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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60500	Anti-christ in man, or, A discovery of the great whore that sits upon many waters wherein is declared what that whore or inward mystery is, together with the destruction thereof, by the powerfull appearing of Christ in us / by Joseph Salmon ...	Salmon, Joseph.	1647 (1647)	Wing S413; ESTC R39105	36,300	80

the new light of God manifested in them O Christian I tell thee thou art a thrice happy man whom the Lord hath made the Lamb a light unto thee this Lamb light is an innocent light a righteous light a pure light a discovering light it is this light that discovers the hidden and obscure whore unto thee it is the light of Christ that uncovers and strips the whore starke naked before thee of all her glory and excellency so that now thou beholdest her out of her purple and scarlet colour even in her very nakednesse and shame And thus you see how Christ in his day in a Christian does first of all discover the whore to him But Secondly in this last day or Sun rising of Christ in a Christian it is the worke of Christ to destroy as well as to discover this whore in us as it is the property of light to destroy darknesse so it is the property of Christ to destroy antichrist in the day of his appearance it will be the worke of Christ by his comming in thee to roote out that spirit of antichrist head and tayle root and branch insomuch that there shall not be left one hoof of the beast in thee when John saw the Angell come downe from heaven endued with great power Revel 18.1 Who inlightned the earth with his glory immediatly he heard this voyce Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of divels the hould of every foule spirit and a cage of every uncleane and hatefull bird all which teacheth me thus much that when that Angell of the everlasting lasting covenant Christ Jesus is by the Father sent down into the hearts of his Saints who comes by the power of his Spirit and enlightens the earth or earthly man with his glory when the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord when the glory of this Sun comes to enlighten and beautifie our earthy hearts then is the time of Babylons downfall now is the season of the whores destruction now is the Saints time of Halelujah now rejoyce over her thou Heaven and all the holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her vers 20. The Prophet Malachy tells us chap. 4. That the day comes that shall burne as an Oven this day is Christ Jesus who indeed shall so baptize us with the holy Ghost and Fire as that he shall consume and burne up waste and destroy all the appearances of the Whore the wisdome of the flesh and therefore the same prophet tells us Chap. 3.34 That he shall sit as a Refiners fire and as Fullers Soape and he shall purifie the Sons of Levi that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousnesse this day must burne in us this Jesus must be a refiners fire to us before we shal see the downefall of mysticall Babylon the worke that Christ hath to doe in us is to destroy mortallity and to cloath us with immortality to destroy this corruption and to cloath us with the incorruptible righteousnesse of himselfe After the downfall of the whore Revel 19. John tells us vers 8. That there was granted to the Lambs wife that she should be arrayed in fine linnen cleare and white c. In which I observe first the love of Christ to the Soul Christ did first of all by his blood and passion purchase the Soul to himselfe to the end that she should be a constant Spouse unto him but she hath adulterized from her husband committed harlotry from her first lover and hath taken part with antichrist against him upon which adultery the jealousie of the Lord arises in himselfe and as jealousie is said to be the rage of a man so the Lord as I may say in the rage of this jealousie comes and destroyes this antichrist kils sin in the Christian sheaths the sword of the spirit in the bowels of this spiritual antichrist breakes the head of this serpent in us but yet notwithstanding entertaines this adulterized creature into his love and favour does yet once more espouse her to himselfe by a fresh act and manifestation of love and favour you may see an embleme of this love in Hos 3.1 where God commands the Prophet to go with a message of love to the woman that had played the harlot with him Goe yet love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adultresse though she an adultresse yet I am her friend though she an harlot yet I send love greetings towards her though she hath been unconstant towards me yet I will owne her to be my wife my Spouse my beloved and therefore the text saies that it was granted to the Lambs wife that shee should bee arrayed in linnen clean white which likewise dictates to me 2. In the Second place the purity that this day of burning Christ Jesus in Spirit works in the heart of his People he doth not only take from it the garment spotted with the flesh but likewise Cloathes it with the shinning Robe of righteousnesse he doth not only empty a Soul of its owne corruption but likewise fills it with his glory beautifies it with his own adornings O Faire beautifull amiable creature whose beauty and excellency consists in Christ that divine centre of bri●htnesse and glory this will send a Saint to the depth of admiration behold what manner of love hath the Father bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God that God should thus by the power of the Spirit consume all this dross and coruption in us and bring us by that divine light to see our vnion with the Father in the Son and to see the glory of our Adoption in Jesus and to behold our selves in the flesh of our elder Brother at the Right-hand of the Father this is mercy past discerning and worth admiration Thus will God in the power of his Spirit Judge this spirituall Whore in us and ease us of the vassallage and servitude we were in to our owne selves thus shall the brats of this spirituall Babylon the wisdome of the flesh be destroyed by that happy man Christ Jesus God saith Jsa 17.12 concerning this destruction of Babylon That hee will make a man more precious then fine Gold or the Golden wedge of Opher this man is Christ who in the day of his power and in the confounding of this Spirituall Babell in us shall be made unto us more precious then the highest creature excellency never till now will the Saints come to value and to prize Christ till they see what he doth in them Now how beautifull upon the mountains are the feete of them that bring glad tidings of good things that publisheth Salvation that saith unto Zion thy God raineth Thy Messenger upon the Mountaines is Christ Jesus who comes Leaping over the mountaines and skiping over the hils of difficulty that lies in the way and appeares in glory to his Spouse or beloved Christian and declares the message of glad tidings to him

Namely That his warfare is accomplished that his iniquity is pardoned the battell between Gog and Magog and the Lamb is finished and the Lamb or innocent Spirit hath over-come all by his power and strength and now likewise he declares to Zion or the soul of a Saint that his God raineth now is come the Kingdome of our God the power of his Christ therfore Halelujah for Babylon is fallen the Whore is destroyed God hath now put into the hearts of the Kings of the Earth or powers of earthly man to hate the whore and reward her as she hath rewarded them and therefore again Halelujah for the Lord God omnipotent raigneth and the Kingdomes of the whore are become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ All that remaines behind therefore is but one word of application which shall be but only my exhortation to al poor souls that are groaning under this burdensome task and Aegyptian bondage of the Whore doubtlesse their are many to whom these my poor endeavours may offer themselves whose portion it is to groane under this spirituall vassallage to labour under this bodyof death Oh Christian whatever thy condition bee cast not away thy confidence but waite upon the Lord and thou shalt renew thy strength expect the returne or Second coming of Christ in thee pray dayly that Christs Kingdome may come in thee that the Lord would establish his own Throne in thy heart expect the comming of the Messenger of the Covenant into his Temple or thy heart even the Lord Christ whom thou seekest Oh! Labour to see that Christ is approaching neare thee though the cloudes of sinne and wickednesse hinder the sight of him know also that this spirituall Sonne Christ Jesus will breake away the clouds will dispell the mists of iniquity in thee● and will breake out upon thee in his full warmth and splendor and will bring thee to walke in the light of his glory It was said of Abraham that hee saw the day of Christ and was glad how gladly then should the Saints expect and spiritually see this day to bee at hand in them In which they shall be freed from that burthen which they now undergoe Shall I tell thee yet farther for thy comfort O Christian this Jesus that comes will come and will not tarry The Lord sees thee in thy poore weake condition he takes notice of those many foiles that thy wicked heart gives thee hee heares thy sighings cryes and groanes hee yearns after thee he makes haste to come unto thee so quickly as may conduce to the advancement of his glory and thy Souls further peace and comfort Thus in brief I have discovered to you in some measure the Mysterie of iniquity which workes in all of us the great Whore the spirituall Babylon with her Rise and her Down-fall In which poore Treatise I desire that those to whom it shall come would thus understand me that I doe not in any wise seeke hereby to set up my owne opinion as Antichrist above others but doe only declare what I conceive from good Reason to bee the manifesttative minde of God unto me And in all my Mysticall applying of any Scriptures I would not be thought hereby to endeavour the overture of the History but only so much of the History as I see verified in me in the Mysterie I have presumed in my present light to declare to all men what is of God in my weake endeavours I desire him to make knowne by the declarative power of his spirit what is of self I desire to have a heart to disclaime it when the Lord shall manifest it unto me and so I commit my Labour to him from whence only I expect a reward desiring nothing from any man but a favourable construction of that which I have declared to all men in the bowels of love and affection For my own part I am one that waiteth for the Kingdome and power of Christ to bee manifested in me I desire to see farther the glorious dawnings of Jesus and risings of his glory in mee and looking for and hasting to the comming of the day of Jesus in which all old things shall passe away and all things shall become new and that which I conceive in this condition is the best course for my selfe to take I shall likewise fasten the same advice upon all others Who is amongst you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voyce of his Servant that walketh in darkenesse and seeth no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay himselfe upon his God Decemb. 12. 1647. Jos Salmon FINIS