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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44806	Some of the misteries of Gods kingdome declared, as they have been revealed by the spirit through faith for the information of all such who have erred for lack of knowledge in their judgements, and have perished for lack of understanding ... : also for the confirmation of such who are made partakers of the like precious faith / by one who is made partaker of the riches of his grace, and of the salvation which is in Christ Jesus revealed through the spirit, called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3179; ESTC R38992	36,833	47

often enters and so captivates the understanding then there is an agreement and ajoining to the adversary and so the spirit pronounceth the sentence of condemnation upon him who is joyned to the harlot and becomes one flesh and joyned unto strange flesh w●ich is not the flesh of Christ the seed and that which hath joyned and consented to drink of the cup of fornication must drink of the cup of indignation and terrour and bear the stroke of Divine Justice and lye in patience under it till that be cut down which hath joyned to deceit before there can be the remission of the trangression or the creature justified in the sight of God For sin is not blotted out of the book of Gods remembrance till it be turned from and repented of neither doth the creature stand clear in the sight of God when God judges in righteous judgement which the light in every ones conscience shall answer Now he that is born of God sins not for the seed of God remains in him which is life And as the creature joyns to that seed which is heir of the Kingdom and of the Crown immortall he comes to be made partaker of its vertue and operation which seed is Christ and by his power by which he limiteth the seed of the Serpent and weakens his strength in the creature as man cometh to believe in his strength unto whom all power is committed the covenant with Death is broken and that agreement that the creature hath made with D●ath comes to be disannulled by the arm and power of the Lord and so the creature comes to be delivered from the bondage of corruption and the new man comes to live or the new creature which is born of God which sins not comes to be framed and fashioned in the image of the Father and the Fathers love is manifest unto him and in him and he hath the assurance in himself The Babe that is born from above of the Spirit which is from above of which he is born and brought forth of the just by the just he is justified by the just God and the just wi●ness of the Spirit sealeth this in him And he hath the record of his justification For there is three that bear record in the earth the water the blood and the spirit and he that is born of that which is pure in it self hath the witness of all these three in himself for they agree in o●e That which one beareth witness too and for the other doth the same and the record and testimony and witness of all these three hath he that is born from above Moreover there is three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the spirit and these three are one So he that is born of the Father and begotten of the Father in Christ the seed through the Spirit he and he alone comes to feel the Fathers love made manifest in him and is justified in the sight of the Father and hath the record of all these witnesses before mentio●ed in himself so that he hath his assurance and evidence near him and in him the seal of the Father the seal of the S●irit And so when the adversary comes to tempt and to assault and would raise up doubts in the mind the evidence is near which puts him out of all doubt that he is in the love of God and blessed for ever and happy are all they who have waited for these things and have felt these things and are witness of these things for flesh and blood hath not revealed these things Now let every man who reads this prove himself and try himself whether he be in the faith or no and whether he have the evidence of the Spirit or no that he is born of it and knows a birth that sins not because the seed remaineth in him who is kept by the power that the evil one touches him not kept in salvation and in saving health alive unto him who hath brought him forth to life to drink of the cup of blessing and of the cup of salvation which nourisheth and refresheth up unto eternal life them that continue in the Faith What the free grace of God is and unto whom it hath appeared and where all is to wait to receive it declared as it hath been revealed by the Spirit THe grace of God is pure and is the free gift of God and it i● perfect it is the appearance of Christ it is a beam of righteousness shining forth it is a measure of Gods strength and power issued out from himself and a proportion of his treasure vertue and sufficiency which comes to be shed abroad in all them that believe in it it s that through which God maketh known his will and teacheth his by it and reveals his saving health through it to them that are taught by it and through it them that believe in it are builded up in the truth and becomes a habitation for God no man doth any thing to purchase it none need say where may I get it or how may I know its teaching its near thee it is in thee it hath appeared to all men it shews ungodliness in the heart of man by its pure brightness yea to all men it shews the motions unto sin and that which is not like God in motions words or actions it draweth the heart of man from them as with a cord it shews the lusts of the heart and mind the lust of the eye and the pride of life it never joyned to sin nothing can alter its purity or property as in it self it is always one and the same it is p●rfect and will be alwayes so it stands off and at a distance from that which is corruptable and imperfect and yet beholdeth it and although some that have turned to it be again turned from it and may turn it as in themselves into wantonness yet it keeps its purity and still reproves thy wantonness and will lay i● before thee and will shew thee how thou hast abused the appearance of Christ and hath marred his countenance and his face and reprove thee for it many have been the talkers of it in this professing age but knew not of what they spoke neither ever informed the mind of man where it was to be waited for neither how it might be known or how or what the operation of it was but hath cryed up their own imaginations we are justified by his free grace from all sin past present and to come and in this conceit thousands have been led into the pit of darkness while out of thick darkness they have cryed up we are justified by free grace in Christ while the free grace of Christ Gods gift which should have taught them they never heeded at all but got up into conceitedness and careles●ness and presumption out of the fear of God and pretending justification while they themselves were the servants of sin and bond-slaves to corruption and this is the

slayes the enmity therefore all must be still and quiet and wait in that which is pure of the Lord that they may feel that raised up which receiveth grace above the corruptible thoughts and desires of the carnall mind but many who talk of free grace have put no difference betwixt the precious and the vile but hath put them upon doing and working who are in the enmity and curse and in death and so hath brought forth dead works notwithstanding all performances they being dead to the life God another acteth in them even he which hath the power of Death which is the Devill and so have not known that which was precious in themselves could not minister unto that which was precious in others but have been Ministers of Death and have ministred to Death and so Death nourisheth it selfe in all them who are not yet come to the separation to see betwixt the precious and the vile Now though all have not received grace so as to save them from the committing of sin the fault is not in God Israel would have none of my counsell they stopped their ●ares Neither is the fault in the grace which hath appeared unto all men Neither is it because of it's imbecillity and weaknesse but because it is not hearkned unto and waited in and obeyed believed in and received For this eternall truth which shall for ever stand the least measure of the grace o● God hath power in it self to save man from committing of that evill or sin which it shews man And as it is received the power comes more and more to be made manifest where all that believe comes to be preserved out of evill Object But some have said and now say there is common grace and preventing grace and restraining grace and saving grace and the former that hath appeared to all but the latter hath appeared to the Saints and to the elect onely Answ. Grace is Gods pure and perfect gift and is but one thing I speak not of q●antity but of quality not o● so much as that the fulnesse of grace hath appeared to all but of a measure of that fulnesse which is in Christ the head although I do not divide the least measure from the fulnesse in quality or nature for it 's one and the same for that which shews a man he should not lye nor swear that is as pure according to it's latitude proportion as that which shews a man all that ever he hath done and that same grace which leads a man from drunkennesse and excesse is as pure and of the same kind and nature as that greater proportion which leadeth a man from all sin I speak what I have seen from the Father though the dark world cannot receive it But people h●ve been blinded and darkned with sounds and distinctions which men coyn and frame in their natural reason and by their natural parts which is out of the life although I do not condemn naturall parts which are purely naturall if they keep ●hei● bounds and compasse that is to say to the management of naturall things of the visible creation but the things of Gods kingdom are of another quality and n●ture and cannot be reached unto by the natural but as I said men through distinctions and names hath wrack●d peoples minds and confounded their understanding and have led them into a thick wood or a wildernesse so they know not where to get forth neither what the thing is of which one speaks because not being spoken through the enticing words of mans wisdome which darkens the counsell of God Now that which shews a man evill after it be committed is the pure appearance of God And that which shews a man the temptations when they arise that is the same now this they call common and that which preventeth a man and keeps him back that he lend not his heart nor puts forth his hand to commit evill but restrains a man from it is not that saving out of evill and that which stops the adversary in his way that he enter not but preserveth the Creature out of defilement and saves him from it is not this saving is not this the same thing that the Apostle who was well acquainted with the grace of God and of it's operation wrote of to Titus That grace of God which brought salvation which had appeared and doth now appear to all men which taught self-denyal them to deny worldly lusts and also to live godlily or like unto God in this present world and now doth the same is not this sufficient to believe in and sufficient to save Now I do not say but there is a greater measure let out unto them that are converted unto God then is to t●em that are convinced of their evill by the same grace yet still ●t is one and the self-same thing one gift yet a greater measure of one and the same pure vertue and power which is given to them that obeys the life which is already made manifest by its appearance unto all Object But some will be ready to say that this is errour and that which is contrary to the Scripture and to orthodox Teachers that the grace which is saving is near all men and hath appeared to all men To that I answer Though grace be saving in it self even the grace that hath appeared to all men and may be truly called saving grace yet to them that believe not in it neither are taught by it it convinceth and shews evill and checks and judges for it yet there is no variation nor change in the gift of God but as it worketh upon different objects for faith and unbelief are two different things as light and darknesse are different and so the word of his grace is the savour of life unto life that is to say unto them that believe and is the savour of death unto death unto them who are in the unbelief who indeed are dead while they live yet here is the same grace and the same word of grace yet here is different operations so the Lord killeth and maketh alive yet the same Lord the Spirit convinceth of sin and reproveth for sin and also consolates and comforts here is diversity of operations yet the same Spirit which never alters Obj. But further some may say If that it be saving grace or at the least a degree and a measure of saving grace that hath appeared to all men then how is it that all are not saved by it Answ. Because I would all stumbling blocks were removed away that the path might be made plain that all might come to believe in that which is Gods gift in which there is power and sufficiency therefore I am constrained by the grace of God to declare of it and to bear witness to it thus largly which I know will be to the edification of all that hunger after righteousness All are not saved by it because they believe not in it neither are taught by it

wisdome of his life of his power vertue righteousnesse and comes to enjoy him who is the fulnesse that filleth all things whether visible or invisible whether terrestrial or coelestial his power is over all his dominion is over all who is eternally blessednesse it self and felicity it selfe who makes all that believe in him to partake of his kingdome of his grace of his power of his dignity of his dominion and of his glory coelestiall but these things are hid from the world who are not redeemed from the earth neither never looks to be while they are in the body Unto such I say Gods kingdome you shall never see nor enjoy while you are in that faith which is reprobate but may be truly called unbelief although you imagine a glory and a kingdome in your earthly minds and dream of a thing to come sutable unto that wherein your glory now standeth but that will all fail and those imaginations will be confounded and dissolved into nothing because they are centred in that which is out of the truth Christ and so are without ground or bottome and are out of that which should give you the sight and knowledge of God in your selves and his kingdom Christ when he taught them that followed him exhorted them that first of all they might seek the Kingdom of God even while they were in the body Mat. 6. 36. The Pharisees were gazing abroad in their earthly knowledge although they had the Scripture that declared of Gods kingdome yet they knew it not and this generation is the same who are in the same nature and in the same wisdome which is earthly and litteral and they are imagining as the Jews were and are loe here and loe there in this observation and the other and look to see it there Nay Christ said The kingdome of God is within you to the Pharisees And he bade them and others seek it first what strange Doctrin was this might the Pharisees say he saith the kingdome of God is within us and yet bids us seek it Need we seek that which is in us may professors say Yea it 's like a pearl hid in the Field it 's like a grain of mustard-seed among many great seeds which is not easily found it 's like a piece of silver lost in the house among much rubbish till that be swept away thou wilt not finde it thou must dig deep sweep clean search narrowly before thou find it although he said to the Pharisees the kingdome of God is within you he did not say they were possessors of it or that it was theirs but to the Disciples whom he taught to pray in faith thy kingdome come they came to find it that which they prayed for that pearl that groat that grain of mustard-seed which it was like having found it and believed in it he said unto them Matth. 5.3 Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of God And in Luk. 6.20 And he lift up his eyes on his Disciples and said blessed be ye poor for yours is the kingdome of God They had seen it and were possessors of it it was theirs And Christ said unto his Disciples There are some of your standing that shall not tast of death till ye see the kingdom of God come in power And his words were fulfilled they declared what they had felt and seen and some of them say The kingdome of God is not in w●rd but in power And Paul to the Romans writes Rom. ●4 17 who was also made partakers of the same power and the same kingdom he spoke his knowledge of and said It 's not meat nor drinke but righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost And the Colossians who had waited for it and believed in that through which it vvas revealed the Apostle vvas in the same faith Colos. 1.12 13. Who hath made us meet partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darknesse and hath transformed us into the kingdome of his deare Son And those things vvere seen in the body and vvitnessed in the body And the Apostle to the Hebrews saith He that believes is entred into the rest And this and all these things vvas feeled vvithin by the seed immortal the birth immortal and they that witness the birth immortal to live in them One said Who hath made us joynt-heirs with Christ who is the King of eternall glory and they were Joynt-heirs with him of the Kingdome that fades not away and all that ever comes to see the Kingdome of God in the spirit which is spiritual must wait in the spirit and in it's manifestation that so God and his Kingdome and the things o● Gods Kingdome may be felt and seen and enjoyed in the Spirit which is glorious Obj●ct All this which thou hast spoken may som● say is the Kingdome of grace and that we hold there is a two-fold kingdome the one of grace here the other of glory hereafter which none comes to enjoy glory nor any part of it in this life or in the body Answ. People hath long been blinded with confused distinctions about names and being full of imaginary thoughts and conceptions have brought forth foolish and unlearned distinctions and that which God hath joyned together they would separate Grace is glorious and glory is gracious he that can receive it let him the kingdom of God which was like a grain of mustard seed afterwards it became a great tree the tree in its strength and glory and height is more glorious then when it s in the seed yet the seed and the tree is in nature and quality and kind one if the kingdom be in dominion in purity and power and glory is not here unity yet a greater measure yet still the dominion is one the power one the glory one and the thing one wherein grace standeth and glory standeth wherein the kingdom standeth grace is glorious Eph. 1.6 7. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children to the praise and glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in beloved In the fathers house there are many mansions places in the kingdom of God there are many heavenly places and they that walked to the praise of his grace came to sit also in heavenly places Eph. 2.6 through grace salvation through grace glory comes to be revealed in the earth Isa. 6 3. The earth is full of his glory he that makes heaven and earth glorious is glory it self from whence grace and every degree of glory receives its being the least measure of Gods strength and power is glorious and to be gloried in in the Lord by all that have seen it things might be declared which God hath revealed which is not lawful for me now to utter for as one star differs from another in glory yet all glorious even so is it with the children of the resurrection who are quickened and made alive and