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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86947	The mystery of Christ in us, with the mystery of the Father, Word, and holy Ghost or Spirit, opened also, the parable of the rich man's flocks and herds, and the poor man's ewe-lamb, explicated. Likewise, the way that Christ takes to undo a man, and take away his life. Together with a discovery of the neerness of Christs coming, and of those glorious things which are to be fulfilled in these later days. Set forth and published by Ed. Hide jun.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3866; Thomason E1372_4; ESTC R209351	80,214	204

Truth that is after godliness EDVV. HIDE Junior CHAP. I. Some sweet Discoveries of CHRIST in us out of Rom. 10. 6 7 8 9 10 Vers 6. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven That is to bring Christ down from above 7. Or who shall descend into the deep That is to bring up Christ again from the dead 8. But what saith it The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach 9. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved IN the Thirtieth and One and thirtieth Verses of the Ninth Chapter to the Romanes there are two Nations spoken of that is to say the Gentiles and the Jews The Gentiles were those which followed not after righteousness yet had attained to righteousness even the righteousness which is of faith and the Jews otherwise Israel were those which followed after the Law of righteousness but had not attained to the Law of righteousness The first reason of it is set down in verse 32. Wherefore because they sought it not by faith as the Gentiles did but as it were by the works of the Law The second reason of it is Because they stumbled at that stumbling stone v. 33. As it is written Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offence and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed Jesus Christ is a great stumbling block and rock of offence to those professors that do not openly nor professedly but as it were seek righteousness by the Law Quest But what is it to seek righteousness as it were by the Law Answ. It is to seek righteousness partly by believing and partly by doing Those that do so stumble at Christ and know not what to make of him and are offended at him and in the end they split themselves against him just as those glorious professors the Scribes and Pharisees did by reason of their not knowing him Now in the first Verse of the tenth Chapter to the Romanes Paul tells his brethren the Jews what a hearty desire he had and how he prayed that they might be saved Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved And the reason of this prayer he tells them vers. 2. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge They were mighty zealous for God but it did not proceed from true knowledge as the Scribes and Pharisees were mighty zealous and strict in keeping the Sabbath praying giving of alms and the like but it proceeded not from a right knowledge it did not proceed from a true principle And there are many Zealots in our days Oh how full of zeal they are for God in praying speaking preaching and the like but yet not agreeable to true knowledge And the reason of this is in the third verse For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God As the not seeking righteousness by faith keeps those from attaining to the Law of righteousness that follow after the Law of righteousness so ignorance of Gods righteousness makes many go about to establish their own and so by that means do not subject to God's righteousness In the fourth verse Paul sheweth that Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth which the glorious Israelites Scribes and Pharisees follow after thinking to be justified thereby The righteousness of which Law Moses describes in the fifth verse that the man which doth those things shall live in them Which saying Satan many times makes use of against poor souls thereby to stir them up to follow after the righteousness of the Law And he makes use of it thus Saith Satan If you do the things that the Law commands you you shall live by them this is Scripture saith the devil If you perform the Law you shall live for there is life wrapped up in keeping of the Law And poor souls set upon the keeping of it and trouble and perplex and wear out themselves and the more they strive to keep it the further off are they from keeping of it And the devils design in it is to keep poor souls from submitting to the righteousness of God the devil knowing well that as many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse for it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law to do them Gal. 4. 10 11. And that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God is evident for the just shall live by Faith Now in the 6. ver. which is that I intend to speak to Paul describes the righteousness of Faith But the righteousness which is of Faith speaketh on this wise Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring Christ down from above c. The words are the voice of the righteousness which is of Faith they are what the righteousness of Faith speaketh and there are in the words these things to be considered First What Faith is Secondly What the voice of the righteousness of Faith is Thirdly What it speaks Fourthly To whom it speaks The first thing to be considered is What Faith is that is what the Faith of Christ is as it is in the original It is a supernatural divine work of God upon the Spirit which enables the soul to believe above all that natural Faith and Hope that is in the soul and above all fear and questionings and against all grounds that are in the soul to the contrary it is that which letteth us into God into the righteosness of God it is the key that unloks the Cabinet where righteousness is and lets us in into the mysteries of the kingdom Gal. 3. 7 9. Know ye therefore that they which are of Faith the same are the children of Abraham and are blessed with faithful Abraham Or faith in this place may be taken for Christ Gal. 3. 23. But before Faith came we were kept under the Law shut up unto the Faith which should afterwards be revealed The second thing to be considered is what the righteousness which is of Faith is It is the righteousness which is by believing But what is the righteousness which is by believing It is the righteousness of God But you will ask me What is that See in Rom. 3. 25 26. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which

the Name of the Lord Answer It is to walk in the power majesty wisdom knowledge light and life of God If it be thus that the light shall not be clear nor dark neither day nor night in the day and coming of Christ Then think it not strange if it fall out so as surely it will But in the evening it will be light When the night begins to approach and gross darkness to follow then light will break forth even the everlasting light of God himself A strange thing is Friends when a man is in spiritual blindness betwixt darkness and light sometimes he thinks he sees and sometimes he thinks he sees not he cannot tell In the evening it shall be light when a soul least looks for it Who would look for light to break forth in the evening But it is true that it shall therefore wait for it If it be so that living waters shall flow forth from Jerusalem half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea Then this may serve to discover the abundance of the Spirit that shall be poured forth in the later days A fountain of living waters shall flow forth from Jerusalem to water the world with The mountains shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters The Church of Christ shall be so filled with the Spirit as it shall be in them as a Fountain and it shall come flowing sorth from them towards the former sea and later sea This shall be in Summer and in Winter it shall be always it shall constantly flow forth from them towards the world If it be so You that want the Spirit wait for it if you believe out of your belly shall flow rivers of waters a fountain of living waters shall flow forth from you to water the dry and parched ground If it be thus This may soon discover who shall reign in that day The Lord alone shall reign he shall be King then over all the earth then our Lord will be exalted Now men reign and are exalted but he will throw them down and exalt himself And his Name shall be one His Name is not one now there are other names besides his worshipped but God will throw them down and His alone shall be lifted up The POSTSCRIPT THere are three things which moved me to write this Postscript The first was To declare and make known that that which I have written against the Priests was intended onely against those that are base and vile and such as take Tythes and are proud ignorant idle blinde Priests such as are for Gain that feed Themselves and not the Flock that Go before they are Sent that teach for hire and the like The second thing was To take off those things that have been laid to my charge by Some concerning my first Book which are these First They affirm that I say in my Book that I take heaven to be the light and glory of God which is true and that Satan in heaven is Satan in the very light and glory of God which I deny For it is an impossible thing and cannot be Though this I cannot but subscribe to that is to say That he will administer to souls in that state and teach souls to make false applications and misapprehensions of things And besides if they would look diligently into my Book and search narrowly how things are spoken there they would finde that I speak a quite contrary thing for I say that Satan in heaven is Satan in glory and Satan in glory is Satan in an angel of light As in these words And there appeared another wonder in heaven the meaning is not that there appeared really a great Red Dragon in the light and glory of God but the meaning is John being taken up by the Spirit into heaven that is into the light and glory of God he saw the appearance of the great Red Dragon there but not really the Dragon in the very light and glory of God The second thing that they lay to my charge is the Title of my last Book which is A WONDER AND NO WONDER They admire how I can make that which Is a Wonder to be No Wonder This is a poor thing to give an Answer to But I will satissie them so far as to tell them I make A Wonder No Wonder thus It is a Wonder to those that are not acquainted with what Satan in heaven is for they stand and admire at the thing But it is not a Wonder to those that know what Satan in heaven is they do not admire neither do they at all wonder at it because they know it and are well acquainted with it And the reason wherefore John called it A Wonder was Because he knew not what Satan in heaven was he was not acquainted with Satan in an angel of light Consider that place in 2 Cor. 11. 14 And no marvel for Satan himself is changed into an angel of light The rest of the things they lay to my charge are words in my Book which are falsly printed for which the Printer indeed is to be blamed not I. The third thing that moved me to write this Postscript was To answer a poor weak saying of one whom I forbear to name which was this There are many that take upon them to write now a days but I know no warrant for any of them to write seeing there are so many learned able and godly men that do write unless they could write some New Truth that was never heard of before To the first I ask you this Is all Truth in learned godly men Have none but they a warrant to write May not a childe of God that hath no Learning at all be endued with the Spirit and power from on high and so be made as fit as they to preach and write Is not the same Spirit in one as in the other Certainly you have lost your Senses you seem to hold that which many ignorant Priests do that is to say That none are so able to deliver and write Truth as themselves are I am sure that godly learned men will not assume this to themselves but will esteem others above themselves There is that revealed many times to a poor ignorant weak Christian that learned Christians are ignorant of and I have seen that written by a Babe the like whereof I never saw come from learned Professors though they were godly I speak not this to discourage them or to set light by them but to take off partiality and my end in answering the foresaid saying was God knows That those that heard it might not be led aside by it but that they might see the vanity of it and that it proceeded either from Ignorance or Envie To the second I say There is no Truth new that is to be written but that which is written and shall be written is the old Truth It is true in one sence old Truth may be new as in that sence I write to you a new Commandment it was new to them because they had not practised it before but yet it was the old Commandment which was That they should love one another Now he that writes must write old Truth that was heretofore or else he must write a Lye There is nothing new under the sun There are many hidden old Truths which you and others know not though ye and others think ye know them and therefore they may write them and declare them if they be called to it of God And those that think themselves to know most know least yea are very fools nay a man may write those things that you and others haply know to be Truth for though you and others know them to be Truth yet haply others do not so that he writes the things he hath seen felt and handled but for any to write the things of another as he may which he hath not seen nor felt this is not lawful FINIS