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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

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 to the intent that they may for the time to come wait in that which gives the true knowledge of God and of his Kingdome and of the Mysteries thereof which comes to be revealed through Faith to the upright in HEART 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 The secrets of the Lord are with them that feare him LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1658. The particulars treated on in the following DISCOURSE 1 WHat the day of the Lord is and to whom it hath appeared and how it is seen and discovered 2 What it is and what it will be to the wicked declared 3 What it is to the righteous and how he appears to them and whether we are to look for it while in the body resolved 4 Where it doth appear and how it cometh and how it is to be looked for declared 5 What the Spirit of the Lord is and how it comes to be received which discovers the things of God 6 How the spirit of truth worketh and opperateth in them who are convinced and yet have not obeyed it shewed 7 How the spirit of the Father worketh in them who hearken to it and are in some measure made partakers of its power shewn 8 Vnto whom the Spirit of the Father bears witness and seals assurance of the Fathers love and of justification with God declared 9 What the grace of God is which is free and to whom it hath appeared and where all is to wait to receive it 10 Whether all have received the grace of God or no and whether it be a sufficient teacher in it selfe demonstrated 11 Some objections answered 12 A word to the wise men of this world who are glorying in the sound of words 13 Also another to them who are glorying in outward appearances and worshipping visible things in stead of the life 14 The Kingdome of God and his Christ declared in some measure as it is revealed by the Spirit what it is and where it is to be waited for and how it comes to be revealed in them that believe 15 Divers Objections answered To the READER Reader IN times past in the night of ignorance when men groped in the darke as blinde men since the Apostles days and out of thicke darknesse have spoke darkly of the things of God and of his Kingdome and written many things about the things of God and of his Kingdome which hath fed the darke mynds of many who are unconverted unto God And seeing how many people are confused in their mindes and erre in judgement and have lost the key of knowledge which should give an entrance into the mystery of Gods kingdome and open their hearts Therefore in compassion unto them who are thirsting after the Lord to finde him these few things I was moved to write for the sakes of those who have no place to rest in or upon to the intent that all may wait in that through which God reveals his minde and manifests his true knowledge in man and these things that I have written as they were revealed to me and in me by his pure Spirit If thou wait in the manifestation of the Spirit these things thou wilt see to be truth though hid and vailed from the world that lies in wickednesse as th●u comes out of its nature I have not written for to please men of corrupt minds who glory in words and outward appearances and glory in naturall parts and in sounds and are erred from the life but to the simple-hearted and for the strengthning of the weake and for the understanding of the simple and that which thou seest in the following discourse which thou canst not close with let it alone and judge nothing before the time in thy wisdome which is earthly or in thy reason but in that and to that of God in thee I desire to be approved and to nothing ●lse and shall be made manifest in the day of the Lord which is dawning in the world and many have seen it to appear in power and glory wait thou in thy own particular that thou maist f●ele thy own condition and see thy own state and that which lets thee see thy own condition will let thee see the Lord and what I have declared of him to be true I am thy friend in truth and wisheth good to all men F. H. THe Lord God of the whole earth who lives for ever even the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and Jacob whose Throne is established in righteousness for ever who rideth upon the heavens and shines forth in his eternal excellency from the firmament of his power he is manifesting himself in his power as in the dayes of old revealing his righteousness as in the years past and pouring forth his spirit upon his sons and daughters according to his promise and they that believe comes to be made partakers of the blessing of the everlasting Hills even the Lord who appeared at Sinai unto Moses his servant in the bush who rose up from mount Seir and shined forth in his brightness from mount Paran and came with ten thousands of his Saints even he from whose right hand went a fiery Law so that the people could not behold his glory the same is he who hath now appeared in this the day of his power and is appearing whose glory shall dazel the eyes of the world whose brightness shall make dim all the worlds glory and stain its wisdom and shut it up in utter darkness that it shall not a●pear to have any existance or being and the shadow of death shall flie away and all the haughty and lofty Princes of this world shall be horribly afraid the beasts shall go into their dens when the day appears and the Lambs of the everlasting fold shall come forth and be fed in the fat valleys where the springs of life compasseth about all the banks and rejoyce in their shepherd and shall say The Lord is my shepherd which many at this time doth admire and say What hath the Lord wrought who have seen his wonders in the dayes of old and have seen his noble acts which the fathers have told of who are fallen asleep and are at rest in the Lord and now many is God bringing to see their witness to be true and to have the same fulfilled in themselves honour and praise unto him for ever who is the stay and strength of all his people for ever And the day of the Lord is broken and the light hath appeared that manifesteth

all things which are reproveable and the day-star is arisen in the hearts of many and they are come to see that fulfilled in their hearts which Peter exhorted them to wait for and to take heed unto the sure word of prophesie until the day appeared and did dawn in their hearts which day when it appears and to whom it appears discovereth all things and maketh all things manifest as it is declared by the Spirit of truth in the Scripture of truth and every mans work shall be tried of what sort it is and of what nature it is and this day hath appeared to many praises to the Lord who have waited for it and now they see every thing in its ground and rise and every tree and fruit is seen according to its kind whether good or bad and every mans works is obvious to every one who are in the day and upon whom the morning of righteousness hath appeared and the Sun of righteousness hath shined upon whereby that is seen in every one by the light which is truly called day by the Lord who causeth it to spring from on high which is reproveable and condemnable and also whatever is justifiable and unreproveable is seen by the day of the Lord appearing in the heart The day of the Lord what it is and to whom it hath appeared discovered and how it is seen GOd is a spirit his day is spiritual and is seen with a spiritual eye its pure light pure brightness the pure shining forth of the Lord in his glorious excellency the pure shining forth of eternity life puting forth it self in its brightness holiness sheding it self abroad in its glory purity spreading it self in its immeasurable excellency and can onely be seen as it is in it self by the children of the light that are born of it there is a natural day there is a spiritual day the natural day receives its brightness from the Son the spiritual day receives it brightness from the Son of righteousness by whom it s brought forth without whom nothing was made or is made or brought forth but by him who is the fountain of life and as the natural day receives its clearness from the natural Sun and is discerned by the natural eye of a natural man and all things natural are seen and discovered by and in the natural day and are perspicuous and obvious to him that hath his natural sight even so from the Sun of righteousness the Lord of glory light and purity the day of God receives its brightness and is issued out from him by the rays of his brightness and is discerned and seen only by the spiritual eye of the spiritual man who is the Image of the father brought forth in life and in his own nature and quality that is to say from God the Father of life by Christ Jesus the life of men the light of the world and this is the birth which is born from above which is of the nature of the Father and the Sun and of the day and he onely comes to behold this day and discerns all things of the fathers kingdom by it and likewise discerns all the hidden things of dishonesty and the works of darkness which is brought forth by the Prince of darkness who is shut up in eternal and utter darkness which is his dwelling place for ever which is his residence and shall be the residence of all the workers of iniquity that bear his Image for ever Obj. But some may be ready to say It is not yet appeared and all things are not yet made manifest and that day is not yet come neither hath appeard in this age to any Answ. What if a man that is naturally blind say that there is no light in the day nor in the Sun because he sees none is therefore there no light in the day nor in the Sun And what if all things be alike unto him day and night so that he can distinguish nothing doth this therefore make void their seeing who do see with the natural eye both the Sun and the day and hinder them from distinguishment or discerning And what if they who are spiritually blind and are children of the night say they see nothing nor beholds nothing of the day of the Lord or of the discovery of the things of God or of his glo●ious appearance which many witness doth this therefore make their sight void or discovery of the things void to them who have seen into the things that be of God● kingdom the unbelief of some doth not make the faith of them that do believe void God forbid What the day of the Lord is and what it will be to the wicked declared AS I have said though the day of the Lord be pure light and brightness in it self and mixeth not with the night which is of a contrary nature because the Lord in the beginning separated them and set a decree which will last unto all perpetuity and that which limited the bounds and circumferen●e the●eof now is the same I say though the day of the Lord be pure and keeps its purity and property and nature and is still one and the same in it sel● for nothing can alter its purity yet it is a day of blackness and gloominess and a notable terrible day unto the wicked who hates its appearance and hates the light children of falshood and of deceit whose deeds be evil it makes them and their deeds manifest there it is unto them as it is written in a certain place The eye lids of the morning are unto them as the shadow of death the appearance of the Lord affrights them and they would run from it as a thief that diggeth through a wall and breaketh open a house in the night when deep sl●ep is upon men but when the day appears that discovers his actions he is afraid because he wil then if he stay there be seen and all that live wantonly upon earth whose hearts are set to seek after wickedness as for hid treasure the day of the Lord will steal upon such as a thief and will come as upon a thief and they being children of the night and bringing forth the fruits of darkness contrary to the light they will have their portion in utter darkness and eternal vengeance will compass them as a wall and fury as a fi●e that devoureth all the fewel so sh●ll the ungodly perish and have their portion with hypocrites Think on this all you raylers and revilers of the light and of the appearance of God and repent for as ●●e wilde asse that snuffs up the winde and they that seeks will not weary themselves with her yet a time cometh when she may be found and taken Even so all the ungodly though they may runne as a wild Asse traverse their way as a Dromedary yet the moneth cometh and the day cometh they wil be overtaken in the middest of security and they shall not escape And though the children of

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