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A37457 News from the new-Jerusalem sent by letters from severall parts, relating some hints and observations of that citty, all conspiring in a testimony that renders it exceeding glorious. S. P. D. 1649 (1649) Wing D86; ESTC R27850 73,796 188

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him the life and blood of his Sonne and heire which now he had already in part performed 6. Therefore God who wel knew the mutability and inconstancy of flesh and blood that hee might at last come within his beloved and at one blow strike the match dead or rather put so much life into it as might secure it from all hazard of revocation and repenting He secretly winds and insinuates himselfe into her heart conveies his owne spirit into her inward parts makes her partaker of his own divine nature so that now they are not onely one flesh but one spirit Now there is but one heart and soul betwixt them God hath so gotten into her heart that he can boldly talke to her as to his wife and snee to him as to her husband Now she can say My well beloved is mine and I am his nothing is wanting to compleat this marriage but the spouses making her selfe ready Thus you see Gods graduall proceeding in this undertaking and how neare the businesse is brought to a finall conclusion And because there remaines now but a vaile or two more that keeps up a distance betwixt God and his Spouse which being removed the union would bee entire and absolute therefore he resolves forth with to break through these also and inasmuch as God or God-Man hath already uncloathed himselfe of naturall flesh of which the rending of the vaile of the Temple was a figure by suffering it to be crucified that hee might enter into spirit or return into the highest glory of the Father 7. So the Saints or misticall body in conformity unto Christ the head doe uncloath themselves of the rags of corrupt and sinfull flesh by suffering it to be crucified that the divine nature or image of God may shine forth in the humane till God discover his dwelling in the flesh of the Saints as he dwelt in the flesh of Christ and afterwards this flesh be taken up into spirit 8. In order whereunto God hath so farre advanced that he is pulling downe the partitions that remaine Hee is tearing the vaile not only of the naturall but of the misticall flesh of Christ or that whole administration of Christ consisting in formes and ordinances 9 Yea God is not onely taking downe this tabernacle of the misticall flesh of Christ but he is destroying the misticall or spirituall flesh of the Saints if I may so call it standing in their own righteousnesse that good perswasion they have had of themselves rais'd up and built upon their qualifications religious duties and performances The reading of this vaile will rend the heart and the caule of the liver of many Saints because most of their comfort hath sprung from this roote most of their evidence hath beene layd upon this foundation This must needes startle them to have their heaven their evidence for heaven thus shaken and this by comparing together Heb. 12. 26 27. and 2 Pet. 3 13. I conceive will bee the ultimate and finall accomplishment of that place in Haggai 2. chap. 6. I will shake the heauens and the earth and the sea and the dry land and I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come This great work hath God begunne to take in hand To shake the old heaven and earth and to make new To destroy our own righteousnesse and instead thereof to bring forth Christ in spirit who is the Lord our righteousnesse and how does the devill rage and strive by his stratagems on all hands to make this child an abortive Without doubt God is removing out of fleshly administrations and calling upon his people to come up and serve him in that which is more spirituall God is withdrawing from formes that hee may draw his people after him into spirit and power Nor is this intended to take those off from formes that enjoy Gods presence in them but to give an account of those that walke not informes and to call those higher then formes from whom God is apparently departed in formes for there are divers degrees and measures of christians Some finde God it may be in every ordinance others finde him in none at all some enjoy his presence in one publique ordinance and not in another others God meets in their private duties but not in the publique Let every Saint abide in the station where God sets him till hee say unto him come up hither And why shouldst thou wonder at this Hath it not been the sad complaint of many serious christians for these many yeares that ordinances have been barren to them and themselves barren in the use of them What should the meaning of this bee but that God cals upon such to looke out for higher discoveries of himselfe then attend those old wayes This thing many poore soules have beene ignorant off and therefore have layne downe under the burden of greif and sorrow as if God had utterly forsaken them It is not denyed but that as there may bee the forme of godlinesse without the power so the forme and power may both stand together but there is a time when God will goe forth out of forme into power out of flesh into spirit out of formall and fleshly administrations into that which is more spirituall These formes or this misticall flesh of Christ have beene as Jonahs gourd under which the Saints have long reposed themselves enjoyed much sweet shelter and shadow and therefore cannot beare the parting with them neither in themselves nor others but now if God upon designe to carry up his people to more spirituallity hath prepared a worme at the root of this gourd purposely to kill and dry it up dost thou well to be angry Jonah Yes thou wilt say I doe well to bee angry to the death for some have not onely left off ordinances but preach them downe and speake contemptibly of them Answer Blame not all that have left them off for some may have done it upon a right ground As for those that speake contemptible of them I excuse them uot at all but this I say If there be a worme at their root and they must needes dye then as Calvin once said of the Ceremonies of old so say I of those Let them have an honourable buriall As the weake Saints yet under formes would not be despised by those above them so let them not be harsh accusers of those that see their liberty and stand fast in it This was the Apostles rule to preserve peace and love Rom. 14. betweene dissenting brethren For further satisfaction in this Poynt I referre theee to the 28. Letter Christ was three dayes in the grave and then rose out of it againe Christ hath beene in formes to some he is still to others he is risen out of formes Tell me wouldst thou have these seeke Christ in the Sepulchre in formes when they see he is risen and perhaps have been told by an Angel he is not here he is risen Be not weaker then the
and others Some search deeper and throw into this composition some graines of spirit and quintessences of a higher extract purified and sublimd into a nobler essence But tell mee is this mixture like to restore life to a dying and languishing Nation to a darke and formall Church Could wee get the rarest drugs the world affords Could we search the earth to its center and discover the occult qualities of all its minerals and wonders Can this reach the some and spirit of one man much lesse a whole kingdome What though some grains of spirit are in one composition is it not loaded with thick clay overcome by the predominancy of contrary qualities The distemper of this Nation springs from our living in another world then our own in a corrupted aire a contagious climate in vassalage and slavery to these bodies of flesh to this lower element of the world to the Prince of darknesse Men created in the Image of God have uncloath'd themselves of that glory and now wander in the shapes of Wolves and Beasts of prey having their soules and spirits sprung from Heaven they transforme themselves into the similitude of the elementary-creatures What are warres confusions and disorders but the actings forth this brutish spirit in tearing and devouring our fellow creatures Fightings and divisions spring from the jarring discordant qualities in the mindes of men who have lost the spirit of sweetness union and peace which breaths forth nothing but love joy and keeps the whole body in an harmonious unity Is this unity to be recovered by divisions T is true by such a division as this it is by seperating truth from errour light from darkness the purer from the grosser parts This is by a spirit of burning and by a power above the strength of man Who must be the reformers of the world who must build the Lord a Temple a glorious Temple both in Church and State Not those who are staind with bloud and act by a spirit of wrath and violence The Lord tels David 1 Chron. 22. 8. Thou hast shed blood aboundantly and hast made great wars thou shalt not build an house to my name because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight Is there no spirit and life in these words Was not David permitted to build the materiall Temple a darke shadow and type of the spirituall Was not he suffered in that age under those darke fleshly administrations which held forth no greater light and put no greater glory upon their spirits to subdue the world but by Sword and Bow by force and violence and is it probable that the sweet mild and gentle spirit of the Gospel should need the force and strength of men These doe well that it is in their hearts to reforme the world but they mistake the way they act in the strength of the wrath of God in the spirit of this world their poor earth will not conquer Hell and Devils their Sword and Gunnes will never change the natures of men No Solomon must build this Temple the Lord Jesus it must bee another spirit another generation another way These with David may fell the Cedars and hew the Stones of this earthly building Those ordain'd for this glorious worke their Swords must bee of another mettall to wound and heale againe to destroy the flesh and transforme it into spirit their spirits shall breath forth nothing but love and sweetnesse their Language shall be glory to God on high on earth peace good-will towards men they call not for fire from Heaven they cast not into Prisons and Dungeons they Plunder not nor destroy they are of other spirits more sweet more amiable forcing the world by a divine power of love to confesse they are overcome and vanquish'd All the Kingdomes of the Earth all the Glory of the Creatures all the Splendour Magnificence and Pompe of the world shall vanish as Smoake and acknowledge it selfe a poore shadow an empty nothing All that act in this spirit of violence and fury are a rod in the hand of God the Executioners of vengeance These are the Hornes of the Beasts that shall hate the Whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burne her with fire in the cup shee hath filled these shall fill to her double these powre out the Vials of wrath upon the seat of the Beasts they are the Fowles of Heaven to eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captaines and Great-ones of the earth they are to rend and teare the outward garment of the worlds glory they are an administration wherein God cloaths himself with fury indignation By this spirit of vengeance and wrath al the worlds tormētors have bin acted this hath bin a work of Assir●ans and Babylonians Romans Turks and Sarazens they have overcōe the whole face of the earth with their Armies they have trampled the Nations under their feet and trod their God in the mire of the streets How doe many in this age glory in these triumphs set up their poor trophees their triumphant Pillars as if the strength were their owne and the glory their owne Had they the spirits of Christians they needed not the swords of men they are weake in the Spirit of the Gospell therefore they cloath themselves with the power of flesh and will enter into Canaan in the wrath of the Lord destroying and devouring not converting They glory in fleshly Conquests and Victo●ies having not power in the Spirit to conquer in the way of love union and peace with these Weapons the Apostles bid defiance to the whole world to Hell and Devils they advanced their Standards upon the proud wals of Rome it selfe This fleshly strength will prove weaknesse in this worke it will dye and vanish into ayre when it hath done the work the Lord hath appointed God makes one spirit and property of darknesse afflict and torment another the Nations of the world will destroy themselves every one by the Sword of his Brother The flesh of the Saints engag'd in these contests and worldly quarrels shall rend it selfe and helpe to rend the world But how are they Saints Such who have some glimmerings of the bright and morning-Starre who by throwing of the externall vaile of Antichristian darknesse fleshly forms servile dependency on the darke spirits of blind men I say having throwne of these fetters they have some liberty and having remov●d these mists they see a light the faint reflections of a rising Sunne being let out of their cage of darknesse they fly and flutter and catch at every thing but apprehend little as it is in God but in the light of their own spirits mov'd by the call and drawing of the spirit of God and the concurrence of those beams of light scattered themselves every where these receive but glances and flashes and cover it with much darknesse confusion and ignorance yet being rais'd above their former state they think God speaks in them and