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A26260 Scripture-prophecies opened which are to be accomplished in these last times, which do attend the second coming of Christ : in several letters written to Christian friends / by E. Avery. Avery, E. (Elizabeth) 1647 (1647) Wing A4272; ESTC R2586 37,649 53

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the Saints in this life which may very well be rendered as a wildernesse-condition two of which are to be accomplished in spiritual Babylon as Babylon may be rendered a State and a National Church both which particulars concerning this wildernesse are to be understood in a spiritual sense Now the Scripture to prove is Hosea 2. 3. where God doth denounce his judgements against his people in case they do not put away their adulteries from between their brest and because they do not the judgement follows which is to be stript naked and sit as in the day wherein she was born in being made as a wildernesse and set as a dry land and slain with Christ and so it goes on to vers. ●4 Now in this Scripture the condition of the Church of God is remarkably set forth in respect of us who have committed spiritual adultery as it is here spoken of at large And so the first wildernesse condition is accomplished in the last and dreadful desertion of the Church immediately before her great and glorious deliverance out of mystical Babylon which deliverance is as well temporal as spiritual even from the bondage of the creature as in Isai. 9. 4. and 10. 27. and then follows the wildernesse-condition Hos. 2. from vers. 14. to the end We may see the like in Isa. 32. Jer. 30 and 31 Chap. I pray compare these Scriptures which speak of the wildernesse-condition that doth befal the Saints in this spiritual desertion when God hath bereft them of all Now there is another wildernesse-condition in reference to the Saints whilst they are in Babylon which is of another nature as in Revel. 12 where there is mention made of the womans fleeing into the wilderness● before she hath wings given her as is spoken in vers 14. to flee into the wildernesse in respect of a local separation which hath been the condition of the Saints ever since the defection from the Faith for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days but now it is accomplished in the condition of the Saints which have brought forth a man-childe which man-childe is caught up to heaven unto God and to his throne which shews that the spiritual man in those who are enlightned with that light of God in whose light we see light I say the spiritual man in such a one lives in God though as we are in the flesh we are in Babylon amongst our hateful enemies And so our being in God in this sense may be understood to be that wildernesse into which the woman flees immediately after she hath brought forth a man-childe where she is kept in respect of her spiritual subsistence And this we may likewise observe she is fled into this wildernesse before she is persecuted by the dragon and so hath wings given her to flee away And so I see that this wildernesse in a spiritual sense may be said to be God himself as in Isai. 33. when the Spirit shall be poured down from on high even that wildernesse spoken of in Hos. 2. which we were made in our spiritual desertion shall be a fruitful field and the fruitful field a forest Now having spoken of the wildernesse in the spiritual desertion and after the resurrection into which the woman flees now the main businesse is to prove that the Lord will gather his people into a wildernesse as a wildernesse is to be understood in the letter when the Lord shall gather away his Saints in respect of a local separation from Babylon Now the Scriptures to prove this are as followeth Isa. 35. thorowout Isa. 48. 20 21. Isa. 51. at the beginning Jer. 31. 1 2. Ezek. 34. 25. you may take notice of the whole Chapter Hos. 2. from vers. 14. to the end Revel. 12. 14. I pray compare these Scriptures And so with this I shall close up nothing doubting but that the Lord will in his good time reveal unto his people those things which have been hidden from the beginning of the world whilst that others shall promise to themselves peace and safety when sudden destruction shall come upon them as travel upon a woman with childe but the Saints shall foresee the evil and have an escape The Third Letter Concerning the Resurrection of the dead Dear Friends IT is the will of God to call me forth to heark what he shall say and so accordingly to communicate it in the same giving forth of the Spirit in that here I must make it known to you before I can conceive it in my self Now the main thing that God will speak by me at present is concerning the condition of mankinde after natural death and so likewise of the Resurrection of the body and in this God doth condescend unto my weaknesse in that some few hours since I did retain sad thoughts concerning the state of the Saints departed with those who shall before the glorious manifestation of Jesus Christ in the flesh and so likewise of the redemption of the body which redemption shall be as well temporal as spiritual Now the faithful who are departed this life already with those who shall before this glorious manifestation it doth not appear that they do partake of that glory which they do who shall live unto that time and if that we do not expect the resurrection of the body after the natural death Unto this I answer Though we do not expect such a resurrection as formerly yet we do expect a resurrection of the body mystical for when some of the people of God as in 1 Cor. 15. might object according to their conceiving as the Apostle speaks in that place Some may say How are the dead raised and with what bodies come they forth Thou fool saith he that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die as in vers. 35. and that which thou sowest thou sowest not the body which shall be but bare grain it may be of wheat or some other grain●● but God giveth a body as it pleaseth him and so he goes on to vers 42. so also is the resurrection of the dead it is sown in corruption and it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonour and raised in glory it is sown in weaknesse and raised in power it is sown a natural body and raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body as it is written The first man Adam was made a living soul and the second Adam was made a quickning spirit And so it follows unto vers 47 where it is said As we have born the image of the earthly so we should bear the image of the heavenly that is as we now bear the image of the earthly that is the image of Christ in the flesh so we shall bear the image of the heavenly Christ who is said to be a quickning spirit and here we are raised a spiritual body for the body is Christ and so the spiritual bodies of the Saints are not distinct one
would not hide it from his chosen ones and certainly God would not suffer them to act as they do as to endeavour to build up the State that is fallen and shall the Saints build Babel sure this is a very preposterous thing and certainly this is not a truth hold Answer That the Saints shall endeavour with all their might to heal Babel according to the appointment of God as in Jerem. 51. 8 9. where it is said Babylon is suddenly fallen howl for Babylon take balm for her pain if so be she may be healed And when the Saints have endavoured what they can to heal her then they take up this sad expression We would have healed Babel but she is not healed let us leave her and depart every one to his own Country for her judgement reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up to the skies Now I shall give an Answer to some Questions and some Objections and so close up The first Question How it can be said that when the Saints depart out of the land of their nativity they go unto their own Country if it be to be understood of a local separation Unto this I answer The Land of our nativity is not their own Country to the Saints if in such a place they are in bondage for how was the land of Egypt the own Country to the children of Israel though it was the land of their nativity and so was Babylon to many of the people of God but the land of Canaan was the place of their rest and so God hath prepared a wildernesse for the Saints to depart into when he shall gather them from the land of their Captivity not a wildernesse where there is want of all things but where there shall be abundance both of spiritual and temporal enjoyments as can be proved by the Scriptures before quoted which is an undoubted truth as well in a literal sense as spiritual I say it may appear to be a wildernesse for the present to the carnal sense but it shall not be so long for the Scripture doth prefix a time Rev. 12. a time and half a time that is three yeers and a half and then when that time is accomplished as in Isai. 31. the solitary places and the wildernesse shall rejoyce for them and the desarts shall blossome like a rose The second Question What is the reason if God will gather his people out of their land he doth so hide it from the generality of the Saints for there is not one amongst a thousand of your judgement Unto this I answer that the Lord doth thus hide it from his Saints for divers Reasons First Because he will have them endeavour vi armis id est by force and might to heal Babel which if it were made known unto them that all their labour were in vain they would not trouble themselves any further but God will have it so because he will render his Saints a righteous people unto the whole world and that they shall acknowledge shortly when as they shall say in the words following The Lord hath brought forth our righteousnesse let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God The second Reason why it is thus hidden Because if it were revealed the people of God would be so impatient under these sufferings that they would make too much haste and be gone before that God have finished his work on mount Sion which he hath appointed for Babylon to do in the cruel using of the Saints unto the mortifying of the flesh in them And the onely and true reason that God doth reveal it to so few is because there is no considerable part of the Church in a capacity to apprehend such a mercy as to have a deliverance out of such bondage as we are in to whom the Lord is pleased to reveal these things unto our great consolation in the time of our greatest dolour and extremity Now I shall answer to some Objections First of all it may be objected How can it be made appear that there is more excellency in the feet and toes of the great Image then in the head of gold Unto this I answer that there is in divers particulars as it is held forth in the letter As first There is more excellency in the feet and toes then in the head of gold because the feet and toes which were partly of potters clay and partly of iron have mixt themselves with the seed of men and so upon this account the seed of men is more precious then the golden wedge of Ophir for none will deny but that the body of the meanest man in the world is more worth then raiment and so of gold and whatsoever we look on as excellent Now this is clear in the letter In a spiritual sense the feet and toes of the great Image is more excellent because they have mixed themselves with the seed of men Now the seed of men in this nature is the Saints Unto this it may be objected How can that be for the Saints are but men as others as it is spoken of Elias and Moses and all the faithful and so they have their infirmities as the Scriptures speak Unto this I answer It is true that the Saints are men and subject to infirmities none will deny but the Kings daughter is all glorious within the Saints do not appear to the world as yet but when the Witnesses Rev. 11. shall ascend in a cloud into heaven then the enemies shall behold them and then the Saints shall appear as they are unto the confusion of their enemies which shall be very shortly Now it may be objected If it be so as you say that the seed of men which are mixed in the State is the Saints as you call them yet sure they have done no good And are they not over-voted and accounted as the worst of men because they will not joyn with the rest of the body insomuch that they are the means to bring all to confusion which if they had held together it would have been otherwise It is true that though the State have mixt themselves with the seed of men thinking thereby to joyn themselves to the Iron which is the Monarchical power yet it cannot be so for iron and clay will not hold together insomuch that the stone that was cut out of the mountain hath but smote the Image upon his feet and hath broken them already Now here may arise a Question How it can be proved that there can be more in the seed of men then in the head of gold for if the seed of men be the Saints in a spiritual sense then the head of gold must needs be understood to be the Truth and so I say How can it be made appear that there is more excellency in the Saints who are but men then in that whereby they are sanctified for Christ prays the Father that he would sanctifie his by the Word and the Word says