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And I was moued to declare to y:e people howe all people in y:e fall were
from ye image of
God & righteousness & holynesse & they was as wells without ye water of life cloudes
without
ye heavenly raine: trees without y:e heauenly fruite & in ye nature of beasts
ʌ& serpents: & tall cedars
& oakes & bulls & heifers soe they might reade this nature within as ye:
prophett described
to people yt were out of truth. & howe yt they was in y:e
nature of doggs & swine biteinge &
rentinge: & y:e nature of bryars thistles & thornes;
& like ye oweles & Dragons in ye night
& like ye wilde asses & horses snuffeinge vppe: & like ye mountaines & rockes &
crooked & rough ways: soe I exhorted ym to reade these without & within in
there nature; & ye: wandringe starrs: reade y.m without &
looke within all yt was come
to ye bright & morninge starr: soe as there
fallow ground must bee plowed vppe before
Itt beared seede to y:m soe must ye fallow grounde of there hearte be plowed vppe
before they beare seed to God
Soe all these names were spoaken to man & woman since they fell from ye
Image of God: & as they doe come to bee renewed againe vpp Into ye image of God
they come out of ye nature & soe out of ye name: &c
And many thmore thinges of this nature was declared to y:m
& they turned to ye light
of Xt by wch they was turned to Xt: by wch: they might see him there substans
& there
way saluation & free teacher
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