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A47199	The way to the city of God described, or, A plain declaration how any man may, within the day of visitation given him of God, pass out of the unrighteous into the righteous state as also how he may go forward in the way of holiness and righteousness, and so be fitted for the kingdom of God, and the beholding and enjoying thereof : wherein divers things, which occur to them, that enter into this way with respect to their inward trials, temptations, and difficulties are pointed at, and directions intimated, how to carry themselves therein ... / written by George Keith in the year 1669 ... : whereunto is added the way to discern the convictions, motions, &c of the spirit of God, and divine principle in us, from those of a man's own natural reason, &c.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1678 (1678)	Wing K235; ESTC R33462	109,527	235

and unto this that maxime in Naturals doth well answer Esse est propter operari Being is for working for to that end hath every thing received its being and powers of a Natural Life that it may reduce them into act and perform the operations which are proper unto them So if we shall take a survey of the whole Creation and of all things in it in the Heavens the earth and the other elements we shall find them all upon motion and working the works which belong unto the powers of their natural being And thus the crea●ures do in some sort resemble their Maker who not only wrought the creatures into a being by creation but continueth still working to preserve uphold and govern them according to which the Lord said My Father worketh hitherto and I work Now if thou hast in any measure passed through the aforesaid steps of Conversion and continuance therein in passiveness and forbearance were it but for a very small time thou art by this time become a partaker of the holy Life and its Powers in some measure and so art entred at ●east into the way and path of holiness and art come unto a true and sound beginning being come unto Chri●t who is the Beginning and the End both the Alpha and the Omega the Way the Truth and the Life the Door into the Sheep-fold and House of God So having entred by him thou art no Intruder no Thief nor Robber but a true Servant of the House of God wherein thou art to work the works of God and having received Christ so must thou walk in him being now planted into him as the branch into the Vine-tree and made a real partaker of the vertue of the Root and hereby joyned to the tree as a natural branch thou must now bring ●orth the fruit of good works and being come to live in the Spirit thou must also walk in the Spirit and work and do all thy works in him and through him But some may say According to this method and way of proceeding a man is kept long off from working for it may be a long time ere he pass through these steps and so during this time suppose it were a years time or more shall he proceed to no operative exercises of Religion but remain as a cypher or blank till he has got through these steps May it not be said unto him Why standst thou so long idle Answ. This is an Objection which is much with many and hath deep place in the minds of some newly convinced ones and who are but beginning they would fain be a doing and working as others yea and the hypocritical part and spirit which hath its life in dead performances and works will still be dogging and pricking them forward unto the doing of things before the time Now learn a Parable of a Fruit-tree be it an Apple-tree or the like into which a graft is imped being cut off from another Tree where it did grow as a natural branch and did bud green and flourish and bring forth Fruit but such Fruit as was naught Now suppose that such is the good nature of the Tree into which it is grafted that it makes the graft bring forth other sort of fruit than formerly even good fruit and that in abundance it 's true it is not so with the common Trees in the outward for they do not change the grafts imped on them into their own nature but rather the imp changeth the sap and vertue of spirit of the Tree that it causeth the Tree to bring forth fruit according to the kind of the graft it self But it is otherwise betwixt Ch●ist and us men for we being planted or grafted into him he changeth the nature of our Fruit from evil to good otherwise the comparison holds very well Now when the graft is cut off from its natural stock it was very g●●en and full of life yea suppose it was full of blossoms or fruit yet when by the hand of the Husband-man it is cut off from its natural stock and grafted into another it doth not instantly spring and green and flourish as before far less bear new fruit but first of all dyeth its greenness and flourish withereth and its fruits fall off so that it remaineth very bare and empty-like for some time yet the powers of nature are not altogether idle in it for by little and little the power of life in the Tree into which it is ingrafted doth infuse and insinuate it self into it by which it uniteth and knitteth the graft to the Tree by a natural union and then in process of time the graft beginneth to green and flourish again and bring forth fruit both much better and more abundant as is said And here we may observe somewhat of all these steps in a similitude which the graft passeth through before it cometh to bear fruit as 1. The power of the life in the Tree insinuating it self into the graft taketh hold of the faint and dead powers of nature in the graft and conve●teth or turneth them into it self 2. The graft being thus turned or joined to the Tree not by any outward bonds but by the influence of the Tree continueth and persisteth therein which if it did not it could not receive life from the Tree 3. In this continuance it remaineth very passive doing nothing but secretly drinking in the vertue and power of life from the Tree into which it is grafted and so by this means it becomes in due time as a natural branch of the Tree and brings forth its fruits as aforesaid now such is the discretion of the Husband man that he requires not present fruit from the Tree neither is he offended with it that it yields not present fruit but patiently waits for the fruit in the season of it Even such is the discretion of the Lord yea and much more towards men that if they convert and turn into the true Vine and Tree of Life not resisting the Power of Life therein but suffering it to work in them to kill the unholy life by which they live and bring forth fruit unto sin and if they continue thus converted in a passive and forbearing way suffering the Spirit and Power of God in the Divine Seed in them to do in it what him pleaseth this is acceptable unto the Lord even thus to die in him and blessed are such for their works shall follow them in due time And this is according to what our Lord taught himself Vnless said he a grain of Wheat fall into the ground and die it remaineth alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit this he spake in relation to himself but it holds good also in relation to others Wouldst thou indeed bring forth the fruits of good works unto the Lord then thou must fall into the ground and die like a grain of Wheat and afterwards thou wilt live again and spring up bearing friut both good and abundant and the

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Lord who is the Husband-man requireth not fruit of thee before the season but patiently waiteth for it Yet the time is not so long betwixt the time of the first converting and the season of bearing fruits and producing good works as thou maist think if thou pass truly and faithfully through these few steps thou maist come to bear some fruit that is to say to be able and fit to do some good works in a very short space much less than a year yea much less than a Month yea what if I say than the space of one day Nay I add further it may be possible for thee within an hours space and yet less after thou hast truly converted unto the Lord and touched as it were the hem of his Garment and drunk in vertue therefrom to do some good works in a true measure of acceptance unto the Lord yea the time may be so short wherein after thy conversion thou maist be put into a capacity to do something both inwardly and outwardly that we cannot determine the least bound or limit of it for it is an easie thing for the Lord to raise his holy life in thee in an instant or the twinkling of an eye And indeed the waies of the Lord with men in this respect are very wonderful and past finding out as in many others in some he raiseth life as it were instantly in others he taketh a longer time to do it in others yet a longer c. For he is the unlimitted Holy One of Israel who limiteth us but will not nor ought he to be limited by us And tho he may raise this life sooner in one than another where that other is no more wanting as to the aforesaid steps than his Neighbour yet usually these who with most diligence and faithfulness cleave unto the Lord in his appearing in them in his own Seed do most readily and speedily find the holy life raised in them and the Powers thereof sensibly moving in their inward parts Now I find it with me yet more particularly to point at some advertisements and cautions in relation unto the Souls applying it self unto works and operative exercises after it hath attained unto some measure of life and power whereby it is put in some capacity to perform them which I may not call Rules and Prescriptions as proceeding from me tho herein I know the mind and counsel of God but advertisements being only of use to point the Soul inwards unto the manifestations of Truth in the springings up of life in its own particular where it will see the use and need of these things more than what it can hear or read of them from anothers declaration And truly they are such things that the want of the true knowledg sense and observation of them has been a grievous block in the way of many in their pro●ress in holiness yea has hindred them from growing up to any considerable pitch or perfection in holiness that they have continued as Weaklings and Babes there-through whereas otherwise they might have been strong men in Christ. I. Having now attained unto a measure of the Holy Life and the Powers thereof so that thou findst the Powers of this Life in thy heart as it were a wheel within a wheel or as a Soul within a Soul yea it is truly so and that also thou findst thy Soul in a measure of pure union with it and every power of thy Soul affected and touched with the powers of this Holy Life in pure embraces every one as it were kissing each other and hereby thou wilt feel thy self strong in some measure to do some things pertaining unto a holy Life yea thou wilt even so find it with thee as if thou wert cured of a bodyly lameness or as if thy tongue were loosed which was formerly bound then thou art to stand in great fear and reverence and be very cautious that thou fall not upon doing any thing or things less or more at all adventures or hand over head as they use to say as to set about any performance in thy own natural and selfish will because thou findest strength in thee as thou conceivest to perform it for if thou so do thou wilt provoke the Lord and grieve that holy life which hath sprung and appeared in thee not at all to be ruled or led into any action by thy will but by the will of the Lord alone And if thou goest about to do any thing in such a manner though thou findst both clearness and strength of mind with thee at first yet afterward thou wilt to thy great loss feel weakness and confusion to enter thee and a thick cloud of darkness will come betwixt the eye of thy Soul and that pure Light of Life which shined in thee yea a vail of death will come over the tender Life in some measure and thou wilt find the pure Life in thee burthened and oppressed which will occasion pain and grief of Soul unto thee which cannot be uttered And of these things we have had experience divers times so that had not the Lord in tender mercy recovered us we had gone down into the grave after some measure of quickening The reason of all this is because of man by his own will usurping and presuming to lead forth the holy life which usurpation it cannot endure so as to yield or consent unto it Therefore it withdraweth its holy powers of Light and Life from the powers of the Soul concentring them within its own particular being And thus the Soul is left in darkness confusion and weakness and the tender Life is both grieved and burthened as aforesaid For whatever seeketh to move it from its perfect unity with the will of God doth hurt it for it standeth for ever incorruptible with the Divine will and that which seeketh to move it to the contrary may well bruise and wound yea kill it while it is but young and tender but it can never draw it to consent When therefore at any time thou findest it well with thy Soul and thy heart is strengthned as with bread or with some strong cordial or liquor by the springings forth and effusions of the streams of this holy Life in thee then thou art to stand in a passiveness and forbearance waiting upon the will and motions of this holy Life which is for every one with the will of God that thou mayst do such or such things which that Life requireth of thee and then whatever thou sets about to do not in thy own natural will but in the will of this which is the will of God thou shalt find thy clearness thy peace and strength which formerly thou hadst not only to be continued with thee but to be multiplyed and abound II. And yet more particularly know or consider it that thou art to do nothing without a clear and infallible knowledge of thy warrant and that from this inward Guide the Holy Life of Christ and his blessed