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Some flashes of lightnings of the sonne of man being the substance of eleaven sermons upon severall texts, preached in London / by William Sedgwick ...
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Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?
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salvation where ever he is Saith Antichrist I 'le give you a cleare discovery of all things I 'le give you peace No saith the Elect I am already with Christ I am nothing but what He is Hee is nothing but what I am I am with Him and in Him He is with me and in me why should I goe out after another For as the lightning c. Jesus Christ is the lowest state and condition in which you can be and he comes quick as lightning and then as lightning wil give you and is giving you the ful discovery of all things When he is in you at the depth the lowest point the centre of hell the bottom of the grave it is that hee might give you a full Restoration of all things The lightning from east to west makes east and west meet together so this appearing of the Son of God darkens flesh confounds man and makes the highest glory of God to be in the lowest pit and takes the lowest state of darknesse into the highest pich of light By these flashes flesh shal be blasted and destroied and consumed These blasts of the Spirit of the Lord doth open US and enlarge US to a large comprehension of all things of all in the East of all in the West of all above and all below Til wee be low we can't be high til we be the worst we cannot be the best and we are best when we are worst in the greatest darknesse He is present in the bottom and heart of such tribulations that all before it is nothing to it and nothing is like it that comes after it In this tribulation not to see and know Jesus Christ in this tribulation to have longing desires and then to have peace and deliverance seemingly tendered to us by a tempter we cannot but obhor it to have joy and gladnesse sounded in our eares and not be able to touch it What an extreamity is here The absence of the highest good the presence of the greatest evill our desires not answered by God and answered by Satan Out of this darknesse wil Christ arise out of the extreamity of deaths and confusions doth the Son nf God arise it is as nesesary ye should bee brought into this state as it is that the Night should go before the Day But first must hee suffer many things and be rejected of this generation The Desciples of God shal not injoy Christ til they have rejected him Ye must forsake him and leave him and bee Pharisees and persecute him before ye can be Coroned with Him That which is in a high degree malignity in the Pharisees is in a lesse degree and qualified in the Disciples the Pharisees killing the Disciples departing it s all flesh man weaknesse and ignorance Before any man see The Kingdome of GOD he must first reject it Doe ye long to see the Kingdome of GOD Do ye say When wil it come How shal I see it Where is it Ye shal not see it til He suffers by you Ye shal do him many injuries before ye know him Ye shal be offended at him ye shal stumble and fall and reject him before ye finde him Ye shal never be acquainted with Christ til ye know that ye have Murthered Him til ye have killed Him and beheaded Him and hanged Him He must suffer many things of YOV He must be rejected of the best of you and the best in you and the best of the best of you Ye shal reject hate and persecute Him before the kingdome of GOD can come in you Object I know you wil say Must wee be guilty of this wickednesse Is there such wretchednes in the heart of man to doe thus Why have you such hard thoughts of us Thus speaks the flesh But thus saith the LORD The Son of man must suffer many things from this generation Christ must suffer from some and be rejected by others some are so wicked as to kill him others so unbelieving as to forsake him some so cruel as to slay him some so faint as to leave him and not to own him some revile him others shake their heads and cannot tel what to think of him some cry out violently against him others are not able to speak a word for him Ye shal never see the LORD til ye can say this is he whom we have peirced this is he that I reviled that I hated Thus speaks Christ If ye stand upon termes and say What we crucifie Christ O God forbid that we should crucifie our Saviour the LORD of glory What we that are Gods own People Jews and Disciples we that are his own deare Children and shall be saved by him To whom Christ wil say If I suffer not by you I will not be deliverance to you If ye are so nice and curious that ye wil not make me a sacrifice ye shal never feed upon me If ever you see me you wil see you have pierced and murthered me I will save none but those that kill me If ye wil not owne that ye have slaine me ye shall not injoy me ye shal never eat my flesh and drinke my bloud unlesse ye slay my flesh and spill my bloud Jesus Christ suffers by all men which is clear in this That in all ye have in al that ye doe in all that ye are and in al that ye speak nothing is free from the bloud of Jesus nothing that ye doe speak live or act in the highest devoutest and most glorious way ye wil finde is nothing but Murther Murther and Bloud killing the LORD of life Yea It is necessary he must suffer by you hee wil not finde a throne in you til he hath found a grave in you heâ— wil not be raised in you til he hath been dead and buried in you ye shal never see him in the resurrection til ye see him kil'd and then he wil rise againe in your hearts this Son of righteousnesse wil arise with healing in his wings to your everlasting joy peace and comfort The end of the fifth Sermon THE EXCELLENCY OF THE LOVE of GOD. PSALM 36.7 8. How Excellent is thy loving kindnesse O God! therfore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings They shall be aboundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house and thou shalt make them drinke of the river of thy pleasure THis Psalm doth fitly set forth unto us the estate and condition of these times wherin wickednes increaseth and so in the former part of the Psalm is a discovery of wickednesse ver 3. the words of his mouth are iniquity and deseit he hath left of to be wise and to doe good Men now speak nothing but wickednesse and deceit and have left off to be wise they have left off to doe good and set themselves in a way which is not good abhorre not evil And what should we do when there is such wickednesse in the earth In the fift verse Thy mercy O Lord is in
carry us to God Christ comes down to us we come down into the world to trade traffick and deal for God So in all this the favour that God gives to us is to give US a Propriety with Himself over Himself Neverthelesse Neither is the Man without the Woman nor the Woman without the Man in the LORD For as the Woman is of the Man even so is the Man also by the Woman These two are unseperable Man and Woman In the LORD they are unpartable It 's Sin and Satan the accuser of the breathren that makes a breach between these two The Man is not without the Woman nor the Woman without the Man Yee never see God but with Christ in his bosome you never hear of a God but you hear of a Christ too GOD will never speak or act any thing but with Christ And yee never see Christ without his Church Ye never see the Son of God but ye see the Spouse in his bosome If ever Christ be torne ffo from God it is by violence of Death of Satan and of Sin If ever wee bee rent from the bosome of Christ it s by the Devil Death and Sin Yet then when wee are rent from him are we with him When Christ was in the lowest estate in hel hee was in Heaven also Noe one is descended from Heaven but he which is in Heaven Ye never finde God without Christ nor Christ without the Church nor Man without Woman Yee never finde the Church without Christ nor Christ without God nor Woman without the Man If ye finde a Church without Christ t is a Harlot if you finde a Christ without a God 't is an Antichrist The true Church is alwayes as the Woman never without the Man you never finde her but in banishment in sin without the Man you never finde Cirist without God nor the Woman without the Man in the LORD In the LORD If these two are partable it 's not in the LORD it 's without the LORD but if they are reconciled in the LORD they are never parted Neither is the Man without the Woman Neither is the Woman without the Man Therefore give us leave to disclaim a God without a Christ or a Christ without a People Ye do not see God except ye see Christ ye see not Christ but ye see GOD also yee see not Christ but you see your selfe It is not true Christ only Christ THE Christ except thou seest him in thy owne person except thou seest thy self with him If thou seest him one and thy self another it s a Sad sight an Ill sight it s no true fight you cannot see the Son but you must see your self with him see him in the highest glory that you can you see him not right except you see your self there Man is not without the Woman If you would give God an exaltation above your self hee will not God saith I will not be exalted except my Son be there God will not exalt his Son where you are not And the Son saith I will not be where you are not I cannot be where you are not I cannot bee without you The Man is not without the Woman Neither the Woman without the Man You cannot be without Christ you cannot possibly bee The wife and spouse without Christ And if thou art sick he is sick with thee if thou art tempted he is tempted with thee if thou art afflicted hee is afflicted also Christ cannot be any where but the Father is with him I am not alone the Father is with me when he was in the lowest condition that could bee when God seemed to leave him yâ—t he was really with him and when he was in death then he was in death too when Christ suffered and dyed God suffered and dyed it was the bloud of GOD If I go down to hel thou art there And when thou knowest thy selfe to bee the wife and spouse of Christ then thou canst say I am in hel indeed but my Lord is with me I am in hel in death and sorrow but Christ is with mee The Woman is not without the Man All the violence of Satan cannot take the Son from the Father If he doth take him any whither the Father will go with him yea though the Son doth go away the Father goes along with him into that humiliation Neither can any thing rend us from the bosome of the Father but if we be or hereafter may bee by temptation rended from him yet wee shall see our Lord in temptation Where the one is the other is where one is both are The Man is not without the Woman He saith I have no glory but what thou hast wee say wee have no weaknesse but what thou hast Thus doth the LORD our GOD enterchange with us He makes US High and great with Him and makes Himself Low and Nean with US And this is another reason that secures that power which is given to us And though she rule over me yet I rule because she is my self And though I give her my power I give her my will too Fo 't is what I please And saith Christ though I give it you yet t is mine and there is nothing in you but my will yea for my good And as I give you my will so I give you my power and you cannot abuse me be cause you are my self No one hateth his own flesh but loves and cherisheth it And when you exercise this power over me it is my self The Woman is not without the Man In communion you are now the Man and I the Woman as I was the man and you the woman as I was mighty in you and you weak in me as I was weak in you and you mighty in me If the Husband should reserve any thing from the Wife then the Husband would be without the Wife If God should reserve any thing from Christ and did not communicate his uncommunicablenes And with all things his power then God would be some where where Christ is not or Christ some where where God is not Or if Christ had power without the Father then he would be some thing that the Father is not If the Father were not in subjection with the Son the Son would be some thing that the Father is not If I did not give you that power that I have by my spirit I should still be something without you And if you should be the subjector and I not servant then would you be some thing without me which I cannot indure I be nothing but what you are and you shall be nothing but what I am There would still be some jarres between us if there wrre any thing un-made-over ungiven If thou did est not take every thing that we have into Thee and set it on high we could not be exalted And if thou did'st not take our meannes and subjection upon Thee and walk in the flesh we could not enjoy Thee Heer 's another reason As the woman is