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The saint's travel to the land of Canaan. Wherein is discovered several false rests below the spiritual coming of Christ in the saints. Together with a brief discourse of what the coming of Christ in the spirit is; who is the alone rest and center of spirits. / By R. Wilkinson. A member of the army.
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Wilkinson, R. member of the army.
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Wing W2252; ESTC R234118
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it be God discovering yet it is no ground for any soul to Rest satisfied with or to be any evidence at all of enjoying of God because that it is a dispensation which passeth away when a higher dispensation of God appeares then would mans Rest be disolved and not be an everlasting Rest But Saints Rest is that which cannot be dissolved but it is an everlasting Rest to him that that is Centred in it The Seventh false Rest THe next Rest is that which many live upon is the Notion of Free-grace though they have no manifestation of it in particular to their own spirits and here the very apprehensions of it being formerly opposed by it now being convinced of the truth of the same not from any enjoyment or powring sorth of the Spirit only he hath his understanding enlight ned and his judgement convinced either by seeing it to be a truth in Scripture or from hearing it preached by others or from the undeniablenesse of the truth of it in it self he is made to assent unto it as a truth and never matters nor understands it must bee particularly witnessed to be his truth from the same Revealed within him But he not understanding this he sees not only the emptinesse of mans doing and the vanity of putting the creature to act to get Love or Life from God And so that only now all the creatures acting to God must be from Gods acting in the creature so that now he is an enemy to that before he was a speciall friend of viz. his own righteousnesse and that he is now gon as far in an extreame on the other hand to Rest satisfied only with a Notionary knowledge of this said truth Also he sees in this that nothing but a Christ can or will do good to spirits and yet knows not this Christ within himself Now some times man only getting a Nation of this Truth in the head comes in the end to much loosness and fleshly walking 2. Gal. 17. and can put it off with a very fair slight First God is free in his dispensation man can doe nothing unlesse power be given unto him I did such and such a particular because of the Woman this is by reason of such weaknesse I am yoked withall or if God did intend I should not have committed these sins he would have given me power against them and I shal admire free grace the more and I shall love the more the more is forgiven me So though he hath no manifestation of God at all for the pardon of sin yet he lives continually in this stream believing free grace is a Truth this is to have it manifest when the creature sinnes to believe it is freely pardoned upon the Cross when indeed now it sleeps in security and loosnesse And the reason partly of its loosnesse and yet of its security is First he hath got but the light of it that is to say such a light as doth discover a truth in this to him yet he wants the life being of the thing made manifest So it comes to passe he professes this particular yet he doth not possesse the same in the nature of it so he hath a name that he liveth and yet is dead so that he hath it in the head but wants it in the heart he hath got a form of it in his understanding whereby he can discourse of it and declare it to others yet he wants the power of this said truth in the heart within him and when a man hath the forme figure or likenesse of a thing and wants the dower glory or being of the thing no marvell then if a soul in a time of straits come to fall short of what he doth professe in his parctise he not being able to stand wanting the foundation that he should be formed upon and the power of the same which should keepe him upon that being or foundation Also it may be he hath this truth taught him by man and not from the teachings of God within Now grace in the heart appearing doth Teach man to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and Godly in this present world But there is a cunning deceit in the heart that in some doth if possible can be prevent the same and it reasons thus I see this Truth is spoken against by most and that those that are for Free-grace are such men as walk very loosly and as soon as ever they believe this that they are no more like the men they were before but walke they care not how but saith the soule that would make it a peaceable and honourble Rest least they should say so of me I will walke a little more wisely then they doe And here before men he walks very like Truth though there be a heart within him not upright in what he doth and partly it is to get a good name amongst men for such as walk loosly that profess God they are hardly esteemed of any the world hates them for their judgement the other cannot favour them for their loose practise Here they will labour to apply a remedy to this disease in reference to one party and that is the Saints They will amongst Saints I say carry themselves like them and resemble them in their practise as the Magicians did Moses Yet this is not from a divine principle of love but for some other end or from another principle Againe Some walk like Truth because they make it a Testimony of Gods dwelling in them for saith the Scriptures He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 1 John 2 6. Now saith the creature if I should walk loosly it would appear to my selfe and all That God dwelt not in me but now â—y my outward and he thinks inward though he be deceived conformity to Truth I may make it an evidence of my dwelling in truth and such a man as this must needs curb himself of those things thaâ— another swallows because it is his ground of peace and Rest Again A man may shun loosnesse that hath but the notions of free grace because it is the way to make Disciples and get the affections of men to applaude and admire what flowes from him so as he is mightily esteemed yea instrumental to dispense those truths that dwell not in him so as it may be hee is an instrument of begetting sons like unto himselfe that is to believe Free grace is a truth and to be convinced of it and dispise working which is opposite to it and here they both sit down and Rest Not knowing the manner of Gods dealings with the creature which is most commonly to enlighten or convince man of a truth and set the heart a waiting for it before hee gives him an enjoyment of it As for instance He first convinces man of a Divine fulnesse in God and a supply given from God to bee dispensed by Christ to the sonnes of men wherupon