The prophety of the Spirit of love. Set-fourth by HN: And by Him perused anew/ and more distinctly declared. Translated out of Base-almayne into English. Behold/ I will send mine Angel or Messenger/ which shall prepare the Way or makeplaine the Path, before Me. He shall turn the Heart of the Fathers, to the Children · and the Heart of the Children, to the Father's/ that I come not/ and utterly smite or destroy the Earth, with the Curse. Malach. 3. a. 4. a. Math. 11. b. 17. b. Mar. 1. a. Luc. 1. b. ANNO. 1574. Now goeth the judgement over the World: Now becometh the Prince of this World cast-out. john. 12. Now is the Salvation/ the Power/ and the Kingdom, become our Gods: and the Might his Christ's. Apo. 12. The Preface. IN the Time of the Beginning or Rising of the a joel. 2. a. b. ●…. Soph. 1. b. Mal. 3. a. 4. a. great Day of the righteous judgement of God upon the Earth/ and of the Appeeringe of the b Math. 24. d. 25. d. Luk. 17. c. 2. Tess. 1. a. 2. Tim. 1. b. Tit. 2. b. Coming of our Lord jesus Christ in his Majesty, the Mosthighest hath powred-out from him ⁏ with a mighty and vehement Drift or Operation of his holy and gracious Word; this same Propheatie of his Spirit of Love, upon the Earth/ and brought the same to light through HN his elected Minister. 2. Wherewithal the Lord ⁏ through the same his elected Minister; maketh-manifest and known unto all People ⁏ with Correction/ Discipline/ and Exhortation; the horrible c Esa. 13. 47. b. Mal. 4. a. Destruction of all ungodly and vacant unregenerated Men/ together with the Deceit d Psal. 62. 64. a Esa. 59 a. b. jer. 9 a. and Falsehood of their malicious Hearts. 3. Also figureth-fourth before their understandings, their Self-wisedom/ false e Esa. 5. ●…. Imagination of the Knowledge/ and the perverse f Esa. 66. b. 4. Esd. 16. g. Sap. 1. a. Thoughts/ which captive and seduce them: and setteth evenso their unfaithfulness ⁏ g jer. 2. d. 3. a. Ezec. 16. a. b. Oze. 4. a. 5. a. as a covered or cloaked whoredom; and their Vnlust to the Love ⁏ as a Sluggishness and Foolishness; evidently before their Eyes: and consequently, warneth every-one of the Destruction/ To th'end that they all should thereby ⁏ to their Preservation and Salvation; give-over and incline themselves uprightly, to the Obedience of the Love · h Math. 3 a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. d. 3. c. repent them for their sins · and take the Mercy of God/ or the Grace of the Lord (which the Lord ⁏ through the Spirit of his Love; proffereth or presenteth so beninglie unto them) groundlie i Pro. 3. a. 4. a. to Heart · live in all k Luk. 1. g. Eph. 1. a. 4. o. upright Righteousness · and evenso ⁏ in the l Luk. 17. c. Tit. 2. b. Revealing of the great Day of the Lord; become preserved m 2. Pet. 3. b. in the Godliness. 4. Let every-one therefore have a good regard to this same Doctrine of prophety: and take it effectually to Heart, what the same requireth. The prophety of the Spirit of love. The first Chapter. THIS is the Sound of the Voice of the true Spirit of Love: wherewith the Lord visiteth the Wickedness of the People upon Earth/ To th'end that it might become fulfilled, which the Lord hath spoken through his holy prophets. like-as there standeth written: The Lord a Esa. 26. c. Mich. 1. a. shall go-fourth out of his dwelling/ and visit the Wickedness of the Inhabiters of the Earth: in such-sort/ that the Earth also shall disclose the b Apoc. 18. c. Blood which she hath swallowed-up/ and not hide the same any longer. 2. THe Lord ؛the God of Heaven· moved Me, in his Mind ⁏ or Spirit;: his power encompassed Me, with a Russhing-noyse: and the Glory of the same God of Heaven, become great in my Spirit of his Love: in such-wise/ that the great clearness of God wholly environed Me/ and shone rounde-aboutmee. Wherethrough the Sight of mine Eyes, become clearer than Crystal. and mine Understanding, brighter than the Sun: in such-sort/ that I insawe with mine Eyes, the great c Ezech. 18. c. 2. Pet. 3. b. Long-suffering of God. and how large the same extended over the Children of Men: and perceived ⁏ with mine Understanding; the Breakinge-fourth of the d Esa. 13. a. Amos. 5. h. joel. 2. a. b. Soph. 1. b. great Day of the righteous judgement of God upon the Earth: with which Breaking-fourth of thesame great Day, God will also now in the last time ⁏ as a e Nahum. 1. a. Revenger against all his Enemies; make-up himself and appear/ and f Act. 17. d. judge the universal Earth with Righteousness/ according to his Promises. 3. I insawe also/ that God will powre-fourth his Wrath and Indignation, over all them that have not ⁏ to their g Rom. 2. a. Amendment; taken-heede unto his Love/ Grace/ & Longsufferinge · but, in the Mercy of God/ and in the Time of Grace ⁏ whenas the Mercy was proffered unto them; h Pro. 1. c. refused the same: and evenso ⁏ bydinge sluggish towards the Will of the Lord; loved and ensued the worldly Foolishness/ Maliciousness/ and Selfmindednes/ as also the Infidelity of the Goodthinkingwise, more than the Salvation of God. 4. In all this same ⁏ wherewith the Lord so moved Me, in his Mind; I took good-heede ⁏ in mine Understanding; what the Lord-his Meaning and Will was: and whereto or to what-maner of Service, the Lord moved my Mind. 5. When I then perceived or understood it/ so was the Lord-his Meaning and Will unto Me/ eaven-such, as his Being ⁏ or Essence; spoke unto Me. For the Being of God gave-fourth his Sound and Voice: and spoke unto Me H●… ⁏ through his Spirit of Love; all these Words/ and said: 6. GO now out/ and bide always in Me: and ⁏ i Mal. 3. 2. going-before with thy Service, ere-ever the clearness of the great Day of my righteous judgement do come; let the Sound of the Voice of my gracious Word passe-fourth, over the universal Earth. Show all People, my Will: declare my Laws/ Ordinances/ or Institutions, to the Vnunderstandingones: forbear not any longer the transgressing of Men: neither wink thou henceforth at the Offences of any People: but make-manifest their k Esa. 58. a. Unrighteousness unto them: and correct or reprove them, for all their Ignorance/ Blockishness/ Self-seeking/ and Hypocrisy/ and for all their Lying-imagination of the Knowledge/ wherewith they give-forth themselves before thee, as-though I approved their cause: in which doing, they all make-manifest their false Righteousness before Me/ and bring their filthiness before my Face/ making themselves evenso l Esa. 1. b. Amos. 5. ●…. to an Abomination before mine Eyes. 7. Let also the Slothful/ m Pro. 6. a. 24 and all such as go-on so negligently [namely/ such as followe-after the fashion and Being of the wicked World/ n jer. 7. 6. 11. a. 13. b. 18. b. Zach. 7. b. or their Good-thinking/ and consider not on the Service and Requiring of my holy & gracious Word ⁏ that passeth-fourth under the Obedience of my Love; nor have any regard thereto] know and understand, that they all are o Esa. 1. b. Amos. 5. c. Luk. 16. b. Tit. 1. b. an Abomination and a Lothso●…es, before mine Eyes. and that I cannot away with them/ To th'end that they all ⁏ through thy Service out of my Love; may turn them uprightly p Esa. 55. a. ser. 3. a. b. , to Me & my Love · q Ezec. 17. d. joel. 2. c. Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. repent them for their sins · and be r 2. Pet. 3. b. preserved, in the clearness of the Day of my righteous judgement. 8. NOw/ bowing myself in all Obedience to my God/ I went-fourth: and bid also always in the Lord/ even as the Lord had commanded me. And my Spirit being moved through Gods power, I gave-fourth ●…e Sound of the Voice of the gracious Word of the Lord/ like as I had also done in times-past. 9 And evenso ⁏ out of the Love of my God and Christ; become the gracious Word of the Lord ⁏ in living power; out of the living God, in sharp Reprovinge/ chastising & Nourteringe ⁏ as with Documents, to the Putting-away and mortifying of the Sin of Death;/ and also in Gentledealinge or Healpfulnes to Salvation ⁏ as with sweet s Esa. 55. a. john. 4. b. 7. d Apo. 22. b. Waters, to the Raysing-upp of the Righteousness of Life; t john. 4. b. 7. d flowing from my Body: and the Sound of the same Voice, enlarged itself wyde-abrode, upon the Earth. 10. Have a good regard therefore ⁏ O ye Children of Men; unto that which becometh This-day ⁏ out of the gracious Word of the Lord & his holy Spirit of Love; spoken & expressed unto you: and harden u Psal. ●…. b. Heb. 3. b. not your Hearts, in any-case. but x jer. 7. a. 18. b. 25 a. 35. b. amend your Being/ To th'end that ye may enter ⁏ with the Children of God; into the y Esa. 32. ●…. Heb. 3. b. 4. b. Rest of the Lord. The second Chap. ONce Children of Men/ ye Children a Gen. 3. a. Esa. 1. a. ●…9. b. Rom. 5. b. of Defection ⁏ which will not believe nor understand God-his Truth · give any b Pro. 1. c. jer. 7. c. ●…are to the Lord-his Will · nor followe-after the Doctrine and Instruction of the gracious Word and his holy Spirit of Love; how can I ⁏ in any-case; suffer you any longer, than I have suffered you? Seeing that the Lord himself will not forbear you any longer, in your Unwillingness to his Righteousness. 2. Thus-longe have I, with the c Rom. 2. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Longsufferinge of the Lord/ beheld and consideredit also with Longsufferinge, what manner of Ways it might be/ that ye all loved to walk in: and whether also anyman loved/ or desired to enter obediently, into the d Pro. 3. b. 4. b. Math. 3. a. Mark. 1. a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. d. 3. c. Entrance or first school-rule to the Way of Life and Peace/ in such-sort as the same becometh administered ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love; according to the Truth of God. 3. Thus-longe have I been conversant ⁏ in stillness; with many of you. and been by you, like as one that can well abide to looke-on the Wickedness of Men/ and yet not correct or reprove the same. But in all this same, my Spirit hath been greatly e jer. 9 a. 14. b. Lam. 1. b. ●…. b. bourdened with grief · and ⁏ with much heavy-cheere; very woeful and sorrowful for you all, O ye Children of Men. 4. For, vewinge the whole Face of the Earth/ I beheld & noted directly, the exceeding Distraughtnes and f 4. Esdr. 14. ●…. Math. 24. b. Iniquity of the perverse World. and the manifold g Dan. 9 c. 11. Mark. 13. b. Abominations of Desolation, wherewith she hath brought herself into a most confusedestate: also the many & manifold h Esa. 5. c. Rom. 1. c. 12. 1. Cor. 1. b. Self-wisdoms/ Chosen-holynesses i Col. 2. a. 2. Tim. 3. a. / and false God-seruices or Religions of Men/ which they have taken-on unto them, out of the Scripturely-learnednes/ and Imagination of the Knowledge · and made or divided themselves ⁏ therethrough; into many Sects/ Dissensions k Mat. 24. a. 1. Cor. 1. b. 3. a Gal. 5. c. jam. 3. b. / and Schysmes or Divisions. 5. I Have moreover, marked ⁏ with Long-suffering; the Fourth-going of all such as boast them of the Love/ and persuade themselves, that they cleave unto the Love and the Wisdom/ Whether that there were any better-thing loved by them, then by the World: and whether also, that they approached any nearer to the Truth of God/ and to the upright Being of the Love, than the wise of the World and Scripture-learned. 6. I have also for-that-cause, walked lovely among certain of them/ and behaved myself l 2; Cor. 5. b. Tit. 3. a. very gentlelye with them: hoping evenso, that the true Fear m Pro. 1. a. Eccli. 1. a. b. c. 2. b. of God/ the n Psal. 40. a. Lust to the good and upright Being/ the upright o Mat. 24. b. Zeal to the Righteousness/ and the Concord p Ezec. 11. b. 1. Cor. 1. a. Ephe. 4. a. of Heart in the Love, should have been found among them/ more then among the worldly wise and Scripture-learned. 7. But ⁏ alas; like as the World/ together with her wise and Scripture-learned, are darkened or q Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b. blinded in Heart/ and deaff in the Understanding (which comprehend not r Sap. 1. a. Math. 11. c. ●…. Cor. 2. b. the good Being of the Love/ nor-yet consider on any of all that which God ⁏ through the Spirit of his Love; requireth: but have always a Lust to themselves/ and cleave-unto the Covetousness/ the voluptuousness of the Flesh/ and the Self-wysdom, which seduceth them) evenso I have found many of you ⁏ yea/ almost all, which make-bost of the Love/ and talk much thereof; to stand in suchlike case: and also advisedly marked, that ye ⁏ under the Pretence or Colour of the House or Service of Love; have taken-on to yourselves, the s 2. Pet. 2. b. judae. 1. b. voluptuousness of the Flesh ⁏ according to the manner of the World; to be your freedom · and your own t jer. 7. c. 11. a. 18. b. Thoughts of the good-thinking, according to the Imagination of the Knowledge (like unto many unilluminated u 1. Cor. 1. b. Scripture-learned and Goodthinkinge-wyse) to be your wisdom: and have no regard to the godly Life of the gracious Word/ nor to the x Pro. 1. c. Counsel of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love/ nether-yet humble you obediently to the Love & her Service. And yet notwithstanding ⁏ when one asketh you, whether ye have adjoined you to the Love/ or are minded to continue with a good will, by the same; ye answer & say expressly: O yea: We will cleave unto the Love/ and not forsake the same in any-case. 8. Howbeit/ ye cover therewithal, your false Desires/ and also the Lusts of your Flesh, wherein ye y Rom. 1. c. Ephe. 4. b. 2. Pet. 2. b. judae. 1. b. live and walk: and remain evenso without the Obedience of the holy Word/ and of the requiring of his Service of Love/ and bide also bound or owned to yourselves/ and to your own Counsel and Will: and come not to the Truth of God/ which floweth-fourth seruiceablelie, out of the Love/ for to be obedient ⁏ as right z john. 8. b. jam. 1. b. Disciples of the Word; unto the same. 9 But verily/ after such a manner, ye are ⁏ towards the gracious Word of the Lord/ and his Service of Love; a Psal. 50. e. jer. 2 d. 3. a. Oze. 4. 5. a. even likeunto an Whore, which after her hearts Good-thinkinge ⁏ to a Cloaking of her whoredom; chooseth an Husband/ and coupleth herself in mariaige unto him/ for that she might boast her as a Maried-wife. and under such a Covering/ & Boasting that she hath an Husband, committeth her whoredom/ Seeing that ye in like manner without Christ/ and against Christ ⁏ although ye make great boast of him; commit Whoordom/ and deal nor walk not according to the Doctrine or requiring of Christ. 10. For which your covered or cloaked Whoordoms-cause and unrighteous Walking, the Lord hath moved my Mind. and commanded me, to figure-fourth your whoredom & b jer. 7. a. b. unrighteous Ways before you/ also to c Esa. 58. a. reprove you thereof/ and to exhort you to Amendment: and to warn you evenso of the Destruction/ that is for to come upon the Ungodly, in the righteous judgement of God. 11. O Thou whorish Nature! Be ashamed ⁏ I say; presently before the Lord/ and before the Seat d Esa. 16. b. Mat. 25. d. of his Majesty, whereout He declareth his upright Righteousness/ that thou boastest thee so of Christ, the gracious Word of the Father ⁏ e ●…. Cor. 11. a. as of thy Husband; and of the lovely Nature of his Love: and yet ⁏ whilst thou so dost; holdest thine Heart common or of-one-beeing with the Antichrist/ with the wicked World/ and with the Self-wisdomes of her Sectuaries & Scripture-learned. Peruse and ponder now well the f Esa. ●…9. b. Falsehood of thine Heart/ and consider thoroughly, all thy Covetousness/ g jer. 7. a. 9 a. Thievery/ Self-seeking & whoredom, which thou hast committed against Christ and his love. 12. O Ye Children of Men: When ye now have once perceived and cleerlye seen ⁏ in your inwardness; into all this same whorish Nature of your unrighteous Walking/ them withdraw you first-of-all therefrom h jer. 2. d. 3. a. / and turn you to the Goodness of our Lord jesus Christ/ and i Ezec. 18. d. 33 repent you: and let yourselves evenso ⁏ under the Obedience of the holy and gracious Word/ and of his Service of Love; become k Eph. 4. c. changed to an upright Being of Christ/ and taught/ l Pio. 1. a. 4. a. instructed/ and coun selled (as singleminded m Math. 18. a. 1. Cor. 14. ●…. Children/ which wholly give-over themselves obediently, under the Tuition or Custody of their Mother) by the Elders in the holy Understanding of the Spirit of the Love of jesus Christ: and evenso ⁏ in all Obedience of the Love of jesus Christ; become fostered and trayned-up, in the godly Wisdom of the holy Understanding. 13. Heerto apply you first-of-all, with faithful Hearts: and come then evenso to the lovely n Ephe. 4. b. and true Being of the Love of jesus Christ/ and to the upright o john. 8. d. Freedom of the Children of God. The third Chap. O Ye Children of the a Gen. 3. a. Esa. 1. a. 59 b. Rom. 5. b. defectinge or offallinge Being ⁏ which say that ye cleave unto Christ and his Love: and under such a Boasting, commit your whoredom; to you is my Cry and Calling. For I lament and bewail very-much your b jer. ●…. d. Oze. 4. ●…. Unfaithfulness/ and all your Faynednes/ wherewith ye think to cover you, before Me. 2. But no ⁏ beloved; no: Ye cannot byde-covered before Me/ nor before the Face of my God: but ye must all ⁏ in this same Day of the Love; become manifest, before the Majesty of God/ and c Rom. 14. b. ●…. Cor. 5. b. before the Seat of the judgement of Christ. 3. For although ye dissemble with Me: and how craftily soever ye cover or fayne you before Me/ yet are nevertheless d 1. Cor. 4. a. all the Counsels and falsehoods of your Hearts, manifest before Me/ and somuch the more naked and bore, e Psal. 44. a. Heb. 4. b. before the Eyes of my Heart and Spirit. 4. For so long as your Hearts stand not submitted goodwillinglie, to the Heart and Spirit of my God: nor are wholly given-over ⁏ to f ●…. Pet. 1. b. jam. 1. b. obedient Disciples of the Word; unto the gracious Word and his Service of Love/ God can I also, through the true g john. 1. a. 3. b Light ⁏ wherein God hath glorified or thoroughly-lighted me; rightwell perceive/ see/ and note/ that all your Minds and Thoughts, are not minded with the Heart and Spirit of my God/ nor with the requiring of the gracious Word/ and of his Service of Love/ but ⁏ ther-against; mingled with wicked h Gen. 6. a. 8. c Eccli. 17. 18. b Inclinations or Affections. 5. seeing now then that I ⁏ through the Light of my God; do clearly see-into all your pernicious either corrupted Nature/ and wicked Inclinations: and gladly vouchsafe you all ⁏ out of the upright Being of my God; that which were better (To th'end that ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love; there might be found by you all, an upright Being i Ephe. 4. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. of the Love of jesus Christ) So cannot I of natures-part/ nor of the k 2. Cor. 5. b. Nature of the Lovespart ⁏ which driveth me thereto; always keepe-scilence: but must ⁏ even out of Love; witness unto you the l Esa. 13. b. 47. b Mat. 24. b. 1. Tim. 4. a. 2. Tim. 3. a 2. Pet. 2. a. Perrels' of Destruction/ which have bewrapped and encompassed you. 6. For-that-cause I admoni●…h you this-day, of the Destruction: and foretell you (as truly as the Lord liveth) if ye endeavour not yourselves to the Obedience of the Requiring of the gracious Word and m 1. john ●…. b. 4. c. of his Service of Love/ for to become upright of Heart: to fear the God of Life: to love the Virtues of the lovely Being of the Love: to live uprightly ⁏ n Rom. 12. a. 2. Cor. 12. a. b Eph. 4. b. 1. john. 1. a. in the commonalty of the Love; with all the Holions of God/ and to deal or behave yourselves o Zach. 7. b. 8. a. b. faithfully with them: and so to become whole lie godded with God p john. 17. c. and his Christ · or q john. 15. b. Ephe. 3. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. incorporated to that same godly Being: but seek yourselves/ or any other thing in or by the gracious Word and his Service of Love: or-else take unto yourselves a good-thinkinge Word/ and falsely usurp the Service of Love/ and boast you thereof: and evenso hold your Hearts common or of-one-beeing, with the r 1. john. 2. b. worldly Being & fashion/ and with the false Hearts of the seditious Scripture-learned/ So will it them assuredly go-evell with you, in this Day of the Love of the righteous judgement s Esa. 13. 47. b. Math. 25. d. of God: Yea much t Math. 11. b. worse, then with the worldly Ignorant/ which have not heard any better, than the Manner or Rite of the World/ or of the seditious and sectuarish Scripture-learnednes. 7. For unto you all (which presently ⁏ in thissame Day of the Love; hear the Voice or Sound of the Spirit of Love) the good Being of the Love becometh expressly set-fourth/ and the Life of the upright Righteousness, figuredout before your Eyes: and to the same also, ye all are u Math. 11. e. Ephe. 1. a. 4. a. ●…. Pet. 1. a. called and intireliebidden. and the Hand reached-fourth unto you, to your assisting therein/ To th'end that ye should all, with good-willing Hearts, wholly give-over yourselves ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love; there unto. and so enterin to the Way or Entrance to the same. 8. But verily/ if ye now ⁏ in all this x 2. Tess. 2. b. Love & mercifulness, which this-day chanceth or becometh brought unto you, through the Spirit of Love; will not give-ear to the Voice or Testimony y jer. 25. b. 29. of the gracious Word · nor learn ⁏ in the Service of Love; the z Math. 11. c. Humility of Heart/ nor the Meekmindednes of Spirit · neyet once laud nor thank the God of Life, for such an appeared a Tit. 2. b. Grace. but b Pro. 1. c. refuse the proffered Grace/ and turn you away therefrom: keepe-off the same from your Hearts: runne-on lightmindedly, with your taken-on Knowledge: have no regard at all to the wisdom of the Love: nor endeavour you to attain to the Righteousness of the upright Being of the Love: and evenso ⁏ c Psal. 95. b. Heb. 3. b. hardening your Hearts; followe-after your own d jer. 7. c. 18. b. 44. a. b. Good-thinkinge/ So think well then heeron/ and consider it advisedly ⁏ O ye Self-mindedones/ and good-thinking wise; that ye ⁏ wit●… such Peruertednes of your good-thinking Hearts; shall beed e Esa. 59 b. Ephe. 4. b. estranged from God and his Truth wax-colde towards the right Love · and altogether unwilling, for to give-over your Hearts in the Service of Love: 9 Yea, that God will also for that cause (seeing that ye are so f Pro. 24. d. Math. 25. b. slothful to the Service of his Love/ and to all what God ⁏ in this his holy Day; requireth) g Apo. 3. b. spew you out of his Mouth. and not let you taste his lovely Being · nor find the h Heb. 4. b. Rest of his holy-ones: but will let your Hearts restblinded from his upright Light · and your Time/ days/ and Years, passe-awaye or i Sap. 5. b. Esa. 13. b. 47. b Mal. 4. a. perish ⁏ with the Ungodly; in Ignorance and Darkness. 10. O Ye k Pro. 6. a. 24 d Math. 25. b. Sluggish to the Will of the highest God/ ye l Phil. 2. c. Seekers of your own selfness, in the Service of the Love/ and ye all which are so wise or m Esa. 5. c. knowledgfull in your own conceit/ and ⁏ without the Counsel of the holy Spirit of Love; n Pro. 1. c. follow and ensue your own Counsel: iett-on with stiff o Esa. 3. b. Necks: and evenso presumpteous-boldlie, p Sap. 1. b. 2. a. hunte-after your own Destruction/ How long will ye yet ⁏ through your Disobedience; bring Sorrow and Care upon me/ and pain me so with angwish in my Heart? 11. How long will ye yet follow your own Counsel: and cast behind you the Counsel of the Wisdom? 12. O/ I fear, that ye will not cease from doing your own Will/ until that the Destruction have utterly swallowed you up: & that ye shall not found any more time of converting, to q Heb. 12. b. Amendment. 13. HOw are ye ⁏ for-shame; thus cold/ and how slowly come ye forward, to the Service of the Love? How bide ye thus always so very-childish or r 2. Tim. 3. a. Heb. 5. b. little-of-understandinge, in the Knowledge of the Entrance to the first school-rule of that christian Doctrine of the Service of Love/ and of the heavenly Truth? I have ⁏ doubtless; held-fourth or expressed all Good before you. and evidently figured-fourth the upright Being of the Love/ and the Entrance to the same, among you. Through which Service ⁏ so extended on you; all my Hope hath been, that I should have reioyeed me with you ⁏ in s Eph. 4. b. Col. 1. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. the growing-up in the godly Understanding of the upright Being of the Love; as with loving Children of the Kingdom/ in the godly Being of the love. 14. But/ alas (the which grieveth my Heart fulsore) Now that ye begin to aware aged or old in the Understanding/ and aught ⁏ of-right; to be t Heb. 5. b. Elders in the holy Understanding, I find that many of you grow not up in the u Eph. 4. b. oldness of the holy Understanding of the gracious Word or Christ ⁏ according to the upright Being of the Requiring of his Service of Love; but in your own or self-framed Understanding/ or destroying x Gen. 3. a. 1. Cor. 8. a. Knowledge/ and yet daily increase therein/ and not in the y Sap. 1. a. 7. b. jam. 3. b. Wis dom of the Love, that godly Understanding. The FOUR Chap. O! Where shall I once find such, as take-to-heart the gracious Word and the Instruction of his Service of Love/ or his Counsel a Deu. 6. a. 11. b. 32. e. Pro. 4. a. of the Wisdom/ and evenso ⁏ with singleminded b Sap. 1. a. Hearts; followe-after the same obediently? For I find by experience, that the most Part of People ⁏ which make a c 2. Tim. ●…. a. show, as-though they turned them to the Love or to the Service of the same; turn them not d jer. 3. a. b. aright, to the Love and her Service. 2. For that cause/ such show plainly their Unfaithfulness: and, in turning them away from the requiring of the Love, it becometh manifest (in the Bringing-fourth or Spreading-abrode of their own Counsel/ Lust/ and Will/ which they take unto them, through the Imagination of their Knowledge) that they are utterly estranged from the gracious Word of the Lord/ and from his Requiring/ and turned towards their own Word & Will. 3. For there are very-fewe to be found, that give over themselves heerto. namely/ to e Math. 16. c. forsake their Self-wisdome or Imagination of the Knowledge/ and to live obediently f 1. Reg. 15. b. 1. Pet. 1. b. , according to the Counsel and Doctrine of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love. But almost all ⁏ and especially, they that refuse the Love and the Requiring of her Service; set themselves to judgement/ for to g jer. 13. d. judge with their own Word and Imagination of the Knowledge, God's gracious h 1. john. 3. b. 4. c. Word and the i Esa. 30. a. b. Service of his holy Spirit of Love/ as also the Elders in the same Service. 4. Yea/ many think also in their Hearts/ that they will look-well heerto/ that they be not in any wise seduced or deceived, by the Love ⁏ which k 1. john. 4. a. nevertheless is God himself;/ nor by the Spirit of Love ⁏ which is the true Godliness of jesus Christ;/ nor by the Dayed-elder in the same Spirit/ which witnesseth the upright Being of the Love and her Spirit. 5. Behold/ such a Circumspection will they almost all occupy or use/ supposing evenso ⁏ according to their Good-thinkinge or own Knowledge; to enter into the Life: and (although they are not regenerated in the Obedience of the Love of jesus Christ/ l Sap. 1. a. Math. 11. c. 13 1. Cor. 2. b. nor yet understand the Works of God/ nor the Mystery of his Kingdom) to be more prudent and understanding with their Knowledge, than God himself/ and his Spirit of love. 6. Which Spirit hath now in this same day ⁏ through the Mercy of God and his elected Minister; made manifest the secret Treasures of God/ and the godly and spiritual m Eph. 3. b. Col. 1. c. ●…. Tim. 1. b. Richeses of the heavenly Goods, so distinctly & nakedlie/ and also brought the same so abundantly and liberally unto us/ in the Obedience of the requiring of his Service of Love (whereout also we declare-fourth the same again, among the Children of Men) that the Simplest or Verie-least among the Vnderstandingones (if he considered thereon) might right easily understand/ that this same our Ministration of the holy Word in the Service of Love, is Gods Working/ and not the Mans. and that the same Spirit and such an holy Understanding n Math. 16. b. as is witnessed and declared out of the same Ministration, proceeded not out of any Flesh nor earthly Understanding · but out of the living God: and that-men also (without conceiving any Euel-opinion thereof) aught to be obedient to thatsame Spirit, in the requiring of his holy Word and Service under the Obedience of the love. 7. Howbeit/ many will not consider heeron: but they turn them almost all, to their own o jam. 3. b. Understanding out of the Wisdom of the Flesh/ and Scripture-learnednes or Imagination of the Knowledge/ wherein they entangle/ disturb or disquiet themselves among each-other: and come not p Eph. 1. b. 4. b 2. Tim. 3. 2. to the Understanding, whereunto they are called or required/ and wherein they might understand the Mind or Intent of the Works of God. 8. Out of these ignorant understandings ⁏ according to the Imagination of the Knowledge; very-manie make-up themselves presently/ which judge the Administration of the gracious Word of the holy Spirit of Love, out of their ignorant and unilluminated understandings: and running-fourth evenso ⁏ with their judgements; heere-and-theare, they know nor understand not themselves, what they judge thereof. 9 For the One murmureth here/ and will have it Thus after his Mind: the Other murmureth there/ and will have it So after his Mind. The One hath seen or marked This in it/ that is unright in his Eyes. The Other hath heard That thereof/ or-else conceived and imagined to himself there out, some strange or absurd Matier/ that soundeth unto him ⁏ in his Ears and in his Thoughts; as unright or Error. 10. Heerwith now/ and with suchlike (as there is mentioned) certain have so much to do/ and to talke-of/ that they for-that-cause (through the great Toil and Business which they encumber themselves withal thereabout) become so utterly blinded in their Hearts/ that they ⁏ by nomeanes; can consider on the singleminded q 1. Reg. 15. b. 1. Pet. 1. b. Obedience which the gracious Word and his Service of Love requireth: nor-yet on the abundant Treasures and Richeses r Math. 13. b. Col. 2. a. of God/ which ⁏ out of the heavenly Truth; become s Eph. 3. a. Col. 1. c. revealed ⁏ by God-his Grace; so ritchlie and liberally unto us, in the Service of Love · and ⁏ through the holy Spirit of Love; brought unto us, to Salvation. 11. They have likewise not once any regard, what an upright and lovely godly t Eph. 4. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. Being, the gracious Word bringeth ⁏ in the Obedience of his Service of Love; unto his Believers. 12. Also they understand not u Math. 16. a. the Time, which is now present and at-hande: in which, the Ending of the perverse x 2. Pet. 3. b. World/ and the Appearing of y Math. 24. 25 Luk. 17. c. Act. 1. b. the Coming of our Lord jesus Christ/ and the z Esa. 26. c. john. 5. c. 1. Cor. 15. c. 1. Tess. 4. b. Resurrection of his holy-ones, cometh-to-passe. The V Chap. O! Is it not a verne lamentable case/ that I have a Eccli. 24. d. 2. Cor. 11. c. laboured thus-longe ⁏ with such a Feruentie and Diligence; in the Mystery of the Works of God, out of the godly Powers/ among the Children of Men · and geeven-abrode the same Mystery of the Works of God unto them ⁏ with so full Resolution; to their Salvation (for to declare thereby God's Truth upon the Earth) so openly and clearly · dealt or been conversant in the travel of the godly Testimonies of the true Light, among so many · and also communed or spoken thus-longe ⁏ pea, so often and manytimes; with them, of the b Math. 13. b. Luk. 8. a. Mystery of the Kingdom of the God of Heavens: And that I yet found so few, which ⁏ with all their Heart; give-over themselves goodwillinglie ⁏ to obedient c 1. Pet. 1. b. jam. 1. b. Disciples; unto the gracious Word of Life and Truth/ and to his Service of Love/ or that humble them ⁏ accor ding to the Requiring of the Word/ and d Pro. 1. c. Counsel of the Wisdom; aright thereunder. For almost they all e Phil. 2. c. seek themselves: and not the Lord. and evenso, hearing and believing themselves, f jer. 18. b. 23. c they followe-after their own Will and Understanding. and not the Lords/ nor his gracious Words. 2. Seeing then that they hear/ believe/ and witness so gladly, their own Word: and follow or ensue so gladly, their own Counsel/ Wisdom/ and Will/ so will they also very gladly and willingly, submit themselves thereunder: also gladly give them over/ and be obedient, to the same. g jer. 7. c. 11. ●…. 13. b. but not to the grations Word of Life or of the Spirit of Love. Yea, such an absurd and preposterous Dealing, against the gracious Word of Life or of the Spirit of Love, is used oftentimes much more by them which men have in estimation/ and count to have Understanding, then by the Little & Singlemindedones. 3. O/ How much and manye-times is it mentioned in our writings, that the Lord detesteth/ and is wholly minded against h Esa. 3. b. 30. a Rom. 1. c. 8. a. 11. b. 1. Cor. 1. b. all Pride of the Flesh/ against all the Wisdoms of the earthly or fleshly Men/ and against all their industry/ Subtil-pregnantie/ Knowledge/ and Counsel: and how little becometh it taken to Heart: or how little thinketh and considereth the Man/ that he (touching God's Causes) aught to hold himself i Psal. 37. b. Esa. 30. b. still, in his Wisdom/ Industry/ Understanding/ or Knowledge/ until that he were endowed and illuminated ⁏ in his Spirit; through the Obedience of the Requiring of the serviceable Word, with the eternal and living k 1. john. 1. a. Word of God the Father · and l joh. 15 a. 17. c Eph. 3 b. 1. Pet. 1. a. incorporated to the upright and lovely Being of the Love of jesus Christ. 4. Whilst then that the Man is so unmindful of this/ and bringeth-fourth always so presumpteous-boldlie ⁏ out of his good-thinking Prudentie or Industry/ and out of the Imagination of his Know ledge; his own Word/ Counsel/ and Will, so much and manifoldlie: witnesseth-fourth the same for Truth: and evenso, according to his manly Wisdom ⁏ out of the Mind of his Flesh; goeth-on therewith: and (because he thinketh that his cause is right) will nor desireth not anythinge-els/ So must I otherwhiles, let the Man alone or suf far him to go-fourth therein for a season/ waiting when he will come to a better Mind. and behold with Longsufferinge, how it will go with him. 5. Therefore/ for the pieces cause (to th'end that I would not contend with anyman) I keep often silence among Many/ and letpasse ⁏ in my Patience and Longsufferinge; all false witnessings against me: and evenso abide-wayting for the right time m Eccle. 3. a. , wherein the gracious Word of Truth/ and the Discipline or Chastising-erudition might be gladly harkened-unto and believed of the Man/ for to reform the Man evenso ⁏ in convenient time; with Longsufferinge/ and to prevent him, with the upright Wisdom and holy Understanding/ if happily he might by that means, be found worthy of the Grace, that the Lord would open unto him the Door of the upright n Eph. 1. ●…. Understanding/ and give him yet-once to understand, that he aught to keepe-scilence/ and become utterly dumb in himself: and first-of-all, to hearken unto the upright serviceable Word of the holy Understanding ⁏ that cometh fourth o Esa. 2. ●…. Mich. 4. ●…. out of the holy jerusalem/ and leadeth-in unto the Godliness;: to shew-fourth upright Fruits of Repentance: to give-over himself ⁏ for to become obedient; there unto: and evenso to become p Eph. 4. b. taught obediently, in the upright Wisdom of the lovely Being/ and in the holy Understanding of the Godliness: and so then to testify thereof. 6. O/ that the Man gave him to stillness: also had regard, with diligence and feruentie ⁏ and that q Math. 11. c. in humble-maner; to the Service of the gracious Word under the Obedience of the Love: and desired to do the r Psal. 40. a. Act. 9 a. Will of the Lord! So should he then verily learn well to note or perceive, wherein the Lord hath placed his Heart/ Being/ and Mind: and wherein He hath declared or revealed himself/ together with his Light/ word/ Spirit/ and Truth. and that it is also wholly the Will of the Lord/ that-men s Esa. 42. a. Math. 3. b. 17. should hear & believe his Word/ Spirit/ and Truth, thereout: and that-men aught also to assemble them ⁏ as obedient t john. ●…. d. 1. Pet. 1. b. jam. 1. b. Disciples of the Word; thereunto. 7. If now the Man once marked and understood this same aright/ so should he then also verily (if he had a u Psal. 40. a. Act. 9 a. Lust to do the Will of the Lord) endeavour himself ⁏ with goodwill; thereto/ and evenso become assembled therewith: turn his Hearing to the same: and ⁏ out of the Sound of the witnessings of the same; x Pro. 4. a. take-to-heart the Wisdom of Instruction: and evenso ⁏ growing-up therein, to the y Eph. 4. b. Olde-aige of the Man Christ; learn thereout to speak rightly the holy z Sap. 1. 2. a. Understanding of the godly Wisdom. 8. For verily/ the true jerusalem (which in times-past, descended ⁏ in sumptuous and gorgeous garnishing; a Apo. 21. ●…. from Heaven/ and whereout the Word of the Lord is b Esa. 2. a. 65. b jer. 31. d. Mich. 4. a. promised to go-fourth) is risen-up therein, with his glistering clearness. In which jerusalem, the holy Hill of Zion (where out the Law of the Lord is promised to go-fourth/ and whereon the c Levi▪ 26. b. 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 12. a. 15 a. 21. a. Temple/ Tabernacle/ or House of God is builded) becometh exalted above d Esa. 2. a. Mich. 4. a. all Hills · and manifested to a Nourice of the Children of jerusalem. 9 And thatsame heavenly State/ with all what is of-one-beeing therewith, is verily the e Luk. 17. c. Rom. 14. b. peaceable Kingdom and Mercye-seate of all Believers in Christ/ the which is ⁏ from the Grace of God; come unto Us, now in the f Esa. 16. b. Heb. 5. a. last time/ according to the Promises. 10. In which undisturbable and fast-stablished Kingdom ⁏ g Rom. 14. b. Apo. 12. b. that is come unto us, full of Peace/ and full of all spiritual and heavenly Goods; all holy Souls and godly understandings, do h Esa. 35. b. 51. b. 60. b. 61. a 65. b. 66. c. jer. 23. a. 31. d ●…3. b. live and inhabit ⁏ with all Triumph/ Glory and christian joy; free and without any Fear: and thereunto also all Men ⁏ that are good of will for to assemble them thereto; are called and lovinglie-bidden. 11. O/ that the Man understood this same aright i Deu. 32. d. Esa. 48. b. ! So should he then assuredly ⁏ with all goodwillingness of his Heart; k Heb. ●…. a. humble himself before the Throne of Grace/ and sovereign Majesty of God: take-heed unto the Word of the Lord thereout: hear/ believe/ and goodwillinglie obey the same: honour/ laud/ praise and thank thatsame God, which hath prepared all this for us/ which also liveth from everlasting to everlasting l Apo. 4. b. 7. b / and sitteth upon the Seat of his Majesty: and spread-abrode ⁏ everywhere; the great Acts and Wonderful-woorkes of God: as also rejoice him with great joy/ for that such a Throne of Grace and Saving-health, is now ⁏ in these last perrelous times; appeared/ come/ and declared ⁏ m Apo. 21. a. out of the heavenly Being; upon the Earth, unto the Children of Men, n Luk. 2. d. which hope on God and on the Comfort of his Salvation: and that also ther-thorough, the o Math. 6. b. Luk. 11. a. Will of the Lord is accomplished on Earth, as in Heaven. The VI Chap. O Ye Children of Men/ consider-well now heeron/ and have a good regard thereto/ and take the same yet-once effectually a Deu. 4 a. Pro. 4. a. to Heart. namely/ how that presently, out of this same Throne of Grace (which is appeared and come unto us, now in the last time, in the Mostholie of the true Tabernacle of God ⁏ to an everlasting Stool of Grace; b Apo. 21. a. upon the Earth) the Glory of the Lord becometh made manifest · and his c Esa. ●… a. Mich. 4. a. Law/ Word/ and Will ⁏ according to his godly Truth; expressly witnessed. 2. For that cause/ have now a distinct Diversity, in whom God's Spirit and his Word is revealed or manifested/ and in whom that it is yet unrevealed. 3. For consider: Where God/ with his Christ and Spirit, hath his d john. 14. b. 17. c. Apo. 21. a. dwelling in anyone/ and bringeth fourth his secret Treasures of the heavenly Goods thereout/ Eaven-theare is then truly his Wisdom e Sap. 1. a. 7. b. to be found: and also the Counsel of God, according to the Truth. and not by the ☞ Strangers/ nor by the Disobedient unto the Word/ nor yet by the Goodthinkingwise/ which separate them from Us and our godly Doctrine/ neither yet by Them, whose Spirit is not ⁏ in the Conformitie-of-beeing with Us; f john. 3. a. Rom. 8. a. begotten or borne out of God · but ⁏ in the Separation against Us; out of the Flesh of the earthly Being. Have a good respect hereunto. 4. O Ye earthly Generations (you mean I, ye earthly ungodded Men) that exalt and prefer your g jer. 23. 27. b. own Word ⁏ which notwithstanding is mere Lies; so highly/ and hear and believe the same so gladly: also always desire to followe-after your own Counsel ⁏ which notwithstanding is a mere Seducing and Deceit; and to be obedient there unto: and will evenso, out of your Darkness ⁏ which is doubtless nothing else, but the cursed Kingdom of h Apo. 17. a. Hell/ and the Possession or Habitation of all Devils and wicked Spirits itself; judge so gladly the Light of God's Truth/ and the Children of Light: Ah ⁏ beloved; consider yet once, in what Being and Nature ye are comprehended: and then judge, from whence your Word and Spirit is or hath his Original, where with ye will judge & speake-fourth i Esa. 30. a. b. jer. 11. c. the divine Matiers: and from whence also ye fett your Counsel/ which ye ⁏ without God-his Counsel, wherewith We are of-one-beeing; so earnestly ensue or follow after, k 2. Pet. 2. b. judae. 1. b. according to your own Mind of the Flesh: and whereout likewise ye execute the judgement, with the which ye judge the Testimonies of the Light/ and the Children of the Love or of God. 5. Behold/ herein now/ and according to this manner, pronounce-fourth boldly the judgement l john. 8. b. 1. Cor. 11. a. over yourselves/ and geeve-testimonie of your own selves, what ye yourselves ⁏ in your Disobedience to the requiring of the Word; are/ or may be ●…oned for. as likewise of your own Word, which ye speak thereout: For I commit therein the matter unto yourselves for to judge. 6. O Ye Children of Men/ Seeing that ye judge another/ and all things, so gladly or willingly/ so judge now once also yourselves. Ah ⁏ beloved; do ⁏ I pray you; evenso: for I have now geeven the matter into your own hands for to judge. 7. Thus look well rightly into yourselves/ and then pronounce-fourth ⁏ m john. 8. b. 1. Cor. 11. a. according to the Truth; the judgement or Sentence over yourselves/ what ye yourselves all are, according to your inward Man: And truly/ when ye once begin to see aright into yourselves/ then shall ye for-certen find in yourselves/ that ye are not minded according to God-his Nature or Being · but according to the Nature of a corrupted/ and earthly, consumable, or mortal Man. and that your Word and Spirit/ and all your Will and Counsel, n 1. Cor. 2. b. jam. 3. b. is out of the Flesh of Sin/ o john. 8. e. and out of the Lies of Darkness. 8. For, so long as ye yet live in the p Rom. 8. a. 13 1. Pet. 4. a. Flesh of Sin/ and that ye are not ⁏ through the Doctrine of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of the Love of jesus Christ; restored · neither prepared to the New Birth in jesus Christ, in your Spirit and Understanding/ nor yet humble you thereunto: and that ye are not q Math. 13. ●…. taught ⁏ with the Administration of the gracious Word under the Obedience of the Love; to the Kingdom of the God of Heavens/ or that the same is not come unto you ⁏ in your Obedience unto the Word and Service of Love; r Apo. 12. a. b. 21. a. in your Spirit: and that ye evenso direct the Course or Fourth-going of your Life, without the Service of the Love and his Requiring/ So is then doubtless, all your Word/ Spirit & Counsel ⁏ proceeding out of the Imagination of your Knowledge s Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 2. b. jam. 3. b. ; not otherwise minded, but earthly/ devilish & fleshly: and ye have not any Sight nor Knowledge at all, of God-his Matiers or Causes/ nor of the Kingdom of God/ according to the heavenly Truth. It is very-true. The VII. Chap. hearken/ hearken: a Psal. 37. b. Esa. 30. b. Hold you still before the Seat of God's Majesty/ O ye Children of Men: and give-ear diligently. For there cometh now fourth from the same Seat, b Psal. 18. b. Apo. 4. a. lightnings/ thunders/ and Voyees. Yea eaven-now the Lord letteth himself be heard upon the Earth: and he, the highest God ⁏ which sitteth upon his Seat/ and liveth for ever and ever c Esa. 26. c. Mich. 1. a. ; speaketh now out of his holy dwelling. 2. Have now therefore a good regard unto the articular Vnfoldinge or distinct Definition of the same Sound of the Voice of the Lord. For thus saith the Lord/ or in this manner soundeth his Voice: 3. YOur own Word ⁏ O ye Children of Men; is the d jer. 7. a. b. 8. b. 9 a. 14. b. 23. b. 27. b. Ezec. 13. b. Lie, which seduceth you. 4. Your own Understanding, is the destroying and corrupt Knowledge: wherethrough ye ⁏ in your judging; miss the Right and the Truth: and for that cause bear a false e Pro. 11. a. 20. Mich. 6. b. Balance. 5. Your own forecast or Conceavinge/ Will/ and Counsel, is the Falsehood of your Mind/ which beguileth you: in such sort/ that your Steps ⁏ by that occasion; cannot be upright before Me, saith the Lord. 6. Your own Being or false Mind of Darkness, is the f Apo. 2. b. 17. a. b. Kingdom of Hell/ to a g Math. 12. ●…. Luk. 11. c. dwelling for all Devils and false Spirits: wherethrough ye ⁏ with Faynednes and coverings of shame/ and with manie-maner of Selfmindednes; are heldecaptive h Rom. 7. c. or brought in subjection: Yea/ so captived/ that it is very painful and cumbersome unto you, to make manifest yourselves ⁏ uncoveredlie or nakedly; before the Seat of my glorious Majesty: and for that cause also, ye obtain i Apo. 3. b. little Lust and Love to the Kingdom of Heaven [the which is the upright Being and Mind of the everlasting & k 1. Pet. 2. a. unchangeable Light] wherein I (saith the Lord) l Levi. 26. b. 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 21. a. live and devil, as an eternal and living God. 7. Behold (saith the Lord) to live m john. 14. b. and devil in all your inwardness, with this same Light and clearness/ that is my n Mat. 6. 22. d. Righteousness/ and also the Righteousness of my godly Kingdom. ☞ But heerout (saith the Lord) ye thrust Me/ and keep Me off daily, with your own Word and Will: and bide evenso with your fleshly Will, always diveled/ and devilishly minded: and think very little, that I have loved you so entirely from the beginning · o jer. 7. a. b. john. 14. b. Apo. 21. a. and chosen you to an House for my Dwelling. To which Glorious-lordlynes with Me, ye cannot come/ so long as ye refuse the Obedience of my gracious Word/ and p Heb. 10. ●… despise my Spirit of Love: and so hearken to yourselves/ and passe-fourth after the Direction of your own judgement. 8. O Ye Children of Men (saith the Lord) consider and cal-to-mind yet-once, what ye all have been thus long/ and yet are/ so long as ye have heard and believed yourselves: or whilst that ye yet daily do hear and believe yourselves/ and bide q Eph. 4. b. e●…raunged from my Service of Love and upright Being. 9 And if ye now desire to come-againe unto Me · and to your upright Being & State/ then ●…eare nor believe not yourselves any-lenger: but hear and believe my r john. 5. c. 8. ●… Word/ that ⁏ in my Service of Love; floweth-fourth out of my Mouth. 10. Submit you s Eccli. 7. b. 1. Pet. 5. a. there under/ and do according to my Counsel (saith the Lord) So shall ye then come to right again/ also enjoy my Goodness/ and inherit all my Treasures t Math. 13. b Col. 2. a. and Richeses. 11. O Ye Children of Men (saith the Lord): Wherefore will ye thus bide so gladly by yourselves/ seeing ye are always somuch deceived with yourselves? For by yourselves ye find nothing-else but u jere. 7. b. 9 a john. 8. c. Lies and x Esa. 5. d. 9 b. Darkness/ wherthorough ye divide/ entangle/ and destroy yourselves. 12. But by Me/ and by my Word and Service of Love, ye find the true Being of my dwelling/ together with the Truth/ the Wisdom/ and all good Counsel, to your Preservation: also the Light of Life/ y Eccli. 24. c. the lovely Being of the Love/ and the everlasting Life, to your joy and Felicity. 13. Forthatcause ⁏ to your Preservation; take now good-heede to the gracious z jer. 31. d. Word/ that I presently in this same day ⁏ through my holy Spirit and Service of Love; a Esa. 2. a. 26. c. Mich. 1. a. 4. ●… let to be heard/ and set-fourth before you, out of the Tabernacle of my dwelling. 14. And evenso, for my loves cause (saith the Lord) wherewith I have always loved you/ b Math. 16. c Luk. 9 c. 14. c. forsake now yourselves/ and all your own Word/ Will/ and Counsel: and hear and believe only my Word/ that floweth ⁏ out of my holy Spirit and Service of Love; from Me. For otherwise, ye cannot come to my dwelling. 15. Therefore c Esa. 2. a. Mich. 4. a. Zach. 8. b. come now all unto Me (saith the Lord) and assemble you all to the House of my dwelling. namely/ to the House of my Love/ whereout I let my d Esa. 2. a. 26. a Word be heard/ and wherein I have the Seat of my Majesty. 16. Come now all hither/ and (for my loves cause) e Math. 16. c forsake wholly Yourselves/ or your own Life/ and all what ye yourselves/ & for your own selves cause, have takenon. And all what is Mine f Psa. 24. a. 146 / or what belongeth to Me/ that bring unto Me: and lay it all down before the g 1. Par. 30. ● Act. 5. a. Feet of my Majesty/ even the House of my Love: and acknowledge, that it is all my h Psa. 24. a. 50 Proprietee or Very-owne. 17. WHen ye now have done all this (saith the Lord) then plant all your Hearts, in the only Heart of my gracious Word and holy Spirit of Love/ To th'end that ye all might become i john. 17. ●. Act. 4. d. one Heart/ Being/ or Mind, in Me: and that I likewise ⁏ with my gracious Word and holy Spirit of Love; may evenso devil/ k john. 14. b. 2. Cor. 6. b. Apoc. 21. a live/ and walk, in you all. 18. For thereto truly, the Service of my Love stretcheth/ which I now in the last time, extend so graciously on you: and even thereto, I have also loved and elected you all, O ye Generations of Men/ To th'end that ye all ⁏ through the Service of my Love; might be assembled again ⁏ in my godly Being; unto Me/ and have Love and Peace among each-other. 19 Wherefore/ seeing now that this is the last Time l joel. 2. c. Act 2. b. of Grace/ in which (saith the Lord) I let my Voice go-fourth (to th'end that everyone may come to my Rest) so m Psal. 95. b. Heb. 3. b. 4. b. harden not in anye-case this-daye ⁏ in the Hearing of my Voice; your Hearts/ that ye bide not without this my holy Rest, which is published unto you/ and whereunto ye are courteouslie-bidden: But become turned-about thereunto in your Heart and Mind/ and, for to enter into the same/ so gather you now all together unto my House of Love/ and to my holy Tabernacle or Man of God n jere. 31. d. Ezechi. 37. ●… / wherein I ⁏ as a glorious God; with my perfect God head ⁏ as with my Christ, at my right Hand/ and with my holy Spirit of Love, my true Being; do live/ devil/ and walk: and wherein we ⁏ as one true Deity; have revealed and o john. 13. d. 17. a. glorified Us/ To th'end that ye all now, may become consubstantiated or conformablie-united ⁏ as one Man of God; in Me/ and inherit my Rest, with all the Children of God. 20. For verily I say unto you (saith the Lord) Whosoever now in this same Day of my Love, assembleth him not to my House/ nor becometh ⁏ with his Heart; graffed p Rom. 11. ●…. or planted into my Heart/ He shall not enter into my q Heb. 4. b. Rest/ nor yet for-evermore inherit ne inhabit with my Children of Peace, the worthy pleasant Land/ which I have promised unto them/ and r Math. 25. d prepared for them, from the begining of the World: neither yet obtain ⁏ either in this time/ or in any time to come; any Grace of Salvation/ Life of Peace/ nor true Love: nor yet becon s 2. Pet. 1. a. one Being, with my godly Nature: but all Such ⁏ which so bide without Me/ and my holy House or commonalty of Love; shall be t jere. 17. a. 22. a. b. 25. a. b. Sapi. 17. a. b scattered-abrode and brought to confusion · and bound ⁏ u Math. 25. d 2. Pet. 2. a. with the Bands of Darkness; in the horrible Destruction. and so bide x 2. Tess. 1. b. estranged from the Light of my lovely Face, for ever and ever. 21. O Ye Children of Men (saith the Lord) Harden y Psal. 95 b. Heb. 3. b. not in anycase your Hearts, in the Hearing of the Voice of my Spirit, in the Service of my Love: but come now all to this my z Esa. 12. 55. a. Apo. 21. a. 22. Fountain of Life: and refreash a Ezechi. 36. c. Heb. 10. c. your Heart and Mind in the same/ and in her outflowinge Waters: For the same Waters which flow thereout, b joh. 4. b. 7. d. Apo. 21. a. 22. are my safe-makinge Waters of Life/ to the satisfying of all thirsty Souls after the Righteousness: and those-same are also to the Health of all them that drink thereof. 22. O how lovely is my Fountain/ and how sweet are my Waters, which flowe-fourth thereout. namely/ unto all them that love Me/ and understand, c Esa. 42. a. 1. Pet. 2. a. that I am frindlie! Therefore d Esa. 55. a. Apoc. 22. b. come now all unto Me/ saith the Lord. 23. Leave now the friendship of the wicked World ⁏ e jam. 4. a. which is an utter Enymitie unto God · and full of all manner of Iniquity; and make your friendship with Me. For I am in no case churlish/ f Esa. 42. a. cruel/ horrible nor destroying/ like as the wicked World is: but I am lovely/ gracious/ peaceable/ and benefitiall/ or safemaking/ To th'end that my Dominion may evenso ⁏ through my lovely and upright Righteousness; increase itself or g Esa. 9 a. Mal. 1. 3. a. become great, now h joel. 2. c. Act. 2. b. in the last time. and that there be no End of the Peace, from this time fourth for euerm●…re/ To th'end that I may do evenso, that i Esa. 32. 42. a. jer. 23. a. 33. b which is right, on the Earth: and execute Righteousness, among the People. For all Heathen ⁏ which turn their Hearts unto God; k Esa. 42 a. 51 a attend on these my Institutions/ which com-fourth out of the Service of my Love/ saith the Lord. The VIII. Chap. Behold and consider/ and have a good regard heeron ⁏ O ye beloved and goodwilling Hearts; what an Heart/ Lust/ and Love a john. 3. c. , God hath turned or borne towards us all/ for to rid and lead us all, now in these last b Amos. 5. b. Mich. 2. a. Math. 24. c. perrelous times ⁏ through his Service of Love; out of the Abominations of the perverse World: and so to bring us ⁏ with our will; to the Majesty c Esa. 13. c. 60 a jerem. 3. b. of his Glory/ To th'end that we should now in the last time ⁏ through his Love/ and through the d 1. Tim. 2. a Heb. 9 b. Mediator, his Christ; become surely saved · live e Luk. 1. g. Ephe. 1. a. 4. c. ⁏ always and for ever; uprightly/ lovely/ and peaceably ⁏ in the same Godhead; with each-other · and so f 2. Pet. 3. b. inhabit the World ⁏ according to the Promises of God the Father; in Righteousness, for evermore. 2. Therefore [namely/ for this same loves cause, which g john. 3. b. God is extending so graciously on us] turn now your Love likewise to the same God of Life/ and h Eccli. 7. b. submit you all under the Obedience of his love. 3. O Ye dearly-beloved (ye all ⁏ mean I; which say and profess that ye love the Truth) stand in fear before the great glorious God/ and apply you not to any other thing, then that which is according to his William. esteem rightreuerc●…tlie i Psal. 19 b. his Word. have a singular regard to the Law of his Doctrine: and ⁏ with whole Heart; respect well this same proffered k 2. Cor. 6. a. Heb. 12. b. Grace/ which ⁏ through the gracious Word of the Lord; becometh expressed or heald-fourth before you, under the Obedience of his love. 4. Which Word of Grace and Life, God hath geeven in my Mouth · l Esa. 49. a 51. b 59 c. jere. 1. a. 31. d. Heb. 8. 10. b written the same ⁏ together with the Law of his Commandments; in my Heart Mind and Thoughts · and chosen Me to be his Minister/ for to administer now in the last time ⁏ under the Obedience of his Love; m jerem. 33. b the same gracious Word/ to declare his Truth/ and to sett-upp his most-holy Service of Love, through the Belief/ n Num. 14. c. To th'end that the whole World may become full of the Glory of God/ according to the Promises. 5. FOr-that-cause come now all hither/ and refuse not the Lord: but give-over yourselves/ and all what ye have ⁏ o Psa. 24. a. 50 that is the Lords; goodwillinglie unto the Lord and his Word, to your Preservation. Come now all/ and layedowne yourselves/ and all what belongeth unto the Lord, before the Seat of his Majesty. 6. Respect well now this same p 2. Cor. 6. a ●…al. 6. b. Heb. 12. b. Time of Grace/ ere-ever the q Eccli. 5. a Rom. 2. a. Wrath of God/ and his Indignation, fall upon all Ungodly: and have a diligent regard in-time, what the Service of Love requireth. 7. HOwbeit/ if ye do r Pro. 1. c. refuse this same Love of God the Father: and withhold from the Lord, that which belongeth unto him: not fear the same glorious God: cast his Word/ Law/ & Will s Esa. 5. c. ●…▪ 〈◊〉. 7. c. behind you: not regard the hearty mercifulness of his Love, which he showeth so liberally on us: forsake the commonalty of holy ones under the Obedience of the Love/ and refuse to assemble you unto the same: and evenso cleave much-rather with the Ungodly, unto the wicked World: become puffed-up in pomp/ and lightminded of Heart: and evenso followe-after ⁏ according to your Lusts and Goodthinkinge; your own Freedom/ t jer. 7. a. b. 9 a Rom. 1. c. d. 1. Pet. 4. a. 2. Pet. 2. b. judae. 1. b. Will/ and Counsel/ So will God then also turn-away his Love from you. and not let you taste the lovely Being of his Love (which He now in the u joel. 2. c. Act. 2. b. last time, bringeth unto his elected holy-ones ⁏ which submit them under his Love; to an eternal x Esa. 32. c. Sap. 3. a. 5. a. Heb. 3. b. 4. a. Rest of the Godliness) nor inherit the same for evermore: but ye shall y john. 8. c. die in your sins/ and beforced to bear your Condemnation z Mat. 11. b. 25 Heb. 10. c. and Punishment, more than the Children of the perverse or wicked World/ to whom this Grace hath not been proffered. 8. Ye shall likewise daily ⁏ the longer the more; waxe-blinded a Rom. 1. ●…. from the Way of Life: become incorporated to the wicked and malicious Being of the Ungodly: and end your Days and Time, in ungodliness: and evenso, the Number of your Years shall then perish or waste-awaye, with the Ungodly: and your End shall be b Mal. 4. a. Sap. 3. b. Eccli. 21. b. horrible. 9 For like as it shall go with all Ungodly/ evenso shall ye also become c Psal. 37. c. 5●… Pro. 2. c. rooted-out ⁏ in Indignation; from the Land of the living · and condemned in the d Math. 25. d. 2. Pet. 3. a. Fire of Hell. And I ⁏ which am the Lords; cannot likewise ⁏ of the holy Natures-part of my God; be moved with any Remorse of Pity or Compassion towards you. 10. For that be far from the Mind of my Soul/ that I should set mine Affection of the Love, towards any such as love not God nor his Law. but bide by their e 1. Cor. 1. b. 8. a. own Knowledge/ and are ungodly of Will: Be he then what he is, friend/ or Stranger. 11. But f Psal. 112. a. 128. a. Eccli. 1. b. 34. blessed are they to the Lord/ and beloved in my Heart, which fear the Lord: also cleave obediently ⁏ in the Service of Love; with humble Hearts, unto the holy Word of the Spirit of Love/ and are godly of William. Yea/ my Mind standeth good-willing towards all Such/ even to all Grace and Mercy: Be he then what he is, friend/ or Stranger. The IX. Chap. But now/ if ⁏ happily; certain of the goodwilling Hearts to the Love, should take these our forespoken sayings, somewhat heavily or grievously to mind/ and say there upon: Because we are not altogether perfect, Ye/ nor the Lord, have not ⁏ peradventure; any Good-pleasure in us: and we shall also ⁏ possibly; for our Imperfections cause (seeing that we yet daily stumble/ fall/ and sin very-much) perish with the wicked World and all Ungodly. 2. O Ye Beloved/ and all ye goodwilling Hearts, which are goodwilling to the Obedience of the witnessings of the holy Spirit of Love/ but are yet to young a Rom. 15. a. Gal. 6. a. and to weak, to enter into the Perfection: These forespoken sharp sayings/ reproves/ and Punishments, are not spoken to such as humble themselves obediently to the gracious Word and his Service of Love/ for to do the Lord-his Will: nor yet to the good-willing-ones unto the same Obedience b Rom. 7. b. (although they are yet young and weak, in the Accomplishing of the Perfection): but to the Euel-willing/ and to all them that ⁏ with perverse c Sap. 1. a. Thoughts and false or deceitful Intentes; enterin so falsely d 1. john. 2. besides us/ and mean or purpose in no wise the Love. but in all, themselves: and evenso ⁏ with their e Esa. 59 b. jere. 9 a. Sapi. 1. a. malicious Hearts and perverse Thoughts; fal-awaye again from us: also slander or f 2. Pet. 2. b. judae. 1. b. blaspheme the holy Word and our upright and godly Service of the Love: and so spewe-fourth their Falsehood ⁏ with many Lies; over us. 3. Behold/ over this g Esa. 1. a. wicked and venomous Nature, passeth-fourth the judgement of God h Pro. 1. c. Esa. 13. b. Sap. 12. a. Heb. 10. c. and his Punishment, to the Condemnation of the same wicked Nature. 4. FOr that cause ⁏ O ye good-willing Hearts; sett-apart such Thoughts (as that God and the Spirit of his Love/ or his holy-ones, should not ⁏ for your Weakness cause; have any Good-plesure in you) in anye-case far from you: but remember (as it is also very-true) and look into the same according to the Truth/ that the Grace of God the Father/ and the mercifulness of his Love, prevaileth or taketh-in the Pre-eminence i Esai. ●…3. c. Rom. 5. b. e. abundantly, by or in the Believers of the Word: and that God and the Spirit of his Love, is k Rom. 2. a. 2. Pet. 3. b. Longsufferinge towards all Good-wyllingones, which humble them under the Obedience of his Love: also l Heb. 2. c. 5. a. beareth them in all their Weakness: and m jere. 31. f. forgiveth daily all their Sins/ To th'end that they should evenso enjoy his Comfort · and grow-up ⁏ with cheerful Hearts or good Courraige; somuch the goodwillinger in the Obedience n Ephe. 4. b. Col. 1. b. of the gracious Word/ and so go-on or prease-fourth unto o 1. Pet. 5. b. Phil. 3. b. Heb. 6. a. the Perfection. 5. For consider and looke-into it once aright: If the Sin ⁏ whil●…t it was yet night; have p Rom. 5. c. prevailed in us: How much more than shall the Grace and Mercy of God, to the obtaining of the Righteousness (seeing that now ⁏ to the Salvation of Men; q Rom. 13. b the Day, against the Night/ and the Love with her safe-makinge Service, against the Sin and Condemnation, is entredin) prevail or take the pre-eminence over us? namely/ over all them that are r Luc. 2. b. good of will/ and that submit/ or wholly geve-over themselves, with all their Heart ⁏ for to be s Deut. 30. a. 1. Reg. 15. b obedient unto the holy Word; under the Love: and express evenso ⁏ in the Geevinge-over of their Heart; that they have not any Will to the t Rom. 6. b. c Sin or that which is u Sap. 14. c. Rom. 1. c. unright/ nor yet to the x Rom. 13. b Ephe. 2. a. 5. a Darknesses of the wicked World: but have turned all their Lust to the Righteousness/ for to y joh. S. b. 12 d 1. joh. 1. a. 2. b walk uprightly ⁏ with the commonalty of the Love; in the Light of the lovely Being of God. For God hath no pleasure z Ezechi. 18. d 1. Tim. 2. a. 2. Pet. 3. a. in the Perishing of Sinners: but his Pleasure is, that they should all convert unto Him/ a Act. 17. d. repent them for their sins/ & live in his Righteousness. 6. FOr-that-cause/ O ye Feeble-minded of Heart/ and all ye Infirm or Weak, which love the upright Life/ Permit not any evil Surmysinges to take-effect in you/ nor yet geeveplace to the unbelief/ whereby you might be plueked-away from the God of Life/ and from the House or commonalty of the holy-ones of his Love: but in all things wherein your Memory or Understanding might chance to be moved, apply always b Pro. 4. a. your Minds and Thoughts, to the Instruction of the Wisdom/ and to the Doctrine of the holy Understanding of the Spirit of Love: and submit c Eccli. 6. a. evenso your whole Memory or Understanding/ with all your Minds and Thoughts, to the Virtues of the Godliness/ for to followe-after the same, in all Obedience of the holy Word/ and to become old d Ezech. 4. b. and understanding therein/ To theende that ye ⁏ in the youngness of your Understanding; seduce or deceive not yourselves, with any strange and e Sap. 4. b. Eccli. 3. c. unprofitable Thoughts. 7. But ye shall always ⁏ in your youngness & Weakness let the Geeving-over of your Heart/ or your Goodwillingnes to the Love/ and to the Obedience of the Requiring of her Service, f Eecli. 4. 17. c. appear or become expressed, before the g Eccli. 6. 7. d. ●…. b. 9 e. Elders of the holy Understanding in the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love. and not ⁏ at the first; the Perfection. For verily/ it is not in your power, at the first ⁏ in the time of your youngness and Weakness; to bring-fourth the Perfection. The X. Chap. SEcue diligent ear heerto/ and understand well the Words of my Voice/ O ye novices in our hol●…e commonalty or family of Love ⁏ wherein God himself dwelleth and walketh; and ye all which are yet young a ●… Cor. 3. a. Heb. 5. b 6. a. in the holy Understanding · and weak in the accomplishing of the upright Righteousness: Consider and note once aright, which is your first school-rule/ or the Beginning of the christian Doctrine, in our upright Service of the godly Love. Namely/ that ye first-of-all, turn you about from the b Esa. 1. c. 55. a jer. 7. c. 18. b. 25. b. 35. a. Iniquity/ and from all ungodly Being: utterly forsake all the c Ezech. 14. a. Math. 24. b. Abominations of the wicked World: and ⁏ with all your Heart; d 2. Cor. 6. b. Apo. 18. departed therefrom: and evenso, humble and wholly give-over yourselves under e john. 13. e. 15. b. 1. john. 3. 4. b the Obedience of the Love/ for to become as singleminded f 1. Cor. 14. b. 2. Cor. 11. a. 1. Pet. 1. b. 2. a and obedient Children/ by whom no Deceit/ nor any Lust or Will unto subtlety or craftiness/ nor any Fainednes or Dubblenes of Heart/ nor-yet any Unfaithfulness, is to be found: but which daily ⁏ in the g 2. Cor. 6. b. 7. a. Apo. 18. a. Departing from the Iniquity/ and in the increasing h Ephe. 4. b. or Growinge-upp in the good Being of the Love; make-manifest themselves, with naked or uncovered Hearts, before the Seat of the Majesty i Pro. 28. d. Eccli. 4. c. 17. Rom. 14. a. 1. Cor. 5. a. of God. and evenso ⁏ in the confessing of their Sins; sigh k Luk. 6. c. jam. 4. a. and complain over all their pernicious or corrupt Nature and wicked Lusts and Thoughts, which make-up themselves in them/ and wherthorough also they yet sometimes stumble and fall. 2. Behold ⁏ ye dearly-beloved; enter first into this same small l 4. Esdr. 7. a. Math. 7. b. Way: For the same bringeth or reacheth to the Perfection. 3. verily/ to such goodwilling Hearts/ which enter evenso ⁏ according to the Truth; into the same small m Luk. 13. c. Way, that leadeth unto Life: and to all such as apply them thereunto, God hath n Ezech. 18. ●… Eccli. 12. a. a Good-pleasure: and the Spirit of my Mind standeth also inclined ⁏ to all Goodness and Mercy; over those-same/ Because they do ⁏ in such an humble Submission; plainly express, that they fear God: o Psal. 37. a. c Amos. 5. b. hate the Iniquity with her evil Affects or Inclination/ and ⁏ against those-same; are good p Luk. 2. b. Rom. 2. a. of will towards God & his q Mat. 7. b. 22. Ephe. 1. a. 4. c Righteousness. 4. But where as now such a good Will and Geeving-over of the Heart, is not found/ in those I have no Confidence, that they mean or purpose in anywise the true Love: nor yet that they have any Lust or Will, to live in the good Being of God: nether-yet also that the upright Love and Truth, is sought/ loved or desired by them. 5. For all Such, as have not any good Will/ Lust/ nor Desire, to the good Being of God (but live according to their own Selfmindednes/ r Rom. 1. c. Eph. 4. b. 1. Pet. 4. a. 2. Pet. 2. b. and according to the Sensuality/ Will and Pleasure of their Flesh) nor yet desire to enter obediently, into the singlemynded good Will, s Ezech. 18. d. according to the Pleasure of God/ and the Requiring of his word and Service of Love (in which Service, all coverings and Bewitchinges of the Heart/ and all Darknesses and earthly lying Minds, become layed-off t Esa. 25. a. 2. Cor. 3. b. 4. or are put-away) neyet to be brought, out of the earthly, lying, and covered Being/ to the Beholding of the uncovered Face of God & Christ, in the Spirit: nor to God-his u Esa. 2. a. Mich. 4. a. Hill of the heavenly Sanctuary: nor to the x Esa. 60. b. Apo. 21. b. 22. mostholie Illuminatinge from an High ؛the most-soveraigne y 1. Cor. 4. a. Heb. 4. a. Majesty of God·/ those-same are not meet, to enter into God's Sanctuary/ nor to live in his good Being. 6. All such then (as is aforesaid) that have not any mind hereunto: but z Pro. 1. e. Hob. 12. c. refuse this same Grace and Love of God the Father ⁏ which is appeared/ lovinglye-graunted/ and also brought, unto Us Littleones/ and God-his Elect, out of many Thou sands in this World; and despise the same/ or make up themselves ther-against/ Those cannot I verily, account or esteem for any commonalty of Love/ nor for any holy-ones of God or Christ/ nor yet for any such as have any Good in their mind. 7. All such unbelievers and Resisters of the Love and her Service, may be right-easelie known by a Math. 7. b. 12 their wicked Deeds and Inclination. For such false Hearts (let them cloak or hide themselves how they will) do all make themselves b 2. Tim. 3. a. 1. john. 2. c. manifest, that they all ⁏ against the Truth/ and against the Spirit or Mind of the supreme God; are or stand, with the perverse World ⁏ which is worthy of the Fire of c Math. 13. c. 25. d. 2. Pet. 3. b. Hell/ and of the everlasting Condemnation: altogether earthly and d john. ●…. c. jam. 3. b. devilishly minded. They will also ⁏ with their earthly Understanding/ and fleshly Mind; always surmount or bearesway above the Wisdom of the love. 8 AH/ Consider yet-once ⁏ ye Beloved; whether that it accorded-well or were consonant, that the Heaven should lie under/ or on the lowest place · and the Earth drive or lie-swaying thereover. verily/ much-less accordeth it/ or it is far more absurd, that God-his Mind of the e 4. Esd. 6. c. 7. heavenly Truth/ the holy Understanding/ and the Wisdom or the Being of the godly Love, should lie beneath/ or ⁏ as depressed; alunder · and the Minds of the earthly and devilish Lyingne/ and the Self-will of the earthly Man/ with the Wisdom of the Flesh, reign or bearesway thereover. 9 Therefore be now ashamed ⁏ O ye Children of the Flesh/ which presently are so f Esa. 5. c. goodthinkingwise; that your Hearts/ Will/ and Thoughts, stand so g Esa. 59 a. perversely minded against the God of Life and his Truth/ and against the requiring and Ordinance of his Service of Love: and that ye will always ⁏ with your Knowledge and fleshly Minds; beare-swaye above the holy Spirit of Love and his godly Testimonies · and ⁏ according to the Imagination of your Knowledge; reign over his Wisdom. 10. O/ I cannot wonder sufficiently, at this same Blindness of Men (which notwithstanding ⁏ through the false h Esa. 59 b. Light; look so highly or are so far seeing, in their Knowledge). and especially/ that the Man is ⁏ in all; so i Deu. 32. c. void of understanding/ that he always ⁏ according to the Insight of his Knowledge; cleaveth-unto and loveth the Basest, for the Best/ the Vnpurest, for the Bewtifullest/ the Consumeable, for the Everlasting/ and the Earthly, for ⁏ or insteed-of; the Heavenly. 11. O ignorant & blockish earthly Man! How gross art thou become of Understanding/ that thou ●… like Esau; sellest or geevest-over thy k Gen. 25. d. Heb. 12. b. Birthright, for any-thinge wherafter thou sufferest thee to lust: and evenso losest the Blessing of Isaac/ and the Inheritance of the heavenly Beauty? 12. Yea/ theridamas is yet one thing, that maketh me exceedingly and much-more to wonder. namely/ that many good-thinkinge Spirits or earthly Men, are now waxed so presumpteous-bolde/ and arrogant of Heart/ that they ⁏ with a fleshly l Gen. 3. b. Esa. 1. a. and wicked Nature/ and lying Being/ and with their vnrenewed or ungodded Hearts; busy themselves or take upon them, m Esa. 30. b. to judge the godly Matiers'/ and the Sentences of the holy Scriptures. 13. fie on thee ⁏ thou wicked Nature of the earthly Man; which art so impudent or arrogant, that thou sparest not ⁏ with thy earthly Knowledge; to set thy-self n Rom. 2. a. to judgement/ for to geeve-sentence of the godly Matiers: and dost not ⁏ first-of-all; judge thyself/ and what thou art. 14. If therefore thou cease not from thy wicked Works/ and from thy judging of God-his Matiers (which doubtless thou o 1. Cor. 2. b. understandest not/ and forthatcause also judgest those-same falsely) nor yet bear any Sorrow for the same/ nor p Ezec. 18. c. d. Luc. 13. a. repent thee thereof: but bide boldly by thy false judgements/ So will then verily the Word of the Curse (yea all the q Deute. 27. c. 28. c. d. Curses which stand written in the Book of the Law of the Lord) proceed and be executed against thee, now in this same Day of the Love of the righteous judgement of God/ to thy utter Rooting-out and r Math. 25. d eternal Condemnation. The XI. Chap. ●…Thou false a Esa. 1. a. c. d. Seed/ thou adoulterous Generation of the earthly Man: Thou which hast inhabited the Earth, with Unrighteousness · judged it falsely, with thy Lies · b Esa. 1. c. 59 a jer. 5. c. 22. b. Eze. 22. a. d. seduced the Simplo · oppressed the Littleones · murdered the holy-ones of God · and spilled or shed the unguilty & innocent or simple Blood, upon the Earth/ Looke to it, what will now come upon thee: and how that the Day of thy c job. 18. a. b. 20. a. b. c. 21. b. c. d. rewarding ⁏ wherein all thy Wickedness shall be recompensed thee; is d joel. 2. a. ●…oph. 1. b. harde-at-hande/ yea, even in the Door. 2. Yea/ all the Destruction that is forespoken (according to the mentioning of the Scriptures) to come upon thee/ will now ⁏ in this same Day; e Esa. 13. b. 24. a. b. 34. a. b. ler. 7. d. 19 a b Mal. 4. a. with much Calamity/ Angwish and Smart, fall upon thee. And I HN ⁏ on the behalf of all the holy-ones of God and Christ/ which thou hast f 4. Esdr. 15. a. Math. 23. d. Apo. 6. b. 19 ●… murdered without just cause, even from the Beginning until this same Day; will also waige the Law with thee: and paintout or figure-fourth thy Wicked-actes, before thine Eyes. 3. Yea/ I will ⁏ with the Power of my God; be upon thy neck: also require g E●…e. 3. a. b. 34. b. at thy hand, the Blood of all the Innocent or Vngiltie: and traverse the matter or waige the Law with thee, whether thy cause be right or wrong/ before the true judgement of my God. 4. I will not cease nor keepe-scilence ⁏ through the Spirit of jesus Christ my Saviour; before the judgement of God h Rom. 14. b. 2. Cor. 5. b. / and the judgmentseate of Christ ⁏ with i 4. Esdr▪ 16. ●… Accusation against thee, for all thy Unrighteousness and Falsehood; until such time as thy Dominion be brought-downe · thy Memorial utterly k Psal. 34. b. 109. b. rootedout from the Earth · and thy Portion had for thee, in the l Apo. 19 c. ●…0. b. 21. a. Bottomles-pitt/ which is prepared for Thee and all wicked Spirits. 5. Yea/ from henceforth, in the Brekinge-thorowe of this Day of the Love ⁏ which Day is the tocominge m 1. Cor. 15. ●…. Immortality; neither thy Ware or ambergris/ nor yet thy deadly Venom, out of the false Selfwisdom of the Flesh ⁏ wherewith thou hast used and practised thy Deceit upon the Earth/ and forne so long thy Dominion; shall be n Apo. 18. b. of value anyemore. 6. For now in this same Da●…e ⁏ O thou deceitful Seed; thou shalt become taken-awaie or o Psal. 37. a. Pro. 2. c. rooted-out from the Earth/ and buried in the p Psal. 9 b. Esa. 14. b. Hell: where thy Death/ and the Burning of thy Condemnation, shall q Esa. 66. c. Math. 25. d. endure for ever and ever: the which is thy Portion and thine Inheritance. 7. O Thou Brood r Apo. 12. b. 23. a. b. 16. b. of the venomous Dragon (yea, of the Devil/ and of the earthly lying Generation) which art begotten of the Seed of the Serpent and viperous Generation/ and hast always been a false and wicked s Eze. 16. b. Apo. 17. a. b. ●…8. a. b. Whore, upon the Earth: Ah/ come now fourth/ and let it appear before the righteous judgement of God/ where in thou of rightes-part, shouldest execute the judgement/ and bear the Dominion or have the pre-eminence, on the Earth. 8. Behold/ I give thee to understand/ and protest against thee, before the judgement of God/ that all thy Matiers'/ judgement/ and Affairs, are ●…tterlie unright/ or that thou errest greatly in them all: and hast always dealt ⁏ as an t jer. 2. 6. 3. a. Eze. 16. b. Apo. 17. a. b. 18. a. b. adoulterous Harlot; falsely and unfaithfully, upon the Earth. 9 If-case now thou have right in thy cause/ then justify or clear thyself now, before the Righteousness of Christ & his holy-ones. Therefore come now & appear by the u john. 3 b. 1. Cor. 4. a. ●…ph. 5. b. Light of Love/ or by the Day of Christ/ and behold thyself once ⁏ by the Light; how defiled thou art with thy x jer. 13. c. Oze. 2. b. Apo. 17. a. whoredom: and whether also there be any Right or Equity by thee, conformable to the upright Being of the Bride of Christ. 10. Common now/ and let me hear & see/ Whether thou art able to excuse or clear thyself by any-meanes, that thou hast right in thy cause · or any Inheritance with Christ/ either Conformity with the holy y Rom. 12. a. 1. Cor. 12. a Ephe 4. b. 5. ●… Apoc. 21. a Church or Bride of Christ. But what shall be the sequel/ Truly thou z john. 3. c. Ephe. 5. b. thyself shalt not choose but acknowledge by the Light/ that thou art false · and a mere Stranger unto Christ and his Church: and that thou likewise hast judged falsely, in all thy judgement · and always dealt or walked wickedly: that thou also art worthy a Apoc. 17. b of the everlasting Condemnation/ and that it appertaineth or belongeth not unto thee, to have or bear any Dominion upon the Earth. 11. But if thou refuse to come by the Light/ and wilt yet notwithstanding excuse or go-about to clear thyself, before all Eyes of the Flesh b Esa. 58 a. / as-though thou hadst right in thy cause/ and maintain that thou art the c 2. Cor. 11. a Apoc. 21. a Bride or Church of Christ: and that thou hast not dealt as an adoulterous Whore · but faithfully, as an upright Maried-wife/ So will I then, out of my jealousy which I bear over thee (O thou false Nature d Esa. 1. a. john. 8. c. / thou lying and unfaithful earthly Man/ which art consubstantiated/ or an incorporated Body, with the Antichrist) 'cause thee to appear before the Priests or Elders of the holy Understanding: and make thee to drinke-out ⁏ according to the Law of the Lord; e Num. 5. b. c. this Cup of the bitter cursed Water of my jealousy: yea/ f jer. 25. b. c. 49. b. 〈◊〉. 9 a. the same shalt thou be constrained to drink/ To th'end that it may evenso thereby become manifest and known, Whether thou art an adoulterous Whore/ or the upright & faithful Maried-wife of the Man Christ. 12. For verily/ li●…e as the jealousy of an Husband standeth over his Wife/ that she dealeth not faithfully/ but as an adoulterous Whore/ evenso standeth also my jealousy over thee, thou earthly Man ⁏ which wilt g 2. Cor. 11. a. be the Espoused-wife of the Man Christ/ or vauntest and geevest-fourth thyself for the same; and also over all such/ as ⁏ with the Spirit of the earthly and h john. 8. c. devilish Being; boast them to be the Maried-wife of Christ/ or of his Spirit of love. 13. FOr-that-cause/ if thou now accounted not thyself, for an Whore: but esteemes●… thee for the faithful Espoused-wife of Christ: and that my jealous conceiving cannot stand otherwise towards thee, but that thou art a presumptuous Whore/ which dissembleth or playeth-the-hipocrite with Christ/ and coveredly i jer. 2. d. 3. a. ●…ze. 16. c. d. Oze. 4. b. 5. a. committeth-whordom: & yet nevertheless wilt be judged, as a faithful Espoused-wife of Christ/ So shalt thou then presently, be constrained to drink this bitter k N●…m. 5 c. d. cursed Water of my jealousy · and to bear the Curssinge of an adoulterous Whore/ or of an unfaithful Wife. 14. But if now thou be faithful/ and the upright Espoused-wife of Christ/ them fear not to drink these bitter Waters, for any Destruction that can chance unto thee thereout/ or endamaige thee thereby. For the upright Maried-wyfe or Bride of the Man Christ [namely/ the faithful l Rom. 12. a. 1. Cor. 12. a. b. Eph. 4. b. 5. c. commonalty of the holy-ones of God/ or the Fellowe-members of Christ] hath been constrained in times-past ⁏ by her Adversaries; to drink suchlike: and the bitter Waters have not hurt or endamaiged Herald 15. But truly, as for thee ⁏ O thou corrupt Nature of the earthly Man; thou shalt in thy vainglorious Boasting ⁏ that thou art the right Espoused-wife of Christ; he found a Liar · and as a wicked, mischievous, and m Apo. 17. a. b 18. a. b. false Whore: and, through these bitter cursed Waters, thy Hips or Thighs shall rot/ and thy n Num. 5. ●… Womb break: and so shalt thou then become made-manifest in thy whorish Nature. The XII. Chap. Behold/ Heerto thou must needs come/ and it shall now also fall upon thee/ O thou unfaithful Seed/ a Esa. 1. a. john. 8. c. thou earthly and lying Man/ which hast at all times dealt or behaved-thee hypocritically and b jer. 6. c. 7. a. b 9 a. falsely, against God the Father ⁏ by his Service of the Law; against Christ, the Saviour ⁏ by his Service of the Belief; and against the holy-ghost ⁏ by his Service of the Love;. and evenso vaunted or geeven-fourth thyself, to be the Communiastie of holy-ones/ or c Rom. 12. a. 1. Cor. 12. a. Eph. 4. b. 5. c. the Cojoined-bodye of the Body of Christ, a●…-ouer the universal Earth. But thou shalt presently be forced to bear thy just Sentence-of-iudgment & Accusation/ As that thou art false/ and ⁏ against the pure d 2. Cor. 11. a. Apo. 21. a. bride/ Church/ or Cojoined-bodie of Christ; a polluted or e Apo. 17. a. b. 18. a. b. defiled Whore: and that thou art worthy of the eternal Condemnation f Math. 25. d. ●…. Per. 3. a. and Fire of Hell. 2. And although thou wouldest never-so-faine cover thee, with thy Hypocrisy · and give-forth thyself ⁏ in this Day of the Love; as faithful and upright/ yet shalt thou not be able so to do. For here availeth now nolenger any Hypocrisy or Coverednes: nether-yet likewise shall anyman know how to cover himself, before this same Light of the Love: but they must all now become g john. 3. b. 1. Cor. 4. a. Eph. 5. b. apparantlie-manifested ⁏ even the same that they are; by the same Light. 3. Whosoever now therefore is earthly minded / false and covered of heart/ and desireth to continue therein/ His Nature shall now right-soone be seen or perceived. For the Light of this Day, h 1. john. 2. a. shineth now so perfect-bright & clear/ that no Ungodly/ nor any Hypocrites or false Hear taes (let them then hold themselves so presumptuous on their false Righteousness, as they will) shall anyway be able i Mal. 3. a. Apo. 6. b. to endure or bide-standinge, in this same Day of the righteous judgement of God. 4. But/ whosoever is heavenly minded/ and upright of heart: humbleth himself ⁏ with a good-willing Heart; under the Love and her Service: who●…lie geeveth-over himself, under the Majesty of God: and evenso ⁏ without any perverse k Sap. 1. a. Thoughts; loveth the upright and godly Being/ By such-a-one the same shall likewise certainly appear/ and ⁏ in the Expressing of his Deed; be veriewell perceived. 5. For to those-same upright Hearts ⁏ which walk l 1. Pet. 1. b. obediently, in the Doctrine of the gracious Word and Service of Love/ and show all Faithfulness thereunto; it is granted to understand in their Spirit ⁏ according to the heavenly Truth of the upright Being; m Math. 13. b. the Mystery of the Kingdom of the God of Heavens: wherethrough they make-manifest the Powers of the holy-ghost/ and the Testimonies of his living Waters/ n john. 4. b. 7. which flow ⁏ at that time; from the Body of their Spirit/ and reach ●…auen unto the everlasting Life. 6. But the Strangers ⁏ which walk without the family of Love/ or deal falsely therewith; o Math. 22. a. Luk. 14. b. taste not the lovely Being of the spiritual and heavenly Goods. For they understand nor p Esa. 6. a. Act. 28. c. know not the same any otherwise, but according to an earthly and fleshly Being: For earthly and fleshly are ●…ll their Minds and Thoughts. 7. But ⁏ alas; this cannot an earthly Man ⁏ which truly is always nothing q Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 2. b. but fleshly minded; comprehend nor understand: yet will he nevertheless always go-on, with his lying, earthly, and fleshly Minds/ and judge evenso the spiritual and heavenly understandings thereout. For-that-cause he cannot have any Lust nor bear any Love, towards the True/ Spiritual/ and Heavenly. but well, towards the lying/ Earthly/ and fleshly: whereout he likewise (as it is rightwell to be perceived) bringeth-fourth nothing-else, but the r Gal. 5. c. Works of the Flesh and of the lying Being. 8. But a spiritual Man s Rom. 8. b. is clothed with the Spirit of God and the Truth: For that cause he is also according to the Truth, spiritually minded. His Fourth-goinge and the Lust of his Works, is ⁏ in all; to the t Gal. 5. c. 6. b. Fruits of the holy Ghost/ for to bringe-fourth those-same out of the Spirit of God/ and so to publish or declare-fourth the Kingdom of God/ and his Righteousness. 9 For he knoweth ⁏ out of the secret Mystery of the Kingdom of God; how to discern and distinct the spiritual Goods, according to the heavenly Truth/ or holy u Levi. 10. b. Understanding: to-weet/ that he showeth & declareth an express Difference, betwixt the x Math. 13. f. john. 3. d. Earthly/ and the Heavenly/ and betwixt the Lying/ and the True: the which, to all earthly unregenerated Men ⁏ with all their Industry and Prudentie; is a thing y Rom. 8. a. 1. Cor. 2. b. unpossible. The XIII. Chap. SEeing now that Gods Wonderful-woorkes/ the Spirit of his Power/ & the a Math. 13. b. Mystery of his Kingdom of Heaven, is b Sap. 1. a. Math. 11. c. known and understanded, only of the heavenly & spiritual Man/ So hath not an earthly and fleshly Man ⁏ out of his natural & scripture learned Understanding; any Sight nor Knowledge c Rome 8. a. ●…. Cor. 2. b. at all thereof: Yea/ he is so utterly void of the same, that he cannot understand the smallest Title thereof · much-less than, expound or interpret the same ⁏ according to the Truth; unto an other. 2. But he may well hear witnessed thereof ⁏ according to the manly manner; through the serviceable or written Word/ and also speake-fourth the same again afterwards. but through himself/ or out of his own Understanding, he d 1. Cor. 2. b. understandeth not anything at all of the same, according to the Truth: but it is all covered and e Math. 13. b. Luk 8. a. 2. Cor. 4. a. secret before him/ or in Similitudes/ Images/ Figures/ and Parables. For that cause, he cannot likewise ⁏ out of his own Wisdom; once conceive/ nor f Sap. 9 b. comprehend in his Knowledge, what the same ⁏ according to the Truth; is, in the godly Being. 3. If he therefore will judge/ speake-fourth/ and interpret anything thereof, according to the Imagination of his own Knowledge/ So is it all ⁏ doubtless; false and Lies, what he both conceiveth and also speaketh thereof. whereout it becometh known, that a fleshly Man ⁏ out of his natural Understanding; g 1. Cor. 1. 2. b. knoweth not anything at all of the Spirit of God: and that it is all Foolishness, what he judgeth or speaketh thereof. 4. verily/ therefore they all do err very much/ that judge, according to their Understanding ⁏ out of the earthly Being/ or out of the Flesh or Letter; God-his Truth ⁏ which is heavenly and spiritual; and his Wonderful-actes (whether it be of h Esa. 41. c. 48. that which is passed · or of that which is present · or of that which is to come) or take upon them to discuss the same. and will teach/ instruct or order the ignorant People, according to their judgement. 5. For verily/ Gods Truth/ and his Works ⁏ which He worketh not through any fleshly Understanding. but, i Math. 12. c. Luk. 11. b. through the Power of his Spirit/ out of his holy Heaven; are far above all understandings of the Flesh. Yea/ not anyone of all the Children of Men, can ⁏ through his natural Understanding out of Blood; k Sap. 1. ●…. 9 b ●…. Cor. 2. b. comprehend nor understand the same/ nor yet findeout the ground thereof. 6. Therefore surly, God-his Truth/ the excellent Beauty of his heavenly Kingdom/ and his godly and heavenly Works, are l Math. 11. c. 〈◊〉. b. Act. ●…8. c. unknown unto all Flesh/ and unto all fleshly earthly Men: But it is geeven unto the Children of the Kingdom ؛the commonalty of the Love· to understand the secret Mystery thereof. 7. IT is likewise ⁏ verily; a great Folly, upon the Earth/ yea a presumptuous and arrogant Enterprise or Dealing ⁏ which is also utterly without all Equity and reasonable Understanding; that the earthly and fleshly Men, set themselves to judgement/ for to judge ⁏ out of their natural Comprehending and Industry/ or out of their scrip turelie learnedness, according to the Flesh; the spiritual Truth of God/ and God-his heavenly Wonderfull-actes, whereof there is not anything atall m Math. 11. ●…. ●…3. geeven them to understand: wherein they all ⁏ with their understandings; run to an End: Yea/ they come so to an End or grow to such an exigent therein/ that they know not oftentimes n Mich. 7. a. Luk. 21. c. , where to catch or take-holde-of the same again. 8. But many are herein very o Esa. 30. b. arrogantlie-minded. For/ whenas they ⁏ with their Understanding; are runne-to-an-ende, in the godly Matiers: to-weet, that they have not nor cannot comprehend nor understand those-same aright/ Yet persever they notwithstanding searching thereafter: and, prosecuting or ensuing the same with their Imagination of p Rom. 1. c. the Knowledge/ they will nevertheless always be judged to have right. Yea/ they would much-rather, judge Moses/ the Propheates of God/ together with the Apostles of Christ/ and God-his elected Minister HN, to err or miss the right/ then that they would ⁏ by any means; confess and acknowledge, that they ⁏ in the Imagination of their Knowledge concerning the godly Matiers; are ignorant and lying. The XIIII. Chap. O Ye blind Peope/ ye arrogant, distraught, earthly Men/ and all ye subtle or pregnant Selfwise of the Flesh/ together with all ye false Hearts of the Scripture-learned/ ye a Gen. 4. a. judae. 1. ●…. Cainish Ceremonie-ministers/ and ye persecutors and Murderers of the Abelish upright Hearts: Wherefore b Esa. 14. ●…. exalt ye yourselves so arrogantly, against the high-excellent Majesty of God/ and his righteous judgement? Consider and look yet-once into it, what ye have done. 2. O ⁏ alas; ye have ⁏ the which will now fal-out ●…ainfullie or sharply against you; set yourselves ⁏ with your false Nature; 'to judgement: judged Esa. 30. b. God-his Causes ⁏ out of your Lies; altogether falls lie: seduced the Simple: believed your own judge meant, which is unright and false/ and borne-dominion therewith, over the Earth: Also been d john. 8. c. Rom. 2. a. 2. Tess. 2. b. unbelieving of God, in his Truth · and resisting of the Love: and evenso ⁏ with your false judgements; falsely e Sap. 2. b. ●…ani. 13. c. accused or defamed the upright Hearts/ as men worthy to be rooted-out from the Earth. 3. FOr-that-cause/ let yourselves now be counseled, by the Wisdom/ and look betimes into all your ignorances/ and let it all fal-awaye from you/ or give it-all over, wherein ye have supposed to be wise or understanding: and f 〈◊〉. 1●…. d. 〈◊〉. 2. c. Math. ●…. ●…. Act. ●…. d. 3. ●…. shewe-fourth Repentance for your sins/ under the Obedience of the Love of jesus Christ. 4. For verily/ when ye look ⁏ accordi●…ge to the Truth; into yourselves/ and all that ye have done/ So shall ye not choose but perceive and acknowledge/ that ye have g Sap. 5. a. 9 b. not understood/ known/ nor judged the earthly and natural. Things ⁏ which ye have passed-thorowe/ and are yet daily a passing-thorowe; truly or aright. 5. seeing then that ye have not been able to understand nor judge rightly those things, which ⁏ according to the earthly Being; are like unto you/ and wherabout ye daily haveto-doo: How should ye then ⁏ O ye blockish & ignorant earthly Men; be able to understand or judge the heavenly or spiritual Things, which are h Sap. 9 b. Math. 11. c. 〈◊〉. b. secret or hidden before you/ and which ye have never seen/ nor are passed-thorowe them? But, for your own Honour's sake i john. 12. c. ⁏ which ye seek at the hands of the unregenerated Men/ and more esteem and covet then the Honour of God; many of you will not acknowledge the same/ nor yet confess your Blindness. 6. Ye k jere. 6. b. 8. a Eze. 13. b. comfort yourselves apace with Lies: and provoke evenso God-his righteous judgement to come upon you. In which l judae. 1 b. judgement, it becometh now discovered unto you/ and ye are let m 1. Cor. 4. a to see/ or it becometh made-knowen unto you, in your Hearts/ that ye all ⁏ which are of the Earth/ and have resisted the Truth of the Life; have spoken presumpteouslie against the Lord · despised the Love, in her lovely Nature and upright Service · n Heb. 10. c. and blasphemed the Spirit of Love, which is the true holy-ghost. 7. Behold/ it shall now in this same Day o Act. 17. d. 1. Cor. 4 a. judae. 1. b. of the righteous judgement of God ⁏ wherethrough all false judgements/ and Vnrighteousnesses become made-manifest; be geeven unto you to see-into or plainly to perceive, all this your Falsehood/ or horrible Iniquity. And the Recompense for the same, shall likewise ⁏ O ye false earthly Men; fall upon you, p Esa. 13. a. b. Sap. 5. a. Luk. 21. c. with much Affliction/ Distress/ Misery/ and Woe, in all your Hearts. 8. If ye now then ⁏ perceiving well all your Falsehood/ and in the time of your Affliction and Distress; lay not yourselves prostrate ⁏ to a q Psal. 110. a. 1. Cor. 15. c. Bench for the Lorde-his Feet; before the Seat of the Majesty of God: but will needs ⁏ with your false judgements and Unrighteousness; bear the Dominion, against God and his Majesty/ So shall ye yet nevertheless (whether it be then with your will/ or against your will) be troden-downe ⁏ as the Enemies of God; r Psal. 91. b. Rom. 16. b. with the Feet of the Saints · and laid under the Feet of the Lord. 9 For our God ؛the Lord of Hosts· cometh presently s Esa. 3. b. Math. 25. d. 2 judae. 1. b. to judgement: and will plainly show and make-knowen, the House of his dwelling. namely/ that the Heaven and the Heavenlie-man, is his t Esa. 66. a. Act. 6. ●…. Seat · and the Earth and the Earthlieman, the Bench of his Feet/ Even as the Lord hath spoken the same in times-passed, through the Mouth of his holy prophets. The XU. Chap. O Ye goodwilling Hearts/ which have now in these last perilous times, Amos. 5. b. Mich. 2. a. Math. 24. c. adjoined yourselves ⁏ with a good Will; under the Obedience of the Love, with Us Littleones and Electedones of God/ Consider well presently on the Strangers, which have nothing-else in their mind but b Psal. 10. a. 52 a. 56. a. 58. a. 120. a. subtlety & guile. and also on all Such as come-in with all c Phil. 3. c. Self-seekinge · with their fleshly d Rom. 1. e. Lusts and Desires · and with their good-thinking e jere. 7. c. 1. Cor. 1. b. / and Selfwisdom, besides our holy commonalty of the Love/ and then at-thelast ⁏ when as they are ware that the gracious Word is against or contrarieto their self-seeking and good-thinking; separate them again from Us/ and from the Word and requiring of the Service of Love: Yea/ consider well what a Nature/ Being or Disposition they shewe-fourth/ and how that they ⁏ to the Renting f Rom. 16. ●…. & Dividing of our commonalty of the Love; make-up themselves against Us and our godly Doctrine/ So shall ye then findeout in the Deed and Truth/ that all such do m●…ke manifest themselves ⁏ with their Selfwisdom and g jer. 7. c. 9 b. 11. a. 13. b. Goodthinkinge-knowledge; to be contrarie-minded, against the holy Word of the Spirit of Love/ and also turn them away from the true Obedience of the requiring of his Service. 2. FOr that cause, take now good-heede and beware of all them, that ⁏ with their self-wisdom or Imagination of the Knowledge; h Rom. 16. b. besides the Doctrine of the Godliness ⁏ which is taught you through the Spirit of Love; institute or bringe-in ⁏ according to the Self-seekinge of the Flesh; their strange or forged Doctrines/ and false dealings (Wherewith they breed Division and cause Offence): And separate you from Such-people. But abide steadfastly grounded in our mostholie i Eph. 3. b. 2. Tim. 1. 3. b. Belief of the Love of Christ/ k Math. 10. c. 24. Heb. 12. a. and persever therein, even to the End: That is/ till unto the lovely Being of the Godliness. 3. Turn not aside ⁏ in any case; to any foreign Being, without the Love: fall not away likewise from the Service of the Love, for the Ignorantons cause, which make oftentimes ⁏ by reason of their disorderlynes; Discord and Offence: and for-that-cause also, they must (as the Matier or Case requireth) be l Gal. 6. a. 2. Tim. 2. c. 4. punished/ chastised/ and instructed: Also become not sluggish nor careless, with the m Pro. 6. a. 24. Slouthful-people: but ⁏ with Diligence and Lust of your Heart unto the upright n Math. 22. d. Eph. 1. a. 4. ●…. Righteousness and Holiness; submit you always obediently and humbly, under the godly Testimonies of the holy Spirit o●… Love/ until that the gracious Word & his Love be planted in you, o 〈◊〉. 1. c. with Meekmindednes: the which is the Salvation of your Souls/ and the Establishing of the Promises of God the Father. 4. For in the same upright Being, God will bring unto you all his Treasures/ p Math. 13. b. Col. 2. a. and heavenly Goods. also all Peace q john. 10. c. / and the everlasting Life, abundantly. It is very-true. 5. O Ye holy-ones of God ⁏ thou lovely commonalty of the Love; fear not: but be now of good cheer upon the Earth, against all your Enemies. For behold/ r Esa. 35. a. your God con●…th to be avendged on all your Enemy's/ for to l●…ye them ⁏ that they may be troden-downe; under the Feet of your Lord & Saviour jesus Christ. and evenso ⁏ in your s Math. 1●…. d. john. 3. a. second Birth, out of the holy Spirit of the Love of jesus Christ; to transport or yeald-over the judgement and Dominion ⁏ upon the Earth; unto you and your Saviour, jesus Christ/ To theend that ye with Him and He with you and your Saviour, jesus Christ/ & with his holy Spirit, should ⁏ from henceforth, world-without-end; reign with t Apo. 5. b. 22. Righteousness, upon the Earth · and u Esa. 3. b. Sap. 3. a. judae. 1. b. judge the same with Equity/ according to the Promises. The XVI. Chap. MAke you to the flight/ a Esa. 52. a. Make you to the Flight: Yea, get you now all out of the Way/ ye Enemies of the Lord and his Service of Love: and give the Lord ⁏ with his holy-ones; b Esa. 40. a. 57 b. 62. b. his Room. Yet shall ye not escape the Vengeance of God. 2. For the Lord cometh-fourth now in Mightie-power, with his righteous judgement, upon the Earth/ for to purge the same of all her Weeds: Yea eaven-now ⁏ in the right c Math. 13. e. Time of Harvest; the Lord cometh d Math. 24. d. 25. d. / with his Angels/ for to roote-out all Weeds, from-off the Earth. 3. O God/ e Apoc. 14. b. smite now in with thy Sickle/ and begin evenso ⁏ with thy Angels; to reap the whole Earth. For the Weed is become ripe f 4. Esd. 4. d. , upon the Earth/ and his Ears are through dry. For that cause root the same now clean out: for whereto/ or to what profit, hath it his place ⁏ among the good Wheat; upon the Earth? forasmuch as there is not any Good to be looked-for thereout. 4. Behold/ the g Math. 13. b. weed, is the manifoldsort of Lies, against the Truth of God/ the manymaner of Iniqui●…ies, against the Righteousness of Christ/ and the unmeasurable Ungodliness of all ungodly, against the Godliness/ and against the true Being of the holy Spirit of Love/ which are all worthy h Apoc. 19 a. , to be rooted-out from the Earth · and condemned in the i Math. 13. c. 25. d. 2. Pet. 3. b. hellish Fire. 5. For/ for this same Weeds cause, k Gen. 3 b. Heb. 6. a. the Earth hath been thus-long cursed · and the good Wheat ●… which the ignorant Reapers have also judged to be the Weed/ and worthy to be rootedout/ or could not oftentimes discern the one from the other; l Math. 13. a. Luk. 8. a. oppressed or kept-under. 6. Therefore the Lord cometh now, m Math. 13. d. 24. b. c. in the End of the World/ and maketh a plain Difference/ and a right discerning, betwixt the Weed and the good Wheat. Yea/ the Lord hath made-upp himself/ and he cometh now ⁏ in the right or due time; n Esa. 66. b. Mal. 4. a. 2. Tess. 1. a. with the Heat of his burning Fire/ for to consume ⁏ with his Fire; all the W●…edes/ and to empty or disbourden the Earth thereof/ To th'end that she might come again to her Blessing/ and upright Fruitfulness: o Psal. 18. a. jer. 10. b. Nahu. 1. a. Math. 24. d. Luk. 21. b. 2. Pet. 3. b. Wherethrough the Earth is now moved/ the heavens troubled/ the Elements melt with Heat/ and the Token of the Coming of the Son of Man, appeareth in the Heaven. 7. With which Rumour or Russhinge-noyse of the Power of God/ and his holy-ones, p Math. 24. d. 1. Cor. 15. f. 1 Tess. 4. b. the last trumpet doth also presently give-forth her Sound: Through whose Blast of her vehement Sound/ and through the Appeeringe of the Coming of Christ, q Dan. 12. b. john. 5. c. 1. Cor. 15. b. 1. Tess. 4. b. the Dead stand-up or arise unto the judgement of God: In such-sort/ that Daniel ؛the holy Propheat· is also rysen-upp r Dan. 12. c. in his part/ for to execute now in the last time ⁏ or ending of the World; the judgement ⁏ with God and his Righteousones; s Esa. 3. b. Jude 1. b. upon the Earth/ against all Ungodly/ To th'end that they all ⁏ together with the Works of their ungodliness; might now become rooted-out and condemned/ Like-as there is written thereof: 8. Rejoice now in this same day, t Apoc. 18. c. all ye holy Prophtates/ Angels/ and Apostles. For this is the u Deut. 5. a. Nahu. 1. a. Day of the Vengeance of our Lord and God/ for to revenge the blood of his holy-ones x Math. 23. d. Apoc. 16. a. / that the Sinners have spilled or shed upon the Earth/ and for to declare or reveal his holy-ones again gloriously, upon the Earth/ To th'end that they might y 2. Pet. 3. ●…. inhabit the same peaceably, in all Love/ and reign thereover or z Apo. 5. b. 22. judge the same with Righteousness/ from henceforth world-without-ende. The XVII. Chap. O All ye a Pro. 6. a. 24. d. Math. 25. ●…. Sluggish and Slothful/ which have walked thus-longe very unlustelie ⁏ as-though ye had been drowsyeof-sleape; in the Service of the Love · and had very little Love unto God-his Righteousness: Yea/ which have been so over-careles or negligent/ that ye have not taken the Service of the Love/ and the upright Righteousness of the same, anything-at-all to Heart: in such-wyse/ that ⁏ by that occasion; your Field (whilst ye have been so slothful) is waxed barren of the good Corn · and your Vineyard likewise, of the good Wine/ b Pro. 24. d. and are overgrown with Nettles and Thistles/ Become yet now once awaked c Rom. 13. b. Eph. 5. b. / and make your Way or Steps speedy/ for to enter into the Life of the upright and lovely Being of the Love/ ere-ever the Door of the lovely Kingdom and Paradise of the Lord (whilst ye com-forwardes so sluggishlie and drowselie) d Math. 25. ●…. be locked or shut-to. 2. For behold/ e Eze. 7. a. the End cometh (yea/ the End cometh swiftly on) and the last Time is now at-hande. After which f Apo. 10. ●…. Time, there shall not be any Salvation of the Life/ nor Health of Souls, more to be obtained. 3. O Ye foolish People/ which are now so sluggish: Cal-to-minde the foolish Virgin's/ how they neglected their time, g Math. 25. a. for to gather or prepare-them Oil in their Vessels: and how that they for that cause (when the time appeared or was come, that everieone ⁏ which had Oil and Light, in his Vessel or Lamp; should enterin with the Bridegroom) must bide without the lovely Kingdom of the Bridegroom. 4. verily/ in this same Day of the Love/ of the true Bridegrooms Coming, it will also go in such-like-sort with you all ⁏ ye foolish and sluggish People; which follow so incessantly your own Counsel/ Will/ and Freedom h Rom. 1. c. Eph. 4. b. 1. Pet. 4. ●…. 2. Pet. 2. b. , according to your Mind of the Flesh: and have no regard to the Sanctification in the Spirit/ wherein the godly Oil becometh brought unto us. 5. Therefore look now to it betimes/ and take good-heede, unto the i 1. Tess. 4. a. 2. Tess. 2. b. Sanctification in the Spirit/ or unto an upright Being and Mind/ To th'end that the like happen not unto you, as chanced to the foolish Virgins. 6. Behold/ k Heb. 3. a. 10. presently in this same Day, ye are yet all warned. Respect-well therefore this same l Pro. 6. a. 2. Cor. 6. a. Gal. 6. b. Heb. 12. b. Time of Grace/ whilst there is yet Grace and Comfort at-hande/ and to be obtained: and have a diligent regard unto the Service of Love. and what the same requireth. 7. verily/ It requireth not This nor That/ according to the Flesh of the worldly Dealing/ nor according to the Dealing of the false Hearts and unregenerated Hypocrites. but, m Eph. 4. b. an upright Being in the Love of jesus Christ: That is/ to become n Luk. 1. g. released from all Ownednes or selfness · and hallowed o Rom. 12. a. 1. Tess. 4. a. & justified, in the Spirit of our Mind, through jesus Christ and his Service of love. 8. Whosoever then ⁏ in all Obedience of the Requiring of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love; doth ⁏ in such sort; respect-well or take good heed unto the same/ He shall also be p john. 14. ●…. loved of God the Father/ of the Lord jesus Christ/ and of the holy Gost. Yea/ they shall come to him/ and make a godly dwelling with him. 9 hereunto give you now all wholly over/ and turn all your Understanding to the godly Doctrine of the Service of Love: and be evenso q Deu. 30. a. obedient unto the holy Word of the Spirit of Love, in his requiring/ To th'end that ye all, may now in this same Day of Love ⁏ in which Christ cometh unto us; with the holy Oil or Anointing of the holy Spirit of Christ, r 1. Tess. 4. d. meet Christ ؛the upright Bridegroom· in his Coming · and live and triumph s Apo. 7. b. 2●…. a. 22. ●…. everlastingly, with Him and all his holy-ones, in the Kingdom of God his Father. 10. For I say unto you verily: Whosoever now ⁏ in this same Day of Love; bideth slothful & careless, towards the upright lovely Being: and evenso estraungeth his Heart, from the Ministration of the Elders in the Service of Love/ either holdeth it common or of-one-beeing with the consumable t Rom. 1●…. a. 1. Cor. 7. d. Being of the perverse World/ He shall not be anointed with the holy Oil of the holy Spirit of Christ/ nor with his lovely Nature · nor yet letin ⁏ with the sanctified holy-ones of God/ or commonalty of Love; to the u Heb. 3. b. 4. b Rest of the peaceable Kingdom: but be x Apo. 21. 22. b shut ther-without, with the wicked World/ and with all Selfwise and Ungodly. 11. Therefore remember now betimes (ye all which are now ⁏ in this same Day; so sloth full or sluggish, towards the Service & Entrance of the upright Being of God · and so selfwise against the holy Spirit and the requiring of his Service of Love) what a Misery and y Sap. 5. a. Painfulgreefe it will be for you to behold/ whenas all the holy-ones of God shall gather them together ⁏ in the Perfection of the Love; z Math. 24. d. Luk. 21. c. from the four Ends of the Earth, to a Kingdom of God. and that ye shall find yourselves shut ther-without. 12. verily/ then will it fal-out tolate for many, to gather or prepare them ⁏ out of the Ministration of the proffered Grace; the godly Oil/ or holy Anointing of the Spirit of Love, in their Vessels. 13. Whosoever now therefore respecteth not the right a Eccle. 3. a. Pro. 6. a. Gal. 6. b. Time of Grace/ and of the Fruitfulness of the good Seed/ that he, in the Harvest ⁏ or Fullness of the Time; may get his b Math. 13. d. Barns full of good Corn: but is careless/ and c Pro. 6. a. 18. a. slothful towards the Entrance of the requiring of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love/ He shall likewise have lack of d Pro. 20. a. Amos. 8. b. Corn [namely/ of the Fruits of the Word]. and then afterwards (when he findeth himself poor & e Luk. 15. b. Apo. 3. b empty/ and seeth well, that the holy-ones of God, are filled with great store of Goods) be constrained to bewail his case with f Sap. ●…. a. Luk. 1●…. ●…. grievous Misery/ and shall not find anymore meet or convenient time, for to gather anything. but ⁏ out of Doubtfulness; fall into g Sap. ●…. a. Luk. 21. ●…. great Despair. and evenso ⁏ in Gnawinge or Torment of his Heart/ and in wringing of his Hands; greatly lament the time which he hath neglected and misspent/ and which also is not to be recovered again/ and rufullie bewail his Condemnation and Misery, for ever and ever. The XVIII. Chap. ●…Oofe to it betimes/ and a jer. 7. a. 18. b. 25. a. 35. b. amend your Being/ O ye Children of Men: and take mine Admonition to heart. Make not ⁏ in anycase; light account of the toconinge Greefe-of-minde, which shall fall/ and is also already fallen upon b Esa. 13. a. Luk. 21. c. the Ungodly, with much Calamity and Misery: but endeavour you ⁏ with good willing Hearts; to enter into the c Deu. 4▪ a. 30. 1. Pet. 1. b. Obedience of the requiring of the gracious Word/ and of his Service of Love/ Ere-ever that thatsame Misery ⁏ whereof there is told you; fall likewise upon you. 2. Be d Math 24. c. Luk. 21. d. wakeful now therefore/ and keep always a sharp or diligent Watch, against all your Enemies. namely/ against all the Minds & Thoughts/ which make them up in you, out of the Flesh of Sin/ and would evenso ⁏ contrary to the Counsel/ Will/ and Doctrine of the holy Spirit and of his Service of Love; pluck or allure you e Rom. 6. b. e. Gal. 5. b. after the Pleasure of the Flesh. 3. BEhold/ I tell it you/ and heartily exhort you/ even out of all the Love of my Heart and Spirit: hearken not to them: believe nor follow not their Will or Counsel: but ⁏ against all your own Minds and Thoughts of the Flesh/ and against all your corrupted Nature/ Lust/ and Desires; give or apply you wholly to the f Deu. 30. a. 1. Pet. 1. b. Obedience of the requiring of the gracious Word and of his holy Spirit of Love/ So shall ye then assuredly, out of the same Obedience ⁏ g Rom. 6. a. in manner of suffering; find an other Nature and Being by you, which shall show itself much uprighter and lovelyer/ then that which ye have had out of the Will or Selfmindednes of the Flesh. For, doing eaven-so/ ye shall ⁏ through the Obedience of the requiring of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love; become h john. 15. a. Rom. 11. c. Eph. 3. b. incorporated to the lovely i john. 17. c. ●…. Pet. 1. a. Nature of God/ and to the everlasting peaceable Being of the holy Spirit of love. 4. If ye now hear and understand all this same well/ that the holy Spirit saith unto you all, out of the Service of his Love/ So consider then with diligence/ what a k Deu. 30. b. Life of Righteousness is required of you: and give or endeavour you unto the same. I have ⁏ for-certen; told it you plainly enough/ and tell it you yet again/ To th'end that ye may well understand it aright. namely/ that ye should incline and give-over all your inwardness, to the Requiring of the gracious Word and of his Service of Love/ for to become l john. 15. a. 17 Eph. 3. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. incorporated ⁏ through the Obedience of the Requiring of the same Word and of his Service; to the upright and lovely Being of the Love/ To th'end that God in you/ and ye in God · and so-fourth ye all ⁏ among each-other; might live peaceably, in all love. 5. But ⁏ alas; although ye hear and understand all the same/ yet do many of you nevertheless, refuse the m Rom. ●…. a. Goodness of the Lord: and follow almost all, your n jer. 7. c. 9 b. goodthinkinge Knowledge. 6. Ah-beloved/ Wherefore refuse ye thus the good Being? Wherefore do ye ⁏ through your good-thinkinge Knowledge; always hold yourselves thus back? And wherefore take ye not the Matier ⁏ which is to the Preservation and Salvation of you all; with whole Mind, to heart/ for that ye might enter obediently, into the true o Heb. 5. b. 6. a school-rule of the christian Doctrine of the Service of Love/ and p Eph. 4. a. Col. 1. b. grow-up ⁏ according to the requiring of the same; in the godly Understanding? judge it now yourselves/ Whether that the same, whereunto I exhort you out of the right Service of Love, be not the upright Life and lovely Being of the Love/ q Gen. 1. c. 2. a Sap. 1. b. 2. c. Eccli. 17. d. whereunto the Man is created and r Eph. 1. a. chosen/ for to live therein. 7. For consider I pray you: Is not the upright and lovely s Eccli. 24. c. 1. Cor. 13. a. Being of the Love ⁏ whereunto I exhort and demonstrate you; much decenter/ uprighter/ and peaceabler, than your own Being of the Flesh t Rom. 1. c. d. / and the wicked Being of the perverse World? 8. seeing now that ye ⁏ in your own Conscience; cannot choose but acknowledge/ that the lovely, upright, and peaceable Being of the Love, is the Mostbest: and that the same bringeth the upright u Esa. 32. c. Sap. 3. a. Apo. 21. a. Rest unto the Man/ So is it truly a great wonder unto me, why ye do not then ⁏ with more Diligence and Feruentie; love and secke-after the same: and that certain turn them away so lightly, from the Doctrine stretching thereunto. 9 HOw are ye thus lingering or holdingback of yourselves/ that ye com-forward so slowly/ for to enter obediently, into the first Entrance x Math. 3. a. Luk. 3. a. Act. 2. d. 3. c. of the Requiring of the gracious word/ and wholly to give-over yourselves to the Most-best/ and so to go-fourth therein y Eph. 4. b. Phil. 3. b. Heb. 6 a. , till unto the good Being of the Perfection? O take-holde yet-once of a good-willing Mind/ and purpose ⁏ with a good will; not to z 3. Reg. 18. c. halt any longer on both sides: but let all your Thoughts stretch hereto: namely/ to cleave ⁏ obediently; unto the good Being of the Love, with all your Heart and Mind. and obediently to followe-after the Service of the Word, in his requiring/ until that ye be grown-up to the a Eph. 4. d. perfect Olde-aige of the holy and godly Understanding · and b Eph. 3. b. 2. Pet. 1. a. incorporated ⁏ with Spirit/ Heart/ Mind/ and Soul; to the good Being of the love. The XIX. Chap. O All ye a Eccli. 33. b. People ⁏ which hear this-day, the Voice or Testimony of the Spirit of Love; b Pro. ●…. a. take this effectually to heart: incline all your Minds and understandings to the holy Word of Truth: and have evenso your joy ⁏ in all c Col. 3. ●…. thanksgiving to the Lord; among each-other. 2. But let not your joy and thanksgiving to the Lord, ●…e in the fleshly d 1. Pet. ●…. b. ●… voluptuousness/ nor in the joy of the perverse World: but rejoice you ⁏ with thanksgiving to the Lord; in the great e Psal. 96. a. 9●… 103. a 145 a. Grace and Mercy, which is appeared and come unto us ⁏ now in the last time; under the Obedience of the Love: To-w●…et/ for that we ⁏ through the f Rom. 12 ●…. Eph. 4. c. renewing of our Spirit and Mind; obtain to become Children of God/ in the Obedience of the Love of God the Father: g Rom. 8. b. also coheir with Christ, in the spiritual Richeses of God/ or heavenly Goods: and to live h Apo. ●…. b. 2●…. a. 22. a. everlastingly with God ⁏ as his chosen holy-ones; in his holy i Esa. 32. c. Sap. 3. a. Heb. 3. b. 4. b. Rest/ and in his lovely Nature or Being. 3. Behold/ hereto ⁏ as to a Kingdom of God full of all lovely Being; hath God chosen Us: and k Math▪ 25. b. prepared from the Beginning, for Us/ and for all l Esa. 60. a. Eze. 1. a. 3. a. 1. Pet. 2. a. believing Heathen ⁏ which assemble them through jesus Christ, unto his Peo ple; thissame Kingdom of his upright and lovely Being/ which we now inherit in this same Day of his Love/ To th'end that now ⁏ in the Very-last; the Scripture/ and all what God hath spoken, through his holy prophets/ and what is written of Christ, should also ⁏ in Us/ and with Us; become fulfilled m Luk. 24. c. / to the Honour or Glory of God/ and to our joy: like as there standeth written: 4. Be glad/ and n Deu. 32. c. Rom. 15. b. rejoice ye Heathen, with his People: For the Lord will revenge the Blood of his Servants, o Apo. 19 a. on his Enemies · and be favourable to the Land of his People. 5. The Vprightones or p Sap. 3. ●…. Believers, shall be obedient ⁏ in the Love; unto the Lord/ and judge the People. 6. They shall receive a q Sap. 5. b. glorious Kingdom/ and a beautiful Crown, at the Lord-his Hand. 7. They are a r Eccli. 3. a. Congregation of Righteousones: and their Exercise, is Obedience and love. 8. They shall s Sap. 3. a. Math. 13. c. shine like as the Sun/ in their Father's Kingdom. 9 The Lamb of God t Apo. 5. b. hath redeemed them with his Blood/ out of all Generations & People: and hath made them Kings and Priests, unto God: and they shall reign upon the Earth. 10. They are a u Apo. 21. a. Tabernacle of God, among Men: God will devil with them/ and they shall be his People: and He ⁏ God himself with them; will be their God. 11. SEe/ this is ⁏ assuredly; the hearty mercifulness of God over us, now in the last time/ To th'end that now ⁏ in the last time; x Esa. 40. a. the Glorious-lordlynes of God, should ⁏ in Us; become manifested or declared/ and the Scripture fulfilled. 12. Yea/ this is the Reward or Recompense of jesus Christ/ unto us Littleones and God-his Elect, in the last time: To-weet, that we are made ⁏ through the gracious Word of the Lord, in his Service of Love/ and through the y Apo. 1. 5. b. Blood of the pure and undefiled Lamb; Kings unto God · and Priests or Elders in the holy Understanding/ For that we should now in these last Days ⁏ z Math. 24. c. 1. Cor. 4. a. as faithful Saints of God and upright Elders in the holy Understanding of the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of Love; a Sap. 3. a. Apo. 5. 22. a. reign upon the Earth, in Righteousness · and ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love; b Esa. 3. b. Sap. 3. a. judge the World with Equity/ according to the c Esa. 3. b. 32. ●… 42. a. jer. 23. a. 33. b Act. 17. d. 1. Cor. 6. a. judae. 1. b. Propheatyinge of the holy prophets and Apostles of Christ/ and of the Holiegoste. 13. Herein ⁏ ye dearly-beloved; rejoice you now All, with Laud and Thankesgeving unto God: d Psal. 96. a. 98 99 a. 103. a. 145. a. and praise highworthelie his holy Name. Not only for the Bountiful-actes of God, extended on you: but also, that presently ⁏ in this same Day; his holy Spirit of Love, is e joel. 2. c. Act. 2. a powred-fourth so abundantly, over Us and in Vs. and that the true Doctrine to the same holy Spirit, is likewise ⁏ as a f john. 4. b. 7. d. living and safe-makinge Water; flowinge-fourth out of Us/ to the Salvation or Safe-makinge of all Believers of the gracious Word: and that evenso ⁏ to Righteousness upon the Earth; the Scripture becometh fulfilled. namely/ by all the Believers/ which now humble themselves goodwillinglie and faithfully, under the Love/ take to heart the Word of Truth/ and grow-up obediently therein g Eph. 4. b. till unto the Olde-aige of the Man Christ. 14. Whosoever now therefore ⁏ under the Obedience of the Love; hath a good regard unto the holy Word of Truth, that is administered out of the holy Spirit of Love/ and exerciseth him therein, for to be obedient unto his Requiring: and evenso ⁏ to that effect; fourthereth or becometh healpfull unto the Service of Love/ He shall likewise according to the Truth, enjoy & be partaker of all the Bountiful-actes which God extendeth on Us ؛his chosen holy-ones·: and also evidently see/ how that Christ ؛the Righteousone· appeareth presently h Math. ●…4. d. Luk. 17. 21. ●…. in Glory/ and becometh i Psal. 68 d. wonderful in all his Believers: and that also ⁏ through thesame Christ and his holy-ones; the universal k Act. 17. d. Earth, shall ⁏ in this Day of the Love, which God himself hath appointed or ordained; be judged with Equity · and purged from all his Unrighteousness: and that all the Saints of God [namely/ the commonalty of the Love] shall inhabit the same with l ●…. Pet 3. b. Righteousness · and reign with Faithfulness & Truth/ from henceforth, worlde-with-out-ende. Amen. This shall all assuredly, come evenso to pass: and in his time be found even-thus. 15. Heerwithall ⁏ Once beloved and obedient Children/ and all ye constant Faithful-ones, in this our upright Service of Love; my hearty Exhortation and Desire is, unto you All/ that ye will take this same effectually to Heart. and not seek nor desire anythinge-els, with your Will and Mind/ but that the Love of jesus Christ ⁏ with her virtuous Nature and upright Being; may obtain a m Gal. ●…. ●…. 〈◊〉. 3. b. Shape in you. and that the Service of the same Love, may also ⁏ thereto; be fourthered or assisted among all People/ To th'intent that the same Service, may in all Truth and Love ⁏ to the Welfare and Salvation of all Men; obtain the Pre-eminence · and ⁏ to Concord & Love in jesus Christ; prosperously flourish, over the universal Earth. That grant us the Lord ؛the almighty God· through his Love. Amen. HN. CHARITAS EXTORSIT. Our Heart, is the Mind of God most-hie. Our Being amiable, as the sweet Lily. Our Faithfulness/ Love/ and Truth upright, Is God's Light/ Life/ and clearness bright.