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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60500	Anti-christ in man, or, A discovery of the great whore that sits upon many waters wherein is declared what that whore or inward mystery is, together with the destruction thereof, by the powerfull appearing of Christ in us / by Joseph Salmon ...	Salmon, Joseph.	1647 (1647)	Wing S413; ESTC R39105	36,300	80

fought to establish their Kingdome in the Soul but the Lambe hath overcome them and set up his Kingdome in the Christian And the Kings of the earth as namely the powers of the creature bring all their glory and Honour unto it thus you see that the whore shall bee destroyed in the last day at the Second coming of Christ in us and likewise I have discovered unto you one Signe of the last day or day of Spirituall Judgement which is those Combates Warres and Commotions that are in a Christian I will but instance two particulars more and so shall draw to a conclusion Therefore Secondly a second signe or symptome of the last day is the Desolution of the World how that the Earth and all that is therein shall be burnt up the Sonne turned into darknesse the Moone into bloud the Starres shall fall from Heaven and thus God will shake the Heavens and the Earth and mens hearts shall faile them for feare expecting the end of such sorrowfull beginings Even thus it is with and in a Christian at the aproaching of the spirit of Christ in him the World begins to be dissolved the World is sayd ver 3. to bee placed in mans heart which World in mans heart shall be dissolved by the Fire of the Spirit of Christ the Heavens and the Earth are Mystically in man and the Waters with their Ebings and Flowings are to be seene in the Mysterie in man her 's God deviding the Light from the Darknesse to be seen in man the waters below from the waters above the Firmament all this is fullfilled Mysteriously in man in whom God separates himself who is pure and light from the darknesse and nothingnesse of the creature The Fouls of the Ayre and Fishes of the Sea are Mystically in man as namely those flying Phantasies and swimming Notions of the creature in a word her 's every thing bringing forth Fruite after its Kind in man And all Gods creation good in its own kind in this first World which is in mans heart But now this first World this first Creation must be dissolved what ever excellency God hath endued man with all in this first creation what ever maturity of Wit and ingenuity the Lord hath lent man how high so ever and how large so ever the Lord hath Naturallized the creature yet all this excellency shall vanish away all this worldly glory as I so call it shall be cosumed and burnt up but alas how hardly is this believed how impossible is this to carnall man that all this goodly creation and worke of God in his nature should bee anihilated that Reason Naturall understanding and wisdome nay Nature it selfe should be consumed but this is the Lords act his strange act his work and wonderous worke in a Christian Now therefore consider Christian that this is but the old World or first or lowest manifestation of God in thee which old world must pass away and bee no more John tels us that he saw a new Heaven and a new Earth Rev. 21.1 for the first Heaven and the first Earth was passed away and there was no more Sea what 's all this Truly Christian in me it s thus much when this day dawnes and this day Star Christ Jesus ariseth in our hearts when the morning Sun even Jesus breakes forth upon us in his Glory Warmth and Splendor then begins this world within us to be dissolved the Heavens and the Earth in us begins to melt with the fervent heate of this Sun and fall away to nothing and the Lord instead of these frames a new Heaven and a new Earth So that all that was Nature and pure Reason and Ingenuity is quite dissolved and a new worke wrought in the Soul that takes up the heart above its former excellency and glory although that were good in its kind yet God will please by the more glorious discoveries of himself to drowne all this former Creation and to beget all things new in the Creature and then not only the Heaven and the Earth passed away but also there was no more Sea This Sea or these Waters in man are those great overflowings and inundations of Nature the swellings and roarings of proud selfe and creature this deep silence shall be dried up by the heat of the Sun of Righteousnesse These Waters are the very Throne of the Whore or the very Seate of the wisdome of the flesh now when this Sea shall be dried up then there shall be a place no longer for this Spirituall Whore found in Heaven nor yet in the Soul of a Saint Oh what cause of Joy is here for all the Saints yea what eager pantings after the power and Kingdome of Christ should this beget and operate in us to consider that in the day of Christ the whore shall be destroyed in us the Sea shall be dryed up and the Heavens and the earth shall passe away If any man yet shall aske when this last day shall come and the end of the world shall be accomplished I answer then with Christ That this generation shall not passe away till all these things be fulfilled all these things thou must expect to be fulfilled in thee even in this life O thou Christian although happily not in the fulnesse and glory as shall be hereafter Tell me therefore O thou experienced Saint whose conscience can testifie all these things to be true how hath the appearance of Christ in thee many a time confounded as it were all thy naturall vigour and power how hath it spoyled Principalities and powers the might and dominion of all naturall excellency how hast thou seen thy selfe out of thy selfe as it were beyond and above that earth thou hast been in formerly wrapped up with Paul in the third Heavens as it were beholding that Glory that all thy old created light could never discerne living for a time in that peace of God which passeth all understanding Nay shall I yet further tell you at the second comming of Christ in us our Sun shall be turned into darknesse and our Moone into blood our Stars shall fall from their Centre All that light of reason and nature all those fleshly meteors as also fixed Stars which have appeared at their severall seasons in man which did discover something of God to him in a word all the inferiour with the superiour discernings of God that the creature hath had formerly shal be extinguished and shall appeare to him to be but darknesse and obscurity the Sun or the superlative light shall be turned into darknesse and the Moone or that light which guides the more obscure part of man shall be turned into blood and confusion and God will now create a new world in us old things shall passe away and all things shall become new in us when the Apostle had been treating of the dissolution of the world in the 2 Pet. 3 chap. he comes to mind the Saints of the mysterie of that history vers 13. Neverthelesse

saith he we according to his promise looke for new Heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse although this old foundation and Fabrick shall be dissolved and Christ that day of the Lord shall come even as a thiefe in the night and deprive us of all the excellency of our present station waste destroy and burne up all our Gold Silver and precious stones consume all the Glory of our present being yet sayes hee here is one comfort wee looke for a new Heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse God never confounds the old but he brings a new the manner of Gods new creation is to new modelize the heart to new mould the creature to create a new Christian as it were to spirituallize the Christian in a word it is to swallow up the soul in himselfe to drown confound and bring to an end all creature glory in his own incomprehensive excellency So that the Saints are said to bee that new Jerusalem that came down from God deck● and adorn'd with the Glory of God only as 〈◊〉 Bride adorned for her husband They are called new because Christ in them hath created a new world this new Jerusalem had no temple in it of it selfe but the Lord God and the Lamb were the temple of it truly that soul in whom the Lord God hath mad● this desolation of creature excellency and hath created all things a new this new Jerusalem or new Christian hath no temple but Christ I● typicall Jerusalem there was a temple but Christ prophesied That there should not be one ston● left upon another that should not be throwne downe Matth. 24. Even so when God creates all things new in a Christian he will demollish all that was in his stead before he came to establish his new creation and he will make himselfe the temple of a Christian what ever the soul sees in any outward things as Formes Ordinances Worships and the like yet Christ will destroy and throw downe and bring to nought these things and make himselfe all this and much more to the Christian and thus you may see the day of Judgement in a Christian here you may see Christ sending his spirit into the worldly heart of man convincing it of Judgement because the prince of this world is judged in him I proceed now to the third discovery of the last day which is namely The distruction of Antichrist or the downfall of the whore which doth yet further manifest to us that this last day is in us the comming of this day of Jesus and the appearance of this Star in us is the last day of the whore in us no sooner doth Christ appear but downe falls the Kingdome of the serpent our fleshly wisdome and therefore if thou wouldst know how this Antichrist shall be destroyed the Apostle tells us 2 Thes 2 8. That the Lord shal consume him with the breath of his mouth and the brightnesse of his comming This bright comming of Christ in us shall dispell that darkness discover that fogge that with-holdeth or hinders the revelation of the whore Christ will then put aside this veile which is before this varlets face namely all her specious pretences and shewes of glory Christ is that mountaine spoken of in the 25. Isa In whom God shall destroy the veile of the covering that is cast over all people but this must be fulfilled when this mountaine Christ Jesus shall be established upon the top of the mountaines in our souls or when Christ by his owne power hath seated himself in us above every high thought and vaine imagination when the child Jesus is given to us and hath gotten the government upon his shoulders this is the time of the whores demolition in us I say it is the worke of Christ by his comming in a Saint to discover the Whore to him to take away that veil of flesh and those mists of obsurity which this harlot hath interposed between her selfe and the soul when the day dawnes the darknesse vanisheth away even so when this day Christ Jesus dawn●s in thy heart when day breaks as I may so say in thy soul then begins the darknesse in thy heart to flee away and now thou commest to be one of the Children of the day In a word now thou canst see discerne and distinguish and before thou couldes● not alas sirs a poore soul that walks in darknesse and sees by no other light but by the blaze of selfe and by the sparks of his own fire he may be compared to a man that sees by candle light who cannot discerne one colour from another even so it is with all naturall men they are not able to see what 's good from evill or what 's light from darknesse O the palpable blindnesse of all poore creatures in whom this day Christ does not appeare this it is to have eyes and see not eares and heare not This sad obscurity of a man that walkes not in the light may fitly be compared to that darknesse which might be felt the soul feeles many times what his blindnesse is how it deprives him of the beatificall vision of God brings him to wander from the way Christ Jesus causes him many times to stumble at that stumbling stone and all this is because the day is not dawned as yet but now when the Sun of righteousnesse arises in the Soul why then here comes light to them that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death and now this light guides the soul into the way of peace It is said of new Jerusalem Revel 21. That it needed not the light of the Sun or of the Moone for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb was the light thereof all which in me is thus much when God comes to create a new Heaven and a new earth in a Christian when he comes by the power of that regenerating spirit to make his Jerusalem a new Jerusalem in this new estate he will give her new light to walke by so that now the Saints shall have no need of the old Sun or the old Moone no need of the old light of reason and nature but her 's new light brought forth now in the soul the new light is Christ or the Lamb who by the radiant beames of his splendor fills the soul with the glory of the Father and destroyes or distinguishes all other inferiour lights in the soul We live in a generation wherein both Presse and Pulpit doth cry down new lights and truely I cannot much blame them that so doe because as yet they walke in the light of the old Sun and Moone and are to be comprehended under the notion of old Jerusalem but tell me now when the Spirit of Glory hath darkned this Sun and turned this Moone into blood quite confounded brought to nothing the highest sphere of this naturall excellency in them when this old Jerusalem comes to bee made new then you shall heare a new voyce crying up