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The Sixt Petition.
Vndt führe uns nicht im versuchungh.
And leade us not into Temptation.
76. Vndt, is once more an injection into the loving Meeknesse of God, where the will of the soule in the Majesty humbleth it selfe before the Number Three [or Trinity].
77. Füh-, there the will goeth along with the Holy Ghost; -re, there the will would not goe through the fierce wrath: for it is afraid of the Prison of the fierce wrath; for the will should alwayes be stedfastly inclined into God, that it may passe through the Fire without molestation, and also through the outward Principle, viz. through this world: and yet should not catch at, or offer to lust af∣ter any thing: but seeing the soule knoweth, that it stood not out in the first Temptation, when it was brought into the spirit of this world, when the Verbum Fiat breathed it into the Image, therefore it flyeth now to the Holy Ghost, intreating that he would not en∣ter with its will into the Temptation, Proba, or Tryall, for it trust∣eth not in it selfe, that it shall stand stedfastly against the Devill, when he shall sift it: as Christ said to Peter; The Devill hath desired to sift thee: but I have prayed for thee that thy Faith faile not: that is, I have enclosed thee in the Word, and have not given the Devill any leave, but I have in my Prayer brought thee into the will of God, that thou shouldst be preserved by the Holy Ghost: else thou shouldst have been sifted by the Devill through the Anger and through the spirit of this world.
78. Ʋns, this syllable once againe compriseth the Brotherly union, as in one will in the Majesty, and flyeth into the Spitit.
79. Nicht, in this syllable the will rendeth it selfe quite out from the roote of the Anger, and reteineth a peculiar Governmentd without the Anger, and then the soule burneth forth from the fire, and is the true Life without the Fire in the light flaming Tin∣cture in Aire and vertue or Power.
80. Im, there it standeth as a sound and substance of its owne, as if it were the Centre it selfe: ver-, there it must with the will goe through the fierce wrath, and mitigate or satiate it, and must coole it, that it might not enflame its Meeke Life: -such-, with this syllable it presseth through the fierce wrath with its love-Tincture, viz. through the Centre of Nature, and quencheth the fierce wrath after a Divine manner, and driveth the suttlety of the Devill out of the fire-source out of the Originall, where otherwise he would have an accesse into the soule: -vng, there the soule taketh the vertue out of the seaven formes of its Nature with it, as a Spirit, and set∣teth