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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60437	Hidden things made manifest by the light in a plain distinction between condemnation and temptation : wherein is shewed how the rightetous law of God is ministered upon the transgressor, and how it is to be by all received and continued under, through it, as a schoolmaster to come to Christ, by him to have the sin done away forever : also of temptation, what it is, and how it may be known and discerned from condemnation, that out of temptation man may be delivered and kept with the light of Christ, who was tempted and did overcome : with a direction to them who profess the knowledge of the truth, and live not in the power of God, that they may know the entrance within the vail, where the temptations are overcome, and where the foolish virgins cannot enter / given forth for such who say they see, and yet their sin remaineth ... by a member of the church and body of Christ ... Humphrey Smith.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4062; ESTC R10253	15,254	23

HIDDEN THINGS Made manifest by the LIGHT In a plain Distinction between CONDEMNATION and TEMPTATION Wherein is shewed how the righteteous LAW of God is ministred upon the transgressor and how it is to be by all received and continued under through it as a Schoolmaster to come to Christ by him to have the sin done away for ever Also of Temptation what it is and how it may be known and discerned from Condemnation that out of Temptation Man may be delivered and kept with the Light of Christ who was tempted and did overcome With a direction to them who profess the knowledge of the truth and live not in the power of God that they may know the entrance within the Vail where the Temptations are overcome and where the foolish Virgins cannot enter Given forth for such who say they see and yet their sin remaineth and may be serviceable to such who can hear and understand the things of God that those who are yet blinde may no longer put darknesse for light and light for darknesse as it is written Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf th●● have ears Let all the Nations be gathered together and let the people be assembled who among them can declare this and shew his former things Let them bring forth their witness that they may be justified or let them hear and say it is truth Isa 43. 8 9. By a member of the Church and body of Christ for whose sake I suffer bonds in the Common Goal and House of Correction at VVinchester where my Name is written Humphrey Smith LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1658. Hidden things made manifest by the Light in a plain distinction between Condemnation Temptation Concerning the Ministration of Condemnation THE World being set in mans heart and sin being in the world before the promise was made which promise was before the Law by which the sin is discovered which sin was in the world before the promise yet the promise was before the Law and yet until the Law come death reigns over that to which the promise is and sinne separateth man from God the which is not clearly seen until the Commandment which is Light is come the ministration whereof is condemnation unto MAN being found in the transgression the which Ministration of Condemnation is to pass over all having sinned and when this commeth it finds man in the death and by it is sinne revived whereby man comes to see a body of sin which stands between him and God so that he is afraid of the dreadful power of God ministred forth through the law to slay him that hath transgressed the which some coming to see or in the least measure to feel calleth it a temptation because it maketh him sensible that condemnation belongeth to him and that all his profession and building upon the promise in that which the promise was not unto and seeing that if he lyeth down to receive this Ministration that then all his profession and knowledge zeal wisdom and prayers which did arise out of that ground which was cursed by reason of the sinne that was in the world before either the promise the profession or the law will be all ript up from him as filthy Rags and that his shame and nakedness must appear as it 's written Every mouth shall be stopped and every one shall stand guilty before God and no darkness nor shadow of death shall hide the workers of iniquity from the mighty hand of God who bring●th to judgement the hidden things of darkness and rips open the secret of the heart so that the most secret sins that ever was committed are clearly made manifest and justly charged upon the head of the transgressor who stands in enmity to God who will wound the head of the transgressor and plead in righteousness with him in whom the sin is found though not made manifest until the time that the Law is come by which it is discovered And this Ministration of Condemnation is not a temptation though many call it so who being blind put darkness for light and light for darkness for that which sheweth man his sin doth not tempt man to sin but rather brings man in fear that he may not sin for because of sin was the Law added and the Law was given after much of the love preservation power deliverances and the wonders of the Lord had been seen and it was given in the Wilderness where sometime there was want of bread and water where was Serpents Scorpions and many trials where the figure of him who was to heal the wounded and take away the sting of death and save the life of man was lifted up on high without them the which figure or outward bodily appearance was prepared by Moses And Christ had a body prepared him both which the carnal eye might see the carnal mind contend about even as the Devil about the body of Moses but the substance of the figure Christ the Light Gods power being not received within in the heart and so sin the transgression of the Law remains within and the figure or that which the natural eye did or may see was and is looked upon without and that without doth not take away the sin within and these knew not the ways of God who sinned and at last loathed the Manna calling it light bread in the Wildernerness even there was the Law ministred they whose eyes are open may read and understand And where the Law was given forth there was a Mount or a high place of the earth which then trembled by reason of the dreadful power of the Lord of Hosts and beneath or under the Mount was the Seed and Israel of God which was to keep the Law and Life Read within and understand and yet by reason of that which was hard upon the heart there was a crying out with dread and horror and fear That the Lord might speak no more least they dye and so that which is hard upon the heart in the which by the Law which is Light sin is found that is it which is afraid to receive the Law and come near the darkness and thunders and tempests and so though many do talk of the Law being a Schoolmaster to Christ yet are they as much afraid to receive the Ministration of Condemnation as their Fathers were who might have boasted that they were the people of God and his onely chosen flock and that the Land of rest was promised to them and that they had fed upon the passover and yet they perished before they came to that which was promised who are left for an example and they might have boasted and talked much of the goodness of God and of his wonders and of his presence being with them and of their own experiences therein and that therefore they were not to come under the Ministration of Condemnation and fear and horror and trembling and astonishment and

that they need not now to be afraid of God who had shewed them so much love and mercy And many such things might they have pleaded as most professing people do now who can talk of promises and deliverances and of Christ and his merits and Righteousness and Justification and Redemption fininished without them and especially of Ordinances and their own experiences of the power of God but are yet in their sins having not received the thing promised neither come to him who is the end of the Law and maketh an end of sin whom many satisfie their vain minds with talking of him with the same tongue that useth deceit and professing him who is the end of the Law but the Law they despise holding the Truth of God in the unrighteous grounds which by the mighty power of God through the ministration of the Law is to be shaken and removed as it is written Sinai also was moved and all Israel trembled and Moses did fear and quake and once more will the Lord shake not onely the Earth but the heavens also and then shall the foundations of the hypocrites be overturned for ever For though the Name of God and Christ be professed yet if Moses Law be despised such dye without mercy for the Law is to remove the iniquity which doth with-hold the mercy and the good things from man and in the end of the Law is that received by which the Law is fulfilled which is according to the Law the Prophets but there is none can come to that in the end of the Law who refuse to com to the beginning of the Law and despise the Ministration of Condemnation and make a mock at trembling or at least not knowing what it is exceedingly to fear quake being not in the least sensible what that is which must be shaken and removed before the the thing promised be obtained for a promise may be made long before the thing promised be given or obtained for a promise was made unto Abraham and his seed and yet it is written of him and many more that they dyed having not obtained the promises and he that made the promise was before the sin who ministred forth the Law to discover the sinne through the ministration whereof and by obedience thereunto that cometh to be received which taketh avvay the sin in which all the promises are received And so all that come to receive the thing promised they receive that which is the end of the Law and was before the sin in which there is no sin by which sin is finished and him received in whose mouth there is found no guile who bringeth his to be as he is in this present world being made the righteousness of God through him having the righteousness of the Law fulfilled in them by him who is the end of the Law dwelling in them in whom also his Power worketh mightily which is more then to talk of the Law being fulfilled without them for many such are neither come to that which fulfils the Law neither yet to the Law it self and such are hating reviling backbiting opposing and many ways persecuting those who witnesse the Law fulfilled in them even as Saul who was bred up at the feet of Gamaliel and knew that of the Law which was written without and walked blamelesse according to the righteousness thereof and yet knew not that which gave forth the law but persecuted him by whom the Law should be fulfilled Whose dreadful power smote him down and a blindness came upon that great professor who had profited much in that Religion above many of his equals And to that power which struck him blind did he then bow and became obedient and afterwards said When the commandment came sin revived and I dyed And so that was struck blinde and is to be blinded which professed the Law before it come and increased in that knowledge without the life and knew not that by which the Law should be fulfilled Therefore that which sees must be blind and that which is blind is to see And this revelation and heavenly vision he did not then call a Temptation nor a Delusion Neither did he despise that which struck him blind and let him see a body of sin and came to cut him down because of the sin but cryed out of his wretchednesse and accounted all as dross and dung and unto this he was obedient and this he loved and did not say of it That it was not able to save him from sinne the which before did prick for sinne though against that which prickt he had strived which was in him and it was said unto him It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks And so that which striveth and kicketh against that which pricketh at the heart is that by which the heart is hardened for the word is hid in the heart which word is sharp as a sword which word being preached some were pricked to the heart others cut to the heart so that many cryed out Men and Brethren What shall we do to be saved and so the word being nigh in which God is striving with man even piercing the hearts of many that some in secret have been ready to cry out and say VVhat shall I do to be saved and yet being not truly sensible what it is in them which did prick and pierce through the heart and let them see themselves out of Gods Covenant therefore have they strove against it and called this a Temptation which was the powerful operation of God by the light of his son in the heart calling to repentance the which they have called a temptation of the Devil esteeming it so to be which is most horrible blasphemy and resisting of the spirit and refusing to turn to him that smiteth And this is the blindness of them who know not God who by the light of his son doth knock at the door of the heart to minister forth the Law to judge and condemn and break the hardness that in the broken heart his Word of life might be received and his power made known to the confounding of that which kept that in bondage under the transgression which was given into man before the transgression was out of which transgression there is no coming but by and through the ministration of Condemnation which doth it discover in the ground of it through which there is a coming to receive the Gospel of Peace which is the Power of God not to be preached to the wicked things under which the just doth suffer which the Law is to but by the Lord of glory through the Light preached to the spirit in prison that it through the Condemnation of the other may grow up to lead and guide the creature in all things in obedience to Gods will from a true sence of his love in the heart whereby his whole Law comes to be fulfilled and the promise and the blessing received in him who is the end of the

Law who is the light given into man to let him see to condemn the sin the which man being dead in and in trespasses doth not love but is afraid of that which in secret judgeth and reproveth him from the which man flying forsaketh that by which he should come to receive the mercies of the Lord but wo to them for ever who strive with their maker and call him Belzeebub who is the light in the heart and should be Master in the house Therefore let all take heed of despising the Law which is written with the finger of God in the heart whilest it is yet hard for the Law of God is perfect making wise the simple and the ministration thereof is to destroy that which did it transgress and lead unto him by whom the transgression is finished And this is not a temptation but a dispensation of Gods Justice through his righteous Law upon that which sinned over which the Law hath power so long as that liveth which the Law is to kill that through the death of it that might come again to live which was before the Law and before the death and before the sin And now when the Law or Ministration of Condemnation cometh man is to stand still and wait quietly under it and not let any thing break through in a haste to rage or gaze and wonder at that which is so dreadful that man is not able to stand under it without unspeakable astonishment because of that which then is over him who then is commanded not to break through least he dye for the Law is to break through that which cannot keep it and make way to that which is to keep it and live for ever but man is not to break through from under the Condemnation to that where the Law is ministred until that is received by which the Law may be kept for such who in the condemnation do abide come at last to see and receive him that is made under the Law and is the end of it and taketh away the sin but such who come to the Law and break out from under the Judgement before the law had brake through and out down all that in them which could not keep it such have let in death again to reign over that which with judgment should have been redeemed to bear away that which the law had power over and arise up with that power love life and obedience to God as in all things to fulfil the whole law of God which until then doth still stand in force over that and them in which sin remaineth which doth transgress the law one tittle whereof shall not perish till all be fulfilled though some coming to the law have broke forth and then healed the wound slightly supposing it would serve their turns to talk of the fulfilling of it by and in another for them without them seeing themselves not able to keep it in all things not waiting to the end of the law by it to have all that destroyed which could not keep it and receive that which cannot break it mark and in it keep by it to be lead out of the Wilderness of sin in the promised land to rest in it to have the dayes prolonged and the life preserved for Christ the light cometh to save the life And there are many that are now come to peace dominion and the land of rest who did once come to know the judgments of God upon Cains nature which then cryed out That his punishment was too heavy to bear and have also come to see the beast whose head is full of the Names of Blasphemy and yet have they not started aside like a broken bowe from under the judgement neither suffered the Enemy to prevail over them by temptations to curse God and dye nor to call him Belzeebub who is the light which condemns and should be Master in the house neither have they despised Moses law which is the Ministration of Condemnation and in its time is glorious but in patience and long-suffering under it have waited and that without murmuring or suffering that to break forth in rage which Gods judgements is to neither have they suffered unbelief to prevail over them but in love to him who was made a curse in patience have endured all these things have been made as free to drink the Cup of Astonishment with the dregs thereof as the Lord was to pour it forth unto them who now drink the Cup of salvation even the blood of the Lamb which clenseth from all sin whose life saveth them from the terror of the Pit who have come to feel the seed born and brought forth though with pangs and sorrow which the blessing is to Those may see hear and understand what I write who are come to know how the law is handed forth by a Mediator who was before the law and the righteousness of God manifest without the law sin discovered by the law and Gods Righteousness revealed by that which was before the law and that notwithstanding the law must be received yet by the Works thereof no flesh shall be justified but by obedience of Faith towards God in the blood of his Son by which all that is done away which transgrest the law and so not of Works nor of Merits but of Faith and Love is the Law fulfilled Concerning Temptation And that those who were born blind and have been ever since covered with the blackness of darkness through their own Wisdom being dead in trespasses and sins not feeling nor savouring the things of God but remain in that Religion and Profession which crucified his Son who is a man of sorrows and called him a blasphemer who is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and said he had a Devil who came to condemn sin in the flesh whose light in every conscience is the condemnation so long as the evil deeds remain the which condemnation is not a temptation for God who is light tempteth no man to evil Therefore in love is this written that no man through blindness and ignorance in his own Wisdom may esteem that to be a temptation which doth condemn and that out of temptation all such who are tempted may be led and kept by that which doth condemn vvhich is the pure light of Christ vvhich doth iudge and condemn the temptations and the sin and the transgressor who enters into it and every evil motion which is apt to arise in the minde that is darkned and blinded by the god of the World which mind from the darknesse to the light is to be turned in the light to bel●eve as he hath said I am the light believe in the light and it is a temptation which hinders man from believing in the light and all such keep not the commands of Christ who do not believe and obey the light and such profess his Words but deny that in which the power of his life doth stand

And it is a temptation which causeth man to deny and refuse the Law which is light and not come under nor receive the Ministration of Condemnation supposing he is under Grace and so not to come back to the Law because he hath gotten a profession of Christ whose day Abraham saw whose seed came through the Law of whom Christ came who fulfils the Law and maketh an end of sin who was in the Church in the Wilderness and in his pitty saved them and bare them all the dayes of old leading the humble feed that through the Wilderness of sin it might come and at last enioy that by which the sin is done away for ever And it is a temptation which causeth man to call that a temptation which in the conscience doth sometimes arise and let man see that he by his sin is in the fall the death and the curse and that the iudgements of God belongs to him and that he cannot escape the fierce wrath of the Almighty living in that by which sin is daily committed and the righteous Law of God transgressed and himself out of the Covenant of life wanting the power of God to bear him up out of iniquity so that he labors and prayes and cryes sometimes with tears like Esau to keep that alive in the transgression which God hath appointed to destruction Consider this And strive against that which letteth see the emptiness thereof condemns afterwards if a false ioy doth not arise secretly to glory in what was done whereby that was satisfied and got ease which the Judgement was to which of the Judgement was afraid and from under it led forth to perform a wil-worship from that ground where Cains nature bears rule who can bring a sacrifice but the deeds with the light seen to be evil who at last murthers the Just the sin lying at the door which secret sin cannot be hid from the light in any that commit it or in whom it is though never so secret And it is a temptation which worketh in the dark corners of the heart in the time when condemnation cometh to drive man to dispair by reason of the fierceness of the Judgement and drives him from God and his righteous Judgements into unbelief and hardness of heart against God and herein the Tempter prevails over many some whereof then go to destroy themselves not keeping in patience under the Judgement which was to destroy the sin for Christ the light comes to condemn and destroy the sin but the life he comes to save Others through unbelief have hardned their hearts in sin their minds being in that in which they cannot believe that ever they shall overcome sin nor be saved from it and such grow worse then before and use all means in vain lustful delights to murther that in them which checks reproves and condemns them for sin and many here turn aside from under the condemnation many and various ways some who are blind calling it melancholly so that few endure to the end enter through the strait Gate by the death through it the life to find not waiting with long forbearance out of that which hasteth in patience in the light to see feel and know the seed of Abraham brought forth of the barren Womb which against hope in hope believe And these Temptations leadeth further into sin and is not that which condemns for sin for that would keep out of sin though its Judgements be never so heavy upon man for sin And being that God is known in the ways of his iudgements and that they who are to receive the promise must keep Judgement and that with Judgement Sions redemption is to be witnessed and when Judgement begins to be set up in the heart to iudge condemn confound overturn and cut down the head body and root of all that which by the light is seen to be in the transgression having the form of godliness but not the power which keepeth out of and free from all sinne which the Judgement is to pass upon Therefore is that a Temptation which then draweth forth the mind from under the Judgement to get ease by a supposed peace with God from the comprehension of something done without afar off or long ago so climbs up another way then by the light within which I knovv is the door which condemns bringeth to Judgement the hidden things of darkness and brings fire and sword upon the Earth and sendeth not peace to it but setteth two at variance within whereby there is much striving in the Womb and not rest day nor night because of the War between the two seeds out of which trouble being led by that which in the Judgement could not stand so that getteth ease again and then man preacheth peace unto himself having got out of some trouble he then striveth more strongly to keep out of it then he did before and labours much to comprehend a resting-place to abide in though that be not redeemed with Judgement out of bondage which thereby should come to obtain rest and peace for evermore And being that the Law and the Prophets together are until John and that the Law is to iudge and cut down that which is above the seed exalted and that the Prophesies and openings from the Testimony of Witness is to uphold and preserve under the Judgement whereby some secret hopes or refreshings comes unto that which at last out of bondage should be redeemed therefore it is a temptation which leadeth forth on that hand in a Joy through the reason vvith great swelling imaginations in the vain light mind out of the fear of God not standing in his counsel but like the rest of the false Prophets coming to true openings from it run forth before that through Judgement be brought forth which should go before and lead them in Gods Wisdom and Counsel to stand and such speak great swelling words in a secret pride boasting of their experiences but are become the untimely children of the Mother of Harlots who with their Mother must be turned back into the bed of Torments And being the Lord God of life hath given his Son a light in the heart that man might be led taught and guided by him out of sin and giveth power to all them that love follovv and obey him to overcome their sin vvhose light being in Man a free gift from God and that by no other Name Way or Means man can ever be saved Therefore it is a Temptation vvhich leadeth out from that in the heart Which in it is given there to make an end of sin to follovv that vvhich doth not make an end of sin nor minister povver to them that follovv it to overcome their sin so that they cannot receive that vvhich clenseth from all sin such have the root and ground in them from whence sinne cometh but the Root of Jesse in whom there is no sin they are onely professing and talking of without them And it