The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.
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The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.
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Butler, Thomas, Captain.
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London :: Printed in the first year of England liberty, 1649 for Giles Calvert, at the blackspread Eagle at the west end of Pauls,
[1649]
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Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A78070.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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SECT. V. Christ is the heavenly Thing in Christians. [§. 5]
ALL which serve for the example and shadow of h••avenly things, as Moses, when he was admonished of God about making the Tabernacle; See, saith God, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed thee in
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the Mount. Now the truth and sub∣stance, the heavenly Thing, and the good Thing to come, is Christ and the Christian; this is the Tabernacle that God pitches, even the man Christ, there he will dwell, that is his House: Now Christ brings forth more excel∣lent things then any in the Mount, you have seen them all, the Ministry, Ta∣bernacles, Sanctuary, Sacrifice, the whole Worship, the Law and Cove∣nant also, they all wax old, & vanish a∣way from the Mount; but not the other
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