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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62256	[N]ews of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determin[ed] and by the same right the days of the S[o]n of Man are alre[ady] commenced : being some account of eight sermons delivered at a lecture in London : whereto for further evidence are added two small tracts, the one touching the times of Gog & Magog, the other touching the 3 last vials / by J.S.	J. S.	1676 (1676)	Wing S77; ESTC R31797	131,955	209

proportion to the glory of his person and his spirit now in the 2d appearance then a sed a little dark sed doth unto it's plant or tree Do not think your Saviour will be seen by you as in the days of his flesh no he will come in the glory of his father what do you think your Saviour to be is he not God as well as man he will come in the demonstration of his Godhead and what shall be hard or unpossible unto Almightiness it self he spake the word and they were created Thus will God plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the new earth even by the word that he hath put into the mouths of his poor witnesses in sackcloath when he shall appear to back this testimony Oh! how will this living word back this testimony and how will it kindle and set on fire the foundations of the mountains and whatever doth cover this glory when the Lord gave the word great was the company that published it not only the Angels but every creature shall take the word and publish it and transmit it to the very end of the world I will give you but a little demonstration of it and that is from all your experience look what power the hitherto appearances of Christ have had in and upon the world upon the saints in the world Christ dwelling in their hearts by faith what great things hath it done see what those worthies did by faith in Heb. 11. By faith Enoch was translated through faith they subdued kingdoms wrought righteousnesse stopped the mouths of lyons quenched the violence of the fire women received their dead raised to life again c. Now faith you know is but seeing at a distance but when Christ shall draw near when he shall hold forth himself immediatly to the soul oh what a glorious power shall we be sencible of from thence so if we should reflect upon revelations what great things have revelations done ye know when Paul was by the revelation of the Lord as he says 1 Cor. 12.3 taken up I knew a man in Christ says he he was not sencible whether he was in the body or not as much as to say I was not concern'd about that now this is all that I would say unto you I would have you to understand me aright it is not only a bodily sight of Christ that I drive at though that shall also be and the bodily eye shall be able to take in the glory of his body and person But there is an intellectual sight of Christ taking him in by spiritual sences Christ is God as well as man and this is that I would only say that the sight of Christ is the power whereby we are changed into the similitude of Christ by a true sight of him in the spirit in the glory of his spiritual person this is that which will transform and change us so that we are changed after a divine manner I say it is not by any methods or ways of the creatures acting I cannot put you into a way and tell you of such a process as your Chymists do that you must proceed thus and thus no but I say it is his exhibitting of himself in a clear light upon the soul enables it to copy him forth as I may say and to be brought forth into the same similitude Vse first let us bear up under our present unlikeness unto Christ truly the present unlikeness is made many times more unlike by temptations which God sends upon his people and by desertion as if they were not low enough by the general common and constant attendants of the fall God so dispences his people many times as to fall into deeps and darkness that they have no sence of what they were or of what they are or of what they shall be bear up under these for there is a day of brightning promised And my second word is this it is Christs work and not yours you are passive in it and under it pray what do the heavens do to their own enlightning but lye under the beames of the sun when the sun which knows his time ariseth and comes forth into the firmament Let this comfort poor souls that are concerned for holyness that are concern'd for the image of God and likeness unto Christ Let it comfort us for the Church and for the whole creation all which have promises first the first fruits the Church first and then the world first the dead in Christ are to arise every one in his order now I say that is our hope and our hope is laid upon our Lord Jesus and upon his appearing and therefore do not dispond do not say how shall this be done consider but the word in Phil. 3. chap. According to the power whereby he is able to subder all things to himself I tell yon there is no such power in matter or in body as there is in spirit the Lord Jesus Christ he changes us after a spiritual manner we are changed by the spirit of the Lord that spirit which works in an instant therefore it is said in a moment or in the twinkling of an eye My second Use is this Oh! travel travel in the knowledg of Christ and in the discoveries of Christ oh wait to know Christ and to have him open'd and revealed to you in the Scriptures and by the spirit in all the means you are under I say wait for this when we shall see him as be is we shall be like him Oh! it is nothing but the hiding of Christs glory from us that makes us to partake so little of his glory because I live ye shall live also the very sight of his life will import life unto us so the sight of his glory will put glory upon us for when he shall appear we shall appear with him in glory The Eighth Sermon Luke 12.35.36 Let your loines be girded about and your lights burning And ye your selves like unto men that wait for their Lord when he will return from the wedding that when he commeth and knocketh they may open unto him immediately I Have been long upon these words but the subject is very copious which will excuse me my aim in first pitching upon them was both to acquaint my self and you I say that we might all of us be acquainted from the Lord and from his spirit amongst us with that preparation that becomes us for the Lords appearing to this end I have spent much of my time in holding forth to you the grounds of my expectation of the Lords coming to be neer very neer begining with the signes which our Saviour himself gives us of his day in handling of which I was cast upon that phrase of the days of the son of man which I endeavoured to clear up unto you that they did hold forth a tract of time from the end of the beasts term which we meet with in Rev. 13. where we fynd it precisely limitted within

ascention there was 40. days wherein he was as I may say preparing himself for his ascention to heaven I might give you twenty Parallels of it but now I come to the application of these things to these days and as for the standing up of Michael that is the first thing I would assume that Michael is raised up Michael hath stood up for several years if others in other parts of the world do question this yet we in those parts have no reason to doubt of it it is much if we are not convinced of it of the Lord Jesus his standing up and addressing himself to promote and serve in his own and his Churches interest above all interest and all kingdoms of the world that interest of the kingdom of God that hath lain hid in the faith of the Saints and in the promises unto this time if you say what evidence can be made of this it is a question not becoming those that have seen the great works of God as we have done have we not seen Michael standing up have we not seen him rousing himself have we not seen three nations bowing in his name have we not seen an heaven and an earth passing away have we not seen a dissolution of the Church and state have we seen all this and do we question whether Christ hath set a foot his title or no you know that kings when they are proclaim'd in this land they begin in the Palace yard they are not all over proclaimed in one moment So I say the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ is to be a rising and a growing kingdom of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end and why may we not say that this Island or these three nations may resemble the palace yard where Christ is first proclaimed he hath been brought to the Ancient of days by clouds of witnesses who have pleaded his interest with God you know it hath been the subject of the saints prayers these 30. years yea nothing hath relished upon the spirits of the saints that hath not related this way if Christs kingdom hath not been at one end of it it hath been no prayer no sermon if it have not had that at one end of it yea hath not the Lord Jesus exercised his kingly power hath he not made many overturnings hath he not dealt with many Adonijahs how many would have set themselves up in his room This is the account of all these quick revolutions these overturnings this is exceeding declarative of his being near whose right it is I shall therefore conclude with a word of use or application and it is this Let us lift up our heads for the day of our redemption draws nigh I have already formerly once and again told you that these 45 days from the end of the 1290. days spoken of in Dan. 12. are that generation as I conceive in which our Saviour says all things shall be fulfilled for so were the generations from David to Christ those 14 generations 43 years one with another So in those 45. days in Daniel wherein Michael shall stand up Daniel is told that all should be fulfilled in that time and I say these times began in the year 1650. and we are now in the middle of them we are very forward and I do more suspect my self for the setting my post too far off from Christs appearing then of setting it too near I say I more suspect my self for that and the Lord knows i.e. if you subdivide this last watch or space of 45 years into lesser watches in which of the watches of this last watch he may come in the second or in the third watch but we are neer to it let us look up and lift up our heads You see what evidences have been given of these days Obj. But if Christs coming be so near would the times be so evil may some say I answer was not Sodom at the worst when Christ came with the other two Angels to destroy them and so the old world Yea but you will say the people of God would be better then they are if Christs coming were so near Answ They shall be made better by his coming the summer spoken of is the very appearing of Christ you know that when the trees puts forth summer is night but it is the appearing of Christ is the summer would you have fruit before summer your fruits are growing in the winter and in the spring they are coming forwards but you have not your fruit till the summer Christ is preparing his people by the present dispensations and they shall shine but all that Christ doth now is emptying work cleansing work as when a man pulls down his old house in order to building it anew Christ is removing house and he is taking away joy from the earth the old joy trade is going the joy of the earth and the very husbandman may loose the fruits of the earth this year And if you look within O what desolations are there alas though the Lord give us our wits and our sences yet we hear of one in one place under a spirit of dispondency Gods fire is in Sion in this day and his furnace in Jerusalem and there is none of us but have our back burdens if it be but being companions of suffering ones it cannot but go to our hearts this is the sowing time yea but you will say possibly Obj. There is a promise of the spirits pouring forth and therefore these cannot be the days of the son of man I answer the spirit is not the first grace the leading grace as in those promises made to Israel in the letter of bringing them back to their own land Ezek. 36.24.32 They must be in their own land and setled there before the spirit is poured forth lest they should reflect too much upon their own qualifications least thy may be ready to say it is for our reformation that God hath visited us Therefore will the Lord at he t last as at the first take his people in their blood and in their unworthiness Obj. But you may say we see nothing of the Jews being called and Antichrist destroyed Answ Antichrist hath but a mystical destruction till Christ comes and there will be a Pope for ought I know till Christ appears but his time is legally out and determined and when a time is out what is done afterwards is an usurpation and Antichrist shall pay dearly for all at the last But as for the Jews it is a material objection we cannot look for the appearance of Christ till they come in though on this occasion let us be aware that there is a mistical Jew that needs to be turned to the Lord as well as a litteral Jew but as to the litteral Jew though we see him not come in yet we know not how soon we may for it shall be very suddenly a nation shall be born at once mark the expression