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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92133	The spirit of God in man, making manifest the hidden things of darkness to man. Being divine teachings, whereby the Lord alone is exalted, and the pride of fleshly glory discovered, / by the shining light of Christ in and through Richard Russel.	Russel, Richard, theological writer.	1654 (1654)	Wing R2347; Thomason E1488_3; ESTC R208500	16,391	40

contrary are they but this distinction must not always last for when Christ comes forth to give up that principle of life in himself and to slay it in them whereby they have thus lived the leaves and fruit of variety and distinction wil soon wither and they will all return back into union and harmony again then shall the earth diselose her blood so Christ brings them both into one and takes them both with all their differences into his own Body and destroys all their differences and offers up all that God dislikes in them in his own Body on the Cross and so sweetly heals up the differences between God and the Creatures by his intire love unto them Epist III. Concerning seven dispensations which hath and shall be fulfilled in their end of time THe first dispensation was when God gave the Law to Adam as soon as he had made him as In the day thou eatest thou shalt die Now this Law it was holy just and good yet it was a killing word or the killing letter for it took hold on Adams disobedience and slew him so all Flesh died for all Flesh broke the Covenant in Adam and so all Humane Flesh was cast under that dispensation of death so every opposite estate wil seek to advance it self The second dispensation is in the first Promise or Manifestation of the Love of God to the creature and the Curse to the Serpent in these words The seed of the woman shall bruise the Scrpents head Gen. 3.15 22.18 and this continued from Adam til Abraham Then the third dispensation or discovery of God is more clear than the former for unto Abraham he speaks more particularly he doth not stil say in general terms the seed of the woman but in thy seed Abraham all Nations of the earth shal bee blessed and so points out more directly in what lineage and generation of Mankinde God would first appear in to bruise the Serpents head and this dispensation continued from Abraham to Moses and they imbraced the promises The fourth dispensation is from Moses till God manifested himself in the Flesh or till Jesus Christ was born of Mary who was one of the house of David and of the lineage of Abraham and this dispensation is more clear than the former for God by Types and Figures and Ceremonies and Shadows did manifest his love to his creatures and his wrath to the Serpent as we may understand when God appears in Johns Baptism or the Water Baptism which did much type forth the Baptism of the Spirit by Fire and the Holy Ghost which should refine and purifie them and saith John I must decrease or that administration I lived in but he that cometh after me which is Christ shal increase and shal baptize you with the Holy Ghost and also God did manifestly set forth his love by the Prophets in that dispensation for then was the shadow of the Law of Moses falling and Gospel-Truths rising whereby they should be the more ceasing from Man whose breath is in his Nostrils and so likewise the love of God did much appear when the sacrifice was slain and offered then God received an atonement it being a type of Gods in-dwelling in the Flesh or a shadow of Christ the Lamb the substances of all those sacrifices and I pray you consider those things which are spoken allegorically concerning Achan Josh 7.26 where it appears that when Achan that troubled Israel was put to death in the valley of Achor the fierceness of Gods wrath was turned away And in Hosea ch 2. v 14 15. where he saith I wil give the valley of Acher for a door of hope which was the place of Achans death so when the Serpent who is our trouble is subdued and killed in the valley of human flesh then the dispensation of mods anger is turned away The fifth dispensation is from the time that God was manifested in the flesh in the person of Iesus Christ to the time that he appeared in the flesh and person of his Saints likewise this also is more clear then the former for Iesus the annoynted was the substance of all those types and shadows of the Mosaical Law for now God doth manifestly appear to dwel in the flesh and by a manifest being to set the Creature free from bonbage and by Immortal life to swallow mort I beings into himself The sixth dispensation is from the time that God appeared in the flesh of the Saints till the perfect gathering up of the Elect which is the work of that dispensation which is called a Referrection day or a great day of Iudgment for so long as the Iudge sits upon the Iudgment seat it is the day of Iudgment which he doth in every dispensation until the time of the Restitution of all things both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in Christ Eph. 1.10 Rev 10.7 but in the dayes of the voice of the seventh Angel when he shal begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets so Gor. i. 15.24 then cometh the end when he that is Christ shal have delivered up his Kingdom to God even the Father compared with Acts 3.21 and this also is more clear then the former as God appeared in Christ who is the root of the creation it was a sign of God the father appearing in the whole body for saith Christ I and the children that thou hast gave me for signes and wonders and according to his promise by Joel ch 2. v. 28. I wil powre out my spirit upon all Flesh c. the Apostles also finding the same in them selves bare witness to it Acts 2.16 And thus I give you a hint of the seventh dispensation when the Gospels declaration shall be fulfilled and we to be transformed and changed into the Heavenly Image whereby all things may be restored into the Indissolable band into the unity and peace of God which passeth all understanding of man and all wars to cease for so long as dispensations last and we under them we are at warts among our selves and with God also in one sense and a rechangable while we are under dispensations and are to be changed from glory to glory as God doth in Scripture declare seven great dispensations or discoveries of his counsel and will each one clearer then other yet in every one of these God doth send forth several other dispensations by the hand of Angels for the carrying on of the work of that time and season which are discoveries of his glory for whatsoever comes from God is a spiritual power and it may be said to be declared by angels as when God appeared in discoveries to his peopel an angel is said to appear unto them as to Joseph in a dream Zachariah in a vision unto Araham and Lot it is said Angels appeared and likewise he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall

the husbandmen think that by this husbandry the wheat wil be pulled up with the tares nay they think the wheat wil be destroyed and the tares nourished because they are unskilful of the work but the Lord is now resolved that the wheat shal spread and flourish and he wil come and sever the tares from the wheat and throw out those husbandmen with them into the Fire which beat his Servants and would have killed the Heir therefore their vineyard shal be taken away and given to another people therefore let all Flesh be silent before the Lord for he is raised up to make known his power for the proclaiming of Israels return and the captivity of his people Zach. 2.13 for the Lord wil build her again that hath been trodden down and plant her in the magnificents beauty of beauties in royal and adorative glory O my beloved my soul is ravished with the delightful delight defiring you may be gathered into union in the celestial centre in the bosom of the Father Epist V. Concerning a further discovery of Antichrist in man and of the Spirit of God in man discovering that Antichrist what he is and where he rules ANd every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that it should come and even now already is in the world 1 Ioh. 4.3 Who hath known the minde of God the spiritual man that cannot but confess that Christ is come in the Flesh by his union that he hath with him in the spirit and is enlightened by the Resurrection from the dead whereby his works declare him that they are of the Father not onely in word but in power and demonstration of the Spirit whereby they abound in all goodness for so are the fruits of the Spirit as love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no Law Gal. 5.23 Now who are they that confesseth not that Christ is come in the Flesh even they in whom the Spirit of Antichrft rules and is predominate in them whereby they bring forth the fruits of wickednesse by their own Beastial reason now who is an Antichrist even he that denieth the Father and the Son 1. John 2 22. and all that obey not the command of Christ which doth bring us unto God then Antichrist must be the unbeleeving Spirit that cannot confesse Christ by the fruits of the Spirit of God and by his mercies held forth in lesus Christ unto him in his creaturely estate this know whilest thou art in this dark ignorant polluted defild estate thou hast an Antichrist Devil false Prophet within thee as it doth appear by Peter when Christ said unto him Got the dehinde mee Satan for thou savorest not the things of God but of man then look no more for Anti-Christ abroad or at Rome but at home and do not thrust it off from one unto another and one country unto another Nation when indeed it is Antichrist his trade to keep our eyes without lest we should see his deceit within Antichrist is also the whore that holds forth ber Golden Cup ful of abomination and filthinesse of her fornication Rev. 17.4 which deceives the nations and wipes her mouth and said I have done no wrong when shee hath acted what shee can therefore tremble tremble tremble for the day of the Lord wil renounce the hidden things of dishonesty and the secrets of your hearts shal be laid open and you shal be as stubble for the Fire in that day then shal he shake every strong hold and your fortified places and your high towers yea he wil shake both heaven and earth both inwardly and outwardly so that there wil be no safety no where but in the Lord for he shal bee the hiding place until the indignation of the Lord be overpast that those things which cannot be shaken being himself may remain when he shal turn upside down and overturn all things that are not according to truth and strength and knowledg wisdom and power of Christ Jesus therefore weight diligently upon the Lord that hou maist be found in him not having thine own righteousnes but the righteousnes of Christ even the Lord our righteousnes therfore behold there is a wild Figtree that was a show of a goodly good tree afar off to dark eys but to com close to the Fig-tree you my brethren after the flesh wch vaunt your selvs in human learning brainwit then like the Fgtree are ye and are ful of beautious leaves without of expressions but to come to the fruit ye are carnal and devillish in action by the fruit ye shal know them if you are able to distinguish of fruits by the Spirit of God which shal try the spirits and the works of man of what sort they are Now there is but light and darkness in which man worketh in either light or darkness and this is the definition God is light and that light is love now Man in that love is in light and that onely light is Christ now as God is light the Devil is but darkness to that light now in darkness is hatred malice envy covetousness and the root of all bitterness which is the Devil therefore you that would be holy depart from these evils for it is the highway of the righteous to depart from iniquity Epist VI. Of an heavenly estate of things in the new Ierusalem in man and of the death of the Creature in an estate below God TO come close to the matter In a word it is this hel is called death or a conditon below life and this is twofold either a death far below the nature of God or a death of sorrows which is a condition far below the comforts and enjoyments of God now every man and woman as they are branches of Adam in the fall they have no purity in themselves and therefore in a hel far below the life and nature of God and likewise they are unavoydably subject to the sorrows of that death and have no power to deliver themselves out of that bondage for God is only our Redeemer and Deliverer therefore he sent his Son not to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved Joh. 3.17 Therefore it followeth clear that if men were capable of so much mercy being Gods creatures as to be delivered from the guilt of Sin and of Death which is one part of Hel or a condition below life eternal then wil they be capable to be delivered through the mercy of the same God from the sorrowes and pains that followeth sin both which God in his time wil deliver his Creation from Secondly the heavenly estate is to live unto God with the life of Christ in the knowledg thereof of his power and to know God to be his all in all to love his Enemies to do good to them that hate you and persecute you to