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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44806	Some of the misteries of Gods kingdome declared, as they have been revealed by the spirit through faith for the information of all such who have erred for lack of knowledge in their judgements, and have perished for lack of understanding ... : also for the confirmation of such who are made partakers of the like precious faith / by one who is made partaker of the riches of his grace, and of the salvation which is in Christ Jesus revealed through the spirit, called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3179; ESTC R38992	36,833	47

yet its validity power and vertue is nevertheless in it self and though them that are careless and heedless say we feel no power nor sufficiency in it to save us from sin yet this makes not void their confidence who have received it and knows its power which hath given them power and also sufficiency to do the will of God what though unbelievers who are in the alienation say there is no beauty in Christ neither form nor comliness this makes not his glory void who is the express Image of the father full of grace and truth the Disciples saw it and bore record of him who were in the faith and the Pharisees said he had a devil who were in the unbelief but in brief this is my testimony that the grace of God the perfect gift of God which shews ungodliness and leads from ungodliness all that are taught by it is a sufficient teacher of it self I mean as the power of Christ through it is made manifest unto all them that hearken to it Paul a Minister of the word of reconciliation who was rapt up into the third heaven where he saw things unutterable came to be tempted and buffetted with the messenger of Satan and fear and doubting rose up in him and he prayed unto God thrice and this answer was given unto him my grace is sufficient for thee so this is evident to all understandings who are opened by the Lord that which shewed him the temptations and Satans messengers and Satans buffetings was sufficient to preserve him and so is it for all who singly are kept to it and in it sufficient to shew ungodliness because of its purity and to lead from worldly lusts by its power and to teach the will of God and to live like unto God in this present world and this testimony I bear of it and to it even what as I have felt and tasted and handled of its sufficiency and vertue and power of its operation for the confirmation of the same truth which is believed by many brethren and also for the information of them who thirst after the Lord and for the opposition of all the gainsayers and opposers of it which testimony I commend to that of God in every man which will witness me herein in the day of God when all hearts is opened and all falshoods and truth is made manifest in the mean time shall rest in that which I have declared of in which there is pure and perfect peace A word to you wise men of this world who are glorying in the sound of words and worshipping outward appearances to all wise and litterall professors who think you are worshipping God aright who think to search into the deep things of God by your natural wisdom learning and parts and study GOd hath broken open the seals of the great deep where the wonderful unutterable things of God is revealed from whence eternal wisdom is flowing forth to his little ones whom he hath sanctified from the womb and his power and glory is he sheding abroad and making it to flow forth as though it issued out of a womb by which power and wisdom you are all weighed even by one who is swaddled about with righteousness and girded up with the girdle of truth you are all measured as with a span and are all weighed as with a scale all your parts tongues languages interpretations significations wisdome that is come to be enjoyed by them who have believed in the true light that lighteth everyman wch rounds you all as a heap measurs you all as with a line your breadth length height depth your parts tongues languages interpretations is but all natural words are but empty sounds though there be many languages and each have an interpretation and a signification they are all short to d●cl●re the life the immeasurable being of eternal life you with all these are on heaps disjointed one from another your Rhetorick Philosophy your framed and devised disputations your tongues and the significations of all tongues cannot know the mind of the Spirit neither knows the original of eternal salvation by all these and so not knowing the sign●fication of the living eternal spirit in your selves you invent study devise forms and frames up things in your carnal mind by the strength of your learned studied devised parts and framed speeches and hath filled the whole world with your dark muddy conceptions and hath led all out from seeking after the living wisdom of God which is from above which was before your tongues and languages was and they have sucked in your conceptions and distinctions and your devised fables and your imagined worship that many have lost the sence of any thing of God in themselves to guide them and when you have come as far as you can in those things and have devised in your minds by the strength of those parts natural you are farther from the knowledge then before and all that hear you and sucketh in your conceptions and imaginations into their hearts they are farther off Gods true knowledge then they were the day in which they came out of their mothers womb it is a lamentation to see how people are gone out of the pure simplicity which is in Christ into subtilty and deceit stuffed up full brim-full of that which must be all poured out as water before they and you all come to the least measure of Gods true and saving knowledge Oh a dreadful day is come upon many and it lingers not but will come swiftly as a thief upon you who have taken away the key of knowledge and gives people that which will not open and tells them of a litteral carnal thing that must give them entrance you and all they will be shut out together among the uncircumcised as fools though you count your selves wise men your wisdom will perish and your honour will be laid in the dust the time hastens it is the word of truth to you all And you litteral professors who have got the Scripture into your head and into the carnal mind to talk on and are run into so many heads you are almost past numbring and hath exalted so many horns yet the number is read the number of the heads of the beast and the number of his name you have taken up things and are exalting a visible shadowish practise and neglecteth the li●e and are making Idols of those things which were but a figure and a representation in their purest time now you like the Pharise●s are limiting the Lord that if he will not appear unto you in those thi●gs that you have prescribed unto your selves and fetched in from the l●tter and gotten it into the fleshly part which is heaped up as a mountain in many of you so high above Gods pure witness in you and so high above the appearance of God in you that you have quite lost the sight of that in your selves which should give you the knowledge of the living God and

slayes the enmity therefore all must be still and quiet and wait in that which is pure of the Lord that they may feel that raised up which receiveth grace above the corruptible thoughts and desires of the carnall mind but many who talk of free grace have put no difference betwixt the precious and the vile but hath put them upon doing and working who are in the enmity and curse and in death and so hath brought forth dead works notwithstanding all performances they being dead to the life God another acteth in them even he which hath the power of Death which is the Devill and so have not known that which was precious in themselves could not minister unto that which was precious in others but have been Ministers of Death and have ministred to Death and so Death nourisheth it selfe in all them who are not yet come to the separation to see betwixt the precious and the vile Now though all have not received grace so as to save them from the committing of sin the fault is not in God Israel would have none of my counsell they stopped their ●ares Neither is the fault in the grace which hath appeared unto all men Neither is it because of it's imbecillity and weaknesse but because it is not hearkned unto and waited in and obeyed believed in and received For this eternall truth which shall for ever stand the least measure of the grace o● God hath power in it self to save man from committing of that evill or sin which it shews man And as it is received the power comes more and more to be made manifest where all that believe comes to be preserved out of evill Object But some have said and now say there is common grace and preventing grace and restraining grace and saving grace and the former that hath appeared to all but the latter hath appeared to the Saints and to the elect onely Answ. Grace is Gods pure and perfect gift and is but one thing I speak not of q●antity but of quality not o● so much as that the fulnesse of grace hath appeared to all but of a measure of that fulnesse which is in Christ the head although I do not divide the least measure from the fulnesse in quality or nature for it 's one and the same for that which shews a man he should not lye nor swear that is as pure according to it's latitude proportion as that which shews a man all that ever he hath done and that same grace which leads a man from drunkennesse and excesse is as pure and of the same kind and nature as that greater proportion which leadeth a man from all sin I speak what I have seen from the Father though the dark world cannot receive it But people h●ve been blinded and darkned with sounds and distinctions which men coyn and frame in their natural reason and by their natural parts which is out of the life although I do not condemn naturall parts which are purely naturall if they keep ●hei● bounds and compasse that is to say to the management of naturall things of the visible creation but the things of Gods kingdom are of another quality and n●ture and cannot be reached unto by the natural but as I said men through distinctions and names hath wrack●d peoples minds and confounded their understanding and have led them into a thick wood or a wildernesse so they know not where to get forth neither what the thing is of which one speaks because not being spoken through the enticing words of mans wisdome which darkens the counsell of God Now that which shews a man evill after it be committed is the pure appearance of God And that which shews a man the temptations when they arise that is the same now this they call common and that which preventeth a man and keeps him back that he lend not his heart nor puts forth his hand to commit evill but restrains a man from it is not that saving out of evill and that which stops the adversary in his way that he enter not but preserveth the Creature out of defilement and saves him from it is not this saving is not this the same thing that the Apostle who was well acquainted with the grace of God and of it's operation wrote of to Titus That grace of God which brought salvation which had appeared and doth now appear to all men which taught self-denyal them to deny worldly lusts and also to live godlily or like unto God in this present world and now doth the same is not this sufficient to believe in and sufficient to save Now I do not say but there is a greater measure let out unto them that are converted unto God then is to t●em that are convinced of their evill by the same grace yet still ●t is one and the self-same thing one gift yet a greater measure of one and the same pure vertue and power which is given to them that obeys the life which is already made manifest by its appearance unto all Object But some will be ready to say that this is errour and that which is contrary to the Scripture and to orthodox Teachers that the grace which is saving is near all men and hath appeared to all men To that I answer Though grace be saving in it self even the grace that hath appeared to all men and may be truly called saving grace yet to them that believe not in it neither are taught by it it convinceth and shews evill and checks and judges for it yet there is no variation nor change in the gift of God but as it worketh upon different objects for faith and unbelief are two different things as light and darknesse are different and so the word of his grace is the savour of life unto life that is to say unto them that believe and is the savour of death unto death unto them who are in the unbelief who indeed are dead while they live yet here is the same grace and the same word of grace yet here is different operations so the Lord killeth and maketh alive yet the same Lord the Spirit convinceth of sin and reproveth for sin and also consolates and comforts here is diversity of operations yet the same Spirit which never alters Obj. But further some may say If that it be saving grace or at the least a degree and a measure of saving grace that hath appeared to all men then how is it that all are not saved by it Answ. Because I would all stumbling blocks were removed away that the path might be made plain that all might come to believe in that which is Gods gift in which there is power and sufficiency therefore I am constrained by the grace of God to declare of it and to bear witness to it thus largly which I know will be to the edification of all that hunger after righteousness All are not saved by it because they believe not in it neither are taught by it