The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.

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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lord of Pembroke; AND To the Right Honorable the Lord of Mulgrave, all Peace and Happiness.

To his Worthy Friend, Mr Tho. Appletree.

TO The Vertuous LADIES, Mrs Elizabeth, Mrs Anne, Mrs Margaret, Mrs Ka∣therine, and Mrs Lettice Babingtons, my dear and precious Sisters, together with the rest of that noble Family.

TO THE READER.

THE TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE Sealed Book of GOD, opened in MAN.

CHAP. I. Christ the Sum of all Things.

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SECT. II. The true Ministry.

SECT. III. Christ the true Temple-Sanctuary.

SECT. IV. Christ the true Tabernacle.

SECT. V. Christ is the heavenly Thing in Christians.

SECT. VI. Christ is the new Covenant in the new Creature.

SECT. VII. What is that Covenant he will write in us; first what it is not, then what it is.

SECT. VIII. How this Covenant differs from all others, it being in Spirit.

SECT. IX. Christ is in us Gods Dwelling, and his Writing.

SECT. X. What this new Covenant is further to us.

SECT. XI. The high excellency and vertue of it in us; what it doth for us, and is to us.

SECT. XII. The Lord setting forth a book to the world.

SECT. XIII. What be the things God makes use of in writing this Book Man.

SECT. XIV. Gods making mans heart plain and fair for it as paper.

SECT. XV. What God minds and loves, it is to live with us, and in us.

SECT. XVI. What is, shall be of the Lords Will, and Law, and nothing else.

SECT. XVII. His own Laws he keeps, and them he will have us keep, one Law for both.

SECT. XVIII. All Gods Laws a whole volum within us.

SECT. XIX.

SECT. XX. Mans blessing or curse is within himself.

SECT. XXI. What God writes in us, is such writing as no∣thing can blot it out.

SECT. XXII. Where God begins to write, he perfects it in us.

SECT. XXIII. The writing of God in us is by degrees.

SECT. XXIV. Gods magnifying himself in Man.

SECT. XXV. The state of the two Adams.

SECT. XXVI. The Lord is all the Book and Scripture his people have; him they preach, hear, read, practise.

CHAP. II. The first Book that God writes in Man is called GENESIS.

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SECT. II. The six days works in Man brought forth first.

SECT. III. The second work in Gods day in Man.

SECT. IV. The third work of God in his day.

SECT. V. The fourth work in the day of the LORD.

SECT. VI. The fifth work in the Lords day.

SECT. VII. The sixth work in the Lords day.

SECT. VIII. The end of the work of God.

SECT. IX. The Paradise of God in Man.

SECT. X. The Adam and Eve there in Paradise.

SECT. XII. The Tempter, the Fall, the Serpent.

SECT. XII. How all things are made new in the beginning of this book.

CHAP. III. The second Book that God writes in Man is called EXODƲS.

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SECT. II. God calling his Son out of Egypt.

SECT. III. God leading his Son through the Wilderness.

SECT. IV. What this Wilderness is.

SECT. V. What God doth for his Son in the Wilderness: three or four things especially: The first thing is, the several forms of Rest.

SECT. VI. The second thing that God doth for his Son in the Wilderness, is, His giving the living Law with the Tables, by the Spirit of Christ, from Mount Zion.

SECT. VII. The third thing in the Wilderness, is, The Tabernacle of God with his Son.

SECT. VIII. The total Circumcision of Flesh, and final de∣struction of the fiery Serpent.

CHAP. IV. The third Book that God writes in Man is called LEVITICƲS.

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SECT. II. The Levites garments that minister to the Lord.

SECT. III. The spiritual Service in the House of the LORD.

CHAP. V. The fourth Book that God writes in Man is called NƲMBERS.

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SECT. II. How every thing is numbred by the Lord in them.

SECT. III. The true Serpent healing us.

SECT. IV. The Ark of Gods presence.

CHAP. VI. The fifth Book that God writes in Man is called JOSHƲA.

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SECT. II. The true Joshua saving us, in fighting to deliver us.

SECT. III. The seven Blessings he delivers to us.

CHAP. VII. The sixth Book that God writes in Man is called JUDGES.

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SECT. II. The Spirit of the Lord the best and just Judg.

SECT. III. The Sampson and Gideon that is in us.

CHAP. VIII. The seventh Book that God writes in Man is the two first books of KINGS.

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SECT. II. The Kingly Scepter ruling in us.

SECT. III. The outside of the Book opened.

SECT. IV. The inside and the Spirit in it opened and revealed there.

SECT. V. The Raign of the Spirit of the Lord the true DAVID.

CHAP. IX. The eighth Book that God writes in Man is the third Book of KINGS.

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SECT. II. A Kingdom divided cannot stand, Christs is not divided.

CHAP. X. The ninth Book that God writes in Man is the fourth Book of KINGS.

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SECT. II. The opening of the Temple, and the repairing it.

CHAP. XI. The tenth Book that God writes in Man is the two Books of CHRONICLES.

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SECT. II. How we are made Gods Chronicles.

CHAP. XII. The eleventh Book that God writes in Man is the books of EZRA & NEHEMIAH.

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SECT. II. The Restauration of all things.

CHAP. XIII. The twelfth Book that God writes in Man is called ESTHER.

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CHAP. XIV. The thirteenth Book that God writes in Man is called JOB.

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SECT. II. What is the Mystery of this History of Job in Man.

SECT. III. The latter end of a Saint better then the first, the longer he lives the better.

CHAP. XV. The fourteenth Book that God writes in Man is called PSALMS.

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SECT. II. Psalms, and Hymns, and spiritual Songs in us all.

SECT. III. The new Song in the new Jerusalem.

SECT. IV. The chiefest sinner shall rejoyce most.

SECT. V. All Gods workings in us come to a Song at last.

SECT. VI. And what this Song is in the Saints.

SECT. VII. The Lord alone is the Psalm, and the Hymn, and Song in us.

SECT. VIII. There is no singing in the strange Land, till we come to the Lord himself.

SECT. IX. To sing with the Spirit and with Ʋnderstanding.

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A Psalm.

A Hymn▪

A spiritual Song.

CHAP. XVI. The fifteenth Book that God writes in Man is called PROVERBS.

SECT. I. The Spirit that interprets secrets and proverbs, where it is and dwells.

SECT. II. The sum of this history of Proverbs spiritually in us in five particulars; The Father God, the Mother Wisdom, the Son the Saint.

CHAP. XVII. The sixteenth Book that God writes in Man is called ECCLESIASTES.

SECT. I. The vanity of all things in the outward man, or world.

SECT. II. The earthly man is the vanity of vanities, and the vexation of spirit.

CHAP. XVIII. The seventeenth Book that God writes in Man is called The Song of SOLOMON.

SECT. I. Christs Kisses and his Mouth, what they be.

SECT. II. The oyntment poured out.

SECT. III. What the Kings Chamber is to be brought there.

SECT. IV. What the blackness and the comeliness is.

SECT. V. What the brothers are angry at, and what is the keeping of other Vineyards, and not the true Vineyard.

SECT. VI. It is God that justifieth, that is our comeliness.

SECT. VII. The true Vineyard.

SECT. VIII. Three things thirsted after by him, that is, as the Spouse here hath tasted any thing of the Life of God.

SECT. IX. The bread that satisfies not, and where our rest, fulness and fatness lies.

SECT. X. We shall never be taught well till the Lord teach us.

SECT. XI. The teachings of God more excellent in three things then mens teachings.

SECT. XII. This teaching will make us perfect.

SECT. XIII. Nothing can quench, kill, or separate this love.

SECT. XIV. Christ loves where it is, is in the heart and spirit, with all our souls, strength and might.

SECT. XV. The five things that are excellent in this love of the Spouse, called the soul love.

SECT. XVI. The strong grounds of the souls love to God, when as Gods love is such to us, and much more abundant also.

SECT. XVII. The Soul that loves Christ desires to live with him.

SECT. XVIII. The Soul that loves Christ desires to live upon him, feed on him.

SECT. XIX. The Soul that loves Christ will live as he lives.

SECT. XX. They love if they live.

SECT. XXI. If we love Christ we shall love the flock of Christ.

SECT. XXII. Christ and his flock are together.

SECT. XXIII. The flock of Christ hath a place to lie down in.

SECT. XXIV. Satan hath his flock also.

SECT. XXV. Though we know not many things, yet we are fair.

SECT. XXVI. Who is like to thee, O Israel, for fairness and beauty.

SECT. XXVII. Thy cheeks, neck and feet comely all over.

SECT. XXVIII. The exceeding great beauty and delight that is in the Saints through the Lord their God.

SECT. XXIX. The Rose, and the Lilly, and the Apple tree.

SECT. XXX. The soul brought from the shadow to the ban∣quetting house, the substance.

SECT. XXXI. And having once tasted of the Lords love, she counts flagons of wine was one love, and apples also, and not leaves, now can comfort a soul.

SECT. XXXII. The left and right hand of the Lord about us.

SECT. XXXIII. The Lord living by degrees from weakness unto strength in us.

SECT. XXXIV. He will stand no more behind the wall, door, or the window.

SECT. XXXV. The Lord calling his love to come away.

SECT. XXXVI. The Lord loves to bring his people out of the clefts of the Rock to see his face.

SECT. XXXVII. The Foxes that spoil the Vines.

SECT. XXXVIII. My beloved is mine, and I am his.

SECT. XXXIX. The day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

SECT. XL. The Soul loving, seeking, finding, holding, and never parting.

SECT. XLI. The Lords high commendations of his Church and Spouse, here in part described.

SECT. XLII. There is no spot in her, she is all fair, yea altogether lovely.

SECT. XLIII. The sending forth of his Spirit into our hearts, to make us to abide in the Lord.

SECT. XLIV. The sum of the fifth Chapter of Solomons Song.

SECT. XLV. The Lord comes to the breaking of bread, and drinking of wine, to a feasting in us, to eat his supper there.

SECT. XLVI. The Lord comes to awake us out of sleep.

SECT. XLVII. The Lord overcoming her heart with love.

SECT. XLVIII. The great wickedness of the Spouse to Christ.

SECT. XLIX. The transcendent beauty and glory of the Lord Christ, the Souls beloved.

SECT. L. The Queens, and Concubines, and Virgins without number that praise the Spouse which is but one.

SECT. LI. The beautiful feet of the Kings daughter.

SECT. LII. The Lord sets us as a seal upon his heart, the strength of the Lords love to us, and ours to him.

CHAP. XIX. The eighteenth Book that God writes in Man is the book of the Prophet ISAIAH.

SECT. I. The two sons and seeds, one of Flesh and the other of Spirit, that is in us.

SECT. II. How the fleshly is eaten up of the spiritual.

SECT. III. The great Vision which the Prophet saw, what it is, and what it means.

SECT. IV. The Spirit interpreting the Vision to be in us.

SECT. V. The stay and the staff of the Creature broken, but the stay and the staff of the Lord himself re∣mains for ever.

SECT. VI. The beautiful Branch of the Spirit of the Lord, and all the fruits thereof holy.

SECT. VII. The Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts, and the men of Judah.

SECT. VIII. The second Vision of the Throne, and of the Temple, and him that sits there.

SECT. IX. The Lord ruling in the midst of his people, judging all within and without in Righteousness.

SECT. X. Rezin and Remaliah's sons confederacy, their tails and evil counsel like fire-brands.

SECT. XI. The waters of Shiloah, or the soft and still voyce condemned by most, and Rezin followed; the Law and Testi∣mony where to be found.

SECT. XII. The joy of the Lord, and the people that sate in darkness, and see light, and are go∣verned by the Lord himself.

SECT. XIII. The proud Assyrian is brought low, and Israel to be exalted.

SECT. XIV. The peaceable and righteous Kingdom of the Branch, and the great encrease thereof, from the four corners of the earth.

SECT. XV. The day of the Branch brings joy and thankefulness.

SECT. XVI. The destruction of Babylon in us, the glory of the earth.

SECT. XVII. Israel ruling over her oppressors.

SECT. XVIII. Moabs destruction also.

SECT. XIX. Fat things made lean, and high things low.

SECT. XX. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall be made one by the Lords blessing.

SECT. XXI. The whole Earth dissolving and burning.

SECT. XXII. The feast of fat things.

SECT. XXIII. The strong City, whose Wall and Bulwarks are Salvation.

SECT. XXIV. The Leviathan slain.

SECT. XXV. Against pride and drunkenness.

SECT. XXVI. The wise and the fool both alike in the sealed book, till the Lord open it.

SECT. XXVII. The Counsel that is not of God perishes.

SECT. XXVIII. Nothing below God any thing.

SECT. XXIX. Righteousness and Judgment King and Prince.

SECT. XXX. Who shall abide the everlasting burning, and not be consumed therein.

SECT. XXXI. The wrath of the Lord revealed against earth and heaven.

SECT. XXXII. What strange things the Lord doth amongst us by his Spirit.

SECT. XXXIII. Sennacheribs and Rabshakehs blasphemiesagainst the servants of the Lord, in whom they are comforted.

SECT. XXXIV. How the Spirit of the Lord, given to his, doth overcome all the evil and blasphemies of the devil, and is stronger then he or his.

SECT. XXXV. How the Lord makes sick and well, kills and saves; and he is glorified in all he doth.

SECT. XXXVI. Babylons letters and presents to betray us and our treasures into his own Land.

SECT. XXXVII. The Comfort that the Lord comforts his people withal, as the fruits of his coming.

SECT. XXXVIII. The Worm Jacob made strong.

SECT. XXXIX. What the Lord doth for his Servants.

SECT. XL. The sweetness and love of the Spirit of Christ in his.

SECT. XLI. The smoaking flax, and the bruised reed in us, the little measure of the Spirit.

SECT. XLII. Flesh is deaf and blind, the Lord seeing all things.

SECT. XLIII. The blind and the deaf shall be Gods Witnesses.

SECT. XLIV. I the Lord do all things.

SECT. XLV. God not like the golden idols.

SECT. XLVI. The shame and the nakedness of Babylon.

SECT. XLVII. I have shewed thee what thy Idols could not.

SECT. XLVIII. The Lord from the womb forms us to be his Servants.

SECT. XLIX. Look to our Rock, whence we are hewen.

SECT. L. Thy beautiful Garments.

SECT. LI. Shake thy self from the dust.

SECT. LII. The Lord rules over us, and speaks in us.

SECT. LIII. How beautiful the feet of them that do bring the glad tydings of peace are.

SECT. LIV. Thy God reigneth in the Zion of Saints.

SECT. LV. How thy God doth set thee apart; and how, though thy outward man be vile, yet the inward glorious.

SECT. LVI. The Arm of the Lord.

SECT. LVII. The plant growing up out of a dry ground, with sorrow to the flesh and the world, but with joy to the Lord & his Spirit in Saints.

SECT. LVIII. The Lamb that opens not his mouth, but by suffering overcomes.

SECT. LIX. Christ makes his grave with the wicked and the rich in his death.

SECT. LX. What it is to have the pleasure of the Lord for to prosper in his, or in our hand.

SECT. LXI. The Lord shall see us as the travel of his Soul.

SECT. LXII. We are the Lords spoil and portion.

SECT. LXIII. The Lord makes the barren to sing, and to bring forth gloriously.

SECT. LXIV. The seed of the living God out of a barren womb wonderful.

SECT. LXV. The Lord thy husband that comforts thee.

SECT. LXVI. I will be thy God and Husband from ever∣lasting unto everlasting.

SECT. LXVII. The foundation, windows, and gates of the Saints, the Lords house and building, of what precious stones it is.

SECT. LXVIII. The Lord is that water, that wine, and that milk to them that thirst after him, and that hunger in him.

SECT. LXIX. Three things to be observed here, more espe∣cially on the best wine kept last.

SECT. LXX. That which is bread, and satisfieth, and is good, and delights the soul, and makes it live and prosper in fatness, is from the Lord alone.

SECT. LXXI. Christ the true Witness and Leader to the People.

SECT. LXXII. The people that know thee not shall run after thee, for the Lord hath glorified thee in their eyes, and their thoughts and ways shall be as the Lords thoughts and ways are.

SECT. LXXIII. The Word that comes from Gods Mouth shall prosper in what it is sent.

SECT. LXXIV. No man is just, but he to whom Salvation is come.

SECT. LXXV. The stranger and the Eunuch joyned to the Lord, and made sons and heirs to God.

SECT. LXXVI. The righteous man perisheth, but not his righteousness, yet none lays it to heart.

SECT. LXXVII. The Lord will dwell in Holiness, both on high and below.

SECT. LXXVIII. The sin and iniquity of Jacob; the Fast that is the Lords, the good and acceptable day that he chuses, how we must love one another, and walk in the light, and not in darkness, as the Lord doth to us.

SECT. LXXIX. The exceeding sinfulness of sin, the misery that it brings, till the Lord arise against it in Justice and in Truth.

SECT. LXXX. Arise and shine, for thy light is come.

SECT. LXXXI. The glory given to them whom God doth glorifie.

SECT. LXXXII. All Glory comes when Gods Glory comes.

SECT. LXXXIII. I will bring gold and silver, strength and beauty unto thee.

SECT. LXXXIV. The Lord thy everlasting Light, thy Sun and Moon, that shall darken all other Suns, and turn them to blood, but himself, in the end.

SECT. LXXXV. The Spirit of the anointing of the Lord, what works it doth, binding and loosing, doing all good.

SECT. LXXXVI. Our righteousness brightness, and our sal∣vation a burning lamp.

SECT. LXXXVII. The Lord thy Watchman day and night.

SECT. LXXXVIII. The Lords dyed garments coming from the great slaughter of his enemies, sin and Satan.

SECT. LXXXIX. The Lords coming down with power to destroy flesh.

SECT. XC. The Lord God is found of them that sought not after him.

SECT. XCI. How all things are made new of God.

SECT. XCII. Though heaven and earth be my house, yet I will dwell in you.

SECT. XCIII. Zion brings forth, yea a whole Nation in a day, and that without pain.

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