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A65177	A pilgrimage into the land of promise, by the light of the vision of Jacobs ladder and faith, or, A serious search and prospect into life eternal pointing out the way and discovering the passage out of mans mutable state of life, into a state of immutable righteousness and glory, through the knowledg of Christ in spirit / written in the year 1662 by Henry Vane ...	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.	1664 (1664)	Wing V73; ESTC R32917	127,958	114

Ierusalem Esai 2. And I will assemble her that halts and will gather her that I have driven out and her that I have afflicted and will make of the one a remnant and of the other a strong nation and the Lord shall reigne over them in mount Zion from thenceforth even for ever And nation shall not life up a sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more For all people will walk in the name of their God and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever For a small moment I have forsaken thee and hid my face from thee but with great mercies and everlasting kindnesses will I gather thee For thy maker is thy husband the Lord of hoasts is his name and thy Redeemer the holy one of Israel the God of the whole earth shal he be called Behold they shall surely gather together but not by me Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake For all thy children shal be taught of the Lord and great shal be the peace of them In righteousnes shall they be established They shal be far from oppression feare or terrour No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise up in judgement against thee thou shalt condemne This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousnes is of me saith the Lord. This is Israel my servant Jacob whom I have chosen and the seed of Abraham my freind These and many more like precious promises we meet with in the Scripturs concerning a most prosperous and glorious state that shall visibly come upon Gods people even in this world according to the assurance thereof given unto Abraham that he in his seed should be heir of the world All these promises are reducible only to the state of those times that shall certainly be brought upon the stage of this world when the Kingdom and second appearance of the great God and our saviour Jesus Christ shall shine forth in its brightnes upon earth This is that which is not only promised so very often and testified by all the Prophets but was much spoken of and beleeved amongst the Jews before Christs comming in the flesh It was universally receaved also in the first age after Christ and all were accounted hereticks and deniers of the resurrection that did not acknowledg it And in that great Council of Nice called by Constantine the great it was asserted in an article of their Ecclesiasticall doctrine to this effect That by foreknowledg God did not make the world in that height of perfection at first which he intended to bring it unto in the end because he foresaw man would sin Therefore say they we expect new heavens and a new earth according to the scriptures And then as Daniel sayes the saincts of the most high shall take the Kingdom and there shal be a pure and holy world a Land of the living and not of the dead This David by the eye of faith foresaw when he sayd I shall se the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the living the land of the humble and meeke Blessed are the meeke for they shall inherit the earth and be clothed beautified and adorned with salvation So Esay 26. The foot shall tread downe the lofty city even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy This great truth was thus witnessed unto then and afterwards also till the adversaries knew no other way to avoyd it but by denying the book of the Revelation to be scripture In the beginning also of the reformation in England in a catechisme set forth in Edward the sixths time and by him authorized the last year of his reigne that part of the Lords prayer Thy Kingdom come is thus commented upon Hitherto we se not all things put under the feet of Christ we do not yet se that stone cut out of the mountaine without any work or endeavours of man that is to breake and dissipate into nothing the great image described by Daniel that the little stone which is Christ may possesse and obtein the empire of the whole world according to the graunt of the father Antichrist is not yet destroyed whence it is that we are to desire and pray that in Gods due time it may be done and that Christ alone way reigne with his Saints according to his divine promises that he may live and reigne on the earth according to the laws of the holy Scriptures and not according to the traditions and lawes of men and the tyrannicall will of this world So have we it in that Catechisme Another passage there is relating to this subject in the same book upon the article of the last judgment distinguishing between the end of the world and the last generall judgment saying that the holy Scriptures call the end of the world the time of consummation the full filling of the Kingdom and mysteries of Christ in the restitutiō of all things It seemes bu agreable to reasō that the dayes should come wherein the corruption chang and sin to which the whole world hath bin heitherto subjected should cease This shall be done by fire as gold is refined by which it shal be brought to its last and highest perfection And this man the lesser world shall much more experience in being freed from the bondage of corruption and brought into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God For mans sake therefore the visible frame of heaven and earth shal be renewed with a much more pleasant and beautifull face or for me then it had before But secondly as to the last and generall judgment the answer is Christ shall come at whose voice the dead shall arise and be made perfect in soule and body And he shall sit on the throne of his majesty seen by the whole world and pronounce the finall sentence upon the testimony of every ones conscience out of his owne mouth Then the Sons of God shall compleatly possesse that Kingdom of immortality and eternall life which was prepared for them before the foundation of the world and shall reigne with Christ unto all eternity But the wicked which do not beleeve shal be cast into eternall fire appointed for the devil and his angels This distinction between the dayes of the end of the world and the work proper to them called the last dayes and the great day of eternity or the last judgment is well explained and cleered by Mr. Mede who gives the account before mentioned in these things In a word he declares his judgment to be that the seventh trumpet or thousand years reigne of Christ on earth conteined therein is that great day of the Lord the day of his Judgment so much celebrated among the Jews in their writings and from them taken up by our Saviour and his Apostles not a day of a few houres as some suppose but a continued interval of many years wherein Christ

assuredly be found to be the beginning of the preaching of the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ that is to say of the Gospel preached by that trumpet that gives the certain second and makes manifest the Sons of God in an immutable everlasting state of righteousnes and glory here upon earth in a Kingdom that cannot be shaken which is to succeed all other Kingdoms shewing itself to be the stone cut out of the mountains that will fill the whole earth This everlasting Gospel we are told Revel 14.6 7. is to be preached by an angel flying in the midst of heaven that must with a loud voice say unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation kindred tongue and people fear God and give glory to him for the houre of his judgment is come This is the houre or the day of that great judgment wherein God will judg the world by that man which he hath ordeined Jesus Christ This houre and day is to have continuance in the course of its execution on the earth for the space of a thousand years During this time the Kingdoms of this world shal become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ as holding of him their universall head and exercising all their authority under him Revel 11.15 So then in effect Christ alone shall reigne and be exalted in that day one Lord and his name one over all the earth This day is to begin as hath bin said with the second comming of Eliah and is described in the Scriptures of truth as to the severall particulars thereof The seventh angel sounds by reason whereof it comes to passe that there are great voices to be heard in heaven appointed by Christ as he is the bright morning star and head of all Principalities and powers the true Michael and Archangel to seize upon all scepters and governments of this world to take the Rule and visible power out of the hands of all the Potentates of the earth and reassume it in such a wonderfull manner into the hands of the holy and elect angels who under Christ are appointed the highest and cheif Rulers of the visible world that by the astonishing dispensations of Gods providence in that season it will appear and be acknowledged that Christ hath begun and entered upon the taking to himself his great power in order to exercise his visible Rule as the great only and universall King over all the earth This he will do to the intent that the living may know that the most high ruleth in the Kingdom of men giving it to whomsoever he will Yea it shal be acknowledged and seen that under the most high the heavens do rule Dan. 4.26 All matters shall at that time be carried on in the earth visibly by the decree of the watchers v. 17. the supream counsell and senate of judicature wherein the holy angels shall sit and exercise jurisdiction under Christ for the good of his church on earth They are ministring spirits in this very respect sent forth and authorized for this employment even to minister for them who shal be heirs of salvation as it is written all things are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is Gods In that day saith Christ for brasse I will bring gold and for yron I will bring silver for wood brasse and for stones yron so glorious will then the restoration of al things be and I will also make thine officers peace and thine exactours righteousnes Violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting not destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls of defence salvation and thy gates of justice prayse Then the haughtines of man shal be layd low and his lofty lookes brought downe and the worshippers of idols shall goe into the holes of the rocks and caves of the earth for fear of the Lord and of the glory of his majesty when he shall thus arise most terribly to shake the earth Esay 2. The same thing is promised Haggai 2 6 7. Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth the sea and the dry land And I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come that is to say after the terrible forerunning dispensation ministred by Eliah that went up to heaven in a fiery chariot to take his seat amongst this heavenly colledge of angels and be in that glory with other the spirits of just men made perfect shall the desire of all nations Christ himself come to perfect and consummate what is left wanting in the operation of the former ministry and fill his owne house with glory in the sight of the whole world during the space of a thousand years 2. But 2dly although at the sounding of the seventh trumpet it do come to passe that there be great voices in heaven what is that to the inhabitants that are on earth those that are at home in the body absent from the Lord whose spirits are fast asleep in the earth to wit in the organicall life and exercise of bodily senses Will not they be out of the hearing of the sound of these heavenly voices At least will they be able to understand their meaning unlesse what is uttered by the angelicall tongues be in words easy to be understood by the spirit of their minds who live and dwell in mortall clay and that an easy understanding thereof also be communicable to the sensuall part of the soule which is as the door to take in and give out againe what shal be heard by the sound of such a heavenly Trumpet By what is recorded for our instruction we may be assured this is not impossible nor unpracticable It hapned thus to the Apostle John before his change by death even whilst he was a prisoner and a banished man in the I le of Patmos for the Word of God and testimony of Jesus Christ He looked and behold a door was opened in heaven By the opening of that door he came to be made able to hear the voices in heaven the first and second voice of the angel Revel 4.1 10 8. as it were of a trumpet talking with him which sayd come up hither and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter By the power of that voice calling him he was immediatly in the spirit that is as Paul absent from the body He had such an awakening of his inward senses wrought in him such an opening and making of them meet to heare and receave what by the tongue of the angel was to be delivered that he was in the spirit or in the exercise of the same kind of life and manner of conversing with spirits that they are in one with another or that the spirits of just men made perfect do use with the holy angels when in the state of soules seperate from the body made equall to angels and children of the resurrection in the first degree or step of it which is called Revel 20

law and Gospel still or rather the two Testaments that are in force with mankind by the death of the Testatour the Lord Jesus Christ By the first of these man is renewed and restored out of the fall and brought in some degree to the fruition and exercise of his first righteousnes and freedome of will in order to the making proof and triall of him once more And by the second of them he is regenerated and begotten of the immortall seed into an immutability in righteousnes and glory in a life that is from the dead uncapable ever to be lost or faile more These two Testimonies and Testaments of God are visible words inward spirituall words and lively oracles that create their owne suitable organs and vessells in the minds of men for their reception And there is an inward sight of them to be had by man as well as an outward hearing to which purpose it is sayd 1 Joh. 1.1 That which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life that declare we unto you That which John saw heard and handled was from the beginning and was seen heard and handled from the foundation of the world at sundry times and in divers manners under former dispensations till at last the dark shadows of him vanished and the true light itself began to shine and dawne in his owne personal appearance first in the flesh and then afterwards in the Spirit There are therefore inward and spirituall senses whereby the man of God sees heares tasts savours and handles the word of God Such senses there must be because there is an inward as well as an outward man of the heart which must not want his due powers and faculties any more then the other For since the words themselvs are divine even words of spirit and life how can they be otherwise perceaved then by senses suited to their nature spirituall senses distinguished from those of the animalish outward man of the soule which is not at all skilled in that manner of knowing and discerning From the exercise of spirituall life and the senses thereof proceeds the spirituall tast savour and approbation of those divine words that are the significations of Gods will and law to us Unto such experienced men skilled in the words of truth we may appeale as to the true and full significancy of divine oracles which the disputer of this world in the perverse and presumptuous use of his naturall senses and understanding contradicts and blasphemes doe you not see this truth doe you not handle with your hands this Word of life do you not tast that the Lord is gracious This is the much more excellent way of understanding the Scriptures when after such a spirituall manner we relish handle se tast and have a share in what we know of the word of God as the Apostle prayes Phil. 1.9 For this I pray sayes he that your love may abound in knowledge and in all judgment or in every spirituall sense He that was from the beginning is Christ the living WORD of God the WORD wherein was life and that life the light of men even of every man that comes into the world He is the light of men in and under a threefold dispensation or manner of ministry He is the word of God God to men that makes with them either a conditionall and dissoluble Covenant or an absolute and everlasting Covenant that can never be dissolved The first of these is the word of the beginning by which God begins to make himself knowne and declare his will in his law to all men that law by which they must one day be judged The second is the word of the oath conteining a free promise to some and a gracious receaving of them into his love therein to abide for ever but a finall and judiciall rejection of others concerning whom he therein swears that they shall never enter into his Rest but be given up to the wayes that they have chosen and fixed in their owne delusions in the everlasting chains whereof he binds them up and reservs them with the fallen angels to the judgment of the great day This is that which is the end and consummation-work both wayes to all that have passed under the first Testament or conditionall Covenant Christ considered as he is the word of the beginning the author and minister of the conditional Covenant and of the life and quickning proper thereunto hath a comming forth in light and life unto men which is called his first appearance which he dispenses in the capacity of the promised seed pursuant to the manifestation of Gods will unto man in paradise immediatly after his fall He is therein declared the saviour and redeemer of man he by whom alone is remission of sins and all those that beleeve not on him shall perish in their sins For as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wildernes so hath the father provided that the WORD made flesh be lifted up in the sight of all men and preached to them that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life And God would have men know that he so loved the world as that he gave his only begotten Son to take and beare away their sins and lead them into the way of salvation in stead of condemning them upon the fall of our first parents as he might justly have done He then that beleevs in the Son of God is not or shall not be condemned But he that beleeveth not that is receavs not his word in the love thereof is condemned already because he hath not beleeved in the name of the only begotten Son of God The justice of such condemnation will shew itself in this that when this light is come into the world men have chosen and loved darknes better then light yea to discover the evill of their mind they hate the light and as neer as they can shun all appearance of it least they should be reproved thereby and convinced of their evill deeds and be converted and God should heale them But how is Christ the saviour and redeemer lifted up before the eyes of all men and how comes he with light into the world or into the mind of the naturall man who receavs not the things of the spirit of God but accounts them foolishnes Yea he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned and are therefore too deep for him to fathom too high and heavenly for him to reach being destitute of spirituall senses and discerning suitable thereunto By way of answer to this we must be carefull rightly to distinguish and divide the word of truth which as hath bin said hath a first voyce and the light of its first appearance as also a second voice and the brightnes of a second comming It is by means of the first voice and the light and life ministred in