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death_n	body_n	life_n	separation_n	4,198	5	9.8832	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44796	The invisible things of God brought to light by the revelation of the eternal spirit who was an ey-witness of the wonders of the Lord in the beginning : wherein is declared the felicity of all things in the beginning and the sad estate of all things after the transgression ... / by Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3169; ESTC R28120	87,745	248

the heavens and the Earth was created and all things that therein are even then the Lamb of God was alive and the Son of God glorified with the Father and man in happynesse and in pure perfection without sin in Inocency for nothing that was nocent or hurtful had yet appeared neither was there any such thing in all that God had made Here the wise may learn and they that have a good understanding may read the wisdome of God in a Mystery and also see the darke sottish doctrine of the blind Apostates who have lost the power and are keeping people ignorant of the Mystery of God NOw this hath been a common doctrine and received to be orthodox and as they call it authentick that while we are in this life there can not be an overcoming of all sins nor no expectation of it in this life and their main ground hath been this because we have natural bodies Now I say had not Adam a natural body when he was in purity and perfection in innocency in Paradise in the garden yet was this any hinderance to him to answer the will of his Creator No For as the soul spirit and body was moved by the power out of which power he was not to stir then I say he had ability to perform the will of his maker in the body for as he was created by the power in the inward man that led about the natural earthly or outward form according to its will which will was pure and kept the body acting in its place in the power for then I say all was good for the Celestial power in which he was made moved the whole man according to its will and while he stood in the power he was in innocency and purity and without blemish in the power was his health and peace and he knew no evil Ob. But some may say what is this as to the confutation of the doctrine which hath been taught as to the freedom from sin in this life Ans. This declares that there was such a thing in being to wit a natural body and an earthen vessel and yet without sin as he stood in the power for the earthen vessel was good as all the rest of Gods creation was in its place to serve the power as the rest of Gods creatures did in the beginning and who ever comes to know that state again may come to glorifie God in soul body and spirit though in the body in this tabernacle but take their own phrase for the clearing of the thing not to be freed from the committing of sin in this life I say in the corruptable life or the life of unrighteousness which may be properly called death there is no freedome from sin neither of soul or body or spirit but who comes to know regeneration or the Life of men in which Adam was created in the beginning in that incorruptable Life there is no transgression and if he live in man the body is dead because of sin and I know none who have preached any other 〈◊〉 Life who hath spoke by the spirit of God in which freedome from all sin is obtained but onely the life of Christ and whosoever comes to know the Lord from heaven who ruled over all in the beginning and was the life of all and all moved in his Life before the fall whether they were things visible or invisible that same power or Life of Christ the Lamb of God who was alive then if he live in man man come to be guided by his power as in the beginning he living in man the soul and body and spirit being quickned by his power and raised from under the bondage of corruption then death hath not power over man but life and because he lives in them they live also their souls to praise him and their bodies and the members thereof to be servants of righteousness and so that unbelieving Doctrine of the world is turned into the pit and truth is set above it Object But further it will be objected that our bodies are not like Adams in innocency we are in the fall and therefore we say they hinder from being freed from all sin and ever will while upon Earth Ans. That the naked truth may appear to them that seek after true knowledge I answer freely that I grant that the soul lies in death and the creature is subject to vanity and the whole Creation groans in travel and in pain and waits for the manifestation of the Son of God and the Redemption of the body and in this state is all mankind upon the face of the whole Earth in the first Adam but he who is the second Adam the Lord from Heaven who was in the beginning and is now what he was and shall be for ever I say as man comes to believe in the Son who hath life in himself and he come to be revealed in man and man subject to his leading he brings the soul out of death to have union and communion with himself and restores the creature from his bondage and and breakes the bond and knocks that down which hath imbondaged and so changes the body I do not mean the form of the body but the quality and nature thereof for the form of Adams body was not changed but the quality and it was degenerated from its pure nature wherein it glorified God as he stood in the Power so I say Christ who is the life of men the true light which lighteth every man that comes into the world he changes all that follow him into his own nature and restores the creature into his first estate again into purity that like as the inward man is renewed and restored by the power and serves the Power so the members of the body is also yeelded servants unto righteousness and they receive vertue and Power from the power the Life and so the whole man comes out of condemnation to glorifie his maker the will of God is don in earth as it is in heaven and he saves to the utmost them that comes unto him now if he save the soul and not the body then he saves not to the utmost But this is a high state blessed are they who waites in the faith to the end are happy that they may see and know the redemption of their souls and also the redemption of their body For I deny redemption in the grave or in death or after this life for the holy men of God never mentions a cleansing from sin in the grave nor after men be dead for they that have served sin in their life time and served the devil as long as they live and have yeelded their bodyes to be temples for uncleannesse while they live upon earth eternal misery will be their portion and not redemption think on this you who are holding this forth for an article of your Faith in the world among poor ignorant people that they must not expect redemption

of this that when I speak of the sufficiency of grace and that it is a sufficient Teacher I do not speak of it distinct from Christ or of a thing separated from the power of God but one with it and him from whence it comes for as he is salvation it self so the grace of God is of the same nature by which he manifests himself and his salvation to them that believe and also reveals his witness in them for where the appearance and presence of Christ is manifest there is his power and strength manifest either to condemnation or salvation and though his pure appearance and presence is one in it self yet them that have marred his countenance and pierced him his presence alwayes hath been and will be very dreadful and terrible but unto them that believe and have continued with him in his temptation and have suffered with him and have longed for him his appearance and presence will be amiable beautiful and lovely sweet pleasant delightful desirable glorious and admirable so that they who have seen it have been melted into tears and dissolved as into water because of his love and beauty who is the chief of ten thousand Oh! that all that long after him may wait for him in patience in that wherein he will appear they shall see him whose sight will be a recompence for all longing and thirsting and desiring and waiting the sense of longing and thirsting will be taken away when he that makes glad the heart appeareth who lifteth up the light of his countenance and maketh whole them whose hearts have been broken for him whom their souls loved therefore all wait and think not the time long Keep in your minds to his grace which is his appearance and him you will feel and see and be satisfied and say This is he we have waited for let us rejoyce and be exceeding glad for now he is come and his reward is with him to give every one that wait upon him in purity full contentment and satisfaction where peace comes to be felt and joy unspeable which is full of glory And though God out of his everlasting love unto the sons of men hath followed man and hath called him to return yet that nature which is above in man which hath transgressed the life doth alwayes resist the drawing of the Lord and is not subject to the Law of God neither to the grace of God which teacheth to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts that hath beset and compassed the creature about as a thick cloud always maketh War against the soul that till there be a listning unto that which sheweth ungodliness wch hath power in it self none hath power neither dominion over that in themselves which leads into the transgression Therefore though God who is salvation it self hath let out himself so far and hath appeared in his pure and perfect grace unto all men yet all have not received grace For though the Lord proffer his gift intentionally that the creature might receive it and so have benefit and partake of its living vertue and operation yet while that hath preheminence in man which is contrary to grace that will never receive it because it is contrary to the life of the corruptible and takes its life away and mortifies and slayes the enmity therefore all must be still and quiet and wait in that which is pure of the Lord that they may feel that raised up which receiveth grace above the corruptible thoughts and desires of the carnal mind but many who talk of free grace have put no difference betwixt the precious and the vile but hath put them upon doing and working who are in the enmity and curse and in death and so hath brought forth dead works notwithstanding all performances they being dead to the life of God another acteth in them even he which hath the power of Death which is the Devil and so have not known that which was precious in themselves could not Minister unto that which was precious in others but have been Ministers of Death and have ministred to death and so Death nourisheth it self in all them who are not yet come to the separation to see betwixt the precious and the vile Now though all have not received grace so as to save them from the committing of sin the fault is not in God Israel would have none of my counsel they stopped their ears Neither is the fault in the grace which hath appeared unto all men Neither is it because of it's imbiscility weaknes but because it is not hearkned unto and waited in and obeyed believed in received for this eternal truth which shal for ever stand the least measure of the grace of God hath power in it self to save man from committing of that evil or sin which it shews man And as it is received the power comes more and more to be made manifest where all that believes comes to be preserved out of evil Object But some have said and now say there is common grace and preventing grace and restraining grace and saving grace and the former that hath appeared to all but the latter hath appeared to the Saints and to the elect onely Ans. Grace is Gods pure and perfect gift and is but one thing I speak not of quantity but of quality not of so much as that the fulness of grace hath appeared to all but of a measure of that fulness which is in Christ the head although I do not divide the least measure from the fulness in quality or nature for it 's one and the same for that which shews a man he should not lie nor swear that is as pure according to it's latitude and proportion as that which shews a man all that ever he hath done and that same grace which leads a man from drunkenness and excess is as pure and of the same kind and nature as that greater proportion which leadeth a man from all sin I speak what I have seen from the Father though the dark world cannot receive it But people have been blinded and darkned with sounds and distinctions which men coyn and frame in their natural reason and by their natural parts which is out of the life although I do not condemn natural parts which are purely natural if they keep their bounds and compass that is to say to the management of natural things of the visible creation but the things of Gods kingdom are of another quality and nature and cannot be reached unto by the natural but as I said men through distinctions and names hath wracked peoples minds confounded their understandings and have led them into a thick wood or a wilderness so they know not where to get forth neither what the thing is of which one speaks because not being spoken through the enticing words of mans wisdom which darkens the counsell of God Now that which shews a man evil after it be committed is the pure appearance of God And