95. For all thefeven Spirits of God, the Father generate continually in their circle, and that, is the forme of all the feven fpirits, and all thofe qualifie or aB in his Light, and is in the midft or Center of the Birth, and holds together ail the feven fpirits. of God, and they in their Birth turn about therewith, thus.
96. That is, they clime either upward or downward, backward or forward or croüe-wayes, and (o the Heart of God is alwayes in the midft or center, and fitteth alwaies every qualifying or fountain Spi- 9 7. Thus there is One Hear* of God» and mt fcvecy which is aiwaicj generated from all the feven, and is the heari and lift of all the feven, 98. Now the Spools 9 which are alwaies generated front the Naves- and Wheeles, and. which do fit all tie wheeles ia their cum-, Big, and-ar4 their Roat/ftay^ and foftning, in Which 2 $ 8 Ü* horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom] Cfi.Xffi.
which they (land, and out of which they are gene-, rated; fignifie God the Holy Gboft, which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne, even as the Spoaksgoout from the Nave and Wheel, and yet Abide alio in the wheel.
$$. Now as the Spoaks are many,and go alwaies about with and in the wheel; fo the Holy Ghoft is the mrkmafter in the wheel of God, and formeth> Imageth and frameth all, in the whole. or total ' God, ioo. Now this wheel hath (even wheels one in another, and one Nave, which is fitted in all the feven wheels: and all the feven wheels turn on that one tfave: Thus God is one God, with feven qualifying or fountain fpirits, and yet is but one God^ juil as thefe feven wheelcs are but One wheei.
Now Observe t i o i. The wheel in its incorporated ßru&ure and frame fignifieth the aftringent quality, which attract eth or draweth together the whole corporeal Being of the Deity, and holds it, and dryeth it, fo that ic fubßßeth.
io2. And the fweet fpring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rifing up of the fpirits, for when the light is generated in the Heat, then the aftringent quality is amazed or terrified for great Joy, and this is a fubmitting or lying down, or growing thin, and the bard corporeal being,(ink* eth down like a meeknefTe or mildneffe.
103. And fo now the terrour or the glance of the Light rifeth up in the aftringent quality very gently and fhiveringa and tfembieth^ which now in the water water is bitter, and trie Light dryeth it, and maketh it friendly and tweet, -v *■/ 104. Now therein ftandetlr/^ and joy j for the tetrotnJor fiafh riieth up m a-Tl the qualities, like thCj wheel afore mentioned which eutrieth about, and then' there all the feven 'fpirits oqjfet up one in another, i and gener ate themrclves 'as ink circle, and the light is (Tuning in the midftdr. (Center of the k> veA&pirksy-iad re^ineth bask -^flün in all thefpirits, and all the fpirits triumph therein, and rejoyc©. in the light. ' 105,; "And as the feven Wheeled turn about üpoü one-Nate,' as uponvthetr Heart \ I which Md$, them, and: they hold the Nave; "fo the < feven fpirits geherate the Heart, andthe fow holds the feven fpirits, and fo there arife^ojw,. and-^/'t/^ joyfulnefle, of * hearty loving and khTtng. * or 'q[0m 106, For when the £p«?\fcs withxtheir light move, rious% or boyl, turn about and rife one in another, then the life is fokwtä generated jl for oire fpirit alwaies affotdctbto the<oth£rits tafte or-reli{h>thati?> it is tfiefäzdwith the other. ^ . ig?.. Thus the one tafteth andfeeleth the other, and the Tone prefleth forth fromall the feven fpirits towards ikto Heart, and rifcth up in the heart in the flafh of the light, and then rife up the voices and jvyfalneße of the, Sonne of God: and all the feven fpirits triumph and rejoyce in the Heart of God, each according to its quality.
1 o 8. For in the Light in thefoeet water, all aftringency, and hardnefie, and bitcernefe and hcata are / mitigated and made pleafanc, and fo there is, in the, feven fpirits nothing elfe but afleafänt ftriving ftrug- P p " ling 2?o: 'The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. Ch.XIII ling and wonderful generating like a divine holy Sport or Scene of God.
iop. But their lnarp or Tart Birth, of which I have written ^bove, -abidcrh hidden as a kernel, for it becometh mitigated by the light and fwcet water.
no. Juft as a four bitter green Apple is forced by the Sun, that it becometh very pleafantor lovely to be eaten, and yet all its qualities are tafted: fo the Deity keepeth its qualities alfo, but ftriveth or fkuggleth gently, like a pleafant lovely Sport or Scene.
in. But if the qualifying or fountain fpirits fhould extoll or lift up themlelves, and penetrate iuddenly one into another, driving hard, rubbing and thronging, crowding or fqueezing $ then the fwect water would be fqueezed out, and the fierce heat would be kindled, and then would rife up the fire of the feven fpirits, as in Lucifer.
in. Thü ü no*tt> the true "Birth or (jmtture of the T>eity0 which hath been fo from eternity in all Comers and T I aces whatfoeyery and abideth fo in all Eternity \ \ »hvtjitu* *I3. But in thG Kingdom of Lucifer, tthe Derc-u, 9. n. If ro) er 1 it is 'otherwise; as I have written above concerning the ßerceneße 5 and in this world which is now half kindled alio, i\ is like wife after another manner j Ch. XIII, Tbe forribk? til. (fLucifcts Kingdom. 2QI manner 5 and will be fo till the day of the Reftitution -y of which I {hall write when I treat concerning the Creation of this world.
1 14. Now in this glorious lovely and heavenly Salitter or divine Qualities, the Kingdom of Lucifer a lfo was created without any greater motion, then the other.
115. For when Lucifer was created, he was altogether perfeSfy and was the faircft Prince in heaven? adorned and indued with the faireft clarity or Brightnefle of the Sonne of God.
1 1 6. But Lucifer had been fpoiled or deftroyed in the moving of the Creation, as hepretendeth* then he had never bad his Perfection, beauty and clarity; but would have been prefently a fierce dark De v ill, and not a Cherubin.
• Of the gloriotti Birth and beauty of King Lucifer.
117. Behold thou murtherous and lying fpirit! here I will defer ibe thy Roy all Birth, how thou wert in thy Creation, how God created thee> and how thou becameft fo beautiful, and to what end God created thee.
1 1 8%. If thou fayft any other thing then this,which Heaven and Earth, and all the Creatures teftifie, then thouLyeft,nay the whole Deity teftifieth againft thee; that God created thee for his praife out of himfelf, to be a Prince and King of God, as he did Prince Ultichael and Prince Uriel.
Pp 2 Now '...Now Olfirve; 119. When the Deity moved it felf to Creation*, and would form Image or frame Creatures in its Bo-/fy, it kindled not the qualifying fpirits, elfe they would have burnt Eternally, but it ltirr'd them very gently or foftly in the aftringent quality.
120. That, drew or attracted the Divine Saliner together 3 and dryed it fa that it became a Body, and fo the whole divine power of all the feven qualifying or fountain-fpirits ofthat place or Room, as far as that of the Angels reached, was captivated in the Body, and became the propriety of the Body, which neither can nor (hall, be deftroyed again, in Eternity, but (hall remain the Bodies propriety or proper own, in Eternity.
i2i. Now the captivated or incorporated power of all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits had its propriety in the Body, and is rifen in the Body, and hath generated it felf in the fame manner as the "Deity generateth it felf from all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits.
l: 2. One quality hath, alwaies. generated the other alike, and none of them have vanifhed or gone out of fight, juft as it is in the »hole Deity; and then the whole Body, as it is alfo in the Ternarie, generated it felf juit as the Deity generateth it felf. without or diilin'ft from the Body,"in the Temar.ie*.: 12?. But this Imuft mention here 5 r^'s. that Lucifer, the King, was incorporated together out of bis whole Kingdome, as the Heart of the whole place or Room thereof, {o.far as his whole Angelical Hoait or Army reached when it was created, and fo fo far as that circumference or circle, Region or Quarter,« reach'd, wherein He and his Angels became a creature, and which God before the time of Creation had cnclofed or concluded as a Room or. Space for a Kingdom,, whofe circuit or Extent comprehended Heaven and this world^ as alfo the Deep of the £ayth>an& of the whole.Cir.cle Sphear or Circumference of this whole world of the Heavens and Stars.
124. And according, to the qualities were his qualifying or fountain Princes created, which are his Kingly Counfellours, and fo alfo were all his Angels created.
125. Yet you are to know, that every Angel hath all the feven f pirits in him, but one of the feven is chief or principal.
3vj)B? behold V 126. When the King was thus incorporated or compared together, as one comprehending his whole Kingdom, then inftantly, the fame hour, and in the lamemsoment: when he was incorporated or compacted together: the birth of the Holy Trinity of God, which he had for a propriety in his Body,.
[iff Under f and in the Liberty, not eßentially, but cC as the fire jhineth firth orgloweth through the Cc Iron that is flaming hot> and the Iron yemaucc neth Ironfall'} or as the light replenifyetb « crfilleth the Darkneß'e^ the dark' fource or u quality being changed into Light, andfo letf cometh joyful, and yet in the (f enter remain-"eth.a dark mße^ which ü underfiood to. be " Nature -0 3£4 The horrible Fall of Lväfas Kingdom. CrnXIIX.
« Nature $ for a fpirif, is repleninifh yd one ly «with the <JMa]e\\ie-~\ tofc up and generated it felf without, difUnd from the Creature, in God.
127. For in the driving together of the Body prefently like wife rofe up the Birch alfo in great triumph, äs in a New-born King, in God\ and all the {even qualifying or fountain fpirits fhewed therafelves very joyful and triumphing.
128. And inftantly in the fame (Jtfoment the light was generated and rofe up out of the feven fpirits it» the Center of the heart, as a new-born fonne of the King, which alfo inftantly in a Moment, clarified or brightened the Body of all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits from the Center of the Hearty and externally from without, the light of the Sonne of God clarified or brightened it.
129. For the Birth of the new Sonne in the Heart of Lucifer alio penetrated through the whole Body, and was glorified from the Sonne of God,which was without diftincl: from the body, and was friendlily welcommed with the greatefi Beauty of Heaven, according to the Beauty of God the Sonne, and it was to him as a loving Heart or propriety, with which the whole Deity qualified or operated.
130. And then inftantly alfo the fpirit of the new born fonne in the Heart, went forth from the light of Lucifer through hisAfo«^,and united qualified or cooperated with the holy Spirit of God, and was with higheil Joy received and embraced, as a dear little Brother.
131. Now here ftandeth the Beautious Bride: what fhall I write of her now? was fhe not a Prince of God 5 as alfo the moft beautiful 5 moreover in Gods Ch. XIII. The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom, %$ j Gods love alfo, and as a dear Sonne of the Creatures?
Off^ horrible ', proud, and henceforth doleful Lamentable "Beginning of Sin.
The highefi Depth. Obferve here,.
When King Lucifer was thus fairly glorioufly Beautioufly highly and holily framed or built, he {hould furely have now begun topraife, honour and magnific his Creatour; and {hould do that,, which God his Creator doth.
133. Viz. God his Creator qualifieth or operateth very meekly lovingly and Joyfully, and one qualifying or fountain-fpirit of God alwaies loveth the other, and bringeth its affettion into the other, and alwaies helpeth the other to Image form and frame all in the heavenly Pomp.
134. Whereby, in the heavenly pomp alwaies fuch fair beautious forms. Ideas, figures, and vegetations, fpring up, as alfo variom colours and fruits ^ and this the qualifying or fountain fpiritsof God do, in God, as a holy Play Sport or Scene, Now behold I 135. Seeing then God had incorporated or compacted together out of himfelf, Eternal Creatures jthey {hould not qualifie or operate in the heavenly pomp in in fucha way and manner, as tobe like god hinafelf.
1 3 £. No, by no means; for they were not thus Imaged or framed to that End: For, the Creator had for this caufe incorporated or compacted the Body of an Angel together, to be more dry, then he is in his Body $ that he might be and remain to be God j fo that the qualities fliould be harder and tougher5that die Tone or Sound might be bud clear and thrill.
1 37.S0 that,when the feven qualities in an Angel, in the Center of the heart, 60 generate the Light and the fpirit or undemanding $ that then, that fame fpirit, which in the light of the heart, goeth forth at the mouth of the Angel,in the 'Divine power; fhould as a loud clear ilirill found in the power of all the qualities in God^ fing and ring forth as a melodious Mufick,an& in the forming Imaging framing or qualifying of God, rife upas a pleaiaiu hearty loving voyce; in Gods forming.
138. And when the Holy Ghoft formeth the heavenly fruit, then jfhould the Tone, which fhould rife • up. in the praiiingof God, from the Angels, be alfo together in the forming or Imaging of the fruity and fo on the other fide again, the fruit fhould be the food of the Angels.
139. And therefore alfo we pray in Our Fatbery C<E53$5 mt0 unfer&agltclj Jftott,?
fayingx >Mat,6.n fo that the Tone or word «^ *> which, we thr uft Igive S ¥■ rpfuchi- fotth from our Center of the Light, through the anicall^ mated, animal or * Souliih fpirit, out at the Uttoutk forth Ch.XIIL Of the horrible Fall o/Lucifcrs Kingdom. 2^7 forth from us,into the divine powcrjfhould in the divine power, as a * fellow-forming o* t fellow-gene- *co-forn> C TCnfet ^agUcfe Xfyoöt ing. rating, help to Image or frame«f t co-gene- £ Our daily Bread, rating, CSDet tratet sfbet tRttsp which afterwards < > for C the Father givetb to Usy Food.* * printed 140. And then when our Tone is thus incorpora- Copie, ted in Gods Tone, fo that the fruit is formed Imaged {in fide et or framed, it muft needs be whokfome or healthtull dilettione for us, and fo we are in Gods Love, and have that -^0 food to make ufe of, as by the right of Nature, being our fpirit in Gods Love did help to Image and form the fame.
141. Herein ftandeth the innertnoft andgreatefb depth of Qod0 O, Man, confider thy felf \ I will mote largely declare it, in its due place.
142. Now for fuch an end hath God created the Angels, and they dofo too: for their fpirit, which in the Center or heart goeth forth from their light in the power of all the {even qualifying or fountainfpirits, that goeth forth at their Mouth, as God the Holy Ghoft goeth forth from the Father and Sonne, and helpeth to form Image or frame all,in God (that is to fay, in the Divine Nature) through the cJ^o*-curiui fong and fpeaking and Sport or Scene of Joy.
143. For, as God worketh in Nature to the producingof all manner of forms, Ideas, Images vegetations fpringings, fruits and colours: fo do the An- CLq ', gels 2^8 The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. C h. XIII gels alfo in very great fimplicity orfincerity; and though they thould fcarce touch theleaft Twigg, or fcarce re Joyce in the beautious flowers m the heavenly vJWaj) and difcourfe and confer never fo little, weakly meanly or {imply thereof 5 yet neverthclefTe that very Tone or fpecch rifcth up together in the Divine Saliner ^ and helpeth to co-Image and frame or form all.
144. Thou haft many examples thereof in this world, that if fome Creature or Man look upon a thing, it perifheth becaufe of the Poifon or venome in the Creature: On the other fide again, fome men, as alfo Beafts and other Creatures can with their Tone or words change or alter the malignity or evilnefle of a thing, and bring it into a right form.
145. And that now is the Divine Power, which all the Creatures are fubje&ed to; for all whatfoover it is that liveth and moveth3 is in God,, and God himfelfis ally and all whatfoever is form'dor framed^ is formed out of HIM> be it either out of Love or out of Wrath.
The Head Spring or fountain Vein of Sinne* 146. Now Lucifer being fo Royally Imaged of framed, thathisfpiritin his forming and imaging rofe up in him, and was received or embraced of God very excellently and lovingly, and wasfet or put into Cjloripeation, then inftantly he {hould have begun his Angelical Obedience and courfe, and fhould have moved(as God himfelf 'did) as a loving too in the houfe Ch. XIII. The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. 299 houfe of his Father, and that he did not.
147. But when his light was generated in him in his heart, and that his qualifying fpirits were in- • ftantly affected or inxironed with the high light, they then became fo highly rcjoycing, that they elevated themfelves in their Body againlt the Right of Nature, and prefently began as it were a Higher./?*/?» //>/-, more Pompous or Active qualifying or Operation, then God himfelf exercifed.
148. Butthefe fpirits elevating themfelves thus, and triumphing fo eagerly and vehemently one in another* and rifing np againft the right of Nature^ by that means they kindled the qualifying or fountain fpirits too exceeding much 5 viz. the aftringent Quality attracted or compacted the Body too hard together, fo that the fweet water was dryed up.
149. And the powerful and great Bright Flafti, which was rifen up in the fweet water in the Heaty from whence the bitter Quality exifteth in the fweet water, that rubb'd it fclf fo horribly hard with the aftringent quality, as if it would break in pieces for great Joy.
150. For the flafh was fo Bright, that it was as it were intolerable to the qualifying or fountain fpirits, and therefore the bitter quality or fource trembled and rubb'd it felf fo hard in the aftringent, thatthe heat was kindled contrary to the Right of Nature, and the aftringent alfo dryed up the fweet water by its hard attracting together.
151. But now the quality of Heat was/b [evere} furious and eager, that it bereaved the aftringent quality or fource of its power: for the heat exifteth in the fountain or fource of the [met water.
Qcj % 1 52. But 3oo the horrible Tall 0/ Lucifers Kingdom. Ch.XIII. 1 5 2. But the fweet water being dryed up through the aftringent attracting together, therefore could not the Heat any more rife to a flame or to any light, (for the light exifteth in the unctuofity or Oy/ineJJe of the watery) but glowed like a red hot Iron,or like Iron not quite glowing, but very dimly and darkly: or as if you tliould put a very hatdßone into the tire, and iliould let it lye there in great heat, as long as you pleafe, yet it would not be glowing light, becaufe it hath too little water, or Oylrnejje in it.
153. Thus now the Heat kindled the dryed water, and the light could no more elevate and kindle itfelf, for the water was dryed up, and was quite confumed by the fire or great Heat.
154. The meaning is not here, as if the fpirit of the water were [wallowed up or devoured, which dwelleth, in all the feven qualities, but its Quality or upper place or predominancy was changed into a dusky hot and four Quality.
155. For here in this place the four quality hath taken itsprft original and beginning, which now alfo is inherited in this world, which is not in Heaven in God3 after JW; a manner at all, nor in any Angel: for it is, and fignifieth, thehoufe of afjliBion trouble and milery, and is a forget fulneffe of all Good.
1 5 £. Now when this was done, the qualifying or fountain fpirits rultid themfclves one upon another in that manner and way, as I have mentioned aboze concerning the Figure of the Sevenfold wheel, for they ufe thus to rife up one in another, and to tafte one another, or to afjetl one another, from whence life and love exifteth.
1 5.7. Now in all the fpirits there was nothing clfe but a roeer Hot Fiery fold and Hard corruption", and and fo one evil quality taftqd the other, whereby the whole Body grew fo very fierce and wrathfull •> for the Heac was againfl the Cold, and the Cold againft the Heat., 158. And _fb the fwcet water being dryed up, the bitter quality (which exiftcd and was generated by the firftfl'afb, when the light kindled it fclf;) rofe up in the Body through all the fpirits, as if it would deßroy the Body, and fo raved and raged like the rankeft or worft Poifon.
• 15p. And from thence exifted the firft Poifon, wherein we poor men now in this world have. enough to chew upon; and thereby trie bitter poifonom Death is come into the rlelh.
1 60. In this raging and tearing now, the life of Lucifer was generated, that is, his dear little fonne in the circle or center of his heart: and what manner oflire and dear little fonne came to be, I offer to any Rational Soul to^onfidcr of, 161. For fuch as the Father was, fitch was the Sonne alfo, viz. a dark, aftringent, Cold, hard, bitter, hot, four, ftinkiug, fountain or fource, and the Love ftood in the Bitter quality, in its pnetratmg tafte and relifhj and became an emiiity again ft $11 the qualifying or fountain fpirits in the Body of*||ie high-iriinded arrogant King, 162. Thus the Tone role up through the penetrating of the bitter quality through the heat and dryed wa'teV, and through the aftringent hard quality 5 into the heart, into the little new dear fonne.
163. And here the fpirit went forth { and as He was generated in the heart* fo he went forth now at the Cftlouth, but how welcome a Guelt he was be-, fore 3 ox Kw Lucifer the fairefi ^ingel Ch.XIV.
fore God, and in God, affo before the Holy Angels of the other Kingdoms, I leave to thee to confider of.
1 £4. He fhould now have united with the Sonne of God, as one Heart and one God: Alas for ever \ Who can write or exprefle this fuf&ciently.
The Fourteenth Chapter.
Hew Lucifer, who was the Beautioufefi <Angel in Heaven^ is become the mofl horrible Devil, The Houfeof the tnurtherout ^Denne.
Ere t\ng Lucifer pull thy Hatt down into thy Eyes, left thou fhouldft fee how man will take off thy Crown away from thee> thou canft no more Rule in Heaven s ftand ftill a little while, we muft firft view thee, and obferve what a Beautious fair Bride thou art; and whether the filth of thy whoredom may not be cleanfed and wafhed away from thee, that thou mayfl be fair again, we will a little defcribe thy chaßity and vertue.
2. fime on yePhilojfophersandy^ Lawyers and Advocates, Ch.XIV. became the foulefl Devil. 303 Advocates, that juftifie and defend King £ucifer\ Come near and bring him to the Barre, whileft he hath yet the Crown upon jnjm, for here we will hold' a fourt of Judgment agamft Malefactours, for him 5 If ye can maintain his caufe to be rieht, then he {hall be your King; if not, then he (hall be turn'd out and caft down into Hellj and another (hall get his Royall Crown > who will Govern Better t}ie» He.
Nvw Obferve: 3. When Lucifer had thus horribly fpoiled and deßroyed himfel^all his qualifying or fountain fpirits were Emnity againft God, for they all qualified or a&cd much othemife then Cod, and fo there came to be an eternal Emnity betwixt God and Lud* J™* tut now it might be Asked: Queftion.
.ffom? Long did Lucifer ßand in the Light of Qod* Arfaer.
4. "When the Hoy all Body of Lucifer was incorporated or compacted together, in that very Hour the Light kindled it felf alfo in Lucifer.
<>r FOX go4 **0J* Lucifer the fair eft Angel Ch.XIVj 5. tor as foon as his qualifying or fountain fpitits in the framing of the Body began to qualifie or operate, and to generate *hemfelves, according to the right of Nature, fW^ofeup the flafh of life in the heart in the fweet fpring or fountain water, and fo the Royall Body was ready fumijhed or compleat, and the fpir it went forth in the heart from 'the light through the mouth into the 'Heart of God.
6. And fo he was a moft exceeding beautiful! Prince and King, and very dear and acceptable to the Divine Being, and was received and embraced with great Joy. ^ 7. In like manner alfo the fpint went forth from the heart into all qualifying or fountain veins of the Body, and kindled all thefeven fpirits, and fo the KoyallBody was glorified in the twinkling of an Eye9 and there he ftood as a King of God, in an unfearchable clarity, or Brightnefle, tranfeendently excelling the whole heavenly Hoaft or Army.
8. Now in this clear and light flafh the feven * or wfeft- qualifying or fountain fpirits were infiantly * affe&ed ' ed, \ asamankindlethafire, for they were afftighted at the terrible clarity or brightneffe. of their fpirit, and foinftantlyafcthe^Yß flafh fuddenly became highly triumphing rifing aloft extream ftately, and overjoyful, and fo moved themfelves towards a higher Birth.
9. But if they had continued in their feats, and * viz. the ft- had qualified or operated, as * they had done from Ä^ty, then that high Light had not hurt they were them.
eonßimud 10e por triey were rM new fpirits made of any ^ new thing, but they were the Old fpirits, which had no Ch.XlV. became thefouleß DeVil. 305 no beginning; which had been in God from Eternity; and knew very well the Right of the Deity and of Nature3 how they (hould move and ftir.
11. Alfo when God figured or framed the Body together, he did not aforehand deftroy the qualifying or fountain fpirits, but figured or framed the Body of King Lucifer together out of the kernel of that which was the befl, wherein was the beft knowledge of all.
1 2. Elfe if the qualities had been dead aforehand, they had had need of a new Life, and it wonld have been in doubt, whether the Angels could have fubfifted Eternally.
Conceive it aright, 1 3. God created Angels out of himfelf, therefore* that they might be harder and dryer incorporated or compacted together, then the Ideas, figures, lliapes or forms, which through the qualifying or operating of the Spirits of God in Nature, rife up, and alfo through the moving of the fpirits vamfb or pafle away again, that their light in their hardnefTe fhould (bine the clearer and Brighter, and that the Tone of the Body fhould found the clearer and fhriller,whereby the joyf iiinefs fhould increafe the more, in God. This TP** the caufejhat Qod created <&Angels.
14. But that it is faid, the Angel generated a new Light, or a new Spirit, that, is thus to be understood, 15; When the qualifying or fountain Spirits R r were were incorporated or compared together, then the light (hone much brighter and clearer in the Body, and from or out of the body,.the» it did before, in the S diner: for there then rofe up a much clearer and brighter fl.afh in the body, then before, whileft the Saliner was Thin and Dim., 1 6. And therefore the qualifying or founrain fpirits alio became ftately and Proud, and fuppofed they had a much fairer little fonne or Light then the Sonne of God was; and therefore they would alfo the moreearneftly and eagerly qualifie or operate, and elevate thernfelves, and fo defpifed the qualifying or A&ing which is in God their Father, and the Birth of the Sonne of God, as alio the Exit or going forth of God the Holy Ghoft; and fuppofed, they ^could do it, becaufe they were fo gloriouily incorporated or compacted together, therefore they would now exalt thernfelves glorioufly and itately, and fhew forth thernfelves, as if they were the moil fair and Beautious Bride of Heaven.
17. They knewzerj we//, that they were not the whole or Totall God, but were onely a piece or part thereof} they alio knew very well, how far their Omnipotence reached or extended, and yet they would no more have their 0/t/condkiorx3 but would, be higher then the whole or Total God; and fuppofed, t^rchy4 thsy-. (hould- have tb^ir.p'jw Region Quarters or Court above the. whole. or'Tqtai Deity, above all Kingdoms rphatfoeier.
1 8.. And therefore they elevated or extol'd thernfelves, intending to kindle or eaflame the whole Godv and to Govern or rule the whole God by their power and might. All forms and Ideas fhculd rife up in the * or Anthe qualifying and ading of their Spirit. He woull be Lord of' the Deity, and would not endure any Cor-. rival.
i£. NoU? this is the 'fyot ofQovetoufnetfe, £nvy0 Tricle and * Tf^Vdtv 1 For in the fierce qualifying or ading * and boyling, rofe up the wrath, and burnt like fire of Heat and Cold, and was alio bitter as Gall.
20. For the qualifying or fountain fpirits had no Qutward impulfe upon them gotten into them, but the impulfe to Pride elevated it felf mtbin the Body, in the councel of the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits, thek agreed and united in a com pad, that they would be God alone.
2 1. But becaufe they could not begin it in their Old feat, and fo bring it to effed, they therefore diffembled or playd the Hypocrite together, and fiatter'done with another, and fo combined, intending to extoll themfelves againft the Birth of God, and would needs qualifie or work in the higheß depth, and then nothing could be like them, being they were together the moß C^Ughty Prince in God.
22. TheAftringent quality was the j*r/f Murtherer flatterer and Hypocrite, for when it faw, that it generated fo fair and bright a Light, then it compreflTcd it felf together^* harder r, then God had created it to be, intending to be much more terrible, and to draw together all in its whole Region Circuit or circumference, and keep it faß as a ftern fevere Lord: 23. And fo in a degree then it had EfFedcd fomewhat from whence Earth and Stones have their Ori- Rr 2 ginal-.s * 0 3 How Lucifer t he fairefk Angel Ch. XIV.
ginal: which I will write of,when I treat concerning the Creation of the World.
24. The Bitter Quality was the/^oWMurtherer, which when it rofe up in the Flath, did tear with breaking and great Power in the Aftringent quality, as if it would break the Body in pieces.
25. And the aftringent quality permitted it, or elfe it was very well able to have jtayd and captivated the Bitter fpirit, and to bathe or fleep it in the fweer waters till his high mind had been allayed and j gone: But it would needs have fach a little Brother, becaufe it was fo ferviceable to. its turn 5 Elfe,being the bitter fpirit taketb its original from it, as it were from itsFather,it could well have flopped or hindred that.
2 6. The Heat is the third Murtherous fpirit,which killed its Mother the fweet water, but the aftringent fpirit is the caufe thereof, for by its ftern fevere at~ traBmg together and hardening, it hath thus vehemently awakened and kindled the fire by the bitter Quality c for the fire is the Smrdoi the aftringent and Bitter quality.
27. But being the tire rifeth up in the fweet water, therefore it felf hath the whip or fcourge in its own power, and might have ftayd or kept back the aftringent quality in the water, but it alfo became a flatterer, or hypocrite, and diflembled with the. great quality, viz. the aftringent, and did hip to deftroy tne fweet water.
28. The Tone is the fourth Murthcrer: for.it taketh its ringing found in the fire in the fweet water, and rifeth up very gently and lovely in the whole Body.
2^. Yet it did not fo here,, but after, it was rifen up Chap.XIV. iecame the foulefi Devil. 30p up in the water, in the aftringent quality, k rofe up fo furwußy like a Thunder-Clap, whereby it would prove and (hew forth its N(w Deity • And fo the fire rofe up, as when there is a Tempefl ot Lightning, intending thereby to be/0 great, as tobe above all things in God.
30. And this they pra&ifed fo long, till they had murthered their mother the fweet water.- and therein the whole Body became a dark valley, and there was no more remedy or Council in God that could help here: For, Love was turn'd into Emnity, and the Ccsttfel. Ccu«i, whole Body became a black dark < /«Öw, C Devil!, jto^ %<& 31. Of the word (ceafel): fen$ hath its origiglnai from hard beating Drumming or Thumping; and the word or fyllable, *it\\ hath its originall C fallen from »the <? and fo Lord Lucifer is called •fall, Devill, and is no more called a fljeridin or Seraphirt, Here 3l0..* Hö» Lucifer the faire ft Angel Ch.%lV, Here it may be Asked: Queftion.
Could not God have hindered and prevented the Pride of Lucifer > that he might have abftained from his highmindednefle £ As/fwer, 32. Tins is a high Queftion, on which all thofe lay hold that jujtifie and plead the Caufe of the Devil; but they are all Citedto appear at the Court of Juftice held tor Tryal of Criminal UlialefaBours; let them have a care bow they plead for their Mailer, elfe the Sentence of Judgment will be pronounced againft him, and he will lofe his Crom, 33. Behold King Lucifer was the Head in his whole Region Circuit or Circumference, alfo he was a mighty King, and was created out of the kernell or marrow of his whole Region and circumference, alfo he would fain have kindled that whole circumference by his Elevating, that fo all might have burned and qualified, or operated as be did in his own body.
34. Though indeed the Deity without or diftind from his Body, would have meekly and gently qualified or atted towards him, and have enligbtned and exhorted him to Repentance, yet now there was no other other will in Lucifer, but that he would needs rule over the Sonne of God, and kindle that whole Region or circumference, and in fuch a way himfelf would be the whole God, above and over all the Angelical Hoafts or Armies.
3 5". Now when the Heart of God with his meek* nefje and Love made hafte toward Lucifer ^e. defpifed it, and thought himfelf far better then it, and then ftorm'd back again with fire and coldnefle in hard Claps of Thunder <*£<«#/? the Sonne of God, fuppofing he muft be in fubjection under him, and that He himfelf was Lord, For he defpifed the Light of the Sonne of God.
Ouefion.
Then thou Askeft: How I Had he fuch Power a Anfveer.
' 3 6 '. Yes, he had; for he was a great part of the Deity; and befides, was from or out of the kernel thereof, for he made an attempt alfo upon that King and Great Prince MichaEL^to fpoil and deitroy Kim, who at laß. fought with him, and overcame him, in whom the power of God in Lucifer s Kingdom fought vehemently alfo againft its King, till at laft he was thruft down from his Kingly feat, as one that was vanquished, ApocaL. 12.
Objection 3i2 t How Lucifer thefaireß Angel Ch.XIV, Objeftiw: \ Now thou wile fay: