The Hidden Sorcerer, difcovered. I 25 look uponmy flefhlyprefence, I cannot fend the comforter;' But that mutt go away; re menofGalilee, why f andyegazing up. intoHeaven ? Why doyegaze upon hisExternal appea- ring ? Sayes theApoftle, Henceforth know we no man after thefle/h ; no though we bad known Chilli after the flefb, yet henceforthknowwe him no more. This fame Jefus which is taken upfrom you intoHeaven, (hall fo come in like manner as ye havefeen him go into Heaven : that is, whatever has been doneby him to your fight, (hall be done in a Heavenly and Spiritual manner ; after that fame mariner (hall all thofe things be done over again, ofwhich all thole things were but the fymbole, the pattern, and the refemblance of the a&ions of Chrift in the foul for ever. You know it is all along propheficd of the Mefiiah what a great and mighty King he íhould be, and that theGovernment uld be uponhisfhoulders, and that he fhould ruleover all bis enemies witha rod ofIron,and the like:That none of all theop- preffing Conquerors, and Nimrods of the Earth (hould be able toRand in the day of his power : Now we know thefe things werenotfulfilled in the days ofhis fle(h,ncither are all- the ftrong and mighty Nimrods defiroyed to. this day, but cruelty and oppreflion, and the Monarchyes of the Worldare in their full power Rill ; Therefore theremuff needs be a fur- ther meaning. Certainly, therefore theyare the Mighty Nimrods in the fpirits of men, which are tobe brought dawn, thole high thoughts and ftrong holds, and towering Imaginations, that lift up men in their own thoughts, that fay, I am, and there is none bell' des ; as Babylon, /fit a queen and lb-all fee nofor- row : I have the onely true worfhip, and loe Chrift is in sny way, and in my form, and in my rules ; and I of all other Churches conic neereft the rule ; when Chrift faith plainly, go not after them; for ifit were poflible, they Mall deceive the very Ele& : if theyfay he is in thefireet, or in the wtlderneffe, if they fay he it in the fecret chamber, believe them not :for the IllingdontofGodcometh not with obfervation : There is nothing to beknown of Jefus Chrift n the Spirit, and in the *fiery, by all.thaehigheft Forms and Ordinances (asthey call theìn) in AftsI, II. ICor. 5. 16. Ads i. Efa. 9. 6. & Pfal. 2. 9. Ifa. 47.8 Rev. 1$. Mat: 24. 23. Luk. 17. 20,
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