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A86947	The mystery of Christ in us, with the mystery of the Father, Word, and holy Ghost or Spirit, opened also, the parable of the rich man's flocks and herds, and the poor man's ewe-lamb, explicated. Likewise, the way that Christ takes to undo a man, and take away his life. Together with a discovery of the neerness of Christs coming, and of those glorious things which are to be fulfilled in these later days. Set forth and published by Ed. Hide jun.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3866; Thomason E1372_4; ESTC R209351	80,214	204

know not what to do How shall we do to be saved Then flew one of the Seraphims unto me That is one of the fiery Angels at the command of God See Psal. 103. 20. It is said It flew It speaks the swiftness with which it went to Isaiah it speaks the haste that it made to him Isaiah being in an undone state Having a live coal in his hand This Seraphim did not fly empty to Isaiah but it had in his hand a live coal it came with somewhat to enliven and comfort Isaiah in this state But what is this live coal And whence had the Seraphim it This live coal is the Spirit And the Seraphim had taken it with the tongs from off the altar which Altar in the type of it was the Altar of burnt offerings where the fire never went out and upon which the fat of the Peace-offerings was burnt See Lev. 6. 12. The Antitype of which Altar is Christ so that the Seraphim had it from Christ The tongs are that with which he took the coal from off the Altar And he laid it upon the prophets mouth or caused it to touch the Prophets lips And said Lo this hath touched thy lips and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged The coal touching the Prophets lips is nothing but a secret perswasion by the Spirit that his iniquity was done away God no sooner strikes a man down dead and undoes him but he sends a Seraphim with a live coal to tell him good news that his sins are pardoned and his iniquities are done away If it be thus Then this may serve to discover a true sight of the Lord from all false sights of him Friends if it be a true sight of the Lord that you have had then it hath undone you taken away your Strength Breath Understanding Knowledge Wisdom Light Life c. It hath robbed you of all yours made you a meer beggar so that you have nothing of your own to trust to feed and live upon It hath stricken you stark down dead dead to every thing of your own and of the worlds and alive to God it hath crucified you slain you that you no more live but Christ lives in you it hath forced you to cry out Wo is you wo is you for you are of unclean lips and you dwell among a people of unclean lips He that hath an ear to hear let him hear If it be so Then do not cozen and cheat your own souls do not say you have seen when you have not seen him VVhat have you seen the Lord and are not dead and are not undone VVhat have you seen the Lord and are alive Do not lye I beseech you let not a deceived heart lay hold on you do not feed on lyes in this respect If you have not seen him speak the truth and do not decieve your own souls if you have seen him he hath stricken you down dead If you say you have seen him are yet alive then I know not what seeing of him is If it be so Then this may serve to discover the goodness of God that when he hath struck a soul down dead and took away his life from him undone him forced him to cry out that he is undone and that wo wo is he for he is a man of uncircumcised lips and dwells among a people of unclean lips yet that God should not suffer that man to be swallowed up in despair but should cause to flie one of his Seraphims unto him with a live coal in his hand and to lay it upon his mouth to put life into him and say Lo this hath touched thy lips and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged and should say O man greatly beloved fear not peace be unto thee be strong yea be strong As he did to Daniel Dan. 10. 19. This is admirable If it be so Be not afraid to be undone to lose your Life Light Breath Understanding Knowledge Wisdom and Strength O it is sweet sweet do not think much though God by the discoveries of himself to you rob you of all you have leave you a begger Be not afraid of the discoveries of sin do not fear that you shall be swallowed up in despair if God should discover your self and sin to you so soon as ever he hath discovered sin to you undone you taken away your life he will send a Seraphim with a live coal in his hand a coal that hath life in it and will lay it upon your mouth and say to you This hath touched thy lips and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged Thou art greatly beloved fear not peace be unto thee be strong and so fetch life in thee again keep thee from sinking in spirit and being swallowed up in despair And you shall no more live your own life but for ever live the life of God And you shall no more understand and know things and see things in your own understanding knowledge and light but in the understanding knowledge and light of God you shall do nothing in and by your own strength and wisdom nor breathe after God in your own breath but you shall do all things in the strength and wisdom of God breathe after himself in the breath of God Selah If it be so Beg of God a discovery of Christ upon the throne of a risen Christ that it may undo you take away your Life VVisdom Strength Understanding Knowledge Light Strength It is a sweet thing to be undone to be stript of all a man hath to lie naked before God and we to have nothing and be nothing of our own but to have all and be all in God it is the greatest work God can do for a soul and it is the greatest mercy God can shew to a soul If it be so Then O that I had a discovery of a risen Christ of Christ upon the throne saith the soul Do you know what you desire what you ask for Are you contented to be undone to lose all that you have and are Are you willing to have all burnt up in you by that fiery flame that issueth out of Christs mouth Then he will manifest himself to you and you shall know the Lord indeed and in truth in your souls CHAP. VI Some sweet Discoveries of what shall be in the later days out of Zech. 14. 20 21. Vers 20. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses HOLINES VNTO THE LORD and the pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowls before the altar 21. Yea every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts and all those that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seethe therein And in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts THe words are a Prophecie of what shall be in the later days and of the time in which shall be that which is prophesied

of What shall be are these things following First There shall be upon the bells of the horses Holiness unto the Lord Secondly The pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowls before the altar Thirdly Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts Fourthly All they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seethe therein Fifthly In that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts Sixthly The time when all these things shall come to pass will be In that day There are in the first verse of the words these things to be considered First what the bells of the horses are Secondly what the meaning of that saying is There shall be upon the bells of the horses Holiness unto the Lord Thirdly what the Lords house is Fourthly what the pots in the Lords house are Fifthly what the altar is Sixthly what the bowls before the altar are Seventhly in what sence the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar The first thing to be enquired into is What the bells of the horses are They are the bridles of the horses which govern rule and command the horses Bridles are such that are put into the horses mouthes to restrain them The second thing to be enquired into is What the meaning of that saying is There shall be upon the bells of the horses Holiness unto the Lord The Prophet having spoken before of the horses overthrow and other cattel of the enemies see v. 15. he addeth to make up the measure That all their spoils even the very deckings of their furniture should be consecrated to God to make utensils for his service The meaning is God shall convert to his service in his Church all such things as before were employed against him See this interpretation further cleared in Isai. 23. 17 18. And it shall come to pass after the end of ten yeers that the Lord will visit Tyre and she shall turn to her hire and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth and her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord it shall not be treasured nor laid up for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord to eat sufficiently and for durable cloathing Her hire shall be holiness unto the Lord that is shall be converted to the service of God which was before employed against God Or the meaning of that saying There shall be upon the bells of the horses Holiness unto the Lord may be this There shall be holiness seen upon mean things poor things comparatively as a Bridle is A man shall look nowhere but he shall see Holiness written yea upon the most contemptible things If a man look behinde him or before him or on either side of him he shall see Holiness that is he shall see somewhat of God in every thing in the world shall see Holiness in mount Zion though mount Zion now seems to be that she is not black unholy yet there shall be Holiness seen there for it shall shine forth and all the world shall see it See Obadiah vers. 17. Vpon mount Zion shall be deliverance and there shall be holiness As there is written Holiness upon the brestplate of our high-priest Christ Jesus so shall there be Holiness written upon us upon mount Zion and it shall be visible too as it is in our Head and as it was in the High-priest under the Law See Exod. 39. 30. And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote upon it a writing like to the ingraving of a signet Holiness to the Lord or of the Lord And as holiness was ingraven upon the Brestplate of the High-priest under the Law so it shall be upon us Consider that in Joel 3. 17. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain Zion is holy but the world sees it not and therefore the world speaks evil of Zion Then shall Jerusalem be holy or holiness and there shall be no stranger pass thorow her any more God looks upon Jerusalem to be holy now but when there shall be no stranger pass thorow her then she shall be more holy then she shall be visibly holy holiness shall so break forth in her that the world shall acknowledge her to be holiness to the Lord The third thing to be enquired into is What the Lords house is It is Zion it is Jerusalem the Lords house are those in whom he dwells and they are his people The fourth thing to be enquired into is What the pots in the Lords house are The pots in the letter were those that were made use of under the Law and were made of brass See Exod. 38. 3. He made all the vessels of the altar the pots and the shovels and the basins and the flesh-hooks and the fire-pans all the vessels thereof made he of brass and they were such in which they sod the holy offerings See 2 Chron. 35. 13. And they rosted the passeover with fire according to the ordinance but the other holy offerings sod they in pots and in caldrons and in pans and divided them speedily among the people and afterwards they made ready for themselves and the priests because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings See that in Ezek. 46. 22 23 24. In the four corners of the court there were courts of fourty cubits long and thirty cubits broad these four corners were of one measure and there was a new building round about in them round about them four and it was made with boylingplaces under the rows round about Then said he unto me These are the places of them that boil where the ministers of the house shall boyl the sacrifice of the people So that you see the pots in the letter were those in which the Sacrifices of the people were to be boiled The pots in the mysterie are those Divine discoveries and manifestations of Christ in which the spiritual Sacrifices of the Saints are and shall be boyled That they are the discoveries of Christ that fit a Sacrifice to be offered to God see Mal. 3. 2 3 4. But who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand whon he appeareth for he is like refiners fire and like fullers soap and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord as in the days of old and as in former yeers The fifth thing to be enquired into is What the Altar is The Altar is Christ The sixth thing to be enquired into is What the Bowls before the Altar are The Bowls in the letter were those in which was put

raised his Son from the dead There are divers sorts of faith spoken of in Scripture There is a believing from the relation of another Ioh. 4. 42. As the Samaritans did meerly upon the report of the woman but afterwards they believed because they had seen Christ and there is a believing as I said before that is not accompanied with salvation which Simon Magus had and there is a believing that is accompanied with salvation Heb. 10. 39. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul This is the belief that is intended here Now that faith that saves is the faith of Christ which consisteth in yeelding up hearty obedience and subjection to this truth that God raised Christ from the dead We have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine that hath been delivered unto us Rom. 6. 17. This believing in God that he raised Christ from the dead is nothing but a souls lying down under the power and authority of it and saying It is so It is so Lord Lie down therefore under the power of this truth that God raised his Son say it is a truth and thou shalt be saved it is a truth Lord it is even so thou art saved Quest But you seem to make no difference between confession of the mouth and belief with the heart Answ. Yes but I do Faith in the heart believes this is a glorious truth that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead and that Christ is within us Confession with the mouth declares and publisheth nothing but what saith in the heart believes is truth CHAP. II. The Parable of the rich man's flocks and herds and the poor man's ewe-lamb unfolded out of 2 Sam. 12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Vers 1 And the Lord sent Nathan unto David and he came unto him and said unto him There were two men in one city the one rich and the other poor 2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds 3 But the poor man had nothing save one little ewe-lamb which he had bought and nourished up and it grew up together with him and with his children it did eat of his own meat and drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him but took the poor mans lamb and dressed it for the man that was come to him 5 And Davids anger was greatly kindled against the man and he said to Nathan As the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely die 6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity 7 And Nathan said unto David Thou art the man IN the first verse of this Chapter there is the Lord sending Nathan unto David with a Parable in his mouth It was the Lord that sent him unto David and that put the Parable into his mouth to declare to David From part of the first verse to the fifth verse Nathan makes known the Parable A Parable you know is to be taken otherwise then is set down in the letter of it and is much like an Allegory The first words of the Parable are these There were two men in one city the one rich and the other poor The City are the Saints see Heb. 12. 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion and unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels And Eph. 2. 22. Matth. 27. 53. Rev. 21. 2 The rich man is David who had exceeding many flocks and herds The poor man is Christ see Eccles. 9. 15. There was a little citie and few men in it and there came a great king against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it Now there was found in it a poor man and he by his wisdom delivered the city See likewise 2 Cor. 8. 9. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for our sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be made rich See Psal. 34. 6. This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles And in another place he is called The man Christ Jesus Now the rich man's and poor man's living in one city was their enjoying each other and having fellowship with each other in the city of God The rich man's flocks and herds are those exceeding many spiritual blessings that God had blessed David with which are those blessings that God blesseth many of his people with see Ephes. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ The poor man's ewe-lamb is the beloved disciple of Christ as John was see Luke 13. 23. Now there was leaning on Jesus bosome one of his disciples which Jesus loved This ewe-lamb the poor man bought with a price even with that price he bought the rest of his people with 1 Cor. 6. 12. Ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirits which are Gods And then that in 1 Cor. 7. 23. Ye are bought with a price be not ye the servants of men Jesus Christ did not onely buy this ewe-lamb but nourished it up himself with the milk of himself it grew up together with him that is Christ brought it up with himself as he was brought up with the Father see Prov. 8. 20. And it grew up with his children that is with Christ's children Who are those Such that are of faith and so are blessed with faithful Abraham and are Gal. 3 7 9. Those which are born of the free woman that is born after the Spirit or by promise It did not grow up with Christ alone but with the rest of his children who grew up with him And it did eat of the poor man 's own meat and of the poor man 's own drink which is Christ himself That which nourished the lamb and which the lamb fed upon was the meat and drink of Christ which is his flesh and blood See in Joh. 6. 53 54 55 56. Then Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwells in me and I in him That which Christ fed this Lamb with was Life and Spirit which is his flesh and blood O glorious food Friends it is the best food Christ hath or that he can feed a soul with Christ did not onely buy this

the blood of the Sacrifice and of Sprinkling See 2 Chron. 4. 8. Exod. 29. 20. Levit. 4. 6. Levit. 9. 8 9. Or the Bowls in the letter were those in which they put fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering See Numb. 7. 13 19 25 31 37 43 49 55 61 67 73 79. The Bowls in the spiritual interpretation are the Saints in which the blood of sprinkling is The pots in the Lords house shall be like the Bowls before the Altar in this respect that is to say for multitude as it was in the letter see 2 Chron. 4. 8. He made also ten tables and placed them in the temple five on the right side and five on the left and he made an hundred basins that is bowls of gold Now the pots were not so many It speaks the manifold discoveries of God that shall be in the later days to his people Or it speaks this that is to say The multiplicity of spiritual services that shall be offered to God in the later days The things that are to be enquired into in the last verse of the words are these following First what Judah and Jerusalem are Secondly what every pot in Judah and Jerusalem is Thirdly how and in what sence it shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts Fourthly what is meant by the Canaanite Fifthly when these things shall come to pass The first thing to be spoken to is What Judah and Jerusalem are Judah was one of the twelve Tribes see Revel. 7. 5. Hierusalem is the Saints of the most High the Lambs wife The second thing to be spoken to is What every pot in Judah and Jerusalem is It is the same as the pots in the Lords house are Every pot that is every discovery of Christ that purifies every Sacrifice and makes it fit to be offered up to God The third thing to be spoken to is How and in what sence every pot in Judah and Jerusalem shall be Holiness to the Lord The meaning is It shall be of a holy use to the Lord of hosts that is of Armies But of what use To purifie and make fit Sacrifices to be put up to him Or it may be taken thus every discovery of Christ shall be holy to the Lord that is there shall be written upon every discovery Holiness for those are truest discoveries that have Holiness written upon them Sclah And all they that Sacrifice shall come and take of them that is of the discoveries and seethe therein they shall boyl their Sacrifices in the discoveries and manifestations of Christ and so make them pure Sacrifices to be offered up to God Mal. 1. 11. The fourth thing to be spoken to is What is meant by the Canaanite The Canaanite may be meant the Merchant he seems to have a special relation to the abuse of Merchandising and selling which was used in the Temple See Joh. 2 15. And when he had made a scourge of smallcords he drave them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers mony and overthrew the tables Mat. 21. 2. Or by the Canaanite may be meant the unclean person See Isa. 35. 6. And an high-way shall be there and a way and it shall be called the way of holiness the unclean shall not pase over it See Rev. 2. 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye God will so purifie his people that there shall be no unclean thing in them but they shall be holy and unblameable before him The last thing to be spoken to is When all these things shall come to pass and that is In that day What is meant by that day The day of Gods coming See Zech. 14. the latter part of vers 5. Then shall these Prophecies be fullfilled when Jesus Christ shall appear the second time without sin to salvation If it be thus Then this may discover what shall be in that day there shall be holiness written upon every thing we shall see somewhat of God in every thing even in the meanest things And those things that have been made use of against the Lord shall be turned into an holy use they shall be holiness unto the Lord The pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowls before the Altar there shall be multiplicities of discoveries of Christ that is abundance of discoveries of Christ in the latter days Every pot in Jerusalem shall be holiness unto the Lord there shall be holiness written upon every discovery of God they shall come and boyl their Sacrifices in these discoveries of God there shall no Merchant no unclean thing be in Zion in Jerusalem but all shall be pure and nothing shall hurt nor destroy in Gods holy mountain So that Zion shall be a peaceable and pure estate If it be so This may serve to discover what Zion the Lords house is It is not a Stonewalled house such as your meeting-places are the Lords house is his People in whom he dwells the the foundation of this house is Christ it is founded upon a sure Rock that the winds and storms of corruptions and temptations cannot shake it The Lords house is a spiritual building built by himself to be the habitation of himself by the Spirit If it be thus Then this may serve to inform us of those pure Sacrifices that shall be offered up to God in the latter days Now our Sacrifices are full of dross and mixture of somewhat of our own but then they shall be clean that which shall make them clean shall be those great and large discoveries of God that then will be Now we are troubled and perplexed that we cannot offer up better Sacrifices then we do to God that we cannot worship him as we would do in Spirit and in truth but then we shall worship in the pureness of the Spirit If it be so Then this may serve to discover true discoveries of Christ from false VVhat a many rotten pretended discoveries of Christ we and others have had O how we have entertained falshood instead of truth and lived upon it But a true discovery of Christ hath this Motto written upon it HOLINESS TO THE LORD If your discoveries of God bring not along with them holiness they are delusions of Satan if any discoveries of God come with holiness engravened upon them receive them If it be so Then this may serve to overthrow that doctrine that is newly sprung up which is that there shall not be Sacrifices offered up to God in the new Jerusalem-state That there shall be it is cleer from what I have said Onely there shall be this difference more purer Sacrifices shall be offered up then then now there are then shall the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be more pure and pleasant to the land And that the words here speak of the new Jerusalem-state it appears by the last verse There shall be no more the