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A28541	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.	The way to Christ discovered by Iacob Behmen ... ; also, the discourse of illumination, the compendium of repentance, and the mixt world, &c.	1648		.xml	application/xml	65732	2078	70	But all would not doe ; for all its worldly businesse followed it in the lusts of the flesh , and it was ensnared in the net of the Devill , now , as well as before , and could not get rest ; and though for some little while it was a little cheered with earthly things , yet presently it fell to be as sad and heavie again ; for it felt the awakened wrath of God in it selfe , and knew not how that came to passe , nor what it ayled : for many times great fear and temptations fell upon it , which made it comfortlesse , sick and ●aint with very fear , so mightily did the first bruising it with the Ray or Influence of the stirring of grace work upon the soul , & yet it knew not that Christ was in its the wrath and severe Justice of God , and sought with Satan that spirit of Error , that was incorporated in soule and body ; and understood not that the hunger and desire to turn and repent , came from Christ himselfe , by which the soule was drawn in this manner : neither did it know what hindered that it could not yet attain to Divine feeling ; it knew not that it selfe was a monster , and did bear the Image of the Serpent , in which the Devill had such power and accesse to the soule , and in which [ Image ] he had confounded all its good [ desires , ] thoughts the love and mercy of God ) with the fatted swine of the divill in earthly pleasures , and hath not observed the deare Covenant and atonement of the innocent death and passion of Jesus Christ , which Covenant God of meere Grace hath * given into our humanity and reconciled us in him ; also he must consider that hee hath wholy forgotten the Covenant of holy Baptisme ( in which he hath promised to be faithfull and true to his Saviour , ) and so wholy defiled and obscured his righteousnesse with sinne , ( which righteousnesse God hath freely bestowed upon him in Christ : ) that hee now standeth before the face of God with the faire garment of Christs innocency ( which he hath defiled : ) as a dirty ragged and patched keeper of Swine , that hath continually eaten the graines of vanity with the devills swine , and is not worthy to be called a Sonne of the Father and member of Christ.	cache/A28541.xml	txt/A28541.txt
