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A86947	The mystery of Christ in us, with the mystery of the Father, Word, and holy Ghost or Spirit, opened also, the parable of the rich man's flocks and herds, and the poor man's ewe-lamb, explicated. Likewise, the way that Christ takes to undo a man, and take away his life. Together with a discovery of the neerness of Christs coming, and of those glorious things which are to be fulfilled in these later days. Set forth and published by Ed. Hide jun.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3866; Thomason E1372_4; ESTC R209351	80,214	204

and thy God thy glory the Lord himself shall be unto us an everlasting light thy sun shall no more go down neither shall thy moon withdraw it self for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light and the days of thy mourning shall be ended See Revel. 21. 23. And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof In the evening-time when we little expect light this everlasting glorious light shall break forth The Prophet further goes on to discover what shall be in that day And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem Jerusalem here is to be taken for the City of God his Saints The living waters here are waters that have life in them which are the abundance of the Spirit see Joh. 7. 38. He that believeth in me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water These shall flow out of the Saints see Ezek. 47. from the first verse to the seventeenth Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward for the forefront of the house stood towards the cast and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house at the south side of the altar Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward and behold there ran out waters on the right side And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward he measured a thousand cubits and he brought me thorow the waters the waters were to the ancles Again he measured a thousand and brought me thorow the waters the waters were to the knees Again he measured a thousand and brought me thorow the waters the waters were to the loins Afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that I could not pass over for the waters were risen waters to swim in And he said anto me Son of man hast thou seen this Then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river Now when I had returned behold at the brink of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other Then said he unto me These waters issue out toward the east country and go down into the desart and go into the sea which being brought forth into the sea the waters shall be healed And it shall come to pass that every thing that moveth that liveth which moveth whithersoever the river shall come shall live and there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come thither for they shall be healed and every thing shall live whither the river cometh And it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim they shall be a place to spread forth nets their fish shall be according to their kindes as the fish of the great sea exceeding many But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed they shall be given to salt And by the river upon the bank thereof on this side and on that side shall grow all trees for meat whose leaf shall not fade neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary and the fruit thereof shall be for meat and the leaf thereof for medicine So that you see what these waters are they are such as are not passable healing waters waters of life See Joel 3. 18. And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord and shall water the valley of Shittim The Mountains here are the Saints for they are so called in Scripture The New Wine which they shall drop down is new discoveries of the Spirit The Hills are the Saints likewise caught up into high enjoyments of God Their flowing with Milk is nothing but the Spirit breaking forth in an abundant manner in them in another consideration The meaning of that saying A fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord is this There shall be such a fountain of living waters that is of the Spirit flow forth from the Saints as shall not be dry See Revel. 22. 1. And he shewed me a pure river of water of life clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb Which speaks the same thing onely it holds forth the pureness of those waters In the midst of the streets of it and of either side of the river was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yeelded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations Half of these waters shall go towards the former or Eastern sea and half of them toward the later sea or hinder sea The Eastern Sea here in the letter is the Lake of Sodom and the hinder Sea is the Mediterranean sea But take it in the mystery and the meaning is this By the former Sea are meant those that are forwardest in the ways of Christ by the hinder Sea those that are hindermost in the ways of Christ Or the former Sea and hinder Sea may be taken for the Gentiles The abundance of the sea shall be converted to thee See Isai. 60. 5. It speaks this clearly A general and large pouring forth of the Spirit In summer and in winter shall it be When it is Summer and when it is Wintet with a soul these waters shall never be dried up no not in the hottest time of Summer as your natural Summer-streams are And the LORD shall be King over all the earth He shall alone be acknowledged and worshipped he shall alone reign and rule none but the Lord In that day shall there be one LORD and his Name one That day is to be understood of the day of God's coming and of the appearance of Christ There shall be one Lord Now there are many Lords but then shall there be onely the true God acknowledged There shall be one Lord or The Lord shall be one Now he is twain then he shall be one And his Name shall be one Now Twain then One O what a glorious state will that be when there shall be but One Lord and One Name worshipped Then shall be no other Name professed but onely the Name of the Lord Though all people now profess another God and walk in the name of his God Micah 4. 5. yet they shall then walk in the Name of the true God alone Question What is it to walk in

Canaanite in the land of which thing John speaks of when he speaks of the new Jerusalem-state in Rev. 21. 27. Quest But may some say It will be a long while before what you have said will come to pass Answ. To this I answer It will come to pass in that day and how soon God may come we know not he may come presently and deceive many for ought that we know Secondly I say this that all the promises of Christ are yea and amen in Christ and we are not to look upon prophecies and promises as altogether at a distance and to be fullfilled hereafter but ●●gh and fulfilled in Christ CHAP. VII Some sweet Manifestations of the neerness of Christ's coming and of those glorious things that shall follow after his coming out of Zech. 14. the later end of vers 5. and v. 6 7 8 9. Vers 5. And the Lord my God shall eome and all the saints with thee 6. And it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark 7. But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to pass that in the evening-time it shall be light 8. And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem half of them towards the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea in summer and in winter shall it be 9. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his Name one IN the first Verse of this Chapter the Prophet speaks of the coming of the day of the Lord Behold the day of the Lord cometh saith he Behold as if he saw it and therefore called upon them to see it and tells them that their spoil shall be divided in the midst of them He bids them behold and take notice of the coming of the day of God lest it should come upon them unawares He gives them the reason why he would have them take notice of the coming of the day of God For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battel and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished Here he speaks of the ruine of Jerusalem And half of the city shall go forth into captivity Here he speaks of leading one half of the City into Captivity And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city Here he would save a remnant that should possess and enjoy those glorious things prophesied of in this Chapter Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations or as it is in the margine of some Bibles in the middle or among those nations gathered together against Jerusalem not as an enemy but helper And he shall fight as when he fought in the day of battel for Gideon Judg. 7. 22. God setting every mans sword against his fellow and as at the red-sea causing his enemies to be drowned in the sea and his people to go over dry-foot And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem on the east God would fight upon that mount against Jerusalem Or it may be taken thus By this manner of speech the Prophet sheweth Gods power and care over his people and how he will as it were by miracle save them And the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west and there shall be a very great valley and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south so that there shall be a very great valley insomuch that out of all the parts of the world they shall see Jerusalem which was before hid with this mountain This is to be understood of spiritual Ierusalem the people of God See Isai. 66. 23. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains All you believers shall run unto the people of God to be safe from the destruction of Ierusalem Or it may be taken thus The Prophet speaketh of the hypocrites that could not endure the presence of God but should flee into all places where they might hide themselves among the mountains For the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal that is to the place he separated for his people which the word Azal signifieth Yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Vzziah king of Iudah which fleeing was with fear and trembling And the Lord my God shall come and all the saints with thee Because they did not credit what the Prophet said to them he turneth to God and comforteth himself in that he knew these things should come to pass and saith And the Lord my God shall come and all the saints with thee to perform this The Prophet speaks to the Lord as his God and can claim an interest and propriety in him as his as the Psalmist in many places of the Psalms doth Thou art my God and I will praise thee Oh how sweet a thing it is when a soul can claim an interest in God and can say Thou art my God The Lord my God shall come The Prophet cannot onely claim an interest in the Lord as his God but he can command God He shall come he had power with God as Iacab had over the Angel Friends what an excellent thing it is for a soul to command God to have power with God for any thing to subdue sin repel a temptation conquer the devil A believer hath this priviledge and power he may command the Lord as his God for things to come things concerning his sons or the work of Gods hands and he will be commanded by him See Isai. 45. 11. And there was no day like that before it or after it that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man for the Lord fought for Israel See this in Iosh. 10. 14. And this is the confidence that we have in him or concerning him that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us and if we know that he hear us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petition that we desired of him 1 Joh. 5. 14 15. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son If ye shall ask any thing in my name I will do it Joh. 14. 13 14. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing Verily verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you Joh. 16. 23. The Lord my God shall come There are three sorts of the coming of Christ in Scripture First There was a coming of Christ in flesh Great is the mystery of godliness God

the Name of the Lord Answer It is to walk in the power majesty wisdom knowledge light and life of God If it be thus that the light shall not be clear nor dark neither day nor night in the day and coming of Christ Then think it not strange if it fall out so as surely it will But in the evening it will be light When the night begins to approach and gross darkness to follow then light will break forth even the everlasting light of God himself A strange thing is Friends when a man is in spiritual blindness betwixt darkness and light sometimes he thinks he sees and sometimes he thinks he sees not he cannot tell In the evening it shall be light when a soul least looks for it Who would look for light to break forth in the evening But it is true that it shall therefore wait for it If it be so that living waters shall flow forth from Jerusalem half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea Then this may serve to discover the abundance of the Spirit that shall be poured forth in the later days A fountain of living waters shall flow forth from Jerusalem to water the world with The mountains shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters The Church of Christ shall be so filled with the Spirit as it shall be in them as a Fountain and it shall come flowing sorth from them towards the former sea and later sea This shall be in Summer and in Winter it shall be always it shall constantly flow forth from them towards the world If it be so You that want the Spirit wait for it if you believe out of your belly shall flow rivers of waters a fountain of living waters shall flow forth from you to water the dry and parched ground If it be thus This may soon discover who shall reign in that day The Lord alone shall reign he shall be King then over all the earth then our Lord will be exalted Now men reign and are exalted but he will throw them down and exalt himself And his Name shall be one His Name is not one now there are other names besides his worshipped but God will throw them down and His alone shall be lifted up The POSTSCRIPT THere are three things which moved me to write this Postscript The first was To declare and make known that that which I have written against the Priests was intended onely against those that are base and vile and such as take Tythes and are proud ignorant idle blinde Priests such as are for Gain that feed Themselves and not the Flock that Go before they are Sent that teach for hire and the like The second thing was To take off those things that have been laid to my charge by Some concerning my first Book which are these First They affirm that I say in my Book that I take heaven to be the light and glory of God which is true and that Satan in heaven is Satan in the very light and glory of God which I deny For it is an impossible thing and cannot be Though this I cannot but subscribe to that is to say That he will administer to souls in that state and teach souls to make false applications and misapprehensions of things And besides if they would look diligently into my Book and search narrowly how things are spoken there they would finde that I speak a quite contrary thing for I say that Satan in heaven is Satan in glory and Satan in glory is Satan in an angel of light As in these words And there appeared another wonder in heaven the meaning is not that there appeared really a great Red Dragon in the light and glory of God but the meaning is John being taken up by the Spirit into heaven that is into the light and glory of God he saw the appearance of the great Red Dragon there but not really the Dragon in the very light and glory of God The second thing that they lay to my charge is the Title of my last Book which is A WONDER AND NO WONDER They admire how I can make that which Is a Wonder to be No Wonder This is a poor thing to give an Answer to But I will satissie them so far as to tell them I make A Wonder No Wonder thus It is a Wonder to those that are not acquainted with what Satan in heaven is for they stand and admire at the thing But it is not a Wonder to those that know what Satan in heaven is they do not admire neither do they at all wonder at it because they know it and are well acquainted with it And the reason wherefore John called it A Wonder was Because he knew not what Satan in heaven was he was not acquainted with Satan in an angel of light Consider that place in 2 Cor. 11. 14 And no marvel for Satan himself is changed into an angel of light The rest of the things they lay to my charge are words in my Book which are falsly printed for which the Printer indeed is to be blamed not I. The third thing that moved me to write this Postscript was To answer a poor weak saying of one whom I forbear to name which was this There are many that take upon them to write now a days but I know no warrant for any of them to write seeing there are so many learned able and godly men that do write unless they could write some New Truth that was never heard of before To the first I ask you this Is all Truth in learned godly men Have none but they a warrant to write May not a childe of God that hath no Learning at all be endued with the Spirit and power from on high and so be made as fit as they to preach and write Is not the same Spirit in one as in the other Certainly you have lost your Senses you seem to hold that which many ignorant Priests do that is to say That none are so able to deliver and write Truth as themselves are I am sure that godly learned men will not assume this to themselves but will esteem others above themselves There is that revealed many times to a poor ignorant weak Christian that learned Christians are ignorant of and I have seen that written by a Babe the like whereof I never saw come from learned Professors though they were godly I speak not this to discourage them or to set light by them but to take off partiality and my end in answering the foresaid saying was God knows That those that heard it might not be led aside by it but that they might see the vanity of it and that it proceeded either from Ignorance or Envie To the second I say There is no Truth new that is to be written but that which is written and shall be written is the old Truth It is true in one sence old Truth may be new as in that sence I write to you a new Commandment it was new to them because they had not practised it before but yet it was the old Commandment which was That they should love one another Now he that writes must write old Truth that was heretofore or else he must write a Lye There is nothing new under the sun There are many hidden old Truths which you and others know not though ye and others think ye know them and therefore they may write them and declare them if they be called to it of God And those that think themselves to know most know least yea are very fools nay a man may write those things that you and others haply know to be Truth for though you and others know them to be Truth yet haply others do not so that he writes the things he hath seen felt and handled but for any to write the things of another as he may which he hath not seen nor felt this is not lawful FINIS