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. V.

THey make there divers sorts of Pup∣pet works or Babies, for to bring up the children in vanity; there are made like∣wise many kinde of Balls, Tut-staves, or Kricket-staves, R••ckets, and Dice; for that the foolish people should waste or spend their time therewith in foolishness.

2. There be made also, playing Tables, Draft-boards. Chess-boards, Cards and Mummeries or Masks, for to delight the idle people with such foolish vanity. There are made likewise, many Rings, Chains, and Gold and Silver Tablets, and Brooches; also Garnishing of Plumes or Tufts of Feathers, and many maner of stitched or imbroidered works, with Gold, Silver, Pearl, and Silk. Likewise, many kindes of Tapistry, and Gards, or Border∣work upon Garments: And divers sorts of unprofitable colours upon Clothes; as also sundry maner of Cut and Pinked Garments; and likewise, many kindes of Pictures, Tables of Imagery, Painted Walls, and divers kinde of Carved, and Graven, or wrought Images for to delight the foolish and proud minded people,a 1.1 and to satisfie and fulfil the lust of their eyes.

3. Men do occupy there likewise, sundry sorts of unprofitable and unneedful mer∣chandise, for to provoke the hearts of the foolish people, unto covetousness or greedy desireb 1.2 of vain riches, and to rejoyce them in the same.

4. There are made also divers sorts of sounding instruments for melody; and there are Printed many maner of foolish Books, for to delight the heating of the foolish people therewithal: For after such things their ears doc 1.3 itch.

5. They build there likewise, divers houses of common assembly, which they call Gods houses; and they use there many maner of foolishnesses of taken on Ser∣vices, which they call Religions, or God-services, whereby to wave or hold forth something in shew, before the ignorant people, touching the opinion of theird 1.4 de∣filed consciences, because they should quiet their foolish consciences.

6. Seeing then that they aree 1.5 covered with darkness, and dwell in Ignorance; so do they invent among themselves, many maner of good-thingking, or self-conceited knowledges, to their appeasment in their Ignorance; also sundry sorts of garnish∣ing of services,f 1.6 and of gods, which

they may handle or feel in their igno∣rance; for else they should think that they had neither Gods, nor Gods services, nei∣ther could they set their consciences at quiet.

7. In this maner are the vain people be∣witched with these things; where through they think or perswade themselves, that their gods services, and knowledges, which they themselves do make, or take on in their hypocrisie, must needs be someg 1.7 holy or singular thing, and so then they honor the works of their own hands.

8. They bestow likewise much labour, for to exercise themselves well in the knowledg, and to teach forth the same, butb 1.8 they remain in the same land, utterly unskilful and ignorant touching the know∣ledg of the truth.

9. They make there also many swords, halberds, spears, bows and arrows, ord∣nance or guns, pellets, gunpouder, armor or harness, and gorgets, &c. for that the tyrannical oppressors, and those that have a pleasure in destroying, should use war and battel (therewithall) one against an∣other.

10. To be short, all the unprofitable works of the same wildernessed land, nei∣ther

it all the abominations where-through the people of the same land do live very cumbersomly and unpeaceable, are not very easily to be written; but let him that hath eyes to mark, look farther into the same.

11. It is surely an evil land, where it is neither good to dwell, nor yet to remain: for the people of the same land, are too exceeding wonderful, and too strange ori 1.9 absurd of life: also too exceeding disor∣derly, and took 1.10 unquiet of minde, from whom likewise there proceedeth a foul orl 1.11 filthy vapour, that stinketh over the whole land; but because they are gross and soul of complexion, they themselves do not smell their own stink.

Notes

• a 1.1

  1 Joh. 2.
• b 1.2

  1 Tim. 6 Jam. 5.
• c 1.3

  2 Tim. 4
• d 1.4

  Sap. 17. Tit. 1.
• e 1.5

  Sap. 2. Rom. 1.
• f 1.6

  Isai. 44. & 46. Jere. 10. Baruch 6.
• g 1.7

  Wisd. 14.15.
• b 1.8

  2 Tim. 3.
• i 1.9

  Deut. 32. Iudic. 19.
• k 1.10

  Isa. 57.
• l 1.11

  Isa. 34. Ioel 2.