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A79841	Emmanuel manifested: or, The two natures of Christ clearly distinguished, in their acts and effects. Wherein is briefly discovered, the means and manner of man's restoration; and, the reasons of the various dispensations of God; before Christ & since. With, a description of the difference betwixt the doctrines and discipline of Christ, and that of Antichrist. / By A.C. a lover of the true manifestation of Jesus.	Clappe, Ambrose.	1655 (1655)	Wing C4411A; Thomason E1492_3; ESTC R208519	29,118	99

c. v. 20. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the c. Exod. 8.18 19. And the magitians did so ch 9.11 could not stand before Moses compared with 2 Tim. 3.8 Now as Jannes c. so do these c. vers 9. But they shall proceed c. their folly c. 3. 1 John 2.16 Lust of the flesh c. is of the c. James 3.11 12. Can a fountain c. or tree c. vers 15. Is earthly sensual and devilish c. Rev. 18.7 I sit as a Queen and am ●o c. chap. 17.15 Mystery Babylon the whore v. 18. Ruleth over the Kings of the earth chap. 18. Last And in her was found the blood c. John 16.2 They that kill you shall think c. Rev. 17.2 Have been made drunken with the c. vers 4. Deckt with Gold and pretious stones and Pearle vers 6. I saw the Woman drunken with the blood c. Rev. 2.20 Because thou sufferest the Woman Jezabel to teach and seduce c. vers 21. Compar'd chap. 18.7 I sit as a Queene 1 Kings 21.7 Dost thou not govern Israel arise let thy heart be merry I will give thee the Vineyard 8 vers She wrote letters in Ahabs name vers 9. Proclaime a fast c. vers 10. Let two men witness c. Thou did'st blaspheme c. XXXVIII a 1 John 5.8 Three that be are record on earth c. b chap. 2.16 Lust of the eye of the flesh and pride c. Rev. 18.12 13. Great merchandize slaves and soules of men vers 15 16 17 18. What city is like unto this great c. v 2. Is become the Habitation of devils 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. Giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lys in hypocrisie forbidding to marry and commanding to abstaine from meates chap. 6.3 2 Thes 2.9 10. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness 2 Pet. 2.1 2 3. Through covetousness shall they with feigned words make c. 1 Cor. 14.7 8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain c. 1 Cor. 14 33. God is not the author of confusion but c. c Ezek. 16.28 48. compar'd with Rev. 11.8 Spiritually is called Sodom c. compared with chap. 17.1 3 4. With whom the Kings c. And the inhabitants c. With the wine of her fornication d chap. 11.8 Call'd Aegypt e chap. 9.2 And there arose a smoke out of the c. chap. 8.12 Third part of them was darkened chap. latter part 2 vers And the Sun and the ayre were darkened by reason of the smoke of the Pit vers 17. Mouths issued smoke fire and brimstone chap. 16 10. Beast and his kingdome c. of darkness c. Exod. 10.22 23. f See the 4 branch of 34 Section g Hab. 2.11 12 13. T is not of the Lord that the people should labour in the fire c. and weary themselves c. compared with Exod. 5.7 h Exod. 8.25 sacrifice to your God in the land i vers 26. Moses answer we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Aegyptians c. Lo shall we c. before their eyes and will they not stone us k v. 28. Go c. Onely you shall not go far away l chap. 10.14 Let your flocks and your herds be stayed XXXIX Rev. 16.19 Great City was divided into three parts chap. 9.14 15 16 17 18. compared with chap. 17.15 The waters are people nations c. chap. 16.12 Six Angels c. Euphrates dryed up vers 13. Three unclean spirits like frogs vers 14. To gather the Kings of the earth to battle of that c. Latter part 12 vers That the way of the Kings of c. vers 19. To give her the cup of the fierceness c. chap. 18.6 7 8. For strong is the Lord who Judgeth c. vers 21. Milstone c. Thus with violence shall the great city Babylon be thrown down and shal be found no more vers 23. For by thy sorceries were c. 24. vers chap. 19.1 2 3. And her smoak rose up c. Isa 52.11 Depart ye touch no unclean thing compar'd with Rev. 18.4 Come out of her my people c. 2 Cor. 6.17 Zech. 2.7 Deliver thy self O Sion c. Micah 4.10 Isa 24.3 4 5 6. XL. a Titus 1.16 They profess c. But in works they deny him John 12.4 saith I know and keepeth not c. is a liar b 1 John 2.18 Have heard that Antichrist shall come 2 Pet. 2.3 Through covetousness c. make merchandize 2 Thes 2.11 Strong delusions that they may believe a ly 1 John 2.15 Love not the world nor the things c. if c. vers 22. Who is a liar he that c. Is the Antichrist c 2 Pet. 2.1 Who privily shall bring in damnable c. Denying the Lord that bought them d 2 Thes 2.7 The mystery of iniquity doth c. vers 9. Whose coming is with signes and lying wonders e vers 10. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness c. f Matth. 15.9 In vaine do they worship me teaching c. 1 John 2.23 He that denyeth the Son denyeth c. g 2 Tim. 3.5 Having a form of godlyness but c. h chap. 3.8 Who as Jannes and Jambres withstood c. vers 9. But they shall proceed no further for c. Rev. 17.18 Reigneth over the Kings of the c. vers 6. Drunk with the blood of c. chap. 13.15 and caused that as many as would not worship should be killed vers 16 17. No man might buy or sell c. i 2 Thes 2.3 4. He as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God Emmanuel manifested I. MAn being created was under a perfect Law or Covenant of works for life II. Man brake this Law of Works III. a God promised the seed of the woman b should break the Serpents head or power c which is the Covenant of Grace IV a Christ the promised seed consisting of two natures was b manifested in the name Emmanuel c which natures are distinct in their acts and d effects conducing to the restoration of man e and must so be declared in preaching the Gospel V. a Christ as man or son of man was made passive to bear the curse on fallen man and as God b or son of God was the fulfiller of the Fathers will in compleating actual righteousness c made effectual to all his members d and were both signified the one by the blood the other by the water which coming out of his side e are called two witnesses VI. a These two natures are further distinguished in two dispensations by two Testaments b In the first God chose a people to bear his name in the world viz. Abraham and his seed after the flesh by generation c In which choice Christ was manifested to be the son of Abraham d and a branch of the root of Jesse e in whom all the nations of the earth should be blessed f

oppression to enforce obedience to it's carnal principles e by which she ruleth over the Kings of the earth 2. Worldly riches produce formality and conformity a to such as can and will confer the same laying also a snare of gain in matters of Religion in stead of godlyness which the b worldly-wise do approve and applaud though c it be foolishness with God It maketh indeed a resemblance of the worship of God but as Jannes Jambres withstood Moses so doth it the true worshippers and truth it self but their folly being known they can proceed no further Thirdly worldly pomp fleshly glory the production of the two former upon a Church-account under the new Testament is earthly sensual and devilish and the bringing in of the fulness of Babylon Spiritually she is called the whore which sitteth as and boasteth her self to be a Queene But it is to the power of he world that she is prostituted She s also called spiritually Jezabel for she by pretence of blasphemy doth frequently accomplish her intended cruelty upon life and civil rights as did that Jezabel Ahabs wife by vaunting abusing her husbands power which she had part of on the same pretence obtain Naboths life and Vineyard XXXVIII a As the spirit the water and the blood are the three witnesses of the Gospel-Testament and Church of Christ b So worldly power riches and Pomp in the time of this Testament are the markes of the Antichrist the great city is called spiritual Babylon because it is the confounding of distinct essential truths by which the understanding is so darkned that one thing is taken for another as was in the confusion of tongues at the Building of Babel c It is also called Sodome because of the spiritual Whoredomes and fornications committed by her with the powers of the world under pretence of Religion d And is lastly called Ae●●pt e partly because of the s iritual darkness and also Bondage on all who by the light in Goshen are sensible of it And on them in doctrine thus f bringing in the question Did Christ die for me in the Room of faith and yet say they must believe g causing them to labour in the very fire of desperation like as Israel in Aegyptian bondage were compelled to make brick and gather their own straw whil'st a gain is made of them by their Taske masters As also in discipline it holds them under servitude in their formes of Will-worship for advantage sake even h as the Aegyptians would have permitted Israel to worship God if they would have performed it in Aegypt i which was unlawful but not elsewhere for feare of k losing them their service and l substance XXXIX When the great City is rightly understood in it 's three parts and the great River Euphrates and infant-baptism the inlet of it dryed up and the three unclean spirits like Frogs seen to proceed out of the mouth of the Dragon the beast and false Prophet then shall the way of the Kings of the East be prepared the fall of the City be at hand and God shall give her the Cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath Wherefore the Holy ghost calleth all the upright out of her that they partake not of her sins nor receive of her plagues XL. Let us this once looke back before we close and consider that there is no confession with the a tongue that Jesus is the Christ can excuse of b Antichristianism as corrupt interests do readily suggest blind people as easily receiv if the principles and practices speak vanity and confound c essential truths for the verball confession of Christ is infinitely weighed down by error in doctrine and practice and is the most effectual denying of Christ d and setting up confusion and a meer c resemblance f in the Room of Christ and g the true worship h Whereby mans Invention carried on by humane force is set up i in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God FINIS

power of its own will accept the offer of grace nor is united to the divine nature and cease to abuse the goodness of God without that farther work of the Spirit XXIV a Though perfection of grace be not attainable in this life yet none who are really become Christs by regeneration b shall ever be otherwise to their final destruction Perfect union is so c compleat a good that the soul is clothed with Christs righteousness to eternity d This is no way to excuse or cause presumption in any XXV a Desperation is of the tempter for the death of Christ and his love therein manifested in being made a curse for man extends to all and though abused yet may be applied whensoever God shall please to open the hearts and eyes which no b way excuseth procrastination of repentance whilst it is yet to day harden not your hearts c Knowing therefore the terrors of the Lord we beseech you to be reconciled to God and to press toward the work of perfection in Christ XXVI Neither the a old Testament nor the b New doth declare eternal misery to appertaine to those who live not to think speak or do any thing contrary to the will of God such it seemeth are those that dye in infancy to be accounted XXVII a The heathen living without the written law and Gospel of God do in some sort sin against both Against the law written in their hearts b and against the Gospel written on the whole creation manifested by Gods patience and forbearance in the protraction of their outward being and continuance of the good things they enjoy being the effects of Christs death c against which love they transgress by not answering in their actions the conviction of their consciences XXVIII a Christ shall be the resurrection of all b and the Judge of all according to what they have done in the flesh calling those that are his c members to himself in just Judgement clearing the ●●ne value of his righteousness imputed to them d Of the unregenerate their condemning Judge because he was humbled to the death for them in their nature thereby evidencing the Love of God and they not so affected therewith as to be united thereunto and live therein XXIX From the foregoing discourse the two natures of Christ are cleared by Gods twofold choice of a people under two Testaments distinct in a form of administration and order of time in two succeeding ages in force onely after the death of the respective testators b The first cal'd the administration of condemnation c the other the administration of righteousness that is to convince of both And is further distinguish'd by two buildings or houses of God d the first the material Temple of the Jews e the other the spiritual which is the believers f in whom Christ dwelleth by the his spirit XXX a The old testament and the new discover two Jerusalems or cities of God b First the temporal that being the city of the Church of Israel chosen by Generation viz. c the seed of Abraham after the flesh in d the promised Land of Canaan e Ruled sometime by judges other times by Kings as the people round about them And as their nation and Government were outward such was their Jerusalem such their peace riches and Glory such also was their warfare weapons and armies 1. a As a Church they were typical and to pass away b and so their temple was holy as well the stones and materials of which it was built as c the altar instruments o sacrifice flesh bread vestures c. Such was the d Priesthood and tribe of Levi having no inheritance as had the other tribes 2. a As whole Israel was the chosen of God the holy nation so were they b circumcised the eighth day c offered for in sacrifice purified d with outward washings e must keep pure their bodies from touching any dead carcase f their cloathes g also their houses yea the very face h of their Land from the filthiness of their own dung And as members of that temporal church i must all keep Sabbaths to rest together in which their very k beasts had rest Their l Land also rested every seventh year and so cal'd Gods rest or the land of rest m They did worship at one place at one time every year n And because they were brethren they might not in civil things deny free use to each other being commanded to lend And lend money without taking a garment to pawne and having lent might take no o usury Having bought a servant or land must in the year p of Jubilee set free and restore it The Judges kings Priests and Prophets were q impowered to punish transgressors against that law of God in that land r And the people were a holy nation Gods chosen and a s worldly sanctuary All for these peculiar ends viz. 1. To shew Christ to come of that nation and that Christ and his doctrine should be manifested in that nation 2. To publish the righteous law of God thereby to convince man of sin in the breach thereof 3. To declare that Christ was to do what was required of man and to suffer in that nature what Justice required for sin 4. a That Christ might be clearly typified as King Priest Prophet in the hearts of his people And also as King of the Kings of the world for mans outward peace and mutual good inasmuch as he was of the humane nature Most especially in the fifth kingdome signified by the stone cut out without hands spoken of in Dan. 2. XXXI a The second Jerusalem is wholy spiritual the b regenerate Church of Christ and his seed after the spirit to c whom are promised all spiritual blessings and d outward things as their heavenly Father sees best e They are ruled also by Christ their King Priest and Prophet And as their new birth and f obedience is spiritual such is their g Jerusalem such their h peace i Riches and glory preserved k by weapons of the same kind which no l carnal weapons can either preserve or destroy and m guided by that wisdome which is from above which worldly wisdome n cannot resist 1. This Gospel-Church is the antitype of that of the a Jewes and cannot be shaken but remaineth the new and living Temple b having Christ for its foundation his members being built upon him do make up a holy habitation of God Which shall have the perfection of grace and peace in Gods time Christ being their altar sacrifice food and covering the eternal Priest after c the order of Melchizedeck the members of this Church being a d nation of Priests have all an e inheritance in the riches of Christ f who is their Land of rest 2. a The true Israelites are so onely by faith manifested members by profession and Baptisme may have no communion with b dead workes their body being the Temple of the c holy spirit must be kept pure and also their d cloathes