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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58213	A real demonstration of the true order in the spirit of God and of the ground of all formality & idolatry, with a few words unto such as are concerned in it.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing R456A; ESTC R31776	9,666	13

as from your deadly enemy that so you may obtain favour with the Lord whilst his love is to you which we tenderly desire that so it may be with you Nottingham the 11. mon. 1663. John Reckless Martha Plats Sarah Watsone Hannah Reckless Prudence Harding GOd in his everlasting love to man in the Fall hath sent his Son Christ Jesus and hath made him manifest in man to be the Light of man and to lead man out of the Fall up to God and this Son of God is the second Adam the Lord from Heaven who is the quickning Spirit by which eternal Spirit the souls of his people are quickned made alive unto God it is by the same Spirit that they are fed and nourished kept alive unto him in his own righteousness this holy Spirit is their guide leader into all truth whatsoever this Spirit leadeth into therein they are justified of God not in any other thing when this Spirit leadeth the birth of its own begetting to appoynt a meeting it is for God in what place soever it doth appoynt a meeting it is lawful for the people of God who live in this Spirit to go thereunto or for any others if it be day after day or time after time it being appoynted by the Spirit of the Lord it is justified by the Lord the Power holy Life which is in Jesus doth accompany such meetings for they meet in the Name Truth of the Lord. These are those who are born of the Royal Seed and God is feeding them with the holy Bread of life and if any find but so much as a hunger or desire in their souls after the living Bread they are to go to that blessed assembly where the living Bread is broken where the Lords people is met together for that Life which is manifested in them cries come to all the thirsty all that come in-no-wise will he turn them away unsatisfied So all that come although they be but weak the Lord will strengthen them or hungry yet he wil feed them or thirsty he hath water to give unto them for unto such his cry is And when the Lord doth satisfie the soul in the assembly of his people and meeting then thy soul will be zealous for that meeting because thou hast met with the Lord to satisfie thee And it is not the outward place or time or days that thou wilt cry up but thou wilt cry up that which hath answered the desire of thy soul and that meeting in which God is so much manifested for thy meeting is in the Spirit Truth which was before days or time or place was yet thou cannot be against the time or days or place where the people of God meet because they are in the Fathers hand and the people of God who are led by the Spirit of God they know the place and day which God hath appoynted for them to live walk assemble in and this is the heavenly place in Christ Jesus and they who live in this they have the refreshing presence of God with them at all times and in all outward places wheresoever their gathering is and this is that standing meeting which none who knows it are to withdraw from And now Friends you that know the travel of your souls have a sense feeling that Christ is formed in you dwell and abide in him who is formed and in this form the Life and Power of God dwels and abides for ever for as every one doth know Gods righteousness to be put on so as that they feel themselves to stand in it and it to cover them here they are in the thing formed and so take the form upon them which is godliness and the power of God is with them and doth uphold them the Spi it of God is in them and justifieth them in this form and in this you will know what Christ took upon him while he was in the flesh and thou must not be greater than thy Master but thou art in all things to obay him and to do his will So wilt thou feel the mind of Christ in thee to lead thee into that form and path he walked in for he went to one place several times to preach and teach and this was not a dead form but that form in which the power of God was manifested And therefore dost thou not know that these backsliders who now cry against our meetings as formal though the power of God is with us would if they had been in Christs days have cryed against him when he took upon him the form of a servant And is not this the spirit of the Pharisees who condemn'd Christ and now his Disciples being they are turned against him would be set up themselves and this spirit is one with that spirit in the world against our meetings the one with reviling words and the other with wicked actions they are both one in the ground and sees no comliness in Christ the Truth because they are out of the Light in which he dwels but to all who dwell and walk in the Light he is very comly and beautiful and very glorious beyond what they can speak of him Therefore dear Friends whose being is in Christ with God unto you my love and soul is much oblieged and my desire it that you all may be preserved in the precious truth even to the end and that it may ever be unto you beautiful and delectable to your sight and that you may faithfully meet in his Name and feel the God of all consolation comforts amongst you daily to stren●then refresh you with his living mercies that you in his grace may grow as plants of his renown to bring forth fruit to the glory of God for ever and beware of that spirit which would draw you from meetings for it is an enemy to the Church of the first-born whose being is in God and in whom my habitation is who am Your Dear Brother JOHN MOON THE END

A Real Demonstration Of the TRUE ORDER IN The Spirit of God And of the GROUND OF ALL Formality Idolatry WITH A few words unto such as are concerned in it LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A Real Demonstration of the true Order in the Spirit of God and of the Ground of all Formality and Idolatry THe inspiration of the Almighty giveth knowledg and thereby man comes to understand the things that are of God and to be acquainted with the movings of the Life which doth produce the order of God and so comes to know the times and seasons which the Father hath in his own hand and to observe them according to the good pleasure of his will and to his honour praise glory and such times and seasons so observed as by the movings of the Life they stand in the liberty of the Life and are not formal in practice for as the Author of them is God so the observation is in obedience to his Will in which he orders his children according to his pleasure therein So that formality and Idolatry doth not stand in this ground though as to times seasons and practice there be a diligent observation in the same manner for to meet together in the fear of God according to the will wisdom of God it is neither formal nor idolatrous though a day time and place be observed neither is it like the traditional observations which only stands in the vain customs for the Author is God and the movings of his Life disposes in it and the children of light are ordered in his will and time and not in their own and they are not limited to a day time place or person but as they are ordered in the Fathers will even so they are disposed as their practice doth clearly manifest So that neither formality nor idolatry can stand in this principle which is of God nor in this practice which stands in the order of God but he alone is served worshiped and honoured by the birth of his own Life which in his strength delights to do his will and seeks his Glory alone and though there may be some who are not so fully acquainted with the leadings and drawings of the Life as to be wholly ordered and disposed by it in what they practice and so may give too much to the observation and settle themselves in what is practiced out of the feeling of the Life and Power yet this doth not at all make the order in the Life to be either formal or idolatrous neither is any to withdraw from it because that some in weakness may fall short in understanding and esteem the thing done above that which leads to do it for it is to be considered that if a thing lawful in it self be abused yet such abuse doth not make void the right use of it neither is it to be layed waste as a thing which in it self is evil but the abuse is to be removed by a clear information to the understanding of such as do abuse it and the thing to be kept unto as good in its place by such as know how to use it aright So that the assembling together in the fear of God the declaration of truth in the movings of God putting off the Hatt in prayer when performed by the Spirit of God giving the Hand in the Unity of the love of God they are not to be denyed as they stand in the order of God for in so doing it is to lay wast and destroy such things as are ordained of God and altogether voyd of formality and idolatry being observed as unto God in the order of his own Life and nothing aimed at thereby but simply his Glory alone and it is most certain that being so observed they that observe them are justified and not condemned of God and that they are so observed by all the children of light the witnesse of God doth clear their innocency and seals unto them everlasting peace therein Now seeing that neither formality nor idolatry can be found in the holy order of the Life of God nor amongst the children and heirs of his Kingdom then it is to be considered from what ground all formality and idolatry doth arise that so none may erre from the Life and the holy order in it under pretence of Forms and Idols This therefore is to be understood that every Form and Idol hath a beginning and so hath its rise and production from the ground of its conception and that ground is the wisdome below mark below the Life below the Power below the wisdom from above the mind being taken with that spirit it ravins from the Spirit of God and thereby the Imaginations are let at liberty and by a continual motion contracteth the airy property and so formeth a likenesse as the wisdom below inventeth and then produces it in various manners and several appearances and alwayes in its likeness it hath some shew of godliness and offers with it a higher attainment of more perfect liberty And this is the very ground of deceivableness which stands in darkness out of the Light and Power of God and hence arises all the various appearances in practice one hath its form in one manner and another differs some glory only in their appearance others will have no appearance at all and all these things are closed with as more excellent and of higher concernment than what is practiced in the power of God And here lyes the deep deceit of the transforming spirit because it offers its likeness in a shew of godliness and a higher attainment of liberty and innocency when indeed the birth which is formed by it is the greatest burden and bondage to the birth of God and where this spirit is in motion there cannot be any thing either formed inwardly and there only set up or produced outwardly and there set up but a bare likeness altogether voyd of the nature and substance of the true Seed in which alone the express Image of the Father is made manifest and the brightness of his Glory revealed And as this spirit prevails over any and perswades their minds that the order in Gods Spirit is formal idolatrous and that they are attained or waiting to attain a higher state of liberty either by laying all things inward or producing somthing more excellent in the outward it doth certainly turn their backs upon the Truth and vainly puffs them up under a shew of humility And this is the very spirit of all formality and idolatry of what nature soever whether it be an Idol within or an Idol without it alwayes worketh and formeth its likeness in a shew of godliness and that is the Mysterie for if it was not so it could not bring any thing to pass for none that pretends to godliness would close with any thing that hath not a shew of it and so this spirit will cry against the order in Gods Spirit as a Form and as an Idol and