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B03609	A description of the true temple and worship of God. And Jesus Christ manifested to be the head of the Church, which is his body, and the onely pastour and also the members of the body of Christ, known by their fruits, from the synagogue of Antichrist, with a few words to the Romane Catholicks. Likewise the order of the church in God the body of Christ made manifest, and the disorder of the synagogue of Antichrist.	Harwood, John.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1103; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 4152.f.21[12]; ESTC R28064	21,102	30

to have the rule over the spirituall man but thou fleshly man thy Strength is the Arm of flesh and thy weapons of Warre are carnal and thou canst not prevail against the man born of the Spirit for the Lord of hosts is his strength who is Mighty and Powerfull who will cut downe by the World of his Power the Sword of his Mouth and give him dominion over thee though thou use all thy craft and subtill policy for to bring the spirituall seed under thee yet thou shall know that God hath decreed the contrary for this is the day of the Lords mercy and the innocent seed which hath long been sore oppressed by the unrighteous generation of fleshly men shall now be freed from bondage and thraldome and I know the day draws nigh wherein this shall be fulfilled though the utmost of your wrath and cruelty you will manifest who walk in the flesh yet all your striving plotting and close combining and unrighteous decrees shall stand you in no stead for the elect seed according to the determinate Counsell of the Almighty God shall now be set free as well from out ward bondage as inward and shall reign and govern in righteousness over all the earth for evermore our God according to his promise for his elect sake will hasten his work a short work he will make upon the earth now woe woe to the oppressors of Sion great will be your misery pain and torment of your grief and sorrow there shall be no end but blessed art thou who art hated and despised persecuted and shamefully entreated mocked and scorned and not counted worthy to live upon the earth thy grief and sorrow shall be turned into everlasting joy thou shalt sing and be glad when thy enemies mourn and lament thy time of sorrow is come in remembrance with God and he will plead thy cause against thy oppressions and give thee ease and peace for ever and over the smoke of their torment shalt thou rejoyce and the time draweth night wherein our God will bring this to pass Gods people his Temple and who they are THe Apostle Paul writes unto the Corinthians in plain words concerning the Temple of God 1 Cor. 3.16 which might stop the mouths of all the Carnall professors upon the earth who call a stone-house their Church or Temple if the words were truly weighed and beleeved know ye not saith he that ye are the Temple of God and the spirit of God dwelleth in you if any defile the temple of God him shal God destroy for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are but the whole earth hath been covered with thick darkness in this long time of Apostacy that the understandings of most part of people hath been vailed and blinded that the knowledge of the truth and life of the holy Scriptures hath been sealed from them and are to thousands at this day who make a profession of it and by many thousands of people in this Nation and other Nations the stone houses the Idol Temples made with mens hands are called Churches and Temples and are esteemed to be more holy places then others though the Scripture clearly manifests to the true understanding Reader that the people of God are his Church or Temple 2 Cor. 6.16 ye are saith Paul to the Church of Corinth the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them take notice the people in whom God dwells and walks are his Temple but if any of Gods people whom he hath chosen to be his rabernacle do now bear restimony of the spirit of life dwelling in them it is by this dark generation of people counted presumption and by some blasphemy because it is beyond the reach of their carnal reason and sensuall wisdome which never shall enter into the true knowledge of this my stery god dwelling in man and man dwelling in God and furthermore Paul saith to to the Church at Corinth 1 Cor. 6.19 what know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy Spirit which is in you is not this a plain thing that the people of God are his temple and dwelling place if you will beleeve the Scriptures you cannot deny the truth of this which is so clearly made manifest And these are Gods people who walk in his light and Counsell who are borne againe of the incorruptible seed who have put off the old man with his deeds and put on the new man Christ Iesus and this is the same body as ever was the temple God dwells in the body purged from sin and corruption and this is the eternall tabernacle of God the new man Christ Jesus the same to day yesterday and for ever but such people as be in the corruptible nature not purged nor cleansed from sin and corruption are not the holy temple of God such as bring forth the fruits of unrighteousness and hath no experience of the in ward work of Gods living power in them but are ignorant of the work of repeneration they be none of the body of Christ the temple of God but the Synagogue of Satan the body of Anti-Christ for it is they and onely they who are borne of the spirit and walk after the spirit to walk after the spirit is to be led and guided by it which brings forth the peaceable fruit of righteousness which knows the operation of the divine power and the work of Regeneration wrought in them which are the true and onely temple of God ye who are Regenerate and born again of the immortall seed ye are the true Christians body of Christ temple of God and Gods dwelling house and tabernacle ye babes of God who through the eternall spirit hath mortified the Just and Concupiscence of the flesh Crucified the old man with his deeds from whom all old things are passed away who are created a new unto good works ye are the Church of the first borne your body is the temple of the eternall God and he will dwell in you and make his abode with you for ever The members of the body of Christ known by their fruits from the Synagogue of Anti-Christ YE who be of the body of Christ from sin and iniquity are purged and cleansed through the Spirit by which ye are baptised into the one body and ye cannot bring forth evill fruits ye are known one of another in the life of innocency though the world know ye not ye are meek loving and full of tender compassion ye cannot render evill for evill to no person ye are patient and long suffering willing freely to forgive them that trespass against you your humillity and moderation is manifest to the light in all consciences ye are not puft up with pride and conceitedness but are low and little in your own eyes ye cannot seek after earthly honour or riches but are contene with what the Lord provides for you and ye seek onely after honour of

A DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUE TEMPLE And Worship of GOD. And Jesus Christ manifested to be the Head of the Church which is his Body and the onely Pastour And also the Members of the Body of Christ known by their fruits from the Synagogue of Antichrist with a few words to the Romane Catholicks Likewise the order of the Church in God the Body of Christ made manifest and the disorder of the Synagogue of Antichrist Given forth in the fear of the Lord in obedience to his pure will for the edification of all people who have any true and simple desires in them after the knowledge of the naked simple truth as it is in Jesus Christ by a lover of the souls of all people who in contempt and scorn by this dark generation am called Quaker known to man by the name of John Harwood London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Ball and mouth near Alders-gate 1658. A Description of the Temple and Worship of God c. The true Church manifested to be the Body of Christ and not the externall Temples made with hands and Christ exalted who is Supreme head of his Church and the Teacher of the Members of his body and the end of the first Priesthood THE Eternall God that made the world and all things therein Act 17. who gives life to all living creatures Acts 7. dwelleth not in Temples made with hands neither is he worshipped with mens hands as people may imagine but the Almighty dreadfull God is a Spirit and the true worshippers worship him in the Spirit and so he will be worshipped and is and hath been so served and worshipped by the true Christians the faithfull worshippers created anew in Christ ever since Christ came in the flesh the living substance who prophesied of the deftruction of the Temple which Solomon builded for the Service of God in the time of the Law which Temple and Service in its time was agreeable to the will of God being duly and truly observed according to the requirings of the Law and the first Priesthood as they stood faithfull in the Councell of the Lord their service and offerings was accepted but their time was but untill Christ came in the flesh the everlasting unchangeable High Priest in whom the Righteousnesse of the Law is fulfilled who is made a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech he puts an end to the first Priesthood Law the carnall Ordinances offerings and outward observations Rites and Ceremonies contained in the Law which were Types figures and shadows all fulfilled in Christ the living Substance the end of the Law and the Prophets for the substance the end of all things the eternall son of the dreadfull God being come the shadows and figures cease and end the first Priesthood which was the changeable Priestood had its time untill the coming of Jesus Christ the eternall unchangeable Priest and then changed and the Law also Heb. 7. And this is he at whom the whole world is offended who makes themselves Priests after the Law of a carnall commandement who is made high Priest for ever over the houshold of God not made by a carnal 〈◊〉 of a commandement as the Priests of the world are who receive their orders Commissions from man so made by the will of man but after the power of an endlesse life and they who have not Christ to be their chief Shepherd and high Priest are none of his sheep nor of the houshold of God whatsoever in words may be professed of him for there are many that draw nigh with their mouths and lips but their heart far from him The Law made nothing perfect as the Scripture of truth affirms but Christ Jesus the substance hath by one offering perfected for ever them that be sanctified the daily sacrificers the Priests themselves Heb. 10. who daily offered sacrifice for themselves and the people in the outward Temple according to the Custome of the Law were not made perfect as pertaining to the conscience for that by the works of the Law no flesh can be justified if there had been perfection in the works of the law under the first Priesthood what need had there been for a change of the law and the Priesthood but not being of force to make the comers thereunto perfect nor the Priests themselves therefore there was a necessity for the change of the law and the Priesthood Heb. 7.11 12. for as saith Paul if there had been perfection by the Leviticall Priesthood for under it the people received the law what further need was there that another Priesthood should arise after the order of Melchisedech and not be called after the order of Aaron for the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity also a change of the law Wherefore I say all such people as now go to and uphold the outward Temple and Synagogue and observe the ancient customes the Rices and Ceremonies contained in the law follow the example of the Jews and the first Priesthood and their practises and so goes on in the way where perfection cannot be actained nor the light of life received It was the labour and practice of the Apostles the primitive Christians to go into the Temple and Synagognes and to declare against their carnall Ordinances weak and beggarly Elements which had no strength nor power in them to bring people to perfection and to call them forth of these things to follow Jesus Christ the everlasting unchangeable high Priest who by one offering hath perfected for ever them that be sanctified and so many as believed and received Christ which the Saints in light preached left the outward Temple and worship and forsook the types figures and shadows and the rudiments of the world and followed Christ and they recived the light of life the knowledge of God and in Chirst was created anew and so became Christians forsaking the old way and following the new and living way which all be our of Col. 2.20 21 22 23 who uphold the outward Temple and be in the Rudiments of the world the carnall Ordinances and outward observations whose performances stands in their own wills and time take notice they who continued in the outward Temple-worship were not called Christians and though ye Temple worshippers call your selves Christians and go under the name of believers in Christ neverthelesse your practises and fruits manifests the contrary with the eternall eye ye are seen to be in the same nature and life of the Jews and Infidels who were enemies to Christ and the primitive Christians for ye have but the talk or nimes of Christ and the Saints our of the nature and life of the living substance The Temple which King Solomon builded Mat. 24. Jesus Christ the everlasting unchangeable high Priest Mar. 13. foretold the destruction of and told his Disciples Luk. 21. that there should not be left one stone upon another that should not be thrown down and