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A86340	Glory sometimes afar off, now stepping in; or, The great gospel-mysterie of spirit, or Divine nature in saints: not in that philosophical and humane sense, by effects and habits of grace, but after a more evangelical, divine, and mysterious manner of in-being. Opened, affirmed and cleared, and gloriously breaking forth through a cloud of subtil pervertings, carnal objections, and dreadful condemnings cast upon it; and closed up with an account of some principles, practises and wayes which have sealed up this mysterie, and thereby held down the saints in weakness, and shut up the world in darkness for so long a time.	Higgenson, Thomas.	1653 (1653)	Wing H1948; Thomason E687_9; ESTC R206885	45,476	57

or spirit in Saints Col. 1.27 of shadows flying away and the breaking of the day c. Cant. 2.17 The first sort of truths belong to children and were all the light and knowledge former dayes attained unto and they saw God and Christ but as it were at a distance and they tasted of the spirit and were refreshed and made glad with him yet they knew not that that spirit and fulness which they felt and tasted was within them that more spiritual and deeper knowledge God hid from them Attainments of a few in present times what because they could not then bear it the other truths belong to them of riper age and as yet they are the light and understanding but of some known and enjoyed only by a few of the wiser children in Sion who have been children and have spoken and done as children but now are putting away childish things and the righteousness grace and salvation which sometimes they only knew and kissed as without them they watch that they may embrace and see it spring forth within them SECT XIX The fourth veil which hath been upon the truth of the spirit in Saints THe Ecclesiastical or Church-state through the favour fear or superstitious zeal of Princes hath been oftentimes promoted to great worldly honour and hath encreased and grown up unto the greatness power and glory of a kingdom and hath twisted and intermingled its power with the power of the Civil state and so became a National Church Civil and Church-state twisted together have veiled up truth and sometimes hath inlarged it self by Royal Edicts Imperial decrees Forces of armies as upon wings over many Nations and hath become a Catholick or Oecumenical Church These great Churches whether National over one Nation only or Catholick over the whole world looking liker Babel then Temples for the Lord it may be observed of them when they came to this greatness they fell in love with their own Image and worldly greatness and that they might establish and confirm the same for ever they call together the wisest and learnedst Doctors of every Countrey or Nation these gathered up truth under such forms of Profession and worship and doctrines of faith as would preserve them in their lordly preheminence over the people and keep the people in blind subjection under them and these they declared and sent abroad as their Decrees Laws and Ordinances to be the Rule of faith National Church-state hath kept light of truth out of the world and conscience pattern of all worships and the measuring line of the Sanctuary and that the union of Saints liberty of worship highest degree of holiness the door to the power of Ministring should be in conformity unto their commandments as the doctrines of Christ in these things was the interest power and practise of a National or Catholick Church-state in times past Now the people of those times and under that government were of three sorts One was of them who delighted to see the Church come forth in this carnal glory and domination that they might be great in her Greatness such magnified her National constitution as most invincible and secure from heretical innovation affirmed her authority sacred and indispensable her decrees and Laws unquestionable and watched against more spiritual worships and worshippers and so all the teachings and writings of these men were no better then Idolatrous and Antichristian admiring of a Babel-church-state Another sort was of Saints and true Believers yet having no further light then the reformation of doctrines and worships established and commanded by that present Church-power they were under they magnified the Church in its National supremacy were zealous for all her rules and prescribed forms as the highest discoveries and only wayes of God did not seek for nor think that there was any other further or more excellent truths to be found out then was prescribed by the Churches these were in the faith yet having their eyes with the carnal glory outward greatness and worldly wisdom of a National Church they opposed present reformation principles against further reformation and knowledge lesser light against greater light and so through their ignorant and inordinate zeal it came to passe that Saints themselves gave their helping hand to the man of sin the Antichrist in suppressing and keeping down all springings and risings of more glorious truth into the world The last sort was of Saints yet such as had passed from under that administration of impurer principles and doctrines established by the National Church and gone on towards more perfection of light and knowledge such could not come back from spirit to flesh nor return again from liberty to bondage they could not bless an Idol nor defile the bed of Christ their conscience by prostituting it to a stranger the commands and force of a National Church or Synodical Council the Church not bearing the light of these Saints nor the word of their Testimony nor their separating themselves from her obedience suppressed their light restrained their liberty and excommunicated their persons and after all gave up their bodies to the Iron-rod of worldly powers to be corrected with chastisements and instructed with sufferings and thus the wisdom of the wise Disposer of all things saw it good that the powers both of Church and State should for many ages down to these last times joyn and unite themselves into one interest force and counsel against the entrance growth and spreading of deeper Mysteries of clearer Gospel-glory into the world SECT XX. The fifth veil upon the truth of the spirit in Saints THe Church of Christ under the New Testament hath her several states vicissitudes and changes through which she passeth to come to the Land of Promise and under every state hath been given unto her spirit light and nourishment necessary for The Church passeth through three eminent changes of state to Sion and becoming her under that present state there are times wherein the Temple of God or Church of Christ is under curtains then her tent is set up and took down and removed from place to place Three eminent changes of state she hath and is to passe through which are as so many outer courts leading her to the Kings Pallace or as lodging-places provided to receive the Kings daughter before she be brought in to the King The first step or change The first step or change of state was when the Lord took down his spiritual Temple and sent it into caprivity under spiritual Babylon that she should be there for a time times and half a time or 1260 dayes which came to passe when the Mysterie of iniquity entered into the Temple of the Lord and many did fall away from the pure faith and truth as it is in Jesus in the morning or first times of the Gospel the Lord Jesus did by his own and the Ministry of his Apostles espouse many from amongst Jews and Gentiles as a chast virgin

was cut off and for a little while removed from the living as if God had left him or were not in him which captivity upon his flesh was light and joy to his enemies but darkness of sorrow and fear to his Disciples insomuch that they doubted whether the witness which he bore while he was alive that God was in him whether it was so or no Luke 24.11.21 out of this state he hastned into his third state or time wherein he opened the vision revealed the Mysterie and gave a signal demonstration of the truth of all he had spoken or done and confirmed by spirit what he had affirmed by word he made it clear that God came down in flesh by his going up to God in flesh that all Power and Dominion both in heaven and earth was his by going to his Father sitting down with him in his throne and being seen no more The second Promise or the spirits coming forth and dwelling in the flesh of Saints treads in the very same footsteps with the other The second promise or Christ in Saints and his threefold state and in like manner hath his time of witnessing in Saints his time of being slain or cut off from witnessing in Saints his time of rising again in Saints and finishing his witness by bringing forth in them the glory and beauty of the new Jerusalem which shall put an end to the external Ordinances and Administrations of the Gospel Revel 21.22 in the first state or time the spirit was in Saints yet veiled and covered under the low estate of earthen vessels unlettered and simple fishermen from the High Noble and Prudent ones of this world but known and manifest to a few Churches and Saints of despised Gentiles Joh. 14.20 This first time or state expired upon the falling away from the faith and revealing of the Man of sin 2 Thes 2.3 Out of whose Throne and Kingdom of the bottomless pit came forth that smoke of powers signs and lying wonders as darkned the Day and Light of the Mysterie of Christ in Saints corrupted the pure Doctrine carried faith Christ and the spirit into captivity in spiritual Babylon 2 Thess 2.10 and there exalted it self as the Queen of Nations holding forth her golden cup of fornications to all the Princes and Kings of the earth whereby they were enticed to give their power unto her and do use their scepters and authorities to suppress persecute and slay Christ or the eternal spirit in Saints this time or state now is and is not yet expired and as the Captivity which was upon the flesh of Christ in the grave caused in his Disciples darkness and mourning and fear that God was not in him so the Captivity that now is upon the spirit of Christ in Saints causeth all this darkness and fear in Believers that the spirit himself is not in them The third state or time of the spirit in Saints shall open the vision reveal the Mysterie consume that wicked the Queen of Nations demonstrate to Saints and to all the world that the spirit or Divine nature dwells in Saints by revealing the Divine glory of Christ in them Revel 21.11.23 Isa 60.1 2. when he himself shall be admired in us 2 Thess 1.10 of all the world Rev. 21.24 Isa 60.9 Insomuch that the Nations shall bow to the name and glory of God himself in Saints Isa 60.14 And if any will not serve the Lord in them and them in the Lord they shall perish Isa 60.12 This time or day of the spirit is yet to come and is called the brightness of his coming or day of Christ 2 Thess 2.2.8 which day of Christ I would not have understood to be of the time of the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God the Father 1 Cor. 15.24.28 The day of Christ to come is not the last end of all Dan. 7.14 Revel 1.7 and the Son himself be subject to the Father and God all in all but of the time when the Son of man shall be brought to the ancient of dayes and come forth in the clouds of heaven and shall receive Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages shall serve him which will be when he comes forth out of the womb of the invisible light and love of God and shall receiv as it were a visible inauguration and anointing upon his head and shall come forth into the Kings galleries of the clouds of heaven and the high places over all the earth Zach. 14.9 and all the Saints shall come forth with him Zach. 14.9 1 Cor. 15.23 and shall with him receive from the ancient of dayes judgment and authority and the Kingdom and Dominion and greatness of the Kingdom under the whole heaven Dan. 7.7 8 23 24 25 26. Revel 13.1 5 6 7. Revel 17.12 13 17. shall be given unto the Saints Dan. 7.22.27 And this is the Kingdom that shall consume and destroy the fourth great kingdom or Monarchy of the fourth beast which is Mysterie Babylon and shall redeem the Saints out of spiritual captivity and drive away and scatter all ignorant disputes strife erring spirits different judgings and bitternesses of men which are the smoak in the Temple that the Lord cannot be seen and a thick cloud to this day upon all or most Saints that they cannot read nor understand the Mysterie of God written in their own hearts which is Christ the spirit the Divine nature dwelling in them Thirdly Christs promise to his Disciples of sending the Comforter the spirit to dwell in them as it had an higher and further end and sense then that the spirit should be sent only to fil up the place and supply the absence of Christ gone away to the Father The sending of the Spirit upon Christs withdrawing an higher enjoyment then his presence with them in flesh therefore more then in gifts and graces so it calls for a deeper and further interpretation The coming forth of the spirit into Saints and dwelling in them is promised as a more high rich and perfect enjoyment then the presence of Christ with them in that present state of flesh unglorified which appears in that he said he must withdraw in flesh to make way for his coming in spirit wherein he did not only intend to put away their sorrows for his departure from them but to fill them with joy and desires for his going away because I have said these things doth sorrow fill your heart I tell you though I my self should desire to continue with you I should herein do you wrong for it is expedient and better for you not for me only but for you that I go away then abide with you because if I go the Comforter will come but if I go not away he will not come and so my stay will serve to nothing but to keep off and shut the dore against a more perfect and divine enjoyment as much

as an enjoyment of me in spirit is more perfect and excellent then an enjoyment of me in flesh Ioh. 16.6 7. The sending therefore of this spirit was somewhat an higher thing then only in gifts and graces and it is yet more manifest when Christ said Joh. 16.22 I have many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now Christ in Saints a truth that could not be born in the day of Christs presence in flesh What some of those things were which could not be born he toucheth upon Joh. 14.26 which words in a full sense are as if he had said While I am with you in this state of flesh if I should tell you that as I am now I am in my Father and you in me and I in you you would not believe me nor bear such things howbeit when the spirit is come unto you he will reveal the truth unto you and then in that day ye shall both know and believe it that I am in you and you in me though now this knowledge of me being a knowing of me after the spirit is too high for you who yet know me only after the flesh and so cannot conceive while you see and know me only in and after the flesh how I should be in you or you in me or I in my Father Therefore the time being at hand appointed of my Father that this carnal and low estate you are in shall pass away and a more high and spiritual come forth for this cause I must withdraw in flesh that you may know and enjoy me in more glory and spirit Christs presence in flesh gives place to his presence in spirit God glorifies himself in man to glorifie man in himself for now you gaze upon my external form and love and know and converse with me as a man without you but then you shall know and converse with me as a spirit in you And now you see me alone as away from my Father and you look upon your selves and I and the Father as separate and divided Beings but then you shall know that my Father and I and you are one and perfect in one and that I am not alone but I and my Father in me and that you are not by your selves but I and the Father in you Which though all this blessedness and union be already so in you and in me yet you neither know it to be so nor is it manifest that it is so nor are you able to bear my words should I tell you more of it therefore I must withdraw that he may come into you who will let you see all this to be so and more then I shall now tell you of or you will believe And now what is the sum of all Are all these things the withdrawing of Christ in flesh to make way for his appearance in spirit his taking them off from desires to enjoy him in flesh and drawing them up to desire his coming in spirit his laying forth the unprofitableness and lowness of the one and the expediency and glory of the other his shewing their enjoyment of him in flesh to be carnal their knowledge and light carnal Joh. 16.22 and many things that is the whole volume of the heavenly mysteries of the Father in Christ of Christ in Saints and Saints in Christ was too high for them And on the contrary the enjoyment of him in spirit so high and clear that they should know all mysteries and all truth which in the time of his presence in flesh they could not bear I say again are all these things no more do they come to no more then the sending and dwelling of the spirit only in gifts and graces Or rather do they not all make up this truth and present it to us with open face that Christ sends the Comforter the Spirit himself to dwell in Saints in his own Divine Nature SECT VIII The seventh testimony to the spirit in Saints A Further testimony to this truth is from Rom. 8.17 18 19. And if Children then heirs heirs of God and joynt-heirs with Christ 1. That which the Father hath of old ordained and prepared for them whom he loves is to glorifie man in himself that is to raise him up into a state of the highest happiness and perfection that the Creature can be capable of or that can be communicated from God to the Creature which is for a man to possess the glory of God within him so as the Eternal Fulness of the Divine Nature and Love doth manifest it self and flow into him in such a divine manner of full glory and perfect brightness All objects and appearances dye out of us as God appears in us that all objects and appearances of other things knowledge thoughts and imaginations are all done away and swallowed up by the appearance of him who is all even as the light of a dying spark is swallowed up of the burning flame and the Lord alone is the only thing seen felt and embraced by them any sight or vision taste or possessing below God himself cannot stand with the glory laid up for us because there the light of Eternity or of the eternal Godhead will open it self in us through us and over us as the eyelids of the morning and then he shall no longer be hid for we shall see him as he is It were not glory nor happiness if there were any covering to obscure or hide God from us that we could not see him surpassing and gloriously reigning over all And this seeing of God as he is Seeing God as he is how to be understood which is the glory laid up for us must not be conceived nor understood after an humane manner or after the vain Philosophy of this world to be a contemplation of God as of some glorious appearance or shew of him without us but it is the Divine Nature it self dwelling in us and filling our seeings tastings and knowings with nothing below besides or less then himself he will set his own glory in us and love it in us and us in it and will always behold himself in us not his image only as something distinct but himself and so as he will be our joy we shall be his joy he will be our Husband we shall be his beloved Spouse he will give us nothing but himself and we shall taste of nothing but himself his love unto us is like a fire it will burn up whatsoever hath ever separated between himself and us we shall be so in one another that he will be in us as a burning fire and we shall be in him as a fire of love his delights to Eternity will be spent upon us and the great deep shall be opened unto us and we shall be a Temple for God and he will be a Temple for us Such things as these are some of that glory which is laid up for them that love him which is now in this

to be the ministration not of the spirit but of the letter only And as the glory of the new Covenant above the old is in this 2 Cor. 3.7,8 that it is the ministration of the spirit the Law but of the letter only so the new Creature hath in him more glory and perfection then the first man in this that the spirit himself is put into him created gifts only which might be depraved and lost were all that was put into the first Adam And this shall finish and close up this cloud of witnesses which do all give testimony and set their seal unto this Truth not in the sense of any carnal distinction whereunto it is by the infirmity of the Saints unwarily by the disputers and wisdom of this world wrongfully perverted but in the simple and Gospel-sense of the plain and sound words wherein it is expressed That the spirit of Christ which is the Divine Nature dwels in Saints though covered and yet undiscerned by most of them SECT XII THE in-dwelling of the spirit in Saints in this simple and plain sense carries in it a nearness and union between God and the Creature so mysterious high and inconceivable to flesh and blood that the man of sin who sees by no higher light then Nature and therefore not able to judge of spiritual things least of all of the highest of spiritual things God dwelling in Saints and Saints in God is not able to bear it that is this union the truth that is in it being a light so clear that it takes off the veil discovers the mysterie of iniquity which 〈◊〉 at veil stains and shames the pride and glory of his Kingdom and utterly strips shakes and undoes all flesh Spirit himself in Saints why so sentenced and excommunicated out of the world Wherefore that he may quench a light so glorious and keep all the world under the cloud of thick spiritual darkness and the yoke of bondage unto humane inventions commandments of men will-worships pharisaical legal righteousness which are the arm and glory of his Kingdom and horn of his power he judgeth sentenceth and excommunicates it out of the world under the most odious notions and imputations of blasphemy damnable doctrine This truth why so dreaded of Saints making the Creature God equal with Christ and under these black and abominable disguises that which is the beauty of all Gospel-truths is so deformed that it looks terrible and dreadful unto most Saints being but weak and Children in the faith and knowledge of the mysterie insomuch that we are ready to say of it It is a spirit and to fly from it though it be the nearer approachings of our dear Saviour Wherefore for the sake of such that they may see out of obscurity and the cause of Truth that it may shine out of darkness and scatter all those veils and lying imputations that have made it dreadful to all men I shall enquire into the strongest reasons that I know to be against this Truth and I hope give some account that they are false accusations and lying words against the Truth at the best but shadows of Reason to blind the eyes of the weak from seeing their own liberty and glory SECT XIII THEY are these which follow If the Spirit or Divine Nature it self dwels in Saints First counter-reason against the spirit in us then every Saint is God and so to be worshipped as God even as the Divine Nature dwelling in Christ he is therefore God and so is and ought to be worshipped as God Answer Of this Argument some may say The shew of thy countenance is like lightning and by thy clear beams of reason thou hast at once scattered all that hath been said But of these things I do humbly conceive 1. That the in being of God in Saints does not make them become God no more then the in-being of God in other Creatures makes them God his glory fils both Heaven and Earth he only knows and comprehends himself fully and perfectly the lengths depths and bredths of this stupendious Being cannot be seen or comprehended by the Creature Therefore he comes forth in the Creation as it were cloathed upon with a garment the whole world is but as his vesture or raiment that shall be changed and he that is Eternal Light Love and Wisdom cloaths himself with it as within an house or tabernacle wherein he will dwell for a time that through it as through a little Orb or Globe he may let out some pieces and portions of the external excellencies of his incomprehensible Godhead he stretcheth forth the Heavens as a Curtain and spreadeth out the Earth as a Tent to dwell in and the depths are his Pavilion and thus all Nature is filled with the glory and majestie of the Lord and he is in it and through it yet is not the world God but he that is in the world is God and the world of Nature is no more but the place of the soles of his feet or his lower Tabernacle wherein he sets his dwelling place for a time until he awake and make all things new and come forth in that higher glory which the old Heavens and Earth shall be too narrow to receive too short to contain 2. The in-being of God or the Divine Nature made not the man Christ or the flesh of Christ become God God and man became one in a mutual in-dwelling enjoyment and embracement each of other in Christ yet continued infinitely distinct in Nature and several in being one from the other God came forth in Nature or the things that are made and dwels in it as in an house or Tabernacle that waxeth old and shall be taken down and therefore he shines forth in it in fewer beams and at a greater distance and so more darkly yet so as that the invisible things of him even the Eternal Power and Godhead may be clearly seen and understood of all the world as a testimony to leave them without excuse so God came forth in Christ God in Christ yet the man Christ is not God but Christ is God and dwels in him but as in a living higher and eternal Tabernacle and therefore he shines forth in him in many beams of everlasting mercies grace and reconciling love and in much more nearness and so more clearly yet so as known and manifest only to Saints Therefore to this end was Christ born and came into the world that he might be a Mercy-seat a Throne of grace and a living Mansion for the fulness and glory of God to dwell in and through him to come near reveal himself and commune with us and in and by him to do all our works of obedience death and life for us So that the will and mind of Christ as man became wholly passive and self-resigned and the mind and will of the Divine Nature altogether active to enlighten teach command and do all in him The highest honour and happiness

that the flesh of Christ was capable of or was advanced unto was not to become God but to be glorified in God and God to be glorified in him Christ is both God and son of man both Lord and son of David 3. So God dwels in all Saints God in Saints yet Saints are not God but his Temple who being fitly joyned and compacted together do grow up into one living Temple for the Lord which is that beautiful Sion that Mountain of the House of the Lord the Lambs Wife that near City Jerusalem above that Tabernacle of God with men wherein God himself dwels and the Father and Lamb himself will be the light and glory in it and the Tree of Life and the pure River of the water of Life in the midst of her and the glory of God himself in her shall be joy and praise the terrour and astonishment of all Nations Thus God is in Saints and will glorifie himself in Saints yet they are not God even as he is in Christ yet the flesh of Christ is not God SECT XIV THE union of God and Man in Christ gives this honour to Christ to be called God Second reason against the spirit in Saints If Saints partake in this union to have God dwelling in them why do they not partake in the honour to be called God Answered 1. The flesh of Christ neither is called God nor is God but he is and is called the true God who was manifest in that flesh So that if it be asked who is Christ or what is his name he is Immanuel the Anoynted or God manifest in the flesh In like manner Saints are not God nor are called God but he who is in Saints is and is called the true God So that if it be asked who is a Saint or what is his name he is an inspired man an anoynted one or Christ or the spirit in man 2. Christ so perfectly denied himself of all that was man and resigned it up to the Divine Nature that of himself he did nothing but the Father did work all his works in him and by him The several actings motions and performings of Christ were not from the will of man but were the streams and flowings forth of the Eternal Fulness in him so that God became manifest through Christ the ways and works of Christ as through a Chrystal or transparent glass and therefore came it to pass that God alone was and did all in Christ because he would be known worshipped and approached unto only in Christ and no man should seek or find or come near unto any God but that God which is in Christ Under the Law God filled Heaven and Earth yet he would be known and worshipped only in the Temple at Jerusalem Under the Gospel he dwels in all Saints yet he is with open face beheld and will be worshipped as the true God only in his living Temple or Sanctuary the flesh of Christ so because we come to God and the Father by Christ and worship God in faith and hope through Christ and not through Saints therefore is Christ called God the Saints not SECT XV. Third reason against the spirit in Saints IF Saints partake with Christ in union with God so that the same Divine Nature which dwels in Christ dwels also in Saints then what preheminence hath Christ above Saints Much every way chiefly in these things Answered 1. That it pleased the Father by him to finish the transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophesy of the Law and Prophets And that as through one man sin death and wrath entred into the world so he must be that son of man by whom God would put away sin abolish the flesh and death judge the Prince of this world spoyl and triumph over all the Principalities and Powers of darkness and vanquish all the Enemies of man out of the world again and so by him to reconcile all things to himself and in the fulness of time to gather together into one in him all things Dan. 9.25 Heb. 2.10 Col. 1.18 in Heaven and in Earth in him And in this work he hath the honour above Saints of being Messiah the Prince the High Priest and Captain of our salvation the beginning and first-born from the dead who was the Head of the Heasts of the living God and the only Instrument in the everlasting hand and arm of God to cut off the Dragons head to slay the Leviathan in the deeps in his death and drive all the enemies of man out of the world 2. All those things and all that Love that God hath prepared for them whom he loves he hath laid it up in Christ in the Eternal Fulness of the blessed Godhead and to him alone hath committed the administration of all things that the Father hath given unto him for us All things that the Father hath are ours but they are first Christs and given unto him the Father loves the Son and hath given all things into his hand he loves Saints through and for the Son with the same love wherewith he loves the Son Joh. 17.26 and so he gives them the same glory in himself which he gave the Son yet by and for the Son Joh. 17.22 The Father as himself without Christ judgeth no man saveth no man does nothing in the world but hath committed all judgement to the Son and hath committed the authority of executing all judgement both of life and death unto the Son of man God doth all and all things are of God Joh. 5.22.27 yet so as by Christ nothing at all without him The glory fulness light and power of God comes forth upon Saints yet so as through the hands scepter and face of Jesus Christ And in this work he hath honour above Saints to be the Head of the Body the Church the fulness of grace and truth the Mediator of the New Testament the King upon the holy hill of Sion anoynted by the Father Therefore this preheminence and honour of Christ above Saints Preheminence of Christ above Saints destroyes not but confirms spirits in-being in Saints that he hath received the fulness of all the wisdom and power of God that all dominion power and authority is given into his hand and that not for himself alone for his own private and singular enjoyment but to be all administred and shed abroad upon the Saints for their enjoyment and everlasting happiness All this preheminence whereunto Christ is exalted above Saints and Angels and every other name doth instead of casting a cloud upon it bring clear light and reason for the further confirming us in the truth that Saints are partakers with Christ of the Divine Nature it self dwelling in them For as Christ received fulness glory and spirit immediatly from the Father so we receive of that very fulness glory and spirit