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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60437	Hidden things made manifest by the light in a plain distinction between condemnation and temptation : wherein is shewed how the rightetous law of God is ministered upon the transgressor, and how it is to be by all received and continued under, through it, as a schoolmaster to come to Christ, by him to have the sin done away forever : also of temptation, what it is, and how it may be known and discerned from condemnation, that out of temptation man may be delivered and kept with the light of Christ, who was tempted and did overcome : with a direction to them who profess the knowledge of the truth, and live not in the power of God, that they may know the entrance within the vail, where the temptations are overcome, and where the foolish virgins cannot enter / given forth for such who say they see, and yet their sin remaineth ... by a member of the church and body of Christ ... Humphrey Smith.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4062; ESTC R10253	15,254	23

And it is a temptation which causeth man to deny and refuse the Law which is light and not come under nor receive the Ministration of Condemnation supposing he is under Grace and so not to come back to the Law because he hath gotten a profession of Christ whose day Abraham saw whose seed came through the Law of whom Christ came who fulfils the Law and maketh an end of sin who was in the Church in the Wilderness and in his pitty saved them and bare them all the dayes of old leading the humble feed that through the Wilderness of sin it might come and at last enioy that by which the sin is done away for ever And it is a temptation which causeth man to call that a temptation which in the conscience doth sometimes arise and let man see that he by his sin is in the fall the death and the curse and that the iudgements of God belongs to him and that he cannot escape the fierce wrath of the Almighty living in that by which sin is daily committed and the righteous Law of God transgressed and himself out of the Covenant of life wanting the power of God to bear him up out of iniquity so that he labors and prayes and cryes sometimes with tears like Esau to keep that alive in the transgression which God hath appointed to destruction Consider this And strive against that which letteth see the emptiness thereof condemns afterwards if a false ioy doth not arise secretly to glory in what was done whereby that was satisfied and got ease which the Judgement was to which of the Judgement was afraid and from under it led forth to perform a wil-worship from that ground where Cains nature bears rule who can bring a sacrifice but the deeds with the light seen to be evil who at last murthers the Just the sin lying at the door which secret sin cannot be hid from the light in any that commit it or in whom it is though never so secret And it is a temptation which worketh in the dark corners of the heart in the time when condemnation cometh to drive man to dispair by reason of the fierceness of the Judgement and drives him from God and his righteous Judgements into unbelief and hardness of heart against God and herein the Tempter prevails over many some whereof then go to destroy themselves not keeping in patience under the Judgement which was to destroy the sin for Christ the light comes to condemn and destroy the sin but the life he comes to save Others through unbelief have hardned their hearts in sin their minds being in that in which they cannot believe that ever they shall overcome sin nor be saved from it and such grow worse then before and use all means in vain lustful delights to murther that in them which checks reproves and condemns them for sin and many here turn aside from under the condemnation many and various ways some who are blind calling it melancholly so that few endure to the end enter through the strait Gate by the death through it the life to find not waiting with long forbearance out of that which hasteth in patience in the light to see feel and know the seed of Abraham brought forth of the barren Womb which against hope in hope believe And these Temptations leadeth further into sin and is not that which condemns for sin for that would keep out of sin though its Judgements be never so heavy upon man for sin And being that God is known in the ways of his iudgements and that they who are to receive the promise must keep Judgement and that with Judgement Sions redemption is to be witnessed and when Judgement begins to be set up in the heart to iudge condemn confound overturn and cut down the head body and root of all that which by the light is seen to be in the transgression having the form of godliness but not the power which keepeth out of and free from all sinne which the Judgement is to pass upon Therefore is that a Temptation which then draweth forth the mind from under the Judgement to get ease by a supposed peace with God from the comprehension of something done without afar off or long ago so climbs up another way then by the light within which I knovv is the door which condemns bringeth to Judgement the hidden things of darkness and brings fire and sword upon the Earth and sendeth not peace to it but setteth two at variance within whereby there is much striving in the Womb and not rest day nor night because of the War between the two seeds out of which trouble being led by that which in the Judgement could not stand so that getteth ease again and then man preacheth peace unto himself having got out of some trouble he then striveth more strongly to keep out of it then he did before and labours much to comprehend a resting-place to abide in though that be not redeemed with Judgement out of bondage which thereby should come to obtain rest and peace for evermore And being that the Law and the Prophets together are until John and that the Law is to iudge and cut down that which is above the seed exalted and that the Prophesies and openings from the Testimony of Witness is to uphold and preserve under the Judgement whereby some secret hopes or refreshings comes unto that which at last out of bondage should be redeemed therefore it is a temptation which leadeth forth on that hand in a Joy through the reason vvith great swelling imaginations in the vain light mind out of the fear of God not standing in his counsel but like the rest of the false Prophets coming to true openings from it run forth before that through Judgement be brought forth which should go before and lead them in Gods Wisdom and Counsel to stand and such speak great swelling words in a secret pride boasting of their experiences but are become the untimely children of the Mother of Harlots who with their Mother must be turned back into the bed of Torments And being the Lord God of life hath given his Son a light in the heart that man might be led taught and guided by him out of sin and giveth power to all them that love follovv and obey him to overcome their sin vvhose light being in Man a free gift from God and that by no other Name Way or Means man can ever be saved Therefore it is a Temptation vvhich leadeth out from that in the heart Which in it is given there to make an end of sin to follovv that vvhich doth not make an end of sin nor minister povver to them that follovv it to overcome their sin so that they cannot receive that vvhich clenseth from all sin such have the root and ground in them from whence sinne cometh but the Root of Jesse in whom there is no sin they are onely professing and talking of without them And it

is all in vain And this is not known by any but such who know the Judgements of the Lord set up in the heart and the Cup of Astonishment to the Adulterous seed which comes of the Will of the flesh and cannot lay down the life for the Friend Wherefore I say Wait to know the Birth that is immortal and feel that born up which never yet vvas raised in them over vvhom the Vail yet is that the free-Birth may be known and the Seed whom God hath appointed the blessing unto from under death redeemed that by the powerful risings thereof the understanding may be opened with that which was before Forms were that to it you may come which giveth life unto the soul and know a Saviour borne of the barren Womb and a Deliverer brought forth in the place where he hath not been known and the plant to spring out of that ground which is yet dry that it may be overshadowed with the loveliness of its spreading forth that a Way may be opened in the Wilderness and the humble exalted in the Valley and so come to learn of that which is yet little and low and take heed of taking counsel of the Serpent vvhose subtilty will soon lead forth from the simplicity neither cover your selves with any thing before the Righteousness of God which is perfect be received but love that which comes from the man of sorrows vvho comes to break the peace of all them who walk not in the everlasting Way of Life Let all them who are out of it search their hearts with the Light And take heed of that which is high forward or strong in the Will for vve are weak which is not brought to the Cross for there is the first birth from the wrong grounds which will speake and act that which it lives not in neither is able to confirm it in faithfulness to the death and loss of all for things may be true in themselves and that which is out of the truth may speake of it yet such vain talkers cannot suffer to death for what they speak For that which cometh forth first is strong in the Earthly and would live for ever and have the blessing and would rule over the meeke thing in the particular and in others having a secret desire to be admired being far unwilling to take a servants place but certainly it is the meeke humble suffering seed which in many is yet opprest that is to last for ever vvho through death comes into the Dominion Therefore sink down out of the airy Comprehension and subtilty above the life and first come to suffer with that vvhich is meek and lovv if ever you intend vvith it to reign in that peace and life vvhich from all that vvithout the Vail is hid and in silence watch and be sober to see him come which saves the soul and clothes it with his own Righteousness that you be not found without a covering of the spirit power and life among the foolish Virgins for few there be that find the Way of life and abide therein And I knowing the terror of the Lord that will certainly come upon all them who dye out of his Covenant therefore I warn all people every vvhere as the Lord enlargeth me to wait to feel the powerful Word of repentance and with the light to make diligent search into the ground and foundation of all Professions Words and Actions For the Lord God will make inquisition for the blood of the Just and reward the double-minded according to the intents of their hearts the Gaul whereof will be rent with the povver of his Might which will sweep away the refuge of lyes and confound your Divinations in the head of that knowledge above the seed and a day of desolation must come Sword and Famine must you know and the Earth to be removed and your heavens shaken that the poor may come to receive the glad tydings of the Gospel which is the povver of God for the fat and the strong is for judgement both vvithin without they are still sent away empty but the poor are they which are to be satisfied not the rich high wise strong mighty prudent Diviners and Orthodox Men and zealous Professors and licentious Libertines as they are called who professe a Saviour to come some would have a King to reign hereafter but they are not agreed how nor when nor where their King shall reign whom they imagine shall come but are sound despisers and not lovers nor faithful followers of him that is come the glory of whose KINGDOM is already shining over the World and is established in righteousness Who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Who is our Head our Law-giver and our King and vve do not look for another as the Drunkards of Ephraim do vvho are drunk but not vvith Wine and staggar at noon-day and must be dashed one against another and broken to pieces as the potsherds of the Earth vvho are looking for a King to come and know not the King who is already come Who is the Light to which they will not bow though it in secret doth them reprove and sheweth us plainly of the Father and lets them see their disobedience To it now therefore bovv and bend for plainly the Lord God vvho is light vvill not alvvayes strive by the light of his Son in your hearts and this knovv That as I tender the least honest desires that are begotten in any after the living Truth of God yet I am to deal plainly vvith all and clear my conscience of all Who are covered vvith their ovvn conceivings and in Words and Writing to vvarn all in the spirit of truth and meekness as the Lord moveth me in faithfulness to declare against that vvhich yet in any bears rule over the Seed vvhich by judgement must be overturned and all the judgements of the Lord are true Wherefore ye that are vvilling to come out of temptations into that vvhere the foolish virgins cannot enter wait in the fear of the Lord to feele his Work vvithin vvhile the day of salvation lasteth least thick darknesse come upon you and you be found in the night in vvhich none can vvork and take heed of a secret high mindedness and prize your day of visitation more then life or liberty and take heed of that vvhich vvould contrive a vvay to shun the cross or stop the mouth of the vvitness but let the honest simplicity come to rule in the measure of it and take heed of entring in and yeilding to temptations for many vvayes hath the Serpent vvhich is near to beguile and destroy the life from man vvhich is not overcome but in the continual fear through the cross to the Will vvith the povver of the light vvhich is given to lead through all these things into the rest vvhich is prepared onely for them vvho are faithful to the light For this have I not learned nor received from men the Lord God knovveth I lye not but through the operation of the mighty povver of God vvhose indignation I have born in vvhose judgements I rejoyce for ever and glorifie and praise his blessed Name vvho by it my Wisdom confounded and suffered me to be sifted and tempted by the Enemy divers vvayes yet preserved my life under the shadovv of his Wing that I might praise and serve him in the Land of the living and declare his Wonders among the sons of men and let them also see vvith the light the narrovv vvay that they are to come vvhich in some measure hath been declared though in that language vvhich the Wisdom of the World may not understand and call it legal to vvhom as foolishness it may appear but my voice may be knovvn to the spirit in prison vvhom my soul travels for in the bovvels of my Fathers love H. S. FINIS

Law who is the light given into man to let him see to condemn the sin the which man being dead in and in trespasses doth not love but is afraid of that which in secret judgeth and reproveth him from the which man flying forsaketh that by which he should come to receive the mercies of the Lord but wo to them for ever who strive with their maker and call him Belzeebub who is the light in the heart and should be Master in the house Therefore let all take heed of despising the Law which is written with the finger of God in the heart whilest it is yet hard for the Law of God is perfect making wise the simple and the ministration thereof is to destroy that which did it transgress and lead unto him by whom the transgression is finished And this is not a temptation but a dispensation of Gods Justice through his righteous Law upon that which sinned over which the Law hath power so long as that liveth which the Law is to kill that through the death of it that might come again to live which was before the Law and before the death and before the sin And now when the Law or Ministration of Condemnation cometh man is to stand still and wait quietly under it and not let any thing break through in a haste to rage or gaze and wonder at that which is so dreadful that man is not able to stand under it without unspeakable astonishment because of that which then is over him who then is commanded not to break through least he dye for the Law is to break through that which cannot keep it and make way to that which is to keep it and live for ever but man is not to break through from under the Condemnation to that where the Law is ministred until that is received by which the Law may be kept for such who in the condemnation do abide come at last to see and receive him that is made under the Law and is the end of it and taketh away the sin but such who come to the Law and break out from under the Judgement before the law had brake through and out down all that in them which could not keep it such have let in death again to reign over that which with judgment should have been redeemed to bear away that which the law had power over and arise up with that power love life and obedience to God as in all things to fulfil the whole law of God which until then doth still stand in force over that and them in which sin remaineth which doth transgress the law one tittle whereof shall not perish till all be fulfilled though some coming to the law have broke forth and then healed the wound slightly supposing it would serve their turns to talk of the fulfilling of it by and in another for them without them seeing themselves not able to keep it in all things not waiting to the end of the law by it to have all that destroyed which could not keep it and receive that which cannot break it mark and in it keep by it to be lead out of the Wilderness of sin in the promised land to rest in it to have the dayes prolonged and the life preserved for Christ the light cometh to save the life And there are many that are now come to peace dominion and the land of rest who did once come to know the judgments of God upon Cains nature which then cryed out That his punishment was too heavy to bear and have also come to see the beast whose head is full of the Names of Blasphemy and yet have they not started aside like a broken bowe from under the judgement neither suffered the Enemy to prevail over them by temptations to curse God and dye nor to call him Belzeebub who is the light which condemns and should be Master in the house neither have they despised Moses law which is the Ministration of Condemnation and in its time is glorious but in patience and long-suffering under it have waited and that without murmuring or suffering that to break forth in rage which Gods judgements is to neither have they suffered unbelief to prevail over them but in love to him who was made a curse in patience have endured all these things have been made as free to drink the Cup of Astonishment with the dregs thereof as the Lord was to pour it forth unto them who now drink the Cup of salvation even the blood of the Lamb which clenseth from all sin whose life saveth them from the terror of the Pit who have come to feel the seed born and brought forth though with pangs and sorrow which the blessing is to Those may see hear and understand what I write who are come to know how the law is handed forth by a Mediator who was before the law and the righteousness of God manifest without the law sin discovered by the law and Gods Righteousness revealed by that which was before the law and that notwithstanding the law must be received yet by the Works thereof no flesh shall be justified but by obedience of Faith towards God in the blood of his Son by which all that is done away which transgrest the law and so not of Works nor of Merits but of Faith and Love is the Law fulfilled Concerning Temptation And that those who were born blind and have been ever since covered with the blackness of darkness through their own Wisdom being dead in trespasses and sins not feeling nor savouring the things of God but remain in that Religion and Profession which crucified his Son who is a man of sorrows and called him a blasphemer who is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and said he had a Devil who came to condemn sin in the flesh whose light in every conscience is the condemnation so long as the evil deeds remain the which condemnation is not a temptation for God who is light tempteth no man to evil Therefore in love is this written that no man through blindness and ignorance in his own Wisdom may esteem that to be a temptation which doth condemn and that out of temptation all such who are tempted may be led and kept by that which doth condemn vvhich is the pure light of Christ vvhich doth iudge and condemn the temptations and the sin and the transgressor who enters into it and every evil motion which is apt to arise in the minde that is darkned and blinded by the god of the World which mind from the darknesse to the light is to be turned in the light to bel●eve as he hath said I am the light believe in the light and it is a temptation which hinders man from believing in the light and all such keep not the commands of Christ who do not believe and obey the light and such profess his Words but deny that in which the power of his life doth stand