3. All evil Works done purposely belong to the Judgment of Qod. But he that turneth from the Will, goeth out from the Power, of them, and those his Works belong to the Fire. All Things shall and must be made manifest in the End. For therefore God brought His working Power into Essence or Substance , that His Love and Anger might be made manifest , and become a Repre. sentation of His Deeds of Wonder, to His Glory.
4. And every Creature ought to know, that it should continue in that Condition wherein it was created; otherwise it runneth on in Contrariety and Enmity to the Will of God, and bringeth itself into Pain. For every Intelligent Creature that hath lost its Place or State wherein God first created it, is in Disorder and Misery, till it recovereth the same. A Creature which is Created out of Darkness hath no Pain in the Darkness ; as a venomous Serpent hath no Pain from its Venom. The Venom is its Life ; but if it should lose its Venom, and have some good Thing instead
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thereof*brought into it, and be made manifest in its Essence , that would be Pain and Death to it. Thus Qood is Torment to a Being whose Nature is evil, and Evil is in like Manner Pain and Death to the good.
5. Man was created of for , and in Paradise ; of for , and in the Love of God ; but if he bring himself into Anger , which is as a poisonous Pain and Death, then that contrary Paradisaical Life of Love is a Pain and Torment to him.
6. If the Devil had been created out of the wrathful Matrix , for and hi Hell and had not had the Divine Ens or Essence , he could have no Pain in Hell. But he being created for and in Heaven , and yet having stirred' up the Source or Property of Darkness fti himself \ and thereby brought himself totally into Darkness , therefore the Light is now a Pain to him, that is, it caustith an everlasting Despair of God’s Qrace , and* a continual Enmity to God, because Gqd cannot endure him in Himself but hath ca§t him out. Therefore the Devil is angry and wrathful against his own Mother , of whose Essence and Substance he hath his Original, viz., the eternal Nature , which keepeth him Prisoner in his own Place , as a Revolter or fallen Spirit, and sporteth in him with its Property of Anger . And, seeing he would not bear his Part in promoting the Divine Joy , in and for which he was created, therefore he must now do the contrary, and be an Enemy to all Qoodness. For, of Qod and in Him are all Things; Darkness and Light , Love and Anger, Fire and Light; but hecalleth Himself Qod, only as to the Light of His Love.
7. There is an eternal Contrariety between Darkness and Light; neither of them comprehendetli the other, and neither of them is the other ; and yet there is only one Essence , Being , or Substance, wherein they both subsist. But there is a Difference in Quality and Will ; yet the Essence or Substance is not divided, but a Principle maketh the Division. So that the one is a nothing in the otb^r, and yet it is there, but not manifest in the Property of that Thing wherein it is.
8. For the Devil continued in his own Dominion or Principality, not indeed in that wherein God createdhxvo, but in the aching , painful Birth of Eternity , in the Centime of Nature and Property of Wrath , in the Property which begetteth Darkness , Anguish and Pain. Indeed he is a Prince in the Place of this World , but m the first Principle , in the Kingdom of Darkness , in the Pit or Abyss.
9. Not in the Kingdom of the Sun , Stars , and Elements ; he is no Lord or Prince there, but in the zvrathful Part , viz., in the Root of the Evil of every Thing ; and yet he hath not Power to do what he pleaseth with That.
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3. All evil Works done purposely belong to the Judgment of Qod. But he that turns from the Will, goes out from the Power, of them, and those his Works belong to the Fire. All Things shall and must be made manifest in the End. For therefore God brought His working Power into Essence or Substance , that His Love and Anger might be made manifest , and become a Repre. sentation of His Deeds of Wonder, to His Glory.
4. And every Creature ought to know, that it should continue in that Condition wherein it was created; otherwise it runns on in Contrariety and Enmity to the Will of God, and brings itself into Pain. For every Intelligent Creature that has lost its Place or State wherein God first created it, is in Disorder and Misery, till it recovers the same. A Creature which is Created out of Darkness has no Pain in the Darkness ; as a venomous Serpent has no Pain from its Venom. The Venom is its Life ; but if it should lose its Venom, and have some good Thing instead
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thereof*brought into it, and be made manifest in its Essence , that would be Pain and Death to it. Thus Qood is Torment to a Being whose Nature is evil, and Evil is in like Manner Pain and Death to the good.
5. Man was created of for , and in Paradise ; of for , and in the Love of God ; but if he bring himself into Anger , which is as a poisonous Pain and Death, then that contrary Paradisaical Life of Love is a Pain and Torment to him.
6. If the Devil had been created out of the wrathful Matrix , for and hi Hell and had not had the Divine Ens or Essence , he could have no Pain in Hell. But he being created for and in Heaven , and yet having stirred' up the Source or Property of Darkness fti himself \ and thereby brought himself totally into Darkness , therefore the Light is now a Pain to him, that is, it caustith an everlasting Despair of God’s Qrace , and* a continual Enmity to God, because Gqd cannot endure him in Himself but has ca§t him out. Therefore the Devil is angry and wrathful against his own Mother , of whose Essence and Substance he has his Original, viz., the eternal Nature , which keeps him Prisoner in his own Place , as a Revolter or fallen Spirit, and sports in him with its Property of Anger . And, seeing he would not bear his Part in promoting the Divine Joy , in and for which he was created, therefore he must now do the contrary, and be an Enemy to all Qoodness. For, of Qod and in Him are all Things; Darkness and Light , Love and Anger, Fire and Light; but hecalls Himself Qod, only as to the Light of His Love.
7. There is an eternal Contrariety between Darkness and Light; neither of them comprehendetli the other, and neither of them is the other ; and yet there is only one Essence , Being , or Substance, wherein they both subsist. But there is a Difference in Quality and Will ; yet the Essence or Substance is not divided, but a Principle makes the Division. So that the one is a nothing in the otb^r, and yet it is there, but not manifest in the Property of that Thing wherein it is.
8. For the Devil continued in his own Dominion or Principality, not indeed in that wherein God createdhxvo, but in the aching , painful Birth of Eternity , in the Centime of Nature and Property of Wrath , in the Property which begetts Darkness , Anguish and Pain. Indeed he is a Prince in the Place of this World , but m the first Principle , in the Kingdom of Darkness , in the Pit or Abyss.
9. Not in the Kingdom of the Sun , Stars , and Elements ; he is no Lord or Prince there, but in the zvrathful Part , viz., in the Root of the Evil of every Thing ; and yet he has not Power to do what he pleases with That.
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