Book III. The Temple ofmfdome. I05

Air, aiidvanifheth: but the Spirit and Word of God rcmainctb, life and fenfe accompanying it.
Therefore all ourfpeech, words , fpirit and voycc, have np power in this Book , unlefs they be formed by the Divir*e Word. My Lord Bacou m his Advancement of Learnings (aith , That there if 7idt a?iy Verme ^ either Natural or Mortal^ unlefs through God, hnd in another place he affirmeth , That nur Vnderfiandin^ being good and found , can do very much on the fecrets of Nature 5 if fo be that the influence of the Divine power beprefent^otber^ mfe nothing at all. So alfo our words can do very ma- ny miracles, if they be formed by the word of God, in which alfo our univer(al Generation is perfefted, as E- fay {aith, By thy countenance, O Lord,we have conceiv- ed , as women rightly counceive by the countenance of their husbands, and have brought forth fpirit Hither in fome fort belongeth that which is delivered by the R fie Crucians , I'iz. that Johannes de Spagnet of this Opi- nion brought forth a Virgin out of his fide.
And amongft the Mahometans there is a conftant opi- nion that many whom at Muggadore and Sapphee in their tongues they call Nefe Sohli , are born by a fecret man- ner of Divine Difpenfation without carnal Copulation, whofelife is therefore wonderful andimpalliblej and as it were Angelical , and altogether fupernatural. But thefe trifles we leave : onely the King Mejji as ^the Word qf the Father made flefh, Chrift Jefus hath revealed this fecret, and will for thermanifeft it at a certain fulnefs of lime : therefore a minde very like himfelf,
. ,Asa Prieflfiith of the Clergy-man Mr, I?»j ihefeVerfes:
Cod gave ManKeafon^ that like Veitiejt Mi.mgbtbnngjonkijodsm^
I o 6 The Temple of mfu^ me. Book I II.
. 0 happy he^ thath^otvs hii rvorthy andhovo He eifual U unto the Gods above, ^hej reprefs T> anger s^y make 'Difeafesfly : jThey give Trefagesy and from Mifery .!
Deliver me?!', ren^ard the goody and iU Chajlife^ andfo the will cf God fulfil, fhepf are Vifciplesy and the Sons of God Moft high that ieofh his IFord abroad. : ' J
Who are not born ofthe will of Fjefh,or of Man, or of a Menfti uous Woman ^ but of God. But it is an U- ni verfal Generation, in which the Son is like the Father in ail manner of Similitude; and in the which, that which is begot is the (ime iji Specie with the begetters And tills is the power of the Word formed by the Minde, and received into a fubjeft rightly difpofed^ as feed into the Matrix for the Generation: but Ifay, difpofed and rightly received, becaufe that all are not partakers of the Word after the fame manner, but o- (thers otherwife: And thefe are the moft hidden fe- rrets of this Art J which ought not to be further publifhed.
But f divtrticulo in vtamyVit have deviated too far, we muftturn into our road again, and teach yott how to give judgement upon a Figure, and i-efotve any Que- fiion, either paft, prefent, or to come ; we have ondy i lirged by this way ofn^oc/MMK, or preface unto this moft I f:onfiderable Art, for to fati^e the tender confcienccsof I the Vulgar perfons , into whofe hands we know this ' Book will come : poffibly it may prevent alfo the pre- judicate opiniois of the better Learned, againft the fa-- cred i\rt, moft choice and excellent, by very few underftood, to teach them^ we (hew in ourenfuingA« phorifms. ' ^
Now give the Afcetident or firft Houfe, and the Fi-