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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80146	The marrow of Christianity: or, A spirituall discoverie of some principles of truth, meet to be known of all the saints; represented in ten sections. / By T. Collier, minister of the gospel. Whereunto is added an epistle, written by M. Saltmarsh.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Towne, Robert, 1592 or 3-1663. Assertion of grace.	1647 (1647)	Wing C5291; Wing T1978; Thomason E1157_1; Thomason E1157_2; ESTC R208677	55,702	142

1 Cor. 15.44 And our vild body shall be changed and made like his glorious body In a word Such is the Saints glory and shall be in the perfection of it through their union with God in Christ that wee must conclude with 1 Iohn 3.2 We are already the sons of God but it doth not yet appear what we shal be But this we know when Christ shall appeare wee shall bee made like unto him and this is enough for us to know And as there is an Onenesse between Father Son and Saints so likewise there is a spiritual union between the Saints This was Christs prayer who was heard in all things hee prayed for that the Saints might be one as he himself was one in and with the Father the union of the Saints is not a carnal union but a spirituall they who are joyned to the Lord are one spirit Vse 1. To incourage all the Saints to presse forward in the power of the Lord after a farther knowledge and injoyment of this spirituall union with the Lord and with the Saints Truly friends as this was not only the resolution of the Apostle himself Phil. 3. but his prayer for the Ephesians 1.16 17. That the God of our Lord Jesus the Father of glory might give unto them the spirit of wisdome in the Revelation of him that their eyes being inlightened they might know what was the hope of their calling the riches of his glorious inheritance in the Saints so is it my desire not only to presse forward in the power of God after the knowledge of this mystery but that all the Saints might live in the knowledge of it that their hearts might bee comforted together being knit together in the spirit of unity and love The effects of the knowledge of this blessed union will prove exceeding glorious 1 It is that will produce a glorious spirituall communion and fellowship with the Father Son and Saints union alwayes being that which produceth communion even a civill union after the flesh when once the Lord saith concerning man and woman they are no more twaine but one flesh that produceth fellowship and communion after the flesh so likewise and much more doth a spirituall union produce a spirituall communion and fellowship a fellowship and communion with the Father and the Son in all his administrations in all the wayes and acts of his providence civill or spirituall the spirituall Christian enjoyes God in all 1 Iohn 1.3 Our fellowship is with the Father his son Jesus Christ Christ and the Saints from their union with each other 1 They dwell together in the spirit they are his house and he dwels in them the Temples of the holy spirit and they dwell in him they who dwell in God dwell in love 2 They enter together in the spirit eate O friends drink yea drink abundantly the Lord takes as it were spirituall satisfaction in his Saints and they take spiritual satisfaction in the Lord it is their life to live in the enjoyment of him 3 They walk together in the spirit they have their garden and galleries and pleasant delights 4 They talk together and commune with each other in the spirit the Lord he makes forth himself in the spiritual discoveries of his love to his Saints theÌ„ they are carryed forth to tell him of it to admire him in it and to praise him for it and thus there is many a sweet conference and heart-discovery betweene the Lord and a spirituall Christian which makes the soule to revive within it selfe 5 Christ and the Saints lye down together in the spirit and take their fill of love each with other they sleep as it were in the bosome of each other and so they rest themselves in love And this likewise produceth fellowship amongst Saints a fellowship in spirituals a fellowship in temporals and they continued in the Apostles Doctrine fellowship in breaking bread and prayer breaking bread from house to house being filled with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart Act. 2. and they who beleeved had all things commune a community as well as a unity that is so far forth as need is and cals for it so in guifts so in all things 1 Cor. 3.22 All is yours Paul Apollo Cephas And secondly the knowledge of this spirituall glorious onenesse which the Father produceth an exceeding earnest desire in the soule enjoying of it to live more more in that glory What is the reason Professors content themselues to be so low so carnall in their minds but because they were never acquainted with nor enjoyed higher things but the Apostle who had seen and tasted of that glory forgets all behind and presseth forward if so be that he might obtaine the resurrection of the dead Phil. 3. and apprehend that for which he was apprehended that love that grace that God who had apprehended him Certainly that soule who hath once tasted how good how gracious the Lord is in the spirit can never be satisfied with the knowledge of him in the Letter 3 The knowledge of this spiritual union with God produceth an acting more in and after the spirit of God How doth the creature set it self a-work and acts it self even in the Letter of the Gospel aswel as formerly in the Letter of the Law for want of knowledge of the union in the spiritual power of the Lord although without Christ that is not being acted by Christ we can do nothing the Creature being unacquainted with that spiritual mystical union with God acts himself in the things of God 4 The knowledge of this spiritual union with God produceth the killing crucifying of that earthly part nothing kils and destroyes the flesh but the growing up in the spirit Oh! how would the soule many times be content to undergoe any thing so it might bee rid of pride and selfe and those fleshly corruptions and why it is the growing up in the spirit that destroyes the flesh the more you live in and after the spirit the lesse after the flesh 5 It is that will help us to know Christ and the Saints more in and after the spirit and lesse after the flesh and so wil produce a more spiritual communion amongst all the spiritual Saints of Jesus 6 And lastly it is that wil make the thoughts of a change exceeding sweet because the soule lives in expectation of a glorious freedome from sinne and sorrow and a full perfection of spiritual and eternal glory therefore it can be contented to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all where it shal for ever live in the continual admiration of and glorying in the spiritual enjoyment of God whose work shal bee everlastingly and fully to enjoy and freely to sing prayses unto the Lord. SECTION VII Wherein is declared what the Law is and what the Gospel is with the difference betweeâ— them both in the Letter and in the Spirit THE Law in the Letter is a rule of

all his spiritual Ones after him unto the same perfection into the same glory Object If this be the Gospel in the Spirit to know Christ no more after the flesh and to live in the spirit to look upon Christ as the way in the flesh into the spirit or holyest where he is then what need of faith so much spoken of in the Scripture the just shall live by faith and We are justifiâ—d by faith c. Answ 1. Faith may be acted not only on Christ dying upon the Crosse but in Christ living in the soule that is my beleeving that Christ is spiritually formed in me as wel as that he hath dyed for me that I am justified in the spirit as wel as in the flesh faith hath the same object in the spirit as in the flesh to beleeve that Christ lives spiritually in the soule and that it shal bee swallowed up in the conclusion wholly in the spirit 2 There may be often occasions to make use of faith likewise while we are in this body of flesh although the soule obtaines a good degree of the enjoyment of the spirit from and in God yet there wil bee through the presence of corruption some stirre and trouble and this God in his wisdome permits for ends best known to himselfe The Apostle Paul who lived exceeding highly in the spirit sometimes in the third heaven that is in the highest discovery of God yet he meets with a thorn in the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet him that was some strong lust in the flesh that might cause him to look down again And the reason he renders Lest he should be exalted above measure 2 Cor. 12. For the truth is if God should cause any one to live alwayes in heaven that is above all lusts and corruptions in the highest discovery and enjoyment of God he would be ready to be lifted up above measure Experience teacheth us as much ready to look upon all knowledge and enjoyment beleeve it to be nothing but carnal therefore he brings down Paul that he might exercise faith and live upon grace as well as others My grace is sufficient for thee My strength shall be perfected in thy weaknesse So that notwithstanding this life of a Christian in the spirit yet there will be the use of faith alwayes either in the Spirit or in the Letter sometimes God brings a soule to live upon grace as it was revealed by Christ in the flesh and brought home and enjoyed by the spirit when we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord in the spiirit but when we are absent from the body we are at home in the Lord in the spirit 3. There is a continuall use of Faith and that of the most spirituall Christian with relation to the perfection of our eternall injoyments for the Saints do not onely injoy a onenesse with God here and from hence much spirituall and internall glory but by faith believes and hope expects that perfection of glory hereafter wherein it shall be perfectly made like unto Christ when this vile body shall be changed and made like unto his glorious body which at present so acts it selfe even in the Saints which prevents them even of that perfection of glory which they by faith expect when the change comes when Corruption shall put one Incorruption and Mortall shall put on Immortality When this naturall body shall become spirituall then shall be fully injoyed what hath been by faith believed and by hope expected and of this hath the spirituall Christian a taste in the spirituall injoyment of God here although not as then so fully swallowed up in that glory Obj. But it seemes that Christ in the flesh is the way to Justification and glory the way into the holyest which is heaven it selfe where none shall enter till they are changed but Christ who is entred already Heb. 9.24 Answ True Christ is entred into heaven it selfe onely in perfection but beleevers they enter likewise in part viz. when they are got within the veil that is to say the flesh then they see into the spirituall mystery and mansions of glory unconceivable and indeed un-utterable as the Apostle saith and desire to live continually within the veil if it might be while they are here yet they are raysed up more and more in the spirit and in the conclusion shall be for ever with Christ within all veiles which was best of all as the Law in the Letter was a veil to the Gospel both in Letter and Spiriâ— 2 Cor. 3.14 So is the Gospel in the flesh a veil to the Gospel in the Spirit a veil through which and within which all the Saints by degrees shall fully enter Qu. What is the difference between the Law and the Gospel Answ The difference is both in the Letter and in the Spirit the Gospel in the Spirit is the substance of that righteousnesse spiritually included in the Law as the Type Image or Character of that spirituall substance the Saynts are partakers of Hence it is often called the Law in the Spirit the Letter killeth the Spirit giveth life and I through the Law am dead to the Law that I might live unto God Gal. 2.19 that is I through the Law of the Spirit that is the righteousnesse of God in Christ am dead to the Law in the Letter that I might live unto God in the Spirit and not to the Law and selfe in the Letter 2. Difference is in the Letter of the Law and so of the Gospel and this is glorious for the letter of the law required a righteousnesse that was broken death ceiseth on all by that meanes the Gospel in the Letter holds forth a righteousnesse in Christ fulfilling the Letter of the Law so that what righteousnesse is in the Law required is obtained by Christ and every beleever is made partaker of it and so the difference is 1. The Law prescribes a Rule the Gospel fulfills the Rule Mat. 5.28 The Law requires a righteousnesse The Gospel fulfills that righteousnesse Rom. 10.3 The Law was the administration of death the Gospel the administration of life Qu. Is not the Law in the Letter a Rule to beleevers Answ 1. Not as it was handed forth by Moses from Mount Sinai so it was a killing Letter but 2. as it was taken into the hand of Christ and so satisfied and handed forth by Christ being turned into Gospel-Rules it remaines a Rule so farre as we are in the flesh I meane in the knowledge of Christ after the flesh but as God writes his Lawes in the heâ—ris of his people and taketh them up in the spirit so shall they live above the Law in the Letter even of the Gospel yet not without for they have it within them it is in their hearts and so they are a Law unto themselves Then the Rule in the Letter is as a stay in the hand or as a guide in the way helping the soule up to the

bodies of flesh shall bee raised in the same forme in which it dyed others that it shal be spiritual yet question whether it shall he of the same substance therefore it wil be necessary to consider two particulars for the clearing of it First by what power we shal be raised Secondly with what bodies 1. By what power Answ 1. By the same power by which Jesus Christ was raised which was by the power and spirit of God he was declared to be the sonne of God with power by his resurrection from the dead Rom. 1 4. Secondly by the same power and spirit the Saints are enlightned and raised from the spiritual death of sinne and selfe which is the same power by which the body of Christ was raised so that when we say we are raised by the resurrection of Christ in the spirit that is by the same power by which Christ was raised therefore the Apostle desireth to know the power of the death and resurrection of Christ Phil. 3.10 by the same power and Spirit shall our bodies be raised at the last day Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 15 13 14 15 16. this being a truth that they shal be raised by the same power it may somwhat direct us to the form in which they shal be raised which is the second particular that is in a spiritual forme not in a fleshly for as the spirit of Christ raiseth us up in the spirit while we are here so shal it raise up our bodies in the spirit at the last day it is sowne a natural body it is raised a spiritual body our vile bodies shal be changed and made like his glorious body he tooke upon him our forme that so we might be brought into his forme for when he shal appeare we shal be made like unto him the substance of our natural body raised in spirit Of Judgment It is appointed to all men once to dy but after this the Judgment when all men shal be called to an account before him to wit the Lord Jesus there to give an accompt for all things done in their bodies whether good or bad Mat. 25. and so God in this way wil acquit his Saints and cleare them before the world although this is not their life neither that in which they appeare Mat. 25.36 to 40 Fourthly of the estate of the Saints after Judgment it is first ever to be with the Lord beholding his glory 1 Thes 4.17 Iohn 17.24 and in his presence wil be fulnesse of joy and 2. at his right hand everlastingly to be compleated in the same glory Col. 3.3 when Christ who is our life shal appeare we shal appeare with him in glory all flesh shal be swallowed up in Spirit and our bodies shall be changed and made like his glorious body all things that offend shal be done away and we shal be made eternally one in the Father and in the Sonne in the spirit one in eternity one in injoyment and one in glory this for the Saints is enough to know besides what shal be we do not know it is an height and depth a length and breadth unsearchable Oh the unsearchable riches of Christ what the Saints do injoy what they shal injoy swallowes up the spiritual Christian in the beholding of it hence let us continue searching after an higher measure of the height depth bredth and length of his love which passeth knowledge and there shall we be able to see and say that his wisdome is unsearchable and his wayes past finding out FINIS A briefe Discovery of Antichrist both in the Mystery and in the Historie By THOMAS COLLIER 1647. For my more cleare proceeding in the discovery or the Man of Sinne five things are considerable 1 What Antichrist or the Man of Sin is 2 What his Reigne 3 What shall be his discovery 4 What his ruine 5 When his ruine shall be SECTION I. What Antichrist or the Man of Sin is ANtichrist or the Man of Sin is to be considered either in the Spirit or in the Letter 1 In the Spirit Antichrist signifies one seemingly for Christ yet in deed is against â—â—m and so is but a Man of sin a son of perdition and this hee will appeare to be both in the Mystery and in the History 1 In the mystery or spirit and in this he hath taken hold of every man especially in these latter dayes yet t is true much time hath been spent by many to find out this Man of sinne who he is and for the most part ascribe it to some particular man never looking at the mystery or root of iniquity which is not in the first place a man but a wicked thing in man and this for want of a spirit of discerning we have not seen Antichrist in our selves but have cast him upon others and so misse of the thing or at least most strike at the top-boughes and are ignorant of the root Now Antichrist in the mystery or spirituall and internal part It is a confederacie betweene Sathan the deceitful heart of man transforming himself into an Angel of light nay into the Son of light and while nothing lesse than Christ and Christian wil satisfie he wil be the Christ or at least the Antichrist instead of Christ to deceive soules For this was and is the last the greatest and most deceiving stratagem that ever Sathan made use of to ruiâ—e sâ—uâ—â—s that where he cannot content soules but they must be Christians he can be content with that so he may be the Châ—ist hence he is called the man of sin the Son of perdition that wicked deceiver 2 Thes 2. It is not Sathan acting in a carnal and fifthly forme of the flesh but in the most refined part of the first Adam so he keepe the creature in the first Adam still he cares not 1. There must be a reformation that it shall injoy provided it be legally in the Letter it must believe or else it cannot be satisfied and bâ—lieve it doth but the ground must be built upon that first reformation qualification c wisdome is required to walke in Gods wayes and to the knowledge of the miâ—de of God wisdome must and may be obtained provided it be humane the wisdome of the first Adam that is enâ—ugh power of acting must likewise of necessity be obtained a power shall be obtained but it must be a creature-power â—nd a creature-acting under the name and noâ—ion of the power of God that is indeed and intruth condemned though in none owned there must now somtimes be a spiritual minde and that it injoyes likewise in its own apprehension although hardly obtained and indeed the highest pitch of spiritualnesse is but carnal to the spiritual mans injoyment this is a high pitch of spirituall mindednesse where Sathan dwells to have selfe thoughts of Reformation thoughts to pray more to walke more exactly and to please God better never thoughts of living out of its selfe more and of living in the injoyment

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