34. This is heavenly CMufick, for here every one fingeth according to the voice of his quality, and the Prince leadeth the Qiiire or Chorm; as a Chan- tour or finging-Mafkr with his Scholars, and the King rejoyceth and Jubilateth with his Angels, to the honour of the great God, and to the encreaiing and multiplying of the heavenly foyes: and that, is in the Heart of God, as a Holy Sport or Scene 5 and to that end alfo are they created for the Joy and Ho- nour of God.
3 5. Now when the heavenly Mufick of the Angel rifeth up, then, in the heavenly Pomp in the Divine Saliner; there rife up all manner of Vegetations Spring- Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. 237 Springings or Sproucs, alfo all manner of figures fhapes or Ideas, and all manner of colours^ for the Deity prefentcth fheweth or ciifcovereth it felf, in endleß'e and unfearchable varieties of kinds, colours, Ideas, forms, and Joyes.
36. Now, that qualifying or fountain-Spirit in the Deity which doth fhew it felf then in a lingular manner with its rifing up, and Love-wreßling ^ as ha- ving become the Prince or Chief of them; that ve- ry Angel-Prince belonging to it, beginneth inftantly his heavenly Mufick with his own Legions, accord- ing to his Quality, with fmging, ringing forth, Pi- ping melody, and in all the manners of heavenly Skill and Art, which rifeth up in the Spirits of God.
37. But when the Center in the Midft rifeth up, that is, when the Birth or Geniture of the Sonne of God, fheweth it felf in a Angular manner, as a Triumph 5 then there rife up tne Muficks melodies or Joyes, of all the three Kingly Governments or Royal Regiments of the whole Creation of all the Angels.
38. What mannet of joy this muß be, let every Soul confider; I3 in my corrupted nature, cannot apprehend it, muchicfle can I write it.
3?. By this fong I invite or Cite the Reader into the other Life; there himfelf will be alfo of that Quire or Chorm, and then fir ft will he give credit to this fpirit; what he doth not under fland here, that he will have there apparently in his view.
40. Thoumuft know, that this is not forged out of a Stone; but when the flafh rifeth up in the Cen- ter, then the Spirit feeth and knoweth it.
41. Therefore look to it, and be not too fcorniull.
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in this Place, elie thou wilt be found a (corner and mocker before God, and then well may ft thou fare, as King Lucifer did.
Now it may be asked. Queßio/7.
What do the ^Angels then when they fing Hot?
A/fwer.
42. Behold! What the Deity doth, that they do alio; When the S pir its of God lozingly generate one in another,and rife up one in another, as in^ lo- ving faluting, Embracing, killing, and feeding one another; in which Tafte and Smell, the life rifeth up, and the eternal refreshing 5 of which thou mayftread before at Large.
43. Then the holy Angels alfo walk and Converfe one with another friendlily,gracioufly amiablyand blefledly in the heavenly Circumference or Region, and do behold the wondcrtul and pleafant form or profpeft of heaven, and eat of the gracious amiable blefled and delicate fruits of Life.
Now Gh.XII. Of the Vjthhy am! Life of the Holy Angelt, 2 3 9 Now thou wilt Ask.- Quefion, What do they Ta\ of0 one ypith another?
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44. Behold! thou Pompous ftatcly lofty and Proud Man; the world is even too narrow tor thcc ,. here, and thou thinkeft there is none like thee, or Equal to thee: bethink thy felf in this, whether thou haft in thee the manner quality or condition of an Angel or of a Devill.
To yphomnoW fhall I liken the Angels?
45. I will liken them to little children, which walk in the fields in U*/«?, among the flowers^ and pluck them, and make curious Garlands, and Po- leys, carrying them in rheir hands rejoyting^ and al - wayes talk together of the feveral forms or {hapes of £uriom tlowersjeadrng one another by the hand, when they go to gather flowers.
46. And when they come home, they fljew them to their Parents, and they alfo rejoyce in their chit-. drert, and are merry and cheerly with them.
47. So do the Holy Angels likewife, they take one another by the Hand, and walk together in the curious curious iMq of heaven, and parly or talk of the pleafant and fair Spring or fruits in the heavenly Pomp, and feed on the delicate blefled fruits of God, and make ufe of the beautiful heavenly Flowers for their play or fport in their Scenes, and make curious Garlands, and rejoyce in the delicious pleafant May, of God.
48. Here is nothing but a Cordial or Hearty lo- ving, a meek and gentle love, a friendly courteous difcourfe, a gracious amiable and bleffed Society, where the one alvvaies deli^hteth to fee the other, and to honour one another.
49. They know oi 00 malice, cunning fubtlety or deceit,but the divine fruits and pleafant lovelinefle are cemmon among them, one may make ufe of thefe things, as well as the other, there is no diffavour or hatred, no Envy, no contrary or oppofite will, but their hearts are knit together in Love.
50. In this, the Deity hath its higheft Delight, as Parents have in their children, that its dear and beloved children in heaven, behave themfeives fo well, and fo friendlily; for the Deity in it felf play- eth orfporteth alfo thus, c#£ qualifying or fountain- fpirit in the other.
51. And therefore the Angelscan do no other, then their Father doth, as alfo our Angelical King JESUS CHRIST teitified, when he was with us on earth, as it is written in the Gofpel, where he faith; Verily the Sonne can do nothing of himfelf; but what He feeth hü Father do, that the Sonne doth alfo, John 5.19. Alfo if you do notcomjert, aud become like children, you cannot come into the Kingdom of heal en, Matth. 18.3.
52. Where Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. 241 52, Whereby he meaneth, that our hearts inoukl be knit together in Love, as the Holy Angels of God are, and that we fhould deal friendly courteously and kindly one with another, and love one another, and prevent one another in kindnefle and reflects, as the Angels of God do.
53, Not that we fhould Deceive and belye one an- other, and tear the Bread out of others Mouthes for very greedinefle and great Covetoufnefle, nei- ther fhould one outbrave another, in Sratelincffe, Fafhions, and deportment^ and fo defpife another who cannot u(e his flic crafty fubtile Devillifh Policy and Tricks.
54. O, no: the Angels in heaven do not fo, but they love one another, and rejoyce in the Beauty and lovelinefte of others, and none cfteemeth or ac- counted himfelf excellentcr then the other, but everyone hath his Joy in the other, and rejoyceth in * theory* fair Beauty comely form and Lovelinefte, whence then their love one towards another rileth up, fo that they lead one another by the Hand, and frkndlily Kifle one another.
Olferve the Depth.
55. As, when the fiaili of life rifeth up in the Center of the Divine pwer, wherein all the fpirits oi God attain their Life, and highly rejoyce; there,is a loving and Holy Embracing,Kiiling, Tafting, Tou- ching or Feeling, Hearing, Seeing and Smelling. So alfo there is among the Angels 5 when the one leeth, hearcth, feeleth or touchetn the other, then there ri- feth up in hü heart the flafh of Life, and one fpirit tmbraceth the other -y as it is in the Deity.
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*)6. If thou wilt now know, from whence their Love, Humility and friendlinelTe cometh, which ri- feth up in their heart, thenObferve that which fol- loweth: 5 7. Every Angel is Conftituted, as the whole Deity is, and is as a little God. For when God con- ftituted the Angelsg he constituted or framed them 9utofHim(elf.
58. Now God is- the fame in one place, as he is in another, God is every where the Father and Sonne and Holy Ghoft.
59. In thefe three Names and Powers^ ftandeth Heaven and this world, and all whatsoever thy heart can think upon: and though thou fhouldft draw a little Circle, which thou canft hardly look into or which thou canft hardly difcern, even leffe then the fmalieft Point thou canft imagine: yet even in that is the whole Divine power, and the Sonne of God is generated therein, and the Holy Ghoft therein goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne \ if not in Love, then in wrath, as it is written, with the holy thou art Holy, and with the perverfe thou art perverfe, Pfal.18.2tf.- 60. They which fiirup the wrath of God upon themfelves, which wrath ftandeth alfo in all the fpi- ritsofGod, in that place, where it is awakened., ftirred up, or provoked: On the other fide 3 where the Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels; 243 the love of God is awakened or ftirred up, there it ftandeth alfo in the full Birth or Geniture of the whole Deity of or in the place or thing wherein it is awake- ned.
61. And herein there is no difference, the Angels are created one as well as another, all out of the Di- vine Saliner of the heavenly Nature: onely this is the difference betwixt them; that when God con- ftituted them, each Qcality in the great Motion ftood in the higheft Geniture or riling up.
62. Hence it is come to paffe, that the Angels are of variom and Manifold Qualities, and have feveral colours and Beauties, and yet all out of ob from God.
63. Yet every Angel hath all the qualities of God in him, but one of them is ftrongeft in him, accord- ing to which he is Named, and glorified in that Quality.
£4. Now, as the qualities in God alwaies gene- rate, raife up3and heartily Love, the one the other, and the one aiwayes getteth its life from the other; And as the flafh in the fweet water rifeth up in the heat, from whence the Life and the joy have their Original: fo it is alfo in an Angel, his internal Birth or Geniture is no other wife then that which is di- ftind from him or without him, in God.
65: And, as the Sonne of God, without or di- ftincl from the Angels, is generated in the middle or Centrall fountain Spring, in the heat, in the fweet water, out of or from all the feven fpirits of God, and re-enlighteneth back again all the feven Spirits of God; whence they have their Life and Joy.
• 66. So alfo in like manner, the Sonne of God in an Angel, is generated in the Angels middle or cen- Ii.2 trail 2AA Of the Nauiityand Life of the Holy Angels. Ch.XII.
trail fountain Spring of the heart in the heat in the iwect water; and rc-cnlightneth back again all the ieven qualifying fpirits ot that Angel.
67. And as the Holy Ghoft gocth forth from the Father and the Sonne, and formeth, Imageth figurethor frame th and loveth All: even fo the Ho- ly Ghoft goeth forth in the Angel, into his fel- low Brethren, and Loveth them, and rejoyceth with them.
68. For there is no difference between the Spirits of God and the Angels, but only this; that the An- c els are (frc atures, and their Corporeal Being hath a beginning -y but their power, out of which they are created, is God himfelf, and is from Eternity, and abidcth in Eternity.
69. Therefore their agility is as nimble and fwi-fc - as thcTboughtsofa. Man, where ever they would be r] ere alfo ihey are Inftantly; moreover they can be Great or Small, as they pleafe.
70. And this is the true "Being df (jodin Heaven* yea Heaven it ielf 0 If rny £yes were opened, thou fhouldft fee it plainly and clearly on Earth in that place, where thou art at prefent.
7 1. For feeing God can let the fpirit of Man fee. it, which is yet (lay ing in the Body, and can reveal or manifeft himfelf to him in theflefb, furely he can well, do it alfo when he is3out of the fiefh3if he plea« feth.
72. O.thoufinful Houfeof this world, how art 1 thou encompafled with Jiell andlteath, awake^ thco£) how of tny Regeheration is at hand, the Day-breakn etn Ch.XLVOf the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. 2 4 * cthythe Day- fpring Dawning or Morning- RednefTe fheweth it felt.
7 3. O thou Dumb and Dead world, »hy doft thou require or demand Signes and Wonders l Is thy whole body chilled and bcnummcd? wilt thou not awake from flee p > 74. Behold a great fign is given Thee, but thou fleepeftand feeft it not: Therefore the Lord will give Thee a fign in his zeal or Jcaloufie which thou haft awaked and provoked with thy Sins.
Of the TPhole Heavenly delightfulneffe of all the Three Klngdomes of Angels*, 7^. Here the Spirit fheweth, that where every Angel is conftituted ftated or fettled, there that Place in the heavenly Nature, wherein, and out of, which he is become a creature, is his orm feat; which he pofiefleth by Right of Nature, as long as he abideth in Gods Love.
j 6. For it is the Place,.which he hath had from Eternity, before he was become a Creatine, and that i Saliner ftood in the fame place, out of which he exifted, and therefore that feat remaineth to him,and is his, by right of Nature, as long as he moveth in Gods Love.
77. But thou muft not thinks as if God were tyed to it, and cannot or may notexpeü him from thence, ifhefhouldmoveor ftirre otherwife, thc-B* God had conftituted fettled or ffated him at •:) 78, For 24.6 Of the Nativity and.Life oftbeMoly Angels, Ch;XlI# 78. For as long as he abideth in obedience, and in love 5 the Place is his, by right of Nature; but when he elevateth himfelf and kindleth that place in the wrathful fire; then he lets his Fathers Houfe on fire, and becomes a contrary will or oppofite to the Place, out of which he is made, and maketh TWO out of that, which was ONE, before his Eleva- tion.
7?. Now when he doth fo, then he keeps his cor- poreal Right of Nature to himfelf, and that Place alfo keepeth its own to it felf: but feeing the Crea- ture, which hath a beginning, will oppofepr fetit felf againft the Firft Being, which was before the Creature was, which had no beginning, and will needs fpoil the Place, which is none of its making, wherein it was created a creature in the Love, and will turn that love into a wrath-fire, then it is equal and juft, that the Love fhould fpew up the wrath- fire forth together with the Creature.
80. From hence alfo the f RIGHTS in this world exift or have their original. For when a fonne re- fifteth his Father, and ftriketh his Father, then he lofeth his Fatherly or Paternal inheritance, and his Father may thruft him out of his Houfe: but fo long as he continueth in obedience to his Father, the Fa- ther hath no right authority or Lawfull Power to Dif-inherithim. 3^. 81. This worldly * Right taketh its original from Heaven; as alfo many other worldly Rights, which are written in the Books of (JtfofeS) take their begin- ing and original from the Divine Nature in Heaven» which I {hall demonftrate plainly in its due place from the true ground in the Deity, fLiwesCu- ftomes Sta- tutes Ordi- nances and Politics,.
Now; Ch.XIL Of the Nativity andlJfe of the Holy Angels. ^j Now; one might Objeß jmd fay; Objection.
- LThen an Angel is fully bound and tyed to that place, in which he is created, and muft not ftir, nor can ftir ; from thence.
Anfwer.
82. No: as little as the Spirits of God are or will be tyed in their rifingup; that they fhould not move one among another, fo little are the Angels al- fo tyed to their place at all.
8 3. For as the fpirits of God rife up continually one in another, and have a Sport or Game of Love in their Birth or Gcniture,and yet every fpirit kcep- eth his natural feat, or place, in the Birth or Geni- ture of God, wherein it never cometh topaße, that the Heat is changed into the Cold, or the Cold into the Heat, but each keepeth its natural place or Vofiure; and the one rifeth up in the other, - from whence the life hath its Original.
84. So the Holy Angels move walk or corsue/fe in all the three Kingdoms, one among another, where-' by they conceive, or receive their conceptions, one from the other 5 that is, from the others Beauty comely form, friendlineffe courtefie and vertue, eve- ry one receiveth his higheft joy, and yet each keep- eth his naturall feat or, Place, in which he is become a creature, for his own propriety.
85. Like one in this world, that when he hath a dear; and near.kinfman, which returns home ixoraforraign Of "(he Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch. Xlf. forraign Parts of the world, whom he had a very hearty defire, anciearneft longing to fee j there is joy and friendly faluting and bidding welcome, alfo a friendly loving difcourfc or conference between them, and fo he treateth this loving and wellcome Gueft in the beft manner that lie can: yet this is but cold water, in refpeSt of the Heavenly.
8 6. And thus the Holy Angels do one towards an- other 5 when the Army or Company of one King- dome cometh to the other, or when the Army or Company of one princely Quality cometh to an Army or Company of another princely Quality, there is nothing but mecr loving Entertainment fa- luting and embracing reception; a very gracious amiable and blelTed difcourfe and friendly refpeft, a very gracious amiable bleßed and loving walking and playing together; a moft chaft and humble ex- crcifej a friendly kiflingand leading one another up and down, here beginneth the lovely Quire and .let Dancing, 87. Like little Children, when they go in (May to gather ßowersy where many often meet together, there they talk and confer friendly, and pluck or gather many fundry forts of flowers.
88. Now when this is done, they carry thofe flowers in their Hands, and begin a fportfull Dance, and fing from the joy of their Heart rejoycing. Thus alfo do the Angels in Heaven, when the forraign JVrmies or Companies meet together, 89. ^or the corrupted Nature in this world, la- hours in itsutmoft power and diligence,that it might bring forth heavenly forms, and many times little children might be their Parents School-mafters and Teachers, if Parents could but underftand, or would but but Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. tty but take notice of them; But now adayes the Cor- ruption is Lamentable both with Young, and Old, and the Proverb is verified, mit Me men &tmgett> &o llecnetett Me pungcnc &4s the Old ones Sing, So tl/Toung Learn to Ring.
$o. By this high humility of the Angels,the Spirit admonifheth the children of this world, that they fhould view and examine themfelves, whether they bear fuch a love one to another? whether there be fuch humility among them £ what kind of Angels do they think they are? and whether are they like to thefe or no? Being they have in them in poflefli- on y the third Angelical Kingdome.
$ i. Behold the Spirit will here a little prefent before thy Eyes, what manner of love, humility, and courteous friendlineffe there is in thee, thou fair Angelical Bride; behold I pray thee thy Drefle, Or- nament, and Attire, what excellent delight and pleafure may thy Bridegroom take in thee, thou belo- ved Angela that danceft daily with the Devil, I.
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p2. Firft, If one be now adayes a little prefer'd or advanced, and getteth but a little while into an Oifice, then, others are no more- fo good as he, or fit for his company that are in no preferment,!^ count - eth the vulgar or Lay-Man his Footftool, he inftant- ly endeavoureth by cunning and craft to get the vulgar or Lay-mans Goods under his difpofingjif he K k cannot 2 5 o Of the Nativity a.nd Life of the Holy Angels. Ch.XII.
cannot compafTe it by Tricks, and defigns, then he doth it by force, to fatisfie his high-mindednefle.
93. It a ümple man cometh before him,that can- not place his words handfomely, then he taketh him up fhort, as if he were a Dogg: and if he hath any bujftnefle before him, then he regards only thofe that are of 'worldly Ejleem, and lets them carry the caufe> 'J^ight Or WrOYlg • Take heed friend^ what manner of princely Angel indeed thou art: Thou wilt find it well enough in the following Chapter,concerning the fall of the Devil; that will be thy Looking-GlafFe to fee thy felf in.
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94. Secondly, If one now adayes hath learnt more in worldly Sciences^ or ftudied more then the vulgar or Lay-man, in an inftant, no vulgar or Lay- man is to be compared to him, becaufe he cannot Exprejje himfelf, or fpeak according to Art, he hath * m skill in the others proud Gange and Garb.
95. In brief, the Simple plain man muft be his Foolj whereas he himfelf is indeed a Proud Angel, and is in his Love but a dead Man. This fort of Par- ty alfo will have its Looking-Cjlaß'e in the following Chapter, $€. Thirdly, If one be Richer now adayes, then the other,thcn the ^Poorer Man is counted the Fool: and if he can wear but better and more fafhionable Clothes or Apparel then his Neighbour, then the poorer man is no mere worthy or good enough to be »his Company 0 9fi And Ch.XII. Of the Vjtivity and Life of the Holy Angels, 97. And fothe Old Song is now adaycs in fill] force and Practice: which is this 5 SDet livefef) ntn 0tmcn ^fofngct, TKm) 3Iöm (ein f toef fjc abo*f nget, E>af$ not fcfn tifcoffbe klinget, 77;f 2&VÄ man cloth ft n fir at n the Poory And Squeezeth out his Sweat fofore-, ThaS sown great Wealth abroad may roar.
Thefe Angels alfo are invited as Gueftstothe next Chapter tor their Looking-GIafle co fee thcmfelves in.
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98. Fourthly, There is for the generality fuch a deüliijh pride and ftatelinefle,and luch over-topping one another, fuch defpifing, belying, entrapping circumventing over-reaching cheating deceiving betraying, extorting Ufury, coveting, envying and hating one another: that the world burneth now as in the hellifh fire • Woe, woe for Ever!
99. O World where is thy Humility? where is thy Angelical Love > where is thy courteous friend- linefife } At that very inftant when the Mouth faith, God fave thee j then if the Heart were feen it might be faid; Beware, look to thy felf; for it bids the Devil take thee.
100. O thou Excellent Angelical Kingdom, how comely drefs'd and Adorned wert thou once? how hath the Devill turn'd thee into a murtherom Denne > Doft thou fuppofe thou ftandeftnow in the flower of thy Beauty and Glory > No! thou ftandeft in Kk 2 the 2?t 2<2 Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch.XII.
the midjt of Hell: if thine Eyes were but opened, thou wouldft fee it.
ioi. Ordoftthou think, that theSpirit is drun- ken, and doth not fee thee? O, it feeth thee very well: thy {hame ftandeth quite naked before God, thou art an unchaft wanton lafcivious woman, and goeft a whoring day and night, and yet thou/tfj^, I am a chad Virgin.
102. O, how fair a Looking-Glafle art thou, in the pre fence of the Holy Angels: do but fmell to thy fwcet Love and Humility, doth it not fmell or fa- vour juft like Hell? All thefe parties are invited as Guefts, to the following Chapters.
Of the Kingly 'Primacy, or of the power and authority of the Three ^Angelical Kings.
103. As the Deity in its Being is Threefold, in that the Exit out of the feven Spirits of God fhew- eth and generateth it felf as Threefold, viz. Father Sonne and Holy Ghoft,0/^ God; wherein the whole. Divine Power confifteth, and all whatfoever is therein; and they arc the Thee Perfons in the Deity,, ~_ and yet are not a divided Being, but in one another, as one.
1 04. So alfo when God moved himfelf and Crea- ted the zAngeU) there came to be Three fpeciall An- gels out of the beft Kernel of Nature, out of the Being of the Ternary in the Nature of God, and iji fuch power authority and Might as the Ternary, in the Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. 253 the feven Spirits of God, and is again the Life and Heart of ail the feven Spirits.
105. And fo alfo, the Three Angelical Kmg$,each of them in the manner kind and Nature of his Hoaft or Army, is rifen up, and is a Natural Lord of his Place orRegion,over the Regiment or Dominion of his Angels 5 but the Ternary of the Deity retaineth that TW, which is unalterable or unchangeable to it felf; and the King retaineth the Dominion of the Angels.
106. Now as the Ternary of the Deity is one only Being or Subftance in all Parts in the whole Fa- ther, and is united together, as the Members in Mans Body, and all places are as one Place, though one place may have a different condition frame and * Constitution, diftincl: ftom the other, as alfo the * office or members of men have; yet it is th e Body of God. Funftion.
107. So alfo a re the Three Angelical Kingdomes united one in another, and not each fevered afunder: No Angelical King ought to fay; This is my King-. dome: or that there ought no other King to come thereinto j though indeed it is his firft beginning ori- ginal natural inheritance 5 and remaineth alio to be his: yetaü other Kings and Angels are his true. Natural! Brothers, generated out of or from one Father, and do inherit their Fathers Kingdom.
108. Andes the qualifying or fountain Spirits of God, ha\ceach of them the Natural feat or poflTciii- on of its Birth or Geniture, and retaineth its Naturall. Place to it felf, and yet is, together with the other fpirits, the one only Spirit ^ fo that if the other were not, that would not be neither,, and. thus alfo. they rife up One in the other.
109. So it is alfo with the Chief or Principal/ of the Holy Angels in his Conftiuuion j and is in ho other 2 54 Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch.XIL other manner then as it is in God; and therefore they live all friendlily peaceably and blcfiedly one with another^ in their Fathers Kmgdom,as loving dear brethren; there are no Bounds or Bars how far any ihould go, and how far nor, Queflkn, Upon What do the <*Angels WalQ or upon what do they flay or [et their Feet I A.fiver, i io. I will here fhew thee the right Grounded it is no otherwife in Heaven,then as thou here findeft in the letter, for the Spirit looketh into this Deep, veryunremoveablyorj?f4^/?/y, alfo it is very ap- prehenfible.
in. The whole Nature of the Heaven, ftandeth in the power of thefeven qualifying or fountain- fpirits, and in the feventh confifteth Nature or the apprehenfibility of all the Qualities: this now is very lightfome and folid as a Cloud, but very tran- fparent, and fhining, like a Cryftalline Sea, fo that a man can fee through and through it all: Yet the whole depth upward and downward is wholly thw.
ii2. Now the Angels alfo,have fuch Bodies, but more dry and clofc compacted or incorporated toge- ther, and their body alio is the kernel, of or out of Nature, even the bed or faireft fplendor and bright- neße of or out of Nature.
1 13. Now Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels. 255 113. Now upon the fcventh fpirit of God their Foot doth ftay, which is folid like a Cloud,and clear and^r^kasaCryftaiiine Sea, wherein they walk upward and downward, which way foevcr they plcafe. For their Agility or NimblenefTe is as fwift as the Divine power it ielf is, yet one Angel is more fwift then another, and that anfwerably according to their Quality.
114. In that fe venth fpirit of Nature, rife up al- fo the Heavenly fruits and colours, and whatfocver is apprehenfible or comprehenfible, and is like to fuch a * Fornix or manner, as if the Angels did * Text dwell betwixt Heaven and Earth in the Deep, where Forma, they afcend and defcend, and where ever they are, there their foot refteth ^ as if ii ftood upon the Earth.
115. Antiquity hath reprefentcd the Angels in Picture, like Men with Wings3but they have no need of any Wings, yet they have Hands and Feet, as Men have, but after a Heavenly manner and kind.
i\6. At the Day of the Refurre&ion from the Dead, there will be no difference 1 etween the An- gels and Men, they.will be of one and the fame kind of forme 5 which I fhall fhew plainly in its due place,. and our King JESUS CHRIST clearly teftifieth thefame3 where he faith. In the %f(urreUion thej. me like the t4»gd$ of God, Matth. 22.30.
2<6 Of the tfativity and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch. XII.
Of the (jreat Qlory *B right neffe andlBeauty of the Three Angelical Rings.
117. This is the very £/Zfoor Staffe, which is flung at the Dog, to make him run away, becaufe of this Song5 Lord Lucifer could pull and tear off the Hair of his Head and Beard for grief forrowand Pain.
Obferve here the depth.
Concerning the Ring or Qreat Trince MICHAEL.
1 18. MICHAEL ilgnifieththeGreat^^ or power of God 5 and beareth the name operative- ly actually and in Deed: For he is incorporated or confolidated together, out of the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits,as out of a Kernel or feed of them, and ftandeth here now3 as in the ftead of God the Father.
1 1 p. The meaning is not, that He is God the Fa- ther, who confifteth in the feven fpirits of the whole Deep, and is not creaturely 5 but, the meaning is, that in Nature among the Creatures there is al- fo fuch a kind of Creature, as is like God the Father, as Ch.XII. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels, ttf as he is in the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits j whichistoraign among the Creatures.
119. For when God madeiumfelf creaturetyj then he made himfelf creaturely according to his Ternarie^ And as in God, the Ternarie is the grea- ter!: and chiefeft, and yet his wonderful proportion, form and variety cannot be meafured, in that he fheweth himfelf in his operation fo varioufly and manifoldly. Soalfo he hath created Three princi- pal Angel-Princes, according to the bigkeß Primacy of his Ternarie.
120. After that, he created the Princely- Angels, according to the feven qualifying or fountain {pi- nts, anfwerable to their Quality, viz. GABRIEL, an Angel or Prince of the Tone, found,- or of fwift or fpeedy MefTages; as alfo RAPHAEL, and others befide in the Kingdom of MICHAEL.
121. Thou muft not underftand this, as if thcfe Royal Angels were to Rule in the Deity, that is^ in the feven qualifying or fountain -fpirits of Gody which are without or diftinct from the creatures 5 ^10, but each over his Creatures, or the creatures of his oven Dominion.
1 22. For as the Ternarie of God raigneth Over the infinite or Entließ V,Being and over the figures and fe- veral various forms or Ideas in the Deity, and chan- geth varieth and Imageth or frameth the fame.
123. So alfo are the three Angelical KingSjLords* over their Angels even to the heart and deepeft Ground, though they cannot corporeally or Bodily vary or change themfelves, as God himfelf r^,who hath created them; yet they rule them ( viz. the Angelsj Corporeally, and are bound or united to them 3 as body and foul are bound one to another.
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Of the Ndiizity and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch.XU; 1 24. For the King is their Head, and they arc the tjMemlers of the King * and the * Qualifying or fountain Princely Angels are the Kings founfeUours or f Oßicers in his Afraires, like the five Senfes in Man, or as the Hands and Feet, or the Mouth, No- ftrils, Eyes and Ears, whereby the King executetb or accomplifhethhis Affairs.
125. Now as all Angels are bound to the King, fo is the King alio bound to Cjod his Creator,as Body and Soul: the Body,fignifieth God^and the Soul the Angelical King, which is in the Body of God, and is become a Creature in the Body of God, and abideth eternally in the Body of God, as the foul doth in its Ncft, and therefore alfo hath God fo highly glorified him, as his own propriety, or as the Soul is glorified in the Body.
126. Thus the King or Great Prince CMichael Looks like God the Father in his glorification, cla- rity, or brightnefle, and is a King and prince of God upon the Mount of God, and hath his Office in the Deep, wherein he is created.