The prophetie of the spirit of loue. Set-fourth by HN: and by him perused a-new, and more distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne into English

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The prophetie of the spirit of loue. Set-fourth by HN: and by him perused a-new, and more distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne into English
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Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?
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[Cologne :: Printed by N. Bohmberg],
Anno. 1574.
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"The prophetie of the spirit of loue. Set-fourth by HN: and by him perused a-new, and more distinctlie declared. Translated out of Base-almayne into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08224.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.

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The XI. Chap.

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•…•…Thou false a 1.1 Seede / thou adoulte∣rous [ A] Generation of the earthlie Man: Thou which hast inhabited the Earth, with Vnrighteousnes · iudged it falslie, with thy Lyes · b 1.2 seduced the Simple · oppressed the Littleones · murdered the Holyones of God · and spilt or shead the vngiltie & innocent or simple Bloud, vpon the Earth / Looke to it, what will now com vpon thee: and how that the Day of thy c 1.3 Re∣wardinge {reversed ;}wherin all thy Wickednes shall be re∣compensed thee; is d 1.4 harde-at-hande / yea, euen in the Doore.

2. Yea / all the Destruction that is fore-spoken (according to the mentioninge of the Scriptures) to com vpō thee / will now {reversed ;}in thissame Day; e 1.5 with much Calamitie / Angwish and Smart, fall vpon thee. And I HN {reversed ;}on the behalfe of all the Holy∣ones of God and Christ / which thou hast f 1.6 murdered without iust cause, eauen from the Beginning vntill thissame Day; will also waige the Lawe with thee: and paint-out or figure-fourth thy Wicked-actes, before thine Eyes.

3. Yea / I will {reversed ;}with the Power of my God; be vpon thy necke: also require g 1.7 at thy hande, the Bloud of all the Innocent or Vngiltie: and tra∣uerse the matier or waige the Lawe with thee, whe∣ther thy cause be right or wronge / before the true Iudgment of my God.

4. I will not ceasse nor keepe-scilence {reversed ;}through [ B] the Spirit of Iesu Christ my Sauiour; before the Iudgment of God h 1.8 / and the Iudgment-seate of Christ {reversed ;}with i 1.9 Accusation against thee, for all thy

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Vnrighteousnes and Falshod; vntill such time as thy Dominion be brought-downe · thy Memoriall vtterlie k 1.10 rootedout from the Earth · and thy Por∣tion had for thee, in the l 1.11 Bottomles-pitt / which is prepared for Thee and all wicked Spirites.

5. Yea / from hence-fourth, in the Brekinge-tho∣rowe of this Daie of the Loue {reversed ;}which Day is the tocominge m 1.12 Immortalitie; nether thy Ware or Marchandice / nor yet thy deadlie Venim, out of the false Selfwisdom of the Fleash {reversed ;}wherwith thou hast vsed and practised thy Deceit vpon the Earth / and forne so longe thy Dominion; shall be n 1.13 of va∣lue anye-more.

6. For now in thissame Da•…•…e {reversed ;}O thou deceitfull Seede; thou shalt becom taken-awaie or o 1.14 rooted∣out from the Earth / and buryed in the p 1.15 Hell: where thy Death / and the Burninge of thy Condemnati∣on, shall q 1.16 endure for euer and euer: the which is thy Portion and thine Inheritaunce.

7. O Thou Broode r 1.17 of the venemous Dra∣gon (yea, of the Deuell / and of the earth∣lie lyinge Generation) which art begotten of the Seede of the Serpent and viperous Generation / and hast alwaies ben a false and wicked s 1.18 Whoore, vpon the Earth: Ah / com now fourth / and let it ap∣peere before the righteous Iudgment of God / wher in thou of rightes-part, shouldest execute the Iudg∣ment / and beare the Dominion or haue the prehemi∣nence, on the Earth.

8. Beholde / I geeue thee to vnderstande / and protest against thee, before the Iudgment of God / that all thy Matiers / Iudgmēt / and Affaires, are

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•…•…tterlie vnright / or that thou errest greatlie in them all: and hast alwaies dealt {reversed ;}as an t 1.19 adoulterous Harlot; falslie and vnfaithfullie, vpon the Earth.

9. If-case now thou haue right in thy cause / then [ C] iustifie or cleere thyself now, before the Righteous∣nes of Christ & his Holyones. Therfore com now & appeere by the u 1.20 Light of Loue / or by the Daye of Christ / and beholde thyself once {reversed ;}by the Light; how defiled thou art with thy x 1.21 Whordom: and whe∣ther also ther be any Right or Equitie by thee, con∣formable to the vpright Being of ye Bride of Christ.

10. Com-on now / and let mee heare & see / Whe∣ther thou art able to excuse or cleere thyself by any∣meanes, that thou hast right in thy cause · or anye Inheritaūce with Christ / ether Conformitie with the holie y 1.22 Church or Bride of Christ. But what shall be the sequell / Trulie thou z 1.23 thyself shalt not choose but acknowledg by the Light / that thou art false · and a meere Straunger vnto Christ and his Church: and that thou likewise hast iudged falslie, in all thy Iudgment · and alwayes dealt or walk∣ed wickedlie: that thou also art worthie a 1.24 of the e∣uerlasting Condemnation / and that it appertaineth or belongeth not vnto thee, to haue or beare anye Dominion vpon the Earth.

11. But if thou refuse to com by the Light / and wilt yet notwithstāding excuse or go-about to cleere thyself, before all Eyes of the Fleash b 1.25 / as-though thou haddest right in thy cause / and maintaine that thou art the c 1.26 Bride or Church of Christ: and that thou hast not dealt as an adoulterous Whore · but faithfullie, as an vpright Maried-wife / So will I

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then, out of my Ielousie which I beare ouer thee (O thou false Nature d 1.27 / thou lying and vnfaithfull earthlie Man / which art consubstantiated / or an in∣corporated Bodie, with the Antichrist) cause thee to appeere before the Priestes or Elders of the holie Vnderstandinge: and make thee to drinke-out {reversed ;}ac∣cording to the Lawe of the Lord; e 1.28 this Cupp of the bitter curssed Water of my Ielousie: yea / f 1.29 thesame shalt thou be constrained to drinke / To thende that it may eauenso therby becom manifest and knowen, Whether thou art an adoulterous Whoore / or the vpright & faithfull Maried-wife of ye Man Christ. [ D]

12. For verelie / li•…•…e as the Ielousie of an Hus∣bande standeth ouer his Wife / that shee dealeth not faithfullie / but as an adoulterous Whoore / Eauē∣so standeth also my Ielousie ouer thee, thou earth∣lie Man {reversed ;}which wilt g 1.30 be the Espoused-wife of the Man Christ / or vauntest and geeuest-fourth thy∣self for thesame; and also ouer all such / as {reversed ;}with the Spirit of the earthlie and h 1.31 diuelish Beeing; bost them to be the Maried-wife of Christ / or of his Spirit of Loue.

13. FOr-that-cause / if thou now account not thy self, for an Whoore: but esteemes•…•… thee for the faithfull Espoused-wife of Christ: and that my ielous Conceauing cannot stand otherwise towardes thee, but that thou art a presumpteous Whoore / which dissembleth or playeth-the-hipo∣crite with Christ / and coueredly i 1.32 committeth-whor∣dom: & yet neuerthelesse wilt be iudged, as a faith∣full Espoused-wife of Christ / So shalt thou then presentlie, be constrained to drinke this bitter k 1.33 curss∣ed

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Water of my Ielousie · and to beare the Curss∣inge of an adoulterous Whoore / or of an vnfaith∣full Wife.

14. But if now thou be faithfull / and the vpright Espoused-wife of Christ / thē feare not to drinke these bitter Waters, for any Destructiō that can chaunce vnto thee therout / or endamaige thee therby. For the vpright Maried-wyfe or Bryde of the Man Christ [namelie / the faithfull l 1.34 Communialtie of the Holyones of God / or the Fellowe-members of Christ] hath ben constrayned in times-past {reversed ;}by her Aduersaries; to drinke such-like: and the bitter Wa∣ters haue not hurt or endamaiged Her.

15. But trulie, as for thee {reversed ;}O thou corrupt Na∣ture of the earthlie Man; thou shalt in thy vaine∣glorious Bosting {reversed ;}that thou art the right Espoused∣wife of Christ; he found a Lyer · and as a wicked, mischeuous, and m 1.35 false Whoore: and, through these bitter curssed Waters, thy Hippes or Thighes shall rot / and thy n 1.36 Wombe breake: and so shalt thou then becom made-manifest in thy whoorish Nature.

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