The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)

10. But seeing that I in the outward Man do yet live in my Self-hood, therefore I must also die with the outward Man in Christ's Death, and arise and live in him. Now therefore I live with the Will of Faith in the Mind in Christ, and am a Christian in the Will of the Mind in the Desire of Faith, and receive Christ with his Humanity into my Will, and cast my Will into his Death; and thus my inward Man is also dead in Christ's Death, and lives no longer to Self-hood; but I am resigned in him, and lie buried in his Death: But seeing he is risen in God's Will, I also live in his Resurrec-tion in him; but my Earthliness in its selfish Property lives to the earthly World, until it also dies quite to Self-hood, and enters into the Resignation and Putrefaction, and then Christ Will awaken it through my inward Man, which now lives in him.

11. Like as he is risen from the Dead, even so shall I, who shall die to the Earthliness in him, viz. in my first father Adam, in the Name Jesus as a Christian in Christ; my Twig, withered in Sin on the Tree, shall obtain Strength and Sap in the Name Jesus to Life. I shall and must spring forth afresh with my Humanity in him as in my Stem who is become a Heart and Power in my father Adam, and bring forth Fruit to the praise of God.

12. My Will-Spirit, which now is in Christ's Humanity, and lives in Christ's Spirit, that shall in Christ's Power give Sap to the dry Tree, that it shall again arise at the last Day in the Sound of the Trumpet of the divine Breath in Christ's Voice, which also is my Voice in his Breath, and spring afresh in the Tree Christ, viz. in Paradise: The Paradise shall be in me; all whatever God has and is shall appear in me as a Form and Image of the divine World's Being; all Colorus, Powers, and Virtues of his eternal Wisdom shall be manifest in me, and on me, as on his Likeness: I shall be the Manifestation of the spiritual divine World, and an Instrument of God's Spirit, wherein he makes Melody with himself, with this Voice, which I myself am, as with his Signature: I shall be his Instrument, and organ of his expressed Word and Voice; and not only I, but all my Fellow-Members in the glorious tuned Instrument of God: We are all Strings in his Joyful Consort; the Spirit of his Mouth strikes the Tune and Note on our Strings.

13. And therefore God became Man, that he might again repair his glorious Instrument which he had made for his Praise, which perished as to him, and would not Sound according to the Desire of his Joy and Love, and introduce again the true Love-Sound into the Strings: He has introduced the Voice which Sounds in his Presence again into us, viz. into his Instrument, he is become that which I am, and has made me that which he is, so that I may say, that I am in my Resignation in him his Trumpet, and the Sound of his Instrument and divine Voice, at which now I rejoice in all my Fellow-Strings and Voices, which with me are tuned and set as an eternal Work, to the Praise and Glory of God.

14. Thus know ye now my Fellow-Voices in the Praise of God, that I Sound with my String played upon in the Spirit upon and in your Note, and thus sing I to you; that whatever Jesus has done through the Christ, viz. through his and my Humanity, the same he does yet to-Day in me and in all my Fellow-Members. He died to my Self-hood in his Death, and I also die to my Self-hood in his Death: He is given up to his Resignation in God his Father, and God his Father has raised him up with the Spirit of his Mouth in him, and set him forth for the royal Image according to the Holy Trinity, through and with whom God will judge all Things in the Place of this World.

15. Thus God also has awakened in him my Spirit and Soul through his Spirit in the great Name Jesus in Christ, so that I in my Resignation in him need not to die, for he died in me and for me; his Death, in that he is risen from Death, is become my eternal Life, so that now I live in his Death, as one Dying; and yet there is no more any Death in him, but thus I die to myself and Sin in him, seeing that my Desire and will presses forth from my Self-hood into it, so that I die daily to myself, till once I shall obtain the limit of my Self-hood, and my Self-hood with the earthly Will and Desire does wholly die to its Selfishness; then shall my Self-hood, and all whatever is in me which seeks and loves itself, fall into the Death of Christ, viz. into the first Mother, from whence God created me, and my Self-hood shall become a Nothing; and even then my Self-hood lies in Christ's Death in the Resignation as an Instrument of God, who then will make it his Instrument as he pleases.