Friday, September 10, 2021

The immanent rule of the inshining spirit of Christ.

"And not as from the traditions of my forefathers, or the ge­nerations of men in the corrupt and polluted nature, in the de­generation from God, and alienation from the Covenant of life and promise: (who confessed the Messiah as this generation doth, to be come in words, with their corrupted tongues, and polluted lips, but in their works, and by their practise and life, make his coming void, and of non-effect unto them) neither by the reading of the Scriptures came I to know that he was come as he is come, but by the Spirit of the Lord, (by which I was cho­sen in the womb, and sanctified in the day of my birth, by which also I am separated from the Land of my natural nativity, and brought unto the feeling of sorrows in a strange Land for your sakes) I come to know, and now do declare unto you, that Im­manuel, who is God with us, who is the light of the world, the Messiah in the power of God, who is a spirit, is come reigning in spirit in the hearts of his people, over whom, and in whom he rules as King, treading down, and trampling upon all principa­lities and powers, making the Earth new, and the Heavens also, warring against all which is contrary to his own pure nature, in many, untill he hath put all his enemies under his feet, and then will he give up the Kingdome to the Father, that God may be all, in all."

The immanent rule of the inshining spirit of Christ.

"And not as from the traditions of my forefathers, or the ge­nerations of men in the corrupt and polluted nature, in the de­generation ...