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A77687 The strength and power of God manifested (in the creatures weakness) against the hard judgment and judgments of cruel and unreasonable minded men ... Baker, Richard, d. 1697. 1660 (1660) Wing B514C; ESTC R223011 5,129 6

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The strength and power of God manifested in the creatures weakness against the hard judgment and judgments of cruel and unreasonable minded men in and of the World and Worlds spirit and worldly censures whose rashness and hastinesse therein against the innocent God hath found out a way to overcome and subject even patience and endurance of and under sufferance in the quiet and meek Life and Spirit of the Lamb of the Fathers Glory the fury and rage of man that turneth to the praise and glory of God and returns the evill and mischief thereof on their own heads as the remainder of what more of the rage and fury of mans cruelty than makes for such honour and praise of God and his creatures good he doth 〈◊〉 And The Epistle or Preface to the Reader signifieth That the Glory of God was and is discov … 〈…〉 revealed in the world in the suffering spirit and principle in the Sons life that magnifieth the power and wisdome that sent and brought him hither to that same end that as he was and is heir of his Fathers sufferance and we have been made partakers thereof with him so also we may be heirs and partakers with him together to Glory for evermore even with that glory the Son of God was glorified in with the Father of Spirits before the World began in the enlargement of the Seed and Spirit of God And that as Christ our life hath or doth appear in the World and Worlds eye and sight of esteem so we might appear with him in glory Though it is the end of such his sufferance in spirit that manifesteth and revealeth the glory thereof in flesh in that until his sufferance in spirit begins to draw to a period in the flesh of his Creatures and some end to be put thereto the end of the Law nor of transgression for which cause it was added is not nor cannot come up in the world that the ordainer of all may be praised in his Creature in the beginning and end of all holy determination in the counsel of that will and workings of the mighty power that exalteth the wisdome of the worker and contriver of all purposes that therein stand nor can it be seen in the world to what end the Just was sent and came hither a sufferer for and in the Creature in the state of the unjust but as the witnesse of such end of his sufferance comes and appears in such the Creature in the Fathers Glory The Mysterie of which hath been and is hid from the World and Worlds sence in our lifes sufferance and also joy and rejoycing in that Glory that hath been hid with Christ in God until the salvation of God sprung up from the morning of the everlasting day of God and glad-tydings to the poor and imprisoned captive of hope to arise from the dawning of its brightnesse in the earth and world and deliverance to the Seed and Spirit of God and soul and life of his Creature that there hath been a wall of separation between in the night of obscurity and darknesse that hath overtaken and overspread the world whereby that glory hath been vailed and darkned broke forth in the power of an endlesse life to the dispersing and driving back the thick cloud of the worldly mists and foggs of ignorance and blindness of mind wherein the understanding of the Creature hath been stupefied under grosse thick darkness and unity of spirit between God and his Creature kept from to the astonishment of many beholders of that Glory in the appearance of Christ in his Life and Spirit of truth that worketh the work his own work that doth praise him to see what breaketh forth of the work of power and wisdome that brakes down the wall and brings up the life and spirit of reconciliation in and to the creature in the mind and will of his Maker and Creator whereby that which hath been done in secret may be manifest openly and what was spoken in the ear preached on the house top and declared abroad in the world c. though if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded their eyes least the light of the glorious Gospel which in them that perish is a mysterie unrevealed shine in their dark hearts and God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness shine in there to give the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus and wherein the refreshments from the presence of God that hath been often ready to break forth in the brightnesse of the Majesty of such Glory in which is endlesse praises to the highest hath been hindred and clouded in the soul by the straitning limiting spirit and power of the world such gross thick darkness and blindness of mind wherein they have been groaping for the walls as the blind at Noon-dayes in their imaginary Faith and Doctrines of and concerning God and Christ and Heaven c. in the black night of Apostacy and back-sliding from God and his Spirit of truth in the heart into and after the errour of the wicked in the falsity of a mis-led judgment in their giving forth their meanings and private interpretations on Scriptures of truth that were spoken in and according to the motions and risings up of that Spirit Life that had in honour and respect for the Lords sake the thing or things contended for For as to The strength and power of God experienced in the Creatures weaknesse Introduct IT alwayes hath been and is manifested in the suffering life of the Fathers will and wisdome of good pleasure wherein the weakness and emptinesse and nothingness of the creature doth exalt and magnifie the praise and glory of God his Maker and Creator and is that in which God doth delight to glory as what makes for his own honour in the worthiness of that one that debaseth himself to the dust for the creatures good to the bringing him back into unity of spirit with that one in which is a good and glory that is everlasting and a rejoycing therein that is endless in God over all blessed for evermore that into the sense hereof the creature may come and in that may dwell and sit down and count what is before them and also what is behind that empties the creature of all and brings out of all conceitedness and exaltation and heighth of spirit to see the nothingness and emptiness and worthlessness of the creature in himself in a state he is fallen in and under and into the nature of which he is degenerated and with the spirit and life of which he hath adulterated that God may be all in all unto and in the creature and his honour and glory over all exalted for ever and ever that is thus worthy where that glory only can be and is prized and esteemed that is endless and without which sence he worth and glory value thereof remains unknown or
unsought-for Therefore Concerning the sufferance of God by his spirit in the creature consider in the fear of God hat nothing is suffered to work against the innocen● in this day but what makes for the praise and glory of God that so suffereth it for the remainer of what more than makes for his praise and glory in sufferance he did and doth restrain and then is praised and glorified in that work of restraint over the Elements and other unsensible creatures that are more obedient to the work of his Spirit and Powers requirings than his creature Mankind against whom the Oxe and Ass are called witnesses and the Sea that keeps its bounds when to the proud swelling waves it is said Ye shall not surpass your limit for hitherto shall ye go and no further and every creature in like manner and in their place testifieth against man in the fall and transgression against God as was seen of old when the waters witnessed against the world they overtook in the oldness of that state of sinning and rebelling against God and against Pharoah and his Host as did the fire against Sodom and Gomorrah And always did the creatures resistance of and striving against Gods Spirit and Judgment strengthen it against himself Gods Glory appeared in the deliverance of his own Seed in his own way and time the more glorious and excellent for the sake of the patience of his Saints and children in his Spirit and Spirits work he suffered the enemy and enemies work to come forth and exalt self in that over all glory and excellency that might be exalted that was and is worthy of endless praise and glory which should be satisfaction to all the upright in heart whose cause is Gods and left with him to plead that they may be kept from fretting under the same the fret of the wicked in envying their prosperity but in the midst thereof may rejoyce that for righteousness sake they are found worthy so to do and if it be not for that the less cause have they to be angry and discontented and offended for God is praised and glorified by and in his own works on his creature in his and their spirits sufferance that thereby manifesteth the patience of such his Spirits work and of his Saints in whom it thus works in Gods forbearance of executing tht fiercenesse of judgment on the world and unreasonable minded in their cruelty who by sufferance and endurance is now come forth to conquer that which by the strength of desire of that life the glory of God was first concerned in once awakened the fury of such Gods judgment in what was the pain and death of the creature Mark the prayer and desire of the righteous in all ages and generations moved and awaken'd God in judgment against the world in that state of wickedness it lyes and that ministration was glorious to the awakening a witness for God in his creature against what Gods Judgments were bent and over which they were exalted which made Christ say to the Pharisees of old he could pray the Father and he would send more than twelve Legions of Angels to deliver him and to his Disciples that would have had fire come down from Heaven and consume their enemies they knew not what spirits they were of for he came not to destroy mens lives but to save it and God was in him mark that before the world began reconciling it to himself which he suffered to work and come forth in the world in enmity against his Spirit to honour and praise and exalt his Judgment and the justice and justness thereof against the offenders that refused to be warned by gentle and light corrections and afflictions that are the chastisements of Gods children and is it which makes chast to God where a virgin state and birth thereof is known and witnessed in the world in his Spirits leading and guidance that learned obedience by the things he suffered And all these things were written for our admonition and instruction on whom the ends of the earth are come that have believed the report of such that gave testimony concerning the work of that Spirit or of God who is a Spirit And though by their faith mighty works and things of old were done even Lyons mouths stopt and the rage of devouring fire quenched c. and they all dyed in the faith of the work of God by and in that Spirit yet the work was Gods even that of the restraining power and wisdome of the worker and he only was worthy of and had the praise thereof that flesh might not glory therefore had not they received the promise of God in the glory of what he determined to rejoyce in he having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect mark without us should not and a more better thing and glorious day that they desired to see and saw not no not one of those dayes we see hath appeared and is manifest in the world and yet the world are under-valuing the glorious appearance of God in our day and age because of their own blindness and hardness of heart and would make it lesse or the least of and in any Age and Generation of the world and think the work of God perfected in their faith and belief of somthing already done without them many years past as the work of a body without a spirit as is their faith therein without the work of that Spirit dead This therefore is my advice unto the world and all people therein to return to the Lord in that suffering spirit which of old carryed many through great tryals and cruel sufferance and conquered the power and pain of death and other grievous afflictions they were called to and passed through who were faithful to the requirings thereof and they had the joy thereof as well in sufferance and endurance of what thereby they were called to for the tryal of their faith ●s in experience of deliverance by the work of the same Spirit through their faith wherein was and is deliverance witnessed under sufferance and endurance of whatever makes for the exalting the judgment of God though the thing be suffered and endured in obedience to the call and requirings of God by his Spirit the world self are taking occation at Therefore haste haste to meet the Lord by repentance that into the suffering life of God all may come to be bended that hath been exalted over the same and in it may have a sence and feeling of the work of truth by the Spirit of God wrought and working in the heart and of its sufferance by what hath darkened the Judgment of Creatures and mis-lead their minds in the spirit of the World and errour of mis-lead Judgments R. B.