. The apocryphal books of the New Testament, being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His apostles, and their companions, not included. nto thee; and then thy re-pentance may be firm and pure. 17 And if thou shalt keepthese things with thy house, thyinconveniences shall depart fromthee. 18 And all vexation shall inlike manner depart from allthose, whosoever shall walk ac-cording to these commands. SIMILITUDE VIII. That there are many kinds of elect, andof repenting sinners: and how all ofthem shall receive a reward pro
. The apocryphal books of the New Testament, being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His apostles, and their companions, not included. nto thee; and then thy re-pentance may be firm and pure. 17 And if thou shalt keepthese things with thy house, thyinconveniences shall depart fromthee. 18 And all vexation shall inlike manner depart from allthose, whosoever shall walk ac-cording to these commands. SIMILITUDE VIII. That there are many kinds of elect, andof repenting sinners: and how all ofthem shall receive a reward propor-tionable to the measure of their repent-ance and good works. AGAIN he shewed me a wil-low which covered the fieldsand the mountains, under whoseshadow came all such as werecalled by the name of the Lord. 2 And by that willow stoodan angel of the Lord very excel-lent and lofty; and did cut downboughs from that willow with agreat hook; and reached out tothe people that were under theshadow of that willow little rods,as it were about a foot long. 3 And when all of them hadtaken them, he laid aside hishook, and the tree continuedentire, as I had before seen which I wondered, and musedwithin Of the elect, and SIMILITUDE VIII. their rewards. 4 Then that shepherd saidunto me; Forbear to wonderthat that tree continues whole,notwithstanding so many boughshave been cut off from it, butstay a little, for now it shall beshewn thee, what that angelmeans, who gave those rods tothe people. 5 So he again demanded therods of them, and in the sameorder that every one had receivedthem, was he called to him, andrestored his rod ; which when hehad received, he examined them. 6 From some he received themdry and rotten, and as it weretouched with the moth; thosehe commanded to be separatedfrom the rest and placed bythemselves. Others gave in theirrods dry indeed, but not touchedwith the moth: these also heordered to be set by themselves. 7 Others gave in their rodshalf dry; these a
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