i 28 The Secret southfayer, or leever experienceth inhimfelf ; forelfe how fuffered he in Sodom andEgypt? When Chrift appeareth this in man, then he appeareth', as the great and true MESSIAH; then he comes into 'his own Temple, and takes his ownThrone ; thenhe cafts out the Prince of darknefs who hath all this while çfurped his Throne in man, who is his Temple : here he makes a whip of Mark i many cords, and whips out the buyers .and feller', and the money-mongers , who tradefor themfelves, and aime at their private ends, feek their own glory, and not his glory who is Lordof theTemple ; andwhen he does this in man, then and never before can it be call'd the Houfe of Prayer, then is Jefus Chrift Mediatour, and Interceffour, then hath the Father nradehimKing, Prieft and Prophet over his Church ; then all chat hedid in thefle(h is made good, a?ed and fulfilled in thee ; then thou haft experience that Jefus Chrift is he who Rev. 2. 8. was dead,and is alive; thenhaft thou experience ofthole two Eternaland Immutable Witneffes ; then haft thou thofe two Olive trees in thee, and the twoCandlefltcks which continu- ally run one into another, and continually feed one the o- ther : and this light is the light ofGod which cannot be put out, butflands for ever before God : hereare the truedifco- ti veries of life and death ; thefe ate the great changes and mutations, of which all the changes andmutations , all the lives and deaths in the world, are but Types, Shadows, and Symboles : Here now is Jefus Chrift indeed whom the Father Mark 24. fends : But ifman fay, Loe here is Chrift, or loe there, or he 23. is in the wildernefs, or he is in thefecret chambers, beleeve themnot, gónot after them : if they fay , Loe, he is in this Mark 13. form, or that mode; in thisrule or that difciplrne : and this 21. mans Church is modelled after the purefl form, and the neat- Luke 17, eft cut : here thou (halt find refl and fatisfaftion : here is He 23. whom thou feekeft : here is thy Beloved: Know,all. things of this nature are but lyes and delufions,except thou finde Jefus Chriíl comming thus in thee;andfeeft that thy heart is become, an habitation ofDevils,' and the hold of every foulfpirit, and the cage ofevery unclean and hatefullBird.Chrift manifefts in thee where death and life is really,and he difcoverethDeath and H 1 ell
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