r o IITo journyingfor Ifrael, till Heb.g.23. Col. t.26. Joh.7. 6 :á Heb. I 2. 18. 22: a Cor.Yo. Y.StC. pf: 95.11. , &Heb. 3: 17.18.19. (hall finde it apparent ifwe confider it, that the worldhath alwayes been quick-eyed to fee the one, but not at all to dif- cern the other. The world, and efpecially the great pro- feliours of Religion have been quickfghted, to difcern the form, pattern, and fimilitudesofHeavenly things, and there they have been farisfted. But, I fay, tofind, feel, and en- joy, and to live in theHeavenly things thernfelves ; this is that ?viyflery that bath beenhidfrom ages andGenerations;your time that is, the time of thefleji,is always;But My time,that is, the time ofChrift is not always (as to man) though always (as to God)[ fay,the world in allAges could never befound,to be without living upon and in the patterns, forms and fhapes of Heavenly things, according as they fancied ; but to find the fous of men living in, under,and by the power of Hea- venly things thernfelves, that is the Myflery that bath, I fay, been hiddenfrom ages andgencrations,as Paul faith.We all find the Jews in the time ofMofes,they all lived under theLaw in that form;theyall law theoutward forni of the Tabernacle, & had a reverent efteem of that and there relied ? And fo how many are there now who ref} on the outward forms of wa- fhing anddipping? & thefe I take to be theFamilifs,the world fo much hates and talks of, for they are all of this Family and Society;and herein lies fo (far as Ican fee) their Church_ memberfhip which they fo much Idolize. And for all this, how few are there of them that are of the inward affembly of the Saints,that are cone to thegeneral aßembly ofthe Church of thefirft born which arewritten in Heaven ; they are come and are brought but only to the mount that may not¿be touched and that burneth withfire, andunto blacks_eß, and darknefs,and tempeft. How many of them, I fay, are there that are brought toForms, Fellowfhips, andWafflings, which as they areufed, produce nothing but blacknefs, and darknefs,and fire, and Tempeft ? (not into the Unity of thatone Spirit) But Onely tobe baptized with Mofes in the Cloud, and in the Sea; for withmany ofthem, faith the Apoftle, God was not wellpleated, whofeCarkaffes fell in the Wildernefs : And the Text faith, they entrednot intohis Eeft, but were overthrown in the W'ildernefs becaufe ofunbelief. Nowwe lhall finde no age
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