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Show S6o J694- ~ The Rife an.a Progrefs Vdt 1. ft d lo 1g. Fot Man the Crown and Glory But this Happy State la e no;, ·r~ a.bove his Place, unhappily y.i.eldcd of the whole, betng temrfted to a J;11 as lntereft and Felicity, and io felt agaiaft Comm1nd an~ . utl' ase the Wifdom, Power :wd Purity he W:Js below it; loft th~ Dt~:?: ma~dnger fir for Paradife, he w:~.s expelled thn made in. By wht_ch, tng 11~ellin and. Refidence; and was driven out, as Garden of God, hifS prop~r ~refcnc~ of the Lord, to wander in the Earth, a poor Vagabond, rom t e . the Habitation of Bea:~· had Pity on him\ for he feeing ~an .was.deceiv4 Yet God that made tm M rce or an Original Pnfumptton m hub, but ed, and that it l'V~S not tfhe S~rp~nt (who bad fit it fallen from his own through the Subtdry ~ ~ f the WomJn Man's own NJture Jnd Com· State, and by the Mg:tauonh 0 d firlt deluded) in his infinite Goodnefs and pan ion, whom the rpent are air the Breach, Recover the LoiS, and Re~ Wifdom found out ~ ~ay t~. C1cr and more Excellent Adam, promifed to ftore fallen Man agam ~a 0 by Means of 3 Woman the Evil One had be born of a Woman; t at as man alfo He fhould come imo the World, prevailed upon ~an, a~ylta ~~and bruije his He4d, and deli,•er MJn from who would prevlth~~ 11~ fi al Manner by the Difpenfation of the .Son his Pow~r ~ And w IC.' 1~ a f~lnefs of Ti~e, v.ras..PCrfonally and Fully ac~ of G~ m the F~efh, 10 ~ e . as Man's g1 vi our and Red:emer. . comphfhecl by htm, and 1r. ht!ll•d i the Manifeihtion of tt, to that Ttme; But his Power wafi not 1 ~mble fi~d 'Manifeftation in the Fleili, he h:ls been for both before ~nd mce liS ed S , t!J of all th:tt ever feared God; Was the Light and Life,_th~ ~oc~ an t;~~n~ followed them in their Travels and prefent with them m t etr emp . d them throu hand over the DifficulAffiit'tions, and fupponed ~nd c~m~ . Earthly Pi,grimage By this .Abtfs ties that have ar.re,nded t em mb t _ei;d the Preheminence,· and Enoch walk~ Heart excelled Cams, an~ S~b it tam with the Old \Vorld, and which they ed with Go~. It was t~ts t at .rove and inftrutled NoJ!J to Sllvation. 1ebel1ed ag,nft, a~\)'R"\tar!'~~~t fol1owed the benighted State of Man, But the outwar . I pen at th P,arin'rchr was generally that of Ar.· 3fter his Fall, e~pec1ally fm~n~ldeTeftament do in many Places exprefs, as gelr; as the Scnptures o t e was that of the Law by .lllofts, whict. to .Abraham,_ Jacob, &c. The nex~e A ofile tells us. This Difpenfation Was alfo dehvere~ by 1"f,~/s,d 3: 0 ~ lowp and fervile ~at~; called therefore was much omwar ' an utfe S -,;, bi-Majler wiich ·wn to point om and by the Apoftle Pail, thtt k and l:ng for th; .lltrj]iab, who would .deliver prepare that Peop e. tod oo f ~Ceremonious and imperfetl: Difpenfauon, by .. them _from the Se{v~tu ef o h fe Myfterious Reprefentations in themfelves, know_mg ~he Rea mes ~asrw~itten on Stone, the Temple built with H:~~ds, In thts Tm~e the Law d P. . :fl. I d and Extcnwl Rites :md Ceremontcs, attended wtth an ourwar rae T)~ h , . to come Jnd were only to that were Sbttdows of the Go~ bmg~~c:ft:O~~nd gene~al Manifeftation of ferve till the- Seed came,horp e O:fire d to all Men only in him, in wb.om Chrift, to whom was t e rfet fe~~n Death Inmortality and Herndl J:Jift. i~ .Thil:~~ap;o:~~:;·fo~~~~hw~ an; f0th!0Ji~:~c~/gJ;:;;~~K~~: ~';~~;~~; ramty of 1t; wh1ch W:lS t e 0P 0 f .lll!fi l ~ bn' w:Js fi· ended in Jobn's Miniftry' the Fore runner o the . e 'h 1, as fi o d s Times nifhed in him, the Fulnefs of all. And then God, t ~rat on ryrhe Pro~ and in ~iv~k~ ~~M~~ ~;d J~0;0e; ~~$]cj~~~e{Vb~~~ hHe?/~?~~l _TJ~i)tg~; ei~:·th~ Gofpel·Day, which is the Difpenfation of Songu~; ~~mg~f~~~ thereby 3 nearer Teftament Jnd a betrer Ho~e \ even the ~mru g the Glory of rhe latter pays, and of the Reihtution of all Thtngs; yea, Re/loration of tbe Ktngdom unto Ifrael. . . d . {! mer Dif· Now the Spirit that was more fpanngly commumca~e tn or P bet peAfations, began to be Po~red fonb upon ali F!e.P>, acc?r~m~etf~;;e th~o~lOft Joel, and the Light th(lt fln'!ed m Difarkj/f/..~ ~i, butd dtt~ bay·(lJ; bcgln ro · gracious God caufed to Slnnt oJJt 0 41 ne;s, an arife VoL. i. OJ the 'People call'd Quakers. ~rife in ,the Hearts of Believers, giving unto them the Knowledge of God I6g4. In the Face (or Appemnce) of his Son ChriflJefus. ~ow the Po~r in Spirit, the .1Huk, the true Jl1ournrrs~ the H1111{fr)' and ~ Tbtr~j :1frer Rtghteoufnif.r, the Peac~·ma~t:r.r, the Pnre in JJearr, the Afer· 86t ci[11/ and Pcrfecuted, came more efpecully 1n Remembwnce before the Lord, a~d were fo~ghr our and blelfed by lfratl's True Shepherd, Old ]eru{ulcm wHh her Children grew our of Date, and the New JerNfa/em into Requdt the Mother of the Sons of the Gofpel~D::ty. Wherefore no more at otJ ]erufu!em, norar the .h!ozottai(lo{Satn~ria, will God be Worfhipped above ot~e.r Places; for, be~ old, bets, by h1s own Son, declared and preached a ~pun, :1nd \hat he _will be kn6wn :JS fuch, and worfhipped in the Spirit ~nd 1~ the Tr.uth. He Will now com: nearer th::tn of old Ttme, t1!1d be wt/1 wriu 1m I:aw m tbe Heart, nnd put hts l'enr and Spirit in the inUJnrd P.zrtr :JC .. cor~ mg t? his promif~. Then ?igns,_Types and ShaJoros ffew awJy, rhe'DJy havtng d1fco\'ered the1r lnfuffic1ency tn nor reaching ro the infide of tbe Cup, to the deanji,g of the ConfCtence; and all Element:Jry Services were expirer,t in and by him !hat is tbe Sublbnce of all. . And to this Great a.nd Ble!fed End of the Difpenfation of the Son of God, d1d the Apoftles Tefhfie, whom he had chofen and anointed by his Spirit, to turn the ],tos from their Prejudice and Superftition, and rhe GentilcR from their Vanity and Idolatry, t(l Chrift's Ughr and Spirit that l'hined i!'t them ; that they might be quickned from the Sins and TrcfpJffes in which they were dead, to ferve the Lh•ing God, in the ~(wneft of the Spirit of Life, :J.Dd walk as Childrerrof the Light, and of the D:~y, even the Day of Holintfs: .for fuch p11~ on Cbrif!, the Light of the World, a11d mttke n(J mo~e. frovijion for the Flejh, to [11/fi~ rbe Lujls thtreof So th:It the Light, Spmt, ~n~ Grace, that come ~Y. Chnft, and :1ppe:~r in Man, were that D.vme~~ rtncrple, the Apollles m10dhe~ from, :Jnd turned People's ~in~s unto, and tn wh1ch they gathered and bu1lt up the Churches of Chnlt m their Day. For which caufe they advifc them not to '}Uench the Spirit, but to Wait for the Spirit, and Spt(/k. by the Spirit, an,l Prny by tbe Spirit, and tllalk in the Spirit roo, :ts that which approved them, the truly begotten Chit. dren of God' Born not of F!efo and Blood, or of the WiD of i l1flN, bJJt of the HTin of God; by doing His \Viii, and denying rheir own; by drinkina of Chri}l's Cup, and being b:~ptized with His Bnptifm of Self·denial ; the Way and Path that a11 the Heirs of Life have ever trod to Blcffednefs. Bur alas I even in the Apoftles Days,. thofe bright Stars of the firft Magni· tude of rhe Gofpel Light, feme Clouds, foretelling an Eclipfe of this Pri· miti\1e Glory, began to appear, and feveral of them g:~ve early Caurion of h to the Chriftiafts of their Time, that even then there was, and yet would be more and more, a falling away from the Power of Godlinefs, and the Purity of that Spirim:tl Difpenfation, by fuch as fought to make a fair' jhew in the Flejh, but with whom the Offence of the Crofs ce:~fed. Yet with this comforrable Conclufion, th:lt they faw beyond it a more glorious Time than ever ro the true Church. Their fight wJs true, and what they foretold to rhe Churches, g:~thered by them in the Name and Power of Je· · fus, catne to pafs: For Chriftians degenerated ap:1ce into outfides, as D9r and Me.tts, and divers other Ceremonies. And which was worfe, they fell into Strife and Contention about them; Separathrg one from :mother, then Envying, and, as they had Pc;>wer, PerfecHting one another to the thamrt and fcaQdal of their common Chriftianity, and grievous fi:umbling and Of· fence of the Heathen ; among whom the Lord had fo long and fo marvelloufly preferved them. And having got at taft the Worldly Power into their Hands, by Kings and Emperors embrJcing the ChriO:ian Profeffion, they changed, what they could, the Kingdom of Chrift, Which is not of thi$ World into a Worldly Kingdom; or at leaft !tiled the Worldly Kingdom that ;as in their Hands the Kingdom of Chri_/1, aq~ fo they ~eC:Hf!e World! J, and not true Chriftians. Then Humane Inventrons and Ji.oveluu, both in DoUrine and WorfhiQ, crouded faft into the Church; a Door opened thereunto by the Groffnefs and C1rnJJity that appeared then among the ' Gene~ |