יהוה EMMANVEL. love. truth. Our Heart / is the mind of God most-hie. Our being amiable / as the sweet lily. Our faithfulness / love / and truth upright / Is Gods Light / Life / and clearness bright. ❧ A good and fruitful Exhortation unto the family of love / and unto all those that are assembled ther-vnto. and rest goodwillinge to the love of God / and to the love of their Neighbour / having a Lust to accomplish all righteousness: how they shall train & foster them up among each-other / in the word and service of the love. exhort them to the upright righteousness. and grow-vpp to Elders in the holy and godly understanding of the gracious word. and in the Obedience of his requiring. Testified and set-fourth by Elidad / a Fellow-elder with the Elder HN, in the family of the love of Iesu Christ. Translated out of Base-almayne. CORONAE ASSIMILABO IVDICIVM MEVM ESD 5 יהוה Let us with each-other take-good-heede to ourselves, with Stirringe-vpp to the love: and not forsake our Assemblinge, like-as certain do: But exhort one-another of us: and that somuch-the-more, as ye see that the day approacheth. Hebr. 10. c. God is the love: And he that bideth in the love, bideth in God / and God in him. 1. John. 4. b. CHARITAS VINCIT OMNIA. יהוה My Babes / Let us not love in word nether in tongue. but in the deed and in verity. 1. John. 3. b. The right Father give you Power {reversed; } according to the Riches of his glory; to be strong / through his Spirit / in the inward Man: and Christ to dwell {reversed; } through the belief; in your Heartes / and so to be rooted and grounded in you / through the love. Ephe. 3. b. A good and fruitful Exhortation of the Elder Elidad, unto the family of love. If now ther be any Exhortation in Christ / among you. If ther be any Comfort of love. If ther be any communion of Spirit. If ther be any heart-grounded love and mercy, Then fulfil my joy / that ye[ ther-in] be of-one-minde. haue mutual love. & be concordably-minded. Phil. 2. a. our beloved Heartes and Disciples in the gracious word and service of the love: Forasmuch as that all our Heartes-lust / Will / and Desire is / that ye all; which are entred by us / into the first a Heb. 5. b. 6. a beginning of the christian Life / and of the christian Doctrine of the service of the love / or rest goodwillinge ther-vnto. and are comprehended with us / in one b Eph. 4. a. Faith of the godliness; might grow-up {reversed; } with Concorde-of-minde; in the holy and godly c Eph. 1. b. 4. b. Col. 1. b. 1. Pet. 5. b. understanding of the gracious word and of the requiring of his service of love / d 1. Tess. 3. b. and in all concord and love / So is therfore our hearty Exhortation to you all / that ye should also daily e 1. Tess. 5. b. Heb. 3. a. 1●. c 12 b. exhort and assist one-another of you therein: and evenso inform each-other / with the understanding that stretcheth to the love / and to the concord of her service. 2. ye shall also reverence or give due f Eccli 4. b. 1. Tess. 5. b. 1. Tim. 5. b. Heb. 13. c. Honour unto the Elders in the holy understanding / and in the requiring of the gracious word / for that they are serviceable unto you therein / and go before you in all Obedience of the requiring of the word and his service of love / till-into the good being of Iesu Christ .. unto whose Doctrine and Exhortation to the same good and upright being / ye shall also {reversed; } with Deuout-remembraunce to the good being; g Pro. 3.4.5. a. b. c. Eccli. 4. c. give good-eare or attentifenes. 3. moreover / ye shall also {reversed; } with Longe-suffering; hear one-another / in the godly Sentences of the Testimonies of the gracious word / to thende that noman speak vnorderlie or with hast: but that it may all com-to-passe among each-other of you / h 2. Cor. 10. a. 13. b. to Edification and concord. 4. behold {reversed; } my beloved; this same is the upright christian service / in the service of the love: and to use the same in such-sort / ther-to standeth all our Heartes-lust: and ther-to also stretcheth all our counsel and Exhortation / among all those that humble them obediently under the gracious i I●r. 23.33. b. word of the lord and his service of love: and that they should evenso {reversed; } in the service of the love; nourrish and trayne-vpp themselves to the good being of Iesu Christ and his love. 5. wherefore / when ye be gathered together / for to refreash yourselves in the Testimonies of the gracious word and of his holy Spirit of love / and to grow-up uprightly in the love / according to the Requiring of her service / So speak and deal then therof / and of the requiring of the Testimonies of the word and of his holy Spirit of love / one with another: and apply you evenso with diligence / to be {reversed; } in concordable-maner; obedient-vnto and to fulfil the requiring of the same / to all k John. 17. c. Ephe. 4. a. unity of Heart in the love. And in all your talk & Dealing touching the same Testimonies / suffer one-another to tell out his Tale: and so let all your talk be don to Concord and Peace. 6. And if ye now do evenso one with another / and l Eph. 4. b. grow-up in the good being of the love of Iesu Christ, So shall then also accordingly / the christian services and Ceremonies / be ministered among you / rightly and according to the truth. and their requiring fulfilled / in the service of the love: and ye shall then also / even from the Youngnes-fourth of the spiritual Birth / grow-up m Ephe. 4. b. 1. Cor. 13. b. to the Elderdom of the Man Christ, or to the Perfection of the upright being of Iesu Christ. 7. But in all this same {reversed; } ye Deerlie-beloued; looie to it / that ye n Rom. 14. a. Gal. 1. a. 5. a. snare not {reversed; } in any-wise; one-anothers Conscience through any o Iam. 3. b. knowledge that breedeth variance and division: but let the Eldest in the Obedience of the word / and in the godly understanding of the requiring of the service of love / inform the Youngones or Nouises with good Instruction / to the concord of Heart in the love: p Math. 24. c. and serve them evenso with the food of Life / to a Nourrishing-vp of them in the virtuous being of the love / thereafter as they are able to bear the same in their understanding. 8. Thus let now the strong / inform or traine-forward the weak / q Rom. 15. a. 1. Cor. 9. c. Gal. 6. a. and help to bear their Burdens / in their Heauynes or distress. 9. On the Goodwillingones to the Obedience of the love / ye shall not lay any Burdens. but holde-fourth all love and Peace before them. 10. The Vnwillingones and Sluggish to the Obedience of the requiring of the word and his service of love / ye shall r 1. Tess. 5. b. stere-vpp with the requiring of the word / and set-fourth before them / the right Obedience s Ephe. 3. b. for to be implanted into the word: and express evenso unto them / that they are not deptours to the evil / and to the unprofitable things / nor yet to the sluggish lameness / but to the Doctrine and requiring of the gracious word and his service of love: If they then {reversed; } with all Diligence and Zelousnes; become good-willing to the word and to the requiring of his service of love / So are their souls t Iam. 5. c. won / for to be preserved in the everlasting Life. 11. But ye shall not contend or dispute / with the Blaspheamers / and the v 1. Tim. 1.6. a. 2. Tim. 2. c. Ianglers about the Scripture. nor with the x 1. John. 2. b. Apostates or Declyners from us and our good Doctrine / or with the y Pro. 3. b. Esa. 5. c. Self-conceited-wise. nor yet with any of all those that bring-in z Rom. 16. c. variance and make Breach / besides our good Doctrine of the service of love. and that will remain by themselves and their a Deut. 12. a. jer. 7. c. own Goodthinkinge. but leave them therein / until that they see-into their Goodthinkinge & Ouerreachinge and their unfruitful variance against us and the truth / also obtain a repentant Heart / and weld or approve / that the service of the love b 1. John. 3.4. in his requiring / is right and true: and that they evenso do humble themselves {reversed; } obediently; with us / to the service of the love and his requiring / unto all concord in the love. 12. For-that-cause / look rightly into the requiring of the gracious word of the lord and of his service of love / ye Deerlie-beloued: For the principalest that the word and his service of love doth first require / c Psal. 40. a. is the Goodwillingnes / to be obedient unto the gracious word of the lord / and the requiring of his service of love. and to be turned wholly about / and become d Math. 18. a. like unto a Little-childe / in his simplicity: and so then to go obediently {reversed; } through the e Rom. 6. a. Death or suffering of Christ; into the upright Life / and to live concordablie with each-other / in all love. 13. HEerto exhort one-another of you: and let the Eldest or the Obedientest in the requiring of the word and his service of love / haue the Fore-goinge / for to speak with all humility / of the word and his Doctrine / and of the service of love and his requiring: and so to exhort the Congregation and himself / to the Obedience of the Doctrine and requiring of the word and his service of love. 14. whatsoever then the word {reversed; } in his Doctrine and service of love; requireth / ther-in express {reversed; } even as f John. 8. e. Iam. 1. e. faithful Disciples of the word; good-willing Obedience / or g 1. Tess. 5. b. Heb. 3. b. 10. c exhort one-another to the same Obedience: and apply you evenso {reversed; } constantly; to grow-up therein / h 1. Cor. 13. b. Ephe. 4. b. to the Olde-aige or Dayednes in the godly understanding / To thende that ye with us ؛Elders{punctel} and wee with you ( when-as ye haue attained to the Dayes of godly Agednes) may rejoice together; with mutual joy; in the good being and virtuous Nature of the love. 15. Therfore grow-up herein / even in-to the upright being of the love: namely / out of the Youngnes i Math. 18. a. of your singleminded being in the godliness / til-into the k 1. Cor. 13. b. Ephe. 4. b. Elderdom of the manly being of Christ[ that is / to be implanted with your Inward-man / into the God of Life. and made heirs with his Christ / l Apoc. 21. a. in the Kingdom of Heauens] To thende that ye may then evenso / with the holy Fathers; as upright Fathers also / of the family of love / m Math. 13. f. which are taught to the Kingdom of the God of Heauens; bring-fourth out of the Treasure of your Heart / the New and the old[ namely / the True and the figurative.] And that altogether to the service of the Communialtie of the house of God or of the love. 16. behold; ye Deerlie-beloued; if ye desire to grow-up heer-in( like-as ther is said) obediently / so shal-ther also then renowned Elders and Fathers be always adjoined unto you / or ye shall haue those-same continually with you / which shall {reversed; } from the n 1. Cor. 13. b. 2. Cor. 3. b. vncouered Face of God and Christ; set-fourth the godly Doctrine to the entrance into the holy of the sanctuary of God / before you / to the Implantinge of you all into the gracious word / and to all your concord of the Peace / in the service of the love: and ther shall not be anything wanting unto you / of all what is needful for you. 17. For-that-cause direct now all your Fourth-goinge / according to this ordinance: and apply you evenso daily / according to the Doctrine and requiring of the word and his service of love. Also exhort one-another to stillness / and to the uniformity of Heart / in the love: and all that which is needful for to be known or declared / to your preservation in the godliness / that same shall always {reversed; } according to the capacity of your understanding; be brought and declared unto you. 18. For the Time cometh and is come / that euery-one {reversed; } which believeth the Testimonies of the gracious word and his service of love / and sheweth constant Obedience ther-vnto; shall haue the food of Life / o Math. 24. ●. administered and declared-fourth openly {reversed; } according to the clearness therof; unto him: The young or p 1. Cor. 3. a. new-borne Children / according to their Youngnes / q Rom. 14.15. ● the weak / according to their weakness / the strong vpgrowinge Men / according r Heb. 5. b. to their Habilitie or Strength / and the Elders / according to their Dayednes or Olde-age. 19. even-thus shall now in this day of the love / the upright food of the gracious word and of the Life / be administered in due time. also prepared s Sap. 16. c. according to eueryones taste. and brought to him to a food of his soul. 20. Therfore shall also the administered food of the gracious word( which is come unto us Littleones and Elect of God / out of t John. 6. d. heaven / to a food of Life) be to such a taste of food unto everyone / as he gladly eateth / or as doth accord with the Nature of his stomach. 21. happy are they which now in this day / are v Sap. 1. a. 2. Cor. 11. ●. singleminded of Heart / and haue found or strong musics / and can awaye-with the food of Life( as the same is prepared and becometh administered / out of the word of Life). and occupy or eat of the same / to a sustenance of their souls: and so x 1. Cor. 14. a. Col. 3. b. diligently apply them to the love. 22. Yea / Those-same {reversed; } which are in such-sort fead and obediently nourrished-vpp with the same food of Life / til-vnto the Elderdom of the godly understanding / and are evenso passed-thorowe or haue accomplished the a Math. 26. c. passover of the Preparation to the new Life in Iesu Christ / by their Elder in the Vision of Peace and of Perfection; shall be found to be the principal Elders and Fathers in the family of love: which also shall understand the b Math. 13. b. Luk. 8. a. Secreat-misterie of the word and of the heavenly Kingdom. and c Math. 24. d. administer and bring the Meate of the word {reversed; } at convenient time; to the Disciples of the word / to everyone / according to his State or being. to the young or new-borne Children / d 1. Cor. 3. a. the milk of the word / to the sick or infirm / e Rom. 14. a. the Medicinable-pottaige of the word / and to the Young-men or Vpgrowing-men / the f Heb. 5. b. strong Meate of the word: and that {reversed; } in all; to a Growing-vpp / to g 1. Cor. 13. b. Ephe. 4. b. the manly Olde-aige of Christ. 23. O ye beloved / According to this pattern {reversed; } like as ther is here figured-fourth in writing unto you; see that ye do exercise and traine-forwarde one-another of you / in the service of the love: and haue a good respect unto all that which becometh set-fourth {reversed; } to a Refreashinge h Math. 11. c. and Consolation of your souls; before you. 24. turn your hearing thereunto / and i Pro. 3.4.5. a. comprehend or take-holde of the same in your thoughts: and know then evenso {reversed; } out of your good-willing Obedience and Fulfillinge of the Requiring of the gracious word and his service of love; in the Spirit of your Inwardnes / the true Eldest / the right Father / and the k 1. Pet. 2. c. true pastor or bishop of your souls: which is the spiritual living word of l John. 17. c. the heavenly truth. the holy Spirit of love. and the true Light m John. 1. a. and eternal Life itself / whereon wee witness & point / and are serviceable unto you. 25. For heer-to wee are Ministers of the gracious word of the lord / and Witnesses of the true being of the love / for to declare under the Obedience of the love / n 1. Cor. 13. b. 2. Cor. 3. b. the godly Cleernesses of the true Light / and the heavenly o Math. 13. b. Col. 2. a. Riches of God the Father( which are p 2. Cor. 4. a. appeared & brought unto us; / out of q 1. Cor. 15. a. Grace; from the r Iam. 1. b. Father of Light / out of the heaven) among the Children of Men / and that they might be made heirs therein. 26. Which Grace of Life and godly Cleernesses of the true Light / together with those-same heavenly Goods or Riches of God / they all do likewise enjoy and become s Ephe. 3. a. Fellowe-partakers of / which humble them with us; to an Implantinge into the upright being of Christ; under the Obedience of the love / and haue their t 1. John. 1. a. communion with our Communialtie / in all concord and love. 27. WIth this eruditious Exhortation / our whole Desire unto you all; our intirelie beloved friends in the love; is this / namely / that ye will; with all Diligence and Feruentie; first presfourth-after or accomplish the v Math. 3.28. ● Act. 2. f. ●. ●. Beginning of the christian Life in the service of love: and grow-up evenso ther-out / x Ephe. 4. b. in-to the Olde-aige of the godly understanding of Iesu Christ: and also with Speaking-woordes and writings / serve ye daily one-another / with the serviceable Testimonies of the gracious word and his holy Spirit of love / euen-like as those-same {reversed; } through the holy Spirit of love and his elected Minister HN; are administered in written Letters unto you. 28. add not any Ingenious-prudentie thereto. pass not fourth also therwith according to your Good-thinkinge. defend, excuse, y Pro. 18. c. Eccli. 4. c. nor yet cloak or cover with the goodthinkinge Ingeniousnes / the subtle dealing of the flesh: nether-yet also take vpon you for to diminish or pluck-away anythinge; according to your z Deut. 12. a. Good-thinking; from the Testimonies of the holy Spirit of love / or to sever it ther-out / for to employ or occupy the same / according to the a Eccli. 5. a. Rom. 13. b. Pleasure of the Desires of the flesh: but receive & enjoy all the same with singleminded Heartes / b 2. Cor. 10.13 to your Edifying / and to the c Ezech. 18. c. Ioel. 2. c. Reformation of your Life and being: and endeavour you evenso to pass or go thorough the d 4. Esd. 7. a. Math. 7. b. Luk. 13. c. small way / which reacheth to the e Rom. 12. a. Ephe. 4. c. Renewinge of your Spirit and mind / and to the everlasting Life. 29. Fall not in any-case to f Rom. 12. a. the world nor her abominations g Math. 24. b. of Desolation / nor yet in anyewise / to the h 2. Pet. 1. a. earthly corruptible being / much-lesse to the Declyners from us and our godly Doctrine of the upright service of love / nor to the Blaspheamers of the same / that ye be not i Rom. 14. a. snared in your understandings and Consciences: but become daily {reversed; } through the gracious word and his service of love; taught and trayned-vpp to the upright righteousness: and evenso through the same service / let your Mindes and thoughts k Rom. 13. b. 1. Pet. 2.4. a. 2. Pet. 1. a. be plucked-awaye / from the earthly, fleashlie, and corruptible being / and become incorporated or implanted to the heavenly and spiritual uncorruptible being / for to l John. 15. b. bringe-fourth evenso {reversed; } out of the same uncorruptible. being; the fruits of Life and of the love / m Esa. 60.61. a as lovely plants of righteousness. 30. Heerto n Heb. 3.10. b exhort diligently one-another: and let all your Mindes and thoughts / stand evermore submitted to the same godly truth: and taste evenso o Col. 3. a▪ in the Spirit of your mind / the spiritual, heavenly, and everlasting Good: and haue therein your joy and Delight among each-other. 31. THe lord ؛the living God of Heauen{punctel} which is the true p John. 1. a. Iam. 1. b. Light and the everlasting Vncorruptiblenes / give unto you all / Eyes q Ephe. 1. ●. of clearness / that ye may see and perceive. and Heartes of upright understanding / that ye may understand and comprehend / the great acts of the Wonderful-woorkes of God / which God is working in these last Dayes. 32. For presently {reversed; } through the service of the love of Iesu Christ; the Propheaties {reversed; } which haue a longe-season ben r Dan. 2. b. shut-to or fast-sealed; become unlocked s 4. Esd. 6. c. Apo. 5. a. or opened / and their mysteries or secrets / evidently declared: also nakedlie seen-into and vnderstanded / according to the truth of God: and the t Math. 24. b. Apo. 14. a. Euangelie or Ioyful-messaige of the Kingdom of God and Christ / published likewise ther-out. 33. The book of the lamb {reversed; } which is written both with-in and with-out; becometh also seen and red: and his seven seals {reversed; } wherewithal it was fast-sealed; v Apoc. 5. a. loosed or opened: and through the opening of the same seven seals / the righteous Iudgment x Apo. 14. a. of God and his Christ is appeared / and come over the whole Earth / for to judge the same y Psal. 96. b. Act. 17. c. with righteousness. 34. And evenso {reversed; } after the opening of the seven seals; the seven Angels of God {reversed; } even from the First fourth / unto the seventh; haue all blown with z Apoc. 8.9. their trumpets: and that the seventh angel / hath blown the seventh Trompett / wee haue heard with our ears: and also after-that / the sound of the great voices in the heaven / wher-out the coming of Christ and the glory of God with all his Sainctes / is appeared. and the Ministration of the gracious word under the Obedience of the love / come unto vs. 35. For after the Sound of the seventh trumpet / ther were great voices heard in the heaven / saying and publishinge: a Apoc. 12. a. The kingdoms of this world / are become our lords and his Christes: and he shall reign from everlasting to everlasting. 36. Haue a good regard heer-vnto: and understand the righteous Iudgment of God according to the truth: and how that the same in this last day {reversed; } to the b John. 12. c. preservation of Men in the godliness; goeth over the world / for to restore or bring it-all again to his right course / c Act. 3. c. what God hath spoken from the beginning of the world through the Mouth of his holy Propheates. 37. HEere-withall {reversed; } ye beloved in the love of our lord Iesu Christ; is our Ministration and exhorting / to all your concord and Peace in the service of the love: and that ye should also daily exhort one-another / to the same concord and Peace / and like-wise d Col. 3. b. suffer or forbear one-another in the love. 38. Haue also Compassion with eueryones ignorance / or Littlenes of understanding: and inform one-another e Rom. 12. a. with reverence / and do also the like to all those that are without us / wher-as it is found so meet / or convenient to be don: and father / in all your Fourth-goinge to the good Life / show f Rom. 13. a. Heb. 13. b. always {reversed; } at any-hande; Honour and reverence to the spiritual & temporal magistrates / even with all Subiection: and that altogether in the love / to concord and Peace. 39. Fare-well: and hold you always g Eccli. 2. a. constantly to the gracious Wo●rde of the lord / and to the requiring of his service of love: and be therein h John. 15. b. Col. 1. b. fruitful and increase on the Earth: and all what mindeth the love and Peace / reach-fourth the hand to the same / and win it all to the love / and to the entrance of her service. The love of God the Father / i Col. 3. b. keep the victory in all your Heartes. Amen. Take it to ●eart. CHARITAS EXTORSIT PER ELIDAD.