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A38580	Nor truth, nor error, nor day, nor night, but in the evening there shall be light, Zach. 14. 6, 7 being the relation of a publike discourse in Maries Church at Oxford between Mr. Cheynel and Mr. Erbery January 11, 1646.	Erbery, William, 1604-1654.; Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing E3234; ESTC R26470	19,304	31

made known to the sons of men This is plainly foretold in the old Prophets and in that last Prophet of the New Testament who speaking of things to come in the apostacy and dayes of Antichrist saith That he saw a book written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals and no man in heaven or earth nor under the earth was able to open the book nor to look thereon Revel. 5. 1 3. This Book is the mystery of Christ the Word of God and the Book of God in whom both the will and good Will of God are written and by whom all the counsels decrees and deep things of God are declared the mysteries of heaven and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in him yet manifested as I said to the Apostles and Prophets and primitive Saints But the Book was since sealed and that with seven seals that is perfectly sealed and sealed from the seven Churches that is from all the Churches comprised under the number of seven for the seven seals hath reference to those seven Churches now no Church yea no man in heaven or earth or under the earth none in Church-fellowship or not in fellowship no man of never so high apprehension or deep discoveries of spiritual things could open or read the Book or look thereon that 's more not look thereon that is since the apostacy no man hath had scarce an outward knowledge not a knowledge of the mystery of Christ in the Letter much less in the Spirit not seen what was written without much less within This the old Prophets spake by the Spirit also Isai. 8 16 17 Binde up the Testimony seal the Law among my Disciples The Testimony is the Book the Word in the Letter the Law is the Spirit the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ the mystery of Christ both in the Letter and Spirit of life were bound and sealed and that from the Disciples of Christ and therefore as John wept so Isaiah waits for him who hides his face from the house of Jacob and looks for him that is for Christ in whose face the glory of God shines that was hid from the whole Church the house of Jacob So Isaiah 29. 10 11. The vision of all is become as a Book that is sealed that neither learned nor unlearned could read it Neither Prophet nor Ruler nor Seer no Prophet in the Church no Ruling Elder nor the most seeing spiritual Member of the Church could see it to the Mystery nor look thereon yea the v●sion of all nothing was seen not in the Spirit scarce in the Letter the Reason is given Verse 13. Because the fear of me is taught by the precepts of men that is the knowledge and worship of Christ was taught by mens traditions forms framed by old Creeds and Councels new Catechisms and Confessions of Churches as if the Scriptures and Spirit were not sufficient to teach men all the knowledge of God and Christ clear enough therefore God proceeds to do a marvellous work and wonder The wisdome of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of the prudent shall be hid that both Fathers Doctors and Divines could not read the Book nor look thereon yet there is a promise Verse 18. That in that day the ears of the deaf shall hear the words of the Book They that erred in spirit shall come to understanding and they that murmured shall loarn doctrine Verse 24. Seventhly That Book which was sealed before shall be open again and so it is Revel. 10. 1 2. There the little Book is open The mystery of Christ in us is called a little Book in opposition to those huge Tomes and mighty Volumes of Fathers Councels and Commentators Treatises c. which have been all the dayes of Antichrist But in the day of Christ when Christ shall appear in the Saints then shall the Mystery be but a little Book ' ti● no more then God manifest in mans flesh if a man could manifest this Mystery to the World as the Apostles could there would be an end of the Church controversie this day for without controversie great is the mystery of godlinesse God manifest in flesh c. But this is that I would say That the mystery of God shall be more gloriously revealed in the last times after Antichrists destruction and deliverance of the Saints from the apostacy then ever it was by the Apostles themselves at first This I have shewn more fully in our private speakings and shall if called to give a publike account But now it is enough that when the seventh Angel begins to sound the mystery of God shall be finished as he hath declared by his servants the Prophets Revel. 10. 7. What is the mystery of God but the man Christ Jesus how that man is God how God is manifest in mans flesh this hath been declared by the Prophets more fully then in the writings of the Apostles excepting John and he gives but some hints of that high and heavenly Mystery which the Scriptures of the Prophets do more gloriously speak out by whom the Mystery is revealed though not to them Rom. 16. 27. 1 Pet. 1. 13. compared And as the Prophets did minister not to themselves but to the Apostles so the Apostles do minister many things of the mystery of Christ not to themselves but to us in these last times to whom the mystery of God shall be fulfilled which was to them revealed but in part Revel. 10. 7. I date not say that any thing of this Mystery is revealed to me nor yet dare I deny the teachings of God But what I have taught as I would no man to trust me so I wish all men to try me and to hold fast that which is good This is all that I know of this yet if yet I know any thing First That the Son and the Saints make one perfect man and that the fulness of the Godhead dwells in both in the same measure though not in manifestation Secondly That the fulness of the Godhead shall be manifested in the flesh of the Saints as in the flesh of the Son These two things which others see as Heresie and Blasphemy seems to me as Truths both in Scriptures and by that Spirit which speaks in me If any man can convince me by proofs or power of Argument I shall submit and be silent But because I am forcibly commanded and called forth to speak in publike I shall according to the power of God in me do these two things First Prove the Doctrines by plain Scriptures Secondly Then propound my Arguments from thence My proofs for the first are from Christ and his Apostles both to me teach this one thing viz. That the fulness of the Godhead dwells in the Saints as in the Son in the same measure though not in the same manifestation he being in this last sense Anointed above his fellows and God manifest in flesh But seeing we are his Brethren we

flesh that 's their land and make it one with himself then love them as his Son as a Bridegroom rejoyceth over the Bride so shall thy God rejoyce over thee yea joy over thee with singing too as another Prophet addes resting in his love Why Because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee God in our flesh This again is a third story of that glory the Saints are taken up with the Son not onely perfect union with the Father and sulness of love but living for ever also with the Son in God for that 's the meaning of that Verse 24. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me may be with me where I am in the same mansion in the same place that is as I said in the fulness of the Godhead in all the fulness of God that they may behold this he sayes That this may be manifest to them and the world also for the Saints sit with the Son already in heavenly places yea are with him at the right hand of God and therefore are said to dwell in Heaven whom therefore the Dragon doth blaspheme even God and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven that is the Saints who are the Tabernacle of God in whom God dwells and so they blaspheme God in them calling them for this blasphemers But let us hear what the Apostles of Christ can say for this Paul prayes for the Ephesians That they may comprehend with all Saints what is the bredth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth all knowledge that they may be filled with all the fulness of God Ephes. 3. 18 19. Here 's a great word and wonderful Glory a Mystery that hath all dimensions in it such a height that no carnal man can reach unto a depth that none can dive into a length that none can compass the end thereof and such a bredth that none can comprehend with all their vast understandings yet he prayes that they with all Saints of the lowest size the least capacity may comprehend and know the love of Christ that passeth all knowledge that is the love of God in Christ as the Geneva notes well that we may be filled with all the fulness of God that is that all the fulness of the Godhead may be manifest to them and others also That he prayes for For they were already filled with all the fulness of God Again the Apostle is plainer in his proof Col. 2. 2 9 10. where he speaking of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ so we read but falsly as in other places of this nature as if there were first God the divine Nature then the Father then Christ whereas 't is in Greek The mystery of that God and Father there 's the first and then of Christ as also 1 Thes. 3. 11. Now God himself and the Father 't is now that God himself and Father or as the Geneva reads in both places the mystery of God even the Father that 's the first part of the mystery then the mystery of Christ is the second what 's that In him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily And ye are compleat in him compleat 't is in the Greek ye are filled with what with all fulness of the Godhead as we shewed before Ephes. 3. For as it pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell in the Son so it s his pleasure the same fulness and measure should dwell in the Saints though the Son hath in all things the preeminence in manifestation yet the fulness of the Godhead shall be also manifested in the Saints which is my second to prove That the fulness of the Godhead shall be also manifest in the flesh of the Saints as in the Son This John as he did in his Gospel so in his Epistles makes plain to me at least Beloved now are we the sons of God but it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is When he shall appear that is in us when that glory shall be revealed in us Then we shall be like him that is appear with him in glory in the same glory of the Son we shall be like him For we shall see him as he is the Saints under the Gospel saw Christ in Spirit and the glory of God shining forth in his face yet onely in a glass darkly but after the apostacy no man at all could see the least glimsp of that glory or look into the Book The Mystery of Christ or look thereon but after the apostacy and falling away being full the day of Christ follows immediately and then we shall see him as he is how is that we shall see him in God even the Father and in us also and our selves in him and with him living in God as I said The Saints shall be seen in the Son this is called by Paul The manifestation of the sons of God the glorious liberty of the sons of God For if the Son that is in us make us free we shall be free indeed John 8. 36. Therefore as the first falling away and apostacy of Churches was in doctrine not in worship so the first doctrine which was darkned with the smoke of the bottomless pit with the spirit of Antichrist it was the Sun The Son was darkned and so the Father also for he that denieth the Son the same hath not the Father Now here 's the first deceit of Antichrist in denying the Father and the Son 1 John 2. 22. No Protestant or Papist denies this say they But Antichrist is a liar though in a form of words father and son is confessed yet in truth in power and spirit they deny both They deny the Father in the Son and deny the Son in the Saints denying God in Christ and the Father all in all in his flesh For God even the Father the everlasting Father was born and brought forth in that flesh God in flesh lived with men and in flesh God gave his life for men purchasing the Church with his own blood 't was God rose and God ascended in flesh yea the Son was nothing but as he was in God the Son could do nothing of himself but the Father in him did all the works and as God was in Christ and God all in all in his flesh so Christ in us all in all in our flesh Christ the man-childe is brought forth in us liveth in our flesh suffers in us and shall rise in us and we shall ascend also with him for as the two witnesses those few Saints who yet are a full witness for Christ and against Antichrist were killed in the City where our Lord was crucified Revel. 11. 8. That 's spiritually in the Mystery being crucified with Christ in their flesh so those Saints are said to

rise Verse 11. and to ascend Verse 12. Secondly Antichrist denies Christ to be come in flesh 1 John 4. 3. Not to come in flesh of the Virgin made of a woman this all carnal Christians confess in their Creed But Antichrist denies Christ to be come in our flesh and our flesh to be anointed of God and with God for that 's Christ the anointed of God God manifest in flesh Now God was ever manifest in the flesh of the Saints though they knew it not before and the flesh of the Saints is the anointed of God anointed with all the fulness of God for so it follows 1 John 2. 20. Ye have an unction from the holy One whereby ye know all things that is as he that is born of God sinneth not at all because the seed remaineth in him there is a principle the Son the Word the immortal Seed is in them so he that is born of God in whom God is brought forth knoweth all things because there is a power in him God in his flesh teaching him all things that 's the unction Therefore 1 John 2. 27. the anointing abiding in the Saints teacheth them all things and they need not that any man teach them c. that is while they abide in the anointing and attend on God in them and hearken to the Father as the Son did As I hear I judge and I speak to the world the things I have heard of him I can do nothing of my self but as my Father hath taught me I speak these things Thus the Son had no Tutor or Teacher but the Father God in his flesh if the Saints saw this fulness in themselves the fulness of God anointing their flesh this would free them from that bondage to Men Means and Ministers This is Babylons destruction first by mutual divisions Isaiah 10. 26. as the Churches divided secondly by the manifestation of the anointing the discovery of Christ in the midst of the Church God in their flesh In that day the day of Christ his burden shall be taken from of thy shoulder and the yoke from of thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing Isaiah 10. 27. This is the glorious liberty of the sons of God the manifestation of the sons of God which we hope for God to be manifest in our flesh then Christ comes in flesh and thus if the Son shall make ye free ye shall be free indeed but ye are of God little children the least Saint is of God as the Son is of the Father and ye have overcome them that is the wisest and most powerful Impostors of Antichrist for greater is he in you then he that is in the world that is Christ in you God in your flesh who is greater then all whose very foolishness and weakness is wiser and stronger then all the strength and wisdom of men and whose wisdom and strength shall be manifest also in the most foolish and feeblest Saints This John in the Revelation more cleerly yet reveals for as he saw the Son in the midst of the Saints Christ in the midst of the Church so he shows that all the power of the Son the glory and honor of the Son shall be manifested in the Saints Not to speak of the old Prophets who are aboundant in holding forth this glory The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bowing unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and call thee the City of the Lord that is the Saint in whom God dwells And therefore as at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow that is to God in him for that 's his name so saith God to me shall every knee bow to me in the Saints and therefore Revel. 3. 9. The Lord God saith I will make them of the Synagogues of Satan that say they are Jews and are not but do lie behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and know that I have loved thee that is as the world shall know that the Father loves the Saints as the Son Joh. 17. 23. So the apostatized Churches that is the Synagogues of Satan for Peter himself was called so when he savored the flesh the things of man more then of God So the Jews that is legal Church members who have belied themselves into a liberty they have not boasting because of their fleshly forms and fellowships that they are above other Saints these false Churches shall come down and worship at the feet of scattered Saints who are gathered up into Christ and with Christ into God they shall worship not them but God in them and confess that God is in them of a truth The Spirits power and honor and glory as I said shall be manifested in the Saints First His power Revel. 2. 26 27. He that overcometh to him will I give power over the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and as the vessels of a Potter shall they be broken in peeces even as I have received of my Father See here the power of the Son manifested in the Saints for so the second Psalm speaks of the Son The Kings of the earth and the rulers stand up against the Lord and against his Christ who is Christ the anointed of God But the Saints with the Son Verse 3. Who would think that poor Saints should have such power yea such honor have all the Saints as to binde Kings in chains and Nobles with links of iron and to execute the judgement written of the Son Psal. 149. 8 9. Who beleeves that all the blood shed and slaughters this day in the world the dashings of Kings and Kingdoms one against another is done by the Saints though they stir not but are quiet in the land yet the Lord goes forth of them working all and wasting all by them by the weakest Saints Thou worm Jacob thou shalt thresh mountains and beat the hills to chaff that is as another Prophet phraseth it O Jacob that is the weakest Saints for Israel is the name of power but Jacob thou art my battle-ax and weapons of war with thee will I destroy Nations and dash Kingdoms in pieces like a Potters vessel This the Saints have done and do still God in them doing all in all Though this be not yet manifest in them nor to the world yet it shall be saith the Scripture The Saints shall have the same power manifest in them as in the Son Secondly The honor also of the Son shall be manifest in the Saints He that overcomes shall sit with me in my throne as I overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne Revel. 3. 21. What 's the throne of Christ but the honor given him of God to raign and to judge also The Saints shall have both not onely a rod or scepter of Iron to break Nations but a scepter of