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kingdom_n	call_v	day_n	great_a	2,786	5	3.0282	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

present state held forth to our weakness under earthly similitudes of Kingdom Inheritance Crown of Glory purchased Possession and in like manner we are called Kings and Heirs of the Kingdom prepared of the Father 2. The way wherethrough God would bring up man into this state as to glorifie man in himself was by first glorifying himself in man Ioh. 13.32 that God might glorifie man in Heaven in his own life and spirit and in the things above he would first glorifie himself in Earth in the flesh and death of man and in the things below God would first come down be seen and known and be all in man in this state of things below which is earthly weak and dying before man should come up be seen and known to have all in the state of things above which is Heavenly Divine and Everlasting God would first appear and tread upon and reign in our Land which is nothing but briars and thorns before we must tread upon and reign in his Land which flows with milk and honey the crucifyings wastings weaknesses and nothingness of man were as a cloathing wherewith God covered himself in Christ wherein God was Priest and King that he might cloath us upon with his eternal perfections and transcendent excellencies and in them make us Priests and Kings Man must first become a covering of weakness upon God for a short time that God might become a covering of glory upon man for ever the Eternal spirit came forth cloathed upon with the likeness of sinful flesh an uncomely despised form with death and the grave which were our old Egyptian vile habit that they being found upon him he might rent them all to pieces as a veil which was signified by his Grave-cloaths left behind him in the grave Luk. 24.12 and cloath us upon with the garments of Sion the righteousness of Saints his own Glory All this God brought to pass first in the man Christ who was moved and led to and fro as the Divine Nature acted and guided him Love in God from Eternity but cleared up to the world by Christ who was made as a weaned Child that in all things he suffered the will of God in his flesh Which Will I humbly conceive to be this God had loved mankind with an everlasting love but through sin bondage a condemning Law and death breaking into the world through one man this shut up and concealed these everlasting affections from us insomuch that we hid our selves from God as from one who burned with anger against us therefore that the loving Father might clear up his love unto us to be such a love as could not be changed he comes forth and visits and speaks with us in the Man Christ and in him slayes the Leviathan breaks the serpents head How it was done abolisheth sin death this world and all flesh and rides in triumph over all principalities and powers and enemies of mans glory and in him burns up with the fire of his love to man all partitions veils Law of commandments sin and whatsoever might seem to separate him and us asunder and after all takes us up into the chariot of his spirit and carries us away into his infinite Mansions of eternal Love and all this he did in the Man Christ in our sight Further bidding us that whatsoever we have seen him do in and upon Christ that we reckon it all done for us and in us and telling us that though he hath done all this in the person of Christ yet it is not for Christ but for man and that what we see or behold in Christ whether dyings in the flesh or glory in the Father that we bring all into our selves and possess in our selves the same dyings in the flesh that he did and the same glory of the Father that he does possess for as he came down not for himself but for us so he ascended and sat down in the Fathers bosom not for himself alone but for us so that whosoever would know what is laid up for Saints yea what is in Saints already though to most of them yet unknown let them look within the veil that is the flesh of Christ what he hath what is in him for all that spirit love and glory which is now in and upon Christ manifest revealed and enjoyed the same is already in Saints yet invisible and hid up in their faith and union and in this respect is Christ called the Head and Conduct of our salvation and our forerunner into the heavenly places and in like manner Saints are called heirs and fellow-heirs with Christ in the same kingdom and glory Thirdly Saints being fellow-heirs with Christ of God that is of the same Divine nature as he came to the inheritance after the same manner shall they come to it the steps he did tread Divine Nature as in Christ first veiled then manifest so is it in Saints they shall go in the same the Divine nature did not withdraw but as it were retired it self as to the perfect enjoyment of it from Christ until he had passed through the death of his flesh then the glory of the Divine nature with which he was glorified before the world was did break forth in him it was alwayes in him and now and then sent out some sharp glances through him for the convincing of the world and he alwayes enjoyed it in such an enjoyment as enabled him to fulfil the will of his Father on earth but the clearer and higher breakings forth of it in him was not until the dyings of his flesh were ended so it is and so shall it be in Saints they are heirs with Christ of the Divine nature wherewith they shall be glorified together with him and they are already Partakers of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1.4 and are filled with all the fulness of God Eph. 3.19 but it is as it were retired and much under concealment from Saints until they have fulfilled the sufferings which are behind in their flesh and if now and then some unspeakable light and ravishing vision spring forth in a Saint yet it is but as in a glance or God passing by and tarrying not but the openings of this book and the manifestation of this inheritance whereof we are heirs with Christ that is of the spirit the Divine nature in us this is reserved for a while in the Fathers power until the revealing of the sons of God which will be Manifestation of the sons of God is the Divine Nature revealed in us when the Divine nature which is now in Christ openly in Saints covertly shall flow forth and be revealed in us then Saints shall be manifest to be what now indeed they are but in faith only not in manifestation truly and verily the sons of God that is when they shall appear with him in the same glory of the Divine nature and the glory of Christ the Son shall be the glory of all the sons