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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66686	The mysterie of God, concerning the whole creation, mankinde To be made known to every man and vvoman, after seaven dispensations and seasons of time are passed over. According to the councell of God, revealed to his servants. By Gerrard Winstanley.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3048; ESTC R218568	33,974	70

of which God in all ages of the world is pleased to choose some to be Members of his Son or Citizens of Sion and hath appointed in his Councel that mankind shall increase in the world and act a while and then return to dust and one generation passe away and another come in the place but when the elect are gathered as wheat into Gods store-house and the City made compleat and the chaffe burned in the fire and none enters into the City but such whose names are written in the Lambs book of life and none enters into the lake of fire but such as are not writ in the Lambs book so that Gods will under this dispensation is done then followes immediately the great day of judgment or the resurrection of mens bodies out of the graves And this day of judgment is the 7. dispensation of God and this day windes up the whole mystery of God and makes the eternal councel of God compleatly manifest and true That the Serpents head is bruised and the whole creation Adam redeemed from the bondage of death and in this dispensation we are to mind two things First in this great day of the Lord he raises up the bodies of believers and unbelievers out of the dust again wherein he hath reserved them all the time of the battel between the anointing and the Serpent as a man would keep his jewels in a box for an appointed time Secondly God brings every man to judgement and rewards every man according to his work some rises to the resurrection of life and others to the resurrection of losse and death and the bookes were opened as John writes that is first the book of the mystery of iniquity or the nature of the Serpent in flesh laid open and made manifest to be a power and spirit of darkness that strived to be a being equal with God nay above God but being weighed in the ballance it is found too light And then the book of the mystery of God or the anointing of God in flesh this is made manifest and laid open to be the great power of God and the spirit of truth which hath advanced God to be the only one infinite being even God all in all and that besides him there is none And then another book was opened that is the book of life and death or the book of the Law and of Judgment which gives the sentence Come ye blessed inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world and to unbeleevers Go ye cursed into everlasting fire And now every man is judged according to his works the anointing or the righteous one is rewarded with life and all they in whom the anointing did dwell who are the elect City and spouse of Christ are called blessed and taken up into Gods Kingdome that is into love never to fall again But the Serpent the wicked one is rewarded with death and all those disobedient ones in whom the Serpent dwelt are cast into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels this is a second part in the day of judgment which is a trying of every mans work and the establishing the City which is the Lambs wife in perfect glory and in justly condemning the rest and here God is glorified in the salvation of believers and in the damnation or losse of unbelievers for his work stands and abides triall but mans work suffers losse and is ashamed But this is not the end for as yet the Son hath not delivered up the Kingdom to the Father for he must raign till all enemies be subdued but death curse and sorrow is not yet quite subdued for it raignes over part of the Creation still even over those poor creatures that were lost or that did not enter into the City but were cast into the lake of fire The Serpent as yet holds a power for there is part of Gods work not yet delivered from his bondage And the Serpent would be glad and it would be some ease to his torment if any of Gods work might die and perish with him As I have heard some say that they would be content to suffer the misery of a new war in England so that such as they mentioned might suffer as well as they this is the spirit of the Serpent I but the Serpent only shall perish and God will not loose a hair that he made he will redeeme his whole creation from death The spirit of darknesse cannot beare this speech therefore reader observe thy heart as thou readest it will either close with a tender spirit of pitty and love herewith or else swell and fret against it Therefore in the third part of this great day of judgment after the City work is finished and the triall over then does the tree of life God himself that dwells in the City and is the light and life and glory of it send forth dispensations or Angels bringing love to heale the Nations and to bring their glory into the City likewise that for the present lies under the dispensation of wrath and throws the Serpent that deceived them death and hell into the Lake but there is no mention that the nations are cast therein in this last casting in for they are redeemed from it as the tree of life brought forth fruit every change of time and age of the world to heale the elect the lost sheep or City so in this last and great day it brings forth leaves to heale the Nations or such as were not of the City their turne to receive mercy comes though it be at the last houre And then all Israel or whole creation that groaned under the bondage of death shal partake of the glorious manifestation of the Sons of God for now the deliverer comes out of Sion and shall turne away ungodlinesse from Jacob Therefore saith John I saw a pure River of the water of life cleare as Cristall proceeded out of the throne of God and the Lamb Now I conceive clearly that this pure River is the whole creation mankind fully and compleatly delivered from death and curse as in that 3. verse And this pure redemption proceedes from the throne of God and the Lamb that is from the judgment seat of God judging condemning and bruising the Serpents head and so setting his own work mankind free from that death and bondage I shall mention one Scripture more that countenances this truth And I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one sate like the Son of man having on his head a Crown of gold and in his hand a sharpe sickle And another Angel came out of the Temple crying with a loud voice to him that sate on the cloud saying thrust in thy sickle and reape for the harvest of the earth is ripe and he that sate on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped And then another Angel came out of the

day of Judgement is Though lost man drink the top yet the Serpent shall drink the dregs of Gods judgment before the Son can deliver up the Kingdom to the Father What the first and second death is or the first resurrection and second death What the Bookes are that must be opened at the great day of judgement God hath been judging the Serpent since Adams fall and will still sit upon the Throne till the last day be finished yet all but one day of judgment God hates none but the Serpent and his seed hee loves every branch of mankinde and in his owne seasons wil manifest his love to every one though to some at the ninth some at the tenth and some at the last houre God hath given a time times and halfe time to the Serpent now in the latter dayes to reigne in these How the Serpent under the names of Beast Whore and false Prophet makes use of that time God hath given him The bitternesse that is in mens spirits in these dayes is the smoak of the Serpents torment the restlesnesse of that wicked one day and night and beginning of his sorrowes Three scruples against this mystery of God answered A seasonable advice in the close The Mystery of GOD concerning the whole Creation MANKINDE What mankinde is was ana shall be WHen God had made Adam there was then two Beings distinct the one from the other that is God himselfe that was an uncreated Being and the Humane Nature that was a created Being And though Adam was pure and spotlesse yet he had no other wisdome beauty and power but what God had created God himself who is the infinite endless Being did not dwell bodily in Adam as he did dwell bodily in the Humane Nature Jesus Christ the second Adam in after-times but a pure created wisdome beauty and power did rule dwell and act in that created Humanity And after God had made Adam he put him into a Garden called Eden which was full of Trees Hearbs Creatures for pleasure and delight that he should dresse it and live contentedly in the use of all things therein which indeed is the History to the creatures capacity Yet thereby God declares That Adam himselfe or that living flesh mankinde is a Garden which God hath made for his own delight to dwell and walk in wherein he had planted variety of Hearbs pleasant Plants as love joy peace humility knowledge obedience delight and purity of life But all these being created qualities and a Being distinct from the Being of God God knew and saw that there would spring up as a weed and the first fruits of it likewise an inclinable principle or spirit of self-love aspiring up in the midst of this created living Garden and in the midst of every plant therein which is indeed aspiring to be as God or to be a Being of it selfe equall to and yet distinct from God as we see by visible experience in every creature as Horses Cowes Beares and the like there appeares an inclinable disposition to promote it selfe or its own Being But this is but the fruit or invention of the creature after he was made God did not make it Now as the purest water being let stand does in time putrifie so I say God knew that the first fruit that this created Being would bring forth would be an aspiring desire to be equall or like to God himselfe which if the creature delighted in and so ate or satisfied himselfe in his own fruit he should die but if he forsook his own invention and stuck close to God acknowledgeing his Being to be his life and all in all then he should live Therefore God made it under a law that the creature might know himselfe to be a creature and acknowledge God his maker to be above to whose command he was to subject himselfe for when God had made him a pure living creature very good and a being distinct from the being of God yet in the image of God like two trees from whence fruit should grow for Adam would bring forth fruit to maintain his created being equall with God and God would bring forth fruit to maintain his uncreated being and to swallow up all other beings into himself and he to become all in all to every Creature that he made Now saith God I have made thee the Lord of all my Creatures and for thy use I made them and thou mayest make use of any that pleases thine eyes and eat of the fruit of any tree that delights thy taste excepting the tree of knowledge of good and evill that stands in the middle of the Garden and of that thou shalt not eat for in that day that thou eatest thereof thou shall die the death And this is the Law or Covenant that I have made between me that am a Being of my selfe and thee that art a Being created by me Now when Adam had taken of the tree of knowledge of good and evill that was in the Garden of Eden the History and did eat of it It declares that he did eat likewise and especially of the forbidden fruit that aspired up in himself the living Garden of Eden the mystery and gave way with content and delight to that aspiring selfishnesse within himselfe to be as God knowing good and evill for eating implies delight and satisfaction for Adam did not onely eat of the tree in Edens Garden but he had a secret tickling delight arising in him to be a more knowing man then God made him and thereby began to reject God and not being content with the Being God made him in which if hee had been content with he had acknowledged God all in all and the onely infinite and one Being that shall stand unmoveable But he eats delights in that aspiring Weed or Mystery of Iniquity for himselfe to have a Being above equall to or distinct from God So that the ground of Adams fall arises up first in Adams heart as fruit growing up from a created Being for in that it was in his heart to doe evill God imputes it to him for evill Well this selfishnesse in the midle of the living garden Adam is the forbidden fruit and this is called the Serpent because it windes it selfe into every creature and into every created faculty and twists it self round about the Tree Mankind And when Adam put forth his hand to take and eat of the fruit of the Tree in the History his hand was guided thereunto by this Serpent whose secret whisperings he delighted in And truly this delight in selfe was the eating and it was the chiefe forbidden fruit that grew up in the middle of the living garden Adam which God forbad him to eat of or delight in But Adam did begin to delight in that inward fruit of wickednesse and then by the motion thereof took the fruit of the Tree in the middle of Eden and delighted his outward