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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60448	To all that want peace with God to the sheep everywhere not brought home, ... plainly published, concerning the way of life, and of the gradual comings forth of death through law ... / ... Humphry Smith.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4079; ESTC R6668	14,712	19

reconcileth was passed through before the life was received again to save and justifie And why then are people so much busied about that which was before the reconciliation and so therein much short of the life and for outward Bread Wine and Water Are not these things which are seen And are not the things that are seen temporal But Christ the true Prophet being come of whom Moses did write who is the end of the Law and so the end of that Ministry whereby that is done away for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof and Christ coming after John of whom John bare witness that he was before and greater and came after him and Christ also having finished that which he himself came to do and likewise so largely and often exhorted to wait for another Comforter even the Spirit Then what Ministration is it that now standeth and remaineth which is according both to Moses Christ and the holy Scriptures and what Ministration is to be expected or waited for but the Ministration of the Spirit And whether all they be not compassed about with a cloud of error who are upholding that Ministry of the Law or a worse which Christ is the end of and the Apostles said was done away and likewise such as are upholding and keeping up that which Christ said he had finished And whether the upholding of such things now be not quite opposite both to Moses Christ and Scriptures And being that Moses nor indeed his true Ministers of the Law are not upon earth neither that Body of Christ which by the Professors was murthered at Jerusalem visibly to be seen upon earth then what was it that those have to follow who have not received the Spirit to be led by and if they will say they have the writings of Moses and the word of Christ I say if that be all then they that forsook and denyed Christ had more than them for they had the words from his own mouth which was Spirit and life and yet they understood not and then what do those understand who have not so much as they had therefore after he had suffered and rose again he opened their understandings And so what is all their Religion worth who are not come to the Spirit And whether Moses Ministration being ended by Christ and Christ also having finished his work are not all people in the first place now to wait for the Spirit and to receive the Spirit by it then to be led into all Truth and so being first led into the Truth then in the same Truth to worship God in the spirit who is a spirit And whether there be now any true worship standing which God accepteth but only this And whether this alone be not agreeable to Moses Christ and Scriptures And then whether all other worship now upheld be not contrary to this true worship of God and contrary to Moses Christ and Scriptures and indeed chiefly opposite to the spirit of God whereby he is grieved And if so whether all such worship way practise performances duties and Ordinances so called be not better left undone than performed until Gods Spirit be received to guid therein Thirdly Concerning the Ministration of the Spirit which abideth for ever MOses and his Ministry were visible and Christ in the form of a servant and so like unto Moses was visible and so was his miracles and that which is visible to the natural eye the carnal mind can come to profess and contend about but the blessed eye which God openeth with the Light cometh to see the one done away and the other finished by Christ the Light and Life And the Spirit is that which first moved and yet moveth and moved unto and led through the visible Ministration and this spirit is invisible as it is written the invisible only wise God whom no eye of flesh hath seen or can see and this moving invisible spirit of God which is without limit or end is that which all people should be led unto by all its outward visible appearances ministrations and dispensations and this spirit was that which gave forth and ordained the ministration of the law which was glorious in its time though to be done away but how much more glorious is the ministration of that spirit of life it self from which the ministration of the Law came which spirit abideth for ever And the Second Adam is made a quickning spirit and the spirit which is the word was with God and was God before the body of flesh was made and that spirit abideth for ever as is heard out of the Law he shall abide for ever and this is that which ever liveth to intercede And this for ever blessed invisibe spirit was before time and is to be when time shall be no more and is without limit an eternal lively substance giving life from it self and secretly covering it self from the carnal part of man not seen nor understood but by such as by its secret motions comes to be led to see through that which shadows it forth and by the Image Forme Shaddow or Figure to discern the substance which is the life where immortality dwelleth for in the most innermost and secret of all is the life of all being couered over with that in which it lies through the which it breaking forth in any discovery of it self is that whereby the beholders might be drawn through the discovery to it self which in the discovery broke forth for the discovery was still too short of that from whence it came that which was discovered forth in any shadow Forme or Image was not to be Idolized nor set up for the every thing or substance of life from whence it proceeded and herein hath been much mistake by such who came not by that which opened in the visibles to that from whence it came in that to have their understandings opened and thereby to be made sensible of that which is eternal by it to be brought in where its indwellings abideth forever whose breakings forth in the visible which was to draw to that invisible refreshed the ●●ul invisibly in an unexpected manner and time but being after sought for in the visibles and not in the eternal Withdraws it self out of the visibles and out of the sight and reach of that which seeks it there that thereby that which is to live for ever with it may come through all that which it appeared in unto the very thing and invisible substance it self which is the life of all and the true center of the living motion which moveth of it self and gave forth all things good as they proceeded from it by vertue of its gradual and various motions and this being come openeth it self in them that find it and live therein and this maketh Darkness Light before the people whose dwelling is with God and the crooked comes to be made staight by the thing it self and dark sayings of old comes to be opened and secret things revealed

whether they could not come and to this one thing doth he direct them in various expressions as of his going to the Father coming again and saith he I will pray the Father he shall give you another Comforter even the Spirit of truth whom the World cannot receive John 12. 16. and many things Jesus did which if it should be all written the world might not contain the books John 21. 25. and many things he spake unto them Acts 2. 40. and ●et there was something to come to be waited for and after to be received which was more than all this for said he these things have I spoken unto you being yet present with you but the comforter mark the word but intimateth something greater or more than what was spoken to them whilst he was with them for he saith he that is with you shall be in you John 14. 17. and said but the comforter which is the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name he will teach you all things mark what that is that teacheth all things and bringeth all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said and so that is within which bringeth the words of spirit and life to remembrance John 14. 25. 26. and having spoken of other things he saith again But when the comforter comes even the Spirit of truth John 15. 26. and if I go not away the comforter will not come but if I depart I will send him unto you John 16. 7. and I have many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth John 16. 12 13. here it may be seen that they who followed Christ without and not received the spirit within could not bear what he had to speak unto them and also it may be seen that when the Spirit was come it would be better with them And much more might be mentioned how Christ foretold what was to come and be received and revealed in that day John 16. 23. when the spirit should be poured forth according to the Prophets all which plainly declareth and most evidently sets forth how Christ in his Ministry when he was upon earth did most thiefly direct unto the ministration of the spirit of Truth which was then yet to come and that they might not run to teach others as many do now before they had received the spirit of truth in themselves by with that to be led into all truth but might receive the power of truth in themselves from the life thereof to convert others into the same therefore said he further after he was risen again but tarry ye in the City of Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high Mark 24. 4. so that though they had seen his body before had now seen him after his resurrection yet that and all the rest was not enough without the power and the spirit which was to come which they were to wait for and so now men should tarry wait and stand still to see the salvation of God and until they receive the spirit for it is the spirit not the body which searcheth all things and sheweth plainly of the Father And by this before written in short I have a little endeavoured to shew unto the meek and single bearted That Moses when he was upon earth directed unto Christ As in these words The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy Brethren like unto me unto him shall ye hearken Deut. 18. 15. And Christ when he was upon earth directed unto the Spirit which was to come in the like words saying These things have I spoken unto you being yet present with you but the Comforter which is the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things John 14. 25 26. And then what if I did write after the manner of men and say if Moses were now upon the earth and Christ in his own body upon the earth and Moses with all his Priests Tyths and Offerings and Religion which discovers sin but makes nothing perfect which Paul profited much in if he I say should command and exhort all people under his Ministry to go to Christ and hear him And if Christ were now upon earth and notwithstanding his outward Miracles Circumcision Baptism Supper and Death yet he should command and exhort all that come through the Law or Ministration of Moses unto him to look and tarry and wait for another Comforter That they might receive the Spirit in them and say unto them that that should teach them all things and lead them into all truth Then whether or no people were to continue following Moses Priests with their Tyths and long prayers and still be seeking the Law at their mouth or to come to Christ to seek the Gospel for Moses himself did not say that they should seek the Gospel at the Priests mouth And then when did the Priests ever preach the Gospel And then whether those obey not Moses who leave the Priests and come to Christ the Light and whether such when they are come to Christ should alwayes be looking and following after his Body Miracles Baptism or Supper without them or tarry and wait to receive the Spirit within them And then which of these now should all people that profess Christ be led by in these dayes either Moses or the person of Christ or the Spirit of Truth And whether such as have received and are truly indeed led by this Spirit of truth and know that to be their Teacher and follow it and are ruled governed and guided by it according to the command of Moses and Christ do not hereby obey the command of Moses and of Christ and fulfil their Doctrine And whether any other people or professors whatsoever do obey the command of Moses and Christ but only such And whether this be not a thing of great concernment to be known and learned by all which profess Christianity But why then do people follow these Priests of England any longer which are contrary to Moses and also to Christ who have no Store-houses but suffer the poor to want within and without and the Widdow and Stranger ready to perish and moreover devour and can never have enough of the spoil of others mens goods And why do others dispute about and talk of the Body so much which they never saw nor knew And is it not better be silent and know God who dwels in his people and the Spirit of Truth which he requires in the inward parts and to feel after God even the life in themselves because the Apostle said they were saved by his life being before reconciled by his death Rom. 5. 10. and until the life came there were many things which they were not saved from by his Body for the Body was before the death and the death which