clouds and darknes you approach the throne Righteousnesse and judgement are there That is it you look for Righteousnesse Shall put an end to sin Dan. 9.24 Righteousnesse and holinesse shall dwell so stabilly with us as it shall blot out all iniquity and make an end of sinne That wretched thing that hath been the reason of all plagues the root of all mischief the ground of vexation in all families he shall make an end of all this of all sinne God will be revenged of it by putting an end to it Ye shall not finde a sinne out of hell nor a sinner out of hell Sin shall be in its own place ye shall see wickednesse no where but in the devil and wicked men and them ye shall see in hell for their sin shall carry hell apparently with it But the Saints shall be free The LORD reigns Not so long as sinne is amongst US and abides with US so long as sin is there is a Traitour to his Kingdome and he hath no quiet reign But the LORD will have a constant habitation of holinesse that sinne shall appear no where but in the devil and hell And where ever you shall see sin you shall be able to say There is hell sinne and its torment together Sin shall carry hell in its bowels The very face of hell and devil in every sin The light of God shall break forth so clearly that it will judge and manifest all the works of darknesse Are the Habitation of his Throne All these waies of God that he is now dispensing come from the throne of God All these Clouds and judgements against King Parliament Cavaleers Army they al flow from the throne and are all dispensed in most exact righteousnesse and judgement there 's no fear of ruine of those that are the Lords All is in judgement and righteousnesse to destroy the wicked but to save his own people and to bring them out of the powers of darkenesse unto the throne of God There is no reason to be offended at that which comes from the throne of God these dispensations are confusions to men to the reason and wisdome of men but they are the wisdome and judgement of God and God doth dispense them with an exact hand with a watchfull eye with a tender care towards his own people not a hair of their head shall fall to the ground Nothing shall suffer in any of you but unrighteousnesse and sinne so farre as you are unrighteous worldly and wicked so farre yea shall suffer and no more God is in every sparke of this Fire in every corner of this Flame in every inch of these clouds in every jot of this darknesse therefore rejoyce and be glad all ye Saints the weakest the poorest the lowest the meanest of Saints Rejoyce for the Lord Reigneth The end of the first Sermon Psalm 97. 1 2 3 4 5 6. verses The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the multitude of Isles be glad thereof Clouds and darknesse are round about him righteousnesse and judgement are the habitation of his throne A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about His lightnings enlightned the world the earth saw and trembled The hils melted like waxe at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth The heavens declare his righteousnesse and all the people see his glory THe great point wee have in hand is The Reign of God Which is first asserted The Lord doth Reign And then made good In the Second verse Clouds and darknesse are round about him testifying that hee is come and hee doth Reign Wee have a Cloud of witnesses testifying this truth The Lord doth Reign And darknesse it self speaks him That which is farthest from him that declares him and if wee come within him and come nearer to him we shall finde a consent of righteousnesse and judgement as the habitation of his Throne Righteousnes The righteousnesse of God the Father in whom all things are righteous and to whom all things in righteousnesse doth belong all things in righteousnesse are in him all things in righteousnesse are due to him here 's judgment too that is the excellency of Christ Psalm 94.15 Judgement shall returne to righteousnesse the Son returnes to the Father All things are in the Father in righteousnesse all things are in the Son in wisdome in judgement all things are in the Father as in their proper center all things are brought forth in Christ in their right order in Judgement Righteousnesse and judgment are the habitation of his Throne These two are the Foundation of his Throne The Spirit of God or God exalted and lifted up in these two Righteousnesse and Judgement is a Throne or the Righteousness of the Father and the Judgement of the Son exalted and triumphing in the Spirit is the Throne The Righteousness of the Father and the Wisdome of the Son Reignes in the Spirit is in-thron'd in the Spirit is exalted and lifted up and establisht eternally in truth in the Spirit And wee are made saith the Apostle Eph. 2.22 ver through the Spirit the habitation of God the words are In whom yee also are builded an habitation of God through the Spirit The Spirit building up man in its owne holy forme and enlarging of him into himself is this habitation of God Righteousnesse and Judgement In-thron'd in US In man this is the inward and spirituall view and sight of God if you stand without in the world there is darknesse if yee come higher into the clouds there is no cleare view sight and injoyment of him If yee are in any thing that is about him there is nothing but darknesse round about him but come within him into his Throne into his presence and there you will see righteousnesse and judgement set up exalted In-throu'd Righteousnesse in the Reigne of God is In-thron'd Iniquity and transgression is done away in the holinesse of God and he makes us by his own Reign in us holy as he is holy Hee doth wholly blot out Iniquity and makes US the seate and habitation of Righteousnesse and gives us righteous judgements righteous understandings a cleare and sound judgement in all things These two righteousnesse and judgement raised and exalted are the greatest glory and purity of the Kingdome of God in the holy Spirit But here are yet further testimonies that it may bee will bee more effectuall to most Christians most men being without those proofs of the Reigne of God that are without are foonest and easiest accepted fleshly signes much take fleshly Christians A Fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about him The forerunner of God Now is fire not John the Baptist that went before the flesh of Christ and ushered him in but an Elias in a Fierie Chariot The messengers that goe before God now are all fierie he makes his Angels spirits and his ministers flames of fire And therefore it s said hee comes in flames of
there is something of Christ in me he is in my spirit there he is spiritually but I have flesh and a body there hee is not This voice is the same with that in the Text Loe here is Christ and there is Christ and here hee is not and there hee is not To shut Christ out of any place out of any thing this is to say Loe here or loe there these are false Christs This is the wickednes of man to include and exclude Christ to imprison him into one thing to make him to bee one where and not another where but Christ is and there is none besides him hee is weaknes as wel as strength darknesse as well as light evil as well as good Christ in mee Christ in all the LORD in triumph the LORD crucified the LORD exalting the LORD humbling the LORD in life the LORD in death the LORD saving the LORD destroying the the LORD here blessing the LORD there cursing this is Christ if ye cannot see him in one thing as well as another in wicked men as well as good men in this death as well as his resurrection in lengths and depths and breadths and all ye doe not see him at all Here 's the narrownesse of the heart of every man a sensible creature full of observation and his own reason saying Loe here is Christ there is Christ here hee is not there hee is not narrowing of him into their owne observation he is in me when I am so qualified and hee is not in mee when I am not so qualified not knowing or understanding that hee is in some trampled on under the feet of his enemies and yet there in glory in some hee is at the top in some he is at the bottome in some withering them in some bringing forth fruit in some sweetning and moderating their nature in some letting forth wrath and emnity For behold the Kingdome of GOD is within you God will be all or nothing ye shall not thinke him like your selves The kingdom of God is within you in every one of you The kingdome of God is amongst you ye are possessours of it it is not without yee ye have it while yee are led out by your carnall reason to observe it without it is neglected within Behold Behold saith hee the kingdome of God is within you Heavenly blessednesse is within yee and ye doe not see it till ye see it there If yee had eyes to see saith he ye would see your selves in the kingdome and the kingdom in you This is a sweet Behold and a word of speciall grace and favour Those thoughts that leade you out of your selves for God for Christ believe them not hate them abhorre them O lay down all those wicked imaginations those carnal observations those cursed reasonings of the kingdom of God within yee Some men thinke to see the Kingdome of God comming in such and such a person to see the Kingdome of God comming in such and such sights and voices these are delusions Behold the kingdome of Christ the kingdome of God the kingdome of heaven is within you use it as you will deal with it as you please but in you t is t is in you supprest t is covered over with a deale of desperate wickednesse with a thicke vail and none knowes that it is there but it self there t is seen only and enjoy'd only by it self Or give mee leave to say I am within you all that I speak am and doe is within you all the light and glory that I have is within you and yee doe not understand me if ye do not see me within you There is another comes between me you if you hear me without you If ye hear not this LORD speaking within you ye understand nothing and so the words that I speake they are cast into another forme before they reach your ear the evil one takes them from the Spirit which is in you and carries them about to you thorow the ear While I speake and am understood in that sense I am abused and wrong'd That speech that I will bee understood in must be understood in is to speak in the heart within you That life that I live is in you and speakes that that I speak and I doe nothing but interpret and open what your heart speakes Let mee not bee another from you for then yee oppose mee and resist mee and yee will not heare not receive the truth that I declare which is my own heart my life my bosome my self These are the things than are lodg'd and wrapt up in my heart to eternity these are my very soul only I have been asleep and now being awakened I see they are all in mee If yee hear with the inward ear and see with the inward eye you will say This is not a man but the Son of God This is my bosome friend my LORD and husband that begins to awake and rowse me This is a fountain and no streame I doe you injury if I speake of a Kingdome of God without you that is I my selfe without you that is I my self without you for the true spirituall new man is the kingdom of God what I am indistinction from you is an evil to you if your unbelieving spirits say I am a man and another woe be to that distinction but if ye say this is my LORD and my Father happy is that union The kingdom of GOD is within you It is not without you in Ordinances in Scriptures The kingdome of God The whole kingdome all is in you all Truth all Scriptures all Wisdome all Power all Strength all that I AM all that God is all that Christ is all that Heaven is all that God in Reign and Kingdom is is within you I hear I see the kingdome of God comming forth breaking forth in every man and every man alwaies is but now begins to appear to be what God is in him The Kingdome of God either justifying or condemning either punishing or rewarding punishing man flesh with darknes or rewarding Man with light glory and blessednesse He that lives indeed I know hears mee and smiles at this and rejoyces in his soul The true life the true man the true ear rejoyces at this and speaks it selfe That all the Power all the Excellency of God is in mee it s with mee it s not out of mee it declares it self in me all the Majesty of God the Kingdome of God All Every thing it s here it s in this man in this creature in you within you and reignes there its King there though a King crucified though on the Crosse yet hee is King of the Jews Though denied for a while and opposed yet a King and a Kingdome This is the bravery and noblenes of this Kingdome it is not lessened by hatred by death it s as glorious in the grave as it is in exaltation as glorious in rejection and persecution as it is in height and glory
is not without a glorious light a bright shining light It 's by daies But more particularly I will give God Himself will give this inward spirituall glorious light of Himself Hee will give to his two witnesses a more Immediate discovery of Himself a more Divine and Heavenly light then to all the World besides More Spirituall light more life more grace more glory shall appeare when there shall bee an explicateing and unfolding of the secret but sweet Name of the LORD The LORD saith it This I will doe and the LORD doth whatsoever He saith I will give unto my two witnesses MY two witnesses The two witnesses are described to bee two Olive trees and two Candlesticks standing before the GOD of the whole Farth I the LORD will give unto MY witnesses To my TWO witnesses The LORD hath TWO Witnesses that testify concerning Himself which are Christ and the Spirit Two witnesses first the Son then the Spirit first Christ in flesh and then Christ in Spirit These are the two Olive trees Through which the golden Oyle of the God-head and Dietie runnes into the Church into the two golden Candlesticks That Holy anointing which runnes through the flesh and Spirit of Christ into the Saints whereby they come to bee the Holy Anointed ones of GOD and these two testifie that there is a God in the Earth The first Witnesse is Christ in the flesh testifying in weaknesse in lownesse in meannesse and this is the Olive tree on the left hand The other Witnesse is Christ in spirit in more power and glory testifying or bearing Witnesse to GOD in more brightnesse strength and power and this is The Olive tree on the right hand Christ in Majestie Christ exalted And I will give to my two witnesses I I the LORD will give I the Father wil give It 's the proper nature of the Father to give to send forth from Himself And they to whom the Lord gives are first Christ in flesh and secondly Christ in Spirit And these testifie and shew forth what God is And they shall prohesie a thousond two hundred and sixty daies clothed in sackcloth Such is the wisdome of GOD that when he will have the holy City the outward court left to the Gentiles to worldly Professours to be trodden under foot it 's for so many moneths It s for a space of time measured by the Moon But he will give to his two witnesses to prophesie by daies They shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and sixty daies The course of the Moon is by months The course of the Sun is by daies A day is measured by the Sun as a moneth is by the Moon And it is to be observed that though the prophesying of the Witnesses be reckoned by shorter and quicker spaces daies being shorter then moneths yet is for a speciall reason to signify that this time of the prophesying of the witnesses is a day-time it 's a day the day of the Lord. And though the Gentiles time is more in bulk by moneths yet it is no more then the time of the prophesie of the witnesses is by daies It 's a glorious time it 's the time of the appearing of the Sonne of righteousnesse though it be reckoned by daies yet it is the same time and of as long continuance as the other that is reckoned by moneths When the outward Court is trampled under foot by the Gentiles forty two moneths then the two witnesses are prophesying a thousand two hundred and sixty daies I wil give you a particular reason why the time of the witnesses prophesying is reckoned by daies It is to note the infinite variety of dispensations in the prophesying of the witnesses In which time are many sweet bright shining daies many excellent discoveries many glorious mysteries are voutsafed unto the People of God in the time of their prophesying and yet the nature of their prophesie is They are cloathed in sackcloth It is a darke mournfull expression holding forth thus much That they are in a dark low course sad mean and poor estate and but prophesying neither The LORD comes and sets up his two witnesses Christ in flesh and Christ in spirit He gives two witnesses of himself the flesh of Christ and the spirit of Christ the one to be crucified the other to revive the one prophesying and foretelling what shall be in sackcloth in a very dark low mean estate the other prophesying and fore-telling heavenly things to come More high more glorious more divine discoveries are made known by the Spirit of Christ then by the flesh of Christ And these are the two Olive trees and two golden chandlesticks standing at the right hand and left hand of the God of the whole earth To my two witnesses There are many and various interpretations that People doe make of these two Witnesses which though very remote from the inward and spirituall pith and marrow yet they may bear some Analogie or proportion with the minde of the Spirit as they are a dark figure of truth and in their greatest distance may be gathered up into these two Christ in flesh and Christ in Spirit Some interpret them to be the Magistracy and Ministry this is a very darke interpretation and very remote from the Adequate sense and meaning of the place and yet it may hold forth some-thing of truth in it it being a dark figure of the Magistracy and Ministry of Christ Christ a Minister a Servant a Prophet a Priest So he is in the flesh Christ a Lord a King Reigning Governing and so he is the Spirit Some again interpret them to be the two Testaments the old and the new which they call Law and Gospel A remote and dark figure still of Ghrist in flesh and Spirit Christ in flesh having much in it of the nature of the old Testament Christ in Spirit the new man the LORD from heaven having much in it of the nature of the new Covenant or new Testament But it 's generally understood to be the Saints of God and to speake in proper language these are the Saints of God or the holy ones of God Christ in the Spirit Christ in the flesh and Christ in Spirit where these two are bearing witnesse in any they are the Saints of God they are the holy ones of God These are the two Olive trees spoken of and the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth Zech. 4. last verse These are the two holy anointed ones of God If the question be What be these two Olive trees which through the golden pipes empty the golden oyle out of themselves It 's answered They are the two anointed ones of God It 's too much for men meer men to be the Olive trees or the Olive branches arising out of the root of God emptying the golden Oyle out of themselves for men take oyle into themselves but Christ in flesh and spirit gives forth the golden Oyle into the two golden candlesticks The Spirit