Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author : also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged, and answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophick questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmen, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death : as a help towards the better understanding the Old and New Testament : also what man is with respect to time and eternity, being an open gate to the great mysteries / by Edward Taylor ; with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen.

Mysterium Magnum.

PART I.

The First Part contains the nine first Chapters of Genesis, and thirty fourth Chapter of the Book, whence these Extracts are; called the Great Mystery. Exposition of Genesis.

CHAP. I. What God manifested is, and of the Trinity.

1. GOD is the One, the Will of the Abyss, the Will of the Wisdom. The Wisdom is his Delight and Manifestation, he begetteth himself, from Eternity to Eternity, in which Eternal Generation are, 1. The Will. 2. The Mind of the Will. 3. The Egress from the Will and Mind.

2. The Will is the Father, the Mind is the Wills Heart and Seat, the Egress is the Spirit and Power of the Will and Mind: The Lubet, Motion, Life and Eye of the Deity: A speaking Word.

3. God is no where, far from, or near unto any thing, Infinitely more deep than any thought can reach, comprehended only by himself.

CHAP. II. Of the Word or Heart of God.

1. THE Word is in the Will a nothing, but with the Conception in the Lubet of the Will, is an Eternal Generation. This Eternal speaking Word, maketh a Mystery call'd the Centre of the Eternal Nature, out of the Powers, Colours and Virtue whereof, as out of a great Eternal Mystery, was formed by Coagulation, the Spiritual World: Which two, are as Soul and Body.

2. And tho' the speaking Word rule through, and over all, yet cannot be com∣prehended, by either; but in the inward World conceiveth it self, into a Spiritual Essence, as one only Element, wherein the four lye hidden, but when the Word moved the one Element, the hidden Properties did manifest themselves, as there are four Elements.

CHAP. III. How out of the Eternal Good, an Evil is come to be; the Original of the Dark World.

VVE cannot say that Eternal Light or Eternal Darkness is Created; for they are not comprehended in time, but Concomitant in their Ge∣neration: But not in the Word of the Deity, but Originate in the desire of the speaking Word. For the free Lubet, wherein is the Wisdom, could not have sen∣sible perceivance, of its own Vertue, Smell, Taste and Colours, if it brought not it self, into a desire like a hunger, and so bring it self, from Abyss into Byss, by over-shadowing Attraction: And remains a Property, viz. a darkness. For where a Property is, there is a something, yielding obscurity: Unless something else, viz. a Lustre, fill it, and then 'tis Light, yet remaineth a Darkness in the Property. And this is the Eternal Original of the Darkness: So that we are to understand,

1. The free Lubet, the wisdom, which is no Property, but is one with God.

2. The desire of the free Lubet, which in the hunger or coagulation compre∣hends the free Lubet, and maketh it self out of the free Lubet.

For the desire is the Fathers Property. And the free Lubet, the wisdom, is the Sons Property: Tho' God, here, until the Manifestation through the Fire in the Light, is not called Father or Son, but set down thus, to shew to what Person in the Deity, Nature, and to what the Power in Nature, is to be ascribed. The desire proceeding from the will of the Abyss, is the first form, and it is the Fiat. The free Lubet is God who governeth the Fiat, the Centre of Nature: And both together, are the Eternal Word, and in the desire are the seven Properties of Nature.

The profound distinct Discourse of them, taketh up the remainder of this Chapter, and the fourth, fifth and sixth CHAPTERS.

CHAP. VII. Of the Holy Trinity and Divine Essence.

THE Eternal and Temporal Nature, especially consists in the dark world, in the four first Forms; Astringent, Bitter, Anguish and Fire: But the Powers in all are understood in the Light, or Love-desire, or Love-fire.

1. For the first ground is the one.

2. The free Lubet, viz. the Wisdom.

3. The Love desire, wherein the free Lubet exacuateth it self, through Nature into a Kingdom of Joy.

4. The Oyly Spirit, wherein the Lubet amaffeth it self in the Meekness and co∣amaffeth the Lustre, the Power whereof is the true holy Tincture.

5. The watry Spirit, begotten by the devoration of the Fire, viz. its death: Which also it must have again for its Life; else neither Firenor Light could sub∣sift, so there is an Eternal giving and receiving.

The a 1.1 8th Chapter of the Creation and Dominion of Angels; and the b 1.2 9th Chapter of the Fall of Lucifer; and the c 1.3 10th of the Creation of Heaven and the outward World; and the d 1.4 11th of the Mystery of the Creation. Are all clearly, deeply and largely treated of in the Aurora, viz. Aurora.

CHAP. XII. Of the Six Days Work.

1. THough there is no Night in the Deep above the Moon, yet in the length of six Days and Nights was all Created, which hath this subtle acute meaning, viz. six of the Properties of Nature only, belong to the active Domi∣nion, to good and evil: The seventh is the Essence, House, Body or Rest, where∣in all the other work.

2. The Planetick Orb (which is the Figure of the six Properties of the Spiritual World) belongeth to the punctum of Sol. But Saturn doth not proceed from the Sun.

3. The First Day. With the Word when God said let there be Light, the holy* 1.5 Power which was amassed in the wrath, (viz. the confusion caused by Lucifer) moved it self and became Light, by which the Devils strength wholly withdrew, and the Light, viz. that of Nature was wholly useless to him, and the Darkness being severed remained in the wraths Property both in the Earth and the whole Deep.

4. Of the Second Day. As the Moon ruleth the first Hour, so is this the most* 1.6 External or Inferiour Heaven next the Earth, and the Laboratory of the other six Properties. See more of the Second Day in the 20th Chapter of the Aurora, p. 254.

5. Of the Third Day of the Creation. Mars rules the first Hour on Tuesday, on* 1.7 this third Day, God moved the third Property of Nature, viz. the Sulphurous, in which the Saltish and Mercurial were also mutually unfolded and severized; by the Salnitral flagrat, from the poysonful Mars; for they felt the Light, and be∣came hungry till they were coagulated.

6. In which Joy, arose, unto pullulation and growth, or vegetation; for when the Light springeth up in the water source, Mars springeth up for great Joy in the Sulphur, so came Grass and Trees: The Inward Nature made it self External, and yet remained also Internal. Yet therewith did the Properties of the dark world press in also, whence came poysonous Roots and Weeds.

CHAP. XIII. Of the Creation of the Fourth Day.

1. MErcurins hath the first Hour, giving a sensitive feeling Life. In the third* 1.8 is only an insensitive Life, but now in the Fire is a painful, and in the Oleous a meek joyful Life.

2. This Light of Nature hath a Fiery, Airy, Oily, and Watry Property, yet no Intellective Life, but only Properties to Life.

3. The Intellectual Life, is the spirated word from the free Lubet, whence comes a Sulphur Salnitri, that is, a Magical Astrum, in manner of Mans Mind; which hath thence its real Original.

4. The whole Astrum, is a breathed Voice or Tone of the Powers: An Eccho out of Gods Love and Anger, the Dark and Light World: Out of this have the four Elements their Original, and they speak forth a Corporeal Essence, and the Stars breathe a Spiritual, both which rule in the visible World, as Soul and Body.

5. And from the four Astrums is procreated the Soul of the outward World, as an enduring great Mind or Mystery.

6. And in this Office hath God raised up a King, or as a God of Nature the Sun, with the other six Planets, his Counsellors or Assistants. First the Nature-God, the Sun, receiveth its Lustre from the Tincture of the inward Fire and Light-world. Next Venus giveth Body to all the seven Metals.

CHAP. XIV. Of the Creation of the Fifth Day.

1. JUpiter rules the first Hour of that day. The superior Astrum actuated the four Astrums in the four Elements (all from the motion of the holy Eter∣nal* 1.9 speaking Word) into Forms, according to the Properties of the Astrum in the Spiritual Body: And thence were Creatures in the Astrum of every of the four Elements produced; Birds, in the Astrum of the Air, Fishes, in that of the Water, Beasts, in that of the Earth, and Spirits, in the Astrum of the Fire.

2. The two Sexes the Male and its Female arise one from the Tincture of the Fire, the other of the Water, as of Fire and Light.

CHAP. XV. Of the Sixth Days Work of the Creation.

Vide Chapter 21. of the Aurora, p. 254.* 1.10

CHAP. XVI. Of the difference of the Heavenly and Earthy Man.

1. THE Image of God Created unto Eternal Life in Paradise, cannot be the gross Property of Earthy Bestial Flesh; for the Properties of the inward holy Body and outward, were in Adam compos'd in equal Harmony, and gave up their desires to the Soul in which the Divine Light shone as in the holy Hea∣ven; The Properties were all Tinctur'd with the sweet Love delight. For the in∣ward holy Man, of the pure Element, penetrated and swallowed up the outward, as Light doth Darkness, which when extinguished the darkness is manifested.

2. But the Earthy Bestial and Corruptible Body, made so by the Lust of Adam, is not the Man; for what the Soul is in the Spirit, the same is the true Humane Body in the Essence: As the Souls Mansion, and as Iron is made Lustrous when through heated in the Fire. Neither Heat, Cold, Sickness, &c. could annoy him, his Body was as Gold that endureth the Fire, or as a Tincture penetrating all things, and gives way to nothing: So, neither was Man subject to any thing but his God alone who dwelt in him.

3. Nor are here two but one only Man, in the Likeness of God. See more of this in the 21. Chap. of the Aurora, in the 10th Chap. of the Three Principles, and that of the Incarnation, and that of Predestination, Chap. 5.

4. Of the Creation of the seventh Day. God Created all things in six Days out of the seven Properties, and brought them all into the seventh as into one Body,* 1.11 which is a Mystery of all the other, whence they came, and in which they work as a Spiritin a Body. The seventh Property standeth still, as a sensless Life; but the seventh and the first Properties mutually belong to one another as one Pro∣perty.

CHAP. XVII. Of Paradise.

1. THE Garden of Eden was a place on Earth where Man was tempted; but Paradise was the Seventh Days Property, the Essentiality of the second Principle, which penetrated the four Elements as Eternity doth Time, as the Sun the Fruit: as the Day ••wallows up the Night, or as the Fire illustrateth the heated Iron Yet was no more apprehended by the outward Elements (though then in their best Purity) than the Terrestrial doth the Celestial. The Internal was to rule over the External; the Heaven, was the Husband to the Earth, before the Curse.

2. And whereas Moses distinguisheth the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from the Tree of Life.

3. By the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. is understood,

• (1.) The Holy Power of God in the Tree: which was the Middlemost Kingdom.
• (2.) Paradise, the Outermost, through which the Middlemost penetrated, and manifested it self: This was the Knowledge of the Good, which Adam should as little have known (in its Original) as the Evil; for he should have kept a Child∣like Mind resign'd to God.
• (3.) The Dark World, which also was manifest in the Vanity, as now the Ear∣thy Essence of the outward Worlds Fruit.

4. Because Adam should have eaten with the inward Heavenly Mouth, not with the outward Earthy Desire, he had such Fruit growing for him, which the inward Mouth could enjoy. The outward Mouth did also eat it, but not into the Worms Carcass.

5. The Celestial swallowed up the Terrestrial; and changed it again into that, whence it proceeded; for now was Adam in God's Power Kingdom, with both Tinctures before his Eve: and the Divine World was Predominant, so, that the three Principles stood in equal Harmony and Will, with pleasing Tast, ravishing Melody, sweetest Odours, smiling, meek, friendly Aspect, of highest Love-desire.

6. But, as Lucifer elevated himself, into the first Principle, totally extinguishing the Light; so Adam, lusted into the outward or Vanity hanging to the third Prin∣ciple: But left his Light, should be totally extinct also, and drawn into the first Principle, and become a Devil, God well knowing the Devil would tempt him.

7. The High and Holy Name Jesus, with deepest Love interposed, and gave himself to regenerate this Hierarchy, and Purge it, through the Fire, with highest Love, to overcome the Wrath, and change it again into Divine Joy; the Holy Heaven. And this is what St. Paul saith, Man was Elected in Christ Jesus, before the Foundation of the World.

8. Is it asked, Why did God suffer this Plant to grow? It is answered, Adam's ear∣nest Desire became a Hunger, and caused that the Fiat drew out such a Plant. For Adam was then a potent Spark of God's Might and Omnipotence. For now, that he hath broke himself off from the Universal Being, and become subject to Vanity, if ••aith as a Grain of Mustard seed can remove Mountains, what could he not then do, who was subject to nothing but God?

9. And the Tree of Good and Evil being thus distinguished, the Tree of Life is also manifest, to be one Tree with the other, but only in the Holy Divine Principle: viz. In the second, in due Temperature with the first and third.

CHAP. XVIII. Of the Paradisical Life, State or Dominion, how it should have been if Adam had not fallen, &c.

1. HAD God created Adam, to the earthy, corruptible, naked, sick, toylsom Life, he had not brought him into Paradise.

2. If God had willed him the bestial Copulation, he would first have created both Sexes, as he did other earthy Creatures.

3. But every Creature brings its Cloathing from its Dam, Man only cometh in deepest Poverty, the most for lorn and shiftless, with the Worms Carcass, and be∣stial Members for Propagation; whereof the poor Soul is always ashamed.

4. But Adam▪ was a Man and Woman, yet neither, distinct; but a Virgin full of Modesty, Chastity and Purity. Such was he before his Eve, as shall arise and Eter∣nally possess Paradise a Virgin, and as the Angels.

5. Two fixt and stedfast Essences were in Adam; A Spiritual Body from the in∣ward Heaven, which was God's Temple: and the outward Heaven, a Limus ex∣tracted out of the good part of the Earth, which was the Ma••fion of the inward, and at the Last Judgment shall be sever'd from the Curse and Corruption. These two were espoused into one, wherein was the most Holy Tincture of Fire and Light: and had ardent Love to each other; the inward loved the outward, as its Manifestation and Sensation: and the outward loved the inward, as its sweet Spouse and Joy.

6. And the Magical Power of Impregnation, stood in the fiery Love-Desire. No Winter, Sleep, Sickness, nor need of the Sun had he, before his Eve: only he stood in the Temptation, Forty days in Paradise, where had he been stedfast, God had confirmed* 1.12 him to Eternity. He was drawn of all the three Principles, and though they did Equiponderate, and were of equal Measure, yet the Devil was very busie in the first Principle, which Adam desired not to prove, as Lucifer had done.

7. But his Lust was to taste Evil and Good, then came the severe Command, Thou shalt not Eat, &c. which tho' he did not with his Mouth, yet his de∣sire to it made his Heavenly Tincture to disappear, and his fair Image fell into a swound, and his clear, pure, steddy Eyes and Sight were darkned, by the impress of the Vanity: So that now, he could not Magically propagate himself; then God said, It is not good that he should be alone, I will make a help meet for him.

CHAP. XIX. Of the Building of the Woman, and how Man was Ordained to the outward Natural Life.

1. THE Woman was taken out of Adam's Essence, in Body and Soul: The Rib betokeneth Mans dissolution; in the place of it, entred Longinus's Spear, when Christ was Crucified, to Tincture and Heal the breach with Heaven∣ly

Blood: His sleep was the real Type of Christs rest in the Grave, his breaking or bruising was of the breaking or bruising Christs Body on the Cross, from the sixth hour to the ninth; so long was the Fiat in Adam's sleep, separating the Wo∣man, in which space, the Female Person was compleatly finished, so long Christ stood as in Adam's thirst, and then said, It is finished, that is, had redeemed the Virgin Image, from the divided Sex of Male and Female.

2. Eve was the right Magical Child, as to the right Life then manifested; which after disappeared: So, that after the eating the Apple, God said the Seed of the Woman shall, &c. Her disappeared Heavenly Matrix, should like the dry Rod of Aaron Bud again, tho' now the Holy part was shut up.

3. The Woman had the fifth Property of the Eternal Nature, the Centre of the Angelical World, the Sons Property, and was Adam's dearest Rose Garden, and the Man kept in his Limbus, the Divine Fire-world, the Fathers Property. She received from Adam's Flesh and Bones, only the Rib and the half cross in the Head; but now, was the Bestial Worms Carcass, Bowels and Members for Pro∣pagation, Mans shame hung on them. Nor was there any strange, alien thing,* 1.13 from without them that formed his Eve, as was in the Creating Adam and all other Creatures; but only their own very propriate, the verbum fiat in them; for God hath left in all Creatures a power to their own Multiplication and Making.

CHAP. XX. Of the Lamentable and Miserable Fall and Corruption of Man.

1. VVHEN Adam saw Eve, the fiery Tincture of his Soul, impressed his desire into her Tincture of Light, and tho' they were both yet in the Garden of Eden and in Paradise, Adam's desire had imprinted it self, into the Magical Image, as a Mother doth on a Child in her Womb; therefore the Woman had Earthy Lust, so soon: As to this day, most of that Sex, coming to any years, selfish Will or Lust is predominant, appearing inglittering Pride, contrary to Vir∣gin Modesty, Chastity and Humility.

2. The Devil then in the Serpent, laid himself on the Tree of Temptation; for the Serpent was more subtle than all the Beasts of the Field; because Lucifer, fall∣ing from his Divine Hierarchy, and infecting the Essence of the expressed word in the Fiat, according to the dark Worlds Property, his desire drew the thorny sub∣tilty out of the Centre of Nature, which as to one part was the Serpents Ens.

3. Tho also in the Serpent, is found, (by the wise) excellent Art and Ver∣tue; for the Devils Poyson being taken out, there is Divine Power, in a fiery hun∣ger in him: As is also in the Earth, where may be found the Arcanum of the World.

4. The Devil by the Serpent insinuated to Eve, as if God had with-held some great thing from them, and that if she would eat, she should as God, know good and evil, which was true: For the Essences of that Tree were Discordant, but said not, that Heat and Cold, Sickness and Death would force into her. But that by the Serpen's eating thereof, he had attained so great prudence.

5. Eve liked well to be a Goddess, and so fell from the Divine Harmony, from the resignation in God, and united with the Devils Desire.

6. Then the Holy Spirit departed, and the Heavenly Limus in the Flesh disap∣peared or died: As the extinguishing a Candle which enlightened a dark Room.

7. VVhile Man stood resigned in God, all the Properties were in Harmony, e∣qual

weight and measure, as time is in Eternity, or in God. But when Mans own will began effectually to work, the whole Magical Astrum wrought also, con∣trariety and enmity in the outward Astrum, and four Elements.

8. The Properties of all good and evil Beasts, did awake and become domineer∣ing in him; yea, of a Fox, Bear, Wolf, Lion, Dog, Bull, Cock, Cat, Horse, Toad and Serpent. Also, that Astrum which is most predominant at the time of Conception, hath its desire in the Seed; and also Figures the outward Person, and the poor Soul becomes Married to such a Beast, unless a Man be Born anew, for∣sake this Bestial Property, and come as a Child into the Kingdom of God pointed at by Circumcision and Baptism.

9. How great was that Horror and Anguish now in Man? When in Astonish∣ment they crept behind the Trees in the Garden from the dread of Gods awakened Anger, making their Love fire tremble; on Knowledge of their new-gotten Be∣stial Properties: Even so did the Limus of the Earth, whence Adam's outward Essence was extracted, tremble and shake when the Lord Jesus on the Cross, with his great Love, in his Heavenly Blood, did overcome Gods Anger; which was effectually working in it.

CHAP. XXI. Of the Impression, and Original of the Bestial Man, and beginning of Sickness and Mortality.

1. THAT only which stands in the Temperature, hath no Destroyer, but sub∣sisteth Eternally; for opposite Essences, weaken and destroy each other. Yet, if the captive Essence of the Heavenly Property, may be redeemed from the curse and wrath of Nature, it comes into the Temperature, and awakens the Heavenly Worlds Essence, in a living Body (if such there be in that Body) and expelleth evil.

2. So great a sway, the outward Beastly Man hath over the hidden, inward, heavenly Man, that it holds it, as Gold shut up in the gross Oar, unable to shew itself, but lyes as dead; it must therefore be Born anew, and fed with the se∣cond Principle, or remain ever uncapable, of the Kingdom of God. It must re-obtain Divine Essence, and die to the Beast; and Regeneration to its first Estate is brought to pass in Christ.

3. The Scope of this Author is,

• (1.) To search out the Image of God.
  • 1. How it was Created.
  • 2. How Corrupted.
  • 3. How it shall be restored.
• (2.) What is the New birth out of Christ.
  • 1. What is the Inward and Immortal Man.
  • 2. What the Outward and Mortal. That, being known how it was corrupted, it may come again into its first Estate.

CHAP. XXII. Of the Original of Actual Sin, &c.

1. EVery word of Man proceeds from an Eternal Ens, either of Love or Anger. A word conceived becometh substance when 'tis sounded, and then must have a place of Rest, either in its like in another, or it will return to its Mother; the Fountain or Mind whence it is.

2. Doth a wicked Man Curse? Eccho a word of Love against him; let not his Curse enter, infect and take Root, but will return and heap Coals of Fire on the Reviler; for the enkindled Spirit layeth hold of the Inventers very outward Body.

3. Sin, at first, and ever since, is Born of a strange Ens; when the will, leav∣ing the pure simplicity in which it was Created, entreth into the Serpents Craft and Poison. But tho' the will to good, may have evil adhere to it, yet, if it hath not consented to the evil, but rejects it, that the sinful desire cannot come into Essence, that good will hath not hereby wrought evil, but the holy Word judg∣eth the false.

4. The Serpents Ens, was a Virgin of Heavenly Beauty, but Lucifer introduced thereinto the dark Worlds Property; yet hath the Serpent (according to the right of Eternity) both Tinctures. The Pearl is in it, but hidden; because of the Worlds false Magick, that the holy Virgin Ens might not be introduced into an ungodly Serpentine one. It were good the Artist knew this.

5. The Children of God are the Temple of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in them; without this, there is no true knowing or will, but strife by the Craft of the Serpent about confused verbal wranglings, as did the Jews carry Moses words in their Mouths, but mixed them with the crafty Serpents Ens, and so it must be still, that the word in Gods Children may be stirr'd and whetted, and the Truth struggle to the Light. Therefore must the Body die, it cannot Inherit the King∣dom.

See more of the Original of Sin in this Book of Extracts of Aurora, and in the sixth Chapter of the Book of Predestination. And mentioned also in the 15th of the Forty Questions.

CHAP. XXIII. How God recalled Adam and his Eve, and ordained the Saviour?

1. AFter Adam and Eve had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; seeing their gross bestial flesh, hard bones, and deformed Worms carkass, shewed it self in their tender delicate body, their shame drove them behind the Trees; for God's rebuke awaked in them, as it had done in Lucifer; and they, as revolted Rebels, were in great shame, before God, and all the holy Angels; and scorn'd by the Devils. Into this shame and scorn did Christ enter, which caus'd the bloody sweat, his being contemned, crowned with Thorns, his mixt draught of Gall and Vinegar; this made the Earth tremble.

2. They dreaded now the Lord's voice, for the Turba of the Dark World, awakened its sad knell. In the cool of the day, that is, when Adam's Eternal day, in the Temperature, was awakened into cold and heat.

3. But in the Lord's voice, was the holy Light▪ world, Christ the second Principle; who in deepest Love espoused it self again, to the disappeared heavenly Ens: And the holy Word, re-entring into the vital Light, did reincorporate it self in the Woman's seed, which in time did move its self in Mary's seed, quickening the disappear'd heavenly Virginity, by introducing the holy living Ens.

4. This ingrafted Word, was inspoken into Eves Matrix, as a limit of a certain Covenant, which was all along propagated in Eves seed, from Man to Man, in the heavenly part, as a glimmering incentive of the Divine holy Lights fire▪ until the awakening of it in Mary, where the Covenant was fulfilled, by the most holy name Jesus, signified by the holy Fire, in the Jewish Sacrifices, kept from pro∣phane strange Fire.

5. This bruised or brake the Serpents head; that is, did infuse, inspire, recal, in∣hest the right Virgin Purity with the precious holy name Jesus, who introduced the living heavenly Ens into the disappeared captiv'd Ens, and mortified the Ser∣pents desire in flesh and blood.

6. For the Child of the Man and Woman is a Bastard, nor shall inherit; but the cha••t Virgins Child, born out of the death of the brutal and bestial Man and Wo∣man, with both Tinctures of peculiar Love: He is the Heir who dieth not, and at the Resurrection, shall take on it the pure Limus of the Earth, viz. the third Principle as a Garment.

CHAP. XXIV. The Cause of the Curse, and of the Body of Sickness.

1. THE Curse was, that the holy Element, Tincture or Ens, which had budded and bare fruit through the Earth, holding captive the Property of the four Elements, hid, withdrew, kept it self secret, and became a mystery to Man in his awakened vanity; who remained, with a half Serpentine desire of Earthy hunger; half dead, between Time and Eternity chain'd till he should return to Earth w••ence he was (as to one part) extracted; and be sown into the Earth; but, as a fixt Metal is not destroyed, but the Artist brings thence excellent Gold; so the fixt part of the Human Body, waits only for the Divine Artist to raise it; which because it must be tryed by Fire, such as the Ens is, such shall be the en∣kindled Fire.

2. All wicked Serpentine works, shall, as Quick-silver, evaporate. But if Man's Human Soul, hath impressed into the mortal part of the Limus of the Earth▪ by Divine Desire and Faith, a Divine Ens▪ it lieth, as precious Gold shut up in Lead or Dross, as a glimmering ••incentive, waiting till the great Artist release it, to burn and shine.

3. Our gracious God, not only gave his holy living Word, for cure of all, whose minds (casting away abominations) immerse themselves thereinto; but knowing Man would not stand, caus'd all Medicinal Herbs, for hunger and health, to grow for him. Thus Man hath his Cure, the Devil hath not.

4. God created Man naked; what ever is in the World is his, but it is com∣mon; but the hunger for Propriety, Power and Domination is of the Serpent.

5. Therefore must we become as little Children, and so rule over the bes••ial Man: So great is the Enmity God hath put between the two seeds in Man; who now is according to the outward Man, a Beast, & according to the inward, an Angel or Devil.

CHAP. XXV. How God drove Adam out of Paradise, and laid the Cherub before the Garden.

v. 18. 1. LUcifer's Fall, tainted the Limus of the Earth, before it was brought into compaction. Adam's outward Body was taken out of the Limus of the Earth: Him God set to be Judge, by his Word; having the Judicial Sword, against the Devil's enkindled wickedness, (v. 17.)

2. Also, God seeing Adam's first Body should fall to ruine, brought him and Eve into Paradise, that afterward they and their Children, might, by Regenera∣tion re-enter thither, in the Spirit of Christ, through the Fire-Sword.

3. When Man dieth, if the Soul be captivated in God's Anger, and be not a Virgin Child, it cannot pass the Sword, v. 5.

4. This Sword is also in Man; the Virgin-bud forceth through in the anxiety of true Repentance: Then riseth the Morning Star, in the occluse or shut up Gate of the true Womans seed, v. 13.

5. Yet at death, if the Soul hath taken in much of the Serpents craft or lust, it stands under God's Anger, till the Consumption of the introduced vanity, which to many, is Purgatory enough.

6. For, the Fire-Soul must be as pure, as the clear refined Gold, to be the Hus∣band of the Noble Virgin Sophia, the Lights Tincture; to speak which needs an Angels Tongue.

7. Before the Foundation of the World, God chose this Limus, out of which he would make Man in Christ Jesus. For, the Ens thereof, had somewhat of false lust, by reason of the Devils introduced desire; therefore a time of the Judgment of Severation, was then founded, and a new Limus out of the tainted one.

CHAP. XXVI. Of the Propagation of Man in this World, and of Cain the Murtherer of his Brother.

THIS Chapter treating copiously of Free Will and Predestination, the Extract of it is forborn, and it's referr'd to the Extracts of the Book of Election.

CHAP. XXVII. Of Abel's and Cain's Sacrifices.

1. THE Souls Free-will (originating from the Abyss) is thin or subtile, and must amass or conceive it self into something, wherein to work. As Gods Free-will, conceived or massed it self with the inward Spiritual World, and works through it and that Worlds Free-will, amassed the outward World, and works through it.

2. And because that which the Soul had amassed, was distempered with Sin, ••acrificing came. In the inkindling whereof, by Magical and Love-fire, not or∣dinary Fire, the Free-will of the Soul, and of the Heavenly part of the Body, did immass into a substance: As a Figure of the New-birth in Christ, and by con∣suming the Bestial Man, did press in before the Holiness of God. For here the Lubet of God did meet the Inspired Free-will of the Heavenly Humanity. Here is the sinful Man consumed by Gods Anger-fire, and cut off by the flaming Fire-Sword of the Cherub, and the Serpents Head bruised.

3. The Souls Free-will which was Inspired wholly pure into Man, is in the Co∣venant in Jesus attoned, and again Tinctured by Gods Love-fire; as Brass or Iron is tinged and changed to Gold. For the Earthy part, wherein lay the Curse, being consumed, the Essence became Spiritual: Even so, the Soul by Sorrow and Repentance introduceth it self into a Divine desire, which is called Faith.

4. Also the words of the Prayer of Abel and Israel became amassed into an In∣corruptible Essence. And this desire of Faith or Essence, in the Spirit of Christ, in all Gods Children, is that, whereby they bring to nought the works of the Devil.

5. But Cain's Offering is the Type of Verbal, Titular Christendom: Who relye only on the Offering; and teach, that Christs Testaments absolve from Sin, tho' themselves remain Impenitent, Domineering Murtherers.

CHAP. XXVIII. Of Cain's Murthering his Brother Abel.

1. THE cause of that was (as still it is) a ••trife, about Religion. The Devil envied Man, who was to succeed in the Throne, whence he was become Apostate. But the Death of Abel's outward Body, is a Figure, that the Bestial Man must be devour'd, that out of Death may spring forth Eternal Life, till then, must be maintain'd a resolute Conflict. And Abel as to the Heavenly part is a Figure of Christ.

2. And Cain in the Wrath, is a Figure of the Enmity and Darkness in the Eter∣nal Nature, but outwardly a Figure of the Pharisees, who Crucified the Lord▪ And of all Persecutors to the end of the World.

CHAP. XXIX. How the Adamical Tree hath put forth it self in∣to Branches and Pullulation.

1. THE seventeen first verses is a profound Tract, how from Adam, &c. sprung evil and good, ver. 18. Cain in the Language of Nature signifieth a Source out of the Centre of the fiery Desire and Self-will, out of the fiery might of the Soul, viz. out of the first Principle.

2. Habel in the Language of Nature signifieth an out∣breathed Angel, viz. from the second Principle, and as a Type of Christ went out Childless, for Christ was to generate a new Humane Tree.

3. Therefore was it, that Adam generated Seth, which in the Language of Nature, signifying a forth-running or leap, where the Love-will riseth out of the Fire-will. From him went the Line of the Covenant.

4. Cain begat Hanock, and Built a City which he called also Hanock, signifying an outward selfish Dominion. Hanock begat Irad, signifying a Potentate or Tyrant. Irad begat Mehujael, signifying an assuming of the outward and inward Centre of Nature, an Earthy God, that would possess Riches and Domination; out of this Name came Babel. Mahujael begat Methusael, signifying that mine is the Divine Might. I am the Ordnance of God, which indeed was true, but only according to the first Principle. Methusael begat Lamech, signifying the sending of the An∣gel over the fleshly Life.

5. Lamech took two Wives, viz. a Twofold Effence and Will. Ada signifying that ••ain would be honest, and Zilla signifying fleshly Joy and Pleasure. Ada bare Jubal a plain Man, of him were such as kept Cattle; but the other was Jubal signifying Temporal Joy, viz. the Harp and Organ. Zilla bare Tubal Cain, it hath an excellent understanding; shewing how the Sulphurous Mercurial Wheel, opens it self in the Generation of Metals; and his Sisters Name was Naem••; here ••yeth the precious Pearl, a Heavenly Property, a Virgin of Purity; by the dy∣ing of the outward Man, Naem•• becomes manifest. And Lamech said, I have s••ain a Man to my Wound, and a young▪ Man to my Hurt. The Man was Abel, the young Man was Christ.

6. Cain was to be Avenged sevenfold, if any of the evil Spirits should kill him, vengeance should be on such-Spirit, by all the seven Properties of the dark World; and the mark God set on him, was the mark of the Covenant. But Lamech was the seventh from Adam, and spake Prophetically, of what should befal his Poste∣rity;

viz. should lose the unity, and fall into the seventy Languages; so that the ten Forms of Fire, should open themselves in every of the seven Properties of Nature, is seventy, and thereto belong the seven unchangeable Forms of the Eternal Nature is seventy seven.

CHAP. XXX. Of the Line of the Covenant.

1. THE Covenant, was to the Line of Seth as to the outward, that they should be Preachers of it: But it was as well to the Line of Cain in the Spirit; even as Sin passed on the Line of Seth as on others, for the Covenant was made to Adam, and to the Virgin Image thereby to be restored.

2. The evil Beast of the Godless Form, God Predestinated to Condemnation, but the Covenant is in the Life, whose Free will soever resigneth to it, in every such Christ riseth, and the strange Beast dieth.

3. S••th signifieth in the Language of Nature a forth-breathing Spring out of the Life through the first Centre of the Soul. Seth begat Enos, which signifies a Di∣vine L••be••. The fifth was Kenan signifying a forth-going re-conceived Lubet or desire of Divine Contemplation. The sixth was Mahalaleel signifying an Angeli∣cal Form of an Angelical Kingdom.

4. The seventh was Jared signifying a Priest or Prince of the Spiritual Kingdom, as Irad was of the worldly Dominion. The Office of Jared is Twofold, outward∣ly 'tis Moses, and inwardly Christ, as Lamech had two Wives. And Jared begat Enoch signifying the out-breathed Breath of the Divine Good Pleasure. The seven Generations have these Figures.

5.

• (1.) Adams purity before the Fall, and Abel to whom the Fall hung, and his being Murthered point out Christ, who should bring us through Death into the pure Life.
• (2.) Seth's time continued to the Deluge.
• (3.) Enos time goes under Seth's and till Abraham.
• (4.) Canaan's time goes under Seth and Enos, and until Christ in the Flesh.
• (5.) Mahalaleel goes during Christ in the Flesh, and the time of the Apostles of Christ.
• (6.) Jared began after the death of the Apostles, and ruled inwardly in Christs Children, and outwardly the Cherub with the Sword bare rule This sixth time is known and yet hidden, and passed under Antichrist as in a Mystery.

6. True Christians wage no War; for they having broken the Sword of the* 1.14 Cherub are dead, and risen with Christ, and live not to External Might, his King∣dom not being of this World. This sixth time continues till Translated Enoch ap∣pears in Spirit, and Elias Sword comes, then falls the outward Jared Babel.

7. And God will restore the Spirits of the Letters.

CHAP. XXXI. Of Enoch's Wonderful Line.

1. ENoch begat Methusalah of the highest Age signifying a forth proceeding Voice. Methusalah begat Lamech as the Lamech in Cain's Line had two Wives or Wills, so this begat Noah signifying the end and the beginning.

2. Noah had three Branches, Sem signifying an out breathing Divine Lubet. Ham signifying a strong breathing out of the Centre of Nature. Japhet signifying

an Appendix of Sem, viz. a Natural Wonder. Sem is a Type of the Light World; Japhet of the Fire World, Ham an Image of the Out-birth.

3. The Sons of God looked on the Daughters of Men, &c. viz. those in whom* 1.15 Gods Spirit manifested it self looked according to the Lusts of the Flesh. And Giants, viz. Tyrants were Born, viz. Men whose Pride would receive no rebuke. Therefore came the Deluge, and after the three Families were sever'd. * 1.16 It repent∣ed God that he had made Man, and grieved him, &c. viz. according to the Creation of the formed Word, not the Eternal speaking Word.

CHAP. XXXII. Of the Covenant of God with Noah.

1. THat Ham was admitted, sheweth an open Gate to all Men; and that the Election passeth, when the Souls Free-will goeth out of good into evil.

• (1.) The Mystery of the three Sons of Noah;
• (2.) The three Stories of the Ark;
• (3.) The three Men that appeared to Abraham;
• (4.) Especially Christ, Moses and Elias at the Transfiguration, denote the Tri∣nity and three Principles. The seven pair of clean Beasts, shew the seven Pro∣perties of the Natural Life; of the unclean, but one pair, represents only, the Property of the Dark World.

2. The Raining just Forty days, points at Adams time of Proba, in which he in∣troduced the Turba.

3. Gods Promising respite 120 years, and bringing the Deluge in 100, points out, that God will shorten time, in the Conclusion of all Beings. The Ark being rested, at the end of Forty days, Noah sends out a Raven, signifying the Earthy Man, which flew to and fro, but return'd not to the Ark.

4. After seven days, he sent forth a Dove signifying the Children of God, who finding no rest in this World, return to the Ark. After seven days more, he sent forth a second Dove, who return'd in the Evening with an Olive Leaf, the Uncti∣on. After other seven days, he let fly the third Dove, which denotes Antichrist, flying out of the Ark, but will no more forsake the World, to return to the Ark.

CHAP. XXXIII. Of the beginning of the second Monarchy; and of the Covenant of God with Noah, &c.

1. I Have set my Bow in the Clouds, &c. The Rainbow, is a Token of Gods Co∣venant, a representation to Man of all the three Principles, out of which he was Created, viz. the red and dark brown, betoken the first Principle, viz. the dark, Fire-world, the Kingdom of Gods Anger. The white and yellow shew the second Principle, the Majestick Colour, the holy World, Gods Love. The green and blue, is the third Principles Colour, the blue from the Chaos, the green from the Salt peter, where in the flagrat, the Sulphur and Mercury do sever, and pro∣duce various Colours, which betoken the inward Worlds hidden in the four Elements.

2. The Rainbow also, betokens Christ the Judge, who shall then appear in all the three Principles, viz. in the first or fiery, into which the Turba in all Beings shall be swallowed up. In the second, or that of the Light to defend all his in Love and Meekness, from the Flames of Fire. In the third or Kingdom of Na∣ture,

in his Assumed Humanity; all the formed Word, shall be manifest before him according to good and evil.

3. Also the Rainbow, is a reflex contra-glance of the Sun, and in it the Chaos (or hidden World) out of which the four Elements, with the hidden Humanity shews it self. And if the Sun be in a good Aspect, it may with the Astrum, pro∣duce a wonderful Birth both in Animals and Vegetables. For there the Chaos doth open it self, which Saturn hungrily attracts: The Sun enkindles Mars, and so makes Mercury quick and active; which Saturn amasseth, and the Fiat of the out∣ward World becomes a flying Life. And Saturn may take the distilling Dew into it self, which after falls on the Water, and by some Fishes being eaten up, may coagulate in them, and become precious Pearls. For the Paradisical Property, doth open it self, all along in the Chaos, if it be not hindered by evil malignant Aspects. For the Chaos is the Root of Nature, and yieldeth it self nothing but a good Property, but by an evil Constellation, may be changed into evil; as a good Man, may by evil Company.

CHAP. XXXIV. How Noah Cursed Ham, and the Mysteries concerning the three Sons, &c.

1. NOah's Drunkenness, sheweth, how Adam by Lusting after this Worlds Pro∣perty,* 1.17 was overcome therewith; and introduced the Bestial Lusts; standing in nakedness and shame, then did the Monster of false Lusts (whereof Ham was the Figure) mock the precious Image, by introducing the shame.

2. Sem did Typifie the fair Image of God in the Light, the Sons Property, who stood in the Covenant. Japhet, did Typifie the Soul, the Fathers Property.

3. The Garment to cover the shame, is the new Heavenly Virgin Humanity, in the Covenant, the precious Sophia, which should open it self out of the Ange∣lical World. This Garment, Sem alone did not lay over the shame; but Japhet, the poor Soul, must help, by resignation.

4. They went backward, by Repentance; for if Christ must lay the Garment to cover us the Soul must not dispute, but resign its will and go back.

5. Ham must be a Servant of Servants; the mocking Spirit must never rule, but always be kept under. Of Ham came the Beastly Sodomites, and Brutish Ca∣naanites, whom Joshua destroy'd.

6. Japhet, were the Gentiles, who walked according to the Light of Nature which is Tenant to the Light of Grace, for so they lived in Sem's Tents.

7. Thus was the Tree of the second Monarchy, in the same three Properties as the first was.

The Second Part.

CHAP. XXXV. How the Humane Tree by the Children of Noah hath spread it self, &c.

1. THE long Lives before the Flood were because the Divine Powers of the formed Word were then undivided: But when the Language of Nature

was divided at Babel, the stem of Nature was faint and enfeebled. Seventy seven is the whole number of the Divine Manifestation, seventy two are Babel, the five are holy.

2. The Sons of Japhet are recorded to be seven. Japhet noteth the first Prin∣ciple, out of which riseth Nature, viz. The first seven Properties of Nature, and the seven free Arts.

3. After which, from two of Japhets Sons are named seven to spring; whose Names signifie the Kingdom of Humane Rule. In the fourteenth a••e the Prophe∣tical and Apocalyptical Number, and in them lye couched the Angelical will; for in the wise Heathen the inward holy Kingdom beheld it self, they law by the Light of Nature the restitution of all things, and they shall when the covering is taken off dwell in the Tents of Sem.

4. Ham had Cush, and of him came Nimrod the Hunter. Man was fallen under the wrath in Nature, and the wild Nature, must be awed by a more mighty Hun∣ter than it self, and be caught, torn and destroyed: But 'tis lamentable, that tame Beasts which are none of his Game, should be devoured: But they also are outwardly but Beasts before God, and have the Hunters hide on them. Ham's Children and Grand Children are numbred twenty nine, himself makes thir∣ty, for Ham sold the Righteous One for thirty pieces. And in the thirtieth year Christ separated himself to his Office.

5. Sem is said to be the Father of all the Children of Eber; which Eber, was the third degree after Sem, but the mark of the Covenant was that chiefly intend∣ed.* 1.18 Eber had two Sons Peleg and Jocktan, in these two were the Seed of Adam and Christ divided, as after in Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau. Jocktan had* 1.19 fourteen Names, hinting the Humane Kingdom.

6. Peleg had but one, which he begat at thirty years of Age. The one pointing at Christ the only Son the thirty at the number of thirty years, at which Age Christ manifested himself in his Office. And the Spirit nameth five that came out* 1.20 of Sem's Loins, and saith he begat more, but nameth them not, pointing at the five head Speeches, from the high Name of God. The Spirits of the Letters, in the Alphabet are from the one Spirit, in the Language of Nature. The Vowels, the holy Name JEOVA into which the Ancient Wisemen, skilful in this Tongue, put in (H) which was done with great understanding; for by that the Divine Lubet doth breathe forth it self. All five fold themselves up into three, A, O, V; Father, Son, Holy Ghost, The Triangle signifying the three Pro∣perties; the V the Spirit, in the H. The other Letters in the Alphabet without the Vowels, come of the word * 1.21 Tetragrammaton, or o•• four Letters. The twenty four Letters by the Builders of Babel were taken severally after all the three Principles 〈 math 〉〈 math 〉 to make up the seventy two Languages.

CHAP. XXXVI. Of Babel, and the Mystery of the Speeches sprung thence, and the Recovery therefrom.

1. MOses saith, Nimrod (Grandson of Ham) began his Kingdom at Babel, not that Ham's Children only did thus, but Sems and Japhets, joyned as one People, to build a Tower, to get up to God by, and make them a great Name.

2. This Tower, is the Type of the fallen selfish Man, having lost the right un∣derstanding of God, elevated its own fancy. And now the Spirit of the mental Tongue of the five Vowels: the Language of Nature (by which Adam gave Names,

being departed: they conceived the sensual, divided, confused Tongues, whereof, as also, of the dark World, this Tower was a Figure; where is understood the Beast, the Animal, Ham-like Man; and the Whore▪ the Self-will, revolted from God, by which the poor Captive Soul lies bound under Vanity, till the corner stone (the Rock of offence) bruise the divided sensual Tongues.

3. All Rabbies of all Nations, who run, devoid of God's Spirit, are Builders here, and though they all destroy each other, yet are of one Spirit, and * 1.22 worship Maozim, the God of Forces.

4. Now, to become one again, must the division be kill'd, by giving up the Will into the one JEHOVAH or JESUS, and know only what God willeth to know in us. The Spirit of the five Vowels, and the one is in us * 1.23 the Letter killeth, the Spirit giveth life. Like as the Divine ••un worketh in and through us as it plea∣seth him, so must we diffuse our Virtue and Will, with all Simplicity and Purity. * 1.24 For, the living Word is therefore become Man, that the literal Image might die, and the first Man be regenerated in Christ's Spirit, who, once Born, then the Image-Teachers rather hinder, than help; by setting up their imagination into the Temple of Christ.

5. Babel must fall, not be pieced and patcht; for so, the Whore is only trimmed, not made a Virgin, for she is judged, the Zeal of the Lord doth it.

6. The Spirit of the Lord, forms into the Word of the Mouth Truth, Faith, Love, Patience, &c. of the Serpent, come Lies, stinging Envy, Pride, Covetous∣ness, &c. by which let every Man prove himself. For speech and understanding come not from the Stars and Elements, for then other Creatures could also speak, but from the formed Word of God, it is the Name of God, which Man must not abuse, on pain of Eternal Punishments.

7. This incorporated Word, Man hath, out of all the three Principles, with Power to form a Substance, out of which Principle he will; and therefore must follow at last, a reaping in of every thing, into its own receptacle.

CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Line of Abraham, and of the Hea∣thenish Gods.

1. FROM Noah (exclusive) to Abram (inclusive) are Ten Names, in the Line of the Covenant; viz. Sem, Arphax••d, Salah, Eber, Pel••g, Regu, S••rug N••••or, Terah, Abram in whom is understood, the ten Forms of Fire: the seven first of which are formed in the seven Forms of Nature. The 8th is the Fire of the Eter∣nal Nature which at the end shall purge the Floor: the Ninth is the heavenly Tincture of the Fire and Light, and the Tenth is the Love-fire, viz. The Holy Tri∣nity in the Majesty.

2. Out of the ten Properties of the Names in the Line of the Covenant the Oracle, the Divine Voice was manifest in Abraham; and therefore he must go from his own Kindred, he should not see God in his own Country (viz) n••t in the Earthy Man. He should have a great Name. (viz.) in the Person of Christ; for Abram had no Dominion here, but was a Stranger: and Christ saith his Kingdom is not of this World.

3. And whereas God bid Abram, look Eastward, West, North and South, and all that Land should be his, and his Seeds for ever: tis still so, Abraham and his Seed have it, in the Eternal, not in the External Kingdom, in the Holy Paradisical Principle (though the Turk hath it in the four Elements) in the Holy Spiritual part shall Eternally hold it, when the Earth shall be crystallized like a glassy Sea.

4. The three Sons of Terah, were Nahor, Haran and Abraham, a Type of the three Principles, to be opened in the Holy flaming Line of the Covenant.

5. The Oracles of the Heathenish gods, originate from the inward dark Fire-World, and the outward Astral and Elemental World. They knew the Stars and Elements rul'd the outward Life; whence they found the Soul of the World like a Horologe, did shew the rearing up and dissolving of Nations, Kingdoms and Men.

6. From this Soul the Horologe of Nature, through the sence of the Astrum, which their Faith (that they powerfully brought thereinto) did move and stir up, had they Answers from their Images and Idols: and not wholly by the De∣vil, as Men ignorantly say, who themselves worship the Image God Maozim and Mammon.

CHAP. XXXVIII. Of the Beginning of the Heathenish War, of Abraham's rescuing Lot, and of Melchisedeck.

1. THE Gentiles and Children of Ham at Sodom, when the Powers of the formed Word, the Properties of Nature, did divide themselves into Enmity and Selfishness, the Centre of the Nature of the Dark World domineered in Man, fal∣len from the Kingdom of God's Love and Humility, unto the outward Stars and Elements, and became half Devil and half Beast, would be great, destroy by War and possess: though they had the whole Earth before them. But Pride, Cove∣tousness, Envy and Anger are the Roots of War in which the Devil and all wicked Creatures live.

2. But God, as far as he is called God, viz. according to the second Principle, desireth nothing Destructive: but according to the first, is a Zealous God, a con∣suming Fire; so that when Nations kindle that wrath, God did bid Israel smite them; else the Fire of his Anger would have kindled it self in them, and made them as at Sodom.

3. God's Anger was set on Fire in Adam, and passed on all Men, and the gross bestial Property, the Serpents Ens and enkinded Anger, was in Abraham and his Childrens own Property, as in the Children of Ham, except the Line of Christ, which was in God's Power, and stood in them, as Heaven doth in this World, also in Hell, or as the Day doth in the Night, yet not confounded. So in the an∣gers Property, Abraham and his Family smote the Heathen, and rescued Lot, so al∣so have the Children of the Saints waged War.

4. But such who would be call'd Christians, do wage War not as Christians, but as Heathens; for the Christian is dead with Christ, to Wrath and the four Elements, and new born in Christ's Spirit of Love and Patience, he is not of this World, liveth not to himself, but to God, his Conversation is in Heaven. Nor did Abra∣ham desire ought he took, the Goods he restored to the King of Sodom.

5. Melchisedeck the Royal Priest, was the real figure of Christ, who blessed Abra∣ham, left the Turba, after his fighting, should return on him. To him, Abraham gave Tithes, (viz.) the 10th Property of the Human fiery Tongue of the Soul. And the Priest gave his Bread, and Wine, and Blessing thereinto, (viz.) Love-fire, Tincture of the Light, Heavenly Substantiality, that the Soul's fiery Tincture, might again become a compleat Image of God, with Male and Female Property, Heavenly Corporiety, by the King of Salem. viz. of Salvation.

CHAP. XXXIX. God's Covenant with Abraham, his Faith, and Sacrifice.

1. A Abraham's Faith, was his receiving the Speaking Word of God, (viz.) in the* 1.25 Promise into his Human Ens: His Desire, viz. the aim of the Covenant or formed Word, and both these were formed into one Power, and real Spiritual Substance. For Faith is the taking hold of God's Will, and Uniting it to ours.

2. The Offerings were of three sorts of Beasts: a Heifer, a She-Goat, and a Ram, each three years old, betokens the whole outward threefold Man, of Salt, Mercury and Sulphur. The dividing them, the twofold Limus of the Earth, (viz) The gross Property out of the Dark World; the other, the Limus out of the Hea∣venly Worlds Property, which lyes in one Compaction in the Earth, whence Man was created. The Turtle Dove, the poor Soul, captivated in the bestial Property. The young Pigeon, the inward disappeared Humanity. Their not being divided shews, nothing shall be taken from the Soul, nor from the inward Man of the Hea∣venly Limus. The Fowls which Abraham drove away, the Essence of the wrathful Property of God's Anger in Man, which hungreth after the Humanity, and would devour the same. Abraham's deep Sleep, the Death of Christ. The horror the Wrath of God. The darkness, the dark World, into which the Word should enter and resign its Will. The enkindled Fire passing between the pieces, the Holy Love-fire, tincturing all into a pure Gold. The Servitude in Egypt, that Christ in his Members should be only a Pilgrim, and that we are here in the Kingdom of the Heathen, where God's Children must be embroiled in Servitude with them: to which the Potent do compel the Poor, whereto he must be subject, else he re∣sisteth the Kingdom of Nature (viz) the formed Word. But if the Worldly. Rulers, rule only according to their Will and Lusts, they will find, that God will Judge them.

CHAP. XL. Of Hagar and Ismael.

1. THE scope of this, toucheth that of Predestination. For as much as Ismael and Esau are erroneously taken, to be of Eternal reprobation: we are to know, that Ismael representeth the Father's Property, and Kingdom of Nature in Adam: Isaac, the Sons Property, and Kingdom of Grace in the second Adam.

2. Babel (indeed blindly) teacheth, that God hath ordained a certain Number and Company to Damnation, and the rest to Salvation; but if so, Nature must needs be limited, confin'd and determin'd, when to bring forth a Child of God, or of Wrath, and nothing would be in the Human Property free: yea, God himself, must confine, and shut up his unchangeable, one Infinite Will▪ into a Beginning and Limit, which opens a Gate to horrid Prophaneness; makes void God's Holy Laws and Rules; renders needless the offers of Grace, and bars up the Door of Repentance.

3. Yet the Holy Name of God (thus taken in Vain) is from Eternity free, and offers it self to all poor Sinners. Thus the Angel met Hagar, and blessed Ismael then in her Womb, who figur'd the Runagate Adamical self Will; for God in∣wardly calls all wicked Men, not only in the Womb, but all the time of their lives, as the Sun shines all the Day.

4. So God calls the Turks and Heathens, figur'd by Cain, Ham, Ismael and Esau, who are in the Kingdom of Nature, as Ismael in Hagars Womb: they went not to Isaac but to Abraham, nor these to Christ's ••erson, but to God, and he heareth them in Christ. They, and painted Christendom, are as the two Sons: one promis'd but did it not, the other said he would not, but went and ••id it; so may they attain the Adoption, though the letter Christians grumble at the returning Prodigal, who is nevertheless embraced by the Father.

CHAP. XLI. Of the Seal of the Covenant of Circumcision, and of Baptism.

1. GOD ratified his Covenant with Abraham by the Seal Circumcision; shew∣ing, what Ens was Blessed; also what must, and what (in Man) must not, inherit (viz.) not the gross Earthy Man, conceived in the bestial Lust of Man and Woman.

2. That Copulation, is only born with, by Divine Patience and Permission; Man having lost the Magical Birth of Paradice, and therefore, was every Male circum∣cised on that Monstrous Member. The bestial Seed of Man and Woman, being the Seed of their own Will, shall not put on the Covenant and Blessing, but he, * 1.26 who is not Born of the Will of Man, nor of the Flesh, but of God.

3. The Earthy Members, die in the Spiritual Birth, through Christ's Death. Ex∣ternally 'tis cut off, in the Temporal Death; and 'tis Buried in the Eternal Death, in the Nothing, and a new Angelical Form shall arise.

4. The Males were only Circumcised, for Adam had both the Tinctures, and was a Masculine Virgin. It was to be on the eighth Day, because six Days are the Man in Nature, the Seventh is the Day of Rest, which he had brought into disquietness; by reason that the seventh Property, the Heavenly Nature died in him, therefore God gave him of Grace another Day (viz.) the Eighth, which is Christ. Ismael was the first Man (though a Mocker) thus taken into Covenant; for Christ came, for Ismael's sake also, though the Doctrine of some dam•• Children from the Womb.

5. Baptism is for both Sexes, on all Days; shewing the need all have, and Christ's Universal offer of God's Mercy: also pointing out Christ's Humanity, who was both Circumcised and Baptized, and the First born from the Dead. But the Ens of Faith, by the Spirit was the Fire-baptism, for both Jews and Christians.

CHAP. XLII. Of the three Men who appeared to Abraham in the Plain of Mamre, &c.

1. THE three Men, signified the Trinity, in highest Humility. In the heat of the Day, when the Humanity was enflam'd, with highest Rage, under God's Indignation. Appear'd to Abraham (viz.) to Adam's Children in the Souls Tent.* 1.27 Abraham bow'd himself (viz.) in his Faiths Ens. The three Measures of Meal, the three Principles or three Worlds in Man: and kneaded, the Heavenly Humanity must be mixed with ours. The tender Calf, the Limus of the Earth, which is as a Beast before God.

2. The Lord asked for Sarah, he said, she is in the Tent (viz.) covered with earthiness; that is, sees not who is with me. Sarah laughed, and fearing lyed, the Figure of Eve.

CHAP. XLIII. Of the Ruin of Sodom and Gomorrah, how foretold to Abraham.

1. GOD saith, I am come down, to see if the Sin of Sodom be so great, as the cry of* 1.28 it, which is come up, viz. God, according to the Property of the Anger, seeth in the Devils and false Souls; but his Love-eye, seeth not into the Apo∣state Souls.

2. Reason knows not what God is, nor where he dwells. God is every Essence, and dwelleth through every Essence, but possesseth no Locality, nor doth need space for Habitation.

3. But as far as he is called God, is no Essence, but through all things, and giv∣eth himself in an Energetical way, but worketh not from without into it, but from within out of it, to his Manifestation.

4. The cry going up, and God's coming down, is thus;

5. Inward, is above: outward, is below; the Angelical World, is said to be above, and the formed outward, below; as when a Fire is kindled, the light is above, the substance [or matter] below.

6. For the being within, without the substance, is the being above.

7. * 1.29 Abraham's Praying for Sodom, shews Abraham to be a figure of Christ, with∣holding the severe Righteousness from falling on Man; but there were only three capable of Mercy.

8. And whereas there * 1.30 went but two Angels towards Sodom (viz.) not the Per∣son of Christ, but God's Truth and Righteousness. The Truth brought out Lot, and the Righteousness remained in Sodom.

9. Lot knew them, and bowed, humbling himself before the Lord, but they at first denied to go in with him; because his Wife (by whom the earthy Matrix is signified) could not go through the Judgment.

10. The Men bid Lot call all his together, but his Sons that were to Marry his Daughters would not; for the wrath in them was so strong, as to withhold though the Truth drew them, as it did also Lots Wife, by which she was transmuted, as a terrible Example, till the last Judgment.

CHAP. XLIV. Of Lot's Departure out of Sodom, and the terrible overthrow of that whole Region.

1. THE Angels took Lot, his Wife and Daughters by the Hand; they were in∣wardly* 1.31 taken by the hand of Faith in the Covenant. So were the Men of Sodom, taken by the hand of their Essence, and brought into Judgment and Execution.

2. The Sun was Externally risen, so was Internally the Sun of God's Truth, the Sun of the Covenant, on Lot: and the scorching Sun of God's Anger, on Sodom. This figure concerns Babel.

3. Lot obtain'd the saving of Zoar (and himself in it) as oftentimes God's Chil∣dren* 1.32 do with-hold great Plagues from falling on People. The Angel saith▪ I can do nothing till thou come thither. God's Anger becomes impotent as it were, where the Sons of Love are present. It rained Brimstone and Fire from the Lord, &c.

4. It was not the Hellish Fire, which at the End shall purge the Floor; if so,

the four Elements had been changed; for that inward Fire consumes Earth, Stones and Elements; but this Fire, was generated in Turba Magna, an Egest or Thunder∣clap: And though it be no palpable Matter, yet is a spiritual Substance, in which Mercurius doth enkindle, and there the flagrat doth fix itself into a Substance.

5. The first Principle did behold the third with a darting flash, or aspect. As if the inward dark spiritual World should move itself; the outward with the four Elements would forthwith be swallow'd up.

6. Lot's Wife was apprehended in the Proba, and remain'd in the Salt Spirit; for that, Covetousness was most predominant in her.

7. Lot's Daughters, caus'd him to drink Wine, and lay with him; that they might receive the Holy Seed: which is not so as reason censureth, but that Ammon and Moab might spring from one Root in Affinity with Abraham's Line.

CHAP. XLV. How God defended Abraham and Sarah.

1. ABraham's continual Travels, figureth Christianity; which goeth from place to place, as a Stranger, without any continuing abode.

2. His being still protected, sheweth the particular care of God, still, as then, over every one of his Children.

3. His being faint and timorous, when he came to Pharoah and Abimelech, shews we are not to go in our Strength; Abraham's Will of self, looking only on itself, was dismay'd; yet in him was the great Might over all Powers: but it belonged not to the Human Ownhood, neither doth Christ in his Children belong to the Hu∣man Ownhood, but to the humble resign'd Will.

4. So in Abraham and in all Christians, are a twofold Will, one of this World, always standing in fear, the other according to the second Principle, the Kingdom of Heaven; the poor captive Soul's Will, which immerseth its self into God's Mercy in Hope.

CHAP. XLVI. Of Isaac's Birth, and casting out Ismael and Hagar, and what it means.

1. Lot being out, and Sodom destroyed, Abraham removed, shewing, that where Christ's Kingdom is corrupt, he will depart.

2. He lived under King Abimelech, (viz. the Man of ingenious reason. At G••rar (viz.) the austere Life of Nature.

3. In this removal, Abraham followed his reason: Reason-light is the winnow∣ing cross of God's Children; this brought his Fear, also his Reproof, from Abime∣lech, whom he should have Taught.

4. God's Children are in themselves weak, as all others, yet not to be rejected; for the Cross always stands by them; as Abimelech by Abraham, Ismael by Isaac, Hagar by Sarah.

5. Sarah ejects her, and she wanders in the Wilderness, of brokenness of Heart; then gave her Self and Son to die; but the Angel comforts her. That is, in the Figure.

6. When Christ is Born in the Convert, the new-born Will rejecteth its own evil Nature, the Mocker; then doth the poor forsaken Nature, wander and give up itself to Death, till the Angel comes and comforts it, that is, some faithful upright

Man, or some beam of Light from Christ in the Heart, to give Living Water; for of this Child must come a Nation, Christ must be Born, as a fair blossom out of the wild Earth.

7. These precious Figures have remained speechless to the World; because of Man's Vanity, but now * 1.33 the Mystery of the Kingdom of God shall be finished, and * 1.34 the Child of Perdition be revealed. Man's unworthiness causeth Truth to be hid∣den, wherefore it was Christ preach'd in Parables.

8 Also we must know, whoever will understand the Old Testament, must set before him the two Types; externally, Adam the earthy Man: and internally, Christ: and change both these into one, and so he may apprehend Moses and the Prophets.

CHAP. XLVII. Of the Covenant of Abimelech and Abraham, and what it points at.

1. BEershebah, a bruising to Death, is the same Fountain which the Angel shewed Hagar; which Abraham (viz.) Christ digged, and there afterwards preached* 1.35 the Eternal God. The Covenant between Abimelech and Abraham is the Covenant of Christ, with the Humanity, where he sware, not to destroy the Humanity, as he said, he was * 1.36 not come to condemn the World. Abimelech (viz.) the Soul, out of the Father's Property: Picholl the outward Nature, the third Principle, Field-Captain or Officer of the Soul: Abraham is Christ, in the Humanity. Now Abime∣lech's restoring Abraham's Wife, saying he knew not, &c. signifieth, That the Soul of Adam knew not Christ, in the Tincture of Heavenly Venus; therefore went into Self-lust; but when God shewed it to the Soul, the Soul said, I knew not that God's Wife the Holy Tincture, the Heavenly Matrix, was in me.

2. But now, I restore whatever I have taken of the Divine Worlds Property, it is thy Wife; then all the Women of Abimelech and his Servants, Eves Daughters, were healed.

3. Christ here sweareth, not to shew any unkindness to the Human Property, nor to the Children, nor to the Grandchildren or Nephews (viz▪) those springing out of the wild Property, where often a wicked Husband or Wife are joyned to a godly one, and so those Children spring from the wild Property. 'Tis said, Thou shalt do according to the kindness that I have done unto thee (viz▪) in restoring thy Wife thy Image shalt thou do to me, and to the Land (viz.) the outward Man, wherein thou (viz.) Christ, sojournest, art a Stranger. Which Christ Swear∣eth, * 1.37 As I live, saith, &c. Then Abraham, Christ, reproved Abimelech, the Soul, that the Soul's Servants, the Essences of Nature had taken away the Well, the Essence from the Heavenly Corporality (viz.) Christ's Body, in Adam; for Christ's Holy Fountain sprung up in the fiery Essence of the Soul: which being taken to Self-Power, the Heavenly Image disappeared. And Abimelech, the Soul, answered, I knew not till this Day (viz.) that the Devil had deceived me.

4. Then Abraham (viz.) Christ, took Sheep, his Children the Jews, and Oxen the Gentiles, and gave them to the Father (of whose Property the Soul is) by an everlasting Covenant. And set seven Ewe Lambs apart (viz.) the seven Properties of the Natural Humanity of Christ, manifested in us. A part viz. a distinct Person.

5. We poor Jews and Gentiles may not say we are Christ, but his House: he is a * 1.38 part with the Divine Property. But in right resignation when Man's Will is Dead to Self, Christ only liveth in it; such Eternally witness, that Christ dig∣ged the Well. At Beersheba, the place of Contrition, Christ planted Trees, Hea∣venly

Branches: Preached, &c. and remained there a long time (viz.) all the time of the Natural Life.

CHAP. XLVIII. Of Abraham's Offering up Isaac.

1. ABraham is represented in Adams stead: Isaac in Christs Humanity: The Voice is God the Fathers; so is Christ Offered by Adam's Children the Jews, to the Fathers Fire. Thy Son whom thou lovest, viz. thy will brought in∣to Self-love, in the devoration of which in Gods Wrath-fire, the true Man Crea∣ted in Adam, must be form'd and preserv'd as Gold or Silver in the Crucible, where Copper and all Impurities evaporate. On Mount Moriah, which God, not we, chuseth.

2. Christ wholly resigns up our Humane Will of self to his Father, in his Death for all, and in all Men: As when the stock of a Tree dyeth, the Branches die also,* 1.39 and as the Tree reneweth its Youth (as the R••d of Aaron did) it introduceth new Life into its ••ranches. Abraham rose early, teaching immediate obedience. * 1.40 And girt his Ass, the Bestial Man, with power. Took with him two young Men; one the Soul from the first Principle, the other the Spirit of the outward Life. Clave the Wood; as Adam clave Gods Love and Anger. * 1.41 On the third day; pointing at Adam's sleep to the Angelical World, and the time of Christs Re∣surrection. Afar off; the Final Offering of Christ, above two Thousand years. The two young Men to tarry with the Ass, till Christ is Offered and come again. Abraham took the * 1.42 Knife, and Fire, Gods Anger and Death. * 1.43 Isaac said, Here is the Wood, the Sins of all Men; and the Fire, Gods Wrath; but where is the Lamb? Abraham's Ens of Faith saw the Lamb. Abraham bound Isaac; so was Christ, and so must our self-wills be bound, and resign'd to God in entire earnest∣ness. The Angel calleth hurt not Nature, as he had done to Hagar at Beersheba. He saw a Ram hung, &c. shews death kills not the true Man, but the pushing Beast, hung in the Devils Thickets of Thorny Cares and Vanity. Next follows the Blessing, increase and prevalency. And Abraham return'd with his Son and two young Men to Beersheba, into the toil and labour of this World; so God ex∣erciseth his people not always in operation of the Spiritual Figures, but in weak∣ness and infirmities, in the Kingdom of Nature: And sometimes again under the Cross, and so they grow as in a Field, sometimes Storms, sometimes Sun∣shine.

3. Nahor Abraham's Brother, had eight Sons by Milcah of whom came great Nations, the Assyrians, who tho' they sprung not from the Ens of Faith in the Line of Christ, the Blessing of Abraham passed on them.

CHAP. XLIX. Of Sarah's Death, and Abraham's Hereditary Sepulchre.

1. WHile Abraham lived he was a Stranger, no continuing abode had he; but when his Sarah died he would have a certain Possession of a peculiar and Hereditary Sepulchre, for his Wife, himself and Children; which he would not have to be given him, but bought it of the Sons of Heth and Ephron, for four hun∣dred Sheckles of Silver, viz. the Cave of Machpelah. The inward Figure of which is, That,

2. When Isaac, viz. Christ, is come, the two fold Body returns back to its original Mother, the Eternal and Temporal Nature. When the Saints die to self the outward Life: The resigned Life will no longer stand in a strange Serpen∣tine one, it cannot of due right take the first true Field, but it must be purchased. Thus Abraham in the Figure of Christ, doth, of the Sons of Heth, who stand in the Fathers Figure. And that Christs Ransom is signified by four hundred Sheckles, hath this meaning. The first is the true Magical Fire, the second is the Light, the third the holy sound of the Mental Tongue, the fourth the conceived Ens of the other Properties, forming the holy Life: This is the pure Silver.

3. And whereas the Children of Heth would freely have given it, yet at last took Money for it: So hath God the Father freely given the Kingdom of Grace to Christ in our Humanity, but Christ would have it for a Natural Right.

4. By Canaan, understand the holy Chrystalline World or Earth, which shall be manifest.

5. By the two fold Cave or Pit of Machpelah is signified, Man hath a two fold Hu∣manity; one out of the Divine Ens and Heavenly Essence, the other out of time this Worlds substance; both which should be put into an Eternal Sepulchre, and lye in its original Mother, leaving the one will in Death; so that God might alone live, rule and will in the Soul, and Mans Life be only his Instrument. For the Soul hath turn'd itself aside from the only Eternal Word, into self-hood. This Distemper and unlikeness, must be buried and put again into a two fold Cave, and thence come into the Temperature, the Essence whence the Body and Soul did arise.

CHAP. L. Of Abraham's sending his Servant for a Wife for Isaac.

1. ABraham, is herein the Figure of God the Father, Isaac, in that of Christ,* 1.44 Abraham's Servant, in that of Nature. The Canaanites, in that of the introduced Serpents Ens, the Bes••ial Man, which shall not Inherit. Here God makes his Servant, Nature, by whom he governeth▪ Essentially bind itself, that it will not introduce the Serpents Ens, the dark Worlds Bestial Canaanitish Proper∣ty for Gods Childrens Yoke-fellow, but Nature must take substance out of A∣braham's true Humane Essence, in pure Love of the Heavenly Matrix, that so the New Birth might be holy in its Virginity as to the inward Man.

2. * 1.45 Nature saith, How if, &c. viz. the right Humane Ens will not follow me? * 1.46 And God said, Beware, &c. viz. go not according to thy Reason; but an Angel shall go before thee, viz. the Divine Will; for self-will and reason must not Lord it, but Nature must be a Servant; do as it is commanded, and com∣mit it to God to bring on the ••ternal Marriage. But i•• the Humane Will will not follow, the Messenger hath discharged his Office: The Rain ascends not up again without Fruit, Nature must declare that God hath given Christ all his Goods; and now desireth Man to be his Wife. * 1.47 And the Servant sware, &c▪ viz. When God put his Holy Word with the formed▪ Wisdom into the Natural Ens of Mary, then the Humane Nature sware Obedience.

3. And the Servant took ten Camels, (and went to the City of Nahor in Meso∣potamia)* 1.48 viz. the ten Forms of the three Principles, to the Natural and Super∣natural Life, viz. seven Forms of the Centre of Nature, and three Forms of the

three distinctions of the Principles; which are they whereby God causeth all things; and the Goods of the Lord are the formed Wisdom of the great Wonders and Powers.

4. And the Servant caused the Camels to kneel by the Well near the City, at* 1.49 Evening. At, or in the last time or days of the World. The will of the Fathers Nature, the Mystery of the Nature of the three Principles, the Carriers of the formed Word, hath laid it self down by the Well-spring of God, the Divine Fountain.

5. The Silver and Golden Jewels, Bracelets and Ear-rings given to Rebekah,* 1.50 signifie the Heavenly Humanity of Jesus Christ, which is not given wholly into the power of the Fire-soul in this Life; lest it become haughty as Lucifer and Adam, but Virgin Sophia meant by Rebekah, remaineth with her Bridegroom Christ, in the second Principle.

6. The Spices signifie the Holy Spirit. * 1.51 Then they sate down to eat, viz. the Mar∣riage Feast, the Joy whereof none but the Children of Christ know. * 1.52 And when Rebekah saw Isaac, &c. When the disappear'd Humanity discovers Christ in it self, it falleth into deepest Humility, and is ashamed, vailing its Face before Gods Holiness and Clarity, that it hath lain so long Captive in the Bestial Man, but Christ taketh it into his Arms and leadeth it into his Mothers Tent, into the Heavenly Worlds Essence. And then was Isaac comforted for his Mother, for the disappeared Matrix, which was lost in Adam, now re-obtain'd in Virgin-like Cha∣••tity for his Spouse.

CHAP. LI. Of Abraham's taking Keturah to Wife, and of his Six Sons and Death.

1. ABraham was old when he had Isaac, to shew Christ was to be in the old Age of the World, and Sarah was old, that so the Divine Ens might have the preheminence over the Humane, and she must have but one, for so is Christ, and all are Branches in the one Tree, viz. Christ in all.

2. But Abraham by Keturah had six Sons signifying the six Properties of the formed Nature, the operation of the six days: Isaac, viz. Christ is the seventh, the Sabbath. Of these six sprang six Nations, to them he gave gifts of his Goods, tho' not the In eritance, yet had the free Gift of Grace. So every Man hath Christ as the free Gift of Grace in him, none predestinated to destruction, for by those six are signified all Adam's Children.

3. In the right Adamical Man, out of which the Earth had its Original is the Covenant of the Free gift, but the own-self-made-gross-earthy Adam, who by Lust made himself a Beast is not capable of the Gift in the Covenant, but the right Man (as a Tincture in gross Lead mortifieth the Saturnine will, and changeth it into Gold) swalloweth up the gross Man, viz. the dark Worlds Property.

4. The Jews, Christians and Heathens have all this Gift, and Christ is the only available obedience; all Men therefore who give up themselves in obedience to God are received in Christs obedience, for Names are not accepted.

5. My believing that Christ was Born, Died and Rose for me makes me not a Christian, but I must put on Christ, enter into his Obedience and Sacrifice, arise in him and Live in him.

6. When Abraham had brought his Lifes Forms into right order he resigned up himself into Mortification, tired with the Life of self, re••••ed in God.

CHAP. LII. The History of Isaac, Birth of Esau and Jacob.

1. AFter Abraham's Death, God blessed Isaac, and he lived by the Well Labai∣roi,* 1.53 viz. the Well of Living and Seeing, his Soul dwelt by the Fountain of Divine Love. The desire of the Soul, is the Fiat, which takes the holy Love Tincture into it self, and makes it Essential; as the Metalline Ens gives its de••ire into the Suns Tincture; that out of them both the fair▪ and precious Gold is ge∣nerated: So doth the Deity inhabit in the Soul, and co worketh, but is not com∣prehended.

2. The Souls Magical Fire, by the Divine Love desire is inkindled into a shining Lustre, so doth the Souls Magical Fire become the Bridegroom to the precious Sophia but the Mortal Soul; from the Stars or four Elements attains it not in this Life, but that Soul that cometh from the Centre of the Eternal Nature, out of the Divine Lubet through the Word, whereby the Divine longing formeth the Wisdom into Substance. This Soul is that which is betrothed to Sophia.

3. Ishmael had twelve Sons, six of the Inward, and six of the Outward Nature of the Humane Property: They were afterward Potent, Renowned Nations. Whereas Isaac and his Children were as Pilgrims; shewing, Christs Dominion is not of this World; and yet the Kingdoms of this World shall fall before Him.

4. Esau and Jacob's strife in the Womb, shews, that when Christ first mani∣fests himself in the Adamical Nature, the strife of the two Kingdoms begins. The Serpent stingeth the New Birth (Christ) on the Heel, (a woful Distress) but Christ assaults the Head: And tho▪ Esau be First-born, Jacob comes soon after and deprives him, and makes Esau (the Kingdom of Nature) his Servant. * 1.54 And, in that Esau came forth First, and was Red, and all over Rough: The Red betoken∣eth the Fathers Nature in the Fire, (the Rough the Earthy Bestial Nature.)

CHAP. LIII. How Esau contemn'd his Birthright, and sold it for a Mess of Pottage.

1. THere is in this a Twofold Figure; for Outwardly, it is the Figure of the Earthy Man, who carelessy and profanely gives away the Heavenly Sub∣stance, to satiate its Lustful Will, and fill its Carnal Belly: But Inwardly, Esau had the Souls Centre, viz. Adam's Nature for a natural due Right▪ which was Faint, and wearied by the Driver; This would Jacob, (who betokened the Power of the other Adam (Christ) have him [This Day] viz. from That day forward, wholly to give up and Resign. And would give him the Divine Ens. And in This Inward Understanding, Abraham was the Field, Ishmael the Root, and Isaac the Fruit: Also now, Isaac the Field, Esau the Root, and Jacob the Fruit. And we see the Blossom and Fruit hath far a more subtle, pure Property, than the Stalk and Root (by influence of the Solar Rays.)

2. The meaning of this Figure is, that the evil Adamical Mans Will, must be resigned up. It is Rejected, and availeth not in the Kingdom of God.

Not that the Person of Esau was intended (as Babel ignorantly teacheth) to be by Gods Soveraignty Reprobated and Hated.

CHAP. LIV. How Isaac, by reason of the Famine, went down to Abimelech at Gerar, &c.

1. HEre is shewed the Kingdom of Grace and Nature. The Famine, shews Adams Temptation, wherein he should have fed on the Word of God, and not gone into the strange Kingdom of the Stars and Elements; where he Denied his Wife, viz. the Heavenly Genitress in him, and brought his Lust into the Bestial Pro∣perty.

2. And that Isaac grew so Great there that Abimelech was afraid of him, shews Gods Blessing on the Kingdom of Christ.

3. The Servants of King Abimelech's stopping the Wells, digged by the Servants of Isaac, sheweth, that Abraham and Isaac having digged in the Ens of their Faith, the Knowledge of the Messiah, the same is obscured and stopped up by the Earthy Reason. * 1.55 And then they digged and said, we have found Water; and Isaac call'd it Sheba, (hinting at Saba, the Saboth, (Christ) call'd also Beer-sheba, viz. the Contrition or Breaking; where the Saboth through Death, brings forth the Foun∣tain of Life.

5. That Esau lived Forty years, and then took two Evil Women to Wife; points at Adam's Forty days in the Proha; and then took two Evil Wives, viz. one of the Bestial Property of the four Elements; the other the Astral, which were a vexation and grief of Heart to Isaac and Rebekah all their Life. Thus as the whole Old Testament, is a Figure of the New, so is the New of the Future Eternal World.

CHAP. LV. Of Isaac's Blessing Jacob unknowingly when he was Old, and ready to Die.

The Gates of the Great Mystery of the whole Bible.

* 1.56

1. REason from this Figure conjectureth,

• (1.) That Rebekah lov'd Jacob more than Esau.
• (2.) That it was from Gods Predestinate Purpose; because Esau was not wor∣thy of it.

2. But rightly to interpret it: The Patriarch Isaac is the Figure of God the Fa∣ther; Esau, of the depraved Humane Nature; Jacob, of the New Birth in the Humanity of Christ; Rebekah of the Virgin Mary.

3. The Fathers Blessing would bring it self into Adam, but his Heavenly Ens was extinct; and the Kingdom of Nature so Poyson'd, that it must be Dissolv'd; for Adam's Fiery Tincture (by being awakened in the wrath) became an Earthy Image; and mortified the Heavenly; so that the Kingdom of Nature was (in its own power) uncapable of the Fathers Blessing; and could not be remedied only by a Blessing; the Blessing must become a Substance; the Fathers Blessing turn'd it self on the Adamical Female Lights Tincture; and from the power Thereof, did assume the Souls Nature; and then bruise the fiery Serpents Head, and trans∣mute the Souls fiery Will into a Love-fire or Meekness, viz. the power of the Light.

4. Esau was Hairy or Rugged; signifying the gross Bestial Property; and Christ

did put on our Hairy Beast-like Skin, to make us capable of the Blessing, and de∣stroy our Death of the Bestial Property. Even as Jacob could not get the Blessing, without having the hairy Garment on.

5. Isaac's feeling Esau▪s hairy Garment on Jacob, signified the Fathers reaching into the Essence of Christ, whether it were the first Image Created in Adam; whence was Christs Agony and Bloody Sweat.

6. And as Isaac found outwardly Esau's Skin, but inwardly heard Jacob's Voice, yet Blessed him instead of Esau: So had Christ our Rugged, Humane Property, yet God said, This is my Beloved Son, &c. and Blessed our Humanity.

7. The Blessing given Jacob denotes, that the New Man in Christ should take away the Scepter and Might from the Devil, and Man of Sin, and be Lord over his Brethren (the Adamical Nature) in Flesh and Blood.

8. The Corn and Wine, and Dew of Heaven shew God blessed our Humanity in Christ, with the Earth and Resurrection.

9. Esau's bringing his Venison, and Isaac's Astonishment, shew, that Gods* 1.57 holy People would have the Will of their Reason be done. Their Misery is, that Reason entreth into its Dominion, which knoweth not the ways of God.

10. Esau was Blessed also with the Dew of Heaven and Fatness of the Earth; should live by his Sword; and when he should have the Dominion should break the Yoke.

11. But Isaac doth not say, Live thou by thy Sword; but Thou wilt Live so, &c. wherein he Prophesieth that the corrupt Nature would be a Tyrant and Murtherer; and doth not justifie the use of outward Weapons and Violence, but that he (through his Anger) should serve the Anger of God; and so his hat••••g Jacob no∣teth what the Great Ones of the World should do, for the Devil rageth, that the Kingdom of Christ should take away his Throne.

CHAP. LVI. Of Jacob's Leaving his Parents for fear of Esau, and of his Vision of the Ladder.

1. JAcob having the Blessing and Unction, soon departed from his Fathers House and left all to Esau; so did Christ (of whom this is a Figure) after he had anointed our Humanity, fled with it out of our Adamical House, to the first Para∣disical House. So must the Christian fly the Depraved Nature; begin the Pilgrimage; leave the Temporal Honour and Goods to Esau.

When Jacob had left the Riches of the World, he saw the Ladder (which was Christ) leading to the Eternal Kingdom; and by It, the Angelical World descend∣eth, uniting Heaven to the World in Man, while the World Hate, Reproach and Persecute them: An Example of which Mocking, are Esau's two Ishmaeli∣tish Wives.

2. God said, In thy Seed shall all Nations be blessed; * 1.58 shewing that Christ hath* 1.59 truly taken on him our Humanity, (the Adamical Soul) in which the Divine Ens hath unfolded the highest Love in the Name Jesus; and overcome the Wrath of the Eternal Nature in our Souls, (which is from the Fathers Property in the Anger) and chang'd it into Love and Divine Joy; not through a strange Divine Seed only, but in, and through Adam's Soul and Body (destroy'd Hell) which was reveal'd in Paradise.

3. Jacob's Fear when he awaked, Typified Christs Agony in the Garden.

CHAP. LVII. How Jacob kept Laban's Sheep Fourteen Years for his Two Daughters, &c.

1. RAchel is here the Figure of the Noble Sophia, (the Bride of Christ) whom the Soul having once seen with great Joy, earnestly desireth and serveth (as Jacob seven years) willingly for: But at the Wedding the other Sister Leah, signifying the Cross of Christ is laid by him, that the Soul may not sport it self in the Garden of Roses, but be in Trouble; Tried and Humbled: Her tender Eyes signifie tenderness of Heart.

2. And then the Virgin Sophia is given to it, but what That Joy is, They only know, who have been Guests to this Wedding; which Joy afterwards passeth a∣way, and the Noble Sophia is as it were Barren. Mean while Leah under the Cross of Christ, beareth Fruit with Patience and Labour.

3. And as Rachel said, Give me Children, or else I die, so saith Sophia, Work (in my Love desire) Divine Fruit, else I will depart; which the Soul (in its own power) cannot; but doth Therefore Pray earnestly; Thenis Joseph the Prince of Egypt, viz the House of Flesh and Blood, where dwells the Heathenish Pha∣raoh (the Bestial Spirit) but over It (and Reason also) is the humble, chast, modest Joseph, made Ruler.

4. But the Children of Leah, Reuben, &c. bare the Figure of Lust, Glory, &c. The rest of this Chap. is referr'd to 77. of the Myst. Mag. and Gen. 49.

CHAP. LVIII. Of Jacob's serving Laban, and of his Wives, and Children, and Wages.

1. JAcob was in a servile condition twenty years, till he had begat the Twelve Stocks of the Twelve Tribes. So is a Christian Born under the servile Yoke of the domineering self Adamical will: And their being Begotten in Servitude, shews Gods Children are but strange Guests here, but shall go out with great Riches. Leah's being despised for her blear Ears, shews the same.

2. The inward Figure is, Adam went out of Paradise and serv'd the Kingdom of this World; yet as he was going out, God shewed him the entrance in again, viz. by the Womans Seed, (as is signified by Jacob's Ladder) mean time the Kingdom of the Stars, &c. vexeth Adam, with heat, cold, sickness and misery. Jacob's getting great Riches by peeling Rods, &c. shews how Adam's Children should by subtle working in Nature acquire to themselves for a Propriety the Won∣ders in Nature which they shall carry away as an Eternal Propriety, so did the Destroyer of the Serpent with Divine subtilty put on Humanity, and took away the outward Kingdoms Power.

3. The ring streaked, speckled and grizled denotes the half Earthy, and again the new-born heavenly Nature.

4. The Kingdom of Nature lay in Adam in the Temperature; all the Proper∣ties were of equal weight, but when the will of the Soul went into the separation it was thereby captivated till the Divine subtilty draws the Kingdom of Nature to it self, and re-entreth with the Wonders in its new Man again into Paradise.

5. But Jacob's peeling the Rods justifieth not subtilty of deceit, but only is a Fi∣gure representing the Spiritual subtilty.

6. And as Laban disappointed Jacob by changing his Wages ten times, so goes it with the Child of God here, whose expectation of Gods Blessing is often frustrate, but yet his Faiths desire draweth to him Christ the Eternal Wages, and in him the out-spoken Word the Kingdom of Nature, wherein lye the Wonders and Being of Man which is kept to the great separation, when every one shall reap what he hath here sown.

7. Jacob had Dinah by Leah, who was the Figure of Eve, who fell by her Cu∣riosity.

8. When Rachel had Born Joseph, whose great chastity and fear of God shews Gods Blessing had stirred up the Tinctures of the Kingdom of Nature, then doth Jacob call for and receive his Wages, for Joseph (that is) Christ, was Born, who should feed him, and give the Eternal Succor, by bringing his Father and Brethren into his Lords Countrey.

CHAP. LIX. Of Jacob's departure from Laban, &c.

1. LAban's Children said Jacob hath gotten all our Fathers Goods, and Laban's Countenance was changed; pointing us, that when Christs Spirit in Man hath won the rule of the Humane Nature, then the Serpent in the wrath of Na∣ture enviously opposeth the poor Soul, pressing for worldly Honour and Pleasure. But then God saith to the Soul, as here to Jacob, Return into thy Fathers Coun∣trey, viz. into the Eternal Word out of which it proceeded, which it doth and flyeth, as did Jacob.

2. And as Laban, so do the wicked World pursue, but God aweth them. Thus also is Christ Figured. who put himself in Mans servile Yoke, took Adam's Daugh∣ter, viz. the Humane Nature in Flesh and Blood, and in the end carried to his Fathers Countrey his acquired Goods, which Laban nor his Company, viz. the Devil nor his, could not rob him of.

3. Laban's Gods stoln by Rachel, might well be the Images or Statues of those of his Ancestors deceased, his Love of whom made them patterns for his Instru∣ction.

4. Rachel's stealing them, hath an inward and an outward Figure. First Christ took the Rachel our Humane Nature, which had taken to it self the Idol wills, and broke those Idols. Outwardly, it points that as Jacob left Laban, so did Israel Egypt, but brought their fleshly Idol desires with them, which in time swerv'd them from the true God.

5. But Laban's pursuing, noteth those of Natures Kingdom persecuting them that leave Babel's Worship and Pageantry, refusing to be conducted on their way by the Worlds Mirth, Tabrets and Solemnity; for Christ being Born in them, their Mind leaveth Adam's servile House of Images, and Gods Host of Angels are appointed his Guardians.

CHAP. LX. Of Esau's going to meet Jacob with Four Hundred Men. Jacob's Present and Wrestling, &c.

1. ESau's coming with four hundred Men signifieth the Kingdom of Nature in the Anger of God, which was the first born, and in the four Elements, at which Jacob was astonished, so was Christ at Mount Olivet.

2. Jacob's dividing the Herds into two companies points at Christs twofold Hu∣manity, viz. the Heavenly and Earthy, that when these Warriours should smite the Earthy, the other which came down from Heaven should escape.

3. Jacob's Presents are Christs Prayers.

4. His humbling himself, saying, I came over with my Staff only, but am now two Bands; so did Christ in the Garden; whose two Bands were the Heavenly Hu∣manity perish'd in Adam, and that of the Limus of the Earth; with both which Jacob, viz. Christ was to return to his first Paradisical Countrey and Angelical Kindred.

5. Sent five hundred and eighty Cattel, viz. Christ sent out Lusts to the Anger of God.

6. Jacob also sent his two Wives, viz. Christ sent the twofold Spirit of Man, viz. the Soul and the Spiritus Mundi, viz. the inward Eternal Soul, and the out∣ward Soul.

7. Two Handmaids, viz. the twofold Humanity of the Body.

8. The Eleven Children, viz. the Eleven Apostles.

9. And passed over the Brook Jabock, viz. Kidron.

10. Jacob's Twelfth Son lay yet unborn, so now was Christs Twelfth Apostle not chosen in the room of Judas.

11. Jacob staid alone, and there wrestled a Man with him, viz. the great love of God in the Name Jesus, did wrestle with Gods Righteousness and Truth which was on Mount Sinai.

12. All Night of the darkness of Gods Anger.

13. The Ham of his Thigh was displaced, viz. the Adamical Humanity was dis∣placed, but not broken, to die Eternally. He halted, viz. being Lame to the Pride, Vanity, Malice, Lasciviousness▪ &c. of this World.

14. The Man said, Let me go, for the day, viz. the Eternal day dawneth: But Jacob, viz. Christ said, I will not let thee go until thou bless me, viz. the Hu∣manity.

15. And the Man said, What is thy Name? He said, Jacob. Then the Man said, Thou shalt no more have a self name, but Israel, viz. a Tree of Life, or Christian, viz. a sprout on the Vine Christ.

16. And Jacob asked what is thy Name? But Christ said why askest thou, (that is) I am no stranger, thy Name and mine shall be one. But God without Na∣ture and Creature is the Eternal one and Eternal good, the Abyss and Profun••ity, no place is found for him, no Creature can Name him; for all Names stand in the formed Word: But God is the Beginningless Root of all Power, the Vegetables know not how the Sun blesseth them.

17. Man hath lamentably lost the five Vowels, the Holy Ghosts Language, for the whole New Testament is couched up in the Old.

18. When God blessed Jacob he called the place Penuel (that is) where God is manifest in the Soul.

19. And when he was departed thence, the Sun, viz. of Righteousness, arose in him, and he halted, his self-will was lame in its ability.

20. And the Children of Israel eat not of that Sinew to this day; for they un∣derstood that Mystery, and Instituted this Memorial, viz. the displacing of their Bestial Wills; which if the present Jews and Christians well underst••od they would not hunt after Covetousness and Lust, yet under Christs Purple Mantle.

CHAP. LXI. Of Jacob and Esau meeting all Heart-burning turn∣ed to Joy, &c.

1. BLind Reason should learn the meaning of Gods Decree, Rom. 9. 13. and Mal. 1. 2, 3. for, here was Esau the Type of the corrupted Adam, and Ja∣cob of Christ, who came to help Adam, and were of one Seed, to shew Christ must become Flesh. And Jacob appeased Esau by his Humility, as did Christ by his great Love in our Humanity in our Anger-soul, appease the Anger of God, when he gave up his Heavenly Blood, with the Tincture of Love into the Anger of God; for then was the Anger in the dark World turn'd into a Love-fire.

2. Jacob seeing Esau coming with four hundred Men, divided his Children to* 1.60 Leah, and to Rachel, and to both the Handmaids, and passed before them, and bowed seven times, &c.

3. When Christ in our Humanity entred his Sufferings, Gods Anger in the four Elements met him. Then Christ divided the Heavenly Worlds substance which he brought from God, signified by Rachel from the Natural Humanity, from Adam (or Spiritus Mundi) Typed by blear-ey'd Leah, wherein yet the destroyer of the Serpent was Born, as Judah of Leah while Rachel was Barren, till Christs Spirit made her frui••ful.

4. And as Jacob set the Handmaids foremost, so did Christ first cause the Earthy to pass through the sharpness of Death, next Leah the Body out of the Limus of the Earth follow'd.

5. And after her, Rachel, the Heavenly Limus, with the Prince Joseph the Di∣vine Worlds substance

6. Jacob bowed seven times in this Humility, appeasing Esau, so did Jesus through all the seven forms of Natures Life.

7. As Jacob yielded up his Riches and Life to Esau, to do what he would with him, so did Christ to Gods Anger.

8 Esau ran to meet him, fell on his Neck, wept and kissed him, so when the Essence of Gods Anger in Man, tasted the sweet Love in the Name and Blood of Jesus, it was transmuted into Compassion.

9. And E••••u beheld the Women and Children, and said, whose are these? &c.* 1.61 Man, whi••e he••d in the Anger and Darkness, was not known to the holy Image, but Love made him known.

10. Their order of co••ing to Esau shews how poor Eve's Children were brought through Christs Suffering and Death, into the Countenance of God, first the Body of Sin through Death, then the Body out of the Limus of the Earth, which in the Resurrection is esteemed strange, therefore Typed by a Handmaid. And lastly, the fair Image Created in Adam.

11. Jacob's Presents signifie the Children purchased b•• Christ, and given to the Father, so shall Christ deliver up the Kingdom to the Father.

12. Yet is Esau's Compassion, and weeping on Jacob the Type of repenting Sin∣ners sorrow.

13. Esau said, Let us go together;* 1.62 Jacob saith. The Children are tender, &c. I will follow softly, &c. When Christ in his Sufferings had appeas'd his Fathers Anger in the Kingdom of Nature, the appeas'd Anger would instantly take

the Journey, viz. in the Life of Man. But the Love said, Man is too tender, and may fall (by Temptation) in one day I will follow slowly with them, to the end of the World.

14. Esau would have left some of his Men with Jacob, but Jacob said, what needeth it? viz. God the Father said, Let me leave some Laws of my severe Righ∣teousness, but Christ saith, Let me with my redeemed Children only find Grace in thy sight; for they cannot fulfil thy Laws.

CHAP. LXII. Of Dinah Deflour'd, all the Males of Sichem slain by Simeon and Levi.

1. JAcob had Twelve Sons, six of them were of Leah, and Judah (of whom came the Humanity of Christ) was one of the ••ix.

2. Then bare Leah Dinah, which Daughter of Fleshly Love went after the Daugh∣ters of the Land a gadding, lively prefiguring Christendom who instead of continuing in the humble simplicity of Jacob's Tents at Succoth, and remaining a Stranger to the Customs and Behaviour of the proud wanton Daughters of the Land, mixeth with the Heathenish Wisemen in Fleshly Lust, and bringeth forth a Bastard, half Chri∣stian, and half Heathen, compos'd of the Profession of Christ, and the Heathen∣ish Notions, viz. Philosophy, Schools, Colledges, Heathenish Festivals, &c.

3. And as Simeon and Levi, after the Men of Shechem had Circumcised them∣selves, yet Murthered not only guilty Hemor, but all the Males, tho' Innocent, so hath Christendom dealt by many Nations, who having conformed to some of their Opinions, yet are causlesly kill'd by the Antitype of Simeon and Levi. There∣fore are the Potent Countries of the East departed from these Murtherous Preten∣ders to Religion, to the Doctrine of Reason.

CHAP. LXIII. How Jacob leaves Sichem. Rachel bare Ben∣jamin, Isaac died.

1. AFter Simeon and Levi had Murthered the Males of Sichem, Jacob by com∣mand of God removed to Bethel, after he had first taken away from his people their Idols and Ear rings, and buried them under an Oak. And at Si∣chem built an Altar. Which hath this Figure, That when the Spiritual Whoredom of the Jews and Christians had drawn on them Wars and Miseries, God com∣manded his people to withdraw and erect an Altar of Humility and Fear in their Hearts.

2. Then are their Idolatries, Wars and Pride buried in Gods Anger▪ in his hun∣gry wrath, viz. under an Oak which hath a Magnetick, Tenacious, Attractive Property, making a hardness and blackness, there will their Sins and Blasphemies lye buried, till the Earth can no longer cover them. But the fear of the Lord will fall on the pursuers of those that so depart, and Build Gods Altar in them.

3. God appear'd to Jacob in Bethel, which Bethel signifies a condescention of the Deity in the Humanity.

4. And they went from Bethel, and it was a Field breadth from Ephrath where Rachel brought forth Benjamin, but in hard labour, so as she died.

5. Adam was gone a Field breadth from Gods Altar, viz. out of the Spiritua World into the Earthy, where with the Death of the old Man the new must be Born.

6. So also, when Christ had consummated his Passion, and Judas had perished, Matthias was chosen an Apostle.

7. After this, Reuben defiled Bilhah Rachel's Maid, his Fathers Concubine. This Concubine representeth the Stone Churches in which God generateth his Children, but the Adamical Man playeth the Hypocrite in them; for none that is dead c•••• awaken another that is dead, nor can one that is Blind shew the way to another that is Blind, but both will fall into the Pit, their Ministers having lost the true Divine Power. Reuben was given to fleshly Lust and Self-love, and in that regard rejected of God.

8. Yet those places, though no more holy than other places hurt no Man, being at first well intended, yet their Ministers who Officiate for Honour and Profit without the Divine Unction are Adulterers, and as profitable to the Church as a fifth Wheel to a Waggon.

9. Jacob's returning to his Father, and Isaac's Death at Hebron, where he was a Stranger, shews Gods Children to be all Strangers here, and must all go to their Fathers Countrey, viz. the Angelical World.

CHAP. LXIV. Esau's Genealogy, his own Name and Posterity; and of Joseph.

1. ESau's Children and Childrens Children being set down with so great obser∣vation,* 1.63 is not without its Figure. We must know we may not condemn him to Hell, but that he and his Posterity bare the Image of the Earthy Glory, Might and Power.

2. From his own Name Esau, the sau being cut off, viz. the Swinish Bestial Property, there remains the E the Angelical Property.

3. And the Spirit calls him Edom, which dom in the * 1.64 High Tongue signifies Red, as Tinctured by the Blood of Jesus. But of his Children more is said in ano∣ther place, viz. of this Authors Writings.

The remainder of Chap. 64. follows, beginning the Third Part.

Notes

• a 1.1

  ch. 4, 5.
• b 1.2

  ch. 13, &c.
• c 1.3

  ch. 18, 19.
• d 1.4

  ch. 19, 20.
• * 1.5

  (1.)
• * 1.6

  (2.)
• * 1.7

  (3.)
• * 1.8

  (4.)
• * 1.9

  (5.)
• * 1.10

  (6.)
• * 1.11

  (7.)
• * 1.12

  The following Instances are as so many Figures to point at the time Adam stood in the Proba.

  • Esau lived Forty years, then took two Evil Wives.
  • Israel Forty years in the Wilderness.
  • Forty days searching the Land of Canaan▪
  • Moses Forty days on the Mount.
  • Goliah's Forty days Challenging the Host of Israel.
  • Elias Fasted Forty days.
  • Christ Forty days Tempted.
  • And Forty hours in the Grave.
  • And Forty days after his Resurrection.
• * 1.13

  Ver. 26. Ver. 28.
• * 1.14

  (v. 42.)
• * 1.15

  Gen. 6. 1.
• * 1.16

  v. 5, 6.
• * 1.17

  Gen. 9. 20, 21, 22.
• * 1.18

  Gen. 10. 24.
• * 1.19

  v. 26.
• * 1.20

  Ch. 11. v. 11.
• * 1.21

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• * 1.22

  Dan. 11.
• * 1.23

  1 Cor. 3. 6.
• * 1.24

  v. 66.
• * 1.25

  Gen. 15. from v. 1. to v. 17.
• * 1.26

  John 2. 13▪
• * 1.27

  Gen. 18.
• * 1.28

  Gen. 18.
• * 1.29

  Gen. 18.
• * 1.30

  ch. 19. v. 1.
• * 1.31

  Gen. 19. 15.
• * 1.32

  (v. 17. to 23.)
• * 1.33

  Rev. 10. 27.
• * 1.34

  2 Thess.▪ 3.
• * 1.35

  Gen. 21. 22. to 34.
• * 1.36

  Joh. 3. 17.
• * 1.37

  Ezek. 33. 11▪
• * 1.38

  By himself.
• * 1.39

  1 Cor. 5. 15.
• * 1.40

  Gen. 22. 3.
• * 1.41

  (v. 4.)
• * 1.42

  (v. 6.)
• * 1.43

  (v. 7, 8.)
• * 1.44

  Gen. 24. 2, 3.
• * 1.45

  Gen. 24. v. 5.
• * 1.46

  v. 6.
• * 1.47

  v. 9.
• * 1.48

  Gen. 24. v. 10.
• * 1.49

  v. 11.
• * 1.50

  v. 53.
• * 1.51

  v. 54.
• * 1.52

  v 61. to 67.
• * 1.53

  Gen. 25. v. 11.
• * 1.54

  Gen. 25. 24, 25, 26.
• * 1.55

  Gen. 26. 32, 33.
• * 1.56

  Gen. 27.
• * 1.57

  v. 35.
• * 1.58

  See the Ex∣tracts of the Book of the Incarnation.
• * 1.59

  Gen. 28. 14.
• * 1.60

  Gen. 33. 1, 2, 3.
• * 1.61

  Gen. 33. 5, 6, 7.
• * 1.62

  Note. The Blessed Author taking occa∣sion at Mens false I••ferenc••, from Gods sa••ing, Esau have I hated, &c. to conclude Go••s predetermining M••n to Damnation, doth fundamentally discuss that great My∣stery from the 22d to the 68th verse of this Chapter, so convincingly, and yet as plainly as so profound a subject will admit. But because it is treated of in a select Volume, [call'd Predestination] beginning p. 369. of this. I refer this place thither.
• * 1.62.1

  Gen. 33. 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ 13, 14.
• * 1.62.2

  Vide p. 369, &c. of this Book of Ex∣tracts.
• * 1.63

  Gen. 36.
• * 1.64

  Hebrew Montanus.