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A60647 The nevv-creation brought forth, in the holy order of life wherein the immortal birth is revealed, and the precious pearl, out of the mixture extracted ... / from ... William Smith. Smith, William, d. 1673. 1661 (1661) Wing S4320; ESTC R2552 40,012 52

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rest and the Lord hath respect and hears and in bowels of pitty he arises to help he stretcheth forth his Arm and brings the Mountains down he comes forth in power and makes the Hills to melt he utters his voyce and the Earth trembles he kindles a fire and consumes it into Ashes he brings Man into the Nothingness and dissolves the old Birth into its dust he causes the old Heavens to pass away with a noise and he melts the Elements with fervent heat and Man no longer lives therein but his life is taken away and he lies slain and dead and there is no motion in him until the Spirit of Life from God come into him and create him new into the holy Order of Life and so gives him breath and being as in the beginning and he is made and fashioned with the hand of God and is the Workmanship of God in whom he now receives his life and out of whose bowels he draws his breath whereby he is perfectly renewed in the spirit of his nind and hath no old thing upon him nor Earthly part abiding in him but through the fire of Refinement he is made dean and out of the Virgins Womb he springs and sucks the beast which giveth Life whereby he grows in strength and in wisdom increases and comes into the stature of the fulness of Christ and partakes of his divine nature all old things being put off and all done away in the fire of Refinement he comes forth of the Furnace a naked Child and a new Creation springs and a new Creature Man is made and rises with the lamb in his nature and the Pearl's glory he is cloathed withal and into the holy order of Life he is restored and hath his way in the pleasant Paradise and his food from the Tree of life and his motion stands in the Power and Wisdom of the Seed which is come into dominion and reigns in its pure quality and property without any mixture and there is no Corruptible thing abides upon it but in the Refining Fire is purged and consumed and as Man abides the Fire and waits 〈◊〉 the Judgment he puts off the Old in which he hath lived and he puts on the New and is translated and here man truly ●…kes to himself and receives Christ the Seed of Life and putteth him on whereby he feeleth Christ made unto him Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption and in his Power and Wisdom he brings forth a New Creation in the holy Order of his pure Life in which the six dayes works are passed thorow and the Separation and Consumption is wrought in the Furnace where the Fire cleanseth and the seventh ●…y is come unto which is holy unto the Lord in which Man ●…osts from all his own works as God did from his and sits down in the power and wisdom of the holy Seed and rests in the stilness of its divine Nature of which he truly is made a partaker and in it he is transformed and stands in the holy Order of the New Creation in which he is perfectly made a new Creature and hath his motion in the new Heavens and new Forth wherein dwels Righteousness and with Righteousness he is covered as with a Robe and Holiness is become his Vesture and he bears the Heavenly Image in the Life and is lovely and amiable to behold and is in the sight of the holy God very good Thus is the New Creation finished with all the host of it and is brought forth in the holy Order through the effectual working of the holy Power and Man is changed and renewed in the holy Birth of the Immortal Seed and again is placed in the Paradise of pleasure and is not senced from the Tree of Life but hath access unto it and it is his dayly food and he lives by it and rests in the comfort and consolation of it which is Life without end CHAP. X. The Way and Works of Man in the New Creation AS Man believes in the Light which from the Life shines forth and in his own Conscience is made manifest he comes to the Righteous Judgment of God who passeth Sentence against him and condemns him to death where upon the Cross he is Crucified and there he dies unto himself with all his hearts lust both in thought word and deed then doth the Fire take hold and burns and consumes and through its operation wholly dissolves the old Man and destroyes all his deeds and through destruction unto the Corruption there springs a holy pure Generation which hath its Conception in the Matrix of Eternity and is brought forth in the holy Order of Life and in this holy Generation is Man restored into his first Order and is truly the Off-spring of God and hath his motion in the Power and Wisdom of God and in this Restoration Man is changed and becomes a new Man in Christ and his way and all his works are new and he becomes a Well-doer and is accepted of God in Christ the Beloved and here Man finds the new and living Way which makes him a new and living Man and leads him unto the living God and this is the Way of Holiness in which the clean feet walk and Man that is in it ordered he is in the way of Peace and is led into the green Pastures of Everlasting Refreshings and he walketh continually by the pleasant Streams and hath his Course by the River that makes glad the whole City and in the holy Life of the Immortal Seed is his Life bound up and he is ordered in the motion of it and he doth not stir but in the holy order of it and it is the strength of his Reins and the girdle of his Loyns and keeps Man in close Communion with it whereby he is strengthened to run the way of every Command and there is no feebleness upon his loyns but perfect strength in the motion of the holy Seed which carries him as upon Eagles wings and he runs and is not weary he walks and is not faint and his way is holy and his works holy unto the Lord and he is Created in Christ Jesus that he should walk in them and is no more his own but in the Lords disposing and truly serves the Lord in Righteousness and true Holiness and he no more thinks his own thoughts nor speaks his own words nor works his own works but is moved and acted in the Power and Wisdom of the holy Seed of which he is born and made a new Creature and his works are works of Holiness proceeding from the Life of Christ and man is holy as he is holy for unto good works he is Craated in Christ and his delight in the new Creation is in the thing that is good and in a new and living Way he walks and brings forth new and living Works in the living Power and Wisdom of the holy Seed and thus Man is changed and is made a Holy Man a Righteous Man
the Eternal Word in the Wisdom make Man in his own Image and breathed into him the Breath of Life and he became a living Soul and the Lord God filled him with Wisdom and Understanding and gave him Dominion over all the Works of his Hands and Man in the Wisdom of God ruled over them all he stood in the Wisdom and received Counsel and had his Way in the Holy Life he walked in the Paradise of Pleasure and fed upon the Tree of Life he lived in still communion with his God and his living Soul stood in his living Virtue and the Breath of Life was alwayes reaching to it he was in the pure Oneness with God that made him and the Image of the Holy Life was upon him and he was in the Power Wisdom and Strength of God and bare the Image in Righteousness and true Holiness without any mixture and all things stood clear in the Separation as they were created and there was no mixture to defile Then did the Wisdom behold his Work and lo it was very good in his sight and he had great pleasure and delight therein and his Mercy Love Goodness and Tenderness was to it and his Blessings and Peace was upon it and Man enjoyed the living Presence of his Maker and did partake of his Love Mercy Blessing and Peace he had a free course unto the Well-spring of Life and there was nothing stood in his way to let him so the Breath of Life was breathed and in it the Soul lived and was in perfect unity with it and this came into Man through the Wisdom of the Creator according to his own pleasure and as it seemed good in his own sight it was not a thing from without but the pure operation of the Power and Wisdom within after he had formed an earthly Body and brought forth a visible Creation that he might fill it with his heavenly Treasure and with his Holy Life which in his Wisdom he breathed into it and brought forth the Man in his own Image and there was no mixture in his Life and Being which is the earthly bodies Nature and it is a Compounded Vessel yet so prepared and formed in the Wisdom as to be a Vessel for the Incorruptible Image of Life which had its course through it and filled it with its heavenly Being and there was no mixture of the Earthly in it And this was the Man that was made after God in Righteousness and true Holiness and bare his Image in perfect Glory and the Body was prepared to be a Vessel fit for his own use who made it that he might fill it with his Pure Holy Life which he breathed into it in his Wisdom whereby Man became a living Soul and bare the Heavenly Image and here Man stood in obedience to the Father of Spirits who had made him a spiritual holy righteous Man and fed him with spiritual holy Food and Man had no will nor desire after any Creature but stood in the Eternal Will and ruled over all the Creatures and his desire was to enjoy the Holy Life in which he was generated and brought forth and what he desired to partake of in the Life it was ministred unto him according to the good Pleasure of the Creator in whom he had his Life and Breath and lived in the pure Enjoyment of the Eternal Being in which he was daily comforted and continually satisfied and in this state no Sin or Evil was committed by him nor no Curse reached him nor no Death was upon him nor no Grave did hold him nor no Wrath went forth against him but in the Mercy he liued and Mercy was his portion and his delight was in his Maker and with him he walked day and night and he had Liberty in Paradise without Restraint and the Tree of Life he had free course unto and the Cherubims and flaming Sword were not set to fence it So was Man created in Righteousness and served God in Righteousness and lived in the Life of Righteousness and he was not in the mixture of any Unrighteous thing but was created in the Wisdom of God and bare the Image of God which drew its Breath and Life from the holy Fountain of its Generation and stood in the Eternal Essence of the Divine Nature and so did the Everlasting God of Wisdom Power and Strength bring forth his own Work in which his own Name was glorified and then he rested from ill the Works that he had made CHAP. II. The state of Man in the Degeneration and also the Serpents Working VVHen the Pure Creation was finished in the Eternal Power and Wisdom it rested in the Holy Order of Life and was in the Pure Harmony and Oneness with the Creator and there should have rested in the Holy Order and not have moved ●●t in the Power and Wisdom of Life but there was a part which did not keep its station but moved out of the Wisdom and wake the Order and did aspire towards the Equallity of the Holy Essence for which cause it was cast down by the Power and driven into the lowest parts of the Creation and was there to have its place and habitation at the furthest distance from God and his Anger kindled against it and he drove it down in his Anger and his Wrath abides upon it and it is sealed down in the Anger and Wrath without recovery and this is the place of that part which kept not in the holy Order of the pure Creation but aspired to have been equal with the Power and his name is Serpent the Devil and his place is Hell the bottomless Pit where the Almighty God exerciseth his Wrath without ceasing because through the Aspiring the Creation went out of its holy Order in which it was created good and in which it should have rested with God and have had its Order in his Power and Wisdom and when this Aspiring Part was cast down into the Lowest Part it became beastly carthly sensual and devilish and was more subtil than any Beast of the Field and having now lost his place in the Pure Creation and cast down in the Separation where the Almighties Wrath was exercised upon him without ceasing and he was alwayes in the Torment of the Anger and Wrath which sealed him down without recovery then did he labour with his Subtilty to draw out of order that which yet did keep its station and order and to beget a motion out of the moving of the Power and the Lord God having given a Command unto Man in the day that he put him into Paradise and charged him Not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye saith the Lord God which the Serpent knowing and having in his fall seen through the Creation he attempted the Woman because she was nearest unto Man being given as one meet to be an help unto him and being also the weaker part of the Creation
THe Day of Restoration's come the Lamb the Life the Holy One He is Establishing his Name Nations must bow unto the same The Heavens are old the Earth is dry The Glory of Man must fall and dye His Leaf decayes his Blossom fades away He withers in the Night and burns up in the Day The Fire will try his Root and prove his fairest Branch And Root and Branch must burn and none shall stop or quench The Old must passe away and vanish out of sight The New must he set up and shine in Glory bright Blessed is the Day THE NEVV-CREATION BROUGHT FORTH In the HOLY ORDER of LIFE WHEREIN The Immortal BIRTH is Revealed and the Precious PEARL out of the Mixture Extracted Declared in these following Particulars Viz. 1. The state of Man in the Creation 2. The state of Man in the Degeneration and also the Serpents Working 3. The state of Man in the Separation and also the Serpents Working 4. The Way and Works of Man in the Separation and also the Serpents Working 5. What it is that doth convince Man of Evil and also the Serpents Working 6. How Man stands in a Convinced state and also the Serpents Working 7. How Man stands in a Converted state and also the Serpents Working 8. The New Birth in the Regeneration and also the Serpents Working 9. The New Creation in the Holy Order 10. The Way and Work of Man in the New Creation From one who dearly loveth the Creation of God and patiently waiteth to behold its Perfect Freedom William Smith London Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand 1661. TO THE READER READER WHether thou art a Friend unto Truth on an Enemy or whether thou art a Professor or Prophane a Cedar or an Oak a flying Bird or a ranting Spirit This following Truth which in this Book is declared may be of service unto thee if thou wilt but reade it ●eekly and soberly for it is given forth from that Innocent Life that the Serpent did ever make war against and for the Innocents sake it is sent abroad that the harmless Lambs may be preserved and also delivered out of the Net of the wicked Fowler and from the Snares of his Dark Devices Therefore when thou entrest upon it and undertakest to read it do it in the dread and fear of the Lord God and sink into the lowness and feel Gods Witness in thy own Conscience that thou mayest reade and also understand for it is Gods loving kindnesse unto thee into whose hands it may be ordered to be read or heard and from the tendernesse of Love it is declared and also sent abroad that thou whoever thou art mayest reap some profit by it which thou wilt do if thou readest it in that good Spirit which is given unto thee to profit withall and unto which the truth of it is made manifest and keepest down that evil spirit against which it testifieth and as thou keepest to the Spirits manifestation in thy self and in that readest it thou wilt feel when thy Condition is reached and when it is spoken unto and as it openeth unto thy Understanding put it not away from thee but keep quiet and be still and let not Anger nor Envy arise in thy heart which the Serpent sometimes will provoke thee to and if thou givest way unto it and sufferest it to arise it will prevent thee for profiting though thou mayest reade what is in this Book contained but as thou readest it in the Meeknesse and receivest it in the Love from which it is declared and for thy Good truly intended then thou wilt feel the weight of it and reap advantage and profit by it and a● thou readest consider what thou canst witness of these things in thy self that therein is declared and in so reading or hearing thou wilt profit and Gods Witnesse in thy Conscience will awaken thee and truly prove unto thee what thy present state and condition is and though never a Scripture-Text be quoted for the proof of the Testimony yet thou shalt find a proof in thee which if thou mindest it will not deceive thee but will open thy own Condition to thee which will be better for thee than many Proofs without thee and in that thou wilt feel how far thou art come to witness Redemption by the Power of Christ or where it is the Serpent holdeth thee and what thou art yet in bondage to and as in the Light thou seest it then turn to the Light and deny it that what-ever it is it may be judged and upon the Crosse crucified and in the Fire consumed for through this Gate thou must come or out of Paradise thou art excluded and from the Tree of Life for ever fenced and I having seen and also observed how the World lyeth in wickedness and also how many there be that professe Godliness which when I consider and see how few are regenerated and born again I am even filled with grief and sorrow Therefore in true tenderness and love and bowels of pitty unto all the precious Truth is declared as it is in Jesus and also the secret workings of the Serpent that hath alwayes been a Deceiver And thou mayest in this Book behold things past things present and things to come wherby thou maist understand the love that God hath unto thee and do thou yeeld unto the Lord that his Work thou mayest know who will judge thy Lust crucifie thy Life and destroy the body of Sin and so through Death bring forth a new Life in which thou wilt feel a perfect Change wrought from the earthly into the heavenly where thou wilt enjoy the Lord and his Presence his Power and his Goodnesse and sit quietly in Joy and Peace and Blessing Given forth in Worcester-County Goal where I am a present Sufferer in Bonds for Obedience to the Command of Jesus Christ In the First Moneth 1661. For which I travel who am a true lover of Innocency W. S. CHAP. I. The State of Man in the Creation THe Lord God of Life and Power who is from Everlasting to Everlasting according to the good pleasure of his own Will and after the Counsel of his own Heart he brought forth a Pure Creation in his Wisdom and by his Eternal living Word he divided and separated the Mater which in the Chaos was in a heap of Confusion and what he commanded by his Word it came to passe and as he said it should be so it was done and in his Wisdom a Pure Creation was finished as he commanded and when he had stretched forth the Heavens and placed the Lights in them and when he had laid the Foundation of the Earth and brought forth the Herbs and Trees therein and when he divided the Waters and the Fish multiplied in them when the Fowls of the Heavens had their flight in the Air and four-footed Beasts and creeping things had their way upon the Earth then did
himself miserable and to behold both his own Righteousness and filthiness to rise out of the Mixtures of the fallen properties and sees himself in the weakness of the Corruptible Being and there he is sensible of the correcting hand of the Lord though he hath denyed much Prophaness and be turned into a Profession of Godliness and Man comes to see that he is sucking a fruitless fountain and a dry breast and so comes to minde the Light and wait in it and it ariseth and pulleth down his strong Holds and layeth his fenced Cities waste and brings to nought the Glory of his fair shews and stains the Pride of them and he comes to see that those things which he is observing without him cannot bring contentment to him but still the Light searches him and pursues him and layes many sore and heavy stripes upon him and also sets his sins in order before him and lets him see what a great body they are gendered in which makes him cry in his misery Who shall deliver me and he comes to be sensible of his own Insufficiency and to know that without Christ he is miserable for ever and that without Christ he can do nothing and so sees that all without him are miserable Comforters and that there is no help to be found in them when there is need and then he something more enclines to the Light within him and is diligent unto it and begins to hearken and obey and to turn to it and minde it and to wait to feel its motion and as it doth convince him of Evil he hath regard unto it and yeelds himself to obey and to deny that which it doth convince him of and then comes to feel that it leads him out of it and also destroyes it and takes it away and hereby Man comes to be satisfied that it is the Truth of God and the way wherein he ought to walk and he waits to feel its drawing and it turns his face towards it and begets a willingness to give up to follow it and so Man is not now only convinced but also converted and turned both from common Prophaness and also from his seeming shew of Godliness and he becomes a follower of the Light and to deny himself in many things that the Light makes manifest to be Evil and in the Leadings of the Light he is kept in the Cross to his Corruptible will and walketh in the strait gate and narrow way and feels something of the Power to crucifie and remove many fleshly Lusts that have made War against his Soul whereby he comes to feel that he is somewhat eased and much weight taken off and removed which had been upon him and a sore burden unto him and something begins to spring in the Deliverance that cryed for it and when the Light hath thus found Man and Man is turned unto it and that he cannot abide any longer either in Prophaness or seeming shew of Godliness but presseth in the Light to come wholly out of the Mixtures of the fallen properties to come into the holy Order of the pure Creation then doth the Serpent strive in his Subtilty to hold Man in some part of the Mixture that so he may in something yet keep dominion over him and that he may not be set wholly free but may serve him still in something though he have truly denyed many things And hence it is that many stick in the Birth who are convinced what is Truth and also in many things converted and yet feel not true Freedom wrought but are sensible of a Travel that cryes after a day of Deliverance and here hath the Serpent deceived many who have been convinced and have had true openings and clear discoveries in the manifestation of the Light and not being watchful the Serpent hath stepped in and with his deceitful working he hath beguiled Man as he beguiled Eve and with the same fruit hath tempted and over many hath prevailed and hath drawn many minds in the openings to reach forth in the eagerness to satisfie his lustful desire in the knowledge of Gods Truth and this hath shut the Womb upon the Babe that tryes for deliverance and so the Judgment hath been fled and the Crosse hath been denyed and a false liberty out of the fear hath got up and it hath gendered unto sore bondage and though the Truth be confessed unto and professed in practice yet doth the Seed lye in bondage under the puffed-up mind that the Serpent hath filled with knowledge in which he hath generated a Body and brought forth a false Birth whose neck is stiff and the heart hard and will not bow unto the Lord nor be subject to his Power but in knowledge stands exalted under which the true Birth is oppressed and the beauty of it marred by the false Generation of the Serpents begetting which rises out of the Mixture and receives its body from the Earthly part of the fallen properties and Man having seen the Truth in the Openings and the vain mind being filled with the knowledge of it he takes root in the Earthly and in the Earthly he begins to grow and spread forth his branches with a fair and flourishing shew and this Earthly body that is thus conceived and generated and likewise nourished in the Mixture of the fallen properties gets a tincture of Truth upon it in the Openings as Lead may be covered or tinn'd with pure Gold and this Body beareth a fair shew and appears exceeding glorious but is not the Glory of the only Begotten and when this is brought forth through the deceitful working of the old Serpent then he labours to nourish it that it may grow in strength and be a tall man and a strong man and be renownable and this being desirable it hath been eagerly pursued and knowledge hath encreased and a great growth there hath been in it and Man hath waxed into a high stature of it and hath sprung up in height like a Cedar in Labanan and hath grown in the body of knowledge like an Oak in Bashan and under this high and mighty growth of knowledge hath the little breathing Innocency been strangled and sore burdened and oppressed and hath still been striving underneath in the meckness and humbleness and hath oft reached the tall Cedar to bring it down and to the strong Oak to make it bend but the Cedar would not lose its glory nor the Oak part with its strength but stoutly have stood yea and stubbornly resisted the tender Innocency and have cast off the Word of its Reproof and the tall Cedar hath been lifted up and hath said who shall rule over me and the Oak it hath been stubborn and hath said Who shall cause me to bow And so they have trampled over Innocency as a thing of no esteem and the Gold hath been kept in the Mixture and the clean Separation hath not been made but the Subtilty hath wrought over it and hath kept the Dross and Tinn
Inheritance it was with Moses and in it he led forth the Inheritance of God out of Egypt it was with David and in it his Horn was exalted it was with Job and in it he was redeemed and knew his Redeemer lived it was with Isaiah and in it he saw a Child born and a Son given it was with Malachy and in it he saw the Separation and the Fewel out of the Mixture it was with John and in it he saw the Lamb of God and did behold the Glory of the only Begotten of the Father And this pure Light of the holy Seed of Life hath had its course through all Generations and hath been made manifest through the several Dispensations and Administrations as it hath pleased the Father of Spirits and they that did believe in it did not abide in darkness nor did not continue satisfying the lustful desire of the fleshly part but were Regenerated through the effectual working of the power whereby they became dead to Sin and alive to God and were born of the holy Seed which made them holy Men and with it they were filled and divinely inspired and then they testified of its Power and it was the same thing unto them all and neither changed its quality nor property though diversly it manifested it self and all the holy Men of God that gave forth the Scriptures they had the Name in the Nature of the holy Seed and were born of it through the Regeneration and this was a work that was wrought before Scriptures were written and was the same work in them that writ the Scriptures and it hath been the same in Generations since the Scriptures were written and it is the work of Christ the holy Seed and it is proper unto him alone to regenerate and make a New Man and no man can add to the work of Regeneration for it is an Inward work wrought by an Invisible Power that no mortal Eye can behold And this work at this day is witnessed amongst a Remnant whom he hath chosen to be his own Peculiar People and as Man turns to the Light of Christ in his own Conscience it will open his own Condition to him and make manifest every secret thing that the Serpent hath begotten and drawn his Life into and it will clearly discover unto a Mans understanding that they are evil and sinful and as he mindeth the Light and obeyeth it it will lead him out of the Evil that it maketh manifest unto him and thus far Man is convinced and also converted Then the Serpent begins to make war and lahours to hold Man in those things which he hath begotten in him but as Man joyns to the Light he will receive strength to stand against him and also to overcome him for after a Man is convinced and also converted and turned to the Light then he enters into a great fight of Afflictions and hath a sore Conflict to passe thorow as he abides faithful before he get the Serpent under his feet and after Conversion the Serpent besets Man sore and laboureth with all his might to stop him in his travel so that Man is sometimes kept by the subtil working of the Serpent and cannot readily get on nor clearly cast off those things which be is turning from in obedience to the Light but is still ●ept by the Serpent who labours to save his head from bru●ing and the way that he hath to do it is to draw Man into the Reasoning and there to consult how it will be with him if he wholly give up and deny those things that he is convinced of and also turning from and what will be the end if he part with them And here have many felt the Dragons war against the Innocent Lamb that hath been travelling for Freedom from under the Corruptible things which have oppressed his Innocent Life and Man hearkning to the Serpent and entering into Reasoning and Consulting the Serpeut keeps the Vail over him and then shews what great losse it will be unto him if he go on to deny all those things that he is convinced of to be evil and is turning from and also perswades him that if he should follow the Light unto the end and part with all for it yet it is not sufficient to save him and under this Vail many stumble at the Light and draw back and follow no further though for a time they have in some things been obedient and this is the Man that loves something more than Christ and cannot part with his own Life for the gain of Life Eternal And thus doth the old Serpent work for the safety of his Kingdom but through his strong holds have many broken and from his bonds they are loosed in the power of the Light which being minded and obeyed it doth convert Mans mind from the thing that is Evil and ariseth in its power to judge it and condemn it and upon the Crosse to crucisie it so that Man dyeth unto it and it dyeth in Man and as a Drunkard mindeth the Light and obeyeth the Light when it doth convince him that Drunkenness is Sin it will lead him out of Drunkenness and destroy that work of darkness and take away Mans Life in it And this is the Work of Christ who is made manifest to destroy the work of the Devil and to burn it up with unquenchable fire that he thereby may set Man free from under the burden of all Corruptible things and whatever it is that the Serpent hath generated in Man since the beginning and drawn Mans heart to lust after the Light which was in the beginning in which is no sin but pure and undefiled it doth appear against it and also every lustful desire that hath its rejoycing in it and it brings it down with a stroak of severe Judgment and as Man in the Light believeth even so doth it work and appear in its power to destroy every Lust in which the Serpent hath dominion over Man and in which he makes war against the Soul and as Man denies himself and takes up the Crosse and follows the Light faithfully he becomes a dying man and the Power separateth between the Precious and the Vile and then He will be felt whose Fan is in his hand and the Fire will be known which burns up the Chaff and as Man abides this Day and keeps in the Righteous Judgment the Old Man will be crucisied and all his Deeds consumed and neither Prophaness nor seeming shew of Godliness shall stand in the Judgment but the Tallest must come down and the Strongest must bow for the Fire will not spare but through the Earth will passe and that which is of the Earth must burn and none can quench and Man abiding this Day and keeping in the Patience Judgement will be brought forth unto Victory and Man will come forth dead to himself and alive in Christ and so will come to know that Christ worketh that Work which no other can do and