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<HEAD>A Holy Lamp of Light: Di&s;covering the fa|lacious allegorizing of Scriptures, to de&s;troy not only the reallity of the per&s;on of Chri&s;t, but all o|ther truths, from his Conception to his Exaltation; The generalll Re&s;urrection, and the generall Judgment-day, fal&s;ly avowing all to be fulfilled here in this pre&s;ent life. Or a defence again&s;t Mr. <HI>Royle</HI> his Reply. By <HI>IOHN GRAVNT.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_YOVR owne An&s;wer to all that are &s;ingle-eyed, is a plaine evidence and manife&s;tation again&s;t your &s;elfe, for denying the reality, and making an Allegory of the Divine and Humane nature of the Me&s;&s;iah, the Sa|viour of all men, the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the King of glory, and Lord of his people; and al&s;o in every other particular concerning his humiliation and exaltation, thereby de&s;troying the truth both of the Doctrine of Regeneration &amp; Perfe|ction, and the a&s;&s;ured hope of his Saints at his appearance and Kingdome, under your dark and ob&s;cure Expre&s;&s;ions, never meant nor &s;ent from God, but form'd and fram'd by the &s;pirit of delu&s;ion, &s;o that the children of wi&s;e|dome may condemn you by your own words: Yet le&s;t the purity of the Do|ctrine of &s;alvation, wi&s;dome, and coun&s;ell of God &s;hould any way &s;uffer through your &s;ophi&s;mes, or receive di&s;honour by your cunning &s;ubtleties in behalfe of it, and the Lord thereof, I that am the meane&s;t of all his &s;ervants, thus make my defence again&s;t you as followeth.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t for your cen&s;uring me for pa&s;&s;ionate reproaches, and bitter ex|pre&s;&s;ions under the terms of fancies, conceits, fal&s;e allegories, delu&s;ions and olde Germane Errours, This you &s;ay is my language, which in &s;aying &s;o, if I &s;peak truly, then I am not to be blamed, but rather ju&s;tified, being therein warranted both by precept and pre&s;ident in holy Scripture, which comman|deth to reprove &s;uch &s;harply. And al&s;o &s;aith, <HI>Thou &s;halt not &s;uffer &s;inne upon thy brother, but thou &s;halt in any wi&s;e rebuke him,</HI> Luk. 19. 17. And all to this end, <HI>that they may be kept and found in the faith,</HI> Tit. 1. 13. <HI>And woe be to them that ju&s;tifie the wicked, and condemn the righteous, that put darkne&s;&s;e for light, and light for darkne&s;&s;e, that call bitter &s;weet, and &s;weet bitter:</HI></P>
<P>So that wee ought to &s;ay (that tho&s;e that &s;peak not Gods Word unto the people) they &s;peak their owne fancies: And &s;uch as are given up to &s;trong delu&s;ions, ought to be called deluders, or lyers; and the bad, or evill Tree ought not to be called a good Tree, nor the Bramble the Vine; but the truth
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ought to be &s;poken of all: And the expre&s;&s;ions thereof ought not to be term|ed pa&s;&s;ion or bitterne&s;&s;e. And that I have &s;poke truly in what I have &s;poke again&s;t you, a briefe examination of the particulars will manife&s;tly declare: And it will not &s;erve your turne in the Tryall, to &s;ay, I am in a low Di&s;pen&s;ation; but when I come higher, in the which you are in, then I &s;hall be of your mind, wherefore I proceed not in the Letter alone, which is the corps of the Scriptures, but therewithall the meaning, the &s;olue, the life, the light of truth, and power of the Spirit of God that doth accompany the Letter.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t, for tho&s;e faire words, and &s;mooth expre&s;&s;ions from your &s;elfe, it is the way that Sathan hath, and will u&s;e to deceive with from the fir&s;t that was made, to the la&s;t that &s;hall be born. And the Apo&s;tles jealou&s;ie of the faithfull makes him to &s;ay, <HI>I feare, le&s;t by any meanes, as the Serpent beguiled</HI> Eve <HI>through his &s;ubtlety, &s;o your minds &s;hould be corrupted from the &s;implicity that is in Chri&s;t,</HI> 2 Cor. 11. 3. <HI>And this I &s;ay</HI> (&s;aith hee) <HI>le&s;t any man &s;hould beguile you with enticing words,</HI> Col. 2. 4. <HI>For the pre&s;umptuous and &s;elfe-willed beguile un&s;table &s;oules,</HI> 2 Pet. 2. 14. <HI>And there are &s;ome, that by good words and fair &s;pee|ches deceive the hearts of the &s;imple,</HI> Rom. 16. 19.</P>
<P>In the &s;econd Page of your Paper you &s;peak of <HI>Johns</HI> Bapti&s;me, &amp; Chri&s;ts Bapti&s;me, and of the offices and gifts which <HI>Paul</HI> and the re&s;t had received; and that you apprehend them all to be types and figures of that glory revea|led in us, which glory in us you make the e&s;tate of the Ju&s;t and perfect man glorified here before the di&s;&s;olution of the body.</P>
<P>Sir, I pray take notice how you expre&s;&s;e and declare your &s;elfe ignorant of the Principles and Beginnings of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; as al&s;o of the accompli&s;h|ment and perfection of a true Chri&s;tian indeed. Therefore be it known un|to you, that <HI>Iohns</HI> bapti&s;me was not water in a literal, but in a &s;piritual &s;en&s;e, the worke of repentance unto life was his bapti&s;me, and externall wa&s;hing with materiall water was a &s;igne of his admini&s;tration of that heavenly grace of repentance. <HI>He &s;hall come</HI> (&s;aith the Prophet) <HI>in the &s;pirit and power of Eli|as,</HI> Mal. 3. <HI>And he &s;hall turn the hearts of the children to their Fathers,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>The di&s;obedient to the wi&s;dome of the ju&s;t.</HI> His bapti&s;me &s;aith St. <HI>Luke,</HI> Chap. 3. is the bapti&s;me of repentance, as it is written in the Book of the words of <HI>I&s;aias</HI> the Prophet; <HI>The voyce of one crying in the Wilderne&s;&s;e, prepare yee the way of the Lord, make his paths &s;traight;</HI> which Scriptures declare not only the name&punc; of his Bapti&s;me, but the heavenly nature, operation, and vertue thereof, even to turne, prepare, brui&s;e, &s;often and break the hearts of &s;inners.</P>
<P>So likewi&s;e as our Lords Bapti&s;m is of a more higher and excellent degree of the work of Gods Spirit; the Scriptures al&s;o &s;ets it &s;orth in &s;uch tearms as expre&s;&s;eth the more excellent nature and operation thereof, as comforting exceeds mourning, healing brokenne&s;&s;e, liberty captivity, &s;atisfaction want, and the truth of purity and holine&s;&s;e the preparation thereunto, and &s;piritu|all riches that of &s;pirituall poverty, and therefore it is that our Lord him&s;elf &s;aith, <HI>The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, And he hath anointed me to preach the Go|&s;pell to the poore, which is, to heale the broken-hearted, to deliver the captivated, &amp; to give &s;ight to them that are &s;piritually blinde.</HI> And this word &s;peaking peace by Je&s;us Chri&s;t began after the Bapti&s;me that <HI>Iohn</HI> preached, and there is great
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rea&s;on for it; for freedome and deliverance follows bondage and thraldome, as curing and healing doth the member that is wounded and broken.</P>
<P>And by the&s;e two heavenly Bapti&s;mes and &s;pirituall Operations, a &s;inner is begotten to God, and made a Saint: And as by our fle&s;hly birth wee came to have a naturall being and &s;ub&s;i&s;tance; &s;o by this heavenly birth of repen|tance and remi&s;&s;ion of &s;innes, Gods children come to have a holy and &s;piri|tuall being and &s;ub&s;i&s;tance, in which holy righteous children &amp; Saints God dwels by his Spirit, and endows them with gifts &amp; graces of the holy Gho&s;t, which are not figures and &s;hadows (as you term them) nor things to be done away, but are reall for &s;ub&s;tance, and durable for continuance: And as <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and <HI>Melchi&s;edech,</HI> &s;o are all the&s;e regenerate Prie&s;ts of an endle&s;&s;e life, and the gifts and graces of Gods Spirit in them remain and continue to be Gods Witne&s;&s;es, te&s;tifying for God in the earth, as it is written, <HI>There are three that beare record in earth, the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood,</HI> Joh. 5. 8. And tho&s;e that by the&s;e are &s;piritually born, begotten, and brought forth of God, are the little ones that Chri&s;t ble&s;&s;eth, the humble ones that Chri&s;t teacheth, the wi&s;e ones that only and truly under&s;tand; for unto tho&s;e onely it is given to know the &s;ecrets and my&s;teries of God.</P>
<P>This new born man is the righteous and ju&s;t man, the ble&s;&s;ed &amp; holy man and becomes thus righteous &amp; ju&s;t, not by any inherent righteou&s;ne&s;s which is originally within him as you &s;ay, and is to be rai&s;ed, for you affirm it dead in every man; And when ri&s;en, then the fle&s;h is de&s;troyed, and the new man quickned.</P>
<P>But the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the truly righteous is by imputation of anothers righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e from without him; <HI>For as by one mans di&s;obedience many were made &s;inners, &s;o by the obedience of one</HI> (mark what the truth &s;aith, not of our &s;elves) <HI>&s;hall many be made righteous.</HI> And as <HI>Abraham</HI> the Father of the Faith|full was not made righteous by his own righteou&s;ne&s;s, but by the imputation of anothers righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: Now it was not written for his &s;ake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us al&s;o, to whom it &s;hall be imputed if we believe on him, that is, <HI>on Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> Rom. 4. 23. 24. And of the ju&s;tified ones it is &s;aid, <HI>their righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is of me &s;aith the Lord,</HI> I&s;a. 54. 17.</P>
<P>Now ob&s;erve, it is a meer tale or fable for any to &s;ay, that a man becomes a righteous man by having the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e within him as hee is borne into the world: And &s;o although he liveth, yet that is dead, and to be quickned, a&s;leep, and to be awakened, and that Chri&s;t the anointing is in all men, ei|ther concealed under the a&s;hes of corruption, or kindled into a flame of illu|mina<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ion; this Doctrine is &s;otti&s;hne&s;&s;e to heavenly wi&s;dome, and non&s;ence to true Divinity.</P>
<P>For thus &s;aith the Truth, <HI>That which is borne of the fle&s;h is fle&s;h, &amp; that which is born of the Syirit is Spirit:</HI> The ode birth is from below of the earth, earthly, the other is through the Lord from above, &s;piritually and heavenly, as it is written, <HI>Except a man be born again from above, he cannot &s;ee the kingdome of God.</HI> Now &s;uch &s;pirituall men were <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>Nathanael,</HI> and all the faithfull A|po&s;tles and Saints, to whom fle&s;h and blood was not their Teacher and Re|vealer, but Almighty God him&s;elfe, and the&s;e heavenly perls of regenerati|on and the gifts of the holy Gho&s;t; their &s;pirituall anointings were not fi|gures
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and &s;hadows to cea&s;e and pa&s;&s;e away, but the very immortall Word, Councell, Spirit, and Covenant of God that abideth and continueth for e|ver, again&s;t which the gates of Hell &s;hall not prevaile; contrary to which in <HI>Page</HI> 5. you affirm in the&s;e words, I do not mean that outward Ceremony of water, but al&s;o the bapti&s;me of the holy Gho&s;t and gifts to be figurative and typicall. Yet in another place, <HI>Page</HI> the 2. you are plea&s;ed to &s;ay thus to me; but if you &s;ay that tho&s;e Offices and gifts which were given to the Apo&s;tles, continue &s;till, and were not figurative; Then &s;hew me &s;ay you that power of vi&s;ible glory held forth in the&s;e that now doe di&s;pen&s;e, as in them heretofore.</P>
<P>To which I an&s;wer, If I have manife&s;tly declared and de&s;cribed the righte|ous plant, the good Tree and the holy Temple, then they that are &s;pirituall may di&s;cern the fruits, with the power, the light, and glory thereof; for this good Tree is not barren, but exceeding fruitfull, and this &s;pirituall Hou&s;e, Temple, &amp; Spou&s;e all glorious within: Now in the time of her Lords per|&s;onall ab&s;ence, who, when he comes to be per&s;onally pre&s;ent, &s;he with him, and he with her, &s;hall be wonderfully revealed and manife&s;ted with power &amp; great glory, cloathed vi&s;ibly with it, even before all their enemies that will not now acknowledge it, but declare again&s;t it, as your &s;elfe hath done, and many others, that have thanks for it of them that &s;hould have reproved them, for was there ever &s;uch bla&s;phemy witne&s;&s;ed and te&s;tified too, as is under your own hand, in <HI>denying the Lord that bought you;</HI> For you boldly affirme in Page 6. though wofully and impudently, That the Incarnation of Chri&s;t, his death, re&s;urrection, and interce&s;&s;ion, and what ever el&s;e is &s;poken of him&punc; as that he was circumci&s;ed, baptized, crucified, dead, &amp; bured, ri&s;en, and a&s;|cended; All the&s;e expre&s;&s;ions and removes &s;ay you, I looke upon to be no more but as types and figures, holding forth that whole my&s;tery of Truth which &s;hall be made out and fini&s;hed in us by times and degrees, and in &s;eve|rall mea&s;ures; which when it is accompli&s;hed in us, will be the end of all things. And further you &s;ay, this is that generall Re&s;urrection and great day of the Lord, and the world to come, and this is all fulfi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">led in us before this vaile of fle&s;h be laid down.</P>
<P>The&s;e are your own words, wherein you affirme nere as many bla&s;phemies as you have written words; for here you make Chri&s;t him&s;elfe to be a Type and Figure, as before you made the gifts of the Spirit which hee gave to his Apo&s;tles, for you deny Chri&s;t to be reall and per&s;onall, and affirm him to be a Quality, an Unction of your own devi&s;ing; And that there is no re&s;ur|rection of the body out of the earth; nor no day of judgment, nor no world to come, then what you have imagined and fancied in your own conceit; be|&s;ides, and contrary to Gods word. And becau&s;e you will not be tryed by that rule of Truth, you blu&s;h not to &s;ay in <HI>page</HI> 5. That the fountain of truth doth not fix or confine you &s;o to any expre&s;&s;ions, as that you &s;hould not expre&s;s or declare any thing but what is according to Scriptures tying you to tho&s;e writ|ten words; no &s;ay you.</P>
<P>Oh Sir, look and con&s;ider how you exalt your &s;elf above all that are called God, above Chri&s;t, above his Word, as I told you before in my An&s;w. Your Doctor <HI>H. N.</HI> had done in <HI>page</HI> 2. above his Church, above all the holy Pro|phets and Apo&s;tles; yea all the lights and &s;tars of God from the beginning
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of the world to this day; but it cannot be otherwi&s;e, becau&s;e you refu&s;e the coun&s;ell that teacheth the truth to the Law and to the Te&s;timony: If this be not in you, it is becau&s;e there is no light in you; And that it may be manife|&s;ted there is no light in you, do but take a &s;hort and briefe view of your own darkne&s;&s;e, ignorance, and gro&s;&s;e contradictions in your Reply, as you call it. For in <HI>page</HI> 5. You affirm that I mi&s;take you in &s;aying you make <HI>Elias</HI> and the Me&s;&s;enger of the Covenant one &amp; the &s;ame: And yet as with the &s;ame breath you pre&s;ently affirm, that the Me&s;&s;enger of the Covenant which was Chri&s;t, is that <HI>Elias</HI> the Prophet, even Chri&s;t that unction of Truth in us; &s;ee from your own mouth the effect of your owne darkne&s;&s;e in leaving and &s;lighting of Gods Word, and the light thereof, which &s;aith, <HI>Mat.</HI> 11. That <HI>Iohn Bap|ti&s;t was Elias that was to come.</HI> And the Prophet <HI>Malachi</HI> makes the Lord Chri&s;t to be the Me&s;&s;enger of the Covenant, and the Bapti&s;t to be the Lords Me&s;&s;enger, to prepare his way before him, by preaching repentance, as before is touched: And he tels you plainly him&s;elfe you &s;peak fal&s;ely of him, <HI>Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1. 20. I am not the Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;aith he, meaning Chri&s;t Je&s;us the Lord, the Me&s;&s;en|ger of the Covenant; and the Apo&s;tle <HI>John</HI> his witne&s;&s;e is again&s;t you al&s;o, <HI>Iohn 1. 8. He was not that light, but was &s;ent to bear witne&s;&s;e of that light</HI> (&s;aith he) Is it not now clear that that higher di&s;pen&s;ation you &s;peake of is very gro&s;&s;e dark ignorance and contradiction that you are fallen into.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Royle,</HI> as in this you have no weapon left for your defence, &s;o your na|kedne&s;&s;e will al&s;o appear in the re&s;t that is to follow. I pray Sir why did you not reply particularly to the Scriptures I brought to prove the Re&s;urrection of the body; wherefore I entreat you again to con&s;ider of one or two Texts more, in <HI>John</HI> 5. 28, 29. Our Lord affirms plainly, u&s;ing no parrable or alle|gory, <HI>That all that are in the graves &s;hall heare his voyce, and &s;hall come forth.</HI> Mark this expre&s;&s;ion; It is not &s;aid they &s;hall be rai&s;ed in us, but they &s;hall come forth of their graves, <HI>they that have done good to the re&s;urrection of life, and they that have done evill, to the re&s;urrection of condemnation.</HI> Now but that you &s;ay that in your di&s;pen&s;ation you are not bound to accord with the Scripture, this te&s;timony would confute your Errour, for all the generall Re&s;urrection you &s;peak of in your Reply is this; Chri&s;t being rai&s;ed in us, the mi&s;tery of Truth fini&s;hed in us, <HI>page</HI> 6. before the putting off of this vaile of fle&s;h, when Gods word plainely makes the generall re&s;urrection to be the rai&s;ing of all mens bodies out of their graves where they are buried, the good to &s;alvation, the evill to damnation. Con&s;ider, Mr. <HI>Royle,</HI> how you have declared and proved your &s;elfe a faithle&s;&s;e &amp; hopefull man; for all that have hope towards God believe, and allow that there &s;hall be a re&s;urrection from the dead both of the ju&s;t and unju&s;t, <HI>Acts</HI> 24. 15. And here &s;ee and ob&s;erve what a di&s;cord there is between your &s;pirit and the Spirit of God in the Scriptures, even by your own words, te&s;tifying again&s;t you. And look again on your Paper how you reply to my An&s;wer again&s;t your ignorant po&s;ition, that the comming of Chri&s;t to judgement is his &s;pirituall appearance in men.</P>
<P>For this you affirme in <HI>Page</HI> 4. That it is clear that Chri&s;ts comming a|gaine is fulfilled in &s;ending, giving, or powring out his Spirit into men.
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See againe how you in your high Di&s;pen&s;ation are directly oppo&s;ite to Chri&s;t and the Apo&s;tles holy Doctrine; for all Scriptures are not &s;poken to the weakene&s;&s;e of Creatures as you &s;ay, but to the comfort and joy of the Saints, that they through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope, <HI>Rom.</HI> 15. 4. And the Scriptures doe not &s;ay he &s;hall come in us as you &s;ay, but to us; I will come againe &s;aith our Lord, that is, to be with his in bodily pre&s;ence, as he was with them before he went from them when he a&s;cended from his Apo&s;tles, he went not out from within them, but a&s;cended from their company, &s;o doth the two men cloathed in white Apparel a&s;&s;ure the Apo&s;tles, <HI>this &s;ame Je&s;us</HI> (&s;ay they) <HI>which is taken up from you into heaven, &s;hall &s;o come in like manner as you have &s;een him goe into heaven.</HI> Now was not the manner a per&s;onall a&s;cention from among&s;t them, and &s;o &s;hall the manner of his comming in the Clouds be againe per&s;onally into their company, &s;o that it cannot be as you &s;ay in a figure of fle&s;hly appearance, but really in his glorified body. <HI>Behold he commeth with clouds</HI> (&s;aith the Spirit) <HI>and every eye &s;hall &s;ee him:</HI> That is, all men &s;hall &s;ee the per&s;on of the Son of Man <HI>comming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.</HI> Ob&s;erve again, it is not &s;aid he comes into men, but he comes from heaven unto men, in &s;uch great eminent and per&s;onall glory that every eye &s;hall behold: And his appearance &s;hall be to to the looked for, and much de&s;ired joy of his Saints, but to the &s;hame and confu&s;ion of his Enemies, and &s;uch as be lye him: And take heed now you do not &s;mother this clear light of Chri&s;ts per&s;onall appea|rance with the &s;moak of your expre&s;&s;ion; <HI>You are skilfull in the letter,</HI> for let me tell you plainly, that who&s;oever makes his &s;pirituall &s;en&s;e wholly con|tradictory to the letter of the Scriptures, renders him&s;elfe both truthle&s;&s;e and &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e for &s;uch an one hath none to bear witne&s;&s;e with him: and who|&s;oever bears witne&s;&s;e of him&s;elfe, <HI>his witne&s;&s;e is not true.</HI></P>
<P>Wherefore once againe I bee&s;eech you con&s;ider further &s;eriou&s;ly what is written of this great and glorious truth in the&s;e 7. particulars. 1. The per|&s;on that commeth. 2. The time of his comming. 3. The manner of his comming. 4. The parties that pray for, and de&s;ire his comming. 5. The company that attends him in his comming. 6. The end &amp; effect of his com|ming: and 7. The place to which he commeth; In every which particular, your conceit of his comming into men by &s;pirituall appearances, will be ut|terly confuted and overthrown. And fi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t for the per&s;on that commeth: And mark this, it is a per&s;on, &amp; not a quality, and &s;uch a humane per&s;on as there was never the like, for he is the &s;onne of a Virgin; And although &s;hee his mother, a &s;infull woman of her &s;elfe; yet he that tooke fle&s;h of her without &s;inne, the &s;on of &s;infull man, &amp; yet be no &s;inner: <HI>Behold a wonder, yea a wonderfull per&s;on, yea &s;uch a per&s;on as is the Captain of our &s;alvation, the Bi|&s;hop of our &s;oules, the Apo&s;tle of our profe&s;&s;ion:</HI> He is called the High Prie&s;t, the <HI>Me&s;&s;iah,</HI> the Mediator, yea the only Mediatour between God and man; the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, the greate&s;t per&s;onage for Maje&s;tie that ever was, or &s;hall be: And yet the &s;ame per&s;on in his power, glory, &amp; reign, as in his contempt and &s;uffering only now glorified, and not before.</P>
<P>2. His comming again &s;hall not be till the end of this World, when there &s;hall be an end of &s;inning, an end of dying, an end of labouring, and an end
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of the Cur&s;e: an end of &s;orrowing, &s;uffering, weeping, and of hungring and thir&s;ting, not in a feigned conceit, but really, as it was in the e&s;tate of inno|cency before any of the&s;e things had their being and beginning.</P>
<P>3&punc; The manner of his comming &s;hall be glorious in a two fold re&s;pect, Amiable to his Saints and &s;ervants, but terrible to his Adver&s;aries and Enemies, as it is written; <HI>The Lord him&s;elfe &s;hall de&s;cend from heaven with a &s;hout, with the voyce of the Arch-Angell, and with the Trump of God,</HI> to the joy, admiration, and &s;alvation of his Saints: And on the contrary, his comming &s;hall be terrible to the wicked and di&s;obedient; A day of wrath, indignati|on, mi&s;ery and calamity, darkene&s;&s;e and confu&s;ion; his comming to &s;uch &s;hall be in flaming fire, rendring vengeance; Yet at the &s;ame time to his Saints a heeler, a deliverer, a re&s;torer, yea amiable and glorious as the light, &s;hining as the Sunne, and glittering as the perfection of all the precious and excellent things that can he thought or &s;poke of.</P>
<P>4. The parties that pray for, and de&s;ire his comming, declare it to be vi&s;i|ble and apparent, his own per&s;onall pre&s;ence, and not mi&s;terious and invi&s;i|ble: The earne&s;t de&s;ire of the Saints is, <HI>Come Lord Je&s;us, come quickly,</HI> always prayed for, hoped for, longed for; to which time they have referred the righ|ting of all their Wrongs, the clearing of all their Cau&s;es, the enjoyment of all their Comforts, to which time the Lord hath referred them. Then &s;aith he, <HI>Lift up your heads, for your redemption draws nigh:</HI> and in which time the Apo&s;tle hath a&s;&s;ured them deliverance, <HI>For he that &s;hall come, will come, &amp; will not tarry:</HI> And it is their Saviour that &s;aith, <HI>Behold I come quickly, and my re|ward is with me.</HI></P>
<P>5. His company that attends him are beyond all compari&s;on for number and nature, for quantity and quality, all the holy Angels, all the holy Saints, their vertue and quality is holine&s;&s;e and gloriou&s;ne&s;&s;e, their number innu|merable, all, all, for Angels and Saints, thou&s;and-thou&s;ands mini&s;ter unto him, and ten thou&s;and times ten thou&s;and &s;tand before him, even &s;o many, as they are beyond all, and it is the company that attends this great and mighty Lord, a multitude &s;aith the Spirit, <HI>which no man can number, of all Nations, &amp; Kindreds, and People, add Tongues;</HI> all the I&s;rael &amp; cho&s;en of God are then to attend him per&s;onally in their glorified bodies and &s;ouls.</P>
<P>The 6 thing con&s;iderable is the end of his coming, and that is to affect &amp; accompli&s;h perfection, to re&s;tore all things to be glorified in his Saints, and with his Saints, to be admired of all that believe, and to be dreaded and fea|red of all his Enemies, ruling the one with a Scepter of gold, and the other with a rod of Iron; then &s;hall he be crowned and enthroned for evermore, his Kingdome &s;et up that &s;hall have no end; his power &s;o greatly declared, that all his Enemies &s;hall be &s;ubdued: He will then make his, and the Saints Adver&s;aries to acknowledg and honour him and them for ever; For this Kingdome that the Lord of Heaven &s;hall &s;et up, &s;hall break to pieces, and &s;ubdue all other Kingdomes: It &s;hall thra&s;h the Nations, and beate downe the mountains, advancing the City and mountain of God over and above all Powers, Authorities, Dignities, and E&s;tates what&s;oever, as it is written; <HI>At the name of Je&s;us &s;hall every knee how, both of things in heaven, things on earth, and things under te earth;</HI> That is, to the power and authority of this King
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King and Kingdom, which by name is &s;ignified; then &s;hall all other Kings and Nations in the whole world be &s;ubjected, which will be more cleared in the next.</P>
<P>The 7. and la&s;t particular, is the place whether he comes, and that is to the earth, he &s;hall &s;tand, or have rule and authority the la&s;t upon the earth, which &s;hall be the pla<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e of his Royalty and Dominion, even the everla&s;ting inhe|ritance of the Saints. <HI>His dominion</HI> (&s;aith the Spirit) <HI>&s;hall be from Sea to Sea:</HI> And the meek (that is, the children of God, the ble&s;&s;ed ones) they &s;hall in|herit the earth with him; For he hath redeemed them out of every Tongue, People, and Nation, <HI>and they &s;hall reigne on the earth:</HI> But the Heavens and Earth that are now, &s;hall be purged, &amp; made all new &amp; holy, where nothing &s;hall dwell then but righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: And not only the Saints, but the whole Creation &s;hall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glori|ous liberty of the Sonnes of God: Then &s;hall Chri&s;t the Lord give the In|heritance to the Heirs apparent; for <HI>Abraham</HI> is not onely the heire of the world, but all the children of the Promi&s;e, that are of the faith of <HI>Abraham,</HI> are joynt-heirs with him. Now all their excellent honours and priviledges as they are in this life inward, and enjoyned by faith and hope, are the earne&s;t penny of the whole perfection: So then after the Re&s;urrection, the things that are now believed and hoped for, &s;hall be then pre&s;ent in the enjoyment for ever, and then faith and hope &s;hall cea&s;e and come to an end: And this everla&s;ting &s;alvation &s;hall not onely be within them, in the perfection of them, but externally upon them al&s;o. For all the Righteous &s;hall be cloathed with a glorious heavenly cloathing: They &s;hall &s;hine as the brightne&s;&s;e of the Firmament, &amp; as the &s;tars for ever &amp; ever, and the whole wicked world &s;hall be judged by them, &s;eeing, knowing, and acknowledging them honou|red of God for ever, whom they in their life-time did &s;corn, per&s;ecute, di&s;|dain and contemn: And they lifting up their heads, out of their pains and torments, &s;hall fall down and wor&s;hip them, and in honour of them lick the du&s;t of their &s;eet, and &s;hall &s;ay one to another <HI>Are not the&s;e they that wee fooles in our life-time, hated &amp; had in a proverb of reproach; but now how doe wee &s;ee them honoured, &amp; our &s;elves ju&s;tly condemned:</HI> In which condemnation they &s;hal be for ever chained and tormented world without end. <HI>Now</HI> as Jannes <HI>and</HI> Jambres <HI>with&s;tood Mo&s;es,</HI> &s;o in your Writings you have with&s;tood Je&s;us; <HI>but as their folly was manife&s;ted to all men, &s;o &s;hall al&s;o yours be:</HI> Wherefore Ma&s;ter <HI>Royle</HI> I pray you to repent, that you may e&s;cape this damnation to come, who am your Friend,</P>
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