Terra pacis a true testification of the spiritual land of peace, which is the spiritual land of promise, and the holy city of peace, or the heavenly city of Jerusalem, and of the walking in the spirit, which leadeth thereunto / set forth by H.N. and by him newly perused and more plainly declared ; translated out of Base-Almaine.

CHAP. XXVI.

NOw when as one is come into this City of peace, then is he received very lovingly and friendly, bya 1.1 the King of the same Land; for he is not lordlyb 1.2 nor cruel or biting, butc 1.3 sweet-hearted and gentle.

2. Even thus one becometh as then,d 1.4 in∣corporatede 1.5 to the body of the same true King, with the people of the same good Land, even as a fellow-member of the King, and of those same holy people, and so they live together in one judgment and mind, of the living God; and that is the unity in the love, and the onely judgment of the communalty of the holy people, or

of the heavenly company, who are altoge∣ther one body with the Family of Love, and are no more with each other, butf 1.6 as one man in whom all the members of one minde, Spirit or Life, have their moving, and do hold them together unto one head, and so those same members are altogether one body, withg 1.7 their head.

3. The head of their body is their King or Prince, and is namedh 1.8 Gods true Bee∣ing.

4. This same is an uprighti 1.9 peaceable Prince; and the members of his body are likewise very lovely and peaceable. With whom the kingdom of Christ and of his Love is peaceablyk 1.10 inhabited for ever∣more.

5. The names of the members of the body, or the Saints of the true Beeing of God that are of one substance with the Fa∣mily of Love, are these:

6. Meckness,l 1.11 Courtesie, Friendliness, Longsufferance, Mercifulness, Natural∣ness, Decentness, Quietness, Faithfulness, Modesty, Constancie, Eyes of Simpleness,m 1.12 Pureness of heart, Measureableness in works, Helpfulness,n 1.13 Discreetness,o 1.14 Con∣cord, Obedience to the true beeing of God, Sweetheartedness, Serviceableness out of

love,p 1.15 Laud, Praise, and thanks unto God, &c.

7. Such are the names of the lovely people that dwel in the holy City of Peace, named Gods Ʋnderstanding.

8. And according as every ones name is, so is likewise his disposition and nature; for all their disposition, beeing, and nature, is according to the good Disposition or Nature of the Land, and of their King.

9. And no man can come into this good City, nor become one body with these peaceable people, except he do forsakeq 1.16 all the other forementioned confused lands, and the detestable people, for God hath not chosen any one of all them to his Kingdom: neither can also the traveller enter into the holy Land or City of Peace, with any of all them.

10. But whosoever now hath forsaken all the confused Lands and people, and in an humble heart (with upright thoughts to the obeying of the Requiring of the Service of Love is come to the submission he goeth with the equity thorow the na∣ture of God (as is before said) into Gods understanding.* 1.17 The which is the City of Rest, that God hath reserved and left be∣hinde for the children of God, for an

everlastings 1.18 Rest because they should inherit the same in the last time, ac∣cording to the Promises:t 1.19 which King∣dom of Peace shall endure or continue still for evermore under the Obedi∣ence of the Love.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Isa. 9 & 32 & 33.
• b 1.2

  Isai 42.
• c 1.3

  Joel 2. Matth 11.
• d 1.4

  Ephes. 5.
• e 1.5

  Rom. 12. Col. 1.
• f 1.6

  Ioh. 17. Rom. 12. Col. 1.
• g 1.7

  Infra. 38.
• h 1.8

  Col. 1. 2 Pet. 1.
• i 1.9

  Isa. 9.
• k 1.10

  Isa. 60.
• l 1.11

  Gal. 5. Ephe. 4. Col. 3.
• m 1.12

  Psa. 24. and 73. Marth. 5.
• n 1.13

  2 Pet. 1.
• o 1.14

  Ephe, 4.
• p 1.15

  Cor. 10 3.
• q 1.16

  Isa. 52. 2 Cor. 6.
• * 1.17

  r Supra. 25
• s 1.18

  Heb. 4.
• t 1.19

  Isa. 9. and 60. and 66. Luke 1.