The Sabißj quality is a good ^Temperature in the * or Tcm* bitter, fvvett, and ioure, niaking every thing plea- per, fant j it oppofeth the filing of the bitter Quality, as alfo of the fweet, and fourc^ Ufi they fhould be inflamed: it is a fharp quality, a delight in the taite, a fource of lite and joy.
4*. It cöntaineth alfo ' fierceneffe and corruption: Being inflamed in thejjVf, it cngendreth a. hard, tearing and ftony nature 3 a fierce wrathful G fource, -2 Farther of the Two Qualities, Cha^.I:.tf {cvrcefideßruBion of life, whcieby the Store or Gravel is engend red in the fkih ^ cauung great pain and torment to thefkfh.
4 ]. But if it be inflamed in the water j then it engendreth in the fk-fhjfcabs, fores, pox, lcprofie*, and is a mourning houfe of Death, a mifcry,and forgetting of all good things.
The Second Chapter.
u$n IntroduHion, foewing Low men may come to apprehend The Divine^and Natur all^heeing. And fur thereof the two Qualities, A LI whatfoever hath been above mentioned is therefore called jg^w/^becaufe it qualifi- _j£th operate th or iiametn all in the Deepea- L~e tiic eanh,alfo upon tue earth,and in the earth, in one another, as ONE thing, and yet hath feverall diiUnc~t venues and operacions3and but one mother, from wher.ee defcend and Spring all things.
2 e And all the creatures are made and defcended from thefe qualities, and live therein as in their mother; and the eaith and Stones deicend or proceed from thence alfo; and all that groweth out of the earth, liveth and Springeth form out of the vertue of thefe cjualities; no rational man can deny it.
3. Now This two-fold Source, Good and Evil in every thing, is caufed by th^Stars: for as the Creatures in the Earth are in their Qualities, fo alfo are the Stars.
4. For from the two-fold Fource, everything hath its great Mobilityjrunning^Springing, driving and growing. For meeknefle in nature is a Still Reft, but the fierccnefle in every power, maketh all things Chap.II. Farther of the Two Qualitiei, 4$ things moveable,runnrng, and Generative* 5. For the driving qualities caufe a Iuft in alt creatures unto eVil and good, fothat every thing is defirous one of the other, to copulate and encreafe, decreafe, grow fair, perifh, love, and hate.
6. In every Creature in this World is a good and Evil will and fource ^ in Men, Beafts, F®wles, Fifties, Wormes, and in all that which is upon the earth; in Gold, Silver, Copper, Tinn, Iron, Steel, Wood, Herbs, Leaves, and Grade 5 As alfo in the earth, 'm ftoncsjin the water,and all whatfoever can be thought upon.
7. There is nothing in Nature, wherein there is not Good and Evil: every thing moveth and liveth in this double impulfe working or operation 5 be it what it will, 8. But the holy. Angels and the fierce Wrathful Devils are here to be excepted, for thefe are fevered apart; Each of thefe liveth, qualifieth and ruleth in his own peculiar quality.
$. The holy Angels live and qualifie in the light in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghoft raigneth. But the Devils live and raign in the fierce wrathful quality,in the Quality of fiercencfle and wrath, deftru&ion or perdition.
1 o. Yet both of thefe the good and the evil Angels were made out of the qualities of Nature^ from whence all things exifted, only they differ in their qualifying or Condition.
1 1. The Holy Angels live in the power of meeknefle, of the Light and joyfulnefle, and the Devils live in the power of the rifing or elevating quality of fiercencfle, terrour and Darknefle, and cannot comprehend the light j into which condition* they preci- G 2...puated 4.4. Farther of the Tm Qualities. Chap.II.
pitated and caft themfelves through their pride and elevating of themfelves, as I fhall (hew afterward, when I fhall write of-the Creation.
1 2. But it* thou wilt not believe,that in this world all defcendeth or comcth from the Stars, I will de« monftrate it to thee: if thou art not a Sot or Stock, but haft fome little Rcafon and underftanding left, therefore take notice of that which followeth.
1 3. Firft behold the Sun^ It is the Heart or King of all Scars, andgiveth light to all ftars from the Eaft to the Weft, it enlightneth and warmeth all, all liveth and groweth by its power; befides, the joy of all creatures ftandcth in its power.
14. If that {hould be taken away or Extinct, then all would be dark and cold, neither would there grow any fruit, and neither man nor beaft could propagate a.n& increafe, becaufe their heat would be extinguilht, and their Seed would be cold and chilled.
Of the Quality of the Sun.
15.
If thou wilt be a Philofophcr, and Naturaliß, and fearch into Cjods Being in Nature* and difcern how all is come to pafle, then pray to God for the holy. S pint, to enlighten thee with the fame.
1 6. For in thy Flefh and Blood thou art not able to apprehend it, and though thou doft read it, yet it is but as a Fume or Mift before thine Eyes.
17. In the Holy Ghoft alone, who is in God and - alfo in the whole Nature out of which all things were made * in him alone thou canft fearch into the whole Body or Corporeity of God, which is Nature* as alfo into the holy Trinity it felf. 1 8, For Chap.II. Farther of the Two Qualities. 4 5 1 8. For the Holy Ghoft gocth forth from the holy Trinity, and rcigneth and rulcth in the whole Body or firptu of God; That is, in the whole Nature.
1 9. Even as the ipirit of Man rulcth and reigneth in the whole body in all the Veins, and repienifheth the whole Man: even fo the Holy Ghoft repleniiheth the whole Nature, and is the Heart of Nature, and raigneth in the good Qualities of every thing.
20. Now if thou haft that fpirit in thce,fo that it cnlightneth,/?'//^/; and rcplenifheth thy fpirit, then thou wilt undcrftand what followeth in this writing.
21. But if not, then it will be with thee, as it was with the wife fleathens, who gazed and flared on the Creation, and would fearch and fiftitoutby their oKvz^/otfjandthough with their fictions and conceits they came before Gods countenance or Face yet they were not able to fee it j but were ftark blind in the knowledge of God.
22. And as the children of Jfrael in the Defart could not behold CMofes his countenance, and therefore he muft put a Vail before his face, when he drew near to the people.
23. The caufeof it was, they neither underftood nor knew the true God and his Will, who iwtm.it b-' {landing walked among them,and therefore that Väti was a iignand type of their blindnefTe and mif-un--derftanding.
24. As little as a peece of work can apprehend him that made it, fo little alfo can Man apprehend and know God his creator, unlefTe the Holy Ghoft enlighten him; which hapneth only to thole, that rely not upon themfelves> butfet their hope will and defires^ 4$ Farther of the Two Qualities. Chap.II.
defires5 only upon God, and move in the Holy GhouS and thefe are one Spirit with God.
25. Now if we conlider rightly of the Sun and Starrs, with their forpus or Body, operations and Qualities, then the very divine Being may be found therein, and that the vertues of the ftars are Nature it felf.
26. If the whole Wheel Circumference orSphear of the ftars be well confidered,then it is foon found,that the fame is the mother of all things: or the Nature out of which all things are come, and wherein all things ftand and live, and whereby every thing moveth, all things are made of thefe powers, and therein they abide eternally.
27. And though, indeed they fa all Unchanged at the end of this Time,when good and evil fhall be fcparatcd; And fo in like manner Angels and men, in the power of Nature out of which they had gotten their firft beginning, (hall fubfift in God, eternally.
28. But here thou muft elevate thy minde in the Spirit^ andconfider, how the whole Nature with all tue powers, which are in Nature, alfo the widenefle, depth arid height, alfo heaven, and earth, and all whatfoever is therein, and all that is above the heavens, is together, the Body or Corporeity of God 5 and the powers of the Starres are the fountain Veins, in the naturall body of God, in this world.
29. Thou muft not conceive,that in the Body of the StarSjis the tryumphing Holy Trinity, God the Father Sonneand Holy Ghoft, in which there is no evil, but is the Light-holy eternal fountain of joy, which is undividable, and unchangeable, which no creature can fufficiently apprehend or exprefle: which dwelcth Chap. II, Farther, of the Two Qualities. 4_ ethand is above the Body of the Scars in itfelf,whofc •depth no creature is able to mcafure or fathom. • 30. But vvc muft not fo conceive, as if God were not at all in the Corpus or Body ot the Starrs, and in this world: for when we lay 5 AEL0OY f?0Wl Eternity to Eternity 3or All in All then we underiland3the Entire GOD.
Take mrw lot sl Similitude or Example, who is wade after the Image or Similitude of god, as it ^written in Mofes, Gen. 1.27.
32. Tie Inward or hoilowneße in the Body of Man, js and fignifieth the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth.
33.. The whole Body with all it i parts, fignifieth Heaven and Earth.
34. The Flefo fignifieth the Earth, and is alio from Earth.
35. The Blood fignifieth the Water, and is from the Water.
3 6. The Breath fignifieth the Ayr, and is alfo Ayr.
37. The wind- Pipe and arteries,whcrein the Ayr qualifieth or operateth, fignifieth the Dfcp betwixt thenars and the Earth, wherein firc,ayr and water qualific in an elementary man.ner,and fo the warmth the Ayr, and water, qualifiealfointhe^/W-P/^tf and Arteries, 2l$ they do in the Deep above the Earth.
38. The Teins fignifie the powerfull Rowings out from the Stars: and are alfo the powerful outgoings of the Stars; for the Stars with their powers raign in the Veins, and drive forth the Forme fhape and condition in Men.
19, The entrails or Cuts fignifie the operation of the ^8 Farther of the Taro Qualities. C ha p.II# theSrarSjor their confuming of all that which is proceeded from their power, for whatfoever therrfelves have made j that they confumc again, and remain Still in their vertue and power, and fo the Gutts alfo are the confuming of all that, which man Thruftcth and fluffeth into his Gutts 9 even all whaifoevcr groweth from the power of the Stars.
40. The Heart in man Signified» the Heat, or the Element ofFire, and it is alfo the Heat; for tie Heatin the whole Body 3 hath its Original in the Heart, 41. The wind- pipe and t/frteries, figni fie the Element of Aire, and the Aireruleth alfo therein.
42. The Liver fignificth the Element of water, and it is alfo the water: for from the Liver cometh the Blood in the whole Body into all the Members. The Liver is the Mother of the Blood.
43. The Lungs Signify the Earth, and arc alfo of the fa me Quality.
44. The Feet Signify near and afar off, for near and afar off) are all one in God: and fomanby means of his Feet can come and go near and far oß » let him be where he will, he is in Nature, neither near, nor afar off; for in God thefe are one thing.
45. The Hands fignifie Gods Omnipotence: for as God in Nature can change all things, and make of them what he pleafeth: fo man alfo can with his Hands change all that which is grown in Nature, and can make.with his Hands out of them what he pleafeth: he ruleth with his Hands the wor£ and Being of the whole Nature, and fo they very well fignifie the Omnipotence of God.
How Chap.II. Farther of the Two Qualities 4$ Now obferve here further j The whole Body, to the Neck t, fignifiethj and is, the round circle or Sphcar of the Starres>as alfo the Deep within or between the Stars, wherein the planets and Elements reign.
47. The Flefh fignifyeth the Earth, which is congealed, and hath no motion: and To the flefh in it {elf hath no Reafon, Compreheniibility, or Mobility^ but is moved only by the power of the Stars, which raign in the flefh and veins.
48. No more could the earth bring forth any fruit, neither could there grow any Metals, as Gold, Silver,, Copper, Iron, or ftones, if the Starrs did not work in them 5 neither could there grow any Grafle, without the operation of the Starrs.
49. The Head fignifieth Heaven; the fame is grown on the Body, by the veins, paflages and going forth of powers 5 and fo all the powers come again from the Head and Brain into the Body,into the fountain-veins or Arteries of the flefh.
50. Now Heaven is a pleafant Pal lace of joy, wherein all the powers are, as in the whole nature in the Starrsand Elements, but not fohard working and Springing. For every power of Heaven, hath but one Species kind or form of power. Springing very bright and meekynot promifcuoufly Evil and Good one in another, as in the Starrs and Elements, but v ery pure, 5 1. It is made out of the Midft of the waters^ but not qualifying in fuch a manner, as the water in the elements,for ficrcenefTe or wrath is not therein. However Heaven belongeth to Nature, becaufe the Stars and Elements have their original and power from the Heaven. H 52. For 5« Farther of the Two Qualities. Chap.II.
5 2. For Heaven is the Heart of the water, as in all creatures, and in all that, which is in this world, the water isi\iQHeart thereof and nothing can Subfift without water, be it in the fkfh or out of the flefh, in the Vegetables of the earth, or in Metals and Stones, in every thing the water is the kernel or the Heart of it.
53. And fo Heaven is the Heart in Nature, wherein all the powers are, as in the Stars and Elements, and it is a foft Tupple and meek matter of all powers, as the Brain, in mans Head, is.
54. Now Heaven kindleth with its power, the Jtars and Elements, fothat they move and work: And (o the Head of man is alfo like Heaven.
55. For as in Heaven all powers are meek and full of joy; And as Heaven hath a clofure or ¥/rma~ mext above, the Starrs * aud yet all powers go forth from Heaven into the »Scars: fo the Brain alfo hath a Clofure or Firmament between it and the body, and yet all the powers go forth from the Brain into the Body, and into the whole man.
5 6. The Head £ontaineth the five Senfes, viz. Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tafting,and Feeling, wherein the Stars and Elements qualify, and therein exil):-eth the Sidereal or Heavenly Starry or Aftral and Natural fpirit inMen and Beafls,in this floweth forth Good and Evil, for it is the Houfe of the Stars.
57. Such power the Stars borrow from Heaven, that they can make in the flefh a Living and moving Spirit in Man andBeait. The moving of the Heaven maketh the Stars moveable, and lo the Head alfo maketh the Body moveable.
58.
Tift» ope» fore the eyes of tb) Spirit, and behold God thy Creator. Quefkion.
Chap. II. Farther of the Two Qualities Quefiion. Here Now the Qu eft ion is,From whence hath -Heaven, or whence Borroweth it this power» that it cauleth fuch Mobility in Nature?
Anfwer. $$. Here you muft Lift up your Eyes Beyond Nature, into the Light-holy Tryumphing divine power,into the unchangeable holy Trinity, which is a triumphing Springing moveable Being, and all powers are therein, as in Nature.
60. For this is the Eternal (^Mother of Nature, of which Heaven, Earth, Stars, Elements, Angels, Devils, Men, Beafts, and all have their being, and therein ALL ftandeth.
61. When we nominate Heaven and Earth, Stars and Elements, and all that is therein, and all whatsoever is above the Heaven, then thereby is nominated the Tot all Gody which hath made himfelf 0*4turely in thefe above mentioned Beings, in his power which goeth forth from him.
62. But GOD in his TRINITY is unchangeable, and whatever there is in Heaven and upon Earth,and above theEarth,hath its Spring Source and Original, from theJPover which proceedeth from God.
■ i £3. Yet you muft not therefore conceive, that in God, there is Good and Evil, for God Himfelt is the Good^ and hath the Name from good, which is the triumphing Eternal Joy: only all thepoaw proceed fromtiim, which you can fearch out in Nature, and which are in all things.
Queflion.
£4. Now perhaps you may fay: Is there not good H 2 and Further of the Two Qualities. Chap.II. And Evil in Nature: and fo feeing every thing cometh from God,needs mufi then the Evil alfo come from God } tAnfwer.
65. Behold there is a Gall in mans Body, which isPoifon, and he cannot live without this Gall 5 for the Gall maketh the Aflral fpirits moveable, joyous, triumphing or laughing: tor it is the fource of joy.
66. But if it be inflamed or kindled in one of the ElementSjthen izfpoileth the whole Man,for the wrath in the Ailral fpirits cometh from the Gall, 6 j. That is, when the Gall overfloweth, and runneth to the Heart, then it kindleth the Element of pre, and the fire kindleth the Aftral fpirits, which raign in the Blood in the veins and in the Element of watery and then the whole Body trembleth by reafon of the wrath and the poyfon of the Gall.
68. And fuch a fource hath Joy,and from the fame fubftanceas alfo the wrath. That is, when the Gall in -the Loving cr Sweet quality is inflamed, in that, which mantis in lovewithall, then the whole body trembleth for joy, in which many times the Afrali fpirits are affected alfo, when the Gall is overflown, and is kindled in the Sweet quality.
69. But it hath no fuch Subßance in God, for he hath notflejb and bloody but he is a Spirit, in whom all powers are j as we pray in the Lords Prayer^ 'thine is the power. (John 4.24. Matth.tf.j ; 70. And as it is written of him in Jfaiah 9. He is wonderful, Counfel, Power, Champion, Sternal Father^ Prince of Peace.
7 1. The Bitter quality is in God alfo, but not in that manner as the Gall is in Man, but it is an ever* Ußing Ch3p.II. Farther of the Two Qualities. 5 3 lofting power, in an elevating triumphing fpring or fource of Joy.
72. And though it be written in Mofes, I am an angry zealous God, Exod.20. D^.4.24. yet the meaning of it is not, that God is angry in himfelf, and that there arifeth a fire of anger in the Holy Trinity.
73. No; that cannot be, for it is written, againft thofe that hate me, in that fame Creature, the pre of anger rife th up.
74.But if God fhouldbe angry in Himfelf,then the whole Nature would be on fire, which will come once to pafle On the Laß Day in Nature, and Not in God, but in God, the triumphing Joy will burn; it was never otherwife from eternity, nor will it Ever be otherwife.
75. But now the elevating fpringing triumphing joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable, and Heaven maketh the Stars and elements moveable, and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable, j6. Out of the Powers of God, are the Heavens proceeded.- out of the Heaven are the Stars jout of the Stars are the Elements; Out of the elements are the Barth and the Creatures come tobe.
77. Thus all had its beginning even to the Ang|ls and Devils; which, before the Creation of Heaven, Stars, and the Earth, were proceeded out of the fame power out of which the Heaven, the Stars, and the Earth were proceeded.
78. This is a fhort Entrance or Introdu&ion,fhewin<* how the Divine and Natural Being is to be conhoered. Henceforth I will defcribe the true Ground and 5 4 Of the Trinity of the Onewh) God. Chapjfl.
and Depth concerning What God is, and how all things are framed in Gods Being. - 79. Which indeed hath been partly concealed from the beginning of the World 10 this time, and Man witlThis %rafon could not comprehend it.
80. Bur" feeingfeodis pleated to reveal Himfeif In Simplicity in this laft Time; I {hall give way to his Impulfe and Will -, I am but a very little Spark of Light. AMEN.
The Third Chapter.
Of the moll hleffed Triumphinz, Holy Holy Holy Trinity 0 QQ$) the Father, Sonne, and HolyQho^ ONE onely Cjod.
1.
GOurteous Reader, here I would have you faithfully admomfljed, to let go your Opinion and Conceit, and not to Gaze after the MeMhemjh wifdome, nor be offended at tie iimpliciry of the Authour: for this work comes not from his Reafonjoxxi from the impulfe of the Spirit.
2. Onely be thou careful to get into thy fpirit the Holy Ghofiy which iflueth forth from God, and He will lead thee into all truth, and reveal Himfeif unto thee. < 3. And C ha p. Ill. Of the Trinity the Oueonly Go*K 5 J 3. And then thou wilt fee well enough in his Light and Power; even into the holy Trinity, and undcrftand thofe things which are written Hereafter following.
Of GOD the FATHER.
4.
When Our Saviour. JESUS CHRIST taught his Difciples to pray, he faid; when ye pray, fay thtu: Our Father, which art in Heaven, Matth. 6.
5. The meaning is not, as if Heaven could comprehend encompafle or contain God the Father: for it / elf is made by the Divine power: for Chrift faith, My Father if greater then all, Joh* 10.2?.
6. And God faith in the Prophet, Heaven is my Throne, and the earth is * myfootftool, Efa. 66. what * The Dart houfe would you build for me > I compare the. Heaven under my with a Span, and the Sarth with three Fingers, Efa. 4p.?***• 12. Alfo, I will dweü.in' Jacob, and Jfrael IhaH be my Tabernacle, Pfal. 135.4. Syrac. 25.13.
7. But in that Chrift calls his Father a Heavenly Father, his meaning is, that his Fathers lufire and power appeareth and fhineth very bright and pure in Heaven; and that, above the circle or inclofure,which we behold with our Eyes, and which we call Heaven, doth appear the totally Triumphing Holy Trinity, The Father Sonne and Holy Ghoft.
8. Chrift alfo thereby diftinguifheth his Heavenly Father from the Father of Nature, which is indeed the Stars and the Elements, thefe are our Natural Father, out of which we are made, and by whofe impulfe 5 $ Of the Trinity the One only God, Chap.üL impulfe we live here in this world, and from whence wc have our food and nourifhment.
9. But God is therefore Our Heavenly Father, in that our Soul continually longeth after him, and is dcfirous of him, yea it thirfteth and hungreth continually after him.
io. The Body hungreth and thirfteth after the Father of Nature, which is piz, the Stars and the Elements* and that Father alfo feedeth and nouriflicth the Body.
n. But the Soul thirfteth after the heavenly Holy Father, and he alfo giveth meat and drink to it,feeding it with his holy Spirit, and the fpring fource or fountain of joy.
12. Yet we have#o* two Fathers, but only One: for Heaven is made by his Power, and the Stars out of his Wifdome, which is in him> and proceed eth forth from him.
Of the Sub fiance and ^Property of the Father.
13.
When we confider the whole Nature and its property, then we fee the Father.
14, When we behold Heaven and the Stars,thcn we behold his eternal Power and Wifdom: fo many Stars as ftand in the whole Heaven, which are innumerable and incomprehensible to Reafon, and fome of them are not vifible; fo manifold and various is the Power and Wifdome of God the Father.
1 5.But Every Star in Heaven Differeth in its power and Chäp.Ifl. Of the Trinity the One only god. 57 and Quality > which alfo maketh fo many Diftin&ions in and among the Creatures upon the Earthy and in the whole Creation.
16. But all the Powers, which are in Nature, proceed from God the Father; All Light,Hcat Cold, Ayr, Water, and all the powers of the Earth 5 Bitter, Sowre, Sweet, Aftringent, Hard, and Soft, and more then can be Reckoned 5 all have their beginning from the Father.
17. Therefore if a Man would liken the Father to any thing, he fhould liken him to the Round Globe of Heaven.
18. Thou muft not conceive here, that the very power, which is in the Father, ftandeth in a Peculiar Fevered or divided part and/^tt? in the Father, as the Stan do, in Heaven.
19. No! but the Spirit fheweth that all the powers in the Father are one in another, as one power.
20. ARefemblance Image or Figure whereof, we have in the Prophet Ezekiet the i^^.Who feeth the Lord in the Spirit and refemblance,like a wheele, having Four other wheels one in another, the Four being like one another, and when they moved, they went Strait forward, which way foever the Wind did (it, or How, and that way they went all forward, having no caufe of returning.
2 1. And thus it is with God the Father; for all the powers are in the Father, one in another, as one pwer; and all powers Confift in the Father, in an unfearcheable Light and Clarity, or Brightncs and Glory.
22. Yet thou muft not think, that God whoisin Heaven and above the Heaven, doth there ftand and I hover, - g Of the Trinity the One only God, C hap.III.
hover, like a power and quality which hath in it neither Reafon, nor knowledge in it.- 23. As the Sun7 which turneth round in its circle, and fhooteth forth from it felf Heat and Light, whether it be for benefit or hurt to the Earth and Creatures, which indeed would be for hurt, if the other Planets and Stars did not hinder.
24. No! the Father is not fo, but he is an Allmight/, All-wife., All-knowing, All-feeing, All-hearing, All-fmelling, All-feeling, All-tafting God, who in himfelf is meek, friendly, gracious, merciful, and full of Joy, yea Joy it fclf.
25. And he is thus from Eternity to eternity unchangeably.* He never changed himfelf in his Being, neither will he change himfelf in all Etermty.
2 6, He is proceeded or born of nothing, but Himfelf is all in Eternity; and all whatfoever is,is come from his power, which from Eternity goeth forth from hhv.
27. His ImmcnfencfTe Heighth and Depth, no freature, no rot any Angel in Heaven, can fearch into it, but the Angels live in the power of the Father very meekly, and full of Joy, and they alwaies Sing in the power of the Father.
Of GOD the SONNE.
28.
If a Man will fee 6" od the Sonne,, he muft once more look upon natural things, otherwifc I cannot write of him: the Spirit indeed beholdeth him, but that can neither be fpoken ncr written ^ for the Divine Chap.HI. Of the Trinity the One only God. 5 9 vine Being confifteth in power, which can neither be written nor fpoken.
29. Therefore we muftufe Similitudes, if we intend to fpeak of God: for we live in this world, as men who know but in part, and are made of that which is but in part. Therefore I cite the Reader into the life to come, where and when I (hall fpeak more properly and more clearly of this high Article.
30. In the mean while, the loving Reader is to attend to the fenfe and meaning of tie Spirit, and then he will not fail to get a little refrefhing, if he hath but any hunger in him.
Now Obferve.
The Turks and Heathens fay, God hath no Sonne; Set Open your Eyes wide, here; and do not make your telvcsflark blind, and you will fee the Sonne.
3 2. The Father is all, and all power Subfifteth in the Father: He is the Beginning and the End of all things j and befidcs and beyond him is nothing, and whatever is, is from the Father.
33. For before the beginning of the Creation of the Creatures, there was nothing but only GOD; and where there is nothing, out of that r.othing will be. All things muft have a Caufe or Root,or elfe Nothing will be.
3 4. Yet you are not to think that the Sonne is another God, then the Father. Neither fhould you think, that the Sonne is without or befides the Father, and that he is a fevered part or divided piece^as when I 2 two 0o OftheTrinity the One only God. Chap.III.
two men ft and one by another, where one comprehendeth not the other.
35. No! the Father and the Sonne is not of fuch a fubftance, or fuch a kind of thing: for the Father is not an Image^o be likened to any thing; but the Father is the fountain of all powers, and all the powers are one in another as one power, and therefore he is faid to be ONE onely GOD. *■ 36*. Otherwife if his powers were divided) then he were not Al-mighty, but now he is the Self-fubfifting. All-mighty, and All-powerful God.
37. And the 5ö/?/^ is the.Heart in the Father, all the powers, which are in the Father, are the propriety of the Father.5 and the Sonne is the Heart or the Kernel or Pith,, in all the powers, in the whole Father, and he.is the c aufe of the fpringing Joy in all powers in the whole Father.
38. From the Sonne, who is the Fathers Heart in a,ll his powers, the Eternal Joy arifethand fpringeth in all tiie powers of the Father, fuch a joy, as no eye hath feen, nor ear heard 9 neither hath ever entred into the Heart of any Man, as St. Paul faith, 1 Cor.
39. But if a man here on Earth be enlightned with the Holy Ghoft from the fountain of JESUS CHRIST, fothat the fpirits of Nature, which fig-, nifie the Father, be kindled in him, then there anfeth fuch a Joy in his Heart, and it goeth forth into all his veins, to that the whole body trembleth, and the Soulifh animal fpirit triumpheth,as if it were fit-.
• ing in the holy Trinity, which is underftood onely by thofe, that have been Guefts in that place.
40. And this is but a Type or Glimpfe of the Sonne Chap.III. Of the Trinity the One only god. 6\ of god in Man, whereby Faith is ftrengthened and preferved: for the joy cannot be fo great in an earthen njefjely as in a heavenly, wherein the perfect power, of God is fully.
Now here I muß write a Similitude, twill fliew thee a Similitude in Nature, Signifying how the holy Being in the holy Trinity, is.
42. Confider Heaven, which is a round Globe, having neither beginning nor end, but its beginning and end is every where, which way foever you look upon it: and (bis god, who is in and above the. Heaven, he hath neither beginning nor end.
43. Now confider further 5 the Circle or Sphear of the Stars, they denote the various Powers and Wifdome of the Father, and they are made alfo by the Power and Wifdom of the Father* 44. Now the Heaven, the Stars, and the whole Veep between the Stars, together with the Sarth 5 fignirle, the Father.
4 5. And the Seven planets, fignifie, the fe ven S pints of God, or the Princes of the Angels, among which alfo Lord LUCIFER was one, before his Fall -, which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the creation of Angels, before the Time of this World.
46. Now Qbfervei TheSunftirreth in themidft in the Deep between the Stars in a round circle, and is the heart of the S tars,and gi veth Light and power, to all the ftars, fo tempering the power of the ftarres, that all becometh pleafant and joy full.
47, It enlighteneth alfo the Heaven, the Sitars, and the St Of the Trinity the One only god. Ghap.III.
the Deep above the Earth, working in ail things that are in this world, and fo rightly fignifieth, the _ Sonne oi God.
48. For, as the Sun ftandeth in the midft betwixt the Stars and the Earth, enlightening all powers,and is the Light and Heart o{ all the powers, and is all the Joy in this world; befides, all beauty and pleafantnelTe ftandeth in the light and power of" the Sun.
49. Even lev the Sonne of God in the Father, is the Heart in the Father, and fhineth in all the powers of the Father -0 his power is the moving fpringingjoy in all the powers of the Father, and fhineth in the whole Father, as the Sun doth in the whole world.
5 o. If the Earth {hould be taken away,which fignifiethjthe Houfe of Mifcry Trouble or of Hell 5 then the whole Deep would be Light in one place, as well as in another: as indeed the whole Deep in the Father is as light in one place as in another, from the Luflre of the Sonne of God.
ft. And as the Sun is a Self-fubfifting creature, power, and Light; which fhineth not forth from or out of all creatures, but in and into all creatures, and all creatures rejoyce in its power • 52. So the Sonne in the Father, is a felf-fubfifting perfon, and enligheneth all the powers in the Father, and is the Fathers joy or Heart m his Centre, or the Midft of him.
Olferve here the great Myflery of God.
53. - The Sun is made or Generated from all theStars,and is a Light, taken from the whole Nature, and fhineth ted Cliap.II. Of the Trinity the One only god. 61 again, into the whole Nature of th;s World, it is united with the other Stars, as if it ielf together with all the ftars, were but one ftarr.
54. And To the Sonne of Goi is Continually Generated from all the powers of his Father, is from Eternity,and is not made,but the Heart and Lußre fhining forth from the powers of his Heavenly Father; a felf-fub fitting Perfon, the Center, or Body of the Lutfre in the deep.
55. For the Fathers power Generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity, to Eternity: but if the Father fhould ceafe to Generate, then the Sonne would be no more; alfo if the Sonne fhould fhine no more in the Father, then the Father would be a dark valley: alfo then the Fathers power would not rife from Eternity, to Eternity, and fothe Divine Being would not Suifiß* 56. Thus the Father is the felfe-fubßßwg Being of all powers, and theonne is the heart in the Father, which is Generated continually out of all the powers ofthe Father,and who again enlightnetb the powers of the Father.
5 7. Do not conceive, that the Sonne in the Father isfomix'd, that his perfon can neither be feen nor known? No; for if it were fo, then it were but one Perfon.
58. For as the Sun fhineth not from or out of the other ftars, though it had its original from the other ftars; lo alfo the Sonne fhineth not from or out of the powers ofthe Father,as to his Body or Corporeity.
59. And though he be generated continually out of the powers ot the Father ^ And yet he fhineth back again into the powers of: theFatiter, for he is another Perfon than the Father, but not another God. tfo.He. • 6i\ Oftl:e Trinity the One only God. Chap.M.
60. He is eternally/» the Father, and the Father gencrateth him continually from eternity to eternity, and the Father and the Sonne is ONE Gody of an Equall Being in Power and Omnipotence.
61. The Sonne feeth, tafteth, heareth, feeleth, fmelleth and comprehendeth All, as the Father doth; in His power, alllivethandis, whatfoever is Good, as in the Father; But that which is Bad or Evill is not in Him.
Of GOD the Holy ©HOST.
6%. God the Holy gbofl, is the Third Perfon in the triumphing holy Deity, and proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne, out of the holy moving fpring or fountain of Joy in the whole Father.
63. He is a pleafant,meek quiet Wind or whifpering Breathor Still voyce, out of all the powers of the Father and of the Sonne; as,o# Mount Horeb wkh the Prophet Sliah, 1 Kings 19.12. And on tvkitfunday or the Day of Pentecoft, with the Apoftles, ^Aü.z. may be perceived.
64. Therefore if we will defcribe his Perfon,fubftance and property from the true Ground; it muft be reprelented in a Similitude. For the Spirit cannot be written down, being no Creature, but the moving flowing boyling power of God.
65. Confider, the Sun and Stars again 5 the Stars being many and feveral, inexpreflible and innumerable, they fignifie the Father: out of the ftars the Sun is come to be 5 for God hath made it out oithenty and it (ignifieth the Sonne 01 God.
66. And from the Sun and ftars proceed thejW Elements^ Chap.IH. Of the Trinity the One only god. 6% Elements, Fire, Ayr, Water,and Earth: ashdreafter I {hall demonftrate plainly, when I (hall write of the Creation, Now Okfervt: l! * Tfo three Blemente, Fire, Ayr and Watery have a threefold moving or qualification, but proceed from one Body: and confider, the fire or heat iwclls and flies alott from the Sun and ftarsj and from the Heat the Ayr *fwellsand flies aloft -> and from the Ayr * or Expand comes the Water. cchfcfeif, 6i. And in this motion or qualification con fifteth the life andfpirit of all creatures, and whatever can be named in this world • and that fignifieth the Holy Ghoft.
69. And as the three Elements, fire ayr and water, proceed from the Sun and ftars, and are one Body in one another, and caufe the living motion, and the fpirit of all the Creatures of this world * 70. So the Holy Ghoft proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne, and caufeth the living motion in all the powers of the Father.
7 1. And as the three Elements move in theDeep,as afeiffubfifting fpirit, and caufe heat,cold,and clouds, and do flow forth from the power of all the ftars; and as all the powers of the Sun and ftars are in the three Elements, as if they themfelves were the Sun and Stars, from whence is the life and fpirit öf all Creatures, and doth confift therein: 7». Juftfo the Holy Ghoft proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne, and moveth in the whole Father.