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38. Judah, thou art hee, Thy Brethren will praise Thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thy Enemies, thy fathers children will bow downe before thee; Judah is a young Lyon, thou art come a loft my sonne, through great victory, he hath stooped downe and couched, as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse, who will set upon him to rouse him up? The Scepter will not be removed from Judah, nor a Master from his feete, till the Saviour come, and to him will the people cleave: he will
binde his fole to the Vine, and his shee-asses colt to the precious Branch; he will wash his Garment in wine, and his Mantle in the bloud of Grapes: his Eyes are redder then wine, and his Teeth whiter then Milk.
39. By the first Three sonnes of Jacob, the Spirit intimates concerning the corrupted lost Adam and his children, signifying how they were in the sight of God, and what their Kingdome upon Earth, would be; but heere, with Judah he beginneth to intimate concerning the Kingdome of Christ, viz. concerning Christs Person and Office, and setteth Christ in the fourth Line, which is a great Mysterie; for in the fourth propertie of the generating of Nature, is understood the fire, viz. the Originall of the Fire, out of which the Light taketh its Originall, whereby the Abysse becometh Majestick, wherein then also the Originall of Life is under∣stood, before the soule is therein understood according to its pro∣pertie.
40. Seeing then this Soules Ground in Adam was fallen and perished, therefore hath God also set his figure of the New Life therein, and in this Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, the figure standeth signifying, how the beginning of Life is, and how the New birth springeth forth in the Light againe, through the perished fire-Life in the Light: also in the Testament of Judah all Circumstances are declared, shewing, how the New Life in Christ would spring forth through the Soule, and rule over the Sting of Death.
41. Jacob sayth; Thou art hee, thy brethren will prayse thee; in this he looketh outwardly upon the Earthly Kingdome; which should arise in the future Time: and inwardly he looketh upon the Kingdome of Christ, which both Jewes & Heathens would embrace, and prayse and honour Christ as God and Man.
42. And he sayth further; for thy hand will be upon the Neck of thy ene∣mies; by this he understandeth and meaneth, not onely the Jewes out∣ward Enemies; but that the hand, viz. the power of Christs Grace, would essentially, actually, and effectually be upon the Neck of Sathan and the Serpents Poyson and will, in flesh and Bloud, and evermore trample up∣on that Serpents head in his children of Faith.
43. Also, thy Fathers children will bow before thee, that is, before this Christ of the Stock or Tribe of Judah, will all the Children of God, stoope, bow, and pray to, as a God-Man and Man-God.
44. Also,; Judah is a young Lyon, that is, Roaring against the Devill, and a destroyer of Death and Hell, as a fresh young nimble Lyon, migh∣ty in strength and power.
45. Also, thou art come aloft my sonne, and exalted, by a Great victory, that is, after he had the victory over Gods Anger, over Death, Sinne, the Devill and Hell, he was placed at the right hand of Gods power, as a Man-God, and ruleth over all his Enemies.
46. Also: Hee stooped and couched downe, as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse, who will set upon him to rouse him up? that is, he hath so deeply humbled him∣selfe, with his highest Love, and rendred himselfe in our assumed huma∣nity into the scorne and contempt of the fallen Man, and stooped into Gods anger, and suffered the Naturall Life to breake in peices, and very patiently given his Strong Lyons might, thereinto.
47. But that the Text sayth; as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse; it signifieth, the young Lyon of the Divine Word▪ in the soule, and the Lyonesse signi∣fieth the Name JESUS, in the most inward Ground of the heavenly worlds substance, viz. the Noble Lyonesse of Sophia, that is, the right seede of the Woman from the Adamicall Lights Tincture, which faded in Adam, and in this Lyon was made living againe in divine power, and associated it selfe againe to the Lyon, viz. to the Soule.
48. Also; who will set upon him to rouse him up? that is, who can set him∣selfe aganst this Lyon and heavenly holy Lyonesse to rouse them up, which are, God over all, and through all? who will take away his power, who is the beginner of all power, strength, and might? Where is the Champion that can strive when there is no higher power to be had?
49. Also; The Scepter shall not be removed from Judah, nor a Master from under his feete, till the Champion or Saviour come, and to him will the people cleave; the understanding or meaning of this, is twofold, viz. outwardly concerning the Kingdome of Judah, that the Jewish Scepter of its King∣dome should continue and they be a Kingdome, till this Champion or Saviour, viz. the Lyon with the Lyonesse, viz. Christ, that is, this Cove∣nant, should become Man; which is so come to passe, that they held their Kingdome, though it seemed often as it were quite overthrowne, till Christ, and then it quite ceased, and there was another Master or Governour that ruled it, for since that time they must be servile people; for the Champion or Saviour hath taken to himselfe their Kingdome, and is therewith entred in among the Heathen, and hath called them also to himselfe.
50. But the inward Ground is this, that the Kingdome of Christ and his Dominion over Sinne, Death, the Devill and Hell, will not cease, nor any other Ruler or Master come from between his feet, that is, from the Covenant of God; till this Saviour Christ, should come againe to Judgement, and sever his Enemies, then shall he deliver up the King∣dome againe to his Father, and then God shall be all in all; therefore doe the Jewes in vaine hope for another Master or Ruler, although indeed he will come to them also in the Time of his Revelation, Manifestation, or appearing, which time is neere, wherein the Kingdome of Christ will be manifested to all people.
51. Also: to him will the people cleave; this is done already according to his humanity, and will much more be done in his last manifestation, that all people will cleave to him and acknowledge him, when Babell taketh its End, then will this be first perfectly fullfilled, which depen∣dance and cleaving to him, at present the Images, Imaginations or ficti∣ons of Opinions and Sects in Babell, doe keepe back, in that the strange and forreine People and Nations stumble, and are scandalized at the Contentions and Disputations of Confounded Speeches, and with∣hold from it.
52. But when the Tower of Babell falleth on every side, then shall all people cleave to him, honour and serve him, which dependance and cleaving to him, supposed Christendom, hath hindered by the Antichrist, which hath a long time sate in the seate of Christ, as an Earthly God; when this ceaseth, then will the Kingdome of Christ be wholly mani∣fest, which Men at present behold only in † Images: this is understood by those of our society.
53. Also; hee will binde his Fole to the Vine, and his shee-asses colt to the Noble Branch; O thou poore sick old miserable Adam, if thou didst un∣derstand this rightly, then thou wouldest be delivered from all strife; What is the fole and the shee-Asses colt? The fole is the humane soule: for the Young Lyon signifieth the power of the divine Word in the soule; but the fole is the naturall soule, which Christ should binde to the vine of the sweete tasted divine Love, viz. the Eternall Speak∣ing Word would binde this Fole, the Creaturely Soules Word of the Soules Essence and Substance, to it selfe, and be marryed to it; and the shee-Asse is the inward Paradisicall Man, viz. the Divine Man, from the Ens of the inward Ground, from the heavenly Worlds Lights Substance, viz. the Virgin Sophia.
54. This shee-Asse, which must beare the outward burthen, of the bea∣stiall Man upon it, should Christ, that is, the Word, binde to the Name JESUS, viz. to Gods owne selfe-subsisting Substance, viz. to the most Noble Branch, which beareth the sweete wine of the Love of God.
55. And this shee-Asse, is the Temple of God, wherein the King∣dome of God is againe Manifested in us, it is † Christ in us, which is a shee-Asse in Man, himselfe taketh upon him the burthen and sinne of Man, and slayeth it through the Young Lyon.
56. This Inward new spirituall holy Man is rightly the shee-Asses colt, for it must be manifested through the soule, as Light is manifested through fire, thus a Man is to understand, that the light is the fires Colt, and is manifested through the fire, from the dying of the Candle; thus also it is to be understood in the Ground of the soule, which is also a fire-Spirit.
57. O, thou poore Christendome, if thou diddest understand this rightly, and diddest presse into it, so that thou also with this shee-Asse which faded in Adam, stoodest bound to the foles Noble Branch; what needs striving then? Is it not now a simple shee-Asse which beareth Christ and Adam upon it, viz. Christ in it, which is its Noble Branch, viz. its sap and power, and Adam upon it as a Burthen.
58. O thou Babylonish whore! thou keepest off this shee-Asse with thy Dragon-Beast, so that poore Christendome must beare thy E∣vill Beast; whereon thou whore, ridest; but thy time is neere, that thou art to goe into the Abysse of Hell-fire, sayth the Spirit of Wonders.
59. Also; he will wash his Garment in wine, and his Mantle in the bloud of the Grape, that is, Christ will wash our humanity, viz. the Garment of the soule, in the wine of his Love, and with the Love wash away from the defiled Adamicall flesh, the earthly drosse and spawne of the Ser∣pent, that Adam had received with his desire and Lust, from which the Earthly Man became a Beast; and leave the spawne of the Serpent to the Earth, and in the End burne it up with the fire of God.
60. And his Mantle in the bloud of the Grape: the Mantle is the Cover, which covereth the washed Garment, and is even the pretious purple Mantle of Christ, viz. the scorne, affliction, Torment, and suffering; when he thereby washed our sinnes in his bloud, that is, the right bloud of the Grape, wherein he washed his Mantle, which now he casteth over our Garment and covereth it, viz. over our humanity, that Gods anger, and the Devill, may not touch it.
61. O, Man! consider this, this Mantle will not be cast over the Beast and the Whore, to cover them; as Babell teacheth, but over the washed Garment, that is washed in right true Repentance, with Gods Love: this Garment of the soule will be covered with the Mantle of Christ, which is once washed in his bloud of the Grape; and not whores, Panders, un∣cleane persons, Covetous, Extortioners, unrighteous, cruell, raging, sterne, and proud, so long as they are such, they have onely the Mantle of the Babylonish whore about them, and get not this holy washed Mantle of Christ, upon them; flatter and play the hypocrite as much as thou wilt, yet thou wilt not get it, except thou art washed beforehand; thy Comforting thy selfe will not avayle thee, thou must set upon it in Ear∣nest, that thy shee-Asse may live, & thy ••ole be Essentially bound to the vine Christ, else thou art a Member of the Whore sitting upon the seaven headed Dragon; and if thou couldest passe through the Thrones of Heaven, yet thou wouldest be but a childe of the Dragon.
62. O, Babell Babell, what hast thou done? in Covering the Beast with this Mantle, and art thy selfe, remaining under it, a Wolfe.
63. Also; His Eyes are redder then wine, and his Teeth whiter then Milke: His Eyes are now the fire-flaming Love, which pierce and presse through the Fathers Anger, and looke through the fiery-soule, wherein the Fa∣thers anger in the fiery soule becometh a light flaming Love-fire; and so the Soules Essence is thereby become a sweet pleasant tasted divine red Love-wine, one property in the Soulish Essence tasting the other in great desire of Love, and the fathers property of anger floweth forth in a cleere good pleasant relish.
64. And his Teeth are whiter then Milke: these white Teeth are the desire of the inward Spirituall Man, where the holy word is together in the desire of these Teeth, which white Teeth of heavenly desire, appre∣hendeth, eateth and drinketh the Grape of Christs bloud; for it is the Spirituall Mouth, for which Christ hath ordained his Testament, that it should with these white Teeth, Eate his flesh and drinke his bloud; this, the Spirit in the Covenant, declareth cleerly and plainly, by Jacob.
65. For, the Testament of Judah pointeth throughout at Christ, at his Person, Office and Kingdome, for of Judah, Christ should come accord∣ing to the humanity, outwardly the figure of the Type, standeth, and in∣wardly, in the Spirituall Figure, Christ standeth clearly.
Gen. 49.8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Or, words of Jarring Con∣tention.
Or, Opinions, without cer∣tain know∣ledge.
Coloss. 3.11. & 1.27.
Joh. 6.53. &c.