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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43749	A testimony to the true Jesus and the faith of him wherein the way of the people called Quakers is in meekness and righteousness summed and weighed, first in a general examen of their spirit and chief principles, after in a particular review of the same as it is distinctly set forth in a book of theirs, called, Love to the Lost : wherein are many things useful for the discerning of spirits in this hour of darkness and temptation / by T. Higgenson.	Higgenson, Thomas.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1950; ESTC R31109	71,988	85

hid from such eyes or principles of flesh that Religion that saith sin is not done away for us in the Head because felt in part in our earthly members whatsoever honour it may take to it self as above others yet is but built upon the same principles with all the false Religions of the world to wit sense reason and unbeleiving conscience that is to say the Law thus Christ's first coming was to take away sin As Christ first appeared bearing and taking away sin so he shall appear the second time without sin that is not as at first condemning bearing and taking away sin for th●s he did once when he offered up himself as he first came cloathing himself upon with our sin so he shall come again cloathing us upon with his everlasting righteousness once he came in Grace taking upon himself the sin the sentence that was upon us then he shall come in more grace as having taken away sin both from off us and himself his first coming united him to our flesh and us unto him all his were gathered together in him in one body on the Cross his second coming shall unite us together with him in one glory and spirit and shall gather all Saints into one in himself as it is said The Lord my God shall come and all his Saints with thee we who beleive are entered into Rest we have Redemption perfection and life already but hid in him we wait for the same at his second coming not to be done over again but to be revealed in us those that shall trouble them who have beleived in Jesus by charging them of sin and calling to a Redemption as a thing yet to be done or that shall declare him coming again to charge or accuse his people of sin to set up in them a cross of attonement and redemption from sin such do make void his first coming in flesh which was to beat away sin such are not the Angel that shall publish his second appearance which is without sin unto salvation Jesus Christ in Person as raised up above all Principalities and Powers is the Head of his Church all that are Christ's whether those that are fallen asleep or that yet remain alive are in a mystery raised up already in him as in union with their Head they are so but they appear not so as all that were Christ's were raised up together with him when he was raised up so they shall all come together with him when he shall appear again the dead out of the graves and the living changed and all this by vertue of union the members with the Head as Christ is not Head in Spirit alone but as the whole Person so his second appearance will not be in Spirit alone but also in Person and as we are his members not as to the Spirit alone but also as to the body spiritual so our gathering together unto the coming of the Lord will not be in Spirit onely but also in the spiritual body thus the coming of the Lord in his heavenly Person and our meeting of him in our heavenly tabernacle or incorruptible state will be together the union of Head and Members and the evidence of Scriptures agreeing thereto perswading me so Let this union be kept clear as to our understanding and entire from first to last so shall the disputes of many and the diversities of their faith about the coming of the Lord be cleared and ended and the professions of this people will appear to be not according to Truth who some of them say to us the Day is come and the shadows are fled away that Day being as the Lightening that shall shine from East to West that is not coming to some first but to all that are Christs together bringing forth Redemption not of the Spiritt alone but also of the body bringing forth our Lord Jesus not onely in Spirit but also in Person and with him all that are his at coming Wherefore our union in Christ the Head and his union with us the members are Truths of a distinct nature and consideration according to the first we are in him compleat already according to the other we know him in part and grow up in measures to be in him compleat is a state more inward mor hid seen onely to faith to have him in us encreasing and in part is a thing more in sight and seen to sense and feeling learn and beleive your selves perfect in him and wait and groan for the manifestation thereof in your members let no man spoil you of your reward in the first if you would not fail and come short of the last live by faith alwayes in him though the clear and comfortable sense of him live not alwayes in you thus much of Christ his first and second Comings Anti-christ's last coming what and how COncerning Anti-christ in his last coming it may be said a conjunction of carnal things with spiritual Law and Reason with Christ was the Egg of Anti christianisme wherein that Kingdom began and whereby it has been nourished and continued unto this day Circumcision and Philosophy under the Pagan power Ceremony and works under the Papal subtil speculations in the dayes of the School-men and fair shews in the flesh in these our times all these in their several seasons having been coupled and mingled with the things of Christ and standing where they should not have made Anti-christ appear as a mystery worshipped and wondered as the true Christ In times of light or of the Apostles and first Churches he came forth in a ministry of light and righteousness of works that he might dishonour and diminish the righteousness of Christ in after ages as spiritual lights and truths decreased and declined into more carnality and darkness he likewise took up and worked by more carnal principles in later times as truth has begun to shine forth again he also has transformed himself into an Angel of light again Thus the way and method of Antichrist in general has been by a similitude of truth to deface the Truth or by lesser truths to oppose the greater by p●inciples of reason to oppose the things of faith by the letter to oppose the Spirit or by the Spirit as working all in us to oppose Christ as having wrought all for us in himself That Anti-christ in his last coming will observe the same method as before to wit a counterfeit of truth seems to be expressed by the Lord himself in his speech to his Disciples concerning Antichrist's and his own last coming Math. 24.5 26 27. Many shall come in my Name saying I am Christ some shall say he is in the desert some in the secret chambers but my coming shall be as lightening shining from East to West The last Truths or Truths last to be revealed before the coming of the Lord will be such as relate to his coming spiritual whispers and voices from Christ to the Virgins behold I come quickly and a

and a crucified Jesus may stand for a little aside among all the doctrines either named or professed this day among men for shews of light spirituality and holiness I know none to be compared with this yet if I much mistake not the glorious and eternal efficacy victory and triumph of the Son of God upon the Cross over the whole world and all things against us is by none so much obscured and debased as by this of which I think it meet at best in this place to say onely this that if the sins transgressions and evils of mankind were so great before God that all the wood of Lebanon all the Rams of Nebaioth ten thousand rivers of oyle and the first born of our body were not sufficient to offer for the sin of our soul that the bloud of Jesus and in him the eternal wisdom and righteousness of God was found onely among all things in heaven and earth to be sufficient to take away the same then let all high thoughts come down whereby any do or shall exalt themselves into an equal capacity with Christ Jesus of drinking that cup and being baptised with that baptisme in the measure and manner as he did in hope to make that attonement for their own sins which onely could be made once by Christ never to be renewed more wherefore coming to God through the bloud of Jesus beholding the glory of God in the safe of Christ and communion with God in the Spirit of Christ this is the true inward Life but he that enters in any other way may break through unto the Lord and gaze but he shall perish A twofold departure from the faith in the last dayes what the first is NOw the things hitherto spoken off give occasion to admonish you of a twofold departure that should come to pass in the last dayes the one of men holding the form of godliness but denying the power thereof 2 Tim 3 the other of men denying the form of godliness or of the words of faith and good doctrine but pretending to the power thereof 1 Tim. 4.1 2 6. seducing spirits worldly interests mingling themselves with the Gospel and Church of Christ have in every Age since the Apostles fell asleep been as the two Armes of the God of this world with the one he has defaced and vailed the image and glory of Christ in gospel-Gospel-truths with the other he has quenched the love of Christ and the power of godliness in the hearts of men The one of these defections is to be seen at this day in this our Nation in degrees of wickedness beyond what has happened in former generations namely in the Army their Leader and Commanders their Court and Clergy with all their stupified admirers and servants who have sometimes been as the sword of the Lord as the Chariot of fire wherein our Lord Jesus has ridden forth against the interests of usurpation and tyranny and against his and his peoples enemies in this Nation this was their ministry the eyes of their understandings enlightened with beams from the face of Christ their hearts as burning coals consuming them with zeal to Christ their hands stretched up towards heaven to receive him coming their feet with wings setting them up upon the Head of all worldly and lower interests to prepare the way of the Lord this was their spirit and posture against the whole kingdom of Anti-christ both in its forms and powers either in the civil or spiritual state went forth their prayers professions and undertakings the sound whereof went abroad almost through all the earth from off them is this Spirit of glory and vertue departed and in the place thereof it entered another spirit feirce ruling the people by laws and weapons of warre instead of pure spiritual righteousness and meekness without natural affection peircing the hearts with unkindness and the sides with sufferings of them who have been as a Mother that bore and nourished them with their own bloud life and spirit all the dayes of their youth while they were little in their own and despised in the worlds eyes blasphemers thinking speaking and measuring evil to that spirit of faith light and expectation in others which they had tasted and testified of formerly in themselves traytors betraying that Right and liberty the price of much precious bloud the succouring and defence whereof was committed to their trust unto the will and pleasure of unlimited Monarchy heady proud high minded imposing laws constitutions powers forming transforming all things in the spiritual and civil interests in a way of superiority and mastership above and apart from others without taking in the hopeful assistances of more light by the conjunction of the counsels hearts and hands of their sometimes dear brethren unto themselves as if the Spirit of the Lord came forth onely from them or came onely into them incontinent not behaving themselves towards the wife of their youth the new Jerusalem to which they are joyned as one flesh and one spirit but have poured out themselves upon every one that passeth by unholy and prophane defiling their holy things the appearances and gifts of Christ the buddings beginnings and earnests of a more excellent way both in Church and State by mingling them with a strange seed the dark and fleshly principles policies and administrations of worldly Reason and Prudence despisers of those that are good casting contempt upon those Principles and Persons which were a cheering and strengthening to them in the day of their streights refusing the one as not squaring to their greatness and imprisoning or shaking hands with the other as too sullen or noble to be vassals thereto Lastly lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God careless Daughters at ease in Zion who are gone up to their fathers bed and have bestowed the ornaments the Lord put upon them for the dressing up the old Harlot again which though themselves had been teaching before yet fell in love with her after above measure to wit greatness and glory in the flesh while Christ stands without door as crucified and forgotten so that they having lost their savour from them hath proceeded sourness upon the spirits and filthiness upon the actions of many others who had a savour before their fall being not alone but thereat as it were the heavens were removed and the starrs therein darkened Righteousness and Truth being as the Heavens over our Land and many excellent spirits as lights and starrs to men are also darkened and fallen together with them this first departure is a sorrow but the other adds thereto Second departure from the Faith what it is NOt many years since Jesus Christ began to shine forth in clearer principles and doctrines of light and grace justification and faith whereby the darkness and bondage of the Law with the Teachers thereof passed away and liberty and peace in him brake forth severe descriptions preachings of Christ as a Law-giver Judge which were as the vail upon