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A glimpse of some truths to be made known in these last times in three particulars / by Thomas Royle.
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Royle, Thomas.
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1648
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A Glimpse of some Truths to be made known in these LAST TIMES In Three PARTICULARS SHEWING I. The End and Vse of all External Ordinances II. The Nature of the Spiritual Death and Resurrection III. The Day of Judgment what it is and when it is By THOMAS ROYLE a member of the Army ISAIAH 60.1 Arise shine for thy Light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the sign of the black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls neer Ludgate 1648. The EPISTLE to the READER Christian Reader ALL those Disciples that stooped down and looked into the Sepulchre where the body of Jesus had layen they clearly figured out this truth That many Christians in this age should be so taken with shadows and outward things that they should continue in them when God had withdrawn his presence and gone into a higher Dispensation When Mary would not beleeve the Angel but that the body of Christ was in the place where it was buried why saith the Angel He is not here for he is risen Mind the words for there is a mystery in them Let me discover my thoughts to those my Friends who contend for a Natural Day and Sabbath is if there were more holiness in one day then another truly I must tell you thus much that you have not finished your six days work and so are not come to see your rest in the seventh This seventh Day and Lords Day which John speaks of is Christ that high mystery in us who is perfect Rest and Beauty therefore saith the Text there remains a Rest to the people of God and he that is entered into his Rest he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from his A word to those who look upon God and Heaven to be a far off above the Firmament in some place distant from the Creature I must tell such their apprehensions are dark and low and fleshly for God is in every Creature and appears in all things that we behold his workings are in a mystery and those that speak much of Heaven that it is a place of Glory it is so but it is not any local glory without absent from the Creature Heaven is this a clear Discovery of God he appearing spiritually in us to be our fulness and rest that so the Creature acts not nor lives any more to it self but God in Christ is all in all both in him and for him and this is it that Paul minds us of Eph. 1.3 who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ As I have spoken a word of Light in the beginning and first part of my book to those who contend for outward things and shadows so let me speak a word of love to you who profess your selves to be come out of Egypt and brought through the wilderness to the brink of Canaan I mean you my dear friends who live above Ordinances which type is fulfilled in you that so now your fellowship and union is with that mystery of God being made one with it why then contend not about doubtful Disputations but let us labor after those things which concern our peace For it is a good thing saith the Apostle that the heart be established with grace following peace and holiness with all men therefore let us commisserate the condition of such Christians as stand in that night of Darkness I mean whose practice it is to carry on shadows and outward things cracking the nut when the kernel is gone It may be in this Dispensation there appears a great Light to them that they see much of God in it therefore this Light cannot be put out till there appears a greater as to instance in Naturals in that season of the year which we call Winter many people labor at their Callings in the night being up and abroad before the day appears they now make use of Candle-light to walk by but when the Day appears and the Sun shines then the light of the Candle is darkned by reason of the greater light and so is put out for it is not of any use so it is in Spirituals it may be many a poor Christian walks by Candle-light and Star-light which are the speakings and teachings of men carrying on outward things but when that Spiritual Day Christ dawns and appears in them to be their fulness then their former Light is made Darkness so that now all shadows are vanished away and are not of any more worth in their eyes I have with all tenderness in my following Discourse layd open something of the mystery of God but so far as I have deviated from the word of truth I shall not own When the Christian comes to moderate my Discovery of Scripture let him not be rash to utter himself but let him wait till the flowers of Experience smell sweetly in him The first part of my book discovers what is the end of all Shadows The second part declares the Resurrection of Christians And the third and last lays open the Day of Judgment what it is and when it shall be T. R. I. PART A WORD OF Light and Truth discovered for all Christians to mind But first especially to those who contend for outward Excellencies as Form and external Order and Ordinances which are the Sepulchre where the body of Christ hath layen My Friends J Shall make manifest and lay open the truth according to that mystery of God that leads me forth I mind all along by the mystery of Truth which speaks in me that all those Offices Gifts and Ordinances were typical which the Apostles practised in their time therefore they clearly figured out that Glory and Beauty which should be revealed in us Rom. 8.18 I mind further that those Ordinances which the history of Scripture speaks of as Breaking of Bread and Water-Baptism were a Dispensation according to the weakness of the Disciples and they were to carry them on for such a time but not for ever as some say for as the coming of Christ in the flesh did put an end to all the Ceremonies of the Law even so do the appearances of Christ in us swallow up and put an end to all shadows I mean both Breaking of Bread and Water-Baptism these Administrations were truth according to that low Dispensation that the poor Disciples were under therefore the Apostle tells them in 1 Cor. 11.26 saith he in that history of truth For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lords Death But mind the Apostle a little they were to carry on for a season that shadow but if you ask me how long why the Text tells you till he come that is the coming of the spirit of Truth in them for truly so long as Christ was with them in the body they had very few discoveries of that Doctrine of Truth that should appear in them You may see by the history of