obedience/ in the Service of the Love /and to stand ⁏ in Lowliness of Heart; submitted under the serviceable Word of the Lord /as also to have a Lust with whole Heart /to do his Will /is the upright Wisdom which reacheth to the holy Understanding: and thesame is the Wisdom /which engendereth the Peace in the Righteousness: for the which also n 3. Reg. 3. b. 2. Pa●. 1. b. Solomon prayed. 7. Therefore /apply yourselves now obedientlie· to this gracious Word of the godly Wisdom /which is presently ⁏ even in thissame Day; o 1. Pet. 1. b. administered unto you /and turn not away yourselves in anywise therform /through unbelief /that ye be not vanquished by the Iniquitie· nether-yet wholly like unto the Iniquity /in her Nature. For the Unbelievers and Resisters or Blaspheamers of this Word and Light of Life /together with all such as ⁏ according to the Nature of the Iniquity; become offended therat· or at the Ministers of thesame /shall increase fourth-and-fourth ⁏ if they repent not; in the Iniquity /until that they be utterly p 2. Tim. ●. b. delivered-over to the Iniquitie· become of-one-beeing with thesame· and their Hearts hardened. The VIII. Chapter. Of the outward and inward World /and of the outward and inward Heaven: and how that we are all called and bidden /to the precious Beauties and Riches of the inward heavenly Being: and also how that we aught to show 〈◊〉 thankful to the God of Life /for thesame Grace. THe whole outward World /is very-great and unmeasurable: and how great and unmeasurable soever thesame is /yet is notwithstanding the inward World ⁏ without comparison; much greater /inwardly in us. 2. We cannot likewise so conceive in our Thoughts, of the outward Heaven ⁏ which encompasseth the whole outward World; to be so great, glorious, and beautiful /but that the inward Heaven ⁏ wherein God Esa. 66. a. Act. 7. f. with his Christ and Holy-gost /and with all his Holy●ns /dwelleth and liveth essentially; is far-away much greater and gloriouser /and much bewtifuller of clearness and Garnishing. 3. O /That the Man could once conceive or insee /what singular pure Beauties and Riches of God /are to be beholden and inherited in the true heavenly Being: and also perceived that he were seduced with the Spirits of Error which b Ephe. ●. a. reign in the Air /and with the Imagination of his Knowledge /therfrom· and so degenerated or estranged ⁏ ther-without; touching thesame! So were it not then possible that he could rejoice him /in that case of his Estraunging from thesame /neither yet in anywise be at-quiet /before that he were come thereunto again /or had therewith his communion or mutual-fellowship /in all upright Righteousness and Holiness. 4. For the Love to thesame should be so great/ and the Value thereof /should be so worthy in the Man's estimation /that he should c Phil. 3. a. reckon or think all other outward Things ⁏ in comparison thereof; to be but Dirt. For in itself it is so great· and his Beauties /Riches /and Life /are so many d Rom. 11. d. Ephe. 3. b. and infinite /that it cannot be written nor spoken-fourth. 5. Behold /Heerto [namely /to this heavenly Being and his upright Righteousness /and to the Conformable-unyting of all his Bewtifulnes and Riches] ye are all presently ⁏ through the serviceable Word of the holy Spirit of Love; called and courteouslie-bidden. 6. Therefore /look now all well to it /that ye accounted not this proffered Grace/ e 2. Cor. 6. a. Heb. 11. b. to be small. but heartelie-imbrace thesame that is heald-fourth before you and offered unto you /and ⁏ out of all your Souls and Power; endeavour you always thereafter /in all Humility and Lowliness. For thesame that is presently heald-fourth and offered unto you /chanceth to you all out of Grace /through the Mercies of God extended on you. For which Grace and Mercies 'cause so extended on you /it behoveth you all likewise very-well [namely /everyone to whom these heavenly Goods /and this everlasting Life ⁏ through the serviceable Word of Grace; is administered /and that is bidden thereunto] always to shewfourth Lowliness of Heart· and all Thankfulness to the God of Life: and think: 7. O God /I Vnworthyone /had nodoubt bidden full in all my Corrupt-estate & Estraunging from thee /and persevered in all mine Iniquity and in the Error of thesame /if that thou ⁏ O Lord; hadst not ⁏ through the gracious Service of thy Love; called Me thereout! 8. Therefore must I ⁏ O God; thank thee always and for ever /for that thou ⁏ through the serviceable Word of thy Grace; dost so graciously lead me Vnworthyone ther-out /even to the Throne of thy heavenly Majesty. 9 O God /of all This /the Honour and Praise redoundeth only unto thee. For who am I ⁏ O Lord; that thou electest me ⁏ which surely am not better then all other Sinners; thereunto /and vouchsafest to accounted me worthy /to know all thissame /and leadest me thereunto: and that there are yeat so many thousand Men /unto whom thou hast not made thissame known. But ⁏ O God; this is thy entire f Act. 10. ●. Ephe. 3. b. Grace and merciful Love /over me poor Sinner. Therefore ⁏ O God; have mercy also ⁏ I beseech thee; on all Men-synners' and Women-synners' /which seek thee without thy gracious Word and Service of Love /and so g Luk. 23. c. Act. 7. f. ignorantly do err. 10. SEe /in such-amaner shall every Man ⁏ which is stirred-upp by the Grace of God /to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /and that submitteth himself thereunder; be always humble of Heart and thankful /before his God /and h Act. 7. f. pray for all Sinners /which err ignorantly: and reckon this i Phil. 1. c. for his Sayne /namely /that he may pass into the Death /with the Word of the good Being of God /to the Purging of his Sins: For so shall he ⁏ with the Word of the good Being of God; rise-up again from the Death /to the eternal Life. The IX.. Chapter. Of the right Accusation or Chastisement /which cometh unto the Man /out of the Word and his Service /to Repentance for his Sins /and to the Amendment of his Life. EVeryone aught to take very good-heed/ that he be not slack or sluggish /in the Requiring of the holy Word and Service of Love /nether-yet hold himself idle /before that the Light of Life ⁏ even-as thesame is administered with the serviceable Word of the holy Spirit of Love; a Gal. 4. c. have a living Shape in him. And till thesame Time /let him hold wholly all his Love turned only thereunto. 2. For /to love anywhat besides the Light of Life and the godly Virtue /is nothing-els but an unknown erring Darkness /and a bewitched Sin: the which b Gen. 3 a. b. 2. Tess. 2. a. is an apostated Being /and a Seducing from the living God and his Righteousness /wherein all Men c Rom. 7. ●. have been captived. Of which bewitched Sin /the gracious Word doth also accuse or blame everyone /and calleth them to Repentance /to th'end that everyone should evenso ⁏ in his Repentance; look upon his own Sinnes·s and not blame one-another /but exhort each-other to the Good. and so inset or consider /that noon of all the Children of Men /have ben loose or free from the sin.. 3. Therefore shall not the Accusation or d Math. 23. Chastisement /that cometh out of the gracious Word or Service of Love /be ⁏ at anytime; cast-back: for thesame is upright. But verily /it is far different from the Accusation or Reproof that proceedeth from the good-thinking Man /or out of anymans' corrupt Conscience /through the Knowledge: and wherewith also the one Man accuseth or reprehendeth the-other /and exhorteth him not to Repentance. 4. Verily /when we now perceive in ourselves /that we have not rightly applied us /according to the Requiring of the Word: and that we therefore ⁏ through the Word and his Service; are chastened or accused /in our Mind /and that our Sins or Errors are evenso made-knowen therethrough unto us /So shall we then insee and know /how altogether unlike of Nature /Being /or Disposition /we yeat are /to the Word and his Requiring: and shall then give God thanks /for that there is granted us to see and know ⁏ thorough the Word or through the Ministers thereof; our Unrighteousness and Error. 5. And when we then evenso ⁏ through the Word or the Ministers thereof; do perceive or understand our Unrighteousness or Error /so shall we then ⁏ without delay; e Math. ●. Luk. 3. Act. 2. show Repentance for thesame /and apply us ⁏ with all Humility; to the Requiring of the Word /and say or confess before God /in our Hearts: 6. O God ⁏ full of Grace and Truth; How lovely is thy Being /and into what a foreign Being am I yeat incorporated! I must evermore thank thee ⁏ O God; for that there is made-knwen unto me ⁏ with thy Word and through thy Word and Service of Love; all whatever is contrary to thy Being. 7. O ⁏ alas; I was almost become of-one-mind with the Iniquitie· and seduced ⁏ with her Error; from Thee and thy William. But through thy Word ⁏ in his Service of Love; thou lettest me see /to what an upright Being I f Gen. 1. c. Sap. 2. c. am created /and called-unto /and to what a foreign Being /I am fallen and have inclined myself. 8. WHen now the Man ⁏ through the serviceable Word of the holy Spirit of Love; exerciseth himself daily herein /and doth evenso /so shall he then receive ⁏ in all Thankfulness unto God; the Accusation or Chastening ⁏ that cometh unto him out of the Word /or through the Word and his Service of Love; to Repentance for his Shines /and to the Reformation of his Beeing· and not construe thesame to the worst /but take-heede from thence-fourth /that he sin not against the Word /and that he transgress g john. ●. b. not anymore /in that wherein he hath fallen al-redie. The X. Chapter. How one shall hate and leave the Iniquitie· and not give an● care nor regard either credit unto her /nor to her Ministers /in their Assaulting and Accusation. A Man which hath humbled and given-over himself obedientlie /under the Word of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love /shall likewise ⁏ even as a true Disciple of the Word; apply himself with all Diligence /to the Requiring of the Word /and with a full Hatred /hate the Iniquity: in such-sort /that he shall have a Lust /with all his Heart /to the good Being of the upright Righteousnes·s and utterly detest or abhor the Iniquity and her Ministers /when he is assaulted by them. 2. And although now the Iniquity ⁏ or her Ministers; would accuse thesame good-willing Man /with anything that God nor his Word requireth /for to burden or snare his Conscience therein: Or although the wicked Being ⁏ for to make him unbelieving to the Fourth-going of the good Life /and to decline therefrom /or to waver in his Conscience; said inwardly or outwardly unto him: Yea /what takest thou upon thee /for to attain to the Righteousness /the which thou art in nowise able to do /and whereof also thou hast no Sight nor Understanding: for thou art doubtless become altogether one Body and Mind /with the Iniquity. For-that-cause also /thou belongest altogether to the Iniquity: and thesame hath wholly the Dominion over thee /to thy Condemnation. 3. Howbeit /although such-thinges chance unto the Man /by the Instinction or Persuasion of the Iniquity /in his inwardness /yet shall not the Man therefore /give any credit to the Iniquity or to the wicked Consciences (seeing that he is not of-one-minde with the Iniquity) /nether-yet let himself a 1. Ioh●. ●. c. be judged of his evil Conscience: but he shall give somuch the greater credit and regard to the great Grace b 1. Pet. 1. c. and Mercy of God /which God hath brought unto him /through his gracious Word and Service of Love; for therethrough shall the Persuasion of the Iniquity /vanish-away by him /and perish or com-to-nought. 4. For if the Iniquity ⁏ whenas we consented unto her; hath obtained the Victory in us /How much-more then shall God with his Grace ⁏ which doubtless is much c Math. 12. c. Luk. 11. c. stronger then the Iniquity; prevail or take the Victory in us ⁏ in far-more abundant Power; against the Iniquity ⁏ seeing that we now hate the Iniquity /and give our consent unto the Good; /and through the Service of the Love /purge d Heb. 9 d. our Consciences from the Iniquity; and evenso prepare and make us meet /for to inherit his Kingdom and everlasting Life. 5. When the Man now findeth himself in such a Battle /so shall he then hold himself fast /in the e Ephe. 6. ●. Belief and Hope of his Salvation /and humble himself always obedientlie /under the gracious Word of the Lord and the Requiring of his Service of Love: and also keep a steadfast Hope on the f john. 14. 16. 2. Pet. 1. d. Promises of the Word. For the g Rom. ●. a. Hope will not suffer him to come to reproch· but bring the Patience unto him /in his Assaulting /to a Releassing of him from his Temptation. 6. The Man now standing even-thus in his Abascing /shall pray continually unto God /and speak ⁏ against the Iniquity and her Persuasions; in his Heart: Not /thou Iniquity /there belongeth nothing-at-all unto thee: Not /not the smallest Hear of my Head: For thou art of h Apo. 17. b. Nothing /and to-nothing shalt thou go again /in the Condemnation. 7. With such a Belief in the Patience /shall we keep ourselves against the Assaultinges and Persuasions of the Iniquity /and speak with our Mind & Thoughts boldly ther-against/ & say▪ 8. O thou Iniquity /I belong not unto thee /that thou shouldest hold me as thy Own: for thou hast not created me. But the God of the Living and of all Righteous /is l Gen. 1. my Creator▪ and to him do I belong. But in that thou hast gotten the Dominion over me /thereto hast k Gen. 3. b. thou beguiled me with thy Falsehood /and hast evenso destroyed me /and made me subject unto thee. But now ⁏ through God's Grace and his Service of Love; my Hope resteth on thesame God /my Creator /that He will ⁏ against thee; take again the Dominion over me. 9 Wherefore should I ⁏ O thou Iniquity; think /according to thy Persuasion /that anye-thing should appertain unto thee /or that thou shouldest have any Power for to condemn Me /through thy Infidelity /whereas thou art risenupp ⁏ out of the Condemnation; even of Nothing /and hast evenso l Rom. 7. ●. taken captive mine Heart ⁏ with that which is Nothing; in thy Bands? Therefore will I altogether submit me /under God my Creator /He will help me up again /and ⁏ through his Word and Service of Love; release me from thy Bands /and bring thee again to-nothing /in the Condemnation /like-as thou mast before tyme. 10. Behold /In such-sort shall the Man apply himself ⁏ against the Iniquity and her Counsel and Persuasions; to the good Being of God: and have and upright Difference /between that which is Nothing ⁏ or proceedeth out of Nothing; and the good Being /that proceedeth out of the Fullness of God /and is administered unto him. For /so much as the Man appropriateth or owneth himself to that which is Nothing or vain /so much falleth he away from the good Being. And so much as he m G●●. 3. falleth-away from the good Being /or estraungeth himself therefrom /so much judgement of the Condemnation plucketh he over himself: And so much as he loveth his good-thinking /and that which is Nothing or vain /so much loveth he the Darkness. And That is the Man's n john. ●. ●. Condemnation /when he loveth the Darkness /more then the Light. It is very▪ true. The XI. Chapter. A clear Demonstration /that the Service of the Law after the Letter /and the Service of Christ after the Flesh /have both one 〈◊〉 Ministration to the Death of the Sin: and that then the new Birth in jesus Christ after the Spirit /springeth thereout. IF any Ministers of the holy Word should say: We publish the Law /and minister and teach thesame /to a Mortifying of the Sin /and to a Death and Burying of thesame /seeing that thesame Service /is the right Priestes-office of the Law. Or-els if they should say: We publish Christ after the Flesh /unto the Believers of Christ /to an Entrance ⁏ with Christ; into a Rom. 6. the like Death of his Cross (to-wit /into the Obedience of the Belief of Christ) and to mortify and bury the Sin /So is-it both right /and well said /if the Law of the Lord and his Christ have a Shape in thesame Minister: and it is both one-maner of Service /unto the Believers of the Word to a Righteousness of Life. 2. For /to administer Christ after the Flesh /is a Service /which also ⁏ life-as the Service of the Law; reacheth to b Rom. ●. b. the Death of the Sin: and so then fourth /to the Making-alive of the Inward-man of God /in jesus Christ after the Spirit. 3. Therefore saith Peter thus: Christ hath suffered for us /and c 1. Pet. 2. c. left us such an Example /to th'end that we should follow his Footsteps. 4. Christ himself saith also: Whosoever will be my Disciple /let him d Math. 10. 16 Mark. ●. Luk. ●. 14. forsake himself /and take-up his Cross on him /and follow after me. And That is the right Imitation of Christ, that we should followe-after him ⁏ in the Doctrine of his Requiring; obedientlie /even unto his e Rom. 6. Death and Burying /and unto his Resurrection from the Death. And This is the Inheriting of the eternal Life /in the heavenly Being /wherein Christ after the Spirit /liveth and triumpheth ⁏ with his Father and all his Saints; perpetually. 5. Therefore /to th'end that his Disciples /might inherit the eternal Life with Him /they must first followe-after Him ⁏ in the Foregoing of his Doctrine and Requiring; obedientlie /till into his like Death /and then evenso out of thesame Death /obtain the new Birth in jesus Christ after the Spirit /and inherit the eternal Life. 6. For-that-cause /men aught to consider rightly/ on both these Sayings /of the Law and of Christ after the Flesh: For in themselves they have both /one Mind or Sense: and lead both to one Entrance of the Mortifying and Deprivation of all ungodly Being. For all that which goeth-before out of God /before the new Birth in jesus Christ after the Spirit /and hath his Ministration to the true Righteousness /doth point or direct the Man to the Death and Laying-away of the Sin in the Flesh. And That is it whereof Paul speaketh /saying: The Letter f 2. Cor. 3. ●. slayeth [namely /the Ministration of the Law after the Letter /or the Ministration of Christ after the Flesh.] And That is nothing-els /but that the Letter /according to the Requiring of the Law /and according to the Requiring of Christ /pointeth and leadeth us g Rom. 6. to the Death of the Sin /and withdraweth evenso our Minds and Thoughts /from all that which is ungodlie· and vain and consumeable on the Earth /for that we might evenso attain to the everlasting Vnconsumeablenes /in the eternal Life /wherein all Understandings of pure Hearts do live and devil. 7. Behold /in such-sort and to such a Fulfilling of the Law and the prophets /is the Service of the holy Word /in the Letter /with the Letter /and through the Letter: For the Ministration of thosesame soundeth evenso /and requireth thesame. For whenas we perceive anything in us /that tendeth to the Lust of the Sin /ther-against doth the serviceable Word teach us /to mortify and bury thatsame: forasmuch as the same is his Requiring. 8. And whenas we then do humble ourselves obedientlie /under the Law or under the serviceable Word /for to accomplish thesame in his Requiring: and to become evenso ⁏ with the Law /or with Christ after the Flesh /and with his Faith to justification; k Rom. 6. implanted into Christ with like Death· baptized in his Death· and washed with his Blood /So cometh-ther then unto us /the Spirit of the Law /or the Rom. ●. b. Making-alive in Iesu● Christ after the Spirit. It is very-true. The XII. Chapter. A clear Demonstration /that the Man hath not any-Good of himself: but receiveth it all of the Lord and his Grace. O Ye good-willing Hearts to the Service of the Love /suffer-pacientlie and beare-with a Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. 1. Tess. 5. b. each-other in your Weatnes: and inform each-other with the Coadiwation or Hand-reaching of the serviceable Word of the holy Spirit of love. And if anyman chance to fall /so help-upp then each-other again: and he that bideth standing /let him laud the Lord /for his Strength. For the Strength ⁏ or the Power; so much as thesame remaineth with us /to the Good /is only the Lords /out of his Grace. and not out of ourselves. 2. For-that-cause /think or have always before your Eyes /in your Fourth-going to the good Being of God /that ye have received all your Lust /Love /and Stability or Faithfulness ⁏ which ye show to the Lord and his Word; of the Lord and his Grace. 3. For what have ye ⁏ I pray you; to serve the Lord with all /but that ye have b 1. Par. 19 c. 1. Cor. 4. b. jam. 1. a. received it of the Lord: or the Lord must first bring thesame unto you /by his Grace and Mightiness: both all that wherewith ye serve yourselves & another also? 4. Therefore aught the Man always to hold himself ⁏ in the Obedience of the serviceable Word; humble or lowly of Heart /and also to fear the Lord continually: and evenso ⁏ in the Fear of the Lord; always to think: O Lord! How should I out of myself /have perceived or known my Sins /Except that they had been made-knowen unto me /through thy serviceable Word /and that it were granted me to perceive them by thy Grace: and that thou evenso ⁏ through thy Power or Mightiness; releasedst me therefrom? For if I ⁏ O Lord; have any Love to thee and thy Word /so have I then received thesame /of thy Grace [namel●● /in the c Rom. 10. c. Hearing & Crediting of the Ministration of thy Word.] For in Me ⁏ through my Consenting to the Sin; there is nothing-els but all Inclination d Gen. 6. a. Rom. 7. b. to the Destruction. And if I ⁏ O Lord; remain standing ⁏ in any Righteousness; by thy Word /so cometh thesame to me from thy Grace /and from the Power that thou hast geeven or brought unto me. 5. For-that-cause truly /we must needs always confess /that we cannot bring any Good unto God /nor-yet serve him with anything /but with That which we have received of Him and his Grace. 6. Thissame acknowledged likewise the kingly Propheat David and the holy Solomon, whenas they presented or offered-upp their Snastes or Oblation /before the Lord /and said: e ●. P●●. ●●. c. O Lord /All things come of thee /and that which we have received at thine Hands /that have we brought again unto thee. 7. Euen-thus after thesame manner /must the Man also acknowledge /that all whatever he geeveth-over to the Lord or bringeth unto Him /and serveth him withal /is the Lord-his Good: and that he bringeth again unto the Lord /that which he hath received of Him. 8. But if now the man think otherwise /or that he accounted thesame /to be his-owne Work /so misseth he the Right /and looketh upon his own Doing ⁏ wherethrough he seeketh Praise or Honour; and not upon the lords Grace /for to laud and thank therein the Lord /for his Gift. 9 But a lowly Man /which acknowledgeth that all that which is good /and done by Him as good or weldon /is the Lord-his Good and Weldooing /as the Gift of the Lord f 1. Cor. 4. b. which he hath received: and evenso thanketh the Lord /for that which is His /and ⁏ according to the Requiring of the serviceable Word of the Lord; bringeth-againe unto the Lord /that which is His /He knoweth then himself aright /how g Ap●. 3. d. poor that he is /as also of himself /the Most-feeble or Infirmest: and that the Lord only /is all in All. And acknowledgeth evenso ⁏ in the Belief; to have received all Good and h 2. Cor. 4. b. Strength /at the lords Hands. 10. And evenso in such a Confessing ⁏ that we are altogether poor and infirm of ourselves; will God be gracious unto us /and ⁏ with his Gifts; bring his Power unto us. And when we then /confess it all to be the lords ⁏ to-wit /that we have received all that is good /of the Lord; /so shall we then also have always ⁏ under the Obedience of the Service of Love; compassion towards another /which staggereth or falleth /or that is not yeat so altogether perfect: and evenso i Rom. 15. d. Gal. 6. ●. beare-with and suffer one-another /and help-upp each-other from the Fall. 11. When we now in such-sort /shew-fourth the Love one towards another /so shall then also everyone be moved to think in himself: O ⁏ alas; If there were no Grace nor Love showed on mee· neither any Help chanced unto me /by the Lord and his Ministers of the Word /so should I then doubtless myself /have still remained the greatest Sinner /and the Most-weake /among the Children of Men. 12. If we now do even-thus /and deal or behave ourselves so ⁏ in all Grace and Love; towards each-other /so give we then the Honour only unto God /and not unto ourselves: And the Evil shall likewise evenso be washed-away· and all Offencifenes clean rooted-out /from among us: and there shall be nothing that can 1. Pet. ●. b. hinder us /for to have our conversation in all Love and upright Righteousness /one with another. The XIII. Chapter. A groundlie Instruction /how we should be faithful /to the Lord and his gracious Word: also give-over ourselves wholly thereto: and ⁏ with faithful Hearts; clean unto thesame. A Man which loveth the upright Righteousness /cannot apply himself uprightly thereunto /before that he have wholly given-over himself /to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /for to be obedient unto the Word; and is evenso admit herto /by his Elder in the holy Understanding and Minister of the gracious Word /for to become taught therein. 2. And although now all this come thus to-passe /or whenas thesame hath in such-sort his Entrance /so is not the Man then received or admitted under the gracious Word of the Lord /that he should live /besides the Doctrine of the Word /unto himself or his good-thinking. but that he should a 2. Cor. 5. b. show all Obedience and Faithfulness /to the Word /and to the Service of his Doctrine or Requiring. 3. For whenas the Man is received by the gracious Word /in his Service of Love /for to stand obedient: and that he hath consented thereunto /so hath he then given-over himself and his Fidelity /to the gracious Word and to the Service of his Requiring /for to do ⁏ through thesame Word and his Service; the Will of the Lord. 4. For evenso in the Conjunction of the Man to the gracious Word of the Lord /and to his Service of Love /the Man entereth into the Testament of the Promises of God the Father: and so voweth or promiseth himself /before God and his holy ones /that he will cleave only to the Word and his Requiring· show faithful Obedience /out of his whole Heart and Minde· and not separate himself therefrom forever: nether-yet also to turn his Heart and Mind ⁏ at any time; to anything that the Word itself is not or requireth /or that is not one with the Word. but to love thesame with all his Heart: like as a faithful Espowsed-wife promiseth her Husband /not to love nor addict herself to any other /nor-yet to departed from him /for any manner of cause. 5. Verily /even so wholly and altogether aught we also to cleave unto the Word and to the Service of his Requiring: in such-sort /that the Word and his Requiring /should be the Deerlyest-beloved in our Hearts. For at that time ⁏ when we have turned our Love so wholly to the Word and his Requiring; there can no Assaulting indamaige or hinder us: Yea /although there come an hundred thousand. For we are so fast-knitt and established with the Love of our Heart /on the Word and his Requiring /that they all /are not able to pluck us from the Word /nor to make us consent to any Evil or Vanity. For the Lord; the strong God; is than our Helper /and b Math. 6. b. Luk. 11. a. Releasser from all Evil. 6. For in like-maner /as a faithful Espowsed-wife loveth her Husband so entirely /that all her Heart /Mind /and Delight /is wholly swallowed-up in him and to him /and that he is evenso the Deerlyest-beloved in her Heart: Yea /so beloved /that although a thousand divers Intisers would go-about to pluck her Love to them /yet should it be all in vain. For such-a-one ⁏ through the Love which she hath set to her Espowsed-husband; bideth still faithful to her Husband /Even so fast and stable shall we also hold us /on the gracious Word /and on the Requiring of his Service of Love: in such-sort /that thesame should be the Deerlyest-beloved /in our Hearts /to th'end that we evenso ⁏ through the Love; might bide altogether faithful unto thesame· and endeavour us always obedientlie /according to the Requiring of his Service of Love: and that thesame might be all our Lust and William. 7. But /if in the mean time ⁏ ere-ever we be so altogether swallowedupp in the Love of the Word; there chance any c job. 5. b. jam. 1. a. Temptation /by our Paramours ⁏ which we in times-past have loved; to come unto us or assault us /So shall we then turn-away our Love altogether from them /and turn thesame wholly and in all /to the Word of Grace: and exercise ourselves fourth-and-fourth /in his Service of Love: and evenso cry and pray unto God for Help /to our d Math. 6. b. Luk. 11. a. Releassing from their Temptation /and from the Evil /whereunto they would seduce us: and so with the Grace and Help of the Lord /to take good-heede /that we incline not to their Desires /for to commit sin with them. 8. But if they take or lay-holde on us with Force and Violence /and that then ⁏ although we cry; there cometh not any Power nor Help unto us /for to withstand them in their Force and Violence▪ and that they evenso ravish us against our Will /so are we guiltless of the Transgressing: For we have cried /for to be releassed from the Tyranny of the Evil /and there is no Help come unto us. Of which guiltless Transgressing /the Law likewise witnesseth /where it saith: A Woman which is violentlie-taken in the Field ⁏ whereas ther is not any Help; and so ravished (and although she have Deut. 22. d. cried aloud /yet gotten no Help) she shall be guiltless of the Transgressing. But if she be in the House with any-bodie /and so holdeth her peace /then is she guilty in the Transgressing of Matrimony. 9 In like-maner also with us: When we are assaulted with any Temptation /against the Word and his Requiring /whereas ther is well Help to be had or co●-by /in the Service of the Word /or by the Ministers of thesame /if we made-manifest our case: but we keepe-scilence thereof /and fall to the Error of Adultery /So do we then commit sin /and are guilty of the Transgressing. For if we cry not to God nor by his Ministers for Help /but keeping-scilence /do sin /and then also not confess the Sin: but ⁏ as much as we may; hide or cover thesame /So are we verily Consenters to the Iniquity /and Adulterers against the Lord and his holy Word. 10. But if we desire not to addict us to the Lusts nor Temptation to the Iniquity /nor to do after her will /so shall we then always ⁏ in all our Assaulting; think in our Hearts /and also confess still by the Assaulters /that we have no power ⁏ contrary to the Requiring of the Word; over our own Body /as to give-over thesame to the Transgressing: but that it belongeth only unto the Lord /to his Service. Whereof also Paul witnesseth an Example unto us /where he saith /that a Woman /hath not f 1. Cor. 7. a. 1. Pet. 3. a. Power of her own Body. but the Man /with whom she is entered into Matrimony. 11. Euenso should we also have this always before our Eyes /and acknowledge /that our Body /is not Our body ⁏ for to do therewith our own Will and Lusts; but the Lords /for to use thesame /to an g 1. Cor. 6. b. Instrument of his service /and to all Uprightness and Equity: and that we also have promised and yealded-upp thesame ⁏ to Righteousness; unto the Lord: and have not any Power to use thesame to anything else. as likewise all whatever is governed under our Hands. 12. Therefore shall the Man always continue in Prayer /and so in his h Ephe. 6. c. Col. 4. a. Prayer /watch continually against all the Assaulting of the Sin: and not esteem thesame Assaulting overlight /although he sometimes ⁏ with little Grief or Trouble; hath been released therefrom. 13. For a Man which hath been assaulted by any Wickedness or Vanity /and is easily com-thorowe thesame Assaulting /thinketh then sometimes somuch the lightmindeder: I am passed-thorowe the Assaulting or Temptation thus easily: Let it hardly common again /I know wel-enough how to resist and 〈◊〉- from thesame. But ⁏ o alas; When the Man now beginneth in such-sort to trust somuch on himself/ & that he meaneth evenso /out of his Prudence or own Power /to persever or bide-stedfast theragainst /so doth the Sin then vanquish him /easeliest-of-all. 14. For whenas the Sin or the Iniquity /doth ⁏ in such a selfconceited Purpose of his; assault him /and that he persuadeth himself /that it can not indamaige him /so shall he then verily find himself oftentimes in the Assaulting /to be to unmighty /for to bide-stedfast therein /and evenso want the Grace and Help of the Lord. 15. Therefore shall the Man always fear the Lord /and continue still in i Ephe. 6. c. Col. 4. a. 1. Tess. 5. c. Prayer. If it then be well with him /as that the Sin ⁏ with her Assaulting; doth not overcome him /so shall he give God thanks for his Grace /and evenso think and confess in his Heart: 16. O God /the Power of my Steadfastness ⁏ so much as thesame remaineth with me; cometh only k 2. Cor. 4. b. from Thee and from thy Grace /and not /from myself. Therefore ⁏ O God /full of Grace; If that the Assaulting chance for to meet with me again /so extend thou then always ⁏ I beseech thee; over Me poor feeble Man /thy Grace and Mercy: and be thou thyself always ⁏ I beseech thee; my Power and Strength /whereby that I may in the evil Day of my Temptation ⁏ as a just l 2. Tim. 2. ●. Soldier; resist the Iniquitie· and evenso keep the Field or the Victory with Thee and thy Word /to the Implicating of me in thy Righteousness. 17. Behold /even-thus aught the Man always to continue in Prayer /to the Lord /and always to shewfourth Patience /and to keep a sharp watch /against all his Enemies of the upright Life /and m Ephe. 6. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. against all the Persuasions of the Iniquity wherewithal he is assaulted. 18. Therefore ⁏ my Beloved; take this Mat●er well to heart: For I declare thissame unto you /in most-groundlie wise /for that ye should not fail to understand it aright /and n 1. john. 2. ●. not commit any sin. And if it chance that anyman ⁏ through Weakness; do sin /yet let him not cover his Sins: but let him confess them before his Elder in the holy Understanding /and o Math. 3. a. Act. 3. c. repent him /so shall then the Lord be gracious unto him /and forgive him his Sins. For whosoever beareth-sorrowe for his Transgressing /and so p Pro. 28. b. Eccli. 4. 17. confesseth his Sins /and leaveth them /shall obtain Mercy /also be holpen-upp out of the Fall of Sinne· and purged from his Sins. But whosoever covereth his Sins or Transgression /and liveth therein /and keepeth them to himself /is a deceiver /and hath no good in his mind. It is very-true. The XIIII. Chapter. Of the upright Patience /under the holy Word and his Service of love. THe Man which turneth himself to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /or geeveth-over himself for to be obedient /and that is admitted by the Elders and Ministers of thesame Word and Service /for to stand obedient /shall not enterprise or take-on anye-thing /besides the Word and his Service /nor besides the Obedience of his Requiring: but all what seemeth good unto him besides y ysame /or that chanceth to meet /●●m-vnto /or assault him for to take-on thesame /thatsame shall he set in the Patience. Yea /if it were so that any joy come unto the Man /so shall he nevertheless set thesame in the a Eccli. 2. ●. Patience /and bear thesame also himself /in maner-of-suffering: and so take good-heede /that he add not his own joy thereto. 2. For there cometh oftentimes /a certain joy unto the Man /which-proceedeth not out of the upright Being of God /nether-yet bideth thesame as a steadfast Being /with the Man: and for-that-cause it is not the everlasting joy /which the gracious Word requireth or promiseth. And therefore shall the Man always place or set his joy /in the Patience. If then the Being of his joy /be out of God's Being /so shall thesame joy /well remain steadfast in the Patience. But if it be not /so shall it then suddenly vanish-away. 3. In like-maner also shall the Man /when any Sorrow or Distress cometh unto him /not add any Sorrow thereto: although notwithstanding it chanceth so oftentimes: and should not be /if that the Man applied himself rightly to the Requiring of the gracious Word. For whenas the Man hath or receiveth sometimes and joy /which he conceiveth to be a permanent joy of God (wherein he delighteth and rejoiceth him verymuch) and thinketh also in his Heart: O God /it is presently so well and good with me: I stand now so free and lose from all Captivity or Ownednes /and my Heart is now so well at-peace: and if he now passe-on-fourth so light-heartedlie therewith /and setteth not thesame in the Patience /So shall then verily thesame joy /Freedom /and Appeasement /fail or perish again by him. 4. And when he then becometh quit again of thesame /together with all the sweet Taste and Zeal which he hath had therein /or whenas thesame vanisheth by him /so is that then oftentimes a great Grief unto him. And when he then findeth himself again in such heaviness /so doth he then offend also therein /like-as in the joy: and setteth not his Sorrow /in the Patience: but he addeth more Sorrow /of his own Sorrow /thereto: and getteth evenso sometimes /an b 1. Reg. 16. ●. 18. c. 19 b. unquiet Spirit /which vexeth him: wherethrough he then also thinketh ⁏ other-whyles; with himself: 5. O /I had such a joy and Quickening! O /that I had kept thesame! O /it must be mine own Fault /in that I am quit thereof: or /I must have neglected thesame! And more such like /thinketh the Man then. With the which he oftentimes accuseth and vexeth himself /the which the Word requireth not. And thinketh al-to-little on the upright Righteousness /which is required by the Word /whereout the upright joy proceedeth. 6. Therefore /let us set Allthings c Heb. 1●. ●. in the Patience /be it then joy or Sorrow /or els-what that cleaveth on us: and evenso endure it all /in the like Suffering of Christ, and passe-thorowe thesame obedientlie /So shall then also verily ⁏ in maner-of-suffering; the upright joy ⁏ out of the d john. 15. b. Obedience of the Word; come unto us /and remain with us everlastingly. 7. For although it were so that any consumeable joy /should fail or fal-away from us /yet let us not be sorrowful for thesame. but stay us always obedientlie /on the Word and his Requiring /and evenso receive or takeup it all in the Patience. Yea /although we should be assaulted with any Sins or unquiet Spirits /yet let us always e jam. 5. b. persever firm in the Patience /and consent at no time /to the Desires of the Sin: and choose evenso to die rather on the Patience /with Christ, then to sin with any joy or worldly Sorrow /or to live in the sin.. 8. Behold /even-thus (as is said) shall we let ourselves be fastened ⁏ with the Obedience of the gracious Word; on the Patience of Christ, till that we are ⁏ in the Death f Rom. 6. of the Patience of jesus Christ; passed-thorowe our Death of the Pacience· and so justified from the sin.. 9 And when we then ⁏ in such-sort; have persevered firm /in the Belief of jesus Christ, and in the Obedience of the Requiring of the gracious Word and his Service of Love /till into g Rom. 6. ●. b. the Death /the like Patience of jesus Christ, So are we then also assured to inherit the h Phil. 3. b. Resurrection in jesus Christ, and the everlasting Life. 10. For there is noon other i 4. Esd. 7. ●. Math. 7. b. Luk. 1●. c. Way to the everlasting Life /but the k Rom. 6. like Patience of Christ, and to become implanted with thesame obedientlie /into Christ and into the Word of his holy Spirit of love. Therefore shall we always endeavour us hereunto /namely /to shewe-fourth Patience in all things /and evenso ⁏ in maner-of-suffering; to wait for the l Act. 1. ●. gracious Promises of God the Father. 11. If we now under the Obedience of the Word and his Service of Love /have rightly prepended or considered the like Patience of Christ, so shall we then likewise let the Word of the Lord /in his Service of Love /and in all his Counsel and Doctrine. and to shew-fourth thereby the good-willing Obedience /have the Foregoing with us. 12. But ⁏ o alas; there are so Few /which do thus rightly understand thesame /and yet many fewer /that endeavour themselves in such-sort thereunto. For /for the most part /the Man is very negligent toward the Counsel and Doctrine of the Word /for to show Obedience to the Requiring of thesame: but he himself taketh-on much rather the Foregoing unto him with his own Will m Col. 2. b. and Election: and evenso followeth-after nothing-els but his own good-thinking or Opinion. 13. But if now we desire to apply ourselves uprightly /to the Word of the Lord /and to his Service of Love /so shall we not then deal in such-sort: but we shall first ⁏ in the Service of the Word; show faithful Obedience: Not ⁏ verily; after our own Counsel and Will /nor yet n Deut. 12. b. 29. c. as we thinke-good▪ but even as thesame is set-fourth unto us /by the Elders /and Ministers of the Word. And if there then come unto us /in the Obedience of the Word ⁏ according to the Doctrine and Requiring of the Word; any joy and Life of Righteousness: and that likewise the Word /be planted in us with 〈…〉 Humility /so receiveth then the Word ⁏ with his Doctrine /and with our Obedience; the Foregoing to the Life /in us. For in so doing /and ⁏ thereto; geeving-care unto the Elders of the holy Understanding /we do not assume or take-on thesame unto us: but we thank the Lord for his Grace /and think: 14. O God /this joy /is thy joy: and thou lettest thesame com unto Me /from thy Grace. And if thou let thesame remain with me ⁏ O Lord; so thank I thee for thesame: and if thou take thesame again from me /so will I yet nevertheless give thee thanks: Thy p Math. 6. b. 26. c. Luk. 22. c. William. be done /and not mine. For to thy Will ⁏ O Lord; I have a Lust. 15. HOwbeit /if the Sin oppress or torment us: or if we feel in our Inward-parted /any hard Buffettes /or great Sorrow /yet shall we not then seek out of ourselves /to do thus or so /for to become released ⁏ without the Requiring of the Word /or Counsel of the Elders; from thesame (like as the Man in his taken-on Zeal /oftentimes doth:) but we shall set it all /in the Patience /and com-thorowe thesame /according to the Counsel of the Elders. For /how-much the-more y● Man seeketh with his own Counsel /to do thus or so /or to be released heerthrough or therethrough /somuch the-faster becometh he bound on his vain Being and Purpose. 16. For whenas the Man bindeth himself on his own Purpose /so bindeth he himself somuch the-stronger on the Imagination of his Knowledge: and laboureth evenso therewith /for to become free. The which cannot come so to-passe: but very-well /in the Patience /and in the Obedience of the Word /even as their i● said. 17. But ⁏ o alas; now hath the Man al-to-little mind to this Patience and Obedience: but he ensueth so gladly the Imagination of his Knowledge /which driveth him much-more to do or-els to resist something /according to his own Will /for to be there-in diligent [seeing tha● the Minds of his good-thinking. Knowledge ⁏ without the Requiring of the Word; are inclined thereunto] then to seeke-after the upright q Ephe. 4. ●. Righteousness and Holiness of the inward Man /which God regardeth /and wherethrough Men might live and r Rom. 12. ●. Ephe. 4. ●. deale-together among each-other uprightly and peaceably /in all Concord and love. 18. And heere-through it chanceth oftentimes /that the Imagination of the Knowledge (for that-men therethrough /are driven to somewhat that hath a 2. Tim. ●. ●. Show of Righteousness) is looked-on and believed /for an Inspiration or Inspeaking of God: and that the Man is driven to do thus or so /or-els to resist this or that. Wherethrough then also /the Man's good-thinking and his C●l. 2. b. Election (wherewith the Man seduceth himself /and other-moe which credit him) getteth the Foregoing by the Man· and not /the Obedience of the Word. And therefore is the Imagination of his Knowledge /a great Hindrance or Let unto him /for to come to the upright Being. 19 For there shall noman attain to the upright Being /but through the Obedience of the Word /in the Belief of jesus Christ: and so to v 〈◊〉. 5. b. shew-fourth Patience therein. And although that the Man feeleth /that the Sin oppresseth him ⁏ or that the driving of his Mind /tormenteth him /or that he feel an evil Mind against his good Mind; yet shall he nevertheless hold himself on the Patience /in all Humility and Lowliness of his Heart and Mind /and think in his Heart: 20. O God! Forasmuch then as it is thy Will and Ordinance /that I must be thus purged in the Abaseing· and in the Obedience unto thy gracious Word and the Ministers of thesame /so will I therefore ⁏ O God; give-over myself goodwillinglie thereto. Thy Will be done: For to do thy x Psal. 40. b. Heb. 10. b. Will /thereto ⁏ O God; have I a Lust. 21. When now the Man /standeth so minded to the lords Will /and to his Righteousness: and sheweth-fourth Patience /in Prisonment /in Vexation /in joy /in Sorrow /and in all whatsoever chanceth to meet him /in the Obedience of the Word and his Service of Love: and evenso persevereth therein steadfastly /So shall he then well obtain the upright Righteousness /and y 2. Co●. ●. d. live uprightly in thesame /both before God and Men. 22. For whenas the Man hath thus ⁏ thorough Faith; in the like Obedience and Patience of our Lord jesus Christ /vanquished all his Enemies of the Life: then shall likewise verily z jam. ●. b. the Crown of the eternal Life be brought unto him /by the Lord jesus Christ. 23. Therefore shall we also daily ⁏ in the Obedience of the Word /and in the Following of his Requiring; & Math. 1●. Luk. 9 take-up our Cross against the Evil /until such time as the Sin be subdued and utterlie-destroyed /That we may then evenso bring unto the Lord /a joyful-offering· and live with the Lord everlastingly. The XU Chapter. ●her is demanded /Who be the right Disciples of the W●ord /and after what sort then stand: also at what time /that anyone is a right Disciple of the Word. And thereunto is answered by HN, and certain Instructions are declared thereon /li●e as hereafter followeth. Verily /there are very Few /that are right Disciples of the Word: For I say unto you truly /that they are not all Disciples of the Word /which hear the Testimonies of the Word /nor which read thesame /and speak thereof. Nether-yet also come they all into the School of the Love of jesus Christ [wherein they aught wholly to give-over themselves /unto the Word and his Service of Love] for to be instructed by their Elder and Minister of the Word /to the Requiring and Accomplishing of the Woord· and taught to the Kingdom of Heaven /which speak much good of the Word (As that the Word and his Doctrine /is right /and that-men are directed and informed by thesame /to the Life of Righteousness) But Those which through the Ministration of the Word and his Service of Love /are touched ⁏ by the Lords Grace; in their inwardness: and to whom it is likewise granted to see-into or to know their Sins and their Estraunging from God and his Christ: and which also then a Math. 3. Luk. 3. beare-sorrowe for their Sins /confess thesame before their Elder in the holy Understanding /and wholly give-over themselves ⁏ for to be obedient; unto the Doctrine of the Word and Service of Love: and evenso utterly b 2. Cor. 6. c. departed out of all that which they ⁏ in their old and corrupted Understanding; have lived-in /and separate themselves therefrom /for c 1. Cor. 4. d. Phil. 3. c. to ensue ⁏ with all their Heart and Mind; the Doctrine of the Word /and the Ministers of thesame /obedientlie /and that they might be d jam. 1. c. Fulfillers of the Word /and not Hearers alone: and so then to persever firm therein /till unto the new e john. 3. a. Birth in jesus Christ, which is in us the Fulfilling of the Woorde· and the upright Life itself. 2. Behold /Those or Such ⁏ which so give-over themselves wholly /to the Requiring of the gracious Word /and are admitted thereunto /by their Elder in the holy Understanding/ and Minister of the gracious Word /and persever firmlie therein; are verily the right Disciples of the Word: and looke-into the Word aright /according to his Excellency. And therefore [seeing that the gracious Word of the Lord /is the most-best and worthiest Good] they love thesame above all what is on the Earth /or that cleaveth unto them. 3. For verily /thesame Word /which is This-daye administered ⁏ through the holy Spirit of the Love of jesus Christ; unto us /and set-fourth out of the Service of Love /is well worthy to be loved /above all what is upon the Earth /as also for the loves-cause thereof /to f Luk. 14. d. forsake all that is upon the Earth. For it is the true Christ, which was preached in times-past unto the World /to Repentance /and to a safemaking of them from their Sins /as also to a tocoming righteous judge: and which is also presently come unto us ⁏ to a Fulfilling of the former Preaching; out of Heaven /from the Right-hand of God his Father /for to judge g Act. 10. c. 2. Tim. 4. ●. 1. Pet. 4. b. over Living and Dead /and h Act. 3. to restore it all /what God hath spoken ⁏ through the Mouth of his holy prophets; from the Beginning of the World hitherto /even-as ther is written thereof. 4. Where now this Word hath his Incorporating /and floweth-fourth again serviceably from thesame /therein hath Christ his i Gal. 4. c. Shape /livinglie. and the perfect Godhead /in thesame Christ. Out of whom /the Ministration of the Word cometh uprightly to pass: and they witness in their Ministration /the appeared Grace that cometh unto all repentant Sinners /in the Obedience of the Word /together with the Declaring of the spiritual and heavenly Goods /which they inherit in the everlasting Life. And That is the Day which God k Act. 17. ●. hath appointed /for to judge in thesame /the Compass of the Earth with Righteousness /through his Word /in whom /He hath concluded his judgement. 5. So many now as there are /which hear the Testimonies of the Word /and to whom there is granted through the Ministration of thosesame /to see-into their Estraunging from Christ, and whose Sins are made-knowen unto them /Among those verily /the l Ti●. 2. b. Grace of the Lord is appeared: and they are evenso stirred-up through the Word /to m Act. 2. f. adjoin themselves to the Minister of the Word /for to be instructed ⁏ by him; out of the Word /through the Word /and in the Word /to the upright Fruits of n Math. 3. Luk. ●. Repentaunce· taught to the Kingdom of the God of Heaven· and made Heirs in the spiritual and heavenly Goods. 6. But Those to whom the Grace of the Lord /is in such-sort (as there is said) appeared /and yet will not make-manifest themselves before their Elder in the holy Understanding /and Minister of the gracious Word /nor show any Sorrow before him /for their Sins: nor-yet make any Confession thereof /for to become instructed ⁏ as Disciples of the Word; to the right Fruits of Repentance: but choose or take-on a Life unto themselves /according to the good-thinking of their Knowledge: and so know then ⁏ out of their Knowledge; how to prate much of the Word and Life: Verily /Those that so follow their good-thinking /are no Disciples of the Word /nether-yet do they follow the Doctrine of the Ministers of the Word: But they themselves take-on the Foregoing /with their Knowledge and good-thinking /before the Word /and wrist and interpret the Word /according to their Hearts o Deu. 12. ●. good-thinking /and not according to the Requiring of thesame. 7. For in doing so /they follow not the Requiring of the Word /nor the Doctrine of the Elder in the Service of the Word and of his Love: but they exalt themselves above the Word and his Service: and evenso presume to set-up themselves /to judges of the Word /and to Adversaries or Invayers against the Ministers of thesame. And lay or shutt-up the Grace of the Lord ⁏ which is appeared unto them to Repentance; in their Prison or Subjection /and kill evenso thesame (like as Herode/ p Math. 14. ●. did unto john) in their Prison /and come not to Christ, nor to the Ministers of his Word /for to be purged from their Sins. 8. For that cause also speaketh Christ ⁏ which is the Word of Life itself; well and aright /where He saith: If anyman come unto me /and hate not his q Luk. 9 14. Father /Mother /Wife /Children. etc. He cannot be my Disciple: That is /that he which forsaketh not it all /for the Words cause/ and so followeth-after the Word ⁏ in his Doctrine and Requiring; obedientlie /cannot be taught by the Word /nor through the Word /to the Kingdom of the God of Heaven. 9 And therefore cannot such-a-one [which forsaketh not it all /for the Loves-cause of the Word /and taketh-upp and beareth his Cross /as also followeth-after the Word ⁏ in his Doctrine and Requiring; obedientlie] be any Disciple of the Word /much less then /an Elder or Minister of the Word: For he understandeth not any-whit of all that which the Word is or requireth /in his Mystery /neither can he also speak or witness uprightly of thesame. 10. For-that-cause verily /they are not all Disciples of the Word /which hear the Word testified /or that read thesame in the Letter /and so speak thereof: NOTA. But even Those which respect-well the Grace of the Lord /to Repentance /and adjoin themselves obedientlie /to the Publisher and Minister of the Word /for to fulfil therein ⁏ according to his Counsel or Doctrine; the Requiring of the Word. Like as we have an Example thereof /of the holy Apostle Peter, whenas he witnessed the Word of Life /How that Certain ⁏ through the Hearing of the Testimonies of the Word /and of the Promises of Salvation; adjoined themselves to Peter: and how that Those which gladly received his Testimonies Act. ●. f. did according to his Counsel and Doctrine /for to let themselves evenso be helped or separated from the unnurtered or unrepentant People. For so there was a Difference made /in the Ministration of the Word /between Them that heard the Word /and were obedient Disciples of the Word: and Those which heard also thesame /and were no obedient Disciples of the Word. 11. Therefore aught everyone to take good-heede /how he heareth and receiveth the Word /which is this-day ⁏ from God-his Grace; witnessed and administered /through the holy Spirit of the Love of God the Father and his Christ. For thatsame is the Word s john. 6. g. ●. john. 1. a. of Life /which was in times-past ⁏ even ●il-vnto this Coming of his glorious Manifestation; preached in the World. and that is also presently in this Day ⁏ even-as ther is promised and written thereof; come unto us from the Right-hand of God the Father /out of Heaven /for to execute t Act. 10. c. 2. Tim. 4. ●. 1. Pet. 4. b. judgement over the Living and Dead. 12. Behold /This is the v Rom. 10. a. 1. Pet. 1. c. Word of Life/ which is descended unto us /from Heaven /and becometh published unto you: Not verily that thesame should ⁏ in his Ministration; be heard but slightlie in the Ears /or taken-on to a Knowledge of the heavenly Things. and so be talked-of: but that-men ⁏ through the Hearing thereof; should believe thesame· and (as is before rehearsed) become faithful and obedient Disciples of the Woord· do upright Fruits x Math. 3. Luk. 3. of Repentance /in the Doctrine of his Service of Love· obtain the y john. 14. 16. Act. 2. holy Spirit of Promise· and live in all Truth and Love /To-thend that we might then evenso /in this Day of the righteous judgement of Christ over Living and Dead /be kept from the terrible Plagues of the Vngodlie· and preserved in the Godliness of the Word /and so inherit the everlasting Life. 13. Those now therefore which do thus (as is before rehearsed) wholly give-over themselves to become faithful and obedient Disciples /unto the gracious Word and his Service of Love: and evenso utterly departed from their old Possession and unprofitable Dealing /and forsake thesame /as also persever firmlie till unto the End /in the Doctrine of the Word and of the Ministers of thesame /They are verily the right z john. ●. d. Disciples of the Word. For Those shall know the Truth /and the Truth shall make them free. And the holy Spirit of Truth /shall lead them a john. 16. c. into all Truth: in such-sort /that they shall love one-another with the deed /in the Truth: wherethrough also it shall be known /that they are right Disciples b john. 13. d. of the Word or Christ. and know, cleave-unto, and serve the living God /in his Righteousness. It is very-true. The XVI. Chapter. ●ow one shall deal with ●hem that will not hear the Exho●tation /to their Preseruation· and the Warning from their Destruction /nor show any Repentaunce· but wax-malitious ther-against /and have their Fourth-going /without the Requiring of the Word and Service of ●oue. THere is said by certain: We have understanded out of the * Sap●a. 4. Documentall Sentences /that we should shewe-fourth the Love towards our Neighbour /in his Falling into Sinne· exhort him ⁏ to his Preservation in the Godliness; unto the Amendment of his Life· warn him of his Destruction· take upon us his Sins /as Our-owne· and help to bear his Burden: and evenso ⁏ with the Love; to cover his Sins. 2. Out of which sayings we are occasioned to demand /whither we aught also dutifully /to show such Service of Exhortation /unto Preseruation· and such Warning from the Destruction /towards Those which obstinately turn them away from the good Doctrine & Requiring of the Word /or which wax much-worse at the Exhortation to their Preseruation· and at the Admonition from their Destruction /and so live without the Requiring of the Word and Service of Love /and will not do nor shewe-fourth any Repentance for their Sins. And thereunto is answered by HN and said: 3. O Ye Beloved /which have a Lust and good Will with us /to be obedient-unto or to fulfil the Requiring of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love /have always an upright Respect or Consideration unto the Word /and a right Diversity /betwixt Those that give-over themselves ⁏ to faithful Obedience; by the Elders in the Family of Love /unto the Lord and his Word & Service of love. bear a Math. 3. Luk. 3. Sorrow for their Sins. make right Confession thereof. and shewe-fourth upright Repentance /for their Sins. and become evenso implanted into the gracious Word /or the Doctrine and Requiring of his Service of Love /for to bring-fourth the good Fruits b john. 15. a. Col. 1. a. of the Word: And They that do not /nor-yet will do or shewe-fourth any such Expressing of goodwillingness /to the Requiring of the Word: but live altogether according to the Counsel and Will of their c Deut. 12. b. Goodthinking /and turn them away from our Doctrine. 4. Whosoever then are utterly unwilling to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /according to the Doctrine and Ordinance of the gracious Word and his Service of Love: and which will not make-manifest themselves and their whole Heart /Dealing /and Inclination /by the Elders in the Family of Love /shewe-fourth no Repentance for their Sins /nor give-over /nor-yet will give-over themselves for to be obedient: nether-yet do favour the gracious Word in his Service of Love /nor stand to maintain thesame: or which hold not themselves steadfastly /by the gracious Word and the Ministers of thesame: but make Breach /and bring-in Discord /With all Those ⁏ although they witted never-so-well to talk much of the Word and of the Love; ye shall not ⁏ as with Fellowe-disciples of the Word; communicate in the Schoole-rule of the christian Ordinance of the Family of Love: Notwithstanding ye may well exhort them /that they apply themselves to the Obedience of the Requiring of the Word /and wholly give-over themselves to the Entrance of the Doctrine and Requiring of the Service of love. 5. For so long as Those which read or hear our Writings /do not humble themselves /for to become implanted obedientlie into the gracious Word and the Doctrine of his Requiring/ d Rom. 12. ●. 1. Cor. 1●. c. to Fellowe-members in the Body of jesus Christ. but turn-away themselves therefrom: and that also the Entrance to our Communialty and Service of Love /taketh-not-effect nor is consented-unto by them /according to the Requiring of the gracious Word /So are These ⁏ although they bring-fourth much Knowledge of the Word /and set-up a Doctrine of their own /according to their Hearts Goodthinking; not yeat become any Disciples nor Subjects of the Word /nor-yet any Fellowe-members of the Body of Christ nor of his Family of Love /nether-yet also any Fellowe-bretherens with us /in the Testaments of God and the holy Fathers. 6. SEeing then that the gracious Word/ in his Service of Love /is our e Gen. ●. b. Pro. ●. b. Tree or Stock of Life /and that ye ⁏ which have given-over yourselves to the Requiring of the Word /and to the Doctrine of his Service; are implanted to thesame Tree or Stock /for to bring-fourth ther-out good Fruits of the Life /So are then also in 〈◊〉 all they that are implanted to thesame Tree ⁏ for to bring-fourth ther-out the good Frute● of the Life; your Fellowe-braunches f Rom. 11. ●. in thesame Tree. And not any Other. 7. And evenso in that part /ye all which are implanted to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /for to be obedient /are also the upright Members of the only Body of Christ, and upright Neighbours with each-other /which stand serviceable one towards another /to Fruitfulness of the good Fruits of the upright Life. 8. Whosoever now therefore are incorporated into th● gracious Word of the Life and his Service of Love /to the Fulfilling of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine /those shall also have a good Will /to bring-fourth the good g john. 15. a. Col. 1. a. Fruits of the Life ther-out /and rejoice them that they find men serviceable unto them thereto /and that warn them of the Destruction. 9 But verily /Such as bide without the Entrance of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the Service of Love /and evenso adjoin them in Hypocrisy or Coverednes ⁏ as with Any-seeking of their selfness /or of their own Life or Lust; unto the Word or Service of Love /and so read or hear the Testimonies and writings of the Word: and then with their Knowledge /run off and on /from the Word and his Service /or-els besides thesame /go-fourth according to their old corrupted Understanding or Goodthinking /and have neither Lust nor Will to the Requiring of the Word and his Service /Those shall not be exhorted nor instructed any farther /then to the h Heb. 10. d. Entrance of the first Schoole-rule of the gracious Word and his Service of love. That is /to make-manifest their whole Heart by their Elder in the Family of the Love of jesus Christ. to shewe-fourth Repentance for i Act. 2. f. their Sins. and to give-over themselves obedientlie /to the Doctrine & Requiring of the gracious Word and his Service of Love: and evenso to warn them no farther /but of the Destruction /which hangeth over Them that bide therwith-out /or turn them away therefrom. 10. If they now take thesame Exhortation and Warning to heart /and love the Godliness /in the good Life /so shall they then also apply themselves goodwillinglie to the Entrance of the k Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. f. first School-rule of the Word /and let them be implanted ⁏ to Obedience; into the gracious Word & his Service of Love /for to bring-fourth evenso ther-out /the good Fruits of the Life. But if not /so shall they then 〈◊〉 them away therefrom/ & evenso ⁏ through their Disobedience and Unwillingness to the Entrance of the Sanctification of the holy ones of God; prepare themselves to Vessels of the Wrath of God /and l Math. 25. d. pluck or bring upon themselves the Sentence of their Condemnation. 11. For they that are so goodthinking-wyse by themselves /that they for-that-cause turn them away from us 〈◊〉 evenso refuse /to become implanted with us /〈◊〉 the gracious Word and his Doctrine /Thosesame ⁏ when one requireth them thereto; do all commonly turn them away /from the Service of the Word /and from Those that require of them /the Obedience of the Word: Yea they become also ⁏ by that means; farre-worse then before /and are turned-about to Blaspheamers of the Word and of the Elders in the Communialty of the Love: and of m Levi. 10. Num. 16. 2. Tim. 3. ●. such take ye good-heede /to th'end that ye become not partakers of their Destruction. And if they will not by any-meanes enter ⁏ with you; at the right Door n john. 10. ●. of the sheepfold of jesus Christ: but choose them an other Way /to thou unto you /or that they likewise turn them away from us Elders·s and from our Ministration of the Word and Requiring of the Service of Love /so turn you then also away from them /and let them then hardly /departed from you: For they are not of o john. 10. c. the Sheep of Christ or Family of his Love /much less /Pastors or herdmen of the Sheep: and the gracious Word of the Lord /in his serviceable flowen-fourth Waters or Documents /together with the Ministration of thosesame /and the Ordinance of the Elders according to the Requiring of the Word and his Service of Love /is also utterly ⁏ in all; against the Mind of their Opinion /and good-thinking Knowledge: For-that-cause also they murmur somuch the-sooner /and wax-offended at the One or at the Other /and so make an occasion /to departed from us /and to withdraw them from the Obedience of the Requiring of the Service of the Love of jesus Christ. 12. Of those /and of suchlike /Saint john hath also spoken in his Epistle: p 1. john. ●. d. They are gon-away from us /but they were not of us: for had they been of us /so should they nodoubt have bidden by us: but they must becon manifest /that they are not of us. 13. If any man then departed from us /or turn him away from us and from the godly Obedience of the Word and of the Requiring of his Service of Love: or that anyman do cleave to the Opinion of Those which are declined from us and our godly Doctrine /and evenso becometh an Enemy towards us and our Doctrine /or a Blasphemer /or Betrayer /and so waxeth more-evell against the Good that is showed on him /or taketh all thesame to the worst /and interpreteth it in the evelst-part /Such-a-one verily /was never rightly adjoined nor implanted to the gracious Word nor his Service of Love: neither is he also lighted by the Lord: nor-yet can he ⁏ out of his malicious Heart /nor out of his good-thinking Knowledge; q Ie●. 8. b. witness any-thing-at-all of the Truth of the Life. 14. And all Those which have their Fourth-going with such wicked or of-sundred Minds /and will ⁏ in no-case; any better /and so long as they rest of that mind /they are assuredly not worthy of the Exhortation of Discipline /to their Preseruation· nor of the Warning from their Destruction. For /through the Ignorance which is yeat in them /and through the Goodthinking which hath captived them /they will not neither can they by any-meanes suffer /that the Love or the Mercy should be showed on them /or that-men should deal graciously ⁏ to their Atonement with God and his Word /nor to Unity of the Heart in the Service of the Love; towards them: but they frown and bite at you· or-els they deride and ieast-at you /whenas ye are serviceable unto them to the Good: and show therein their Lust to your Destruction /or their Lust standeth bend /to bring Us ؛the Ministers of the Word; to reproch· and that they might seduce r Rom. 16. ●. and estrange you from the Word /and from the Obedience of his Doctrine. 15. But take not ye in any-case offence at any of all those or suchlike: but suffer or Ephe. 4. c. beare-with them in their Ignorance. For seeing that they are not entred-in with us to the Beginning of the Christian Life: and that they have not any Lust to the New Birth in jesus Christ, nor to the Love of the holy Spirit /nor-yet humble them obedientlie to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /so is not surely their Nature any otherwise. 16. Moreover /judge them not /nor yet publish-abrode their Sins /over them: for they themselves bring-fourth their own judgement with them. And seeing that they are unwilling to the gracious Word and the Doctrine of his Service /and resist the Grace of thesame /which is proffered them is a Leading-in to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /so do they themselves make-manifest sufficiently /their own Sins and Errors /that they are justly guilty of the Condemnation. 17. Therefore let noman take-in-hande /to teach such ⁏ i● their Unwillingness; to the Kingdom of Heaven or inward spiritual Man of God: but give them over or leave them to the Lord /and his righteous judgement with his holy ones: For in thesame judgement /everyone shall ⁏ t Math. 25. d. Rom. 14. b. 2. Cor. 5. b. according to his Works or doings; receive his just judgement /and his right Recompense. 18. But ye all which are entered with us into the v Math. 3. 7. Luk. 3. 1●. Act. 3. c. first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the Service of Love /and cleave unto the gracious Word and the Doctrine of his Requiring /with all your Heart /to Obedience /Use ye among each-other ⁏ as concordable brethren and Sisters in the Love of our Lord jesus Christ; your x 1. Tess. 5. b. Heb. 3. 10. d. Exhortation /to one-an-others Preseruation· and your Warning /from one-an-others Destruction: y Ephe. 4. ●. and grow-up evenso ● with the Word /and in the Word; in all Love and Godliness: and have not much Prate or Disputation with the Strangers /nor with them that fall-away from the Service of Love /nor with the Vnwillingons and Resisters. Let every-one take this effectually to heart. The XVII. Chapter. There is demanded: Which is the Destruction /whereof the Etraungers to the household or Family of the Love of jesus Christ /are to be warned: and which is also the Destruction /that the Disciples of the Word and the upright Brothers in the Love of jesus Christ /are deptours to warn one-an-other of. And thereunto is answered by HN and said: Verily /of the Destruction of ether-other of these Two /we have 〈◊〉. 3. 1●. 19 1. Gla. 4. 2. Gla. 7. 21. 3. Gla. ●. 4. Gla. 1. etc. witnessed and setfourth verymuch in all our writings /were it but understanded or comprehended aright. Nevertheless /seeing that there is yet presently farther demanded thereof /we will [to th'end that everyone may take the Admonition ⁏ in having the greater regard thereunto; somuch the more or better to heart] utter or declare-fourth with uncovered Words /the principal Head-pointes of both their Destructions. 2. The Destruction of the Strangers to the Family of the Love of jesus Christ, wherethrough they (if one warned them not thereof /or if they ⁏ when they are warned; turn them not about /for to be obedient to the Doctrine and Requiring of the gracious Word of the Lord and of his Service of Love) should utterly perish /and inherit the eternal Condemnation or Banishment /is this: 3. First /they should all /which hold themselves ●s Strangers unto the Doctrine and Requiring of the Obedience of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love ⁏ if one warned them not of their Destruction; ●ide always ⁏ with their Darkness or b ●. Cor. 3. d. Covering of the old Man; utterly covered or separated /from the Face of the living God of Heaven and of his Christ, which is presently in the last time ⁏ through God-his Grace; appeared unto us in naked uncovered clearness /under the Obedience of the Love of jesus Christ· and declared with the Fullness of his Grace and Mercy. and which also /all Disciples of the Word ⁏ in the c Ephe. 4. c. Laying-away of the coverings of the old Man; shall in like-maner behold naked and uncovered /as d 1. Cor. 13. c. 2. Cor. 3. b. from Face to Face /in the essential clearness of God and Christ. 4. secondly /they should through their herited Birth of the old Man and of his corrupted Understanding (if that they be not borne first /out of the e john. 3. ●. Water or Doctrine of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love /even until the f Rom. 6. b. c. Death and Burial of jesus Christ, to the Slaying and Burying of the old Man /and of his corrupted Understanding /Lust /and Desires: and that they be not evenso then borne again /out of the Spirit of the gracious Word /even unto the upright Being of jesus Christ) fall into manifold Errors and Seducinge /and utterly perish therein. 5. thirdly /they should also ⁏ if they be not wholly withdrawn from the Works and Lusts of g Ephe. 4. b. ● the old Man· and evenso taught & prepared to the New Birth in jesus Christ; bide always Members of the Devil and his ungodly Being▪ and minded to all Destruction and Error /and obtain no h john. 13. a. Part nor Inheritance in the holy Body of our Lord jesus Christ, nor in the Kingdom i Math. 13. ●. of Heaven: nor yet likewise in any Treasures of the spiritual and heavenly Goods. 6. fourthly /they should (if they be not ⁏ to the Mortifying and Burying of all ungodly Being; implanted k Rom. 6. into the gracious Word or Body of jesus Christ) bide evermore in Error /without the gracious Word or Body of jesus Christ, and not be driven or directed any otherwise /then by the Spirits of Errours·s and taught by the many-maner l 3. Reg. 22. c. Spirits of Lies (whither it were then to false Spiritualness /Doctrine /or Religion: or-els to the Disorderlynes or Iniquity of the World) and should likewise also for-that-cause-sake /not be able to understand, know, nor obtain or receive /the holy Spirit of God and of the Truth or Christ: nor-yet feel or perceive anythinge-at-all thereof: nether-yet of the Grace of the Lord /how large thesame reacheth over the Children of Men /or how neere-by it is unto them. 7. Verily /all these Strangers unto the Family and Service of the Love /or Such as go-fourth according to their Goodthinking /stand comprehended or are bewrapped in a great Destruction: and whoso maketh thesame known unto them /and so warneth them thereof /ere-ever the great Destruction take them clean away and destroy them /in their Error and Estraunging /he doth very-well /and showeth a great Good-deede of Love and Mercy towards his Neighbour. And if they then convert them to the gracious Word of the Lord /and to the Doctrine of his Service. make Confession of their Sins. and m Luk. 13. b. shewe-fourth Repentance /So shall then their Souls be won to the eternal Life· and to the everlasting Preservation in the Godliness. 8. But the Destruction /whereof the Disciples of the gracious Word /and the Brothers and Sisters in the Family of the Love of jesus Christ /shall warn one-an-other /is this▪ 9 If it chance that any of the Disciples of the Word /or of the brethren or Sisters in the Family of the Love of jesus Christ /should ⁏ without the Doctrine or Requiring of the Word and his Service; fall into any Goodthinking /or into any-sort of Dealing /contrary to the Doctrine or Requiring of the Word and his Service (whither it were then out of himself /or-els through any Strangers or Offallenons) or that they should be assaulted /for to turn them away from the n 2. Cor. 11. ●. singlemindedness of Life which we have in the gracious Word (wherein ye are also taught and exercised aright to thesame singlemindedness) so shal-men then warn those of the Destruction /which is witnessed heere-following. And if they then take not to heart the Warning for the avoiding of their Destruction: but turn-away themselves from the Word and from the Doctrine of his Service /through the Assaulting or Temptation which meeteth them to that effect /and mar or deprave themselves again in any Goodthinking and Self-wisdom· or in any brutish or worldly Being /and evenso estrange them from the good Doctrine of the Word /so should then thesame verily chance unto them /to a damaigefull Destruction. 10. For first /there should ⁏ by that occasion; a Covering of the Wrath of God /enter-in betwixt them and God /and the Doctrine of his gracious Word: in such-sort /that they should not be able to hear nor understand/ o Esa. 6. c. Math. 13. b. Act. 28. c. what God requireth through his gracious Word & Service of love. Of this Destruction here mentioned /shall the Disciples of the Word warn one-an-other to th'end that the-l●ke come not upon them 11. secondly /their Goodthinking or their Pleasure in the Flesh or in the carthlie Things /should also estrange them from the pure Beauty of the heavenly Being /and so bring them into greater Error of Destruction /then that wherein they walked before. 12. thirdly /their Error should ⁏ through their Pleasure in thesame; incorporate them again much faster and stronger ⁏ to pernicious Members of the Devil; into the Devil and his ungodly Being /then they to-fore were incorporated into him. 13. One should in like-maner much less or worsser /be able to make them to know their Error and Destruction /for to rid them thereout /then in times-past /whenas they yeat stood in their first Blindness or Error. 14. fourthly /they should also through the Incorporating-againe into the Devil /and through their Addicting of them to the earthly consumeable Things /be driven by the wicked Spirit of the goodthinking, earthly, fleshly, and devilish Being /in greater Presumption & with more Freeness /into the Falsehood /against God and his holy Spirit and Service of Love /then he had driven them in times-past: And that altogether /to 'cause them to invay or be against the good Doctrine of the Word and the Ministration of thesame: yea/ and to a plucking of the Destruction over themselves /and also over other more. 15. Thissame is verily the Destruction /of the which all the Disciples of the Word and of the Doctrine of his Seruice· and all brethren and Sisters in the Family of the Love of jesus Christ /shall warn one-an-other: And for that cause ⁏ for to bide kept from thesame Destruction; let everyone apply himself somuch the dilligenter to the Doctrine and Requiring of the Word /and somuch the heartelyer exhort one-an-other to bide steadfast in the Doctrine and Requiring of the Word /even to the End. The XVIII. Chapter. There is demanded /how the upright brethren shall behave themselves /towards Such as also go-fourth as brethren /and have gotten and read some part of the writings of the Family of the Love of jesus Christ /and yet will not make-manifest themselves ⁏ for to be incorporated into the Communialty of thesame Family of the Love; by the Elders. but run hethe●-and-thether with the writings or with the Knowledge out of thesame /among the brethren /and among other more /for to teach them /with their Knowledge /or to pluck them to the Knowledge of their Mind. And thereunto is answered by HN and said: Verily /Then that common unto you /without the Ordinance and Requiring of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love /bring-in nothing-els but Breach /Division /and Offence/ a Rom. 16. c. besides the good Doctrine which is taught you to the Entrance of the upright Life: and also besides the good Doctrine which becometh yeat daily taught unto you /to b Ephe. 4. b. the growing-up in the holy Understanding of the Godliness of the holy Spirit of the Love of jesus Christ. 2. O alas /over those we have to lament us verymuch: for They are the c 2. Gla. 23. b c 4. Gla. 23. c. false brethren /which everywhere slip-in ⁏ with their good-thinking Knowledge; besides the good Doctrine of the gracious Word and of his upright Service /and enter not in by the right d john. 10. Door of the Sheep-folde /to the Sheep of Christ or of the Family of his Love /nor by the right Entrance to the e john. ●. a. New Birth in jesus Christ: but break●-in thorough some other way /and evenso seek their own private Commodity and the Honour of themselves /at Mens hands /and not the Salvation of Men: and for their own Ease and pieces cause in the Flesh /they know also well how to hold themselves ⁏ after the Aspect or Pleasing of Men /and according to the Measuring-fourth of their Knowledge; as Teachers and f 2. Cor. 11. c. Apostles of the Word: they know also sometimes how to prate & talk at-large of high heavenly Mattiers /which yet they have never seen /but have taken-on such a Knowledge thereof to themselves. Howbeit /they desire not to make-manifest the Uncleanness of their Hearts /nor-yet ⁏ in Repentance for their Sins; to be purged thereof: but they cloak or cover thesame /and yet will nevertheless ⁏ with their unclean ungodly Hearts; esteem themselves to be ●●●uall with the Righteous. 3. Of which /and over which /the upright prophets /Teachers /and Apostles of the Word /have ever very-sore complained them /that g Esa. 2●. 56. d. jer. 14. c. 23. a c. d. 50. b. c. Eze. 13. 34. Oze. 4. 5. 9 b john. 10. a. Rom. 16. c. 2. Cor. 11. ●. 2. Tess. 3. a. b. 2. Tim. 3. a. Tit. 1. c. 2. Pet. 2. a. c. such false brethren & Teachers /know how to break-in always so subtly /between the upright Doctrine of the holy Word and the singlemynded brethren: yea and also obtain the greatest Estimation among Many /and draw likewise many Unfaithful unto them. But they themselves bring therein the Sentence of their Punishment with them /wherein both they and such as follow them ⁏ in their Error & Fourth-going; destroy themselves /like as the holy prophets and Apostles of the holy Word /have figured-fourth and witnessed their judgement /Punishment /and Destruction· together with their Falsehood and Seducing /in many Places of the holy Scripture. and warned all good-willing Hearts to the upright Righteousness /of them and of such-like· and of their Destruction. 4. And we ourselves also have mentioned the-like in many of our h 2. Gla. 23. b. 4. Gla. 23. c. writings /to th'end that now likewise /in this perrelous Time [wherein all Falsehood /Seducing /and Deceit ⁏ to the Destruction of Men; beareth so great sway] everyone which ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love; loveth the Righteousness with us /should be warned of the Falsehood and Deceit of the false Bretheren· and of Such as take upon them out of themselves /to administer any Doctrine ⁏ besides the Doctrine of the gracious Word and Service of Love; unto anyone: and also of them /which turn-away themselves from Us and from the Woorde· and from our mostholie Service of the Love /and can yet nevertheless highly and at large prate of the Word and the love. But they themselves enter not into the Beginning of the christian Doctrine of the Service of the Woorde· nor into the upright Being of the Love: nether-yet also endeavour them thereunto /to passe-thorowe the i Luk. 13. c. small Way /which leadeth to the Life of the k Ephe. 4. c. upright Righteousness. 5. And therefore /to th'end that now in this perrelous Time /the right Entrance to the upright Righteousness /might be the-lightlier knowen· and the Deceit of the false brethren ⁏ which enter not into thesame; the-better eschewed: and that they might be preserved therefrom /So is presently in this Day ⁏ through the gracious Word and his Service of Love; the right l john. 10. Door of the Sheep-folde of the upright Sheep or brethren of the Family of Love /or the right Entrance to the New Birth in jesus Christ ⁏ wher-thorowe all upright Sheep /Teachers /and Apostles of the holy Word do enter-in /to the upright Being of jesus Christ and his Love; figured-fourth and expressed distinctly and nakedlie unto us /without the which /all Unbelievers of the Word /and all Hypocrites and false brethren /with all false Teachers or Apostles /byde-remayning: and have not any lust /to go thorough thesame. 6. And although they dissembled never somuch/ as pretending to go therein or ther-thorowe with you /yet can they not ⁏ if they in the Obedience of the Requiring of our mostholie Service of y● Love /love not with all their Heart the upright Being of jesus Christ; persever therein to the End /that they might be saved: but they turn them away /either to the right Side or to the left /and come not to the true Being of jesus Christ ⁏ wherein notwithstanding the upright Knowledge of the Mystery of God and of the heavenly Kingdom /together with the spiritual and heavenly Goods are obtained or purchased; that they might inherit thesame /in their Spirit and Mind. 7. For-that-cause we tell you yeat presently/ like-as we have also tolke you heretofore /that ye shall at no time have any regard nor geeve-care to Anyone of them all /that endeavour them not /nor yet will endeavour them /to the Entrance of the m Math. 3. Luk. 3. first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine· nor to the n john. 3. New Birth in jesus Christ, nor-yet to Such as bide not steadfast therein /to Faithfulnes·s nether-yet accounted them for upright brethren /much less then /for Teachers or Ministers of the Word. For they that make not manifest themselves /before their Elder in the holy Understanding of the gracious Word /nor confess the Error of their former Life and Understanding /before him /nor yet do nor shewe-fourth any Repentance for their Sins /have not any good in their mind /whither they acknowledge it or acknowledge it not. 8. If they then appear not or make not manifest themselves in that place /where the Sun ؛the heavenly Daylight; shineth /and where the o john. 7. d. Fountain of the safemaking Water floweth /and evenso hold not themselves steadfastly /by the clear Shining of the heavenly Day-light· nor by the daily Outflowing of the safemaking Water /nor become daily refreashed and washed with the outflowing healthsom Waters /till that they ⁏ in their Spirit and Mind; be borne-anew /out of the holy p john. 3. ●. Spirit of the Love of jesus Christ, but /before they have attained to thesame Time /runaway with some flowen-fourth Water /and that they suppose evenso to bide covered /in their inward, filthy, and stinking q Ie●. 2. c. Poole or Pit /or-yet to purge themselves /without the pure Water that floweth out of our Pitcher· and from our Body /So shall it not then verily avail them /to the Life of Righteousnes·s nor the unclean stinking Pool of their inwardness /become so purged /nether-yet shall their inwardness be any sweet Savour /before the God of Heaven /to his Habitation. 9 And the flowen-fourth Waters /which they have separated from their Streame· and taken-on to themselves a false judgement ther-out /shall also ⁏ seeing that they themselves are separated from the Fountain and from her daily outflowing Water-streame; wax dry by them or become of no force: and they themselves shall also ⁏ as dead r judae. ●. Trees or broken-off s Rom. 11. d. Branches; wither or fade-away: and their polluted Bowels shall be eaten-away by the unclean fretting Worms /and they shall ⁏ at the last; find themselves profitable to no use /but for the t Esa. 26. b. Math. 3. 7. b. john. 15. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Fire. 10. Therefore ⁏ O ye Adjoinedons and Incorporatedons to the Word; ye shall not hold you v Math. 18. c. 1. Cor. 5. b. 2. Tess. 3. b. common /with such Strangers and Declyners from the Service of Love /for to eat daily with them ⁏ at your Table; the holy x john. 6. d. Act. 2. f. Bread [which is brought ⁏ from the Right-hand of God the Father; unto you ⁏ to the Life of your Souls; out of Heaven:] but break, distribute, and eat thesame among each-other. But-yet hold not yourselves therefore as y 2. Tess. 3. b. Enemies against them: but exhort them to the Entrance of the upright Brotherhod /to th'end ⁏ if the Lord granted thesame; that they might ⁏ to Life; become saved· and preserved from their Destruction. 11. And evenso /in it-all that chanceth unto you /bear in nowise any Enmity to anyone: but show always /in your Brotherlie-love ⁏ which ye have among each-other; also the z 2. Pet. 1. b. common Love /towards all them which ignorantly err /and yet notwithstanding /by you or besides you /love the Righteousness: and exhort them evenso to the Belief of the gracious Word /and that they in the Belief /apply them repentantlie to the Entrance of the first Schoole-rule of the christian Doctrine of the gracious Word and of his Service of love. 12. And with all them that apply them thereunto and do evenso /and persever therein /ye shall hold you common: and also eat or feede-of the Bread a john. 6. c. Act. 2. f. to Life /with them: and so all b Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. grow-up with each-other /in the Godliness of the gracious Word and of his holy Spirit of Love /till unto the Old-age of the holy and godly Understanding: and become you then evenso strengthened with the upright Being of jesus Christ, and c Ephe. ●. c. replenished with the Fullness of his holy Spirit of love. O Yea: That com-to-passe evenso. A gracious Calling /wherewith all People are called and courteouslie-bidden ⁏ through HN; to the gracious Word and Supper of the Lord /and to the mercyseat of the Love of the Majesty of God. Come hither to the gracious Word and his Service of Love /O all ye People: Spiritual and Worldly /Magistrates and Subjects /Noble and Unnoble /rich and Poor /Wise and Simple /together with all Sectaries and Setters-fourth of Religion: and likewise also /all Men-sinners and Women-sinners /how horrible Sins or Iniquity /soever ye have committed or lived-in. 2. Come ye all presently /and do a Math. 3. Luk. 3. upright Fruits of Repentance: for ye are all presently ⁏ to upright Repentance; bidden to the Supper of the Lord /where the Bread-of-life of jesus Christ ⁏ which is come from Heaven; is eaten. and where also the pure b Math. 26. c. Luk. 22. b. 1. Cor. 11. c. Blood of our Lord jesus Christ is drunken /out of the Cup or Passion of Christ· ●●d shed-fourth for Many /to the Remission of Sins. 3. Come now all /and turn you to this mercyseat of the Love of the holy Spirit of jesus Christ, and obtain the forgiveness of your Sins. Put-away presently the c Deut. 10. d. Foreskin from your Hearts /and receive in the Spirit of your Mind /a clear Sight of the upright Righteousness before God and Men. 4. Come hither also to this gracious Service of the Love /all ye d Math. 5. ●. hungry and thirsty Souls after the Righteousness /together with all ye which love the Peace. Com and perform ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love; your guilty Offering and godservice /in the e Rom. 6. Heb. 10. 13. c. true Offering and godservice of our Lord jesus Christ: and have your communion with the Saints of God /in all love. Take it to heart. CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER HN.