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Paradise, for no Doctors are to be found on this Way in this School, but only k Scholars [or Learners.] 10. Therefore let not my Master of Arts (in his l Hood and Tippet) think himself so cunning in this Matter, nor pour out his Mockings so presumptuously [against the Children of God,] for so long as he is a Scorner [or Mocker] he knows nothing of this. He ought not to think his Cap becomes him so finely; nor ought he to boast of his human Calling, as if he did sit in his Calling by m the Ordinance of God, whereas he is not set or confirmed therein from God, but by the Favour of Man. He ought not so much to prohibit [and forbid] the Way to Paradise, which himself does not know: He must one Day give a heavy Account of his n Ordination by the Favour of Man; because he boasts of a divine Calling, and yet the Spirit of God is far from him, therefore he is a liar, and belies the Deity. 11. Therefore let every one take Care what he does: I say again, that whosoever he be that intrudes himself to be a Pastor [or Shepherd] without the divine Calling, without the Knowledge of God, he is a Thief and a Murderer; he enters not through the Door into Paradise, but he creeps in with the Dogs and the Wolves, into the Den of Thieves, and he does it but for his Belly’s Sake, and his own Honour [and Esteem;] he is no Pastor [or Shepherd,] but he depends on the great Whore, upon Antichrist; and yet he supposes that he is a Pastor [or Shepherd;] but he is not known in Paradise. 12. Christ teaches us and warns us faithfully of the Times that were to come, wherein they shall say; Lo here is Christ, or Lo there he is; he is in the Wilderness; he is in the Chamber; go not forth, believe it not; for as the Lightning breaks forth in the East, and shines to the West, so will the Coming of the Son of Man be. 13. Therefore, O Child of Man, see whether it be not so; where the false Pastors [or Shepherds,] without the divine Calling, always wrangle, [strive, contend, and dispute;] and every one of them saith, p Follow me, here is Christ, there is Christ, and they judge [and condemn] one another, and give one another over to the Devil; they abandon Unity, and forsake the Love wherein the Spirit of God is q generated; and cause Bitterness, and lead astray the simple plain People, to think that k Children going to School. l Or Crowned Hat. m By divine Institution, or divine Right. n Or Institution. o Or Minister. p Or come and resort to me. q Acts or works. Christ is such a wrangling Shepherd, [Pastor, Priest, or Minister,]
and does so grapple with his r Opponents, in raising War and Murder, as they do; and that the Spirit of God must needs be in such Doings [which are accounted Zeal for God;] and that this must be the Way to Paradise. 14. Christ said; Love one another, thereby shall Men know that ye are my Disciples; if any smite thee on one Cheek, turn to him the other Cheek also; if you be persecuted for my Namesake, then rejoice, for your Reward is great in the Kingdom of Heaven: But now there is nothing taught but mere Ignominy, [Reproach, and Revilings;] they that are dead many Hundred Years ago, and are in the Judgment of God, and some also may be in Paradise, these must be judged, and condemned, and cursed by the wrangling Shepherds [or contentious Priests.] Does the Holy Ghost speak by them, as they cry out, and say he does? Whereas they are still full of Gall and Bitterness, and nothing but Covetousness and Vengeance is kindled in them, and they are far from the Way of Paradise? 15. Therefore, thou Child of Man, take Heed, let not your Ears be amused: When you hear the false Shepherds [or Pastors] judge and condemn the Children of Christ, that is not the Voice of Christ, but of Antichrist; the Way to Paradise has quite another Entrance; your Heart must with all your Power and Strength be directed to God [or Goodness;] and as God desires that all Men should be saved, so his Will is that we should help to bear one another’s Burden, [and bear with one another,] and friendly, soberly, and modestly meet one another with Entreaties in the Holy Ghost, and seek with Earnestness the [Salvation] and Welfare of our Neighbour in Humility, and wish heartily that he might be freed from Vanity, and enter with us into the s Garden of Roses. 16. The Knowledge that is in the infinite God is various and manifold, but every one should rejoice in the Gifts and Knowledge of another, and consider, that God will give such superabundant Knowledge in the paradisical World, of which we have here (in the Variety and Difference of Gifts) but a Type: Therefore we must not wrangle nor contend about Gifts and Knowledge; for the Spirit gives to every one according to his Essence in the wonderful God, to express that [Gift he has] after his own Form [or Manner;] for that [Form] in the Perfection of Love in r The adverse Party. s Into the sweet smelling pleasant Peacefulness. Paradise will be a very inward hearty Sport of Love, where every one shall speak from his Knowledge of the great Wonders of the t holy Birth.
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it, and not spend our Labour about
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Text in Moses rightly says, God clo
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our Labour given to the Wolves, Dog
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[sprung] again the Own [proper] Tin
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The secret Gate of Women. 42. Hence
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thy Joy, [Delight, and Habitation]
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that the Elements fill it, then tha
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Eye in Nature; it would require a g
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are Men) can certainly f conceive [
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first) is shut up fast, and hangs b
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Blood) from itself, out of its Esse
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Children of the Earth, because the
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and the Spirit [must] be dissolved,
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the u Element: The Element is neith
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how that the Will is in that [which
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Multiplicity,] where the Whole, in
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which in the sharp Might of God, in
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and it stands thus in the eternal O
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7. And there the Fiat (which create
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or Longing must be to get into the
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finds by Experience what is written
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[checked or stopped;] and there the
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Fruit, of that we must now eat, and
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eaks through the Essences of the so
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Truth; in which of the two the Spir
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continues eternally; but with the W
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the Deity continually rises up, as
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only] a Beast in the Will, Manners,
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