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TO love one another, and to add to your Faith Virtue, to your Virtue Knowledge, which know∣ledge is to know God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, which is Life eternal; and to your know∣ledge add Temperance, and to your Temperance add Patience; for that
runs the Race, and obtains the Crown of Life; and unto Patience, Godli∣ness, in that brotherly kindness is known.
The Serpent, and Adversary: An Enc∣my to Man: The Devil, who is a Destroy∣er; the old Dragon: Belial: The God of the World, who rules the World in wick∣edness: The Prince of this World, who gives forth his Law of death and Sin, and rules in wickedness and unrighteous∣ness, which got into Adam and Eve by his lies and subtilty, and their disobedi∣ence, and rules in the hearts of the diso∣bedient: the Spirit and Prince of Darkness which fills people with darkness, and makes them hate the Light of Christ, and blinds all his Subjects, that they call the Light of Christ natural, and Created, and Conscience: And the Devil is called Beel∣zebub Prince of Devils: the Accuser of the Brethren: And this Devil, Sathan, and Serpent made all his Subjects call the peo∣ple
of God Bablers, pestilent Fellows, Mo∣vers of Sedition, Ring-leaders of Sects, Acts 24. Turners of the World upside down, a people that are cursed and unlear∣ned, ignorant, Schismaticks, Hereticks, Phanaticks; and these are them that rage so against the Light within, which doth give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus, and are so mad against the heavenly Treasure in the earthen Vessels, 2 Cor. 4. And these be of the same Spirit that the Jews were in, that said, Christ the Light had a Devil, and by the Prince of Devils, cast out Devils.
The Children of God are called the Chil∣dren of the Light, and the Seed of Abraham: and the Lot of God's Inheritance, and his Servants, and Hand maids, Sons and Daugh∣ters, and the Elect of God before the Founda∣tion of the World, and the Children of God, then Heirs of God, 1 Peter, And they are called the Saints of God, the Church of God, Temple of God, Sheep and Lambs of Christ, Brethren of Christ, Spouse and Wife of Christ,
a chosen Generation, a royal Priest-hood, offering up spiritual Sacrifices to God, who is a Spirit, a holy Nation, a peculiar People, the Children of the Light, and of the Day; which makes all the Children of the Night and of Darkness, to rage against them: They are called the Light of the World, and the Salt of the Earth, and a City set on a Hill, that cannot be hid, and against this City doth Mystery Babylon the great City fight, with her Children; but they cannot prevail, for the lamb and the Saints shall have the Victory.
Christ our Lord and Master, crucified in spiritual Sodom and Aegypt, is called The Wonderful Counsellor, who doth counsel people of the possession of their Salvation, and of a Kingdom, and of a Life, and of a World that hath no end; and how to walk that they may honour God through him: He is called The mighty God, and the Everlasting Father, the Prince of peace, who rules in Righteousness and Peace amongst his Children, Christ Jesus the Saviour, and Christ the Light of the World, the anoint∣ed
of God, the Emmanuel, that is God with us, THE LORD OƲR RIGHTEOƲS∣NESS, Justification and Sanctification, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the Word of God, that hammers down and cuts down sin, and burns it up, who is the Elect and precious laid in Sion, to all the Sons and Daughters of Sion, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, who rends to pieces the old Dragon, and bruises the Serpent's Head, and Jesus Christ our Lord; a Lord is a Ruler, so Christ is a Lord to rule and order, and govern, and dispose his People, and so he hath the reverence and honour: for he rules, and orders, and governs, in Righteousness, Holiness, Virtue, Purity, and Equity, and Godliness and Truth, and in Wisdom, Power, light and life.