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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

manifest all things even the hidden things of God and the secret works of darkness and reproveth for all evil all iniquity that is the pure act of the spirit which convinceth every man and as the creature comes to join to it it arises and shines forth more clearly and maketh it self known in its power and operation its power comes to be felt it checks and reproveth judgeth and condemneth all actions which is done and past and brings them to the creatures remembrance and as it is waited upon and hearkened unto it sheds it self abroad in its own pure brightness and bringeth all things to light even all the deeds of darkness and maketh manifest the intents of the mind and manifesteth all things reproveable Now as there is a waiting upon the pure appearance of it and the mind be still and quiet and calm the creature comes to feel and sensibly know his own condition he sees his mind is alive to other things and other lovers and not to God and so he sees himself dead to the things of Gods kingdom and in the loss and in the fall and in the transgression now this which shews the vain motions and vain thoughts and checketh them is an operation of the spirit and purity comes to be felt working in the heart and as it is loved and obeyed it leadeth and converteth the heart to the Lord and draweth towards its self out of unholiness and from under the dark power and brings that under and so it arises in its strength as it is believed in and waited upon and judges and condemns for all evil for it is the discoverer of the mind of the Lord to the sons of men or the Father by it makes known his mind to and in the creature and doth discover the things that be eternal in their true property and nature which onely they that have the spirit and have received it and are brought out of the sensuality comes to discern him who is invisible and the things that belongs to everlasting happiness which is not seen by a natural eye neither received by the spirit of the world who never received the things of God neither the testimony of them who were in the life Now all that comes to receive it that is to say the spirit of truth must wait in that which is pure unto which it joins it joins not to the corrupt man neither to the sensual heart neither to the vile affections neither unto them whose eyes is full of adultery which cannot cease from sin neither to the seed of falshood neither to the corruptible birth neither unto that which is born of the flesh nor unto the will of the creature yet notwithstanding though it join not to these yet is it near man even the natural man its manifestation or the shining forth of its brightness maketh all these things manifest before-mentioned to be evil and thus far the spirit of God hath appeared to the world and all mankind as to convince the world of sin yet stil it remains in its own purity and while the heart of any man is taken up with that and joined unto that which the light reproves that is to say the worker of iniquity that man hath not received the spirit neither is made possessor of it nor injoyes it but it stands off man and from man at a distance shewing the worker of iniquity and the works of darkness and manifesting to the creature in its light and letting him see unto whom he is joined for so far as a man denies himself in acting or joining to that which the manifestation of Gods spirit shining forth in its own purity in him reproveth so he comes nearer and comes to join in some measure to the spirit of holiness or the holy spirit and to receive it and to feel the power of God in some small measure though but weakly working in him to the purging out those things which the spirit lets him see is evil which hath been reproved in him and so in some measure feels in himself what to wait upon and where to wait and in what even in that which gives every one a feeling of their own condition within and opens their understandings How the spirit of truth worketh and operateth in them who are convinced and yet hath not obeyed it shewed THough God who is a spirit hath appeared by his manifestation unto all yet all have not received it he that hates the light hath not received it The eye-lids of the morning are unto him as the shadow of death that which manifesteth and bringeth to light all evil the evil doer likes it not heeds it not receives it not but still is without God in the world that lies in wickedness and without the spirit in death and dead in trespasses and sins a sepulcher in which the just lies slain in this state God is not remembred there is no remembrance in the grave nor no thanks in the pit yet light shines in darkness and a man unconverted yet convinced is that darkness and that which convinceth him is the light so light shines in darkness in man in the greatest darkness and this may convince all vain disputers who say every one is not inlightened neither that the spirit of God hath appeared to all good men have it bad men it s near them they that bring forth the fruits of darkness bring forth the deeds of darkness they are lighted yea they that are in darkness are darkness the light shines in them the spirit of God shines there in darkness manifesteth their darknes here man is darknes the Ephesians were darknes in the unconverted estate yet had light shining in them Eph. 5.8 the spirits manifestation they had but were not led by it once they were without God in the world but after it was turned unto it shewed them their darkness and it leading their minds they came to be made light in the Lord who is that spirit whose manifestation hath appeared to all so all are without excuse for he hath not left himself without witness and they that have not Gods witness to be theirs that is to say to possess it they have no faith nor assurance in God at all but that which should bring assurance of salvation unto them it assures their condemnation and also reveals sorrow Now as every one is turned to the measure of Gods holy spirit and keeps his mind into it he comes to feel and to see its reproof and so as the mind is kept still into it it arises in its pu●ity and shines forth in the heart in more brightness still checking man for disobedience still judging and as it is listened unto it appears in strength and layes every mans heart open and lets him see how full of unrighteousness he is how full of imaginations he is how his heart is full of vain and idle thoughts and how lust aboundeth in the heart this makes his trouble to increase and his

m●ke you sensible of his pure presence I say if he appear not in the way you would limit him to in those things you would confine him in you cannot receive him the Lord open your understandings that you may see your selves and how frothy vain light and wanton you are one with the world in all things in the very ground pretending liberty in Christ and priviledge in him when you may see you are servants to corruptions and to many noysom lusts that makes war Again what are all outward appearances any more but as a Curtain or as a veil and as a shadow in respect of Christ Gods righteousness within but you are filled so full of your apprehensions of his righteousness at a distance that you have forgotten all at home and your own conditions for his righteousness will not be a cloak for your self-righteousness and unrighteousness and if Christ be nor formed in you Gods righteousness and live in you and act in you and work his work in you you are in the self-righteousness and a talk of imputation will not save you while you are not in that capacity nature and faith ●nto whom his righteou●ness is imputed Are you not weary with tumbling up and down among the earthly Hills among which you have situated your selves Do you not see your land grows barren and your possessions dry and your worship dead heaven rains not on you the bottles is stopped the dew falls not on you you wither daily as a stick withousap what have you found that which will last unto perpetuity oh nay it s rusted already it 's canckered already it 's moth-eaten already it 's fading the glory is staining the renown of all earthly things is ●ading and all terrestrial appearances though never so glorious they are all to cease a consumption is coming blasting is near there will be no more glory in these things they will flye away as a shadow when the Sun arises your riches are wasting when will ye seek after that which endures for ever I pity you who have had breathings after God hath sate down at ease in that which is not eternal Be warned return home consider see what corruption thou hast power over now which had once power over thee Dost thou rest in that faith that thou shalt never be cleansed here that fai●h is curst it 's reprobate it s rather properly unbelief It 's not the faith of Gods elect by which they were sanctified and overcame the wicked one in themselves by the power of Christ who is able to save and manifests his ability in all them that believe in the light which they are enlightned withal through which he manifests himselfe to the Creature and makes known his power in the Creature to redeem the soul out of death and to redeem the Creature from under the bondage of corruption to serve him in the free spirit of God in which the sons are made free from sin from the act and guilt they become the Temples of the holy Ghost How far you are from this many of you consider who are yet temples of uncleanness and a habitation for many noysome lusts repent and minde that which empties you of your thoughts and conceitednesse that you may know poverty of spirit that the kingdome may come unto you and be yours in possession else you are everlastingly miserable and this is the true state of many of you own it and repent that if it be possible you may finde a door of mercy yet opened unto you and that you may enter in thereat for it is not setting up and conforming to a visible practice without that will justifie you while that which is in the transgression and hath transgressed the life and hath disobeyed the light in your consciences is head in you and above the pure that will not recommend you unto God neither can you have any accesse or acceptation with God in that state till you come out of the waters upon which the Whore fits which is unstable and boysterous and reels too and fro and unsetled which is all to be dried up and all the springs cut off that nourishes and you must come to the Rock before you know any thing that will endure to build upon which rock is Christ who abides for ever but you are all gone from that which should give the knowledge of him in your selves and doth not retain him in your knowledge neither that which gives the knowledge of him the light of his Spirit which shines in your hearts making manifest in your hearts the intention of your hearts when motions unto evill do arise This must you all come to before Gods salvation or redemption you come to know in your selves or have the witnesse of Gods holy Spirit without which there is neither seale nor evidence nor assurance enjoyed or felt of the love of God The time of restoring is come and many are restored again into Gods covenant and are delivered out of the jaws of death and feels him who is the healer of the Nations and the restorer of the desolate places to dwell in but first you must come to see those places made desolate wherein the wilde nature lodges before you come to have a share in the restoration Come off these barren mountains where you are feeding to Christ the life of men who hath lightned you and wait in it that you may feel his mind in your selves and the signification of the Spirit of truth from your own spirits or else you will still erre for lack of knowledge and perish for want of understanding and so lay down your heads in sorrow The kingdome of God and of his Christ declared in some measure as it is revealed what it is and where it is to be waited for and how it cometh to be revealed to them and in them that believe that all who are waiting for it may know wherein consists and so receive the end of their hope and the end of their expectation and know the Dominion which hath no end THe Lord hath prepared his Throne in the Heavens and his Kingdome ruleth over all his dominion is an everlasting dominion and without end God is a Spirit his Kingdome is spiritual his habitation is sutable to his own nature he is immortall his Kingdome is so he is light his dwelling place is so a pure scituation in which there is no uncleannesse nor ever shall be It 's eternall dignity it is an immutable being that remaineth always in it's purity and pleasantnesse Eternally glorious it consists in power in righteousness in purity in joy in hope in peace in life in vertue eternall In quietnesse it 's a quiet habitation it is incomprehensible unsearchable and indeclarable words are too short they are but as sounds as vayls It is unexpressible in it is the treasure-house of wisdome out of which all that believe in him who is the King of eternall and immortall glory comes to receive of his

yet its validity power and vertue is nevertheless in it self and though them that are careless and heedless say we feel no power nor sufficiency in it to save us from sin yet this makes not void their confidence who have received it and knows its power which hath given them power and also sufficiency to do the will of God what though unbelievers who are in the alienation say there is no beauty in Christ neither form nor comliness this makes not his glory void who is the express Image of the father full of grace and truth the Disciples saw it and bore record of him who were in the faith and the Pharisees said he had a devil who were in the unbelief but in brief this is my testimony that the grace of God the perfect gift of God which shews ungodliness and leads from ungodliness all that are taught by it is a sufficient teacher of it self I mean as the power of Christ through it is made manifest unto all them that hearken to it Paul a Minister of the word of reconciliation who was rapt up into the third heaven where he saw things unutterable came to be tempted and buffetted with the messenger of Satan and fear and doubting rose up in him and he prayed unto God thrice and this answer was given unto him my grace is sufficient for thee so this is evident to all understandings who are opened by the Lord that which shewed him the temptations and Satans messengers and Satans buffetings was sufficient to preserve him and so is it for all who singly are kept to it and in it sufficient to shew ungodliness because of its purity and to lead from worldly lusts by its power and to teach the will of God and to live like unto God in this present world and this testimony I bear of it and to it even what as I have felt and tasted and handled of its sufficiency and vertue and power of its operation for the confirmation of the same truth which is believed by many brethren and also for the information of them who thirst after the Lord and for the opposition of all the gainsayers and opposers of it which testimony I commend to that of God in every man which will witness me herein in the day of God when all hearts is opened and all falshoods and truth is made manifest in the mean time shall rest in that which I have declared of in which there is pure and perfect peace A word to you wise men of this world who are glorying in the sound of words and worshipping outward appearances to all wise and litterall professors who think you are worshipping God aright who think to search into the deep things of God by your natural wisdom learning and parts and study GOd hath broken open the seals of the great deep where the wonderful unutterable things of God is revealed from whence eternal wisdom is flowing forth to his little ones whom he hath sanctified from the womb and his power and glory is he sheding abroad and making it to flow forth as though it issued out of a womb by which power and wisdom you are all weighed even by one who is swaddled about with righteousness and girded up with the girdle of truth you are all measured as with a span and are all weighed as with a scale all your parts tongues languages interpretations significations wisdome that is come to be enjoyed by them who have believed in the true light that lighteth everyman wch rounds you all as a heap measurs you all as with a line your breadth length height depth your parts tongues languages interpretations is but all natural words are but empty sounds though there be many languages and each have an interpretation and a signification they are all short to d●cl●re the life the immeasurable being of eternal life you with all these are on heaps disjointed one from another your Rhetorick Philosophy your framed and devised disputations your tongues and the significations of all tongues cannot know the mind of the Spirit neither knows the original of eternal salvation by all these and so not knowing the sign●fication of the living eternal spirit in your selves you invent study devise forms and frames up things in your carnal mind by the strength of your learned studied devised parts and framed speeches and hath filled the whole world with your dark muddy conceptions and hath led all out from seeking after the living wisdom of God which is from above which was before your tongues and languages was and they have sucked in your conceptions and distinctions and your devised fables and your imagined worship that many have lost the sence of any thing of God in themselves to guide them and when you have come as far as you can in those things and have devised in your minds by the strength of those parts natural you are farther from the knowledge then before and all that hear you and sucketh in your conceptions and imaginations into their hearts they are farther off Gods true knowledge then they were the day in which they came out of their mothers womb it is a lamentation to see how people are gone out of the pure simplicity which is in Christ into subtilty and deceit stuffed up full brim-full of that which must be all poured out as water before they and you all come to the least measure of Gods true and saving knowledge Oh a dreadful day is come upon many and it lingers not but will come swiftly as a thief upon you who have taken away the key of knowledge and gives people that which will not open and tells them of a litteral carnal thing that must give them entrance you and all they will be shut out together among the uncircumcised as fools though you count your selves wise men your wisdom will perish and your honour will be laid in the dust the time hastens it is the word of truth to you all And you litteral professors who have got the Scripture into your head and into the carnal mind to talk on and are run into so many heads you are almost past numbring and hath exalted so many horns yet the number is read the number of the heads of the beast and the number of his name you have taken up things and are exalting a visible shadowish practise and neglecteth the li●e and are making Idols of those things which were but a figure and a representation in their purest time now you like the Pharise●s are limiting the Lord that if he will not appear unto you in those thi●gs that you have prescribed unto your selves and fetched in from the l●tter and gotten it into the fleshly part which is heaped up as a mountain in many of you so high above Gods pure witness in you and so high above the appearance of God in you that you have quite lost the sight of that in your selves which should give you the knowledge of the living God and