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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84893	Light vanquishing darknesse. Or a vindication of some truths formerly declared, from those aspersions which have been (by reason of some misapprehensions) cast upon them; now published for the satisfaction and benefit of others. With a preambular epistle to all sorts of men. As also a parcell of good counsell, if you can take it. / By Captain Francis Freeman, a late member of the army.	Freeman, Francis.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1650 (1650)	Wing F2129; Thomason E615_7; ESTC R206543	58,771	68

mystery and according to the spirituall sence in my apprehension faith is there meant Christ but before Christ came we were kept under the law shut up unto the fiath which should afterwards be revealed This word but hath reference to the former verses therefore read from the 21. verse to the end of the chap. and you may find this if God says Amen to it to be a glorious truth But if so be you have but a notionall knowledge of Christ or a bare historical faith as Mr. Cox by his expressions in answer to my question did import no other saying that he did hope he had faith which is but historical by hearsay and mearly the teachings of men and no otherwise then you cannot say of a truth that Christ is in you the hope of glory These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you But if you have received the anointing it abideth in you and the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no ly c. 1 Job 2.26 27. And if Christ be in you the hope of glory then you shall finde that spirituall and individual substance or rather subsistance in respect of operations manifested within you that is infeperable For we are his anointing and that spiritual unction within us makes us to be one with him We are Kings and Priests and by vertue of his spiritual anointing we are one with him by faith which is Christ in us we apprend all the benefits and spirituall enjoyments and rejoycings made out unto us and by his spiritual descension so low into us and drawing us up into himself we are come to be one with him and in him and he in us Joh. 17. being iustified by faith in his blood And as there is such a sweet union and onenesse between Christ and the soul Christ being the manifestation of his fathers love the soul comes to have free accesse by one spirit unto the Father Ephe. 2.18 in and through the Son whereby the soul comes to see God purely as he is so that there is a continual feast of fat things their Table being richly deckt and covered over with all sorts of varieties of dainties supping and dining together And there is a continual presence or habit of union between God and the soul that the soul is as it were richly clothed with God and God with the soul do live mutually in themselves for he that dwels in love dwels in God God in him that nothing is in God that is not God therefore whatsoever is in God is God And thus the soul comes to see God to be his all and in all and sees him in all things in every thing and sees his own nothingnesse and emptynesse of himself without him But now I shall shew you that there are many who look upon Christ after the flesh and not after the spirit or a spiritual Christ within us not apprehending him as he is purely in himself so they look upon the act of faith to be that which God accepts to justification But truly for my part I am not of that judgement for I conceive there is a mistake in it looking upon him after the flesh and not after the spirit or in the spirit and so they asseribe that honour to faith which is due unto Christ and dishonour him in so doing for although they do not exclude Christ wholly and totally yet in the act of justification which is a work it gives all unto faith we are justified before God in his sight only by Christ Rom. 3.20.24 and for a farther confirmation of this truth see Isa 53.11 12. Where it is said my righteous servant shall justifie many which must be understood of Christ we are not justified before God by faith which is in us but by Christ by his blood We are justified by his blood Rom. 5.9 by faith which is Christ in us we know our selves to be justified verse first and although faith is one of the chiefest graces yet as it is an act it is a work and to be justified by it is to be justified by a work of our own for with the heart man beleeveth Rom. 10.9 10. so that t is clear that which justifie us must needs be perfect and so it can be no act of ours for all our righteousnesses are as filthy ragges c Isa 64.6 not of works least any should boast Ephe. 2.9 Me thinks the consideration of this point should cause us to admire at the wonderful riches of the free grace of God in Christ Jesus who out of his infinite love being an infinite glorious Majesty that he should descend so low as to take upon himselfe our nature being poor finite creatures to shed his blood to die for us and to rise again for our justification But that his essential will is himself his power is himself his wisdome is himself and every thing that is in him is himself if we can but see it But to proceed a little farther in the prosecution of this point of faith I shall speak something concerning Enochs walking with God by faith and so conclude the point It is said Gen. 5.24 That Enoch walked with God and was not for God took him By faith he was Translated that he should not see death c. And the text saith that he was one that is not this may seem to be a paradox a strange expression if we but barely look upon the letter of the Scripture yet it is a glorious truth for it is said he is one that is not Enoch walked with God and was not So that he walked not after the flesh but after the spirit for he was translated by faith that he should not see death and was not found he was not for God took him He in himself was not for his glory and excellency past away all his earthly pomps vanish'd he of himself was nothing for he saw his own emptinesse and nothingnesse and all-sufficiency in Christ what he was he was in Christ Christ was his life and his all Christ was all and in all unto him Col. 3.11 So that God translated Enoch in the spirit he was translated into Jesus Christ and so every true believer is one in Jesus Christ and nothing in himself there is a glorious change there is a new birth there is a new self he is born of God God is his selfe Christ is his self So that Enoch was out of the flesh into the spirit out of himself and his own righteousnesse into God and so is every saint every true believer is translated out of himself into a being which is in God He is dead unto all self-righteousnesse he is dead unto the law he is dead unto the World but he is alive unto God Here you see that by faith Enoch was Translated from death to life Therefore you may see that faith is an excellent gift est donum Dei it is the gift of God Ephe.

make way for your understanding of these things herein contained and if so be that any of my adversaries should have that impudency to deny any one particular herein expressed I shall be able to clear it by the testimony of honest men and shall humbly refer it to the serious consideration of the judicious reader to judge of their dealings towards me and so proceed in the prosecution of each particular in order And first of the first which is touching the manner of our discourse The ground of my Argument lies thus That he that hath faith he is in Christ and Christ in him so that faith is Christ manifested in him and he is Christ though not essentially yet in respect of that spirituall onenesse with him and in him Iohn 17. so that there can be no separation nor division betwixt the head and members in regard of that spirituall union and onenesse And as there is that spiritual union and onenesse that cannot admit of any separation or devision so I shall handle the branches thereof issuing or flowing from them as streams from a fountain both jointly and severally in regard of that near relation and conjunction betwixt the head and members But first we are to consider that there is a relative union and there is a reall union which I shall shew you under a two-fold consideration yet comparatively in my apprehension they are both as one 1. This relative union is as the husband and wise Christ and his Church And this reall union is as the tree and branches and if so be a branch of that tree be cut off it is no longer a branch of that tree being disunited although it retains the same quality for a while in regard of its own nature yet it soon withers and dies although the body lives and growes now this relative union with Christ and his Church is such a union that they are so inseparably united and knit together with that spirituall bond of love and amity that can never be broken For our Saviour Christ saith that he is the vine and ye are the branches and if so b e a member of Christ which is a branch of that vine be cut off by a corporal or temporal death yet the spirit retaines its first principles and returnes to God that gave it and spritually it continues and remaines a branch of that royall stock For as the Apostle saith that neither life nor death nor things present nor things to come shall be able to seperate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus so that here we see that this is that spiritual union and onenesse not that the body is the head or the head the body but that all the members as branches make up but one body whereof Christ is the head And they are a perfect body in Christ so that there needs no supply of any thing to make them a perfect body for their is nothing wanting to make them compleat as there may be wanting in the naturall body of man for if there be but a little finger wanting or but one joynt of that little finger it is an imperfect body so that the eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee nor the head to the feet I have no need of you 1 Cor. 12.21 But in this spiritual body of Christ it is otherwise for the flesh was crucified at Jerusalem and as the Apostle speaks Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 And as Christ is head over his Church so God hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the church which is his body the fullnesse of him that filleth all in all Eph. 1.22 23. Christ is all and in all by hit providence to every creature but he is all and in all in a more speciall and peculiar manner by his providence to his Saints which are his Church So that there can be no separation nor devision betwixt the head and members And for a farther illustration and conformation of this truth in hand I speak chiefly to you who are friends and lovers of truth I shall commend to your serious consideration these scriptures following to wit Jer. 23.5 6. Jer. 33.16 Where you shall finde in the former Chap. The Lord speaking to the Israelites of a righteous branch that he would raise unto David and that a King should reign and prosper c. In his daies Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called The LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNES Now this righteous branch is meant Christ who is the King of Saints and he shall prosper in the gathering together of his Saints from the uttermost parts of the earth even amongst the heathen nay the heathens themselves Psal 2.8 and this is done out of his abundant love to his poor creatures And here he is called the Lord our Righteousnes and in the 33. Chap. of the same book of Jer. before mentioned verse 16. there you shall finde a kind of reciprocall love by way of exchanges of loves betwixt Christ and his Church where he honours his church with his own name and in the very self same sweet expression The lord our Righteousnesse so that every particular member hath an interest in this name as you may gather by this Scripture following which is as I conceive a confirmation of this truth see 1 Cor. 11.3 where it is said that the head of every man is Christ so that every particular member is Christ not essentially not that the body is the head or the head the body but under this twofold consideration 1. In regard of that spiritual onenesse with him and in him and 2. In regard of his name wherewith he shall be called The Lord our Righteousnesse which is here spoken of the church And you may see in the 1 Cor. 6.17 That he that is jayned unto the Lord is one spirit Now if so be I had said that I had bin the Christ then certainly I had spoken blasphemy in the highest degree and my adversaryes might have had just cause against me and that scripture had bin fulfilled in me that in the latter times there shall arise many false Christs c. but I hope in the handling of this point I have made it so clear and so plaine to the weakest capacity that they cannot but plead my innocency and integrity and so I proceed to the next in order which is touching faith what saith is according to my former discourse and the ground of my arguments laid down Therefore to prove the point that faith is Christ See Gal. 3.23 Where Christ is called faith the words are these in the history according to the letter But before faith came we were kept under the law c. But in the