there; and in like manner hell. 'Yea,' he is bold to exclaim, 'GOD
Himself is so near thee that the geniture of the Holy Trinity is
continually being wrought in thy heart. Yea, all the Three Persons are
generated for thee in thy heart.' And, again: 'GOD is in thy dark heart.
Knock, and He shall come out within thee into the light. The Holy Ghost
holds the key of thy dark heart. Ask, and He shall be given to thee
within thee. Do not let any sophister teach thee that thy GOD is far
aloft from thee as the stars are. Only offer at this moment to GOD thine
heart, and CHRIST, the Son of GOD, will be born and formed within thee.
And then thou art His brother, His flesh, and His spirit. Thou also art
a child of His Father. GOD is in thee. Power, might, majesty, heaven,
paradise, elements, stars, the whole earth--all is thine. Thou art in
CHRIST over hell, and all that it contains.' 'Behmen's speculation,'
Martensen is always reminding us, 'streams forth from the deepest
practical inspiration. His speculations are all saturated with a
constant reference to salvation. His whole metaphysic is pervaded by
practical applications.' And conspicuously so, we may here point out, is
his metaphysic of GOD and of the heart of man. The immanence of GOD, as
theologians and philosophers call it; the indwelling of GOD, as the
psalmists and the apostles and the saints call it; the Divine Word
lightening every man that comes into the world, as John has it,--of the
practical and personal bearings of all that Behmen's every book is full.
Dost thou not see it and feel it? he continually calls to his readers.
Heaven, be sure, is in every holy man, and hell in every bad man. When
thou dost work together with GOD then thou art in heaven, and thy soul
dwells in GOD. In like manner, also, thou art in hell and among the
devils when thou art in any envy, malice, anger, or ill-will. Thou
needest not to ask where is heaven or where is hell. Both are within
thee, even in thy heart. Now, then, when thou prayest, pray in that
heaven that is within thee, and there the Holy Ghost shall meet with thee