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A65195	Two treatises ... both written by Sir Henry Vane, Knight in the time of his imprisonment.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Epistle general, to the mystical body of Christ on earth.; Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. Face of the times.	1662 (1662)	Wing V80_PARTIAL; Wing V67_PARTIAL; ESTC R7026	96,369	132

is sealed on the back-side do intimate the dark and mystical movings or dispensations of Gods Providence that the seven-fold distinction of time under the seven Seals and Trumpets should produce as the method and way that Christ would take to open and make known the inward writing and to give so plain a Vision of it that he that runs may read it The matter of this Prophecy as it peculiarly relates unto the Church contains in it the Church's progress and growth up in all things into Christ her Head according to the purpose of the Father which he purposed in Christ Jesus before the World was and this in despite of all contradiction or opposition from the Serpent and his Seed In this respect it is that chap. 12. the Man-child with which the Woman was in Travel comes at last to be born and seated on high above the reach of Satan as to any hurt that he could do unto it In the end it becomes a Mountain filling the whole Earth As the matter of this Prophecy doth more generally relate unto the World that lies in the wicked one and holds of the Serpent as of its universal Head and Ruler it contains the wonderful workings and contrivances of God's Providence in favour of his Church and in rendring to every one according to their works filling those that are of the World with the wayes of their own chusing By this means his worst enemies are taught and made to acknowledge his Justice and long-Suffering towards them in and under all His steady Counsels lead to the certain and final treading of all his Adversaries under foot and to the exalting of the horn of his Anointed who is both Lord and Christ 5. By the Temple of God and the Altar and them that Worship therein appointed to be measured chap. 11. 1. is to be understood the right Worship of God as well with respect to the object of it shining forth in the Person and Spirit of Christ inwardly known and conversed with as with respect to the worshippers themselves who are such only as are qualified with spiritual senses rendring them meet for such Duty and Service which they are called to the performance of in their Spirits and with their inward man But that which consists in the outward and bodily exercise described by the outward Court is given up to be suppressed and troden under foot by the Gentiles for 1260 years vers 2. 6. By the Holy City is meant Jerusalem the City of the great King and Living God the incorporated Society of Inhabitants or Citizens that stand in relation to Christ as his Subjects and Servants under the obligation of one or other Covenant that is conditionally or absolutely Those that are his Subjects but in the conditional Covenant are Citizens whose Names are only written in the Earth who upon tryal and proof do not remain so Though they say they are Jews they are not but do lie Yea they evidently discover themselves in the end to be the very Synagogue of Satan But those that are the Subjects of Christ absolutely or in and by the new and everlasting Covenant established in all things and sure they are such Citizens whose Names are written in Heaven among the living in Jerusalem where they become Pillars in the House of God never to go out more being found in a state of Life and way of converse with and worshipping of God in Christ wherein they are secured from final Apostacy and Defection 7. The Earthly Citizens or the Inhabitants and Children of the Jerusalem on Earth do prove at last to be as great enemies to their King as any among the heathenish and prophane World when once they revolt from his Scepter disjoyn and separate from the spiritual and better part of the Citizens whose Names are written in Heaven or in the Lamb's Book of new-creature Life in a character that is indeleble and by vertue of that Covenant which cannot be broken And their great Design when once actually separated from the true spiritual Worshippers is by the calling in of strength and aid from the prophane World to tread under the holy City even the very Heavenly Jerusalem and so to keep it under that it may never come to have any Credit Authority or Power in the World These Citizens and Inhabitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem are described chap. 7. by those that are sealed with the Seal of the Living God and are either a Company certain and numbred making up the 144000 there mentioned or else a Company and Society of sealed ones that in comparison of the former are numberless and of a more large and universal extent called by way of distinction Palm-bearers The first sort of these sealed ones do answer to the 24 Courses of the Levites of old who were given unto God instead of the first-born They stand in a peculiar relation to and dependance upon the great High Priest as their Head and do properly constitute and make up that Assembly of the first-born whose Names are written in Heaven These are a Kingdom of Priests represented before the Throne by the four and twenty Elders The second sort of these Citizens and sealed ones do answer to the whole Congregation of Israel distributed into their four parts and stations round about the Ark at a greater distance from the Throne a Kingdom of common Subjects and less priviledg'd Children than the former Yet these latter sort of men shall be recounted as well as the former to have been born in her whom the Most High doth establish Psal 87. 5. Thus Psal 49. there is notice taken of high or noble men and of low or common men These two Orders are eminently found in a state of perpetuity and continuancy in Christ's own Kingdom Both of them have their original and foundation in the Manhead of Christ who is one manner of man as he bears the form of a Servant like unto us earthly men in all things sin only excepted In this capacity he is constituted King over the whole Earth But he is another manner of man as he is called and made an High Priest after the Order of Melchisedec without Father without Mother without Pedigree or Descent having neither beginning of dayes nor end of life It is therefore said of him in this second sense Consider how great this man is unto whom even the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of his spoyls And again the same Apostle Heb. 5. 11. testifies that of him he had many things to say that were hard to be uttered seeing they were dull of hearing and slow to discern the distinction of that excellency and perfection which shines forth in Christ's own humane nature in the twofold respect which we have mentioned 8. By the Two Witnesses then we are hereby taught to understand those two sorts of Citizens or Inhabitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem the word of whose Testimony is according to this their twofold and distinct birth which makes them Kings

Medicine which declared the Case as yet which Man was in not so desperate but he might be restored and not only so but have an additional sight given to him that should make him see better than ever he did before For the second It is also that state which is common to all that have sinned and upon whom Death hath passed as to the alienation of their minds from the Life of God whose teeth are set on edge by the sowr grapes that were eaten by our first Parents and therefore by way of free gift are restored by the benefit of the Ransom paid by the Redeemer on their behalf to such a degree of enlightning and renewed Righteous Life as is a Lamp or Candle lighted in the soul of every one that comes into the World in which little they are put to the proof of their faithfulness how far they care or desire to hearken to it or not that which is the work of the Law written in their hearts by Christ as a Record and Witness against them if it be slighted and abused whereby there is a Witness set up in the very natural Conscience as a light in a dark place that is ever accusing or excusing as the action done doth deserve To this Light in the Conscience which is the Law within us must every one stand or fall as to matter of information or proof how that soul hath shewed it self in this state whether a lover of Darkness more than of Light for this will either shew it self our Friend or our Enemy as we behave our selves in receiving of its instruction and following its guide and submitting to its reproof For he that is faithfull in the least is to be presumed he will be faithfull in much and he that is unjust in the least will be also unjust in much So that Christ may truly and justly say to such If they have not shewed themselves faithful in the unrighteous Mammon or uncertain Riches who will commit to their trust the true Treasure And thence it is that all those who in this state of proof and tryal under this first dispensation of Light declare themselves Enemies in a fixed Rebellion and hardning against the Teaching and Dictates thereof they plainly shew that they love the Disease better than the Remedy and had rather continue blind than have their sight and limbs restored to use them as they ought and by the Law they are obliged to do for running with delight and continuance in the race of God's Commandements and had rather perish in their sins than believe in Christ and by believing be freed and saved from the wrath that is to come The Natural Conscience in this sense corrupted heardned and become unreclaimable by refusing Reproof and perfectly hating all those that set about their recovery and restitution out of this their bondage under what ever Name or outward Profession of Religion and Divine Worship it be found in doth afford the first sort of Subjects whereof the kingdom of Darkness doth consist a Region like to that where Abraham coming in his Travels did pronounce The fear of God is not in this place nothing of Conscience was there owned or practised but the Contrary of open Prophanenesse or Idolatry The Third state is that which is not of such general extent but a more peculiar condescention and effect of God's bounty and good will to some sinners beyond others in admitting them to a farther and higher proof than the former and therefore doth vouchsafe them a greater measure and gift of the Spirit and work of Restauration out of their natural blindness and death for with a mighty hand and a stretched out Arm and with many Signs and Wonders he brings them as he did Israel of old out of the house of Bondage and by the Angel of his Presence saved them from the hands of their Enemies and offered to lead them into the state of rest and immutability which he had prepared for them and therein did propound to give them a better sight and fuller fruition of himself than in the way of meer Restauration they could attain unto For as to the Restauration and Freedom out of Egypt God's Work was perfect and a just and right God he had shewed himself to them nevertheless they that were new come to have the use of their sight and their feet again to be washed with Water and anointed with Oyl and when they were in their blood God bid them Live and made them again living Souls yet like an unwise and foolish People they very evilly requited this bounty and goodness of the Lord and of the Rock that begat them and of the God that formed them they were very unmindful and proved themselves a very froward and provoking Generation Children in whom was no stedfastness nor that cared to use the means to be made so when it was offered but they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit that is as Steven interprets it They blasphemed and resisted the Holy Ghost and refused the Teachings of that Miristry by which the Truth is conveyed in the love of it which would for ever free them from the power and dominion of sin and for ever fix them in the Kingdom of Christ and make them Pillars in God's Temple never to be removed These are they that because they say they see or have sight enough already and neither need nor desire better therefore their sin remains and is a sin unto death for which God swears in his wrath thèy shall never enter into his rest The light of their eye upon this becomes evil and hates those that see cleerer and better than themselves and cannot endure to hear of new lights that go beyond theirs or that is upon the encreasing more and more unto the perfect day In this evil mind there is a lusting to Envy against the true heirs and a saying in the heart Come let us kill them and the Inheritance shall be ours which so far doth many times transport them that they become the bitterest Enemies to God's choicest Saints and dearest Children and when they kill them they think they do God service and when they cast them out and make them as the scum and off-scouring of the World they say Let God be glorified these are they that are neither hot nor cold but under whatever forms of Godliness and different perswasions they may be in matters of God's Worship do give their strength to the common Enemy of the true Saints and though they can no more cleave the one to the other than the Iron to the Clay yet they both can sit at one Table devising the destruction of the true Israelites and take up their places in the Feet and Toes of the great Image that figured out the universal Kingdom of Antichrist These are the Two opposite Principles unto the Two Anointings and the effects of them in and upon the truly Regenerate ones In these Principles Satan lodges and dwells as in his

take an account who they are that have acquit themselves as they ought to do in their witnessing-stations and callings and what fruit their witness had how it took place in the hearts of others among whom they conversed and what returns they met with from a wicked and ingrateful world for all the labour of Love and Service they shewed amongst them Of all which Christ intends to take a formal and judicial account at the time of the end that is set by him to this witnessing-work in his witnesses that upon this employment Prophesying in sack-cloth were to continue as in constant war and violent persecution from the Powers of the world for twelve hundred and sixty years together At the end of which time the Judgment or time of Wrath is to come not that which is the final Judgment and Wrath of the great Day but a like proceeding of God towards the World in pleading with it by Fire and Sword upon the finishing the Testimony of his Witnesses as he did by Water upon the first World where he made a visible distinction between the Wicked and the Righteous and between them that truly fear God and are sincere and them that fear him not but are tainted and corrupted with Hypocrisie and Apostacy as is plainly expressed Rev. 11. 18. And the Nations were angry and thy Wrath is come and the time of the Dead or the Cause of thy slain rejected Witnesses that they should be judged and an Inquisition made after their Blood and the hard usage they have met with in the World in order now to receive Countenance and Reward for their Sufferings according to the nature of them and the condition and place in which they gave their Witness whether they were Prophets or Saints that fear God's Name small or great and to yeeld Vengeance and Destruction to impenitent and hardned Sinners that they may no longer corrupt the Earth And therefore as in this place we may see Christ lighteth up his Candles in the World of all sorts and sizes and indeed in all places of it from East to West and hath given the Light of his Glory and Kingdom as that Testimony which is appointed to be given and preached in all the World as a Witness to all Nations and immediately after this is finished then the End comes the End that God will manifest of his patience and long-suffering which he hath exercised towards the World in forbearing to avenge the Cause of his Elect which hath been night and day crying to him How long Lord how long which in this day of his Wrath he will avenge and that speedily and cut the work short in Righteousness And because we have said the Candles or Lamps which God lights up in the World for this his Witnessing-work ever since his Ascention to this day according to the Commission he gave to his Disciples Act. 1. 8. and in them to all his Saints small and great that fear his Name as we shewed before are of several sizes and kinds it may not be improper to declare them As first Their Witnessing-Lights may be such as are in publick Office and Place in the visible Church and so are either those that are in the Ministry or those that give their Witness as the Body of some particular Congregation that own themselves in the sight of the world as a Golden Candlestick or some particular Church-Assembly of visible Saints in order and practice of the Gospel according to their measure and light And under this first head will fall all sorts of Principles and Professions of Godliness that make the Rule of the Word and Spirit of God the Ballance of the Sanctuary the Standard by which they desire to regulate themselves in their Doctrine Worship and Conversation what-ever difference in Principles or Ministry of the knowledge of Christ they are under as hath been before opened and distinctly spoken unto Secondly Their Witnessing-Lights may be Publick Persons with relation to their Office in the Magistracy For it is by me saith Christ that Kings reign and Princes do Justice So that in the administration of pure and impartial Justice as a Magistrate in whatever Place and Calling we are set by God and a lawful Appointment from men we keep on the right way without turning on the right hand or on the left for fear or favour discovering a just mind that is a constant and perpetual or unchangeable will to do right to all whatever discouragement opposition and hatred we meet with in doing our duty This is a Light before men which Christ will own in the day of his appearance to have been for his Service and shall not go without its due reward Thirdly There are also the same witnessing Lights in the lesser sphears of every man's particular station and calling which shine forth in a personal righteous and blameless conversation or where their vote or consent is given in reference to the good of the Church or State or to the private Rule which every Master and Head of a Family is by Christ entrusted with in reference to his own Children and Family who are under his charge and not so much at their own dispose as his who hath a right over them by God's Law and man's and by the duty of this relation every man may be somewhat directed even by the world what he is and what Witness he gives in the measure of the Knowledge and Light of Christ he hath received and shall accordingly be taken notice of and judged by Christ in the day of his Judgment ministring Perdition to ungodly men In this little a faithfulness to Christ is expected and that according to the measure of Light received and the Anointing we are under of which there hath already the several degrees and kinds been made known The use therefore that Christ makes of this Light in the world that these several wayes he makes to shine like Lightning from the East to the West from Jerusalem to the utmost ends of the Earth is as to the world to leave them without excuse and ripen them as white fields to the harvest of his just Vengeance when the time is to put in his Sickle And as to the Witnesses themselves to bring upon them a time of refreshing and rest from the presence of the Lord in the sight of their very Enemies where a Table shall be prepared for them and their Cup shall be made to overflow This then being the Testimony that must be finished and these the Witnesses in their several Places and Callings who have been imployed in bearing and giving their Testimony in the World ever since Christ's Ascention the course whereof hath had its progress from East to West and is now come to these utmost ends of the Earth The Scriptures do with great clearness as to the present dispensations of our day teach us three things First That this Testimony is now upon its finishing point in the World and upon these

Whether we be able to drink of the Cup he drank of and be baptized with the Baptism he was baptized with Was it not to intimate That if we die with him we shall also live with him if we suffer we shall also reign with him and have it granted to us to sit down with him on the Throne of his Glory our very Enemies beholding What would it be less even in this world if he should but please to cause upon this occasion of our Suffering that the Spirit of God and of Glory should rest upon us and bring forth his Kingdom within us in Power giving us that Mouth and Wisdom that will make us mighty in word and deed that Faith to which all things are possible that Spirit of Supplication and Prayer that he will alwayes hear and immediately answer God's Arm is not shortned doubtess great and precious Promises are yet in store to be accomplished in and upon Believers here on Earth to the making of Christ to be admired in them If we come not to live here in the actual fruition and full accomplishment of them as they will be experienced by Believers even on this side the death or full change of their mortal body yet if we die in the certain fore-sight and embracing of them by Faith this will be no small blessing This dark night and black shade which God hath drawn over his Work in the midst of us may be for ought we know the ground-colour to some beautiful piece that he is exposing to the Light His Sons must be manifested and evidently distinguished from those who say they are such and are not There is a glory to be revealed in them unto which their Suffering is made the needful Preparation and this is called the Redemption of the body In that day the tabernacling of God in men shall be visible Their very bodies shall be the Temple of the Holy Ghost In them as his Sanctuary will God dwell for evermore whence shall be given forth such visible signs of his extraordinary Presence as shall render it past dispute to the sight of every man that God is in them and with them of a Truth This state of entire resignedness and subjection of our bodies to our Spirits and of our Spirits unto Christ the Father of them shall certainly be brought to the view of the whole World The eyes of those that see them shall acknowledge them and the ears that hear them shall bear witness to them that they are the Seed and Off-spring which the Lord hath blessed Our body thus considered as capable of such advance and honour is not meerly the outward case or shell that must return to dust but includes also the bodily organical state of Life or that souly animal Life which the Spirit of man exercises in conjunction with his mortal body In this kind of Life it is we see hear and speak have the exercise of our Senses after a distinct manner from Angels and intellectual Substances in a way of operation inferiour to theirs proper and peculiar to the rational Soul as needing and using the earthly Organs or Instruments of the mortal body There is also in man that which is peculiarly called Mind or Spirit in distinction from his Soul or from the souly Life and activity of the same Spirit in and by its earthly body 1 Thess 5. 23. The Spirit or Mind of man as distinguished from that life and operation it performs in the mortal body is capable even while in the body to be awakened by the Father of Spirits and come forth in a superiour way even of natural life received by man in his first creation to act as out of the body or without the use of bodily organs as an equal or associate to the very Angels Now because the bodily and inferiour powers of our mind are the instruments of that converse we are subjected to in these dayes of our vanity so that if we will be sociable it must be by the use thereof the Apostle James comprehends all the action of these inferiour powers by the sensible organs we make use of in the exercise thereof under the name of the tongue when he saith If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man and able to bridle the whole body To bridle and regulate the tongue order all the language action and expression of the animal powers aright is to bridle the whole body under the government or ruling authority of the Mind or Spirit considered in its superiour and angelical kind of life and acting as out of the body or above and without the use of bodily organs The Mind or Spirit of man thus considered is as the Pilot that turns the Ship about whithersoever he listeth If it well and truly exercise its governing power it causes the animal life in all the operations and affections thereof to obey its dictates and commands however fiercely driven by contrary Winds false Doctrine any corrupting violent influences of Devils or men upon it and fetches it off from whatever tumultuous disorder it s own sensual lusts and passions are ready to run it into Jam. 3. 2 5. To be partaker of the Redemption of the body is to be made this perfect man which is taught so to live and act from right spiritual Principles as not to offend in word through the Power actually conferred on him and exercised by him for the bridling of the whole body in the sence above declared and for the keeping it in subjection to the Spirit or angelical part in him in righteousness and true holiness This taming of the tongue or subduing of the bodily part in us to the spiritual and intellectual is a work of no small difficulty a thing that is not to be purchased but at a dear rate It may cost us all that we have and no ill bargain neither since by our words it is that we shall be justified and by our words we shall be condemned For until we have brought under our body and reduced it into a fixed subjection and entire resignation to our Spirits let us boast never so much that which is perfect is not yet come even that perfection which in a very eminent degree shall be experienced by the Saints here on Earth on this side the grave and during their continuance in the mortal body This for ought I can discern will be the product of the present sharp and fiery Tryals that God hath brought upon his People all the World over After they have suffered a while and the same Afflictions have been accomplished in the rest of their Brethren that are in the World they may so far have the work of Patience perfected in them as in this sense to become perfect and entire wanting nothing and to shine forth as so many bright morning stars and fore-running signs of the near approach of the brightness of the Day of Christ's second coming This God hath set before the eye of my