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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86947	The mystery of Christ in us, with the mystery of the Father, Word, and holy Ghost or Spirit, opened also, the parable of the rich man's flocks and herds, and the poor man's ewe-lamb, explicated. Likewise, the way that Christ takes to undo a man, and take away his life. Together with a discovery of the neerness of Christs coming, and of those glorious things which are to be fulfilled in these later days. Set forth and published by Ed. Hide jun.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3866; Thomason E1372_4; ESTC R209351	80,214	204

year that King Vzziah dyed 2 Chron. 26. 23. The Prophets discovery of the Lord is as followeth I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne as ready to judge Psa. 9. 7 8. But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath prepared his throne for judgement and he shall judge the world in righteousness he shall minister judgemen to the people in uprightness See Dan. 7. 9 10. I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the Ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like the pure wool his throne was like the very flame and his wheeles as burning fire a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him The judgement was set and the books were opened See that in Rev. 4. 2 3. And immediately I was in the Spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sate on the throne and he that sate was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine two glistering stones And there was a rain-bowe round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald which holds forth the Covenant of Grace See Revel. 6. 16. And they said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb And that in Rev. 20. 12. And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works At vers. 19. And I saw a great white throne and him that sate on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them Or the Throne may be taken thus A Throne denotes Dignity Rule Kingliness Authority Sitting holds forth Rest The words being thus explained the meaning of them is this Isaiah saw the Lord sitting upon the Throne that is ruling reigning triumphing in a peaceable manner over his enemies High and lifted up that is far above all principalities and powers might and dominion and every name that is named not onely in this world but that which is to come Eph. 1. 21. And his train filled the temple That is the skirts of his Robes with which he sate upon the Throne filled the Temple that is the Saints for they are the Temple of the living God 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. Above it that is above the Throne stood the Seraphims What are those Angels appearing as fire Psal. 104. 4. Who maketh his angels spirits his ministers a flaming fire These stood and attended Christ See Dan. 7. 10. Thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before the Ancient of days that sate upon the Throne whose garments were white as snow Each one had six wings with twain he covered his face as not able to endure the brightness of Christ's glory even as Moses did see Exod. 3. 6. Moreover he said I am the God of thy fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob And Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God See that likewise in 1 King 19. 11 12 13. And he said Go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord And behold the Lord passed by and a great and strong winde rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord but the Lord was not in the winde and after the winde an earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake and after the earthquake a fire but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire a still small voice And it was so when Elijah heard it that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entring in of the cave Elijah could not endure the glory of God and therefore puts a mantle before his face And with twain he covered his feet as abashed in apprehension of their own infirmities and imperfections compared with God's incomparable perfection and majestie Job 4. 18. Behold he put no trust in his servants and his angels he charged with folly And with twain he did flie Which speaks their readiness and swiftness to go about God's business Psal. 110. 20. Bless the Lord ye his angels that excel in strength that do his commandments hearkning unto the voice of his word And one cried to another or this cried to this Holy holy holy Their constant employment is praising God See Rev. 4. 8. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about them and they were full of eyes within and they rest not day and night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come The whole earth is full of his glory or his glory is the fulness of the whole earth He fills heaven and earth with his glory we can look nowhere but behold glory Psal. 104. 24 25. Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches so is this great and wide sea And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried and the house was filled with smoak that is the posts of the door of the house or temple moved The posts are those upon which the door hangs Their moving was a signe of God's indignation See Amos 9. 1. I saw the Lord standing upon the altar and he said Smite the lintel of the door that the posts may shake and cut them in the head all of them and I will slay the last of them with the sword he that fleeth of them shall not flee away and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered And the house was filled with smoak Another signe of his fierce anger incensed See Psal. 18. 7 8. Then the earth shook and trembled the foundations of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth There went up a smoak out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured coals were kindled by it See Deut. 29. 20. The Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoak against that man Or by smoak here is meant darkness see Rev. 15. 8. And the temple was filled with smoak from the glory of God from his power and no man was able to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled In this symbolical Vision Isaiah saw the Lord and the discovery of the Lord had such an efficacie and power upon his spirit that he was forced to cry out that he was undone So that the words are a fruit of that discovery that Isaiah had of Christ And there are in them these things to be considered First Here is what Isaiah said when he saw the Lord Wo is me or Wo belongs to

city had twelve foundations which speaks the sureness of its foundation and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb to signifie unto us that the ground and foundation of this City is laid upon the doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the corner-stone And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall thereof Measuring with Reeds was a thing of great use as we read among the Prophets Because every thing of this spiritual Ierusalem is glorious therefore the measuring-reed is said to be of gold This golden Reed is the Spirit And the city lieth foursquare which presents us with this The fastness and unmoveableness of its stature for round things are easily rolled and moved aside but square things are not Seeing we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken let us have grace whereby we may so serve God that we may please him with reverence and fear Hebr. 12. 28. And the length is as large as the breadth And he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal The Angel with his golden Reed measureth the square side of the City both in length breadth heighth and depth of it and findeth each of them to be Twelve thousand furlongs which after 8 furlongs to the mile maketh in our account fifteen hundred miles as some say and so the whole square of this great City cometh to six thousand miles which is a great compass and holdeth forth unto us the great largeness of this City that there is room enough for all the inhabitants thereof yea most pleasant and commodious rooms And he measured the wall thereof an hundred fourty and four cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the angel which after our common account of two Cubits to a Yard amount unto seventy and two yards which is a great thickness even so thick as no enemy can break in And the building of the wall of it was of jasper that is spotty greedy green and flourishing And the city was pure gold without any mixture Like unto clear glass pure and glistering And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished beautified and adorned with all manner of precious stones which were written upon the brest-plate of the High-priests under the Law But here we are not to think that the city of God is of such metal and matter indeed as is here described but the holy Ghost would give us some taste of it and after a sort shadow out unto us under these things which are of most esteem amongst men what the glory and excellency of this new Hierulem is And the twelve gates were twelve pearls every gate was of one pearl and the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass All which hold forth to us the braveness beautifulness gloriousness glistering and admirableness of the City If the gates be of Pearl and the street of gold then what are the inmost rooms And I saw no temple therein as was in the old Ierusalem For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it As the City hath no need of the Temple so it hath no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it that is it hath no need of any light for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof God and Christ is all in all there The kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it Though none of the Kings and Nobles of the Gentiles might be admitted into the old Jerusalem yet they have free passage into this And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day The gates of this City always stand open for believers to come in as not fearing enemies For there shall be no night there All shall be light And they shall bring the honour and glory of the nations into it and throw it down at Christ's feet And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye but they that are written in the Lambs book of life No unclean thing shall enter in here Now in Chap. 22. to verse 6. he speaketh of a pure river of water of life This River is Christ who is pure the Water of this River is the Spirit that flows from him and begets life in us Clear as crystal There is no muddiness in it Proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb Which holds forth unto us that God in Christ is the original of all our life and happiness In the midst of the street of it and of either side of the river was there the tree of life which is Christ which bare twelve manner of fruits Which speaketh those varieties of pleasures and delights that are in Jesus Christ And yeelded her fruit every month as well in summer as in winter Which speaks this to us the plenty of pleasures and delights that are in Jesus Christ And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations to preserve them from all diseases and griefs sorrow and pain and sickness The tree stands not in an outward corner of the City but in the midst of the street and of both sides of the river that all the Citizens of Jerusalem might freely come unto it and taste of the fruits of it And there shall be no more curse We shall be no more subject to any curse in the heavenly Paradise as Adam was in the earthly But the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it God shall be on his throne and the Lamb there And his servants shall serve him yea they shall see his very face which Moses could not endure the sight of and be taken with his glory And his Name shall be in their foreheads which shall distinguish them from the world yea his Name shall be so seen in their foreheads that all the world shall take notice of it And there shall be no night there and they need no candle neither light of the sun for the Lord God gives them light and they shall reign for ever and ever with the Lord And he said unto me These sayings are faithful and true And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his holy angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done All which are spoken of the City of God Selah And if you look into the 54 60 62 65 of Isaiah you shall see further what glorious things are spoken of the City of God I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me The first thing to be inquired into in these words is What Rahab is It is Egypt See Isa. 51. 9. Awake awake put on strength O arm of the Lord awake as in the ancient days in the generations of old Art

the Name of the Lord Answer It is to walk in the power majesty wisdom knowledge light and life of God If it be thus that the light shall not be clear nor dark neither day nor night in the day and coming of Christ Then think it not strange if it fall out so as surely it will But in the evening it will be light When the night begins to approach and gross darkness to follow then light will break forth even the everlasting light of God himself A strange thing is Friends when a man is in spiritual blindness betwixt darkness and light sometimes he thinks he sees and sometimes he thinks he sees not he cannot tell In the evening it shall be light when a soul least looks for it Who would look for light to break forth in the evening But it is true that it shall therefore wait for it If it be so that living waters shall flow forth from Jerusalem half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea Then this may serve to discover the abundance of the Spirit that shall be poured forth in the later days A fountain of living waters shall flow forth from Jerusalem to water the world with The mountains shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters The Church of Christ shall be so filled with the Spirit as it shall be in them as a Fountain and it shall come flowing sorth from them towards the former sea and later sea This shall be in Summer and in Winter it shall be always it shall constantly flow forth from them towards the world If it be so You that want the Spirit wait for it if you believe out of your belly shall flow rivers of waters a fountain of living waters shall flow forth from you to water the dry and parched ground If it be thus This may soon discover who shall reign in that day The Lord alone shall reign he shall be King then over all the earth then our Lord will be exalted Now men reign and are exalted but he will throw them down and exalt himself And his Name shall be one His Name is not one now there are other names besides his worshipped but God will throw them down and His alone shall be lifted up The POSTSCRIPT THere are three things which moved me to write this Postscript The first was To declare and make known that that which I have written against the Priests was intended onely against those that are base and vile and such as take Tythes and are proud ignorant idle blinde Priests such as are for Gain that feed Themselves and not the Flock that Go before they are Sent that teach for hire and the like The second thing was To take off those things that have been laid to my charge by Some concerning my first Book which are these First They affirm that I say in my Book that I take heaven to be the light and glory of God which is true and that Satan in heaven is Satan in the very light and glory of God which I deny For it is an impossible thing and cannot be Though this I cannot but subscribe to that is to say That he will administer to souls in that state and teach souls to make false applications and misapprehensions of things And besides if they would look diligently into my Book and search narrowly how things are spoken there they would finde that I speak a quite contrary thing for I say that Satan in heaven is Satan in glory and Satan in glory is Satan in an angel of light As in these words And there appeared another wonder in heaven the meaning is not that there appeared really a great Red Dragon in the light and glory of God but the meaning is John being taken up by the Spirit into heaven that is into the light and glory of God he saw the appearance of the great Red Dragon there but not really the Dragon in the very light and glory of God The second thing that they lay to my charge is the Title of my last Book which is A WONDER AND NO WONDER They admire how I can make that which Is a Wonder to be No Wonder This is a poor thing to give an Answer to But I will satissie them so far as to tell them I make A Wonder No Wonder thus It is a Wonder to those that are not acquainted with what Satan in heaven is for they stand and admire at the thing But it is not a Wonder to those that know what Satan in heaven is they do not admire neither do they at all wonder at it because they know it and are well acquainted with it And the reason wherefore John called it A Wonder was Because he knew not what Satan in heaven was he was not acquainted with Satan in an angel of light Consider that place in 2 Cor. 11. 14 And no marvel for Satan himself is changed into an angel of light The rest of the things they lay to my charge are words in my Book which are falsly printed for which the Printer indeed is to be blamed not I. The third thing that moved me to write this Postscript was To answer a poor weak saying of one whom I forbear to name which was this There are many that take upon them to write now a days but I know no warrant for any of them to write seeing there are so many learned able and godly men that do write unless they could write some New Truth that was never heard of before To the first I ask you this Is all Truth in learned godly men Have none but they a warrant to write May not a childe of God that hath no Learning at all be endued with the Spirit and power from on high and so be made as fit as they to preach and write Is not the same Spirit in one as in the other Certainly you have lost your Senses you seem to hold that which many ignorant Priests do that is to say That none are so able to deliver and write Truth as themselves are I am sure that godly learned men will not assume this to themselves but will esteem others above themselves There is that revealed many times to a poor ignorant weak Christian that learned Christians are ignorant of and I have seen that written by a Babe the like whereof I never saw come from learned Professors though they were godly I speak not this to discourage them or to set light by them but to take off partiality and my end in answering the foresaid saying was God knows That those that heard it might not be led aside by it but that they might see the vanity of it and that it proceeded either from Ignorance or Envie To the second I say There is no Truth new that is to be written but that which is written and shall be written is the old Truth It is true in one sence old Truth may be new as in that sence I write to you a new Commandment it was new to them because they had not practised it before but yet it was the old Commandment which was That they should love one another Now he that writes must write old Truth that was heretofore or else he must write a Lye There is nothing new under the sun There are many hidden old Truths which you and others know not though ye and others think ye know them and therefore they may write them and declare them if they be called to it of God And those that think themselves to know most know least yea are very fools nay a man may write those things that you and others haply know to be Truth for though you and others know them to be Truth yet haply others do not so that he writes the things he hath seen felt and handled but for any to write the things of another as he may which he hath not seen nor felt this is not lawful FINIS