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author	Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date	Fri, 25 Jun 2021 23:07:02 +0100
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-Tim Peat Ashworth: Paul as focussed on the transformation of all
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+Part 1 Tim Peat Ashworth _The Earliest Christians_
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+Paul as focussed on the transformation of all
 creation, originating in the transformation of ourselves.  Finding
 that throughout the NT.
 "The William": There's a big gap in the New Testament narratives: the
 Romans, the resistance, Masada (73 CE), etc.  Why?
 1) *The living word*
 'This is the word of the Lord'
 But in the NT, 'the word of the Lord' does _not_ mean Scripture.
 As in the OT, it is something that comes to _people_, in the OT
 the prophets, in the NT the new Christians themselves.
-Ref. Hebrews, quoting Jeremiah 31:31-34, several times.  This is
+Ref. Hebrews 8, quoting Jeremiah 31:31-34, several times.  This is
 the longest quote of the OT in the NT:  "The days are surely coming..."
 31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a
 new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
 transformative spiritual experiences, and they felt that it isolated
 them from their communities, where no-one else had had that...
 [Brilliant, speaking with the prophetic voice, post from Linda
 Garrett: https://moodle.woodbrooke.org.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=14564]
+==========================
+Stuart Masters _The Early Quakers_
+==========================
+Mainstream Puritanism at the start of the Quaker period is quite
+straight Calvanism, with predestination of the Elect as the core.
+Radical Puritanism, in contract, really experiencing and knowing God
+within yourself, shared with the early Quaker vision.
+*The Experience and the Vision*
+*Pentecost* -- the catalyst, the enabler
+The spirit of God poured on all people:
+Joel 2:28 (Peter adverts to this in Acts 2:17)
+In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my
+Spirit upon _all_ flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall
+prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men
+shall dream dreams. [NRSV] [Emphasis added by SM]
+Made possible by the Incarnation -- a new creation
+Leads to Charismatic aspect of early Quakerism: Embodied
+spirituality Signs, miracles, healing
+[same as TPA above]: The new creation is both individual, and
+universal:
+"...give all diligence to the Spirit's motion and leadings, what it
+moves against, and what it leads to; for now will God make all
+things new: a new creation, new heavens, and new earth, and new
+heart and mind, and a new law, a new man to walk therein with his
+Maker with cheerfulness" James Nayler _Milk for Babes and Meat for
+Strong Men_ [from prison, 1660, published 1661]
+http://www.qhpress.org/texts/nayler/milkmeat.html
+*The New Covenant*
+Jeremiah 31:33-34 [loc. cit. above at *The living word*]
+repeated in Hebrews 8
+The image of God fully restored, God will teach us Godself.
+But the truth of this in the early Church had been lost, people had
+turned away from the spirit and power of that experience and that
+direct inward intimacy, and had turned again to 2nd-hand, outward,
+mediated sorts of ways of relating to God.
+"And this we witness to be that covenant and that power by which we
+are entered into that inheritance which is eternal and are made
+partakers of the divine nature; which nature is righteous, merciful
+and just, meek and patient, faithful and diligent to the obedience
+of the cross, long-suffering, full of love, moderation and
+temperance, and in all things thereby are transformed into his
+likeness,68 so far as we are entered into and abide in this
+covenant, so that we can truly say, here he is all, and self is
+nothing" James Nayler _A Salutation to the Seed of God_ 1655
+http://www.qhpress.org/texts/nayler/sal_seed.html
+Christ living in us (ref. Paul in Galatians 2:20)
+*The Apocalyptic*
+Not about cataclysmic conflict and destruction, but primarily about
+God removing the veil that obscures our vision of things.
+People begin to see themselves and the whole creation through divine
+eys rather than through their limited and often distorted human
+vision.
+"The word is that which was in the beginning, and was the beginning
+of all visible things, and that by which all things were made, but
+itself is invisible; which though it be the upholder of all visible
+things, yet can no visible thing reveal it; yet doth it reveal the
+ground and use and end of all visibles. And as without it 'was
+nothing made that was made', so without it is nothing seen as it was
+made, nor anything can be guided nor used in its pure place; but
+whatever man meddles with, not having the word in him to guide,
+order, and sanctify, the same he defiles, and it is polluted as to
+him. Nor can this word be comprehended in heaven or earth; without
+this word can no holy Scripture be read with profit, for it opens
+the Scriptures, and the Scriptures declare of it, yet cannot the
+Scriptures nor all the writings of the world comprehend it nor
+declare the depth and extent of it, which is beyond all generations;
+yet is it the teacher and guide of his own in all generations; and
+in all generations of saints hath been known in measure, more or
+less immediately, though it has no place in the world's profession."
+James Nayler _Love To The Lost And a Hand held forth to the
+Helpless To Lead out of the Dark_ 1656b
+http://www.qhpress.org/texts/nayler/lovelost.html
+["I am not the Christ, but Christ lives in me"]
+*The Prophetic* - the image of God has been fully restored in the human
+Back to Jeremiah and Paul:  In the new humanity, people become vessels
+through which God speaks and acts.
+This is what humanity was created to be, was lost, and is now possible
+again.
+"Verily the Lord God hath sent me to declare and publish, and sound
+forth hsi message unto all Israel, even to declare the day of free
+love, and everlasting consolation, how blessed a thing is it for the
+Brethren to dwell together in the unity of love and the Holy Spirit,
+in the covenant of love and peace, in the union of Saints in the
+Light."  Dorothy White _Unto All God's Host in England_ 1660
+[not online?]
+The Fall was a fragmentation, the new opportunity is to find a
+communal identify: a temple of living stones.
+Rather than sitting helplessly, knowing nothing about your own
+salvation or lack thereof.  No, heaven has come down to earth and is
+dwelling in us, and we are showing it forth.
+"thus is the Living God Purifying his Temples [us?]; and he is
+making a Glorious Situation, a Heavenly Habitation, and an
+Everlasting dwelling place in the Sons and Daughters of Men; for God
+is now come to dwell in his people, as he hath said, I will dwell in
+them, and I will walk in them, and a people hath God chosen to dwell
+in, and this is Gods everlasting day of loving kindness," Dorothy
+White _A Visitation of Heavenly Love_ 1660
+http://www.qhpress.org/cgi-bin/esrlink.cgi?doc=E27763157&name=dorothy.white
+[page 6]
+http://dqc.esr.earlham.edu:8080/xmlmm/docButtonB?XMLMMWhat=builtPage&XMLMMWhere=E27763157.P00000010-6&XMLMMBeanName=docBean&XMLMMNextPage=/printBuiltPageBrowse.jsp
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