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The man-child brought forth in us, or, God manifest in flesh by John Lewin ...
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Lewin, John, Member of the army.
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Wing L1835; ESTC R11954
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the world shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowfull but your sorrow shall be turned into joy A woman when she is in travell hath sorrow because her hour is come but assoon as she is delivered of the child she remembreth no more the auguish for joy that a man is born into the world and yee now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your harts shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you the meaning is this you shall see Christ in the spirit as hee saith unto them in the 16 ver A little while and yee shall not see me and again a littile while and yee shall see mee because I go to the Father they should in a little while se him and they should not what is that they did not know but Christ sheweth them what it was when Christ was in the flesh they did see him but when hee was taken out of the flesh they did not see him but when Christ shall come in the spirit they shal see him again a little while this fleshly appearance shall vanish but afterwards you shall see me again When Christ was in the flesh they looked upon him as one distinct from them they did not see him in their flesh they shall see God in their flesh as he was in his flesh saith Christ he that seeth me seeth him those that see Christ in truth do not see that flesh only but God in that flesh hee that seeth mee seeth the Father so when wee see Christ truly we see not only that flesh but God in that flesh now saith Christ when I goe a way the spirit shall come that is in your flesh and you shall see me again as in the 16. of John 18 20. ver I Will not leave you comfortlesse I will come to you Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but yee see me because I live ye shall live also at that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you When Christ shall come again wee shall know him in the appearance of the Father the flesh is nothing but the manifestation of the Father you shall know that you are in Christ and Christ in you you in mee as I am in the Father as God was in his flesh so God shall appeare in your flesh that God that was manifest in his flesh shall be manifest in ours and that is Christ Before God was manifest in the Disciples flesh Christ tould them they should weepe and lament but the world shall rejoyce the people of God in these times before God was manifested in them they did sorrow before there was the appearance of God in them we may see how sorrowful they were they thought that Christ had been gon and that they had lost their master but saith he I will see you again so you shall rejoyce I will see you that is to say that God that was manifest in that flesh shall appeare in yours also again in the 12. of Reve. the 1. ver And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven a Woman clothed with the Sun and the moone under her feete and upon her head a crown of twelve stars and shee beeing with child cried travelling in birth and pained to be delivered This woman that is here spoken of in Heaven it is the Saints that are in the spirit even the weakest Saints for God will appeare in the weakest Saints A woman was traveling and at length delivered of a man-child and in the 5. ver of the same Chap. The child was caught up to God The bringing forth of Christ is a bringing forth of God that is when God is reveled in us and appeares in us and manifest in us there is the man-child This is for comfort and for joy for those that waite for the appearance of God in them Know this that God will appeare before wee bee aware this should incourage the people of God and keepe their harts in remembrance of this truth that wee are the tabernacles of God the place where God dwels as in this book of the Rev. John saw a new Jerusalem a City coming downe from above which is nothing but God dwelling in us the City of God where hee dwelleth When God comes to appeare and dwell in us then shall that song bee sung as it is in the 12. Reve. and the 10. ver And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night Now I say this should speak comfort to those that wait for the appearance of God to those that love his appearance and those that mourne for him there bee some that mourne for his appearance and some that love his appearance here is comfort for both for before she traveled she brought forth and before her paine came she was delivered it is much incouragement that God who is the high and holy one will appeare before wee bee aware before her paine came she was delivred who hath heard such a thing that Kingdom should be born at once suddenly and unexspectedly God will appeare not only in us but in many others I know nothing but my owne spirit and speake nothing but my owne experience I will not lay any exhortation upon any mans spirit I have been a while and not long waiting for the appearance of God that God might be manifested in my flesh and doe cry in paine to be belivered Now in this time my thoughts are carried out after too many things and not upon this only to wait for God and this hath bin my weaknesse I have been and am so troubled at what one man another and the world will say and how to answer all these and the like I say this is our weaknesse If we could but waite upon God untill he be manifest and then all men shall fall for the loftynesse of man shall be brought downe and the Lord all one shall bee exalted in that day see what the prophet saith in the 31. of Jerem. 21. ver set thee up way-marks make thee high heaps set thy heart towards the high-way even the way which thou wentest the meaning is take away all hinderances Take away that is prepare for God Then turne again O! Virgin daughter of Israell turn again to these thy Cities how long wilt thou goe about oh thou back-sliding daughter these are our back-slidings of flesh when God is not presently revealed in us wee gadde from one thing to another and our thoughts rove up and downe and are carefull to answer this man and the other now wee should doe nothing but turn to God How long wilt thou goe about oh thou back-sliding daughter Behould the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compas a man a woman shall that