of your captivity and misery Hee hath kept you to his task to doe him service He hath said Be angry and then you have been full of rage He hath said Be covetous and then you have been full of covetousnesse He hath said Bee Dark and then you have beene full of blindnesse Hee hath said Be proud and then yee have been full of haughtinesse And so he hath but by Divine will tormented the world The sting of Satans whips are in your consciences I know His errors mistakes have beene in the kingdome of darknesse in you that you do not know God the holy will of God You would come into the enjoyment of God Satan will not let you you would know God hee will not suffer you You would be wise unto Salvation hee will not permit you Hee hath fettered you with his chains of darknesse hee hath captivated your judgements he hath made you to grinde at his mill and to drudge in his service and hath made you to cry-out O when will the Lord come But now his wicked Reigne is at an end what yee had yee shall want and what yee want ye shall have what hath been shall not be that which shall be must bee and cannot chuse but be ye shall have Love because the Law of God is Love and ye shall have peace because the Kingdome of God is peace and yee shall have light because this Inheritance is Marvelous light yee shal have righteousnesse because this state is true holinesse ye shall have liberty setlednesse stability and every good thing in this Kingdome of God It s alwaies ill with us while Satan reigns It s alwaies wel with us while God Reignes when our Husband is King we shall have Preferment and honour and riches and greatnesse and power and authority because our God Reignes The Lord Reignes for us the Lord takes his Kingdome and it is for us the Lord hath Reigned in himself all this while now hee Reignes by us the Lord counts himselfe not to have a Kingdome till Wee have it with him The Lord thinks himself meane and despised till We are exalted He is poore without US He is weake while absent from US Hee is not himself unlesse hee enjoyes US Thou art my Excellency my First-borne The power of God is in weaknesse till We become almighty The Kingdome of God is in darknesse till Wee shine it forth The treasures of God were of no worth to Him if We were not his richest jewels The Lord doth Reign This is not to be passed by it s in the present tense This is the Song that wee heare and see Angels sing The Elders and Saints in Heaven sing it perpetually we daily hear it Hallelujah Hallelujah The Lord Reigneth There is administered into our hearts and eares An Hallelujah The Lord Reignes indeed every creature speaks it all in Heaven and Earth All these powers and darknesses on the face of the Earth speak out this aloud The Lord Reignes Your King hath taken power to himself and from every thing else The Lord doth Reign and saith I AM UPON MY THRONE I AM GREAT NONE IS GREAT BUT MY SELFE I AM KING I HAVE THE SCEPTER IN MY HAND I AM POWERFUL NONE IS POWERFUL BUT I. All the power of men is broken All the Thrones of men are shattered into dust All the wisdome of men is turned into folly All the strength of men is melted into weaknesse and water The meltings and moulderings away of the powers and dignities of the world speaks it aloud The LORD Reigns Let the Earth rejoyce and the multitude of the Isles be glad This Reign torments none but wickednes and wicked men The devil and his children may be dismaied but let Heaven and Earth rejoyce The Heavens they doe rejoyce All Saints all Angels Christ and all his members they sing in this Kingdome But that 's not enough that Heaven shall rejoyce but Earth too Poor Adam That 's his name Earth Poor man poor earthy man low Earth The lowest of the creation the basest and meanest of the whole world Poor dark Earth Let this creation which is Earth let it rejoyce Let men and women and children relations and comforts estates all the things of this World Religion worship gifts trading dealing eating drinking let all these things rejoyce Object Why must not all these things be done away that God may Reign The evill of them shall be done away the sinfulnesse the basenesse and filthinesse of them shall be done away the corruption the vanity the infirmity of them shall be done away but this Earth must not be lost The Kingdome of God must be established in this Earth but the waies of men and men so far as they are acted by the devil so far they shall be done away and destroyed by the breath of the Lord be burnt up by the fire and Spirit of the Lord. As they are in emnity with God as they shut out God as they are below God as they doe not own and acknowledge God so they shall be done away And they shall all be taken up into fellowship with God purified and sanctified and restored Every thing shall be brought up into the holinesse of God the nature of God the being of God the Spirit of God Therefore let the Earth rejoyce It s good newes for the poorest creature that dwels in darknesse that lives below that are strangers from Heaven that dwell at a great distance from God You that live below in the world in the meanest or lowest condition rejoyce God is come to dwell amongst you God is come to restore you to make you all new A new Heaven and a new Earth and nothing shall be troubled but the Sea The confusion of the devil that shall roar be vexed and tormented but the low poor simple Earth The mean Earth whatsoever is pure Earth those whose hearts are not set against God and Christ so far as there is submission to the Lord and subjection to God If ye are not fierce violent and mad against the appearing of a holy God rejoyce though ye be never so low But if yee quarrell with God or are angry with him ye cannot rejoyce That the Lord should Reign Let the multitude of the Isles rejoyce There is a continent of Earth and there are Isles that are naturally divided from the firme land by water They are in a lower a weaker condition then firme Land And so here is a fuller discovery of the poor people of God that be as the multitude of Isles separated by the Sea from the firm land As Isles are divided from fellowship with the firm land by Sea and cannot passe to it without danger so there are people that are at a distance from God that are cut off from that firmnes and stability that others have in the Lord the Land of the living There are divisions between them and God and they are broken one from another by the Sea of darknesse that is
God which have been the safety peace and comfort of the World these hils will melt like waxe Those glorious Angelicall Excellencies those Excellent good things that Angels have produced in the world and which are nearer to God then Poor base man WISDOME KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING JUSTICE ORDER GOVERNMENT these Hils melt like waxe There is not an Angel in Heaven able to maintain any of his works Those excellent hils before spoken of melt downe before the brightnesse of the LORD And though man will not see yet the mountains and hils upon which they live sinke under them Secretly and unsensibly doe the mountains of all humane confidence melt under them There is a fearfull desolation of all the Powers and strength of the world And those High exaltations of them how they melt away How low doth the high spirits of men fall How doth our strength and confidence and that staff which we leaned upon waste and consume away And in what a deep consumption are all the good things of the world Melted like wax The glory of man or man refined as we may say is like wax The LORD makes poor earth fine Images of Himselfe in wax He doth set up and drawes poor Earth in some likenesse to Himselfe Gives him His own Image Wisdome Justice Holinesse But when he comes Himselfe He then melts this picture melts these Images And therefore where humane strength is in its greatest power exalting it self in it greatest height It now appears what it is to be Earth to be wax and when God in his glory and brightnes appears it gives place to the heat of God to the fire of God That which as yet ye have seen of God is but waxen Images of God and God hath hitherto upheld them by his absence but now because he comes they go they give place Like waxe at the presence of the LORD Man would be if God were not present You would injoy whatsoever you injoy if the presence of the LORD did not melt it away if the light of God did not come if a greater light did not out-shine this Creation The Sun would not be turned into darknes nor the Moon into bloud If the presence of the LORD the Son of righteousnesse did not rise it would be still the day of man nothing would destroy the glory of the world Satan hath bin at the worke a great while hee hath been hacking at it to bring the world to confusion and the men of the world have been digging at the root of the world and would fain over-turn it though they would fain keep it for themselves but it hath stood till now and now it melts now the presence of the LORD shall cause it to melt away Rev. 20.11 At whose face the Earth and Heavens fled away and there was no place found for them Kingdoms Powers Governments Dignities Righteousnesse Justice and all at this appearance of the LORD say Come le ts goe into confusion and darknesse for here is a light come that confumes us our work is done we were to give a representation of God till He came and now Hee is come there is no more place for us There is no place for Images and Pictures where God is Where the brightnesse and majesty of God comes no place for man no place for creatures no place for worldly and earthly things The majesty brightness and glory of the LORD cannot endure them nor they it but GOD sits them flying and they themselves hasten away At the presence of the LORD of the whole Earth It is the presence of the LORD nothing but the presence of the LORD it is the LORD Himselfe the LORD Himselfe in His owne presence It is My own Face saies the LORD of the whole Earth the Earth I made My foot-stool it hath had some print of My feet and as it hath served Me in its being till I came so now it serves Mee in its departing The earth is Mine I made it it s Mine I disolve it I am LORD of all these things by My presence I gave them a being by a greater presence I dissolve them They obeyed Me in their being they obey Me in their not being I by My Word brought them out of confusion out of nothing and now they obey My Word in returning to that emptines and confusion againe They served Mee when I brought them forth they serve Me at their return Satan hath had the Earth hee shall have it no longer Men have had the Earth they shall possesse it no longer saies the Lord I will possesse it My self I will enjoy it My self I will redeem it from that bondage it hath bin in by wicked and ungodly men and Satan I am LORD of the whole earth Here are quick short dark low remote hints of God of the presence of God but if yee are not yet sensible of it come up higher and further and you shall have a clear Discovery The Heavens declare the righteousnes of God and all people see his glory Come to the open heavens creep out of the earth of worldly affairs and businesses and come into the open state of Heaven and you shall see the righteousnesse of God declared the heavenly discovery of God the Spirit of the LORD and the true presence of the LORD are so visible that al the people that are therin do see the glory of God For truly if you be men you are there in this heaven otherwise you are not worthy the name of men but beasts In heaven the righteousnesse of God is so fully declared that there 's no question to be made of it it s so openly so fully discovered so largely declared that there is nothing else done nothing else spoken of but the Kingdome righteousnesse and glory of God and all the people and all the spirituall people that have got out of their fetters their banishments that are got home to their owne places See this glory of God The most earthly craatures have some heart-meltings breakings shakings terrours troubles upon their spirits by the appearing of God by the lightnings and enlightnings of God this fire of God but those who are heavened into the spirit of God who are awaked into the true life of God where the righteousnesse and glory of God are openly discovered where there 's a full declaration of things as they are in themselves they clearly and manifestly see the glory of God Beholding with open face the glory of God and are changed into the same image from glory to glory by the Spirit of the LORD The end of the second Sermon THE COMMING OF THE KING of ZION Zechariah 9.9 Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion shout O daughter of Jerusalem Behold thy King commeth unto thee he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an Asse and upon a colt the fole of an Asse ZION hath long suffered but must be delivered Zion hath long mourn'd but we have here a Voice that turns our mournings
into joy A Voice so powerfull so effectuall that doth indeed cause sighings and sorrowes to flee away eternall and everlasting joy saies Rejoyce A Fountain of joy filling US with joy saith rejoyce Joy it self speaks it self in US and saith Rejoyce I would not have you be troubled any longer I shall not be satisfied til I have wiped all teares from your eyes So long as you sigh you wound and pierce my heart I cannot be merry my self till my Spouse doe rejoyce with me So long as you are afflicted I mourn and your mirth is my rejoycing Therfore come let 's rejoyce together Let 's sing together Let Me be the matter of Thy joy Knowing Me Thou can'st not but rejoyce I know nothing troubles you but the absence of GOD. And there is no grief but this That GOD is absent Nothing displeases you but that GOD doth not Reign Nothing can disquiet a Saint but this That GOD is not exalted And therefore you shall be eased of your sadest thoughts and greatest perplexities and Yee shall see that which will abundantly comfort you Yee shall see your King Ye shall see the LORD Reign This Reign shall be in you Thy King commeth unto thee Our God knowes our troubles and knowes how to apply a remedy He knows what mounds US to see sin and Satan lifting up their heads so high to see the honour of our God in the dust to see this that Christ is crucified to see that we are any thing but GOD this is our sorrow this is our mourning and our God comes to US and removes this sadnesse Indeed we will not rejoyce till we see our KING we refuse to be comforted because We are not Rachel mourning for her children refusing to be comforted because they were not We will renounce all comforts without the presence of a God We will not rejoyce but in this Joy and yet in obedience to this voyce to this Lord we cannot but rejoyce We have all joy in speaking We rejoyce at the heart with joy unspeakable and full of glory We are full of the glory of God and therefore Wee rejoyce greatly Rejoyce Greatly Every thing in US must rejoyce in God every thing must be satisfied and fild with joy ther 's no true mirth except it be universall mirth universall satisfaction if every part be not fil'd the whole cannot be pleased if we have not all Joy but if our God gives US all Joy it is so great as to fill US every one and fill every one full This joy and rejoycing is the Infinite End and Answer of fullnesse and when God doth fill us full the Rebound of this fullnesse is joy The Lord filling us so with Himself that wee returne back again into himself filling us so full that wee flow out this is our joy when we have so much as wee can hold no more when wee are weary of râ—ceiving pouring back to Him that gave us all This is our JOY and Rejoyceing So long as ther 's a defect and want wee cannot rejoyce til all are compleatly satisfied Indeed all Heavenly joy is great hath a greatnesse and glory and Majesty in it we are never so awfull and terrible to our enemies as when we are singing and rejoycing we are mighty strong and powerfull in joy the joy of God makes US to bee Great persons Eminent persons and our joy is heightened and doth daily rise higher and higher it growes continually fuller and fuller and the Spirit of the LORD doth screw us and winde us up to the highest note of joy great HIGH and Excellent joy It pleaseth thee Oh Lord our GOD to hear our voices lifted up Oh how it pleaseth the Lord to have a Triumphing joy in US as that wee should wholly forget all sorrow that wee should bee even wilde and drunke with joy that wee should even forget our selves in great rejoycing Rejoyce greatly leape dance and sing greatly Le ts have the largest of your hearts the largest of your affections and wee will fill them with joy doe not live like low mean and base persons but Great persons in the greatest height Not the joy of Common Men or Common Creatures but the highest joy the fullest joy Rejoyce greatly O Daughter of Zion The Affections and love of God makes us rejoyce And finding God a heart full of love makes US to have hearts full of joy to heare God breake forth in expressions of love makes us break forth in expressions of joy when he cryes Oh my love then we doe sing with joy and when hee is in paine to deliver Himself into us to deliver us into Himselfe then do we rejoyce when Wee finde our God ravisht with love taken enamoured with us Oh Daughter Wee cannot but rejoyce when we see great love large expressions of the favour of our God then wee are well pleased O Daughter of Zion What a sweet Name is this It shews our relation though at a distance from him it shews our tendernesse and weaknesse yet the delight and pleasure that the Lord our Husband takes to us and in us Zion is the mountain of GOD Mount Zion the mountain of the LORD and we are the Daughter of this mountaine the Daughter of the LORD Take it as in a generation removed and the further we are removed from God the more need have wee of consolation and the greater love The heavenly state of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Apostles ye know is called mount Zion Ye are come to mount Zion to Jerusalem the City of the living God GOD dwelling with His people in a manifestation of his own Spirit and presence is mount Zion Jesus Christ exalted in the resurrection and His people walking with Him and in Him is mount Zion and the poor Saints of God at this time are but the daughter of this in the purest and best estate it is but the daughter of Zion dwelling with the daughter of Babylon the daughter of Zion in captivitie The uttermost that you have and enjoy and know of God it is but that Gospel-state removed or something that the Spirit of the LORD begets in you in some proportion and sutablenes unto the state that Christ and his Apostles had That uttermost Spirit of the LORD forming in you and begetting in you something of Himself and of His own grace that hath though in weaknesse and infirmity some likenesse to that state the Church lived in in the primitive times and that is I acknowledge and confesse the daughter of that the daughter of that faith the daughter of that love the daughter of that Gospel and the daughter of that presence of God though in infirmity and weaknesse a childe and that a female and in captivity in Babylon None hath this state and condition pure and perfect but mingled with darknesse and weaknes with much Antichristianisme This wee owne there is some similitude and likenesse of the state which was in deed and in truth in
the primitive times a childe of it a daughter of it amongst the Saints of God now Ye have not Zion but a daughter of it and ye are not Zion but a daughter a generation descended from Zion or Zion descended a daughter of a Church in weaknes and in infirmity in captivity and this message unto you is Rejoyce greatly To the poor low weak infirme Saints of God in bondage and captivity they are the daughter of Zion the beloved of God owned to be the seed of Zion the children of Zion and when yee shall be nourished and fed with the bread of life and the milke of the Word ye will grow up to be Zion but as yet ye are tender weake feeble weak vessels subject to be spoild tempted carried away by the deceits of Satan by the vanities of the world yet tenderly beloved and much affected by God owned and acknowledged by Him to be His owne seed His own children bearing the Image of the heavenly Zion and having the nature of the mountaine of God in You and are indeed though in extream weaknesse and infirmity the seat and habitation and the rest of God Therefore Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion and ye are not only called to rejoycing but also to shouting Shout Your language you know is poor weak broken feeble the most that is heard amongst you is vaine disputes Genealogies boastings and gloryings in the spirit of Antichrist humane and fleshly wisdome exalting and glorying in it selfe but a savoury sound and spiritual voice is much in fears doubts demands in asking questions by people in the wildernesse Which is the way to Zion How shall we doe to know God Just like one that 's blinde asks which is my friend which is God How shall I know God from Satan Christ from Antichrist How shall wee doe to understand the voice of the LORD Here 's a low poor mean voice How is it What shall we doe How shall we live And what shall we doe to get this and that And what 's the matter These and such kinde of questions demands complaints are the voice that is here amongst you but yee are called to shouting shout shout let 's hear the voice of God amongst you the voice of a King Israel shouted Balaam prophesied That the shout of a King was in the midst of them The King is in you the King is with you and in you in victory triumphing in the meanest and lowest state and condition Ye may see by the Spirit of the LORD and faith the mighty power of God there is with us and in us the fulnesse of God all wisdome all righteousnesse all certainty all good conquering all evil all joy removing all sadnesse all sinne taken away therefore shout Turn your complaints into triumphs turn your demands and questions into liftings up the heart and spirit rejoyce in such acclamations as these I have found I am I enjoy Kingdome glory life Christ and every thing that is good Shout speak out speak aloud in the name of the LORD and say Yee are the children of the living God say God lives in you Let 's hear it aloud speak boldly confidently open your hearts largely and say Christ is in you I have Him I am with Him He is in me I am in Him here He is He dwels in me I am His Temple I see Him now I see the LORD my Saviour I have heard of Him with the hearing of the ear but now mine eyes see Him I have Him I enjoy Him Shout O daughter of Jerusalem Though the daughter of Zion and in weaknes and lownes yet the mountain of God begotten by God and though as yet in infirmity descended from heaven yet the daughter of Jerusalem and the City of God though very poor and very weak yet this is the state and condition of the daughter of Jerusalem that is the Jerusalem that is descended from above Come downe from heaven The glorious state of the Church in which are twelve foundations of the twelve Apostles twelve gates and twelve Angels all of precious stones all of pearls all of pure gold transparent as glasse all righteousnesse beauty glory all this is in us and We are the daughter of it all the glory and all the excellency of Jesus Christ and all his Apostles and Prophets are borne and brought forth in us all the beauty glory and excellency of Jesus Christ of all the Saints Prophets Apostles and Angels are brought forth in us thou art the daughter of it the daughter of Jerusalem a little Epitome of the heavenly Jerusalem a low and little childe and a babe of the heavenly Jerusalem and when thou growest up to know thy self and what thou art thou shalt be the mother of us all and the mother of all the riches of God thou art as I may say Christened and in this day of the LORD called by this name the habitation and riches of all the fulnes of the LORD the place where the infinite Deity the divine excellency delights to fix to settle to live this is thy state thou art that building that is not made with hands that is eternall in the heavens the daughter of it and when thou shalt grow up in the name and strength of the LORD then wilt thou appeare to be the Zion and Jerusalem of God O what need thou hast now of great joy How should thy heart be inlarged when thou art the seat and habitation of all the glory and excellency of God that ever shin'd forth in all the Saints Prophets and Apostles and Angels All this joy glory and excellencies must come forth from thee must be Produced from thee must be inlarg'd in thee O then what cause hast thou to rejoyce and to shout greatly Behold thy King cometh unto thee This Scripture hath been fulfilled once in the first appearing of the Lord Christ when there was great joy in Jerusalem at his triumphant riding through Jerusalem upon an Asse the multitude of people spread their garments in the way and others cut downe branches of trees and strewed in the way crying and saying Hosannah to the Sonne of David Blessed is hee that commeth in the Name of the LORD Hosannah in the Highest And it s now fullfiling the Second time by the Second appearing of the Lord by the Second and GREAT appearing of our Jesus by the coming of the Son of God not in infirmity and weaknesse but in the Majestie and Power of the Father in the Kingdome and Power of God and therefore Behold it Look out for it Look out of your bondage and captivity Looke forth of your feares and darke and troubled thoughts See who is here Open your Everlasting doores stand open yee Everlasting gates Open your everlasting eyes Open your spirituall eyes Look up Look up O yee lights of God Behold the KING of eternal glory Arise Awake and stand up out of your carnal humane and fleshly state into your heavenly and spiritual light
Before we were living but now we are life it self Wee were quickned or life was derived to us but now we have that which did derive life to us and is life it self We were acted but now Wee have that life that acts us or we had the streame but now We have the Fountain And this life is called immortality and life The best life of this life is mortality that which is made to live by another and cut off from the original dyes or that which receives life if the conveighance be stopt loseth it's life but that which is Life it self cannot dye or that which receives the life it selfe must needs be mortal now every thing that is acted is immortality and every thing that is seen and enjoyed is immortality life it selfe Now if there be so much in a living soul how much is there in a quickned Spirit The least life is better then the most excellent death A living Dog is better then a dead Lyon How sweet is life It 's that which indeed is proper to us in God and to GOD in us And is is proper to me to live in GOD. None truly lives or lives indeed but GOD who is indeed the author and fountain of life yea that is life it self With thee is the fountain of life In thy Light we shall see light Life and Light next to Life nothing so pleasant as Light or Life is pleasant when Light is in it darknes and death goe together and Life and Light go together Where ever there is darknesse there 's death and where ever ther 's death there 's darknesse In thy light we shall see light This Fountain of life and light is ours or this life and light takes us into it We are in this light we walke in this light or this light is in us it 's not another from us it 's one with us We are not another from it We are in it O this light is comprehesive and large like the light of the Sun the true light indeed The light of the Stars and of the Moon is but a borrowed light Is the light of a Candle true light But this light of GOD is most comprehensive most large This is called dwelling in the light living in the light being in be light We are altogether light We are in this light as Cristal or Gold transparent Revel 21.21 The streets of the City were as pure gold as transparent glasse This is the nature of Glasse especially if bee that is pure it doth not at all obstruct the light but willingly takes the light into it Nay in a cristall the light shines clearer then in the Ayre the brightnesse and clearnesse of a crystall makes the light it self more manifest or gives a lightening to the light or if it be rightly composed by its thicknesse it doth gather up the light into it self The Stars are the thicker part of the Orbe therefore the light gathers into them fixes there so the Lord prepares us though Earth by himselfe that we are apt to receive in the light and the light gathers into us and becomes in us more light so We naturally opposing the light of GOD and maintaining our selves as Earth in darknes til We be purified in the fire and made gold transparent crystalized til by the Spirit of Christ We are made true Crystall so rarified by the Spirit of God so rarified that the light of the God-head doth as it were gather it self in an heap together imbodi'd it self so shines clearly in us that as we are from the light so we are in the light and God doth in this vessel as it were lose it self infuse it selfe in such a vessel as Christ is there it fixes and settles and gathers it self together and shewes it selfe delightfully In thy light we shall see light We are in the light of God and our light is the light of God The day is broken The Sun of righteousnesse is risen with bealing in his wings What We see We now in thy light which is certain clear most sure it cannot fail us It 's Thy light The judgement that we have is the very judgement of God and the light in which we walk is the light of God though it be but early day yet it 's day and the light of thy righteousnesse shall shine unto the Perfect day unto high noon In this light we see light It 's light by which wee see it 's light we see the light of God or That which wee see is that by which we doe see We see nothing but God In all things we see light we see God When we see any thing any thing separated from GOD its darkness and though darknes in us as seperate from God yet as it is in God its light The light of God shining upon us doth so lighten us that we see nothing but light and walking in his light wee walk with confidence There is no fear where there is no darkness If we saw men we would not bee afraid of men and herein we are like starting Horses seeing things unperfectly wee fly from them And if wee had a perfect view of things wee should start at nothing It 's weaknesse and dimnesse that feares When God vails himself when hee dims and shuts up himselfe there is feare When he opens himselfe it flees away so that In the day of the LORD There is neither fear nor stumbling As by the light every thing is discovered as things are discovered to bee good and so desirable so things are discovered to bee evill and to be avoided There is not a Bait or Snare but is discovered and being discoveeed it 's out of danger In thy light shall we see light We see nothing but what God is we see what God dâ—th and nothing but what he doth being in the light of God we see and enjoy the light of God that light that our God is that we have that we enjoy it doth not exclude us from it but willingly receives us into it What thou hast we have what we are we are in thy light we see nothing but thee and when we see our selves in thy light we see thee wee see nothing but that which is good for we see nothing but God and nothing but in the light of God Our eye made light is in the light and it being in the light it cannot bee dark The light that we receive is not from another out of us but we are gathered up into the body of the Son the light and So the Light goes from us Not the Light to bee judged by others but the light to judge and discover others T is the great presumption of those that live in darknesse to say in the face of the light they are not what the light makes them to be That which stood up for truth is mannifest by the shining light of God to be falfhood and that which called it self by the name of God is Idolatry and that which
where the carcasse is thither will the Eagles bee gathered together Thither this Eagle the Divine Spirit of GOD doth resort to this Carcasse I say to Revive it This heavenly Eagle or Spirit of GOD comes and eats up all the deadliness all the corruption all the Carcass that he in us might live in the Spirit There is no true life but the Spirit of life Then may we say we live when we live in the Spirit of GOD this is called the quickning Spirit The first Man was made a living soul the Second was made a quickning Spirit Man is a living soul a living creature and it is the Spirit of GOD that makes him to live a Spiritual life but when that life is killed and slain then he hath a second life for it a better life The Spirit of life life it selfe true life indeed And we know no life no true life but in the LORD our life When HE who is OVR life shall appear c. While the Witnesses prophesie they cannot say that they live but when they have received the Spirit of life then they can truly say they live Now they can claime that title I was dead but am alive I am the resurrection and the life There is no true life til there be a Resurrection til then it 's but a state of mortallity It is not yet life But when we revive and rise again mortallity is swallowed up of life now we live indeed That 's true life that is not subject to death that is true life that cannot be killed That life that is under the Power of death that is under the Command of death that can be extinguished by death is no true life It s life to be set free from death to be dis-engaged and dis-obliged from the command of this King of fears when we can say O death Where is thy sting O grave Where is thy victory When wee can trample upon death that is life true Life indeed The Spirit of life from God True life consists in a continual flowing forth from God a daily powring out of the Divine life the Divine nature into us enlivening and quickning all our actions and services Those are not living actions living services living performances that flow not from the life of GOD in us We live when every thing we act or speak flows from the life of God in us Then wee live when al we do comes from GOD when God sends it forth God speakes it God doth it then they are living words living actions In thy presence is life The absence of the soul from the body is the shadow and but the shadow of death but the absence of GOD from a thing or person that 's death Spiritual death You cannot say a man lives except you see his soul act move speak c. If yee were Christians indeed ye would not say you live until yee hear the voice of GOD saying to you This is the way of God these are the words and works of God There is life true life indeed The reviving and life of these two witnesses is the resurrection and the life the life of the Sonne of God God comes forth in these two in the Son and in the Spirit the fulnes of God shewing it self in the flesh of Christ and the Spirit of Christ this is life These three are all in union together the Father the Son and Spirit in one conjunction and unity The Father puting forth himself in the Son by the Spirit The Father acting quickning and inlivening the Son by the Spirit these mutually imbracing each other is our life Concerning this resurrection of the witnesses observe that it is graduall The Spirit of life from God first entred into them after that they live there was a kinde of absence before but now a presence of the Spirit of God The holy God suffers a kinde of parting to be between himself and his Son ney betwixt himself and his own Spirit which is himself and after this again there is a reuniting First There must be an entrance The Spirit of God first enters into them then they live The Resurrection though it be quick though it be in a moment in the twinkling of an eye yet it is graduall First There is an entrance of the Spirit The Spirit of life from God entered into them Secondly There is a double effect of this entering of the Spirit 1. They stood upon their feet 2. They heard a great voiyce saying Come up hither First The Spirit of the Lord entered into them while they are dead while their dead bodies were lying in the streets of the great City the breath of life from God entered into them And this is very certain we shall not lose any thing that we have had Though the Lord withdraw himselfe from us a little while yet he will returne to us again and then he wil gather up al that is scattered and enter into all that 's dead And they stood upon their feet This is the second gradation or the second degree of their Resurrection which is two-fold 1. They could own the Lord they could say The Lord is with us our God is with us and in us Life is come to us We are the holy ones of God We are the golden candlesticks upon whom the light of God doth shine This is the Spirit of life from our God And then secondly they are raised from the earth and so raised as that they can stand upon their feet an expression of the dry bones Ezek. 37. into whom when the breath of the Lord came they lived they stood upon their feet an exceeding great Army So the Prophet Ezekel when he was overcome by the glory of God in the great vision he saw chapter 2. it 's said The Spirit of the Lord entred into him and he stood upon his feet And so Daniel was raised chapter 10.10 11. O Daniel a man greatly beloved understand the words that I speak unto thee and stand upright Which is the same with this The Spirit of the Lord intring into us standing up in us manifesting and shewing what wee are making us visibly to appear the anointed ones of God inabling us to stand up and own a heavenly and spiritual life and light to appear to arise to shew our selves that we are the holy ones of God And though whilest wee were slain and dead we could not owne the Lord or acknowledge him we could not confesse the Lord who he was and what he was because we were in death and darknesse yet now having the Spirit of the Lord entred into us we now being raised from the dead we stand up and are able to say Wee are the Lords wee are the holy anointed ones of God There is life and strength and confidence appearing in the witnesses standing upon their feet so that they can say We by this life or in this life of God are able to live amonst men to walk about in the Name