1 50. In juch manner and Colours, the * Heaven * or (jods of Gods Nature fheweth or prefenteth it felf in the Nature's rifingupof thefpiritsof God: and now when the Heaven, Lignt of the Sonne ofGodjhinetb therein, then it is like a Bright clear Sea of the colours of the abovementioned Pretious Stones or Jewels.
Of the wonderful proportion, alteration cr variation, and rißngup of the Qualities in t\ye heavenly Nature.
1 5 1; Seeing then the Spirit giveth the form and manner of Heaven to be known 5 I cannot chuic but write it thus down.,and let his will bedone,who will have it lb.
152. And although the Devil will raife fcorncrs and mockers to vilipe it, I do not much regard that;. I am fatisfied with this gracious amiable and blcffed Revelation of God; they may mock fo long, till they find it by experience with Eternal Shame> then ^ the fountain of woe Lamentation and forrow will« furely Gnaw them.
15 3, Alfo I have not gone up to Heaven, and beheld 2 £4 °f dJe &*üüH) and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch. XflL IW it with myflefhly Eyes, much lefle hath any * told it me; For though an Angel iliould come, and teUitme^ yet I could not apprehend or conceive it, without enlightening from God, much lejfe believe it.
1 54« For I (hould alwayes ftand in Doubt, whether it were a good Angel, fent of God or no, feeing the Devil can transform or cloath himfelf in the form of an Angel of light, to feduce Men, ^ Corinth» 11. 14.
155. But becaufe it is generated in the Center or Circle of Life, as a bright Chining light, like unto the heavenly Birth, or rifmg up of the Holy Ghoft, with a fiery driving or impulfe of the fpirit, therefore I cannot refift or withftand it, though th&tvorld äl waits make a mock of me for it.
1 5 £. The Spirit teftifieth, that there is yet a very little time remaining, and then the Flafh in the whole circle of this world, will rife up, to which end this fpirit is a fore-runner, Meß enger, and Proclaimer of the Day.
1 5 7. And then whatsoever man, is not found in the Birth of the Holy Ghoft at that time 5 in him the Birth will never rife at all, but he abideth in the quality or fource of darknelfe, as a dead hard Flint üone, in which the fource or quality of fiercenefle wrath and corruption rifeth up Eternally.
158. And there he will be a mocker eternally in the Birth of the hellifh abomination: for whatfoever quality the Tree is of, fuch alfo is its fruit.
1 59. Thou Kveft betwixt Heaven and Hell, into whichfoever thou /ob*/?, in that thou (halt reap alfo, and thar will be thy food in Eternity: If thou foweft fcorn and contempt,thou wilt alfo reap (corn and Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. 26< and contempt > and that will be thy food.
160. Therefore, O child of Man » have a care* truft not too much upon worldly wifdome, it is blind, and is born blind, but when the flafti of life is generated therein j then it is no more blind, bu^ ieeth.
161. For, John 3.7. Chrift faith; You muß be horn anew, or elfeyou cannot enter into the Kingdom e of heaven.
1 6?; Truly it muft be generated in fuch a man- * tne plainer, in the* Holy Gholtj which rifeth up in the edCopie fweet fpring or fountain-water of the hearty in the Holineflc Flafli. of God.
16 $. And therefore hath Chrift ordained or Inflitttted the 'Bap* tifrn or 3^(eW Birth or Regeneration of the Holy Qhofly in the Water 1 becaufe the birth of the light rifeth up in the fweet water in the * Heart. r printed Copie > i £4. Which is a very great myftery, and hath g^^ been alfo kept/f c ret from all men fince the beginning of the world,t/'Zf now: which I will demonftrate and defcribe plainly in its due place.
Now Ohferve the Form and Poßure of Heaven.
I 165; When thou fceholdeft this world, thou haft a Type of heaven; Mm I. The i $6 'Of the N'athity and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch.XII.
I. The Stars fignifie or denote the angels ■ for as the ftars ifVaft continue unaltered, till, to the End of this Time, fo the sAngeh alio in the Eternal Time of heaven muft remain unaltered for ever, 1 66. II. The Elements fignific or denote the wonderfull proportion variety change and alteration of the form and pofture of Heaven \ For as the Deep between the Starres and Earth alwaies alter and change in their form, fuddenly it is fair bright and Light, fuddenly it is lowry and dark; now wind, then rain; now ihow, fuddenly the Deep is Blew or ^zure/iuddenlygreeniih, by and by whitifh, then fuddenly again Dusky.
i6-j. Thus alio is the change and alteration of Heaien, into many feveral colours and/o/wy, but not in'füch a manner and kind as in this world, but all-,1 according to'theTifing up of the Spirits of God, and the Light of the Sonne of God fhineth therein Eternally: Buttherifmg up in the birth differs in ci)ö Degrees'kioie at one time then at another.
>4n4tJ?eve fare the ypwderfaltyifdome of Qod is im<mprehenfible.
1 6$. IIL The Earth fignificth or denoteth, the Heavenly Nature,or the ieventh * fpirit of Nature, in which the Idea's,or Images forms and Colours rife up: 1 6q. IUI. v4nd the Birds or Vowles Fijhes and Beaßs ilgnifie or denote the feveral forms or fhapes of figures in Heaven.
1 70, Thou art to know this, for the fpirit in the Flafh tcftifieth the fame, that in Heaven there arifc all Ch.XII. Of the WjUivity and Life oftheHoly Angeh; 26j all manner of figures or fnapes like the Beafts Fowles Birds and Fifhes of this world,but in a heavenly form or manner, clarity or brightnefle and Jcind, as alio all manner of Trees, Plants and Flowers.
171. But as tbey rife, fo they go away again, for they are not incorporate^ or compacted together, as the angels are: torthefe figures are fo formed in the Birth of the rifing qualities m die fpirit of- Nature, or Natuve-fyiriL 172. If a figure be Imaged in a fpirit, To that it it fabfifteth; and if another fpirit wreftleth with this, aud gets the better ytben it comes to be divided, and indeed changed or altered, all according to the kindoi the qualities j And thü its in (jod las a holy Sport T lay or Scene.
173. Therefore alfo the Creatures, asBeafts,Fowls or Birds Fillies and Worms in this world; are not created to an Eternal Being, but to a tranßtory one, as the figures in Heaven alfo paß e away.
174. This I fet down here onely for a manu - dudion or introduction: you will find it defcribed more at large, concerning the Cre^0^ °f this world.
M m z The 2 £8 The horrible Fall oflucifers Kingdom. Ch.XIU, The Thirteenth Chapter.
Of the terrible o dole full and La* mentable miferable Fall of the Tjjfyzjdome o/Lu- " cifer.
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1 Would have all proud, covetous, envious, and wrathfull men imited to look into this Glafle, and there they will fee the original of their pride, covetoufnefTe, envy and wrath, alfo the ifj'ue and final requital or wages thereof.
2. The Learned have produced many and various Monfters concerning the beginning cf Sin, and Original of the Devil, and fcuffled one with another about it$ every one of them, thought he had the Axe by the Handle, yeti: continued hidden from them aä3 till this very time.
3. But fince it will henceforth be fully revealed, as in a clear Looking-Glaffe, therefore it may well be conceived, that the (jreat *Day of the ^y elation of (j od is noTP near ät hand^ wherein the fiercenefle and the kindled lire will be feparated from the Light.
4. Therefore let none make himfell flark blind, for for The time of the$(eflitution0of tyhatfoever man haw loß9ü now near at Hand, the <Day /DaWneth9 or, the <£\dorning-fydne{fe hreaketh forth; It is high Time to awake fromfleejp.
Queßio/7. Now it may be Asked: What is the four ce or fountain of tfye fir & Sin of Luciters Kingdom I Anfaer.
5. Here we muft again take in Hand the higheft depth of the Deity •> and fee3Out of what, King'Lu« cifer, became a Creature > or what was the firfi fource or fountain of EvilorcJ^Ttffeiitfhim?
6. The Devil and his crew continually excufc chemfelves, and ib do all wicked men, which are begotten in corruption, faying; God doth them wrongs in thrufting them out or rejecting them.
7. Nay, this prefent world doth dare to fay, that God hath Decreed or concluded it fo in his pedeflimte purpafe and counfel; that fome men ihould be Saved} and fome ihould be Damned, and fay^ to that 2 70 The horrible fd of Lucifers Kingdom. Ch.XllL that end alfoGod hath reje&ed Prince Lucifer,,. that he fliould be a fpe&acle of Gods wrath.
8. As if Hell or Malice and Evil, had been from Eternity, and that ic was in Gods predeftinate purp'ofe, that Creatures fhould and ntuft be therein; and lo they pull and fc^and beftir themfelves to prove it by Scripture, though indeed they neither have the knowledge of the true God, nor the undemanding of the Scriptures: though fome erroneous things alfo are brewed from the Scriptures.
<?. Chrift faith, the Devil was a murtherer and Lyarfrom the beginnings and did not ft and in the Truth ^ John 8. 44. But being thefe juftifiers and Difputcrs affift the Devil fo ftedfaftly,-, and pervert. Gods truth, and change it into Lies, in that, they make of God a thirity and fierce wrathful Devil,and fuch a one, as hath created and ftill willeth Evil, and fo all of them, together with the Devil,are/o^/ymui> therers and Lyars.
10. For, as the Devil is the Founder and Father of Hell and Damnation, and hath himfelf built and prepared for himfelf the Helliih quality to be his Royal Seat; fo alfo fuch Writers and Scriblers are the MafterJtoildQis of Lies and Damnation, who help to corifirm and Eftabliih the Devils Lies, and to make of the Merciful loving and friendly God, a murtherer and furious Deftroyer, and fo pervert and turn the truth of God into Lies, 11. For God -faith in the Prophet: As true as I live, I have no delight er pleafure, in the death of a Sinner, Ch.XIII. The horrible FallofLvcikn Kingdom. 2 7 ( ner? but that he turn and lite* Ezek. 33. 11. And in the pfalms k is thus, thou art not a (jod0 that haft pleasure in ypickedneffe^ Pfal.5.^.
12. Beiides, God hath given Lawes to man, and hath forbidden the Evil, and commanded the, Good. Now if God would have the Evil, and alio the Good, then he fhould be at Odds with himfelf, and it would follow, that there would be deitruction cr deitructiveneffe in the Deity, one quality running counter againft the other, and the one fpoiling» and corrupting the other.
1 3. Now how all this is come to paffc, or how trickedneße hath taken its Firft Source, original and beginning, I will declare in the higheft fimplicity ir*äibgreä*eft depth.
14. To: which End the fpirit invitecband citetbj fummoncth or tvarnetb all men that are feduced into Errours by the Devil, that they come and prefent tficmfelves before the Looking-GlafTe of this School wiierein-trLeyiliall fee and inlped the murrhcraus Devil into his very heart. Itnl 15. Then he that will not takeheed and beware of his Lies, whilcft he may very well do it, there is i o _ fortedy fir him neither here nor hereafter: lie rhat fbiherh.attd will /abwich the Devil, mult Reap with the Devil-alfo.
16. h the Center of the ßafi hwfheDpedj mat- the Harre ft i$ iehitM already, fyherein everyone Will a?« " Tfa horrible Fall o/Lucifers Kingdom. Ch.XlII, Will ^ap, what he hath Söton.
17. Here, my Sntrufted Talent, which I have received, I will lee out for rent profit and encreafe as 1 am commanded to do, and he that will deal with me in this way of gain or ufury, it {hall be free for him, he may freely do it -y whether he be a Chriftian, a Jew, a Turk, or a Heathen; they will be all alike advantagious to me; my Ware-houfe fhallftand open for every one, let none fear Exacting tricks or deceit, for he that cometh to deal with me in my Wares, {hall be juftly rightly and fairly dealt with.
1 8. Every one fhould here, have a care, to deal fo well that he bring in fome Gain of ufe-money for hisMafter: for I am afraid, that every Merchant wiLl not befitted in my Warres for his turn 3 for to fome they will be very dränge and uncouth, neither will every one underftand my Language Phrafe and Expreffion.
19. I would therefore have every one warned, that he deal circumfpectly and warily > and not be conceited,. that he is rich, and cannot grow poor; truly I have very admirable and wonderful wares to Sell, every one will not have understanding and skill to know what to do with them.
20. Now if any one fhould in a dull humour fall upon them, and plunge himfelf into perdition, let him bear his own blame 5 he hath need of a light inbit Htart; thzthis Underftanding and Mind may be well governed.
2 1. Elfe let him forbear to come into my Warehoufe,or he will but deceive his own expectation; for the Ware which IflSVcno fell is very Pretious and Ch.XIII. The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom, 273 and Dear, and requireth a very fharp and acute understanding: therefore have a care, and do not climb aloft, where you fee no Ladder is, elfe you will fall.
2 2. But to me is {liewcn the Ladder of Jac o£,upon which lam climb'd up, even into heaver*, and have received my Ware, which I'have to fell and vent: Therefore if any one will climb up after me, let him take heed that he be not. drunken, but he muft be girt with the fword of the Spirit.
23. For he muft climb through a horrible deep, agiddinefje will frequently come into his head; and befides, he muft climb through the midft or center of the Kingdom of Hell, and there he will feel by experience what a deal of fcoffings and upbraidings he muft Endure.
24. In this combate, I had many hard tryals to my hearts grief: my Sun was often eclipfed or extinguifbed, but did rife again 1 and the oftner it was eclipfed or put out, the brighter and clearer was its riling again.
25. I do riot write this for my own praife3but only for an Item Or hint, that if it go [o with you,you fhould not defpair about it, for there belongeth and is requifite a mighty endurance hard labour and ftoutnefle, for him that fighteth with the Devil, hetmxt Heaven and Helf: for He is a potent Prince.
26. Therefore have ä care, that thou put on the Coat of Mayl or ^Habergeon of the Spiri^eHe do not * Cor/let or venture to come near my Ware-houfe, that my Br eft-plate wares be not ill handled by thee, and fo be prejudicial to thee.
27. Thou muft renounce the Devil and the World, Nn if 2 74 TbehornhleFäü of Lucifer* Kingdom. Ch. XIII.
if thou wilt enter into this fight, elfe thou wilt not overcome: But if thou over comeß not ^ then let my. book alone, anri meddle not with it, but ßick to thy Old matters, elfe thou wilt receive but evil wages for thy pains « he not deceived) God will not Le mocked, Gal. 6. 7.
28. Trolly it is a narrow and ftrait paftage, or.entrance, through the Gates of Hell 5 for them that will prolTei/z to God: they muft endure many pangs crufhings and fqueezings from the. Devil.
29. For the humane ftefh.is very young and. tender, and the T)etil is rough and liard, alfo dark, hot, bitter, aftringent and cold: and io thefe two are very ill match' d.
30. Therefore I ferioufly exhort the Reader, and would have him faithfully warned, as it were with a Preface to this, Great My ftery, that if he do not underftand it, and yet longeth and would fain have the meaning or underftanding thereof,that he would pray to God for his Holy Spirit, and that he would enlighten him with the fame.
31. For, without the illumination thereof you will rM un d 'er f and this My ftery 5 for there is a ftrong Lock and Bar before it in the fpirit of t#to,that mull be hrft unlockt or opened, and that No manaan do, for the Holy Ghoft is the one'lyKey to do it withall.
32. Therefore if thou wilt ha ve an open Gate into the Deity, then thou muft move ftirrc and walk tn Gods L<jve> this I have fet down here for thy Confideration.
Norn Ch. XIII, the horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom, 27^ Now Observe: 3 3. Every Angel is created in the feventh * Qua- * otfacullifying or fountain-fpirit, which is t N ATURE,6ut ty. of which his Body is compacted or incorporated to- f natura* gether,and his Body is given him for a propriety,and the fame is free to it fell, as the whole Deity is free.
34. He hath no impulfe or driving without or diftin6t from himfelf, his impulfe and mobility ftandeth in bis Body>* which is of fuch a kind and manner, * vjz# the as the »h$le God is; and his light and knowledge, ß0dy. as alfo his life, is generated in that manner, as the whole Divine Being is generated.
3 5.For the Body is the incorporated or compacted fpirit of Nature, and encompaffcth or inclofeth the other fix Spirits; thefe generate themfelves in the Body, juft as it is in the Deity.
3 6. Now Lucifer had the fairefl Beautifulieft and powcrfulleft Body, in Heaven, of or among all the Princes of God, and his Light, which he hath, and is continually generated in his Body, that hath incorporated with the heart or Sonne of God, as if they were One thing.
37. But when he fäw that he was fo fair and beautiful, and found or felt his inward birth and great power or authority,then his fpirit,which he had generated in his Body, which is his ANIMAL (or animated) or Z^-fpirir, ► [Note^The Author calls thefoulijh Birth the ANIMAL Birth 5 from Anima, which fignifietb the Soul j but being the Scripture otherwise underßandeth by the word Animal, the perifhed or corrupted Soul, or Animalem hominem, the Animal man or N n 2 the Zj6 the horrible Fall of Lucifcrs Kingdom. Ch.XlII.
the corrupted- Natural Man, that is, the Adamical beaftial Man; andfo he being advertifedofit; he altered that Expreßion^ and ufed it no more any further, Z -or Sonne or Heart 3 exalted it felf, intending to triumph over the Divine Birth, and to lift up or extoll it felf above the Heart of God.
Here Obferve the Depth.
'38. In the middle or central fountain or wellfpring, which is the Heart 3 where the Birth rifeth up; the aftringent or harfh quality rubs it felf with the Bitter and Hot, and there the light kindleth, which is the Sonne^ ofwhichitis alwayes impregnated in its Body, and that enlighteneth and maketh it living.
39. Now that light in Lucifer was fo fair bright and Beautiful, that he excelled the bright form of heaven, and in that light was perfect Undemanding: for all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits generate that fame light.
40. But now, the feven qualifying or fountain- Spirits are the Father of the Light, and may permit or furTcr the Birth of the Light to be as much as they pleafe: and the light cannot exalt or raife it felf higher, then the qualifying or fountain-fpirits* will permit, or give it leave* 41. But when the Light is generated^ then itenligktneth all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits, fo that all feven are Underftanding $ and do all feven give their will to the Birth of the Light.
42. But now, every one hath power and Might to alter its will in the Birth of the light, according as there there is need: now if that be fo, then the fpirit can-, not triumph thus, but muft lay down its prancing Pomp.
43. And therefore it is that all feven fpirits are in full power, every one of them hath the Reines irt its hand, that it may hold in and check the generated fpirit, from triumphing any higher, then is fit for it.
44. But the feven fpirits, which are in an Angel, which generate the light and underftanding, they are bound and united with the whole God, that they fhould not qualifie any other way, either higher or more vehemently, then God himfelf; but that there fhould be one and the fame manner and way between the m both.
45. Seeing they are but a part or peece of the whole, and not the whole it felf, for God hath therefore created them out of himfelfi that they fhould qualifieoperatd or A&infuch a manner form and way as God himfelf doth.
46. But now the qualifying or fountain fpirits ia Lucifer did not fo, but they feeing that they fate in the higheft Primacie or %jink> they moved themfelves fo hard, and ftrongly, that the fpirit, which they generated was very fiery, and climbed up, in the fountain of the heart, like a Proud Btmfell or Virgin.
47. If the qualifying or fountain fpirits had moved qualified or a&ed gently and lovely, as they did before they became creaturely, as they were umverfally itLGod before the Creation,, then had they generated alfo a gentle lovely mild and meek Sonne in them, which would have been like to the Sonne of God, and then the Light in Lvcifer and the Light of of flu horrible fall of Lücifers Kingdom. ChJCffi, ^of the Sonne of God had been One thing, one qualifying operating a&ing and affe&ing, one and the fame lovely killing, Embracing and ftruggling.
48. For the great Light, which is the Heart of God, would have p/^S meekly mildly a rid lovingly with the [mall Light in Lucifer, as witr^ a young fonne, for the little fonne in Lucifer fhotild have been the dear little brother, of the Heart 01 God.
4?. To this End God the Father hath created the Angels, that as he is manifold and varum in his Qualities, and in his Alteration or variegation is incompreheHfible in his Sport or Scene of Love; fo> the/;'w/^fpiritsalfo,orthe little Lights of the Angels, which are as the Sonne of God, (hould play or iport very gently or lovely in the great light before the Heart of God; that the joy in the Heart of God might here be encreafed, and that fo there might be a holy Sport Scene or play in God.
50. The feven fpirits of Nature in an Angel fhould play and rife up£^tf/y in God their Father, as they had done before their creaturely Being, and rejoyce in their New-born fonne, which they have generated out ohhemfelves, which is the Light and Underftanding of their Body.
5 1. And that light fhould rife very gently or mildly in the Heart of God, and rejoyce in the light of God, as a child with its Mother, and fo there fhould be a Hearty loving, and friendly kifßng,a very meek and pleafant Tafte or relifh.
5 2. In this the Tone (hould rife up, and found, with finging and ringing forth 5 in praifing and jubilating: alfo all the qualities fhould rejoyce therein, and every fpirit fhould exercife or practife its Divine work or labour, as God the Father Himfelf doth. 5 3, For Ch.XIII. The horrible Fal/ofLucifets Kingdom. 2 Jrjj 5 3. For the feven fpirits had this in perfect knowledge, for they were united and atluated with God the Father, fo that they could all Tee, feel,tafte, fmell and hear, what God their Father dji9 or wrought and made.
>■ '*H. But when they elevated themfclves in a fharp 0$ ftrong kindling, then they did againft Natures Right, otherwife then God their Father did, and this was a ftirring quality or rifing up, againft or contrary to the whole Deity.
5 5. For they kindled the Saliner of the Body, and generated a high triumphing Sonne, which in the aftringent quality, was hard, rugged or rough,dark and cold; in the fwcet,was burning bitter and titry: The Tone was a hardjfcry noife; The Love was a lofty enmity againft God.
fS. Here now flood the kindled Bride in the feventh Nature-fpirit, like a Proud Beafi$ now {he fuppofed fhe was beyond or above God, nothing was like hernow: Love grew cold^ the Heart of God eould not touch it, for there was a contrary will or ©ppofition betwixt them. The Heart of God moved very meekly and lovingly, and the heart of the Angel moved very darkly bard cold and fiery.
57. And the heart of God fhould now unite and qualifle with the Heart of the Angel, but that could net be; for there was now hard againft foft, and foure againft fwect, and dark againft light, and fire againft a pleafant gentle warmth, and a hard knocking or rumblings againft a loving melodious fong.
Queftkn* 2gö " The hvtfibU Tail ^Lüdfers Kingdom. Ch. XIlI, Quefiion* ffifarkpi Reifer, Where lyeththe fault no°tt>0 that thou art become a T>e^iü\ Is €joä in faulty m thou lyingly fay fil Arfmr.
58. Ono, thou thy felf art faulty, the qualifying or fountain Spirits in thy Body, which thou thy felt' art, have generated thee fuch a little fonne: Thou canft not fay., that God hath kindled the SalitteryovLt 1 of which he made thee., but thy qualifying or foun«. xaiifipirits have done it, whereas thou wert clearly before,a Prince and King of God.
59. Therefore, when thou fay ft, God Created thee thus,or that he hath without fufiicient caufefpew* ed thee up out of thy place; then art thou a Lyar andMurtherer, For the whole heavenly Hoaft or Army beareth witnefle againft thee, that thou haft %/<^ferecl:edand prepared this fierce Quality for thy felf.
60.' If it benot fo, then go before the face of God; and Jujtifie thy felf. But thou feeft it plain enough without that 5 and befides, thou dareft not look on that matter: Wouldft not thou fain have a friendly kifle of the Sonne of God, that thou mightft once be eafed or refrefhed? if thou art in the Right, then <lo but once look upon HIM; perhaps" thou mayft be ma;de found or whole again.
tfi.But Ch.Xni. The horrible Fall of Lucifer s Kingdom,. 281 61. But (lay a \itt\cyanotber fitteth on thy Throne^ He is kiffed, and he is an obedient fonne to his Father, and doth as the Father doth.
6%. Stay yet a little while, and the Hellifh fire will kifle thee 5 in the mean while,, make much of this Latine till ' more growetrh out of it; thou wilt faddenlylok thy Crown.
Now one might Ask: what then in Lucifer, is properly, that Enmity figainfi God$ for wbicb be was Tbruft and driven out of his place £ • 6$. Here I will (hew you exactly the Pith Kernel and Heart of Lucifer,and then you will fee,what a Devil is, or how he is become a Devif. Therefore take heed j and do not Invite or Ent§rtain him as a Gueft, for he is the Arch-fworn Enemy of God, and of all Angels and Men, and, that in his Eternity.
' £4. r^wift^ouunder^anjdieft^nä^ppr^fendefl: this aright, then thou wilt not make of God a Devil •> as fome do, which fay; Qod hath created the &vil, and that his will is, that fome men fhould be Loft; which men>thatfo fay, help. to encreafe the Devils LieSy and bring upon themfelv es the fevere Judgment, by their „perverting Gods truth, and Co turning them into Lies» ^3ii9goiiil« Oo; rible riblc/bi flffii i« which, the aftringcnt quality is a very horrible, tare, hard, dark and cold attra&inj* or drawing together, like winter, when cl.ere is a fiery bitter cold fro lV-vhen water is frozen, is to.lce, and -betides is very Intolerable» 66. Then prunk or luppofe if in fach a hard Winte-r, when it is lb cold,the Sun fhould be taken away, what kind of hard Froft, and how very rough fierce and liar A darknefle would it be>wherein no life could fubfift.
6-j. After luci a manner and kind is the aftringcnt quality in the inner mo ft kernel or Pith in it (elf y and to it lelf alone, without the other qualities tu. God; for the aufterenefie or feverity maketh the attracting or drawing together, and fixaaon or Glutinoufneffe of the body, and the hardnefle dryeth it * Creature* up, fo that it fubfifteth * as a Creature. h £S. And the bitter quality is a tearing, penetrating, and cutting bitter quality or fource:. tor it di--Jdetb and driveth forth the hard and aftrmgent Quality, and maketh the mobility.
1 69. And betwixt thefe two qualities is heat- generated from its hard and fierce bitter rubbing, tearing and raging, which riieth up in the -Bitter and hard quality, as a fierce wrathful kindling, and prefTetn quite thr0ugh5 äs^ hard fiery Noife.
"o. From whence exiftefh the härdTenC, «uidüi thatrifing up, or dl&b4hg, it is iftv ironed undfiked in the aftringent quality, fo that it becometha Bö* dy, which fubfiftetfu 71. Now if there were.»0 other quality ki this Body,which could quench the fercenejje of thefe four * or were tf&Rkfc% "then thete * woufcl bfe a perpetual Emm^tft&cih. ^ottofektet^wotilÄbea^iBft «be aftrlbgen^ Ch. XIII. the horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. 2 g 3 aftringent, in that it flormeth and teareth fo vehemently therein, and break eth openxhe aftringent. ' 72. And then the aftringent. alfo would be agairffl the bitter, in that it attradteth, drawcth together and holds faft, the bitter, captize, that it could not have its own courfe.
73. And the Hear would bea£ainftboth,in that with its' fierce wrathful kindling and rifing up, it makcth all hot, 'burking, and raging, and is fully or totally againft the cold.
74. AndYo the Tone would be a great Emnity in all the other, in that it penetratcth forcibly througfi all [ike a Tyrant.
75. And thu30 this is the very deepefi and innermojl hidden^ ^ßirth öftfOdi according td which,he cafterh riimfeif an angry zealous or Jeaictu c?w/,as may ie feen by the Ten Commandem'ents on; Nteünt Sinai, Exod. 20.5. Deut.5.9.
76.. And in thisquality ftandeth H<fZfand Eternal Perdition, äs alfo the eternal Emnity and murtherous Den, and fuch a creature the Dezilis come to be.
77. But now, feeing he is afworn Arch-enemy of God3 and though indeed trie DHputants and Helpers of the Devil will needs force it fo, in arguments; that God willeth the good and alfo the evil, and that he hath created [owe men to Damnation > therefore and thereupon the Spirit of God ehejh tflem upon pain of eternal Emnity 3 to come tefdre this Loöking-Gläffe, wherein their Bean {hall be: * '" föfopefl V äriö-they friälFfee,' »MG&&SÜ& *&• -'■•'* 7 O02 the lS." T))tWritte rJ öf Lucikvs Kingdom. Gh-.XHI.
the Devil is, of bow he: is become a Devil.
78. If thy heart be not bolted and- barred tip- in death, through thy ßMorn wilfulncfle aed Blafphemyyänd' Mofoid in horrible: ims, purpofmg not. to deiift from th.6nvy or leave them, then awake > arid behold^ I take Heaven "and Earthy alio the Stars and Elements^ and aH-ehe Creatures, and Man himfelf alfo in his whol e fubftdttce, to witneffe, and fo I willprove it 0b-flanly and clearly in its due place, with all thefe forefnentioned things, efpeejally, when we come to treat of the Creation of all the Creatures.
79: If thefe -things will mt give thee fatisfa&i- . on-, then pray to Govt, that He would -open thy Hearty and theti^thpu wilt kaow and/Vf Heaven and Hell, as alfo the whole Deity with all its qualities 5 and then no döüttt tHoü^Wflt1 forbear, and jiiitifle the 'öe^iino mofc { I am not able to open thy heart forthee.
f or the Divine Birth, orGenitureof God in its inrierrtiöft Beings in thefe {our qualities -0 is thus Sharp or Tart.
-)-• — '-'. ' '■ • 81. The aftringent quality is thus, (harp in its,;«yvüt proper quality in stiff if\\ but it isnotaloaej or generate it, and they alfo.hold it by the Reins, and may let their Reins and authority go as far only, as theyplcafe.
$2; For, the iweet ipring or fountain water-is fuddenly a whip fcourge or Lafh upon the aftringent quality, and mitigateth fottneth or iiippleth it, fo that it groweth very thin, gentle mild and I foft, as alfo very Bright.
So. But that it is thusiharp in it felf, is to tl>e end, that a Body may be Imaged or framed through j its attra&ing or drawing together, otherwise the Deity would not fubfift, much lefje a creature, g 84. And in this {harpnefle, God is an AU-comprehenfibleand all-fixing or all-faftning fharp God: for the Birth Geniture and {harpnefle ot God is thus everywhere, 85. But if I fhall defcribe the Deity in its Birth or Geniture in a fmali round circle, in the higheft Depth, then it is thus In a Similitude* 8 6. As fuppofe a WHEEL {tending before thee, with {even metles one fo made in the other, that it rcould go on a//, fides, forwards backward,, and crofle ;waye$, without need of any turning back or {top- 8 7. And in its going, that, alwayes one Wheel iß its turning about^c^r4/^ the other,. and yet none of them do vaniih out of fight, but that all fevenbe triable.; 01 in fight, • >•> BB. Andthe feveA Wheeles alwaies generating the Waves in the ajidiVor center according to their. turning about, fo» that thc3Na\eftand alwaies; free without i 1?
•i 3 U thehombie Uli of Lucifer s Kingdom. Ch.Xin, without alteration or •rerriovirig j whether the wheeles go forward or backward or croflc waies>or upward or downward; 8?. And the Nave alwaies generating the Spoaks, fothat in their türhing about, they ftand right and direct from the Nave to the Feileys of the wheel; and yet none of the-- [peaks' to be out of fight, but füll turning abouty thus one with another, going whi. therfoever the mxddtixc it, and that without need of any turning back or flopping.
Now oh[erve what I [hall Lrformycu in the applu - cation of this.
90. Thefeven wheeles are the feven Spirits of God, the one alwaies generating the other \ and are like, the turning about of a wheel, which hath feven wheels one tn' another, and the one alwaies wheeled* it felf otrier wife then the other in its ftation, and the feven wheeles aje Felleyed, or hooped Round with Feileys, like around tf/a£f.
91. And yet that a man may fee all the feven wheeles turning round about feverally apart, äsialfo the wbolcßtnejje or compafle of the frame* with all its Feileys and Spoaks and Naves.
f 2. And the [even Naves in the middor Center being as it were one Nave, which doth fit every Where in the turning about, and the wheeles continually generating thefe Naves, and the Naves generating the Spoaks continually in all the feven wheeles, and yet none of the wheeles, as alfo none of the Naves, nor any of the Feileys or Spoaks to be ^ of fight, and as if this wheel had [even wheeles, and yet were all 'but > we wheel, and went atyvayes forward Gh.XIII. The homHeBaÜ0l Lucifcrs Kingdom, forwrdy whitherfoever the wind drove it.
Now Behalf and Confider-, - ■ ?$. Thefeven whceles one in another, the o;ie alwaies generating the other, and going on every fide, and yet none out of fight, or turning back.: thefe are the [even qualifying or fountain Spirits of • God the Father.
94. And they generate in the feven wheeles, jn each wheels Nave, and yet there are not feven Naves, but only Q#e, which fitteth in all the feven wheeles: And this is the Heart or inmrtnofy Body of the wheeles, wherein the wheels run about, and that fignifieth the £0/2/^ of God. --.,.-.