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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84893	Light vanquishing darknesse. Or a vindication of some truths formerly declared, from those aspersions which have been (by reason of some misapprehensions) cast upon them; now published for the satisfaction and benefit of others. With a preambular epistle to all sorts of men. As also a parcell of good counsell, if you can take it. / By Captain Francis Freeman, a late member of the army.	Freeman, Francis.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1650 (1650)	Wing F2129; Thomason E615_7; ESTC R206543	58,771	68

mystery and according to the spirituall sence in my apprehension faith is there meant Christ but before Christ came we were kept under the law shut up unto the fiath which should afterwards be revealed This word but hath reference to the former verses therefore read from the 21. verse to the end of the chap. and you may find this if God says Amen to it to be a glorious truth But if so be you have but a notionall knowledge of Christ or a bare historical faith as Mr. Cox by his expressions in answer to my question did import no other saying that he did hope he had faith which is but historical by hearsay and mearly the teachings of men and no otherwise then you cannot say of a truth that Christ is in you the hope of glory These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you But if you have received the anointing it abideth in you and the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no ly c. 1 Job 2.26 27. And if Christ be in you the hope of glory then you shall finde that spirituall and individual substance or rather subsistance in respect of operations manifested within you that is infeperable For we are his anointing and that spiritual unction within us makes us to be one with him We are Kings and Priests and by vertue of his spiritual anointing we are one with him by faith which is Christ in us we apprend all the benefits and spirituall enjoyments and rejoycings made out unto us and by his spiritual descension so low into us and drawing us up into himself we are come to be one with him and in him and he in us Joh. 17. being iustified by faith in his blood And as there is such a sweet union and onenesse between Christ and the soul Christ being the manifestation of his fathers love the soul comes to have free accesse by one spirit unto the Father Ephe. 2.18 in and through the Son whereby the soul comes to see God purely as he is so that there is a continual feast of fat things their Table being richly deckt and covered over with all sorts of varieties of dainties supping and dining together And there is a continual presence or habit of union between God and the soul that the soul is as it were richly clothed with God and God with the soul do live mutually in themselves for he that dwels in love dwels in God God in him that nothing is in God that is not God therefore whatsoever is in God is God And thus the soul comes to see God to be his all and in all and sees him in all things in every thing and sees his own nothingnesse and emptynesse of himself without him But now I shall shew you that there are many who look upon Christ after the flesh and not after the spirit or a spiritual Christ within us not apprehending him as he is purely in himself so they look upon the act of faith to be that which God accepts to justification But truly for my part I am not of that judgement for I conceive there is a mistake in it looking upon him after the flesh and not after the spirit or in the spirit and so they asseribe that honour to faith which is due unto Christ and dishonour him in so doing for although they do not exclude Christ wholly and totally yet in the act of justification which is a work it gives all unto faith we are justified before God in his sight only by Christ Rom. 3.20.24 and for a farther confirmation of this truth see Isa 53.11 12. Where it is said my righteous servant shall justifie many which must be understood of Christ we are not justified before God by faith which is in us but by Christ by his blood We are justified by his blood Rom. 5.9 by faith which is Christ in us we know our selves to be justified verse first and although faith is one of the chiefest graces yet as it is an act it is a work and to be justified by it is to be justified by a work of our own for with the heart man beleeveth Rom. 10.9 10. so that t is clear that which justifie us must needs be perfect and so it can be no act of ours for all our righteousnesses are as filthy ragges c Isa 64.6 not of works least any should boast Ephe. 2.9 Me thinks the consideration of this point should cause us to admire at the wonderful riches of the free grace of God in Christ Jesus who out of his infinite love being an infinite glorious Majesty that he should descend so low as to take upon himselfe our nature being poor finite creatures to shed his blood to die for us and to rise again for our justification But that his essential will is himself his power is himself his wisdome is himself and every thing that is in him is himself if we can but see it But to proceed a little farther in the prosecution of this point of faith I shall speak something concerning Enochs walking with God by faith and so conclude the point It is said Gen. 5.24 That Enoch walked with God and was not for God took him By faith he was Translated that he should not see death c. And the text saith that he was one that is not this may seem to be a paradox a strange expression if we but barely look upon the letter of the Scripture yet it is a glorious truth for it is said he is one that is not Enoch walked with God and was not So that he walked not after the flesh but after the spirit for he was translated by faith that he should not see death and was not found he was not for God took him He in himself was not for his glory and excellency past away all his earthly pomps vanish'd he of himself was nothing for he saw his own emptinesse and nothingnesse and all-sufficiency in Christ what he was he was in Christ Christ was his life and his all Christ was all and in all unto him Col. 3.11 So that God translated Enoch in the spirit he was translated into Jesus Christ and so every true believer is one in Jesus Christ and nothing in himself there is a glorious change there is a new birth there is a new self he is born of God God is his selfe Christ is his self So that Enoch was out of the flesh into the spirit out of himself and his own righteousnesse into God and so is every saint every true believer is translated out of himself into a being which is in God He is dead unto all self-righteousnesse he is dead unto the law he is dead unto the World but he is alive unto God Here you see that by faith Enoch was Translated from death to life Therefore you may see that faith is an excellent gift est donum Dei it is the gift of God Ephe.