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A48288 The man-child brought forth in us, or, God manifest in flesh by John Lewin ... Lewin, John, Member of the army. 1648 (1648) Wing L1835; ESTC R11954 11,365 34

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saw the holy City the new Jerusalem comming downe from God out of Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband and I heard a voice out of Heaven saying behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and G●d himselfe shall be with them and be their God This new Jerusalem is God manifest in the Saints the flesh of the Saints the habitation of God the tabernacle of God when this is manifest our most glorious things shall fade as in the 22. ver of this 21. Revel I saw no Temple there for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were the Temple of it and the City had no need of the Sunne nor the Moone for the glory of God did lighten it Yee know the Sunne and the Moone are the ordinary means of light in the world so our ordinary means of light hath bin the teachings of men when God appeares wee shall be all taught of God knowledge shall cover the Earth as water covers the Sea wee shall know God as wee are known So I say as our most glorious things so our confusions our darknesse and misse-apprehensions of God that is contrary to God and in this his Name shall be called wonderfull the mighty God his appearance in the Saints destroyes al things besides him he is called a consuming fire everlasting burnings the rod of his mouth the breath of his nostrils shall destroy all things that now hinders a manifestation of him the mighty God 63. of Isa 1. ver when hee cometh to apeare hee comes travelling in the greatnesse of his strength mighty to save when God appeares in the saints hee will make an utter Consumption of all our Confusion and darknesse every battell of the warrier is with a confused noise but this shall be with burning and fuell of fier for unto us a child is born all our backslidings and disorders and goings back our reelings as a drunken man to and fro 24. Isai 19.20.22.23 is not our condition such now who is it that doeth not reele and stagger and knowes not which way to looke knows not with what party to side Is not the Earth removed as a cotage and doth not the Lord visite the host of the high ones gathereth them stogether as into a pitte as prisoners all this of the Lord. when the Lord comes to appear all these our Confusions and staggerings shall bee Consumed 24. Isai 23. ver when the Lord of hosts shall reign in movnt zion and in Jerusalem and before his ancients Gloriously when hee shall reign in mount zion that is be all in all in the saints they are called The Mountaine of holynesse then will the Lord bring down the noise of strangers as the heate in a dry place even the heate with the shadow of a cloude and the branch of the terrible ones shall bee brought low and he will destroy in this mountain of holynesse the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all nations whatsoever it be after the marke in the right hand or in the forehead our forms or uniformities or our most glorious appearances shall fade and they shall destroy no more in my holy mountain saith the Lord. Now when God will doe this his worke in the earth hee will make a short worke of it as in the 66. of Isai 5. ver Hear the word of the Lord you that tremble at his word your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my names sake said let the Lord bee glorious but hee shall appeare to your joy but they shall be ashamed that is that those that waite for the appearane of God in them that waite for the glory that shall be revealed in them they shall be hated of their brethren they shall be hated for my names sake those Saints that beare up the name of God and exalt the name of God and would have the name of God read in them they are hated of their brethren I beleive the people of God who live in the last times they shall be brought into lesse compass then ever they were it is said your brethren shall hate you under the law there was the great Iewish Church there a whole Nation were in fellowship afterwards under the Gospel there were none but saints by calling afterwards when the spirit of Antichrist came in the night of darknes and the Apostles power was gone and the power of the beast came in with al manner of signes lying wonders then all the whole world and Kingdoms were Christians there was the Church of Rome and the Church of Spaine and the Church of France and the Church of Scotland and England then all were the Church of Christ then as Reformation came in the Church grew lesse and lesse then all the world were Popish afterwards wee came to be Protestants and after that prophessers then puritanes and Separatists and then to independants and antinomians so that still the people of God come to bee lesse and lesse still in number so I beleive the people of God that walke in the spirit in the last times shall be fewer then before Those that waite for God for the appearance of God that wait for the glory of the Sonne to bee revealed in them these are the fewest that ever were take all that are one in fellowships and judgements and they are more then those that waite for the glory of God and therfore those that waite for his appearing are hated of their brethren Therfore this is for the comfort of the Saints before shee travelled shee brought forth before her paine came shee was delivered the sense I understand thus that those that wait for God the glory of God to be revealed in them the Lord will appeare before they bee aware not only in them but afterwards in many more before shee travelled shee brought forth that is unexpectedly and suddenly God will appeare before wee be aware not only in them but in many more This deliverance before shee travelled is the deliverance of a man-child it is a bringing forth of Christ in us this is in few words the meaning of it that Christ is in us Christ in our flesh God in our flesh in every Saint in the least Saint there God dwels although not discovered not manifested yet is the child in the woomb it is there and hath a being thought not brought forth even so God dwels in us though not manifested and when God is manifested in our flesh then the Man child is brought forth and this the Lord will doe It 's true there be some that travell to bring forth Christ and some that bee in paine to doe it but it shall not bee so with all for some shall have Christ brought forth in their flesh before they bee aware see a scripture or two 16 of John 20. ver Verily verily I say unto you that yee shall weep and Lament but