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A38823	The Gospel treasury opened, or, The holiest of all unvailing discovering yet more the riches of grace and glory to the vessels of mercy unto whom onely it is given to know the mysteries of that kingdom and the excellency of spirit, power, truth above letter, forms, shadows / in several sermons preached at Kensington & elswhere by John Everard ; whereunto is added the mystical divinity of Dionysius the Areopagite spoken of Acts 17:34 with collections out of other divine authors translated by Dr. Everard, never before printed in English.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1657 (1657)	Wing E3531; ESTC R29421	513,595	936

the 〈◊〉 which is to be smitten and he that doth So ●hall marry Achsah which signifies The Rending or the Tearing of the Vail and so by that means Kiriathsepher the City of the Letter s●all be made unto us Debir the Word So that if you put them together you must read it thus in English And A good Heart said He That smiteth the City of the Letter and taketh it to him will I give the rending of the vail asunder and he shall pass into my holy place and enter into my secret Pavilion or into my Tabernacle he shall behold and enjoy the glory of the Holie of Holies as it is promised in that 15. Psalme This is that S. Iohn wept sore for when the Angel 〈◊〉 proclamation in Rev. 5. with a loud voice Who is worthy to open the Book and to loose the seven seals thereof and no man in heaven or earth was able to open the book or look therein but at length it was revealed that the lion of the Tribe of Iudah the root of David had prevailed to open the book and loose the seals The Letter is not this sealed book for every one reads that humane abilities will reach the Letter and the Grammatical sense The Letter is not the Tree of Life nor the Waters of Life which god promiseth to give unto us The Letter is not the Secret Place of the Most High Every unclean Beast may hear and read therein and drink of these waters But He that hath the word of God shall live for over How many are and have been exercised constantly in That viz. in the Letter and yet not live but perish for ever Many thousands have taken great pains and writ many Volumes and preacht many Sermons and yet never reacht This Living for ever many have read it heard it preacht it and therein have thought they have done God good service and expect to enter and shall say Lord open to us and yet Christ shall say to them Depart ye workers of iniquity For by them the City of the Letter was never smitten and taken but he that shall be admitted to come into this Sanctuary and to eat of this Manna he shall find and say from a true and feeling sense thereof This is heavenly Manna indeed I find these are waters of life indeed for I find they give life to read hear and pray and the like they give no life they are no service to God without the life and power but kill and slay those souls that rest therein as most men do The words as I told you divide themselves into two parts Onus and honos The burthen he that strikes or smiteth Kiriathsepher and taketh it And the honour or reward to him that so doth He shall have Achsah to wife but see here it must be a Good heart must do it not a heart that seeks liberty to the flesh To make the knowledge of Christ as a more easie way to sinning to facilitate encourage them to please the flesh No no my Text sayes it must be a Caleb a good Heart such a Heart as seeks not rest in sinning but such a heart as seeks its Rest onely in God such a heart as hungers and thirsts after God Such a one as labours with all his soul night and day and never can be at Rest in any thing below God And then as it follows here Othniel the Lords fit opportunity or in his good time● he struck it and took it Concerning Onus the burden I intimated that it is not sufficient To Read the Scriptures No though we could say all the Bible without Book and understand it according to the Letter It were nothing to salvation If they would read the whole Old and New Testament over every year as I have known some have made it their task yea and made it their boast nay I say more If it were possible they could read it All over every day in the year yet this were nothing for the Devil can do as much what man can come near him in bringing out Scripture upon all occasions As the flesh of Christ Till it was broken and his precious side Pierced and His Blood shed there was no profit could redound to us as he himself said This is my body which is broken for you this Letter of the Scriptures is As the body of Christ till this side of his be Pierced till this Letter be broken till this Rock be smitten there is no water for us Till the Lord give it down from Heaven there is no Manna no bread for us else we may live and dye with the Scriptures and yet hunger and starve and dye but this body being once broken and this Rock smitten and this Side pierced then we shall find a fountain of living waters springing up to eternal life and precious blood gush out and hidden Manna to nourish us so as we can never dye nor perish neither in this world nor in the world to come As you know bread is not food till it be broken whole bread and whole meat goes into the body and through the body into the draught and yields no nutriment to the body The Nourishment and the life and the spirit of it remains untoucht but if it be broken and chewed then the stomach separates the One and the Other The Vertue and the Excrement which divides and conveys to each way its part Truth it is many toss and tumble the Letter and have it much in their mouths and rowl it up and down but never crack it never break it though they seem so to do and make you believe they expound it and give you the sense and the vertue yet how shallow how literal how humane how low how sensual and carnal do they make the Word to be even your Rabbies your Doctors your great Schollars Which shews If that God himself if the Lion of the Tribe of Iudah If the Root of David do not open the Seals t is not all the learning or all the Universities in the world can help us to the Mystery And the Mind of Christ as the Apostle calls it Truth is The worst of men wicked men they feed but upon husks upon Excrements upon the Letter and keep a great stir and a great noise about that they indeed champ that in their mouths but they let the nourishment the vertue and the marrow escape They eat not of the childrens bread that is not for dogs as our Lord saith to the woman of Canaan As in Luk. 15. in the History of the Prodigal there wicked men the worst of men Carnal men they are there compared unto Swine because that any trash any Excrement or the refuse of any thing will serve their turn they feed upon Husks and it agrees well enough to their stomacks that satisfies and they neither desire nor know any better food and as their meat is so are they carnal and fleshly and earthly

like a swine spake like a swine conversed like a swine and all this because he fed and fared like a swine he lived upon Husks the Letter of the Word without the Spirit and the MARROW And that would suffer them to follow the World To wallow in the pleasures the profits the honours thereof these and the like these he fed upon and these relished with him and nothing else but such like Husks and Excrements and Altogether carnal things was his meat and his delight Will not new food alter all even the whole man Judge therefore Brethren whether we may not call The Letter of this blessed wholsome and Heavenly Book which within it contains the Heavenly Manna and Angels food any other but the Husks To such men Whether it be any thing else to these men but the City of the Letter the Book sealed The Fleshly and bodily exercise which profiteth them nothing It is not yet Debir to them its true they call it the Word of God as the Jews did Oh! the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord so they call it the Word the word I by all means t is The Word of God but you see it is not the Word to them for where is the Nourishment they get from it If they fed upon the Life and Marrow Alas to day How would it Alter their Lives and their Looks and reform their wayes and make them Look like Christians doing the works of Christians But they smooth themselves up with Crying The Temple of the Lord and The Temple of the Lord with a meer outside profession of godliness But the Prophet Tells them there They were deceived For saith he The Temple of the Lord Are these If ye Throughly amend your wayes and your doings If ye throughly exercise Iudgement between man and man c. But will you steal and murder and lye and commit Adultery and swear falsly and burn Incense to Baal and serve other gods and oppress the stranger the fatherless and the widow c. and then come and stand before me in my House which is called by my name and say we are delivered what for To do All these Abominations Is This House which is Called by my Name become A House of Thieves and a Den of Robbers Therefore I charge you in the name of God and as ever ye hope for heaven or think to see Gods face learn yet I know it is not in your power to learn but this I say To shew what you should be and what you must be if ever you enter into the Kingdom of God learn henceforward I say Not to keep this Book in your houses onely and in your heads But to BREAK the body of Christ that you may eat of the True bread saith our Lord This is my body which is BROKEN for you Learn to smite the rock that you may get the pure water of life running from under the Throne of God and the Lamb In the new Ierusalem and not outwardly to touch it onely for that will do thee no more good then if thou hadst Touched the body of Christ when he was upon earth yet many desired to see him and rejoyced to see him and To converse with him and Touch him and so it is now and alwayes hath been in all ages with most Professours in regard of the Letter and Externals of the Word Christs body does us no good except his body be broken and his blood shed for us Neither will the water you draw out of the Letter do you any more good for your souls then that water the woman of Samaria drew out of Iacobs well And He that drinketh of that shall Thirst again But He that drinketh of the Water that Christ giveth He shall never Thirst and It shall be IN HIM An Everlasting Well of water Springing up to Everlasting Life Let us Ministers and All others learn Rightly to divide the word of truth and not take the Outside alone but Outside and Inside together and then you shall find what it is To marry Achsah and to have The Rending of the Vail What it is to have The Upper Springs And the Nether Springs given you as your JOINTURE Let no man for Any thing that I have said think to undervalue the Letter and to trample it underfoot as Excrements and Prophane For though this be The Shell The Outside yet it is the Shell and it is the Outside but this is that I still say There is something within of more price of greater value Thus far prize it In that God hath by this means given us the Kernel In the Shell is the kernel to be found and without the shell ye cannot have the kernel As we can never see LIFE but we must see it in a mortal thing That lives so The Ever blessed Sweet and eternal Truth is in the Letter Hid as life is in Accidents and as fire in a thing fired for True Fire The Element of Fire ye can never see And Truth is as an Oyster in the shell fast shut up which shell must be forced open before you can have the meat And he that doth thus by the letter shall have the meat the vail Rent for him he shall have the priveledge to pry into the secrets of my God and he shall enter into his High and Holy place Now I humbly beseech God Almighty that your eyes may be opened to behold Those M●steries that are Within Paul that blessed High-Flowen self-denied Apostle He being brought to this he not onely confest he saw things unutterable unspeakable so that he was so ravished therewith he knew not whether He was in the body or no but also this was another effect in him of the sight of these things Then sayes he I will henceforth know no man after the flesh Why because that was nothing many glory in the flesh in the letter in that they have seen the body of Christ That they have the Bible in daily use As if he should say away now with all these poor empty things Henceforth I will know no man after the flesh no though I had seen the Lord Christ after the flesh he would now he was come to this condition know nothing after the flesh no more no he went so far as to say that in that case he valued not the very body of Jesus Christ which was a very High and A strange word Men after the flesh And after the Letter judge it no better then blasphemy and would say so but that it s written in the Bible and had many that profess themselves Teachers and knowing men heard Paul say so not knowing him to be as he was they would not have been able To comprehend Pauls reach but All their voices would have gone clear To have burnt him for an Heretick And Christ himself also For many of whose actions were such they would have cryed Away with him Cruc●●ie ●im Crucifie Him it s not fit he should

nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. So much concerning that we come to the third that is Forsaking all things Of what degree and condition soever though not actually it may be we are not called to that but yet to forsake them alwayes in affection to be alwayes in readiness to forsake All if God cal to it Many think they have done this they are ready to say with Peter Mat. 19. 27. Lo master we have forsaken al but Peter was deceived he had forsaken very little and I doubt by that time we are tryed we shall be found very tardy in this very thing But before I go any further I will answer one objection which it may be lies in some of your minds You tell us of these high duties of Condemnation and Annihilation and forsaking all things in the world and indifferency but what is all this without faith they are but splendida peccata golden sins for whatsoever is not of faith is sin and we never heard you name faith in all this I answer Though I never expressed it in words yet it is necessarily implyed for that is the weight of all faith is the ground of all faith in it self is a secret thing it is The Evidence of things not seen Heb. 11. 1. that being the ground and foundation you know The foundation that holds all for wheresoever you see a glorious building ye will not imagine but that it hath a foundation though it be hid from your eyes but as it is said Rev. 13. 10. Behold here is the faith and patience of the Saints so say I Behold they can forsake father and mother and wife and children and all yea and their own lives too or else he is not worthy to be my Disciple Luk. 14. 33. Behold Here is a glorious Building Built by God himself as when the Disciples wondred at the building of the Temple Christ takes them off wondring as having no such gloriousness in it because the time should come there should not be a stone upon a stone which should not be thrown down Mar. 13. 1. His wondring was taken up about things of another nature But our Saviour Christ saith there wonder not that I said unto you he that forsakes not father and mother c. he is not worthy of me but I say unto you that he that hates not father and mother and wife and children yea and his own life too cannot be my Disciple v. 26. But Oh this Scripture comes so tart and so thwart to flesh and bloud they cannot endure it they cry out durus sermo as the Papists say concerning the second Commandment it comes so directly contrary to making of Images that there is no way but it must be blotted out of the Decalogue So is it with this Scripture flesh and bloud cryes out down with this Scripture away with it out upon it it is impossible for any man to perform it or else they cry out Oh give it some allay some moderation some interpretation some mitigation else we cannot bear it I if it come in competition with that and other things too that either we must forsake Christ or forsake them here now flesh and bloud can bear with it But say I away away with all these things These fleshly interpretations Do you think Christ knew not what he said Bring thy self to the Word and not the Word to thee All these things are offence unto me Behold as S. Paul saith I tell you A mystery He that loves any thing in the whole world that is visible any thing that is visible in thy wife or visible in thy children or visible in thy father or mother c. I say if thou lovest any thing visible in the whole world let it be what it will be This love it arises from flesh and bloud and it is guided by flesh and bloud and is terminated and ends in flesh and bloud For the body is but the brutish part flesh and bloud is the worser part of man or woman for think but from whence this comes look back and see the pit whence you were digged see the womb in which you were nourished and with what The womb was but made of the dust of the earth and of the same art thou made and thou wert there nourished by by the flesh of beasts Fowl or fish such as thy mother Eate and when thou art brought forth by the same is thy life continued and all is but fleshly and beastlike actions for the brute beasts do as much they eat and drink and seek to maintain life and propagate their kind and delight therein and if thou doest no more thy love is but Earthly sensual and devillish Iam. 3. 15. but if thou wouldst have thy love to be Pure Then learn to separate separate the precious from the vile Jer. 15. 19. if thou separate then shalt thou be as my m●uth c. Thou must love that which is divine in them thou must love their internal part Their Souls Thou must love the image of God in them and if thou do not separate herein the precious from the vile Christ when he comes he will do it then and if thy love be set upon the vile thou and it go together for as it began had its original continuance and end in flesh and blood so in flesh and bloud it shall have its reward thou lovedst it and it loved thee And I may say as Christ said in another case Verily verily I say unto you you have your reward Himself did make a separation of the precious from the vile when he was on earth and so he will do when he comes to judgement as when some came and told him when he was in the Temple thy Mother and Brethren stand without desiring to speak with thee he answers who are my Mother and Sisters and Brethren they that hear the Word of God and keep it the same are my Mother Brethren and Sisters He there separated the precious from the vile as if he should say Do you think that I look as men look and that I esteem as men esteem No as Mat. 23. 8. I look upon you all as Brethren for ye are all the children of you heavenly father I look upon that which makes you all Brethren and as you are a compleat body having one Master and one Father I look not upon you as divided but as one for a Kingdom divided against it self that Kingdom cannot stand Belzebubs Kingdom is not divided and shall Gods House shall Gods Kingdom be Therefore he that loves any visible thing his love is but fleshly and you can expect no better then a fleshly reward I but some will say to me t is true we know we ought not to love them as them but we onely love them so far forth as

strange Gods Answ. No no God forbid that I should Intice you to Idolatry or to serve strange Gods Nor are these things beloved neither querks or quillets or new devices for do not think I durst bring you here any thing but what my God hath Bid me speak and what he puts in my mouth to speak They are no devices of my own but I assure you they are rich Iewels taken out of the precious cabinet of God They are Chrystal streams from God the fountain of them clear as chrystal proceeding from the Throne of God and of the Lamb. They are things that I have not brought here presently upon the phansie of my own brain but things that I have seen and known by some experience thereof in my self Things that I have long long debated in my own soul and in serious consideration before ever I durst deliver it to you as a message from my Master But Beloved if you for all this do count these things Foolishness Gods Spirit will And doth call you Fools Do not do by me as the Gergesens did by Christ because he did but onely separate them from their swine they went out to meet him and besought him to depart from their coasts Notwithstanding all the good he might have done them in his miracles And in curing them and their diseases they slight all this because they had lost their swine So Because I desire to separate you and your swinishness asunder you and your beastliness asunder you and your earthliness asunder you care not for it what ever good and benefit this may be to the healing and curing of your souls And if I do cast pearles before swine And they turn again and all to rent me I cannot help it The Lord hath opened my mouth wide towards you And I beseech him to open All our Hearts As he did Lydia's But to the Old man this Doctrine is very Harsh and flesh and Blood will not endure it But to the New man this Yoak is easie and this burden is Light And no wonder though a body made and bred of and with these carnal things as it is I say no wonder though nothing please it and relish with it but what tends to These things No marvell though we shut our ears against this spiritual Divine Doctrine for as it is said Heb. 10. 36. Ye have need of Patience that after ye have done the will of God ye may receive the promise so indeed may I say herein We have need of patience That we may be Thus moulded to Gods will That we may be as pliable to his will As wax is to the seal and then we shall be sure alwayes either to please God or God shall please us or both Then All shall be at peace Then shall there be no more war between God and us Then we shall have Endless peace As in the Revelation a 1000 years there is put for Eternity for from whence came wars saith the Apostle Iames come they not hence even from your lusts And again we lust and have not we desire and are not satisfied because we ask it to bestow it on our lusts Now he that hath attained the practice of this LIFE I speak of He is alwayes satisfied but so far as we come short when we desire any thing and God gives it not Then we fall at wars with God And censure his proceedings Having Harsh thoughts of Him The Apostle Iude among all the grievous sins that he speaks of He reckons up Murmurers complainers That is Mistakers of Gods doings and he brings the example of Corah whom the earth swallowed up quick for that very sin But we Because the earth hath swallowed us up quick already therefore we murmur and complain And as Christ said to Peter Why doubtest thou O thou of little faith so say I Why murmur you Oh you of little faith Why do you murmur against your infinite Good God and most gracious Father who hath promised you ye shall want for nothing why dare you not trust him And why do you accuse your God of Untruth and strait-handedness what displeases you Oh ye of little faith let me but reconcile you together As he thinks well of you and intends well to you So do yo● esteem alwayes well of him and of his doings Do you not believe That God He is your Father and if you account your selves His children he will give you All good things Mat. 7. 11. Then he content To let him be wiser then you O but I know you will say to me God forbid but we should do so he knows what is best for us better then we This we have been taught long ago this is a Received Truth This is plain in the Word And in our Catechisms which we learned when we were Children And what do we do with the word if we believe not All this let us throw away our Bibles let us burn our Bibles if we do not believe and sent to our seal that this is true And if I should ask you Do you not believe that God is your Physician Yes And will you direct your Physician what order he shall take with you And will you tell him what is fittest for you Surely then if you mistake any thing that God does to you or direct him what he shall do whatever your confessions be with your mouths you proclaim your selves Wiser then God Doth not he know when to give you health and when sickness when to give you wealth and when to give you want when to give you honour and when to give you dishonour doth he not know when to give you peace and when to give you war Doth not this Great Master of the whole World know how to give to al his houshold their meat in due season I know you acknowledge all this And that God if he saw it good can give you your desire for he can do as he pleaseth And he hath the disposing of all these things And that it is in vain to rise early and go to bed late and eat the bread of carefulness for he alone giveth his beloved sleep And our Saviour sayes Mat. 6. 31. Take no thought what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things for sufficient for the day is the labour thereof and care not for the morrow the morrow shall care for it self But if you confess Also Believe These things then might I save my labour But your practise shews you do not For if God do not give that which thy flesh desireth yet thou oughtest to be content Obj. I but Sir shall I not labour and be industrious in my calling Answ. Yes by all means or else the Apostle saith you must not eat and it is commanded Eccl. 11. 6. In the morning sow thy seed and in the evening let not thy hand rest But This thou art to do

God t is onely his well-beloved in us and who also is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared and revealed him Whatever it be that a man sees or comprehends that cannot be God that cannot be truth It can be at most but the Emblem the shadow of truth as in a man we cannot see his life but we may see him live even so truth cannot be seen but you may see the Effects and Fruits of truth But he that marries Achsah To him will I give The Rending of the Vail that is He shall see as much As a creature Can See and live as God said to Moses Achsah She will give you A glimpse A sight through the cleft of the rock as was to Moses The Back-parts of IEHOVAH But Truth cannot be seen In the True glory and splendor thereof onely the back parts of her She will admit you into the Sanctum Sanctorum she will beg of her Father to give you a blessing that seeing he hath given you the south-land as it is here in this Chapter that he will give you Springs of water That you shal not onely have the Nether Springs The Letter of the Word External Ordinances and outward Duties Bodily Worships and the like but you shall have The Upper Springs The life of the Letter the power the quickning Spirit to see not onely Christs body and touch it but you shall have the vertue of The breaking of His Body and the benefit of the sheding of his blood And When the Vail is Rent take but a short view of those priviledges and precious things you shall then have Though I have hinted at them in general as I went along yet let us view a little the particular things contained within the Holie of Holies as time at present will give leave When ye came to the Tabernacle there was first as I told you A worldly sanctuary as the Apostle sets them down Heb. 9. 1. And therein was Ordinances and Divine service for so the Apostle calls it in the first verse And therein was the Candlesticks and the table and the Shew-bread and thither came the Priests and did their office there was sacrifices and offerings for themselves and all the people And All they could learn there was but worldly and external Ordinances bodily worships which concerned not the heart and the inward man But if they offered such and such External things as was required this was all But into the second Vail within the Holie of Holies thither the High Priest must come but once a year for we shall onely at present touch at those particulars mentioned there by the Apostle And first There was the golden Censer which typified Christs offering the prayers of the Saints as it is exprest Rev. 8. there is an Angel which had the Golden Censer and there was given him much Incense that he should offer it with the prayers of the Saints upon the golden Altar which Angel is Jesus Christ the Angel of the Covenant shewing unto us thus much that he is the Mediator between God and man for whose sake all our services are accepted nothing is accepted from us with the Father But what his Son doth in us Be they never such glorious actions and done with never so specious religious pretences yet if they be Our actions they stink they are abominable In him onely he is well pleased They are his actions onely that can be savour● meat to him Although as they be our actions they may seem beautiful and glorious to us yet to him they stink A dead man hath the shape of a man but he stinketh So thy duties though they have the shape of Right and Holy duties to us yet they are to him but dead works Heb. 9. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God who through the eternal spirit offered himself When your services are not from an Internal prin●iple from the work of the Eternal Spirit but are like the Motion of Clocks and Watches which is from Art and External weights not from nature all such services are dead works Within the Vail we come really to see All our works nothing they are abominable yet we think highly of them While we remain in the worldly Sanctuary and are gotten no farther But here within the Vail God speaks to us as he did to Iob and we are convinced of our Vileness Behold saith Iob then I am vile I will lay my hand upon my mouth I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee I abhor my self in dust and ashes Iob had oft made confession of sin before in words and in the notion And practised dayly External worship but yet we may see all along for all tha● what an high Opinion Iob had of himself of his strictness and righteousness Iob sacrificed often and constantly and observed the letter very strictly and thereby Iob maintained a high opinion of himself But now the vail must be rent and God must appear himself to darken and confound all Iobs righteousness before Iob could say I am vile Iob was strict in Externals but Iob could not Really loath and Abhor himself though in words he might as many can easily and frequently do that dayly but to be really VILE in themselves this work is from above from Heaven from God And so we come to see what it is and for what we or our actions are accepted it must be his sons work in us else he loaths all even the best of your Sacrifices if it be not Jesus Christ in us that doth All viz. that loves God and Fears God and obeyes God and believes in God c. his Father regards it not that may seem a Paradox but yet it is a truth for indeed and in truth there is nothing fears God but God nor Nothing obeys God● but God nor Nothing loves God but God He a●cepts his own work in us and nothing else God cannot accept any thing any creature doth out of himself but what himself doth what his Son doth that pleases him that he canno● but accept This is that Achsah that so pleases her Father that he can deny her nothing This is the first thing we shall have after the Vail is rent and none can attain this Really and in good earnest But He to whom the vail is Rent The next thing there Exprest is The Ark overlaid with Gold the Ark of the Covenant overlaid with gold overlaid round about with pure gold Having married Achsah we shall also have power to break open this Mystery Christ is He in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen they are all fulfilled in him As all our actions must be derived from him as from the fountain that is if they be not quickned and animated with the power purity holiness excellency of Jesus Christ that they are of himself and of his own

ascribed to him He gave them favour and he hardened the heart of Pharaoh and He bid Shimei cur●e David and the like Be assured whatever clashing and dashing thou observest in the world So as to thy thinking all will come to Nought and Miscarry yet be assured He it is that keeps all Guides all from dashing one against another but so far as his wisdom will have it so and it must be so for the accomplishment of his most holy ends O therefore let Vain man and his ignorance Nay his wisdom and his will stoop yea stoop to the very dust before him and leave all to him and be afraid To Censure His doings or to say concerning the Almighty Such an action was not well done Such a man O it were well if he were Removed Oh! he doth a great deal of hurt Oh! let him be cut off Oh! Beloved know God Almighty is a God of Infinite wisdom and art thou wiser then he must it needs be as thou conceivest no no you are deceived submit your judgements to him Expand and give up your selves and all you are and have to his Wisdom and Soveraignity and do not once dare to oppose that Infinite Infinite Wisdom of God in comparison of whose wisdom all the wisdom of all men and Angels put together is but folly before him He chargeth his Angels with folly and the Heavens are unclean in his sight what art thou then Poor Crawling worm to lift up thy self in his presence But thus to see God Doing all This is that Moses saw by the eye of faith in this Burning Bush It is He that Overturns the world It is He that burns every Creature New-forms and New-shapes The whole Universe He is that Great Potter that makes destroys and Re-makes at his pleasure what vessels he pleaseth He maketh vessels of honour and dishonour He alters and changes every Creature New-moulds and New-makes all and yet he destroys nothing And know this and set to thy seal that whatever He doth He cannot but do all things well superlatively well so well as it cannot be better And hereby the Lord will also set His seal to this soul so that He and It are so joyned together and made One that they will never part But he that looks upon the bare vision in the bare letter he cannot see these things What is it to him that Moses saw the vision That is gone and past But dost thou see what Moses saw Dost thou see all acted altered and changed by him Dost thou see Him alone doing all That it is He that Vn-makes and New-makes That it is He that makes men yong and makes men Old That it is He that bringeth to the grave and turneth man to destruction and saith at his pleasure return again ye sons of men That it is He that maketh and formeth man and all Creatures and bringeth them back again to their first principles and thereof Creates Raiseth and re-makes new Creatures Dost thou Thus see That the whole Universe is but a Body acted and guided by one soul by one spirit And that it is nothing else but a Carcase moved and led up and down by one spirit And that He is the substance of all and of every Creature the meanest the smallest the vilest as well as of the most glorious Dost thou see HIM in the midst of all this changing and tumbling up and down That it is He that destroys and preserves all things Unmakes Re-makes as the Potter doth and yet the clay is the same but that it is he which is still producing new forms Dost thou see that it is He that doth all these things that it is He that preserves all and weighs all so that nothing is lost For did not he Preserve all entire in themselves every element in its Property and Nature and keep them within their own bounds which is His Excelling glory they would presently devour and Overcome one another Fire if it did predominate were not bounded it would turn all things into Fire it would make all things like it self And so of Water it would turn all to Water and so of the rest But he hath set them their bounds which they cannot pass hitherto shalt thou come and no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed So that he keeps all things Entire in their own Element and every thing in its Proper place And in all this change or alteration and tumbling of the elements together Herein is His power seen That there is nothing lost nor diminished Dost thou see all this and that it is He that ruleth the Nations and that it is He alone that reigneth and that HE commandeth and ordereth the affairs of Princes all Nations and that all the Kings of the earth are in his hands My times are onely in thine hand saith David And know though thou thinkest That Kings and Rulers and others walk according to their Own wills and contrary to thine and thou art therefore offended yet know They all walk according to my will and pleasure saith God and though thou and they think otherwise and though they have no such purpose to obey my will but to please themselves and fulfil their own wills and not mine yet I have them so in my hand that they shall all in the end serve to my praise glory yea even in that they think they serve themselves and their own ends Poor Ignorant souls Alas when as they glory and pride themselves in their great pomp attendance and command and think that it is They that Rule when as they see not Psal. 66. 7. that it is He that ruleth by his power for ever and ever And Dan. 4. 17. The most High ruleth in the Kingdoms of men He it is alone that doth whatsoever He will and not they wil He sendeth the sword giveth it a Commission The Sword never awakes Till he say awake O sword And t is said of our Saviour That he came to bring peace unto men Luk. 2. 14. Peace on earth and good will towards men And yet our Saviour saith again Matth. 10. 34. I come not to send peace but a sword and vers 35. I am come to set a man against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in Law against her mother in Law c. what strange contradictions are here What flesh and blood can reconcile these Scriptures yet both very true Again dost thou see That it is he that shall change these our vile bodies and make them like the glorious body of Iesus Christ Phil. 3. 21. Jesus Christ will purifie tho●● that cleave to him and purifie them like unto himself Fire I told you never rests working and purifying till it hath brought All things to be as pure as it self So That Divine Fire Jesus Christ will never leave purifying and cleansing His people till he