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A86053	Refreshing drops, and scorching vials; severally distributed to their proper subjects, according to the wisdom given that precious servant of the Lord, Mr. Christopher Goad. Sometimes Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and Batchelor in Divinity, as men speak: but before his translation, became a disciple and learner again, sitting at the feet of Christ and his Spirit, where he took a higher degree, and now sits with Christ in heaven.	Goad, Christopher, 1601-1652.; Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.; Worsley, C.; J. N.	1653 (1653)	Wing G896; Thomason E698_12; ESTC R207013	170,841	273

earth if I have told you earthly things and ye believe not saith Christ how will ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things There are higher and there are lower administrations wherein God appears Are we acquainted with them Do we know them God speaks on earth from Mount-Sinai and he speaks from heaven at Mount-Sion he spake from Mount-Sinai and he was refused yet there was a shew of entertaining All that the Lord saith unto us will we do but O said the Lord that there were such an heart in this people that they would obey my voice They said they would obey but their hearts turned back again to Egypt God speaks on earth and who doth hear who doth not refuse he speaks with a loud voice on earth he manifests his glory and every one seems to hear seems to stoop and bow before him but they are all lyars God speaks from heaven he speaks in the spirit he speaks in a low and still voice as it were afar off in a far Country and from this far Country he sends to his Subjects to see if they will own him but they say We will not have this man to reign over us God comes in a full manifestation of himself and then every knee stoops and bows to him some sincerely others feignedly and lyingly as it is said Thine enemies shall be found lyars When God shall make us Mount-Sion when he shall awaken the spiritual man when he shall quicken the new man that lieth as it were dead in us then we shall hear then we shall obey There is nothing so much concerns us as to know the voyce of God to hear him speak My sheep hear my voyce and the voyce of a stranger they will not hear John 10. God speaks and God gives an ear to hear him speak He that hath an ear to hear let him hear Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine ears hast thou opened then said I Lo I come in the volumn of the book it is written of me I delight to do thy will Psal 40. 6 7. God is speaking and the Devil is speaking happy are they whose ears God hath opened that can distinguish that know the voyce of God from the voyce of a stranger See that ye refuse not him that speaks There is nothing in man but what refuseth to hear God speak but what refuseth God himself whether he speaks from earth or from heaven That man doth hear God speak that doth know the voyce of God it is the spiritual man the new man that is born of the Spirit The carnal man the natural man cannot possibly hear God speak he refuseth God The wisdom that is in him is enmity to God He is not subject to the Law of God nor indeed can be But they that will not know his voyce they shall know it They that will not yield to it shall be broken by it it is a terrible voyce When he shall come and speak from heaven those whose hearts are not brought to a compliance with him shall be destroyed by his presence He will come in flaming fire to render vengeance to them that obey not the Gospel Next we may take notice of the effects of this voyce whose voyce then shook the earth but he hath promised saying Yet once more I shake not the earth only but heaven also When you meet with shakings and violent motions then know what the matter is Why the Lord is speaking Heaven and earth are shaking at this time Do we see the Lord and hear the Lord We are fallen into shaking times His voyce once shook the earth but now it shakes not only earth but heaven Haggai 2. This Scripture shews what is to be expected the shaking of heaven and earth and then the desire of all nations What is that Why it is Christ he is called the desire of all nations All nations desire him though they do not know him and when he is come he shall fill Sion and Jerusalem he shall fill his Saints and people the City and the house built of living stones shall be filled with Glory he will fill all things Eph. 4. 10. When Christ came forth in flesh there were shakings in heaven and earth When Christ came forth in Spirit upon the Apostles and primitive Christians what a shaking was there then of heaven and earth What strange workings were there in the hearts of men through the light and evidence and demonstration of spirit that went abroad That was the beginning of this last shaking after that God was pleased to draw in and to retire that the wicked one might return again to shew what he was that Antichrist might appear and set up his trade under the name of the Spirit and when the man of sin is fully revealed then the Lord will come forth again and by the Spirit of his mouth and the brightness of his coming will he utterly destroy him and that will be a terrible shaking indeed Yet once more I shake not earth only but heaven This shaking is begun Are we sensible of it What wars and rumors of wars are there What overturnings Let us see whether we be not under the appearance of this shaking shaking of earth shaking of heaven shaking of Forms of Religion of Churches All that is earthly shall be shaken that the earthliness being removed the true body may be brought forth anew in the Spirit How many in these times hove lost their wisdom and their righteousness that they looked upon as great gain was ever such confusion as there is at this day Yet once more I shake not the earth only but heaven It is certain we are come to it but are we sensible of it God is shaking us out of fleshly and formal Religion out of mans Religion and mans Righteousness he is destroying the old man and bringing forth the new man he is destroying the old earth and heaven and bringing forth a new earth and heaven wherein righteousness shall dwell He hath promised saying yet once more This terrible shaking cometh forth in a promise It is a mercy a blessing a deliverance It is the Redemption of the people of God Lift up your heads for your Redemption draweth nigh When Paul and Silas were in Prison and in the Stocks at Midnight there was an earthquake that shook the foundations of the prison and that became their deliverance How many of the Saints will lie in Prison and in the Stocks at midnight till this earthquake come and shake them out Then shall come the desire of all nations By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation How will God answer us Why saith he I must remove all this corruptible frame I must create a new heaven and a new earth I must shake the Civil Estate and the Religious Estate I must shake off old Adam I must shake out Antichrist Christ must go away in his appearance in flesh that he may return again

at Soper-lane with which he finished his Testimony THe occasion of this meeting I need not to mention We may make it an occasion to speak and hear something which may hold forth our life and his life that is dead for he is but dead to the world and that he was whilst he lived It is not amiss if we look at somewhat else then burying the dead which is to bury death Let the dead bury the dead If you be dead and have not a seed of life in you I have nothing to say to you Whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord Whilst our life is onely in the body and in bodily things we are dead and the seed of God lies buried in us Now to quicken that seed is the work of a true spiritual Ministery Let us see if we can quicken the dead so saith Peter The Gospel was preached to those that were dead and Paul to the same purpose you hath he quickened who were dead in sins and trespasses Christ may lie dead amongst us and the glory of the Father may appear here to raise him up That is our business if we preach the Gospel to preach Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life Where Christ is not in any as good preach to the Corps that lies in the grave as preach to them If there be any children of the Resurrection here either manifested or not manifested to them we speak for the hour is coming and now is that the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God and live Joh. 5. 25. Do we know no grave but such as we have put a Corps in To be at home in the body is to be in a grave absent from the Lord who is our life But to such as have life or a seed of life in them do I address my self and therefore you may please to look upon that Scripture ISAI 25. 6 7 8. And in this mountain shall the Lord of hoasts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of Wine on the Lees of fat things full of marrow of wine on the Lees well refined And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the vail that is spread over all Nations He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth for the Lord hath spoken it ANd in this mountain The Lord is this mountain that appeares in the first verse of the chapter Thou art my God and I will exalt thee A Mountain is a thing exalted and we exalt God when we bring him forth in power He lies hid in our weakness we shall bring him forth in his power You are dead and your life lies hid with Christ in God when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall we appear with him in glory When he lies no longer hid in our weakness and darkness but comes forth in his own life righteousness and strength then he is our Mountain There is an expression to the same purpose Psal 18. 2. The Lord is my Rock my Fortress my Strength my high Tower c. There are many Mountains many appearances of God in flesh wheresoever God appeares in flesh that is a Mountain When he is pleased to withdraw and give way to the devil then the whore comes and sits upon the seaven Mountains Not that I exclude the common interpretation of the seven Hills but take in this with it But though Satan hath possessed all other Mountains this he shall never possess this is like Mount-Sion that shall never be removed Mount-Sion indeed is but a shadow of this Mountain The woman of Samaria Joh. 4. propounds a question to Christ whether they were to worship in the Samaritan Mountain or at Mount-Sion but she was content to wait for the resolution till the Messias come Sion is the true figure but Christ that reveals the Father is the true Mountain God speaks in figures and parables very much This Mountain That is it that all other Mountans are but Types and Figures of All this world is a Figure and some special parts and pieces thereof are more instituted figures more eminently so where God appears to his people that is a Mountain A Mountain is an exalted thing a great thing and strong thing A Mountain stands in a good Ayre The Mountain of Spices a Mountain gives a pleasant prospect these are the properties of Mountains God will appear in his people in his greatness pleasantness height strength eternity In this mountain shall the Lord make a Feast There is a Mountain that is not to be touched Heb. 12. But ye are come to the Mountain that may be touched Ye shall feast in this Mountain The world shall see the Feast not touch it The natural man knows no Mountain but what is visible This Mountain is to flesh invisible Whilst the Saints do boast of God and have outward helps to lean upon the world looks upon them as such as have some cause why they should boast but when their fleshly helps fail the world jeers them Now flee to the mountain like a bird The eleventh Psalm is an answer to the Worlds jeer I trust in the Lord how say ye to my soul flee as a bird to your mountain When outward props are removed from the Saints Now saith the world where is your Mountain Answ Our Mountain say they standeth firm The Lord is in his Holy Temple The Lord is our Mountain He is all in all to us Whom saith David have I in Heaven but thee and there is none in earth I desire but thee The Lord in his people and the Lords people in him this is their Mountain The Church is called a City on a hill or Mountain which is founded in God We are not come to the mount that may not be touched The Lord is the Mountain and the feast too The Lord the Mountain and the Lord the Feast Nicodemus will say how can this be This is Non-sense To them that are without we speak parables To you saith Christ it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom but to others in parables that seeing they might see and not understand There is a vail upon all faces If this will not go down easily with you the Lord is the Mountain and the Lord is the Feast consider it comes but to this to make the Lord all all in all and the world a shadow of him a vail upon him it is no dishonour to the Lord to make him all if it be a dishonour to the world to make it a shadow to make it nothing let it be so if you cannot bear the worlds dishonour we must take that boldness to give you offence The Mountain and the feast too How so There is bread and there is wine in this feast Christ the

in the fire of affliction Observ 4. Fourthly observe that the Lords sweetness and life lies now under a vail and covering that is the reason it is so little owned in the world A feast but not seen he that will see the Lord he that will feed at this feast must not look at the things that are seen but at things not seen which lie within the vail Obser 5. Again Fifthly take notice that there is no destroying the vail but by the Lords coming forth until the substance come forth the shadows are substances No perfect destroying the vail untill the Lord be fully come forth All the Ministers in the world cannot do it Observ 6. Sixthly Observe this That all people have a vail or a covering cast over them not one excepted He will destroy the vail of the Covering cast upon All people spred upon All Nations Though the Lord be not far from every one of us yet the Vail keeps us from seeing him and whilst we lie under the vail we grope and feel after him Till God destroy this vail we have foolish fancies and false apprehensions of God What wonder seeing All nations are under the vail All have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 23. God suffered all nations to walk in their own ways They that remain under the vail judge their brethren that see further then themselves of Error and Heresie but they that have the vail destroyed by the Lord will not be harsh to their brethren that lie under the vail although whilst the vail and the face of the Covering was spred upon them they were so grosly ignorant as to cry out against others Error Heresie Blaspemy Observ 7. Seventhly Observe the twofold expression in the Text The vail and the face of the covering And it is not only Cast but Spred also There is exactness in it Quest If you demand what this vail is that the Lord will destroy I Answer This Creation in its purity and perfection You will say The Creation declares the glory of God Psal 19. The heavens declare the glory of God and the earth shews forth his handy work Sol. True but in a vail Christs flesh was a vail Heb. 10. 20. This Creation in its purity and perfection is a vail but when Satan the world sin and death have gotten root in it then its a thick a dark vail or a shadow of death To those that sate in darkness and the shadow of death is this light come All Gods manifestations in it are vails till he get above it and cover it which he will do He is sunk into it as a seed as he riseth up in it it is in a vail Quest But how comes this vail Who casts this vail Answ 1. The Lord He makes darkness and light he makes vails and open Manifestations 2. Satan hath cast and spred this vail 3. We have every one of us cast it and spread it and we are shrowding our selves under it as God appears and God is righteous and holy in it and we and Satan are in the same sin We are all running into the vail as much as we can But God will destroy the vail and then every eye shall see him Behold he cometh with Clouds and every eye shall see him He is not seen now but he shall be seen his manifestation is life and death Life to those that are of him who feel themselves under the vail death to those that rest and have their life in the vail There 's everlasting destruction from his presence and from the glory of his power We are a sweet Savour of Christ to God in those that perish To some we are a savour of life to others a savour of death That is the Ministry of the Spirit It follows in Verse 8. He will swallow up death in victory Observ 1. Destroy the vail and destroy death The taking away of the vail is the taking away of Death Death is dead Death upon a true account is nothing but a vail upon God who is our true life We live because he lives You heard before what this is even all this Creation in its purity and perfection but much more a vail a thicker and darker vail when sin and death and devil are gotten into it The Scripture expression is elsewhere The vail of the shadow of death Darkness and Death Light and Life are the same even Christs flesh was a vail Ordinances are vails No disparagement to Ordinances If God appear in them t is well Mans ministry is a vail if we see God in it it is but darkly If we be refreshed it is but in part This life and body is a vail while we are at home in it till it be changed and made spiritual till we be cloathed upon with our true life which is from heaven The Apostle saith While we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord While we are absent from the Lord we are absent from our life for our life is to be with him We are not perfectly quickned perfectly alive till we be cloathed upon with our life which is from Heaven Therefore take notice that the pulling down of this body is not properly death to the Saints but the destroying of death He will destroy the vail and swallow up death in victory So then that which we call life is not so indeed but death This body this present appearance is but the face of the covering and the rending of it is the swallowing up of death Let us mend our account if we can We have judged things by the outward appearance by the face of the covering by the vail now let us judge righteous judgement The flesh judgeth that to be life which the Spirit knows to be death Our friend is not dead but gone out of death into life Those that know not God but have all their life in the flesh in present appearances they live not indeed They that live in pleasure are dead whilst they live If God be our life then the less we are in these things the more we are in life If our life be in the vail when this vail is destroyed our life is swallowed up of deaths victory and the second death seizeth on us Refer this to the feast that the Lord makes it is himself that is the feast it is himself that makes the feast he dyes into our weakness and when through his death his life is manifested in us in a spirit of Love of power and of a sound minde then death is swallowed up in victory It goes into the draught we hear of it no more The Lords life manifested swallows up death in victory Death is sorrow and tears See if you can imbrace this account of death He that hath ears to hear let him hear He that hath not it may be will cry whimsey fancy and turning the Scripture into an Allegory Further it s said And the Rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth All the Saints Rebuke is whilst they are under the vail They are judged by the vail the world knows them not We live in the vail whilst we are in sorrow and tears whilst God who is our life is hid we are under the worlds Rebuke In the mean time we wait till God appear and whilst God appears not the world jears us saying Flee to your mountain Psal 11. 1. All the worlds joy is in the vail when the vail is rent then comes the second death then that is made good Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and Lazarus his evil but now thou art tormented and he is comforted And now have I walked in a vail and in a cloud unto you Do you not understand The time was when my self did not and it may be my weakness in expressing as well as yours in hearing It is my weakness that cannot put the vail from off your eyes Consider what hath been spoken that you may understand it rightly If it please God to bring it home as a seed sown to any of you I shall rejoyce I leave it to the blessing of God FINIS Isa 50. 1. Isa 2. 2.

take notice that there is continual prayer therefore thou that hast thy times and thy hours and thy forms begin to look higher and be at it continually By him let us offer the sacrifice of Praise to God continually And 't is no more then what is held forth to us in the Prophecy of Isa the last chap. ver 23. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one Sabboth to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. You that do not know continual Praise if you do praise God in the spirit if you are sincere and true in your makings unto God you shall know what it is They that are strong should bear with the infirmities of the weak and they that are weak should not judge the strong thou that dost not know what continual praise is judge not those that do thou that dost know it do not despise those that do not but go down to them to fetch them out of their weakness for Christ is come down to fetch thee up and let brotherly love continue Continually 'T is that we are designed to by Jesus Christ to be ever with the Lord Let us be making to it let us be looking after the price of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ Let us all know and acknowledge we are making forward not yet perfect By him let us offer c. That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his Name That is the fruit of our lips Here take notice how the tongue and the lips and the fruit thereof is sanctified by Jesus Christ and consecrated to God And this in all those that are sanctified by Jesus Christ The fruit of the lips is a sacrifice acceptable by Christ And therefore the Prophet Hosea Hos 14. 2. Calls the fruit of the lips the Calves of the lips The fruit of our lips by the sanctification of Jesus Christ is made a sacrifice acceptable unto God and not onely the fruit of our lips but the fruit of our hands the fruit of our feet the fruit of all our members The fruit of the earth as 't is said in Isa 4. 1 2. where the Prophet speaks of the manifestation of Christ in the spirit In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped That is for the spiritual seed the remnant that are taken out of the corruption of the world when he shall come who is the desire of all Nations seven women shall lay hold of him all shall make to him and own him and be one with him then the fruit of the earth shall be glorious then we shall eat our own bread and wear our own apparel we shall no more wear sins nor the devils robes we shall not borrow of sin we shall no more eat of his bread but of our own that which is in our Fathers house and that is Christ And in that day the fruit of the earth every part of us the whole body even the lips that have been full of poyson the tongue that hath had the fire of hell in it shall be filled with the fire of Heaven That that hath been darts and arrows and swords and venome and the sting of Aspes and Dragons even that shall be healing It shall be refreshing and delighting this is by Jesus Christ Christ shall come forth even in our tongues and season them with grace and make them to be a tree of life they shall minister Grace unto the hearers Christ doth recover all that the devil hath carried away as Abraham all that the King of Sodom caried away He recovers it he takes it out of pollution and out of filth There is a dumb Devil a beastly Devil a blasphemous Devil an accusing Devil a pratling and busie body Devil as Peter speaks of such Why Christ shall cast out every one of these Devils all the fruit of the lips shall be a sacrifice of praise there shall be no more of these no backbiting no slandering no going up and down to tell one anothers faults nothing but love and Praise and Thanksgiving Every member shall be restored and the tongue shall be restored I beseech you saith the Apostle as you have yeilded your members servants of iniquity unto iniquity so yeeld them servants of righteousness unto holiness This is by Christ and this is the effect of the spirit when he is poured forth making melody in your hearts which breaths forth nothing to God but love nothing to man but love nothing but praise nothing but joy Christ is a thorow Redeemer a thorow Restorer and therefore body and soul and every member of the body shall be Redeemed The spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies Christ gains the heart to God and out of the abundance of that the mouth speaks He makes the heart a treasury of good things and then comes forth nothing but good at the door of the lips The tongue and the lips are either the great instruments of the Devil or of God of Heaven or of Hell the fire of Heaven and the fire of hell is in the tongue Acts of life and death are in the power of the tongue Here is blessing and here is cursing God promises in the prophecie of Zachary to restore unto his people a pure lip or language and what is this pure language but Praise and Thanksgiving what is it but love but grace but edification they shall call upon the Name of the Lord and serve him with one consent a pure language is not in words and syllables but Christ fills the heart thence the mouth is fill'd as 't is in Psal 37. 30 31. He speaks there of the Righteous man His mouth speaks of wisdom and his tongue of understanding and the Law of God is in his heart This is that which is the New-Testament the Law in our heart and when the Law is in our heart then it will be in our tongue The old administration began in the tongue thou shalt speak of it at all times the New-Testament begins at the heart Thou shalt write it in the heart and then the tongue will speak nothing else The fruit of our lips There is a fruit of our lips that is seeming praise which coming not from the abundance of the heart is the greatest abomination unto God A flattering and deceitful tongue the Lord shall cut it out There is more of the fire of hell in a tongue that speaks to God and not from the heart then in a tongue openly blaspheming Therefore the Apostle Paul could not bear the devil that cried These are the servants of the most high God that shew unto us the way of salvation But Christ in the heart the fire of Heaven in the heart the Altar in the heart and there flaming out at the mouth O 't is

true bread Joh. 6. Christ the true vine Joh. 15. But will you have flesh too Here is fat things and marrow My flesh saith Christ is meat indeed and my bl●od is drink indeed That is my life not onely my natural life but my life which I had with the Father slain and buryed is meat indeed the words that I speak are spirit and life saith Christ where spirit and life is not this is not received What is this flesh and blood but the divine nature dwelling in you for a while as it were dead and buryed in flesh afterwards raised and quickned in flesh and you hath he quickned as it is Eph. 2. 1. This discovery of our true life and this life brought forth in us is the true meat the true drink the true flesh the true blood and this same flesh and blood of Adam is meat and drink too for that being slain the grave is opened where the true life lies Obj. You say God is the feast Christ is the feast and that the Lod will make the Feast That the Lord shall make the feast and that the Lord shall be the feast how can this be Sol. His manifestation his bringing forth himself is making the feast his Death and Resurrection brought forth in us is making the Feast then we feed on his flesh and on his blood as the Scripture speaks This is a feast and this feast hath fatness and sweetness in it to a spiritual man and the rich mans table and the delicacies are but crusts and scraps and parings to this Feast The Feast lies in Abrahams bosome the common life of all Saints one with Abraham gathered into the bosome of Abraham the same life that Abraham lived He that eats of this bread shall hunger no more he that drinks of this water shall thirst no more There is musick and dancing in this feast also as we may see in the Prodigals entertainment upon his return to his fathers house but the elder brother did not understand it Luke 15. The Lord is this feast and wheresoever the Lord is not after a little while there shall be nothing but hunger and thirst where the Lord is not there are but dreams The hungry man dreams that he eats and drinks and when he awakes his soul is empty as it is in Isaiah He that hath not entertainment with the Lord He that dwells not in Abrahams bosom shall hunger and thirst and languish and fade away to nothing Mark that Scripture in Isa 65. 11 12 13. Ye are they that forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain that prepare a table for that troop and that furnish the drink offering unto that number Therefore thus saith the Lord God Behold my servant shall eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servant shall drink but ye shall be thirsty behold my servant shall rejoyce but ye shall be ashamed ye worship many Gods ye shall have many troubles The mountain is and is not the Feast is and is not it is set out but not fully the hour cometh and now is already we are the Lords Feast and he is ours everywhere but in the Lord shall be hunger and thirst dearth and barrenness he that can receive it let him receive it There are that have devoted themselves to the Law and the letter of Scripture there are others that have all their life in the creature God will shortly draw all life into himself and all they that run after other Gods shall starve and famish they and their Gods Obj. But you will say There is something in the Text that seems to contradict this for it is not said He shall make unto all people a feast Sol. To all people that is to all sorts of people In the spiritual Feast there is neither Jew nor Gentile neither male nor female but all are one in Christ Jesus Here is a repetition of the provision in this Feast A Feast of fat things a Feast of Wine on the Lees of fat things full of Marrow of Wine on the Lees well refined the Lord is a Feast a continual feast when you have feasted never so well ye shall finde him to set forth himself a better feast a richer feast for there is infinite variety in God the Lords death is the Feast his Resurrection the life that comes by it It follows in the seventh verse And he will destroy in this Mountain the face of the covering and the vail that is spread over all Nations The Lord in this Mountain in his appearing will destroy the face of the covering In the Mountain a Feast in the Mountain the face of the covering destroyed The carnal Jew looks for the fullfilling of the letter the spiritual Jew looks for the spirit Abraham Isaac and Jacob sought a Country not an earthly one but a heavenly we pitch upon figures and vails and enter not within the vail These outward things are a vail a Table made a snare but when we are turned to the Lord the vail shall be taken away All mans teaching wisdom c. makes the vaile the thicker those that feed onely upon the vail upon outward things in which God appears their life shall be destroyed when others are fed and feasted Here take notice of divers particulars I shall onely give you some hints do you judge of them First of all this Observ 1. That all the Worlds feastings are with a vail and their faces covered The spiritual man so far forth as he feasts it is with open face though yet but as in a glass 2 Cor. 3. whilst we have any joy but in the Lord it is in the vail We eat death in all our feasts we swallow it down but we do it not in victory that oppresseth us oftentimes Observ 2. This outward appearance is the face of the covering There is no man sees my substance but that face that he sees is the face of the covering Cease from man and you cease from the face of the covering and so it will follow that there is no judging by outward appearance while you judge by outward appearance you do not judge righteous judgement Observ 3. When the Lord comes forth to feast to feed to refresh his people he comes forth even in that to destroy He shall make a feast of fat things and he shall destroy and all in the mountain There is no feast without death The Saints salvation comes out of destruction He kills and makes alive By terrible things wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation He that will lose his life shall save it and he that will save his life shall lose it Christ is perfected through sufferings No man shall see God and live Our God is a consuming fire out of the Cross of Christ comes our joy whereby the world is crucified unto us and we unto the world If this be a parable unto you is it not because you lie under the vail because you are without God chuseth his people