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A86340	Glory sometimes afar off, now stepping in; or, The great gospel-mysterie of spirit, or Divine nature in saints: not in that philosophical and humane sense, by effects and habits of grace, but after a more evangelical, divine, and mysterious manner of in-being. Opened, affirmed and cleared, and gloriously breaking forth through a cloud of subtil pervertings, carnal objections, and dreadful condemnings cast upon it; and closed up with an account of some principles, practises and wayes which have sealed up this mysterie, and thereby held down the saints in weakness, and shut up the world in darkness for so long a time.	Higgenson, Thomas.	1653 (1653)	Wing H1948; Thomason E687_9; ESTC R206885	45,476	57

of man or as Scriptures written upon a Book without as so they neither enlighten sanctifie nor save being or coming in words sound or letter only but as they are preached and written by the spirit of the living God in the heart so they give life and blessedness being now become spirit and life in a man True knowledge of Christ what Joh. 6.63 The obedience of Christ in the flesh and his sufferings at Jerusalem if I know them only as acted and fulfilled in flesh without me as the flesh alone of Christ without the spirit profits me not Not as without or after the flesh But as within or after the spirit so this external knowledge of Christ being but a knowledge of him after the flesh wil not profit me to redemption or justification but if I know his obedience death and resurrection in that power and spirit which wrought in him and do know that the same power and spirit is in me and in all those that do believe then I come to have Eph. 1.19 and see and know the obedience and death of Christ as things within me having in me the same spirit which wrought them in Christ which spirit can make that which in Christ was wrought afar off to be near yea present within us and so I come to have the very power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings working in my flesh being made conformable unto his death Phil. 3.10 that is his death working death in my flesh after the same manner as death wrought in his flesh Thirdly God declared himself to be the omnipotent Creator by the Creation a work of Omnipotency to be Lord and King by acts of Dominion and Soveraignty Christ declared himself to be the son of God Rom. 1.4 by his resurrection from the dead a work of power so he declares himself to be spirit and life by crucifying flesh and abolishing death in Saints a work of the quickning spirit Now that whereby God or Christ declares or manifests himself to us to be what he is by and through that manifestation only he is to be truly seen and known of us to be what he is God or any glory or excellency of God is not known of the world God not known by a form of knowledge but by spirit in us but by the comings forth of glory and majestie into the world so neither the Father nor Christ are known of Saints but by the comings forth of the spirit into Saints so that God may be better tasted then known felt and enjoyed then conceived of for he passeth all knowledge and that is true spirituall knowledge of God and Christ which is not so much a conceiving of him in a form of knowledge or notion of the mind as when the Divine Nature it self is manifest felt and perceived in us Divine spiritual knowledge is not so much a work of the understanding as the thing it self known living in us And therefore in natural things the Understanding is active the Object or thing known passive because the Understanding is more noble then the Object but in spiritual things the Understanding is passive the Object active because the Object is more noble then the Understanding Man in knowing Creatures is active in knowing God is passive So I account that knowledge of God to have least of nature or man in it to be the purest highest and most spiritual knowledge wherein a mans mind is most resigned child-like and passive and God Christ or Spirit altogether active in him It is said therefore in one place After that ye knew God Gal. 4.9 or rather are known of God the Son only can reveal the Father the Spirit only can reveal the Son In thy light we shall see light the Light whereby we see God Grace Love the deep things of God is not the eye of man for that cannot see nor the ear for that cannot hear nor the heart reason or spirit of a man for that cannot conceive it but the Spirit himself dwelling in us is our eye our light whereby we search know discern and judge all things 1 Cor. 2.9 10 c. I read the Letter I hear the Word of Truth in the outward testimony that Christ is Lord that God is Father that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts that we dwell in him and he in us but I cannot as a man call Christ Lord but by the spirit 1 Cor. 12.3 nor God Father but by the spirit Rom. 8.15 Nor can I say that the love of God is shed abroad in my heart but by the spirit given into me Rom. 5.5 Nor do I know that he dwels in me or I in him but hereby because he hath given me of his spirit 1 Ioh. 4.13 And so I come to know all these things and all Truth and all Gospel-mysteries which appertain to life and godliness by having the spirit dwelling in me that is 1 Ioh. 2.20 27. by having that dwelling in me which is the substance life activity fulness glory and power of all Truth and all Gospel-mysteries for the Spirit Father Son and Truth and our knowing of them are all one and where truth is there is the Spirit and where the Spirit is there is truth True knowledge of God is by God his dwelling in us Fourthly What then is true knowledge of God and true blessedness but to enjoy him whom we know and to have him to be in us in our soul what our soul is in and to our body and he is then truly known and apprehended by us when he is that in us and through us and over us what we know and apprehend him to be Joh. 8.32 and then we know Truth when the Truth sets us free that is as Truth in it self is liberty and largeness and blessedness and there are no bonds nor sorrow in it So we then come to know Truth to be so when it brings in its own liberty and blessedness into us setting us free from the bonds of sin and sorrows flesh and death And so Gospel-mysteries are then truly known of us when the substance glory and life of the heavenly things themselves are presented to us and revealed in us And as our truest knowing and seeing of a thing is the manifestation of the thing it self unto us as of Light which is best seen and perceived by its own beams piercing the eye so our truest knowing and perfectest seeing of God as Light Fulness Wisdom and Power is by the out-shining of the Light it self and Glory of God into us 1 Cor. 4.6 for we know not God as the everlasting Light unless we know him to be Light in Darkness Light in Heaven Light on Earth Light in all the World Light in us and through us Nor do we know him as perfect fulness if we know him as here and there in Christ and not in Saints but as in Heaven in Earth in us and

to be the ministration not of the spirit but of the letter only And as the glory of the new Covenant above the old is in this 2 Cor. 3.7,8 that it is the ministration of the spirit the Law but of the letter only so the new Creature hath in him more glory and perfection then the first man in this that the spirit himself is put into him created gifts only which might be depraved and lost were all that was put into the first Adam And this shall finish and close up this cloud of witnesses which do all give testimony and set their seal unto this Truth not in the sense of any carnal distinction whereunto it is by the infirmity of the Saints unwarily by the disputers and wisdom of this world wrongfully perverted but in the simple and Gospel-sense of the plain and sound words wherein it is expressed That the spirit of Christ which is the Divine Nature dwels in Saints though covered and yet undiscerned by most of them SECT XII THE in-dwelling of the spirit in Saints in this simple and plain sense carries in it a nearness and union between God and the Creature so mysterious high and inconceivable to flesh and blood that the man of sin who sees by no higher light then Nature and therefore not able to judge of spiritual things least of all of the highest of spiritual things God dwelling in Saints and Saints in God is not able to bear it that is this union the truth that is in it being a light so clear that it takes off the veil discovers the mysterie of iniquity which 〈◊〉 at veil stains and shames the pride and glory of his Kingdom and utterly strips shakes and undoes all flesh Spirit himself in Saints why so sentenced and excommunicated out of the world Wherefore that he may quench a light so glorious and keep all the world under the cloud of thick spiritual darkness and the yoke of bondage unto humane inventions commandments of men will-worships pharisaical legal righteousness which are the arm and glory of his Kingdom and horn of his power he judgeth sentenceth and excommunicates it out of the world under the most odious notions and imputations of blasphemy damnable doctrine This truth why so dreaded of Saints making the Creature God equal with Christ and under these black and abominable disguises that which is the beauty of all Gospel-truths is so deformed that it looks terrible and dreadful unto most Saints being but weak and Children in the faith and knowledge of the mysterie insomuch that we are ready to say of it It is a spirit and to fly from it though it be the nearer approachings of our dear Saviour Wherefore for the sake of such that they may see out of obscurity and the cause of Truth that it may shine out of darkness and scatter all those veils and lying imputations that have made it dreadful to all men I shall enquire into the strongest reasons that I know to be against this Truth and I hope give some account that they are false accusations and lying words against the Truth at the best but shadows of Reason to blind the eyes of the weak from seeing their own liberty and glory SECT XIII THEY are these which follow If the Spirit or Divine Nature it self dwels in Saints First counter-reason against the spirit in us then every Saint is God and so to be worshipped as God even as the Divine Nature dwelling in Christ he is therefore God and so is and ought to be worshipped as God Answer Of this Argument some may say The shew of thy countenance is like lightning and by thy clear beams of reason thou hast at once scattered all that hath been said But of these things I do humbly conceive 1. That the in being of God in Saints does not make them become God no more then the in-being of God in other Creatures makes them God his glory fils both Heaven and Earth he only knows and comprehends himself fully and perfectly the lengths depths and bredths of this stupendious Being cannot be seen or comprehended by the Creature Therefore he comes forth in the Creation as it were cloathed upon with a garment the whole world is but as his vesture or raiment that shall be changed and he that is Eternal Light Love and Wisdom cloaths himself with it as within an house or tabernacle wherein he will dwell for a time that through it as through a little Orb or Globe he may let out some pieces and portions of the external excellencies of his incomprehensible Godhead he stretcheth forth the Heavens as a Curtain and spreadeth out the Earth as a Tent to dwell in and the depths are his Pavilion and thus all Nature is filled with the glory and majestie of the Lord and he is in it and through it yet is not the world God but he that is in the world is God and the world of Nature is no more but the place of the soles of his feet or his lower Tabernacle wherein he sets his dwelling place for a time until he awake and make all things new and come forth in that higher glory which the old Heavens and Earth shall be too narrow to receive too short to contain 2. The in-being of God or the Divine Nature made not the man Christ or the flesh of Christ become God God and man became one in a mutual in-dwelling enjoyment and embracement each of other in Christ yet continued infinitely distinct in Nature and several in being one from the other God came forth in Nature or the things that are made and dwels in it as in an house or Tabernacle that waxeth old and shall be taken down and therefore he shines forth in it in fewer beams and at a greater distance and so more darkly yet so as that the invisible things of him even the Eternal Power and Godhead may be clearly seen and understood of all the world as a testimony to leave them without excuse so God came forth in Christ God in Christ yet the man Christ is not God but Christ is God and dwels in him but as in a living higher and eternal Tabernacle and therefore he shines forth in him in many beams of everlasting mercies grace and reconciling love and in much more nearness and so more clearly yet so as known and manifest only to Saints Therefore to this end was Christ born and came into the world that he might be a Mercy-seat a Throne of grace and a living Mansion for the fulness and glory of God to dwell in and through him to come near reveal himself and commune with us and in and by him to do all our works of obedience death and life for us So that the will and mind of Christ as man became wholly passive and self-resigned and the mind and will of the Divine Nature altogether active to enlighten teach command and do all in him The highest honour and happiness

to himself he put beauty and comliness upon her which stood in gifts and graces and powers purity of administrations forms and fellowships and these were as so many ornaments and jewels which he gave to her as to an espoused virgin or wife of youth and now while her glory and beauty was but fresh and new upon her she is carried away into captivity under the yoke and power of Mystical Babel thus the Church was figured under the Law by Israel in Egypt and Babylon by Jacob serving Laban by the heir of all in the house of servants by the free-womans barrenness despised by the fruitful bond-woman and as the wisdom of the Father appointed that this state of Sions captivity should be the time of Sions widdow-hood so he gave her light spirit communion and other qualifications as suited with that desolate state that is dark servile and carnal principles carnal in respect of more spiritual under this state the heavens were covered with a cloud the world lay as forsaken of God and given into the hands of blind guides cruel shepherds and beasts of prey all the earth dry and no dew upon it no voice of God no vision no lightning from God to amuse aw or awake the world all things all men all the world were as if no God no Lord no Redeemer only there was a silent whispering of the spirit in Saints some few beams of true light some seed and life of God lay hid in their faith God in tender love gave them so much as preserved them in life but for any high choice or sublime discoveries of more spirit and glory such he reserved for her next and better state as knowing them not proper to a state of widowhood wherein the worship and communion of Saints was most in bitter complaints conflicting weak faith strengthning of graces little in visions and high enjoyments of God This is the state that not long since was Second step or change The second change of state upon the Church is her coming forth out of this spiritual captivity This comes to pass when Jesus Christ ariseth as it were from sleep and stirs up himself in the faith and spirits of Saints and opens the Book of the vision of God and pours out a vial of light upon the Kingdom of the man of sin which stains and confounds all his humane Inventions Pharisaical justification and fair fleshly shews wherewith the Saints were enticed and cals up the Saints into more Evangelical ways principles and worships As thus The Church was figured under the Law by Israels coming out of Egypt and the house of Jacob from the land of Babylon by the free-woman having in her womb a son of promise by one coming out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved In this second state God administers more grace brings forth some better things raiseth up into clearer light into a more excellent refined potent spirit puts upon them a new habit and takes off the old and cloaths them with change of raiment finer faith sweeter spirits clearer rays of light and other qualifications as do agree unto and sente with this their better state Now the Heavens begin to be opened the shadows long stretched upon all the earth do fly away the Kingdom of God begins now to appear on Earth as well as in Heaven the Skyes drop down righteousness the Earth springs forth and buds The spirit says come the Spouse says come and all that hear say come Lord Jesus come quickly Now the Lord reveals deeper secrets deeper counsels nearer embraces imparts things that could not be born before old things are forgotten all things begin to be new the Church is now upon her way to Sion Whilst she dwelt with the Daughter of Babylon that Mother of Whoredoms her strength then was to sit still now she is come forth she sits still no more every step she treads is on towards the heavenly land into more light more faith more glory and this seems to be the present state of the Church in our day and in this generation Wherein I conceive the present estate of Saints is such as answers that holy figure under the Law of the Cluster of Grapes brought out of Canaan into the Camp of Israel and of Moses seeing the Land at some distance from Mount Pisgah so the Saints in this day are at some distance from the Land of the Sabbath yet are come within view of it and so near unto the borders of it as to pluck some Grapes from the Tree of Life and to look into the lengths and bredths of it our Fathers saw the day afar off but we see it nearer they saw heavenly things much in images letter and teachings without we begin to see them by their springing forth within us all their faith knowledge of Mysteries understanding of Scriptures opinions of Light did but represent Christ his righteousness and spirit at a distance as without them yet there was a substance a seed in all which was the blessing the faith knowledge and spirit which God is now putting into Saints presents things more at hand in union and within us yet there are things more excellent then these reserved for the third state of the Church this second state is the state that now is The third is to come Third step or change and it is a state wherein the Lord himself comes into his Temple and consumes quite out of it the Mysterie of Iniquity by the brightness of his appearing in it and gathers together on an heap all humane Inventions curious Arts the wisdom and disputings of this world wheresoever he finds them in Sion or Babel in the Temple of God or Synagogue of Antichrist in the faith and worships of Saints or in the blind Idolatries of the world he burns them all up as hay and stubble and scatters them out of the earth as chaff before the wind and now the faith knowledge and gifts of the two former states do pass away as being proper for Saints in weakness at a distance seeing and knowing love righteousness and spirit afar off and love and union perfecteth finisheth and swalloweth up all Communion of Saints with Christ in gifts and graces is now changed into communion with him in spirit it is so now but will then appear to all though denied of many Ordinances Temples Teachings Governments which all held forth a prospect of Heaven and Glory without us shall now give place when he comes himself into us who is the end of all Law and Gospel-ministrations So what the first state saw afar off through thick veils weak faith carnal rudiments conflicting graces the second sees to be at the dore through purer faith increases of spirit clearer beams from the East opening of prophesies and promises the third shall see feel taste handle and enjoy within them and this is the Kings Daughter coming into the Kings Chamber in garments of wrought gold All things are now in motion the

was cut off and for a little while removed from the living as if God had left him or were not in him which captivity upon his flesh was light and joy to his enemies but darkness of sorrow and fear to his Disciples insomuch that they doubted whether the witness which he bore while he was alive that God was in him whether it was so or no Luke 24.11.21 out of this state he hastned into his third state or time wherein he opened the vision revealed the Mysterie and gave a signal demonstration of the truth of all he had spoken or done and confirmed by spirit what he had affirmed by word he made it clear that God came down in flesh by his going up to God in flesh that all Power and Dominion both in heaven and earth was his by going to his Father sitting down with him in his throne and being seen no more The second Promise or the spirits coming forth and dwelling in the flesh of Saints treads in the very same footsteps with the other The second promise or Christ in Saints and his threefold state and in like manner hath his time of witnessing in Saints his time of being slain or cut off from witnessing in Saints his time of rising again in Saints and finishing his witness by bringing forth in them the glory and beauty of the new Jerusalem which shall put an end to the external Ordinances and Administrations of the Gospel Revel 21.22 in the first state or time the spirit was in Saints yet veiled and covered under the low estate of earthen vessels unlettered and simple fishermen from the High Noble and Prudent ones of this world but known and manifest to a few Churches and Saints of despised Gentiles Joh. 14.20 This first time or state expired upon the falling away from the faith and revealing of the Man of sin 2 Thes 2.3 Out of whose Throne and Kingdom of the bottomless pit came forth that smoke of powers signs and lying wonders as darkned the Day and Light of the Mysterie of Christ in Saints corrupted the pure Doctrine carried faith Christ and the spirit into captivity in spiritual Babylon 2 Thess 2.10 and there exalted it self as the Queen of Nations holding forth her golden cup of fornications to all the Princes and Kings of the earth whereby they were enticed to give their power unto her and do use their scepters and authorities to suppress persecute and slay Christ or the eternal spirit in Saints this time or state now is and is not yet expired and as the Captivity which was upon the flesh of Christ in the grave caused in his Disciples darkness and mourning and fear that God was not in him so the Captivity that now is upon the spirit of Christ in Saints causeth all this darkness and fear in Believers that the spirit himself is not in them The third state or time of the spirit in Saints shall open the vision reveal the Mysterie consume that wicked the Queen of Nations demonstrate to Saints and to all the world that the spirit or Divine nature dwells in Saints by revealing the Divine glory of Christ in them Revel 21.11.23 Isa 60.1 2. when he himself shall be admired in us 2 Thess 1.10 of all the world Rev. 21.24 Isa 60.9 Insomuch that the Nations shall bow to the name and glory of God himself in Saints Isa 60.14 And if any will not serve the Lord in them and them in the Lord they shall perish Isa 60.12 This time or day of the spirit is yet to come and is called the brightness of his coming or day of Christ 2 Thess 2.2.8 which day of Christ I would not have understood to be of the time of the end when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to God the Father 1 Cor. 15.24.28 The day of Christ to come is not the last end of all Dan. 7.14 Revel 1.7 and the Son himself be subject to the Father and God all in all but of the time when the Son of man shall be brought to the ancient of dayes and come forth in the clouds of heaven and shall receive Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages shall serve him which will be when he comes forth out of the womb of the invisible light and love of God and shall receiv as it were a visible inauguration and anointing upon his head and shall come forth into the Kings galleries of the clouds of heaven and the high places over all the earth Zach. 14.9 and all the Saints shall come forth with him Zach. 14.9 1 Cor. 15.23 and shall with him receive from the ancient of dayes judgment and authority and the Kingdom and Dominion and greatness of the Kingdom under the whole heaven Dan. 7.7 8 23 24 25 26. Revel 13.1 5 6 7. Revel 17.12 13 17. shall be given unto the Saints Dan. 7.22.27 And this is the Kingdom that shall consume and destroy the fourth great kingdom or Monarchy of the fourth beast which is Mysterie Babylon and shall redeem the Saints out of spiritual captivity and drive away and scatter all ignorant disputes strife erring spirits different judgings and bitternesses of men which are the smoak in the Temple that the Lord cannot be seen and a thick cloud to this day upon all or most Saints that they cannot read nor understand the Mysterie of God written in their own hearts which is Christ the spirit the Divine nature dwelling in them Thirdly Christs promise to his Disciples of sending the Comforter the spirit to dwell in them as it had an higher and further end and sense then that the spirit should be sent only to fil up the place and supply the absence of Christ gone away to the Father The sending of the Spirit upon Christs withdrawing an higher enjoyment then his presence with them in flesh therefore more then in gifts and graces so it calls for a deeper and further interpretation The coming forth of the spirit into Saints and dwelling in them is promised as a more high rich and perfect enjoyment then the presence of Christ with them in that present state of flesh unglorified which appears in that he said he must withdraw in flesh to make way for his coming in spirit wherein he did not only intend to put away their sorrows for his departure from them but to fill them with joy and desires for his going away because I have said these things doth sorrow fill your heart I tell you though I my self should desire to continue with you I should herein do you wrong for it is expedient and better for you not for me only but for you that I go away then abide with you because if I go the Comforter will come but if I go not away he will not come and so my stay will serve to nothing but to keep off and shut the dore against a more perfect and divine enjoyment as much

1 Cor. 15.28 one Father one God all in all From all which it is clear to him that loves to see the truth not through the mists veils or disguises of subtil chaffy distinctions of science falsly so called of glosses received by tradition of prepossessed principles rudiments or opinions of bitterness passion rash prejudicacy and overhasty censoriousness but as a child wained from all these breasts desires to see the truth in the simplicity purity and undefiledness of it to him it is clear with no other arguments then its own beams of light that the same glory or spirit or Divine nature which is in Christ is also in Saints he being not heir alone but they fellow-heirs with him SECT IX A Further testimony to the truth of this Mysterie is gathered from Ephes 4.11 12 13. Eighth testimony to the spirit in Saints And he gave some Apostles c. for the perfecting of Saints c. till we all come in the unity of the faith c. Col. 1.28 That we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus which perfection is Christ in us v. 27. Revel 21.3 Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them God himself shall be with them First Truth is that Mysterie that is to be made manifest that of God that is to be revealed Col. 2.2 3. the deep things of God that are to be brought to light In-dwelling of God himself in man is the end of all truth and administrations of truth called also the Mysterie hid in God the Mysterie of God and of the Father and of Christ treasures of wisdom and knowledge the end and perfection of which truth and of all light science knowledge administrations spiritual gifts and powers is the revealing and in-dwelling of God himself in them Secondly the way and maner how this truth is brought forth into the world is through various wayes of administration through doctrine divine worship revelation letter and spiritual gifts all which serve to administer truth and things in heaven to men on earth and as truth is brought forth at sundry times in diverse manners in different degrees of light and is sometimes more dark shadowed and legal after more clear naked and Evangelical so is the administration varied and changed from one degree of light to another Thirdly the spirit bringing forth truth through the administration gives unto men light and knowledge The end of spiritual gifts spiritual gifts and powers otherwise called illuminating and sanctifying graces which are given to this end that through them men may become changed sanctified and made capable to know believe glorifie and own that light and truth which is brought forth under that particular administration and as the administration carries in it more or less light grace and holiness so is the illumination and sanctification of Saints under that administration differing in the measure of light grace and holiness Measuring line of all administrations without and gifts within what it is Fourthly administrations do differ from and exceed one another in glory as they carry in them more or less of that highest end whereunto they do subserve and administer which is the compleating of Saints to one living holy Temple for the Lord and God himself dwelling in them in like manner the Saints do exceed one another in light love and holiness as their union and communion in and with God and God in and with them is in some more then others more compleat and perfected the Ministery of the Prophets had more glory then that of Moses the Ministery of John more then the Prophets he that is least in the kingdom of heaven more then all one excelled another as they had in them the nearer approachings and clearer dawnings of the Day and Sun of righteousness upon the world The end of all administrations and gifts Fifthly so that the end of all administrations without us and all spiritual gifts within us is to bring the Lamb and the Bride together the spirit and the Spouse into one to perfect and finish up the Mysterie which is already in Saints yet hid Ioh. 14.20 which is Christ in the Father Saints in Christ and Christ in Saints the present time is a time wherein Christ is gone to the Father hid in God as it were at a distance from Saints and therefore a time of darkness and of the shadows of the Night 2 Pet. 1.19 stretched upon the world administrations and letter without and gifts of grace within are as lesser lights or stars shining in this dark Night or world until the Lord himself come into Saints and swallow them up as an imperfect lesser and weaker glory is swallowed up of a greater and more perfect or the Morning-star of the Sun so that faith hope knowledge prophesies c. can no more abide when that which is perfect is come then the stars can abide in the clearest day 1 Cor. 13.8 9 10. These things thus considered do contribute their illustration to the further clearing of this Truth that the spirits in-dwelling in Saints which is now in them and shall abide in them for ever is somewhat higher then gifts and graces for these must be done away and if something higher it can be no less then the spirit and God himself dwelling in them SECT X. THE spirits in-being in Saints is further manifestly held forth in 2 Cor. 13.5 Know you not your own selves The ninth testimony to the spirit in Saints how that Iesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates Rom. 8.9 Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his First no Creature no good God makes not happiness sin makes not misery unless within us no not the highest good it self which is God doth make man or his soul endued with virtue good or blessed so long as it is without the soul in like manner no sin nor unbelief nor spot defiles a man or makes him reprobate or miserable except it be within him if there be no light in the eye the body is darkness though the light shine round about the enjoyment of a thing is perfected in oneness with the thing God is Light Love and Blessedness yet as he is withomt me or separate from me so I neither see his Light tast his Love nor am blessed with his blessedness but as he is within me and is known loved felt and perceived by me darkness within makes darkness without the whole earth is full of his glory yet most men see not this glory in the earth without because they see not his glory within them the glory of nature men can behold because they have the eye of Nature Eccl. 3.11 or the light of Reason planted in them but the glory of God in nature they cannot see because they have not the light of God the spirit dwelling in them Secondly Gospel-truths as they are Doctrines preached by the voyce