THE MAN-CHILD BROUGHT FORTH IN US OR GOD MANIFEST IN FLESH By JOHN LEWIN a member of the ARMY 2. Cor. 13.5 Know yee not that Christ is in you except yee be Reprobates LONDON Printed for G C at the west end of Paules THE MAN-CHJLD BROUGHT FORTH IN US OR GOD MANIFST IN FLESH 9. of Isaiah 6 7. For unto us a child is borne vnto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his Name shall be called wonderfull Counseller the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of peace And of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end c. THIS prophesie or promise is of a child a sonne that shall be borne and given which man-child is God manifest in flesh in the flesh of the Saints as the Sonne and then shall all these names be manifest to be God in flesh wonderfull Counseller the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of peace And the loftinesse of man shall be brought down and the Lord alone exalted in that day this is for the comfort of Saints such as waite for God the glory of the Sonne to be revealed in them and this glory shall be before we be a ware Isa 66.7 Before shee travelled shee brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man child Which is the glory of the Son in the Saints such as wait for the appearance of God and then all other glories shall be destroyed all other but God Isaiah 66.1 Thus saith the Lord The Heaven is my throne and the earth is my foot-stoole where is the house that yee build unto me and where is the place of my rest There were glorious houses under the Law and there were Churches under the Gospell and now Saints are much troubled and busied about a house to God and much at a losse in it in their church-fellowships Here saith God Heaven is my throne and the Earth is my foot-stool where is the house that ye will build to me That God that fils all creatures his glory fils the Saints since you are a house but to this man will I looke even to him that is poor of a contrite spirit there is the habitation of God All these formes have beene and my hands hath made all these But to this man will I looke This should take the people of God off from all formes and church-fellowships and building of houses to God because the weakest Saints the least Saint are the habitation of God a poor contrite spirit broken into peeces ground to powder one that sees no good in himselfe one that trembles at every word of God these God dwels in and they are the habitation of God therefore who will build God a house Isa 51.13 14. He that puts his trust in me That is he that waites for God for the appearance of God as in the next verse and shall say cast yee up that is prepare a way for the Lord as men doe when they prepare a way they cast up earth and stones and so make a cauce-way for passing and so saith the Lord cast yee up that is prepare for him waite for him and take away all stumblings as men doe all blocks when they prepare a way that the Lord may dwell amongst us what then Hee shal possesse the land and inherit my holy mountaine what 's that Jer. 31.23 He shall call thee the habitation of Justice and mountaine of holinesse So that Saints are the mountain of God and the Tabernacle of God is amongst the sonnes of men There be many lets and stumblings that doe hinder the appearance of God not in respect of outward formes Church fellowships but in our own spirits wee thinke it wonderfull that God should dwell in flesh mortall flesh sinfull flesh and other lets there are wich doe much hinder the way of God or a manifestation of God in us but God saith in the 15. verse of that 56. of Isa Thus faith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of an humble and contrite spirit that is that God which dwels on high in the lofty place the holy one the high one he dwels in the contrite one though he be high yea in the weakest Saints though they seeme to be quite dead Now when God is manifest in us then his name shall appeare to be wonderfull when the Man child is brought forth in us his name shall be called wonderfull in us in his appearance his name shall be read wonderfull in the fore-heads of the Saints when he appeares David when he comes to see God filling all places and all creatures and all as one to God he magnifies him and saies Whether shall he goe frrm God in the 139. Psalme 13 14. ver For thou hast possessed my reins thou hast covered me in my Mothers womb I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are thy workes and that my soule knoweth right well That is that God that fils all and is wonderfull in all whither shall I goe from God I am wonderfully made which is the appearance of God in him And in the 12. of the Revel 1. There appeared a wonder in Heaven a woman being with child cryed to be delivered This woman here now that is spoken of in Heaven it is the Saints who are in the Spirit that waite for the appearance of God in them and this is called a wonder his name shall be called wonderfull his name shall be called wonderfull to others God in us shall In the 13. of the Acts 41. Behold you despisers and wonder and perish I worke a worke in your daies which yee shall not beleeve though a man even declare it to you wonder and perish for I worke a wonderous worke that is the bringing forth of God in flesh Now as I said before when this shall be manifest all other glory shall fade the most glorious things of all all our living in formes as in the 66. of Isaiah 3. ver He that kils an Ox is as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth a Lamb is as if he cut off a Dogges neck All these were things that God commanded under the Law and the antitype of these were under the Gospell these signified some thing under the Gospell now God when he appeares he will make these not only to be vaine but vile as the offering of an Idoll these Ordinances shall be revealed so to be when the Lord shall appeare and as our most glorious things our greatests lights as in the 60. of Isa and the 19.21 Revelation 22. ver and 22. of Revel and 5. when God appeares the Jerusalem that comes down from above the holy City a City not forsaken this is the appearance of God of God in the Saints in the 21. Revel 1-23 I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth and I
saw the holy City the new Jerusalem comming downe from God out of Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband and I heard a voice out of Heaven saying behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and Gâ—d himselfe shall be with them and be their God This new Jerusalem is God manifest in the Saints the flesh of the Saints the habitation of God the tabernacle of God when this is manifest our most glorious things shall fade as in the 22. ver of this 21. Revel I saw no Temple there for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were the Temple of it and the City had no need of the Sunne nor the Moone for the glory of God did lighten it Yee know the Sunne and the Moone are the ordinary means of light in the world so our ordinary means of light hath bin the teachings of men when God appeares wee shall be all taught of God knowledge shall cover the Earth as water covers the Sea wee shall know God as wee are known So I say as our most glorious things so our confusions our darknesse and misse-apprehensions of God that is contrary to God and in this his Name shall be called wonderfull the mighty God his appearance in the Saints destroyes al things besides him he is called a consuming fire everlasting burnings the rod of his mouth the breath of his nostrils shall destroy all things that now hinders a manifestation of him the mighty God 63. of Isa 1. ver when hee cometh to apeare hee comes travelling in the greatnesse of his strength mighty to save when God appeares in the saints hee will make an utter Consumption of all our Confusion and darknesse every battell of the warrier is with a confused noise but this shall be with burning and fuell of fier for unto us a child is born all our backslidings and disorders and goings back our reelings as a drunken man to and fro 24. Isai 19.20.22.23 is not our condition such now who is it that doeth not reele and stagger and knowes not which way to looke knows not with what party to side Is not the Earth removed as a cotage and doth not the Lord visite the host of the high ones gathereth them stogether as into a pitte as prisoners all this of the Lord. when the Lord comes to appear all these our Confusions and staggerings shall bee Consumed 24. Isai 23. ver when the Lord of hosts shall reign in movnt zion and in Jerusalem and before his ancients Gloriously when hee shall reign in mount zion that is be all in all in the saints they are called The Mountaine of holynesse then will the Lord bring down the noise of strangers as the heate in a dry place even the heate with the shadow of a cloude and the branch of the terrible ones shall bee brought low and he will destroy in this mountain of holynesse the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all nations whatsoever it be after the marke in the right hand or in the forehead our forms or uniformities or our most glorious appearances shall fade and they shall destroy no more in my holy mountain saith the Lord. Now when God will doe this his worke in the earth hee will make a short worke of it as in the 66. of Isai 5. ver Hear the word of the Lord you that tremble at his word your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my names sake said let the Lord bee glorious but hee shall appeare to your joy but they shall be ashamed that is that those that waite for the appearane of God in them that waite for the glory that shall be revealed in them they shall be hated of their brethren they shall be hated for my names sake those Saints that beare up the name of God and exalt the name of God and would have the name of God read in them they are hated of their brethren I beleive the people of God who live in the last times they shall be brought into lesse compass then ever they were it is said your brethren shall hate you under the law there was the great Iewish Church there a whole Nation were in fellowship afterwards under the Gospel there were none but saints by calling afterwards when the spirit of Antichrist came in the night of darknes and the Apostles power was gone and the power of the beast came in with al manner of signes lying wonders then all the whole world and Kingdoms were Christians there was the Church of Rome and the Church of Spaine and the Church of France and the Church of Scotland and England then all were the Church of Christ then as Reformation came in the Church grew lesse and lesse then all the world were Popish afterwards wee came to be Protestants and after that prophessers then puritanes and Separatists and then to independants and antinomians so that still the people of God come to bee lesse and lesse still in number so I beleive the people of God that walke in the spirit in the last times shall be fewer then before Those that waite for God for the appearance of God that wait for the glory of the Sonne to bee revealed in them these are the fewest that ever were take all that are one in fellowships and judgements and they are more then those that waite for the glory of God and therfore those that waite for his appearing are hated of their brethren Therfore this is for the comfort of the Saints before shee travelled shee brought forth before her paine came shee was delivered the sense I understand thus that those that wait for God the glory of God to be revealed in them the Lord will appeare before they bee aware not only in them but afterwards in many more before shee travelled shee brought forth that is unexpectedly and suddenly God will appeare before wee be aware not only in them but in many more This deliverance before shee travelled is the deliverance of a man-child it is a bringing forth of Christ in us this is in few words the meaning of it that Christ is in us Christ in our flesh God in our flesh in every Saint in the least Saint there God dwels although not discovered not manifested yet is the child in the woomb it is there and hath a being thought not brought forth even so God dwels in us though not manifested and when God is manifested in our flesh then the Man child is brought forth and this the Lord will doe It 's true there be some that travell to bring forth Christ and some that bee in paine to doe it but it shall not bee so with all for some shall have Christ brought forth in their flesh before they bee aware see a scripture or two 16 of John 20. ver Verily verily I say unto you that yee shall weep and Lament but
the world shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowfull but your sorrow shall be turned into joy A woman when she is in travell hath sorrow because her hour is come but assoon as she is delivered of the child she remembreth no more the auguish for joy that a man is born into the world and yee now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your harts shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you the meaning is this you shall see Christ in the spirit as hee saith unto them in the 16 ver A little while and yee shall not see me and again a littile while and yee shall see mee because I go to the Father they should in a little while se him and they should not what is that they did not know but Christ sheweth them what it was when Christ was in the flesh they did see him but when hee was taken out of the flesh they did not see him but when Christ shall come in the spirit they shal see him again a little while this fleshly appearance shall vanish but afterwards you shall see me again When Christ was in the flesh they looked upon him as one distinct from them they did not see him in their flesh they shall see God in their flesh as he was in his flesh saith Christ he that seeth me seeth him those that see Christ in truth do not see that flesh only but God in that flesh hee that seeth mee seeth the Father so when wee see Christ truly we see not only that flesh but God in that flesh now saith Christ when I goe a way the spirit shall come that is in your flesh and you shall see me again as in the 16. of John 18 20. ver I Will not leave you comfortlesse I will come to you Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but yee see me because I live ye shall live also at that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you When Christ shall come again wee shall know him in the appearance of the Father the flesh is nothing but the manifestation of the Father you shall know that you are in Christ and Christ in you you in mee as I am in the Father as God was in his flesh so God shall appeare in your flesh that God that was manifest in his flesh shall be manifest in ours and that is Christ Before God was manifest in the Disciples flesh Christ tould them they should weepe and lament but the world shall rejoyce the people of God in these times before God was manifested in them they did sorrow before there was the appearance of God in them we may see how sorrowful they were they thought that Christ had been gon and that they had lost their master but saith he I will see you again so you shall rejoyce I will see you that is to say that God that was manifest in that flesh shall appeare in yours also again in the 12. of Reve. the 1. ver And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven a Woman clothed with the Sun and the moone under her feete and upon her head a crown of twelve stars and shee beeing with child cried travelling in birth and pained to be delivered This woman that is here spoken of in Heaven it is the Saints that are in the spirit even the weakest Saints for God will appeare in the weakest Saints A woman was traveling and at length delivered of a man-child and in the 5. ver of the same Chap. The child was caught up to God The bringing forth of Christ is a bringing forth of God that is when God is reveled in us and appeares in us and manifest in us there is the man-child This is for comfort and for joy for those that waite for the appearance of God in them Know this that God will appeare before wee bee aware this should incourage the people of God and keepe their harts in remembrance of this truth that wee are the tabernacles of God the place where God dwels as in this book of the Rev. John saw a new Jerusalem a City coming downe from above which is nothing but God dwelling in us the City of God where hee dwelleth When God comes to appeare and dwell in us then shall that song bee sung as it is in the 12. Reve. and the 10. ver And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night Now I say this should speak comfort to those that wait for the appearance of God to those that love his appearance and those that mourne for him there bee some that mourne for his appearance and some that love his appearance here is comfort for both for before she traveled she brought forth and before her paine came she was delivered it is much incouragement that God who is the high and holy one will appeare before wee bee aware before her paine came she was delivred who hath heard such a thing that Kingdom should be born at once suddenly and unexspectedly God will appeare not only in us but in many others I know nothing but my owne spirit and speake nothing but my owne experience I will not lay any exhortation upon any mans spirit I have been a while and not long waiting for the appearance of God that God might be manifested in my flesh and doe cry in paine to be belivered Now in this time my thoughts are carried out after too many things and not upon this only to wait for God and this hath bin my weaknesse I have been and am so troubled at what one man another and the world will say and how to answer all these and the like I say this is our weaknesse If we could but waite upon God untill he be manifest and then all men shall fall for the loftynesse of man shall be brought downe and the Lord all one shall bee exalted in that day see what the prophet saith in the 31. of Jerem. 21. ver set thee up way-marks make thee high heaps set thy heart towards the high-way even the way which thou wentest the meaning is take away all hinderances Take away that is prepare for God Then turne again O! Virgin daughter of Israell turn again to these thy Cities how long wilt thou goe about oh thou back-sliding daughter these are our back-slidings of flesh when God is not presently revealed in us wee gadde from one thing to another and our thoughts rove up and downe and are carefull to answer this man and the other now wee should doe nothing but turn to God How long wilt thou goe about oh thou back-sliding daughter Behould the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compas a man a woman shall that