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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40276	A testimony for God's truth first, concerning new & heavenly Jerusalem, and Jerusalem from below. Secondly, concerning Christ the great mountain that fills the whole earth. Thirdly, how man and woman was created in the image of God, and to be help-meets one to another. Fourthly, how every one ought to improve the talent God gives them, to his glory, and their eternal happiness. By George Fox.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1688 (1688)	Wing F1928; ESTC R215788	10,734	17

A TESTIMONY FOR God's Truth c. Concerning New and Heavenly Jerusalem and her Children distinct from Jerusalem which is from below and her Children And that all who read this do see whether Jerusalem that is above be their Mother THe Apostle writes to the Church of Christ and saith Jerusalem which is above is Free which is the Mother of us all All Jerusalems Children are born of the Spirit and led by the Spirit of God And as many as receive Christ he gives them power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe in his Name And whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God And they that believe in the Light the Life in Christ do become the Children of Light as in John 1.12 and 12.36 and 1 John 5.1 And now in this heavenly Light Power and Spirit they come to be heavenly Jerusalems Children that is from above For such as hate the Light and do Evil are condemned by it and they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his but all the true Christians in the new Covenant and new Testament in Christ Jesus to whom Christ hath given his Life which is his Light and his Power them that believe in it and receive him do become the Children of Light and the Sons of God so they are heavenly Jerusalems Children born from above of the Spirit and the Light. The Apostle saith to the Converted Hebrews Ye are come unto Mount Sion unto the City of the Living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels and to the general Assembly and Church of the First Born which is written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just Men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and hither Jerusalems Children were come then while they were upon the Earth The Children of God that were born of the Spirit and the Children of the Light they were come hither in the Apostles Days they were come to that heavenly Mount-Sion that looks over the whole World for Natural Sion the Watch-Tower looked over into Canaan but this heavenly Sion spoke of in the New Testament which is the Joy of the whole Earth looks over all the Earth and in this Joyful Sion Christ the Elect and Precious was laid 1 Pet. 2.6 And Christ the Deliverer comes out of this Sion Rom. 11.26 And the Children of heavenly Jerusalem which is the City of the Living God they see the innumerable company of Angels and is not this the City that Abraham Isaac and Jacob sought for which hath Foundations whose Builder and Maker is God is not this heavenly Jerusalem the City of the Living God that they sought for And are not all heavenly Jerusalems Children written in Heaven seeing the Apostle said Jerusalem that is above is the Mother of us all that believe in Christ and receive him and are born of the Spirit and they were come to the General Assembly the Church of the First Born written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just Men made Perfect All these were and are Born of the Spirit that comes to heavenly Sion and Jerusalem and to God and his Son and to the just Mens Spirits made perfect for it is the Spiritual Birth heavenly Jerusalems Children that sees these things and knows them that which is born of the Flesh is Flesh and may know fleshly things and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit and knows spiritual things And John in the Revelations he saw the great holy City new Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband having the Glory of God and her Light was like unto a precious Stone and the City had no need of the Sun neither of the Moon nor of a Candle for the Glory of God doth enlighten it and the Lamb is the Light thereof This heavenly Jerusalem is and was the Mother of all them that receive Christ who gives them Power to become the Sons of God and they that believe in the Light are the Children of the Light and walk in the Light of their Mother New Jerusalem And you may read how this new Jerusalem is garnished with Pearls figuratively and there is written on the Wall the name of the twelve Tribes and twelve Apostles and of the Lamb the Gates of it shall not be shut at all by Day for there shall be no Night there So here you may see there is no Night here but alwayes Day in the holy City New and Heavenly Jerusalem that is from above all the Children of the Light and that are born of the Spirit from above see it their Mother and the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the Light of this City new Jerusalem that is from above and all Jerusalems Children that have overcome have Right to the Tree of Life and Drink of the Water of Life in this new and Heavenly Jerusalem and in this Heavenly Jerusalem there shall be no more Curse and none that are defiled enter into it but they that are written in the Lambs Book of Life and he that overcomes saith Christ I will make a Piller in the House of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the Name of my God and the name of the City of my God New Jerusalem which comes down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new Name Here you may see New Jerusalems Children and the Name of God and the holy City and the Name of Christ written upon them and their Fathers Name written in their Fore-heads that they may know that they are the Children of new Jerusalem and of God and Christ and they shall see his Face and his Name shall be in their Fore heads Rev. 22.4 and 3.12 He that hath an Ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches Heavenly Jerusalems and Sions Children and therefore all that are Born of the Spirit the Children of the Light that believe in Christ receive him their Mother is new and Heavenly Jerusalem and this Spirituall Birth cannot own any Mother below this New and Heavenly Jerusalem and all Heavenly Jerusalems New Born Babes are Nourished with the sincere Milk of the Word and the Bond-Womans Children that is born after the Flesh persecute New and Heavenly Jerusalems Children that are born after the Spirit the Bond-Womans Children are in bondage but Jerusalems Children which is from above is free who give Glory to the Lord God over all for Evermore So new and Heavenly Jerusalem brings forth a new and Heavenly Generation a spirirual Houshold Heavenly and Spiritual Citizens and a Royal Priest-hood that offers up Living and Spiritual Sacrifices And in the Apostles Dayes before the Apostacy all the true believers and followers of Christ had Jerusalem that was above for their Mother but since