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The day-spring from on high visiting the world, or, Gods salvation revealed and the way of redemption declared, and the way opened into the everlasting rest also the two births discovered and their several image, and the enmity that is betwixt them : with the lambs appearance in glory and his power and government exalted / by William Smith.
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Smith, William, d. 1673.
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they abide in darknes and brings forth the works thereof and are in the house of bondage kept and knows not the Rest and Peace in God and so all people who he from the light they are from the guide that leadeth in the way of life in which secrets are revealed and the Mystery opened and though such swear the Lord liveth they swear falsly for his life they know not but are enemies to it and every appearance of it and so brings forth their own conceivings and preaches it for Doctrine and stands in similitudes and likenesses forms and imitations where the false birth is exalted and the fleshly mind puft up which breaks forth in appearance and makes a great shew of godliness and in that glories but the power is denied and Christ is rejected and his appearance persecuted by this fleshly birth Therefore doth the Word of Power reach unto you all ye High-priests and professors that unto the light you may be turned and have your understandings opened to know the Scriptures that you may learn of him of whom the Scriptures testifie for he is the power of God unto Salvation to all that believe and he will teach you truth in the inward parts and make you to be of understanding hearts to know Redemption by him and Salvation in him who gives true freedom out of bondage and leadeth into the Fathers love where all fears are cast out and doubtings removed the flesh being subdued and the false birth crucified his righteousness is received in whom the Father is well-pleased and this is the day of Redemption which from the beginning was and is now witnessed to be the same and so declared in the Spirits power and not in words which mans wisdom teacheth for that is earthly and cannot reach unto things above nor know the Mystery of the heavenly and that makes the world so ignorant of the things of God because they are from the Spirit of God in which secrets are revealed and in which the Mystery is opened and the onely true God known and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent which none can comprehend or know with that which is in the transgression and at enmity with God though words they may have and in them be puft up yet from the life they are found and in their carnal minds are at enmity against it Therefore miserable will all your Comforters be who knows not the Consolation of Israel and in the day of calamity your strength will fail and your hearts faint and it is coming upon you and will be heavy upon your heads And who then will remove it or take it from you who knows not Christ within you Therefore all know this from the Lord that form without power will not save you nor the Letter without the life will give you peace and if either be found amongst you let your doctrine and practise be examined and let it be tryed what image it bears for you wanting the life and power of God your birth is fleshly and born of the flesh and of your own wills and not of the Will of God Therefore arise and depart for it is not your rest you are polluted and your image is defiled and must be destroyed for he appears against you whose Image is heavenly and you must be taken and slain before him because you will not that he should reign over you for he is destroying Antichrist with the brightness of his coming and with the sword of his Spirit is he slaying the wicked and all flesh is but as grass before him for he is blowing upon all your glory and it fades away and dies as the untimely fruit and if your eyes were not blinded you might see the arm of God dashing you one against another and breaking you in pieces as potsherds of the earth and scattering you as the Sun scatters the morning clouds and this is the day of glory which shineth forth in brightness and discovers all your emptiness in the Son of righteousness who is risen in power and gone forth rejoycing and all your idols of silver and gold must be broken down by him and the carved works of your own hands must fall before him for his Image is heavenly though you have marred it and sees no comeliness in it that you should desire it because the worlds glory is not upon it therefore cannot you believe that it is he but puts him to open shame and with your sensual wisdom crucifies him and under your earthly carnal minds buries him and sets your own life above him and so is our Lord crucified in the streets of spiritual Sodom and Egypt where he is trodden under foot and despightfully used consider if ye be not found enemies to God who hates the Light and loves your evil deeds better walking after the flesh and satisfying the lust thereof and sets the lust above the life which makes the seed to groan under the bondage of corruption bearing the earthy image which is in the transgression Now all be awakened for the day is come and the true light shineth in which the Fathers love is manifested and plenteous Redemption witnessed be ye turned unto it all ye ends of the earth for there is not another Saviour but he that is born of God and comes into the world to redeem out of the world and take away the sin of the world in whom the Fathers bosom is opened and his love tendered unto all people that none might perish but that all might come and be saved he that can receive it let him for this is the onely begotten of the Father which is come in power and great glory to put an end to sin and destroy the work of the Devil that the bands may be unloosed and the Prisoner freed and every captive redeemed by his outstretched arm this is good tidâ—ngs unto the poor Salvation is come that the mourners may be comforted and the feeble strengthened that all who breath after God may walk with him in the light of the living Now let all flesh be silent for God is risen the glory of all flesh to stain and Nations and Kingdoms to subdue Who stands exalted above him and brings forth a birth that is not of his begetting but is of Hagars seed and riseth up against him and is at open enmity with him despising and rejecting reproaching and reviling crucifying and slaying the appearance of him who is the express Image of the Father Now let all be measured with the line of true Judgement and then it will be seen unto whom this condition will reach and who they be that are in the enmity and in that exercises cruelty against the Lord of glory disdaining and scorning reproaching and persecuting the life of righteousness the day of tryal is come the Throne is prepared for Judgement and He that Judgeth Right sits upon it who is the Lord of Hosts come ye Priests and Professors appear before him and stand your tryal he will do
THE DAY-SPRING from on high visiting the WORLD OR Gods Salvation revealed and the work of Redemption declared and the way opened into the Everlasting Rest. ALSO The two births discovered and their several Image and the enmity that is betwixt them WITH The Lambs appearance in Glory and his Power and Government Exalted By WILLIAM SMITH LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. THere is a dark night of Apostasie over the Earth in wch the world are asleep upon there beds of ease and their eyes are not opened to behold the wondrous works of God neither can they believe it though it be declared for they will neither see with their eyes nor hear with their ears nor understand with their hearts but stands despising the work of the Lord and the appearance of his righteousness Therefore doth the Lord God utter his voice from his holy hill and the sound thereof goeth forth into the world and the words reacheth unto the ends of the Earth that all may awake and behold the salvation which now is revealed in the springing of the day for the acceptable time is come the morning Star is risen the day is dawned the Son of righteousness shineth and it is from on high revealed that the eyes of all might be opened who have so long slept the sleep of death that they might see their Saviour whose Name is Jesus the begotten of God the brightness of his glory and expresse Image of his person in whom is the fulness and unto whom all power is given the Father is well pleased in him and none comes to the Father but by him there is none besides him nor any like unto him who is full of grace and truth look unto him all ye ends of the Earth for the day of your visitation is come in which the grace of God appeareth be ye all turned unto it that your eyes may be opened to see the love that God hath unto you for God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son who is the light of the world in whom the promise of grace is fulfilled in breaking the Serpents head and recovering out of his snare he it is that doth redeem who is not of the world but Redeemes out of the World all that believe in him for he worketh the work of God and destroyes the work of the Devil and casts out the man of sin he fans the Nations with his hand and purgeth the floor by his mighty power Kings shall bow before him Nations shall tremble the mighty men shall fall and Princes shall be broken by his might who is now appearing in power and great glory to Judge the world in righteousness unto him doth the Law and Prophets witness unto whom he was revealed and in his life they prophesied and spake of the glory that was in him which was to be revealed unto ages to come and is now broken forth in these last dayes and is beheld as the glory of the onely begotten of the Father and the Law and Prophets have their end in him and are all fulfilled by him who is come to perfect the work of God and he hath the witness both of the Law and Prophets therefore unto him look who is salvation to the ends of the Earth who visits you in this his day and reacheth unto you with a manifestation of light that you may therein see the evil of your doings and come to repentance that the true light may lead you which is manifest from God unto you that thereby you may come out of darkness death and bondage to know the Redemption which by the Lord is wrought and plentifully revealed in this his day and put not this from you to ages past for therein you deceive your selves but all look near and see what you can witness of Redemption from your vain conversation and salvation from your sin for it is not youâ— talk of what God hath done in times past for others and what great salvation unto them appeared and how they were saved that will save you or Redeem you but to have your minds turned unto that which they was Redeemed by and saved in and to feel the the power of it to work effectually in you as it did in them who were true witnesses of it for what will it profit you to read of the great deliverance wrought by the out-stretched arm of God for Jacobs seed out of Egypts bondage if you find not the same work wrought in you by the same power you are not in their deliverance but are still in bondage and are kept in that which they was delivered from and so his work was wrought upon the blind the Lepers and the lame and the blind received sight the Lepers was cleansed and the lame walked and this you may read as it is declared and yet may your eyes be blinded and your leprosie not cleansed nor your ancle bones strengthened you may read of the promises and the consolation which they had who did believe in them and yet may you be out of them and miss the consolation that they found in them who believed in that unto which all the promises was made for all the promises of God are yea and Amen in Christ Jesus mark yea and â—men are all the promises in Christ Jesus in whom they stand sure and all your reading and talking of these things declared and saying these promises you believe in and you apply them by faith and so receives the comfort it will not stand you in stead in the needful time for whilst you talk of faith and applying the promises by faith you deceive your selves in your imaginations being yet in your sins and out of the faith of the Son of God which purifieth the heart and so you are out of the condition of those who lived in the promises and knew them to stand sure in the seed Therefore all unto the light come and in it wait that you may feel the same power to work in you and bring the same thing to passe in you as it hath done in ages before you that whilst you talk of liberty by Christ Jesus your selves may not be found servants unto sin and in bondage to corruption for of whatsoever a man is overcome unto the same is he in bondage if you be found servants unto sin you are in bondage to it not in the freedom of the Son so all having sinned all must unto the light be turned and by it be Redeemed and know the power of it to work true freedom into the glorious liberty before any can truly say that they are set free for all must stand as they are before the Lord therefore think not your selves to be above what you are least whilst you think that you are something you prove nothing and so deceive your selves fore there is a groaning felt in you under the bondage of corruption and unto that doth the breathings of