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A86053	Refreshing drops, and scorching vials; severally distributed to their proper subjects, according to the wisdom given that precious servant of the Lord, Mr. Christopher Goad. Sometimes Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and Batchelor in Divinity, as men speak: but before his translation, became a disciple and learner again, sitting at the feet of Christ and his Spirit, where he took a higher degree, and now sits with Christ in heaven.	Goad, Christopher, 1601-1652.; Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.; Worsley, C.; J. N.	1653 (1653)	Wing G896; Thomason E698_12; ESTC R207013	170,841	273

take notice that there is continual prayer therefore thou that hast thy times and thy hours and thy forms begin to look higher and be at it continually By him let us offer the sacrifice of Praise to God continually And 't is no more then what is held forth to us in the Prophecy of Isa the last chap. ver 23. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one Sabboth to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. You that do not know continual Praise if you do praise God in the spirit if you are sincere and true in your makings unto God you shall know what it is They that are strong should bear with the infirmities of the weak and they that are weak should not judge the strong thou that dost not know what continual praise is judge not those that do thou that dost know it do not despise those that do not but go down to them to fetch them out of their weakness for Christ is come down to fetch thee up and let brotherly love continue Continually 'T is that we are designed to by Jesus Christ to be ever with the Lord Let us be making to it let us be looking after the price of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ Let us all know and acknowledge we are making forward not yet perfect By him let us offer c. That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his Name That is the fruit of our lips Here take notice how the tongue and the lips and the fruit thereof is sanctified by Jesus Christ and consecrated to God And this in all those that are sanctified by Jesus Christ The fruit of the lips is a sacrifice acceptable by Christ And therefore the Prophet Hosea Hos 14. 2. Calls the fruit of the lips the Calves of the lips The fruit of our lips by the sanctification of Jesus Christ is made a sacrifice acceptable unto God and not onely the fruit of our lips but the fruit of our hands the fruit of our feet the fruit of all our members The fruit of the earth as 't is said in Isa 4. 1 2. where the Prophet speaks of the manifestation of Christ in the spirit In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped That is for the spiritual seed the remnant that are taken out of the corruption of the world when he shall come who is the desire of all Nations seven women shall lay hold of him all shall make to him and own him and be one with him then the fruit of the earth shall be glorious then we shall eat our own bread and wear our own apparel we shall no more wear sins nor the devils robes we shall not borrow of sin we shall no more eat of his bread but of our own that which is in our Fathers house and that is Christ And in that day the fruit of the earth every part of us the whole body even the lips that have been full of poyson the tongue that hath had the fire of hell in it shall be filled with the fire of Heaven That that hath been darts and arrows and swords and venome and the sting of Aspes and Dragons even that shall be healing It shall be refreshing and delighting this is by Jesus Christ Christ shall come forth even in our tongues and season them with grace and make them to be a tree of life they shall minister Grace unto the hearers Christ doth recover all that the devil hath carried away as Abraham all that the King of Sodom caried away He recovers it he takes it out of pollution and out of filth There is a dumb Devil a beastly Devil a blasphemous Devil an accusing Devil a pratling and busie body Devil as Peter speaks of such Why Christ shall cast out every one of these Devils all the fruit of the lips shall be a sacrifice of praise there shall be no more of these no backbiting no slandering no going up and down to tell one anothers faults nothing but love and Praise and Thanksgiving Every member shall be restored and the tongue shall be restored I beseech you saith the Apostle as you have yeilded your members servants of iniquity unto iniquity so yeeld them servants of righteousness unto holiness This is by Christ and this is the effect of the spirit when he is poured forth making melody in your hearts which breaths forth nothing to God but love nothing to man but love nothing but praise nothing but joy Christ is a thorow Redeemer a thorow Restorer and therefore body and soul and every member of the body shall be Redeemed The spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies Christ gains the heart to God and out of the abundance of that the mouth speaks He makes the heart a treasury of good things and then comes forth nothing but good at the door of the lips The tongue and the lips are either the great instruments of the Devil or of God of Heaven or of Hell the fire of Heaven and the fire of hell is in the tongue Acts of life and death are in the power of the tongue Here is blessing and here is cursing God promises in the prophecie of Zachary to restore unto his people a pure lip or language and what is this pure language but Praise and Thanksgiving what is it but love but grace but edification they shall call upon the Name of the Lord and serve him with one consent a pure language is not in words and syllables but Christ fills the heart thence the mouth is fill'd as 't is in Psal 37. 30 31. He speaks there of the Righteous man His mouth speaks of wisdom and his tongue of understanding and the Law of God is in his heart This is that which is the New-Testament the Law in our heart and when the Law is in our heart then it will be in our tongue The old administration began in the tongue thou shalt speak of it at all times the New-Testament begins at the heart Thou shalt write it in the heart and then the tongue will speak nothing else The fruit of our lips There is a fruit of our lips that is seeming praise which coming not from the abundance of the heart is the greatest abomination unto God A flattering and deceitful tongue the Lord shall cut it out There is more of the fire of hell in a tongue that speaks to God and not from the heart then in a tongue openly blaspheming Therefore the Apostle Paul could not bear the devil that cried These are the servants of the most high God that shew unto us the way of salvation But Christ in the heart the fire of Heaven in the heart the Altar in the heart and there flaming out at the mouth O 't is

carried on by degrees Christ he is formed in us but he comes forth as a child and weak at first The Lord he comes and takes possession sits in the throne and throws Satan and sin down but then they are striving to recover themselves again to come into their command rule again The flesh lusteth against the Spirit saith the Apostle Gal. 5. So that you cannot do the things that you would Every thing would live flesh would live When God comes to destroy it it strives and strugles as long as it can God will keep his people in exercise through weakness he will bring them into strength and so his strength shall be perfected And through many foiles and many times being overcome he will bring them at last into a compleat and glorious victory They shall try all the Powers of Hell and Satan and so see That greater is he that is in them then he that is in the World they shall see themselves though often foyl'd more then Conquerors through him that loves them They shall not go forth in haste as the Lord promises in bringing his People out of Babylon and is made true in their bringing forth out of Spiritual Babylon they shall not sneak out or steal out but shall go forth at last as Conquerors and the more foyles they have had the oftner overcome the more glorious will be their conquest Therefore fight the good fight of Faith O ye men of God fight the good fight of Faith You that are quickned with Christ raised up to fear God be not discouraged at those motions that you find in you endeavouring to hale and draw you back to ungodliness and worldly lusts again though they should come with violencc to draw you to that Prison and darkness again And you may wonder a while and say Why am I thus as Rebeccah did when twins were in her womb For t is the same case here the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh As you grow up into the light and knowledge of God you wil be above fears in this matter 't will not at all move you discourage you or dis-hearten you We do not feel death but as life comes in So long as thou stand'st thy ground and wilt not comply though thou dealest with an enemy and there be force upon thee Yet there is no cause why thou should'st be discouraged Here is ungodliness and here are worldly lusts but here is grace to deny them Here is the flesh that lusts against the Spirit but here is the Spirit also that lusts against the flesh When Moses comes the burthens of the Israelites are doubled So when the Spirit comes when righteousness comes when wisdom and Sanctification comes there is a fuller discovery and more busling of Satan and Hell then ever was before Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts They have their motions they do solicite where the grace of God that brings Salvation hath appeared But resist them Whom resist ye stedfast in the Faith c. Teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts Quest What is ungodliness that grace teacheth us to deny Sol. Ungodliness is whatever is not of God whatever is not of the Father the lust of the eye the lust of the flesh and the pride of life This is not of the Father this is ungodliness Godliness is likness unto God t is bringing forth the Divine nature in us By precious promises saith Peter he hath made us partakers of the Divine nature The new man grows up in this sunshine the Spiritual the Heavenly man made after the Image of God in righteousness and true holiness Eph. 4. 21. God calls us to be holy as he himself is holy this is godliness God hath predestinated us to be conformable to the Image of his Son He hath given him to us an example that we should follow his steps Christ is the express Image of his fathers person And the design of the Gospel is to bring forth Christ in us My little children of whom I travail in birth till Christ be formed in you This is godliness to bring forth Christ in us God in us We shall be like him saith John 1 Joh. 3. at the beginning We shall be like him for we shall see him as he is The grace of God that brings Salvation brings us to be acquainted with God It is the revealing of God in us It is Gods manifesting himself to us with open face So that we are changed into his Image from glory to glory by the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 18. It is Gods becoming our wisdom and righteousness and Sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1. ult But observe the manner of the Scriptures speaking in this particular To be led by the Spirit of God So are his Sons Rom. 8. To have our works wrought in God John 3. He comes to the light that his works may be manifested that they are wrought in God to cease from our own works as God did from his Heb. 4. Christ brought forth in us he speaks not of himself he works not of himself the Father speaks and the Father doth the works Joh. 1. 4. 10. Godliness is Godlikeness and when once we are taught Godliness we are taught not to walk as men as the Apostle hath it to the Corinthians Ye are carnal saith he and walk as men We walk in another light in another wisdom in another power in another life when once we are taught Godliness Christ died for us the just for the unjust to bring us unto God as Peter hath it The grace of God teacheth us to deny ungodliness carries us into the life of God into the power of God into the light of the God into glory of God into the Kingdom of God Doth not the Scripture say as much It were grace and Salvation to restore us unto that perfect Image in which Adam was brought forth in flesh But God hath more grace for us and greater Salvation even to bring forth his own life in us to make us Children of the Resurrection The life of Adam as it was in innocency it was a glorious life but it was weak and fading as we see But this life is a life that can never fade 't is strong 't is everlasting ' t is an inheritance immortal undefiled that fadeth not away that sin and death can never conquer Christ rising from the dead he dies no more 'T is the life of God the Scripture speaks of I in them and they in me that they may be perfect in one Because I live you shall live also 'T is not the Image of the earthly man but the Image of the Heavenly man that the grace of God restores us to We come short of the Gospel if we sit down and rest our selves in the righteousnes of man 't is the righteousnesness of God which is the mark that is set before us he hath called us into his own Kingdom and glory The grace of God

in the fire of affliction Observ 4. Fourthly observe that the Lords sweetness and life lies now under a vail and covering that is the reason it is so little owned in the world A feast but not seen he that will see the Lord he that will feed at this feast must not look at the things that are seen but at things not seen which lie within the vail Obser 5. Again Fifthly take notice that there is no destroying the vail but by the Lords coming forth until the substance come forth the shadows are substances No perfect destroying the vail untill the Lord be fully come forth All the Ministers in the world cannot do it Observ 6. Sixthly Observe this That all people have a vail or a covering cast over them not one excepted He will destroy the vail of the Covering cast upon All people spred upon All Nations Though the Lord be not far from every one of us yet the Vail keeps us from seeing him and whilst we lie under the vail we grope and feel after him Till God destroy this vail we have foolish fancies and false apprehensions of God What wonder seeing All nations are under the vail All have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 23. God suffered all nations to walk in their own ways They that remain under the vail judge their brethren that see further then themselves of Error and Heresie but they that have the vail destroyed by the Lord will not be harsh to their brethren that lie under the vail although whilst the vail and the face of the Covering was spred upon them they were so grosly ignorant as to cry out against others Error Heresie Blaspemy Observ 7. Seventhly Observe the twofold expression in the Text The vail and the face of the covering And it is not only Cast but Spred also There is exactness in it Quest If you demand what this vail is that the Lord will destroy I Answer This Creation in its purity and perfection You will say The Creation declares the glory of God Psal 19. The heavens declare the glory of God and the earth shews forth his handy work Sol. True but in a vail Christs flesh was a vail Heb. 10. 20. This Creation in its purity and perfection is a vail but when Satan the world sin and death have gotten root in it then its a thick a dark vail or a shadow of death To those that sate in darkness and the shadow of death is this light come All Gods manifestations in it are vails till he get above it and cover it which he will do He is sunk into it as a seed as he riseth up in it it is in a vail Quest But how comes this vail Who casts this vail Answ 1. The Lord He makes darkness and light he makes vails and open Manifestations 2. Satan hath cast and spred this vail 3. We have every one of us cast it and spread it and we are shrowding our selves under it as God appears and God is righteous and holy in it and we and Satan are in the same sin We are all running into the vail as much as we can But God will destroy the vail and then every eye shall see him Behold he cometh with Clouds and every eye shall see him He is not seen now but he shall be seen his manifestation is life and death Life to those that are of him who feel themselves under the vail death to those that rest and have their life in the vail There 's everlasting destruction from his presence and from the glory of his power We are a sweet Savour of Christ to God in those that perish To some we are a savour of life to others a savour of death That is the Ministry of the Spirit It follows in Verse 8. He will swallow up death in victory Observ 1. Destroy the vail and destroy death The taking away of the vail is the taking away of Death Death is dead Death upon a true account is nothing but a vail upon God who is our true life We live because he lives You heard before what this is even all this Creation in its purity and perfection but much more a vail a thicker and darker vail when sin and death and devil are gotten into it The Scripture expression is elsewhere The vail of the shadow of death Darkness and Death Light and Life are the same even Christs flesh was a vail Ordinances are vails No disparagement to Ordinances If God appear in them t is well Mans ministry is a vail if we see God in it it is but darkly If we be refreshed it is but in part This life and body is a vail while we are at home in it till it be changed and made spiritual till we be cloathed upon with our true life which is from heaven The Apostle saith While we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord While we are absent from the Lord we are absent from our life for our life is to be with him We are not perfectly quickned perfectly alive till we be cloathed upon with our life which is from Heaven Therefore take notice that the pulling down of this body is not properly death to the Saints but the destroying of death He will destroy the vail and swallow up death in victory So then that which we call life is not so indeed but death This body this present appearance is but the face of the covering and the rending of it is the swallowing up of death Let us mend our account if we can We have judged things by the outward appearance by the face of the covering by the vail now let us judge righteous judgement The flesh judgeth that to be life which the Spirit knows to be death Our friend is not dead but gone out of death into life Those that know not God but have all their life in the flesh in present appearances they live not indeed They that live in pleasure are dead whilst they live If God be our life then the less we are in these things the more we are in life If our life be in the vail when this vail is destroyed our life is swallowed up of deaths victory and the second death seizeth on us Refer this to the feast that the Lord makes it is himself that is the feast it is himself that makes the feast he dyes into our weakness and when through his death his life is manifested in us in a spirit of Love of power and of a sound minde then death is swallowed up in victory It goes into the draught we hear of it no more The Lords life manifested swallows up death in victory Death is sorrow and tears See if you can imbrace this account of death He that hath ears to hear let him hear He that hath not it may be will cry whimsey fancy and turning the Scripture into an Allegory Further it s said And the Rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth All the Saints Rebuke is whilst they are under the vail They are judged by the vail the world knows them not We live in the vail whilst we are in sorrow and tears whilst God who is our life is hid we are under the worlds Rebuke In the mean time we wait till God appear and whilst God appears not the world jears us saying Flee to your mountain Psal 11. 1. All the worlds joy is in the vail when the vail is rent then comes the second death then that is made good Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and Lazarus his evil but now thou art tormented and he is comforted And now have I walked in a vail and in a cloud unto you Do you not understand The time was when my self did not and it may be my weakness in expressing as well as yours in hearing It is my weakness that cannot put the vail from off your eyes Consider what hath been spoken that you may understand it rightly If it please God to bring it home as a seed sown to any of you I shall rejoyce I leave it to the blessing of God FINIS Isa 50. 1. Isa 2. 2.

intend it should be discovered unto them God he is pleased that the devil and death should possess our life and carry it away and there is no recovering of it but by going into death and into Hell God he goes in there bindes the strong man in his house and recovers his goods There is no delivery from Satan but by being delivered to Satan and this delivery to Satan is conviction of the Spirit a cleer sensible discovery that we have been in Satans power 1. Therefore the use of it is this to call upon us to entertain convictions of the spirit that discover sin and hell and death within us It concerns us to entertain these for here is our life our salvation We must be delivered to these before we can be delivered from them Be not afraid to go into Egypt saith God by Jeremy and serve the King of Babylon for God hath delivered all-into his hands God hath delivered all flesh into Satans hand 't is in vain standing out in thy knowledge in thy righteousness thou must let all go thou must be content seeing 't is the will of God to be Satans and Hells vassal to bear thy burthen to endure thy captivity and hence the Lord will bring thee forth I do not speak that any soul should entertain Sin and Satan and Hel as the world doth with delight and pleasure for 't is death to him so to do Hell is Hell to him the devil is the devil to him but yet he sees there is no withstanding of it He must come under his power and feel he is under his power and then he shall have deliverance Therefore agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way If God hath delivered thee unto Satan into his power 't is but while thou art in the way Tell the devil and sin 't is your hour I am your captive but I shall have deliverance and this discovery that I am your captive is the way of my deliverance This is the way for me to be delivered out of your hands Do not stand against conviction of the spirit do not stand against God when he convinces you that you are sinful for you will never make your selves righteous This it teacheth us first 2. In the next place This is that should quiet and still the soul in such discoveries God discovers Hell and death and sin and the power thereof to our soul Qu. Alas What shall I do I shall be damned the pit will shut her mouth upon me Answ No God is now saving when thou thinkest he is destroying Psal 18. 16. David there tells his experience and how God had delivered him out of hell He sent from above he took me and drew me out of many waters he delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me for they were too strong for me But see through what a condition David was brought unto this salvation ver 4. The sorrows of death compassed me and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid the sorrows of hell compassed me about the snares of death prevented me c. to the 16 ver 'T is a description of those terrible workings in the spirits and souls of Gods people which do usher in salvation and life He discovers the foundations of the earth discovers hell there There is the Revelation of Jesus Christ that last book of the new Testament and that Revelation of Iesus Christ makes all those terrible discoveries there we read of The rising up of Iesus Christ in the soul this discovers flesh and hell and sin and so destroys them This should lift up our heads when darkness comes when we think that God is destroying his Saints he is saving them 3. And thirdly it should put us upon this to consider whether we have ever been delivered to Satan or no what discoveries have we had of Satans power of sins power hells power it concerns us to look to this For the way to be delivered from him is to be delivered to him We know the old way of Ministers that this discovery must be to such a measure and for such a time we have done with that God he works how he pleases he makes deep humiliation to be the foundation of glorious salvation From the greatest discoveries of hell and death he brings forth the most abundant glory The most dangerous estate of the soul is to be in a dead Palsie The physitian coming to one that 's taken with a dead Palsie he puts him into a Feaver to cure him This way the spirit of God takes with him that lieth dead God puts him into a feaver sends fire into his bones to secure his life his soul for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved That 's another thing to be taken notice of that sin hell and death are destroyed by a discovery He was delivered unto Satan was in his power when he committed that sin now let him see where he is for the destruction of the flesh for the destruction of Satan whose kingdom is in the flesh Satan Hell and Death are destroyed in the Saints by a discovery And the reason why the discovery destroys them is because it is such a discovery as 't is 't is a discovery by quickning You hath he quickned that were dead in trespasses and sins This holy seed which is of God cannot endure sin which is death to it A discovery by the spirit is not a notional discovery as when a man or a letter shall come and tell us but such a discovery of sin and hell as makes us feel it The spirit once awakened in a Saint sin can have no entertainment there The power of the Lord Iesus delivering us to Satan that discovery destroys Satan Hell and sin cannot be entertained but in his own place and the spirit once awakened in the Saints cannot agree with hell light and darkness Christ and Belial cannot agree And that is it that concerns every one of us that minde life and peace and salvation in good earnest to make after light after knowledge not head-knowledge but heart-knowledge the light of the spirit stand up from the dead and Christ shall give you light Wait to be renewed in the spirit of your minds to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Let us not stint our selves to any measure or degree of knowledge Take heed of refusing knowledge because 't is new and strange but examine it Entertain strangers kindly for by it some have entertained Angels unawares Wait for the Revelation of the Spirit the teaching of the Spirit And take another thing here That there is no discovery that destroys flesh and saves spirit but that which is made by the power of the Lord Iesus 'T is not mans discovery nor the discovery that our own Reason makes 't is not a letter discovery but a a discovery of light and power by the Lord Iesus that makes an

hath given all to him we can have nothing but by him and in him we are coheirs as the Apostle hath it in Rom. 8. God hath chosen us in him hath blessed us in him by him let us offer the sacrifice of praise Christ is Temple he is Altar he is Priest he is all the whole body of our sacrifice by him let us offer the sacrifice of praise No acceptable sacrifice but by him Every one then that deals by sacrifice that deals in praise and thanksgiving or supposeth that he doth so let him consider by whom he comes Do you come by a Mediator or no If you come by a Mediator do you come by him that is gone without the gate and sits in the reproach of the world if you come not by him all that you do whatever fair shew it hath to men is but abomination in the sight of God There is nothing acceptable to God but in him All the Incense you offer up it stinks unless there be the sweet odour of him How is it then you bring your praise you bring your thanks by whom do you come doth Christ lead you in do you do it by him We use his name we come with words and letters and syllables we say Lord we come to thee by Jesus Christ we come in his name when we say so let 's consider what Commission we have Remember what the evil spirit said to them that conjured them in the name of Jesus whom Paul preached Jesus we know and Paul we know but who are ye and that of the Psalmist Why dost thou take my name into thy mouth when thou hatest to be Reformed Is the name of Jesus in thy mouth Yes but consider is the love of Jesus and the Faith of Iesus in thy heart If we come by him let us see that he is with us let us look for his minde in us for his spirit in us Are we spiritually minded or carnally minded Are we his reproach or is he precious unto us he must needs be so if we come by him unto God and know him the onely way and the truth and the life Are we let unto God by his spirit To come by Iesus is to come in the light and power and grace and life of Iesus To come in our own names what can we expect to come by our own works by our own righteousness this is to make another Iesus another Mediator To use onely the name what an abominable mockery is this and how hath Satan and sin and all wickedness been brought forth under the Names and Titles of Iesus Christ The devil hath brought forth all sacrifices to himself under the name of Iesus Christ and under such Titles By him Let every one of us look if we be in praise and Thanksgiving unto God whether we come by him To come by him is to come with him Know ye not that Christ is in you If any have not the spirit of Christ the same is none of his We are branches of his root members of his body and so we are to grow up if we be planted in the house of God through the sap and fatness that we have in him We have great things to do which cannot be done but by him We have principalities and powers death and hell to wrastle withal how shall we do it but by him we have God himself to overcome and how shall this be done but by his son Consider what a promise there is whatsoever you shall ask in his name it shall be given you We have heaven to open and shut we have Satan to binde and loose and how shall this be done without him But you will say where is he that doth go forth by him where is this power where is this light and where is this grace O 't were well if all our hearts were stirred up to look after it where it is O that we were awakened to look for it that we were rows'd up out of spiritual security and stumbling out of that form of Religion we walk in to look after power and life and spirit Where is it Surely when we begin to look after it we shall finde it is not far from us But the truth is it hath been a long time absent a long time withdrawn in respect of the manifestation of it God hath been pleased that there should be an hour of darkness and a time of temptation God is pleased there should be a time of Apostacy that the man of sin should be revealed and that he himself during this time should be hid Christ himself did not always go forth manifestly in the name of God for that thirty yeers from his birth 't is true he did all by the Father but how little manifestation was there of the Father in that time his working by the Father in the name of the Father was manifested in him by degrees And he tells his Disciples that they should go forth mightier then ever he went forth himself Joh. 14. He that believes in me greater works shall he do then those that I do When Christ came to suffer and to be a reproach he went to it by the Father he went to all by the Father and we go to all by him and the Father did not presently manifest himself or lead him out to a willing and a joyful suffering but comes to him by degrees after begging and entreating and earnest Prayers with strong cries and tears if it be possible let this cup pass away The Father comes in at last takes him by the hand and then he goes on cheerfully and for the joy that was set before him he endured the cross and despised the shame The manifestation of Christ with his people to lead them to God hath been low and dark but it shall be cleer it shall be bright it shall be powerful We have been in an exceeding puzzeled lost condition and still are that we scarce know when we go by Christ and when we go alone but he shall come forth cleerly and manifestly to lead his people and we shall see that he hath us by the right hand He will come forth in his brightness to destroy the man of sin after the time that he is fully revealed and by him the Saints shall go into greater glory then ever they have yet seen we shall judge the world and we shall judge Angels How is it to be wished that we were sensible of that confusion and darkness that lieth upon us that we have seen and do see very little of Christ our way I am the way the truth and the life When the time comes that Christ shall manifest himself unto his people to lead them unto God to be their light and their direction and their life he will make us sensible of our darkness of our weakness at what a loss we have been and we shall begin to cry as the Prophet Elisha did when his Master was taken up where is the spirit

everywhere but in God Furie is not in me saith God And God manifested this indignation will appear and be felt There is no rest but in the Lord and there is no entertainment in the Lord but to those whom he cals in to whom he opens the gate the everlasting ganes Who shall ascend into the Hill of the Lord And who shall stand in his holy place Who shall lie down in that Chamber And who shall meet with that repose that is in him He whom he cals in by his Spirit It was death to enter in before Ahasuerus unless he held forth his golden Scepter There is nothing but indignation from the presence of God upon every soul but that soul that is called in by God Come my people There is a People that look to enter into rest and the Gospel is preached to them and rest is preached unto them but the Apostle tels us in Heb. 4. at the beginning They entred not in because of unbelief What is this unbelief God was not in their hearts they had not this inward call there was not the life of God within them nor the rest of God within them Gods voyce is not known without unless he dwell within They entred not in because of unbelief Christ is entertained nowhere in no soul where-ever he comes and knocks he is received nowhere but where he himself dwels and opens the door It is the voyce of God in our Spirits the Spirit saying to our spirits Ye are the children of God the People of God God is your rest Come enter in sit ye down There are dreams of Rest and when we awake there is nothing but trouble There are that cry Lord Lord and when he comes he saith I know you not depart from me ye workers of iniquity We must look for a better call then a Letter call or a Ministers call We must look for the call of God in our hearts and a particular call As they said to the blind man be of good comfort he speaks to thee he calleth thee Say to my soul saith David I am thy salvation All your rest is fancy unless God hath led you into it So far forth as you see him you see truth Come my people To call our selves the People of God unless God cals us so what a poor thing is this To fancy our selves in the Chamber and Rest of God alas how sadly shall we awake Come my people enter into thy Chambers and shut thy doors about thee shut thy self in close When we are shut into God from the world and are at home in the Lord taken up in him so far forth we are safe there is no trouble no indignation no fury Fury is not in me We stand in God and have our enjoyments in him are only taken up with him but while we stand there and are gazing upon the world our eyes and hearts are drawn forth after this and after the other then comes trouble We do not see enough in God if we did he would be a covering to our eyes and a husband to us indeed as he said He shall be a covering to thine eyes When we look after any thing but him we look after trouble wrath will come in therefore shut the doors upon you Enter into thy Chambers and shut the doors upon thee and hide thy self God is our rest from trouble God is our peace God is our life do but look from him you look into death you look into trouble You that dwel in God shut up your selves in him shut the doors upon you And hide thy self Hide thy self there is no hiding from God but in God Hide thy self in Gods Rest in Gods Love in Gods Power this is a mysterie and riddle unto the world Old Adam flies from God the presence of God is indignation Old Adam is Bryars and Thorns set in battle against him Gods appearance makes him run But whither shall we go from thy presence There is no hiding from God but in God While I hid my sins saith David my bones consumed away through my daily complaint thy hand was heavie upon me He had no rest till he made back again unto God Enter into thy Chambers and hide thy self Hide thy self and that is the Saints condition here in this world to be hidden ones The world doth not know us saith John 1 Joh. 3. at the beginning We are the sons of God but the world doth not know us You are dead saith the Apostle Col. 3. at the beginning and your life is hid Hide thy self Where are they hid Why they are hid in God Our life is hid with Christ in God That that appears now is the world and Satan and Death and Hell Hide thy self for a moment Hide thy self the Saints life is not seen nor known God is the Saints life when he is hidden And this is our comfort that when we are hidden he is hidden and when he shall appear we shall appear with him in glory as it is in that same third of the Colossians Hide thy self God will have us content to be hidden for a while and truly this makes us content to be hidden that he is hidden He is our life he comes not forth till we come forth he is not in glory till we are in glory he is dead while we are dead Yet awhile and the earth shall discover her dead and shall no more hide her slain as it follows in the Text. Hide thy self Saints are Gods hidden ones Hide thy self for a moment All the sadness and darkness of the Saints is but momentanie Dost thou love God Doth thy soul make to him And knowest thou no rest but him Thou art troubled and troubled when thou thinkest of God Hide thy self for a moment Here is repose for thee and this indignation this storm will over Sometimes it is expressed for a little moment in this Prophesie of Isaiah For a little moment have I hid my face from thee It seems long to us and we cry how long It is but a moment in respect of Eternity And this is another word of ease to an afflicted soul the affliction is strong but it shall not last Hide thy self for a moment until the indignation be overpast It is a cloud that will blow over this indignation will have an end and then comes eternal Rest eternal Joy And as the trouble of the Saints is but for a moment so the joy of the world it is no longer and the moment of the Saints trouble is the moment of the worlds rejoycing and the indignation that lyeth upon the Saints shall be taken off from them and fall upon the world and that is it that is expressed in the next Verse VER 21. For behold the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain THose that dwell in the earth that have their life in the