#16 Searching everywhere but within

[Pryr-1.2-8] Poor Sinner! consider the Treasure thou hast within Thee, the Saviour of the World, the eternal Word of God lies hid in Thee, as a Spark of the Divine Nature, which is there to overcome the Sin and Hell within Thee, and helped to generate the Life of Heaven  in thy Soul.

Turn to thy Heart, and thy Heart will find its Saviour, its God within itself. Thou see, hear, and feel nothing of God, because thou seek for Him everywhere but within.  Thou seek him in Books, in Controversies, in the Church, & Commentaries but there thou wilt not find him.  No he is lost to you until thou hast first found Him in thy Heart.  Seek him there, and then thou wilt  never need to seek again, for where He dwelleth lies  the Seat of his Light and Holy Spirit.


[Pryr-1.2-9] Turning to the Light and Spirit of God within Thee, is thy only true way to turn to God.  There is only one Way to find Him, and that is but in that Place where he dwelleth -- and that is within Thee.

 For though God be everywhere present, yet He is only present to Thee in the deepest, and most central Part of thy Soul. Thy natural Senses cannot possess God, or unite Thee to Him, and the Faculties of Understanding, Will, and Memory, can only reach after God, but cannot be the Place of his Habitation.

There is a Root, or Depth in Thee, from whence all these Faculties come forth, as Lines from a Centre, or as Branches from the Body of the Tree. This Depth is called the Centre, the Fund or Bottom of the Soul. This Depth is the Unity, the Eternity,

 I had almost said, the Infinity of thy Soul; for it is so infinite, that nothing can satisfy it, or give it any Rest, but the infinity of God. In this Depth of the Soul, the Holy Trinity brought forth its own living Image in the first created Man, bearing in Himself a living Representation of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and this was Man's Dwelling in God and God's dwelling in him. This was the Kingdom of God within Him, but it was made Paradise, without Him.

And then on  that Day that Adam ate  of the forbidden earthly Tree, on that Day Adam absolutely died and lost this Kingdom of God within. This Depth or Centre of his Soul now lost its God, & instead was shut up in Death and Darkness,.  It became a Prisoner in an earthly Animal, one that only excelled its Brethren, the Beasts, in an upright Form, and serpentine Subtlety. Thus ended the Fall of Man.

 But from the Moment that the God of Mercy instilled hope into Adam, that Thug [Bruiser] of the Serpent, then all the Riches and Treasures of the Divine Nature once again came into Man, as a Seed of Salvation was now sown into the Centre of his Soul, as it  lies hidden there in every Man, until the very moment he desires to arise from his fallen State, and chose to be born again  from God above.


[Pryr-1.2-10] Awake then, thou that Sleepest, and Christ, who from all Eternity has been married [espoused]  to thy Soul, shall give Thee full and beautiful Light. Search and dig in thine own Field for this Pearl of Eternity,  and while it lieth hidden  it cannot cost Thee too much, nor canst thou buy it too dear, for it is All.  When thou has found it, thou wilt know, that all which thou hast sold or given away previously for it, was Nothing, like a little Bubble upon the Water.

Lambeth Palace

[Pryr-1.2-11] But instead,  if thou turnest from this heavenly Pearl, or trample it under thy Feet, for the sake of being Rich, or Great, either in Church or State & while you may have lived at Lambeth Palace [the traditional home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England] for more than  twenty Years, or  have twenty Times been to the King's Palace,  then in the end,  be the same as amounting to Nothing for Thee.

#15 God is with Us,

[Pryr-1.2-6] But to return. 

It is manifest, that no one can fail from the Benefit of Christ's Salvation, but they can  have an unwillingness to receive it, and when they do, they fail the exact same way that the  Jews and the Musselmans [Muslims] do,

Christ with Lazarus -- Simon de Vos

If thou wouldst still further know, how this great Work, the Birth of Christ, is to be affected in thee, then let this joyful Truth be received within you, for then, and only then.  His great Work will have already begun in  us.  And what is that great Truth? 

 That our most Holy Jesus, is already in thee; this is true.  He already is your Saviour and the  Life of thy Soul.  He is there, ready  to raise thee out of the Darkness of Death and into the Light of Life.

  He is ready to give thee Power to become a Son of God, and to get this, all you need to do is acknowledge Him.

The eternal Word, or the Son of God, did not then first begin to be the Saviour of the World, when He was Born in Bethlehem of Judea; but that Word, which became Man in the Virgin Mary, was there from the Beginning of the World.  

He was the first Word. 

He is a Seed of Salvation,  for the first Father of Mankind, was inspoken into him, as an ingrafted Word, under the Name and Character of a  Thug [Bruiser] of the Serpent's Head. 

This is why,  Christ said to his Disciples, "the Kingdom of God is within you"; because like everything He said,  it is true,.  The Divine Nature is within you, given unto you by your first Father, when the first Light of Life, occurred,  and rises up in the Life of every Child of Adam.

Hence also the holy Jesus is said to be the "Light, which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World." [see John i.9 KJV] 

  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. ⁸ He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. ⁹ That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹ He came unto his own, and his own received him not. ¹²

 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: ¹³ which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

 

While it is true, He was born at Bethlehem, but that was just as a human Form upon Earth.  

Before that, he was already the Light of every Man that cometh into the World; that eternal Word, [see John vi.66-68 KJV below] by which all Things were created, and was the Life and Light of all Things, as a second Creator, as a Bruiser of the Serpent; and it was  in this Respect that was  said truly of our Lord, when on Earth, that "He was that Light which lighteth every Man, that cometh into the World." 

⁶⁷ Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? ⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. 

For he was really and truly all  of this: He was the Immanuel,[Immanuel, " God is with us" see Isaiah vii:14 KJV] a living proof that God is with us,  as he was with Adam, and with all his Offspring.  The Beginning of the Catholic [universal] Church of Christ,  in all the World. he is God's unlimited, universal Mercy to all Mankind and  to every human Creature, and as sure as he is born of Adam, and so has a Birth of the Bruiser of the Serpent within him, so too he is infallibly in Covenant with God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. ¹⁵ Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. ¹⁶ For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

As the Holy Jesus is appointed to be Judge of all the World, it is because all Mankind, all the Nations and Languages have the ability, through Him to be put into Covenant with God, and so made capable of resisting the Evil of their fallen Nature. 

Barolome Esteban Murillo -  Jacob & his beloved Rachel at the Well c. 1680

[Pryr-1.2-7] When our blessed Lord conversed with the Woman at Jacob's Well, [John iv.6] he said unto her,

"If thou knewest the Gift of God, and who it is that talketh with thee, thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given Thee living Water." 

How happy (may anyone well say) was this Woman of Samaria, to stand so near this Gift of God, from whom she might have had living Water, had she but vouchsafed [allowed herself]  to have asked for it! 

Rembrandt - Return of the Prodigal Son

 But you, dear Christian, this Happiness is already thine; for this Holy Jesus, the Gift of God, first given into Adam, and in him to all that are descended from him, is the Gift of God to Thee, for as sure as thou art born of Adam; and though thou have wandered from him, as far as the Prodigal Son from his Father's House, yet is he still with Thee, for he is the Gift of God to Thee, and if thou just turn to Him, and ask Him, he  who has the living Water [John vii.38] , he will certainly give it to thee -- and  that will make thee whole.

#14 Christ the Hard Choice

[Pryr-1.2-3] So it makes only sense to say, that  Do not all Christians desire to have Christ to be their Saviour? Yes, but here is the Deceit; they want Christ to be their Saviour in the next World, and to help them into Heaven when they die, by his Power, and Merits with God  

But they are not willing for Christ to be thy Saviour now;  because his Salvation, if it is had, must be done in this Life, by changing and altering them right now and making them have a new Heart open to their life and making them like the Blind to see, the Lame to walk, and the Dumb to speak aware of their foibles and follies.  

To have Salvation from Christ, is nothing else,  but to be made like Him; it is to have his Humility and Meekness, his Mortification and Self-denial, his Renunciation of the Spirit, Wisdom, and Honours of this World, his Love of God, his Desire of doing God's Will, and seeking only his Honour. 

To have these attitudes {Tempers}  formed and in thy Heart, is to have Salvation from Christ. But if thou willest not to have these Tempers brought forth, if thy Faith and Desire does not seek, and cry to Christ for them in the same Reality, as the Lame asked to walk, and the Blind to see, then thou must be said to be unwilling, nay to be casting out  Christ as thy Saviour. 

Thomas Kinkade, Via Dolorosa, Jerusaleum, Israel

[Pryr-1.2-4] Consider, How was it, that the carnal Jew, the deep-read Scribe, the learned Rabbi, the Religious Pharisee, not only did not receive, but crucified their Saviour? It was because they willed, and desired no such Saviour as He was, they did not want  inward Salvation as He offered to them. 

They desired no Change of their own Nature, no inward Destruction of their own natural Tempers, no Deliverance from the Love of themselves, and the Enjoyments of their Passions; Not at all, because they  liked their State, the Gratifications of their Old Man [Satan, the devil, Old Nick] , their long Robes, their broad Phylacteries, and Greetings in the Markets. 

They wanted not to have their Pride and Self-love dethroned, their Covetousness and Sensuality to be subdued by a new Nature from Heaven derived into them.   No.  Their only Desire was the Success of Judaism, to have their clique saved not their souls and that is why they turned on their Saviour because they just wanted another King to enthrone that they could use as their puppet and keep their own riches secures.

They did not want a true Redeemer, and nor would they have any of his Salvation, because it all consisted in a Change of their Nature, and would force them to have a new Birth from above, and a Kingdom of Heaven to be opened within them by the Spirit of God and make them lose their riches and their pride and instead of ruling over men, make them one with them.  

[Pryr-1.2-5] Oh Christendom, look not only at the old Jews, but see thyself in this Glass (see Corinthians)  For at this Day (Oh sad Truth to be told!) at this very Day, a Christ within us, an inward Saviour raising a Birth of his own Nature, Life and Spirit within us, is rejected. 

The Propagation of Popery, the Propagation of Protestantism, the Success of some particular Church, is the Salvation which Priests and their People,  who gather about in social clubs and tea cermonies, are chiefly concerned about, and not yours or their, Souls.