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A38823	The Gospel treasury opened, or, The holiest of all unvailing discovering yet more the riches of grace and glory to the vessels of mercy unto whom onely it is given to know the mysteries of that kingdom and the excellency of spirit, power, truth above letter, forms, shadows / in several sermons preached at Kensington & elswhere by John Everard ; whereunto is added the mystical divinity of Dionysius the Areopagite spoken of Acts 17:34 with collections out of other divine authors translated by Dr. Everard, never before printed in English.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1657 (1657)	Wing E3531; ESTC R29421	513,595	936

we see what A Great work it is To bring the soul out of Egypt spiritually and which is wo●st of all That we with the Israelites after the Lord hath thus gloriously and triumphantly b●ought us forth that we should have so much as a look toward Egypt again or any inclination to be under Pharahs bondage again which desires of ours will certainly bring us nothing but sorrow and vexation we shall not get so soon to Canaan as otherwise we might but the Lord will exercise and sit us forty years in the wilderness Oh! the difficulty of the New-birth Oh! The Throwes Here is iron labour women if ye talk of iron labour and many times Throws to no purpose the child sticks somewhere in the birth and there is no strength to bring forth Here needs a skilful Midwife indeed a faithful practical Physician one that hath the Practick part as well as the Theorick or else the childe may miscarry But here is our comfort the work is in the hand of the Lord and this childe being designed for life shall 〈◊〉 miscarry though the birth be the worst of ●●●ths And as cross as cross may be Oh WONDER wonder That ever childe●hould ●hould be saved This simile the Apostle ●imself uses to the Galatians My beloved of whom I travel in birth till Christ be formed in you And Christ being once born in the soul then he grows and by degrees comes to perfection as it is said of him Luke 2. 52. And Iesus increased in wisdom and stature and favour with God and man then he begins to work all those miracles in our souls that he did in the flesh cures the blind casts out Devils blind and dumb so that we could not hear nor see nor believe our selves to be in this miserable condition we cannot See our selves in Egypt in bonds in slavery or if we see yet we are dumb we are not able to open our mouches to express our misery fain we would express what we feel but cannot utter it Therefore you shall find our Lord in one place mingling clay and spittle to anoint the eyes Iohn 9. 6. in another place opening the eyes of a poor blind man that cryed after him so that he would take no nay Iesus thou son of David have mercy on me Mark 10. 47. in another place Raising the dead in another place causing the poor lame Cripple to walk and dance and all sounding out his praise through all the Regions before they could not speak and now they cannot hold their peace but must proclaim what great things the Lord had done for them Out of Mary Magdalen he cast seven Devils and then she sate attentively at Christs feet to hear his words O Beloved Such words from such an experimental Teacher from such a faithful High-Priest who knows our condition as they are powerful so to an experimental soul they are as sweet as honey and more desired then Gold yea then much fine Gold His words were so sutable so aptly spoken to what she experimentally found in her own soul No marvel Mary sate so contented and quietly at Christs feet while Martha was troubled about many things and minded not so much her inward condition And though I have a little digrest yet I hope it is for yours and my good I could not but follow my thoughts and express them to you which came in of a sudden and beyond my premeditation Beloved seeing we are so full of these unclean spirits t is but necessary they should be cast out and that will be effected when our Saviour shall be pleased to cast them out and to do to us as he did here in the Text Rebuke him in us and bid him hold his peace and Come out of us for he hath the Onely power and strength to do it Therefore this Text may betermed a New And a true Divine EXORCISM let not the word offend you for Satanis here Conjured by Jesus Christ and commanded forth here needs none of the Papists fooleries no holy Water no Copes Vestments Adjurations Crucifixes Relicks Lights Candles nor any mumbling Mass-Priests nor Christned Bells Nay no use of ordinances nor all your duties can do it simply no t is Virtus the Power and Word of Christ that onely expels Sin and these foul spirits out of the soul not but that we should use the word of God and pray often to him that he would be pleased to exercise his power over these great and potent enemies And when he will please to work A short work h● will make of it when he pleaset to begin nothing shall stand up in his way and blessed shall we be when the Lord himself shall effect it for us for he doth it with two words here in the Text 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hold thy peace Come forth And therefore let us pray unto him and say Lord speak thou the word onely and thy servant shall be healed And Genesis 1. it was no more but one word Let there be light and Let there be a firmament c. and it was so and such is the power of God in the soul when ever he will arise and till then where is your power And note this also further that as our Saviour speaks by way of Authority and Rebuke unto Satan Come out of him So in this particular Satan counterfeits them in himself who will in all things turn himself into an Angel of light for he will sometimes in men silence himself and Rebuke himself and seem to help to destroy his own Kingdom but he doth it as Augustus Caesar once said of Rome Inveni lateritiam relinquam marmoream that is I found it built of mud and bricks but I will leave it of the hardest marble He seems to be cast out in one sin But he doth but change shapes to root himself the surer in another Shape he many times makes a Retreat but he doth it to take breath as I may so say to Rally up his forces for a stronger encounter And when the unclean spirit returns he enters with seven other spirits worse then himself So it is in many men Even by Beelzebub they cast out Devils as when outward respects and the fear of shame onely keeps them from some sins and exorbitances As many who love the upper end of the tables and the uppermost rooms at feasts Mat. 23. 6. but yet abstain some to avoid the cost others for fear of censure so divers do refrain from lust because they are afraid to lose their reputation and credit so many forbear to do actions of violence as Murther c. but t is for fear of the Law so also many forbear to be drunk because none but base people use it so many resrain themselves from committing whoredom for fear they should get noisome and infectious diseases so many turn religious and use constancy in duties of Religion publique and

but also typical and Significant so is this growth of Jesus Christ he grows up in us in wisdom and stature and he in us waxeth strong in spirit being filled with wisdom and understanding He teacheth us the true wisdom He in us chuseth that good thing which shall never be taken away He is The grace of God in us I live saith the Apostle yet not I but it is Christ his life in me From him cometh all growth in grace not from our selves the work is his none of ours From him cometh Faith Hope Charity Strength Vertue c. If any of these come from man from the power industry or strength of man they are false and good for nought yet how ready are most men to assume these to themselves or at least to think that by their power or wisdom or industry they have attained them From whence come wars come they not from your lusts So from whence comes pride and the lifting up of the creature high towring and and swelling imaginations that in plain terms exalt themselves against Jesus Christ they are so far from being from him or of him that they are quite contrary to him however to some may seem the vertues of Christ himself but they they are the excrements of the Old man Hence it is said That Iohn Baptist grew and waxed strong in spirit because Christ by his divine life in him brake forth in Iohn and his light did shine before men they seeing those good works in him God was glorified not Iohn for saith he I must decrease but he must increase Hence it is said here accentively twice in this Chapter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 versus ult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both in our Text and Verse ult And the childe grew and waxed strong in Spirit filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upou him And again Iesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and men As these things were in him in his person then so the same things are as really done in his Mystical body and members All these influences are his and flow from him the head We are dead in trespasses and sins bnt he is the Resurrestion and Life And he that believeth in him shall never dye nay though he were dead yet shall he live When Jesus Christ doth once begin to display and declare the glory of himself in the soul and to adorn the soul with himself what a palace what a Kingdom what a Temple is that soul Well might David say Glorious things are spoken of thee O thou City and Temple of God Psal. 82. 3. more glorious then the Temple spoken of Rev. 21. and saith our Saviour The Kingdom of heaven is within you All that description Rev. 21. there at large setteth out the Glory and light of that Temple which was like Iasper most precious and clear as Chrystal and the wall high and stately wherein were twelve gates the gates kept by twelve Angels and the walls of Iasper and the City pure gold and the very foundation garnished with precious stones a Iasper a Saphir a Chalcedony an Emerald a Sardonix a Sardius a Chrysolite a Beril a Topas a Chrysophrasus a Iacinth an Amethist I say all these things are accomplished in a great measure in some less in some more in all those where Jesus Christ is pleased to display his glories and in that soul where he is pleased to adorn it with his own graces and with the fruites of the spirit as Faith Hope Charity Strength Vertue Love Ioy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Meekness Temperance c. Those that are thus qualified inriched and adorned let me tell you they need no Law no Light for they are a Law to themselves and there is a light within them like that City Rev. 21. 23. That had no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it for The Glory of God did lighten it and the lamb is The light thereof Nay I may say and say truly as I may say they are gotten above Law above Letter in this regard for they have the Gospel and the life within them yet for all this do not think that I speak against Law or Letter or Ordinances use them as I say but Rest not in them And know this also that while the soul is Rapt up in the glory sight and beholding of Jesus Christ he knows this that he enjoys that which is the Substance and that which is as farre above the other as the Substance is above the Shadow and the Life above the Letter and the Spirit above the Flesh yet he will not slight nor cast away these means or Ordinances because God hath often appeared in them and by them to him as I have shewed more at large upon other Scriptures But I say Let us look to find that in us which Christ affirms that the Kingdom of God is within us and that you are in some beginnings of that glorious Temple and City mentioned before for if you think the Kingdom of God or Heaven to consist of such things as are there declared in the Letter you are much deceived But the holy Spirit is pleased to make use of such expressions and representations that are so amiable and Glorious to the carnall eye that so we may come to see the Truth and Substance of those Shadows and Representations to be far and transcendenly more ravishing and glorious as all those Saints and people of God before whom God hath Unvailed his glory can abundantly witness and seal to the truth thereof Insomuch that had they all those precious stones and Houses and Temples built of them really yet they in comparison of what they see and enjoy of God would trample them all under their feet as not worthy to be named the same hour with those true pearls and those ravishing full and satisfying and transparent precious stones which are within them They need not when they are in union and communion with him and when he is pleased to let but his back parts pass before them they shall not desire the light of the Sun or of the Moon to give light in that Temple for the glory of the Lord doth lighten it aud the Lamb is the light thereof And as it is expressed there in Ver. 14. The Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the earth shall bring their glory unto it This Temple and this Palace and this Glory darkens all the glory and splendor of all the Kings and Emperors under the Sun All their glory vanisheth and makes hast before this glory as being abashed and ashamed once to appear in sight thereof Beloved I hope and I know there are some that hear me which know and see and feel these things to be true yea as you say as true as Gospel yea so true as nothing is nor

not forasmuch as they are so zealous and hot about Forms but if they are by any drawn up to speak of the Substance they are as men lost cold and heartless which is a plain evidence to me that they prefer the Shadow before the Substance being meerly exercised about childish things and are not willing to come up to the Truth to the Excellencies and Glories of what Baptism and other Ordinances signifie And there is no telling them of a more excellent way as the Apostle saith They see all excellencies in the Shadow none in the Substance Whereabouts think you is these mens Religion and truth of Grace Truly my Friends this sticking in the Letter is that which hath been the bane of all growth in Religion and an occasion of so many disputes and differences therein which I do not wonder at for Children can do no other then quarrel about trifles and things of no great worth Not that the soul should slight or undervalue Ordinances or any other duty Beloved I am fain to use this caution the oftner because ye are so subject to catch and carp I say Let all those things have their due time place and esteem but to rest in these is the worm the Gourd But this I say when the soul by these Ordinances or in these or whatever you will name shall come to see and enjoy God Her Portion when she is in the pursuit of her Beloved she undervalues and leaves all things of this nature behinde and presseth after the mark the Price of the high calling of God in Iesus Christ And to this soul in this condition I may boldly say what 's Duties what 's Ordinances what 's Christ in the flesh I beseech you give me leave what are all these when the soul embraces the truth of all these things Can that soul at that time leave its Beloveds arms and prize the Shadows the Handmaids above or equal to him But I grant that those that never came to these Embraces these swallowings up these overcomings This spiritual drunkenness may censure and revile a soul that may say indeed and in truth he is above these What do you think Paul thought of these things when he was caught up into the third Heaven I grant also Beloved that the most elevated triumphing and most raised soul lives not always in this condition these things and these raptures and these embraces come but seldom and the soul comes to fall lower and have more use of Ordinances but she uses them as Handmaids so as to conduct her to her Beloved Beloved I would have you ponder these things well If ye set up Ordinances c. so as to build and Rest in them ye do make Idols of them or at the best you play the Babes and the Children with them by Resting always on such Crutches and Go-bies and never come to be Yong-men much less as Fathers in Christ Paul and Peter Iames and Iohn they would have always enjoyed those Raptures Paul in the third Heaven and the other in the Transfiguration But the one had a prick in the flesh and the others came down again from the Mount and in these declinations and lower enjoyments I would not for a world forbid men to use means not onely in regard of themselves but of others who may by those come to have the same enjoyments making them no more but means and not the end And so much more I will say to satisfie you that I have great cause to mistrust those spirits whether they come the right way to God or into such Raptures that leap into them on a sudden without use of means or Ordinances But out of a Blinde and Prophane condition come suddenly into these enjoyments for God doth usually make use of these means yet I may not limit nor direct nor circumscribe the Soveraign Almighty yet usually faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word preached But herein lies the general abuse of these truths and of these enjoyments that because some may and do come thus to enjoy God and forsake Ordinances at a season at the very time of such enjoyments therefore some having gotten this in notion have presumptuously affirmed that they are above these and so far abuse themselves and shew an ill example to others that they have quite forsaken the Assemblies and the use of any Ordinances Beloved all these things are an offence and hereby many a soul by this delusion of Satan drowns it self in perdition And yet I may say more then all this and say properly too he that uses them and rests not in them lives above them and in this sense living above Ordinance● is most properly taken and is a truth though much abused viz. That man hath not his comfort his Life in them this man lives above Ordinances I do not say he must forsake all Ordinances as men take it usually But to have our Life and enjoyments in the Truth and Substance and against this Doctrine the gates of hell shall never prevail And this I will say more those that come into such pretended enjoyments in this extraordinary way that for the most part they never hold on in a Christian course but abusing this light run out into fleshly liberty But the right enjoyment of God is such a hedge to a man that he cannot but love God and seek to honour him with all his might But I conceive all these things are but to lead us to Jesus Christ and therefore to put more in them and depend more on them then ever was intended is an high abuse of them Concerning Baptism we see Paul rejoyced and said 1 Cor. 1. 16. I thank God I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius and the Houshold of Stephanus for Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel and withal blames them there that they set their eyes on him or Apollo or Cephas or whatever it was either Men or Means or Duties or whatever that they once did begin to settle upon and rest in to make the cross of Christ of no effect All these things were they never so high in esteem among the Famousest Teachers and Professors he laid them aside and undervalued them If Baptism be set in the room of Jesus Christ and men content themselves though in a true observation of it or of the Lords Supper according to Christs rule or in Fellowships or Gatherings together then we make Idols of them and set them in the room of Christ and Christ the Truth and Substance is slighted and neglected So also you know that at the beginning of the Primitive Church when it was weak and in its infancy and could not digest strong meat the Apostles by consultation fed them with milk and such Doctrine as they were able to bear And all was to this end that they might use such things as Help to shew them Jesus Christ as Act. 15. 28 29. It seemed good to

type of this spiritual Pharaoh You see how discouraged he was but to come into his presence but to ask to let the people go to serve the Lord and much more to bring the thing to pass he went for No m●rvel if an Embassador for Christ be in this regard discouraged for All the Powers of darkness are before him Christians look on your enemies they have Cities walled up to heaven You have the tower of Babel to climb the soul to be Rescued and brought out of the claws of all the Devils in hell But this is your comfort Christ doth this for you but it must be done in you What 's thy name LEGION If all the whole earth were gathered into one Body into one Army All the Engines and Politick Engineers for war and all the Artillery thereof this were a potent mighty almost inconceiveable strength yet this is Nothing to these Legions One of which One Sin is able to destroy the soul for ever which is of more value then all the world yet all this power cannot destroy one soul whom Jesus Christ hath purchased Then what shall they soul do that hath Legions of these as thick in thy understanding will affections as Motes in the Sun as Devils in the air as thick as words as actions ●y as thoughts For where this strong man keeps the house Mat. 12. 29. all he doth speaks thinks all is sin and he lies close and safe in his trenches and strong holds he thinks himself invincible unconquerable And indeed so long as Men do but take up Arms against him Or use never so many ordinances or duties which they force themselves unto he laughs at the shaking of your spears Job 41. 29. And the neighing of your horses and all the strength you can make of your selves though you call in all the parties you have from all quarters in the soul Yet he is quiet as t is said David was or as a Christian ought to be in his God he can lie down and sleep in the midst of his enemies because God is his strong hold his Castle of defence So sure and safe is Satan in his conceit in the soul where he hath kept long possession fo● he hath all the men in the world the whole Arm of Fesh he glories in his Offensive and Defensive weapons And indeed till the Lord Jesus begins To rouse up himself That King of Kings and Lord of lords that Mighty Lion of the Tribe of Iudah A●ise in us and dress himself in his Glittering Armour as David speaketh he fears nothing for as I said before he is so strong that indeed he thinks himself too strong for Christ for so long as Christ suffers himself to be Overmastered by our sins and strong lusts he seemes Too weak for him And he insults over him as a Turk over his poor Gally-slave as I may so say or as if you will some cruel Marshal over his prisoners though the Kings best subjects he lays them at his pleasure Neck and Heels he casteth them into noisom dungeons where is nothing but Satans excrements and the filthy spuings of our lusts and These also he sets as Centinels that they stir not whilst he himself jets up and down in pride saith I le bring down the oroudest of you all What know you not me I have his Majesties Commissino for what I do So also This is that Spiritual and true Nebuchadnezar that jets up and down in his own pride Saying Is not this great Babel that I have built for the honour of my majesty and for the glory of my Kingdom Dan. 4. 30. This Devil in us he looks on himself as a Peacock and saith VVhat a goodly Christian am I what a height I have gotten what large knowledge have I obtained I think there is no point in Divinity but I am able to speak to it what doth no body take notice of me and so Arrogates the doing of all good to himself and All Evil as none of his Ah where is the man that can say I find all these things truly and really in my self this were a certain forerunner of the Sun Arising Of the day Break and of the day-stars arising in Our hearts Now will the Lord Christ arise triumphantly in thy soul and make All these beasts of the forrest to tremble Now as it is exprest in Rev. 6. 2. He will ride on conquering and to conquer as David saith Gird on thy sword upon thy thigh O thou most mighty with thy glory and thy majesty Ride on prosperously thine arrows shall pierce deep into the heart of all Our and the Kings enemies now though Satan in us muster up All his forces as now most certainly he will Yet he shall fall from heaven like lightning that which he hath Enjoyed as his heaven had the command of our souls where he hath ruled as Lord and King but yet as a Tyrant though we saw it not but were willing servants as to our Leige-Lord and natural King and were at the command of every servant and lust more then ever the Israelites were under the External Pharaoh under him we made bricks did all servile work our wages was but hard fare and tripes Oh! was not this an Egyptian blindness and darkness a darkness that may be felt but Israel when they most felt their slavery and groaned were nearest deliverance from under Pharaoh we are alwayes in darkness and slavery but when we begin to feel our spiritual darkness when we begin to feel the plagues of Egypt upon us Our water turned into blood and the frogs crawl and cover over all the Land when we are sensible of the murrain the boils and blains and the Plague and Carbuncles in our flesh the hail and the locusts Even the LOCUSTS of the bottomless pit which come all out of the mouth of the Dragon and from Belzebub Prince of the Devils then we shall see the death of our first-born our dearest right hand and right eye sins then we shall feel in our selves that this conquering King begins to carry captivity captive then shall Pharaoh with all his Host be overwhelmed in the midst of the sea Then the soul shall sing the song of Moses Exod. 15. The Lord is my strength and song he is become my salvation the Lord is a man of war the Lord of hosts is his name Pharaohs Chariots and his Host are drowned in the sea the depths have covered them they sank to the bottom as a stone as lead in the mighty waters thy right hand alone is become glorious in power thy right hand O Lorp hath dashed in pieces the enemies and David throughout his Psalms is full of these expressions all tending to empty the creature of all good and all power and to ascribe all to the Lord neither had the Israelites any good success any further then the Lord went with them and did their workes for them Here

when he might have been advanced and made a King he ran away from among them he was Far of another Spirit then is now in the world and alwayes was in the world among the men of the world and no greater sign of a carnal earthly low base spirit then to be alwayes seeking the great things of the world to be tickled and itching after the praises of men to lift up our selves to be some-body in the world to desire to sit above and to trample upon their brethren to have the cap and the knee and yet how many of such men forsooth must be the onely gracious and religious men of this age but you see these are far from the life of Christ As far as the East from the West As far asunder as darkness and light Are these the men that brag of Power and Wisdom and Holiness and yet are thus swallowed up in the world love the praise of men and greetings in the Market and the Highest seats in the Synagogues and the uppermost rooms at feasts Their Phylacteries must be broad and long viz. to be known from other men that they may be bowed to and reverenced of all men Are these the Doctors and Teachers of all others Are these the Disciples and Ministers Christ hath sent out to preach to us the life of Christ by their Doctrine and example Judge ye Beloved ye must know that all Christs actions which were imitable while he was here upon earth they were symbolical they shew that he is yesterday and to day and the same for ever for whatever he did then he did but shew and represent to our senses by external actions what he is still Doing in the souls of men and will be to the end of the world For did he cure diseases in the body he did it to shew us how be cured the diseases of the soul Did he heal the blind and cure the lame cast out Devils dumb Devils and deaf Devils yes yet these do but shew what he doth daily when our mouthes are shut up as to things appertaining to God and his glory his power dispossesses this dumb Devil when our ears are shut up and we can hear nothing but what pleases self and flesh and the carnal man Let the Charmer charm never so wisely now Christs power and wisdom in us dispossesses al of his nature he turns the minstrels out of doors to those deceiving pleasures and allurements of the world that in our crosses make us such deceiving musick he saith Give place and He Himself enters a●one and brings us to own and delight in him and in what he administers to us Those actions of his he did then upon the bodies of men do but shew what he doth upon their souls for he then cast out but some Devils not all he healed and cured but some of their diseases not all for that was not the end of his coming for had it been so he would have cast out all Devils as well as some and cured all diseases as well as some but he onely by them did teach our dull capacities which else could not conceive what he did in the soul but by representing the same thing Outwardly even by those things which were most equivalent to them Did he resist the temptations of Satan and so made him depart from him it was to shew that he doth the same in those that are his even by himself in his own person and through his own power in ●hem For whatever actions he did they were done by him onely for a resemblance of his internal workings Did he pray whole nights it doth but shew that his Spirit in us makes continual requests and expressions even with sighs and groans which cannot be expressed Did he come before Pontous Pilate and was accused arraigned whipped buffered mocked and crowned with thorns yea he was and this was to shew how our carnal judgements Arraign him and How we whip him and peirce him by our sins mock and grieve his blessed Spirit Was he nailed to the Cross did he dye and was he put to death by the Jews and was he buried and a stone rolled upon him never to rise again they did so and in these and other his actions lies all our hope and our faith this is our Anchor-hold and our trust and whoever shall deny it let his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth Yet these were but symbols and representations of our killing of him crucifying and burying of him daily in our souls by our sin● by following our own wils and by our Arrogance Pride and selfness and thereby his life is crucified And also it is to shew how we have daily quenched the motions of his blessed spirit so that it lives not in us but the Old Adam the Old man is alive and Christ the New-man is dead within us And so likewise in the rest of his actions Did he ●ise again the third day and triumph over hell and death it shews How this mighty Lion of the Tribe of Iudah hath and will raise up himself and overcome all his enemies and hath and will put them all under his feet in our souls then after he is once arisen he will appears to al the brethren to five hundred brethren at once where-ever Christ● is risen he will appear and shew himself If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me as he saith Iohn 12. 32. As you know it is the nature of fire to draw all things to ascend upward to its own center so if Christ be risen and ascended in us he will so display his own glories and beauties in us that he will draw all our affections upto him so that we cannot bu● eagerly and vehemently desire to be like him to draw all our love to the love of him and all our hatred to hate that which he hateth and all our love to love that which he loveth our hate and love joy and grief and all our other affections to be like his Even as fire also endeavours vehemently to make every thing like it self so doth Christ where-ever he comes with his life light and glory Thus you see that what Christ did for a time in the historie the same he still also doth as truly as really and as constantly in the mysterie he did some things visibly to shew that he doth the same things as truly invisibly he did so much as was enough to manifest himself to be Emanuel and that he was God manifested in the flesh And as I said when Christ was ready to leave the earth then he made this boast of himself and never before did he ascribe this power to himself Even so till we are made one with him till we are made like him and till we can sit so loose to the earth that we are with him ready willingly and freely to leave the earth we can never claim this power till