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A61692	A short discovery of certain truths of God according as they are revealed through the manifestation of the eternal light of the Son of righteousnesse, which are, a reply against two things in an epistle, and, an answer to certain queries contained in a book, intituled Christian queries, to quaking Christians, subscribed by one J.B. : also queries propounded, to be answered by the authour of the same book, or any other / by John Story.	Story, John, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing S5753; ESTC R4917	25,813	34

that spiritual Feast which is kept amongst the children of God for whom Christ their Passover is sacrificed and by his power they purge out the old leaven and keep this spiritual Feast not with the old leaven neither with the leaven of malice but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 2 Cor. 5. 7. 8. for the bread of God which comes down from Heaven is that by which they keep this spiritual feast and the flesh and bloud of Christ is this bread which the holy people break and spiritually feed upon and the incomes of his love is that spirituall wine by which he doth wonderfully refresh their souls through which they come to grow into the endlesse life and in which they more abundantly partake of the everlasting consolation that is in Christ Jesus in which they spiritually eat and drink with him and he with them who are his lillies in his heavenly Kingdome And this is a small hint of that spiritual Passeover or feast which was and is kept by the Saints in this glorious Gospel-day through which the night is expelling and the shadowes vanishing away Glory glory be unto the Lord our God for ever But to return this practice of breaking of bread together was continued by the Apostles in the Churches as I. B. hath already instanced Acts 2. 46. And they brake bread from house to house and ate their meat with singleness of heart as is the practice of true Christians at this day and in which they ought to continue to the end that whether they eat they may eat unto the Lord or whether they drink they may do it unto him not making an idol of the creature or any Christian practice be it never so good in it self but may both eye and discern the Lord in all their practices and duties which was that good end for which the Apostle delivered unto the Church of Corinth the thing in question practised by Christ and his Apostles at the Passeover which many did soon abuse if not idolize even in his time for which he often reproved them 1 Cor. 10. 14. 1 Cor. 11. 20. where he saith When ye come together this is not to eat the Lords Supper for in eating every one takes before other his own supper and one is hungry and another drunken and tells them vers 25 26. As often as they break the bread and drink the cup they should do it in remembrance saying they that eat and drink unworthily eat and drink damnation to themselves not discerning the Lords body vers 29. Oh that all drunkards and gluttoners ignorant persons who make an idol of the creature in breaking the bread and drinking the cup unworthily Oh that they would seriously consider and lay these things to heart that they may not henceforth any more break the bread and drink the cup unworthily in the sinfull lust of the flesh the doing of which brings them to be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord in that they eat to and feed the same lusts of the world as was in them which slew him and none can be partakers of the table of the Lord while they thus feed at the table of Devils 1 Cor. 10. 21. But it may be the enemy will tell them it is no such thing for they neither are nor drank that day before they break that bread and drink that cup and call to natural memory with trembling and fear before they practice the thing before mentioned that Christs body was broken for them and his bloud shed for them the which I say all this thou maist do and yet be an idolatrous and unworthy eater in an unholy fear adoring the outward bread and the cup beyond what is meet even as there are too many that look upon it to be more then a sign and worship it as the thing signified and so in ignorance worship the bread and the cup as a God at sometime and at other times using it without that holy fear and remembrance in which Christs body is discerned and the heavenly virtues and fulnesse thereof enjoyed which fills all things and is that glorious and everlasting substance which lives and remains when all created excellencies come to an end and shadows are past away and is that eternal fountain which fills with spiritual grace and satisfaction all that in sincerity love him for ever and for evermore 6. Query Whether Christians are not bound to the performance of such religious duties as were practised by the people of God under the law and not abrogated by the Gospel 1. Whether Christians ought not to pray morning and evening as David very frequently did evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice Psa 55. 17. Or 2. Is it not lawfull for Christians to appoint and set apart a convenient time and season for the performance of religious exercises as did Daniel who not withstanding the Kings command thought himself obliged not to omit his duty once but prayed three times a day Dan. 6. 10 13. Or 3. Are we only to pray when our own spirits move us and not at the motion of Gods Spirit which bids us to pray continually or te be always in a frame and frequent in the duty of prayer 1 Thes 5. 17. Or 4. Whether it be not a duty incumbent upon all Christians to exercise family duties as the people of God in former times did whether parents ought not to instruct their children masters their servants for which God so much commended Abraham because he would command his children his houshold after him Gen. 18. 17 18 19. 5. Whether it be the duty of all Christians frequently to read over confer about the holy Scriptures both in their families with others as the Lord commanded the children of Israel thou shalt teath them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down Deut. 6. 7. Nay 6. Whether is it not necessary for all Christians to beg Gods blessing with and return him thanks for every mercy they receive according to the practice of our blessee Saviour who when he fed so many thousands would first look up to heaven for a blessing upon what they enjoyed on earth Mat. 6. 41. And after his Resurrection he practised the same thing amongst his disciples Luke 24. 30. Whose blessed example the Apostle followed taking bread and giving thanks in the presence of them all Acts 27. 35. further recommending it to the practice of others that in every thing they would give thanks as the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning them 1 Thess 5. 18. Answ Christians are bound to the practice of many religious duties which was practised by the people of God under the Law for though the cerimonies types and shadws of the Law or first Covenant are abolished by the Gospel yet the weighty matters are

perfecting of the Saints Eph. 4. 12. But as I have already said the Saints which die in the faith shall be saved though they be far short of that excellent state of perfect men in Christ who are witnesses of his fulnesse and stature For some of Gods people die or put off this earthly tabernacle soon after their conversion while they are but even young in the faith and children even babes in the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ yet through faith they are heirs of the promise and by the birth immortal they have a true title to the Kingdome of God though such who are weak in the faith may be so assaulted many times with doubts false fears and temptations of the evil one and in their departure even so strongly beset as the perfect man in Christ is not because all his spiritual enemies are conquered and put in subjection so that he is in rest being perfectly assured when the earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved he hath a house not made with hands 2 Cor. 5. 1. First those Scriptures which exhort to perfection doubtlesse intends perfection it self in the heighth of it as well as in the degrees though the Saints which attains it attain it by degrees as by growing from one degree of grace and strength in Christ unto another as the Psalmist saith They go from strength to strength until every one appears before God in Sion Psal 84. 7. And the Apostle said When he was a child he spake as a child understood as a child and thought as a child but when he became a man he put away childish things 1 Cor. 13. 11. Secondly there is a perfection of sincerity and he that through the faith and power of our Lord Jesus attains this perfection of sincerity ceaseth from all sin and he that in this sincerity or any degree of it believes and walks in obedience to the Gospel is justified through the righteousnesse of our Lord Jesus of which he is an heir through faith 5. Query Whether Jesus Christ did not institute and appoint certain ordinances under the Gospel for his Churches to observe and keep until his coming 1. Did he not institute that ordinance of his Supper and enjoyn his disciples to observe it in remembrance of him Luke 22. 19 20. And 2. is it not recorded of the Primitive Church how they continued this ordinance Acts 2. 46. 3. Why doth the Apostle Paul commend the practice of it to the Church of Corinth and tells them whence he had it for saith he I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you and so repeats the manner how it was first instituted 1 Cor. 11. 23. 26. or 4. are these ordinances ce●sed and now out of date if so pray tell us when they first expired hath not himself told us that they should last untill his coming or is he already come and we knew it not if he be it must be onely by his spiritual presence and so he was with the Primitive Church and that in a greater measure then now adayes yet did they continue in all the ordinances of the Gospel Or 5. may we not rather understand his coming to be meant of his second coming spoken of by the Angel at his ascention when he shall come in like manner as he was seen to goe into heaven Acts 1. 10 11. Answ The matter in question is a thing about which there hath been more idolatry and evil practized by the false Christians than any other thing partaining to Christian Religion since the dark and long night of Apostacy that hath overshadowed Christendome which Apostacy was beginning to come in even in the Apostles dayes Oh! when I consider the bloud of Christians which hath been shed about this very thing it doth afflict my very heart and cause my soul to cry alas alas that ever Christians should be so far deluded misled as to shed the bloud one of another about the outward practice of Christianity which are but in comparison to the more weighty matters as the very outward Courts or Suburbs of Christian Religion Christ did institute the breaking of Bread as it is written when our Saviour with his disciples was eating the Passeover a Feast of the Jews pertaining to the ministration of the Law in which was many shadows of good things to come And as they were eating this Passover according to the Law he said unto his Disciples With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I say unto you I will no more eat thereof till it be fulfilled in the Kingdome of God Luk. 22. 15 16. and as they were eating he took bread and gave thanks and break it and gave it to them saying This is my body which is given for you this doe in remembrance of me likewise he took the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the new Testament in my bloud which is shed for you Mark 14. 20. Luke 22. 19 20. and by this sign his death who is our Passover was signified or shewed and not onely by the Bread and the Cup but by the Lamb without blemish of which a bone was not to be broken Exod. 12. 46. in which practice they continued unto his coming even so to remember him when they break the Bread and drank the Cup as that thereby they shewed forth his death till he came not eating and drinking damnation unto themselves as those who did and doth break the Bread and drink the Cup unworthily who eats to the lust and drinks to the lust even feeding themselves without fear whose table is not the table of the Lord but the table of Devils at which they are so far from discerning the Lords body and fulnesse which fills all in all that they neither break that Bread in remembrance of him nor to him but even to the lust by which he was crucified and slain but the Disciples who practized this outward sign by which his death was shewn were witnesses of his resurrection and coming again not onely unto but spiritually to dwell in them according to his promise where he saith I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come unto you John 14. 18. in which he eat with them and they with him as he said I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine untill that day I shall drink it new with you in my fathers Kingdome Mat. 26. 29. and I say unro you I will no more eat thereof untill it be fulfilled in the Kingdome of God but the inward enjoyment of the substance of this outward sign by which was signified the death or sacrifice of Christ the immaculate Lamb of God who is our spiritual Passover that is sacrificed for us is a mystery which by the vulturous eye was never seen as it is fulfilled to the true Disciples in Christ spiritual Kingdome in which our Saviour sups with them and they with him and is no other then

not him Christ bids them not forbid him alledging that he which is not against us is with us Luke 9. 49 50. And so the Apostle would have every man perswaded in his own mind Rom. 14. 5. and I know no reason why ye should condemn any man for being in the dark because he sees not by your light Answ Christians ought to have charity one towards another and they who are true Christians have not only in name but in nature Charity and love which reacheth even to those who differ from them in judgement First by love they labour to instruct those Christians who are in error that if possible they might reclaim them from error by the force of the love and word of God but the spiritual striving and war on the true Christian's part is not against flesh and bloud but against that spirit of darkness which misguides the mind If the true Christian doth not hereby gain the false Christian to the way of life yet he should walk in all love and gentleness towards him not endeavouring by force and violence to destroy his body for the error of his mind or to cut off his life from the earth as the Papists and false Christians ever have done against those true Christians whose minds and consciences they could never overcome for which cruel persecution they have no example amongst the Ministers of Christ whose practice therein hath stained their Church with the guilt of bloud which hath and will cause a curse and infamy to come upon them which never shall be forgotten Secondly All men in the world are in the dark that in some measure sees not by the light of the Lamb in which we and all Nations of them that are saved must walk Rev. 21. 24. But it is not the practice of Christians who are grown in grace to condemn and judge others because they are not fully come up to their rule and degree of righteousnesse in every particular though some who are young in the truth and yet disciples may through weaknesse if not watchful and diligent to hearken unto their Lord and Master even erre in those things as the disciples of old were apt to do as I. B. hath already instanced Luke 9. 49 50. who forbid the man to cast out devils in the name of Christ because he followed them not and would have had fire to come down from heaven upon those Samaritans that did not presently receive him Luke 9. 54. 11. Query Whether it be not the duty of Christians to observe and set apart one day in seven for the more solemn service of God and 1. Whether God himself did not appoint and the people of God in all ages keep such a day Gen. 2. 2 3. Exod. 20. 8. 2. Whether the Sabbath was ever abrogated by Jesus Christ or only changed and another kept in the room of the first and 3. Whether the first day of the week be not the true Christian Sabbath We read that it was the custome of the Apostles chiefly to meet on this day John 20. 19. Acts 20. 7. and that they made collections for the poor on this day 1 Cor. 16. 2. and John was in the Spirit on the Lords day Rev. 1. 10. Answ Christians did set apart times to wait upon and worship the Lord in Spirit and truth and they did meet together to perform this solemn service and duty to God upon the first day of the week as the Scriptures testify which I. B. hath instanced and that on that day they made collections for charitable uses First But that they were commanded in the same manner to observe that day as the Jews were to observe the seventh day that I must deny and I also do deny that that day was set apart and brought in th● room of the seventh day to answer that end for which the seventh day Sabbath was given which was a sign of that happy restauration which should and is come to mankind by the glorious Gospel of Christ in whose day mans soul is redeemed from the bondage of corruption and recovered from under the fore travail and pain of the curse into the liberty of Gods children where all weights and burthens are cast off and the soul comes to be perfectly freed from its long captivity and sore bondage through which it returns into that spiritual rest which the outward day was but a shadow of and all who are come into this endlesse Sabbath or holy day of God their souls dwell at ease and they are in perfect rest so as to bear no burthen neither to travail under the load of sin and the curse any more and this is a small hint of that felicity and happy state which God in mercy figured out unto man while he was yet under the burthen by the outward Sabbath day or sign of rest as it is written I gave them my Sabbath for a sign between me and them Ezek. 20. 12. Col. 2. 16. Let no man judge you in meats or in drinks in respect of an holy day or of the new Moon or of the Sabbath day which are shadows of things to come but the body is of Christ Therefore I say the day of Christ being dawned and he the substance being come the outward figure must needs be abrogated and the shadow past away 12. Query Whether it be not lawful for Christians to swear if called thereunto for the attestation of some truth and 1. Whether Abraham did sin in making his servant to swear unto him Gen. 24. 3. Or 2. Whether swearing be not a ready way to put an end to all controversies as the Apostle saith Heb. 6. 16. Answ This is a point about which much hath been very fully and clearly written by several other hands therefore I need not say much to it only this I say 't is not lawfull for a Christian under the Gospel ministration to swear First though Abraham did not sin in causing his servant to swear and though those holy men did not sin who under the first covenant swore the Lord lived in truth righteous and judgement swearing and many other things being then lawfull for them to practice yet such things are not lawfull neither usefull for the Saints to practice under the Gospel this particular practice of swearing was not in the old Covenant forbidden Therefore our Saviour saith Mat. 5. it hath been said of old time thou shalt not forswear thy self but performe thine oaths unto the Lord. But he gives his Disciples a new command quite contrary to what was practised herein by the people of God in the old time in that he saith unto them swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is Gods Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Footstool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King neither shalt thou swear by thine Head because thou can'st not make one hair white or black Mat. 5. 34 35 36. By this absolute command he not only forbids vain