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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60634	Gospel-tydings wherein is shewed what the Gospel administration was, the apostacy from it, and the restauration into it again : being a message of true and unfeigned love ... / [by] W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4306; ESTC R42733	15,605	20

Gospel-Tydings Wherein is shewed What the Gospel-Administration was the Apostacy from it and the Restauration into it again BEING A Message of true unfeigned Love UNTO All that are seeking peace in their own way and wearying themselves in their own wanderings that they may come to the Light of Christ Jesus and be established in the Power of the Gospel where Life and Peace and rest is witnessed With a tender GREETING UNTO THE Royal Off-spring of God W. S. LONDON Printed in the year 1662. Gospel Tidings c. THat there was a time in which the Gospel was preached and published is a thing which generally is confessed by all that profess Christianity but that there was an apostatizing from it and a night of thick darkness came over that dispensation is a thing that few understand and therefore it is that the appearance of the same Gospel which at this day is broken forth in light out of the night of apostacie and preached again in the same power is by so few believed and received for as that spirit and power doth remain in people which led into the apostacie and went over that glorious dispensation of the Gospel that then was even so it blinds their mindes that the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ doth not shine unto them though by the same spirit power in which it was then preached it be preached again and so through the ignorance that is in them they are led captive in Error having Eyes but see not Eares but hear not hearts but do not understand so are not converted nor healed but in darkness abides and in darkness walks in their own way and such wearies themselves in an endless travel being driven about with divers doctrines which is held forth in mans cunning part that lies in wait to deceive by which they are tossed from one thing to another and catches at words and sounds instead of life and power and so the many Inventions have been sought out and set up with which people please themselves as if they were in the right way though there is a cry in many which is not satisfied in it And these Inventions which are come up in the long night of apostacie and observed and practised as if they were a Gospel dispensation they want the virtue with which the gospel gives satisfaction and are found dry and emptie Cisterns which yeilds no refreshings for they onely lye in forms without and not in the light and power of God within in which the gospel hath a free passage to the soul in its own virtue and therefore unto that all people must come from which the night of apostacy hath caused them to erre that they may feele the dispensation of the Gospel in its own power and virtue for the Gospel is not changed into any new Invention though people have invented many new forms every one sets up their own form as a gospel dispensation yet their form doth not make a Gospel administration neither can any breathing desire receive peace or satisfaction therein for whose minds are turned outwards looking for the Kingdom of God in observations they deceive themselves with a vain hope runs themselves at a greater distance from the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ by how much they place their belief in any invented form by so much the more they err from the power which is the Gospel loses the virtue of its administration whilst they are seeking the Kingdom of God in formes and observations without they neglect the power of the Gospel which ministreth an entrance into the Kingdom of God within Now as it is generally confessed that there was a time in which the Gospel was preached and published so it is to be considered in what principle their administration stood who was the ministers of it and how they became worthy to be put in trust with it for the Apostle said Our exhortation was not of deceit nor of ucleanness nor of guile but as we are allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel even so we speak not at pleasing men but God which trieth our hearts 1. Thess 2. mark they were blowed of God and put in trust with the Gospel by him having received Christ Jesus into their hearts by the manifestation of his light and love and so were found worthy in Christ to be put in trust with the Gospel for by the holy principle of Light which they had received in Christ Jesus they received power to Crucifie deceit uncleanness and guile and thereby they became renewed in the Spirit of their mindes unto God who put them in trust with the gospel in that which was pure and clean in which he allowed them to be ministers of it not in words onely but also in power so that their words which in the power was ministred they were spoken as in the sight of God who tried their hearts and they did not frame their words to please men but in the power by which they were made ministers they were made manifest unto every mans Conscience in the sight of God and the Apostle said Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place for we are not as many which corrupt the Word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ 2. Cor. 2. marke they spake in Christ and so were manifest to every mans Conscience in the sight of God and the measure of Christ in every one bare witness unto their testimony though such as did not joyn to the measure of Christ in themselves could not receive it yet the same principle in which they spake did bear witness to it in every mans Conscience and so they stood approved unto God and not unto men whereby it is evident that they had received Christ Jesus and that he was in them for they spake in him and that was the Gospel which they preached and which many receiv●d as glad tidings that brought life and immortallity unto their souls and they that did receive the glad tydings of the gospel and did abide in it they became followers of the Lord and of the truth in the love of it so that the savour of life in them that ministred did reach the life in them that believed by which life they all came into the fellowship of the gospel and so they that ministred was a sweet savour in the hearts of those that believed and the Apostle said My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of mans wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man but in the power of God for what man knows the things of a man save the Spirit of man which is in him Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God Now

we have received not the Spirit of the World but the Spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God which things also we speak not in the words which mans wisdome teacheth but which the holy Ghost teacheth comparing Spiritual things with Spiritual 1. Cor 2. mark they had not received the Spirit of the world but the Spirit which is of God that was their principle in the Spirit of God they knew the things that was freely given of God in the same principle in which they freely received they freely ministred this was the preaching of the Gospel then not according to mans wisdom but in Christ Jesus the power wisdom of God in which gospel many believed and were saved and the Apostle said Moreover brethren I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you which also you have received and wherein ye stand by which also ye are saved if ye keep in memorie what preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain 1. Cor. 15 mark the Gospel which then was preached they that received it stood in it and were saved by it and they were not to let it slip out of their mindes but to keep it in memorie that they might not believe in vain and many did so receive it in the love of it as they did retain it and the salvation in it and was preserved by the power of it to hold fast that which they had received and such continued in their well doing and persevered unto the end and died in the faith having obtained eternall redemption and Salvation by the power of the Gospel and unto whom this Gospel was hid it was hid unto them that was lost in whom the God of this World had blinded the mindes of them which believed not least the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them 2. Cor. 4. And such perished in their gain saying not receiving the truth in the love of it but gave up themselves to believe lyes which the God of this World led them into and blinded their mindes with and such could not see though they had Eyes nor hear though they had Eares nor understand though they had hearts and so was not converted nor healed by the power of the Gospel though in the same power it was preached unto them as unto those that did believe in it and receive it and so it became the savour of life unto life in those that believed and the savour of death unto death in those that perished and as there were many which could neither see nor hear nor understand the glorious dispensation of the Gospel but were blinded by the God of this World unto whom they yeilded themselves to obey and so were never converted not healed but perished in their gainsaying even so there were many whole Eyes were opened and Ears unstopped and hearts broken who did both see and hear and understand the true and living message of the Gospel and yet did not abide in that which they had seen and heard and understood not likeing to retein God in their knowledge but yeilded themselves again unto the God of this World and so became vailed from the Light of the glorious Gospel that they lost the sight of that which they had seen and the hearing of that which they had heard and the understanding of that which they had in some measure understood and by the God of this World unto whom they yeilded themselves again their hearts were darkned and their mindes blinded and though professing themselves to be wise they became fooles having put away faith and a good Conscience and made shipwrack of it though they were gone from the Gospel and the power of it in themselves yet they reteined the form and became more in love with the form then the power and so did not onely err from the power but turned against it and denied it and of this sort they were that crept into houses and led silly women captive loaden with sins and led away with divers lusts 2 Tim 3. For they being erred from the power of God and having made shipwrack of saith and a good Conscience they were gone into Captivity themseves and so led others to follow them and captivated them in the forme in which they were always learning but never came to the knowledge of the truth and so many apostatized from the Light of the glorious Gospel and denied the power of it after that they had seen and heard and understood somthing of it and such became false brethren who turned the grace of God into Lasciviousness and denied the onely Lord God and the Lord Jesus Christ as in Jude So that after the Saints deceased who by the power of the Gospel was cleansed and with its vertue washed from all filthiness of flesh and spirit and did retain it and hold it fast in the pure principle of life then did the Apostacy overspread and the darkness of it covered the Earth and the God of this World came into dominion and ruled in the hearts of people and in darkness they conceived what was in the power practised and thereby people came to be deceived being erred from the principle of God and so that hath been taken for a Gospel dispensation whcih in the unclean part hath been conceived and practised and in that unrighteous nature the truth hath been held for by the God of this World peoples minds have been corrupted their Eyes blinded hereby it may be understood how the apostacy entered and how the Gospel dispensation came to be lost and how the many invented forms came to be set up and observed with which people now seemes to be well pleased and satisfied and every one according to their own perswasion observes their own for me as a Gospel dispensation yet in all ages since the apostacy entered there hath been something of God stirring in some particular that hath breathed after the enjoyment of that life which in pure Gospel times was witnessed amongst the Saints and Gospel worshippers but the God of this World being in dominion it hath been Crushed and quenched in its rising and hath been beaten down again by a strong hand which the God of this World hath stretched forth against it so that it could not come to spread abroad in the liberty of the life but hath alway been suppressed in its rising by the force of Laws which the God of this World hath invented but now it hath pleased God in the fulness of time to reveale his Son in power and great glory who hath brought life and Immortallity to Light by his appearance in whoselife and power the Gospel is preached again and many have believed and received the glad tydings of it who some times were wandering in the apostacy and seeking peace in their own way but could not finde it for which cause they many