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A92133	The spirit of God in man, making manifest the hidden things of darkness to man. Being divine teachings, whereby the Lord alone is exalted, and the pride of fleshly glory discovered, / by the shining light of Christ in and through Richard Russel.	Russel, Richard, theological writer.	1654 (1654)	Wing R2347; Thomason E1488_3; ESTC R208500	16,391	40

gather together his Elect from four winds from one end of heaven to the other Math. 24.30 31. then shall all the holy seed be gathered in and appear in its glory then the tribes of the earth shal mourn because of the desolation of their Kingdom then I. is taken and I. is left Epist IV. A discovery of the Reign of the Beast of Babylons City which hath made the nations drunk with wine of her fornication I Shall begid with that of Daniel ch 8. v. 23.24 25. and in the later time of their Kingdome when the transgressors are come to the full a King of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences and his power shal be mighty but not by his own power and he shal destroy wonderfully and shal prosper and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people and through his policy also he shal cause craft to prosper in his hand and he shal magnifie himself in his heart and by peace shal destroy many he shal also stand up against the Prince of Princes but he shal be broken down without hand And all this time that God is gathering together the Elect he hath given a time times and half a time to the Serpent which in these threefold shapes and a half or in these three days and a half he is called the Beast Ruling in the Whore and this time is given him to make war and to fight against the Prince of Princes and his Saints and to overcome then and to waste and destroy the holy People mightily and this appointed time is the year or season wherin the Beast lives and God gives all advantages to the Beast as riches ontward liberty worldy power and generally human authority into his hand whereby he reigns and is the Idol God of this world and hath put no weapons into the hands of the Saints but the anoynting and sword of the Spirit of the Lord to fight against the reproaches slanders opprssions poverties weaknsse wickednesse Prisons and the multitude of temptations which the Beast through her wit malice police and power doth cast upon the Saints like a flood of water to drowne and destroy and over come the worke of God in his coming forth in the Spirit if it were possible likewise the Serpent stirs up some whom he discerns to be seeming professors outwardly religious having a form of Godlinesse but through hypocrisie pride and selfishness deny the power and dishonor God and discourage the tender Lambs of Christ and cast an ill reproach upon the wayes of God and hence it is that Isarel of old were trampled upon by the Gentiles in the Flesh that were not in Covenant with them but were under the condemning law who have trod under foot the blood of the new covenant and hence it is that the Beast must tread the holy City underfoot two forty months which signifieth his Reign is but for a short space of time but now in these latter dayes when the time times and half drawe to an end then God sends forth several dispensations and Angels assisting to the sixth and great dispensation wherein the Lords appearance wil blast all the glory of the Beast and Immaginary part of man therefore ye that adorn your selves with Babylons painting fair outsides of several colors and dresses of Edoms die behold the Lord is coming to execute Iudgement upon his adversaries and our oppressors and to poure out Vials of wrath upon all the glory of the Beast and to stain the pride of all flesh whereby he curses all their glory by seaven degrees by the voice of God through Angels and Saints sounding forth seaven Trumpets of glory to God one after another which is perfection of glory to the Saints or Church of the first borne which implies perfection of ruin upon every particular of the Beast blasting cursing or the downefall of their Kingdom Oh! that all professors had a zeal of God according to knoledg that they may not be like the wilde sigrree that Christ cursed which was sul of leaves but no fruit for iniquity abounds and the love of many in whom the Serpent rules waxeth cold and extreme ' bitter and mad against the Saints in whom the anoynted rules so that they gnash their tongues with vexation of spirit and the smoak of their torment ascends upward and so they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his Name and thus consider while God suffers the Beast co Reign it is called the day of the Beast and God hath given him three dayes and a half to tread the holy City underfoot or the space of two and forty months which is three shapes three discoveries of the Reign of the Beast or three degrees and a half of the Serpents Reformation from bad to worse from open prophaneness to close hypocrisie Rev. 17.4 therefore let error sin devil and darknesse come forth in their power it is the wil of God they should do so that it may appear to be more then what it is and that old Herode may be discovered which seeketh the life of the childe Iesus as soon as he is borne of any Virgin Spirit also that Pharaoh should rise unto his ful greatnesse that God may appear to be above and to get himself honor upon him for he wil be glorified by both vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor Antichrist is now getting up upon his last leggs whose leggs are Iron and feet clay there is life no where but in his stump which often has been lap 't but yet the root remaines alive which is not enough to quicken throughly in this his last Image and form in which he is coming forth like unto an Angel of light but how soon was he thrown down in his last appearance and rising among us even before he could bite his teeth were broken god smote him on the cheek-bone before the thorns were growne hard to prick the fire took hold of them which fire is kindling the smoak sparkles to burn downe the tall Cedars and God is finishing the work apace and cutting it short in righteousnesse even to the utter consumption and destruction of his enemies by the brightnesse of his coming Jacob shall be a Fire and Esau for stubble God wil be a swift witnesse against this Sorcery for so are all the dealings of natural men in things of god and by terrible things wil he answer them and this consider that the foundation that some professors are laying in several wayes or opinions shutted to their eyes which wil appear to be the abomination of desolation spoken of by Danel the prophet all the rising and puttings forth of Antichrist are faire and wel looking but God doth pronounce the final Curse against it which was a fruit that sprung up in the created being and acted both inwardly and outwardly but Gods design is to weed out the tares from the good of the corn but

be all in love to injoy God in time of trouble or at all times and to be with him in Spirit where he is this is an Heavenly estate to see the invisible appear in the visible and to swallow it up in it self in love as Enech that walked with God and was not but there is such a way for Saints to go before they come to injoy their Kingdome or to enter into their glory as followeth as Iesus Christ hath shewed us in that which is called the Lords Supper and Baptism that no Flesh wil indure it as wil appear First from those words of Christ in Mat. 20.19.20.21 for when he was defired by the mother of Zebedees children that her two sons might sit the one at his right hand and the other at his left in his kingdome his answer was You know not what you ask for saith he Are ye able to drink of the Cup that I shal drink of and to be Baptised with the Baptisme what Jam Baptised withall As if he should say the way that leads to my kindome is a Crucifying way even from the beginning to the end as it was with me who was persecuted from my birth to my death it is a way sprinkled with blood and burning with Fire very sharp and bitter and no sweetnesse in it for many storms and tempests wil arise and fall upon your travel to Canaan you must be crowned with thorts and you must be tempted with the Serpent buffeted with Satan and persecuted with Herod and how are you able to endure this saith they we are able then saith Christ again you stall indeed drink of the Cup that J drink of and be baptised with the baptisme that J am baptised with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to chem for whom it is prepared of my Father which is as much as to say you must suffer the losse of all things below or besides me and the way which I have gone you shall go the death which I have suffered you shall in some measure suffer and then having gon the way and suffered the death you wil say Father Glorifie thy Son that thy Son may Glorifie thee then wil he give you a crown of life which is laid up for you in the kingdom of heaven and as Paul saith J have run the race and obtained the price in Jesus Christ J have finished my cross henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of glory even the Lord and Christ himself saith that for the glory which was set before him he indured the crosse and despised the shame drunk his cup and received his Baptisme and after entred into his glory And thus he went before us as a pattern or an example for us but when we have obtained the Kingdom and received the Crown the kingdom being delivered up to the father we are not Christ is all unto God the onely one for we then are not our owne but we are Christs and Christ is Gods and so an union betwixt Christ and us and an union betwixt God and Christ into one entire and alone essence then is the Kingdome deliverd up unto God by Christ and then God the Father is as he was that is all in all and out of that all all came forth and into that all shall all be through Christ who is the strength of God be reduced into God and yet a visible appearance through the invisible and in him to appear this is one glimps of the mystery of the Divine Deity operative acting through it self in the illustration of it self which is wisdoms work and the Spirits teaching therefore let all flesh be silent before tke Lord for it is not he that heareth my words Saith Christ but he that doth my will he it is that is my disciple blessed for ever in the name of the Father Epist VII Concerning a word of exhortation to Christians to support the bruised Reed that the smoaking flax may be set on fire in these Gospel-times O How good a thing it is for Christians to walk close with God in that dispensation wherein he appeareth unto them in for no one can truly serve God out of that dispensation wherein he appeareth unto them therefore then to walk up to what they know and to judg others that are not under the same though there be several dispensations or administrations yet the same Lord though they may be severally acted yet all by one spirit if they be sincere and upright in heart and of a meek and quiet spirit who dwels in love otherwise they are but the world a Saint is known by one of the same spirit and disowned by the world for they love their own and the proof of a Saint is to show his strength in time of need that is to own all things that is of God and to bear with the weak brethren and to cherish that in them which is to be cherished and to offer up that to the fire which is to be burnt But how prone is man to be judging and condemning Man hath an eye and light in his day and he cannot forbear passing his judgment there upon things or persons the natural man wil be judging natural things and the spiritual man wil be judging spiritual things men wil be judging men Christians wil be judging Christians yea both wil be judging there is a day of man and the day of God man is judging in his day if there be not so much light as to make the day of the Lord appear in man it is but mans day and so the worthlesness of his judgment appears in Pauls account for saith he it is with me avery small thing that I should be judged of you or of mans judgment man cannot be more forward to judg me then I am to slight him in that action for mans judgment is too shallow to judg in spiritual things judg not saith Christ and he himself forbear judging I judg no man Iob 8 15. though if he had judged his judgment had been true vers 16. yet being not his time to judg though he was judg he could for bear his sentence until the proper season of it therfore saith Paul judg nothing before the time until the Lord come who wil both bring to light the hidden things of darkuess and wil make manifest the counsels of the heart therefore saith Paul With me it is a very small thing that J should be judged of you or of mans judgment yea I judg not mine own self 1 Cor. 4.3 Who art thou that indgest another mans servant to his own master he standeth or falleth or wherein thou iudgest another thou condemnest thy self it belongs to the Lord to be iudg for thou O man hast no more right to iudg thy fellow servant then he has to iudg thee therfore iudg nothing before the time in the things of God for he has kept his own light for his

own day which shall lay open the secrets of every mans heat therefore he that is under one discovery let him not iudg another that is under another discovery and let not them who serve God in dispensations iudg them in whom he wil be served above dispensations and so to limit and confine God how or where he shall appear or be served but as every one hath received of the gift of God so let them minister the same as good stewards of his manifold grace 1 Pet. 4.10 therfore note it is a gift which cannot be purchased by mony as human learning is which servs but for external things and cannot look into the internal as can the gift which is given even the spirit of truth which needeth not to be supported by human learning for it is supported by he that gives but human learning is made a cloak to cover ignorance and hypocrifie and to deceive the simple but when it is grown to the ful heighth it shal fal and then great Babylon shal fal and her mourners shal be many Therefore I pray you set no greater a price of it then what it is worth for when God called for Preachers he called Fishermen as was Peter and Shepheards as was Moses and David and Herdsmen as Amos and Elisha a Plowman Christ himself was call'd a Carpenter Paul a Tentmaker but he could speak Tongues being brought up at the feet of Gamaliel but for althat he was a persecutor of the church before his conversion therefore let not one sort of people have any preiudice against another for God wil cal whom he pleaseth and wil be honored where he pleaseth and can take of al sorts som to manifest his glory therfore be waiting upon God and ceasing from man whose breath is in his nostrils so fulfil the commands of Christ see that you love one another love al men even your enemies do good to them that hate you the God of love wil cover you when the storme shal fal upon the wicked O beloved did you but know how lovely you are being in love for love sheweth the deformity in all that is not in love but it is not seen but by loves own eye what an oneness there is in your selves being in love what an oneness in multiplicities being in love which wil set the smoaking Flax on a bright Flame wil kindle every little spark where it comes Love is that which ties all the Brethren in a knot God is love and he that dwelleth in that love dwelleth in God and God in him Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of Judgment because as he is so are we in this world 1 Joh. 4.16.17 FINIS If you our land would know wherin we overflow It is Canaan wherin the pleasant plants do grow Which from the root they yeeld their fruit now Of heavenly glory forth to show Not in notion but our portion which satisfits us Yea the Sun which is so transparent bright With its sarafic al light Power strength and might Which turns all the beholders into its right And puts an end to war and strife Which in Religions fight But in darkness not in light Wherein their actions attend to strife Which fruit doth show where it doth grow In human nature far below Which is a Hell to the creatures woe When the vials come where that doth grow Which shal scorch and blast That which man doth hold so fast Then mans teaching that shal fal Which hath long time stood like a wal Then Melchisedec a Preacher unto us shal be partition wal Jn perfect unitie So God who is our all by breaking down the Wil deliver Israel all from bondage and from thral So shal the light which is so bright Shine both far and neer Then perfect love shal cast out fear That we in heaven may appear With our glory in the Sphere Then for to be what at first we were Before in Creation we did appear That Christ in one may all then be Vnto eternity Then the pathment of our God in glory bright Always a day there is no night From that Imperial Throne Declares the glory of union Finis

contrary are they but this distinction must not always last for when Christ comes forth to give up that principle of life in himself and to slay it in them whereby they have thus lived the leaves and fruit of variety and distinction wil soon wither and they will all return back into union and harmony again then shall the earth diselose her blood so Christ brings them both into one and takes them both with all their differences into his own Body and destroys all their differences and offers up all that God dislikes in them in his own Body on the Cross and so sweetly heals up the differences between God and the Creatures by his intire love unto them Epist III. Concerning seven dispensations which hath and shall be fulfilled in their end of time THe first dispensation was when God gave the Law to Adam as soon as he had made him as In the day thou eatest thou shalt die Now this Law it was holy just and good yet it was a killing word or the killing letter for it took hold on Adams disobedience and slew him so all Flesh died for all Flesh broke the Covenant in Adam and so all Humane Flesh was cast under that dispensation of death so every opposite estate wil seek to advance it self The second dispensation is in the first Promise or Manifestation of the Love of God to the creature and the Curse to the Serpent in these words The seed of the woman shall bruise the Scrpents head Gen. 3.15 22.18 and this continued from Adam til Abraham Then the third dispensation or discovery of God is more clear than the former for unto Abraham he speaks more particularly he doth not stil say in general terms the seed of the woman but in thy seed Abraham all Nations of the earth shal bee blessed and so points out more directly in what lineage and generation of Mankinde God would first appear in to bruise the Serpents head and this dispensation continued from Abraham to Moses and they imbraced the promises The fourth dispensation is from Moses till God manifested himself in the Flesh or till Jesus Christ was born of Mary who was one of the house of David and of the lineage of Abraham and this dispensation is more clear than the former for God by Types and Figures and Ceremonies and Shadows did manifest his love to his creatures and his wrath to the Serpent as we may understand when God appears in Johns Baptism or the Water Baptism which did much type forth the Baptism of the Spirit by Fire and the Holy Ghost which should refine and purifie them and saith John I must decrease or that administration I lived in but he that cometh after me which is Christ shal increase and shal baptize you with the Holy Ghost and also God did manifestly set forth his love by the Prophets in that dispensation for then was the shadow of the Law of Moses falling and Gospel-Truths rising whereby they should be the more ceasing from Man whose breath is in his Nostrils and so likewise the love of God did much appear when the sacrifice was slain and offered then God received an atonement it being a type of Gods in-dwelling in the Flesh or a shadow of Christ the Lamb the substances of all those sacrifices and I pray you consider those things which are spoken allegorically concerning Achan Josh 7.26 where it appears that when Achan that troubled Israel was put to death in the valley of Achor the fierceness of Gods wrath was turned away And in Hosea ch 2. v 14 15. where he saith I wil give the valley of Acher for a door of hope which was the place of Achans death so when the Serpent who is our trouble is subdued and killed in the valley of human flesh then the dispensation of mods anger is turned away The fifth dispensation is from the time that God was manifested in the flesh in the person of Iesus Christ to the time that he appeared in the flesh and person of his Saints likewise this also is more clear then the former for Iesus the annoynted was the substance of all those types and shadows of the Mosaical Law for now God doth manifestly appear to dwel in the flesh and by a manifest being to set the Creature free from bonbage and by Immortal life to swallow mort I beings into himself The sixth dispensation is from the time that God appeared in the flesh of the Saints till the perfect gathering up of the Elect which is the work of that dispensation which is called a Referrection day or a great day of Iudgment for so long as the Iudge sits upon the Iudgment seat it is the day of Iudgment which he doth in every dispensation until the time of the Restitution of all things both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in Christ Eph. 1.10 Rev 10.7 but in the dayes of the voice of the seventh Angel when he shal begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets so Gor. i. 15.24 then cometh the end when he that is Christ shal have delivered up his Kingdom to God even the Father compared with Acts 3.21 and this also is more clear then the former as God appeared in Christ who is the root of the creation it was a sign of God the father appearing in the whole body for saith Christ I and the children that thou hast gave me for signes and wonders and according to his promise by Joel ch 2. v. 28. I wil powre out my spirit upon all Flesh c. the Apostles also finding the same in them selves bare witness to it Acts 2.16 And thus I give you a hint of the seventh dispensation when the Gospels declaration shall be fulfilled and we to be transformed and changed into the Heavenly Image whereby all things may be restored into the Indissolable band into the unity and peace of God which passeth all understanding of man and all wars to cease for so long as dispensations last and we under them we are at warts among our selves and with God also in one sense and a rechangable while we are under dispensations and are to be changed from glory to glory as God doth in Scripture declare seven great dispensations or discoveries of his counsel and will each one clearer then other yet in every one of these God doth send forth several other dispensations by the hand of Angels for the carrying on of the work of that time and season which are discoveries of his glory for whatsoever comes from God is a spiritual power and it may be said to be declared by angels as when God appeared in discoveries to his peopel an angel is said to appear unto them as to Joseph in a dream Zachariah in a vision unto Araham and Lot it is said Angels appeared and likewise he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall