hundreds fifties and tens Thus were the Attendants of the Tabernacle compleated in a spiritual and civil capacity The first were offering Priests and ministring Levit's the other chief and subordinate Rulers with subjected obeyers all which are significant Types of what will be found in the original when made visible as the house or Temple shew'd Ezekiel and new-Jerusalem City shew'd John do evidence In every circumstance will be found such exact proportion and agreement as to manifest all in the litteral Tabernacle harmonious figures of Christ's new-creature building that 's to be made visible in his Kingdom on earth as possessing the throne of his Father in heaven This visible Kingdom is charactred by the coming down of the new Jerusalem out of heaven and setting up the Tabernacle of God amongst men both four-square and walled about with the respective Attendants as the litteral The new Jerusalem John saw to have a wall great and high c. Rev. 21. 12. And as the outward form of the spiritual City and Tabernacle was exactly figured out in the litteral so also the spiritual Attendants thereof by those of the litteral The first row of Attendants may fitly represent those in the second resurrection-state of spiritual life and they were held forth also by the twelve foundations of the spiritual City on which were written the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb as his highest attendants in bridal-union with him as partakers of his heavenly creature-name or nature and therein under him rulers over all others In this second resurrection-state amongst these peculiar inhabitants of the third Heaven a select row of Attendants immediately surrounding the house or throne will be found also a distinction of place and offices as in the first row about the litteral Tabernacle One star in the firmament of this third Heaven will differ from another in glory as inheriting an elder or younger brother's portion therein Though with Joseph and Benjamin types thereof they be all born of the same Mother as well as Father partaking according to their appointed measur's of the second resurrection-resurrection-spirit yet in the division of the spiritual figured in that of the litteral land of Promise the peculiarly beloved Joseph must have a double portion not only to the other Sons of Jacob not admitted any place in this first row of Attendants but also to the spiritual younger Brother Benjamin who is also in that first row This was fitly represented by the distinct offices and scituation of Aaron and his priestly Sons with other inferiour Levit's about the Tabernacle The highest in this first order of Saints are the bride the Lambs wife possessed of the full blessing of Christ's new-creature-spirit by which priviledg'd to enter within the first vail of the new-creation Sanctuary Christ's earthly glorified Spirit so as to behold the most holy things therein even the divine glory as shining through the pure transparent heavenly creature-face nature or spirit of their Lord and Husband The dignity of these high Priests unto God in a peculiar marriage-union with Christ in his heavenly creature-spirit is to be placed at upper end of the new-creature Tabernacle of God as admitted to the nearest and most intimate enjoyment of the divine glory any meer creature 's are capable of But inferiour to these are those members of the second resurrection-state who also make up the first row of Attendants These receive but a single portion in comparison of that the high Priests receive Yet in a union of love with the said Spirit are they given to the service of the high Priest's office even to Christ himself and his priestly Sons as accepted in their inferiour service of love and placed above all the earthly glorified congregation of spiritual Israel These though least and lowest in the first row or second resurrection-state are above the highest and greatest in the outward row of Attendants in but the first resurrection-state wherein Angels are the chief This was typed out in John Baptist though they be not the Spouse her self they are faithful Friends and true lovers of the Bride-groom and Bride or of the peculiar bridal-union of Christ and their elder-brother Joseph-Saints so as to find their joy compleated by hearing the nuptial Voice This service of love performed by the younger brother-Saints in the second resurrection to Christ and their elder spiritual Brethren in the high-Priesthood the mystical Aaron and his peculiar Sons is their perfect freedom And as recompence of this labour of love shall they be placed on each side and at bottom or West end of the said heavenly Tabernacle in Christ's Person to the compleating the first row of select Attendants or making up the foundations of the Wall of the said mystical City on which in the single or double portion of the said resurrection-spirit are written the names of those twelve Apostles that comprehend the whole second resurrection-state in distinction from the twelve gates of the City on which are written the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel or whole innumerable multitude of glorified earthly or first-resurrection Saints that make up the new Earth in Christ's new World or Kingdom figured by the twelve Tribes of Israel And as in the second resurrection-state may seem to be a differing degree of spiritual light and glory not only in the other Levit's from the Priests but from one another also as their differing dignities in scituation on the right left-hand and lower end of the Tabernacle do intimate so among first-resurrection-Saints will be found a differing of one Star from another in that glory The variety of Rulers and Governours and also of Subjects and Obeyers therein were figured out in the Princes of the Tribes and subordinate Rulers under them over thousands hundred's fifties and tens All these compleat but the outward row of Attendants about the spiritual Tabernacle These are represented as the great and high Wall of the new Jerusalem and the twelve Princes or chief Rulers are the Angels at the gates thereof as under Christ and his heavenly Saints the highest Rulers over the earthly glorified Wall or first-resurrection Saints And under them also are subordinate Rulers over inferiour spiritual Saints in the first resurrection-state All these with the lowest subjects therein make up the outward row of Attendants about the new-creation Sanctuary So the two distinct rows though parted by the Court yet joyned in a blessed harmony make up the compleat attendance of the Tabernacle in their further or nearer distances and differing scituations or places Thus the first and second-resurrection-Saints though distinguished by the names of new Heaven and new Earth that abide for ever do in an unchangeable union of love make up the whole blessed society and corporation of the new-Jerusalem City which so united is invincible for the name of it is the Lord is there The two-fold new-creature Spirit of the King thereof in highest lowest and all intermediate members of it unites them all in an
THE REIGN OF CHRIST Unto which He hath had a Right from everlasting WHICH God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the World began Acts 3. 21. LONDON Printed in the Year â—â—â—â— The PREFACE NOAH a Preacher of the Righteousness of God and a walker with him therein gave signal Warning a hundred and twenty years together of the approaching judgment on all despisers thereof Gen. 6. 3 -9. Mat. 24. 38 39. 2 Pet. 2. 5. The neglect of his alarming ministry was so universal that the flood came and swept them all away save Noah's family of eight persons And so shall also the comming of the Son of Man be say's Christ Mat. 24. 37 -39. The like dark midnight-state shall the World be found in at Christ's second coming People will be generally given up to sensuality signified by eating drinking marrying and giving in marriage and so will also be found scoffing at any such thing as Christ's coming to reign on Earth 2 Pet. 3. 3 4. But the Spirit he will come in will prove a mystical Fire that will burn up and consume all the highest excellencies in the fleshly earthly changeable corruptible first-creation-nature of Man or Angel signified by all the Kingdoms of this World and glory of them Mat. 4. 8. This will be an amazing surprize and cause a consternation in all concerned therein beyond and above all conception or language by the understanding or tongue of natural Man or Angel Even when Christ is at the door ready to come forth about this terrible work in righteousness to judg and make war on all first-creation vanities will Men generally more than ever contradict and blaspheme the spiritual Watchman's warning thereof so that he with his Fellows shall be men wonder'd at reckon'd mad-men and the contemptiblest Fools in the whole World for believing or asserting any such thing Hence will that day of the Lord or the Lord coming forth in that judgment-day-light of his all-searching all-discovering all-trying new-creation Spirit be a general surprize to the World Sea and Land all inhabitants of the Earth and of the Sea in the but reformed or in the polluted spirit of nature He will come as a Thief with his irresistible light upon them in their midnight darkness never less expecting or more deriding any such doctrine or thing The temper of the World before the general destruction of it by Water is made by Christ himself a representing figure of the desperately rebellious condition and most evil circumstances it will be found in immediately before the near approaching destruction of it by Fire Abel Enoch and others doubtless though not all recorded did in the true new-creation spirit of prophecy warn the people of their day of their groundless security and self-flattery as to any approaching judgments Enoch before that destruction by Water prophesied the second destruction of it by Fire at Christ's second coming with the ten thousands of his Saints Jude ver 14 15. His being the seventh from Adam may seem not to be taken notice of without some concerning significancy It was the judgment of the more enlightned sort of Jews when in their flourish that the World would stand six thousand years a thousand years for a day answering the six days works of God in the first-creation and then Christ would come in the glory power and marvellous light of the new-creation to keep his seventh thousand years Sabbath-day wherein to proclaim a jubilee to the World and so a rest or cessation from all the works of man in his own work-a-day first-creation spirit life or activity Of the said six thousand years 5678 are past Whether that saying of Christ speaking of the great tribulation in these last days beyond all that ever was or will be that for the Elects sake those days shall be shortned may not import a period of Satan's reign and Man's day in this World before the sixth thousand year be fully expired is a question with some But what less can it signify The Jews appropriate that perswasion as to this World 's continuing six thousand years more peculiarly to Elias Elias complained he was left alone in his spiritual testimony as to any associates with him in the awaken'd exercise of the same spirit as also that his witness was universally rejected and person persecuted by those in power God's answer to him was he had seven thousand men in that Israel who had not bowed to Baal that is not wilfully and knowingly through self-love to their earthly life and state Satan's dwelling place rejected and hated the heavenly life of that new-creation spirit that is God's dwelling place for ever in which he will dwell amongst shine upon and own his true Sion-Saints as his People and himself their God for evermore Any that have come forth in the awaken'd exercise of the true new-creation spirit of prophecy grace and prayer everlasting righteousness and truth have experienc'd an almost universal contradiction and discountenance as Fools and mad Men. The Apostles and primitive gospel Christians when clothed with a wonder-working power under the former rain or first shower of the spirit from Christ's ascended humanity seem to have had the best on 't as to this yet how were even they yea the most eminent teachers among them hated and disturbed contradicted blasphemed and murdered I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength for nought and in vain says Esay in my prophetical ministry declaring the righteousness of God as the only true way of Salvation to Man This he concludes as relating to the next to no success he found amongst Men. But he found the Lord's approbation judgment and that his work found acceptance and he a reward there Esay 49. 4. So Paul if our ministry says he of himself and fellow-Gospel teachers prove through mens wilful neglect and hatred of it a savour of death unto death yet are we therein a sweet savour of Christ unto God 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. No big looks nor stout words of contradicting Enemies should appale or discourage God's Commission'd Messengers of Truth How were they mock'd misus'd and despised even in Jerusalem till there was no Remedy 2 Chron. 36. 16. God charg'd Ezekiel to discharge his Watchman's Office in speaking his Words to them Whether they would hear or obey or whether they would forbear that is rebel against and reject them So also does he command Jeremy to arise and speak his words to them and not be dismaied at their Faces lest says he I confound or break thee in pieces before them Jeremy Prophesied amongst the then only professing People of God in the whole World and yet had the whole Land against him the Kings Princes Priests and People of Judah But God made him in the strength of his true Spirit of Prophesie too hard for them all a defenced City an iron Pillar and brazen Walls against the whole Land Jer. 1. 17 18. Yet notwithstanding all this fencing and steeling him
The infinite divinity wrapping up it self in a fellovvship or personal union with its own creature-house makes up that wonderful Mystery Ephes 3. 9. The Fellowship of divine and creature-nature was before all time a Mystery hid in God But in this supream divine and creature-fellowship was the certain foundation laid from everlasting for God's revealing his own divinity to Angels and men when made which otherwise had remained invisible and unapproachable to them all for ever The divine Spirit in Building it s ovvn creature house hevv'd out the seven Pillars thereof Prov. 9. 1. This signifies the fulness and variety of this creature-building or spirit in the capacity of Root and Branch Father and Son And through the Son and Branch as admitted into union with the divinity in the same personal fellowship with his Root comes all to be beheld by blessed Saints and Angels But for better understanding this whole Mistery consider farther the relation of Root and Branch or Father and Son in the Mediatours creature-nature as well as in the divine This distinction was fitly figured out in the top and foot of Jacob's Ladder the divinity of the Mediatour standing above or on the top of it as Head thereof And this top of it or creature-root is Head to its ovvn foot the Branch and as fitted by immediate Personal union with the divinity receives the fulnes of that divine Ocean to which so united But in this first and highest Marriage-union of divine and creature-nature is God yet in too great a height for the creature 's immediate sight or enjoyment of him The scorching Beams of the Mediatour's divinity are not so allayed and tempered in this highest union thereof with his supream creature-Spirit the root of all creation as that Angels or Men may receive or converse therewith This highest creature-mount or spirit in the Mediatour was fitly typed out by that mount under the Law that was so glorious and dreadful as to become present Death to all that immediatly touched the same But there is a lower capacity in the mediatour's creature-nature called the Son and Branch which answers the creatures vvish in an immediate Head-ship to them This Son and Branch is to be considered in his invisible angelical state before the foundation of the World and that both in a pure but changable first-creation state as the first-born therein and as the Lamb slain and so by the death of that mortal state taken into personal union with his creature-root in new-creation-Life and through that with his divinity also So comes the Son and Branch to be filled with all the fulness and life of both And the same thing did he in and with our visible humane nature in the fulness of time He made the like sacrifice thereof for the like end And thus is the son and branch in his resurrection-life the blessed medium by which the vision of the divine Glory is let down and given to his creatures which by the root or top of his creature-building singly considered was incommunicable to them By the branch is it brought so neer as with a meet regard to the dignity of the mediatour and safety of blessed creatures to become fit for the sight and injoyment of Angels and Saints The twofold resurrection-state or Heavenly and Glorified earthly Spirit or Life of the exalted branch is the mistical Golden Pot into which the divine Manna the everlasting Food or Bread of life to happy Angels and Saints is put and hath been hid from before the foundation of the world This capacity in Christ as branch is of the same Date with his creature-root as possessed thereby in the beginning of his vvay toward 's the creation of the world Prov. 8 22. By the Man Christ Jesus as living in his new-creature root did all things receive their invisible existence and visible creation By him so considered vvere all things made and vvithout him vvas not any thing made that vvas made or created Jo. 1. 3. 1 Col. 15-17 Heb. 1. 2. Thus the sutable medium by which God condescend's to let down himlelf to creatures sight and enjoyment was prepared as the immediate hand by which they received their creation In the spirit of the branch as standing up in his root had Angels and the spirits of men their first invisible existence and thereby as their parent are brought forth into their personal subsistences by creation And in him is treasured up the Bread of everlasting Life for their Immortal spirits which they are not capacitated to feed on in the mortal life of their first-creation but immortal life by a second This never-perishing food is suted only to a never-perishing Life Both root and branch or creature-Father and Son in the mediatour had from everlasting not only the enjoyment of each other but of the divine glory also in the same blessed person And so did God most high with delight behold all his designs and purposes finished in him before any thing was brought forth by creation And in the wonderful fellowship of divine and creature-nature in himself did God the Mediator rest also from all his vvorkes before any of them were brought forth as beholding all the contrivances of his divine mind in the first conjunction of his divine nature with his creature root thus declared and executed in the Son and branch This branch also had his peculiar delight in the principality or headship given him over Angels and Men as existing in him and looked on as the habitable parts of his Earth before the foundation of the World Prov. 8. 30 31. He rejoyced alwayes before his father not only as enjoying the vision of the divine glory but as the same was in him treasured up and by him communicable to them And thus see we the need of root and branch in the mediatour's creature-nature as the ascent and descent of his great creature-building By the former is he qualified to receive the divine vision in the immediate Ocean-fulnes thereof by the latter to conveigh and communicate it to his blessed Angels and Saints In the creature-root or top of his creature-house is his divinity shut up from his creatures till revealed or opened by the branch The branch is the mystical Door of this great creature-building and also opener thereof to his creatures David by faith saw and heard the great Lord the Mediatour in his highest and first Union of divine and creature-nature speaking to Christ the branch as David's immediate Lord and Head saying The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right Hand until I make thy Foes thy footstool Psal 110 1. Here is a Prophecy of Christ the polished Shaft hid in Gods Quiver as to what he was to be and do in our nature for exalting it into the Glory long before attain'd by him as Resurrection-Lamb and therein head not only to the immortal Spirits of Men and Angels but in a peculiar manner to his spiritual Church He will appear in our glorified
yet in their subjected places under him are they joyned with him in a headship over the whole natural first-creation state which is the Woman that in the saints as well as in Christ must own the new-creation spirit or man in both for head Yet the saint thus joyned in a state of spiritual headship with his head is in a state of subjection to the Prerogative headship belonging to every part of the mediatours being divine or creaturely The highest Saint in his most heavenly exaltation into new-creation glory remains for ever in a single creaturality as his distinguishing make from the glorious person of the mediatour But as the saint must not assume the peculiar twofold divine and creature-name of Christ so must he not be denied a new-creation name through participation of and union with the new-creature spirit of Christ in which highly exalted above his own first-creation life name or nature as far as heaven is above the earth For the spirit of man at highest in first-covenant life is but earth or of the earth earthy Though it be in dignity and power placed over all things below it self Psal 8. 6. yet is it inferiour to what is spiritual and heavenly He cannot so much as discern things spiritual 'T is as impossible for it to go beyond the sphere and bounds of its natural activity as for the brute Beast to exceed his bounds and Judge of things rational Nothing below the spirit of man wanting his intellectual and rational faculties can discern the proper things of man So nor can man's intellectual or rationall powers exercised only in a natural or first-covenant light judg of or comprehend the things of that spiritual new-creation state which is superiour to it This is the peculiar essential priviledg of the true saint in new-creation life This capacitates him not onely to know all things below it self and all its own spiritual heavenly things but to search out find and see the most deep and hidden things of the very infinite divinity 1 Cor. 2. 9-15 This great priviledge coms saints to by partaking of the new-creature spirit of Christ which God has promised in his new and everlasting covenant made on their behalf with their mistical father Abraham Christ himself to set up in them This new-covenant spirit is perfectly distinct in the nature of it from the first This is spiritual that natural This heavenly that earthly In the pure natural earthly first-covenant spirit Christ was a husband to Angels and man in innocency before the fall of either But in this mystical Land of pure nature did all men in and with the first and many Angels fall off from Christ and so lost their first-covenant spousal relation to him No such apostacy or chang is incident to the second covenant gift The relation of God and creatures founded in that can never be forfeited or lost When God by way of distinction from the first-creation spirit in which first-covenant communion with and relation to him is founded sayes he vvill vvrite or put his nevv-covenant Lavv or spirit in his Peoples hearts they shall never depart from him nor vvill he from them Then are they his People for ever and can never again become no People as his first-covenant People do after all communications from him and communion with him therein Jer. 31. 31-33 and 32 40. By the fresh gift of his first-covenant spirit he brought them out of the house of bondage the corrupt spirit or state of nature Typed by Egypt But this his covenant they brake though he vvas a Husband to them therein This evidenced the changable nature and life of that spirit in which this covenant was founded and undertaken to be managed on mans part But the new-creature or second covenant spirit in the true saint is a principle of everlasting righteousness and infallible truth This fit 's man for personal union with the fountain thereof in the man Christ and so for everlasting obedience with the same spirit in him to the divinity it self The whole divine will or law is written out in this spirit the true saint is of and in unchangable union with The life of this spirit then in saints enables them to read know and do the divine Law and will as the said spirit in Christ himself In this spirit as a mystical table is the divine Law so powerfully written out as to cause immutable obedience thereto in all the partakers thereof It never sins nor can sin in Christ or saint any born thereof that live and vvalk therein 1 Jo. 3. 9. The saint in this spirit that is of a spiritual heavenly nature is no more a servant as in the former natural changable earthly first-covenant or first-creation state life spirit in which it is impossible to know his Lords spiritual mind things and secrets but with Abraham a friend of God enabled to know not only the secret things of his heavenly spiritual creature-mind but divine also the deep things the vvhole counsel of God about the salvation of men Christ promises to reveal to such friends all that the father has made knovvn to him Jo. 15. 15. The new creature-spirit partaken of from Christ becomes in the quickened up seed thereof a new spiritual life light nature name wisdom righteousness in saints By it are they fitted to take in the visions of the divine glory For this spirit in Christ is in personal union with the divine In him it receives the whole divine glory which from him descends and is let down to all his spiritual members By this blessed medium his new-creature-new-creature-spirit by which they are made lively Stones in his new-creature City and Temple must they for ever receive the vision of the divine glory A portion of this spirit in them is the nevv Ear or intellect by which they are enabled to hear and understand that voice of their spiritual King that gives forth the divine and new-creature will of their Lord in one sound and to feed on that vision of the divine glory which is the Manna hid from all natural understanding the most excellent thing any creature can receive So though the saints name be not the result of divine and creature-nature in one person Christs peculiar prerogative yet is it a partaking of that new-creature name or nature of Christ which even in him is preserved in a distinction from his divine though in personal union with it Though highest saints may not pretend to the priviledg of the lowest part of the mediatours creature-nature or name to wit personal union with the divinity yet are they partakers of the higher part of his creature-nature as well as lower yea all spiritual saints do partake of the twofold or single new-creature spirit of their head as their peculiar names of saint-ship received and derived from him to and in vvhich chosen and blessed before the foundation of the vvorld Eph. 1. 3 4. By virtue of the fathers choice and the sons peculiar work-manship
upon them are they brought into a living union with his new-creature-spirit and so safely returned into their prepared places to enjoy according to the fathers distinct choice of them their respective visions of the divine glory in the relation of Spouse Friends or Servants So have every of them their joy full and compleat But none of them exceed the nature or name of a pure new-creature spiritual man What ever their portion of his new-creature-new-creature-spirit be single or double capacitating them to receive and enjoy a single or double portion in the vision of the divine glory yet are they all but new-creature spiritual men filled with the vision of God according to their distinct capacites This new creature-creature-spirit of saintship through the personal union of it with God in Christ is called the spirit of God Hence is it an infallible mark of a true saint to have this spirit dvvelling in him This spirit of God Ro 8 9. is in the same verse called the spirit of Christ distinct from the divine spirit of Father or Son divine essence or form The Seed of this new creature-spirit in saints is called also the seed of God 1 Jo. 3. 9. Which preserves the saint from such wilful sin and enmity in his natural spirit or carnal mind as would be eternal death to him Rom. 8 6 7. The desires and appetites of the fleshly or carnal natural mind and spirit in the saint himself till subjected to his spiritual are after that natural state which is death But at same time the mind of the new-creature spirit though hid from his own heart in which sown God and Christ do see to be after that life which gives everlasting peace with God The spiritual seed quickened up in the saint is in all its life and motion purely obedient to Christ and by its powerful influences upon the natural spirit will not cease to teach and beget in that the like unchangable subjection to it self and so of the whole saint to Christ and God most high And as subjection and love to God is natural to the new-creation-spirit disobedience and enmity to God is grown natural to the old or first since the fall Hence is it impossible therein to please God Ro. 8. 8. Paul therefore rejoyced in that work of the Cross by which his natural mind was brought into a like subjection to his spiritual as that to Christ Through this subjection of the natural to the spiritual and so of the whole man to Christ have saints the certain witness of Christ's spirit dwelling in them His spirit beares vvitness not only in but to them that they are the Children of God Members of and Coheirs with Christ therein of God Ro. 8. 17. The new-creature-spirit from its universal obedience to God in head and members is called love 1 Cor. 13. It is that in which only God becomes the object of his creatures unchangable love and they of his The natural spirit is described by fear 1 John 4. 18. Perfect love casteth out fear The spiritual life of love perfected in the saint the life of his natural spirit with all its things thoughts lusts carnal reasonings doubtings and feares is extinguished abolished and cast out They that dwell live and walk in the spirit of Christ which in him is in personal union with the divine are said to dwell in God He that dvvelleth in love dvvelleth in God and God in him vers 16. God has declared the height of his love and greatnes of his condescention in this marveilous contriving a marriage union of divine and creature-nature by which to preserve his divinity from being touched or immediatly beheld by saints and to come forth in such a safe and sutable discovery thereof to his creatures through the man Christ as to be a food of everlasting blessedness to them The saint is made one vvith the new-creature spirit of Christ as that vvith God Jo. 17. 21. That spirit of Christ is the blessed shelter and fitted medium by which the divine vision is given to saints so as not to be a consuming fire to them Saints by partaking of this spirit become parts and Pillars of that nevv-creation sanctuary Gods place of meeting vvith the vvhole congregation of his true Israelites Angels and Saints amongst vvhom he vvill dvvell and vvalk for evermore In this spirit have they all an accesse unto and vision of the divine glory yet partake not of the divinity as an ingredient into the constitution of their persons But by partaking of that spirit that from personal union with the divine in Christ is called God Jo. 1. 1. they are said to partake of the divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. The creature-spirit of Christ is the holy unction in and upon saints by vvhich they knovv all things The holy Oil or Ointment of his heavenly and glorified earthly spirit runs dovvn from their high-priest to the lovvest Skirts of his new-creation Garments or meanest spiritual Members This spirit in Christ and saints is Truth and no Lie an infallible spirit in head and members distinct from the divine spirit in Christ and natural spirit of man or Angel at best The lowest capacity of creature-nature in the mediatour is above the highest saint The spousal saint one with Christ in his most heavenly and exalted creature-life sees not or enjoyes the divine glory as the lowest part of creature-nature in Christ does by personal union therewith The new-creature spirit in its highest and most heavenly or lowest earthly glorified life is inferiour to the divine but superiour to the first-creation spirit of nature at best because incorruptible and unchangable in the life and goodness thereof In the first being corruptible and changable man is in perpetual bondage and fear as impossible to be secured from death therein Heb. 2. 15. This therefore was never intended by God for an abiding state of rest and true blessednes to Angel or man not being a spirit of unchangable light and life or that can qualify them to receive the vision of the divine glory This shews the absolute necessity of the saints being clothed vvith a House from Heaven by the new-creating vvorkmanship of Christ for his everlasting blessedness From what has been said then it appeares to be the peculiar priviledg of the mediatour to be in every part of his creature-nature in personal union with the divine Consequently is it a crime equally unpardonable for any creature to deny to him or assume to himself his conjunctive divine and creature-name His comprehensive creature-spirit or nature is the living Book wherein the whole divine mind or Law is written in order to be declared to Angels and men If any man then or Angel from heaven shall dare on pretence of adding thereto to make Christ's person only and purely divine and so divide and take from him his creature-nature which is the supream Book and Table on which the divine mind is engraven and by which the divine glory shines forth to
time the spirit in them did signifie vvhen it testified before hand the suffering of Christ and glory that should follovv 1 Pet. 1. 11. And it vvas revealed to them that not unto themselves but us under the gospel-dispensation witnesses both of his comming in flesh and state of grace or resurrection-life which was to follow they did minister such things The Apostles and other Saints in the gospel-day received that spirit not before given Jo. 7. 39. by which the mystery of Godliness became opened even through Christs being manifested in flesh justified in spirit and in our nature exalted into heaven All this visibly accomplished in Christ's person is the sum and substance of the gospel-testimony The resurrection-state is now no longer a land of distances very far off but brought neer and set open in Christ's glorified humanity Hence is the gospel-dispensation much more spiritual then that of the Law the object of faith being now brought into sight though spiritual saints under both these dispensations found a like acceptation with God The elders and worthies under the Law vvere through their powerful faith pleasing to God Heb. 11. 39. as well as spiritual-saints under the gospel They obtained a good report by faith They willingly and cheerfully confessed themselves strangers on earth or as to their natural state and principle though not actually possessed of the spiritual and heavenly This better thing vvas kept in reserve as neither given to nor received by them in such manner as after Christs comming for the compleating of their blessedness and finishing of that faith he was authour of before But the whole seed of faith spiritual saints before and under Law and Gospel agree in their witness to Christ's resurrection-state as that new name and life vvherein alone any ever were or can be saved or receive the vision of the divine glory And though the gospel-ministration be more glorious then that of the Lavv as a ballance to this priviledg of saints under the gospel those under the Lavv vvere made the first-fruits unto Christ in his resurrection-state in our nature For to their imprisoned spirits shut up in the faith of what was to be revealed Christ appeared and in the first degree of his resurrection-life preached it to them or bestowed it on them rendring the state of those just spirits a paradise by entring among them in his resurrection-life and glory And after this he poured forth his glorified spirit on saints in the body which rendred them powerful experimental witnesses of his resurrection-life and new name Thus the whole generation of faith whether as prophetical messengers before Christs comming in flesh or declarers of him after come have all most harmoniously agreed in their testimony to the spiritual nature and visibility of Christ's kingdom here treated on And thus having seen the testimony of the divine nature itself and the infallible creature-testimony of Christ and his saints to this truth as a secondary general confirmation of it we may observe the various types and figures in Gods providential workings for strengthning his Peoples faith in this important truth Even before the fall every voice of God to man was to point out this spiritual State of Rest he was to look after But all this counsel of God was neglected by him Yet did God even after the fall and before the giving of the Law warn Noah of this his twofold great design to wit of taking down the old or first creation-World and setting up that new one in which to establish this visible kingdom of Christ As a token hereof vvas he commanded to build an Ark and by his obedience to God therein did he condemn that sinful World which wilfully neglected the voice of God therein But Noah by faith saw Christ in that resurrection or kingdom-state figured by the Ark as a spiritual Rock of safety to himself and whole spiritual seed from that destruction figured out by the floud which all Angels and men that obstinately fix themselves in the old World or first-creation state against God and the second bring upon themselves And this deluge or destruction of man-kind by water points out the far greater destruction by fire in that day of the Lord wherein he will destroy the very heavens and earth on purpose reserved for the exercise of Gods long-suffering For their abuse of all will ripen them for a final consumption by the fire of God's wrath 2 Pet. 3. 7. Then even amidst those flames will he most certainly set up that spiritual kingdom in which shall be a like visible protection and safty to his saints as Noahs litteral Ark was to him and his family The next remarkable type of this spiritual truth before the giving of the Law was Abrahams conquest of the four Kings as figuring out not only the corrupt but righteous principles of nature in men and Angels which as singly naturall are all in a combined interest against the spiritual seed of faith and Christ their head These are signified in Abrahams person and his followers And their victory was a type fthe compleat and final conquest our spiritual Lord Abraham with all his saints will obtain over all that come against them to oppose the setting up of his spiritual kingdom visibly in the world After this have we another signal figure hereof in Gods remarkable dealing with the Egyptians as his enemies on behalf of the Israelites his friends in his marvellous wayes of punishing the one and delivering the other by his own right hand and out-stretched arm Both were types of that irresistable power in which Christ in these last dayes of greatest bondage and oppression to his people will give them a more remarkable deliverance then ever In these last and worst of times will be a combination in religious and civil principles against them figured by the Egyptian powers and the Magicians by the latter counterfeiting and by the former persecuting the new-creation spirit and power they both hate which Christ is ready to break forth in and thereby to bestow on his spiritual Israelites an absolute deliverance out of all their litteral and mystical captivities And by the same power will he so judge and deal with his enemies of all sorts as never to suffer them to rise up more against him or his spiritual Israelites Moses his whole government with the sanctuary and other things in his ministration were speaking figures and significant voices of this universal kingdom of Christ No circumstance in the civil or religious constitution of that government but remarkably signified the present truth And by signal sounds of his providence under every dispensation has the Lord been declaring and setting this truth before the faith of his People The sanctuary or tabernacle was not to be fixed as in its resting-place till his People were possessed of their resting-place the typical Land of promise Next this was Solomon's Temple on various accounts a signal type of Christ and of what he was to do
has God cursed this earthly state or first-creation life at best and in the most excellent part thereof that if saints in their love are found running out after the same they meet with nothing but mystical Briars and Thorns therein For this cause till the work of patience or suffering be accomplished on the whole body of saints Christ is content to remain passive and silent though in his own person possessed of that irresistible power in heaven his far countre in which he sits laughing all his enemies to scorn looking dovvn in a holy contempt upon them from his heavenly place And he over-rules all along this world all opposition of visible or invisible enemies in a direct contrariety to their own designs to make them instrumental to his by removing out of his Saints what let 's and hinders the setting up of his Kingdom in and with them visibly on the earth Christ makes all that enemies do against him and his saints in his passive and the enemies active season a preparative to his and his saints active season in his visible kingdom and to the dreadful passive season of all their enemies for evermore Hence is it that the passive season of Christ and active power of the Devil and World in perverted first-creation Principles whilst in a perfect contrariety as to design hold exact proportion as to time begining and ending together And at the time of the end will be manifested Christ's wonder-working power that all along the said active season of world and devil and passive season of Christ and Saints has made serviceable to his own designs the most opposite purposes and actings of implacable enemies rendring all exactly conducible to the setting up of his spiritual kingdom over all in a resurrection life and glory never to be done avvay By his visibility herein will he period the active power of the Devil This then may serve for answer to the present question as cleerly demonstrating the reason of Christ's so long deferring his second coming and active season And hence is there no ground from such delay to doubt the certainty of his visible spiritual comming For all along has Christ kept closs to the wise and holy orders by God appointed at first for giving a day of manifestation first to that which is natural reserving that which is spiritual to the last The Devils best time is first his worst last and that for ever And though permitted to make a seeming interruption to Christs exercise of his reigning power all along this world Yet so far has he been thereby from disappointing the designs of God for revealing his spiritual and everlasting state of truth and so for the setting up Christs visible kingdom therein that all his opposition to the same has been made serviceable thereunto even to the active reigning power and kingdom of Christ and his saints The Praise of all is to be ascribed to the marveilous and unsearchable wisdom of God which has made the most contrary appearances universally serviceable hereunto And in these mysterious workings has the wisdom of God not been altogether undiscerned by spiritual saints under every dispensation This has quieted and supported them in the blackest hours of opposition from World and Devil They have seen all by the over-ruling influences of Christ useful for the carying on of his designs of grace and peace to them But the discerning and testimony had and given by saints before and under the Law as to the visibility of Christ's spiritual kingdom at his second comming was greatly strengthened and heightened as given in Christ's own person because till then the spirit of Truth vvas not by actual participation given till our nature in him vvas glorified Joh. 7. 39. Then did he poure down of his glorified humane spirit on saints Act. 2. which distinguished them from spiritual believers under the Law He was pointed out in his resurrection-life to them under the Law in types and figures as to be revealed in the very thing it self under another succeeding dispensation Yet from a powerful spiritual faith therein were saints under the Law not only clear and strong in their testimony to the said spiritual state and visible kingdom of Christ therein but by that faith received a satisfying demonstration of the certainty thereof and embraced the substance of those things they waited for They had the undoubted evidence of things then unseen as to actual manifestation They saw and knew they should actually partake of the same Resurrection-Spirit and Life of Christ at the apointed time for the pouring out thereof from our glorified Nature in Christ's person And their Spiritual Faith herein had a powerful transforming operation upon their natural Man in that Law-day and before Yet is the difference of the Law from the Gospel-Ministration very great For by the latter have we the glad tydings of the visible gifts of that Spirit which was waited for and by Faith only laid hold upon under the former And this begets a new and more excellent sort of Spiritual Faith or discerning in Gospel-Saints through Christ's actually setting up in them his revealed and communicated Resurrection-Life and Glory which former Saints waited for Believers under the Gospel-ministration receive the very end of that Faith under the Law even the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father The first heavenly rain or shower of Christ's new-creature Spirit we find an account of Act. 2. on the Apostles and other primitive Saints of the Gospel-day as the accomplishing of that Promise of the Father which between his Resurrection and Ascension he commanded them to wait for from him Luk. 24. 49. Act. 1. 4. By this first pouring forth of the Holy Ghost or new-creature Spirit of Christ upon them did he institute the Gospel-dispenpensation in distinction from that of the Law And hereby were the Saints of that day much more eminently then ever before qualified to give a clear and full witness to this Spiritual State of Truth as actual partakers of that glorified Spirit of Christ which till then had never bin so given or received So the dispensation under which given must be more Spiritual than any former Saints were under The least under this dispensation is greater and under higher priviledges than the greatest under the Law-ministration The first Gospel-shower gave the World a signal taste of this great mercy by which to expect the latter rain of the same Spirit which will be far greater and more general on the Spiritual Seed in all Nations as the fore-running dispensation to Christ's second personal coming in the full blessing of the everlasting Gospel the joyful news of Christ's near approaching Spiritual Kingdom which shall be preached to all the World and then comes the end Mat. 24. 14. The very Apostles while Christ was with them in the Flesh and after his Resurrection also when speaking to them of this great thing the incorruptible Seed of Spiritual Life not yet quickned up in them were
just hand of God upon them will they take all opportunities to effect what they have long desired even the compleat slaughter of the two witnesses And in all this the Devil discovers himself only in his powerful influencing of outward and visible means towards the carrying on this great design But he is furnished also with inward mystical weapons to fight against God and his spiritual Saints in this latter age that are of a more dangerous nature than the other For these will he use as in the very name and authority of Christ committing therein the highest treason against him In such exercise of his diabolical power will he send forth his false spirits in Christ's new-creation-name as false Christs to make false Apostles joining men with themselves in all sorts of spiritual craft to deceive Spiritual Saints This by such lying signs and wonders of such a deep hidden nature as if Christ had not laid an impossibility on them would deceive the very Elect. On the one hand in imitation of the Cross of Christ will Satan say he is in the Wilderness or secret Chambers on the other in a counterfeit resurrection-state will he exalt himself by sinful transformation into his heavenly spiritual life All this by an angelical ministration knowing Christ's fore-running dispensation to his everlasting Gospel-day by his holy Angels to be at hand as the only means to raise up his slain witnesses out of their Graves And thus have we observed the hand or means by which the two witnesses are to be slain and what the slaying of them is Visible and invisible enemies Men and Devils will combine against them to bring them into such a captivity as all former under Law or Gospel have bin but fore-running types of and so seen by spiritual Prophets and Saints under both dispensations Jeremy Ezekiel Daniel c. have declared this last and great day of sore trouble such as never hath been or shall be So also hath Christ himself prophesied Mat. 24. 21. This very season is indeed the sum of Daniel's many visions the result of what is held forth by the two Kings of the North and South in all the variety and differing appearances they have bin in towards one another through the common profaneness of the former in the cold dead corrupt spirit of nature and the warmth or zeal of the latter in and for the first-covenant life and righteousness of Man Through the powerful influence of the Devil on both can he soder and unite them in a combination against the Saints of the most high so as to bring forth a day of utmost trial and trouble to them For this end Daniel saw these two Kings joined together as the Devil 's twofold weapon in the corrupt and refined principles of nature speaking lies at one Table Dan. 11. 27. and setting or joyning their hearts and hands to mischief true Saints And so both of them in union of mind with the Devil will do his work in effecting the death of the two witnesses Thus will Satan by the practise of the most refined spiritual wickedness and in the expressing greater malice than ever before when his reign draws neer to an end employ all his instruments of cruelty muster up all his force and power for the slaying of Christ's two witnesses And he with his instruments will prosper herein to the accomplishing of their death This we find in the mighty King in Daniel that was to arise last and the beast in John's vision that at end of the Sack-cloth prophecy was to ascend out of the bottomless pit furnished with all sorts of weapons and instruments not only to war upon but overcome and kill Christ's twofold witnessing Saints magnifying himself against the God of Gods The same thing was repeated to Daniel in the vision of the four beasts commonly understood to point out those four Monarchies that are to spend out the remaining ages of the World during the Devil's active power and man's day The fourth beast is described as far worse than any of his Fellows being strong dreadful and terrible and so furious and malicious as with its great iron teeth not only to devour and break in pieces but stamp the residue under his feet This beast had also ten horns and another little horn came up among them which is in a signal manner to war with and prevail against the Saints of the most high Dan. 7. 21. The fourth beast and little horn figure out the utmost strength the Devil from the beginning kept in reserve for this last and most bloody design At the end of the Sack-cloth prophecy in the appointed time of three years and an half will the two witnesses be slain by the little horn Daniel saw come up last and in the least and most unlikely appearance for such a design yet by it the most bloody battel is to be fought in which the twofold witnesses are to be overcome and killed and that in such an enraged malice of their Enemies as not to have any burial permitted them By all may appear the Devil will then rally up all his forces in an universal conjunction of all sorts of principles that are singly natural humane and angelical to bring this most dismal season that ever was experienced by Saints Herein will Satan cause as was shewed Daniel such abominations as shall make wholly desolate all sorts of visible worship and humane affairs Then will all moral and civil Laws customs and constitutions be broken and changed to the setting open a flood-gate and causing an inundation of all sorts of wickedness litteral and spiritual And hereby will be denied both liberty to Saints and propriety to men even to all that shall either from spiritual or rational principles at that season refuse to receive the mark of the beast by not joining with the Devil for slaying the two witnesses litterally or mystically This sad season to be brought on the true spiritual Israel of God was lively represented to Ezekiel by the valley of dry bones Ezek. 37. 1 2. Thus by faith had he a view so long before of these two witnesses that are to be brought into the most deplorable circumstances to the enlightned reason of man imaginable This is implied in the judgment the then house of Israel figure hereof made of themselves saying our bones are dried our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts Secondly On this sad condition and slaughter of the two witnesses or whole house of spiritual Israel in the last and most perillous times their enemies will be found in the height of joy and satisfaction looking with great delight on the dry bones or dead bodies of the said house of Israel the two witnesses during the three years and half or time of them utmost extremity in which not permitted burial As an expression of this joy and gratification of their spiritual lust will they send presents to each other as triumphing over the slain witnesses of Christ which
has long bin their hearts desire even all along their Sack-cloth prophecy in which they have bin contending with and troubling all that dweâ—â— upon the Earth or in earthly first-creation-principles Rev. 11. 10 On this honourable account as contending on God's behalf are they at length to be slain mystically if not also litterally But nor their mystical nor litteral death should have been permitted as Christ said in Lazarus his case but that the power of God may be the more clearly manifested in raising them up again out of their sleep And then and so will they be fitted to execute the wrath of God on his and their implacable enemies as a just recompence for that death of theirs which has bin precious in his sight Rev. 11. 11. Ezek. 37. 10. Such honour shall all his Saints have as the Lord's army to execute vengeance on the Kings of North and South with their heathen and first-covenant people who joined in a combination to destroy them Psal 2. 1 2. 149. 6 -9. They shall then receive the Crown reserved for this last generation of Saints that bring up the rear of all those spiritual worthies and witnesses that have bin from the beginning The true witnesses of Christ have all along found but slender and cool reception for their testimony yea they have always found opposition more or less And how much greater may be expected in this last and utmost assault by visible and invisible powers when the great thing all along witnessed the second personal coming of Christ is at the door The extraordinary voice of God's outward providences shall then also give an undoubted demonstration to all natural hearts that some strange and wonderful change is hastning upon the World And the fear and conviction hereby wrought in Enemies will produce the utmost expressions of rage and fury on the sack-cloth prophets as witnessing this unwelcome truth to them Christ's second comming to be at hand Great reason then to expect not only a more then ever violent breaking in pieces of the earthen vessel in which the precious witnessing treasure is but also a more enraged spirit discovering itself against the very spiritual treasure On this account will it come forth in its spiritual wickedness in heavenly places and so with their angelical weapons gilded with a likeness to Christ's truly spiritual ones war against the inward mind as well as by material weapons against the outward body of the two witnesses But by neither shall they be able to suppress or hinder their witnessing-work For God will make them a defenced City iron Pillars and brazen Walls for an unshaken steddy enduduring the utmost malice of all enemies visible and invisible They shall conquer them even while slaying them by surviving all bodily deaths and spiritual assaults in an unchanged mind and Spirit And having thus considered the time and means in and by which the witnesses are to be slain next are we to enquire by what hand or means they will be raised out of the said death For it is no more possible for the members than head to be held by the bands of death Act. 2. 24. But redemption out of the mystical death of the natural Spirit and out of all death can only be by a new-creation-power And this was that power and glory of the Father by which Christ in our nature was raised out of the both mystical and litteral death thereof This done in a publick capacity and relation to his members ascertain's the like to be done for their crucified natural Spirits and dead Bodies and that by the same means All that are planted together in the likeness of his death shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection Rom. 6. 5. or be sure to partake of his new-creature-life The putting this life into them is the means by which the witnesses are to be raised after slain and lying in the Streets of spiritual Sodom and Egypt Rev. 11. 8. The new-creation spirit of Life from God enters into them quickens and calls up their natural man into an everlasting union with and subjection to their spiritual as that to Christ and God and so sets it upon its right Gospel-Feet The new-creation-spirit of true prophecy will raise the whole slain natural man of the Saint out of its mystical and litteral grave death of spirit and body as to all the mortal first-creation life of either causing the dry bones of the two witnesses to live Ezek. 37. 12 -14. This Spirit of Christ was always the prepared means for loosing and breaking the bands of death from Saints and raising their whole crucified natural man into the glorious life and liberty of their spiritual But this will be done in a more signal manner than ever at the raising the two witnesses in the third and last day mentioned Hos 6. 2. as their slaying will be more signal then then in any former persecutions The new-creature-spirit of Christ then put into their crucified natural man or dead body will be the efficient cause of their resurrection The instrumental hand or cause thereof under Christ will be the holy Angels as honoured with the first powerful sounding forth the new-creation-trumpet voice or everlasting Gospel-life of their risen Lord by which the new-creation breath or spirit of the head will enter into the dead bodies of his crucified Saints The said Angels will be found the highest and chief ministers of Christ till that seed of Abraham laid hold on from everlasting as Christ's first born Church come to take their place in Christ's second resurrection-life over the heads of all Angels and glorified earthly Saints Our nature in Christ is raised into both these lives heavenly and glorified earthly the twofold spiritual and everlasting new-creation-life The man Christ has also a third resurrection-state as advanced into and filled with the very divine life in an infinite superiority to all Angels and Saints In him dwells the fulness of the God-head bodily and personally He is thus anointed above all his fellows or brethren as also with the original and fountain of twofold spiritual-creature-life which none of them are but with derived portions thereof In the days of the highest Saints non-age and minority are the holy Angels teaching and nursing guardians to them Heb. 1. 14. They are the highest and fittest instruments to convey Christ's mind to Saints under Law or Gospel From them have choice Saints and Prophets under both received their manifold visions and communications of the mind of God The Law was ordained to be dispensed by Angels in the hand of a Mediator or under the conduct of Christ their head Gal. 3. 19. Act. 7. 53. In these angelical flames Christ as head of them descended on mount Sinai and by their voice or ministry promulged the Law Exod. 20. Psal 68. 17. By them was Moses shewed through faith his and their new-creation-head by which fed and maintained forty days together without any visible food They were the mystical
Ravens by whom Saints received that new-creation-food that sustained and nourished them unto eternal life By their angelical representations was Christ the head-Angel of God's covenant revealed to the Patriarks before and to Prophets and Saints after the giving of the Law They appeared on all occasions as employed by Christ in all the messages of God's will to them They opened Heaven to Ezekiel who through a powerful faith was enabled to see take in those wonderful visions of the very divine glory through the new-creature-nature of Christ his head so as to hear the voice of the almighty divinity They were the hand that oft lifted him and others up beyond and above the sight and motion of the natural spirit and body whilst yet in the same By the hand or power of their new-creature Lord did they carry him to them of the captivity by the river Chebar Ezek. 3. 14 15. And by the same hand was he led into the valley of dry bones declared by them to signify the whole spiritual Israel They likewise shewed him that new-creation spirit of prophecy by which the dry bones or slain twofold witnesses in the last and worst of times were to be quickned and made live again Ezek. 37. 1 14. The Scripture abounds with instances of this kind Christ the true Michael sent his ministring Angel or Messenger Gabriel to reveal to beloved Daniel those visions that were to remain a sealed book as to their full accomplishment till the time shewed him for the twofold witnesses to be slain as also how by the peculiar work of the good Angels in a preparitory ministration to Christ's second coming they should be raised into the same life and spirit which the Angel shewed Daniel his lot was fallen in so long before his actual possession of And as Angels were Christ's messengers in giving forth this resurrecton-life through a spirit of faith under the Law before Christ's first coming so were they the first actual dispensers and declarers of the said life and glory under the gospel They first preached the glad gospel tydings of Christ's resurrection in our nature This honourable service Christ employed them in as a just recompence of their being his first followers out of the changeable first-creation into that unchangeable resurrection-land or state of life without ever sinning against Law or Gospel Ezek. 1. 12 20. 10. 11. Hereby did they preserve to themselves in this first-resurrection-state that precedency in place and nature God gave them in their first creation And now as additional to that are they chosen by Christ to be his highest-Officers therein for giving the first report of the said resurrection-state of our nature in Christ's person He is not here but is risen Luk. 24. 6. And as in the two days under Law and Gospel Angels under Christ were the first preachers of the resurrection-state unto men so much more powerfully yet will they be in the third and last day By their powerful sounding the new-creation trumpet or preaching the everlasting gospel-life will the dead witnesses be raised and the elect gathered together from one end of Heaven to the other Mat. 24. 31. They will come forth in such power of the new-creation-spirit of prophecy as to cause it to enter into and build up every part of their crucified nature into the life thereof and compleat union with their angelical helpers and Christ himself therein Ezek. 37. 4 -10. And herein shall they be found the twofold united witnesses of Christ in his heavenly and earthly glorified spirit signified to Ezekiel by the two sticks he was to write upon for Judah and for Joseph with their companions Ezek. 37. 15 22. All this done by the holy Angels in the preparatory dispensation amounts not to the Saint's glorified body For that change will be the immediate fruit of Christ's personal coming and presence But these angelical reapers are to gather together the first-born Church written on the heavenly stick sharers in Christ's heavenly and most excellent new-creature-life mark'd with their Father's name on their foreheads and fitted for the marriage-bed of their heavenly Husband And then are they to gather all those whose names are written on the earthly glorified stick also even an innumerable multitude in the white robes of Christ's spiritual everlasting righteousness Rev. 7. 9. Both these are the Angels to gather by preaching the everlasting Gospel to them By their preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom to all the World in the third and last day before the full end come will be fulfilled Mat. 29. 14. They will powerfully waken up the spiritual seed of the Kingdom in all nations and all that are ripe in the life thereof shall be immediately joyned with them even with Christ's heavenly host of Angels for the work and service of that day And at the same time will they raise up other spiritual Saints into a land of light a spiritual Goshen and pour forth the full vials of Plagues on the hardned enemies of God and them God by his holy Angels will lead Saints out of all captivities as Moses Israel out of Egypt raising out of their great and last grave the whole mystical dead body of Christ Of this preparatory angelical ministration was Christ's transfiguration in his unchang'd body before his death a figure He caused the transforming power of his new-creature-life in which Son of man in Heaven to shine so strongly on his inward man or spirit that his very outward also was made to shine His face or spirit shined as the Sun and his raiment or outward man was white as the light So the crucified spirit dead body or natural man of the two witnesses shall by the Angels powerful preaching the everlasting Gospel be so raised into the powerful exercise of Spiritual life as to make their unchang'd fleshly bodies shine as a high degree of redemption from the bondage of their whole corruptible first-creation-life Such Saints with holy Angels shall shine as Stars through a more signal partaking of Christ's risen Spirit the bright morning Star from whom they all receive their distinct measures of new-creation-light and life In this season and dispensation will Christ make good to his Saints what he long before promised to Joshua as associated with Angels under him his joint powerful instruments for the great work of this preparatory day Of this priviledg was Moses also a signal type as through faith taken into such angelical converse and thereby admitted so near access to Christ the head of Angels as will qualify them to receive the lively oracles of Christ's own mind and become his mouth for declaring the same to others This honour will be put on Saints in the preparatory dispensation to Christ's second coming And thus have we seen by what means or hand the last generation of Saints are to be slain and by what to be raised again and their high priviledg and honour thereupon This by the angelical ministration for this very
We shall find information as to each of these particulars in the visions given John not only of things present but to come This by opening the heavenly door of the resurrection-state in Christ's person on which he heard the sound of an angelical Trumpet saying Come up hither and I will shew thee things to come Rev. 4. 1. Hence John acknowledg'd all the light and information he received of that state to be given him by the ministry of Angels as revealers of the sealed-up judgments for all sorts of enemies answerable to their more or less criminal offences And these judgments are to be visibly manifested in the last preparatory dispensation to Christ's second coming To the first At the appointed time for opening the Seals are the Vials and judgments therein contained to be poured forth Both and all are to be in the preparatory dispensation to Christ's second coming Then is to be dispensed that wrath of God wilful Sinners in this old World or first-creation-state against the light of the new have bin treasuring up to themselves against this day After all trial and God's long forbearance these judgments which have bin long sealed up are to be executed upon them And they shall be seen by them on whom executed to have bin justly deserved by them and accordingly inflicted on them By the light of this angelical ministry shall all such Sinners be convinced that the distinct vials of wrath poured forth upon them justly belong to them This twofold work John was shewed to be the joint business of blessed Angels and Saints in this preparatory dispensation He gives a large and full account thereof Rev. 5. 6. 7. He saw the Lamb the head of Angels opening the Seals for them and also for Saints who are called up into an association with them in the same Gospel-ministry as jointly used by Christ in the said work They are both by their spiritual Head joyned in commission for this work the opening of the sealed-up judgments of God to the World So under Christ come they forth in his conquering new-creature-spirit over the World as was declared to John on the Lamb 's opening the first Seal on which the blessed Saint and Angel as horse and rider arm'd with Christ's risen spirit go forth conquering and to conquer Rev. 6. 1 2. So on the successive opening the other Seals according to their distinct commissions are they to make every part of the condemned World quickly to feel the effects of the judgments contained therein For by opening the second Seal peace is to be taken from the Earth or earthly natural principle and state of life corrupt or righteous that from its sensual and devilish mind instead of willingly and obediently submitting has wilfully and rebelliously done despite to the spirit of grace As the just punishment of such offence the Son of peace will depart from them as to his gracious offers and come upon them in a final dispensation of wrath And so will he take peace from them both his true peace offered them and that false peace they have pleased themselves with All such as are fixed in the natural or earthly principle will he make a mystical Babel heightning their vexation and disturbance by such division as will cause them in revenging God's just quarrel against them all to hate and kill one another So by opening another Seal Death and Hell come on the fourth part of this accursed Earth Blessed Angels and Saints for this are to kill them with sword famine death and beasts of the Earth All these are typical to the same judgments spiritually understood as their eternal punishment signified by the Hell that followed death Then see the effects of opening the sixth Seal Rev. 6. 12 -14. The Heaven that will depart as a scrowl is in mystery and truth the most excellent and heavenly part of the first-creation-spirit with which evil Angels and Men have bin counter-feiting the new-creation-state but shall no longer be able so to do The mystical Sun Moon and Stars of this first-creation-spirit or World in its fading life and glory will be turned into darkness and blood by the bright-shining light of the spirit of truth in this preparatory day and become so antiquated as no longer to remain in any credit or esteem but as a decayed old garment laid aside And all the mystical Figs or Fruits springing forth from the old root of single nature will wither and fall to the ground before the mighty wind or powerful breath of this Spirit of the Lord. It will also cause such a terrible Earthquake to all earthly or meer natural principles foundations and buildings as to remove every Mountain and Island mystically understood out of its presumptuously assumed place It will make all the rich and mighty bond and free not so made by a willing subjection to the new-creation-spirit of Christ cry out to evil angelical Rocks and Mountains and all sorts of first-creation rocks or strength to cover hide and secure them from the wrath of the Lamb convincingly set before them by the spiritual light of this preparatory day But they will both feel and know there is no possibility of escaping the same On opening the third Seal also John saw a black horse and he that sate on him had a pair of ballances in his hand And he heard a voice saying A measure of Wheat for a peny and three measures of Barley for a peny and see thou hurt not the Oil and the Wine The Ballances signify the justice of that day in recompences of love to friends and wrath to enemies Both these recompences have bin so sealed up in the living book or word of God the new-creature-spirit of Christ as not to be discerned till this preparatory dispensation and powerful preaching of the everlasting Gospel by which the secrets of all hearts shall be search'd out declared and judged Rom. 2. 16. Then all that have faithfully labour'd in Christ's Vineyard and rightly improv'd the Talent received from him shall receive an answerable recompence consisting in the rule of five or two Cities and enter into the joy of their Lord. On the contrary they that have made no use of their Talent or an evil one by an unrighteous detaining the present truth in a wilful refusal to improve it by exchange of their own legal or natural spirit life or state of bondage for Christ's new-creation spirit and Gospel-principles of true freedom God will be strict in marking all done amiss herein by them and accordingly pour out his wrath upon them in this dispensation All principles and actions will then be weighed in God's new-creation-sanctuary ballance as the right test for Wheat Barley c. And whatever men's attainments be on single first-creation principles they will be found too light for acceptance with God So their punishment for detaining any part thereof will be just And a peculiar care will be had of God's new-creation Oil and Wine and a righteous recompence
preparatory dispensation to make the whole Earth drunk therewith In these last days will this woman deck her self with more subtilty than ever in the attire of an Harlot signified by the Gold Silver and precious Stones with which then to be adorned And by riding on her humane Beast is held forth the willingness of evil men to serve the said mystical Woman or evil Angel in all her designs Both will be arrayed with the highest natural first-creation-excellencies transformed into the likeness of the second the forbidden linsy-woolsy garment presumptuously put on by both to commit all sorts of spiritual fornication and whoredom together against the true spiritual Lord and Husband of blessed Angels and Saints In stead of yeilding obedience to his command in parting with the fading life and glory of their fleshly natural state in exchange for his unchangeable new-creature spirit and life they retain and deck the former with the appearance thereof on purpose to give the utmost shock of opposition to it This will ripen them for that full Vial of Wrath that 's to be poured upon them as their just recompence In this preparatory day every sort of spiritual wickedness shall be found out and judged answerable to the measure of light received and sinned against All of them will be found such as from wilful enmity to Christ's new-creation-spirit have made themselves so drunk by taking in the wine of the first from the old Serpent as from thence to become drunk with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus for owning his new name life and words thereof So do they make up Babylon in a mystery guilty of the deepest and most criminal spiritual idolatries and uncleanness little before taken notice of by spiritual Saints themselves who with John when by this angelical ministry made to see the twofold mysterious name of this Woman and Beast will be astonish'd and greatly wonder at so foul a spirit under such fair appearances For then will they see high blasphemies spiritual fornications and idolatries committed by evil Angels and Men in exact imitation of the chaste wedlock-union of Christ and his Saints This highest sort of mysterious wickedness the Devil has kept in reserve till these last days by the most exquisite counterfeitings of the heavenly resurrection-state of Christ and Saints This twofold work then the finding out and judging the most secret spiritual wickednesses of evil Angels and Men is to be the great business of the angelical ministry preparatory to our Lord's coming In the beginning of it shall they waken up and open the spiritual senses of Saints to see the mystical name and nature of the Woman and Beast and hereby fit them to be joyned with themselves before the end of their dispensation for the full detecting and judging the Whore and seat of the Beast When the new-creation-voice of Christ shall by blessed Angels and Saints be harmoniously sounded forth not only the secret spiritual evil of every one shall be found out but the wrath due to all guilty thereof signally poured forth upon them And hereby also will the just and irrevocable judgment of God be set up in the conscience of the Whore and universal Kingdom of the Beast This is signified by that fall of mystical Babylon which will be very great This fall will be effected by the powerful light of this preparatory day shining forth in blessed Angels and Saints to the laying flat all opposers with all their subtilties and disguises This by such an irresistable discovery of the inward mind of the Woman and Beast as to make their evil union appear without any shelter pretence or cover And so both therein will be found to make up the great mystical Babylon as incorporated together the hold of every unclean spirit and cage of every foul and hateful bird Rev. 18. 2. whatever fair and religious shews they have hitherto bin covered with The light of this preparatory dispensation will be also the mystical fire in and upon this Whore mystical Babylon by which she is to be burnt This fire will the Lord irresistibly kindle in and upon his implacable enemies so as to render their place or state perpetual desolations Hereby will be blasted all the fruits of their natural state at best after which their Souls have inordinately lusted so as wilfully to disdain the new-creation-state and spiritual fruits thereof So as their just punishment all those things of their natural state which in their day and season were good shall depart from them and they shall no longer find any pleasure in them Plagues and punishments shall come thick upon them to the full even spiritual death and famine as the unchangeable portion of all such offenders When God shall begin to deal thus with those mystical merchants of the Earth that have bin thus traffiquing in the mercinary principles of the Law set up by them in a known opposition to the Gospel will the said judgments be executed upon them But such as have a seed of true Saintship though they have bin involved in the same error for a season ignorantly as Paul once by the new-creation-voice of Christ sounded by Angels and ripen'd Saints will they be waken'd up into the exercise of spiritual senses and come out of the said mystical Babylon and so not partake of her Plagues They shall then stand for off from her in a holy admiration at their own deliverance and wonder to see her so great riches in a moment brought to nothing All this shall happen on the opening of the sealed up judgments for the evil Angels and their serpentine seed amongst Men their associates and attendants and the pouring forth of the Vial of wrath upon them which they have bin filling up by their wicked practices And hereupon will the Kingdom of the Beast be full of darkness For himself and subjects will be all discovered in their unchangeably black dark natures and principles as fixed in unchangeable enmity to God and his new-creation-spirit of light and truth So will they be able no longer to hide themselves or deceive others by their crafty sinful practices as before they have And this beginning judgment on them as a degree of God's unchangeable wrath will make them gnaw their Tongues for pain And though forced to see the punishment just will they retain an implacable enmity to the hand that once offered to do them good implied in their blaspheming the God of Heaven for their incureable spiritual sores and not in the least repenting of the evils that brought them The sixth Vial towards the compleating the just judgments of God on every part of the first-creation as set up against the second is poured on the great River Euphrates This with the consequents we find Rev. 16. 12 -16. This River in Scripture holds forth the first-creation-spirit as having had it s allotted season to be owned of God as beautiful in the right use thereof on a convincing sight therein given of the
better thing and state by God provided for and offered to them In order to this they find that by obedience to the law of the Cross God in love requires from them that that River be dryed up Whoever refuse to submit to the dispensation that is to do this the same thing will be done by the same hand in displeasure pouring out this Vial of wrath which will blast and dry up the most flourishing streams of this great River that must universally be dried away and brought into a state of mystical death in all Men good and bad In a more remarkable manner than ever before is this to be the work of the preparatory dispensation to make way for the coming of the spiritual Kings of the East Christ and his choice Saints to raign on the Earth Rev. 5. 10. The glorious Sun of everlasting righteousness will fill the whole Earth with his bright rays and beams when he personally shines forth Then all in the first creation that shall not willingly disappear as to their own fading life and glory which is the due homage to his greater and everlasting shall have Vials of wrath poured on them so as signally to blast and dry up all their life and fruits And if when they see and feel this as God's just dealing with the first-creation-state they do in a wilful enmity to the light of the day keep up the same still as their place of rest and safety then shall all their strength and labour therein come to nothing All their sowing in and to the flesh shall afford them no other fruit to reap but corruption Their most beautiful Garments wrought and woven in that spirit shall not warm or secure them The most curious webs spun and made up therein shall by the light of this day be discovered insufficient to cover them Their best works are iniquity Esay 56. 6. The changeable nature of work principle and worker will be manifested The strength therefore and vigour of all will be then more signally dried up than ever before And then shall God's twofold great design be evident for taking down the first-creation-building and setting up the second in a visibility The former is called Man's House the latter Gods On what pretence soever then any shall in that day presume to build or establish their own house in opposition to God's they will be blasted and disappointed At that time Angel or Man that shall lay anew the foundation of the old building that 's then to be pull'd down and laid wast will find themselves under the curse threatned on the rebuilders of demolished Jerico and be totally frustrated as to their vain attempt and rebellious design as they at Babel for setting up the first-creation-principle in a towring and gigantick height to war against God and the second or Heaven itself God will command the Heaven to with-hold its dew and the Earth her fruits suspending and withdrawing the first-covenant-presence and fructifying influence of Christ as a fleshly Bridegroom formerly for a season afforded them By the new-creation-voice of Christ all the first World and glory thereof shall be as declared dealt with as grass and all its fruits blasted and withered by the spirit of the Lord Esay 40. 6 7. Their holy Flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their Feet their Eyes in their holes and Tongues in their Mouth Zech. 14. 12. All this shews the vanity and misery of Man as endeavouring to keep up the whole or any part of his make in single first-creation-life which is but a fading flower at best For if not obediently surrendred and chang'd for what is spiritual and unchangeable the sentence of death passed on it in all will be executed in final displeasure on the wilful resisters thereof And when this Euphrates is dried up in wrath So as no longer to cover the deceitful workings of Angel or Man in the form against the power of godliness and righteousness of God John saw three unclean spirits like Frogs come out of the mouths of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet that is evil Angels and Men that are of their party in worldly States and Churches shall then be seen and known in those shapes and births in which they have till then lain hid by a sinful transforming of themselves into the likeness of Christ and his Apostles Prophets and Saints By the light of this day will they be detected and so lose all their former credit and authority Therefore though still working false Miracles or lying wonders in a spirit of falshood to deceive they shall prevail only on such Men as are ready to be made unchangeable in their evil minds whom the Devil will then gather together even the Kings and chief inhabitants of his wicked earth against the great day of God Almighty or of Christ's personal presence And herein will he be permitted till by Christ's own sentence sent into a chained up-state or place But in all this have we seen the opening of the Seals and pouring forth of the Vials only in their invisible operations for laying open all sorts of natural principles and the secret hypocrisy and enmity that is the old leaven which hath sowred and corrupted the whole lump of man's natural being The hidden works of dishonesty and darkness herein wrought shall now be discovered and proclaimed as if done on the house top visible to all And all this yet is but a fore-running report to the full punishment from Christ's own presence to be inflicted on such incorrigible Sinners This report will smite them with raging madness The visible effects of the Seals and Vials open'd and pour'd forth will shew how far this preparatory day is to extend in its influence on the material parts of this World As the destruction of the former World was a requisite punishment of the Inhabitants by Water will the super-abounding iniquity of this expose it to an universal destruction by Fire 2 Pet. 3. 6 7. The water-destruction pointed out the Sin of that day under that dispensation an abuse of the restor'd natural state as rather turn'd into pollution then rightly used as a passage into the spiritual So what God gave as a blessing to them they turned into a judgment So the water-punishment declared the nature of their Sin The present World is guilty of the same wilful abuse of renewed natural principles and also spiritual enlightning gifts by which the state of true life and salvation is now brought so near through our ascended nature in Christ's person as to give remarkable tasts thereof Heb. 6. 4 5. even to the natural principle Yet it is too generally refused or at least not diligently hearkened unto and heeded in this present age The nature of this sort of wilful offences fits the invisible parts of this World for a spiritual everlasting burning of wrath And as the compleating of this punishment must this World pass through such a material burning as will become the certain
People The natural man spirit life or state at best in the persons of Saints is their free-will-offerings figured by the Israelit's literal So by a happy transformation or translation into the spiritual life of Christ become their whole persons at length true lively Stones in his new-creation-Sanctuary figured by the literal 1 Pet. 2. 5. This comes to pass and this come they to by being with Paul obedient to the heavenly vision or discovery of Christ's spiritual heavenly life of truth for which made willing in this day of his power the powerful angelical preaching the everlasting Gospel to part with the but earthly natural fleshly life of their own spirit or nature even with the freedom and life of their own wills as their true free-will-offerings to God under the kindlings and in the same mystical fire Christ himself kindled on the spirit of our nature at best in his own very person To this will Saints be induced by the Angels preaching the everlasting Gospel-life of Christ to them presenting the riches and fulness of his new-creature-nature to the inward senses of his heavenly and earthly glorified spiritual Seed This will not only fill them with unspeakable joy but powerfully convince all unprejudiced reasonable men of the worship due to Christ from all Then shall the new-creature Temple in Christ figured by Solomon's the pattern for which was received from the true temple-spirit 1 Chron. 28. 12. be so open'd as not only to give a view of the divine inhabitant thereof to be worshipped but allow and warrant a free access and safe approach to the divine Majesty For Christ is both the house and builder thereof the presenter also of Saints Prayers unto God most high And for the said House sake will all be accepted according to promise even all persons and performances found to be done in the spirit of the House true Sanctuary-light and life Then shall the seed of the Kingdom be qualified in their awaken'd spiritual senses both to look into and read with delight and comfort the law of God's divine mind and will engraven in Christ's new-creature-nature or spirit of truth which is the living Book or word of God in and by which is given the vision of the divine glory for their everlasting blessedness and also the whole of his requirings from them in reference thereunto The powerful preaching or opening all this to them will in a high degree priviledg them both to see and do the whole will of God Now in order to such a Gospel-preaching as shall be the effectual means of bringing such great and glorious things to pass the preachers will be endowed with that universal new-creature-tongue and understanding which comprehends all other tongues and knowledg The confusion of languages at Babel as to the words of man's wisdom in his own spirit nature and way will be no obstruction to this universal Gospel-preaching to all Nations in the words of God's wisdom or true new-creature-spirit of prophecy A demonstration hereof was given by the said Spirit in the Apostles They could make themselves understood by people of various Languages Act. 2. 4 11. In this universal new-creation-tongue will the angelical preachers raise the seed of first-born-Saints out of their Grave or crucified nature into such a heavenly spiritual life as will capacitate and qualify them to judg the highest elect angels as exalted into a life light and discerning above them Yet till then they receive instruction from spiritual Angels as their teachers and guardians Heb. 1. 14. The next service of Love these angelical preachers will perform is to the earthly seed of spiritual Saints to whom under Christ they are ever to be the instructing and nursing Parents having received from Christ the highest earthly glorified wisdom in the highest conjunction with yet subjection to the wisdom of the heavenly creature-spirit which is above it and them So will Angels be subjected rulers under Christ over his first-resurrection-Saints in a glorified earthly spiritual life Thirdly in their natural make distinct from both the former qualifications are the holy Angels fitted to preach the highest single natural wisdom to the rational righteous man in the largest and most extensive intuitive way of communication that principle in Man is capable of receiving These angelical Ministers will also declare the right use Men are to make of such instruction by growing out of this lowest degree of Christ's obedient Subjects that 's but a changeable state into an everlasting blessed state of spiritual life and true freedom the glorious liberty of the Sons of God And herein have we seen these spiritual builders or preachers fitly qualified to provide all sorts of materials for the visible Kingdom of Christ This by speaking the words of wisdom suited to every distinct principle and understanding in those of whom this Kingdom consists as an adaequate agreeable knowledg of God to all They will declare the good will of God for restoring to all in general the free and orderly exercise of their intellectual rational and sensual powers they were first created in But all this in order to their yeilding subjection to a spiritual state kept in reserve for them through which to be brought into such unchangeable union with Christ's new-creature-spirit as that is in with the divine The very divine Oracles and Laws of God's mind shall then as in Moses his time be committed to these spiritual Ministers who by their new-creation-tongue and universal knowledg will be capacitated for the declaring thereof They will be furnish'd with the very essentials of all right ministry and magistracy by which to lay the sure foundations of both as to spirituals and civils on which the visible Kingdom of Christ must be built Hereby will the everlasting benefit of the government in both become so evident as irresistibly to prevail not only with awaken'd spiritual Saints but enlightned and reformed natural Men for their full consenting to the same So without the least force or compulsion the Nations of this new World shall in an abundant manner flow in unto the Lord voluntarily yeilding a ready subjection to Christ's angelical preachers so as to shew the same not to proceed from fear but for conscience-sake And Christ shall have the whole glory of all For the holy Angels will declare it to be in the power of his spirit they do all and that it is his will alone is done by them in all their proparatory work This work will so influence the Nations of the new World as to cause the congregation of spiritual Israelites to bring themselves as free-will-offerings to Christ the spiritual materials and subjects of which his new-creation-Sanctuary and Kingdom is to consist So see we the high honour of these spiritual builders and preachers in this preparatory day Their feet will be beautiful and glorious in this angelical mount or ministration proclaiming the glad tydings of their Lord 's sudden coming to reign visibly in this World They will powerfully
these remarkable dealings of God in order to these wonderful designs taken notice of not only by the World in general but the professing party amongst whom must be found as to seed the wise-Virgin-spirit Even such also are slumbring and sleeping in this dark day and in such a remarkable calm of security as is a most certain prefage of a storm And if this be the temper of God's friends a spiritual seed what can be expected from incorrigible enemies on such a wonderful commotion and shaking of their power but a coming forth in their utmost strength and highest expressions of rage and malice to maintain themselves against that power the very light of the day convinces them will undermine and destroy them and all their worldly interests literal and mystical But to spiritual Saints awaken'd and found alive this dispensation that is so amazing and confounding to others as to make their Hearts fail for fear of what is coming upon the Earth becomes a cherishing food causing them to lift up their heads though involv'd in God's outward chastisement of the World as having a common share therein They are supported and owned by God as Friends to whom he communicates the secret of his designs in all He shews them he is therein pleading their cause in destroying his and their enemies and securing his beloved Lots mystically and also litterally so far as is for his glory and their good Though therefore the Figtree their natural Spirit blossom not nor fruit be in the Vine or true and choice plants of the Kingdom though the labour of the Olive fail and there be no meat in the Field no stock in the fold or herd in the stalls Hab. 3. 17. that is though there be a mystical as well as litteral Famine by the total drying up of all Food to the natural mind as well as body yet to the powerful faith of spiritual Saints is it a time of rejoycing in their spiritual Lord invisibly communicating his hidden and incorruptible Manna to them which is a Bread of Life not only to their spiritual but natural Man also which lives not by that Bread which is the single food of the natural Spirit but such as the living Word of God is and gives unto the whole Man of his Saints for ever Mat. 4. 4. And then shall their natural man as with Hinds feet walk upon the high places of this first-creation-world in a conquering and victorious spirit over them Saints will find themselves more and more established in their spiritual faith and expectation of Christ's visible Kingdom by those very ways and means concerning which the fleshly mind or natural spirit at best as well as the profane world do with with the Samaritan Lord judg impossible to bring about such a design The true Believer is so far from thinking God's arm shortned or hand weakned on this withdrawing all sort of visible help from them as thereby to be quickned up into the expectation of those angelical powers Christ hath in reserve to work their deliverance by Nothing to them seems lacking but such a powerful exercise of their precious faith as may give them a patient waiting upon God for the performance and that with great advantage of whatever he hath promised as to the actual setting up of Christ's kingdom and rule of love over them Then will our blessed Lord arise out of his holy new-creature Temple and in his spiritual glory or second appearance take a visible possession of that universal power and authority which was always his right from the foundation of the World He will bow and open those Heavens in which all this while retained Act. 3. 21. He will descend and actually let down that new-Jerusalem-glory out of the said Heaven which is the proper clothing provided by himself for his heavenly and earthly-glorified Saints For when the preparatory work is compleated the King himself will suddenly appear Even so come Lord Jesus and all thy Saints with thee come quickly Amen FINIS