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truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	world_n	6,961	5	5.3573	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43072	The designe of God in the saints, or, The spirit transporting the minde of a Christian from the humane nature into the divine in the carrying on of which designe, the saint is a meere passive / by George Hassal.	Hassal, George.	1648 (1648)	Wing H1133; ESTC R25419	10,671	26

THE DESIGNE OF GOD In the SAINTS OR The Spirit transporting the minde of a Christian from the humane Nature into the divine In the carrying on of which Designe the Saint is a meere passive By George Hassal a member of the Army Zechariah the 4.th verse the 6.th Then he answered and spake unto me saying this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts LONDON Printed in the year 1648. TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Know that in the setting forth but of these few lines I shall be brought under the censure of two sorts of men the naturall and spirituall as for the naturall man I look not upon him as a competent Judge here for he knowes not the things of the Spirit neither can he for they are spiritually discerned and therefore how can he judge of those things he is ignorant of yet I am sure I shall not escape his censure however but blessed be the Father he hath taught me how to beare the hard censures reproaches and revilings of such men with patience whil'st I look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things that are seene are temporary but the things that are not seen are eternall But as for the spirituall man he knoweth all things that appertaineth to life and godlinesse The spirit searcheth the deep things of God and revealeth it unto him so that he is a competent Judge Judging all things yet he himselfe is judged of no man and therefore I am sure of his charitable censure because he can tell how to judge spiritually Now Gentle Reader which of these two thou art I doe not know but this I shall desire to certifie thee of that I doe not write this to teach thee of the Father as to say know him for that is the work of the Spirit nor to enlighten thy understanding for the Lord hath prepared a Lamp for his anointed even Iesus Christ the true light that lightneth every man that commeth into the world but if this may be to thee as an evidence to these truths as already manifested in thee I shall much rejoyce and so I believe thou wilt for from that short yet sweet experience that I have had of the Spirit I finde it to be the nature of the Saints in whom it is to rejoyce in one anothers light as Solomon saith in Proverbs the 13.th verse the 9.th The light of the righteous rejoyceth 〈◊〉 but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out The Saint who is truly spiritualized is as it were overwhelmed with extreme passions of Love Ioy and spirituall delight in beholding the same light in others that is in himselfe wherefore as the Apostle John then bare record of Christ comming in the flesh and being made manifest in the flesh so doe I now bare record of his coming in the Spirit in the flesh of the Saints and manifesting himselfe unto them and that as the flesh of Christ died at Ierusalem and rose againe so doth the flesh of a Saint when Christ comes dye to the old Adam and by the power of the resurrection of Christ live to the new Adam by the renewing of the mind the Saint being once clothed with Christ which is his Righteousnesse Mortality that came by the fall of the first Adam is swallowed up of life which is the second Adam and so Christian Reader this is my earnest desire that we may waite upon God for a further Manifestation of himselfe untill he shall renew our strength then shall wee mount up with wings as Eagles then shall we runne and not be weary we shall walke and not faint Isaiah the 40.31 Thine in the Bwels of love GEORGE HASSALL THE DESIGNE OF GOD IN THE SAINTS OR The Spirit transporting the minde of a Christian from the humane nature into the Divine THat which according to my apprehension of the Spirit of God I perceive to be his designe in every one of those he intends to manifest himselfe unto but are yet in this veile of flesh is to transport them from flesh to Spirit from fleshly Aegypt where they are in bondage to the spirituall Canaan where he will make them free from Babylon in the Mysterie where they are in Captivity unto Jerusalem in the Mysterie where they shall be free Denizens from the beauty and excellency of a fleshly creature to the beauty and excellency of the spirituall Creator from all worldly glory and honour whatsoever to that heavenly honour and glorious priviledge to be the sonnes of God and Coheires with Christ In whose presence is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore from the power of darkness unto his marvellous light from all outward or imaginary worships formes and carnall Ordinances to worship him who is the true God only in Spirit and truth in a word it is to transport the mind of a Christian or rather the mind which is the Christian when spiritualized from the humane nature of flesh to the divine nature of Spirit as Paul saith Though we have knowne Christ in the flesh yeet henceforth know we him so no more but in Spirit And so the Saint will say when he is got once to live with Christ in Spirit I knew Christ as I thought once in those fleshly dispensations or outward meanes as some call them but henceforth I shall desire to know him no more so but in Spirit as I doe The Saint being baptized with that one Baptisme not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ Peter the first the third and the 21. knowes Christ to be in him that heavenly Manna the bread of life and to be in him a Vine yielding fruit and to be in him a well of water springing up unto eternall life Paul saith that in the ministration of bread and wine they did but hold forth the Lords death till he came And when Christ which was the substance was come then the shadow was to be done away they were not to retaine the shadow with the substance and therefore sayes the Apostle Paul in Colossians the 2. d and the 16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drinke or in respect of an holy day or of the new Moone or of the Sabbath dayes which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ When a man is new borne of the Spirit he is then a new bottle a vessell of honour fit for his masters use Now saith Christ Men doe not put old wine into new bottles but new wine into new bottles and both are preserved New spirituall wine is most fit for that Saint that is new spiritualiz'd Wherefore if he be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world why as though living in the world should he be subject to