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A60500 Anti-christ in man, or, A discovery of the great whore that sits upon many waters wherein is declared what that whore or inward mystery is, together with the destruction thereof, by the powerfull appearing of Christ in us / by Joseph Salmon ... Salmon, Joseph. 1647 (1647) Wing S413; ESTC R39105 36,300 80

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12.7 That when the woman had brought forth her man childe which was to rule all Nations with a rodde of Iron the woman upon the birth of this man childe fled into the wildernesse and when the woman was in the wildernesse then saies John I saw war in Heaven Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought his angels and what 's all this to me truely Christian me thinks this warre in Heaven is a sure symptom of the day of Judgement the end of this world in us when God hath by his owne power brought forth this man Jesus in us and hath given him power to rule and raigne in this woman or weake passive Christian the Soule presently upon the birth or bringing forth of Jesus in it is imediatly in a wildernesse or lost in it selfe and lyes as one amazed at this sudden worke of the Lord and in this bewildred condition of the creature Sathan he gages warre upon it shoots his fiery darts at it pursues the woman with Herod and seekes to devoure both Christ with the christian also now therefore christian know that thy Soul is this Heaven where this great battel is fought thou being in a lost bewildred estate as not knowing which way to escape the woundings of Sathan and the fiery darts of the wicked but standest as a sencelesse lifelesse marke for thy spirituall enemies to shoot at but Michael thy spirituall Prince Christ Jesus hee fights for thee against that Dragon that whore that antichrist that labours to devoure thee so that thou art that poor passive that lyes stone still whilest the Serpent stings thee and the Dragon exercises his cruelty upon thee till at last this Michael our Prince Christ Jesus hath by his own power and strength cast out and so routed this Dragon this old Serpent vers 9. That now his place is no more found in Heaven or in thy soul and thus maiest thou see Christ Judging the Whore this Serpent in thee insomuch that now this loud voyce is uttered from Heaven or the Soul of a Saint as in vers 10. Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ whereas before nothing but the dreadfull voyce of hel wrath anger fury and judgement nothing but warrs and rumours of warrs heard in thy soul yet now the day is come Christ is come to Judgement in us and hath condemned the whore in us now the voyce of salvation is heard in thee whereas before thou apprehendest God as David did sometimes to have shot the arrowes of his wrath at thee and to have battered thy soul in peeces by the thundering Cannon of his wrath yet now thou seest there is a cessation of these tumults in thee and thou now seest that sweet messenger of God the eternall Spirit drawing neere towards thee with its white Flagge of peace joy comfort and salvation bringing comfort unto thee by telling thee thy warfare is accomplished thy iniquity is pardoned and thon hast received double at the Lords hands for all thy sins and then further now strength is come also which is another part of the voyce from Heaven alas how feeble and how weake faint and unable was the Soul before the spiritual resurrection of it for the birth of this Child Jesus in it is the regeneration or new birth of a Christian the wildernesse the woman fled into is that mortified dead lost estate of a Christian the Grave where the Soul is buried to every living action and the overcomming or conquering of the Dragon or the spirituall serpent the wisdome of the flesh is the resurrection of a Saint or that spirituall day of Judgement of the whore in us Now as Jesus raised up himselfe by the power of the Father from out of the bowels of the earth so by the strength and power of this Jesus who is the resurrection and the life a Christian rises out of this dead condition and so her mortall putting on immortality and corruption putting on incorruption here is death swallowed up in victory The Christian now as he hath formerly been planted with Christ in the likenesse of his death so likewise now in the likenesse of his resurrection it bears now no longer the image of the first dead Adam but is risen in the likenesse of Christ out of earth and flesh which formerly he was involved and buryed in and by his rising againe overcomes the Dragon by the blood of the Lamb kills the great Goliah the wisdome of the flesh and this is all by the strength of that Strong man Christ Jesus who is entred into his temple or the heart of man and silences all these earthly rumors and commotions in him and so is the second part of the voyce from Heaven fulfilled Now is come not only salvation but strength And then Thirdly The Kingdome of God that 's come also and the power of his Christ our Saviour taught his Disciples whil'st hee was in the flesh and knew him only after the flesh I say he taught them to pray thy Kingdome come so that the Kingdome of Christ in that sence was not yet come to the Disciples even so it is with every poore Christian that hath attained to no more knowledge then the flesh of Christ can teach them that do not know Christ any other waies then by the beholding of his fleshly substance as Christians doe in all outward and fleshly ordinances that see no more nor know no more of Christ then Bread Water and Wine and outward formes and order can teach them the Kingdome of God is not come to them yet while the Woman was in the Wildernesse the Kingdome of God was not come in her but when She by the strength of God was Risen and had overcome by the bloud of the Lambe then She cryed now the Kingdome of God is come the Woman was fed in the wildernesse ver 6. in our low and lost estate God he feeds us with milke because the Kingdome of God Christ in the measure of the Spirit is not yet come to inable us to beare stronger meates in the wildernesse or weake condition of Saints God feeds them with manna but when he brings them into Canaan he then compasseth them about with the flowings of Milke and Honie this Canaan is Christ the true Rest of a Christian the Kingdome of the Father in the Saints who drawes up the Soul from these low dispensations by degrees as it were till he hath seated it in himself brings the Soul out of the fleshly knowledge of himself into spirituall discoveryes of his Excellency so that now the Soule prayes no more in the imbecillity of the flesh thy Kingdome come seekes no longer in fleshly Formes and Ordinances for the kingdome for it is already in them and they live in the injoyment of it Now is come Salvation and strength and the Kingdome of God and the power of his Christ the Dragon and his Angels they
the new light of God manifested in them O Christian I tell thee thou art a thrice happy man whom the Lord hath made the Lamb a light unto thee this Lamb light is an innocent light a righteous light a pure light a discovering light it is this light that discovers the hidden and obscure whore unto thee it is the light of Christ that uncovers and strips the whore starke naked before thee of all her glory and excellency so that now thou beholdest her out of her purple and scarlet colour even in her very nakednesse and shame And thus you see how Christ in his day in a Christian does first of all discover the whore to him But Secondly in this last day or Sun rising of Christ in a Christian it is the worke of Christ to destroy as well as to discover this whore in us as it is the property of light to destroy darknesse so it is the property of Christ to destroy antichrist in the day of his appearance it will be the worke of Christ by his comming in thee to roote out that spirit of antichrist head and tayle root and branch insomuch that there shall not be left one hoof of the beast in thee when John saw the Angell come downe from heaven endued with great power Revel 18.1 Who inlightned the earth with his glory immediatly he heard this voyce Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of divels the hould of every foule spirit and a cage of every uncleane and hatefull bird all which teacheth me thus much that when that Angell of the everlasting lasting covenant Christ Jesus is by the Father sent down into the hearts of his Saints who comes by the power of his Spirit and enlightens the earth or earthly man with his glory when the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord when the glory of this Sun comes to enlighten and beautifie our earthy hearts then is the time of Babylons downfall now is the season of the whores destruction now is the Saints time of Halelujah now rejoyce over her thou Heaven and all the holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her vers 20. The Prophet Malachy tells us chap. 4. That the day comes that shall burne as an Oven this day is Christ Jesus who indeed shall so baptize us with the holy Ghost and Fire as that he shall consume and burne up waste and destroy all the appearances of the Whore the wisdome of the flesh and therefore the same prophet tells us Chap. 3.34 That he shall sit as a Refiners fire and as Fullers Soape and he shall purifie the Sons of Levi that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousnesse this day must burne in us this Jesus must be a refiners fire to us before we shal see the downefall of mysticall Babylon the worke that Christ hath to doe in us is to destroy mortallity and to cloath us with immortality to destroy this corruption and to cloath us with the incorruptible righteousnesse of himselfe After the downfall of the whore Revel 19. John tells us vers 8. That there was granted to the Lambs wife that she should be arrayed in fine linnen cleare and white c. In which I observe first the love of Christ to the Soul Christ did first of all by his blood and passion purchase the Soul to himselfe to the end that she should be a constant Spouse unto him but she hath adulterized from her husband committed harlotry from her first lover and hath taken part with antichrist against him upon which adultery the jealousie of the Lord arises in himselfe and as jealousie is said to be the rage of a man so the Lord as I may say in the rage of this jealousie comes and destroyes this antichrist kils sin in the Christian sheaths the sword of the spirit in the bowels of this spiritual antichrist breakes the head of this serpent in us but yet notwithstanding entertaines this adulterized creature into his love and favour does yet once more espouse her to himselfe by a fresh act and manifestation of love and favour you may see an embleme of this love in Hos 3.1 where God commands the Prophet to go with a message of love to the woman that had played the harlot with him Goe yet love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adultresse though she an adultresse yet I am her friend though she an harlot yet I send love greetings towards her though she hath been unconstant towards me yet I will owne her to be my wife my Spouse my beloved and therefore the text saies that it was granted to the Lambs wife that shee should bee arrayed in linnen clean white which likewise dictates to me 2. In the Second place the purity that this day of burning Christ Jesus in Spirit works in the heart of his People he doth not only take from it the garment spotted with the flesh but likewise Cloathes it with the shinning Robe of righteousnesse he doth not only empty a Soul of its owne corruption but likewise fills it with his glory beautifies it with his own adornings O Faire beautifull amiable creature whose beauty and excellency consists in Christ that divine centre of bri●htnesse and glory this will send a Saint to the depth of admiration behold what manner of love hath the Father bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God that God should thus by the power of the Spirit consume all this dross and coruption in us and bring us by that divine light to see our vnion with the Father in the Son and to see the glory of our Adoption in Jesus and to behold our selves in the flesh of our elder Brother at the Right-hand of the Father this is mercy past discerning and worth admiration Thus will God in the power of his Spirit Judge this spirituall Whore in us and ease us of the vassallage and servitude we were in to our owne selves thus shall the brats of this spirituall Babylon the wisdome of the flesh be destroyed by that happy man Christ Jesus God saith Jsa 17.12 concerning this destruction of Babylon That hee will make a man more precious then fine Gold or the Golden wedge of Opher this man is Christ who in the day of his power and in the confounding of this Spirituall Babell in us shall be made unto us more precious then the highest creature excellency never till now will the Saints come to value and to prize Christ till they see what he doth in them Now how beautifull upon the mountains are the feete of them that bring glad tidings of good things that publisheth Salvation that saith unto Zion thy God raineth Thy Messenger upon the Mountaines is Christ Jesus who comes Leaping over the mountaines and skiping over the hils of difficulty that lies in the way and appeares in glory to his Spouse or beloved Christian and declares the message of glad tidings to him