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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85461	Saltmarsh returned from the dead, in Amico Philalethe. Or, The resurrection of James the apostle, out of the grave of carnall glosses, for the correction of the universall apostacy, which cruelly buryed him who yet liveth. Appearing in the comely ornaments of his fifth chapter, in an exercise, June 4. 1654. Having laid by his grave clothes, in a despised village remote from England, but wishing well, and heartily desiring the true prosperity thereof.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1307; Thomason E836_1; ESTC R207426	178,733	220

all ages with those ancient orders extant in Abrahams family as also with all the ornaments exercised amongst those Princely Tribes or Scepters of Israel as under the conduct of Moses and Aaron Caleb and Joshuah Deborah and Barak David and Samuel Christ and the Disciples the Apostles and all Nations Yea and as under the conduct and ministery of that Angelical constitution and order set forth unto them in that book of the Revelations that all shall harmonize and agree as one joyfull and triumphant song and shout of deliverance righteousnesse and salvation And when the Sun of righteousnesse lends his irradian beames through any of these bright clouds of witnesse commending it selfe unto us in any of those particular wayes of administration wherein the Saints of God have been exhaled and gathered up into unity and intimacy with the Lord Yea when any of the Saints do Evangelize out of any of the fore-named Administrations they can effectually and assumptively express that significant word Selab which in a way of asseveration as also of elevation of the same thing affirms it to have a present being and reall appearance abiding without any end or cessation thereof of which nature the things proper to the Son of God exist And of such nature is the word of God in all its wayes of administration being rightly interpreted and such as manifest and declare it otherwise they may indeed assume the riches and glory of a Church and boast of it as these do but it is a corrupted a vanishing and vaporous one Therefore he saith That their garments are motheaten that is all their honourable Ornaments wherein the Minister for the encrease and deifying of their corrupted treasure are inervated and voyd of vertue for the very substance pith and marrow of them is consumed and wasted so that when shee put them on to appeare glorious then their nakednesse appears to all men so as they glory in their shame through minding earthly things It is a gorgeous garment the world puts on in that point of its Ministry consisting of an imputed Righteousnesse resident in another but not in him that confesseth it this garment hath lyen so long in that Arke of Tradition that it is moth-eaten the strength and vertue of it is taken away and it was brought out of the treasury of a carnal Christ who is sometimes present with and sometimes remote from his Church So that in his absence they are forced to form unto themselves an imaginary righteousnesse for it is a meer Emedullatus the pith and marrow of righteousnesse is taken away For that righteousnesse which is professed out of or at a distance from the spirit of Christianity when or in whomsoever that spirit appears is not the rigteousnesse of him who is really present with or in his Saints to the end of the world that is to the ending and vanishing of all such worldly and carnall conceptions in the publication of the Gospel For if we give another form to the righteousnesse of Christ differing in the nature efficacy or dignity in the professor from that which it is in the professed it is not the righteousnesse which is by the faith of the sonne of God For as faith is alike reall and resident in all that come unto God even so is righteousnesse and He that comes unto God must beleeve that God is that is that he is that to him or in him that he comes unto him for what ever it is which is that glorious reward or end given or accomplished in all the diligent seekers of him never did any come to God but by faith for it is the hypostasis or being of God and man in one and the same condition for it is said of our spiritual David He believed and therefore he spake we also believe and we also speake Faith never differed in nature form and vertue in any for then it were not of God but of the Creature no more doth righteousnesse for where the righteousnesse of God admits of distinction in the same relation and respect as in point of justification if the man Christ or Jesus stand righteous before God by a righteousnesse in himselfe that is in that individuall and the Saints of God stand righteous by that which is in another and not in that individuall justified that is not the righteousnesse of Christ it is not the simplicity of him but is made a compound Christ is made voyd to such Christ differs not in any of his excellencies whereever they are in use nor did he ever come to deny the inheritance between brethren but to state the whole Kingdome entirely as upon one only sonne in whom soever possesseth any part thereof even as the first-born of God but if the world should not go upon mans principles to make one man as a Monarch in heaven it would harldly maintaine the Monarchies upon the earth But as it is in the kingdome of God so it is in all the things of God and his kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and so is his righteousnesse but the Doctors of the world have no use of their imputed righteousnesse when once their inherent sanctity is perfected they may as well put an end to the Kingdome of God and become companions of the bruit beasts as to put an end to the use of any thing that appertayns and belongs to the Sonne of God in his Saints We conclude therefore that imputed righteousnesse in the worlds acceptation is a moth-eaten garment a meer phylosophicall distinction of Antichrist to delude the world Of like worth is the garment of their sanctification wherein they so confidently enwrap themselves for they hold it to be a holinesse subject to increase and diminution and then it must be a creature-like holinesse and not a God-like which is holinesse of truth or the truth of holinesse which is not found but in the Son of God which cannot admit of abatements for that is proper to a creature from whose strength proceeds all their power of performances Againe the holinesse professed by the world that is by carnall men may have the vertue and office of Prayer in it but not of prophesie also and it may have the vertue office of prophesie in it but not the vertue of healing also this is a moth-eaten holinesse the vertue and power of the Son of God is eaten out of it Christ is crucified in such according to the spirit For take away one of the vertues of Christ and they all vanish for he is that bundle of life bound up without parting or any separation His vesture is seamelesse and goes all one way by lot and inheritance whether it be the robe of mercy in his or the garment of vengeance in them that so crucifie him it may not be divided So that he who denies a Christian to have power and authority from God to publish and preach unto the world the mystery of salvation contained in the Gospel may as well deny him power