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A discovery of the new creation. In a sermon preached at the head-quarters at Putney Sept. 29. 1647. By Thomas Collier.
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Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.
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Wing C5278; Thomason E1187_6; ESTC R208247
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2 Pet. 3. 13. Isa 66. 22. Querie Wherein doth the glory of this new heaven consist more then ordinary Answ First in the abundance of knowledge Isa 11. 9. The knowledge of God shall cover the face of the earth as the waters cover the sea you may reade from ver 6. That the Lion and the Lamb c. shall lie down together I shall declare by the way what I understand to be the truth intended not that I limit it from any farther truth that any may see in it 1. There are all these things within us in that old Creation the Lion and the Woolf c. which opposes and prevents the Saints joy and spirituall enjoyment of God now these shall be so over-powred by the glorious appearances of light that they shall no more hurt or destroy the Saints peace in their holy mountain their enjoyment of God in the Spirit which is the Saints mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God the glorious appearings of light in the spirits of Christians will so cover that earth which is within them that they shall be in a great measure freed from those corruptions those distractions which formerly were prevalent in them 2. God will take away the nature of wicked men that although they remain Wolves Lions and brutes still yet they shall not hurt nor destroy in all the holy mountain of God that is the Church and that through the abundance of light that shall be communicated even unto naturall men for the earth that is earthly men must give glory to the God of heaven so Hab. 2. 14. The knowledge of the Lord shall cover the face of the earth as the waters cover the sea for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God there shall not be only the knowledge of God that there is a God but the knowledge of his glory shall be much more abundantly manifested And the truth is that herein lyeth one principall part of the glory of this new Creation in the knowledge of God As ignorance is the grand cause of so much corruption so many mistakes in the things of God for alwaies the will and affection follows the understanding whether inlightned or blinded so it is the knowledg of God the breakings forth of light in the spirit that delivers souls from that corruption and darknesse This truth Paul manifests in his prayer for the Ephesians Chap. 1. 17 18. in his desire for himself Phil. 3. 10. That I might know him c. Querie Wherein shall the knowledge of the Saints increase Answ Amongst many I shall instance in these particulars following First In the knowledge of the mysterie of God and that as he is in them for God is a mysterie Col. 2. 2. And it is by the appearance of God in us we come to know God who is a mysterie The truth is that we have had and still have low and carnall thoughts of God judging him to be a God afar off and not a God nigh at hand this is that Antichrist which denies Christ to be come in the flesh this is that mysterie of which we are exceeding ignorant God manifest in the flesh 1 Tim. 3 16. we have had very narrow apprehensions of Christ and the manifestation of the glory of Christ limitting it to that one man when the truth is that Christ and all the Saints makes up but one Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. And God as truly manifests himself in the flesh of all his as he did in Christ although the measure of that manifestation is different This is a mysterie which God is revealing in the spirits of his people and is indeed the glory of this new Creation this being in some measure manifested in the spirits of christians produceth in the second place Secondly A knowledge of their spirituall liberty in Christ 1. Spirituall liberty and justification from all spirituall enemies sin law condemnation whatever opposes the souls peace in this new heaven it s all done away Ioh. 8. 36. If the Son shal make you free then you are free indeed Saints shall now come to see that they are free indeed by Christ Acts 13. 39 By him all that beleeve are justified from all things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses Gal. 5. 1. Thus Saints shall know their liberty and stand fast in it too For the Inhabitant shall not say I am sick they that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity Isai 33. last That is they shall live in the knowledge of their liberty from sin although formerly through ignorance we have not so much looked after it This hath been accounted the highest measure of Christianity to see our selves justified to injoy the full assurance of justification by Christ a desire of Faith was a high measure of Faith and well if the soul get assurance while it hath a beeing in this body and thus many a pretious soul hath lived low under legall bondage through ignorance whereas justification from sin by Christ is the first step in Christianity and that which gives us the denomination of children 1 Iohn 2. 11 12. I write unto you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake Persons injoying the forgivenesse of sin are but little children babes in the school of Christ Now this liberty from sin is that the Saints shall live fully in the knowledge of it as likewise in the knowledge of their liberty from legall bondage and so from legall actings Rom. 1. 2. which I passe in this place 2. In the knowledge of their liberty from men 1 Corinthians 7. 23. Ye are bought with a price be ye not the servants of men That is not to be subject to men in the things of God in matters of conscience that belongs only to God himself it is his proper peculiar right to rule in the spirits of his people although its true that there hath been and still is through ignorance a principle in man not only to usurp authority to rule in and over the conscience of others but a principle in us also out of conscience to submit to man in such cases now God is discovering and likewise delivering his people from this spirituall bondage unto men in the things of God and that from the knowledge of their liberty in the spirit 3. There is a liberty in knowledge 1 Ioh. 2. 20. Ye have an Vnction from the holy one and ye know all things that is all things that the Spirit makes known They are not tyed to other mens approbation but walk in that light the Spirit makes known in them see 1 Cor. 2. 15. Secondly The glory of this new Creation consists in the Saints knowledge of their peace and union with God First Peace and that first peace with God this is injoyed by faith Ephes 2. 13. Rom. 5. 1. Being justified by faith we have peace with God Every man naturally is at a distance