Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	new_a	pass_v	9,751	5	7.5800	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43072	The designe of God in the saints, or, The spirit transporting the minde of a Christian from the humane nature into the divine in the carrying on of which designe, the saint is a meere passive / by George Hassal.	Hassal, George.	1648 (1648)	Wing H1133; ESTC R25419	10,671	26

will sit in thee as a refiners fire as fullers sope I will take away all thy drosse and tin Loe I create a new heaven and a new earth in thee and the first heaven and the first earth shall passe away The first Adam with all his glory and splendor which hath hitherto been thy heaven it shall vanish away and the second Adam which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse must take place and in that new heaven and new earth that I create in thee there shall dwell Righteousnesse It is I friend that am that righteousnesse that will dwell in thee and make mine abode with thee nay I will sup with thee and thou shalt sup with me and I will impart of the divine nature unto thee As the Father hath given to me of the Spirit freely so will I give unto thee and thou shalt partake thereof thou shalt see thy selfe to live in and by me thou shalt see thy selfe to have thy being and spirituall subsistence in me I am that bread of life and that water of life our of thy belly shall flow rivers of living water I will destroy in thee every evill thought and high imagination that exalteth in selfe against me for now is the judgement of this world in thee now shall the Prince of this world be cast out sinne shall have no more dominion over thee for I will so manifest my selfe unto thee that thou shalt no more lust after nor be in love with any thing below me as thou shalt apprehend me in Spirit all thy legall Righteousnesse shall appeare to thee but as a menstruous rag and therefore wait thou upon me untill I accomplish this my work in thee for in the doing of it thou shalt be a meere passive but when it is finisht that I have once translated thee into my Image the shalt thou bring forth fruit suitable to the stock you are graffed into yea thou shalt be so clothed with fine linnen clean and white that thou shalt not in the least be found naked Mortality shall be swallowed up of life and thou shalt give thanks unto him who hath given thee the victory through thy Lord Jesus Christ And as it is my meat and drinke to doe the will of my father so shall it be thine for I will transport thy minde thy heart and affections from all earthly things whatsoever though it have appeared unto thee formerly never so glorious unto heavenly divine and spirituall things that shall never vanish away it shall be more glorious yea more sweet unto thy taste then the hony or the hony combe it shall be more precious unto thee then the gold of Ophir Blessed be the Lord I finde that he hath already in some measure so taken me up above fleshly and carnall things that I only wait upon him for a further and fuller manifestation of himself in me according to his promise for I know that the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slacknesse I know that his coming draweth nigh he that shall come will come and will not tarry and though that in outward ordinances I was once busie and active yet I finde that in the inward and spirituall workings within me I was then yea and am still a meere passive and therefore according to my apprehension we must know that in the transportation of a Christian out of the humane nature into the divine he is a meere passive and not active at all untill he partake of the divine nature and then as it is the divine nature of the Spirit to be active in searching the deep things of God and declaring it to him so is it a divine nature in the Spirit likewise to make the minde active in spirituall things and in declaring unto others what God hath manifested of himselfe in him That as the Father is so is he in this present world the 1. of John the 4.th and the 17.th but this we are not able to apprehend whilst we are in the body being absent from the Lord or whilst we are in low fleshly dispensations being absent from the spiritual which is beyond humane sense or common reason For as is the earthy such are they that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they that are heavenly when we are once translated into his heavenly Image then we shall see as we are seen and know as we are known For as he is perfect so are we with one and the same perfection and as he is holy so are we with one and the same holinesse and as he is righteous so are we with one and the same righteousnes Christ is the Lord our righteousnesse as well as the Fathers only we want a fuller manifestation of it which we must waite for he is that lamp that the Father hath prepared for his Anointed to be a Lanthorne unto their feet and a light unto their pathes whilst we are in the humane and naturall condition there is a strong man armed which is our lusts armed with a desire of worldly riches honour and pleasures keepeth the house which is the minde and for a while the things that he enjoyeth are in peace untill the stronger then he cometh which is Christ and dispossesseth him of the minde taking it off from doting on the world and taketh possession himselfe and maketh it his Temple his house of prayer and whips out all the buyers and sellers out of it he will no longer suffer a den of theeves to harbour there but takes it up for his owne habitation and there he sits as a Refiners fire and as Fullers sope purifying cleansing us as gold and silver that we may offer unto the Lord an offering in Righteousnesse in all which the Creature is a meere passive still Christ alone who is wonderfull in Councel and excellent in working his arme alone brings salvation to him and his righteousnesse it sustaineth him and therefore sayes the Saints this is the Lords doing and it is wonderfull in our eyes So that I say the Christian in the various workings of God in him which is the drawing him up from one dispensation which is low unto another that is higher and so from one dispensation to another untill he take him up above all to live in Spirit with himselfe doth not in the least help or assist but is a meere passive in it though he think himself active in it by following of good duties which is only bodily exercise and profiteth little as the Apostle saith but being once brought up into the nature of Spirit he is then active in spirituall exercises all his sacrifices that he offers to the Father are spirituall he can offer no other and such only are well pleasing to the Father as are offered in the Son For in him alone he is well pleased God accepts not of any duty or performance whatsoever though never so zealous that is not done and acted in and by Christ

ordinances as the Apostle saith in Colossians the 2. d and the 20.th and in Galathians the 4.th he saith to them But now after ye have known God or rather are known of God how turne yee againe to the weak and beggerly elements whereunto ye desire againe to be in bondage As if he should say in that Chapter as long as ye were under that low dispensation of ordinances ye were but as servants under Tutors and Governours but now is the appointed time of the Father come to make you free and therefore he hath sent forth his Spirit of Adoption into your hearts whereby you crie Abba Father and now that you are no more servants but sonnes why doe you not keep you so Why doe you look back upon those worldly elements as if you had a desire to be againe in bondage to them The Apostle in the same Chapter confesseth that his first coming unto them and preaching of the Gospel was through infirmitie of the flesh being then under a low fleshly dispensation and yet they despised him not but received him as if he had been Christ himselfe but now that he comes to preach unto them in a ministration above Ordinances a dispensation of the Spirit by which they should bee made free poore man he is become their enemie as he there complaines But why Paul art thou become their enemy now that not long since wast so great in their books because I endeavour to draw them off from fleshly ordinances and the Elements of the world that by nature are no Gods by preaching unto them the mysterie of godlinesse Christ manifest in the flesh not only Christ which is dead but rather Christ which is risen in us the hope of glory but they are so fast glewed to their formes that they cannot endure sound doctrine and therefore they look upon me as their enemie Thus is Paul lookt upon as an enemy by those that formerly would have pluckt out their eyes and have given them unto him to doe him good because he tells them the truth and came not unto them in the same ministration that he formerly came to them in but in a higher and more spirituall and yet saith Paul sweetly to them in the 19. and 20. verses My little children of whom I travaile againe in birth untill Christ be formed in you I desire to be present with you now and to change my voyce for I stand in doubt of you See now this blessed Apostle after that Christ was formed in him and that he was brought up to live in the third Heaven in Spirit how earnest and desirous is he to have all those that formerly he had society with and had preacht the Gospell through infirmity unto to have the like spirituall injoyment in them and to be brought up to the same perfection and unity of the Spirit with himselfe Now that Paul was made a partaker of the divine naturre he could as well comprehend the Sea in the hollow of his hand as conceale it the divine nature is love God is love and here you might see this nature in Paul for after he knew the onenesse and unity of the Saints with the Father he must make it knowne unto them and yet they keep close to their old formes and will not heare him because they thinke he is fa●●er from his first principles and is led away from his former profession with the errours of the wicked thinking it strange that whilst they are in this veile of flesh they should be so translated into the Image of God as to worship him in such a spirituall manner above Ordinances but here was the difference between them and Paul Christ being formed in him and manifested unto him as the substance of all these shadowes he did by what he apprehended of him see the vanity of the one and the glory and excellency of the other comparing spirituall things with his spiricualized understanding and therefore he saith My little children of whom Itravell in birth againe untill Christ be formed in you And know yee not that except Christ be in you yee are Reprobates And in other place Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not entangled againe with the yoke of bondage But as the Jewes thought that Christ spake of the Temple at Jerusalem that Solomon built when he spake of his body and as Nicodemus thought that Christ had spoken of a naturall birth when he spake of a spirituall so did these men unto whom Paul writ comparing spirituall things to their naturall and carnall understandings thinke that he spake of a naturall man when he spake of the spirituall they thought that he had spoken of naturall freedome when indeed he spoke of a spirituall freedome such as he enjoyed when he was in the stocks the enjoyment thereof being then so gladsome so joyous and sweet unto him that it made him sing for joy of heart as God saith in the last of Isaiah but one when he was in bonds he was yet free and so shall all the Saints of God whose lot and portion it is or shall be to be persecuted for the testimony of Christ their head Whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed the Father will uphold them with the right hand of his Righteousnesse It is now the weaknesse of many in our dayes to thinke that because they doe not apprehend God in themselves therefore he is not in them and because that they are not able to comprehend the Father that therefore he is not able to comprehend himselfe in them thinking that he dispences himselfe unto his Saints while they are here only by shadowes and not in substance by these outward meanes as they call it hearing and reading and preaching and Bread and Wine and not in Spirit when for my own part I finde it nothing so as I must needs say and if you shall ask me what comfort I had or supportance when I was under those Administrations truly I must needs confesse I then thought that my greatest comfort in this world was in those ordinances whereas I now finde as Jacob said that of a truth it was God within me that supported and conforted me and I knew it not because I did not then apprehend him the appointed time of the Father was not come to make me free and while I was a servant it was not meet that I should know what my Lord did but now blessed for ever be his name I have heard his sweet still voice within me saying Henceforth call I thee no more a servant but my friend the servant knoweth not what his Lord doth but all that I have heard of the Father will I declare unto thee It is now my work in thee to dispell those clouds of fleshly lusts that have a long time harboured in thee and been the veile that hath all this time hindred thee from beholding my glory in spirit I am the new Adam the second Adam I