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A89271	An explicite declaration of the testimony of Christ according to the plain sayings of the Gospel: and therein, of the purposes, promises, and covenants of God, as by Gospel declared. With, a consideration of a question stated about faith. By Thomas Moore, Senior.	Moore, Thomas, Senior.	1656 (1656)	Wing M2593B; ESTC R231372	616,621	754

the Son of Man shall sit on the Throne of his glory then in that day but whether in the beginning or in the middle or the end I leave to every man to think as he seeth cause all Nations shall be gathered before him this may be in beginning and middle and end throughout this great Day of the Lord and he shall separate them and set the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left And when he doth that then he proceedeth to the last and final Judgement which Judgement is not by his Saints as the former judging and ruling was but by himself only and as the Resurrection of the Just at first was Christ his own work alone so the Resurrection of the Unjust and this final Judgement Rev. 20 11-15 is also now The compassing the Camp of the Saints fire coming down from Heaven and consuming the Enemies the time of Satan's last loosing and his being taken and cast into the Lake of Fire and then the Resurrection of the wicked and also their Judgement according to their works who knows what time these things will take What God as God may suddenly do I meddle not with but what God in Christ and so what the Son of Man will do according to the capacities of Men however enlarged by him in judging with as one may say opening the Books setting Mens sins in order before them producing witnesses and passing the sentence upon every one I dare not determine in what space of time this one thing shall be done but how long or short soever although joyful to the Saints yet all this with all that went before it from Satan's last loosing to his being cast into the Lake of Fire and the Resurrection of the wicked it is all after the thousand yeers of the Saints raigning and judging however the thousand yeers be taken and all this time Christ as Man raigneth and judgeth and his Saints are with him and so it is a long time and the Resurrection of the wicked and the final Judgement past then Christ delivereth up the Kingdom to his Father and then is the mystery of God wholly finished and time shall be no more all will be Eternity then the Kingdom continueth still for ever to Eternity only the Davidical Regiment of it is delivered up to the Father and all ruling as Men all differences of Men in ruling or ruled ceaseth yea Christ himself as Man and David's Son and his whole Body of Saints as Men yea he as a Monarch and they as Rulers or ruled are all subject wholly to the Divine Nature God being All in All the Man Christ remaining 2 Cor. 15.28 and God in him the Saints remaining and God in them the Kingdom remaining and God in all God is in all yea All in all he is in them all Wisdom Power Righteousness Truth Love Joy Glory Everlasting Life and Joy God is All and All in all yea so full so glorious and everlasting Joy that all former things are so forgot as if this had ever been yea without beginning and as if all that can be to Eternity were comprehended in present and so will be to Eternity without end the joy of the Lord in which he is in which all the Saints are it being their joy also they are now both filled and compassed with it in them they in it they now enjoy to the full that prayed for to which the first Fruits in the Day of Grace and the Harvest in the Davidical Regiment had its tendency Eph. 3.17 18 19. even to be filled with all the fulness of God yea if it may be born I suppose one might in a true sense say That of all the Saints and every of the Saints according to every of their capacities which by the Divine Nature possessing them will then be unconceivably great which is said of the Man Christ That as all the fulness of the Godhead even the Father Son and Holy Ghost in the Divine Essence Love Goodness Power Truth Glory c. dwells in him bodily so the fulness of the Godhead of Father Son and Holy Spirit in their Love Joy Goodness Power Wisdom c. dwells in them bodily then shews it self and operates in and through their Bodies so as never before only with this exception The Man Christ is one Person in the Son of God and so God-Man yea that very Person is very God though as Man he have yielded up the Government to God yet as God he governs still but none of the Saints are one Person with the Son of God and so not God governing but filled with God I desire to express it only as by Scripture I may We believing in him now live by Faith and enjoy all and walk in and by Faith Hope and Love but in the Davidical Kingdom we shall not live by Faith but by Sight 2 Cor. 5.7 1 Cor. 13.8 13. Rom. 8.24 25. 1 Joh. 3.2 4.7 12. 1 Cor. 15.28 and so there will be no Exercise of Faith nor yet of Hope we seeing as we are seen and none hopeth for that which he seeth and yet the habits of Faith and Hope abide till the Kingdom become wholly Divine but Charity is most in Exercise but when God is become All in all then Faith and Hope and all Desires are streamed into Charity and Charity abideth ever God is Charity and God and so Charity is All in them and in them all his delight in them and their rejoycing in him Oh unconceiveable Life Joy Happiness without any intermission for ever and ever But what manner of Glory this shall be is not yet revealed nor will be till Christ be upon the Throne of David that the whole mystery of God be opened Therefore I desire no farther to pry into it but only as it is revealed that so it shall be and that I desire to believe and for the manner of it let it alone till the Day declare it And this is all I will till farther occasion given me say of the Kingdom of Christ he comes to take and so likewise of the Ends of his second and glorious coming which yet is enough to make Believers long and wait for his coming the Time whereof is next to be spoken of CHAP. 19. Of the third Poynt The Time of the next coming of Christ FOr the Time of the coming again of Christ I shall also say what I finde for as for the precise hour or day natural or prophetical it were presumption in me so to enquire as to think before-hand certainly to know it seeing our Saviour Christ himself hath told even his own Disciples that enquired after it Ye know not when the time is not only when the end of the Day Mar. 13.32 33 34 35. the last and final Judgement shall be but not the beginning of the Day when the Master of the House cometh whether at even or at midnight or at cock-crowing or at morning If

the unchangableness of the state and condition of all such as are once or at any time beloved of God which by the story of the fallen Angels appears to be false and Mr. Owen in part if not wholly Page 33. disclaimeth this conceit yet the consequence not onely he retaineth but many other some avouching it for Scripture in their sayings and some in their Books and writing citing John 13.1 But he that will read that Text may see that that saying John 13 1. or any like it or a word or syllable importing such a sense cannot be there found for it is cleer in the words suited also with other places of Scriptures That the words there in John 13.1 do speak of Jesus Christ not onely nor chiefly as he was God but also and more directly as he was Man q Mat. 26.2 who not onely as God but also and rather as a Prophet spake as he had received of the Father r John 12.50 and that also of his sufferings and departure out of this world s John 16.28 which could not be meant of his Divine Spirit and Presence t Mat. 28.20 And this also is observable That he spake not in this place of himself onely as the Sacrificer and Peace-maker but also and more directly as he was a Minister of the Gospel and Peace-Preacher u Heb. 2.3 Eph. 2.16 17. in whose Ministration declaring the Peace made in and by him God was in him and by him reconciling the World to himself w 2 Cor. 5.19 Heb. 1.1 2. and the persons loved there spoken of were not all that God had from the beginning loved or that he doth now love but onely those that were not onely his own but even then in the World yea his own as then given him of the Father in the Gospel-Call and after the Call chosen by him to be his Apostles Messengers and Ministers x Luk. 6 13. John 6.70 to whom he gave the Words the Father gave him that they might be in his place and stead after his bodily departure to carry on his Ministration and beseech Men to be reconciled to God y 2 Cor. 5.18 19 20. Joh. 17.8 Prov. 9.2 3. And the Love spoken of in this place is his Love as a Shepherd and a faithful One using all holy means to keep and preserve and instruct them in the Name of the Father that none of them might be lost but be fitted for their present and after abiding and service for which cause he gave them both instruction and example z Joh. 13.2 18. 17.11 12 13. yea it is express here that Judas was among them a Vers 2 18. and though he was not one of them that in receiving his Words was cleansed b Vers 10 11. John 15.2 nor that said truely though rightly and so not in both respects well and from his Heart in calling him Lord and Master c Vers 13. and so not happy in doing the things counselled by Christ d Vers 14 17. and so no Lover of Christ e Vers 2. John 15.14 yet he was one of Christ's chosen Apostles f Luk. 6.16 one whom Christ loved and prayed for and did good to yea continued his admonitions with loving words to him to the end g Psal 109.4 5. Luk. 22.48 Mat. 26.59 but he dissembled with his Master being Adversary to him for his Love and refusing his warnings and counsels rewarded him evil for good and so and there-through became a Son of perdition and so lo● himself h John 17.12 Psal 109.4 5. his sin being finished it brought forth death i Jam. 1.15 and he was then no more loved nor prayed for according to that which is said of such Rebellious ones All their wickedness is in Gilgal for there I hated them for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house I will love them no more k Hos 9.15 It is cleer here they were once in his House and loved yet now because of so great wickedness no more loved And so Judas was once loved and prayed for and means used towards him unto the end till he grew to that height of wickedness in rewarding evil for good that against all warnings he persisted to finish his Transgression and then was he hated and cast out of his Office and no more loved but another to be put into his Office l Psal 109.3 4 5 6. Act. 1.16 26. Even as the fallen Angels were once holy and loved but after their wilful aspiring and leaving their place cast down hated and no more loved Yet in all this God is one and of one minde immutable and the change is in and upon the fallen Angels and such as are become like them So that this Text John 13.1 is mightily wrested and abused to be pretended to say Whom God loves once he loves for ever no word in the Text saying it and God's dealing with the fallen Angels and with others proclaims the falshood of that saying But of the fallen and reprobate Angels I may leave off to speak farther seeing there was found no remedy for them no Ransome no Saviour none to take their Nature and Cause in Hand so no Gospel to be preached to or by them no Prayers to be put forth for them no Commands to them to repent and believe the Gospel but Christ and Gospel and Prayers and all against them but of Mankinde fallen there is yet some better thing to say of them all after we have considered the depth of his misery in respect of the desperateness and remedilesness of it in respect of Mankinde fallen and all other Creatures CHAP. 12. Of the remedilesness in Man fallen to help himself and what an inconceivable and wonderful business it is that will help him if God discover and give it MAnkinde fallen as is before shewn into so great sin sinfulness and misery and under the powerful sentence and curse of the Law and under the displeasure of the Almighty and become an Enemy to him the door way and passage for God to extend and give forth the fruits of his Love and Mercy to Men and so for Men to return and come into favour with God again was shut and become impassible yea it was beyond the reach understanding of Men or Angels to open yea or finde out the way how such a door and passage might be opened again for Mankinde For 1. The holy and righteous Law under which Man was fallen Deut 27. ●6 Gal. 3.10 still required Obedience to the utmost of all the Righteous Affections and Services it obliged to or else to suffer the curse for the least short coming of its Requirings Psal ●9 7 12. Mat. 5.7 18. which neither Adam nor any of his Natural Race was able to answer in doing nor in suffering to overcome and this Law must not be abolished but fulfilled to every

from above being all the Fruits of Free-Grace The Love of God shining through them all and the Spirit of God breathing in them all they that are through the Promise displayed in displaying born of the Promise displayed Joh. 3.3 5 6. Gal. 4.29 Joh. 1.13 to the Hope of the Promise confirmed in him displayed which is Christ the Son of God and the Fountain of Spirit and Life they are rightly said to be born from above of Water and of Spirit and so of God and that so born of the Spirit is spiritual and they are in every respect of the Promise truely called The Children of the Promise being born of the Promise through the Promise Rom 9 8 9 Gal. 3.23 26 28 29 30 31. 1 Pet. 2.5 9 10. to the hope of the Promise and so both called and are The Children of the Promise of the Free-Woman and these all these and none but these are the Seed and counted for the Seed and so the Apostle Peter avoucheth them also These were before this another Seed even Enemies the Seed of fallen Adam for whom Christ underwent the Curse and he himself is the promised Seed in which blessing is for others even as he came of Man and in Man's Nature died and rose offered the Sacrifice made the Atonement and is filled with the Spirit of Life even the spiritual Man not the first but the second publick Man so the promised Seed that in being so made known sinners may come in to him and receive pardon and renewing and upon that account may in Union with him become of the same Seed And these so one in and with him by Faith are The Seed God's elect Seed and surely God hath no Elect among the Sons of Men but this Seed yea none but these counted for the Seed Therefore for any Seed or Elect to be counted for the Seed before the consideration yea Acceptance and Vertue of the Death and Sactifice of Christ for him to die and offer Sacrifice for and then in due time to call those that were God's Elect Seed before to be born again is such a Dream that it is a marvel any waking Men should be taken with it and not rather hold fast to the Scripture-Language That those that are born of the Free-Woman The Children of the Promise are the Seed and counted for the Seed III. This will also with that Discovery of the same in the Purposes help us to understand those places Psal 69.28 Rev. 3.5 22.19 about which so many through unbelief of the Gospel puzzle themselves for The Promises of God of the first and second Branches to Mankinde fallen to sinners which also opens the Purposes of God as ordered in his Counsel for saving sinners both declared in the Testimony of Christ in the Gospel according to Purpose Promise Testimony of God holding forth Mercy Forgiveness and Life to Mankinde sinners that they might repent believe and receive it In all which it appears That in the Gospel there is a Book declared which may be and truly is called The Book of the Living The Book of Life Psa 69 28. Rev. 3.5 22.19 Rom. 5.6 8 10. 2 Cor. 5.14 15 1 Tim. 2.6 1 Tim. 1.15 Joh. 6.51 33. Rom. 5.18 14.9 2.4 Ioh. 1.9 29. 3.17 1.4 Gen. 6.3 Eccles 9.4 out of which Men may be blotted yea their Name blotted out of it and their part taken out of it and so they were once written therein by these Names Men sinners ungodly unjust Enemies lost Ones because Christ died for such and came to save such and there are Declarations of Mercy Promises for such He gave his Flesh for the Life of the World giveth life unto the World which yet is nowhere called eternal life though that they might come to that and as by his own Righteousness in one Sacrifice-Offering Life was unto all in him as in the publick Man so God hath given them all over into his dispose so God also useth means toward them to lead them to Repentance that they might be saved Whence also the Life in Christ is called the Light of Men and so while he continueth in means to strive with them and they be still joyned to all the living there is hope and while they remain thus though no-better yet if not no worse they are yet written among the living and their Names as Men sinners lost Ones Psal 69.28 Rev. 13.8 Ezek. 13.9 Luk. 10.20 Heb. 12.23 Joh. 1.12 13. 3.1 5. Eph. 1.5 Rom. 8.28 2 Cor. 5.17 are yet in this Book of life though yet they are not written with the Righteous they are not written in the choice sense in The Book of Life of the Lamb not written in Heaven in the secret and Congregation of the Righteous for none are so written in this Book but the Congregation of the first-born the Believers on Christ that are born of God of Water and the Spirit whose Names are Faithful in Christ Lovers of God and Christ and one another new Creatures Saints Brethren to Christ and one another Sons of God by Faith Overcomers of the World c. which Names were never yet on these other And when the Promises of the first Head are held forth and the Promises of the second Head in some measure performed to these and they then persist resisting and opposing till they be reprobated and given up Rom. 11.8 9 10 11 23. with Psa 69.22 27 28. 109.1 5. then begin they to be blotted out of the Book of the Living or that Book of Life in which Mankinde as sinners are written and yet by corrections and renewed strife there may be a recovery but if against that also they still persist in their Rebellion till wholly given up and reprobated then are they wholly blotted out and shall not be recovered to be written with the Righteous and the Names upon them then are Reprobates Sons of Perdition that willingly reward him Evil for Good and Hatred for Love The Seed of the Serpent The Children of the Devil set with full Purpose to do his Will which Names neither are nor ever were in the Book of Life in the first or second sense 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Eph. 5.1 Gal. 5 1● 20. Rev. 13. ● nay in the second sense of the Book of Life Unbelievers Unrighteous Adulterers Fornicators Wantons Thieves Murderers Lyars Blasphemers and Worshippers of the Beast and such-like with those Names never were are or shall be written in the Book of the Life of the Lamb among the Righteous but onely the Names forementioned of new Creatures Rev. 2.11 3.1 Luk. 10.20 Phil. 4.3 1 Thes 1.3 4 5 6. 1 Pet. 3 7. Psa 3.29 c. and the Promises are to such as overcome they shall not be hurt of the second Death nor their Names blotted out of the Book of Life and such may rejoyce that their Names are written in Heaven yea and discern their Brethrens Names there written