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A92133	The spirit of God in man, making manifest the hidden things of darkness to man. Being divine teachings, whereby the Lord alone is exalted, and the pride of fleshly glory discovered, / by the shining light of Christ in and through Richard Russel.	Russel, Richard, theological writer.	1654 (1654)	Wing R2347; Thomason E1488_3; ESTC R208500	16,391	40

THE SPIRIT OF GOD in MAN Making manifest the hidden things of DARKNESS to MAN Being divine Teachings whereby the Lord alone is exalted and the pride of fleshly glory discovered by the shining light of Christ in and through RICHARD RVSSEL 1 Joh. 1.3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and the Son Iesus Christ Isai 60.1 Arise and shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen Blow ye the Trumpet in Sion and sound an alarms in my holy Moutain let all the Inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at hand LONDON Printed by T. Lock living in Seacole-Lane neer the Sign of the George 1654. The Epistle to the READER BEloved Brethren Spiritual things are given by Divine Inspiration not by the wil of Man but by the wil of God who manifests himself when he pleaseth and to whom he pleaseth And know this that Gods works are not like mans works he doth not always take the wise of this world and learned and rich of this world to manifest himself in and through but be chooseth the despised and the poor and weak of this world who are of a sincere minde zealous for God and God is pleased to fill them with the good things of himself when as the other seek him in darkness in the wisdom of man and by the Law as did Israel of old who sought earnestly but attained not to the true Vision and Kingdom of righteousness but went empty away therefore quench not the smoaking flax but rather wait until it be set on flame that it may kindle your spark so that there may bee light in your house for there is a wonderful time coming but because it beginneth in the night there are many that shal not see it by reason of their sleep and great darkness yet the Son wil shine to the Children at midnight happy are they whose eys are open to see the Son of GOD when he cometh in the clouds then every one that hath a single eye shal see the pleasant showers fall upon the tender plants that they may also have vertue in them to abide the heat of the day when the Son shal shine forth in its beauty to scorch the glory of all flesh therefore let every one that glorieth glory onely in the Lord for he that truly knows the Lord will do so for the knowledge of the Lord teacheth us wisdom and so saith the Prophet Isaiah The Lord is my God therefore wil I praise him for he knew God by his spirit which did set forth his praise in him therefore as thou readest herein consider whether thou hast the spirit of understanding without which thou canst not understand aright the things that belong unto thy peace So I commit thee unto the Lord who is able to guide thee unto the peace that passeth all understanding THE SPIRIT OF GOD in MAN Epistle I. Concerning what Man was and by Creation is and how he fel and also a word of the Divine Mysterie GOD which was is and for ever shal be a being in himself hath been pleased to declare the same in Creation of which Creation man is a chief part but before the Creation there was nothing but God no appearances were brought forth out of the one onely infinite and entire being who knows how harmoniously and sweetly with an entire love and oneness we tumbled together with in the womb of Eternity when all things were in union with their Original Centre Now when God was to create the world and all things therein he had no other materials or matter to make it of but his own being therefore God is the Essence of all Essences for all is generated or born created and proceeded from him and all things take their first beginning in God as the Scripture witnesseth saying Through him and in him are all things and all things were created by him and for him and by him all things consist Consider That God is a Spirit that is incomprehensible and was before appearances were brought forth by or in his essential Word and hath neither beginning nor end and his greatness and depth is all The whole Creation is but his unfolding of himself in his varieties and his cloathing himself in the creature in their created estate so that since this great fabrick of heaven and earth hath bin made to appear God hath ever been hiding himself hiding himself in his life being motions and operations so that no eye can see him or know what he does or what he means but that eye which is with him where he is This consider That every spirit seeth no further then into its Mother or Nature out of which it hath its Original and wherin it standeth for it is impossible for any spirit below the spirit of God in its own natural power to look into another principle and behold it except it be regenerated therein or brought forth anew Heaven and Earth at their first coming forth were but a vail behinde which God intended to hide himself and did hide himself even from Adam in his highest and purest estate God indeed showed himself to Adam as he appeared in the creature as he shined through the vail but hid himself as he was in himself so that Adam could in no wise reach to the true vision but only to such an appearance as God pleased to dart forth of himself through the vail Now confider when the breath of Lise was breathed into man or elementary birth it was out of Gods first principle then Man was a living soul in the heavenly Paradise wherein there was a state of Innocency being the morning time of man wherein was planted paradisical fruit which the garden Man should bring forth for God did make him a garden for his own delight to walk in and that the creature should delight in him and to acknowledge God to be his Maker and his all his life and only being to whose command he was to subject himself in all obedience meekness thankfulness love humility and mercy and so represent the glory of the Lord and to be like him if these things be in you and abound you shal not be unfruitful therefore let these things be applied to every one of our hearts in particular these prophesying times Again observe this that God foreknew that all created things are changeable therefore God made a Law to man forbidding him of eating of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil which is in the midst of the garden for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye and this is the Law and Covenant that I have made between me and thee that hast a being in creation by me This consider that man was made upright but he being let stand did putrifie and so sought out many inventions Eecles 7.29 so that

there aspited up in the midst of the garden the heart of man pride and covetousness being not contnted with that estate that God had put him in by Creation but did covet another estate to exalt it self to be more knowing than God had made him which self-aspiring the creature delighted in and so eating or satisfying himself in his own fruit broke the Law and Covenant and died according to the words of his Maker and so fell from a pure estate to be rebellious and to delight in his own ways so that the root of mans fall as he is a creature sprung in his heart there lies the mystery of iniquity therefore consider what is the forbidden fruit which him that eateth thereof doth advance himself and denies God which is the creatures death loss and shame and ever since the fall of man this selfish aspiring spirit of pride leads the humane nature to disobey God and leads every man and woman captive at his will and inslaves them in the prison of bondage and darkness to walk in ways directly contrary to the God of Truth and Light and yet many times perswades them that they do God good service let a man read hear study preach pray and perform actions of justice yet if God be not merciful to the man this power of darkness will deceive him making him conceit or think he pleaseth God when the truth is he serves but himself all that time if the Spirit of God be not their counsellor and support it is so ful of secret strong delusions therefore this is called the crooked Serpent because it winds it self into every creature and into every faculty and twists it self about the Tree Mankind so that the humane nature is defiled and is a seat wherein the Beast and false Prophet sitteth and therein predominate whereby Satans Kingdom is set up and a worldlike power maintained who serves by the brain for worldlike gain Epist II. Concerning our Restitution Captivity Sanctification Ascension and Vnion BEginning with that in Eph. 1.9 10. That in the dispensation of the fulness of time he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him There is a time for all purposes that are decreed by the Father to be fulfilled in their times and seasons a day for to fall a day to reign as Kings one hour with the Beast in his fall a day for to be sensible of his fall a day to be senfible of the terrors and punishments by his fall and a day to be sensible of his loss of Gods presence and communion with him and a day to abide the trial of the fire which shall search the heart and try the reins of man a day for all fleshly glory to fall before the presence of the Lord a day to mourn for these changes a day for to go through the fiery trial and to be refined again and again a day to behold the manifestation of God to be like Flames of Fire to kindle every where where it cometh then shall the smoaking flax be set on fire then will the Lord say unto the Sons of men Arise and shine for your light is come then shall you arise from the dead and Christ shal give you life then am I come saith he that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly and you who were absent from me shal return to your fathers house like the prodigal and be present with me where I am And then you that seed upon husks and were wanderers and strangers to the Land of Promise the Land of the Living thus being refined Christ wil present you unblameable and unrebukable without spot or blemish before the Throne of God and you shall bee unto him a sweet savor a saerifice which he is well pleased with then saith he Come my own delight come my own children which are neer and dear unto mee who issued out of my own bowels which my womb brought forth to the glory and praise of my own name even so shall it be by my gathering those that are afar off and those that are nigh into my glory then is the time come that the Father wil glorifie us that we may glorifie him then shal we know the time that the Lord doth gather in his sewels which shal shine most gloriously in their Cabinets then shal they who have the single eye behold and see that Christ is come the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. 9.28 Therefore Lift up your heads O ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shal come in Psalm 24.9 Consider that Christ is the head of every Saint and to be a Saint is to be sanctified and drawn up into union with Christ for he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one Heb. 2.11 which makes them gates to shew forth his praise and to exalt their head then shal we know that he that descended is the same also that asoended and know this that there is a descending before there is an ascending and that which doth descend must also ascend so every thing shal return into its Centre if you are spiritual you must ascend into the internal Court and the heavens shal bee bowed down at the presence of the Lord for the rising up of all Saints into union with him when the day of remptation is upon all the world for there is no approach no converse no sweet intercourse between God and the Creature but in him by him and through him and this consider if you are not risen with Christ ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God and these things are hid from your eyes and present enjoyment likewise therefore let every one examine his own heart and consider what an estate he is in whether it bee in darkness or in light or whether the day of the Lord hath been upon thee that thou art changed thereby from death to life and so from glory to glory and to be gathered out of all things below God whatsoever that thou canst truly say that Christ who is our life has appeared we appear with him in glory then thou art able to dwel wth consuming fire to live in dispensations a life a to appear where the Lord appears and not to smite at thy poor brethren who Christ died for This consider That all Nations are made of one blood and have all life and breath by one God Act. 7.26 yet this great lump being brought forth though they are all the same all of one blood yet they are cut out into two parcels Jews and Gentiles and they are as distinct as may be both in their ways and in their God in their Laws Ordinances desires ends and hopes the Jews must not be like the Gentiles in any thing the Gentiles will not be like the Jews in any thing Oh how diverse and distinct and

be all in love to injoy God in time of trouble or at all times and to be with him in Spirit where he is this is an Heavenly estate to see the invisible appear in the visible and to swallow it up in it self in love as Enech that walked with God and was not but there is such a way for Saints to go before they come to injoy their Kingdome or to enter into their glory as followeth as Iesus Christ hath shewed us in that which is called the Lords Supper and Baptism that no Flesh wil indure it as wil appear First from those words of Christ in Mat. 20.19.20.21 for when he was defired by the mother of Zebedees children that her two sons might sit the one at his right hand and the other at his left in his kingdome his answer was You know not what you ask for saith he Are ye able to drink of the Cup that I shal drink of and to be Baptised with the Baptisme what Jam Baptised withall As if he should say the way that leads to my kindome is a Crucifying way even from the beginning to the end as it was with me who was persecuted from my birth to my death it is a way sprinkled with blood and burning with Fire very sharp and bitter and no sweetnesse in it for many storms and tempests wil arise and fall upon your travel to Canaan you must be crowned with thorts and you must be tempted with the Serpent buffeted with Satan and persecuted with Herod and how are you able to endure this saith they we are able then saith Christ again you stall indeed drink of the Cup that J drink of and be baptised with the baptisme that J am baptised with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to chem for whom it is prepared of my Father which is as much as to say you must suffer the losse of all things below or besides me and the way which I have gone you shall go the death which I have suffered you shall in some measure suffer and then having gon the way and suffered the death you wil say Father Glorifie thy Son that thy Son may Glorifie thee then wil he give you a crown of life which is laid up for you in the kingdom of heaven and as Paul saith J have run the race and obtained the price in Jesus Christ J have finished my cross henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of glory even the Lord and Christ himself saith that for the glory which was set before him he indured the crosse and despised the shame drunk his cup and received his Baptisme and after entred into his glory And thus he went before us as a pattern or an example for us but when we have obtained the Kingdom and received the Crown the kingdom being delivered up to the father we are not Christ is all unto God the onely one for we then are not our owne but we are Christs and Christ is Gods and so an union betwixt Christ and us and an union betwixt God and Christ into one entire and alone essence then is the Kingdome deliverd up unto God by Christ and then God the Father is as he was that is all in all and out of that all all came forth and into that all shall all be through Christ who is the strength of God be reduced into God and yet a visible appearance through the invisible and in him to appear this is one glimps of the mystery of the Divine Deity operative acting through it self in the illustration of it self which is wisdoms work and the Spirits teaching therefore let all flesh be silent before tke Lord for it is not he that heareth my words Saith Christ but he that doth my will he it is that is my disciple blessed for ever in the name of the Father Epist VII Concerning a word of exhortation to Christians to support the bruised Reed that the smoaking flax may be set on fire in these Gospel-times O How good a thing it is for Christians to walk close with God in that dispensation wherein he appeareth unto them in for no one can truly serve God out of that dispensation wherein he appeareth unto them therefore then to walk up to what they know and to judg others that are not under the same though there be several dispensations or administrations yet the same Lord though they may be severally acted yet all by one spirit if they be sincere and upright in heart and of a meek and quiet spirit who dwels in love otherwise they are but the world a Saint is known by one of the same spirit and disowned by the world for they love their own and the proof of a Saint is to show his strength in time of need that is to own all things that is of God and to bear with the weak brethren and to cherish that in them which is to be cherished and to offer up that to the fire which is to be burnt But how prone is man to be judging and condemning Man hath an eye and light in his day and he cannot forbear passing his judgment there upon things or persons the natural man wil be judging natural things and the spiritual man wil be judging spiritual things men wil be judging men Christians wil be judging Christians yea both wil be judging there is a day of man and the day of God man is judging in his day if there be not so much light as to make the day of the Lord appear in man it is but mans day and so the worthlesness of his judgment appears in Pauls account for saith he it is with me avery small thing that I should be judged of you or of mans judgment man cannot be more forward to judg me then I am to slight him in that action for mans judgment is too shallow to judg in spiritual things judg not saith Christ and he himself forbear judging I judg no man Iob 8 15. though if he had judged his judgment had been true vers 16. yet being not his time to judg though he was judg he could for bear his sentence until the proper season of it therfore saith Paul judg nothing before the time until the Lord come who wil both bring to light the hidden things of darkuess and wil make manifest the counsels of the heart therefore saith Paul With me it is a very small thing that J should be judged of you or of mans judgment yea I judg not mine own self 1 Cor. 4.3 Who art thou that indgest another mans servant to his own master he standeth or falleth or wherein thou iudgest another thou condemnest thy self it belongs to the Lord to be iudg for thou O man hast no more right to iudg thy fellow servant then he has to iudg thee therfore iudg nothing before the time in the things of God for he has kept his own light for his