Glory sometimes afar off, now stepping in; or, The great gospel-mysterie of spirit, or Divine nature in saints

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Title: Glory sometimes afar off, now stepping in; or, The great gospel-mysterie of spirit, or Divine nature in saints
Author: Higgenson, Thomas.
Publication: London :: Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be sold at the black spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls,; 1653.
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Subject terms: Religious thought; Saints
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SECT. XIV.

THE union of God and Man in Christ gives this ho∣nour to Christ to be called God:* 1.1 If Saints partake in this union to have God dwelling in them, why do they not partake in the honour to be called God?

[Answered.] 1. The flesh of Christ neither is called God, nor is God, but he is and is called the true God, who was manifest in that flesh: So that if it be asked, who is Christ? or what is his name? he is Immanuel, the Anoynted, or God manifest in the flesh: In like manner Saints are not God, nor are called God; but he who is in Saints, is and is called the true God: So that if it be asked, who is a Saint? or what is his name? he is an inspired man, an anoynted one, or Christ or the spirit in man.

2. Christ so perfectly denied himself of all that was man, and resigned it up to the Divine Nature, that of himself he did nothing, but the Father did work all his works in him and by him; The several actings, motions and performings of Christ were not from the will of man, but were the streams and flowings forth of the Eternal Fulness in him; so that God became manifest through Christ, the ways and works of Christ as through a Chrystal or transparent glass; and there∣fore came it to pass, that God alone was and did all in Christ,

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because he would be known, worshipped and approached unto only in Christ; and no man should seek, or find, or come near unto any God, but that God which is in Christ. Under the Law God filled Heaven and Earth, yet he would be known and worshipped only in the Temple at Jerusalem. Under the Gospel he dwels in all Saints, yet he is with open face beheld, and will be worshipped as the true God only in his living Temple or Sanctuary, the flesh of Christ; so be∣cause we come to God and the Father by Christ, and wor∣ship God in faith and hope through Christ, and not through Saints; therefore is Christ called God, the Saints not.

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* 1.1

Second reason against the spi∣rit in Saints.

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